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~Date: ~October 05~

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Chapter 2024 Resistance in the Winter Rain and Wind

Late December to early January is a very important time for Westerners, not only Christmas but also the Western New Year, and the church usually celebrates December 24 to January 6 of the following year as the Christmas feast. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Catholic churches in Germany held midnight mass on Christmas Eve on the 24th, that is, in the early morning of the 25th, while some Christian churches held the annunciation, and then celebrated Christmas on the 25th.

It is a pity that the German officers and soldiers on the front line did not have the opportunity to enjoy the holiday and joy of Christmas, and as usual, they spent the holiday in continuous battles.

On the evening of the 26th, the commander of the German Southeastern Cluster, Zard Brown. Feng. Two hours after Admiral Kleist surrendered to the An Army, winter rain fell in most of Western Asia.

The icy winds of winter blew vigorously on the barren fields, and the wet dead leaves and weeds flew in all directions, and finally they were overwhelmed by the dense raindrops, fell to the ground, and became one with the earth.

At this time, including the German high command and the armies, divisions and regiments below, they did not know that the Kleist cluster had been destroyed, and they were still trying to break the blocking and encirclement built by the Anjia army, and all fronts were fiercely exchanging fire.

At eight o'clock in the morning of the 27th, the wind and rain were still there.

Such climatic conditions, in the eyes of the German commanders, were tantamount to a godsend. In most people's perception, it was not good for take-off and landing in rainy days, and it was very difficult to complete the intended mission because of the impaired visibility of combat and bombing missions, which was very important for the German army, which did not have air supremacy.

In the southwestern battlefield south of the Euphrates, continuous precipitation greatly relieved the water pressure of the Zalmut cluster, and the originally shaky morale miraculously recovered.

And on the northern shore of Lake Gadisiye, as the front was compressed, the resistance of the Paulus cluster increased, and the situation of the battle fell into a kind of stalemate.

"Captain, the regiment commander asked me to inform you that your troops are immediately ready for battle, and a new round of attacks by the Chinese will soon be launched!"

A communications soldier came to a battalion-level headquarters of the 50th Division of the 17th German Army and asked the battalion commander von Murray. Stoke handed over a letter from the regimental commander, because the entire defensive front was intertwined, the defensive position north of um Featul City, which was five kilometers deep, had already been riddled with holes after many rounds of artillery fire, the telephone line had long been cut off, and the radio station was still in a state of strike due to strong electromagnetic interference, and only the most primitive communication corps was used to transmit orders.

"Got it...... Senior private, you help me urge the regiment commander, I have a shortage of officers and soldiers and ammunition here, after continuous fighting, anti-tank guns have become an ornament, if he does not make up for us, if the Chinese tanks come on a large scale, I am afraid that they will not be able to hold on. ”

After reading the letter, Stoke handed it over to the battalion staff officer for archiving, and immediately complained to the signal corps.

"Captain, ammunition at the regimental headquarters is also in short supply...... This time I brought all the civilian personnel of the regimental headquarters with a large number of grenades that can be tied into cluster grenades to blow up the opposing tanks, and these personnel will stay under your command to stop the Chinese from advancing!

"The regiment commander said that with the anti-tank mines and self-made Molotov cocktails we arranged, it is still possible to suppress the opponent's tank attack! Also, this rain will make it impossible for the Chinese fighters to be dispatched, and we will be under much less pressure on defense, and it should be no problem to hold out for another day. ”

After the signal soldier finished speaking, he saluted and left.

Stock, hearing that the regimental headquarters had sent all the civilian soldiers to his battalion, walked out of the command bunker with some surprise, only to see that in the misty rain, more than a dozen soldiers were entering the position with submachine guns, and quickly filling the linear trench near the battalion headquarters. ww.. --/Ad--

As a result of the continuous rain all night, the well-dressed German soldiers were soon covered in mud and water, which made the veterans who were hiding in the rain in bunkers laugh.

Feng. Stoke shook his head, he didn't have the heart to meet these guys who didn't have much combat power, and now that the whole battalion was full, and the number of combatants was no more than two hundred, he was full of worries about the next battle.

Half an hour later, several tanks appeared in the von . In front of the position held by the Stoke battalion, there were a few small black dots at first, and soon these small black dots became larger and larger, and the appearance gradually became clearer, and the color changed from black to desert camouflage based on yellow, brown, and pale green.

Feng. Captain Stoker stood in front of the lookout hole, counted through the telescope, and finally confirmed that the opponent had a total of eight tanks, followed by four tracked armored vehicles and an equal number of half-track armored personnel carriers, and the tank in front was the Anterior Army's standard Leopard II tank that had brought nightmares in the past few days.

