Chapter 39: The Palace of Dalena
Tank No. 4 in front is now only responsible for street resistance, and Tank No. 2 in the back is all facing the buildings on both sides, as are the coaxial machine guns on the turrets, and if a government soldier tries to come out of the window to shoot, it will be instantly wiped out by machine guns or shells. Li Mo just threw grenades into the room along the street.
Li Mo was not in a hurry while advancing slowly, while pouring ammunition on the buildings on both sides, all weapons such as bullets, shells, grenades, flamethrowers and so on were all used, Santander's defenders' will to fight was too poor, after the defenders in front were annihilated several times, the defenders in the back saw Li Mo and the mighty No. 4 tank in front of them all panicked, either collapsed or surrendered, so that Li Mo did not have much chance to really fight.
An hour later, Li Mo led his troops to break through and lose almost two kilometers, and hundreds of prisoners were captured, all of which were citizens who had just taken off their civilian uniforms and put on their military uniforms.
When a square appeared in front of Li Mo and them, the resistance of the government troops suddenly became stubborn, and on the right side of the square stood a majestic palace, and several sandbag defense positions were arranged on the square, and there were two relatively solid reinforced concrete seven-story buildings at the link between Edward Street and the square.
There are also several huge cement piers on the streets of Edward Street, which are of course used to protect against tank raids, and this thing really works now, and sometimes simple things often make a huge difference.
There is also a line of defense behind the cement pier, of course, it is piled up by sandbags, and three 37 mm anti-tank guns are also arranged, in 1937, in addition to the German No. 4 tank, there is really no front armor reaching 80 mm, which can resist the 37 mm anti-tank guns, so the 37 mm anti-tank guns have become most of the standard, unfortunately the Spanish government army met the No. 4 tank developed by Germany, and the 37 mm anti-tank gun was powerless.
Tank No. 4 "rumbled" and slowly advanced to a distance of 300 meters from the cement pier when the government anti-tank guns opened fire, and this time the government forces hit all three anti-tank guns in the center of the No. 4 tank in order to achieve the effect of killing with one hit.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
Three cannon sounds, sounded in an instant, the frontal armor of the No. 4 tank in the middle was accurately hit by three armor-piercing shells, the violent explosion formed a huge shock wave in front of the No. 4 tank, the moving No. 4 tank paused slightly, the No. 4 tank was already a medium tank, the power of the 37-mm anti-tank gun was still small, and the No. 4 tank was not penetrated at all, only three white grooves were punched out of the front armor.
Not to be outdone, the three No. 4 tanks fired back one after another, and the coaxial machine guns on the turret also began to shoot fiercely at the government army's sandbag defense position, and the government soldiers behind the sandbags also began to shoot fiercely at the assault No. 4 tank with various weapons in their hands, and all kinds of bullets hit the tank "bell" sound, this kind of indiscriminate shooting, although it could not hurt the No. 4 tank, but it was very easy to produce ricochet, stray bullets, and the two German soldiers who followed behind the tank were hit by stray bullets and died. Stray bullets and ricochet bullets have been deformed because the bullet hits a hard object, and such a bullet is more lethal in the body of a person who has bounced, and even if it hits the abdomen, it cannot be saved.
All the windows facing the street of the seven-story civilian buildings on both sides of the cement pier were also opened, and one or two government soldiers suddenly appeared from each window, holding various weapons and shooting at the infantry behind the tanks, because these government soldiers were on a high ground and could hit the German soldiers who were a little farther behind.
"Click...... Click...... Ahhh ”
"Quick...... Get close to the tank...... Give Lao Tzu a beating to death. ”
More than a dozen German soldiers were killed in two civilian buildings in an instant, and Li Mo was so cautious that he still paid such a large number of casualties, and he was immediately furious.
The three No. 4 tanks in front were designed to attack the enemy in front of them, and the remaining tanks in the back were dealing with two seven-story civilian buildings, which of course could not block the bombardment of tank guns, and one window after another was named by tank guns, and as long as the windows hit by tank guns, one or two government soldiers would definitely be blown out and their bodies would fall on Edward Street.
At a distance of 300 meters, in fact, the tanks had a complete advantage, and even the grenades of the government army were still not close to the German tanks, let alone the contents of the explosives bag. This is also the reason for the lack of combat experience of the government troops defending Santander, if it is a veteran command, the enemy's tanks will definitely be put down about fifty meters to fight, whether it is with death squads or other methods, the German tanks must be unhappy, but it is a pity that they started attacking in advance.
In an instant, the battle became fierce, Li Mo also followed the back of the runway tank, took out the binoculars and carefully observed the defense of the government army, not that Li Mo did not want to fight, but the effective range of the P35 in his hand was 200 meters, and it was a waste of ammunition to fight, so it was better to carefully observe the enemy and calmly command the battle:
"Lieutenant Otto, immediately order the leading tank to stop advancing and shoot on the spot."
Li Mo gave orders, never crossed Otto to directly command the tanks under Otto, overstepping the command not only makes the first-level command disgusted, but also easy to cause all kinds of mistakes, tank combat or leave it to the professional tank commander to decide!
Of course, Otto understood what Li Mo meant, that is, to give full play to the long-range attack advantage of the tank, so that the enemy's infantry could not break through the distance of 300 meters and rush to the side of the tank, not to mention that there were infantry following behind the tank! The tank has a blind spot for shooting, and the infantry behind it is a living person, so how can the enemy's death squad easily rush to the side of his tank.
"Click...... Boom ......"
At the entrance to Edward Square, bullets flew everywhere, and the smoke was filled with gunsmoke, and both sides were firing desperately, but the government forces did not do much damage to Limer's tank, and their 37mm anti-tank guns were beaten into scrap metal in a few blows from the fire with Tank No. 4. The sandbag defense positions in front were also shattered by tank shelling, and next to the sandbags were the corpses of countless government soldiers, their blood flowing down the streets, and the battlefield was so brutal. This is the gap between science and technology and national strength, and no one can change it in a short period of time.
"Toot toot toot...... Toot Toot ......"
Seeing that the government army was about to be unable to withstand it, the government army suddenly blew the trumpet of the charge, and countless government soldiers who had not died in battle jumped out of the sandbags and rushed towards Li Mo, some with rifles, some with machine guns, some with explosives bags, and some with a cluster grenade, and even the doors of the two civilian buildings were opened, and the hidden government soldiers inside also swarmed out.
"For the Motherland...... For freedom...... Come on!!! ”
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