USSR 1941

"If that's the case..." Rokossovsky said, "is our defense also against enemy tanks?"

"Yes!" Shulka replied: "The question is how to deal with enemy tanks!"

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help being silent.

From a defensive point of view, there are indeed many preparations that can be made, such as mines, barbed wire, anti-tank trenches, etc., but as the saying goes, where there is a spear, there is a shield. If the defender can have these arrangements, the enemy will of course have a solution.

For example, you can use artillery to blow it up first, and then use infantry and engineers to open the way ahead: demining, cutting barbed wire, clearing obstacles, filling trenches... The defender only needs a few days to open a road after a few months of tossing.

Of course, this has to pay the price of blood and life.

"The Germans have minesweeping tanks, too!" said Vatutin. "We captured one, they learned it from us!"

As Vatutin spoke, he glanced at Shulka.

Shulka knew why Vatutin looked like this, because the minesweeper tank was invented by Shulka, and now it has become the equipment of the Germans in turn.

"There are also bazookas!" Rokossovsky said. "The Germans have also learned it. We have seen the enemy use it in battle..."

"Is it our bazooka?" Vatutin asked. "It was captured by the Germans?"

"No, they developed it by themselves!" Zhukov said, flipping through the folder, and then took out a photo and said, "That's it, they added a shield to the rocket launcher, and the caliber is much larger than the rocket launcher. 88MM! We tested several of these bazookas and found that it has a longer range and more power than ours!"

The Shulka knows this, it's not actually called a bazooka, it's a German "tank killer", German soldiers often called it a "chimney" because it was fired like a chimney and produced a lot of smoke that exposed the shooter.

The caliber of the bazooka rocket launcher is only 51MM, and the projectile body is much smaller than that of the "tank killer". Of course, the range and power are also much smaller.

"That is to say..." Vatutin said with some difficulty: "We may not only face tanks!"

"In fact, there are more!" Then Zhukov took out another photo and put it in front of everyone.

"What is this?" Vatutin asked suspiciously.

"The rifles equipped by the Germans in Stalingrad!" Zhukov turned his gaze to Rokossovsky and gave him the right to speak.

"The Germans call it a submachine gun, model MP43!" Rokossovsky explained: "But I don't think it is actually a submachine gun, because its bullets are not pistol bullets, but between rifle bullets and pistol bullets!"

As soon as you hear this model Shulka, you know that it is the German assault rifle STG44... The reason why the Germans called it a submachine gun in the early days and the model will be MP43 is because Hitler did not agree to the production. It was renamed as a submachine gun and secretly produced and put into the battlefield in the later period of the Battle of Stalingrad.

Zhukov turned his attention to Shulka: "This coincides with our comrade Shulka's thinking!"

"Oh, really?" Rokossovsky cast a surprised and questioning look at Shulka.

"Yes!" Shulka did not deny: "I once suggested to Sisoy to produce this kind of bullet and its matching rifle! Our scientists are also developing it, but I think there is no result yet!"

Zhukov nodded and said, "The bullets have been mass-produced, but no guns suitable for using them have been designed yet. I didn't expect the Germans to take the lead!"

"Your thinking is very forward-looking, Comrade Shulka!" Rokossovsky sighed: "Because the actual combat has proved that this rifle is very good, it almost completely suppresses all our individual weapons, including 'Bobo' Sa' submachine gun!"

"Where's the machine gun?" Vatutin asked.

"They only need two or three of these rifles to overwhelm our machine guns!" Rokossovsky shook his head and said, "If the Germans were equipped with such weapons in large numbers, the Battle of Stalingrad might not be what it is now." The result!"

Because this rifle is only equipped in a small amount in Stalingrad, and the Soviet army is worried that the spread of this weapon will cause unnecessary panic, so the Soviet commanders in other directions do not know for the time being, including Vatutin.

Vatutin took a look at the photo and asked, "Its bullet is shorter than that of a rifle, which means its range is not as good as that of a rifle, isn't it?"

"Yes!"

"I can understand that the rifle can be suppressed, but why can the machine gun be suppressed?" Vatutin was a little disbelieving.

"I'm talking about two or three people!" Rokossovsky replied: "They cover each other and shoot alternately. The firepower is even better than a machine gun. In the ruins and street battles, both sides are within range of each other!"

Vatutin also came out of the battlefield, so he understood.

"Then, it is because they have a longer range that they can suppress 'Poposa'!" Vatutin said.

"Yes!" Rokossovsky replied: "In fact, a considerable part of the range of our rifles is redundant! Few people can hit the target at a distance of 500 meters, and this equipment of the Germans is precisely Set the range at 500 meters, and at the same time reduce the recoil because of the reduced range, so that it can be used as an individual burst rifle!"

Vatutin thought for a while and said to Zhukov: "We need this rifle, Comrade Zhukov! Is it possible that it will be equipped with troops this winter?"

"I'm not sure, Comrade Vatutin!" Zhukov replied: "In fact, scientists can't guarantee it! So, we must be prepared to not have such a rifle!"

"That is to say!" Vatutin said dejectedly: "What we are about to face is a lot of new equipment from the enemy, and the performance of these new equipment will completely surpass the existing equipment of our army... We must deal with it in this situation. Do you want to consume their vitality?"

"You can say that!" Zhukov nodded.

Vatutin smiled bitterly and said, "We'd better not let our soldiers know about this, otherwise they won't have the confidence to fight this battle!"

"No, we should let them know!" Shulka said. "We even have to assume that the enemy has a large number of these new equipment and train on this basis!"

Zhukov nodded: "Otherwise, if they don't know until after the battle has started, it will be a nightmare!"

This is the question of being mentally prepared and not being mentally prepared.

It looks the same on the surface, but it will affect morale... The shock and fear brought by the sudden appearance of a new equipment is unparalleled, and it is often greater than the damage that the equipment itself can cause Many, just like tanks first appeared on the battlefield.