"Boom!"

A high-explosive shell exploded on the front armor of Tank 217, which did not cause much damage to the tank, but it was enough to give a sense of shock to the occupants of the vehicle.

Trode shook his head, his gaze returned to steady, and asked downward, "Roy, Yorkson, are you alright?" ”

"I touched my shoulder, and it didn't affect the driving."

"My head knocked down, and it still hurts a little."

After receiving a good answer from both of them, Trode was relieved, although this level of attack was far from the level of fatal damage, but it was not guaranteed that he would suffer some minor injuries due to bad luck.

"Who can stop these 'bishops'? It's too much of a hindrance. Trode grumbled as if talking to himself.

As he said, much of the artillery attack on Trode came from the British-made Bishop, which used the chassis of the Valentine infantry tank, replacing the original flat turret with a square turret, and the original 2-pounder gun with a 25-pounder field gun, so that a simple modification could be made into a new self-propelled gun.

However, this simple self-propelled gun also has quite a lot of shortcomings, such as the serious lack of elevation angle of the main gun, which leads to the crew members when attacking the enemy at a distance, they will give priority to setting a high slope for the vehicle to drive up, so as to make up for it, and on the other hand, because of the chassis of the 'Valentine' infantry tank, the speed will not be fast, plus its ratio' Valentine's original car also had a high overall weight, which made its travel speed surprisingly low, and combined with its firing range, it was not suitable for the large-scale transition attack missions that the SPG was designed to perform. Of course, the accuracy of the 25-pounder field gun designed by the British was not satisfactory, and sometimes even the firepower to cover a single target seemed a little reluctant.

However, even with all the above shortcomings, it is still a self-propelled gun after all, and it can strike from a distance, these are indisputable facts. In the case of ordinary tanks, their attacks can come from all directions, and it is difficult to return fire quickly, so finding cover to avoid shells is almost the most feasible and effective method.

But the Trodes were now charging in clusters on wide roads, unprotected by bunkers, making them a key target for the self-propelled guns. However, fortunately, the hull protection of both the IV and the IV J is quite good, and it will not be pierced by high-explosive shells with extremely low penetration depth, but if the angle is good enough, the grenade falling in a parabolic line may hit the hood of the IV J without a turret, resulting in a direct detonation of the fuel in the car, thus destroying the entire tank.

They had seen this scene once before, it was when they had just repelled an enemy attack, and when they were tidying up the battlefield, they ushered in a wave of retaliatory artillery bombardment from the enemy, and an IV. Destroyer was destroyed by the method just mentioned, but fortunately people were tidying up the battlefield at that time, and there was no member in that tank, but this also gave Trood and their tank men enough deterrence.

"Put on high-explosive shells and suppress the enemy positions in front of you." After Trode finished speaking, he put down the microphone and revisited the situation outside.

Directly in front of them, some German soldiers were fighting and retreating, and the enemy they were facing was firmly blocking the retreat of those German infantry with their superior firepower, and the gap between the two sides was rapidly widening, and it was going on with that irretrievable momentum.

A round of high-explosive bombs flew over the heads of the German soldiers and landed in the advancing British formation, although because of the long distance, the accuracy could not be guaranteed at all, and the power of the 75mm high-explosive bomb was not particularly sufficient, and the damage to the enemy would naturally not be too great, but it also stopped the enemy's indomitable momentum and bought time for the retreating troops.

"Support?"

The retreating officer looked at the explosion in front of him suspiciously, the original military hat on his head had been thrown away, and it was replaced by a gray M35 steel helmet, he shook his head left and right, straightened the steel helmet, turned around and looked back, due to the low terrain and the smoke everywhere, he couldn't fully see the number of reinforcements, but at this time there were reinforcements to thank God.

"Our reinforcements are coming! Brothers, fight back with me! Take back your ground! ”

The officer held up the Ruger P08, which represented the glory of the German firearm, and shouted at his men around him, and the German soldiers immediately responded to him, everyone seemed to be red-eyed, and began to push back little by little with the gap between the enemy fire caused by Trode's attack.

"! Those idiots! ”

Seeing this, Trode scolded loudly, although it was a good thing that those infantry followed the opportunity they created to level out the situation, but their commander obviously failed to correctly assess the current situation, although there were not many enemies in front of them, but judging from the practice of the British army, after they took a position, they would immediately send additional men to defend this position, judging from the current situation, those troops should have been on the road a long time ago, maybe they were about to arrive.

Although the situation has reached such a bad situation, it is not completely impossible to turn the tables, and it will not be too good to notify those infantry to retreat now, but it is easy to be pounced on by the enemy's follow-up troops and eat them all. So Trode is ready to fight, if it is his own squad and a few enemies in front of him, he can still do it.

Trode quickly picked up the microphone and said, "The whole team is speeding up!" Forget about the long-range fire! Directly pressed close to hit! ”

"Are you serious?" Hans asked with some confidence: "If we retreat at this time, time will allow us to set up a new line of defense in the back." ”

"No! This place can't be allowed, this is the order we received. Trood directly rejected Hans's suggestion and continued: "Although it is not absolutely feasible, if we suppress it, the infantry will have better room to play, and it will not be impossible to retake the position at that time." ”

Although he said so, but since he turned around from the previous street just now, Trode actually didn't take that order seriously at all, and it was normal for him to give up defending his original position in the situation at that time, and he was doing it now completely according to his own personal feelings, and it was precisely because of this that war can only be fought well by people, not those high-efficiency war machines, and they can't achieve great things without combat effectiveness