Chapter 417: Tank fights bayonet
"Get that building back." Chen Dao jumped up from the ground, shouted and rushed out of the bushes, and ran to the building he had just abandoned.
Major Lorenz and Captain Nietzsche saw that Chen Dao's figure was as agile as a cheetah, and it only took more than ten seconds to run through the open space of more than 100 meters, rushing straight to the bottom of the building, and then turned around and waved to the two, signaling them to follow.
Major Lorenz and Captain Nietzsche had to follow, and Lieutenant Wehrens hesitated a moment to let the armored car rush to the vicinity of the building.
"You go upstairs to cover, suppress the enemy infantry, keep them from approaching, Lieutenant Wehrhams, and take your men to clear this tank." Chen Dao quickly gave the order.
Major Lorenz and Captain Nietzsche hurriedly rolled over and climbed into the building, rushed to the north-facing window on the second floor to set up their machine guns, and Chen Dao soon heard the familiar snort of the MG-42 machine gun fire again.
Lieutenant Wehrens did not hesitate to carry out Chen Dao's order, led two of his men to climb on top of the KV-2 tank that had just been destroyed, pried open the hatch with a sapper shovel, picked up a pistol and fired indiscriminately into the turret, and then carefully climbed into the turret.
Moments later, he opened the cockpit canopy and escape hatch of the tank from the inside, six bloody corpses were thrown out of the tank, and Lieutenant Weyhans gained control of the tank.
Chen Dao ignored the strong smell of blood in the KV-2 tank, jumped onto the tank with an assault rifle on his back, and quickly got into the tank cabin.
"Now under my command, we are going to build this tank into a pillbox, a support point on the defensive line." Chen Dao shouted excitedly.
"Will you be able to steer this tank?" Lieutenant Weyhans asked.
"When I was in Hungary and Romania, I took out a few KV-2 tanks and tried out captured KV-2 tanks, so I was fairly familiar with how it operated."
Chen Dao assigned tasks to the three people in the tank in a few words, with Lieutenant Weyhans as the observation post and Chen Dao as the gun commander. Two other soldiers served as loaders.
"There are Russians in that building at ten o'clock." Lieutenant Wehramps quickly assumed the responsibility of the observation post and gave Chen Dao the first target.
At Chen's strange cry of excitement, the turret of the KV-2 tank's public toilet type turned again, pointing at the building that Lieutenant Willhans had mentioned.
On the first floor of the building, more than 200 meters away, a Degegarev machine gun was firing frantically outward, in the window of the second floor of the building. There are also figures of Soviet infantry fighting.
Chen Dao adjusted the direction of the muzzle, and one loader pushed a 152-mm grenade warhead into the breech, and the other loader followed closely and stuffed the cartridge into it, and then covered his ear.
There was a loud bang, and Chen Dao felt every organ in his body tremble.
The turret was full of gunsmoke, and the pungent smell of gunpowder poured into his nostrils, and Chen Dao couldn't help coughing.
"Ahem, we're going to kill it, our big guy can do it." Lieutenant Weyhans shouted as he coughed.
Chen Dao leaned on the scope and looked out through the scope. I saw that the side of the building facing me had almost completely collapsed, and a corpse was lying on the slab of the second floor, with its arms hanging under its companion.
"Great, the sighting system is not damaged, let's move on, next target." Chen Dao shouted excitedly.
Lieutenant Wehrhans carefully put his head out of the turret, looking for Soviet strongholds on the battlefield.
Whenever he found his target, Chen Dao had already re-controlled the turret to rotate. Point the muzzle of the gun at an open space in a residential area, and then hold the handle of the coaxial machine gun. Place the butt of the gun against your shoulder.
A crisp clatter echoed through the turret, and 7.62mm machine gun rounds flew into the open space in a row, and several charging Soviet infantrymen twitched and fell to the ground.
Chen Dao kept turning the turret, and machine gun bullets were fired one after another, tightly blocking the offensive route of the Soviet infantry from the northwest to the north of the battlefield.
Chen Dao's machine-gun bullets were firing hard, and Lieutenant Weyhans suddenly shouted, "Eleven o'clock." About one hundred and fifty meters, enemy tanks. ”
As soon as the turret of the KV-tank turned to the direction of eleven o'clock, Chen Dao saw a T-26 tank run over a bush and rush towards a white two-story building 100 meters away while firing, with four infantry men lying on their waists. Follow it cautiously.
Chen Dao saw that the figure of the tank was covered by the white building, and quickly turned the muzzle of the gun to the left side of the white building.
Sure enough, as he expected, the figure of the T-26 tank crossed the white building and reappeared in front of him.
