Nine hundred and thirty-nine. The grave of the tank
"Business" has begun.
It's a business that involves almost every Russian. If successful, even if the Grand Duke of Belstoka and the big bureaucracy are black-hearted, they will be able to greatly improve the economic situation in Russia.
But if it fails, the consequences will be dire, and this is exactly what Gregory feared.
And as his plenipotentiary, Migrosky did not dare to take it lightly in the slightest.
He first put forward the Grand Duke's request, Wang Weiyi clearly knew how to guide the other party into his trap, he kept refusing the other party's rude request, and then subtly retreated a little bit at Migrosky's insistence.
In the end, he accepted all the other party's requests.
For example, the Grand Duke proposed that the development cost should only bear 30%, but the benefit obtained should account for 70%.
Migroski was very satisfied with the successful negotiations and was filled with pride. In this way, he will be able to show off in front of the Grand Duke.
Admittedly, not everyone has the ability to do this......
Moreover, to Migroski's delight, the foreign geologists hired by Mr. Petergov were already on the way, and I heard that there was also a very well-known geological authority in the world.
The golden road was already presented to him......
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"The Second Battle of Berlin has begun." When he returned to his room, Xiao Ling came with the news in time: "Rommel and Manstein did not make any big moves, but let the front-line soldiers fight alone. ”
Wang Weiyi frowned. The situation was somewhat sudden.
Since the opening of the Constantine base, Berlin's defenses have been greatly strengthened, especially with new weapons. Enough for the Germans in Berlin to have a good fight.
But Rommel and Manstein didn't do anything because of what?
Wang Weiyi thought for a moment: "I think, they must have their own ideas." ”
Wang Weiyi believed in Rommel and Manstein, and he firmly believed that they must be waiting for something, perhaps waiting for the best time to fight back.
Since Berlin was handed over to them, all I had to do was trust them unconditionally......
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The whistling shells confirmed Kiritz's prediction: the American commander chose to cover the first line of German defense with heavy artillery bombardment, and the blazing artillery fire forced Kiritz and Meier to retreat to the bomb shelter.
The Kilitz were only intermittently informed about the situation of the company by wired telephone: "They are under the heaviest shelling. Heavy casualties! ”
"There was a regiment of American infantry that launched a new charge under the cover of tank and artillery fire!"
"Our three companies and one platoon have been reinforced!"
"The Americans also received long-range support from large-caliber fortress guns!"
"A company asks for reinforcements!"
"Lieutenant Müller died with the explosives bag and the tank that rushed up, and now a company is under the command of Sergeant Lehman."
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The front commander of the German army requested reinforcements from the defense zone command, and Major General Morment only promised to provide fire support. German long-range artillery shelled American positions. But this support artillery fire was quickly suppressed by enemy artillery fire.
It's only a matter of time before a series fails! Kiritz ordered three companies and two platoons to quickly reinforce the first line of defense, and warned the soldiers to use explosives packs and anti-tank grenades to blow up American tanks when they slowed down due to rubble and rubble.
Sitting in the bunker and watching the ravages of enemy tanks, as an SS ace tank killer, Kiritz felt his face burn hot.
Kiritz couldn't stay any longer in the bomb shelter: "Captain Mel. You're in charge of the big picture. I'm going to command that tank...... If there is anything new, please contact me by radio. Then Kiritz turned to the second lieutenant next to him and said, "You take me to the tank......"
With the second lieutenant out of the bomb shelter, there was a bloody smell in the air that Kilitz was very familiar with, walking through the battlefield filled with gunpowder, dodging shells, he had no sense of fear, and his heart was full of desire to embark on a killing journey!
There are potholes everywhere, broken bricks and tiles. It becomes difficult to move an inch. Under the guidance of the second lieutenant, they evaded mines cleverly planted in the rubble. The Destroyer 3 tank was found hidden in the bunker.
The commander of the second company, the commander of the 3rd SS commando squadron, Klaus, had already arrived at the tank and was waiting for Kiritz.
Klaus tapped on the tank's ironclad, and the three crew members who were ready to go came out and stood in a row in front of Kiritz.
"Others?" Kiritz asked.
The commander-like voice replied, "Sir, I'm Commander Geisler, First Class Corporal: this is the gunner Yun Feng. Private Fu 1st Class, as well as the pilot Hoffman Skill Sergeant. ...... Our loaders and observers have already died under fire from the Americans. ”
“...... Tutor? "Kiritz was a little dazed, the name was so weird.
"Sir, I'm from Qingdao, China, Yun Feng. Fu is my Chinese name. ”
"Chinese ......" Kiritz was a little surprised: "A far away place......"
Kiritz asked Klaus to immediately equip the tank with a loader and an observer. Then Kiritz asked the commander: "What is the condition of the weapons?" ”
"Sir, the main gun and 3 4 machine guns are in good condition, the engines are working properly; Seventy-two shells, with plenty of ammunition ready for battle. ”
"Very good, Fu, do you have any ideas?" Looking at the Iron Cross on the gunner's chest, Kiritz knew that this was a veteran.
