Considering the mortar had to be reloaded between each shot, 6 smoke bombs in ~18 seconds is certainly pretty quick work - seems to me that this would represent a crew member pretty much slamming grenades into the mortar breech and pulling the trigger as quickly as he could. I personally have no idea how quickly a Sherman crew could reasonably be expected to fire off the smoke mortar under combat conditions. This doesn't necessarily mean that the smoke mortar for Shermans in CMBN is perfectly modeled, though. So I'm not sure where the suggestion that the Sherman's smoke mortar function is somehow an errant "holdover" from CMSF is coming from. The grenades detonate more or less simultaneously and obscure the tank from a broad field of view within seconds. The M1A1 puts out an automatic broadcast of smoke grenades fired from multiple tubes simultaneously. Regardless, it is certainly not true that Sherman's defensive smoke ability in CMBN is anything like what you see coming from tanks like M1A1 in CMSF. It might be firing smoke shells from the main gun as well, though I don't think so but it's a little hard to tell given the quality of the video.
Hard to tell the exact number I can definitely count at least 6 grenades going out, but I think there may be more. No, it's firing smoke from the mortar if you watch closely you can see the smoke bombs arcing from the turret. That looks like it was firing smoke shells (WP) from the cannon, not smoke from the smoke mortar, which should form a screen immediately in front of the tank.
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