Stephen gently turned the steering wheel and kicked the left rudder, and the plane began to approach the Germans who were forming a group. Tony, the deputy gunner, opened a large cartridge box and quickly loaded the cartridge chain. In the gloomy cabin, the brass eggshells glowed with gold.

"Major, what are these Americans doing?" Looking at the two AC-47 gunboats approaching on the left and right, Sergeant Barak seemed to feel that something was wrong, and he hurriedly said to the battalion commander Crouchen, "It seems that something is wrong." ”

"Two unarmed transport planes can scare you like this? The more battles you fought, the less courage you became. Crouchen said disapprovingly, looking up at the two planes. At this moment, his pupils suddenly constricted—he saw that the doors of both planes were open, and something seemed to stick out of the black hole.

"Damn! It's a machine gun! Crouchen immediately ordered: "Disband!" Take cover! ”

But the order was too late, and the hatches of the two AC-47s had already begun to erupt deadly flames. The 25 mm six-barreled Gatling gun spun around with a chainsaw-like whistling sound, and a dense string of shells was shrashed at the German soldiers on the ground. According to the method of preparing shells, for every 10 shells, there will be one tracer shell. Now, these tracer shells, dragging long flaring flares, showed the entire trajectory, and from a distance, the shells of the two AC-47shè shells were like two long flaming whips, which were whipped fiercely against the German marching column.

But the effect of this blow is far from being comparable to that of any whip. A 25 mm armor-piercing shell is enough to destroy most armored vehicles, even some tanks. For example, the No. 4H tank, the most heavily equipped tank of the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division to which Krauchen belonged, could not withstand the attack of 25 mm guns on the sides and top. Of course, this time they were only attacking soft targets. So when attacking targets, the Americans did not choose armor-piercing shells for attacking armored vehicles, but high-explosive shells.

The 25-mm high-explosive shell had a rather small charge, much less than a grenade. If a single shot is placed on flat ground and explodes, even if it explodes right next to the target, most of the damage caused will not be enough to kill a person, at most it will only blow up one of the soles of the foot. But now, when it is sprayed at a rate of 4,000 rounds per minute, the effect is completely different. Barak, who had just been talking to Krauchen, was hit directly in the waist by a 25mm high-explosive shell, and with a bang, he was blown in two from the waist. The upper half of the body flew out and landed two or three meters away. But Barak was not yet breathing, and while screaming in a voice that was not at all human, he propped up half of his body with his hands and climbed two more steps, as if trying to escape from this bloody Shura field. But immediately another shell caught up with him, ending his delusions and ending his suffering.

Now the highway has completely become a Shura field, and in the dense accumulation of cannonballs, countless stumps are flying everywhere, and the team of two or three hundred people is swept to the ground almost in an instant. Compared to Barak, Crowchen's death came much more simply. Just as he gave the order to disband, two flaming whips slammed into the tail of the queue. For a while, the fire rose, and flesh and blood flew sideways. Crouchen's eyes widened as he looked at the whip of death rapidly approaching him, and he seemed to have forgotten to flee, but felt endless remorse in his heart.

"You brought them together! You were the one who sent them to their deaths under enemy fire! You can't run, you deserve to die with them! A voice from nowhere grabbed him, preventing him from turning and fleeing. So he stood there steadily, watching the flame and the whip of death rush and engulf him. A 25-millimeter shell hit him in the chest, "it's finally over" in a sharp pain, Krauchen thought, and then he fell into the endless darkness.

……

Releasing his hand on the shè keystroke, Koku stuck out his tongue and licked his dry lips. The entire cabin was filled with the choking smell of gunsmoke, which made Koku feel even thirstier.

"Is there water? Tony, I'm a little thirsty. Koku said. He looked tired.

"Yes, yes." Tony replied that he hurriedly took a kettle from a dark yellow canvas bag and handed it to Koku.

Koku reached out and caught the kettle, his hand trembling slightly. Unscrewing the lid, Koku took a few sips. Maybe it was the rush to drink, or maybe the smoke in the cabin was too choking, Cocu coughed violently.

The two AC-47s circled around the remains of the German soldiers, and after seeing that there seemed to be no movement in the pile of corpses, they slowly turned around and slowly began to climb.

……

An hour later, another group of German infantry appeared here.

"Oh my God! This is? The captain company commander Kopke who was leading the team was almost stunned by what he saw, but he reacted immediately.