"Sir, with all due respect, the Destroyer 3 tank is bulky and can be killed in street battles...... Nothing will be done, I have observed, the field of play has a wide field of vision, the shooting range is good, and the tanks are well concealed, we can just wait and hunt American tanks in large numbers. Fu Kan said eloquently.
Kiritz smiled knowingly: "Fu." Your idea is good, you go and reinforce the bunker. ...... However, I will not blindly stick to it. Seeing the right time, we rushed out of the city to fight back against the Yankees. ”
Then, Kiritz sent the commander of the second company back to his command post to take command, preparing to meet the attack of the Americans. It is impossible to hold on for too long. Kiritz boarded the tank with the crew, sat in the familiar cabin, and smelled the long-lost smell of diesel, and Kiritz felt extremely excited.
"Oh my God! It was the German prisoners of war who stepped on the mines in front! Captain Mel's panicked voice came over the radio intercom: "Our soldiers have collapsed! ”
"The position of the first company has been lost!"
"The number of the American troops attacking us head-on has been ascertained: it is a division of the 21st Army of the 1st Front of the US Army and two tank regiments of the 2nd Tank Army and the 9th Tank Army."
"The positions of friendly neighbors have been broken through by American troops. The fraternal forces are shrinking the line, are we also ......"
"Captain Mel, calm down! We're not alone...... And we can't go back. Berlin is behind you! We're going to fight here to the last bullet and demand a high price from the Americans who invaded Berlin! Kilitz calmed down his agitated emotions: "The position of the friendly neighbor has been broken, and you immediately transfer the 3rd Company to the H1 defense line to prevent the Americans from making a detour from behind, and pay special attention to monitoring the enemy's movements." Beware of American sappers infiltrating ......"
"The Americans are coming up!" Commander Geisler's voice rang in Kiritz's ears.
Through the viewing glass, Kiritz saw more than a dozen German soldiers fleeing from a company of positions in the smoke of gunpowder ahead. They were in hot pursuit with dozens of American tanks.
Klaus, the commander of the second company, loudly ordered the German soldiers who had fled: "No retreat!" Return to position! Violators will be killed! ”
But the dozen or so German soldiers, some of whom may have survived, had apparently been mentally completely taken away and continued to flee to the rear line of defense.
Klaus ordered the machine gun to open fire on the retreating German soldiers. "Da-da-da, da-da-da......" The poor people fell in pools of blood.
Kiritz saw the face of a childish child! "Stop shooting! Stop shooting! Kiritz commanded loudly.
Machine guns stopped the slaughter.
The surviving German soldiers ran towards the American tanks, white towels or shirts flying in their hands...... The American tanks had no mercy and shot them all with machine guns, and the tank's wide tracks mercilessly crushed them...... Tears welled up in Kiritz's eyes.
American tank groups and skirmisher infantry approached the German positions, and the Germans' clever sappers began to exert their power in the rubble. One US tank after another exploded when they were struck by mines, and groups of US infantry battle groups were blown to pieces by mines under broken wooden planks, in piles of rubble, and between bricks. There was nowhere to hide under the blows of the Germans. This minefield, which is the least likely to be mined, has received brilliant results! After losing more than a dozen tanks, the American troops temporarily stopped the offensive.
After a brief lull on the battlefield. The looming figure of the Americans haunted the ruins, and the American sappers tried to clear the minefields between the roads leading to the battlefield, and under the blockade of the fire of the German Second Company, any attempt by the American sappers to clear the mines was in vain, and they were only sent to death in vain.
The American commander, who had learned the lesson, changed his tactics and did not hesitate to open the way with carpet bombardment of artillery fire, launching a new round of group charge, the Americans stepped on the explosive point of the shells and rushed up, and the bombers in the air also rushed to help, and the soldiers of the second company were a little overwhelmed by the enemy's three-dimensional attack. The road to the square was opened.
To make matters worse, the Germans were cut off from the headquarters of the defense zone.
About a company of American troops occupied the G1 position, which was used as a support point to cover more than twenty tanks rushing up from the entrance, the metal tracks of the American tanks crushed the rubble, making a screeching noise, this should be a tank company! They are coming within range of the Destroyer 3.
Kiritz told Kiritz's crew to hold their breath and not to open fire without an order.
Kiritz searched for the command tank of the U.S. military through the observation glass, and soon identified the tank with the string number "05148" as the commander of the tank by looking at the tank's antenna. Kiritz told the gunner Fu through the telecom: "At ten o'clock, the tank with the string number 05148 must be destroyed first!" ”
"No problem!" Fu is very confident. The turret rotated...... The car shook violently. A cannonball came out of its chamber, carrying a lock of white smoke, and drew a wonderful arc. With a loud "boom", the turret of the American-commanded tank was torn off in the light of the fire and exploded into a pile of scrap metal.
The roar of tank guns panicked the Americans, could it be a trap? In the panic, four American M-60s actually collided together, and the occupants who climbed out of the cars were immediately killed by Klaus's machine guns. Two more tried to evacuate to the surrounding open field, but were blown up by mines.
The brave German infantrymen took advantage of the terrain and even sneaked up to the American tanks, stuffing mines and explosives packs directly into the tank's tracks. Or use a rice tank grenade to get close to the weakest point of the attacking tank......