The KV-2's thick muzzle was moving with the figure of the T-26, and Chen Dao did not fire for a long time, and hitting moving targets was a difficult technique for him, especially when maneuvering a tank that he was not familiar with.
In desperation, Chen Dao picked up the coaxial machine gun and fired at the T-26 tank, and the bullet fell on the left side of the T-26 tank, and the dense and loud sound of metal impact finally attracted the attention of the tank.
Perhaps unaware that the enemy was hiding in the KV-2 tank, the T-26 tank stopped its turret and turned in the direction of Chen Dao, pointing its gun to the second floor of the building, not paying any attention to the 152-mm tank gun facing it.
Chen Dao's scope steadily put the T-26 close to the crosshair, and under his special instructions, the loader stuffed the chamber with a grenade instead of an armor-piercing shell.
The muzzle of the 152 tank gun once again spewed dazzling gunsmoke, and Chen Dao's whole body once again felt a comfortable sense of shock.
The smoke cleared, the turret of the T-26 disappeared, the surviving turf was scattered, the welds of the steel plates were cracked, and the steel plates were loosely hanging on the chassis.
The bodies of three Soviet infantrymen lay on their backs behind the wreckage of the tank, and a wounded man was rolling and wailing on the ground with his head in his hands.
"Caliber is truth, turret is justice, long live truth and justice." Chen Dao's excited shouts echoed through the turret.
Lieutenant Weyhans clenched his fists and threw a hard punch into the air.
"That's it, they don't want to go."
The KV-2 tank four-man team fought more and more tacitly, this KV-2 tank with broken tracks under their control, incarnated into the mainstay, firmly nailed to the battlefield, any tanks and infantry that appeared in their field of vision would be fatally hit, 152 howitzers were even more invincible, where the shells fell, the tank was bombed and torn apart. The infantry was dead, and the buildings were crumbling and shattered.
It was very difficult for German weapons to destroy a KV-2, and vice versa, anti-tank guns and 45mm anti-tank guns were useless against the heavy armor of the KV-2, except for digging a few craters into the steel plates of the KV-2 tank, but because the fire exposed his position, Chen Dao was targeted. Hit by 152 tank guns and coaxial machine guns, it became the record of the KV-2.
It wasn't until the appearance of another KV-2 tank that the good fortune of the four Chen Dao came to an end.
"At nine o'clock, the enemy's KV-2 came, and he was coming at us." Lieutenant Weyhans shouted hoarsely.
Chen Dao quickly turned the muzzle of the gun to the direction of nine o'clock, just in time to see the KV-2 tank rudely knock down two birch trees and stop in the direction of his side, through the scope, Chen Dao could even see the slight rotation of its turret.
It's obvious. The KV-2 tank was aiming at himself, and Chen Dao suddenly sweated.
"We're being targeted by him, load the shells, load the grenades." Chen Dao shouted in a voice that was an octave higher than that of Lieutenant Wayhams.
"Are you sure it's a grenade? Checkmate? Lieutenant Wehrhans shouted in surprise.
"That bastard is selling heads, and armor-piercing shells are useless against it." Chen Dao shouted.
What does it mean to sell head? Is it a term for tankers? Lieutenant Weyhans was puzzled.
Before he had time to think about it, Lieutenant Wayhans hurriedly retracted into the turret and waited for the duel to begin.
Chen Dao was lying on his stomach in front of the scope, dressed roughly. Staring at the KV-2 on the opposite side, looking at this angle. The two KV-2s were separated by the chassis of the wreckage of the T-26 tank.
Moreover, the ground slope on which the T-26 chassis is located is slightly higher, covering the chassis of the KV-2 tank opposite, and Chen Dao's scope can only see the turret of the KV-2 tank, so he shouts the technical term "sell head".
Faced with the selling KV-2 and its almost insoluble artillery shield armor, Chen Dao knew that armor-piercing shells were useless, and decisively chose grenades.
I saw that the muzzle of the KV-2 on the opposite side stopped turning. Chen Dao's heart almost stopped.
"Collision preparation." Chen Dao shouted loudly.
As soon as Chen Dao spoke, he saw a deadly fire erupting from the muzzle of the KV-2 tank on the opposite side.
A loud bang rushed into Chen Dao's mind, like the sound of a church bell.
The invisible sound was like a heavy hammer hitting Chen Dao's head, and Chen Dao's head fell back sharply.
Putting down the palms covering his ears, Chen Dao gritted his teeth and shouted, "I made the right bet." Those rookies on the other side were using armor-piercing bullets, and they were dead. ”
As soon as Chen Dao spoke, he heard a heavenly voice in his ears.
"Reloaded."
Chen Dao leaned back on the scope and shouted fiercely, "Go die." ”
The deafening sound of artillery rang out at the same time as his shouts, and the smoke of gunpowder obscured his eyes.
