Chapter 11: Snipers
After running for about a kilometer with the 37mm cannon and climbing over a dirt slope with a small slope, Chen Dao saw the village of Valang again.
On both sides of the road on the south side of the village of Warang, with the village of Warang as the center, the Polish army built a circular position, which has three layers, and each layer is about 100 meters apart.
The innermost layer is a relatively well-established circular position left by the German paratroopers on the edge of the village, and the outer two-story circular position is only composed of a few simple individual bunkers and machine-gun positions.
At this time, the Polish positions were covered with craters, as miserable as the surface of the moon, and those Polish troops who had survived the two rounds of air raids were trembling to rescue their wounded comrades, and they kept looking at the southern sky, lest the grim reaper, who would scream in terror, come again.
On the dirt slope, the paratroopers of the 2nd Parachute Battalion quickly set up their machine guns and set up mortars.
Chen Daoye and his artillery crew turned the muzzle of the 37-mm gun towards the village of Warang, and under the cover of the soil slope, from the village of Warang, the 37-mm gun only exposed a small piece of cannon shield, and the barrel was almost flat to the ground.
As soon as Chen Dao set up the cannon, he heard two "whoosh" sounds, and two green flares rose southwest of the village of Warang, which was the attack signal from the 1st Paratrooper Battalion followed by Studenter.
The moment the signal flare was lifted into the air, more than 30 MG34 machine guns of the 2nd Paratrooper Battalion where Chen Dao belonged began to pour bullets, and the relentless rain of bullets chiseled countless bullet holes into the bodies of those Polish soldiers who were exposed to the bunkers, bringing out countless flesh and blood.
After a few whistles, two companies of the 2nd Paratrooper Battalion took advantage of the situation to launch a charge, and more than 300 figures in green smocks quickly rushed towards the Polish position.
Under the sudden blow, the surviving Polish infantrymen abandoned their wounded comrades and jumped into the nearest foxhole.
Chen Dao took a panoramic view of the Polish army's position in the telescope, the outermost position of Warang Village was only more than 400 meters away from the paratroopers, and the heavily armed paratroopers rushed to the edge of the trench in less than two minutes, and the submachine gunners brandished MP38 submachine guns, and killed the surviving Polish troops in the trenches and bunkers with a few strafing shots, seizing control of the trenches, and some Polish troops raised their hands and became prisoners when they saw that the situation was not good.
Chen Dao patted his sight, pointed to the second position of the Polish army, and said, "There are quite heavy machine guns there." ”
The sight quickly turned the muzzle of the gun towards the heavy machine gun, and about fifty seconds later, the ground in front of the right front of the Hatch Chase heavy machine gun hit the ground with a dusty sound, and there was an additional crater on the ground.
"Didn't hit, go on." Chen Dao saw that the heavy machine gun was still firing, and hurriedly shouted loudly.
About a minute later, the machine-gun position was blazing with fire, and a steel helmet wrapped in half a human head flew into the air, and the steel helmet kept rolling in the air, and countless white and red liquids were thrown out of the steel helmet, red was blood, white was brain.
"Okay, the first goal is done." Chen Dao shook his fist fiercely, and seeing that there were no Poles to pick up the machine gun that had fallen to the ground, Chen Dao turned the telescope in another direction.
Soon, Chen Dao found the second target, and patted the shoulder of the sightman, Chen Dao pointed to the right front and shouted: "There, do you see it?" There was one with a pistol. ”
The sightman quickly turned the muzzle of the gun to the Polish officer who was holding the pistol and commanding the battle, and after a cannon rang out, Chen Dao saw an arm holding the pistol fly out of the trench and land on the ground five or six meters outside the trench.
"Well done, one shot." Chen Dao excitedly patted the eye on the shoulder and shouted, and the eye saw the sight smile in return.
Under the blow of the German artillery, the machine gun bunkers on the second line of positions of the Polish army were destroyed one by one, and the paratroopers took the opportunity to rush to the front of the second line of positions of the Polish army.
