Speaking of grenadiers, in layman's terms, they are "soldiers who throw bombs.". The origins of grenadiers can be traced back to Europe, where a hand-thrown ammunition filled with black powder appeared in the fifteenth century. More than 200 years later, this hand-thrown ammunition has been widely used, and the first professional grenadier to form is louis XIV's hip army. Then in the eighteenth century, the soldiers who specialized in throwing this kind of ammunition were called grenadiers, and their main task was to be a pioneer or core of resistance when capturing fortresses or strongholds.
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Grenadier this class is the most elite in the European army, not everyone can enter the grenadier team, if you want to go in, the conditions are still quite high, generally speaking, you will choose those strong soldiers to serve, in our ancient times to describe the words is "Lux" or "Tiger Ben".
At that time, it was really throwing, and the soldiers used a large grenade that delayed the fuse, and then used their own hands to throw the bomb out under the impetus of waist force, just like the chain ball game, and now it is also using one-handed. In the era of platoon guns, ordinary line infantry would wear triangular hats, but grenadiers were different, and they would wear pointed hats for convenience. After that, the Grenadier became a symbol of the elite Army unit, and after the Musket 19 Smoothbore Gun began to mature, the Grenadier began to slowly become a melee unit.
At that time, the main practice of standard line tactics was to first have the teams on both sides shoot each other, and then line up to advance. In order to be able to crush the opponent as quickly as possible, the grenadier will drop bombs into the opposing line at the right time. However, due to the disappearance of the platoon tactics, the grenadiers were no longer useful, but the name of the grenadiers was still retained. Honorary titles used as an honorary title for elite army soldiers still exist in European countries where grenadiers exist. It's like the Potsdam Grenadier Regiment owned by the King of Prussia, the Guards Grenadier Regiment under Napoleon, the Grenadier Regiment under the British Royal Family, and the Royal Guard Grenadier Regiment that existed on the Russian side.
During World War II, Hitler was very fond of the Prussian retro style and claimed to be the reincarnation of Frederick the Great, and the German army of course restored the name of grenadier, calling their infantry grenadiers, and also gave a new name to the grenadiers of the Panzer Division and the Motorized Infantry Division, that is, the Panzergrenadier. Of course, compared with the grenadiers of ancient times, the Panzergrenadiers here in the German army are not a meaning. Moreover, Germany also formed a national grenadier at the end of World War II, which was equivalent to the existence of an armed militia.
The Grenadiers owned by the German Army played a very important role in the war, and when there was no assault gun and anti-tank gun support, those grenadiers could only use anti-tank mines and anti-tank grenades to "hand-to-hand combat" with local tanks with their own flesh. The specific approach was to deploy anti-tank mines first, so that the local tanks would be delayed or change lanes, and when the local tanks entered the area of killing prepared by the Germans, there would be grenadiers rushing forward to fight the enemy tanks. If the enemy tanks had broken through their defenses, first the German machine guns and mortars would fire the infantry accompanying the tanks, then continue to use the machine guns to strafe and throw smoke bombs, confusing the realization of the opposing infantry, and finally the grenadiers with grenades or anti-tank mines would rush forward to blow up the tanks.
By the end of World War II, anti-tank grenades without recoil or rockets had begun to gain popularity, and the combat effectiveness of such weapons was not very large, using a hollow charge warhead, and was not disturbed by distance and initial speed. At the same time the 14th Company of the Grenadier Regiment on the German side, the "Tank Fighter" Company, was equipped with neither self-propelled assault guns nor towed anti-tank guns, but with fifty-four portable iron fist anti-tank grenade launchers, each equipped with eighteen guns, for a total of three platoons. The existence of this weapon is completely a divine weapon of the German grenadiers against local tanks, which has a strong deterrent effect, and the enemy does not dare to easily rush to the attacking infantry camp.