Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Next to the old man using a Berdan single-shot rifle was a young corpse, more accurately, a young girl, who looked to be only twenty-four or five years old at most.

"Tsk, tsk, she's a pretty girl." The soldiers around her exclaimed with regret. If it weren't for the war, such a beautiful girl would have been pursued by many people, and she might have married a good boy and lived a happy life. But now, a bullet accurately penetrated her eyebrow, leaving her dead.

Another body was brought out of the trench. Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they saw the corpse, which was obviously too small in size, with a green face and a childish look on its face. "God, this is still a child!"

They didn't know that at the end of World War II in the original time and space, many underage children in Germany joined the army and formed the "Baby Division." In addition, there is the "People's Stormtroopers", which are Germany's militia armed forces. They are basically ordinary people who do not meet the conditions for joining the army. In addition to not having good training, the Volkssturm also lacked weapons and even fought with shotguns and shooting competition rifles. Some of their grenades were actually made of cement or even wood. These "civilian armed forces" without combat experience can only die on the battlefield.

Many women and children in the Soviet Union also went to the front lines. More Soviet child soldiers were incorporated into reconnaissance companies. They were small, flexible and very suitable for completing the task of detecting the enemy's situation. Many child soldiers also won medals. There was even a 14-year-old machine gunner named Leontyev who used a captured MG-34 machine gun to kill 15 German soldiers.

While everyone was sighing, the company commander who passed by came over, looked at the body on the ground, and scolded him a few words. "What's so pitiful? When he picks up a gun and goes into battle he becomes a soldier, our enemy! A bullet fired from a teenager's gun is just as deadly as a bullet fired from a professional soldier's gun. Maybe more deadly. If you have mercy on them, you will be the ones who fall! It can only be said that Stalin is really a beast for forcing such a young child to go to the battlefield."

After hearing what the company commander said, the guilt in everyone's hearts suddenly decreased a lot. Yes, the culprit of all this is Stalin, who pushed these women and children to the battlefield. On the other hand, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not only called for the women and children in these cities to leave to avoid being harmed by the war; he even mobilized the captured Stalin's eldest son to persuade Stalin to let these women and children go.

Comparing the two, their Crown Prince is simply an angel, while Stalin is a fruit-eating devil.

The company commander hired several war reporters and asked them to take photos of these corpses and send them back to China, which must have been a good propaganda material.

In the Smolensk underground headquarters, Commander Shaposhnikov looked a little ugly. The suburban defense line was broken through by the Germans in less than a day, and nearly 300,000 defenders were wiped out.

That’s an army of nearly 300,000 people! Although most of them were civilian armed guards, even if there were 300,000 pigs, the Germans wouldn't be able to capture them all in one day! It's a pity that this 300,000-strong army seems to be no match for pigs, and it was so easily solved by the German army! According to this style of play, how long can the Baiwan army in Smolensk last? Three days or four days?

"Comrade Commander, the soldiers on the front line have done their best. Many soldiers strapped bombs to their bodies to blow up German tanks. They suffered heavy losses during the previous three days of shelling. Those anti-bomb holes could not stop the German heavy artillery shells. ." Let alone large-caliber heavy artillery, those jerry-rigged anti-gun holes may not be able to block even medium-caliber artillery shells. However, this suburban defense line was built on the order of Commander Shaposhnikov, and he knew the specific situation very well. "The Germans deployed a lot of tanks, and the suburban defense lines didn't have any decent anti-tank weapons. They couldn't resist the German attack at all."

Commander Shaposhnikov naturally knew this, so he did not delve into it and sighed deeply. The Germans have powerful armored forces and air force advantages, which makes it impossible for them to confront the Germans in field battles. Only in urban street fighting can the gap between German equipment be narrowed as much as possible, and it is possible to defeat the Germans.

Unexpectedly, the Germans completely ignored common sense and almost flattened the entire city. What would be the difference from fighting in the wild?

"Smolensk must be defended. If it cannot be defended, everyone will know the consequences."

"Comrade Commander, please rest assured, we will definitely be able to defend Smolensk. The following urban street fighting will make the Germans pay a heavy price." The generals and staff in the room looked confident.

Commander Shaposhnikov nodded. "Now that the suburban defense line has collapsed, the Germans will probably launch an attack soon. Everyone should guard their respective combat positions. As long as you can defend Smolensk, you will be the heroes of the Soviet Union."

However, the German troops who had cleared the suburban defense lines did not rush to launch an attack into the city of Smolensk. Instead, they pushed all the artillery forward so that the entire Smolensk was within the range of the German artillery. Now even artillery fire can penetrate the city of Smolensk.

Bombers dropped various large and small bombs into the city of Smolensk day and night.

"Keep bombing. These cities will need to be rebuilt in the future anyway. Instead of paying a demolition fee then, it's better to bomb them now."

Of course, Yannick also knew that it was simply a fantasy to "flatten" a big city in the true sense.

We must know that the damage resistance of modern buildings is quite strong. To "blow up" a building in peacetime, a professional blasting team needs to determine the location and amount of explosives to use by studying the drawings of the original building, and destroy it. The key bearing point caused the entire building to collapse.

In a real war, the defender will not leave you so much time to figure out how to blow up the building.

Therefore, the attacker can only use artillery or bombs to directly bombard the building, but the effect is not significant.

Reinforced concrete buildings have excellent resistance to normal-caliber artillery. A tank cannon can at most open a hole in the building. A 152/155 howitzer can peel off a piece of the building with a quick-fire fuse. A rocket launcher of 122mm or more - 300mm or less can chew off a piece of it. The main body of the building cannot be shaken to a certain extent, and only a Tomahawk-level cruise missile can disembowel the building.

In other words, you need at least a massive amount of 300mm rocket launchers and even cruise missiles to achieve this level of firepower. To ensure that a building is hit by at least three or four missiles, you can literally flatten the city. Otherwise, you will need more time and more firepower. Artillery can achieve its purpose.

However, Yannik had to continue bombing Smolensk because he received intelligence that under the careful deployment of the Shaposhnikov Division, the entire Smolensk became a giant fortress; almost every street and every house had Carefully lay out defensive positions.

If we rush in rashly, we don't know how many casualties we will pay. Therefore, Yannik wanted to use this high-intensity bombing to destroy the ground defenses built by the Soviet army as much as possible and reduce his own casualties.

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