Chapter 129: Atlantic Strangulation (17)
"See, see, it seems to be a Tiger tank...... a sharp-eyed staff officer exclaimed with a telescope, a flare went down just to shroud one of the Tiger in the light, he even saw an M10 tank destroyer on his side hit the opponent with a 76.2mm gun, but it was useless, the heavy armor of the Tiger tank easily bounced this shell, and then its counterattack fire came quickly and fiercely, and after two rounds, it killed the M10 at once. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Watching the German army repeatedly kill their own armored vehicles at a distance of about 1400 or even 1500 meters, everyone gasped, this is completely relying on superb accuracy and technology in the sniper war, I have always heard that the German sniper is powerful, but I didn't expect to use the Tiger as a sniper tank is even more eye-catching.
"M6, M6, we need M6 tanks!" Collins shouted, although heavy machine guns, mortars, and even several 75mm anti-tank guns were firing at the Tiger tank, but this did not pose enough threat to the Tiger, on the contrary, these fire points that dared to be exposed were mercilessly shot by the Tiger.
Perhaps hearing Collins's call, the two M6 tanks bravely stepped forward and fired at the Tiger tank, because the flares kept exploding above the head of one of the Tigers, the tank could not regain concealment in the night, and could only slowly retreat, while constantly maneuvering to change positions and always ensure that the frontal armor faced the American defense line - engineers have said more than once that no American tank can pose a threat to the Tiger frontal armor at a distance of 1,200 meters, which is the biggest life-saving cost of the crew members, they clearly remembered that they only had to go back another 70 meters to enter the ruins of the shore artillery battery, where they could calmly hide the huge body of the tiger
However, this sentence was soon not established after the M6 heavy tank entered the war, because the U.S. military followed the German army and was also equipped with the M3 90mm tank gun evolved from the anti-aircraft gun on the M6, and the use of high-speed armor-piercing shells within 1200 meters can ensure the destruction of all positions of the Tiger, but because the Tiger continues to retreat after its own position is exposed, the distance between the two sides has widened to more than 1600 meters, and it is still continuing to pull away. In pursuit of the enemy, the two brave M6s began to break out of the line and pursue the Tiger.
Seeing two huge American tanks rushing head-on, shells constantly exploding near the car, the No. 2 Night Combat Tiger crew was also a little scrambling, and returned fire twice in a hurry, only to find that the shells fired seemed to hit the turret of one of them, but did not seem to destroy the other side.
The gunner's heart sank sharply: this is the enemy's new heavy tank? It seems that the armor is not bad?
Urgently called for reinforcements from No. 1, but No. 1 reported that he was also being pursued by 3 tanks and could not spare his hands for the time being. The flares above the head kept exploding, and there were anti-tank guns, mortars, and M6 shells constantly exploding next to them, and the fire became more and more dense, which made people a little nervous.
But the commander seemed unmoved, and only calmly ordered: "Steady, don't be afraid, tungsten core bullet ......."
With a "bang", a tungsten core armor-piercing bullet was quickly loaded, "1675 meters ......"
"Launch!"
With a "boom", it directly hit the frontal armor of an M6, and the hard tungsten core still tore through the defense of this M6 with strong penetration after flying nearly 1,700 meters, and the US tank soldiers fled in embarrassment.
"Hah...... Go on! ”,
Collins never expected that the night battle Tiger called by Link was only the first link of the night attack tonight, just when the two Tiger tanks were messing up the beachhead and attracting the attention of most people, Link received a telegram: "Our unit has arrived at the designated position, and the assault begins!" ”
Seeing that the beachhead was a pot of porridge and quietly approaching, Major Heine, who had been lurking in the distance, showed a smile on the corner of his mouth, "These fools, it's time to charge, A formation, assault!" ”
With his order, the four S-boats on the left flank suddenly turned their engine horsepower to the maximum, burst out with powerful energy, and rushed towards the beachhead and artificial pier full of fire and lights like arrows from the string in the night. In order to guard against an attack by S-boats on the fleet, the US military deliberately shifted the position of the entire artillery bombardment fleet to the deep sea, and only a small number of torpedo boats and small frigates were carrying out the alert task in the shallow sea area.
Among them, the number of torpedo boats is small, all of them are PT boats, as similar to the same class of opponents as S boats, PT boats are inferior in size and size, but they have 4 torpedo tubes. The frigate is a newly built Evac-class frigate in the United States, with a displacement of more than 1,300 tons, mainly equipped with three 76.2mm naval guns and two 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns, mainly responsible for escorting the transport fleet, anti-submarine tasks, these frigates are an important part of the US Navy's escort force.
