Chapter 144: Weitmann's Wrath (2)
It seems that Wittmann was forced by the Polish army, because Wittmann's loss was already the largest loss of the SS since the start of the war, and this was the serious consequence of the loss of the air "nanny" of the armored group.
In order to protect the LMG oil and gas field, Vincent had to immediately destroy the Polish artillery, and in this very helpless situation, he let Weitmann's assault group charge without air cover, although Weitmann's armored assault group had losses, but the LMG oil and gas field was safe. In addition, it can be concluded that not only infantry is afraid of artillery, but also tanks are afraid of heavy artillery, especially large-caliber heavy artillery of more than 150, which will kill the tank crew.
Polish cavalry units turned into infantry to dig trenches, could they hold off SS tanks? Of course not, the artillery of the Polish army is not a direct-fire anti-tank artillery, and there is no way to attack tanks at close range.
"Boom...... Boom...... Dadada......"
Wittmann's tank roared and charged towards the Polish position, his front and rear were full of tanks and armored vehicles, their queue was a bit messy, and in order to rush through the artillery zone set up by the Polish army as soon as possible, the messy charge formation was not a big problem.
The Polish cavalry was still very brave, the cavalry guns in their hands fired two shots at the German tanks, they could only splash a little spark, they were throwing two grenades, and they could only listen to one sound by themselves, these weapons were of no use to the tanks, and then the Polish troops panicked and began to flee shamefully.
Wittmann's attack was a heavy loss, regardless of whether the Polish army fled or not, he still ordered the machine guns on the tanks and armored vehicles to fire wildly, and the tank guns were specially designed to deal with the Polish artillery.
"Dada...... Boom...... Ahh!!hhhhh ”
Weitmann's steel torrent crushed everything on the way forward with the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai, and the entire Polish army's circular defensive position was in flames, countless fleeing Polish troops were killed on the way to escape, and even the officers of the Polish army took the lead in escaping, under this one-sided slaughter, people couldn't stand it, what explosives bags, death squads tied with grenades, in the case of armored vehicles, these people could get close to the cottage Type 99 tanks, Far away was beaten into a sieve by the copycat Type 56 light machine gun on the armored vehicle or the MG42 general-purpose machine gun.
"Poof...... "The sound of tearing the burlap is the sound ......of MG42." The rate of fire of the MG42 is really terrifying, 1500 rounds per minute, and dozens of bullets come from a rain of bullets when the trigger is pulled. Basically, a point shot will beat the enemy into a sieve. There are enough bullets on the armored vehicles, which are MG42s that are not carried by infantry, and they can carry a maximum of 1,000 rounds. And the various bullets on these SS armored vehicles are enough, as long as it is a living target of the enemy, you can shoot well.
Will a lot of bullets be wasted in this way? No, it's just that it consumes more ammunition, and anyone who has been on the battlefield knows that bullets and guns are the second life of soldiers, if a soldier loses his gun, the end of that soldier must not be good, and if a soldier only has a gun and no bullets, it is also a very tragic thing. As long as he has been on the battlefield, he will never waste bullets, that is his second life! How can it be wasted casually.
Zhang Jun is very generous with the soldiers of his own troops, basically the same as his command style, if the soldiers feel that they should shoot, then you let go of your hands and feet, and feel that you should not shoot, then you can wait and see. To fight or not to fight is entirely in the hands of the soldiers, and no one interferes with them. In a word, it's cool to be an SS soldier.
"Dada...... Poof...... Boom ......"
"Woooooooooo......oo Woowoo woo ......"
The sound of gunfire and the roar of the cottage 99 tank echoed in the entire Polish position, and the terrified war horses were also galloping wantonly.
There were corpses of Polish troops or war horses on the way of the pigeon tanks, and the SS tanks certainly did not stop for them and ran over them directly. Soon the corpses would be thrown out from behind the tracks by the galloping tanks, and the corpses would go in, and the meat sauce of the dirt would come out.
The second circular defensive position of the Polish army was constructed by two cavalry divisions, which was quite a few people, but what was the use of this, should the scene of the Polish cavalry and German tanks hedging should be continued. The Polish cavalry of these two divisions was much smarter, and they saw that they were not right, and immediately retreated.
Wittmann's target was also the Polish artillery, and the Polish Wittmann who fled far away didn't bother to take a look, and the Polish artillery also chose to escape.
"Five hundred meters ahead, a truck aims, put."
Weitmann himself became the commander of the tank he was riding, and the commander of his tank was seriously injured and was seriously injured by the artillery bombardment of the Polish army, and even Weitmann's face was covered with blood, because the 155 howitzer exploded about five meters from Weitmann's tank, and the violent air wave and shock wave almost overturned Weitmann's tank. The violent shaking of the tank made Weitman's head "close contact" with his tank many times, and when the shaking stopped, the captain of Weitmann's tank had passed out from the impact, his head and face were full of wounds, and Weitmann also knocked out several large bags and a long wound on his head, and the blood was flowing down.
