Nine hundred and thirteen. deathtrap
A female soldier sat in the tank, and although it was a little crowded, the dreary atmosphere was lightened by this.
Corporal Fisher, the new driver, began to hum a small tune from his hometown. It was a pleasant feeling to touch the breasts of the female soldiers with her arms in the narrow space, and Miss Nala always had a sweet smile on her face, and everyone in the tank was willing to talk to her. Miss Nala's voice has a strong Munich accent, and she always drags tone particles such as "grin-" and "cluck-" at the end of her sentence, which is very good!
Hewitt didn't talk to her much, but in her brown eyes Hewitt could feel a mutual affection, and Hewitt liked to see her combing the ends of her hair with her hands, although such opportunities were too few and far between, for her hair was mostly covered by the heavy steel helmet, and there was no time to tidy it up.
"Sir, there's a situation!" Commander Sergeant Heinze reports to Hewitt.
The intersection in front was the main road to the Emistre Bridge, where Hewitt's division had a platoon of engineers, but now from a distance the German positions at the junction were silent, smoky, and devastated, and seemed to see no life. Was it an air strike or artillery attack by the Russians?
Hewitt was hewitted and ordered the convoy to stop, and the atmosphere suddenly became tense, and no one laughed anymore. Hewitt motioned for the three motorcyclists to go over and see what was going on. The three BMW motorcycles quickly started and arrived at the intersection like arrows, and after checking them, the motorcyclist led by him took off his goggles and waved Hewitt over.
As Hewitt's tank approached, the fragmentation of the sapper platoon's position was clearly presented in front of Hewitt's eyes. Hewitt had the tank parked in the middle of the intersection. Opened the hood of the car and jumped out of the car, and Miss Nala, who was a little motion sick, also got out of the car with a medical kit on her back, trying to breathe. Hewitt's eyes were littered with dead bodies. There were Germans, Russians, and even many of them were civilian corpses, and the wreckage of at least four Russian tanks was burning.
"It's clearly under attack from the Russians!"
"What's that? Miss Nala screamed, and her voice was interrupted by her own vomit of "wow".
Hewitt held her slender body, which was about to fall, and she fell into Hewitt's arms and wept quietly. Following her fingers, the bloody lump of flesh on the side of the road turned out to be the corpse of a German child who had been crushed by the street.
Hewitt didn't know how to comfort Nala. Just caressed and patted her back with his hand.
"Sir, look at the rut......s," a motorcyclist reminded Hewitt.
SS6 pressed through the bloody tank ruts of the corpses in the direction of the Emistre Bridge......
"The enemy is heading for the Emistel Bridge!" Hewitt was a little anxious: "All get on board!" ”
Hewitt pulled Miss Nala back into the car, her face ugly. Hewitt wanted to hold her in his arms, comfort her, soothe her sorrows, and pour out his love and longing. But Hewitt didn't know that this was not what she wanted at the moment; He can't hurt such a good girl with a love that has no tomorrow. Hewitt was ashamed of these thoughts that had sprung up in an instant.
"Sir, instead of following the strategic highway, the enemy took a small street parallel to the strategic highway!" Sergeant Heinze also noticed the direction of the extension of the tank rut.
How can a commander be hot-headed at this time? Huey fixed his mind and shifted his mind to commanding operations. Obviously, the enemy wants to achieve the effect of a surprise attack and does not want to expose the target prematurely; At the same time, it also shows that this enemy force is not the main force, or that the volley of the engineer platoon has severely damaged this enemy army, and the strength has been weakened. It was no longer sure that it would be able to advance along the strategic highway to the bridge, so it took not a road but a small road.
Hewitt ordered, "Follow the rut!" ”
Robinstertown is bathed in blood and fireworks. The glow of the fiery red sun was so vicious, hot, and unforgivingly intense. Several dive bombers circled in the air like a dance of death in search of their targets, and the smoke and the ruins of towering buildings provided the best cover, and Hewitt had not been attacked by an air raid so far.
The temperature in the tank was raised by the continuous operation of the tank engine and the scorching sun, and Miss Nala's face, which had been pale from vomiting, turned red, beads of sweat slipped down her forehead, and a sweet smile faded from her lovely face.
Nora's depression made Hewitt unhappy as well. For a moment, Hewitt wandered again, remembering his wife, Helen, who had died two years earlier. Strictly speaking, Nala does not belong to the kind of sexy and deep woman that Hewitt likes, she and Helen belong to two completely different beauty, but the two are kind and docile mothers and love of life. At the same time, Nala has a cheerful, pleasant and healthy beauty, which is silent and intoxicating. Because of her, Hewitt completely changed his aesthetic and fell hopelessly in love with her!
Hewitt's lips twitched, and he couldn't say a word, although Hewitt knew that if he didn't confess his love for Nala, he might not have a chance in this life, because Hewitt, like Nala, couldn't really control his own destiny in such a harsh battlefield. Isn't it for the sake of the country, isn't Hewitt's fanatical and desperate fight for the peace of thousands of brothers and sisters like Nala who live in Germany ordinarily?
