After repeated attacks by German rocket artillery and helicopters, as well as rapid interspersed operations by German infantry, the Soviet defense at Wandelitz had become fragmented, and the remnants were separated in several blocks, but even if there was no possibility of retreat, the Soviet officers and soldiers who entered Germany in a proud posture did not choose to surrender - dignity, honor, and fear of the consequences of surrender made them fight to the death.

In terms of the fighting qualities of the combatants, the Germans who participated in the Battle of Wandelitz should be the most elite group fighting on their own soil, among them there are both loyal soldiers who have persevered in Northern Europe for five years, and tenacious brave men who have experienced the tragedy of the Eastern Front and the life of prisoner of war camps. Only by beating and miserably beating the Soviet troops, making them angry, furious, and losing their due sanity, can their relatives gradually drag them down with exquisite tactics and achieve victory from tactics to strategy. As a result, the German soldiers who entered the attack took the lead one by one, they were not afraid of the oncoming bullets and moved forward calmly, skillfully used every weapon in their hands, gritted their teeth and took down one Soviet position after another in the absence of direct support from tanks and artillery, every road and every block in the city was sprinkled with their blood, and the number of dead officers and soldiers quietly exceeded the Soviet officers and soldiers on the opposite side. In order to use anti-tank bazookas where they were most needed, German officers and soldiers often used explosives instead of bazookas to blast through the exterior walls when destroying the enemy entrenched in buildings. Even after entering the building, they continue to attack with unstoppable courage, often engaging enemies from a face-to-face distance, even if they die together. With defiance of everything, the Germans gradually seized most of the area of Wandlitz, and only the local schools and hospitals remained in Soviet control.

To the east of the city, a collegiate building stands in the middle of the Great Lawn. The fence was in tatters, and the grass between the fence and the building was littered with corpses, most of whom were dressed in gray uniforms, and tongues of fire were constantly erupting from the windows and exterior walls of the building. Prevent attackers from crossing the lawn into the building.

Under the flickering firelight, dozens of dark shadows approached the fence along the gloomy street, and the leader grabbed a machine gunner who was buried in changing the bullet chain and asked: "Hey, comrade, where is your commander?" ”

The Heavy turned his head, and when his gaze fell on the opponent's collar badge, his eyes suddenly changed: "He's on the side of the main entrance...... Lieutenant Baheli. Lieutenant, there's someone looking for it here! ”

"Who?" An annoyed voice came from the other side of the iron door.

The soldier, who was all in dark color, from helmet to military uniform, did not immediately answer, but motioned for his soldiers to wait on the spot, and ran to the iron gate himself, and found the lieutenant officer with infrared equipment to observe the situation on the other side of the building, judging by the logo on his uniform, it was a lieutenant of the Imperial Guard.

"I'm Hank from the Night Fighting Force. Major Huberts, ordered to come to the rescue! ”

Listen to the other party report the door. The lieutenant of the Guards did not put down the infrared sight, but said in a sour tone: "Hello, major. Welcome...... I hope you won't be crumbled by this hard bone. ”

"It's not going to give us a toothache." The comer replied tepidly.

The lieutenant of the Guards turned his head to look at his colleague who was younger than him and two levels higher: "If you can give me a cannon, even if it is an old-fashioned cannon without a reciprocating device, I can take this stronghold, but we only have machine guns and mortars, and the iron fist lacks destructive power against such targets...... Uh, please don't tell me you don't have heavy weapons either. ”…,

"It's a pity that we only have melee weapons, not even mortars and iron fists." Major Night Soldier said as he turned on the infrared device mounted on the assault rifle. His set uses the same principle of active infrared detection as the lieutenant, and both require a matching power supply and receiver. The difference is that the equipment of the night combat unit is more professional, and the infrared sight equipped for the infantry can only play the most basic role of active/passive observation at night.

"How many enemies are there?" The lieutenant asked deliberately.

The major glanced from left to right: "Well, there is probably a platoon, maybe more, the defensive fire is tight, the key is to get through this grass." ”

"Uh-huh!" The lieutenant replied. "After crossing this meadow, we have to find a way to open the outer walls or the doors and windows - they have blocked them with all kinds of heavy objects, it is difficult for ordinary grenades to explode, we have tried twice, the enemy is very sophisticated, it is difficult for us to ...... until they run out of troops or ammunition"

"Those are your people over there?" The major abruptly interrupted the Guards lieutenant, and in his infrared sight there were two humanoid light spots in the southeast corner of the three-story building.

"Oh, they're finally here." The lieutenant hurriedly used his night vision goggles, and after observing the target, he explained: "Those are the soldiers I sent to make a detour from the side, the Soviets are very cunning, they blocked the alley with trucks, and with two machine guns and grenades, they were able to block our offensive route, so I picked a few agile brothers and let them pass through those buildings without blasting, fortunately, they succeeded, just waiting for them to blow up the outer wall from that side......"