The Polish soldiers' courage was commendable, but they were in the hands of the paratroopers, the squad leaders and platoon commanders of the paratroopers came out of the crowd, picked up the submachine guns in their hands and mercilessly swept away a magazine, the Polish soldiers in the charge were swept down with spasms all over their bodies, and other Polish troops who were lucky enough to rush into the paratrooper group were also knocked to the ground by the paratroopers with more fights and fewer bayonets.
"Shouldn't we be following up?" Chen Dao also asked when he saw the 50-mm mortar and 37-mm gunners around him following forward with their weapons.
After receiving an affirmative answer, Chen Dao and several gunners pushed the 37mm guns and moved to the east of the village of Warang, where there were large waist-high weeds, which was a good place to shoot black artillery.
The paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion had conquered two Polish positions and were advancing to the third line on the edge of the Polish village, the last of the Polish positions and the one with the fiercest resistance.
In addition to the ring fortifications on the edge of the village, many Polish soldiers hid in the ruins of the village of Varão and fired outward, and the density of fire increased greatly, and the paratroopers slowed down their offensive and fell to the ground, using the cover of the terrain and weeds to shoot at the defenders.
Sweating profusely pushing the 37mm gun, Chen Dao finally moved to the east of the village, Chen Dao looked around, and the mortar gunners of the 2nd Parachute Battalion and the machine gunners of the machine gun company also shifted their positions.
The commander of the 2nd Parachute Battalion adjusted the formation and sent the third infantry company as a reserve, and a new offensive began.
"There's a machine gun on the second floor of the gray two-story building over there." Chen Dao pointed to the two-story building where he had stayed and shouted.
Soon, the first shell hit the wall under the window on the second floor, and the explosion brought up countless pieces of broken masonry and soot, and the machine gun stopped firing, and Chen Dao had just finished cheering, and the machine gun, which had been silent for less than a minute, began to fire again.
After another cannon fire, Chen Dao saw a light machine gun thrown out of the window in the telescope, and the figure of the shooter in the window disappeared without a trace.
"No explosions? Is it a dud? Chen Dao asked in surprise.
"Major, my second shot is armor-piercing." Said the loader.
"Armor-piercing bullet ・・・・・・" Chen Dao's brain made up the picture of the 37-mm armor-piercing bullet hitting the human body, and a cold air rushed to his head irrepressibly・・・・・・
"You're quick to react, and you're going to keep it that way." Chen Dao wiped the sweat running down his forehead and threw it to the loader with an appreciative look.
In less than five minutes, Chen Dao's artillery crew took out another machine gun and a suspected officer Pole, and the Polish resistance to the east of the village of Valan was getting weaker, and the paratroopers of the 2nd Battalion had rushed to the houses of the village of Valang for street fighting.
Chen Dao took the telescope and searched for a long time but did not find a suitable target, the Polish army in the house had already been mixed with the German army, he did not dare to open fire, for fear of accidentally injuring friendly troops.
Looking around, Chen Dao felt a gust of wind falling from the sky, and before he could react, an explosion sounded behind him, and Chen Dao felt that his back was like a heavy hammer, and he flew to the ground with a posture of gnawing mud.
It was as if a century had passed, before Chen Dao dispelled the darkness in front of him and the Venus flying around, and with a few "poofs" spitting out the weeds and dirt that exuded a bitter taste in his mouth, Chen Dao sat up with his right hand.
"This is the fourth time you've shelled me." Chen Dao wrote down another black account for the Poles.
As soon as he turned around, Chen Dao saw the loading hand lying on the ground, his body kept spasmodically filling the hand, there was a wound about an inch in the back of his head, and blood was gushing out.
"Call the health soldiers." Chen Dao shouted to the other two gunners who were slightly wounded.
After speaking, Chen Dao looked around, and finally his eyes stayed on his right waist, took out the Luger pistol in the holster, and Chen Dao shouted and rushed to Warang Village・・・・・・