Chapter 165: A Teacher for the Aftermath

Even in the modern army of the 21st century, flame weapons still exist as a large-scale and efficient anti-infantry weapon in the military system of major powers in the world today, and have never been completely eliminated or faded out of people's vision.

This ancient and time-honored arson attack can almost be said to have borrowed the power of nature.

And when this cruel flame attack becomes fierce to a certain extent, even humans who claim to be at the top of the food chain will eventually be unable to escape the essential attributes of carbon-based organisms and develop the most essential fear of flames, a powerful force of nature.

In the modern battlefield of the 21st century, there is still no effective cracking method and passive countermeasure for flame weapons. It is natural to imagine how terrible their killing power would be in the relatively backward World War II.

The two German infantry divisions that suffered heavy losses due to the hasty retreat and the large-scale artillery bombardment of the Soviet army did not have too many anti-tank weapons to squander.

In 1941, the infantry anti-tank equipment was far less developed than modern warfare armed with cutting-edge technology.

It was impossible for the Japanese army to launch a long-lived charge against Soviet tanks with explosive packs in their arms like in the Battle of Nomonhan, and there was no anti-tank equipment like the Panzerfaust that was born several years later.

The only anti-tank equipment that the German infantry could rely on, which was constantly repelled by the fierce flame offensive of the Soviet army, was the few small-caliber infantry anti-tank guns that were no different from tickling.

The KV1 heavy tanks at the front of the entire team well protected the small OT-130 special tanks that followed closely behind, creating a good output environment for them, so that any German anti-tank team that wanted to get rid of these flamethrower tanks was blown into a pile of parts by 76mm shells.

The German infantrymen who occupied the advantageous defensive terrain and hid in the buildings from a high position did not think of using cluster grenades or Molotov cocktails to repeat the old tricks and destroy these fragile light flamethrower tanks with a blow from the sky.

But Malashenko, who had been fighting in Yelnya for nearly two weeks, was now as familiar with the German street fighting tactics as an old hand.

After receiving Malashenko's order, the Soviet infantrymen who followed the team immediately began to move forward from both sides of the armored forces, carefully searching every building along the street where German troops might be hiding to ensure their safety.

Those German infantrymen who hid in the buildings and kept silent and did not move, and wanted to launch a precise attack from the dark when the Soviet tanks passed by, could not wait for the ideal opportunity at all, and had to pick up their weapons and fight back against the Soviet infantrymen who came to search one by one.

The Soviet infantrymen who had determined that there were enemy troops hiding in the building due to the sound of gunfire would immediately withdraw from the building according to the order issued by Malashenko.

The tank column following closely behind the infantry unit that had gone out to search would immediately respond to the German firepower points that had exposed the target.

The barrage of 76mm high-explosive bombs and blazing flames could completely cover a street-facing building in just a moment. The German infantry hiding in it did not have enough time to escape from the building from the time they were exposed by the gunfire to the withdrawal of the Soviet infantrymen. Moreover, the Soviet infantrymen stationed not far downstairs could not let these German infantrymen leave the building and flee.

After using both soft and hard tactics and trying all kinds of countermeasures, the German army was suddenly shocked to find that with the current strength and equipment in their hands, they still had no countermeasures and were at a loss for what to do against the Soviet army's systematic siege tactics.

Any firepower point exposed by forced firing will immediately attract the concentrated fire attack of the KV1 heavy tanks, and the German hiding buildings a little closer will be directly swallowed by the ferocious fire dragon.

What's worse is that even if the German anti-tank firepower point exposes the target, there is only a 10% or 20% chance that it can destroy or paralyze the leading KV1 heavy tank, and then it will be destroyed by the concentrated fire of the Soviet army that has successfully searched the enemy, which is simply not worth the loss.

The hiding ambush tactics after retreating to the second best also completely failed because of the enemy search and reconnaissance assigned by Malashenko's infantry. Any German firepower point that dared to fire at the Soviet infantry hardly survived for more than 10 seconds.

In other words, Malashenko, who was in charge of commanding this Soviet siege column, was basically using the Soviet infantry to fish for these German fish.

Even the German army that woke up to this truth and did not take the bait would eventually be completely exposed because of the Soviet infantry searching house by house. Malashenko's battle plan was a deadly blow to the German army, leaving them with no room for counterattack.

As for why Malashenko was so skilled and experienced in the tactics of siege and street fighting that made the German army feel helpless, it was because Lin Jie's retired father in his previous life often told him how he played tricks with these cunning monkeys in the Vietnamese city during the self-defense counterattack against Vietnam.

More importantly, Lin Jie, who had three years of study abroad experience at Moscow University, had read in detail in the school library during his studies about the bloody Grozny street fighting in the Russian Chechen War, which was enough to shock the world, and made a detailed summary of the self-examination made by the Russian military and the comments made by relevant military scholars.

Malachenko, who has all the memories of his past life before the time travel, is much more proficient in the routines of urban street fighting than the German army who have just learned to adapt to this new era of special combat.

The infantry-tank coordinated street fighting siege tactics that Malachenko is currently using to order and execute are valuable experiences summed up by the Russian army after paying the bloody price of tens of thousands of soldiers killed in the street fighting in Grozny.

At the same time, the extremely cunning Vietnamese monkeys are much more shrewd than the German army who have just entered the street fighting industry in this tactic of hammering here and there.

Malachenko, who has learned almost all the routines of the Vietnamese monkeys from his father, is well aware of any countermeasures that the German army may take at the moment.

How to use the strong advantages in his hands to kill the weak shortcomings in the hands of his opponents is very clear to Malachenko at this moment.

Looking through his tank commander's periscope at the burning buildings on both sides of the street, Malashenko, who had kept casualties to a minimum since entering the city, couldn't help but raise his lips.

"Come on, Germans, let me see with my own eyes how long your iron will can last under the erosion of the flames."