"Boom!" A dull sound, accompanied by violent shaking, made Lin Shuo's nose almost come into close contact with the cold steel for the last time. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info However, Lin Shuo, who has been on the battlefield for so long, and has suffered many such losses in previous battles, has already had an instinctive reaction in the face of this situation, and he held on to the handrail on the side, and this time he was not injured.

"The turret is stuck!" The reloader's shout made Lin Shuo's heart chill. Although the man was fine, the heavy turret was shattered by the force of the armor-piercing projectile, and the hydraulic rotation mechanism could not be rotated. This on the battlefield means losing combat effectiveness.

The Tiger tanks of the Ming army were very well armoured, especially the turrets. Moreover, all of the Ming Tiger tanks have a gun shield on the turret, and they want to penetrate this level of defense, even the German heavy tank No. 6 on the opposite side (sorry, I made a mistake before, it should be the six instead of the five). It is also impossible to use an 88 mm caliber tungsten core armor-piercing projectile. That's beyond armor-piercing capabilities.

However, although it cannot penetrate the turret, the huge vibration force is enough to damage the vehicle. Moreover, not all Ming tanks were as lucky as Lin Shuo's crew, able to hide behind the wreckage of a destroyed tank to avoid most of the attacks, especially the attack on the front armor.

At this time, both sides were in close combat in the town of Cassino at the same time, and the main tanks of both sides were almost able to penetrate the front armor of the other side at close range. The 2nd Panzer Division has lost dozens of combat vehicles since it entered the battle.

"Sir, what now?" The crew members in the Tiger Tank were all waiting for Lin Shuo's order. It is impossible to repair hydraulics on the battlefield, and no one can repair a tank on the battlefield when the artillery is under fire. The enemy's guns are not vegetarian. In general, if the vehicle still has the ability to move, it will choose to retreat on its own initiative. And if you lose the ability to maneuver, you can only choose to abandon the car and leave.

"Wait a minute, reverse and dodge the attack first." Lin Shuo is not just the commander of this tiger, he is the commander of the entire heavy tank battalion. He is responsible not only for this Tiger, but also for the entire heavy tank battalion. From the beginning of the battle in the afternoon to the day when it was about to dark, the 2nd Panzer Division had successively committed more than three and a half armored battalions in this town. However, in just a few hours, dozens or hundreds of vehicles have been severely damaged in battle. At this time, every tank fighting on the front line was a valuable combat power, and Lin Shuo didn't want to withdraw from the battlefield so early.

However, although Lin Shuo himself was reluctant to leave, his superiors had decided to withdraw the heavily damaged armored forces during the night and hand over the position to the infantry who followed him to hold on.

As the troops of the 2nd Panzer Division gradually withdrew from the battlefield, the sky gradually darkened. After a day of fierce fighting, the battlefield gradually turned from a peak to a trough. All that remained between the two sides was harassment and mutual attacks. From time to time, there was a shelling or a barrage of machine-gun bullets. Immediately after the battle, move your position to avoid the enemy's retaliation. Of course, at this time, small-scale night infiltration raids, tongue grabbing, desperate laying of mines, and compressing the opponent's position as much as possible are inevitable. They are all professional armies, and they all know what to do.

During the daytime battle, nearly 300 fighters of various types were damaged on both sides. Both Kesselring and the commanders of the Ming army and aviation were all bitter. No country can afford this rate of loss. This is not the only battlefield in this world.

What was originally an armored assault at the foot of the mountain as a feint evolved into a large-scale armored clash after both sides were on fire. The loss of more than 100 tanks not only made the elite Imperial Division feel distressed, but even the wealthy Ming Army was just as painful.

As the main battlefield, the battle for the Monastery of Cassino was reduced to rubble in the frenzied shelling and bombardment between the two sides almost at any cost. At least thousands of officers and soldiers between the two sides fell on this position. Such a fierce battle was only possible on the main Russian battlefield on the Eastern Front. That was because when Russia launched a frantic attack on Ulla, it was hit by the superior firepower of the Ming army.

However, such heavy casualties did not stop the Ming army from attacking. In order to be able to win the war, the Ming army was willing to pay any price. In the following two days, the Ming army continued to draw troops and reinforcements to supplement the 71st Infantry Division and the Second Armored Division as the main attack. Again and again, they launched ferocious attacks on the Cassino Line. Although each attack failed despite their best efforts, they also inflicted great casualties on the Germans who had the advantage of terrain.

The German 90th Panzergrenadier Division, which had been on the defensive side of Cassino Front, had to be withdrawn for a recuperation after only two days of fighting. And that's when they get a lot of reinforcements. The Ming army's aerial bomber group was like bread, and hundreds or thousands of tons of bombs were still on the German positions. Coupled with the dense heavy artillery bombardment, the entire Cassino front was almost cut off half a meter high.

