Chapter 1461: Strangling Melee

The expensive and rare Suomi submachine gun is a very rare piece of equipment. Even only the veteran Red Army soldiers who have been through many battles know that the enemy has such a weapon. Some new recruits who have just finished training and rushed to the front line to participate in the battle have no idea that such a thing exists.

They even mistakenly thought that the Germans had seized their own PPSh and used it. After all, this situation can often be seen on the battlefield. Only by looking closely can you see that this Finnish weapon is slightly different from the PPSh 41.

Malashenko has led his troops to fight east and west since 1941, and has only had the experience of seizing Suomi submachine guns in large quantities once.

That's right, it was a few years ago when he helped the guerrillas rob the logistics supply convoy of the SS Imperial Division.

That was also the first time that Comrade Ma really used the Finnish Suomi submachine gun. He even fell in love with it at once when there was a lack of automatic weapons at the time. He chose it as his own self-defense weapon and issued at least one to many other crews under his command for self-defense.

Even now, the old and scratched Suomi is still in Malashenko's position as the tank commander. Whenever he got off the car and walked away from the tank and there was a possibility of fighting, Malashenko would always carry this thing on his back for self-defense.

Some things are difficult to replace once you get used to them. Even now with the PPSh, Malashenko still likes to use this old Suomi that has witnessed too many of his combat experiences.

As for when to replace the Suomi with almost worn rifling, Comrade Ma has not yet decided. Let's wait until we meet in the future. Anyway, it's just a self-defense weapon, so it's not a big deal.

Seeing the remains of a Suomi submachine gun at this moment really surprised the Red Army squad leader.

If I remember correctly, the last time I saw this thing in the hands of a German was more than a year ago.

With the continuous progress of the war and the high-intensity loss of weapons and equipment, the Suomi, which was still common in 1941, has now become an endangered wild animal.

The old Red Army squad leader who had the honor of using the Suomi for a while even looked at the remains of the Suomi twice more, and felt that today's incident might be different from usual and something was wrong.

But the old squad leader himself couldn't say what was wrong. Anyway, it was the kind of sixth sense unique to veterans that could not be described in words.

"Get your weapons ready. Let's fight here for a while and wait for our tanks to come up before moving on! There is no cover ahead. We can't charge forward anymore. The Germans' firepower is too dense.

The battlefield without any fortifications or pre-dug trenches is equal to the Soviet and German armies.

The SS soldiers have no fortifications or shelters to use. They can only fight and fire behind the wreckage and their own armored vehicles.

The Soviet infantry, as the attacking party, also faces the same dilemma. The only things that can be used as shelters on the battlefield are the scattered steel wreckages everywhere, and the tank troops that are exchanging fire with German tanks and advancing slowly.

Some of the steel wreckage is still burning, and you can't even stick to it to use it, unless you want to be roasted as human meat.

In this way, the Red Army soldiers who are surrounded by crazy SS firepower can only move quickly from one wreckage bunker to another closer wreckage bunker if they want to move forward, similar to what the Allied soldiers did on the beach before the Normandy Landing.

But the distribution of wreckage on the battlefield is really irregular, some are very close, and some are very far away.

If you rashly leave the bunker to move, you will only be exposed to crazy firepower, and be beaten into a hornet's nest in an instant, resulting in death on the spot. Apart from this, it is not impossible There are other solutions. Waiting for the tanks to come up and advancing behind them is also a good idea.

However, the current situation is that the battle between the infantry and the fight between the steel bodies are going on simultaneously. The Red Army tanks, which do have an advantage in numbers, cannot get out for a while and are busy dealing with the Germans' broken cars. There is no way to cooperate with the infantry to advance efficiently.

The SS fanatics who have fought to this point have already been blood-thirsty. The infantry picked up the weapons in their hands and fired desperately. The armored soldiers stayed in the steel bodies that were not enough to give them absolute sense of security, pushing the shells into the chamber one by one, and firing at the Russian tractors that were already close at hand.

If it was just dealing with those medium tanks, it would be fine. The real problem was those Russian heavy tanks that didn't care about the distance at all and rushed all the way to the face.

Those Russians seemed to have absolute confidence in their armored defenses in every move. They were not afraid of being hit by their main guns at any distance, let alone being penetrated.

And until the close combat, these SS armored soldiers who had previously ignored a key detail noticed a key point: the maneuvering speed of these Russian heavy tractors was simply too fast!

This is not to say how flexible the opponent's heavy tanks are, but just in terms of speed, the crazy forward speed of stepping on the accelerator to the bottom is really ridiculous!

The SS armored soldiers, who were used to the slightly clumsy speed of their own Tiger and King Tiger tanks, were surprised by the powerful speed attribute of the IS6 heavy tank, which was at the level of a medium tank. For a while, they were in a panic and exhausted.

The IS6 heavy tanks that attacked at close range would not only bombard the frontal weakness of the German Panther 2's turret, but also take the initiative to occupy a more advantageous combat position to launch a high-speed flank attack. The SS armored soldiers were forced to turn the muzzle and the body of the vehicle, changing the target that could have been more easily dealt with to the Russian big iron turtle that was extremely difficult to deal with at close range.

The only reason why the Red Army heavy tanks did this was to attract firepower and hatred from their own medium tanks that were crispy and easy to be destroyed by the Germans.

It sounds like putting the cart before the horse. The battle that should have been a battle where medium tanks used their mobility to attract firepower and heavy tanks used powerful firepower to suppress the battle was now completely reversed.

But when it comes to a real fight where the vehicles are fighting face to face and almost turning into a mess, how the crews below perform and how they fight is no longer something that Malashenko or even Kurbalov can control.

Human energy is so limited, and you are not a powerful artificial intelligence AI. Can you accurately command the specific tactical actions of each vehicle and just pick up the radio and shout "Car X moves five meters to the left"? Old Ma is not the transport captain.