Hewitt's flying thoughts were interrupted by the reminders of the electromechanical officers, and there was no time for any more sentimentality, and the radio was intermittently filled with contradictory reports of various war zones from various war zones.
"Under the cover of the reserves, Captain Rouse is directing the troops of the 1st Company in the gradual retreat......"
"The position of our troops in Kaber Square was attacked by the enemy's superior forces and was in the midst of an exchange of fire......"
"The platoon commander of Hausser was killed, and his unit has been annihilated by the Russian army......"
"Gutmann Platoon and Lieutenant Haussel ...... in strategic highways and fierce enemy battles"............
"Sir, I've spotted the Russian convoy!" Sergeant Heinze couldn't contain the joy in his heart.
Hewitt adjusted the angle of the tank's viewing scope as prompted by the commander. A grass-green silhouette appeared in Hewitt's field of vision. The Russian convoy swooped down the street in front of it in a column, because it was not the main road of the city, and the ruins of the collapsed buildings on both sides made the already small street even narrower. Only one vehicle can be allowed at a time. If Hewitt were to fire from behind the enemy, the narrow streets would make it impossible for the enemy to evacuate, and even reversing the muzzle of the gun might be a luxury.
Such a good opportunity to destroy the enemy is not to be missed!
"Corporal Steiner, aim ......" Hewitt ordered Hewitt's gun commander.
"No, sir, please wait!" Sergeant Heinze looked at Hewitt with a pleading look.
"For what?" Hewitt looked at his commander in surprise and confusion.
"Sir, I spent five years here before the war. I'm very familiar with the terrain here, and about 300 meters further on, there's an uphill slope. By the time the Russian convoy climbed the ramp, they were completely exposed to our fire! ”
"Fritz, brilliant idea!" Hewitt couldn't help but throw Heinze hard with a punch.
"Oh-" Heinze fell exaggeratedly, and everyone in the tank laughed heartily. As if it wasn't going to face a life-and-death battle. It's a hunt. Infected, the smile returned to Nora's face.
Hewitt used an FM telephony to inform his men that they were ready for battle, and many of the soldiers at the battalion headquarters were nervous and excited when they were still engaged for the first time. In order to maintain a strong firepower, Hewitt had a small, low-slung repair truck operated by Hesky and two other soldiers operating MG62 machine guns in front of Hewitt in a slightly spacious area, and two MG62 machine guns mounted on top of the tall truck behind Hewitt.
"Let's have a good time, too!" Sergeant Heinze decided to take control of the 12 on the roof of the car. DShKMG machine gun for 7MM.
After following the Russians for about 300 meters, a slope appeared in front of them. The strength of this Russian special attack force that climbed the slope was unreservedly presented in front of Hewitt's muzzle, three SS6s. Two armored cars, one half-track armored transport vehicle.
"Parking! ——- aiming at the SS6, which is at the forefront, must be destroyed first, there is no test shot! Hewitt conveyed the order very succinctly, and Hewitt had only twelve 122mm shells in total, so there was really no room for waste.
Corporal Steiner, who had already made all the preparations, took a slight aim, and opened fire very confidently, and the "pounce-" shell came out of its chamber, drawing a bright arc, and landed on the top of the turret of the leading SS6 that drove to the top of the slope.
The Russians were caught off guard by the sudden blow, and the six-wheeled armored car that followed it crashed headlong into the wreckage of the detonated SS6. The entire Russian convoy was in disarray.
Hewitt almost kept his eyes on the scope to see better, "The next target, the SS6 at the back!" ”
"Clang" Hewitt heard the sound of the 122mm shell being loaded, and his heart was full of anticipation.
"Da-da......" Hewitt's two MG62 machine guns on the roof of the truck behind Hewitt, Hesky's machine gun, and Heinze's machine gun opened fire at the Russian infantry who tried to jump out of the car.
The SS6 at the back of the hall desperately reversed and rotated the turret, but it had little chance, because Captain Steiner didn't keep Hewitt too long, and the second 122mm shell disemboweled the reversing SS6, and the crew inside must have survived.
In order to avoid the scorching machine-gun fire, the half-track armored transport vehicle and the armored car collided together, and the infantry inside desperately tried to rush out of the vehicle, but was immediately swept into a sieve by the machine-gun fire.
"Take out those 2 armored vehicles, if you let the infantry get off, then it's complicated!" Sergeant Heinze warned loudly from the roof of the car.
Hewitt saw that the remaining SS6 was clogged with destroyed armored vehicles and tanks in front and behind, and when he felt the blow coming from behind, he rotated the turret to the left, and the barrel of the long barrel was hung by a telephone pole with a thick bowl mouth; Then he turned to the right, and the reinforced concrete windows of the ruins of the building on the right were stuck in the barrels again, and it was impossible for Hewitt to pose any threat at all.
Hewitt agreed that the next target would be a half-track armored transporter, but the trained Russians had already begun to counterattack. A sniper killed two machine gunners on top of a German truck with two shots; The armored car hit Hesky's repair vehicle with a single shot, and with a loud "boom", the repair vehicle was blown into a pile of fragments. Sergeant Hesky, a young German man who was not yet 22 years old, died on the streets of the residential area of Robinstere.