Preparations for battle had already been laid out, and all the officers and men who had previously taken shelter from the rain in the fortifications entered the trenches, the machine gunners entered the machine gun positions, the anti-tank fighters entered bunkers and various ambush sites, and two of them with four rockets were to be put into use as secret weapons at the end.

From the early morning of the 24th with the tank unit of the Anjia Army, in the continuous battles since then, the German army has endured the seemingly endless bombing of the Chinese fighters, and now that it is raining, it is believed that the opponent's aircraft will no longer pose any threat to themselves, and the time for revenge has finally come.

In the rain curtain, the Leopard II tanks lined up in a "bell" shaped battle formation, slowly driving towards the south, the figure of the tank became clearer and clearer, the German officers and soldiers on the entire defense line heard the rumble of the tank engine getting louder and louder, the body of the tank became larger and larger, the vibration of the ground became more and more obvious, and even the puddles at the bottom of the trench pits began to show a slight wave, and the water surface raised a circle of lines.

Standing in front of the bunker lookout, Von. Captain Stoker, nervously looking ahead with his binoculars.

At this time, the leading Leopard II tank was less than two kilometers away from the minefield arranged overnight, and just when Stoke was silently expecting these Chinese tanks to enter the minefield one after another and explode, and then the ambush soldiers all went out to destroy all the Chinese, the hatch on the top of the turret of the leading tank was suddenly opened from the inside. In the telescope, von. Captain Stoke could see very clearly the upper body of a tankman with black eyes and yellow skin, leaning out of the top of the turret, the other party was wearing a tanker's helmet on his head, his hair was hidden deep in it, he was wearing a black tank suit, his hands propped up on the turret, and his eyes were looking straight ahead.

Feng. Captain Stoker's heart moved slightly, he felt that when this Chinese tank soldier looked over this way, there was a smile on his face that mixed confidence and a faint mockery, the contemptuous eyes of the other party, and the disdain unconsciously revealed at the corners of his lips, so that Captain Stoker, who was deeply educated by the Germanic nation as the greatest nation in the world, was eager to immediately raise his gun, blast away this empty and carried away face, and completely tear apart the contemptuous sneer on this person's face.

In fact, this is just the supplementary imagination of the Junker-born aristocratic captain in his mind, and the truth is nothing more than the commander of the Chinese tank, who is carefully observing the surrounding situation, and can find the direction of the German army in the rain curtain, and then strike a blow.

However, due to the successive defeats of the German army, von Murray, whose self-confidence was seriously frustrated. Captain Stoker, feeling that the other party's every move is a provocation to himself, he can't wait to get along with it, and the person who has infinite scenery on the tank at the moment is himself. Just in the von. When Captain Stoke was about to give the order for the machine gunner to shoot at the "arrogant" tank commander, he suddenly calmed down, realized that this move was in the hands of the other side, and that the minefield that had been arranged with great difficulty might be exposed, and hurriedly instructed the troops to remain silent and no one was allowed to shoot angrily.

The mechanized troops of the An Jiajun continued to move forward, getting closer and closer to the minefield. Captain Stoke looked nervously at the approaching steel behemoths, and his mood began to become nervous and troubled.

The minefields that had been carefully laid out in front were set up between several trenches dug over the past few days on the basis of the huge craters left behind by the explosions of the enemy's large-caliber heavy artillery and aerial bombs, and after continuous fighting, most of these trenches had collapsed, and the perimeter of the trenches was as potholed as the surface of the moon.

Although these trenches have lost their original function, it is clear that their width of two or three meters still poses a great threat to tanks, and after a night of rain, those trenches without drainage facilities have been filled with water, and there is no depth at all, and no one dares to risk driving tanks into such places.

Therefore, if the tank does not want to go around, it can only be driven from a relatively flat minefield.

Now the question is: will the tanks of the Chinese be counted? What if the opposing commander finds a clue? Most likely, the sappers of the opposing side are on those half-track armored personnel carriers in the rear! Or the other side simply waited for the mine-sweeping tanks and mine-sweeping rocket vehicles to come and open a passage in the minefield, as they had done in the previous successive battles with the An Jiajun.

Fortunately, the opposing tank did not slow down and continued to move forward, a hundred meters...... Fifty meters, forty meters, thirty meters......

Feng. Captain Stoke thought in his mind, his hand holding the telescope trembling.

Just when the mechanized troops of the Anjia Army were only three or four meters away from the chaotic, rain-soaked abandoned trenches, the opposing convoy suddenly retreated.

The commander, who had been standing on top of the turret, climbed up and jumped onto the armor plate on the side of the turret of the tank, a small man with a belt tightly tied to the tank and a pistol strapped to the side of his leg. Wiping the rain from his face, the commander crouched down and took a closer look at the uneven trench area and the relatively flat path between them.

