Why are the Airborne Forces elite? Because it has priority over ordinary infantry in terms of soldiers, training, and support. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Looking at the marching ranks of the Red Army's airborne troops, you will have the illusion of looking at the honor guard, and of course it is not as good as the "uniformity" of the honor guard, but the tall, short, fat and thin are basically the same -- if you want to be an airborne soldier, first of all, you must have a body that meets the standards: if you are big, you don't want to be small.

The small man goes to the armored troops, the big artillerymen are welcome, and the airborne troops want "not fat, not thin, not big, not small", uniform, and in line with the parachute standard, so there is a joke in the Red Army that the airborne troops are honor guards, and pulling them anywhere will not damage the appearance of the army.

However, the Airborne Forces are not only a guard of honor that can only be seen, they must not only learn to parachute, but also learn everything that the infantry unit needs to learn, and the most important thing is that they must do: where the most dangerous, the Airborne Forces will appear first! It is necessary to have the awareness of being faced with fighting in a disadvantaged situation at any time.

This time, the 12th Division of the Airborne Forces parachuted one and a half regiments on a large scale, except for part of the infantry stationed on Mount Dzerzhinsky, threatening Dzerzhinsky, and cooperating with Latom from the flank to cut off the north-south road, all other units cooperated with the mixed tank regiment to arrive at Stolbchi.

The Airborne Forces have no heavy weapons, their heaviest support firepower is 82-mm mortars, and each gun has only three ammunition bases - this is the result of one-third of the Airborne Forces who also serve as transport troops: after parachuting, each person carries an extra shell in addition to his own equipment.

The light weapons are all new, and they can be used with ammunition like the other units that hold Stolbuch - except that the AK47s in the hands of the Airborne Forces are folded up, and they are the same as those in the hands of the Panzer Brothers.

The greatest weakness of the Airborne Forces is the lack of heavy fire support, which is fatal, especially in the open area against enemy armored forces! However, the boys of the Airborne Forces today are full of confidence, because they are holding a small city, and there are powerful tanks and anti-tank guns behind them!

Stolbutch was on the western side of the "Stalin Line", which was voluntarily abandoned in the strategic retreat, and the small town of tens of thousands of people carried out a massive retreat in three days: not only did the citizens take everything with them, but also did not leave the Germans with the tools of the handicraft workshop! Because of this, apart from the previous bombardment and the traces of this morning's engagement, the small city is relatively intact.

After the capture of Stolbuch, the Germans for a time used this relatively intact city as the headquarters of the army group attacking Minsk. After the Battle of Minsk entered the stage of urban fortification, this small city with a complete railway and road system became an important forward material transit station for the German army. There was also a large amount of German supplies piled up at Stolbutch Station, all kinds of everything, and even more than two dozen Opel three-ton trucks to pull supplies.

There were only simple fortifications around the city, and the Germans had only symbolically dug a few trenches near the road, and built a few fortifications and anti-aircraft artillery positions with sandbags, all of which were now received by the "Stolbutch cluster": a force that was deep behind enemy lines and attacked on all sides needed a name, and Budyonny called it the "Stolbuch cluster", but this group was less than 10,000 men.

Because of the onslaught of the mixed tank regiments, most of the German troops stationed in Stolbuch broke up with only a slight resistance - this was a deep place, there were no large-scale formed field troops stationed, only a small number of guard units, anti-aircraft artillery units, and the rout troops withdrawn from Dzerzhinsk, which could not stop the strong attack of the Red Army's armored mixed forces. Now Terteney has obtained a lot of unexpected trophies - because this is an important material transit point for the German army, thousands of tons of supplies are piled up in several supply yards, and there are even large quantities of German munitions.

At least half of the anti-aircraft guns that were prepared for the Soviet Air Force were still in good condition, and now they were also "received" by the Red Army - there were not many anti-aircraft guns in the cluster, and even if there were enough of them, they could not play with the equipment of the Germans at once (although the 37-mm anti-aircraft guns on both sides were similar in structure and operation. ）。 But it can't be wasted -- let people be dragged behind the surrounding infantry lines and used as machine guns: hitting planes and attacking ground targets are two different things, one is to pay attention to accuracy, and it is not possible to grasp the essentials in a moment; Machine guns bombard ground targets, just find a few veterans who have dealt with machine guns, it only takes ten or twenty minutes, a few test shots can be almost inseparable, and it is easy to suppress the infantry charge!

In the northwest corner of the city, an anti-aircraft artillery position with four Flak36 88-mm anti-aircraft guns was put to the end of the "militia comrades", and the cannons and piles of shells became bargaining chips for the defense of Stolbuch. When Terteney learned that four 88-mm anti-aircraft guns had been captured, his first reaction was: Fortunately, his tank unit did not attack from the northwest corner, otherwise there would have been considerable losses.