Because the "Destroyer 3" tank was well hidden, the Americans first did not know where the blow came from and opened fire blindly. After paying heavy casualties, the German hiding place was discovered, but the German army was in a strong bunker fortification and difficult to defend terrain, and the American tanks were helpless. The Germans could destroy the remaining tanks in a dilemma without haste.
One after another American tanks were blown up. This is truly a massacre! This American tank company was wiped out. It became a graveyard for American tanks.
Witnessing the destruction of their own tanks, the morale of the American infantry battalion that occupied the ruins was demoralized and the morale of the army was shaken.
"Rush out of the road! Sergeant Hoffman. "Kiritz ordered the driver.
The "Destroyer 3" tank roared out of concealment, and the American small-caliber anti-tank shells could not penetrate the frontal armor of the "Destroyer 3" tank. Because it was some distance from the pile of rubble occupied by the enemy, the attempt of several American soldiers with anti-tank grenades to blow up the German tanks under the cover of the ruins was immediately noticed. Several German machine guns alternated fire, strafing the Americans who were trying to approach. Most of the intrepid U.S. anti-tank crews were crushed to death when they were knocked down by machine guns in the open or approached the tank. Having paid heavy casualties, the Americans abandoned this futile plan and avoided the Germans far away. Retreat without a fight.
The German tanks rushed at high speed towards the entrance to the position, colliding head-on with an American-made jeep trying to storm the position. It was like an egg hitting a stone, and the American-made jeep was squashed like a matchbox by the Destroyer 3 tank. Rushing through a piece of ruins, it suddenly became clear that there were wreckage of destroyed American tanks everywhere, which should be the result of a company! Several tank recovery and repair vehicles are being repaired for tanks with broken tracks or still repairable.
In the smoke of war, our appearance surprised the Americans who did not know the details. An M-60 immediately opened fire on the Germans, perhaps too panicked, their shot was far off, and the gunner in the tank would not give it another chance, and the M-60 was blown into a pile of fragments with one shot. It was really the tiger that entered the flock, and the Germans first destroyed four medium tanks and five armored vehicles that were a slight threat to them; Next, take out the tank repair vehicles and military trucks; After the last, the M-60 and other tanks that could be repaired were destroyed again and again. The tiger "Destroyer 3" is ravaging here at will, and the Americans only hate their father and mother for being missing two legs and running away.
The German tanks continued to advance, and in front of them were the starting positions of the Americans on the outskirts.
"Sir, you see there's a target at 3 o'clock!" Fu reported to Kiritz.
Kiritz shifted the angle of his scope as five American-made canvas military trucks loaded with American infantry approached. This is reinforcements from the enemy!
"Destroy them!" Kilitz commanded as he moved to the machine gun position. Turning the turret, the "bang" shells flew towards the American truck, and Fu very cleverly chose the last military truck as the target, and in an instant, the truck was blown to pieces and wiped out in ashes.
The American truck, which was in the middle of nowhere, chose to flee at high speed, and the two machine guns of Kiritz and Geisler fired at the same time, and the first truck was smashed like a sieve; The second military vehicle crashed into the first military vehicle, killing and wounding most of the personnel.
The third turned to the side and stopped, and before the Americans in the car got out of the car, Fu's shells had already shredded it with unerring accuracy, and only a small number of people fled.
The resistance of the last remaining Americans, after jumping out of the car, had no other meaning than to shatter the headlights of the "Destroyer 3". The American infantry of a reinforced company was thus wiped out by the Germans!
As Kilitz looked around at the horrific battlefield around him and faced his unrecognizable homeland, the only thing that pleased him was that the results we had achieved were brilliant, as their battalion destroyed at least 40 American tanks and wounded more than 600 enemy soldiers in the day's fighting.
"Sir, we only have five shells left!" Gunner Fu reported to Kiritz. "Sir, a brigade of American M-60 tanks appeared in the direction of one o'clock!" The observer reported to Kiritz.
Take it when you see it! Kiritz told Hoffman to reverse, and our tanks retreated to positions in the glow of the sunset.
It was getting dark. American troops began night raids. The first was that the H1 line was attacked by the enemy, and Second Lieutenant Cooper asked Kiritz for reinforcements, and their "Leopard IX" tanks had been destroyed by American tanks! With no troops to send, Kiritz had to order Second Lieutenant Cooper to form a defensive position around the ground for the most rear-end resistance.
Then the Americans attacked Kiritz's position, and the German second company, which was basically composed of police, SS and boy scouts, was no match for the Americans at all!
The superiority of the skillful combat skills of the American combat group began to manifest itself, and the German positions were broken through one by one, and the whole army collapsed. Contact between Kilitz and Captain Mel has also been severed, and it is estimated that he was either killed or captured.
Klaus only escaped to his tank, and Kiritz dragged the pale-faced commander of the second company into the tank, and it was very dangerous for the "Destroyer 3" tank to remain here, and sooner or later it would be blown up by American infantry.
Kiritz had to order the tanks to withdraw from their positions and retreat to reserve positions! (To be continued......)