Steel Soviet Union

The "advanced tank-tank coordination tactics" developed by Malashenko are actually basically equivalent to a simplified version of the infant-tank coordination tactics of later generations in the 21st century. However, the combat effectiveness of light weapons has been somewhat emasculated due to limitations of objective conditions. If you don't have an assault rifle, you can only use the Bobosha top. The semi-automatic rifle actually plays the role of the team's precision shooter.

Without optics and insufficient accuracy, a Bansai two semi-automatic rifles can be used to make up for the quantity. The squad light machine gun is retained and is used by the DP28. After firing a shot and pulling the bolt, there is only a range advantage but no firepower suppression advantage. Mosin Nagant was collectively dismissed and replaced.

All in all, Malashenko wants to absolutely emphasize the firepower output capability of the infantry team in medium and close combat, to completely overwhelm the Germans in terms of firepower and create a strong suppressive effect on them.

Paired with a large number of tank clusters as long-range direct-aiming heavy fire support, Malashenko's somewhat advanced tactics were successful, and the Germans could not catch any weaknesses.

"Well, that makes sense, Comrade Marshal. I basically agree with your view, which is consistent with my own personal thoughts."

"At present, all the tank divisions of our Red Army, except for the 1st Stalin Guards Tank Division, are far from mechanized. Not to mention tanks and armored vehicles, many tank divisions do not even have enough cars, and they have to use mules to transport ammunition and supplies. Horses, some newly formed second-line tank divisions and even tank shells are carried by mules and horses as baggage troops. This is an objective reality that must be paid attention to. "

Not every unit has an almost completely mechanized configuration like the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division. After all, this is the only elite ace unit named after its leader.

Not only were the other Red Army tank divisions not as lavish in number of tanks as Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division, they also had insufficient trucks to transport supplies. It is simply unrealistic to imagine Malashenko playing like this. This magically modified version of the 21st century infantry-tank collaborative tactic is currently only played by Malashenko’s Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division. change.

Therefore, although Malashenko has modified his troops to become more powerful and kill German soldiers like ghosts and wolves howling, this tactic has only reference significance and cannot be promoted on a large scale.

If it is in peacetime and there is no war, we can create a few more pilot units and model units to build up slowly bit by bit. But now is a war period, and the Red Army, whose all goals are aligned with winning the war, currently has no time or ability to develop these too innovative things.

This is the same as Malashenko knowing that infantry fighting vehicles are more effective when paired with tanks, but never mentioned it at all. The Soviet Red Army during the war was basically not interested in anything that was too innovative. This was exactly the opposite of the group of Germans on the opposite side who always liked to make inventions and gaudy gadgets.

After talking about the new tactics invented by Malashenko, Vatutin suddenly thought of another equally important thing that he had not yet told Zhukov.

"One more thing, Comrade Marshal. In the previous battle, Malashenko used the latest type of uh, what is that thing called? Oh, by the way, a small weapon called an assault rifle, which is called this That's right."

"Malashenko equipped all these new assault rifles to the combat engineer battalion of his infantry regiment. In a previous raid, these new guns were used together to carry out counter-assaults against the German infantry. "

"Just one wave of offensives directly defeated the numerically superior enemy. An entire regiment of German infantry was almost wiped out within an hour. This was a defensive battle rather than an offensive battle. The results can be said to be astonishing."

"Soldiers who have used this new assault rifle have also spoken highly of it. They believe that this new gun has the power of a rifle, the rate of fire of a submachine gun, and its comprehensive suppression capability is not even inferior to that of a light machine gun. There are always soldiers who like to joke that if we It would be great if the Red Army could have one light machine gun for each person, and now this new gun seems to have done this. "

"Um?"

Zhukov, who had just returned to the front line from Moscow, heard about the so-called new gun and the description from Vatutin for the first time.

It is no small matter for frontline troops to use new guns, not to mention that these new guns are equipped for elite units such as the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division. Zhukov was momentarily puzzled as to why he had never heard of such an important thing before, and then asked Vatutin with a puzzled look on his face.

"Stop, Vatutin. This new gun you are talking about is called an assault rifle. Why haven't I heard anything about it either in Moscow or on the front? There should be no winning entries in the National Small Arms Competition. If there is such an innovative light weapon, I think I should be somewhat impressed. What is going on?"

Malashenko, who had almost exhausted all the ammunition he had in hand in the first battle, was really panicked. Previously, Comrade Ma was thinking of fighting a few more battles and picking the best one and reporting it to the superiors. , and strive to use real evidence-based real battle examples as strong support for the mass production of AK.

But in the final analysis, Comrade Ma really underestimated the ammunition consumption speed of assault rifles.

Kogin went through the back door and trusted acquaintances, and under the "false name" of experimental new vehicle-mounted light weapons, the batch of intermediate-power rifle ammunition produced from the Tula Arsenal according to the design indicators and parameters given by Malashenko was destroyed in just one fierce battle. Nearly 70% was destroyed.

Seeing that the ammunition was exhausted and there was no place to replenish it, Malashenko was anxious and angry. When there was really no other way, he could only report this relatively good battle to Vatutin.

Judging from the final battle results, the combat engineer battalion rushed into the battle with less than one-third of the German troops, and then ended the battle at the cost of less than one-tenth of the enemy's casualties, ending in victory.

The only drawback is that the ammunition consumption of the combat engineer battalion in this battle is equivalent to the ammunition consumption of four ordinary infantry battalions. This is undoubtedly a very terrifying number.

First, the rate of fire of assault rifles has indeed reached a level of qualitative change that is completely different from that of bolt-action rifles and semi-automatic rifles. Secondly, it was the first time for the soldiers of the Combat Engineer Battalion to participate in large-scale actual combat with assault rifles. Many soldiers just wanted to be happy for a while, holding on to the trigger and rushing forward crazily.

Many German soldiers were shot five or six times and fell to the ground when they were beaten into a hornet's nest. The death was so miserable that almost the entire upper body torso was beaten to pieces. People who could have been killed with one shot became It became a serious waste of firepower.