Chapter 22: A Day and Night of Bitter Struggle (Part I)
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Lynn looked at the front line from an unrecognizable and unrecognizable building, and saw that the fierce fighting at the Mordson chemical plant was still going on, and the Soviet Tanluk who had stormed the defenders' positions was simply a stupid beetle that knew only what was alive and dead, and the corpses of their companions were strewn all over the place, and they were still pushing forward one after another. Lynn divided her elite troops into six commandos, each with about 40 men, roughly equivalent to a platoon of a regular army, and one of the commandos had joined the defense of the Morderson chemical plant.
Against fortified structures defended by a stubborn enemy, the Soviet offensive methods could be called "brilliant." "The Tanluk and the infantry were already advancing, the ferocious shelling was not over, the infantry guns were firing from the front of the position at a fast rate of fire, the large-caliber anti-Tanluk guns were also finding their place again on reinforced concrete targets, the three swarms of attack planes were always coldly swooping down through the smoke clouds, and the machine guns that had been used to deal with Tanluk were strafing the fortifications where the defenders were located with a strange clattering sound. The high-explosive and armor-piercing shells fired from the long-barreled artillery continued to ravage the battered exterior walls of the factory buildings, and those fire-breathing tans often rushed straight forward, spraying flames from twenty or thirty meters away at the buildings held by the insurgents, and the billowing smoke from the whips mixed with gunpowder smoke and dust and fog mixed together, obscuring the sunlight and filling the entire battlefield with a suffocating atmosphere......
"Sir, the fighters of the 9th and 16th garrison battalions have suffered casualties, and the personnel of the 2nd Commando have lost more than half!" The subordinate officer who assisted in the command reported with a solemn face.
Through his observation of the battlefield, Lynn was prepared for such a casualty report, admiring the sacrifice of the soldiers, especially the ordinary insurgents, and at the same time having to ruthlessly send more soldiers into the meat grinder-like battlefield. As the saying goes, once you will become famous, every time you think of so many fresh lives behind her achievements, Lynn will always feel infinitely sad. However, never give up easily.
Before giving the order for additional troops. Lynn looked at her watch with a heavy expression. Before noon, the insurgents had to hold on to the Soviet attack for at least half a day, and as long as they stayed up until dark, the defensive pressure would be reduced accordingly. And after this night, the full-scale operation of the imperial base camp will contain the Soviet forces deployed in Germany and even in Central Europe. At that time, they will not only extinguish the fire of the uprising in Stuttgart, but also the national war that will burn everywhere!
Four years of salary, four years of sharpening the sword. The final moment is coming. Even if you are hurt and exhausted, how can you collapse before the finish line?
Lynn gritted his teeth and squeezed out the battle order from between his teeth: "Let the 20th battalion get on!" Let the No. 2 Tanluk team come forward to support! ”
Due to both strategic and tactical constraints, Lynn's troops were unable to take with them the mountain assault vehicles that had performed well in the previous phase when they moved to Germany, when each of the two Tanluk groups used a captured T34/85, which had plenty of ammunition and fuel and was in good combat condition, with the only less desirable being the combat members, the soldiers who had joined the Imperial Guard in the early days had become multi-functional elites during the long and monotonous military training. It was not difficult to find someone from Lynn's commando team who could drive and operate the Tanrk, and the original mountain assault crew also had more experience in fighting armored vehicles. It's just that they are not familiar with Soviet-made weapons, not to mention that they can't reach the technical and tactical level of the excellent Tanluk group, and even the ordinary Soviet Tanluk group is not as good as it. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to face hundreds of enemy tanluk on the battlefield, and it is difficult not to drown in the rolling torrent of steel wheel tracks, let alone to boost the morale of the officers and men with continuous victories? …,
At the time of receiving the battle order, five members of Commando Team 2 Tanluk and their "Red Golem" were on standby in an alley in the southern part of the city. Sheltered by the rumbling of cannons, the roar of Tanluk's activation was not ostentatious, and in the hands of the strange driver, the ferocious steel beast obediently drove out of the alley, and turned at the intersection according to the instructions of the traffic commander. In order to prevent the unwitting insurgents from thinking that the Soviet army was attacking from the rear, the commandos hung an iron cross battle flag from the Reich on the front and back of the vehicle. The people around him shouted in unison.
Since the insurgents had already set up barricades on the main roads, Tanluk could not drive straight to the battlefield, and a T-34 loaded with sandbags and camouflage nets could not withstand the enemy's armored clusters. The instructed traffic commanders guided the lonely Tanlunk to turn left and right in the ruined city, sometimes through narrow alleys and broken buildings to avoid the bombing and strafing of Soviet fighters, and by the time he arrived at the intended sniper position, the sandbags and canvas covered in the Tanluk were in tatters, and the armor plates blackened and even twisted by explosives were even more shocking.
As reinforcements from the reserve force arrived, the battle around the Mordsen chemical plant intensified. In order to cut off the connection between the factory and the surrounding defenders, the Soviet army wedged in from the east and west sides of the factory with two armored assault groups with more than 30 Tanrek each, and the Soviet infantry did not hesitate to follow up the battle at the cost of casualties.
