Steel Soviet Union

But this kind of anti-human design, which is now being deeply complained by the grumbling Malashenko, cannot put all the blame on the design team.

The interior space of the T34 tank turret is so small that you have to bend your body to fight. It can be said that it is difficult to even turn around inside the turret. In such a situation where the available space is extremely limited, a radio station much larger than a shoe box is added. Stuffed into the turret, after careful discussion, Soviet tank designers had no choice but to abandon this design that was beneficial to human-machine efficiency but was really unrealistic.

After weighing the radio microphone that Nikolai handed over in his hand, Malashenko, who was forced to accept this helpless reality, now had a worse situation to face.

It was the same as the Soviet tank cluster at the beginning of the war.

In addition to the company-level and above command vehicles equipped with on-board wireless communication radios for the latest batch of T3457 medium tanks, all tanks below the company level, including platoon-level command vehicles, are not equipped with radio stations.

In other words, the vehicle-mounted radio on Malashenko's command vehicle can only communicate upwards but cannot command downwards. If Malashenko needs to command the forward medium tank force he leads in battle, waving a small signal flag or leaning out of the turret and shouting at the top of his lungs are the only two feasible options, provided that those other tanks are really can be seen or heard.

Such a situation still exists among the vast majority of Soviet tank troops today. The Soviet Union, which had an underdeveloped electronics industry base, was still unable to produce a sufficient number of radio stations to equip front-line troops in 1941. This was true even in 1941. After witnessing the tacit cooperation of all German armored units equipped with wireless communication radios for inter-vehicle communication, it was still the cruel reality that they were unable to make fundamental changes in a short period of time.

For example, the 1st Guards Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment led by Malashenko is fully equipped with vehicle-mounted radio stations. It should be said that Malashenko has a backdoor with Comrade Lao Zhu and is also highly appreciated by his loving father Comrade Stalin. Kote is privileged.

The cruel reality of not being able to update combat orders in real time and issue further battlefield orders at any time during the battle is simply worse than any other situation for Malashenko, who has long been accustomed to picking up a microphone and giving orders.

Although the vehicle-mounted radios of the German Panzer III tanks repaired by Karamov have been debugged and can connect to the radio station on the Malashenko command vehicle to signal and correspond to the channel, only ten captured Panzer III J1 For the forward troops with a total number of more than fifty tanks, medium tanks are still as helpless as a lonely boat in the sea.

The cross-country road leading to the outskirts of Tula city shortened the distance rapidly in the wind and lightning above the vast white snowfield. Malashenko, who was worried, was thinking about how to solve the problem of poor communication and command along the way, but could he Arriving at a reasonable final solution is another unknown.

The offensive and defensive battles in the outer suburbs of Tula city continued with the roar of gunfire.

Part of the incomplete defense line that is still in the hands of the local garrison and workers' regiment in Tula City is still fighting to the death to resist the fierce German offensive. Although these Red Army soldiers and workers who can only be regarded as third-line troops are completely unable to Be on par with your opponents.

At this moment, the German troops who were following the orders of Commander Guderian of the Second Armored Group and launching a fierce attack on the city of Tula were old acquaintances who had fought against Malashenko once.

The "Grossdeutschland" infantry regiment and the 3rd Armored Division, the main force of the 2nd Armored Group, are uniting to launch a continuous fierce attack on the already surrounded city of Tula.

The troops placed further north in front of them, cutting off the land connection between Tula and Moscow, were the 4th Armored Division of the Wehrmacht, which was also the main force of the 2nd Armored Group.

Three main forces were deployed in the direction of the small city of Tula to launch a fierce attack and siege. This not only showed that Guderian, who was forced to the edge of the cliff in the ice and snow, had gritted his teeth and made a desperate move.

It also reflects from the side how much Hitler, who was warming himself by the fire in his warm office in Berlin, had an unimaginable and crazy desire for Moscow, which seemed so close and within easy reach.

If it were in the summer, this crazy desire might have turned into a shot in the arm for the German front-line troops to speed up the offensive. But now, many German soldiers are still wearing single clothes and single pants and sometimes fall down in the snow from the cold. At this moment, Hitler's madness became a burden on Guderian's shoulders and a reminder for the German soldiers who should have gotten the rest they deserved.

The belief in the Führer and the sacred oath sworn under the military flag urged the German troops, who were already shivering from the cold, to launch wave after wave of fierce attacks.

Looking at the soldiers under his command in his telescope who were struggling to move forward in the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, almost falling down, he also looked at the vehicles that were not equipped with winter anti-skid tracks and got stuck in the snow not long after setting off. The tank couldn't move in the nest. Colonel Walter Horning, who had just succeeded Colonel Stockhausen and had just become the top military commander of the Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment, couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"Seeing this scene, I even forgot for a moment that our Grossdeutschland Infantry Regiment enjoys the privilege of priority in supply and equipment selection. If our troops are like this, what will the troops on other fronts look like now? Luo Sam, I really doubt whether this scene is real, I’m not kidding!”

Compared with the helpless and more indignant look on Colonel Walter Horning's face after he put down his telescope, the adjutant Captain Rossem, who had long been accustomed to the tight situation at home and on the front line, looked naturally calm and relaxed.

"I just heard yesterday from my college classmate who works at the General Staff Headquarters that Marshal Brauchitsch just assured the head of state in person at the heads of state meeting the day before yesterday, saying that "all the main forces on the front line have received a sufficient amount of winter military uniforms for use. Support the battle to capture Moscow."

"Although what I learned in the military academy clearly prohibits me from talking about my superiors at will, especially a highly respected figure like Marshal Brauchitsch. But if I really want to say something, I feel that those guys in Berlin are now treating our The head of state acted like a clown and played casually, at the expense of us soldiers on the front lines who suffered frostbite, amputation, or even died of frostbite in the Russian ice and snow every day.”