Chapter 37 Expensive tuition
After a while, an assault group arrived, and the bodies of five German soldiers had frozen into popsicles. The commanders and fighters of the Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info assault group took out five documents from their pockets, and I have to say that these German scouts may all be elites, and even slaughtered all sides on the Western Front, but although the German army's individual soldiers are of high quality and strong combat effectiveness, it also depends on who they are compared with, and if they face the ordinary commanders and fighters of the Soviet army, they have no problem fighting a platoon and a company. But when it comes to the fighters of this well-equipped and combat-ready A unit under Andrei, they are no match at all. And now they are fighting in the winter of Russia, which is completely unsuitable, and then such ambushes are happening one after another, and the German scout detachment has been killed several times in a row, and now according to the reconnaissance, the German army no longer dares to send a small detachment into the depths of the forest, and he is very happy to see these results in the secret camp of the forest, but at this time Andrei also remembered the disgraceful Soviet-Finnish war two years ago, Why, it was an out-and-out war of aggression that forced Finland to cede to the Soviet Union the southeastern Karelian Isthmus, including Vyborg, the Sara region, and most of the islands in the Gulf of Finland, and to lease the port of Hanko to the Soviet Union for 30 years. But this victory of the USSR was nothing more than a crushing victory. The generals of the Red Army said that in this war "we have gained enough land to bury our fallen soldiers."
Because now Andrei found out that the Soviet-Finnish war was also worth it. Because the Soviet Union learned experience in this war, it not only helped the Soviet Union survive the most difficult winter, but also directly or indirectly saved the precious lives of millions of Red Army soldiers. In the winter of 1941, the German front was directed towards Moscow. Moscow is in danger. But the bitter cold, which had been rare for decades, froze the wheels of German tanks advancing, froze the bolts of German guns, and froze the hope of victory for the German army. A large number of German soldiers shivered in the trenches, and countless people died of frostbite. The Red Army, on the other hand, maintained a strong combat capability, but two years earlier, in 1939, the Soviets had not been so lucky. Their tanks, like the Germans in 1941, struggled to move in temperatures of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius in Finland. Similarly, the number of frostbitten fighters on the Soviet side of the Soviet-Finnish war was much higher than the number of soldiers killed and wounded in battle. After paying exorbitant tuition fees, the Soviet leadership, which was not stupid, not only modified the tank. Moreover, at the beginning of 1940, the T34, which had not yet been mass-produced, went to the Finnish front for testing. And prepared winter combat cotton clothing. Now Andrei can imagine that if there had been no Soviet-Finnish war, the winter of 1941 might have been peaceful, but what would have happened in Moscow in the spring of 1942?
This Soviet-Finnish war made the Soviet Union pay attention to logistics and cold preparedness during winter operations, and in the winter of 41 the counteroffensive knew that troops from Siberia would be used, and at the same time, in the Soviet-Finnish war, Soviet soldiers in tan uniforms trudged through the snow at a depth of one meter. It's like a stupid brown bear. Hunted one by one by Metsä hunters. And now the Soviet soldiers are walking on sleighs and wearing white cloaks, like dexterous snow elves, sometimes maneuvering quickly on the snow, sometimes hidden and invisible. Take the lives of German soldiers.
The ancestor is really right, eat a trench and grow a wisdom!
In fact, the principle of self-heating is very simple, that is, adding quicklime, sodium carbonate and water reacts quickly to release heat and provide initial heat. Iron powder, aluminum powder, magnesium powder, charcoal, salt, etc. constitute galvanic cells, which continuously oxidize and release heat. Andrei thought that this should not be complicated, so he told Beria his idea, and Beria also thought it was feasible, so he instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs to immediately set up a research and development team, after all, there are a lot of professionals in the Gulagri! Later, when Andrei became a senior cadre of the NKVD, he learned that it took countless blood and tears to supply the self-heating cans to Unit A, and the principle of self-heating is really not complicated, but there are many problems in actual operation, such as the high and low ratio of the mixture, and the isolation layer of the canned food to avoid affecting the taste of the food, and at the same time, the chemical reaction will inevitably have an impact, and the temperature is also very important.
It can be said that the experts and engineers involved can be said to be white-headed, because they want to provide supplies for their own people, so the Minister of Internal Affairs who is responsible for guarding them, but three times a day, thinking of his comrades who are lying in the snow and climbing the ice, he can't wait to stare at the laboratory every day, he decided that if these people can't get something satisfactory by the specified time, they will all be shot, and then find a group of people from the Gulag, his thinking is really simple and rude to the point of being unacceptable, But all the people who participated in the research knew that if the time was up and they couldn't get something, then they were really going to die!
However, the creativity of the masses of the people is endless, these experts finally solved this problem, they successfully developed self-heating cans, not only saved their lives, but also became the Soviet military food masters in the future, and later received medals and various honors from the Soviet Union, the project leaders Levitin and Lavisky did not say anything in the future, but the psychology still remembered the death incentive in the laboratory, and when the American engineers who developed self-heating came to the Soviet Union to meet them, Levitin said to his peers: " Man, sometimes the solution is not thought out but forced! ”
But now Andre, but I don't know, the next day is rare and windless, when receiving the airdrop materials, in addition to the ammunition, the most exciting thing for everyone is the self-heating can, Andrei was the first to pick up the can, and poured vodka into it (the temperature is too low, so the kettle is filled with wine, but it is mixed with water, otherwise everyone is drunk How to fight), listening to the sound of heating the dregs, everyone's psychology is also very happy, with this baby, you can eat hot meals in the wild, and you don't have to go back to the camp to eat hot soup, However, later Andrei learned that because of the high cost of self-heating food, only Unit A will have this treatment in the future!
"Pounce!" With the sound, the can was cut open by Andrei with a saber, and then, with a flick of his wrist, the lid of the can was opened.
A smell with a smell of smell and some sweetness entered the mouth, in later generations, although I have also eaten military canned food, but it does not have the taste of now.
Andre chewed hard, most of the bones of this fish head can be chewed, eating this bone is better than eating meat, you can supplement more calcium.
When the engineers were making cans, it was also their traditional wild method, they chopped the huge herring, all the tail of the herring, chopped and chopped, plus a bunch of ingredients, cooked, and stuffed into the can, although the method was simple, everyone still liked it very much, after all, it was not as good as the neighbors in the food kingdom in the south.
Seeing Andrei eating with relish, everyone was also hungry, and picked up the fish and meat inside with bayonets and ate it heavily. Except for fish
Mhammad put down the can, and at this time, even the juice in it had been drunk by Mhammad, and at this moment, he heard a sound of footsteps in the distance.
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