Captain Heinze was also wounded by shrapnel and had to retreat into the car.
"Boom-" The huge explosion exploded in the hapless Russian convoy again, and the ammunition of the first destroyed SS6 exploded, killing the Russian sniper hiding in the wreckage of the crashed armored vehicle.
Corporal Steiner's third gun destroyed the armored car and the halftrack that were huddled together! The crew of the SS6, which had been stuck in the barrel, sensed that it was their turn to target next, so they abandoned the car and fled, hiding in the rubble on both sides of the street.
"Target: SS6!" Hewitt gave an order without hesitation.
Captain Steiner could have come and destroy the abandoned SS6 without haste, but his fourth shot missed. And didn't hit that SS6. The shell slid past the turret and again hit the wreckage of the destroyed armored vehicle.
Steiner cursed that it was the smoke from the wrecked tank that interfered with his aiming, and he readjusted the muzzle. But he quickly shut up, because his fifth shot again missed the target and missed again. It's really incredible!
When he asked Hewitt if he wanted to fire the sixth gun, an anti-tank rocket shot at Hewitt's tank out of nowhere. It's just that the launcher is nervous because of the lack of precision or nervousness. The rocket misses like Steiner, only to knock down a low wall behind Hewitt.
It was not good for Hewitt to continue the struggle, and Hewitt quickly weighed the necessity and possibility, and decided to give up the opportunity to destroy the SS6 and withdraw from the fight.
The soldiers in the truck behind had all been killed, so Hewitt's tank had to ram and squash it before finally withdrawing from the narrow streets.
Nala bandages the wounds of Captain Heinze, who is not lightly injured. But he struggled to sit up, coughing. "Sir, I know that the Road is a shortcut to the strategic highway!"
Fighting through the pain, he guided the driver, Fisher, back about a hundred meters, knocking down a fence, through the ruins of a small courtyard, and down a barely passable side street to the strategic highway.
It was as if there was a fierce exchange of fire going on in every corner of the city, and the sound of guns and cannons throughout Robinstall City was woven into a shocking harmonic.
Sergeant Heinzer passed out from the pain.
"I think he's going to have to have surgery!" Nala told Hewitt with a sad face: "He has shrapnel in his lungs and is bleeding internally, if left untreated...... Hewitt thinks he's going to die! ”
Hewitt didn't say a word, and he had nothing to say. Corporal Fisher was clearly picking up speed, but the narrow and difficult little streets kept Hewitt from hurrying.
The radio heard the call of Hans, the commander of the engineer company guarding the Emistre Bridge, and two companies of Russian paratroopers were parachuting on the Emistre Bridge, and he was asking for reinforcements.
"Hum-" Hewitt felt stunned for a moment, Hans's engineer company was only two platoons in total, and the equipment was also very poor, it was impossible to repel the attack of the Russian paratroopers, and it seemed that the Amistel Bridge could not be defended! Hewitt only hoped that Company Commander Hans would make a quick decision and blow up the bridge in time to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Russians.
Hewitt took the telephon and ordered loudly that everyone in the area around the bridge, all who could receive this information, including the wounded, logisticians, and medics, should take up arms and go to Emmystel for reinforcements.
Hewitt's convoy finally approached the strategic highway, and the fierce gunfire signaled that the Russians were moving towards the highway, although Hewitt only deployed a platoon of troops on the road, but because the entire road was full of various mines, iron thorns and anti-tank traps, it can be said that it was a step-by-step killing machine, in fact, a typical road of death. That's Hewitt's only hope!
Hewitt finally turned from the small street onto the strategic highway, and just as the people were relieved, the numbness and sluggishness caused by carelessness or fatigue befell the Hewitt team. The armored car walking on the left side of the tank "boomed" and hit the mines planted by Hewitt himself, which was blown up, killing all seven crew members inside.
"Watch out for mines!" Hewitt's heart ached so much that he barely lost his breath.
"Boom-" "Boom-" There were two loud bangs in succession from the direction of the Emmystre Bridge, like a landslide, deafening, and Hewitt felt that the forty-five-ton tank was shaken and jumped from the ground.
"The Amystre Bridge has been blown up!"
There were cheers from the tank, and everyone had a sad smile on their faces, a desperate smile with tears. The bridge was blown up, which meant that no one of the Germans could go back. Robinster, the last stop in the lives of these brave German soldiers!
Fisher took the lead in singing:
"Jump on the road to victory! If I am abandoned by the goddess of fate, if I cannot return to my homeland, if the bullet ends my life, if I am doomed, then at least my faithful tank will give me a metal grave. ”
Nala sang along with Hewitt, and the deep singing echoed in the tank, on the battlefield, and over Robinster, and everyone was very tragic and looked at death as home, and Hewitt was deeply infected, and his blood was boiling!
"Sir, someone is running towards our tank, it seems to be a civilian ......"
Because Sergeant Heinze was in a coma, Miss Nala made an improvised cameo as an observer. (To be continued......)