Chapter 234: Brutal Street Fighting (Part II)
If there were relatively strong houses, or other defenses built by the enemy, Scott would use flamethrowers, which would have a miraculous effect on the enemies inside the fortifications, but it would be a little too cruel.
"Click...... Boom ......"
The three No. 4 tanks in front were invincible, and the enemy's forty-seven-mm anti-tank guns could not gnaw at the No. 4 tank at all.
The street defensive positions they had built on the streets were all tofu scum in front of seventy-five-mm tank guns.
In addition, the defenders of Benghazi were mainly Libyan servants, who were not fighting guerrilla warfare in urban street battles with the superior German 7th Panzer Division, but were fighting head-on, and these miners were certainly no match for the German 7th Panzer Division.
After Scott pushed the enemy's two blocking points in a row, the confidence of the enemy behind him collapsed, and this kind of battle that could only be fought was really the most devastating to the confidence of the soldiers.
The No. 4 H tank in front is now only responsible for street resistance, and the No. 4 tank in the back is all pointing its guns at the buildings on both sides, as are the coaxial machine guns on the turrets.
If an enemy soldier tried to come out of the window and shoot, he would be instantly wiped out by machine guns or shells, and the Germans kept throwing grenades into the room along the street.
Scott was not in a hurry, and as he advanced slowly, he poured ammunition at the buildings on both sides, and all the weapons such as bullets, shells, grenades, and flamethrowers were used.
The defenders of Benghazi had a poor will to fight, and after the defenders in front were annihilated several times, the defenders in the back saw Scott and the mighty No. 4 tank in front of them all panicked, and either collapsed or surrendered, leaving Scott with little chance to really fight.
The largest surrender was the Libyan servant army, these people were attached to the British army because of their interests, they were just a group of peasants who had just laid down their hoes, and they had no correct tactical guiding ideology, so it was strange that they were undefeated.
An hour later, Scott's troops had advanced almost two kilometers into Benghazi, and had taken hundreds of prisoners, most of them Libyan servants.
When a square appeared in front of Scott and them, the enemy's resistance suddenly became stubborn.
On the right side of the square stands a majestic palace, on which several street defense positions are arranged, and at the junction between Sami Street and the square, there are two relatively solid reinforced concrete seven-story buildings, which should be private houses from the external structure, and such buildings are not easy to attack.
There are also several huge cement piers on the streets of Sami 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 was also a line of defense behind the cement piers, made of sandbags, of course, and three 47-mm anti-tank guns were also arranged.
At the beginning of 1941, there was really no other tank in the world with 80 mm front armor except for the German No. 4 H tank.
The rest of the tanks simply resisted the 47-mm anti-tank guns, so the 47-mm anti-tank guns became the lethal weapons of most tanks.
Unfortunately, the enemy in Benghazi encountered the No. 4 H tank, which had only been developed by the Germans, and the 47-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 enemy's anti-tank guns opened fire, and this time the enemy hit all three anti-tank guns in the center of the No. 4 H tank in order to achieve the effect of killing with one hit.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
Three cannon shots rang out in an instant, and the frontal armor of the No. 4 tank in the middle was accurately hit by three armor-piercing shells, and the violent explosion formed a huge shock wave in front of the No. 4 tank, and the moving No. 4 tank paused slightly.
The No. 4H was already the most standard medium tank, and although the power of the 47 mm anti-tank gun was small, it still did not penetrate the No. 4 H, only punching three white grooves in the front armor.
Not to be outdone, the three No. 4 tanks fired back, and the coaxial machine guns on the turrets began to fire heavily at the enemy's street defenses.
The enemy soldiers behind the street also began to shoot fiercely at the assault tank No. 4 with various weapons in their hands, and all kinds of bullets "belled" on the tank.
Although this kind of indiscriminate rifle fire could not hurt the No. 4 tank, it was very easy to produce ricochet and stray bullets, and several German soldiers who followed behind the tank were hit by stray bullets and died.
Stray bullets and ricochets deform the front end of the bullet because the bullet hits a hard object, and such a bullet is more lethal when splashed into the body, 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 enemy soldiers suddenly appeared from each window, holding various weapons and shooting at the infantry behind the tank, because these enemy soldiers were at a high place, and they could hit the German soldiers who were slightly far behind the tank.
"Click...... Click...... Ahhh ”
"Quick...... Get close to the tank...... Give Lao Tzu a beating to death. ”
The enemy who emerged from two civilian buildings was killed more than a dozen German soldiers in an instant, and Scott was so cautious that he still paid such a heavy casualty, and he was immediately furious.
The three No. 4 tanks in front were designed to attack the enemy in the front, and the remaining tanks in the back were to deal with two seven-story civilian buildings.
Of course, these civilian buildings could not stop 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 enemies would inevitably be blown out, and mutilated corpses would fall on Sami Street.
At a distance of 300 meters, in fact, the German tanks had a complete advantage, and even the enemy's grenades could not be thrown at the side of the German tanks, let alone the contents of the explosives package.
This is also the reason for the lack of combat experience of the enemy defending Benghazi, if it is a veteran command, the enemy's tanks will definitely be put down about fifty meters to start fighting, whether it is with death squads or other means, the German tanks must be having a hard time, but it is a pity that their attack began earlier.
In an instant, the battle became extremely fierce, and Scott, behind the tank, took out his binoculars to carefully observe the enemy's defenses.
It's not that Scott doesn't want to participate in the battle in person, but the effective range of the P35 in his hand is 200 meters, and it is a waste of ammunition to fight, so it is better to carefully observe the enemy and calmly command the battle:
"Lieutenant Claes, immediately order the leading tank to stop advancing and shoot on the spot."
Scott gave an order, never crossed Claes to directly command the tanks under Claes, overstepping the command not only disgusted the next command, but also easy to cause all kinds of mistakes, tank combat or leave it to the professional tank commander to decide!
[Type A and B, Type 4, front armor 30 mm, Type E and F, front armor 50 mm, H/F type front armor 80 mm. A-F type main gun 7.5 cm KwK37 gun = main gun double diameter 24 = main gun total length 1.80 meters. H-G type, 7.5 cm KwK40 gun = main gun diameter 43 = total length of main gun 3.20 meters] (to be continued.) )