Chapter 623: The Siege (5)

"Rush over! Rush over! Hit it!! In a Tiger tank under the 33rd Armored Division of the Ming Army, the young commander, Second Lieutenant Zhao Mingyu, loudly ordered his driver to speed up and rush forward to ram an American Xiafei tank not far ahead. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Tiger, which weighed more than fifty tons, roared and struggled forward, and soon crushed the Xiafei light tank not far away under its wide tracks. The entire area of the Xiafei tank has been blocked by tanks destroyed in the previous battle, and there is no place to escape.

Although Xia Fei desperately shot at the tiger, his weak firepower could not penetrate the extremely strong front armor of the Ming army's heavy tank. In the end, I could only watch in despair as the huge figure of the Tiger Tank rumbled over and crushed its weak body into a pile of scrap metal.

"Don't stop, keep going!" Zhao Mingyu, who was full of excitement, held his hands tightly, and lay on the commander's periscope and loudly ordered his driver to move forward and move forward.

The other tanks of Zhao Mingyu's Tiger Armored Battalion were also like Zhao Mingyu, completely ignoring the threats in other directions, and desperately moving forward quickly. Use your powerful body and strong engine power to knock all the obstacles in front of you alive. At the same time, its huge 88 mm caliber main gun is also constantly spewing flames, using heavy tungsten core armor-piercing bullets to kill all American tanks within line of sight.

"Boom!!" A dull sound was heard into the turret with a violent shaking. The whole tank was stunned. Zhao Mingyu in the thick turret also shook his body with the violent impact. After scrambling to his feet, he shouted, "Aim, kill that bastard!" ”

"Boom!" A tungsten core armor-piercing bullet came out of its chamber and slammed into the front armor of a tall but tragically armored Sherman tank at a high speed. Its fragile armor was torn apart, and then the shell burst into the car and exploded.

"Good fight!" Seeing that his target was destroyed, Zhao Mingyu waved his fist vigorously and shouted loudly, "Our record has increased by one!" ”

At this time, it was already the second day, and after the fierce battle yesterday, the commanders of the 1st Armored Group of the Ming Dynasty were shocked by the strength of the American army and the strong will to resist. After some heated arguments, they finally made up their minds to concentrate their forces and launch a general attack on the American forces the next day.

In order to crush the resistance of the American army, the commanders of the 1st Armored Group of the Ming Army were determined to concentrate the forces of the heavy Tiger tank battalions under each division and form a strong fist to smash the American resistance. This was followed by the faster Leopard tanks for a deep attack.

Nearly 200 Tiger heavy tanks from several Tiger tank battalions were grouped together as fist forces to charge at the U.S. armored clusters. The U.S. tanks that collided with them face to face were all dumbfounded. Except for a small number of M26 Pershing tanks, the main guns of other US tanks basically did little for the Super Tiger tanks of the Ming Dynasty.

And in the era when there were no instruments for accurate aiming and shooting, it was not easy to shoot a moving tank. Although the Tiger tank is very large, most of the shells fired by the US military do not know where they have flown to. When the Tiger tank approached, the American tanks were even more dumbfounded.

The powerful Tiger tank destroyed the American tanks one by one with its invincible artillery at close range, and also used its huge body to destroy the American tanks. In the face of this huge disparity in strength, although the US armored troops are still resisting to the death, their morale is declining rapidly.

Especially in yesterday's battle, the most powerful elite unit of the US army, its armored instructor was almost completely wiped out. The US armored forces, which had lost their backbone, had already begun to retreat at this time. The balance of victory on the battlefield has gradually tilted in favor of the Ming army.

However, at this time, the front-line troops were about to collapse. The commander of the US army resolutely gave the order to carry out a fierce covering artillery bombardment on the battlefield where the tank clusters of the two sides of the front line were stalemate.

This order will first reveal the location of its main artillery positions. This was followed by this kind of indiscriminate shooting, which, in the case of an effective blow to the tank units of the Ming army, would also wipe out their own armored units on the front line. Moreover, after the main artillery positions were exposed, they would inevitably be fiercely counterattacked by the powerful artillery of the Ming army, and the main artillery forces would also suffer heavy losses.

It's just that the US military commander now has no choice.

At this time, the front-line troops of the US army collapsed a little, and the entire rear would be completely lost. Because they can no longer organize an effective counterattack. The most core armored unit of the U.S. military, the armored instructor, was crippled in yesterday's battle. It was the only armored unit in the U.S. military that was equipped with more M26 Pershing tanks than Sherman.