The 88-mm anti-aircraft guns were good against the tanks, but they had no choice but to flee the Red Army infantry, the anti-aircraft gunners, who were outflanking from the flanks. But now the trouble is coming: there are people in the cluster who can use those German 88-mm anti-aircraft guns, and at least a few dozen comrades have seen similar German anti-aircraft guns (Spain captured the Flak18 at that time, and also captured part of the Flak36 after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. But the four anti-aircraft guns were all fixed on the positions, and only 5 of the 8 wheel mounts were found!

The original position of the Germans was not suitable for the four 88-mm antiaircraft guns to play the role of tank killers, and the strength was great -- braving the sporadic shells coming from the west, a bunch of officers and men used the method of "patchwork together" to pull the four German artillery pieces to the northeast corner of the city, and build an anti-tank gun position on the edge of a birch forest in a green belt, and less than 150 meters in front, the comrades of the airborne troops were relying on the trenches originally dug by the Germans to expand the fortifications.

Terteney believed that the Germans would give themselves two to three hours at most, and that they would surely launch a major attack before nightfall. But these few hours were enough for the comrades to build two lines of defense -- the city is the second line of defense, and the first line of defense is built along the perimeter of the city by relying on the city.

Large quantities of German weapons and ammunition were delivered to the positions around the city by German trucks -- the trucks could not be defeated by the comrades who could drive without the keys, and there were so many sergeants in the "militia units"! The Germans would not have imagined that the supplies they had just arrived in Stolbutch would be a fatal blow to them! The troops at the railway station alone found a full 10 wagons of German firearms and ammunition, and when they opened it, they found that most of them were German versions of AK47s and intermediate power rifle cartridges! Unlike the assault rifle in your hand, except for the manufacturing markings and small external details, everything else can be completely universal, including ammunition and magazines!

The German version of the AK47 assault rifle was originally to be shipped to the Minsk front, where the Germans urgently needed this weapon, but now it is cheaper Terteny - the gun is not important, those German bullets are the most needed now.

The boxes of the three wagons contained MG34 machine guns, but no ammunition was in sight - there were some on the German positions in the city, but not much. Within half an hour, a company of search teams roughly searched the supplies near the railway station: the emperor lived up to his wishes and found hundreds of large wooden boxes of machine gun bullets and bullet chains!

Load up the truck and pull it away, even it everywhere and kick them in the ass with the Germans' weapons! Terteney was worried about the supply of ammunition, but an hour later he found out: apart from the lack of heavy artillery, the Germans had prepared everything for him, and it was no problem to equip a new infantry regiment!

The comrades who temporarily took on the duties of the logistics transport team (a group of comrades who could drive with more "porters" were asked for anything at the railway station). Even a couple of truckloads of German mines were brought to the comrades who were building positions on the front line!

The veterans, because their task was to hold out for three days and they had no responsibility to take the initiative, all the comrades who thought they could lay German mines went out to lay mines in dense areas at the front of the positions -- it was a miracle that not a single one of them allowed these German anti-infantry mines and anti-tank mines to blow themselves up into the sky! Thanks to a dozen veterans who knew how to use these German mines, how to install the fuses, and after one demonstration the other veterans knew. Now that the ground is covered with snow, the comrades just put the mines in the snow and cover them with another layer of snow!

The snow on the red road is compacted, and there is no rule to put it on blatantly - your tank will drive in the open! Hesitating, anti-tank guns and bazookas are waiting here!

More than 300 MG34 machine guns were sent to the front line, and more than 600 commanders and fighters were selected to use these powerful German machine guns, all experienced veterans - the whole city was filled with the unique sound of MG34 shooting, which was the new weapon of the comrades in the test shooters: ammunition was being pulled in carts, basically 250 rounds of boxes, and each shooter quickly reached the level of basic mastery.

There was even more movement -- the transport team also sent a batch of German Granatwerfer 34 80-mm mortars and shells to the comrades, and some veterans who had learned to use mortars took on the role of weapon test personnel: cannons are not firearms that can be learned and pondered, and different models will operate in different ways, and it is difficult to accurately shell without training, and the shells that are fired are basically wasted. But it is still very effective in defense and suppression operations!

Now the superiority of the "militia" units is vividly displayed, especially to the comrades of the Airborne Forces -- if the Airborne Forces themselves had relied on themselves, they would not have been able to completely learn to use such a variety of German equipment in such a short period of time, and guns and the like might have been okay. The comrades of the "militia" are different, there are all kinds of troops in the past, and there are many capable people, especially some comrades of ordnance, who claim to be able to fire German train guns! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )