Eight Hundred and Thirty-Seven Butchers

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Napalm bombs must be one of the most hated weapons among the many weapon inventions of human beings. Incendiary weapons have been the most terrifying weapons among human weapons since ancient kerosene. After all, water and fire are ruthless. Since the era of wearing clothes, the painful memory of burning flames has been deeply rooted in my mind and has become one of the fixed cognitions.

And science makes the burning more thorough and durable, attaching to any object, continuously burning to increase the temperature of the surroundings, and finally achieving the purpose of igniting everything and burning everything. This is where the hopelessness of napalm comes in, it burns and is not easily extinguished, it is long enough to melt steel and shatter bone.

It is precisely because this napalm bomb is so powerful that it has become the favorite ground weapon used by the Luftwaffe. Whenever they came across a target they felt compelled to completely destroy, they would load their planes with this dreadful weapon, fly over the target, drop the bombs off the plane, and watch the target on the ground turn into a sea of ​​flames.

Every time this kind of bomb is thrown, a large amount of thick smoke is often formed on the ground due to the violent explosion and burning, and it is impossible to see the remaining targets clearly, so the German army generally uses this weapon in the last bombing. After the target is completely destroyed, the air strikes are stopped.

This time, they dropped hundreds of tons of napalm in Smolensk, a city already surrounded by German troops. A whole day has passed, and the fire is still burning here, and the Soviet defenders in the city have not yet launched corresponding effective rescue due to casualties and confusion.

Houses were set on fire, and the flaming substance of napalm clung to buildings and human skin, scorching everything that came next to it. People were roasted into coke, and houses were burned to ruins. Then with the dry cold wind at the end of winter, the flames spread across the street, igniting the houses on the other side, becoming an uncontrollable behemoth.

The raging behemoth devoured anything ignitable it encountered, burning the sheets, lockers, clothes and people inside the house. In short, it grew as it devoured, and eventually became as huge as the entire Smolensk.

Houses were burning and collapsing, but the Soviet defenders really couldn't come up with any effective relief methods. Their strength was originally extremely limited, but now they have lost more manpower due to large-scale air strikes, making them stretched in defense, not to mention helping local civilians to rescue supplies and houses.

These miserable civilians can only rely on themselves, but at this time of war, fire trucks and fire trucks have long been requisitioned by the army. There is no way to extinguish the fires. In the end, people gave up their plans to extinguish these fires. They let the fire spread and consume the entire city.

"The butcher bomber is only a butcher in its own right when it drops napalm.

This is a comment made by Admiral Dick, the commander-in-chief of the German strategic bomber force. He feels that the combined use of napalm bombs and bombs can destroy the target to the greatest extent and disintegrate the enemy's will to resist.

This time he practiced his ideas in Smolensk, dropping a large number of bombs and napalm bombs, these weapons destroyed the entire city into ruins, and it was a burning ruin. In fact, according to the German or European understanding of war, in this case, the guarding forces inside the city should have given up resisting and surrendering long ago. After all, the cities they guarded no longer exist.

But the actual situation is that surrounded by the German army, the defensive positions on all sides were compressed, the guarded city was destroyed, and the Soviet army with a large number of casualties did not surrender, but waited for the German attack in the ruins. Survive and die, buy more time for your homeland.

Everyone has beliefs, and every nation has its own backbone. This kind of aura is not only possessed by a specific individual or nation, but something that every nation standing among the nations of the world must possess. This kind of spirit of preferring death to surrender cannot be understood with common sense. Sometimes, knowing that it is death, some people, some people, will still follow their own beliefs.

"Comrade Zhukov told us when he left that if we hold on for a month, our motherland will have greater hope!" A Soviet teacher stared at his men and said: "For the sake of the Soviet Union, for all our compatriots, no Be a subjugated slave! Don't be a coward who surrenders!"

"Defend Smolensk to the death!" All the regimental and battalion commanders replied loudly, while shouting their oath, they raised their right hands high and clenched their fists.

