Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

As the first country to invent anti-tank mines, Germany's arsenal is stocked with mountains of World War I anti-tank mines.

Nowadays, the German army is engaged in offensive warfare and does not need to lay landmines to defend the enemy; therefore, Yannik allocates 50,000 anti-tank mines to Finland with a stroke of his pen. Now the Soviet Seventh Army faces more than 10,000 mine arrays. It is simply impossible to rush over safely.

After losing more than 30 tanks at once, the Soviet army was finally forced to stop and sent engineers to start demining.

In this way, the forward troops stopped moving forward, and more and more troops followed behind. Soon they gathered into a pile, and they were almost crowded. In this case, once attacked by enemy artillery fire, the casualties will definitely be heavy.

However, the Soviets were not too worried because they knew that the Finns lacked various heavy equipment and it was impossible to shell them.

How much does Finland lack heavy equipment?

Here is an interesting anecdote: During the Soviet-Finnish War in the original time and space, one day a soldier was passing by a small village and saw a dilapidated house and walked in. There was a pile of firewood piled in the corner, and it looked like there was something hidden in it. The soldier curiously opened the firewood and found a cannon hidden inside! He ran back to report the surprise.

The Finnish army commander immediately led the soldiers to move the firewood away, and sure enough, a rusty cannon was revealed. This cannon has Russian writing on it. It is a field gun left over from the Tsarist era, an early howitzer. Although the cannon is old in style and has lost its former glory after being exposed to wind and rain for a long time, it is still a complete cannon with all its parts complete. Therefore, the Finnish army commander ordered the soldiers to quickly push it out, load it into a car, and transport it back to the Finnish army camp. The Finnish officers and soldiers settled the old cannon, cleaned the rust spots on it, and invited an ordnance engineer to conduct maintenance so that it could be put into battle in time.

During the overhaul, the armorer discovered that this old-fashioned artillery was not equipped with an anti-recoil device for buffering. No one knows what will happen after loading the cannon and pulling the match, because no one has seen such a cannon, let alone used it. However, the Finnish army lacked artillery, and the commander ordered an immediate test of the artillery.

The soldiers quickly transported the cannon to the position and pointed the muzzle at the Soviet position. The gunners loaded the shells into the barrels. The other soldiers took up their positions. Following the commander's command to fire, the two gunners pulled the match rope, and heard a loud "bang" as the shells shot out rapidly and flew towards the Soviet position. The artillery shells roared in an arc in the air and exploded on the Soviet position. However, the whole cannon was like a frightened wild horse. It jumped up high and retreated more than 3 meters, knocking the two gunners to the ground. One of the gunners died on the spot.

Although the cannon loved to jump around on the battlefield, the Finnish gunners quickly figured out its "temper" and knew how to use it. The soldiers also nicknamed him "Naughty Henry". "Naughty Henry" who was abandoned by Russia miraculously helped the Finnish army. The morale of the Finnish army was greatly boosted. This cannon caused the Soviet army to suffer a lot. Soon, the Finnish "Naughty Henry" began to fire at the Soviet position again, and one shell almost hit the Soviet command post. The Soviet army had long known that the Finnish army was not equipped with artillery, but they did not understand why they were attacked by artillery fire. The Soviet commander immediately studied countermeasures. Everyone agreed that the Finnish army might have obtained a batch of cannons, and decided to quickly organize dozens of cannons to deal with the Finnish army's new weapons.

After all, the Finnish army only had one artillery piece, and it had to deal with the bombardment of dozens of artillery pieces. It was obviously outnumbered. Therefore, the Finnish commander ordered the gunners to fire four or five rounds and then move their positions, and the soldiers hid in the shelter. In this way, although the Soviet artillery kept pouring shells on the original position, the Finnish army was safe and sound. In just a few days, the Soviet army fired more than 10,000 artillery shells in vain, but "Naughty Henry" only had one spoke on his wheel blown off and was still active on the battlefield.

The Finnish army wanted to use artillery from the Tsarist period to deal with the Soviet army, which showed the lack of weapons.

But things were different now. Before the Soviet engineers could get into position, dozens of planes were seen flying behind the Finnish defense line.

"Damn it! Didn't the Air Force blow up the airport?" Ogurtsov, commander of the 35th Light Tank Brigade, cursed softly and ordered the surrounding infantry. "Hurry up and set up the machine gun and prepare to shoot in the air!"

The air defense command headquarters is still in the rear, and the only thing they can count on now is the machine guns in the hands of the infantry. There is not much difference in mechanical principles between anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns and ordinary machine guns. Only the target focus of shooting is different, and there is a slight difference in structure. For example, the bracket of the anti-aircraft machine gun will be different from the general heavy machine gun, which can ensure that the anti-aircraft machine gun can have a larger shooting angle, and the direction of the shooting range can reach 360 degrees; and the barrel will also be modified to be longer to ensure a better shooting range. Large firing range, higher initial velocity; caliber generally between 5MM and 15MM.

The machine gun currently equipped by the Soviet army is the Deggarev light machine gun (the biggest feature of this machine gun is a large disc on the top, and the gun looks very light. And if you have read some works related to World War II This machine gun can often be seen in the machine gun) and the DS39 heavy machine gun (the performance of this machine gun is really rubbish. In actual combat, Soviet officers and soldiers found that the bullet belt supply structure of this gun often jammed the bullet casing. The operation was too complicated, and Frequent malfunctions occurred, so the gun was retired shortly after).

However, Ogurtsov saw that the flying height of those aircraft was only 70 or 80 meters, and the speed did not exceed 300 kilometers per hour. Even these ordinary machine guns should be able to hit them. He looked at the approaching plane with his telescope, his face a little ugly. "The German Il-2 attack plane?! Did the Germans join the war?!" But after a few seconds, his face became even more ugly. "Spanish?!"

Without allowing him to think too much, the planes had already flown 1,000 meters away and dispersed into several groups.

"Fire!" As the firing order was given, dozens of light and heavy machine guns on the ground opened fire at the same time. Tracer bullets of various colors struck those aircraft. But after all, they are not a specialized air defense force. Many tracer bullets miss the plane, and only a few of them can actually hit the plane.

But the ground troops fought for a long time, and no fighter plane crashed. Ogurtsov even saw an anti-aircraft machine gun not far away firing an entire magazine at an Il-2 attack plane. , at least three or four tracer bullets penetrated the fuselage, and the attack aircraft was still safe and sound.

In shock, those attack planes had already flown over the Soviet troops, dropping PTAB all over the sky (introduced in Chapter 255). As mentioned before, one Il-2 can carry 280 PTAB anti-tank bombs; now these twenty-five Il-2s have dropped a total of 7,000 bombs, and then three consecutive explosions stretched an offensive line nearly two kilometers wide.