When the smoke cleared, Chen Dao saw that the muzzle of the KV-2 tank on the opposite side was lower, and the angle was obviously pointing to the ground.
"Great, we hit, the Russians inside will be stunned even if they don't die, the sighting system must be all over, maybe even the turret will be damaged and can't turn." Chen Dao shouted excitedly.
It took nearly half a minute for the KV-2 commanded by Chen Dao to fire the second shot, hitting the turret of the KV-2 tank again.
The fire and smoke surrounded the KV-2 tank, and the two Wehrhams platoons of infantry took the opportunity to rush to the right side of the KV-2 tank, erecting the tank-killer anti-tank bazooka, and the red-hot metal jet melted a deadly bullet hole on the right side of the tank's turret.
With two 152-mm grenades and an anti-tank rocket in the company, the KV-2 heavy tank did not move again, and no tanker escaped, just quietly parked there, like a ghost car that had lost all its vitality.
Confirming that the KV-2 tank posed no threat to him, Chen Dao turned the turret back to hit other targets that appeared in his field of vision.
Soon, the battlefield in his field of vision became a forbidden place for the Soviet army, and Chen Dao could only reluctantly abandon the tank and transfer the position with an assault rifle.
After jumping out of the tank, Chen Dao did not forget to check the gun shield of the KV-2 tank, and sure enough, he saw that there was an extra indentation on the gun shield on the right side of the barrel, which was the masterpiece of the rookie tankers in the KV-2 tank opposite.
By this time, the situation on the battlefield had been reversed, and after receiving the report from Willyns at noon, and also for the purpose of protecting Chen Dao, a company of infantry rushed through the streets and alleys to support the battle here, and the division's tank destroyer battalion also sent a platoon of four No. 4 tank destroyers to follow the company.
This fresh force quickly routed the Soviet troops in the residential area and launched a counteroffensive in the county supported by tank destroyer No. 4.
However, everything that followed was not in favor of Chen Dao, and Major Lorenz and Captain Nietzsche joined forces to put their hands on his shoulders and drag him away from the line of fire.
"Your Excellency, the morale of the soldiers in front of you is high enough, and you don't need to take any more risks, please stay calm." Major Lorenz said.
"How do you calm me down? The battle just now was so fierce that I felt thirsty. Chen Dao said.
Captain Nietzsche untied the kettle from his waist and handed it to Chen Dao, who poured a few mouthfuls from his neck and gave it back to Captain Nietzsche.
"Your Excellency, the armored car is here. We'd better go back to the south of the city and go to Lieutenant General Hui Biqi, who will be safer there. Major Lorenz said.
"Well, I'm just about to send a telegram to Warsaw, and we're going to Lieutenant General Huibich." Chen Dao jumped into the back compartment of the armored car and said.
Major Lorenz took out a pen and paper, and then asked, "Your Excellency, what is the content of the telegram?" ”
"In a word, let Major Bach come here and bring my Governor's Guard." Chen Dao said.
When Chen Dao turned around in an armored car to find Lieutenant General Hui Biqi, the tide of battle was turning sharply in the east of Ruojino City.
The golden sun rushed, and to the east of the city, a group of tanks made their way through the meadow and slaughtered towards the city of Zozino.
Immediately after receiving the order, the 33rd Panzer Regiment sent a company of the 1st Panzer Battalion and the 503rd Heavy Armoured Battalion back to support, and the tanks made several laps along the south side of Route 53.
Behind the cluster of tank four, a battalion of infantry rode in armored vehicles and fought together towards the city.
All the on-board radios of Tank No. 4 had been tuned to the scheduled channel, and the battalion commander's shouts for everyone to be ready to fire came from the radio, which was clearly heard by every crew member.
It wasn't until a cloud of gunsmoke erupted near the tank that the German tankers heard the battalion commander shouting to open fire.
"I thought he was asleep." On the radio, someone muttered something quietly, and then the sound was covered by the continuous sound of cannonballs.
In the blink of an eye, the German tank artillery fire formed a storm of flames, and in the east of the city, the Soviet positions responsible for blocking and blocking turned into a sea of fire, the anti-tank guns and their guns were bombarded into parts, the tanks and armored vehicles were burned one after another, the rudimentary positions built by the Soviet troops were immediately broken through, the team was also beaten to pieces, and the surviving soldiers and tanks hurriedly fled to the forest around the city.
Knowing that at dusk, the battle for the city of Ruodino came to an end, and the Soviet army's attempt to counterattack the city of Ruodino was defeated.
The eyes of Lieutenant General Chen Dao and Lieutenant General Hui Biqi turned again to Borisov, their real destination. (To be continued.) )