Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

"Comrade Commander, the German ground troops have begun their attack!!"

"Finally here!" Commander Shaposhnikov looked extremely grim in the Smolensk underground headquarters. In the past few days, the German army's day and night aerial bombardment and ground shelling have plowed through almost the entire city of Smolensk. Most of the fortifications and heavy equipment originally built on the ground were destroyed and wasted. ; As a result, this battle will be more difficult for our side.

"Let the soldiers return to the ground and beat the Germans!!" Following the order issued by Commander Shaposhnikov, the Soviet soldiers who had been waiting for action returned to the ground from various exits in an orderly manner, preparing to counterattack. of German troops.

A platoon of Soviet soldiers crawled to the ground from a sewer exit.

"Oh my God! It was bombed like this?!" They looked at the streets around them that were bombed beyond recognition, and their original appearance was almost unrecognizable. "Here, comrade platoon leader, where should we set up our positions?" The three-story building not far away that they were originally responsible for defending had been blown into ruins. Presumably, the two Maxim heavy machines deployed in that small building have also been reduced to parts.

The platoon leader did not expect this to be the case, but it was impossible to go back and ask his commander for instructions. "Find a place nearby to set up a position." The platoon leader said as he walked forward cautiously. Although the attacking German troops were still several blocks away, the bombing and shelling of the city center continued. He was afraid that A cannonball without eyes will fly over and kill them all.

Just took a few steps, poof! With a soft sound, the platoon leader felt as if he had been hit by something, and his body staggered back a few steps. He looked down at his chest blankly and fell down weakly.

"Comrade platoon leader, what's wrong with you?" The Soviet soldiers behind gathered together and saw bright red blood slowly flowing out from under the platoon leader who was lying on the ground. They turned him over, and his chest was red and stared. The boss's eyes were lifeless and he was exhausted.

"This!!" Was he shot? !

Before anyone had time to react, people around him were shot and fell to the ground, letting out shrill screams.

"Enemy attack! Get down!" the deputy platoon leader yelled, immediately lying down on the ground, looking for the direction of the bullet.

In a building 300 meters away, only half of which was bombed, behind a window on the top floor, a sniper quickly removed the 10-round magazine that had been filled with bullets and replaced it with the 20-round magazine that had been placed aside. box. Most sniper rifles in later generations only had five or ten-round magazines. Because the sniper rifle is mainly used for assassination, it requires the shooter to kill the enemy with one shot. Therefore, it has no firepower intensity requirements, only shooting accuracy requirements. Therefore, it does not require a large magazine capacity like other weapons. When snipers use sniper rifles, they must conceal their attempts to shoot the target, because only by preserving themselves can they destroy the enemy. If the magazine capacity is too large, the magazine volume will inevitably be too large, making the gun difficult to control and conceal.

However, at this time, each sniper in the German sniper unit carried a 20-round magazine, which was just used to deal with this situation.

"So many achievements came at once. What a blessing." The observer next to him sighed. They were a three-person sniper team; a sniper, an observer and second sniper, and a coverer and second sniper. Correspondent. If they encounter enemy forces below the platoon level in street fighting, they will deal with them themselves. Above the platoon level, they can call for artillery support through the communicator.

After loading a new magazine, the sniper neatly pulled the bolt to load the bullet and aimed at his target again.

Pulling the trigger, a cloud of blood burst out from the shoulder of a Soviet soldier in the distance. Rifle rounds are so powerful that snipers don't have to aim at their heads and fire, they just need to hit the target.

At this time, the advantage of semi-automatic rifles over bolt-action rifles came to light. The snipers pulled the triggers repeatedly. In less than a minute, a platoon of Soviet soldiers was reduced to less than half its strength.

The remaining men finally collapsed. "Get out of here quickly, or we will all die here!" The deputy platoon leader climbed up desperately and ran towards the sewer not far away. Others followed suit; but within two seconds, the one who ran at the front The deputy platoon leader was shot and fell to the ground. In the end, only five or six Soviet soldiers escaped into the sewer.

"You're lucky." The sniper snorted coldly and replaced the sniper rifle with a new ten-round magazine.

"One, two, three, four...twenty-five." The observer counted the bodies lying on the ground. "There are twenty-five achievements in total, which is really good." He ordered the correspondent again. "Inform the engineering troops that there are sewer openings in area C13 and let them destroy them." If they found such exits leading to the ground, they would destroy them one by one. It would be best to trap all the Soviet troops hiding underground like rats. Don't ever come up.

Such sniper killings occurred in more than one place. More than 2,000 German sniper teams lurked into the city of Smolensk from all directions.

In just half a day, Commander Shaposhnikov received more than 10,000 casualties caused by cold shooting by the Germans.

These were only the casualties killed by German snipers. What was even more frightening was that in addition to killing small groups of Soviet troops, these sniper teams could also become the eyes and ears of ground troops and become indicators of attack firepower.

For example, at one point, a whole company of Soviet soldiers secretly returned to a relatively intact building and were deploying defenses outside the window. They were discovered by a sniper team in the distance and an attack plane was directly called in. . The attack plane dropped a heavy bomb on the building. The Soviet troops in the entire building did not even see the shadow of the German troops, and they came all at once.

In addition to high-altitude attack aircraft, there are hundreds of helicopters circling at low altitude in Smolensk. Once the Soviet movement is discovered, 7mm heavy machine guns, 40mm grenade launchers, and 57mm rockets will all greet them. The Soviet army suffered heavy casualties.

The ground troops are not easy to mess with either. Various tanks, assault guns, and self-propelled anti-aircraft guns cover the orderly advance of the infantry. Among them, the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns equipped with four 20 mm cannons are particularly terrifying. The four cannons shoot out a storm of shells. Once they are hit by it If you keep a close eye on you, even if you are separated by a few walls, you can be beaten to a pulp.

"..." Commander Shaposhnikov frowned. He found that the German street fighting was not at all what he had imagined. It was difficult for our own soldiers to even gain a foothold on the ground, let alone effectively counterattack the Germans.