Chapter 155: Together
"Infantry...... Infantry...... Still infantry, there were already thirty or forty of them, they surrounded the position at the entrance of the street and rushed in......"
With one eye on the infrared night vision scope, Brewer lowered his voice to describe what he was observing, while his immediate superior, the newly promoted Waffen-SS sergeant, Lynn Brown. Gargo, squatting back to back with him, frequently made various gestures. There was a half-collapsed building more than a dozen meters away, and at the same time, SS Sergeant Lov. Brück leaned against the corner, his eyes fixed on Lynn's side, and every few moments he would interpret the tactical passwords he saw to the two privates behind him, Tanze and Techmel, and the boys took turns running to the two active heavy tanks not far away, completing the final baton of this special relay of information.
"Those poor people...... May the Lord forgive their sinful souls and allow their suffering spirits to ascend to heaven! Hearing the last fierce submachine gun sound coming from ahead, Brewer couldn't help but make such a move, and Lynn behind him hesitated slightly, and said, "They will be liberated in heaven, perhaps...... Soon it will be our turn too! ”
"Don't say that, we are still young and have a long way to go in life!" Brewer said in a suppressed voice. Everyone has a survival **, and in Lynn's squad, he is the most obvious one, but it has nothing to do with cowardice.
Although this is not the time for small talk, Lynn still asks more: "What are your specific thoughts?" ”
"I want to ...... after the war" Brewer didn't finish his previous words, and was immediately interrupted by the changes that were taking place in front of him, and he changed his tone in a hurry: "Uh, tanks, the tanks of the Russians are coming!" Already past the street junction position, a ...... Two ......"
Putting aside the private topic for the time being, Lynn quickly typed the tactical sign language of "the enemy tank has appeared" - this is what the soldiers from the "Vampire" commando team can accurately grasp, and Wolfrum and Tanze have followed Lynn for a while, and they still only understand a rough idea.
Brewer continued: "Three...... Four ...... Oh, it seems to be there's still in the back, hell, why are there so many! ”
"The steel torrent of the Soviets is already the most powerful armored force in the world!" Lynn gestured helplessly but fairly.
Brewer probably changed to a silent count in his heart, and said quickly: "Hey, sir, you told Frings earlier that we would win the next war, do you really think so?" ”
Chief? It seemed like a good name, and Lynn gladly accepted. After gesticulating, he turned his head to look over the barricades, where the light provided by the artillery fire had diminished, so that only very faint shadows could be seen with the naked eye.
"To be honest, I guess the world of the future will be a pattern of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union!"
"Oh!" Brewer couldn't say anything more, because the imminent enemy situation kept him busy again: "Six...... Seven ...... Seven tanks, presumably all T-34s, and dozens of infantrymen, are coming towards us along the frontal road! ”
"Seven tanks...... A lot of soldiers...... It's coming this way! Lynn muttered silently, considering that he was separated from Brück by a certain distance, and that the light at night was not very good, he deliberately slowed down his movements, and the key gestures would be received by Brück in a slightly exaggerated way so that Brück could be as accurate as possible.
Suddenly, he saw a figure in the corner of the wall with one arm raised in a circle, indicating that "the message has been received and combat action will be taken."
Brewer then reported the latest situation he had observed: "The outpost infantry exploring the road is still about fifty meters away!" ”
Although he is very confident in his talent, Lynn still has to admit that Brewer's ability to see more accurately than himself is not entirely due to the fact that his infrared night vision equipment is updated, after all, there is a gap in everyone's innate vision. Transmitting the message of "infantry - fifty meters" to Brück through gestures, Lynn began to hope that the Soviet soldiers would not hear the two "Tiger Kings" too soon. The city of Berlin is now under the sound of gunfire at all times, but the noise is sometimes overwhelming, sometimes relatively quiet, and the 700-horsepower Maybach engine of the "King Tiger" is a source of noise that can wake up the people in the next street even when idling - Lynn can tell if you listen closely.
"Thirty meters ......"
As the enemy quickly approached, Brewer had to keep his voice low, and there was a natural sense of urgency in his tone, with the subtext being "Boss, if you don't fight, you will be killed by the enemy".
The barricades ahead had been cleared by the Soviets, but Lynn was not the only group of men and horses in the dilapidated buildings and ruins next to the street, there were SS soldiers who hastily withdrew from their positions and stopped here for a while, there were "rangers" who chose to fight alone after being dispersed, and some may have been specially trained street snipers. Bullets were scattered from close or far into the streets, sometimes with a single shot to the head, sometimes only slightly delaying the advancing Soviet infantry.