Not only the armored instructors, but also several other armored units here were also disabled in yesterday's fierce battle. The American commanders no longer had the strength to continue to block the powerful armored forces of the Ming army. In this case, he will either watch his main force be defeated, or he will be dying and prolonging the attack as long as possible.

In fact, the U.S. military still has a large number of infantry units at the moment. But if you want to rely on the infantry to resist the armored forces, it is nonsense. The infantry is armed with anti-tank guns and bazookas, although they can also deal damage to enemy armored units. However, the armored cluster of the Ming army in front of them was as many as a thousand vehicles, and once they successfully ran on this relatively flat terrain, the infantry would have no way to resist at all.

The U.S. commander's order was met with strong opposition, but it was eventually issued.

A large number of large-caliber artillery pieces poured tens of thousands of shells into the area where the two sides were stalemate in a short time. The troops on both sides on the battlefield are very crowded, and the area is not large. Covered by a massive number of heavy shells within such a narrow range, the result is self-evident.

"Bastard!" The commander of the Ming army, who was observing the battlefield in the front-line artillery observation post, trembled with anger after seeing this scene. The shamelessness of the Americans was beyond his imagination. This kind of all-round artillery coverage, which does not distinguish between the enemy and the enemy, is indeed a great irritation to everyone.

"Kill all the artillery units of the Americans!" Enraged, the Ming commander shouted orders his artillery to immediately launch a fierce artillery counterattack.

The American artillerymen, who had already exposed their positions during the previous covering shot, were now in a hurry to transfer. But if you can escape so easily, it is too much to look down on the artillery units of the Ming army.

Through the reports of artillery observers on the front line and reconnaissance planes of the army aviation, the Ming army quickly found and confirmed the location of the American artillery position. Subsequently, thousands of Ming artillery launched a ferocious artillery attack on the American artillery positions. The intensity of its firepower and the amount of shelling are incredible.

It took less than 10 minutes for the Ming artillery unit to overturn more than a dozen US artillery positions. The violent explosion stirred up gunpowder smoke and dust. The ammunition on many US artillery positions was violently detonated, and its tremendous power even formed a huge mushroom cloud over its positions.

The U.S. forces prevented the Ming army's powerful assault with a covering attack. The Ming army quickly used artillery fire to counterattack, and almost destroyed the artillery power of the American army. The day's fighting almost ended in defeat. However, the Ming army could quickly mobilize a large number of reinforcements from the rear, especially armored units, to replenish the losses on the front. But the U.S. military had no armor in their hands at this time.

When the news came that the Ming army had mobilized armored troops from the rear to come for reinforcements, the American commander fell into deep thought. The power in his hand was no longer able to stop the Ming army's ferocious attack like the previous two days. In the face of a powerful armor frenzy, the only way to stop it is to have armor units of equal strength.

It is a pity that the US military no longer has this kind of power in its hands at this moment. Especially when the artillery power of its main artillery has already been destroyed.

The thought of tomorrow's battle gives the US commander a headache. After careful consideration, the US commander finally made up his mind to launch a powerful night attack at night, so as to greatly contain the Ming army's attack tomorrow.

Immediately, a huge night raid began.

Because too much artillery power has been consumed in the previous battles. U.S. commanders simply stopped using artillery support when launching night raids. While this will result in a lack of effective fire support for night raiders, it will improve the concealment of some night raids.

The U.S. military mobilized three full-fledged infantry divisions that had never experienced combat and mobilized nearly 40,000 combat troops. Carrying a large amount of explosives, anti-tank rocket launchers and recoilless artillery, they took advantage of the darkness to reach the Ming positions.

It was a rare moonless night. Thick dark clouds hide the moon in the night. Tens of thousands of U.S. officers and soldiers densely approached the Ming army's position like a dense colony of relocated ants.

According to the intelligence report, the Ming army did not set up any minefields and trench lines in front of its positions, which is good news for the US military.

However, what the US officers and men did not know was that the main reason why the Ming army did not set up minefields and trench positions was that the Ming army was deployed on the front line at the moment with armored troops. The armored forces have a large number of tanks and armored vehicles.

These heavy weapons were armed with a large number of artillery pieces and machine guns. If they encounter a large group of infantry, these weapons will become a nightmare for the infantry. (To be continued.) )