Chapter 258: The Counterattack of American Tanks
Artillery bombardment and bombardment could not destroy the enemy's offensive.
Even the U.S. troops, who had lost artillery support, still resolutely launched an attack.
The American soldiers who stayed on the battlefield quickly dug foxholes and machine-gun positions, and after half an hour, the American attack began again.
This attack was an all-out attack, and there were American troops attacking in front of the town and on the left and right.
More tanks were put into the frontal battlefield.
Just seeing the large number of enemies around is enough to put unprecedented pressure on the Red Guard soldiers.
The mortar units, which had already been familiar with shooting all the elements, launched a rapid counterattack, destroying all the machine gun positions that had just been arranged on the frontline battlefield of the US army.
The concealed Red Police machine gun position also roared, and the dense fire tore many unsuspecting US soldiers apart.
Having lost the cover of machine-gun fire, the US troops responsible for the attack on the left and right flanks suffered heavy losses for a while, and the gap in firepower gave the Red Guard soldiers the best opportunity to counterattack.
However, the attacking American troops also changed their previous style, shouting slogans of recovering lost territory and driving the enemy out of the United States, and frantically rushed towards the town.
The enemy is not stupid, in the first round of engagement, it has been tested that the enemy in the town is not many, and the attack is naturally completely free.
In the desperate attack of the American soldiers, the American attacking troops also advanced to a distance of less than 200 meters from the town.
The Red Alert soldiers at the front had to alternately cover the evacuation, otherwise they would soon be swallowed up by the US troops under superior forces.
What's more, the appearance of a large number of US tanks also made the troops on the front line have to start moving.
The self-propelled howitzer battalion in the distance rang out, and the shells fell on the side of the attacking American troops, and the terrible killing radius made the attacking American troops pay a lot of price.
However, these American soldiers, who were not rookies, when they heard the whistling sound of the shells, they all lay on the ground in time, dodging the terrible lethality of the shell explosion, and only the people near the center of the explosion were killed by the explosion.
Under the cover of artillery, the retreating Red Guard soldiers successfully alternately left the town.
This kind of battle cannot be won by holding on, but can only maintain superior combat forces and then conduct mobile operations.
The soldiers who left the town quickly boarded the armored vehicles waiting at the rear of the town, and a group of three Rhino tanks, all in concealment, also took action.
Haystacks piled high, pushed away by tanks, and tanks and armored vehicles disguised as haystacks, appeared on the battlefield.
The American soldiers, who were still attacking, were all stunned when they saw the failure of the Rhino tank.
These main forces of the US military with combat experience were once dominated by the fear of the rhinoceros tank, and when they saw this behemoth appear, many soldiers were naturally afraid.
However, the US tank unit, as an old enemy, is not ambiguous at all in addition to fear.
More than a dozen tanks attacked, and the three Rhino tanks that had just appeared were covered by US tank guns.
However, the frontal attack, the power of the US tank artillery, is simply unable to help the Rhino tank.
The frontal armor of the three Rhino tanks was full of craters, and these were all scars from the US tanks, and none of them could damage the root of the tank's frontal armor.
The Rhino Tank, which launched a counterattack, easily destroyed three Hillmans two hundred meters away, and was easily penetrated.
This made the U.S. tank unit feel desperate again, you know, these Sherman Fireflies who came to the battlefield for the first time are not only equipped with the most advanced large-caliber tank guns, but also the shells used are also the newly developed hood armor-piercing shells, which can easily penetrate 220 mm armor.
It was thought that such an armor-piercing ability would already be able to destroy the enemy's Rhino tank, but the actual combat once again proved that even at a distance of 200 meters, such an attack still did not work against the Rhino tank.
In fact, the frontal armor defense of the Rhino tank is completely equivalent to 400 mm of homogeneous armor, and unless the US military can develop a 105 mm caliber armor-piercing projectile, it will not be able to threaten the frontal armor of the Rhino tank at all.
In fact, it was not until 1944 that the U.S. military was officially equipped with shell-piercing shells, and although the Red Guard Corps put great pressure on the U.S. military, because a large number of local industries were destroyed, the U.S. military's military research and development work not only did not progress, but was retreating.
In order to equip the turret of the 105 mm gun, the body of these Sherman Fireflies is relatively large, especially the turret of the upper body, the structure is relatively bloated, and due to the overweight of the turret, the tank driving is very problematic, the complex terrain has the danger of overturning, and the speed is slow, it is easy to be attacked.
The three tanks that were exposed did not attack, but covered the armored vehicles, fighting and retreating.
The retreating Rhino Tank keeps destroying approaching U.S. tanks, even under the cover of smoke grenades, the Rhino Tank with infrared aiming can clearly find Sherman's engine that emits heat, and then easily destroy the enemy.
Li Youming, who was fighting and retreating, ordered the troops to maintain a moderate retreat speed, because the supporting troops were about to arrive, and the next task of counteroffensive would be carried out.
The attacking US troops, instead of retreating, accelerated the pace of the offensive.
The battlefield has crossed the town, and it seems that the retreating Red Guard unit has given the attacking American soldiers great courage to attack.
And more tanks appeared on the battlefield, just when Li Youming's three tanks always kept a distance of only two or three hundred meters from the enemy, in the rear of the US army, a shell flew and landed next to the 055 tank, and the huge crater and explosion made everyone in the 055 tank startled.
The side skirts of the track were blown up, and the whole thing was broken, if it wasn't for the side skirts, I'm afraid the track would have been blown off in the explosion just now.
"Damn, what was it just now?"
The 056 tank on the side hurriedly asked, the explosion just now startled everyone.
"It's 155 heavy artillery shells, how can the US artillery still be able to launch an artillery bombardment." Inside the 054 tank, voices were also heard.
Only Li Youming didn't say a word, because he had already seen behind the US tank unit, a behemoth revealing its tall body.
It was a tank destroyer with a combined body and turret, a huge body that seemed to be much slower than Hillman's.
The most striking thing is that on this tank destroyer with a bit of German origin, there is a long gun with a 155 mm caliber barrel, which gives Li Youming a great shock.