Napalm must be one of the most hated weapons among many human weapon inventions, incendiary weapons from the ancient oil and the like are the most feared weapons of human weapons, after all, fire and water are ruthless, from the time when human beings did not wear clothes, the painful memory of flame burning has been deeply rooted in the mind, and has become one of the fixed cognitions.

And science makes combustion more thorough and more durable, attaching to any object, constantly burning to raise the surrounding temperature, and finally achieving the purpose of igniting everything and burning everything. That's where napalm makes people desperate, it burns and doesn't easily extinguish, it lasts long enough to melt steel and shatter bones.

It was because of its power that it was the Luftwaffe's favorite ground weapon. Whenever they came across a target that they felt necessary to destroy completely, they filled the plane with this terrible weapon, then flew over the target, dropped the bombs off the plane, and watched the target on the ground turn into a sea of fire.

Every time this kind of bomb is dropped, because of the violent explosion and burning on the ground, a large amount of smoke is often formed, and the remaining targets cannot be seen clearly when the sky and sun are obscured, so the Germans generally use this weapon in the last bombardment, and after the target is completely destroyed, the air raid will be stopped.

This time, they dropped hundreds of tons of napalm in Smolensk, in the city already surrounded by German troops. A whole day has passed, and there is still a fire burning here, and the Soviet defenders in the city have not yet launched a corresponding effective rescue due to casualties and chaos.

The fire set the house on fire, and the burning substance of napalm adhered to the buildings and the skin of people, scorching everything that came in its immediate vicinity. People were charred and houses burned to ruins. Then, with the cold and dry winds of the end of winter, the flames spread across the streets, setting the houses on the other side on fire as well, turning them into uncontrollable behemoths.

The behemoth wreaking havoc everywhere devoured anything it could come across, burning the sheets, cupboards, clothes, and people inside the house. In short, it grew as it devoured, eventually becoming as massive as all of Smolensk.

Houses were burning and collapsing, but the Soviet defenders really couldn't come up with any effective relief methods. Their already limited forces are now overstretched by the loss of more men due to large-scale air strikes, let alone helping local civilians to salvage supplies and homes.

These miserable civilians were left to their own devices, but in this moment of war, fire trucks and fire trucks had long been requisitioned by the army, and there was no way to extinguish the fires, and eventually people gave up on trying to extinguish them, and they allowed the fire to spread and burn the whole city.

"It was only when napalm was dropped that the butcher bomber really became a butcher in its name. This was the comment of the commander-in-chief of the German strategic bomber forces, Admiral Dick, who felt that the combined use of napalm and bombs could destroy the target to the greatest extent and break the enemy's will to resist.

This time he put his idea into practice in Smolensk, dropping a large number of bombs and napalm, which destroyed the entire city into ruins, and burning ruins. In fact, according to the German or European understanding of war, the defending forces inside the city should have given up resistance and surrendered a long time ago, after all, the cities they were defending no longer existed.

But the reality is that surrounded by the German army, the defensive positions on all sides were compressed, the defending city was destroyed, and the Soviet army, which suffered a large number of casualties, did not surrender, but waited for the German attack in the ruins, and they were determined to live and die with the ruins behind them to buy more time for their homeland.

Every human being has a faith, and every nation has its own backbone. This kind of momentum is not possessed by a specific individual or nation, but is something that every nation that stands tall among the nations of the world must have. This kind of unyielding spirit cannot be understood with common sense, sometimes knowing that it is death, but some people and some people will still follow their own beliefs.

"When Comrade Zhukov left, he told us that if we hold on for a month, our motherland will have greater hope!" A Soviet division commander stared at his men and said: "For the sake of the Soviet Union, for the sake of all our compatriots, do not be slaves to the country! Do not be cowards who surrender!"

"Defend Smolensk to the death!" all regiment commanders and battalion commanders replied loudly, shouting their oaths while raising their right hands and clenching their fists.

