Chapter 123: Strangulating Yelnia (5)

As a further improved version of the German hand grenade during World War I, the M24 long-handled grenade, which was launched as an offensive grenade, not only has a huge body nicknamed the "potato masher", but its warhead charge of up to 170 grams of TNT equivalent is also Among the standard grenades of various countries in World War II in the early period, it was enough to dominate the crowd.

Such a powerful offensive grenade is stuffed into the track of a KV1 heavy tank in a bundle of seven cluster grenades. The total explosive power is more than one kilogram of TNT, although it is not enough to penetrate the body of the KV1 heavy tank. The thick 75mm homogeneous steel armor on the sides is still manageable when it is blown into two pieces by simply rigidly combining the tank tracks that are connected together.

boom--

Amidst the huge explosions of cluster grenades, a total of 12 KV1 heavy tanks whose tracks were broken were forced to brake and stop immediately. Faced with the continuous sound of firefights and various loud shouts intertwined in German and Russian from all directions, these KV1 heavy tanks, which had completely lost their ability to move and had become trapped animals, were obviously at a loss as the turrets swayed.

Although Malashenko had expected that the SS would be more difficult to deal with than the Wehrmacht, he never expected that things would develop to such a scene. These SS soldiers who simply used cluster grenades to blow up Soviet tanks with a certain death mentality can be said to be desperadoes. This almost semi-suicidal crazy attack indeed brought people who have never seen such a scene before. Malashenko was greatly shocked.

"I've never seen someone so crazy before I risk my life. What's the difference between what these SS guys did and those Japanese Japs from the Showa era? They just damn near tied explosives and hit the tank!"

No matter how much complaints and shock Malashenko felt at this moment, most of them had been attacked by the SS on the spot where the Soviet infantry was killed. It had indeed achieved the expected purpose and was effective.

The 12 KV1 heavy tanks whose tracks were blown off are now stuck in place like beasts with broken legs, unable to move. Tanks that are completely missing a link among the three important indicators of firepower, protection, and mobility will face on a fierce battlefield. What kind of situation, such a result is simply self-evident to Malashenko, a later time traveler.

Sure enough, just as Malashenko, who was having a fierce game in his inner world, was thinking about his next order plan, seeing that his own death squads had successfully attacked and paralyzed the Soviet heavy tanks on the spot, the Germans immediately began to add insult to injury. Last-hitting action.

The intricate transportation network of infantry trenches above the position undoubtedly provided great convenience for German soldiers to maneuver and hide.

The Soviet infantry, which had just rushed into the first infantry trench and was fighting for control with the German soldiers, was obviously too busy to care about anything else at this time.

On the other side, taking advantage of the flanking infantry trenches, the German assault team, which was only a few meters away from the paralyzed KV1 heavy tank, immediately began to take action. The burning gasoline bottles held high in their hands immediately moved towards it like rain. Unable to do so, the Soviet heavy tanks flew straight away.

When the combustion bottle that mixed liquid gasoline with artificial rubber and put it into it shattered, the viscous semi-solid liquid immediately burned with blazing flames like melted chocolate and followed the Soviet KV1 heavy tank. The heat dissipation window of the engine hood at the upper end of the tail seeped into the tank.

Although the Soviet heavy tank power compartment uses non-volatile and viscous diesel as power fuel, it is almost impossible to be ignited and exploded by an open flame of this degree.

However, the German Molotov cocktail that mixed liquid gasoline with artificial rubber in a certain proportion is no longer what it used to be. Not only does its sustainable burning time increase exponentially due to the addition of artificial rubber, a combustible substance, it also increases exponentially. The large amount of thick black smoke released when artificial rubber burned was extremely deadly to the Soviet tank crew members who were crowded in the cramped environment of the vehicle to fight.

Under the concentrated fire attack of multiple incendiary bombs, it was like a rubber tire being ignited in the tank engine compartment, releasing a large amount of highly toxic black smoke, which quickly destroyed the Soviet tanks that had originally planned to continue fighting. The team members were so coughed and unable to bear it that they began to open the escape hatch cover and prepared to abandon the car and escape without Malashenko's explicit order.

The German assault team waiting in the trench nearby was obviously waiting for such a moment to come. The MP38/40 submachine gun and Mauser 98K rifle held tightly in their hands immediately raised their muzzles and fired indiscriminately. The Soviet tank crew members, who had just stretched their upper bodies out of the tank turret in preparation for escape, sadly hung to death on their own vehicles.

Scenes like this are not just isolated cases. The German assault teams ambushed in multiple criss-crossing trenches started taking action almost at the same time and almost all of them succeeded.

Almost all of his body was covered in the wreckage of more than a dozen Soviet KV1 heavy tanks with thick black smoke seeping out from the inside out. The fires in the wreckage of a number of KV1 heavy tanks had been covered by these thick, semi-liquid and pervasive tongues of flames. , got into the fighting compartment of the car body, and then burst out with increasingly fierce flames.

When the ammunition rack, soaked in raging flames and thick smoke, finally reached the critical point of temperature and exploded violently, it was finally realized that all this was Malashenko's attack that had been premeditated by the German army. Only then did he wake up from a dream to the huge explosion.

As for why the soldiers of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment on the first defensive position did not take such action when the position was captured, the SS Reich Division assault teams wearing SS double lightning collar combat uniforms are the best. Answer.

The soldiers of the SS Reich Division, who had a purer fighting will, had no more experience in dealing with Soviet heavy tanks than the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment of the Wehrmacht.

But the armed SS, whose minds and hearts were filled with fanaticism and belief in unconditional obedience to the Führer, were obviously more courageous and desperate than the Wehrmacht, which was the traditional Prussian military group.

This group of fanatical armed believers who are not even afraid of death for the righteousness of the Führer is naturally less likely to be afraid of Soviet heavy tanks. Words such as cost and casualties simply do not exist in the dictionary of these crazy SS soldiers. In their eyes, The only thing that exists here is that the Soviet heavy tanks will be destroyed by our own methods.

"No wonder these guys were tried as a war crimes group after the war. These guys fought without respecting the rules and bottom lines! Bastards!"