In addition to the intensive bombardment, the Ming infantry's fearless and decisive assault also brought a huge shock to the German army. Originally, many Germans believed that the reason why the Ming army often won battles was because the Ming Dynasty was strong, and it was far ahead of other countries in terms of equipment, training, logistics, supply, etc. The Germans did not think that the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty had much courage in battle. Because the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty basically belonged to the propertied class and received a good education. They were just a bunch of young master soldiers who couldn't fight hard.

But the performance of the Ming infantry in the battle of Cassino Peak deeply shocked the Germans. Those brave Ming infantry bravely braved the rain of machine gun bullets and hordes of grenades with blood and lives to break through the German defense line again and again, rushed into the monastery and engaged the German soldiers in a close battle to the death. The momentum of the brave and unparalleled iron-blooded soldiers shocked the Germans and greatly inspired their sense of honor as soldiers.

The 90th Panzergrenadier, with nearly 15,000 troops, was exhausted in almost two days, including reinforcements seconded from other infantry divisions. Faced with this situation, a frightened Rommel readjusted his deployment and withdrew the 90th Panzergrenadier Division, which had suffered heavy losses, from its position on Cassino Peak and replaced it with the paratroopers of the 1st Parachute Division, which had just arrived at the front from Milan.

Since the Ming Dynasty's paratroopers had an amazing performance after the war, all countries began to increase their attention to paratroopers and invested resources. This is also the consistent position of all countries in the world, following the footsteps of the Ming Dynasty, and they will follow what the Ming Dynasty focuses on. This is the best way to catch up with the Ming Dynasty. It hasn't changed in hundreds of years.

The German 1st Parachute Division, just by looking at the number, you can already understand its elite level. With the deepening of the understanding and research of airborne tactics in various countries, various air defense weapons have emerged one after another. Large-scale airborne operations are already difficult to achieve at the moment, because conducting large-scale airborne operations means paying extremely high costs and risks.

Both the Ming Dynasty and the allies are now very cautious about the use of paratroopers, because no one wants a group of powerful airborne troops that have consumed a lot of supplies and have been trained for a long time to be destroyed by a few anti-aircraft shells. The 1st German Parachute Division, which was born at an untimely time, was also used as an elite infantry unit.

After the Ming landed in Salerno, Rommel urgently summoned the German troops stationed everywhere to quickly approach Rome, preparing to gather his strength. The soldiers are all selected from various active units, and the First Parachute Division is no exception.

They had a relatively smooth journey. After all, they are paratroopers, strictly in the category of light infantry. The Ming bomber units, which bombed heavily throughout Italy, generally preferred to target the German armored forces, which made the journey of the 1st Parachute Division relatively smooth.

Not long after the 1st Parachute Division arrived in Rome, it was summoned to the Cassino battlefield by a telegram from Rommel. The 90th Panzer Infantry Division, which had taken over heavy losses, continued to hold positions on Cassino Peak.

The Ming offensive did not end because the Germans changed their troops, but became more aggressive. Originally, all the units of the 71st Infantry Division had basically been crippled in the previous battle, and the powerful attack was accompanied by a huge casualty figure of 0. The various units of the Ming Army were not like the temporary Japanese divisions that were put together in the later stages of the war against Japan, and there were few logistical and support forces. Among the various units of the Ming Army, the units that served as logistics and support were sometimes not even smaller than those that were purely combat.

As a comprehensive grouped combined army, such as the artillery regiment, communications battalion, medical battalion, transport regiment, air defense battalion, gendarmerie company, cartography company, anti-tank battalion, engineer battalion and so on under the 71st Infantry Division, the forces can remain relatively intact. But the casualties of several infantry regiments were very large.

Because of the special terrain restrictions, it was difficult for the Ming army to invest too many troops at one time during the attack, and it was enough to maintain the attack scale of one division on the front line. After the 71st Infantry Division suffered heavy losses, the commander of the Ming front did not adjust again, but continued to temporarily transfer the strength of other division-level units to the 71st Infantry Division to fight.

When the German 1st Parachute Division took over from the 90th Panzergrenadier Division and entered the main position, the 71st Infantry Division of the Ming Dynasty again launched a fierce attack with the support of powerful artillery and air power. And this battle is three days.

During these three days, the entire Cassino Peak was completely transformed into a huge meat grinder. Even if Da Ming pushed the bombardment and attack on Cassino Peak to the top state, the entire mountain peak was almost flattened by several meters by the violent explosion. But the German 1st Parachute Division, which paid a huge price, still stubbornly hung the flag high on the position of Cassino Peak! (To be continued.) )