Budyonny was at his front headquarters to send transport planes to the Stolbuch cluster to support its defensive operations, but an urgent message from Stolbuch interrupted the staff's plan: Telny needed a 100-round cartridge box for a 7.62-mm machine gun (RPD light machine gun), ammunition for 7.62-mm ПК and 12.7-mm ДШК anti-aircraft machine guns for some tanks, rocket launcher ammunition and 50 and 82-mm mortar shells. It would be better if you could give 105 mm and 76.2 mm shells on the point tank. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Terteney doesn't want other supplies: food, weapons, clothing, oil, etc., because he and his troops are now in possession of the Germans' supply transfer station, basically what they want!

This made it much simpler to drop the supplies that needed to be airdropped, and the shells used on the airdropped tanks were now the number one priority, rather than the projected assault rifle ammunition (which was originally expected to be 7.62×39mm ammunition was the most urgently needed because it consumed the most!). ): Those anti-tank guns also need 76.2 mm shells.

"The Germans really used the easiest way to confront us." Lin Jun said to Zhukov after receiving an important report from the reserve front.

The capture of the German imitation AK47 assault rifle was important information, but it was not what Lin Jun expected -- this was the easiest way to enhance the combat effectiveness of the German infantry, and it was a shortcut to being on par with the Red Army's individual soldiers in terms of firepower.

AK47 technical threshold for the German military industry system is very low, and for ammunition, the easiest way is to copy exactly the same - the German army's rifle caliber system is 7.92 mm, but if the gun wants to change the caliber, it is not as convenient as copying, because the production line of 7.92×57mm Mauser rifle cartridges cannot produce Soviet ammunition without modification.

The trial production of a new type of ammunition requires a large number of tests, that is, the difference between the size of the cartridge case and the warhead needs to be tested for a long time, otherwise the ballistic performance will deviate. Germany did not have that long testing time, but it did have time for the production line to adapt to the new ammunition: the Soviets had already taken care of the problem of the coordination of the new ammunition and the imitation assault rifle.

The Red Army was not just in command, even the soldiers knew about the transformative impact of the AK47 automatic weapons on infantry combat: the Germans kept up with their own pace, using the easiest way, and the Soviet-German contest would become more brutal and fierce. New types of equipment that can increase one's own combat effectiveness will continue to appear, and wars will be bloodier.

This is the opponent forcing you to work overtime, and the Soviet military-industrial system still needs to work harder, striving to ensure that all front-line troops are equipped with new equipment, at least in light weapons, within a year.

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Stolbuch, 5 p.m. It was already getting dark, and the Germans were beginning to appear.

The outposts, not approaching - the first-line airborne troops, relying on the abundance of ammunition, drove the Germans out of sight with only one salvo fired by a "borrowed" artillery battery. The artillery observation posts set up on the rooftops on the east side of the city clearly saw everything -- the "militia gunners" who cooperated with the airborne troops were very skilled, and more than 30 mortar shells accurately fell within a range of 100×200 meters, and less than half of the dozens of German outposts retreated.

"It seems that the Germans will not launch a counterattack until after nightfall." Terteny said on the third floor with his own deputy regimental commander and commander of the medium tank battalion Sergei Stepanovich Mariakhin.

"It should be soon, and the troops drawn from the Minsk flanks should also arrive, otherwise the German commander will be dizzy."

Mariachin, a brave general, joined the Red Army in 31 years, received an education at the Saratov Armored Tank School and the Frunze Military Academy, and came up step by step from the grassroots level, with quick thinking and a clear mind.

"Let's go down and eat." After saying that, Terteney and Mariahin went down the stairs. Terteny's tank was hidden in a warehouse on one side of the building, and Mariahin's was 300 meters away.

The tanks were to be used as mobile batteries, which would also require careful camouflage - the location chosen by Terteney was very good: it was already on the outskirts of the city, and the buildings were not one after the other, as in the center of the city, but had gaps and passages for the tanks to move around (this is a bit like the rural buildings in the Soviet Union, where many of the houses had large open spaces or gardens and vegetable gardens). ）。 The gate to the west of the warehouse has been unloaded, and the muzzle of the gun is pointed to the east, which is almost impossible to see from the outside. The tank can move out of the warehouse to transfer the position in reverse, and the environment behind and on both sides is enough for it to be concealed and maneuverable, plus the warehouse is a wooden structure, so you can directly pass through the wall if necessary!

