Chapter 0346: Bloody Rumler (Medium)
A small force of 300 men attacked Lambler at night by lone force, and Ramler was lost.
And in the early morning, news came one after another - many bridges on the Maidlett River were bombed by the US army, except for Lambler and another town, the bridges on the banks of the Medlett River were all blown up!
And the other town, which is now under the wing of American paratroopers!
At this time, if the German army still does not understand that the US army wants to take the deep sea port of Cherbourg, then I am sorry for their record of sweeping Europe and Africa in recent years!
Retake Rumler, keep Cherbourg, make it impossible to unload the supplies of the landed American troops on a large scale, and drive the Allies back to the sea!
The German command made a decision, and under the orders of the command, the Germans in the fierce battle drew out an infantry battalion, and under the cover of several tanks, rumbled towards Remle.
……
Rumler.
After the paratroopers were busy, they collapsed behind the position with a lazy and no image - and in the early morning, many paratroopers washed their faces and shaved their beards.
"Jacob, you say it would be nice if the Germans didn't come." Ali looked at the clear blue sky and said wishfully, "If only we could sleep here and wait for reinforcements to arrive, how great would it be......"
"I think it would be better if the Germans suddenly announced their unconditional surrender." Zheng Yingqi successfully talked to the sky to death.
Ali didn't want to talk to Zheng Yingqi anymore, so he simply turned his head and pretended to sleep, waiting for the Germans to come over or wait for reinforcements to arrive, but it was Welsh who interjected: "You said that Gordon and Lieutenant Winters, are they mourning us now?" ”
Ali, who was pretending to be asleep, couldn't help but interject: "I guess they're not available!" ”
Not available...... That is to say, at this time, they are gnawing at the positions of the German army little by little - Carentham is the meeting point of the landing forces on Utah Beach and Omaha Beach, and the defending army is also the famous 6th Parachute Regiment of the German army, and the 506th Regiment may not be able to take it easily, and perhaps the difficulty of the battle may not be easier than theirs......
But at this moment, the reconnaissance team that was observing outside hurriedly withdrew and brought back the news they had seen:
"The Germans are coming!"
The lazy, noisy positions became dead in an instant, and everyone threw themselves into their positions, waiting for the arrival of the Germans.
Ten minutes later, the Germans were in the forefront of their sight - four tanks with their heads turned the paratroopers' expressions extremely solemn.
Tiger again!
It's a tiger pose!
As early as the beginning of the landing, the allies talked about the tiger changing color, but at that time, they had not experienced the devastation of the tiger style, and they only knew that the tiger style was terrible - but after the landing on D day, they finally knew why so many people talked about the tiger changing color.
Ordinary army or with the support of tanks, Sherman can compete with the Tiger, although the end is usually miserable, but after all, it can be topped, but what about paratroopers?
The only thing that can increase confidence in the face of the Tiger is the Bazooka - you can compare the thickness of the Tiger's front armor with the armor-piercing ability of Bazooka, this confidence...... It's still going to turn into despair.
Bazooka bazooka, in the front can not penetrate the armor of the Tiger at all, whether it is the front armor or the armor of the turret, if you want to destroy the Tiger, the only way is to attack the Tiger from the side, beat the Tiger into a nest, and turn the moving tank into a fixed battery, but in this way, it is equivalent to exposing yourself to the guns of the enemy infantry - it just confirms the sentence: infantry fighting tanks is to fill with life!
With the roar of machine guns and the roar of the Tiger 88 gun, the German offensive began.
Countless German infantry hid behind the Tiger that could not be destroyed head-on, and slowly approached with the Tiger, and the paratroopers' flank positions found the infantry's loopholes, and began to attack with rifles and machine guns, but soon the Tiger retaliatory artillery bombardment, one by one, was destroyed in the explosion.
