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"Inform the siege team to maintain the offensive and continue the attack according to the established battle plan. Since the knife is placed on the necks of the Germans, let's continue to saw them. Don't stop until these Germans' gas pipes leak. , Let’s see how long these bastards can last.”

"I understand, then"

After hearing this, Kulbalov seemed to be worried, but it didn't last long or hesitate. He just pondered for a moment and then asked Malashenko again.

"How do you judge the matter of poison gas weapons? Comrade division commander, do you have any conclusions and plans?"

Although Kurbalov had a skeptical attitude and "felt" that this was fake, he only "felt" it.

Kulbalov, who sat in the position of brigade commander, should have understood one thing anyway.

For any commander in a high position, what you "feel" is your business, and what you "feel" does not mean that it represents 100% reality. No matter how confident you are and how likely you think this is, you still cannot equate "feelings" with "facts."

Therefore, what to say about this matter and what to do next are not guided by Kulbalov's personal will, but should come up with a well-considered response plan.

Of course, Malashenko, as his superior, cannot understand what Kulbalov understands. In fact, Malashenko now basically has a rough plan that is just waiting to be executed.

"It's very simple. It's better to believe that something is there than to believe that it's not. It's better to be careless and underestimate the enemy."

"Although we are still maintaining the offensive, this is only a decision based on the current reality, evaluating the offensive cost-effectiveness and possible risks, and making it in line with the current situation."

"But what is right for now may not be right for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. If you don't encounter SS bastards on the current contact line, it doesn't mean you won't meet them next time."

"The combat preparations after closing the stall tonight must be done with chemical defense preparations. This matter is left to you. Comrade Deputy Division Commander will be responsible for supervising the work. Gas masks should be inspected and reissued. Political commissar instructors at all levels must emphasize the importance of virus prevention and chemical prevention to soldiers. Grassroots commanders must especially realize the importance of the problem.

"I will also notify Karachev and ask him to be prepared to receive the poisoned and wounded."

"In short, this is a very troublesome matter. If it is as you guessed, the Germans deliberately created false information to deceive us in order to delay time. From an objective reality, it does have some effect. This will at least add a lot to us. It was unnecessary chaos, but from a broad perspective it had to be done in order to anticipate the enemy, and it was also responsible for the lives of the soldiers.”

To be honest, if Malashenko was asked to personally evaluate the matter of "whether the Germans could use poison gas bombs", then Malashenko's result must be "most likely not".

At least judging from the public war history files declassified by later generations, neither the Soviet Army on the Eastern Front nor the Allied Forces on the Western Front recorded any record of the Nazi German armed forces using chemical weapons on a large scale on the frontline battlefield. .

Of course, this doesn’t mean that you German guy has a clean ass and doesn’t bother using poison gas to kill people. The Jews in the concentration camps were as dead as mountains, but there were a huge number of “German showers” ​​to wash them to death.

But poison gas bombs are something that you and I also have.

Besides, if I let you German guy live in your own territory and in your own capital, I'm sorry, but if you really offend people and engage in poison gas bombing, and be locked up in the city and eat poison gas, it will definitely be better than leaving it in the wilderness outside the city. The side with breathable air suffers greater losses.

And to be honest, poison gas has only the same lethality on the battlefield when used against regular troops with complete protective equipment and adequate preparations.

During the First World War, you German guy used table tennis to pump out thousands of tons of poison gas preparations. The final result was nothing more than killing and injuring a small 20,000 people on the opponent. What else is there compared to the killing efficiency of thermal weapons? Compared with things like the Verdun Meat Grinder, it's just like drizzle and not worth mentioning.

Due to historical factors and current realistic considerations, Malashenko concluded that the Germans would most likely not put gas bombs into actual combat, at least not on a large scale and with a large amount of money. This was based on reasons and was not based on personal considerations. It is so simple a subjective guess of the will.

But it’s just like Malashenko said.

This matter, I would rather believe that it exists than believe that it does not exist.

Although after comprehensive analysis, it is determined that the possibility of using poison gas bombs in large-scale actual combat is not high, but thinking from another perspective, it can also be understood that the possibility is not completely zero, and there is no possibility of the worst-case scenario happening.

Since the worst-case scenario is indeed possible, it is necessary to prepare accordingly.

Be it the Germans, the Soviets, or even the Americans and British who are not currently on the battlefield in this territory.

The current reality is that no matter which country you are from, as long as you think normally, are not blind, have a sound mind and do not talk nonsense, you can definitely see that this Battle of Berlin will be the final and final battle that determines the fate of the Nazis. battle.

I also understand the essence of this truth, and I will definitely take all means to resist this most unacceptable result.

Based on this reality, if you really say that some of the fanatics were like madmen, they used poison gas bombs to blast the Red Army. If you think about it carefully, it seems more reasonable.

The crazier they become and the more unscrupulous they become towards the end, this is one of the biggest characteristics of these crazy fanatics.

Never guess the bottom line and lower limit based on your subjective consciousness, because these guys have no bottom line and lower limit at all.

As long as they think it is effective and can be done, they can tie their own mother to a rocket and fight against the Red Army.

Finally, the current tampered time traveler timeline is not the existing historical timeline that can be completely compared by looking at history books.

Malashenko is not sure what unexpected variables the butterfly effect he created will bring to the Battle of Berlin to this day.

In the existing history, the Germans did not release poison gas in their own capital. This is a fact.

It is also true that the Germans in the time traveler's timeline were not sure whether they would release poison gas in their own capital.

After thinking about this, Malashenko has made a further decision.

Now, the fact that "the Germans might jump over the wall and release poison gas" is no longer limited to the leader level.

We must continue to report it, let Chuikov and even Zhukov know about it, and prepare the front army and all the brother troops participating in the Battle of Berlin.

At least it won't be like being smoked by the Germans' poisonous gas, and then rolling around in pain with your neck stuck and your mouth covered, regretting that you didn't wear a gas mask to save trouble, or that you haven't used a gas mask for hundreds of years. When the hell did it fail and leak?

The field hospitals in the rear areas were not completely unprepared. They were helpless when they saw the critically injured patients who had been carried out after being poisoned by poison gas. There was even a phenomenon of "poison-to-human transmission" due to insufficient protection. The field hospital ended up becoming a large poison den full of undead. , the wounded almost died together with the medical staff.