Chapter 456 Morale

The RPG40 anti-tank grenade is not a good thing.

It can even be said to be something that Soviet soldiers don't want.

Because strictly speaking, it can be said to be useless... It is too heavy to carry, and the throwing distance is 15 to 20 meters, but the killing radius reaches 20 meters, which means that it is almost a suicide grenade, and you must find a proper bunker before throwing it.

What's more terrible is that it can only deal with "No. 1" and "No. 2" tanks. At this time, almost all the tanks that can be seen on the battlefield are "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks.

This is not to say that the German army does not use the "No. 1" and "No. 2" tanks, but that they are generally not used when attacking fortifications, and they are sent to clean up the battlefield.

As a result, the RPG40 anti-tank grenade was a tasteless tasteless thing for Soviet soldiers. When bombing tanks at close range, the soldiers would rather use explosive packs and cluster grenades than RPG40.

So the RPG40s were easy to come by and arrived the next day, crates by crates, into the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

Major Mikhailvich did not understand this.

"Anti-tank grenade?" asked Major Mikhailevich. "It can kill nothing but ourselves!"

"Some of them are training shells!" Shulka replied: "Its role is mainly training!"

"Training?" Major Mikhailvich asked suspiciously: "If we train them, doesn't that mean that we will use them on the battlefield one day in the future? Otherwise, what's the point of our training!"

"Of course it makes sense!" Shulka replied: "We will get a new type of anti-tank grenade. Its weight and shape are similar to the RPG40, but it can blow up tanks '3' and '4'!"

Hearing this, Major Mikhailvich's eyes lit up involuntarily.

The 82nd Infantry Regiment is mainly light weapons. The most terrifying thing for them is the tank, because they can say that they don't have any effective anti-tank equipment, even close-range throwing type.

This will become the death spot of a unit on the battlefield, that is to say, as long as a few tanks appear in front of the 82nd Infantry Regiment at any time, the 82nd Infantry Regiment can only be caught without a fight.

Now, if there is an anti-tank grenade, even if its throwing distance is only 15 to 20 meters, it is a process from scratch for the 82nd Infantry Regiment.

Major Mikhailvich, of course, understood its importance,

So he nodded immediately and said: "Of course, Comrade Shulka! You are right, I think each of them must be trained in anti-tank grenades!"

What made Major Mikhailvich laugh from ear to ear was yet to come.

Three days later, Kalashnikov sent a batch of bazookas and rockets over.

"We can only get so much!" Kalashnikov told Shulka. "Twenty, plus a hundred rockets! Some of them are even repaired!"

"It's all right, Comrade Kalashnikov!" Shulka said. "Thank you very much!"

Kalashnikov looked at Shulka and said, "It's ironic, isn't it?"

"What irony?"

"Bazookas were even produced and equipped with your troops, but now you have to sneak around to get them!"

Shulka didn't answer, but responded with a wry smile.

Mikhailvich couldn't help jumping up excitedly when he saw these rocket launchers:

"Is this the new type of weapon that can destroy enemy tanks at a distance of 100 meters? Is it the weapon equipped by the 1st Guards Tank Brigade?"

"Yes!" said Shulka.

"Thank you, Shulka!" Mikhailvich hugged Shulka excitedly, and muttered to himself: "We are saved, we are saved..."

Then, Major Mikhailvich personally arranged for the storage of these rocket launchers, and assigned special personnel to manage them, for fear of any mistakes.

Andrianka laughed: "I've never seen him so excited, Comrade Shulka!"

To be honest, this surprised Shulka a little.

"It's just twenty bazookas!" Shulka said. "You know, it's less accurate, and it needs to be equipped in large numbers if it is to be effective on the battlefield. So twenty is nothing!"

"I know!" Andrianka replied: "But you should also know that the bazooka is currently only equipped with elite troops!"

Shulka couldn't help but "Oh".

This is true. This is mainly because the bazooka has only been developed for two months. The production volume is not large and it takes time to train the shooters. Therefore, only a few armored divisions and infantry divisions with the title of "Guards" are currently equipped.

Now the 82nd Infantry Regiment is also equipped, albeit pitifully small and mostly used for training, but it is an incentive for the 82nd Infantry Regiment... Like said before, this seems to prove that they take off "Abandoned" hat and return to normal troop sequence.

Sure enough, after Major Mikhailvich broke the news, the soldiers who were training excitedly cheered one after another.

Shulka didn't know if this was a good thing or a bad thing.

From a training standpoint, it's good for soldiers to think this way, because it helps the morale of the troops and of course it helps make them qualified troops.

But... Shulka knows that this is not true. If one day the superiors discover this unusual cannon fodder unit, or the soldiers know the truth one day, the blow to them will be fatal.

But Shulka had no choice but to take one step at a time.

On the fifth day, Kalashnikov sent several 82MM mortars to the troops.

This is normal equipment, but it only supplements the covering firepower of some troops, and the same amount is very small and almost negligible.

But this is not the point. The point is that the soldiers of the 82nd Infantry Regiment thought that this was the rectification of them by their superiors, so they all trained with 12% energy as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

"'Poposa' still needs a few days!" Kalashnikov said: "Also, I think I need to tell you something, Odessa has fallen!"

Shulka said "oh".

This was expected. Originally they estimated that Odessa could only guard for three days, but now it is not bad for five days.

Shulka estimated that this should be the credit of the naval infantry brigade stationed there, they are a well-trained force.

"More than 70,000 people were captured!" Kalashnikov said: "Manstein was very cunning. He chose to end the battle during the day. The navy could not get close to Odessa to withdraw the troops!"

Shulka nodded slowly, more than 70,000 soldiers of the Naval Infantry Brigade, this is not a small loss.

But Shulka knew that this was only the beginning of the losses of the Soviet army.