In the face of the rumbling approaching tank, although they knew that the shooting was futile, more paratroopers chose to fire at the tank, as if this would give them some comfort - but the bullet hit the indestructible body of the Tiger like a tickle, and the mortar shells fell around the Tiger, but only occasionally created a small crater for the Tiger to allow it to jolt down, and one mortar shell landed on the moving Tiger, and after the explosion dissipated, the Tiger remained intact.
A futile counterattack.
It was in this futile defense that the Welsh squad chose to abandon the first line of position, abandon the second line, and go directly into the town, where only the infantry could take the risk of sending their heads to the Germans and fire rockets at the side of the Tiger with the difficult terrain.
On open ground the infantry simply did not have a chance to go to the side of the tank to launch the Bazooka bazooka.
Braving a hail of bullets like a tiger, Welsh's squad retreated into the town, and Welsh shouted by name: "Jacob! ”
"Here."
"Ryan."
"Here."
"Jon."
There was no answer.
"Jon!"
Welsh shouted again, but the paratrooper from the 82nd Airborne Division never answered, Welsh cursed in his heart, and then continued to roll call, and one person did not respond - a squad of eight people, without killing a single enemy, two people did not retreat.
When he was evacuated just now, under the "escort" of the rain of machine guns and bullets, Zheng Yingqi only cared about his coquettish position to race against death, who could take care of others? The two people who have not responded now are alive or dead, no one knows.
The rumbling sound was getting closer, Zheng Yingqi gritted his teeth and said, "I'll take a look!" ”
Without waiting for Welsh to stop, he turned around and ran towards the two positions he had abandoned in succession, and he saw in the rumbling sound of the approaching rumble that the Germans had already crushed the second line of positions they had not even defended, and Jon's familiar figure was crawling desperately on the ground, and behind him was a long trail of blood that had been dragged out, and Jon had broken his leg by a machine-gun bullet when he had just evacuated.
Zheng Yingqi wanted to rush out and drag Jon back more than thirty meters away, but the tank had reached a place less than ten meters behind Jon, and Jon crawled desperately in the rumbling sound, but it was not as fast as the tiger that crushed along the blood marks, and finally the whole person was swallowed by the amazing weight of the tiger.
"Grass!"
Zheng Yingqi witnessed the scene of Jon being crushed, cursed angrily, and then disappeared into the cover of the building by dodging the rain of bullets.
The approach of the tiger's rumbling also kicked off the beginning of brutal street fighting.
Like the Welsh squad, the first and second lines of defense established by the paratroopers did not play a single role at all, and were completely shattered under the crushing of the tanks. Driven by the rumbling of tanks, the paratroopers retreated into the town after paying the casualties, and engaged the Germans in street fighting.
Compared with having nowhere to start when defending in the outer positions, after the outbreak of street fighting, this complex paratrooper finally showed its elite ability, and the attacking German army fought back and forth extremely fiercely, but the existence of the tiger style, which is equivalent to a plug-in, made one paratrooper after another fall on the position with hatred.
There were constantly two-person firing teams using various methods to go around the side of the Tiger to attack, but several teams were reimbursed under the guns of the German infantry, and several groups fired bazookas to hit the Tiger, but did not destroy it - they themselves were directly reimbursed by the immediate retaliation, and under the huge casualties, finally two of the Tiger were tirelessly "sent to death" by the paratroopers, and the nest became a fixed fire support point.
However, there are still two Tigers wreaking havoc on the battlefield, and the Germans' intentions are clear: to gouge through the town, regain control of the bridge, and then close the door and beat the dogs to clear out the paratroopers fighting in the town. Under this tactic, one of the tanks rumbled close to the position commanded by Azov.
Seeing that there was no way to retreat, and that he would have to cross the bridge after retreating a few dozen meters, Azov yelled: "Welsh, find a way to blow it up!" ”
In the heat of battle, when all the commanders faced difficulties, the first thing they could think of was the most reliable force under their command, and Azov thought of Welsh, even though Welsh was not from his C Company.
And Welsh, the first thing that came to mind was Jacob.
"Jacob! Blow it up! Blow it up! Velsh looked at the raging tiger style and yelled excitedly at Zheng Yingqi.
