Eight hundred and seventy-one. North African theater
North Africa, December 1965.
The radio in the camp was shouting hysterically: "The German land is inviolable, and we must hold it firmly until the moment of victory!" ”
Stan. Martin and Thomp were playing cards in the room. Corporal Willis was cleaning. Sergeant Dalí was at the door of the room, watching expressionlessly as the U.S. B-52 bomber dropped bombs on the front position.
"Another wave of U.S. bombardment is over, I thought they had more ......" Sergeant Dalí spat on the ground and walked into the room.
"Then let them come more, Sergeant." Tomp shook off the last card in his hand and said triumphantly, "Stan, you've lost again, and you've got to give me a mark." ”
"It's a bad day." Martin lay down on the bed.
"Brethren, I just saw a joke, would you like to hear it?" Walker. Sergeant Jason got up from his bed.
"Tell me about it." The soldiers gathered around.
Sergeant Jason lit a cigarette and said, "This is a joke about the President of the United States..... before he could finish his sentence, a violent explosion shook the soldiers into dizziness. When they looked into the courtyard, they found that a downed American plane had fallen impartially into the courtyard. Fortunately, there were no casualties, and the two American pilots who crawled out of the wreckage were taken away by the Germans for interrogation.
"As I said, I wasn't lucky this afternoon." Martin waved out the window again, "Let's go, brethren. ”
Several German fighters flew over the sky.
At the same time, in the command. Martin, their company commander, Captain Tepman. and Captain Sluk, who was in charge of making a bet with Captain Tedman, were in the command to discuss combat operations with several other officers.
"The American and Italian forces are attacking us with the best of their might, and one of their regiments has already intervened. We're going to do a night raid tonight, occupy the U.S. camp, and take control of the No. 1 and No. 2 intersections. Captain Tepman, your company is responsible for occupying their camp. Captain Sluk, you'll be interspersed behind the U.S. camp to prevent Italian reinforcements. And then. Several of our tanks will take control of the crossroads. Captain Main Walker, your company is responsible for cooperating with the tanks to capture the two hills next to the crossroads, where only a small number of troops are stationed. After you occupy the mountain pack, you are responsible for supporting Captain Tepman and Captain Sluk, and we need to hold out until 8 o'clock tomorrow morning before reinforcements arrive. You'll be supported by a couple of planes. It is not easy to fight a war in the desert. But I hope before the arrival of those big officials. We have planted a swastika there. Still have questions? ”
Major Ludeman assigned the task.
"I wonder if we can pretend to be Americans and sneak attack, sir." Captain Tepman said.
"Not a bad idea, so you can get into their camp and open fire. Clothes aren't a problem, but can anyone in our damn team speak English? ”
"Yes, sir. My Sergeant Dalí can speak German. ”
"Very good, I'll have breakfast tomorrow."
"Thank you then, sir." Captain Sluk said.
Captain Sluck turned to Tedman again, "I hope you can give me the two pairs of socks and a tie you lost on your last bet." ”
Tedman chuckled. said: "Let's make another bet, if this time whose company blew up more tanks." Give him a pen, and if I win, the old account will be written off. ”
"Okay, no problem."
"All right, brethren, go back to your camps, and drink some courage before attacking. The Americans are not as easy to deal with as Italian hollow noodles. ”
Soon it was nightfall. Captain Tripman and his company arrived at the U.S. camp by car. They were all dressed in U.S. military uniforms, with submachine guns tucked into their clothes, and they wore identification badges pulled from the POWs. Captain Tepman was dressed as a lieutenant colonel, a lieutenant colonel who had come to the camp to inspect it. He knew that in the next few days, officers would be coming to inspect the camp.
Of course, the U.S. military did not know who the officers were inspecting the road.
They were stopped by the U.S. military sentry, to whom Sergeant Dalí explained their identities in fluent English. The sentry let himself go without suspicion.
The camp was heavily guarded, and if it was attacked, I don't know how many casualties it would take, and this camp also had almost two companies of men and horses, watchtowers, and outposts. There are also two artillery guns in the camp, which can be used both anti-aircraft and anti-tank.
