Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Chapter 798 The German-Soviet War (97)

Chuchuchu! !

The U.S. soldiers in the carriage suddenly overturned and fell to pieces, making it difficult for them to escape from the carriage in time. What's more, they didn't carry any weapons with them. Their weapons were still piled up in the far East. Even when they left the carriage, they were still empty-handed. The result was that they could only be squeezed together like sardine cans and endure the baptism of bullets.

At this time, the nearby Soviet soldiers finally recovered and hurriedly came to support. But these few Soviet troops were counted down to the ground by German snipers. By the time the Soviet troops from further away arrived, the German troops who had used up almost all their bullets had already disappeared.

The Soviet company commander who arrived looked at the dense bullet holes punched in the carriages and the blood slowly flowing out from the cracks in the carriages, with an extremely ugly expression on his face. "Hurry, save people!" The Soviet soldiers climbed onto the carriage, and the pungent smell of blood hit their faces. They saw that the carriage was already covered in blood and flesh, and it was terrible to see.

Soon the news reached Moscow.

"What?!" Stalin was shocked and angry after receiving the news. "We were attacked by the main force of the German army?!" That was the rear area of ​​the Soviet Union. How could the main force of the German army appear there? !

"Yes, Comrade Stalin. It was the 11333rd train that was ambushed by the main force of the German army."

A flash of anger flashed in Starlin's eyes. "Where are the soldiers guarding the railway?!" He had deployed three entire divisions of troops to guard the railway, but this kind of thing still happened? !

The secretary spoke tremblingly. "The Germans launched a sudden attack and our soldiers were caught off guard."

Starling slammed the table and said angrily. "Instruct the local garrison to immediately go into the mountains and wipe out these damn German troops!"

In the next office, Rokossovsky approached Konev. "Comrade Konev, did you hear the news?"

As for why he only approached Konev and not Zhukov, it was because Zhukov did not have a harmonious relationship with most of his colleagues. Even Zhukov's chief of staff Soklovsky had some disagreements with him.

There was an open conflict between Konev and Zhukov in the "Troika" of the original time and space, and Rokossovsky also had a bad relationship with Zhukov. He criticized Zhukov many times in his memoirs.

As the saying goes, "No one is perfect, no one is perfect." Zhukov's character does have shortcomings such as a bad temper and being too rational and ruthless. He is not an easy person to deal with in life. Simply put, he does not have a high emotional intelligence. Secondly, Zhukov is a famous "firefighter" in the Soviet Union, but "firefighting" also means dealing with the "mess", and dealing with the "mess" will definitely lead to conflicts with the former commander and his subordinates, and Zhukov's character is not Good at handling. For example, in the famous "Battle of Leningrad" in the original time and space, Zhukov had a conflict with the former commander-in-chief of Leningrad and the founding marshal of the Soviet Union, Voroshilov, because of differences of opinion; during the Battle of Moscow, Zhukov had a conflict because he was ordered not to retreat. Let Rokossovsky have some emotions. Finally, Stalin was also responsible for the poor relationship between Zhukov and many other famous Soviet generals. For example, before the Battle of Berlin, Stalin transferred the supreme command of the front line from Rokossovsky to Zhukov, which of course caused Rokossovsky's dissatisfaction.

Naturally, Zhukov's character has not changed much in this time and space, so Rokossovsky always discusses everything with Konev and basically does not bring Zhukov with him.

Konev nodded. "Obviously the Germans dropped paratroopers to cut off the Trans-Siberian Railway."

Rokossovsky nodded in agreement. "I think so too. Comrade Stalin ordered the local garrison to go into the mountains and destroy these German troops, but the combat effectiveness of these German paratroopers is probably..." These German paratroopers are hidden in the deep mountains and old forests, and our own tanks and armor cannot get in at all. If we just dispatch As for infantry, the German paratroopers only need to occupy favorable terrain, and then one can equal a hundred.

"And the people nearby are all new soldiers with little combat experience. Even if they send a division to destroy them, they may not be successful. But there is no way, right? If something goes wrong on the Trans-Siberian Railway, the supplies from the Far East will not be able to reach Moscow. "Konev sighed helplessly. "Hopefully they can wipe out these Germans as soon as possible."

Unfortunately, there is a saying that things go counterproductive. After receiving the order from Moscow, the local garrison immediately assembled a battalion of troops to search the mountain.

The traces of the German army are not difficult to find. After all, a platoon of soldiers will always leave traces wherever they pass.

But before he had advanced 500 meters, a Soviet soldier felt something strange coming from his feet. Before he could react, his feet had already moved a step forward.

Click!

A black ball bounced from the ground into the air. The soldiers following discovered this thing, their eyes widened, and the look on their face was horrified.

boom!

Before the unlucky man could shout anything, the ball suddenly exploded in mid-air. The steel balls ejected covered the area with indiscriminate firepower with a radius of 20 meters, instantly knocking down several Soviet soldiers around him.

Seeing these men rolling and screaming on the ground, the Soviet battalion commander gritted his teeth in hatred. Nearly a squad of soldiers were lost before the Germans were even seen. Who knows how many landmines the Germans would have laid ahead? "Nikonov, take your platoon to send the wounded back. You go to the comrade commander, tell him that the Germans have planted mines, and ask him to send engineers over. Others stay on guard!"

In this way, they waited until the engineers arrived before moving on.

The engineers were detecting mines in front, and the others followed them cautiously.

boom!

Just after advancing more than fifty meters, there was a huge explosion, and several more unlucky people fell down.

The battalion commander suddenly became furious and cursed loudly. "Damn it, how did you fools detect mines?! If one more person is missed, I will shoot you all!!"

In fact, these engineers are not to blame. The German army in the original time and space realized that traditional landmines were easily detected. Later, German engineers developed a glass-made jumping mine. Except for TNT and black powder, all glass was used from the projectile to the fragments. It used a completely mechanical ignition method or a chemical ignition method, so that the metal detector was completely lost. effect.

As a weapon made with almost no metal involved, glass landmines are not only difficult to detect, but the glass fragments that explode into the human body are also difficult to find. Even with X-ray examination, it is difficult to find glass fragments embedded in muscle tissue. Therefore, It will greatly reduce the possibility of the wounded receiving treatment, and is likely to cause large-scale wound infection. For the Allies, the large number of mine detectors they spent huge resources to manufacture were almost useless. They could only rely on dangerous manual demining or the use of big guys like the "Sherman Crab" to ensure the safety of the infantry. This virtually adds tremendous pressure to the soldiers on the front line.

However, Yannick felt that this thing was indeed too cruel, and if the United States and the Soviet Union followed suit, it would be a big trouble for themselves, so he gave up glass and chose tempered porcelain. Although the cost of tempered porcelain landmines is more expensive than ordinary metal landmines, these tempered porcelain landmines are only supplied in small quantities to these paratroopers and special forces who perform special tasks, and are not mass-produced.

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