The temperature is dropping, and some comrades have long been preparing dinner according to local conditions, and they have also eaten it -- on such a cold day, they can get through it by eating dry food alone, but they are definitely not as comfortable as eating hot meals. The Germans had not only weapons and ammunition, but also military uniforms and food, which the comrades would not be polite to.

In the trenches, in the bunkers, and even in the buildings to build positions, the soldiers were cold, and those German overcoats and blankets were just right to keep out the cold - German overcoats could not be worn, and there was a risk of accidental injury, but they could be cushioned in the trenches to protect against the bone-chilling cold; The blanket was wrapped directly around the body.

The townspeople took a lot of things with them when they retreated, but what they couldn't take away was the furniture - it was a war now, and the comrades would not borrow the beds of the common people to sleep, but the kitchen would not be used to make a mistake, and it would be better than the field kitchen. Besides, the comrades did not bring cooking utensils at all, they all stayed in the rear, and only brought dry rations: this was a surprise attack, not a step-by-step attack. The comrades of the Airborne Forces are even more desperate - they don't have pots and pans at all (have you ever seen a parachute throw a cauldron?). I guess I haven't seen it, at least the Red Army airborne troops who will only have those cooking utensils in the station. ）！

The kitchens of the common people near the companies were put to good use - in fact, cooking was very simple, that is, using all kinds of captured German cans to make a large pot of thick soup, what was the use: those who got canned beef drank beef broth, and those with sausages were not cooked, and they were broken to make soup. This is a good implementation of the Red Army's tradition: to eat anything, to make soup for anything in winter.

Soups are made quickly and eaten hot with the cold black bread you carry with you is a great recipe for the cold: a little hot water on a cold day can beat the cold, not to mention high-calorie soups.

No one complains that some of the Germans' food is not to their taste, and some are good to eat.

Just as the comrades of the Airborne Forces had finished drinking the last batch of thick soup that had been delivered, someone shouted: "Get down!" Shelling! "Explosions, fires! The screaming of falling shells stimulated the senses of the comrades, hid their heads, and there were violent explosions all around!

Terteny had already entered the tank, because of the broken wooden plank façade, the view was not very clear: "Kirevnik, a little ahead, I can't see!" ”

The tank rumbled through the wall and stopped outside the warehouse. The Germans' shells exploded around the front-line positions, and it was clear that they should be howitzers, 105 calibers. It was already dark, and German infantry and tanks loomed in the distance along the flanks of the road and railway. Night attack, the test of comrades is coming!

"Distance 900, two o'clock direction, artillery battery, rapid fire!"

With the commands and gestures of the acting company commander, the 80-mm mortar batteries that had been improvised began to shell fiercely! It was dark now, and the moonlight was faint, and even the observation posts on the buildings could not see far, and they could only distinguish the target by the fire from the exhaust pipes and gun muzzles of the German tanks.

The Germans were not found to have flares, but there were some 82mm mortars. As the parachute opens, you can see a dense crowd of German troops and tanks rushing towards this side!

The 80-mm mortar position was well chosen, either behind buildings, walls, or behind the green belt, and the Germans to the east saw very little fire, not like a mortar position - the mortar fired a clear fire, and if it was soon discovered, there would be no drama.

Four 88-mm anti-aircraft guns hidden at the edge of the forest in the northeast corner also began to fire - definitely a serial shelling, but it seems that the comrades were not very accurate at first, and the hit rate of armor-piercing shells was not complimentary, but the mud and gravel stirred up by the warheads were still somewhat lethal.

"Change the blasting bomb!" When the commander saw this situation, he shouted hysterically -- it was not that his own equipment could not be used easily, the adaptation time was too short, and it took a lot of time to change positions.

Compared to the 88mm artillery, the MG34 machine guns deployed on the east side were much better - half mounted on tripods, and when the flames of the flares and shells exploded, hundreds of MG34s fired at the target eight or nine hundred meters away like a storm!

Not for precision, but for suppression - MG34 is still terrible for infantry, both sides know it! Suppressive firing alone, hundreds of heavy machine guns are powerful at a width of more than a kilometer, and this firepower can be described as ferocious and abnormal! These machine guns are not yet a first-line arrangement, there are firing points up and down, and the threat is greater, because this is the edge of the city. (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.) )