Chapter 177: Accidental Rescue
Perhaps it was because Lynn had a strong oriental flavor to his words, or perhaps because he was not good enough in the use of certain words, and the soldiers were all silent after listening to them, just smoking their cigarettes sullenly. When only cigarette butts were left in his mouth, he heard a sudden explosion of thunder, and the atmosphere in the carriage was like a slowly expanding large balloon that was suddenly punctured. Everyone was startled on the spot, and in an instant, another explosion and thunder struck, and with a sharp and piercing sound of metal rubbing, the armored car suddenly stopped. The people in the carriage rolled into a ball defenselessly, and before everyone could slow down, there was another loud explosion, as if the most violent rolling thunder in Xia Yue exploded in their ears.
After a few moments, the armored car moved again, but instead of continuing from before, it quickly turned to the left.
Wolfrum was the first to climb up on the handrail, he stood on the machine gun position and looked out, and hurriedly shouted: "We have two tanks hit, damn it, the ruins of the factory in front of the left...... There are Soviet artillery there, and there are tanks! They are still shooting at us! Hide, everyone! ”
As soon as the words fell, a bursting rumble sounded in my ears again. Although a little dizzy, Lynn felt the armored car she was in change direction again, this time to the right. In order to get to the bottom of the situation, he hurriedly asked Wolfrum: "Gordon, are we attacking there?" ”
The veteran got up and looked out: "No, it's not! Hell, we're trying to use the 'Black Panther' in front of us as a shield? Sir, let's get ready to get out of the car! Fast! ”
Half-track armored vehicles to the "Panther" as a shield? Lynn was very surprised by this, but he thought about it: it is normal for light ships to block torpedoes for the capital ship in naval battles, and it is the same when it comes to land battles, but in the past, there were very few cases where armored vehicles carried artillery shells for tanks.
Thinking of this, the half-track armored car had stopped with a slightly slower brake, and Lynn stood up and glanced out. On the right was a "Panther", its body was unharmed, but the tracks on the left side had broken, so it had become a trapped beast with no force and could not move - but strangely, its artillery looked normal from the outside, but instead of firing at the Soviet ambush point hundreds of meters away, the two No. 4 tanks moving in front of it hurriedly reversed back to cover it.
Seeing that the soldiers in the cab of the armored car were jumping out of the car in a panic and fleeing, Lynn also knew that the armored car was destined to be used as a shield for the "Black Panther", and hurriedly beckoned the soldiers to evacuate the car. Noah, who was sitting at the back of the car, pushed the car door and rushed down with a bazooka, Tanze and Titchmel followed, and Brewer shouted "Sir, go away" in a panic, and moved to the back of the car with his heavy night vision equipment on his back.
Putting the heavy battery box back on her back, Lynn felt like she had entered her twilight years early, her movements and footsteps slowing down. I finally rushed out of the carriage, only to hear the bullets flying past me. In a hurry, he looked left and right, and saw Noah, Tanze, Techmel, and Brewer scurrying into the canal by the side of the road one after another, and he followed without thinking.
Before he had time to greet Wolfrum, Lynn saw a series of dark red points of light flying towards her, and immediately heard the "chirping" sound of the bullet shooting into the soft soil, so she had to rush forward, so that her chest, waist and abdomen, and thighs were all wet, and she also smelled a sour smell similar to chemical waste. Regardless of what the liquid in the canal was, he hurriedly turned on the infrared searchlight, and the self-connected night vision equipment was normal, but the enemy target was not within the direct line of sight of the 100 meters, and the shells that frequently fired at the road and the dense and continuous bullets could only fly from the ruins of the factory about five or six hundred meters in front of the left, and what was even worse was that the flares bloomed in the night sky one after another, and the dazzling light illuminated the road, and also pointed out the target location for the Soviet artillery.
In a matter of moments, Wolfrum jumped straight into the canal as if he were diving into the water, and landed right next to Lynn, splashing his head with foul-smelling wastewater.
"Uh......" Before Lynn could utter the second half of the sentence "Damn," he saw a shuttle-like point of light flying at such speed that he didn't even have time to utter an extra syllable. This point of light immediately hit the half-track armored vehicle parked in front of the "Panther," and the armored vehicle, which weighed more than 8 tons, immediately made a "dry land" leap in the deafening and violent explosion, rotated backwards clockwise for half a circle with a highly difficult lateral roll, and crashed into the left side of the "Panther" with the roof facing downward, and the two German armored soldiers who had just come down from the tank to repair the tracks were immediately killed. The kinetic energy of the armored vehicle when it hit the ground had been greatly reduced, so that such an impact would not pose a fatal threat to a tank of more than 40 tons, but the explosion ignited the engine and fuel tank of the armored vehicle, and after it landed, the fire did not weaken, but burned more and more, so that it turned into a raging flame that burned the "Black Panther" from the side. The light of the fire reflected the tank's sturdy but tired body, and it made people feel anxious to look at.