Navy Lieutenant Johnson-Kennedy, who was boringly directing the PT-109 patrol, became a Navy captain before taking over the torpedo boat six months ago, having the triple status of a millionaire heir, a celebrity, and the son of a U.S. ambassador abroad. However, instead of being sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations, as in history, he followed the main fleet to Cape Verde.
Although he had the heart to go to help in the night battle that suddenly broke out on the beachhead, he only had one torpedo boat under his command, and he could not help at all, so he could only continue to carry out the orders given by his superiors, patrol carefully, and strictly guard against submarines. Suddenly, he heard a loud roar.
"Which madman is racing at night?" This voice was familiar to Kennedy, he subconsciously said a sentence, and then immediately reacted, this is at sea, where did the sound of drag racing come from? This is clearly the sound of a motorboat, and it is impossible for this side to have such a madman, and the only explanation is the enemy army.
He quickly asked his men to fire warning shots, but it was too late. The 4 S-boats, like the heavy knights rushing forward, rushed from a distance, and while moving fast, they strafed with fierce 48-type 38 20mm machine guns, and the poor PT boats only had 12.7mm machine guns, and their firepower was no match for the enemy at all. A metal storm blew by, Kennedy only felt a mass of limbs rushing towards him, and his companion, who was still operating the 12.7mm machine gun, was smashed to pieces, splashed with blood and severed arms, and if the machine gun on the opposite side was deflecting a little, he was going to see God.
After the S boats broke through the perimeter patrol circle, they quickly collided with 2 Evac-class frigates, although the poor frigates were nearly 8 times the tonnage of the S boats, but they had no advantage in firepower at all, and the 3 76.2mm naval guns were not strong at all in the close and dense firefights, and the 2 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns that fired at the air were lowered in a hurry and found that the depression angle was not enough, and they could not hit the S boats who were close at hand, and only a 20mm Erlikon machine gun and a few machine guns could barely return fire.
But the S-boats didn't care about this, they pounced directly on the frigate only more than 30 meters away, fired from the bottom up, and swept the superstructure and personnel on the frigate with terrifying and intensive firepower. In terms of firepower density, the two frigates cannot be compared with the S-boats with four 20mm machine guns on the front and rear decks, and what is even worse is that the two 40mm and Whirlwind self-propelled anti-aircraft guns are the same color, and they are very flexible in both flat sweeping and upward shooting.
Within a few minutes, the PT boats gathered near the man-made pier were set on fire by the S-boats, the frigates were smashed to pieces, and even more tragically, the freighters and landing craft that were unloading supplies were completely powerless. This is not the most desperate, the most desperate thing is that the four S-boats opened the torpedo tubes in unison, launched the H9 torpedo, and slammed into the man-made dock with a significant target and the surrounding transport ships. For this battle, they deliberately adjusted the torpedo depth to only 2-3 meters
"Boom" not to mention ordinary freighters, even the 10,000-ton treaty heavy patrol could not withstand the destruction of 800 kilograms of high explosives, 12 torpedoes exploded one after another, the violent explosion turned the entire man-made dock upside down, almost no pieces remained, the long-legged Tom, jeeps and even heavier armored vehicles and tanks parked on the dock all sat in the powerful explosion shock wave of the earth-plane plane, flew up and splashed into the sea, smashing up a column of water.
What is even more tragic is that the S-boats after the torpedoes are still unwilling to give up, and they rush to the offshore sea in unison, and use 20mm machine officers to harvest the American soldiers in the defensive positions from behind at close range, and the 32 machine guns are even more effective in dealing with soft targets such as infantry, and all the infantrymen's bodies that have been swept are broken one by one, like a piece of wheat being neatly cut off by a huge harvester.
All the defensive firepower of the U.S. army was against the frontal German troops, and they did not expect that there would be attackers behind them, and when a shocking explosion broke out at the pier, these soldiers also leaned out in shock and prepared to rescue, but they did not expect that the S-boats were so ferocious in sweeping the sea, and the beachhead was red, and the blood water stained all the coastline in a radius of several kilometers red.
Seeing the movement on the beachhead, the destroyers and frigates on the periphery of the fleet patrol circle in the distance knew that the situation was not right, and immediately rushed over, and a few anxious sailors instinctively wanted to open fire and return fire, but they were severely stopped - most of them were their own people there, what should they do if they were injured by mistake?
Major Heine, who saw the docks and beachhead in chaos under his own assault, laughed, and his smile was even stronger when he used his radar to catch the U.S. troops on the perimeter in the distance heading towards the area: Colonel Link's third strike was about to be launched...... (To be continued.) )