Chapter 401 Human and Dog Battle
Outside Molodizno, not only Colonel Rosenberg, but almost all the tankers who rushed on the front line were stunned.
Opposite them, a group of dogs rushed out of the Soviet position.
Among the dogs are German black backs familiar to Germans, sheepdogs with black and white fur, pure black Schnauzer, and more are native dogs with messy fur colors that cannot be seen.
The dogs flocked toward the German tank cluster, and there was a group of dogs roaring "Woo Wo Wang" on the battlefield.
Seeing the group of dogs approaching quickly, the German tanks were full of doubts. Could it be that which pet market was destroyed by the Soviet army and a big riot occurred in the dog group?
Some tankers have even more keen thinking. Are these dogs all rabies carriers? The Soviets wanted to use them to spread rabies in the German army?
When the German tankers were thinking about it, the dogs in the charge quickly reacted strangely and produced three-level differentiation.
Dog breeds with more fierce personalities, such as the German black-backed wolfdog, shepherd dog, etc., are still running towards the German tanks.
The dog breed with a mild personality, Schnauzer and most local dogs slowly stopped and stood there hesitated. At most, a few local dogs barked at the German tanks.
The gentle and cowardly dog breed, the group with the largest number of dogs, was shocked by the steel bodies of German tanks and the roars. A beautiful and sharp turn around and fled to the Soviet position.
↖The German tankers soon discovered something strange in the dog group. On the radio, the shouts of officers and the commanders were heard one after another.
"Dogs have explosive devices, don't let them get close, fire. Open fire quickly. Don't let them get close."
As the charge group of dogs approached the German tanks, more and more German tankers saw the dogs wearing black coats, like vests, with black boxes on them, and there were things like antennas stretched out on the black vests.
The German tankers quickly confirmed the role of the tank killer in the dog group, rather than being cute, the coaxial machine gun on the turret of the No. 4 tank and the machine gun used by the radio player sounded at the same time, and dense bullets flew towards the dog group.
The neutral group of dogs who were lingering in a neutral attitude quickly changed their attitude and turned around and ran to the starting position without hesitation.
The originally escaped dogs ran faster, and they took out their strength to rush on the battlefield like bunches of lightning.
The attacking dog group once again divided into three factions, one faction was hit by bullets, and wailed with blood splattering on the battlefield. A group of people lost the courage to attack and turned around and joined the escape team.
Looking at the battlefield, less than ten of the more than 60 dogs who initially launched the attack maintained the momentum of charge.
With a fearless spirit, these dogs used their fast speed, low appearance and complex terrain as cover to avoid the German attack. They rushed into the German tank queue, plunged head-on under the chassis of the No. 4 tank, raised their heads, and licked on the steel plates of the tank chassis like conditioned reflex, as if looking for delicious food.
When they drilled into the tank chassis, the slender antenna on their back hit the tank turret, igniting the detonator and then detonating the explosives.
Amid the rumbling explosion, flames and white smoke ejected from under the tank chassis, and the hair and flesh of military dogs were also wrapped in the middle.
Five No. 4 tanks stopped one after another, and a No. 4 tank power compartment also ignited a fire.
The chassis steel plate of the No. 4 tank is only ten mm thick, which is too fragile to resist the damage of explosives.
Three other No. 4 tanks were also attacked, but they were not fatal. After a brief pause, they continued to fight. The tankers inside were inevitably shocked and sweated.
"Damn Ivans, they actually used this despicable trick to inform the crew to continue attacking, and drove the dogs to the Russians' positions, so that they could taste the taste," Colonel Rosenberg shouted in anger after he figured out the situation.
The suicide attacks of the dogs angered Colonel Rosenberg. When the suicide anti-tank dog and the German tank died together, the tragic situation of flesh and blood made him unable to help but think of his beloved black-backed wolf dog Bartha at home.
Colonel Rosenberg's order was quickly conveyed to various trains on the front line, and there was no need to be driven away by various trains. The scared main force of the dog group had fled to the Soviet position, and death and nightmare fell on the heads of the Soviet army.
Running in front of the dog group is a native dog with yellow curly hair all over his body, similar in size to an adult black-backed wolfdog.
At the beginning of the battle, this dog realized that the real battlefield was different from the training ground, especially the tanks on the training ground would not spit out their tongues at it and its dog friends. The clever one decided to go back to find the owner at the moment the battle broke out and ask why.
Behind Huangmao, a military dog who was the same as Huangmao followed closely.
On the outskirts of Molodizno, on the 45mm anti-tank gun position on the south side of the highway, Captain Pavlov, the top commander of the dog group and the commander of the Soviet First Anti-tank Army Dog Company, hid in the trenches, watching the dog group running towards him, dumbfounded and speechless.