"Oh no......" Thinking that there was likely to be a key person sitting on this "Panther", Lynn was shocked, and saw a figure on a No. 4 tank that came back to support him quickly drilled out of the turret, but the tankman was hit by an oncoming bullet before he could land, and he fell down hard. Another No. 4 tank reversed to take the "shield" position of the half-track armored car, and after the tank stopped, the driver actually climbed out and ran towards the "Panther" without hesitation.
At this point, Lynn no longer hesitated, he quickly climbed out of the ditch, and while rushing towards the "Black Panther", he shouted: "Brewer, Marcos cover, the rest come with me!" ”
In the blink of an eye, the wreckage of the armored car that fell next to the side of the "Panther" suddenly exploded, and the sound was not fierce, but it still directly put down the armored soldier who rushed from the No. 4 tank, he seemed to be wounded, but still struggled to get up. In just such a moment, Lynn rushed to the side of the tank with the strength of the 100-meter final, and saw a guy with a small head struggling to drill out from the open cockpit, and hurriedly threw the assault rifle back to the side, grabbing this person's shoulders with both hands, but in his heart he felt that this guy's body shape was neither like Bach nor like the Führer, so thin...... "Quick, save the people inside!" ”
As soon as he got out of the tank, this man shouted at the "duck throat", and Lynn also recognized it, this is not the "mouthpiece" of the German Third Reich and the "head" of the huge propaganda machine. Goebbels? Didn't he and his family die in the bunker when the Führer committed suicide?
The situation was so critical, Lynn didn't think much about it, risked the enemy's "arrow", quickly leaned into the cockpit entrance, there was no light in the black rumbling, but he could clearly hear the coughing and crying, and he fished forward with both hands, and fished a soft thing next to the driver's position, and dragged it to his side, it was actually a child who was so frightened that he couldn't cry. She was so small and light that Lynn easily carried her out, and before she could stand on her feet, she threw herself at the thin man beside her, shouting "Daddy", and the thin man shouted at Lynn, "Soldier, get my other children and my wife out quickly, please...... Come on! ”
Lynn wasn't sure if this was Goebbels' first plea since he came to power, and he was just a lifesaver for those who had fallen overboard, but he still made it to the cockpit without hesitation. At this time, a bullet from a distance hit his right leg, and the tearing pain suddenly made him cry out in pain. Despite the imbalance of his body, he did not fall down and his mind was blank, but he gritted his teeth and insisted on getting up, getting into the cockpit again, fishing around in the dark, shouting "Don't be afraid, come here". After a while, I finally dragged another one, and when I got it out half-pulled and half-hugged, I saw that it was a cute little girl of seven or eight years old.
"Daddy......" The little girl also cried and rushed to the thin man after landing on the ground, and he had just seen the scene of Lynn being shot, and his tone was full of pleading: "Help them......"
Resisting the sharp pain in his legs, Lynn lay down on the cockpit of the tank, and took the child out of it for the third time, and under the light of the gunfire, he saw that she had soft hair like a Katrili, this little girl was as cute as a doll, but her face was full of tears and snot, which made people feel sorry. At this time, Wolfrum and others, who were hindered by the bullets, also arrived, and the armored soldiers who rushed from the No. 4 tank saw that there were already people in the cockpit to rescue, so they went around to the right side of the tank and climbed the turret, trying to open the hatch from above to speed up the rescue.
Struggling to get the fourth girl out of the cockpit, Lynn began to be amazed at the capacity of the tank's interior. If the children were all here, there would have been six of them (many of them would have remembered the tragic scene in the destruction of the Empire), plus Goebbels and his wife were eight people, and even if three children took up the space of an adult, that would be four crew members, plus the two tankmen who had dismounted earlier to repair the tracks...... Boom!
The huge explosion struck from close range again, and Lynn only felt that the light in his vision increased rapidly, and his eyes could not be opened at all, and he hugged the little girl who looked to be three or four years old in his arms, and fell down against the powerful impact, although he thought that he would continue to persevere, but he quickly lost consciousness.
(To be continued)