Chapter 836

Napalm must be one of the most hateful weapons among many weapons invented by human beings. Burning weapons have been the most frightening weapons in human weapons since ancient times, such as fire oil. After all, fire and water are merciless. From the time when human beings were not wearing clothes, the painful memory of flame burning has been deeply rooted in their minds and become one of the fixed cognition.

And science makes the combustion more thorough and more lasting. It adheres to any object, keeps burning, improves the surrounding temperature, and finally achieves the goal of igniting everything and burning everything. This is where napalm is hopeless. It burns and is not easy to put out. It lasts long enough to melt steel and crush bones.

Because of its power, the napalm bomb has become the favorite ground weapon of the German air force. Whenever they find it necessary to completely destroy the target, they make the aircraft full of this terrible weapon, then fly over the target, drop these bombs on the aircraft, and watch the target on the ground turn into a sea of fire.

Every time this kind of bomb is dropped, there is a lot of smoke on the ground because of violent explosion and burning, which blocks out the sky and the sun. It is impossible to see the remaining targets. Therefore, the German army generally uses this kind of weapon in the last bombing. After the target is completely destroyed, the air raid stops.

This time, they dropped hundreds of tons of napalm in Smolensk, a city already surrounded by the German army. A whole day later, there was still a big fire in the city. However, due to casualties and chaos, the Soviet garrison in the city has yet to carry out effective rescue.

The fire ignited the house, and the burning substance of napalm attached to the building and people's skin, burning everything close to it. People were scorched and houses burned to ruins. Then, with the dry and cold wind at the end of winter, the flames spread across the street, lighting up the houses on the other side, becoming uncontrollable monsters.

The rampant behemoth devoured anything it met that could be ignited, burning down the sheets, cabinets, clothes and people in the house. In a word, it grows as it engulfs and eventually becomes as huge as Smolensk.

Houses were burning and collapsing, but the Soviet garrison couldn't come up with any effective disaster relief measures. Their forces were originally extremely limited, but now they have lost more manpower due to large-scale air strikes, which makes them unable to defend, let alone help local civilians rescue materials and houses.

These miserable civilians can only rely on themselves, but at this time of war, fire engines and fire engines have long been commandeered by the army. There is no way to put out the fire. Finally, people give up the plan to put out the fire. They let the fire spread and burn the whole city.

"It's only when you throw napalm that the butcher bomber really becomes a butcher." This is a comment made by general Dick, the commander in chief of the German strategic bomber force. He thinks that the combined use of napalm and bomb can destroy the target to the maximum extent and disintegrate the enemy's will to resist.

This time, he practiced his idea in Smolensk, dropping a lot of bombs and napalm bombs, which destroyed the whole city into ruins, a burning ruins. In fact, according to the German or European understanding of war, in this case, the guard forces inside the city should have given up their resistance and surrender for a long time. After all, the cities they guard no longer exist.

But the actual situation was that the Soviet army was surrounded by the German army, the defensive positions on all sides were compressed, the cities guarded were destroyed, and the Soviet army with a large number of casualties did not surrender. Instead, they were waiting for the German army to attack in the ruins. They were determined to survive with the ruins behind them and fight for more time for their motherland.

Everyone has faith, and every nation has its own backbone. This kind of momentum is not owned by a specific individual or nation, but by every nation standing in the world. We can't understand this spirit of "rather die than surrender" with common sense. Sometimes we know it's death, but some people, some people, will still go along with their own beliefs.

"When Comrade Zhukov left, he told us that our motherland would have greater hope if we stayed for one month," said a Soviet teacher, staring at his subordinates. "For the sake of the Soviet Union and all our compatriots, we should not be slaves or cowards who surrender."

"To defend Smolensk to the death" all the commanders and battalion commanders answered loudly, shouting their vows while raising their right hands and clenching their fists.

"The enemy's tanks can run over our bodies, but we will never surrender." after the division commander finished, he ordered to defend every inch of the territory. He knew that the German attack was about to start, and no one was willing to let an enemy city exist behind his own defense line.

On the other side of the line, the German experimental infantry battalion had begun their attack. Two self-propelled anti-aircraft guns opened the way, so that these German troops along the street to clean up the Soviet soldiers had super firepower cover. They carefully sorted out two collapsed buildings, established a forward base, and then used anti-aircraft vehicles to clean up another building, where they arranged effective defense and began to advance to the next block.

An ordinary infantry battalion took over some of the cleared buildings. They were amused by this slow but efficient attack. After all, watching the troops in front of them carefully and step by step carry out the task of clearing the buildings, anyone would find it fun and boring. The battle started when it was time to start. A Soviet soldier fired back, and then the German antiaircraft guns started to fire fiercely. The 20 mm caliber ammunition hit the walls of the building and raised a white smoke. The German soldiers hidden in the corner tried their best to suppress the opposite Soviet position with their automatic weapons“ This is the special experimental unit 1 company. The artillery fire extends 100 meters directly in front of my position. Shoot again. The artillery fire extends 100 meters directly in front of my position. Shoot. "A German signalman squatting in the middle of the team uses a new walkie talkie to contact the artillery support of the battalion. He looks very calm, because the procedure in front of him has been practiced countless times. Just on time, as in the drill, the German 105mm howitzer soon visited the Soviet garrison position not far in front of the German army. The shells fired by the four howitzers accurately landed around the buildings, blowing up the Soviet position there into ruins. When the first round of four shells fell, the Soviet position had been torn by the blast wave, and then the second round of shelling came. Under the attack of the shells, the Soviet soldiers who wanted to fight to death were destroyed. The German artillery fire came too fast. Compared with the previous support, it was almost too fast for people to transfer. The ambush tactics of "hit and run" became meaningless under the careful groping of the German army, which only increased the casualties. As soon as the shelling was over, the Soviet soldiers huddled in the corner and barely survived the test of purgatory. The self-propelled antiaircraft guns, which had been replenished with ammunition, opened fire again, sorting out the dead corners that some shells did not take care of. Under the cover, the German army quickly entered the ruins and cleared up the places where people could hide one by one with skilled cooperation. Soon the German army cleaned up the battlefield, and four Soviet Red Army soldiers were captured. According to them, 54 accomplices should have been killed. After they tried to attack the German troops, they left quickly, but they were immediately suppressed by the powerful German firepower, and then suffered a round of artillery fire. Then the German army continued to clean up the position. They cleaned up the nearby buildings and some burned buildings, captured more than 300 prisoners of the Soviet Red Army and killed 88 others. Only one German soldier was killed and two wounded“ It is indeed a very safe means of attack to wipe out enemy positions one by one in such a steady manner. With our different infantry, we can also give full play to our strong firepower in street warfare. " Marshal lundstedt, standing on a cleared position, looked at his troops advancing one by one in the distance from the artillery mirror and said, "but... The consumption of ammunition is also increasing in geometric shape."“ There is no way to have the best of both worlds. " Several German officers who were in charge of investigating the operation of the battalion city stood behind lundstadt and echoed: "in fact, we have used a small group of special forces to cooperate with the sniper team, and the effect will soon come back. With the positive advance of this force, I believe it will not be long before the Soviets will understand, It's not cost-effective to fight with us. " As soon as his words were finished, a series of intensive shelling fell on a place that was not very obvious. The 150 mm caliber heavy artillery was used. It was obvious that an infiltration group found the other party's big fish and called for artillery support at the group army level. More than a dozen 150 mm caliber shells landed in the remote area, and the ground was shaking all of a sudden. When everything was calm, the smoke was still as high as a few floors. The artillery was so accurate that they blasted the area into a huge pit