Chapter 172: A Sinister Battle

Deceived by the Soviet checkpoint and walked a few hundred meters, Lynn drove to a three-way intersection, made a slight turn and headed due south. It is a wide, straight road, with remnants of landscape plants in the middle of the divider, and the collapsed street lamps should have illuminated the road like giants, and judging by the ruins of buildings on both sides, the neighborhood was originally neat and modern.

The dense gunfire of the urban area has been left behind, and there are frequent fierce and dense gunfire not far away, but the road in front of him is empty and silent, if it were not for the gravel and rubble all over the road, Lynn could run here at the top speed of the VW82 military "barrel car". Strange to think about, there is not a single abrupt building in sight around this wide road, and naturally it will not become the commanding heights of the Soviet army's firepower in the blockade of the city like those buildings before, and it is not difficult for the powerful breakthrough to grasp the current situation in the southern city and suburbs of Berlin before. Is it because of the distance, or something else?

The answer Lynn doesn't know for the time being, and he can only drive cautiously at 30 kilometers per hour without turning on the lights, but even so, the slightly larger rocks make the car constantly bounce and bumble, which fully tests the durability of German machinery. In order to guard against the Soviet soldiers who might be lurking in the ruins, the carload remained silent, except for Wolfrum humming a song that they were completely unfamiliar with. Some of them have no words, only light and melodious tunes, and some of the lyrics, although they have a curly tongue sound, are very different from German. Perhaps, like Lynn, the other soldiers were curious about Vofrum's fluent Russian, but didn't want the invisible atmosphere of racial theory to hurt their close comrades.

If he could drive so smoothly, Lynn didn't mind escaping Berlin alone with his headquarters, but as he drove on, he saw a truck with the same lights on and rush out of the left fork, and although it didn't collide with him, he quickly turned to the right, thus keeping a certain distance from him. At first glance, the guy thought it was a "Katyusha", but instead of MLRS, the carriage was loaded with a high-powered searchlight mounted on a stand, and several Soviet soldiers sat next to it. Immediately after that, three more trucks of similar appearance came out of the fork in the road. Their slightly curved bonnet and cab profile are typical of the Soviet style, the cabin has a low bezel with searchlights and two front and four rear wheels.

Four hurried trucks, with their big tire rims, made their way through the gravel-strewn streets, leaving Lynn's military barrel truck behind in a few moments. Looking at their distant figures for a moment, Lynn suddenly remembered that when he was in Oranienburg, it was these Soviet searchlights that almost killed him. Seeing them in such a hurry, could it be that they were heading for the German armored forces that broke through?

The infrared night vision equipment of the German army, if not the most advanced, was the first night combat equipment to be put into practical use on the battlefield in this era. German tanks, armored vehicles and infantry that are proficient in the use of these equipment are like "vampires", with incomparable combat effectiveness against the enemy in battles that take place in dark environments, and the traditional battlefield lighting methods such as searchlights and flares can be called the natural enemies of "vampires", especially in terms of effective distance, far superior to the current infrared night vision equipment. It is obvious that once these four high-power searchlights are put into operation, the advantages of the German "Night Leopard" and night vision armored vehicles will be wiped out, and they may even be interfered with, greatly affecting their own shooting accuracy and making the battlefield situation a fatal reversal.

Between selfishness and selflessness, Lynn made a difficult choice - he couldn't tell if it was driven by intuition or a desire for fate. In all fairness, Lorentz. Bach's potential safety was only a minor factor, but it was certainly taken into account by Lynn.

When the four trucks turned into the fork on the right, Lynn drove up and whispered to everyone to "get ready for battle."

Gradually, the sound of gunfire that had been far away gradually became clear again.

There is a clear speed gap with those trucks, and the distance is getting bigger and bigger, but this is not a rally race for endurance after all. After two blocks, the four trucks with searchlights finally slowed down and stopped on the side of the road, and although there were Soviet checkpoints along the way, the sentries apparently took the barrel trucks that followed them as the command vehicles of their own officers, and let them go without questioning.

