About half an hour after the artillery attack began, American infantry, supported by tanks, began to appear on the battlefield. Visit and download txt novel // According to the experience in Italy, in order to avoid too many losses under the enemy's superior artillery and aviation fire, the Germans generally did not place too many soldiers in the front trenches. Most of the soldiers were in the anti-shelling holes at this time. When the enemy arrives and the shelling is over, they will quickly enter the trenches and resist.

Later, the Americans began to play tricks, they first covered the fire, and then pretended to extend the fire to the rear. When the Germans left the artillery holes and poured into the trenches, they turned back and hit a fire cover. But in Italy, this trick did not work, and the Germans were not fooled at all. Because of similar tricks, on the Eastern Front, the Soviets do not know how many times they have been played. So whenever the shelling stopped, the Germans did not rush into the trenches, they added some small, strong anti-artillery holes in the first line of trenches, these anti-artillery holes were very small, generally only one or two machine gun groups could be loaded into each hole. After the shelling was over, the small units would go out to check the front line, and if they found that there was no enemy force with them, they would quickly run back to the fortifications. Since there are few people who come out, they also run very fast. And if the enemy really threw in large forces. These men leaned on the machine guns to the top slightly, and soon large groups of troops would enter the trenches and give the enemy a head-on blow.

However, this attack by the US forces was just a feint, and the troops invested were not much, only a dozen M-4 Sherman tanks, and hundreds of soldiers following the tanks. Under the cover of artillery shelling, they had advanced to a distance of no more than a hundred meters from the first line of trenches.

A group of P/A-38 attack aircraft of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing was hovering at high altitude in the deep area of the German lines, searching for enemy suppression artillery. Most of the enemy's suppression artillery was well concealed, and as for the artillery that was exposed during aviation reconnaissance, everyone knew that most of those things were fakes made by the Germans with telephone poles. Back when the U.S. troops landed in Omaha, a 155-millimeter artillery group somewhere made the Yankees nervous. As soon as the infantry boarded, they were immediately sent to capture this 155 coastal artillery position. As a result, it turned out that these cannons were just black-painted wood.

The real suppression artillery of the German army can only be discovered after firing.

The small German units had already entered their positions, and they began to try to suppress the attacking American soldiers with the help of MG-42 machine guns, buying time for reinforcements from the troops behind. However, this is a very difficult thing to do, because there are still a dozen M4 tanks on the enemy's side. Under their pressure, any long point shè that lasts more than 5 seconds runs the risk of being shelled by tanks. In such a situation, without the support of other firepower, it would be absolutely impossible to prevent the enemy from entering the first line of trenches with the support of these MG-42s. And now, there are two weapons that can provide fire support, one is the rear suppression artillery, and the other is the anti-tank gun. Several German soldiers ran towards a 75-mm anti-tank gun. The anti-tank gun was buried in a bunker, the barrel lay almost flat on the ground, and under the muzzle brake, the Germans also laid a large canvas of watered green sè. In this way, when the cannon is fired, there is no need to worry about exposing the target due to the gunpowder gas from the muzzle of the gun stirring up dust on the ground. It's just that the Germans built the fortifications in such a hurry that they didn't have time to equip these anti-tank guns with a strong pillbox that could withstand shelling, but could only cover them with a camouflage net.

It is very difficult for the tank to spot the anti-tank guns until they are fired at the tank from the ambush position. In many cases, even after it has fired at the tank, the tank cannot find it. In Africa, Field Marshal Rommel had repeatedly relied on such ambushes to kill a large number of British tanks, and in fact, if the British tanks could spot the attacking anti-tank guns, it would only need a few grenades to destroy such unarmored targets. However, the narrow vision of the tanks makes them no better than the blind in many cases.

A more extreme example occurred in Italy, when several American soldiers fired with a 37mm anti-tank gun at a Tiger tank that had lost the protection of its infantry. The 37-mm guns of the American army had no chance of penetrating the armor of the Tiger tank. Even the armor at the tail of the Tiger tank was not penetrated by a 37mm knocker. It's just that the Americans fought very smartly, they first broke the tracks of the Tiger tank with one shot, and then they started to hit the armor of the Tiger tank with that 37mm gun non-stop. The poor Tiger tank, turning its turret in vain, tried to find the damn attacker. However, it just couldn't find the anti-tank gun that was almost close at hand. In the end, the Yankees emptied several ammunition boxes and hit the poor Tiger tank with more than 100 shells. As a result, the armor inside the tank will crack due to metal fatigue. In the end, the crew of the Tiger tank had no choice but to surrender to the American troops.

But now the situation is completely different, because several P/A-38 attack aircraft are cruising less than two hundred meters above the German position.

Now those anti-tank guns hidden in bunkers rely on the camouflage net overhead, and when they don't fire, they may be able to barely fool the eyes of the attack aircraft, but once they fire, hehe, the attack aircraft's vision is much better than that of the tank.

Even, some anti-tanks were detected by attack aircraft without firing. During the shelling just now, the camouflage nets on the top of two anti-tank guns were not firmly fixed enough and were blown away by the air waves set off by the shells. As a result, the artillery was directly exposed to the noses of those attack aircraft, and then ...... These two cannons are naturally gone.

Several German soldiers ran up to a 75mm gun, and they skilfully pulled the bolt, loaded the shells, and began to aim at the American tanks.

"If only it were closer." Sergeant Fritz thought to himself as he looked at an M-4 tank from his scope. The Americans were cunning, and their tanks did not rush directly, but hid at a distance of 500 meters from the first line of trenches, and used the direct fire of tank guns to support the soldiers.

At this distance, Fritz was not sure of a starter. But now it's only time to fire.