The sound of the tank's slow, slow-moving engine and tracks grew clearer from the front of the street, and Lynn pricked up her ears to hear a similar sound coming from behind. Perhaps influenced by subjective psychological effects, he felt that the momentum of the two Tiger Kings was even more majestic than that of a team of T-34s. With the extremely screeching sound of tracks, he saw Brück unload his assault rifle from his shoulder, and the four SS soldiers who had volunteered to join him also rose from the rubble where they were hiding. In this atmosphere that could not help but boil blood, a black and long cannon barrel finally "poked" out from behind the corner. The Tiger King in front of him did not rush straight into the street, but with his extremely strong body, he smashed through the broken wall outside the half-collapsed building, and stopped right in front of the rubble pile that was more than half a man high - the tankman himself came down to observe the position, and it seemed that it was all in his plan.
Immediately after, the second Tiger King toppled down another wall on the side with an extremely dull roar, and the fallen bricks remained on the front of the car, and the domineering steel beast did not care, it adjusted its muzzle slightly, and waited for the leading companion to let out the first roar, and after less than two seconds, it opened fire on different targets.
Even on the battlefield in 1945, the "King Tiger" armed with an accurate 88 mm gun and 71 times the diameter tank gun was still a nightmare for every Soviet armored soldier, because no tank or other combat vehicle was strong enough to withstand its attacks at close range, so that at this moment Lynn was simply watching the street in front of him with the mentality of watching a good show. For a target with a straight-line combat distance of less than 150 meters, the German tankers would not easily miss it. Only two bangs were heard, and dazzling flashes burst out in turn in front of the turrets of the two Soviet tanks at the head of the platoon, and the huge impact force caused the vehicles of more than 40 tons to be transversely displaced in an instant. The one in front of it came to a halt, and a puff of smoke rose from behind its buttocks; The one behind it, like a brown bear that had been injected with an anesthetic injection, burrowed its head and finally crashed into its companion, the friction of the metal against the hard ground making an extremely harsh and palpitating sound.
With this ferocious and precise artillery attack as a name, Lynn's squad of soldiers immediately fired at the Soviet troops in front of them with assault rifles and submachine guns. At this time, it is not so important to hit the middle of the fight, and to give the enemy who is in the limelight is to give encouragement to the weak and depressed comrades. Soon, the remnants of the German army around the street spontaneously joined the battle, especially when an ambush MG-42 roared one after another, and the Soviet infantry advancing with the tank column was suddenly overwhelmed.
"Hit hard! Beware of concealment! ”
At first glance, the two commands issued by Lynn as a commander seem contradictory, but they are easy to understand in the context of the battlefield: when you have the opportunity, you will shoot hard, see that the enemy tank is about to fire, and quickly hide.
In the infrared telescope, the dozen or so Soviet soldiers closest to this side had all been knocked down, and he then turned his attention to the Soviet tanks behind. I saw that these big guys who had been killing all the way from Russia stopped quickly, and it seemed that they were adjusting their guns to aim at the attackers who suddenly appeared in the ruins. Despite their numerical superiority, the battle situation is very unfavorable for them - if you want to determine the precise position of the enemy tanks, I am afraid that you will have to be beaten again, who told you to take the initiative to attack and have no night vision equipment?
Just when Lynn felt that his two heavy tanks were about to let out a second roar, Brewer, who was still lying in place, suddenly shouted: "There are tanks coming over there at the barricade position!" ”
Lynn hurriedly turned his gun to the old barricade position, and the image that could be observed from a hundred meters away was too blurry, but he quickly put down his assault rifle and turned to gesture at Brück, who had changed to the first King Tiger tank. You must know that on this shrapnel-ridden battlefield, the tanks on both sides are the focus of each other's artillery fire.
Although Brück shot with the same gun as the rest of the soldiers, he did not focus all his attention on the target in front of him because of the pre-assigned division of labor. Without Lynn having to make the same gesture a second time, he quickly got up, stooped over with his gun in hand, and ran right in front of the Tiger King—an extremely dangerous position. I saw him knock on the cockpit canopy with his hand as if knocking on a neighbor's door, and then the hatch was opened by the driver of the Tiger King - he could use the wired communication equipment in the car to transmit information to the commander in real time. Brück finished speaking loudly, and saw the driver nod before quickly evacuating, and just a few seconds after he left, the artillery fire of the Soviet tanks on the street roared, although the landing point was not very close, but even Lynn's side felt the impact of the explosion. Debris flew in the air, and there was no threat to the members of the tank, but it was very different for the infantry who only used steel helmets to protect their heads.
Although the next round of shelling of these T-34s in front of him was at least half a minute later, at this time, Lynn suddenly had a strong intuition that the new threat came from those Soviet tanks that had just tried the old barricade positions. Conceal it all! ”
As soon as the words fell, the sound of artillery rang out on the side of the barricade, although it was far less powerful than the conventional weapon of mass destruction, which was suspected to be the "Stalin's hammer", but it still sounded more powerful than the ordinary T-34 artillery. When the shells whistled down, the violent explosion strengthened his suspicions. Although the battle between King Tiger and IS-2 has appeared on many fronts before, the former is the ultimate model of the German army's land power, and the latter is also the strongest tank of the Soviet army during World War II.
(To be continued)