The snipers in the German trenches who were locking on to the commander with a scope, at this time they were all dry-mouthed, and their hearts were beating faster ♀ The tank commander who left the heavy armor protection of the tank was obviously a good live target, at a distance of four or five hundred meters, there was no need for a sniper, even if a veteran took a careful aim, he could be knocked down with one shot, and there were many veterans in the German army who had rich combat experience with such an ability.

Feng. Captain Stoker's heart was in his throat, and at this time, there was no one who could not resist the temptation to ruin the battle plan.

"Don't shoot, whoever shoots I'll shoot whom!" Feng. Stoke conveyed the order to the signal corps beside him, and the order was passed on by one of the officers and men on both sides.

After a while, the commander of the An Jiajun tank finished his terrain observation, turned over and entered the tank, and soon disappeared on top of the tank's turret, and the open roof was closed.

What will the other party do? Will minefields be found? After a night of rain, the traces left by the burying of the mines must have disappeared! Feng. Stoke speculated in his mind, only to see the Leopard II tank roar, retreat a few meters, and then move again, and then the tank's tracks slowly turned around, and then drove around the edge of the trench area.

"It's done!"

Just in the von. While Stoke was rejoicing, the tank drove into a minefield, and several huge explosions rang out on the battlefield one after another, and a splash of mud and sewage instantly flooded the Leopard II tank, and the poor tank instantly turned into a blind beast, clumsily turning itself on a track, and the engine wailed in vain.

Without a telescope, von. Stoke clearly saw five black figures jumping out of the top of the Natan tank, and they all threw themselves into the pool next to them, and then they rolled and crawled, constantly dodging the bullets fired by the snipers on the German positions, and ran towards the armored personnel carrier parked behind the tank in a strange line, and the armored infantry of the Anjia Army who followed the armored personnel carrier behind the tank and armored fighting vehicle jumped from the car to the ground covered with mud, relying on tanks, armored fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, holding automatic rifles, and firing fiercely at the German positions.

"Porphyry—"

The sound of MG42 fire rang out loudly, and the German machine gunners joined the battle, quickly connecting with the sound of machine guns and machine gun bullets fired from the armored fighting vehicles of the Anjia Army on the opposite side.

Of the five tank crews of the Anjia Army, all but one fell under the dense rain of bullets from the Germans, and the rest were rescued.

The seven Leopard II tanks that did not drive into the minefield, holding their 105 mm barrels, began to shoot accurately, and one shell after another fell directly near the German trenches and exploded, and the high-explosive shells fired by the Leopard II tanks were more accurate each time, and the losses of the German army gradually increased.

Just as the shells fired by the tanks of the An Jiajun army slammed into the German trenches one by one, von . Stoke has already made a rough judgment about the current battlefield situation - the Chinese are far more trained than he thought, and they have not fallen into the imaginary chaos at all, and this is trouble!

In just two or three minutes, the An Jiajun had already built a temporary position on the opposite side relying on the crater, and those tanks simply stopped in place, acting as fixed turrets, and the course and coaxial machine guns fired non-stop, and the 20-mm machine guns of armored fighting vehicles and the 12.7-mm high-level dual-purpose machine guns of armored personnel carriers neighed loudly, suppressing the machine gun and rifle fire on the German positions.

Strangely, the armored infantry of the Anjia Army on the opposite side obviously had no intention of making a surprise attack, and stayed in place and did not move. As the shells fired by the opposing tank guns continued to fall on the positions, red smoke rose from the German front at some point.

Many German soldiers subconsciously covered their mouths and noses, but strangely enough, the red smoke did not choke, von . Stoke quickly understood what was going on - the sound of an airplane engine in the sky, and in the vast rain curtain, a plane flew almost close to the ground over the trench, and before the German officers and soldiers could shout "air attack, hide", the plane was rolling the fuselage at the same time, a silver-gray bomb under the left wing had been dropped.

Almost instantly, a fiery dragon devoured the trench more than a hundred meters long, and terrible screams rang out one after another.

Feng. Stoke finally understood: it turned out that the other side was not waiting for sappers or demining tanks and rocket artillery vehicles to clear mines, but dispatched the air force! But the question is, on such a rainy day, how can the other party penetrate the rain curtain and accurately lock their position!

At this time, more planes began to drop bombs, incendiary bombs, high-explosive bombs, cluster bombs, and rockets at a low altitude of more than 100 meters. Stoke saw that the lines on both flanks were almost entirely covered in clouds of smoke and flames from the explosion.

In the end, the Junker aristocratic officer died from a terrible incendiary bomb - the fuel oil went down the water at the bottom of the trench into the bunker, avoiding the inevitable von Murphy. Stoker, burned into a living fire man, fell helplessly and was burned to char in the sea of fire left and right.

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