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With a shocking bang, the tanks in front of them braked suddenly, and the tighter group behind them was a series of crashes. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Kirsch, who had just given the order to attack, was covered in cold sweat, and the whole person stood on the spot, almost stunned by the scene that appeared.

The dust cleared, and a No. 4 tank was now parked at a slight angle, the front left of the front of the front of the car was charred black.

The left track had been blown into several pieces, the inducing wheels had disappeared, and one of the load wheels had been blown off, so it was clear that the tank would have to undergo a major overhaul before it could return to the battlefield.

"Damn, come on, bring me the people inside! What the hell this is! ”

Wang Zhandong screamed and got out of the blown up tank, took off the tank cap and smashed it directly on the ground, and finally waited for the order to attack, and now the troops have not just been dispatched, his tank actually hit the mine, and the fragments of the mine penetrated the bottom armor, and the driver was also injured, but fortunately, there were not many fragments that penetrated the bottom armor, so there were no serious casualties.

"Let the troops stop attacking, and all the crews stop! The offensive operation is terminated! ”

It is obvious that Wang Zhandong's tank that hit the mine was hit by an anti-tank mine, and the ghost knows how many mines there are in front of him, and no one will easily step on the mine.

"Prepare explosives and let Weidenfeller pull a few of his rocket launchers over to clear the mines."

Kirsch was very depressed, he had no idea how many mines there were in this minefield in front of him, but now the 1st Huaxia Division did not have a special engineering unit at all, and even if there were, they were all in the 3rd Motorized Infantry Brigade, and they were not here at all.

Therefore, Kirsch had to get out the same set of rocket demining methods that Li Ling had done on the Dover beachhead.

With a burst of violent explosions, the 1st Tank Brigade was advancing at a slow pace, concentrating on five passages about two meters wide created by explosives blasting.

It was definitely a very unwise decision to advance the troops at a slow pace in five columns, if it were not for the fact that now the Germans had completely occupied the initiative on the battlefield, air supremacy was firmly in their hands, and there were no British artillery units nearby, Kirsch would not have dared to let the troops advance in this way.

However, fortunately, this minefield is not very large, and the troops have probably passed through the minefield for more than 500 meters, and the blasting belt launched through the rocket artillery has lost its effect, and except for the explosion of the blasting belt itself, it has not encountered any additional explosions, which shows that there are no mines in front of it.

Finally, the troops galloped again, and the 1st Tank Brigade, which held its breath, rushed towards Maidstone like a wild horse, as for Wang Zhandong, the only one who withdrew from the battle sequence, he had already changed to another tank at this time, and as a company commander, he couldn't just throw the whole company behind just because his tank was hit.

"Steady, slow down, don't rush too much, be sure to keep an eye on the search and don't miss any suspicious locations. We don't have infantry to accompany us, so we have to be careful to search when attacking the city. The commanders of all the vehicles closed the hatches and observed with periscopes, so as not to poke their bodies out of the tank casually. ”

Kirsch's order was given without any problems, and the soldiers of the 1st Tank Brigade listened to it, but when the troops actually moved into Maidstone, it was clear that everything could not develop at a normal pace.

Since the German bombing was not indiscriminate, and the focus of the bombing was mainly on the main military stations and stations in the city of Maidstone, most of the buildings in Maidstone were not damaged.

When the drivers of the 1st Tank Brigade drove their tanks down a road lined with houses on both sides, the first question they had to face was how to determine whether there was an enemy hidden in the houses, or whether there would be a sudden appearance of British troops or anti-tank weapons around a certain corner in front of them.

Obviously, it is absolutely impossible to judge these things if you stay in the tank and don't go out, but the problem is that if you go out, a soldier walking alone in an area with private houses on both sides will definitely become the target of the defenders at the first time, and it is a live target that cannot be guarded against at all.

The disadvantages of pure tank units in urban combat are undoubtedly highlighted at this moment.

"Walk slowly, as slow as possible, and everyone will lift my spirits! The commander of each vehicle should be careful not to open the hatch cover if he is not sure that the top is absolutely safe. ”

Wang Zhandong was sitting in the tank, and the commander of the car had been kicked to the rear by him, and he accompanied his company command car.

Dozens of tons of tanks walked slowly on the streets, and the basements and dug anti-aircraft bunkers along the streets were constantly falling dust, and the shivering British people hid in them and did not dare to move, just kept praying that the Germans would leave quickly.

"Company commander, no one, we've searched the entire street here, and we haven't found any enemies at all. If there were, they must be hidden in these houses, so I beg that my men be allowed to go down and search them, otherwise we won't be able to find any enemies here!" ”

The commander of another tank truck that was traveling one after the other with Wang Zhandong's tank finally couldn't bear this torment at this time, and took the lead in proposing to let his people go down to search the nearby houses.

Although it is not always possible to find the British defenders by searching the houses, if there are civilians in the houses, they may be able to learn about the British through these civilians, and if they encounter favorable information, the troops may be able to catch the British by surprise.

"Okay, you take your people down, go search the house on your left, there should be people in that house, stay safe when you go in, try not to shoot. If you encounter British soldiers after entering, try to catch them alive, and the intelligence here says that there is a whole division, but there has been no movement so far, which is really abnormal. ”

Wang Zhandong's heart was also a little anxious, if the enemy stood up and fought with him. Wang Zhandong is not afraid at all. But the problem is that according to intelligence, there are many, many enemies here, but their own troops rushed in, and no one found it, not even a single ordinary person, which is a little too strange!

In addition, as for Wang Zhandong's request for the car group in front to search the house on the left, he actually has his own judgment, because there is a room on the second floor of this house The window is not closed, and there seems to be a small child's plush toy in the window!

If the civilians who lived here had fled a long time ago, it was unlikely that they had left a stuffed animal behind in an open window!

Therefore, Wang Zhandong concluded that there was a problem in this house!

(To be continued.) )