Chapter 2433 Battlefield Supplies
A small number of German deserters managed to escape temporarily, and even if they managed to escape successfully, this did not mean that all German soldiers could achieve such "success". The corners of Malashenko's mouth were now only a grim smile drawn by the death's skeleton hand holding a bloody pen.
"Keep advancing! Keep the front line in an orderly attack! Crush these fascist beasts to death!"
At this point in the war, there was actually not much suspense to speak of, whether from the perspective of the Red Army or the German Army, or even from the perspective of a bystander.
Those powerful, shocking, and huge IS7 heavy tanks that gave the enemy a sense of despair that could not be conquered rushed to the front and fired at full power. The storm-like rain of bullets from the vehicle-mounted machine guns hit every inch of land wherever it went, and the dirt and gravel flew everywhere.
2 62 plus 1 5 coaxial, plus 2 5 dual-purpose dual-mounted on the roof, a total of 5 machine guns, the violent firepower was like a death storm. There were no corpses to speak of wherever they went, only large pieces of meat and blood splattered everywhere in unlimited and unlimited supply.
In terms of the total mass of projectiles projected per unit time, the machine gun firepower projected by these mass-produced IS7 heavy tanks, which had undergone modifications to the vehicle-mounted machine gun scheme and reduced useless redundant firepower, still had an output power far exceeding the 25mm main gun of the BMP43 infantry fighting vehicle.
The anti-tank and anti-fortification power was unmatched, and the anti-infantry ability was even better than this.
The brutal machine gun barrage turned into a death combine harvester, and wherever it passed, there were piles of blurred meat that had been harvested, and even a piece of intact flesh was hard to find.
After approaching and getting close enough, these IS7 heavy tanks charging in front were enough to provide relatively accurate close-range support to their own infantry.
If it is not a direct 130mm heavy gun, the power of this thing is too great and too violent. It is just like the Red Navy destroyer carrying the main gun to support the infantry on the shore. It is not realistic. Even if the mass-produced IS7 is equipped with a set of new high-precision optical sights that cost 5 times more than the mass-produced IS6, it still won't work.
The reason is simple. It is not that the accuracy is not good and it is easy to cause accidental injuries, but simply because the power is too great and the killing radius is too wide. Even if you aim at a German stick machine gun team 30 meters away, you may accidentally hurt your own people due to shrapnel.
But this does not mean that IS7 can only use its huge body to scare people and suppress those German sticks in visual impact. If one main gun cannot be used, I still have 5 machine guns. Before the infantry charge, I will screen the infantry comrades' charge path with machine guns. If there is a possibility that German sticks are hiding, I will shoot a wave of penetrating shots. The effect is not good enough to be described as good.
"There are dead bodies everywhere. Are we here to collect them? There is no one alive in this trench. It's all minced meat and half-dead bodies.
"Hey, look at this one. It's broken into three pieces. The two legs are over there, the belly is over here, and the head is 5 meters away. Did the IS7 check it from head to toe?"
Standing in a trench full of minced meat and blood bubbles, Alsim, who had fought two consecutive high-intensity bloody battles, was changing the magazine of the AK in his hand, and listening to the sighs and battlefield comments of his brothers around him with a smile on his face.
It was a summary and improvement of battlefield experience, which has now been proven to be effective and useful.
Alsim and his combat engineer brothers had previously encountered two consecutive high-intensity battles in which they had used up their ammunition and had to pick up the ammunition on the ground. Some bloody, poorly-performing, and awkward German weapons were used as a makeshift weapon.
Although the cloth bag chest mount with enhanced ammunition carrying capacity can carry up to 8 fully loaded magazines, some veteran combat engineers even got another spare chest mount, tore off the ammunition pocket on it and sewed it to the same chest mount, turning it into a super-enhanced version that can hold 10 or even 12 magazines.
But this is a fully automatic assault rifle after all, and it took several hours to fire in two consecutive high-intensity battles. This will make you run out of ammunition, especially for combat engineers who charge in front and retreat in the back, and fight with the Germans every time they are put into the battlefield.
It is not impossible to empty all 13 magazines, including 12 spare magazines and 1 magazine on the gun. There are really Slavic tough guys in the combat engineer battalion who don't use the paddle to fire in bursts, but use full automatic shooting from beginning to end. They just want to pile up the Germans with bullets, and it has been proven to be very effective during trench clearing. What can you do?
It is meaningless to pile more magazines on the body. We must think of other ways to solve it. Soldiers cannot become mobile ammunition depots on the battlefield carrying huge amounts of bullets.
Alsim, who was able to meet the division commander, once mentioned this to Malashenko inadvertently, saying that he had a headache and didn't know how to solve it. This problem was quite tricky and troublesome.
Malashenko was deeply surprised after hearing this, but he just blinked and gave a solution that Alsim had never thought of before without thinking.
"Why do you have to carry it with you? Isn't it better to put the ammunition in the infantry fighting vehicle?"
"The division's new operational outline has clearly told you that the infantry fighting vehicles are assigned to the squad. The infantry fighting vehicles are the core of the mechanized infantry squad. One vehicle is one squad. The squad's direct-aiming heavy firepower support and battlefield communications must be completed by the infantry fighting vehicles. Why not let the strongest comrades in the squad help you carry ammunition?"
"Are infantry fighting vehicles only responsible for sending you to the battlefield and then retreating? If the squad's rocket launchers and ammunition are not enough, do you want your soldiers to carry seven or eight new rockets, insert a dozen magazines full of bullets, and carry a dozen bullets? Grenade to fight the Germans? That's not the case, Alsim. "
"Be more flexible, now is not the past, you have to learn how to maximize the combat effectiveness of new equipment. Synthesis is a very deep war knowledge, even I am still summarizing and learning, I hope you can do the same as me, and I believe you can do it well, right? "
Some things are like this, grassroots commanders who are used to fighting traditional old-style wars sometimes find it difficult to think of new equipment under a new combat concept, and what troublesome work they dared not think of before. It's like some old-style armies that have never been exposed to the concept of armored troops. When they get a new thing like a tank, their first reaction is not to let the tank cover the iron-wrapped meat of the infantry, but the meat-wrapped iron-wrapped battle of the infantry protecting the tank.
It sounds funny, but this is the truth.
If people's thinking can't keep up with the renewal of equipment and the transformation and development of combat concepts, they will definitely make such a joke. It's just a difference in the degree of joke, but in essence, it's the same, even elite troops like the leader division are no exception.
Recalling what Malashenko had said to him, and looking at the fully loaded magazine that he had just replenished in the infantry fighting vehicle, which did not take more than two minutes to replenish, Alsim was even more impressed by the "omniscience and omnipotence" of the division commander.
Whether it is tank soldiers or infantry soldiers, they are so proficient in combat, and they can also be bold and innovative. How can people not be deeply impressed?
"Okay, we have almost rested enough! Drink some water, and let's move on!"