USSR 1941

This forced Shulka to temporarily dispatch another batch of artillerymen with 152MM caliber and 85MM caliber artillery... There are differences in the operation of artillery with different calibers, and even the number of artillery crews is different.

It was originally a taboo for military strategists to replace personnel before the battle, but in fact there was no difference, because the Soviet army had no training from beginning to end, so there was no question of replacement.

The troops spent half an hour overhauling and familiarizing themselves with the equipment, then replenished some signal soldiers and set off.

Among them, the supplementary communication soldiers were requested by Shurka.

Shulka is also speechless about this. The careless Soviets could forget the communicators... You must know that the combat plan clearly requires that the artillery observers cooperate with the front artillery observers for long-distance combat. If there are no communicators and no radio stations, the artillery observers How to guide these artillery fire operations?

Akimovich's explanation is that they thought that the artillery would solve this problem by itself... If this is normal, it is indeed the artillery's business, but now it is the reorganization of a small army with only thirteen guns, and each artillery unit If a dozen or dozens of artillery crews are drawn, how could the artillery unit be willing to assign precious radio stations to them.

Of course, the Soviet army has very few communication equipment, and it is impossible to equip each self-propelled artillery with a radio station. Shulka can only equip a radio station for the artillery of the same caliber, and then assign as many telephone soldiers as possible. , as soon as the self-propelled gun stopped, the telephone line had to be brought nearby.

In terms of external communication, self-propelled artillery will be much stronger than tanks.

This is mainly because the tank is fully enclosed, and once the hatch is closed, it is almost isolated from the outside world.

Self-propelled artillery can communicate with nearby infantry relatively easily because there is no top armor, such as signal flags, signal lights, or even directly communicate with artillery crew members.

"Are you ready?" Shulka asked Alinsimovich loudly.

Alinsimovich is the battalion commander of this newly formed self-propelled artillery battalion. He was originally the commander of a tank company and commanded T34 tanks to fight against the German army, but their T34 tanks were either destroyed by the enemy or lost their combat effectiveness due to malfunction... Alinsimovich's command vehicle was no exception. It was pierced by an armor-piercing projectile, the driver was killed on the spot, and the gunner was seriously injured and died. Only Alinsimovich and the loader escaped death Escaped from the burning tank.

Due to the shortage of T34 tanks, Alinsimovich was assigned to the self-propelled artillery as the command.

In fact, Shulka thought that the commander of this unit should be the artilleryman.

Because they were actually guns rather than tanks, but Golikov thought they were more like tanks, so of course it was up to the tank commander to command them.

After thinking about it, Shulka stopped insisting, because in this battle, these self-propelled artillery were actually used to fight against the enemy's "new tanks", so it was not unreasonable to use tank soldiers to command.

Alinsimovich didn't hear Shulka's cry at the beginning, probably because Alinsimovich's hearing had not fully recovered... The tank was penetrated by an armor-piercing projectile. Although it was not directly injured, it was quite Yu hid in a big bell and was hit hard.

So Shulka asked again, louder, and this time Alinsimovich responded.

"Don't worry, Comrade Shulka!" Alinsimovich replied: "I will not need you to bring us out of the enemy's encirclement like others!"

As he said that, Alinsimovic laughed, and his subordinates nearby also laughed, although it was not funny at all.

But within three seconds, when Alinsimovic cast his eyes on the map, he asked in embarrassment: "Comrade Shulka, the number one location is near the bakery on Red Star Street, right?

Shulka almost spat blood on the ceiling, but at this time, he still doesn't know where the No. 1 position in the battle plan is.

After a few more minutes of discussion with Alinsimovic, the troops continued down the street.

There are only 13 self-propelled guns in total, so I don’t worry about being discovered by the enemy... The small scale, coupled with advancing in the building complex and in the dark, makes it difficult for even the German night reconnaissance aircraft to detect.

The team stopped at the state-run agricultural tractor station... The Soviet Union was implementing a planned economy at this time, and needed an institution to provide agricultural machinery operation services for collective farms, farms, mutual aid groups, and agricultural production cooperatives.

The reason why Shulka arranged the self-propelled artillery here is because the agricultural machinery station is full of buildings with a height of three to five floors, and the road is flat, which is very suitable for self-propelled artillery to hide and transfer... In fact, self-propelled artillery sometimes even There is no need to transfer, because as I said before, it is difficult for the artillery with buildings to protect the enemy to hit the self-propelled artillery hiding in the dead corner.

"Get ready to fight!" Captain Alinsimovich ordered loudly, and then shouted to a lieutenant beside him: "Comrade Arkady, I will leave the rest to you!"

Shulka couldn't help but fainted, and then he realized that this was what Alinsimovich called "ready"!

However, there is nothing wrong with Captain Alinsimovich's doing this, because the artillery battle was fought at the beginning, that is, the self-propelled artillery was used as artillery. At this time, it should be a matter of artillery, and Lieutenant Arkadi was artillery.

Shulka was not happy with this, as it was clear that they were not well prepared, at least one pre-battle rehearsal should have been done, but they did nothing, and Shulka believed that the attack would not go well.

It's just that what Shulka didn't expect was that it was precisely because of such a flawed attack that it worked.

A few minutes later, the Soviet offensive began.

After three red flares, an infantry regiment of the Soviet Army launched an attack.

Although this force is a regiment, one of its battalions is a "punishment battalion".

Needless to say, its role is to launch a charge and let the enemy organize defenses, so the Soviet army discovered the enemy's firepower.

Then, under the guidance of artillery observers, the self-propelled artillery fired shells into the enemy's positions one by one and destroyed their fortifications.

Among them, the 152MM caliber artillery is especially important. The weight of this artillery shell alone reaches 43.6 kilograms. Once it explodes in the enemy's position, it will shake the ground like thunder, and the bunkers and sandbag fortifications will be wiped out in an instant. .

It’s just because it is a howitzer with a curved trajectory, so when it is used as a direct-firing artillery to fight enemy tanks, its longest range is only 700 meters... If it exceeds 700 meters, it is not a question of whether it can penetrate or destroy enemy tanks, but the low hit rate At the same time, even if it hits, it is easy to ricochet because of the sharp angle formed by the curved trajectory and the armor.