The decisive battle against the Third Reich

The Soviet Union was silent for a while. After all, the news they received was that the assassination team was wiped out and no news was sent to them about whether the mission was successful.

The last report Matevich received was: "We have rushed to the target. I saw several comrades shooting at the target position. It is not sure whether the target was successfully killed..."

Then the communication was interrupted with gunshots and screams.

Matevich and Pukayev could only wait patiently in the headquarters, waiting for Holm's intelligence personnel to send them follow-up intelligence.

A few hours later, they finally got exciting news. A signal soldier reported: "They said that the 'Legendary Sergeant' was at least seriously injured, because the Germans had begun to angrily retaliate against the people!"

There was a burst of cheers in the command post, and several officers couldn't help shaking hands and congratulating each other.

Petronolev said with a smile: "The British are stupid, aren't they? They know that this 'legendary sergeant' is the core figure of the Germans and has changed the situation of the war time and time again, but they don't know to use this method!"

"Perhaps you have forgotten something, Comrade Petronolev!" Matevich said:

"The British are gentlemen, so they won't use this method!"

"Oh, what a great gentleman!" Petnolev rolled his eyes, and everyone in the headquarters burst into laughter.

Of course, what they said was not true. If they could win the war, the British's "unscrupulous tactics" would be even worse than that of the Soviets. For example, the British army once assassinated Rommel. It's just that the Soviets didn't know this.

"What should we do now, Comrade Pukayev?" Matevich asked Pukayev.

Pukayev thought for a moment and replied: "Wait a little longer!"

At this time, Pukayev did not quite believe this information. It was not until the intelligence sent back by several spies proved this that he was convinced.

Needless to say what happened next, the morale of the Soviet army was greatly boosted, and they launched an overwhelming offensive towards Holm that night. The waves of people seemed to be endless.

Of course, this is a good thing for the German army, because the topography and location of Holm make the German army least worried about this kind of strong attack.

In order to better cope with the Soviet army's human sea tactics, the German Army Group Center headquarters also used a glider to bring Holm a new piece of equipment... the Type 40 explosive projector.

The explosive launcher is a rare weapon, as only 158 of it were produced during the entire Third Reich. It is generally used by the German vanguard troops to break obstacles or attack enemy strongholds.

Holm scored eight of them.

Qin Chuan also saw this thing: a bipod plus a base, similar in size and shape to an 81MM mortar. The difference is that it has no barrel and is replaced by a shell casing that is much smaller than the barrel.

To put it simply, the mortar puts the shell into the barrel and launches it, while the explosive projector directly loads the shell on something similar to a grenade launcher and launches it.

Compared with mortars, it is simpler, lighter and much more powerful: due to the limitation of the size of the barrel, the 81 mortar has only 500 grams of TNT explosive, while the high-explosive bomb of the explosive projector is Because there is no barrel limit that can hold 6.8 kilograms of explosives, the charge is nearly 14 times that of an 81MM mortar shell... This is almost like throwing an explosive package.

Another advantage is that the rate of fire is quite good. A skilled gun crew can fire 8 rounds per minute.

One can imagine what it would be like if eight 6.8-kilogram explosive packets could be thrown head-on in one minute on the battlefield... It would almost blow up the front into ruins.

So this guy played a big role on the battlefield as soon as he came up. He built a gate a few hundred meters away, and when the Soviet troops came up like a tide, he bombed them randomly. In no time, they were all blown up. Eight prime.

Of course, Qin Chuan did not see this scene, because Qin Chuan was ordered to hide in the cellar and not go out... If the Soviet people saw this "playing the trick", it would be exposed.

Soldiers who came back from the battlefield talked about this equipment happily.

"Have you seen the way the Soviets were blown up in pieces?" Werner said: "It's hard to imagine. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would have thought it was a howitzer shell!"

"That's it, Werner!" Dominic said: "You must know that the 155MM caliber howitzer has a charge of only 6.9 kilograms, and this explosive projector can have a charge of 6.8 kilograms!"

"Why don't we produce more of this stuff?" the baker asked in confusion.

"Who knows?" Dominic replied.

Qinchuan knew that this explosive projector actually had two fatal shortcomings: short range and poor accuracy.

Especially the range, which is only 720 meters.

Therefore, it can only be used when there is such an obvious height difference like Holm's Lovaj River defense line. In other cases, any small-caliber mortar can suppress it and then It was defeated in one charge.

Another difference in accuracy that the Germans could not tolerate was that it had no gun barrel, which destined it to bomb the front line indiscriminately.

These are the reasons why it was finally abandoned by the German army and only produced 158 doors.

But this also shows one thing, that is, the German army is already looking for a solution. They hope to use a simple and cheap equipment to deal with the Soviets' human sea tactics that can hardly be defeated no matter how hard they fight.

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan couldn't help but shook his head.

The Germans finally found a way, which was to produce the world's first assault rifle, the StG44... This rifle is also the originator of the Soviet AK47 assault rifle.

Although the Soviet Union has never admitted this, the AK47 is obviously very similar to the StG44 in both appearance and design concept.

Obviously, this development direction is the right one. If everyone has an assault rifle with a capacity of dozens of rounds, and the range can reach about 400 meters, then it can be said that no matter how many people come up, they will become its gun. The souls of the dead.

And this kind of bomb projector...it has only one fate: to be eliminated.

Unfortunately, this assault rifle appeared too late. The test gun was not released until the end of 1943 and only 400,000 were produced until Germany was defeated. Therefore, it ultimately failed to change the fate of the German army's defeat.

At this moment, Qin Chuan couldn't help but be startled... Why didn't he let this assault rifle appear in advance?

Thinking of this, Qin Chuan immediately ordered to the correspondent: "Take command, I want to speak to the colonel!"

"Yes, Captain!"