Chapter 233: Brutal Street Fighting (Medium)
For the battle in the house, Scott had long been trained with his own soldiers, and everyone knew what they had to do.
Fighting in such a narrow place inside the house, the P35 submachine gun had a huge advantage, and the weapons in the hands of the British army were basically rifles, and there was a big gap with Scott in terms of firepower and reaction speed.
"Boom", suddenly there was a violent explosion in the street, and then there was a scream, as soon as Scott heard this sound, he knew that most of the British soldiers had opened fire, and at the same time caused casualties on his own side.
Scott hurriedly ran to the door to check, only to see that a leading tank was hit by British anti-tank guns, and thick smoke had risen from inside the tank, and this tank was pierced by the anti-tank guns placed by the British army on the street.
The rest of the tanks hurriedly opened fire on the anti-tank guns placed by the British troops in the distance, and the British troops arranged a defensive line with sandbags in the distance.
A 47-mm anti-tank gun was placed there, and the British troops on both sides of the street buildings were designed to attract Scott's attention.
As soon as Scott and the others charged, the British anti-tank guns began to attack Claes's leading tanks, which were three No. 4E tanks with only 50 mm front armor, which could not block the close range of 47 mm anti-tank guns.
The British pierced the crotch of a leading tank in the middle with one shot, and at the same time ignited the fuel tank inside the tank, but fortunately, the tank men inside were not all killed.
The explosion of the 47-mm anti-tank gun was not very powerful, and the surviving tank crews hurriedly extinguished the fire with fire extinguishers.
But the engine of this tank has been burned out, which can be regarded as scrapped, fortunately the surviving tank crews inside extinguished the fire and did not let the tank detonate ammunition, otherwise it would have had a lot of impact on the surrounding infantry.
The signal soldier who followed Scott was still very clever, and hurriedly ran to Scott's side and handed the intercom to Scott, who quickly grabbed the intercom and asked:
"Claes, Claes, replace the No. 4 tank in front of you, and send the experimental No. 4 tank to the front tank."
The front armor of the Type IV E was too weak to hold off the British 47-mm anti-tank guns.
Claes's company had exactly three No. 4 tanks for combat testing, and it is important to know that the No. 4H tank weighed 278 tons and had 80 mm of front armor.
The 47-mm anti-tank gun could not penetrate the front armor of the No. 4H tank at all, but these tanks were used for combat testing.
Claes generally doesn't send these baby tanks to the front line, and now Scott actually wants to send these battle-tested tanks to the front line, Claes doesn't understand a little.
"Mr. Commander, these tanks are for testing, we can't send them to the front line, otherwise how can we complete the rest of the testing work!!"
Pedanc, when is this, still thinking about testing, the braincase of the Germans will not turn? Scott did not get along with Claes inkblot, and ordered directly to Claes:
"Lieutenant Claes, I order three No. 4H tanks to immediately go up and take over from No. 4 and use them as lead vehicles, and if anything goes wrong, I take full responsibility."
Scott was only temporarily in command of Claes' tank company, and although he gave the order, he still took all the responsibility on himself.
After all, Scott didn't want to make it difficult for Claes, the No. 4 H tank tested by Claes was specially transported by the German General Armament Department, and the entire Seventh Panzer Division only had these three, which is not a treasure.
Claes and Scott have fought a few times, and they still know Scott's personality and daring character, but these experimental tanks are indeed very valuable.
Just as Claes hesitated, there was suddenly another violent explosion, this time the explosion was particularly violent, and even the second row of tanks where Claes was located shook violently.
Claes hurriedly looked through the periscope to see the situation outside, and it turned out that the two remaining No. 4 tanks were hit by another one in the confrontation with which British anti-tank gun.
This time it wasn't as good luck as last time, the tank was hit in the ammunition rack, and then it exploded.
The entire turret of the bombed tank was lifted more than ten meters away, and the hull of the tank became fragmented, and the scattered fragments knocked several exposed German soldiers to the ground, and they could not survive.
Two of the three leading tanks had already been destroyed, and Claes completely understood that the No. 4 tank could not withstand the British 47-mm anti-tank guns at all.
If you don't send the No. 4 tank at this time, and you can send the rest of the tanks up yourself, Claes, who has no choice, began to give orders to his tank:
"Tank No. 4H comes forward, as the lead tank, and the rest of the tanks follow behind Tank No. 4H, attacking the anti-tank guns on the street with all their might, and the British troops on the flanks are handed over to the infantry!!"
Three No. 4H tanks rushed forward with a "boom", the short 75mm guns on the tanks sprayed angry shells incessantly, and the sandbag positions placed by the British troops on Sammy Street disappeared under heavy shelling.
The anti-tank gun that destroyed the two Klais tanks also fired twice, but its shells hit the front armor of the No. 4H tank, and only a violent explosion occurred, but it could not penetrate the No. 4 tank.
The fate of this 47-mm anti-tank gun was the same as those sandbags, and as for the British troops defending behind the sandbags, how many of them were lucky to survive! It's hard to estimate.
At this time, the No. 4 tank used a 75-mm 37-fold gun, or a later long 75-mm gun, even if it was a short 75-mm gun, it had no pressure to deal with all the tanks in active service in Spain, and the short 75-mm tank gun would soon be eliminated.
Rommel has long produced 75-mm tank guns in France, and the ammunition does not need to be replaced at all, only the barrels of the tanks of the German 7th Panzer Division need to be replaced, and the price of the 4th tank will not increase a lot.
This decision was entirely up to the question, the troops of course preferred more powerful artillery, and Hitler was also a fanatical weaponist who liked to pursue powerful weapons.
Claes cleared the British troops in the street and began to advance slowly, followed by a platoon of infantry in the back of Tank Four, who were mainly guarding against the enemy who suddenly came out of the shadows and tried to blow up the tank.
"Click...... Boom ......"
Claes's tanks were advancing slowly, and Scott and his infantry were also clearing the streets, whether there were British or Libyan servants, Scott's soldiers always threw one or two grenades into it, and then rushed in with a swoop.
Anyway, everyone is not worried about the consumption of ammunition at all, Rommel has always believed that the lives of soldiers are more precious than ammunition, so Rommel has always equipped his troops with ammunition is very sufficient. (To be continued.) )