Zheng Yingqi responded without hesitation, and then shouted at Ryan and Ali: "Ryan, Ali, take Bazooka and follow me!" ”
Zheng Yingqi rushed out from the edge of the position with the two of them and rushed into a precarious building - in normal times, no one would dare to enter a building like this, but on the battlefield, there was not even a trace of superfluous thoughts about drilling such a precarious building.
The three of them passed out of the building, ran into several German soldiers head-on, and were all knocked down by Zheng Yingqi's single shot, and the three continued to move forward, and after going around many buildings one after another, they appeared on the side of the tiger.
"I suppress the infantry! You hit it! Hopefully God willing, we'll be able to hit it with one shot! ”
Zheng Yingqi jumped out of the gap that was blown up, fired at the infantry following behind the tank, and then attracted the fire of the infantry and hid in the building next door.
After the explosion, the Tiger's tracks fell apart, but they did not penetrate the side armor blocked by the load wheels, and although the effect of lying on the stomach was achieved, the Tiger's ability to fire shells was still undamaged.
At this time, the U.S. military was equipped with a style that specialized in pitting its own people, and the standard Garand rifle would pop out of the leak after the bullet, and it would send a crisp "ding" sound to remind the user that there were no bullets, and also to remind the enemy: This thing has no bullets to come and beat him.
The Bazooka rocket launcher also has such a phenomenon: after the rocket is launched, the bazooka itself will emit smoke, and the enemy will actively and automatically mark where it has attacked you.
Just like now, even the poor Tiger with a small field of vision could see at a glance where it had attacked him, and the turret began to turn, and he was reloading the rocket to prepare another bottle - and when Ali saw this, he immediately dragged Ryan and ran.
Don't even want the bazooka that tricked them.
Just when the two of them ran out, with the "sage telescoping" of the Tiger 88 cannon, the building they had just stayed in was directly razed and turned into a pile of ruins.
After Arlie dared to answer God 100,000 times in his heart, he was stunned to remember:
What about Jacob?
What is Zheng Yingqi doing?
He looked up from the flying bricks and saw a German soldier who was about to throw a grenade, jumped up despite being stunned by the bricks, and the last few bullets in the gun hit the German soldier who was about to drop the grenade, and then he quickly turned out the bunker that was about to be filled with his back due to the aftermath of the explosion, and hid to the other side.
Rumble.
The explosion sounded, several Germans were blown out by their own grenades, and the rest of the Germans were also blown up, Zheng Yingqi, who quickly replaced the magazine, rushed out with a Thomson submachine gun, and after quickly knocking down these Germans, he rushed to the tank, and fired according to the firing hole of the tank, and the bullet turned into a wanton ricochet in the narrow tank space, and the armored soldiers inside began to wail.
Some of the paratroopers who were enchanted did not find that this side had been settled, and they were still continuously, stubbornly, and tenaciously shooting at the tank, and Zheng Yingqi, who was just about to enter the position directly from the front, came up, and several bullets of his own people passed around him, so frightened that Zheng Yingqi quickly shrank behind the tank, and then rushed into the building, intending to go around - as a result, he just got out of the building, and he ran into the last Tiger in the face.
This tiger rampage collapsed half of the church, and directly hit Zheng Yingqi head-on after bullying God - the course machine gun instantly spat out a tongue of fire, Zheng Yingqi rolled before the tongue of fire spit out to avoid it, and did not solve Zheng Yingqi instantly, this tiger was like a mountain overlord who was played by a monkey, and actually adjusted the angle angrily, and actually pounced again.
it!
Zheng Yingqi's heart was in turmoil, but his little arms couldn't resist the dinosaur's thighs, so he could only dodge like crazy and dodge the strafing of the heading machine gun - the coquettish movement annoyed the machine gunner in the Tiger style, and he operated the heading machine gun to fire at Zheng Yingqi constantly, trying to kill the flea-like American soldier in front of him.