The soldiers rushed to the firing positions in their favor. Captain Tripman led Martin and several of his soldiers to a room in the U.S. Army, but was stopped by an officer who prevented them from entering. They still couldn't tell their identities, and the officer looked at their name tags, and then grabbed the phone to verify it.
"Hey, is it the Colonel? Oh sir, may I ask if the baroque general is a man named Reeve. Did Lieutenant Colonel Luchel come to inspect our camp? They're going to come into our room, oh good, I see. ”
The officer put down the phone and shouted, "Reeve. Lieutenant Colonel Lücher had already died, they were Germans. ”
The two soldiers next to him also noticed that several "soldiers" had rifles that were not quite the same as theirs under the lights. The U.S. military hurriedly raised their submachine guns. Captain Tepman, though he didn't understand what they were saying, knew that he was exposed, he pulled out his pistol, pulled the trigger and knocked down the American soldiers. Then he took out his submachine gun and shouted: "Exposed, fire." ”
The camp alarm went off along with the gunshots. The Germans drew their guns one after another and sent them to hell before the Americans could react.
Captain Tedman kicked open the door to the room and found that it was a U.S. military radio station and classified documents. They quickly picked up the documents and destroyed the radio station. Got out of here. Entered a barn.
The German soldiers had already taken off their American uniforms, revealing the German uniforms inside.
The U.S. troops were caught off guard, and many soldiers fell asleep forever before they woke up.
"There seem to be a lot of Americans here." Martin killed an American soldier on the second floor of the warehouse with a rifle. Six corpses of American soldiers have fallen from the warehouse.
Two German soldiers were swept down, and Sergeant Jason hurriedly killed the American troops who rushed in through the side door with a submachine gun.
"I'm here to cover you. Go through the side door in front of you. Occupy the two watchtowers over there. "Captain Tepman killed an enemy who had climbed in from an outside ladder while he was talking.
Captain Tepman fired back and forth with his submachine gun, killing two more. But just as he was aiming at the enemy next to the sandbag outside, the submachine gun suddenly jammed.
"Unlucky. It's stuck again. ”
The American troops outside threw a grenade into the warehouse, and Tepman hurriedly crouched behind a pile of straw. Escaped death.
Outside, an American officer shouted, "Fire!" "A shell blew up one of the walls of the warehouse, and the two Germans outside the wall were blown away as soon as they took control of a machine gun.
Several U.S. troops entered the warehouse again......
Martin and the others had just run out of the side door of the warehouse when they were strafed by the American watchtower. Martin: They hid behind a row of sandbags.
"Listen to me, change your tactics this time, cover with a rifle man, and hit that machine gunner. The submachine gun guy came with me and took down the watchtower. Sergeant Dali said as he reloaded the magazines for his submachine gun.
Sergeant Dalí rushed out of the city with a few soldiers, and Thomp accurately exploded the head of an American soldier with his rifle. But an American soldier next to him immediately took a machine gun and fired at them.
Seeing this, Martin rushed out. Picked up a submachine gun and rushed out.
"Martin, you don't want to die!" Tom shouted.
Martin braved heavy fire and rushed to the bottom of a watchtower. I climbed up the ladder. Halfway up the climb, one of the submachine gunners above suddenly bent down to kill him.
"Die!" Martin shot him dead.
As soon as the machine gunner on the watchtower turned around, he was shot through by Thomp.
"Ha Lu Ha! Pretty! "Martin climbed up the watchtower, and a shuttle bullet was fired at a watchtower in front of the right. Sergeant Dalí rushed up and occupied the watchtower.
Then. The warehouse was blown open by grenades and artillery, and several American soldiers rushed in. Martin and the others quickly used machine guns to eliminate several enemies in the back: "The captain looks like he can't hold on. Then he picked up his machine gun and aimed it at the two guns in the center of the camp, and after a fierce sweep, the two guns fell silent.
Captain Tepman, who was lying on the haystack of the barn, pulled out his pistol, killed a U.S. soldier, and ran away, saving his life. The U.S. military was taken aback and did not have time to shoot. Captain Tepman was gone. These American troops did not live long, and the Germans who rushed in quickly killed them.
