Chapter 214: A Torrent of Steel

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The 31st Regiment of the U.S. Army's 7th Division and its armored company are stationed in Houpo awaiting orders, having crushed the last North Korean offensive a few days ago and have been in a state of silence on the Western Front ever since. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Twenty-two Sherman tanks of the Info Armored Company are scattered in various positions, alerting the North Korean army for another human sea charge.

After a long, cold winter in the mountains of North Korea, tank drivers have been keeping vigil for days after crawling out of the icy cockpit to go to the toilet, and they have not seen a single person. And the command just asked them to wait for the order, there was no way, the 31st Regiment and the armored company could only spend the short days and long nights here full of complaints. Tank riders have been curled up in cramped spaces for days to sleep.

The tank driver stood in the snow with a cigarette in his mouth and peed, muttering curses about the damn weather and the damn war, and just as he was about to put on his belt, there seemed to be two black dots the size of sesame seeds on the hillside that had been separated by several weights, and it would have been hard to spot if it weren't for his good eyesight.

The driver hurriedly picked up the binoculars and pointed them at that place, and when he was startled, he realized that two Soviet-made T34 tanks were rushing towards this place, and there was a burst of snow at the end.

"Ha, the North Korean army also sent a few broken tanks to die this time, this is to brush up on the achievements of our tanks." The tank driver excitedly fastened his belt, hummed a tune all the way back, climbed up to the turret in front of the tank and knocked on the hatch, the commander of the Sherman tank crawled out while rubbing his sleepy eyes and asked the tank driver what was wrong.

The tank driver reported that the T34 tanks of the North Korean army were running over to die, and the commander was depressed at first, because it stands to reason that the North Korean tank company has been wiped out a long time ago, so why do they still have T34 tanks at this time, and it stands to reason that these tanks have no reason to attack them. You must know that the northern front is the area where the fighting is most intense.

The cautious commander reported the anomaly to the commander of the armoured company, and with permission, he drove in with two other Sherman tanks to reconnoiter the situation, and if it was really a North Korean tank, with this group of veterans who had survived the European battlefield, it would be more than enough to deal with a few North Korean soldiers who had just learned to drive tanks.

The tank started. With a loud humming sound from the engine, the sherman tank on the Korean battlefield did slightly outperform other medium tanks in terms of performance with an astonishing horsepower. The rotation of the tracks mixed with a snow mist crushed in the direction of the T34 tank's attack.

However, when they climbed the steep slope to reach their destination, everyone was stunned by the sight in front of them, black figures all over the mountains were rushing towards here from the direction of the north, and the T34 tank armor group was so dense that almost the entire snow was turned into a black armored area. When it is densely packed to such an extent, it no longer matters whether it is a hundred or three hundred tanks. Those icy turrets emit a deathly chill in the sunlight, the deepest fear that comes from the bones of the Sherman tank driver.

The commander pointed at the driver and yelled, "You idiot, how many tanks are you talking about?" ”

At this time, the others who were shocked had forgotten the words of the commander, and they only remembered the large-scale armored group of the Soviet army that the instructor had described in one word. That word is deeply engraved in everyone's memory.

Torrent of red steel.

Yes, that terrible armored behemoth finally showed his abominable fangs.

After a brief period of distraction, the Sherman tank finally opened fire, but it was difficult to concentrate in fear and shock, and the Sherman tank's 76mm gun always missed. The T34 tanks on the opposite side were densely populated with mountains. But not to the point of being targeted by a few Shermans, several shells missed, and not a single T34 tank was hit.

The commander had already told the commander of the armored company about the sudden battle situation here, and the company commander just said "hold on, and soon send all the tanks to support" and then hung up the radio. Seeing this scene, the tank driver suddenly had an ominous premonition.

However, his foreboding soon became a reality, and another equally unlucky Sherman tank crew member told the commander of the armored company that the company commander had left a few of them with the entire company and the 31st Regiment to prepare for an early retreat, leaving them three Sherman tanks to delay time. The commander almost exploded when he heard this, and the three Shermans blocked the three hundred T34s, so he was really not sick. It's too little to stuff people's teeth.

Just as everyone was about to abandon the car and run away, the team leader stopped them. He only said one word, and those who were going to flee for their lives consciously stayed.

"If you are not willing to fight, then at least let the brothers behind you know that it is not impossible to protect those people. It's just that we've done our best. ”

The 31st Regiment and the Separate Panzer Company were followed by soldiers from the rest of the Eighth Army, and a retreat without hearing from them would have a catastrophic effect.

The T34 tank group that discovered the three Shermans was ecstatic, and two of the T34s rushed towards the Sherman directly from the normal marching route, firing as they rushed back in an attempt to snatch the first credit. The Sherman tank immediately counterattacked, and also strafed with the M2 machine gun, but the tank driver apparently had not yet seen the horrors covered by the steel torrent artillery.

The other T34 tanks turned their turrets and aimed their arms at the three Shermans. Then launch together. I saw hundreds of shells pouring down on them like Katyusha artillery, like a rain of metal and steel, and the shells fell around the Sherman tank and exploded, but the two unlucky tanks were killed on the spot and turned into a piece of scrap metal, and finally one Sherman tank narrowly escaped the enemy's fire. And now, only one Sherman is nothing in the face of the torrent of steel.

"We're the only ones left." The tank driver replied bitterly, "They have all died, and I really want to tell the troops behind us that we have done our best." Damn, there's got to be at least a couple of hundred tanks here. How to play if the difference in strength is too great? The last words of the driver were interrupted by the rumbling sound of the armored car, and several T34s surrounded him, and the driver hung up the white flag and announced his surrender as a last resort, and all the crew members of the tank became prisoners of the Soviet army.

Even the Soviet army's own armored forces did not expect the offensive to go smoothly, and only encountered three recalcitrant tanks, and it took almost no effort to fall Houpu. Most of the soldiers of the 31 regiment became prisoners of the Soviet Red Army.

Next, the Soviet army will sing all the way south with lightning speed, like a sharp arrow directly into the heart of the American ** team! (To be continued.) )