Chapter 156: The Battle of the Brave
Boom ...... A deafening explosion resounded in the ruins behind him, shaking the mountains and slamming into the sky in an instant, as if it was a hammer of the thunder god from heaven, trying to beat the unforgivable demon to pieces.
The wrath of the gods, however, is not in the war itself, because it is still essentially a clash of civilizations. While Lynn ducked down from the debris from the shells, she was visibly concerned about the safety of her two heavy tanks. When the most powerful sound of the explosion passed, he quickly turned his head to look back. Judging from the position where the smoke was rising and drifting away, the heavy shells fired from the other side of the street only landed in the right rear of the second King Tiger, and no amount of shrapnel posed a direct threat to this heavy tank weighing more than 60 tons - it was obvious that it was a high-explosive grenade and not an armor-piercing shell. From this point of view, Lynn felt that the Soviet tankmen who had just joined the battle were still very unsure of the location of the German tanks, and they were only using experience to test the bombardment. Therefore, as long as the T-34s in the vicinity are quickly resolved, the two Tiger Kings on their side have every chance to fight another clean and clean blocking battle with the cooperation of the infantry.
Boom...... The first Tiger King fired a third shell without shifting its position, and Lynn was facing that side, just in time to see the fiery yellow light jumping on either side of its muzzle brake. On a relatively dimly lit battlefield, this undoubtedly gave a very clear guide to the Soviet tankmen who had to be observed with the naked eye!
Turning back to the front anxiously, Lynn saw a Soviet tank on the street in front of him being shot and smoking, but he vaguely felt that something was not right, and quickly picked up his assault rifle and looked at it with a night vision scope. Sure enough, the shell hit the fourth tank at the back of the platoon, it had already been hit once in the second round of bombardment of the German tanks, but it did not catch fire before, and the second gun left a hot bullet hole in the side of its turret, presumably the deadly core had penetrated the turret, and the only suspense was how much damage the two armor-piercing shells would inflict on the insiders.
Boom...... Boom...... The Soviet tanks, which were blocked in the streets, responded with double their rage at the ambushers hiding on the street corners. The T-34/85 was not equipped with a muzzle brake like the later German tanks, which was not conducive to reducing recoil and weight of the gun carriage, but the muzzle flare was much smaller. It's just that for Lynn, who uses infrared night vision devices, the temperature of the muzzle flare is extremely high, so that an exceptionally bright cluster of light appears in the scope, which makes it easy for him to identify that the fifth and sixth tanks fired from behind, the former should be the first King Tiger originally intended to shell - with its 71 times diameter 88 mm gun and the power of special armor-piercing/armor-piercing shells, for such a close target, whether it is the T-34, the KV series or the IS series with unprecedented defensive power, Even if it does not reach the level of complete destruction, it can cause relatively serious damage and even force it to withdraw from the battle outright.
Shells fired from Soviet tanks whizzed overhead, and Lynn quickly lowered his head in an M42 steel helmet. In an instant, two sounds like a hammer breaking a gong came to his ears, and instantly made him feel a chill behind his back - this should be the sound of a cannonball hitting the armor and bouncing, but Lynn did not have an exact grasp of the concept of "absolutely invincible" and "relatively invincible" of the Tiger King, and you must know that the 85mm guns of the T-34 were not vegetarians. With such a close distance, can the "Tiger King" really be able to carry it unharmed?
Worried and worried, Lynn didn't spend all his time constantly turning his head to watch his tank, hearing the sound of gunfire around him, and he also had a kind of throbbing to easily hunt down enemy infantry targets, but the role positioning of the battlefield commander and the elite soldier was completely different. Lynn didn't shoot again, but turned her gun and glanced at the barricades. The later group of Soviet tanks numbered six, but it seems that only three or four of them were powerful IS-2s, and the rest were T-34s or ISU self-propelled guns, also equipped with 85mm guns.