"The enemy's tanks can run over our corpses! But we will never surrender!" After the division commander finished speaking, he ordered to defend every inch of the territory. He knew that the German attack was about to start, and no one would let us Behind your own line of defense, there is an enemy city.

In the other direction of the position, the German experimental infantry battalion had already begun their attack. Two self-propelled anti-aircraft guns opened the way, allowing the German troops who cleared the Soviet soldiers along the street to have super-strong fire cover. They carefully sorted out the two collapsed buildings, established a forward base, and cleared them with anti-aircraft vehicles. The other buildings, where they had put up effective defenses, began to advance to the next block.

An ordinary infantry battalion followed and took over some cleared buildings. They were amused by this slow but efficient attack. After all, watching the front troops carefully and step by step carry out the task of clearing buildings I think it's kind of fun and boring.

The battle started when it should have started, a Soviet soldier fired a counter-shot, and then the German anti-aircraft guns opened fire violently, 20mm ammunition hit the wall of the building, setting off a white cloud. The smoke, while the German soldiers hiding in the corner, desperately suppressed the opposite Soviet position with the automatic weapons in their hands.

"This is the 1st company of the special experimental unit. The artillery fire extends 100 meters directly in front of my position, shoot! Repeat, the artillery fire extends 100 meters directly in front of my position, shoot!" A German signal soldier squatting in the center of the team with a new His walkie-talkie contacted the battalion's artillery support. He looked very calm, because the procedure in front of him had been rehearsed countless times.

Very punctual, just like during the drill, the German 105mm howitzers quickly visited the Soviet garrison position not far in front of the German army, and the shells fired by the four howitzers accurately landed around the building, knocking out the enemy soldiers over there. The Soviet positions were blown into ruins.

When the first round of four shells fell, the Soviet position had been torn apart by the shock wave of the explosion. Immediately after the second round of shelling came, the Soviet soldiers who originally wanted to fight to the death were wiped out by the shells. Seven or eight. The artillery fire of the German army came too fast, almost too fast to be diverted compared with the previous support. The hit-and-run ambush tactics became meaningless under the careful groping of the German army and could only increase casualties.

The shelling had just ended, and the Soviet soldiers huddled in the corners and other places barely survived the shelling test again, and the self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that replenished ammunition fired violently again, sorting out some blind spots that the shells did not take care of. . The German army quickly entered these ruins under cover, and used skilled cooperation to clean up possible places where people could hide one by one.

Soon the German army cleared the battlefield, and 4 Soviet Red Army soldiers were captured. According to them, 54 of their accomplices should have been killed. After they attempted to attack the German troops, they left quickly, but they did not expect to be immediately suppressed by the powerful firepower of the German troops, and then suffered a round of artillery fire.

Then the Germans continued to move forward to clear the position. They cleared nearby buildings and some burned buildings, captured more than 300 Soviet Red Army prisoners, and killed another 88 people. In the German army, only one soldier was killed and two soldiers were wounded.

"Clearing the enemy's positions one by one in such a steady and steady manner is indeed a very safe offensive method. Cooperating with our different infantry, we can also take advantage of our strong firepower in street battles." Marshal Rundstedt stood together and was cleared When he got out of the position, he watched his troops advance one by one from the artillery mirror in the distance, and said, "But...the consumption of ammunition is also increasing geometrically."

"There is no way to get the best of both worlds in this world." Several German military officers who were in charge of inspecting the battalion's urban operations stood behind Rundstedt and echoed: "In fact, we have already used a small group of special forces to cooperate with sniper The team will carry out coordinated operations, and the results will be reported soon. In addition to the frontal advance of this unit, I believe it will not be long before the Soviets will understand that it is not worthwhile to fight street battles with us."

As soon as he finished speaking, a series of intensive shelling landed on a place that was really not very obvious. The 150mm heavy artillery was actually used. Obviously, an infiltration team found the opponent's big fish and directly called the army-level artillery support.

More than a dozen 150mm shells landed in the distant area, shaking the ground for a while, and when everything returned to calm, the smoke that rose was as high as several floors of buildings. The artillery fire was so accurate that it directly blasted the area into a huge deep pit connected together.