Steel Soviet Union

The Germans' crazy machine gun fire was like a river of crimson flames, overwhelming the Red Army soldiers who were following the tanks almost unable to raise their hands to fight back.

The ultra-fast MG34 general machine gun is now like an electric sickle harvester in the hands of Death. Just a burst of bursts of firing from the trigger can kill any Red Army soldier who dares to lean out from behind the armor to try to fight back. The tragic outcome of being shot seventy-eight times left him lying on the spot.

Numerous machine gun firepower points scattered high and low on the enemy's face of the building exerted maximum lethality.

As the attack distance continues to advance, these German machine guns, which are condescending and have great depression angles, have been able to cover the vast majority of Red Army soldiers due to the continuous shortening of the distance. Only a few Red Army soldiers who are crawling close to the butt of the tank are still there. It is temporarily safe to be in the blind spot of shooting.

The increasingly ferocious suppressive fire made Captain Varosha, who witnessed the rising casualties with his own eyes, realize that the situation could not continue like this.

Although the heavy tanks accompanying the attack continued to fire in an attempt to eliminate the German machine gun fire points, the thick multi-story brick building walls on Soviet land were not so easily broken.

Unless an 85mm full-caliber high-explosive grenade hits the machine gun's firepower point, even a slight miss of twenty or thirty centimeters will be useless. It only opened a small crater on the outer wall of the building and raised a puff of smoke and dust. A few seconds later, the German machine gun firepower rekindled and continued to tilt the death flames towards the Soviet army approaching more and more downstairs.

It was the first time for Captain Varosha to use such a fancy gadget. He recalled the communication method Malashenko had given him before. After rushing to the back of the engine compartment at the rear of Malashenko's car, he immediately took the risk of his right hand being swept into a hornet's nest at any time and quickly took out the telephone microphone hanging on the slope of the engine hood at the rear of the car. Down.

"Great, it's not broken yet!"

With a look of joy on his face, Captain Varosha looked at the phone microphone in his hand that was still intact and had not been penetrated by bullets. He was so surprised that he immediately put the phone to his ear and spoke loudly.

"Brigadier Malashenko! We are encountering a large number of casualties from German machine gun fire. Please suspend the advance and knock out those annoying machine gun fire points first!"

Malashenko, who was holding the commander's periscope and continuing to observe the situation ahead, heard shouts coming from the telephone microphone hanging on the wire stand next to him, and realized that the situation might not be as smooth as he expected. He grabbed the microphone.

"The situation has been received, Captain Varosha! Take your people to cover, we will stop advancing now!"

Malashenko put down the phone receiver in his hand without his feet touching the ground, and then grabbed the vehicle-mounted wireless communication radio transmitter on the other side. After pressing the communication button, he immediately spoke loudly, give an order.

"All vehicle crews, stop advancing! The infantry needs to clear out the German machine gun fire points, load high-explosive bombs and aim directly to blow away these bastards!"

Malashenko, who returned to the street fighting purgatory of Stalingrad from fighting in the suburbs outside the city, has been thinking about a problem.

How to achieve close coordination and communication between infantry and tanks in street fighting is a very troublesome matter. In the distant future, individual radio equipment for infantry-tank coordination can easily solve this problem.

But in this primitive and backward Patriotic War, there was no possibility of direct communication between infantry and tanks.

Malashenko even considered whether it was possible to remove the vehicle-mounted radio from the tank and make it into a backpack for the infantry to carry and use a microphone for real-time communication on the battlefield. But then it was declared bankrupt because the tank's vehicle-mounted wireless communication station was too bulky, and even if it was removed, there was a problem of where to find a mobile power supply.

Malashenko, who was unable to find any good solutions and was sitting in the brigade headquarters thinking hard, suddenly saw Political Commissar Petrov using a wired phone to communicate with the newly arrived friendly infantry division headquarters. , such a scene suddenly inspired our comrade brigade commander like a bolt of lightning breaking through the sky.

"Can one end of the phone be connected to the turret and the other end be hung on the butt of the tank to achieve battlefield interaction? The power supply problem is solved directly from the tank. The several-meter-long telephone line from the turret to the butt of the tank is not afraid of being easily interrupted. Explode, this method seems feasible!"

The more he thought about it, the more genius he became. Malashenko immediately found his internal manager and technology master: Field Maintenance Battalion Commander Karamov to discuss the feasibility of the method and how to put it into practice.

"Well, at least in theory it is possible and no problem! But no one has ever tried this method before. We need multiple phones and long enough phone lines to conduct modification tests. The problem of modifying the circuit can be left to "It's not difficult for me to connect a tank phone line. The problem is that we currently lack the necessary equipment."

What kind of unit is the 1st Guards Heavy Tank Brigade?

This is a legendary force with a heroic halo on its head. It enjoys the first echelon of equipment selection and priority supply rights among the Guards. In other words, it is the Guards among the Guards.

A whole bunch of telephones and telephone wires came to Malashenko. It was easy to get them!

Malashenko, who decided to just do it, immediately drafted a list and submitted it. In the evening of the same day, a truck came over with dozens of spare phones and thousands of meters of phone lines.

After a lot of tinkering, Karamov actually led someone to help Malashenko get the job done, and the wired telephone communication between inside and outside the tank was successfully realized.

Malashenko, who specially found someone to test it, found that such a temporary modification on the battlefield actually worked well! Although the sound quality cannot be said to be very clear, at least you can hear clearly what the other party is saying, and it is easy to understand the simple meaning of the other party.

The impact of such a seemingly small and inconspicuous upgrade on actual combat is immeasurable. Effective real-time communication between tanks and infantry can double the combat effectiveness. It is now the first time to test the old technology in actual combat. The best time to see how effective this simple communication invented by Comrade Ma is.

After receiving Malashenko's order, the other accompanying tanks immediately stopped.

The Germans, who still didn't know what their opponent was trying to do, didn't react for a while. A bunch of black muzzles began to accurately point at their respective targets along with the swing of the turret.