Chapter 297: Newnan Town (II)
"Don't worry, I'll bear it with you!" Li Wei was tapped on the shoulder vigorously, and without turning around, he knew by his voice that it was Lieutenant Compton.
"Buck, did you hear that?" asked Leyway, and Lieutenant Compton said yes.
"That's right!" replied Lieutenant Compton.
"Buck, you have to think clearly, this is ......" Lieutenant Compton interrupted before Levy could finish his words.
"Don't be a mother-in-law, Lai! this is not your style!"
"Well, if someone is willing to accompany me to be punished, I would be more than welcome. Li Wei shrugged his shoulders helplessly and said, actually feeling warm in his heart.
"Alright, now that these things have been decided, let's make arrangements for the retreat...... Buck, you first retreat outside the town with all the mortar squads and set up fire support, and it is up to the brothers to retreat safely. Li Wei paused for a moment and then continued to command.
"Martin, you go to Lenny and Talbot and have them retreat with their respective machine-gun squads, and also set up fire support outside the town. ”
"Remember! There's not much time left for us! So...... Action!", the crowd immediately dispersed, and the machine-gun and mortar squads here were led by Corporal Duke Mann and Sergeant Hubl in the retreat.
Moving his gaze to the road in the middle of the town, the Sherman tank drove in majestically, looking calm.
The tank officer kept looking around with a telescope, but in the next second, an object appeared in the telescope that made him almost weak on the spot, the German ace Tiger tank!
"Huh~~~Bang !!" In the next second, the muzzle of the Tiger tank fired in the direction of the Sherman tank, but it did not hit the leading tank, but hit the track of the second tank, and it was scrapped directly.
"Full speed ahead!" the tank officer instructed the tank driver using the walkie-talkie.
At the same time, Company E used this cannon sound as a signal to retreat outside the town, and the Germans also used this cannon sound as a signal to open fire, and machine guns, mortars, and tank guns formed a powerful fire network to suppress the Allied advance.
"Sudden ~ Sudden ~ Sudden !!" Fortunately, Li Wei let some of the people retreat in advance, and with advance warning, the rest of the people did not entangle with the Germans too much except because they were forced to fight or firepower.
However, accidents are often caught off guard, especially when new recruits enter the battlefield......
During the retreat, Corporal Mook, Webster, and Van Klinken were suppressed by a platoon of German fire. Corporal Mook left the pit behind the hedge, and then rolled himself through part of the hedge and rolled safely into the pit.
"What are you doing, Van Klinken, don't squat ......!" Corporal Mook had not finished scolding, and the German machine gun had already left countless bullet holes in Van Klinken's body.
On the other side, Lieutenant Compton, who was supposed to take the mortar squad and machine gun squad with him, returned to town alone and met his platoon of soldiers, Smith and two recruits, Carson and Burleigh.
"MD! Gotta kill the machine gun in the house, or it will be much more difficult for the brothers to retreat......" Thinking of this, Lieutenant Compton shouted to Smith one by one.
"Smith, use the grenade! target your ten-bell direction, the MG-4 machine gun on the house! take them!"
"Fire!" With the order of Lieutenant Compton, the grenade accurately hit the house, and the German machine-gun fire was destroyed.
The Germans relied on the Tiger tanks to restrain the Sherman tanks, did not cover too much, and cooperated with the machine gun positions scattered in the town, and tried to encircle and annihilate E Company.
"Ramirez, take the machine guns out there!" Levy instructed Ramirez, who was carrying a rocket launcher.
With the help of Joseph and the cover of fire from other comrades, Ramirez held a rocket canister in a concealed position and aimed at the German machine gunner's position hiding in the attic of a house.
"!!Boom" Ramirez didn't take too long to aim, took a step outward, and then pulled the trigger of the rocket launcher. The attic of the house was bombed to smithereens, and the German machine gunners inside naturally suffered the same fate.
Each non-commissioned officer received clear instructions, and each platoon and squad cooperated with each other to open fire to cover each other.
Despite Li Wei's advance instructions, even war games will have casualties, not to mention that this is a real war.
Li Wei watched as some of the veterans or recruits had turned into cold corpses and fell on the way to retreat, and the grief and indignation in his heart became stronger and stronger, but then there was a sense of frustration, because he could only watch his comrades be killed by merciless artillery fire or bullets, and die in a foreign land.
The Tiger tanks continued to pursue the Sherman tanks, and the German infantry regiments were also on their heels, and they had pinned the Allies back to the outskirts of the town of Nunan.
"Kaber, retreat!" Li Wei saw a person hiding in the corner of the wall to cover the fire for the others to retreat, he couldn't help but glance at him, shouted and reminded him, and at the same time opened fire to cover it, and the three shots directly hit the three German infantrymen, which immediately reduced the fire suppression of Kaber.
In fact, Li Wei misunderstood Kaber, who was afraid of death, he had already thought of retreating, but among the four recruits who retreated with him, one was hit in the head by a stray bullet and directly confessed here, and one was shot in the leg and was carried away by the other two, and he, as the only veteran, pretended to be calm and let the three retreat first.
Originally, Kaber only wanted to shoot a few perfunctory shots and immediately retreated, but he didn't expect these few shots to directly attract the German mortars to land on the cement wall less than ten centimeters away from him, making him directly stunned.
The compelled Karber was like a demon, constantly strafing the Germans, but unexpectedly let him suppress a squad of the Germans alone, which was also the scene that Li Wei had just seen.
In the tunnel, recruits Miller and Caleto crossed fire together to cover their comrades, when suddenly a mortar landed behind the tunnel.
"Miller !!" shouted as soon as Hershey and Garcia, who were not far from the tunnel, saw the scene. The three of them completed their recruit training in the same training camp as Heflang, and they also joined E Company on the same day, and their relationship was deeper than that of other recruits.
Looking at Miller, who was no longer breathing in the tunnel, Hershet was at a loss for a moment, but fortunately, Garcia was calmer and dragged Hershee to retreat quickly.
"What are you doing, what are you doing, are you doing a renovation?" asked Levy in a loud voice when he and Corporal Malachi and Corporal Mook were forcibly demolishing the wooden door of a dwelling.
"It's Buck! he's been shot in the thigh, and it's used as a stretcher!" explained Sergeant Malach.
"Get out of the way!" After listening to the explanation, Li Wei didn't think much about it, and asked the two to get out of the way directly.
"Bump!" Li Wei kicked the door down, which saved a lot of effort.
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I have private things to do two days after dawn, so I haven't updated it......
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