The light shone in the infrared scope, and the roar of an explosion followed. Observing a hole in the corner, the lieutenant of the Guards immediately shouted: "Soldiers, for the sake of Germany, attack!" ”

The German soldiers outside the fence were obviously ready to attack, several MG42s were roaring wildly, mortars were also banging, the infantry stood up with weapons and moved forward without hesitation, and after the blasting of the outer wall in the southeast corner of the building, the attention of the Soviet officers and soldiers was briefly distracted, their defensive fire was not timely, but when the German soldiers rushed half the distance, the grenades thrown by the Soviet army provided light for the defensive fire, and the figure marked by the steel helmet with large ears continued to move forward bravely under the firelight. The windows on the second floor and the ventilation windows of the sloping roof poked out tongues of fire, and the dense bullets swept down and the grass clippings flew sideways, and in an instant, many German soldiers had fallen, and the German machine gun crews supporting the attack were not ambiguous, and a series of bullets rained down quickly swept to the windows of the second floor of the building and the sloping roof, but the Soviets were not fixed in which windows to shoot, the defenders on the upper two floors were suppressed, and the windows on the first floor that seemed to be completely blocked actually shot bullets, although the fire of submachine guns and rifles was not as fierce as that of machine guns. However, the German attacking troops suffered heavy losses from the flat shots. The night soldier major with a high nose and thick lips and thick eyebrows and big eyes clenched his teeth, and at this time, leading the team to increase the casualties was of no avail, and he could only watch his fellow infantry fight against fate. In Wandelitz, there have been many such scenes. Thanks to the limited armored forces sent by the command to the periphery to deal with the Soviet tanks, the German infantry did not hesitate to take on the heavy responsibility of the attack, and this was also their chance to prove themselves again after washing away the shame of the battle in Belarus!

It only takes five to seven seconds for the light infantry to rush through a distance of forty or fifty meters, but the Soviet-made light machine guns fire a round every about 0.4 seconds, and the Sand submachine guns fire at an astonishing interval of 0.07 seconds, which is a few seconds from a relativistic point of view. The number of German soldiers falling on the lawn was constantly increasing. So much so that the spectators were terrified - they did not want to see their brave companions die in battle. Fortunately, there were still some brave and lucky German soldiers who rushed through the Soviet fire interception with the Grim Reaper's scythe, and they leaned down to avoid the Soviet bullets and rushed towards the hole in the wall that their comrades had blown up, at which point the Soviets threw grenades out the window to no avail. As the German soldiers stormed the building, heavy gunfire turned out of the house, and waves of air from the explosion kicked off the windows with all sorts of miscellaneous debris. Seeing that the Soviet army's defensive firepower was rapidly weakening, a bright light flashed in the indifferent eyes of the night soldier major, and he knelt down and got up. Holding the assault rifle in a muzzle downward position, he ordered in a deep but firm voice: "Vampire, attack!" ”…,

The dark shadows not far away came together one by one. They walked through the meadow among the infantry who had been engaged in the follow-up attack, and they witnessed the scene of the attack just now, and they walked past the remains of their fallen comrades with reverence. The stubborn enemy is still stubbornly resisting in this sturdy building, fighting in the dark room is bound to add a lot of difficulty to the attacker, and the night soldiers can reduce the difficulty of the attack with their special equipment and targeted training on weekdays, and the battlefield at this time is no longer the Eastern Front in 1945, and the Soviet army has also been equipped with a certain number of night vision equipment, which puts forward higher requirements for the imperial night soldiers - in the battle of the tip of the needle, only the skilled can survive, Contribute to your faction's victory.

Before dawn. The battle around the Vandlitz High School finally ended with the tenacious efforts of the German infantry, and at the Wandlitz Central Hospital, more than 200 Soviet soldiers clinged to the four-story building and fought fiercely with the Germans. As dawn approached, the Germans had reoccupied the rest of Wandelitz. The German commander had no choice but to turn to the Air Force for help. The pre-dawn night sky soon erupted with a roar that, unlike a helicopter or jet fighter, sounded like a normal propeller aircraft. Guided by ground radio and fireworks signals, Do-217 heavy bombers, one of the few remaining heavy aircraft from the Third Reich, were on standby in the airspace of the battlefield. It has a slender body, and all four crew members are concentrated in the thick nose to facilitate close cooperation under a clear division of labor. Although it has been questioned for poor maneuverability and inconvenient operation, with two 1700 horsepower BMW801D air-cooled piston engines, the Do-217 has a maximum speed of 533 kilometers per hour, far exceeding the U.S. B-17, the British Lancaster and the German Ju-88, and the bomb load is the first among all types of German twin-engine bombers, and it is the killer of ships on the east coast of the Atlantic during World War II. In the autumn of 1944, it was with this bomber that the German army sank the Italian battleship "Roma", which surrendered to the Allies, with radio-controlled armor-piercing bombs, leaving an epoch-making mark in the history of human warfare. For several years, the Imperial Fleet in Northern Europe had only the ability to maintain and not produce large bombers, but the development and improvement of wire-controlled and radio-controlled weapons technology did not stop. In fact, they continue to maintain their leading position in guidance technology in cold and barren northern Norway, and the most representative of them is the Hs293 "gliding bomb".

