Chapter 921 Directional Blasting

In various anti-terrorism and war movies in later generations, it is very easy for the big men with weapons in their hands to break into the door.

Either they use hydraulic shears to cut the lock directly, or they raise the door-breaking hammer and swing it in a circle, or they are more reckless and kick the door open with their legs.

There are not only a variety of ways to break into the door, but they can also effectively break into the door in an instant. Then they raise their weapons and aim at the enemy to finish the job. The sharp operation looks very impressive.

However, on the battlefield of Stalingrad, breaking into the door is definitely the combat link with the highest casualties, no doubt about it.

The two sides of the war racked their brains to come up with countless special tactics of breaking and counter-breaking around the terrible purgatory of street fighting.

The German army transformed the Bouncing Betty, which was originally useless in street fighting, into a tripwire mine. One end was tied to the fixed object on the left side of the door frame, and the other end was connected to the Bouncing Betty fuse and fixed on the side of the blind spot after the door was opened.

As long as the Red Army soldiers attacking the building opened the door, no matter what violent demolition method was used, the fragile tripwire that was stretched to the limit would be broken instantly, and this process was almost silent.

The Red Army soldiers rushing into the room would be directly blown up by the Bouncing Betty that triggered the delayed fuse in a few seconds. Large pieces of flying steel balls and mine fragments would sweep all living targets in the fan-shaped area ahead. After a sudden loud bang, only bloody corpses and miserable wails would be left.

If the German army did not have Bouncing Betty available, they would temporarily transform other explosives such as M24 grenades into defensive explosive devices by connecting them to extended tripwires.

In the early stage of the counterattack, the Red Army siege troops, who had not encountered such insidious ambushes on a large scale, suffered heavy losses. In particular, the bouncing Bettys that exploded a large area not only killed many Red Army soldiers, but also countless people who were crippled and carried down from the battlefield wailing.

The field hospital in the rear was filled with wounded soldiers with steel balls all over their abdomens and limbs and rotten blood and flesh, which made the already very tense Red Army rear medical system even worse.

There was even an unprecedented field medical pressure in some of the main attack directions. The number of wounded sent was even more than the previous Stalingrad defense stage. The surgeon who performed more than a dozen amputations in a row, and some were exhausted and died suddenly on the operating table.

Captain Varosha, who had suffered a great loss in the link of breaking into the door, knew that even if the Germans did not set up trip mines behind the door, they would set up a relatively hidden and unexpected machine gun at the best firepower deployment point, ready to sweep down the Red Army soldiers who broke into the door at any time.

The war has reached this point and no means have been used. It depends on whether you can guess what tricks the enemy is going to use.

Breaking in directly is the worst way. To deal with these insidious and cunning Germans, more violent and brutal methods must be used to destroy them.

The siege assault company led by Captain Valosha was assigned a platoon of assault engineers, which were scattered among the three ordinary infantry platoons of the entire company, playing the role of the backbone of the street fighting.

After receiving the order from Captain Valosha, the two assault engineers wearing steel plate breast armor bulletproof vests immediately took off the special explosive packs for breaking the door on their backs and picked them up in their hands. They tried to keep their bodies as low as possible, guarding against the direction of possible sudden fire, and quickly touched the door frame like a wild wolf foraging on the grassland to prepare for action.

"I'll lay out the explosives, you pass me the explosive packs!"

"No problem!"

This heavy explosive pack weighing 7 kilograms is a wall-breaking weapon in the hands of the Red Army's assault engineer corps. Together with the notoriety of the "Plate Armor Commando", it is well-known among the front-line troops of the German army.

With the blessing of this powerful heavy explosive pack, the Red Army's assault engineer corps, which is interspersed in the streets and alleys of the city, can suddenly appear in various places where they should not appear and catch the German army off guard.

Whether it is a wall or a building, it seems that there is nothing that can stop these people. Various unexpected blasting sites have made the German army exhausted and nervous.

If it is just a sneak attack by breaking the wall, it is considered a relatively good situation. In the worse case, some unlucky Germans may even be too close to the blasted wall, and the whole squad and row will be crushed under the wall and collapsed buildings and die.

The more unreasonable and rule-breaking the fighting methods are, the more difficult it is to deal with them. The Red Army's assault engineers have long become a terrifying nightmare in the hearts of the German army in the Stalingrad battle. No place where these Russians appear in the battle can be easily won.

The explosive packs with strong adhesive on the back were attached to the left and right middle opening and closing door panels of the first floor door.

The leading assault engineer, who took less than ten seconds to do all this, signaled his comrades to retreat first. After confirming that he was the only one in the dangerous distance, he immediately pulled the Y-shaped combined fuse in his hand, and two forked fast-burning sparks instantly rushed towards their respective terminal explosive packs.

"Everyone, pay attention to hiding! It's going to explode!"

Captain Varosha, who was crouching behind a wall not far away, shouted to his soldiers while reminding them. He also did not forget to reach out and forcefully drag the assault engineer soldier who was running all the way into the bunker when the distance was only more than one meter.

Captain Valosha had not had time to let go of the assault engineer's arm, and the two explosive packs with rapidly burning fuses exploded almost at the same time. The TNT explosives with amazing detonation speed released destructive energy before the human brain could react.

Boom——

The two explosive packs had a total of more than 11 kilograms of TNT, which was more than the explosive power of a 152mm high-explosive bomb.

The two wooden door panels that were obviously reinforced by the German army were directly blown into pieces and flew all over the sky. The German guards who did not directly bury trip mines on the first floor but set up two hidden machine guns to prepare for ambushes did not expect that their opponents would adopt such a violent way of attacking the building.

The power of the instantaneous detonation of 11 kilograms of TNT not only blew away the door panel, but also widened the first-floor door frame, which was originally only three meters wide, into an irregular hole about seven or eight meters wide.

Perhaps inspired by the German bouncing Betty mines, this explosive pack, which is specially used to blow up wooden soft doors, contains a large number of steel balls, and a thin steel back plate for directional killing is added to prevent accidental injuries to one's own people, which is different from the pure charge explosive pack used to demolish solid walls.

Sometimes when there are really no steel balls, just find the remaining projectile fragments and bullet heads on the battlefield and stuff them in, or even grab a handful of rotten nails and stuff them in directly.

This equipment, which is not a standard but a battlefield magic modification, is simple to make and has little technical content. This special explosive pack was invented under the inspiration of Comrade Malashenko, the commander of the First Guards Heavy Tank Brigade. After being put into actual combat, it is indeed an extremely effective anti-German stick artifact.