"Brewer!" Lynn shouted, "You cooperate with that Soviet tank at the end of Noah's attack team!" Be careful! ”
Although the night soldiers who had been crouching in the vicinity for a long time had their own plans for the future, they were still fearless at this time and answered "yes" for the first time. By the time the anti-tank infantrymen carrying the "tank killer" and the SS soldiers who were temporarily serving as ammunition men got up from behind the rubble where they were hiding, he quickly transformed into a dexterous night cat and moved swiftly along the previously planned route. Lynn watched the street ahead through her night vision devices, keeping an eye on the movements of the three-man battle team, and silently praying that the heavens would bless these brave warriors to continue to follow her.
After a few minutes of fighting, the surrounding German soldiers had basically eliminated the Soviet infantry who were advancing with the seven T-34s, and those who were lucky enough to survive were also suppressed behind those tanks. Fearing to provide firing guidance to the German "King Tiger", the Soviet tankers did not constantly strafe with vehicle-mounted aircraft as they did during the day. In this way, Brewer and Noah advanced more than twenty meters with almost no hindrance, thus gaining a favorable and effective attack position.
Boom...... The second King Tiger fired, albeit with a slightly longer interval, but the gunner's precise aim more than made up for it. Lynn saw through the infrared telescope that the sixth Soviet tank was shot in the front of the turret, and the temperature around the impact point instantly rose to a very high level - joy and emotion: the Tiger King is worthy of being called the "Tiger King", and he has the capital to despise everything on the battlefield, but it is a pity that they were put into production too late and the number of equipment is too small, otherwise even if it only serves as a mobile firepower point for defensive warfare, it is enough to stop the torrent of steel that the Soviet army is proud of.
At about a certain interval, the group of Soviet heavy tanks that had joined the battlefield had also finished reloading, and after stopping and firing, they did not continue to charge down the street, but drove into a side of the ruins led by the lead IS-2. In Lynn's scope, he could vaguely see a lot of Soviet infantry pouring through the old barricade line in the distance.
Intend to turn the tide of artillery battles with infantry? Come on! Infantry against infantry, still make you dizzy! Lynn thought contemptuously in her heart.
In a moment, Noah's anti-tank bazooka finally fired. This infantry weapon does not have the function of aiming assist in night combat, so it is very important that Brewer, who is accompanying him, can make full use of the observation effect of infrared night vision devices to assist in its positioning.
Under Lynn's expectant gaze, the rockets dragged a bright tail flame diagonally through the streets in the night sky, and hit it in one shot!
"Well done!"
Lynn let out a low roar and quickly turned to Brück's side and made the gesture of "kill the 5th tank", but he soon realized that his classmates in the commando training camp were not receiving the same information as before, and he did not even see him in the rubble. Lynn was afraid of losing something, so he quickly got up and ran towards the cat's waist of the "Tiger King", and when he had already run a dozen steps, the first Tiger King fired again. At this time, he had to bend over and run forward, and looked back a little embarrassed - and then he saw a black shadow flashing in the street with the light of an explosion, but he was not sure if it was the only T-34 still in combat. Finally rushed to the first Tiger King, knocked on the driver's hatch according to Brück's appearance, and waited until the German pilot opened the hatch and poked his head out, Lynn gasped and said loudly: "The fifth...... You guys should hit the fifth tank! Also, those later Soviet heavy tanks hid in the ruins about 300 meters in front of them, watch out for their shells! There may have been four Josephs. Stalin Type II! ”
The dull roar of the engine did not affect the driver's hearing, and he used the in-car communication line to report what Lynn had said, the commander of the two-car tactical team. Considering that the next battle was very necessary to adjust, Lynn did not leave, but took the risk of waiting for the commander's reply, during which the Soviets in the distance fired a few more shells, but Lynn just moved sideways to the side of the Tiger King's body as if dodging firecrackers. After a few moments, the driver replied: "Let's retreat one block back and set up a new ambush!" ”
(To be continued)