"The enemy's tanks can run over our corpses! But we will never surrender!" After the division commander finished speaking, he ordered to defend every inch of territory, knowing that the German offensive was about to begin, and no one wanted to let an enemy city exist behind his defensive line.

In the other direction of the position, the experimental infantry battalions of the Germans had already begun their offensive. Two self-propelled anti-aircraft guns cleared the way, giving the Germans who were clearing the streets of Soviet soldiers with superior firepower, and after carefully sorting out the two collapsed buildings, establishing a forward base, they cleared the other buildings with anti-aircraft vehicles, where they laid out effective defenses and began to advance to the next block.

An ordinary infantry battalion followed behind took over some of the cleared buildings, and they were amused by the slow but efficient attack, after all, watching the troops in front of them carefully and orderly carry out the task of clearing the buildings would be a bit of fun and boring for anyone.

The battle began just as it was time to begin, a Soviet soldier fired a counterattack gunshot, and then the German anti-aircraft guns opened fire fiercely, 20 mm caliber ammunition hit the walls of the building, kicking up a cloud of white smoke, and the German soldiers hidden in the corner, with their automatic weapons in their hands, desperately suppressed the Soviet positions on the opposite side.

"This is the 1st Company of the Special Experimental Unit, the artillery fire extends 100 meters directly in front of my position, shoot! Repeat, the artillery fire extends 100 meters directly in front of my position, shoot!" A German signal soldier crouched in the center of the line used a new walkie-talkie to contact the battalion's artillery support, and he looked very calm, because the procedure in front of him had been practiced countless times.

Very punctual, just like during the exercise, the German 105 mm howitzer quickly patronized the Soviet defenders' positions not far in front of the Germans, and the shells fired by the four howitzers landed accurately around the building, blowing up the Soviet positions there into ruins.

When the first round of four shells fell, the Soviet position had been torn apart by the shock wave of the explosion, and then the second round of shelling came, and the Soviet soldiers who originally wanted to fight to the death were wiped out under the attack of the shells. The German artillery fire came so fast that it was almost impossible to transfer compared to the previous support, and the hit-and-run ambush tactics became meaningless under the careful groping of the Germans, and could only increase casualties.

As soon as the shelling ended, the Soviet soldiers, who were huddled in corners and other places, barely survived the purgatory-like test that the shelling ushered in again, and the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, which had been replenished with ammunition, opened fire again violently, combing through the dead spots that some shells had not taken care of. The Germans quickly entered the ruins under cover, and with skillful cooperation, cleared one by one the places where they could hide.

Soon the Germans cleaned up the battlefield, 4 Soviet Reds were captured, and according to them, 54 accomplices were killed. They quickly left after attempting to attack the German troops, but they did not expect to be immediately suppressed by the strong German firepower, and then they were subjected to a round of artillery fire.

The Germans then began to move forward to clear their positions, clearing nearby buildings, as well as some that had burned down, taking more than 300 Soviet Red Army prisoners and killing another 88. The Germans had only one soldier killed and two wounded.

"Such a steady and steady clearing of the enemy's positions one by one is indeed a very safe means of attack, and with our different infantry, we can also give full play to our strong firepower in street battles. Field Marshal Rundstedt, standing on a cleared position, looked through the artillery mirror as his troops were advancing building by building in the distance, and said, "But...... The consumption of ammunition also increases geometrically. ”

"There's no such thing as the best of both worlds. Several German officers in charge of inspecting the battalion's urban operations stood behind Rundstedt and echoed: "In fact, we have already used a small group of special forces to cooperate with the sniper detachment, and the effect will soon be transmitted. ”

No sooner had he finished his sentence than a series of intensive shelling landed on a place that was really not very significant. A 150-millimeter caliber heavy artillery was used, and it was obvious that a certain infiltration team had found the opponent's big fish and directly called for artillery support at the group army level.

A dozen 150-millimeter shells landed in the distant area, and in an instant the mountains were shaken, and when everything was calm, the smoke rose as high as a few floors. The artillery was so accurate that it blew the area into a huge crater that was connected together.