Chapter 80: A Difficult Task
"Tank!"
The Allied soldiers screamed in horror, and in the direction they pointed, I saw a large number of German infantry and more than a dozen "No. 3" tanks. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
It's a disaster!
We didn't have any anti-tank weapons, and the guys on the beach with guns after the race to the death were already qualified soldiers.
"Da Da Da"
The Germans, who had surrendered, were immediately restless when they saw the arrival of reinforcements. They pushed down the Allied soldiers in custody and ran to the reinforcements, only to be shot dead by the Allied soldiers who reacted.
This move infuriated the German troops, and more than a dozen tanks burst out of the infantry at full speed and rushed towards them with billowing smoke.
"Woo" "Boom"
High-explosive shells fired by tanks fell in the Allied crowd, and the Allied soldiers ran towards the beach like frightened ducks.
I'm half by them, two legs can run over tank tracks?
Besides, where can you run and swim back to the fleet?
Even so, I ran along, single-handedly fighting a dozen tanks, and the madman couldn't do it.
The foothold that took more than two hours was recaptured by the Germans in less than half an hour, and the Germans did not chase them to the beach for fear of Allied destroyers and warplanes.
The dozen or so men who remained were cratered and looked depressed. In fact, compared to the western part of Omaha, we are considered good, and the Allied soldiers there are still soaking in the water and have not made a single step ashore!
The correspondent kept debugging the walkie-talkie, switching channels back and forth to call, hoping to get in touch with his superiors.
"Trojan Horse No. 3 calls Overlord, please come back when you hear it!"
There is nothing but a burst of blind sounds, can you only wait for the second echelon to come up?
The walkie-talkie of the "Overlord ...... Receiver" was finally connected, and the correspondent of the command headquarters was silent before he finished speaking, and when we thought that the communication was cut off again, a majestic voice appeared:
"I'm Vice Admiral Braley, the commander of the Navy, and I'm reporting on your current situation!"
Unexpectedly, a big fish was summoned, and the correspondent was directly stunned. I went up and grabbed the microphone, and now wasting time is killing myself!
"Report to the sir, we are now pinned down on the beach east of the Omaha landing site, the enemy has heavy artillery, bunkers and tanks, and we need naval heavy artillery support!"
"Report your coordinates and enemy locations!"
"Our coordinates are 1425, 2620. Enemy fire points 1450, 2330"
There was a slight pause in the earpiece, and Lieutenant General Braley said:
"We can't make sure you're safe, you're within the range of the shells"
I was silent when I heard this, I am not a hero, and I can't shout the heroism of shooting at me. Even if I shouted, I guess before the shells came down, the Allied soldiers around me who were eavesdropping with pointed ears would kill me first.
"Now there is a way, there are a few German 155mm coastal guns on the cliff in front of you, and you need to finish them off, so that our destroyers can get close to the coast and open fire!"
I looked at the cliff more than ten meters high, and I swallowed, can you give someone a task that can be completed?
Lieutenant General Braley waited quietly, although he didn't say it explicitly, but I knew that this order could not be pushed.
"Okay, I'll do my best"
"Tell me your name"
"Private Pete"
"At the end of the mission, I will personally award you the Medal of Honor!"
I pouted slightly, Medal of Honor? Did it work?
I told everyone present about the mission, and the soldiers immediately exploded.
"Bastards of the Navy!"
"I can't complete this task!"
"You should let those big men sitting in the office come and see for themselves, and let them climb the cliff!"
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The cacophony made my head blow up, and I waved them to silence, then pointed to the cliff and said:
"If we can't take it, our landing will be a failure!"
The bottom is still talking to each other, ignoring me, and it doesn't matter to them whether they fail or not. This will still be alive basically Bing Youzi, and as soon as the slogan is shouted, the blood is boiling and dies on the beach.
"Are you wondering what the landing failure has to do with you?"
"Five landing points, as long as one opens the situation, we win, and if we fail here, we will lose."
A soldier with a bandage on his shoulder said nonchalantly, his words causing the other soldiers to nod their heads again and again.
"A herd of pigs!"
"What do you say? Say it again! ”
The soldier rolled up his sleeves and got up and walked over, but the other soldiers were also unhappy, and no one came up to stop them.
I gave in to the punch and grabbed him by the neck and pressed him to the ground. The other soldiers got up one after another, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at me, intentionally or unintentionally, but I didn't care, and lowered my head and said:
"If the landing here fails, there will be no more second-echelon landings. The fleet will go to other landing sites, and we will be ruthlessly left behind! Got it? ”
My words made the soldiers around them pale, and the result was obvious.
When I came to the bottom of the cliff, I looked at the almost vertical cliff and retreated, can this really go up?
When the tide recedes, the rock walls below are covered with slippery seaweed and sea lice crawling around. After climbing up, I found that the most troublesome thing was not these, but the oysters adsorbed on the rocks. If you accidentally scratch the edge of their sharp shell, it will be a bloody cut.
Fortunately, the waves beat day after day, and there was no loosening on the cliff wall, so I climbed to the middle smoothly.
I struggled to clasp on a crack in the stone, and pulled my body up with a few fingers, and my arm hurt as if it was broken.
"Click"
The rocks on it were badly weathered, and the place where I clasped my hands cracked directly, and my body quickly fell down.
"Ahh
Ten fingers slid on the cliff wall, and the flesh and blood on the fingertips seemed to be pestled on the grinder, and disappeared in an instant.
Before I gave up, I finally grabbed something, I gritted my teeth and clasped the protruding rock, mustered up the strength to continue to climb, and there was no way back from climbing with my bare hands!
The soldiers below all pinched a cold sweat for me and exclaimed.
In fact, I was the only one who climbed the rock in the end, and half of the people were injured and half of them were afraid of heights. Sometimes all you can count on is yourself!
My arms and fingers were numb, I didn't care about anything, I just looked up, and the end was getting closer and closer......
Turning over the cliff, I tied the rope on my body to a boulder, threw it off the cliff, and then lay on the ground and did not move, and now if I was caught by the Germans, I would admit it.
The rope swayed from side to side, and a few minutes later the first soldier came up and pounced on the German artillery position without saying a word, carrying a gun.
I smiled at the corner of my mouth, okay, and a little ashamed.
One by one, the soldiers passed by me, and they all looked at me with admiration. Wrapping my fingers around them one by one, I picked up my gun and got up and followed, and the battle had already begun!