Captain Tripman ran outside and shouted to Martin, "You guys can come down." Go and occupy that two-story building. ”
Martin and the others went down to join a dozen soldiers and rushed to a two-story building at the left rear of the camp.
"I said we should be careful." Martin and the others pulled out their grenades, kicked the door open and threw it in, closing the door again. After an explosion from inside, they rushed inside, only to find several mutilated bodies lying in the hall on the first floor.
Suddenly, one of the soldiers at the head fell to a pool of blood with a scream.
No one.
The soldiers looked around, not thinking of concealment.
Another shot, and Corporal Willis was killed.
"Click!"
Although there was constant gunfire outside, the "click" was not muffled.
The soldiers looked up at the ceiling and saw a specially dug hole in the wooden ceiling, and an American soldier in the mezzanine on the first and second floors.
The American soldier fired another shot, then shrank his head and turned to climb back to the second floor. The soldiers fired their guns at the ceiling, the bullets piercing the wooden ceiling and leaving it full of holes, until they heard a scream and a few drops of blood dripping from inside, and the enemy was finished before he could crawl back.
The Germans felt from experience that there must be someone on the stairs waiting for them to rush up before another strafing shot, so they did not dare to act rashly. After rushing up cautiously, he found that there was no one in the corridor on the second floor. The room was also empty, and there were some beds and the like, and it seemed that it was just a dormitory, and the American troops inside were fighting the Germans outside.
The Germans found nothing on the second floor and had to go back to the first floor. They suddenly found that there was a non-obvious tunnel on the first floor, but it was not too narrow.
They entered the tunnel, which was not very long, and this tunnel led to the rear of the camp, which turned out to be an arsenal. This arsenal was built underground, and the gate to the outside was locked.
"The Yankees' gear is hidden here. Sgt. Jason, Martin, you two know that you have research on Yankee weapons. See what's out there for the good guys. ”
Sergeant Jason looked at it, and there were quite a few machine guns. The rest is the M16.
"Thomp, this M16 gun is quite suitable for you, with it your marksmanship will be more accurate." Martin threw an M16 to Thomp.
"Machine guns, we should take them all."
At this point, Martin screamed in surprise as he pried open the weapon case with a crowbar on the ground. Inside is a flamethrower.
"Ha Luha, this good thing should be taken away."
At this time, the screams of the Germans were heard in the tunnel. It turned out that the American troops who were ambushed on the second floor had already entered the tunnel. Kill all the Germans in the tunnels. However, as soon as the American troops in front entered the arsenal, they were beaten to a blur of flesh and blood.
"Oops, I just wondered why the Americans are digging a tunnel for Lu, it turns out that it is convenient for them to attack at both ends!"
"It's a good thing the door didn't open, otherwise we would have disarmed." Thomp dropped a grenade out of the way.
". Rush out of the slur. Sergeant Dali shouted.
"We don't want to die. Sir! A soldier shouted at Dali.
"Guy with brain cramps!"
The US military has blocked the tunnel entrance with powerful firepower, and they cannot get out. But the US military did not dare to enter the arsenal and did not dare to throw grenades into it, there were a lot of explosives in it.
Martin shot and broke the lock on the gate. Several soldiers joined him in pulling the gate back. A dozen American troops outside had been waiting for a long time, and several German soldiers were knocked down.
Martin swept away two enemies who were relatively close with his submachine gun.
"Die!" Sergeant Jason somehow replaced it with a flamethrower and burned the American troops on both sides of the slope outside the gate to charcoal.
Soldiers rushed out of the arsenal. When he took out the Heavy outside, Sergeant Jason's ass hung up, and he was too easily injured. Always attractive to bullets.
The U.S. troops in the tunnel rushed out, and the U.S. troops outside also surrounded them.
The soldiers hid in gasoline barrels. Behind the broken jeep, he plans to fight to the end of the net.
Suddenly there was a roar in the sky, and a bomb fell near Martin and them. The Germans were bombed all over the sky.
"Ah, my ears." The soldiers all covered their heads and said.
