Chapter 1792 Curved Cannon

"A large-caliber cannon? Or is it firing directly at you???"

The news reported by the major made Malashenko frown. This actual situation was indeed unexpected for Malashenko.

Malashenko originally thought that it might be some self-propelled artillery of the Germans deployed behind the defense line, causing heavy casualties to the attacking infantry with indirect fire, but he never expected that it would be a large-caliber artillery with direct fire. This problem is a bit complicated.

"Could it be the German Jagdtiger? The kind we encountered last time."

I don't know when he got off the car. At this moment, Ivushkin was standing beside Malashenko and telling his guess, but what followed was Malashenko's slow shake of his head.

"It's unlikely. The Jagdtiger is huge and has a straight trajectory. Its main gun has a high caliber. Although the caliber is large enough, if it wants to shoot directly at infantry, it will definitely expose its big head. It can't shoot indirect fire, so it will expose its head whenever it fires. And do you think you can't see such a fat behemoth if it fires directly at the position?"

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What Malashenko said makes sense. If a behemoth like the Jagdtiger, which is modified from the King Tiger chassis, approaches and shoots directly, it will definitely not be able to hide its fat body. The front projection area of ​​the fighting room, which is almost as wide as the body, cannot be hidden, and the battlefield concealment is almost zero.

Since it can't be a Jagdtiger, could it be some kind of large-caliber indirect fire self-propelled artillery fired from a long distance? Could it be that these infantrymen made a mistake from the beginning?

Malashenko did have such an idea for a moment, but quickly rejected it.

Artillery is the natural enemy of infantry, especially various types of large-caliber indirect-fire howitzers, which are absolute destroyers of infantry.

Large-caliber indirect-fire howitzers fired from a distance have extremely obvious characteristics: because the speed of the projectile is attenuated to subsonic speed by air resistance friction, in most cases, the large-caliber howitzer projectile fired from a distance is not seen by the shell, but the whistling sound comes first. The whistling sound of the shell propagating at the speed of sound will first enter people's ears, followed by the real projectile falling.

This is why when people are suddenly bombarded, they will hear the whistling sound first and have a final reaction time. The quick-acting old iron will quickly lie down to avoid the bombardment and save his life.

The Great Patriotic War has now reached its fourth year. Malashenko does not believe that there are still infantry battalion commanders who do not know how to distinguish between long-range indirect-fire howitzers and close-range direct-fire cannons. This is a simple situation that can be quickly distinguished by just listening to the sound. Ye Yan

If it was really a long-range indirect-fire howitzer, the commander of the infantry battalion in front of him would not be unable to distinguish even this most basic thing.

Since he said that he was bombarded suddenly, it must be the effect that can only be achieved by close-range shooting. It goes without saying that a high-caliber cannon can fire directly at close range, and the initial velocity of the projectile is often more than twice the speed of sound. In addition, if it is fired at close range, it will definitely be bombed before the whistling sound of the shell is heard.

Even if it is a howitzer, as long as the distance is close enough and the projectile hits the target before the flight speed of the projectile decays and falls below the speed of sound, it can still produce a situation where "people have been bombed before they hear the sound".

So no matter what, whether it is a high-caliber cannon or a low-caliber howitzer, the only thing that can be confirmed is that it is fired at close range and directly aimed.

Thinking of this, Malashenko also silently admired the major battalion commander in front of him. Even if this guy didn't see where the shells came from, he still judged that it was the enemy's hidden large-caliber artillery that was approaching and firing directly based on the reality that "the sound has not arrived, but the people have been bombed first". It is rare to make such a quick judgment in an emergency and complex battlefield situation.

Thinking of this, Malashenko, who had basically sorted out his thoughts and had a basic judgment of the battlefield situation, continued to face the major and asked.

"So what about now? What's the situation in front of us? Is the attack still going on?"

"It's not going on. At least when I led the people to withdraw, the attack was suspended."

"Comrade the division commander ordered the division artillery to prepare for a retaliatory bombardment against the enemy. When we launched the attack, the division artillery was still setting up positions and couldn't catch up. Because it was just a tentative attack with a small number of troops, we didn't expect the enemy to expose the key hidden firepower so quickly. In short, all kinds of unexpected things, Comrade General, our misjudgment led to such a large number of casualties."

The situation reported by the major was basically consistent with Malashenko's conjecture. After all, these infantry divisions that took the lead did not complete the breakthrough, but to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy's new defense line to the best of their ability, and to prepare for the subsequent real fierce attack of the Stalin Guards First Tank Division.

From this point of view alone, although the infantry of the battalion in front of them was crippled, it was meaningful and by no means a sacrifice in vain.

Regardless of the reason why the Germans on the position ordered the hidden firepower point to open fire, in short, this hidden firepower point can no longer be called hidden, and has been exposed in broad daylight.

Dare to play with cannons in front of the Red Army, this is definitely a behavior of showing off a big knife in front of Guan Gong.

Whether it is an open-top self-propelled artillery or a fully armored assault gun, the Red Army's field artillery will definitely give these daring enemies who dare to touch the ground with a ruthless and devastating blow.

More importantly, the direct-aiming heavy artillery ambushed by the Germans was exposed in advance, which prevented the main force of the division led by Malashenko from suffering greater casualties in the subsequent real attack.

You must know that once Malashenko plays seriously, it is not a battalion-level charge that can solve the problem. Malashenko, who is in a hurry to get on the road, intends to press the army at the beginning and use his real strength to quickly get rid of these stupid German sticks blocking the road, and then quickly complete the task assigned to him by Vatutin.

Now that we know that the Germans have revealed their cards, we have to change the battle plan and adjust the countermeasures.

"You retreat first, and leave the work of cleaning up these fascists to us. If you are interested, you can come to the position to eat lunch and sit on the smoking corpses of the Germans. I promise you."

Looking at Malashenko's hurried back without looking back and turning back to his car, the young major was stunned and a little confused. How could the popular and widely praised general comrade be such a humorous person? Why have I never heard of it before?

As soon as he returned to his command vehicle, Malashenko, who had already figured out how to arrange these German bastards, immediately grabbed the radio transmitter at hand, pressed the call button and gave orders.

??The second update is a little late, around 12:30. I was stuck in traffic for too long on the way back to my hometown due to heavy rain today. Please forgive me, brothers

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