"One row, immediately occupy the commanding heights on the left; The second row unfolds to the right; The three platoons are deployed in battle formation in front of them. Koepke quickly gave the order.

The soldiers quickly formed a battle formation and dispersed, some of them set up MG-42 machine guns, some picked up MP-40 submachine guns and 98K carbines, and were ready for an encounter with the enemy. At this time, Koepke approached the corpses and began to study them.

The situation of the friendly troops of the battalion that died on the ground was really too strange. It seems that they were suddenly ambushed while they were in the group, and then they all died here. Judging from the density of the team, the blow they encountered must have been so violent that after being attacked, the entire formation did not have time to spread, and all of them were killed here. The person who ran the farthest was only six or seven meters.

And the deaths of these friendly soldiers are also extremely shocking. On the ground, you can hardly find a complete corpse, all the corpses are mutilated, some people are missing arms, some people are missing thighs, some people are directly beaten into two pieces, and some people, the torso is still there, but the head does not know where it went. What kind of weapon can have such a terrifying effect? Even the M-2 machine gun would not have been able to cause such a terrible result.

"Is it a 20mm gun?" Koepke thought so, "The 20-millimeter guns on the US fighter planes have high speed and fierce firepower, and if they attack suddenly while they are in formation, they may be able to achieve such an effect." But how could they be so exposed to the fire of enemy fighters in such a dense formation? This is absolutely impossible, even if the officer forgets the jǐng ring, it is impossible for the other soldiers not to notice the enemy fighters. Could it be that the ground forces ambushed by the enemy made a sneak attack? For example, the enemy hid seven or eight small-caliber high-caliber guns around here, and then opened fire together......" Thinking of this, Kopke couldn't help but shiver.

"Expand the scope of the jǐng ring!" Koepke hurriedly added an order. If the enemy had really laid so many small-caliber anti-aircraft guns in ambush nearby, their killing range would have far exceeded the range of the current German army.

……

The two AC-47s continued to fly along the road, and in the process, they encountered German soldiers who had fallen behind on the march. They also regarded this attack plane in the skin of a transport plane as a harmless little sheep, but when this obedient little sheep suddenly tore off its disguise and revealed the true face of the ferocious big bad wolf, there were suddenly some more unjust souls in the Cao Difu.

……

Listening to the information sent back by the AC-47 in front of him, Ron was also surprised, even he didn't expect that the AC-47 would have such a result in the first attack. Originally, he just wanted to let the two AC-47s out and get used to the battlefield.

"These two wolves in sheep's clothing went out the first time and bit a lot of Germans to death so madly. If there were survivors among the Germans, then the Germans would have been particularly impressed by this fighter. Perhaps, after the Germans are familiar with this kind of aviation gunboat, if necessary, they can also use a large group of real C-47 transport aircraft to pass off as AC-47 and scare those Germans to death. Thinking of this, Ron couldn't help but smile smugly.

……

The sun finally set below the horizon, and the company commander Kopke and his company, hurrying slowly, finally caught up with the troops. As soon as he caught up with the group, he immediately went to his superiors and handed them a large bag.

"What is this?" Regiment Commander Jonas asked.

"Open it for yourself." Koepke said.

Jonas opened his pocket and shone a flashlight, which was full of soldiers' identification plates.

"What is this?"

"This is the identity badge of all the soldiers in Crawford's battalion. Captain, we're ...... today" Koepke reported to Jonas what had happened today. Then he added his own opinion.

"I think the enemy may have airdropped paratroopers in our rear, and these paratroopers may also have light tanks that can move quickly, like the American Jeeps. It should not have been a slightly larger tank than a jeep, probably with a small-caliber high-shè gun. Because I think that only such a firepower configuration, coupled with highly mobile combat vehicles, plus ambushes, can cause such a terrible attack effect. If such a highly mobile paratrooper unit is in our vicinity, we must be very careful even when marching at night. ”

"Well, there is some truth to your idea, so did you find traces of the enemy at that time?" Jonas asked.

"No, I looked a little and couldn't find it...... And from time to time enemy planes flew by, and I had to be busy on the road, so I didn't look very carefully. Koepke thought for a moment and replied, "But I don't think it's easy to have any other explanation. ”

After listening to his words, Jonas also pondered for a while, and then said: "You have some truth in what you think, and it is indeed difficult to have any other explanation. Although I still don't think the enemy's paratroopers are as sharp as this. But...... You haven't eaten yet, have you? I have a piece of bread here, you eat it quickly, and then we will go to the division commander together. ”