[I'm going to explain this time!] 】
Zheng Yingqi complained bitterly in his heart, thinking that he would definitely have to consume a resurrection number this time - according to the damn system, after he consumes the resurrection times, he is very likely to be resurrected on the spot, does that mean that this time, he will be completely explained with interest?
Just when Zheng Yingqi was thinking about how he would explain, the explosion suddenly remembered, and a cloud of smoke appeared intimately not far away, obviously the paratroopers sneaked up on the rampaging Tiger.
But......
The rocket didn't live up to the sneak attacker's expectations, and the Tiger was even nimble, with the turret turning to aim at the third floor where the smoke was rising.
Rustling footsteps were also heard at this time, and a group of German troops appeared from the other side.
But Zheng Yingqi made an astonishing move at this time, he did not flee because the tank let him go, but the German infantry recoiled the tank in an invisible direction - this is the last Tiger of the German army, as long as it is killed, this wave of German attacks is almost equivalent to nothing.
The armored soldiers in the Tiger also did not expect that the infantry fleas they let go actually dare to rush towards the Tiger like the Big Mac, but when the grenade was thrown from the hatch cover and the hatch was pressed to death, the armored soldiers inside regretted and wanted to hit the wall......
There is no chance!
Rumble!
A low explosion sounded, smoke overflowed around the tiger, and the German infantry who followed after the delay looked at the smoking tiger in confusion, someone saw Zheng Yingqi on the turret, Zheng Yingqi, whose helmet had long been missing, was dirty, and the Germans did not recognize this as the enemy for a while, and Zheng Yingqi also came to a wave of extremely comical operations, and he shouted in German:
"Watch the back!"
Behind...... Of course, there is no bullshit, but Zheng Yingqi took advantage of this kung fu to strafe this Thomson, and after sweeping down four or five German soldiers, Zheng Yingqi lay on the turret to change the magazine, and the deceived Germans separated and went around the tank lying in the nest.
The bazooka duo that was saved by Zheng Yingqi at the moment before the German retaliation repaid the favor at this time, they suppressed the German troops on both sides with firepower, and strongly supported Zheng Yingqi - in the end, the remaining five German soldiers were completely annihilated under the attack from top to bottom.
With the last two tigers completely lying down, the Germans lost the most advantageous firepower support and reliance in the attack, and in the face of paratroopers who were better at fighting lightly than them, they could only withdraw gloomily, but the American troops who suffered a big loss obviously did not want the Germans to leave the battlefield so easily, and the two sides were entangled together, and the Germans finally had to break their wrists and leave the town where they suffered heavy losses after throwing down more than 30 soldiers.
The more than 30 German troops "fought to the death" and were finally killed one after another by the paratroopers who were "persuaded to surrender" to no avail, and the battle, which lasted for three hours but caused more than 140 paratroopers to fall, finally came to an end.
The Germans suffered more losses than the Americans, with about 170 people dying here in addition to the loss of four Tigers, which is due to the fact that there were many patchwork corpses in the brutal battle......
More than 140 paratroopers in Rumler were killed, and the casualties among the officers were also very serious, and at the height of the battle, the colonel even appeared on the battlefield with the people of the command - if it wasn't for the fact that the last two tigers were destroyed by Zheng Yingqi or indirectly at a critical time, maybe the paratroopers would have to blow up the bridge now, and these paratroopers in the town might have been abandoned like this.
……
Just when the battle in Rumler had just stopped, in the busy "funeral department" in the United States, a typist subconsciously stopped his busyness after entering three familiar addresses in succession to see if he had made a mistake.
As it turned out, she was right, there was no mistake, and a mother would receive three bad news on the same day.
The typist hurried to her superiors, and then, alarming the chief of staff of the American army, a special order for relief, soon reached the rangers, who were still fighting.
(Save the GI, just look at it, this kind of thing, Mi Jun won't do it - you don't need to use your brain to know that this kind of thing is impossible, but people Hollywood will blow it, this kind of high-profile and obscure touting is what people are best at.) )