Another plane came, and the garage was blown to the ground. Captain Tepman They also destroyed the tank warehouse, and all four tanks inside were reimbursed.
Several more planes flew in and dropped bombs on the hillside outside the camp. On the hillside, there were Italian troops scurrying around, and seeing that there were also many Germans in the American camp, they threw their guns and surrendered.
The U.S. troops in the camp were still resisting, but as the east showed the whiteness of the fish's belly, the gunfire of the U.S. troops gradually thinned out.
One of the German tanks crashed through the fence of the camp. Dozens of Germans poured out from behind the tanks.
"Hooray, it's Captain Main Walker's reinforcements."
A swastika was raised in the camp. The U.S. military was completely annihilated.
Martin and the others were relieved and cheered victory.
It's five o'clock in the morning. Major Ludeman and Captain Sluk arrived on time. The Germans took the Italian prisoners of war back first.
"I say, brethren, what a beautiful night attack." Major Ludemann said excitedly, "In three hours, our reinforcements will come." ”
Captain Sluk and Captain Tepman asked each other how many tanks had been destroyed as soon as they met.
"I destroyed two of them this time." Captain Sluk was flushed.
"Ha Luha, give me your pen, I destroyed four." Captain Tepman pointed to the tank warehouse.
"Bad luck, those tanks are all put there for you to blow up, it's not fair, it doesn't count."
"If you don't count, you don't count? No, it has to be counted, I finally won once. ”
The two captains laughed and played like little children.
"There are still three hours, just don't fight back on the Americans." A soldier next to Martin said.
At this moment, the hillside around the camp suddenly became dusty, and the shouts of killing rang out. Like a big storm.
"Damn, Americans don't pay attention to it, I don't know if this is a desert, and the earth is all over the sky."
"No further ado! Get ready for battle! Major Ludeman commanded loudly.
Martin's face turned pale and he stabbed the soldier next to him: "William, you are really a crow's mouth." ”
It was nine o'clock in the morning, and in just one hour, the American and Italian forces had already carried out three attacks. There were heavy casualties on both sides, with only about 20 men left under Captain Tepman, dozens of American and Italian corpses in front of them, and the wreckage of tanks had completely blocked the road. It stands to reason that this road has no transportation capacity for the time being, but despite this, the American and Italian forces are still unwilling to abandon this road. Luckily, the first German reinforcements arrived, reinforced by a company of sappers who completely destroyed the road with explosives and then laid a lot of mines. Scrapped the road. Captain Tepman and his company finally left the road and returned to the camp they had occupied, receiving temporary replenishment. According to Major Ludeman, they only need to hold out for an hour at the moment before the second and third reinforcements arrive, and then, according to the instructions of the upper peak, they will launch a counteroffensive and restore the initiative. The American highway was scrapped, and their reinforcements would not come for a while, but they still did not give up the last glimmer of hope - to retake the camp before the second and third German reinforcements arrived.
U.S. fighter jets strafed back and forth over the camp. The German medics also suffered heavy casualties, resulting in a very limited number of doctors, all of whom were concentrated in one infirmary, and the wounded soldiers could only be dragged back here for simple treatment.
"Captain Tepman, your company can't rest yet, you should go and guard the rear of the camp. Waiting for reinforcements to arrive, the soldiers there could not stand it. You're going to get 80 people to replenish you. Major Ludemann gave a new order.
"Damn, I'm afraid I won't be able to see the moon tonight." Martin couldn't help but grumble.
Sergeant Jason came over and comforted him tepidly: "I think about it." Actually, he was supposed to be the one to be comforted.
Captain Tedman temporarily assigned the newly replenished soldiers. As soon as they reached the rear of the camp, the US fighter suddenly swooped down and fired wildly at them with 20-millimeter machine guns. The Germans were in disarray, their eyes fascinated by the smoke of the explosion of machine gun shells.
"Ahh There was a scream, shrapnel wounded a second lieutenant, and two soldiers hurriedly saw him and dragged him back to the makeshift "medical room"
The left flank of the Germans was attacked by the Italian army in a frenzy. An Italian army broke through the left flank of the German army to assist the American attack! (To be continued......)