After being attacked by Soviet fighters on the way, the members of Commando No. 2 Tanlunk Group, knowing that their presence was no secret to the enemy, strengthened their battle camouflage with the help of the insurgents, and used the cover of dilapidated buildings to fire the first shot at the Soviet Tanlunk. At a distance of about six hundred meters, a qualified German gunner was able to use the Tiger, Leopard, No. 4 Tanrek or FLAK
The 88 and other standard guns used accurate firepower, but the first round of fire from the second Tanlunk group did not hit the target - although the T-34 that participated in the left flank assault exposed the wide, striking and weakly defended side hull to the opponent on this side, the armor-piercing shells that deviated from the target did not cause any damage to it.
Before the frustration could take root, the members of the Tanluk group quickly reloaded, and the invincible emperor who operated the 75mm gun on the mountain assault gun also stared wide-eyed to calibrate the shooting. By the end of World War II, the Soviets had begun to upgrade and improve their primitive Tanluk sighting system, but the war duel between the Eastern and Western camps greatly slowed down this process, and the rudimentary optical sighting equipment allowed the Soviets to continue to follow their Tanluk tactics of rapid impact and close-range fighting, and suffered considerable losses while defeating the Western Allied forces.
Fine-tuning on the spot and the target being at a low speed due to the tactical state, the second armor-piercing projectile of the commando Tanlunk group hit the Soviet Tanlunk without failing to fulfill its mission, there was no violent explosion reaction, no flames and smoke erupted, it was like a bison shot by a poisoned arrow, and it took a few steps forward as if nothing happened, and then stopped. Affected by the smoke of the battlefield and the lack of combat experience in dealing with Tanrek, the insurrectionists remained silent, and even Tanrakri's gunners were not so sure that they had succeeded in taking out their target. The herds of "bison" did not pay much attention to their stragglers, and continued to attack the defenders on the hills north of the plant, but the Soviet infantrymen who were responsible for covering the flank of the Tanyak noticed something unusual, and they turned their machines [Kikura] to fire in the direction of the incoming shells, and at the same time informed their own Tanlunk fighters in a primitive and effective way. …,
Another armor-piercing shell was filled into the chamber of the T-34 main gun, and after slightly raising the muzzle, the gunner fired again at the target he had just taken, and the movement of the shell hitting the hull of the opposite Tanlonk was still not proportional to the movement of the Tanlonk when he fired, but this time, the commander of the insurgents watching the battle observed the bullet holes in the target's armor with a telescope, and he climbed up to the Tanlonk despite the danger, patted the turret hatch and shouted: "Hit, hit the target!" ”
At this moment, the members of the Tanluk group gave the first cheer of victory - what complicated feelings would those German Tanluk aces who had once dominated the storm have if they witnessed the performance of their juniors?
Realizing that his flank was under rare direct artillery fire from the defenders, several Soviet tanks on the left side of the queue quickly turned, and at such a distance it was difficult to penetrate the thick frontal armor of the T-34 with the 85-mm guns of the T-34. With the successful experience just now, the No. 2 Tanluk group of the commando team opened fire continuously before the enemy Tanluk organized a counterattack, and the armor-piercing shell hit a Soviet Tanluk that did not turn, and a puff of black smoke came out from its engine compartment, and Tanluk also stopped moving.
The Soviet Tanlangk's counterattack artillery fire almost came with the triumphant cheers of the members of the Commando Team No. 2 Tanluk, the same shooting and aiming system, the accuracy of the shells made every member of this lonely Tanluk raise their hearts to their throats, the broken wall could only slightly affect the speed and trajectory of the armor-piercing projectile, the metal with huge kinetic energy was equally deadly before it burst to produce a deadly jet, and the flying debris produced under their impact was as terrible as a sub-bullet, The sturdy Tanlok armor rattled under the impact of various debris.
Just suffered a counterattack, the members of the commando Tanluk group still gritted their teeth and insisted on fighting, and the next two shelling received another hit, but the enemy's artillery fire became more and more fierce and accurate, and additional defensive means such as sandbags did not have much effect against direct artillery fire, and the lonely Tanluk shrouded in the barrage was suddenly shot, and the trembling of the car made the driver hurriedly start Tanluk and reverse the car, until he hid behind the large area of ruins that the enemy Tanluk could not observe and he could not see the enemy's position, He stopped the car in shock.
"Report casualties!" The commando who served as the commander of the vehicle shouted eagerly.
Moments later, each member of the group reported "safety" with trepidation.
"Let's see if there is any loss of equipment!" The commander ordered in non-standard terms.
"Artillery...... Normal, bullet medicine...... Normal. ”
"Power...... Normal, front machine [Kikura]...... Damaged, the armor-piercing shell crossed from the position of the machine [wooden warehouse], and no casualties were really lucky. ”
"Alright, the red puppet of Lucky Luck, I hope it will keep up this good luck in the rest of the battle." The commander said bitterly, "Let's change positions and continue the fight, the soldiers on the front line urgently need our fire support." (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is the author's greatest motivation. )