Luckily, the driver was only slightly injured and was able to drive the tank on, which allowed Wittmann's tank to get out of danger quickly.
"Touching ......"
The muzzle of Wittman's No. 3321 tank flashed, and a hot shell flew towards a truck in the distance, and the shell burrowed into the truck's belly at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
This explosion was earth-shattering, Wittman's cottage Type 99 tank exploded the truck with one shot, but the explosion was too huge, the violent explosion directly raised a mushroom cloud, Wittmann's cottage Type 99 tank was shocked and jumped more than half a meter high, and smashed down, this time Wittman and his members were tragic, although everyone was wearing tank hats, they were still being hit and screaming.
"Ouch...... Ouch!! ”
There was a wail in the tank, Wittmann was shaken and abandoned, and with a "bang", his head hit the top of the tank, it was a thing made of steel, even if Wittman practiced iron head skills, he couldn't bear it! The impact immediately added a fist-sized bag to Wittman's head. It turned out that Wittmann had wrecked a truck full of shells, which was terrifying.
At this time, Weitman was not angry, and while rubbing the big bag on his head with his hand, he gave an order with a walkie-talkie:
"Attention to all vehicles, immediately stop attacking the Polish artillery, and all the attacks on the living forces of the Polish army are the mainstay."
Wittmann wanted to leave these Polish artillery artillery for his own troops, and the shells were also existing, and now they were destroyed and what a waste it was, and he was saying that there were not many tank shells on his side, so they couldn't be used indiscriminately, and of course Wittmann knew how much material was carried in this sortie.
At this time, the targets of the SS began to change, specifically attacking the Polish troops who had not yet fled, and the rain of bullets poured over them, in exchange for corpses and wails everywhere. These Polish cavalry had no power to return to the sky, and there were only two ways for them to go, either surrender or flee, or death awaited them.
Thirty minutes later, the second Polish defensive position was littered with the corpses of men and horses, as well as the burning vehicles and the wails of the wounded of the surviving Polish soldiers. Now that the fighting has ceased, the SS has begun to treat them, these Polish troops have fulfilled their mission, whether they are defeated or captured, they cannot be called cowards, they have fulfilled their duties as soldiers, they are worthy of the service.
In fact, there were not many Polish troops killed in the second Polish defensive position, less than 5,000 people in total. For two Polish cavalry divisions, nearly 30,000 people, plus artillery units, to say the least, there were 40,000, and this death made the Polish army collapse. Could it be that Kruko's troops are rubbish, then you can't evaluate Kruko's cavalry like this, let the cavalry become infantry to defend, it is wrong, the advantage of cavalry is in the ability to maneuver, instead of letting them give up their horses and go to the trenches to resist the German tank assault group, isn't that looking for death, besides, can they stop the tank assault without heavy weapons? That's not possible at all.
After Weitmann treated the wounded Polish army, he began to let some tanks be on guard, and the rest of the armored vehicles and tanks began to pull those intact Polish artillery and ammunition, which was too close to the third ring defense ring of the Polish army, Weitmann did not dare to leave these intact cannons and ammunition here, and they must be transported away as soon as possible. Maybe you can ask the commander to replenish his losses as soon as possible, in exchange for these captured cannons and ammunition. I don't know if Weitmann's wish will come true.
The losses in Weitmann's heart are "heavy", how "heavy" are they, only three tanks were completely destroyed and could not be repaired, more than 10 tanks were seriously injured and needed to be repaired, and more than 20 armored vehicles were lost, more than 200 people were killed, most of them were people on armored vehicles, and more than 1,000 people were injured.
It can be seen how huge the threat of heavy artillery to tanks is, and there is a reason why Zhang Jun is bent on attaching a special aviation division to his armored corps, that is, a series of major threats such as the threat of heavy artillery against the enemy, as long as they pose a threat to Zhang Jun's tank, that is, Hartmann's aviation division will be the key target of attack, and if Zhang Jun's tank unit loses air supremacy, the seriousness of the consequences cannot be underestimated.
Zhang Jun's minimum requirement for his armor was to expose his tanks to enemy aircraft. As the king of land warfare, the tank has many incomparable advantages, and at the same time has its fatal weakness, that is, in advanced tanks, they can be destroyed by simple weapons, and the tanks of the later generations are good examples of the tanks that killed and disabled the Yankees by bombing the road.
The theory that a weapon is invincible is absolutely undesirable, it is self-defeating...... (To be continued.) )