Seeing that the trucks stopped, Lynn slowed down and drove slowly into the ruins on the side of the alley, extinguished the fire, told the soldiers to spread their guard, and quickly climbed up the pile of rubble, pulling out delicate binoculars with very limited magnification. Following the clear sound of the guns, the battle was just a street corner away, and it seemed that the German armored column moving forward in the exchange of fire was much slower than its own small car. In the line of sight, there were a series of bullets flying out of the collapsed buildings on both sides of the road, such blocking fire was very fierce, but ordinary bullets could not stop the German tanks, and those tanks and anti-tank guns hidden between the rubble were the real threat. However, after observing for a while, Lynn found that once the Soviet tanks and artillery fired, they would soon be returned by the opponent's accurate fire, although such artillery fire may not cause fatal damage, but it made the Soviet tankers and gunners very jealous, so that the artillery fire in a defensive position has been suppressed.

Suddenly, with the first searchlight on, the dim battlefield first changed dramatically from the visual light. This thick pillar of light shot straight to the north, that is, in the direction of the city of Berlin, Lynn immediately saw the "night leopard" at the head of the platoon in the telescope, three cars were at the front of the queue one by one, they staggered each other to form a not very standard "pin" zigzag, the barrel was almost level with the ground, the turret and the body were slightly angled, from the front it looked majestic and domineering, like a cavalry general with bright armor on the ancient battlefield, and the "black panther" following behind was an elite heavy cavalry ready to charge at any time, This scene was immediately deeply engraved in Lynn's mind, coupled with everything he had experienced before, and in an instant, for the first time, he felt sincerely proud of the camp that God had chosen for him.

It's a pity that the heroes are dying, and the magnificent World War II is coming to an end, and these great battles can only be relived in memory and on the screen in the future.

Putting aside the remaining thoughts, Lynn turned sideways to greet Tanze and Noah. The young private, who had been watching under the rubble for a while with his riflescope, climbed up as fast as he could when he heard the command, while the anti-tank shooter had presciently loaded his rockets and climbed the ruins with his hands flat. Frederick once again took on the role of loader, following behind with an assault rifle and a rocket.

"Marcos, you start fighting from the one in the distance, and then come closer after extinguishing!" After explaining to Tanze, Lynn asked Noah again, "Can you hit them from here?" ”

At the moment when the soldiers came up, two more searchlights were lit in front of them, making this ruined neighborhood extremely transparent, and there was a small pond in the middle of the battlefield, which was probably originally a landscape-style pool or a small artificial lake, and the thick and bright pillars of light shot through the water, and from Lynn's position, it seemed like a dream.

In order to avoid being completely wiped out by the Germans, the four Soviet trucks were separated by dozens of meters from each other, the nearest one was within the effective range of the 88-mm anti-tank rocket launcher, and the farthest was about six or seven hundred meters. The trucks did not stand still, moving sideways as soon as the lights were turned on - sometimes forward, sometimes backwards, turning off the lights every half minute or so, and turning them back on after a few seconds, and so on, to avoid the German tanks in front of them. The German tank column quickly fired several shells, but none of them directly hit the truck or searchlight, and although the shrapnel fragments from the explosion caused some casualties to the Soviet soldiers on board, the rest of the men continued to use searchlights to light up the battlefield.

Noah glanced at it and replied, "There are only two rockets, and at most two will be destroyed!" ”

Lynn had always been aware of the amount of weapons and ammunition, and now even if there were more rockets, those targets that were too far away would not be able to be killed directly - Tanze's sniper rifle had enough light range, but it only fired from the side and rear, and it was not completely sure that the searchlight would be destroyed.

Generous and calm, Lynn ordered: "After we get closer from behind, Noah, you will fire at the nearest truck, Marcos, according to what I said, start from a distance, how many cars can be killed, don't worry about us, you can't kill it, we will find a way to solve it!" ”

(To be continued)