897 Soviet anti-aircraft guns
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If you don't want to be embarrassed, you have to be faster, but if you are fast, the casualties of the soldiers will not be controllable. So it was a tangled choice, a painful choice for the German commanders.
The German soldiers who attacked the Spark Stadium encountered a more difficult problem: the Soviets had several anti-aircraft guns here.
Using anti-aircraft guns to fight tanks was a tactic first invented by the German army during the Spanish Civil War, and it was also forced to experiment by Soviet tanks when they had no choice but to do so.
At that time, the German tanks that participated in the Spanish Civil War were No. 1 and No. 2 tanks, but they were not very good compared to the Soviet T-26 tanks.
So at that time, in order to solve the trouble that they could not solve, the German army used anti-aircraft guns to shoot Soviet tanks in an emergency, and developed this new tactic.
This tactic was then invented during the French campaign and the North African campaign, and later became the standard anti-tank tactic of the German anti-aircraft forces.
Of course, the German army's 88 mm caliber anti-aircraft gun is indeed a kind of flat-fire weapon, which is very suitable for dealing with Soviet tanks.
Subsequently, because the German army's 75 mm caliber anti-tank guns began to be mass-produced, the Stalker tank destroyer and the Leopard tank were put into the battlefield one after another at the insistence of the Führer, and the opportunity for anti-aircraft artillery units to take on the field became less and less.
On the contrary, the Soviet Union, the opponent of the German army, began to use anti-aircraft weapons to make cameo appearances in anti-tank artillery when there was a serious shortage of anti-tank weapons.
With the passage of time of the war, this situation has become more and more common, for example, now, behind the ruins of the Spark Stadium, there are three double-barreled anti-aircraft guns of the 94-KM type.
There are versions of this anti-aircraft gun that can be mounted on cars, but here the Soviets installed them on anti-aircraft positions surrounded by sandbags.
Moreover, in order to ensure that the area could be used to shoot at German tanks, they were surrounded by thick sandbags, forming a structure similar to a barricade.
The Germans, who had just approached, were caught off guard and learned the power of Soviet anti-aircraft artillery strafing. A stormy blow made the German army quite embarrassed.
"That's right! There is a group of anti-aircraft guns shooting! I don't know if there are any similar forts nearby, but they did open fire! Leaning against a section of ruins, a member of a German sniper team used a walkie-talkie to contact the artillery positions behind.
"The bearing is the coordinates I just said! A twin anti-aircraft gun! The firepower is quite fierce! Hurry up! Several German soldiers were strafed and fell on the way to the charge, and an armored vehicle covering the German charge caught fire.
In just a few seconds, the Germans were killed about 10 people, and everyone was silent as they watched the burning wreckage of the armored vehicle in the middle of the rubble.
"Whew! Call! A few minutes later, the sound of the cannonballs whistling made everyone shrink their necks involuntarily.
The sound of large-caliber shells piercing the air flew over the heads of the Germans and landed on the Soviet positions with a devastating momentum.
"Boom! Rumble! Several explosions rang out in succession, and the dust kicked up obscured the sky. The power of the 150 mm caliber howitzer should not be underestimated, and the Soviet positions, which were still arrogant just now, were instantly silent.
"Long live the Third Reich! Charge! A German commander got up from a crater where he was hiding and loudly encouraged his soldiers to move on.
"Long live the Führer!" In the open space of the ruins, which was still lifeless just now, there were about dozens of German soldiers standing up at once.
They ran forward with their weapons in their hands, shouting, trying to rush into the enemy's position when they were dizzy by the shells.
"Suddenly! Dodo! "Suddenly, the second Soviet anti-aircraft gun opened fire, still a 25 mm caliber double-barreled gun, still with so heavy fire.
"Lie down!" Loud shouts were being made to warn their companions to take cover, and several German soldiers were torn apart by shells before they could dodge.
It was a 25 mm rapid-fire gun, and it was no joke to hit a person, if one shot hit a person's torso, it would really break the person in two, or simply shatter it.
Those who were directly hit by shells in the limbs flew out with one arm. But they're luckier than those who are just beaten to minced meat.
"And a second cannon! Damn it! And a second door! The German company commander lying in the crater slammed his fingers into the soil and roared with hatred.
His soldiers were dying, and his troops were almost being scrapped. More than 30 men were killed in a single attack, and it is estimated that his company will have to withdraw from Moscow for the rest of the time, waiting for new reinforcements.
"Coordinate traversing 3...... 4! And a Soviet anti-aircraft gun! And an anti-aircraft gun! Shoot now! Our people are being beaten! "The German sniper team that just reported the coordinates is still busy.
The Soviets were obviously planning to use their anti-aircraft guns and were gradually causing trouble for the attacking Germans.
"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "This time the German shelling seemed to carry a wave of resentment, and almost twice as many shells fell than the last one.
The Soviet position seemed to have been plowed by a huge rake, and everywhere there was gunsmoke and falling dust.
This time, the German infantry did not get up to charge, because the second round of shells fell again. The artillery shells of the retaliation were densely packed, and the Soviet positions were devastated.
When the 15th shell fell, everything was silent again. The Germans once again charged, and this time there was no longer the sound of anti-aircraft artillery fire from the Soviet positions.
The Soviet anti-aircraft gun, which had not been fired, was covered and killed by artillery fire at the same time.
The Soviet defenders here were also vulnerable because their heavy weapons had been destroyed by artillery fire. The Germans soon took control of a vantage point in ruins and poured ammunition on the routed Soviet troops.
"Report to General Manstein that the advance force has taken Spark Stadium and that the battle is going well." In the division headquarters near the front line, a division commander said to his chief of staff.
"We are already not far from Rublev Street, and if we can get there first, we can deploy 150-caliber artillery near the Kuntsevo church." The chief of staff was a little excited when he spoke.
Although the center of Moscow has been shelled countless times, the feeling of shelling with 150 mm guns is definitely different from the feeling of shelling with 280 mm train guns.
As soon as the Germans began shelling Red Square with 150 mm guns, it meant that they were no more than 19 kilometers away from there.