The HS293 is shaped like a miniature aircraft, powered by a small liquid-fueled rocket engine that can work for 10 seconds under the belly, with a maximum speed of 926 kilometers per hour, a range of 5 nautical miles, and a total weight of 1045 kilograms, of which the warhead is charged with 295 kilograms of explosives. What is more epoch-making is that the Hs-293D model adopts television guidance technology, and a TV camera is installed at the nose of the bomb, and the image is transmitted back to the carrier aircraft by radio. Enables bomber crews to attack in bad weather. As early as 1939, it was founded by the German engineer Herbert. Professor Wagner's research team began work on the Hs-293, which was originally based on the concept of an unpowered gliding bomb from the Gustav Schwarz propeller factory, with ordinary aerial bombs equipped with lightweight alloy wings and tails. In May 1940, the Hs-293V2 gliding bomb was made. In July 1940, the Hs-293V2 bomb and its carrier aircraft were respectively installed with radio command receiving and transmitting systems to make the bomb have mobile attack capabilities, and then the Hs-293V3 controllable glide bomb was successfully developed, which was tested in mid-1940. Since the unpowered Hs-293V3 lacked sufficient speed to penetrate the ship's hull, it was decided to add a rocket booster, the Hs-293A0, to increase the speed and range. The guidance system of this "gliding bomb" includes a "Strasbourg" type radio signal receiver, an electromagnetic actuator, a filter unit for filtering and amplifying radio signals, a three-phase alternating current gyroscope, a high-impedance two-potentiometer, a DC generator, and a control mechanism using an "Omitz" motor and potentiometer. …,

HS-293 at launch. The carrier aircraft uses the FuG-203 "Kiel" III radio transceiver to transmit control commands, and the FuG-230b receiver on the guided bomb receives and adjusts the control surface. The system is also the first visual guidance system to be used in an aircraft. The tail has a red flare to help the shooter with guidance. When dropped at 3,300 feet, the bomb glides up to 11 kilometers and travels between 435 and 900 kilometers per hour. The first combat record of the HS-293 was on August 25, 1943, when the Do-217 bombers of the 40th Bombardment Aviation Regiment of the Luftwaffe attacked a British anti-submarine patrol in the Bay of Biscay, and the British frigates "Landguardard" and "Biedford" were damaged. Two days later, the regiment's Do-217 used the missile to sink the British frigate "Egret", which was also the first time that a guided bomb was used to sink a ship. After the Allied landings in Normandy in 1944, Do-217 bombers used the bomb to attack water bridges in the Cherbourg Basin. to thwart the Allied offensive. Other achievements of the HS-293 included the damage of the frigate "Chaves" in January 1944 and the sinking of a transport ship, the sinking of the destroyer "Daring" in the Aegean Sea in September 1943, the sinking of the destroyer "Ingelfeld" in February 1944, the sinking of the destroyer "Boadisia" in June 1944, and the sinking of the destroyer "Vasilissa" in September 1943. Throughout World War II, the Germans used this type of guided bomb to sink about 400,000 tons of Allied ships.

Except for the Hs-293. The Third Reich also had a relatively successful guided bomb X-1, also known as the Fritz X, officially known as the PC-1400X. It is an unpowered armor-piercing bomb that uses kinetic energy from a height of 4000~8000 meters to accelerate, with a maximum speed of 1018.6 kilometers and a total weight of 1570 kg, of which the warhead is 320 kg. The X-1 has a short X-shaped wing in the middle and four rudder surfaces in the tail that are controlled by radio remote, which can correct the range of falling impact points within 500 meters before and after and 350 meters from left to right, and the hit rate of a round target with a radius of 30 meters is more than 90% in the test. During World War II, more than 1,400 pieces were produced.

In Wandelitz, the Do-217, which has long been "extinct" in the eyes of the world, carries two Hs-293A guided bombs (non-TV-guided). As a result of the devastating blow to the German industry, many of the sophisticated electrical components used in the production of the Hs-293 were no longer available, and until a satisfactory replacement could be produced, there was one less guided bomb in the Imperial arsenal, which alone was enough to show the importance that the German top brass attached to the Battle of Wandlitz. When the Do-217 followed the radio guidance signal to the skies over Wandelitz. Bombardiers can easily spot bombing targets surrounded by green fireworks from their scopes, but visual constraints make it much more difficult to attack ground targets at night than to attack ships at sea during the day, requiring the bombardiers to have a high level of judgment and maneuvering skills, for which the Empire's air elite conducted no less than a thousand drills with training simulators. As the plane enters level flight at a constant speed, the bombardier decisively presses the launch button and uses visual observation to adjust the missile's course until it hits the target in the center of the green fireworks.

Cheers were soon heard from the on-board radio communicator: "Hit...... Thank God! Thank you to our Air Force brothers! Long live Germany......" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )