Chapter 2715: Maybe the Dog Will Jump Off the Wall in Desperation
"Inform the siege team to maintain the offensive and continue the attack according to the established combat plan. Since the knife is on the Germans' necks, continue to saw them. Don't stop until the Germans' gas pipes leak. Let's see how long these bastards can last."
"I understand, then..."
Kurbalov seemed to have some concerns after hearing this, but it didn't last too long, and he didn't hesitate much. After just a moment of silence, he turned to Malashenko and asked again.
"How do you judge the poison gas weapons? Comrade division commander, do you have any conclusions and plans?"
Although Kurbalov was skeptical and "felt" that this was fake, it was only limited to "feeling".
Kurbalov, who sat in the position of brigade commander, should have understood one thing anyway.
For any commander in a high position, what you "feel" is your business, and what you "feel" does not mean that it represents reality 100%. Even if you are more confident and think that this is possible, you still cannot equate "feeling" with "fact".
So, how to say this matter and what to do next is not guided by Kurbalov's personal will, but a well-considered response plan should be put forward.
What Kurbalov understands, of course, Malashenko, as his superior, certainly cannot fail to understand. In fact, Malashenko now has a basic plan, which is just waiting to be implemented.
"It's very simple. It's better to believe it than not to believe it. Don't be careless and underestimate the enemy."
"Although we are still maintaining the offensive, this is only based on the current reality, and it is a decision that suits the current situation after evaluating the offensive cost-effectiveness and possible risks."
"But what suits the current situation may not be suitable for tomorrow, the day after tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow. The fact that we haven't encountered the SS bastards on the current contact line does not mean that we won't encounter them next time."
"After closing the stall tonight, the combat readiness must be well prepared for chemical defense. This matter will be handed over to you, and the deputy division commander will be responsible for supervision. Check the gas masks that need to be checked and reissue them. Let the political commissars and instructors at all levels emphasize the importance of gas and chemical defense to the soldiers. The grassroots commanders must especially realize the importance of the problem.
"I will also notify Karachev and ask him to be prepared to receive poisoned wounded."
"In short, this is a very troublesome matter. If it is really as you guessed, the Germans deliberately created false intelligence to deceive us in order to delay time. From an objective reality, it does have some effect. It will at least cause us a lot of unnecessary trouble, but we have to do it from the perspective of anticipating the enemy, and it is also responsible for the lives of the soldiers. "
To be honest, if Malashenko were asked to personally evaluate the issue of "whether the Germans are likely to use poison gas bombs", then Malashenko's answer must be "high probability not".
At least from the public war history archives that were declassified in later generations, neither the Soviet Army on the Eastern Front nor the Allied Forces on the Western Front recorded the large-scale use of chemical weapons by the armed forces of Nazi Germany on the front battlefield.
This is certainly not to say that you Germans are clean and disdain to use poison gas to mess with people. The Jews who died like mountains in the concentration camps were killed by a huge number of "German showers".
But the poison gas bomb thing is something that you have and I have.
Besides, let's put it in your own territory , in their own capital, sorry, if you really piss people off and use poison gas bombs to attack, those who are locked in the city and exposed to poison gas will definitely suffer greater losses than those who are outside the city and have fresh air to breathe in the wilderness.
And to be honest, poison gas is only so lethal against regular troops with complete protective equipment and adequate preparations.
In World War I, you Germans played table tennis and fired thousands of tons of poison gas preparations, but the final result was nothing more than killing and injuring nearly 20,000 people on the other side. Compared with the killing efficiency of hot weapons and things like the Verdun meat grinder, it is just a drizzle and not worth mentioning.
There are both historical factors and current reality considerations , Malashenko concluded that the Germans would not really put poison gas bombs into actual combat, at least not on a large scale and in a big way. There are reasons and reasons, and it is not as simple as subjective conjecture based on personal will.
But it is just as Malashenko said.
This matter is better to believe than not.
Although after comprehensive analysis, it is determined that the possibility of using poison gas bombs in large-scale actual combat is not high, but from another perspective, it can also be understood that the possibility is not completely zero, and there is no possibility of the worst case happening.
Since the worst case scenario is indeed possible, we must make corresponding preparations.
Whether it is the Germans, the Soviets, or even the current Americans and British on the battlefield in this territory.
The current reality is that no matter which country you are from, as long as you have normal thinking, your eyes are not blind, and your brain is not confused and you don’t talk nonsense, you can definitely see that this Battle of Berlin will be the last battle and the ultimate battle that determines the fate of the Nazis.
The Nazis who understand this truth will inevitably take all means to resist this most unacceptable result.
Based on this reality, if you really say that some of the fanatics among them are like crazy people using poison gas bombs to bombard the Red Army, it seems to be more reasonable if you think about it carefully.
The crazier and more unscrupulous they are in the end, this is the biggest characteristic of these Nazi fanatics, without a doubt.
Never guess the bottom line and limit of the Nazis based on subjective consciousness, because these bastards have no bottom line and limit at all.
As long as they think it is effective and can be done, they can tie their own mother to a rocket and shoot at the Red Army.
Finally, this tampered timeline of the time traveler is not the existing historical timeline that can be completely compared with the history book.
Malashenko is not sure what unexpected variables his butterfly effect will bring to the Battle of Berlin.
It is a fact that the Germans in the existing history did not release poison gas in their own capital.
It is also a fact that the Germans in the time traveler's timeline are not sure whether they will release poison gas in their own capital.
Thinking about this, Malashenko has made a further decision.
At this point, the matter of "the Germans may be desperate and release poison gas" is no longer limited to the leadership division level.
It must continue to report to let Chuikov and even Zhukov know about this matter, and let all the brother troops participating in the Battle of Berlin be prepared from the front army and all the brother troops participating in the Battle of Berlin.
At least, they wouldn't be like the Germans' poisonous gas, and they wouldn't roll around on the ground in pain, holding their necks and covering their mouths, regretting why they didn't bring a gas mask for the sake of convenience, or when the gas mask that they didn't use for hundreds of years became ineffective and leaked.
The field hospitals in the rear wouldn't be completely unprepared, and they wouldn't be helpless when they saw the dying wounded being carried down after being poisoned by the gas. There was even a "poison transmission" phenomenon due to inadequate protection, which made the field hospitals become a poison den full of undead, and the wounded and the medical staff almost died together.