Chapter 1510: Bazooka's Attack
As soon as these words came out, Aiken's body was also shocked.
In fact, both of them knew very well in their hearts that they had little chance of surviving when they went out to the position and ambushed the German tanks, but they were not afraid, they just wanted to kill the German tanks and prove their fighting courage.
Avenging Pearl Harbor, avenging the United States.
"Definitely, you wait and see, when the time comes, load me quickly, I can destroy one more." Aiken said, poking the bazooka out of the scorched ground outside, and on the horizon in the distance, puffs of black smoke had risen, the ground was shaking, and the opponent's tank came up.
The German tank troops, lined up in the most common triangular offensive array, were like a sharp knife, with Panther 3 tanks in front and flanks, and infantry fighting vehicles in the middle and rear of them, and the fighters inside could jump out of the car at any time to fight, using their own firepower to make up for the shortcomings of the tank's blind spots.
One by one, the triangular offensive arrays, lined up in a kilometer-long offensive line, moved towards the front, and in front of them was the defense line of the Kalinin defenders.
The defenders had soldiers, workers, and civilians, and they waited for the final battle, holding rifles in their hands and Molotov cocktails in their hands.
Several anti-tank guns, which had survived the shelling, were at this time bypassing the potholed positions and were pushed to the front, ready for a counterattack.
The Soviet positions were tragic, and the fighting in the past few days had made them no longer see any hope of victory, and the positions in front of them had already been occupied by the Germans.
"Boom, boom." The German tanks were still advancing, their tracks rattling and crushing the ground.
After advancing a few hundred meters, they stopped.
There was an anti-tank trench in front.
Digging anti-tank trenches to block tanks is the most basic way, as long as the width of the trench is more than half the length of the opponent's tank's tracks, then it can block the German tank.
In the day and night of the excavation of the fortifications, all the citizens of Kalinin took part and finally dug out the long trenches, but alas, in front of the Germans, their labor was doomed to be in vain.
After the offensive array stopped, two Panther-3 tanks in the rear of the triangular formation drove out, and in front of these two tanks, temporary shovels were installed.
Like bulldozers, the two Panther 3 tanks, emitting black smoke, shoveled up the dirt around them and pushed them into the trenches, where the anti-tank trenches in front were filled in less than three minutes.
After reuniting, the tank queue started again.
Heinz's tank was in the center of the attacking line, and his tank was the first to take the lead, so that he had the best view, while his tank turret was constantly turning from side to side, fanning the position ahead, calculating where to unload the infantry.
Although the infantry will hide behind the tank, the bullets on the battlefield will not have eyes, and will pass through the gaps, posing a greater threat to the infantry, so it is more secure for the infantry to stay in the armored vehicles behind when it is not necessary.
"When fifty meters in front of the position, the infantry got off and fought." Finally he gave the order.
The whole formation continued to move forward, and at this time, the Soviets were silent on the defensive line, as if they had just been killed by an artillery bombardment.
The vibration became more and more violent, and looking at the tank opposite in the crater, it was like a huge steel monster, and the moving tracks made people even more frightened.
The first thing for infantry to fight tanks is to overcome fear.
And now, Aiken is not afraid.
He was just waiting for an opportunity, and theoretically, the bazooka in his hand could shoot a rocket a hundred meters, but the farther the distance, the worse the accuracy, so it was not good to fire at a long distance, and he had to get closer.
The opponent's tank is still moving, his right side, Karl is a little anxious, this brainless, when are you going to fire? It can't be scared, right? These second-worlds just can't do it, they usually blow hard, hum, this battle is over, and then let everyone know what kind of goods the second-worlds are!
The opponent's tank, still advancing, a hundred meters, ninety meters, eighty meters, finally, Aiken moved.
Standing on the crater, standing, with his head and shoulders exposed, he held his breath, took aim, and then pulled the trigger on the grip.
"Whoosh!" At the same time as he pulled the trigger, a burst of fire came out of the horn in the back, and it was because of this bell that he got the nickname Bazooka, which was very similar to the musical instrument Bazooka, but it was big.
And when the fire came out from behind, from the front, a rocket flew out.
There is hardly any trace to be seen, the rocket engine is rapidly combusted, and after going out, it goes out, and it flies forward by inertia, and at the same time, the speed is not high, and the trajectory can even be captured with the naked eye.
Oops, forgot to estimate the wind speed!
Aiken made a startling mistake by the fact that the warhead of his rocket was supposed to be aimed at the last tank on the side of the opposing line, and from his position, it was the easiest one to hit.
However, because he did not estimate the wind speed, at this distance, the warhead deviated from the target, and from the side of the opponent's vehicle, it flew away directly and did not hit.
"Quick, reload." He shouted anxiously.
At this time, Karl did not continue to complain, and if he wanted to fight, he had to wait until he got off the battlefield, and now they had to cooperate closely.
Karl quickly shoved the second M6 rocket from the front, and Aiken stood up, aiming again, while deflecting slightly to the side to correct the crosswind, and then he pressed the trigger again.
"Whoosh!" The second rocket came out in response.
The interval between his two bombs was very short, only a dozen seconds, and it was not until he fired the second one that he was discovered by the tanker, what was the fire coming out of the shell crater fifty meters in front of him?
If well concealed, the bazooka is not easy to spot, because when it fires, it is almost silent, not as loud as a cannon. Of course, its flames are powerful and easy to expose.
If the German attacking tanks were followed by the infantry, they could have spotted the first rockets as they came, but they didn't, and the view above the tanks was small, so they didn't spot it quickly.
The second rocket, with a sharp roar, flew towards the tank, and the distance at this time was only fifty meters! Aiken, who squinted his eyes, was already able to conclude that the attack was completely effective.