The group of dogs who performed well on the training ground were defeated in an instant and ran back to the position with explosives, staged a farce full of black humor.
The Soviet Union's training of anti-tank military dogs began in 1924. The Soviet Revolutionary Military Commission approved the use of dogs for military operations, including rescue, communication, mine detection, etc. Soon 12 related training schools were established, including 3 of which were trained in anti-tank dogs.
In August 1941, the Soviet army established the first four anti-tank army dog companies, each with 126 army dogs. Captain Pavlov was honored to be appointed as the company commander of the first company.
Pavlov and his trainers placed food under the tank, and then asked the hungry dog to look for food under the tank, which made the dog conditioned over time.
The initial training tank was stationary. After the training was carried out for a period of time, the tank would start with food and use empty packs of bullets and other props to simulate the battlefield environment, so that the dog could gradually adapt.
When the war breaks out, the Soviet army will tie each dog a 1,012 kilogram mine. The trigger device on the mine has been modified and there will be a 20-centimeter-long wooden wrench on it. When the dog manages to drill under the tank, the wrench will be pulled and turned to the back, which will detonate the mine.
In 1902, Pavlov Ivan Petlovich, a Nobel Prize winner in Physiology, accidentally discovered during his tenure at the Tsarist Russian Military Medical Research Institute that before formal feeding, if a dog sees the feeder or hears its voice, or even just hears the ringtone that starts feeding, it will secrete saliva. After a lot of research, Pavlov calls this phenomenon "conditioned reflex", and the ringtone is the "conditioned stimulus" that causes reflex behavior.
The training of anti-tank dogs is based on the theory of "conditioned reflex".
From the start of service to the end of training, each anti-tank dog has to undergo about 40 days of training so that the dog can overcome the fear of the rumbling engine noise. At the same time, the tank's profile, steel, paint, anti-rust oil and exhaust gas smell, and even the sounds emitted by the tank engine will become a "conditioned stimulus" to the anti-tank dog. It will guide the military dog to "conditioned" to drill under the tank chassis to find food.
When the war broke out, the Soviet Union had trained about 6,000 military dogs, most of which were anti-tank military dogs.
The first company of anti-tank dogs led by Pavlov was assigned to the 21st Army of the Western Front and followed the army to launch a counterattack against the German Third Armored Army.
Seeing the military dogs approaching their positions, Pavlov suddenly woke up. He gritted his teeth and shouted, "Shoot, shoot quickly, don't let them get closer."
However, he underestimated the speed and agility of the old subordinates on the other side, and overestimated the reaction speed of the Soviet soldiers.
The German tanks behind the dogs attracted the attention of most Soviet soldiers, and they were not Pavlov's subordinates, ignored Pavlov's orders.
The dogs moved almost against the ground, and were fast and fled back to the Soviet position with lightning speed. From time to time, the wooden wrench on the back of the military dogs was touched by the shrubs on the ground, causing an explosion.
Every time an explosion occurs, Pavlov's heart twitches. After the safety of the wooden wrench is opened, the reaction is extremely sensitive. If it is touched, it will detonate the explosives. If these "old subordinates" rushed to the side and acted spoiled on themselves, once they detonated the explosives weighing up to two kilograms on their bodies, they would definitely be wiped out in an instant and go to see the great Comrade Lenin.
When Captain Pavlov was panicked, he rushed to the front of the dog group and crossed the Soviet position in front and rushed straight to the position where Pavlov was.
After years of getting along and training, Captain Pavlov's figure has been firmly engraved in the Yellow-haired mind, and its sensitive nose. As he ran, he saw Pavlov's figure from afar and the familiar smell that drifted in the wind. The Yellow-haired rushed towards the direction where Pavlov was without hesitation.
Seeing that the yellow-haired dog was the first, Pavlov quickly crossed the infantry trench in front and rushed to the trench where he was. He was forced to take out his pistol and load the bullet and aimed it at his former subordinate, today's killer.
The moment Pavlov raised his gun, the yellow hair suddenly smelled another pungent smell that made him remember his heart. He turned around and turned to the left, just avoiding Pavlov's gun pointing at it.
Pavlov pulled the trigger and knocked his old subordinates to the ground. His human-shaped subordinates also joined the ranks of intercepting the dog group. Gunshots were everywhere in front of the position, and the dog group suddenly became corpses everywhere.
The yellow-haired dog, who was the first to dodge Pavlov's muzzle, chased the pungent and familiar smell of diesel, and ran all the way to a kv1 tank behind the Soviet position. Then, under the action of conditioned reflex, plunged into the chassis of the kv1 tank to find food that did not exist.
The moment he drilled into the kv1 tank chassis, the wrench on his yellow-haired back hit the tank chassis.
Chapter completed!