Chapter 34: Crisis
The sniper scope kept moving, licorice was looking for a target, the machine gunner position just now had been eliminated by licorice at the same time as John sniped the officer, the German tank No. 4 slowly drove in, licorice aimed at a Soviet infantryman trying to get close to the tank, and a shot hit him in the head, then the soldier fell to the ground and the thing in his hand rolled down, it was a grenade?
"John, have you heard of any weapons such as anti-tank grenades in the Soviet army?" Licorice asked as she glanced at the grenade through the scope and looked for her next target.
"Probably not, but our grenadier units are equipped with magnetic anti-tank grenades." John replied after a moment's thought.
"That's the new equipment, right? I don't know how effective it is, but that's what the armored forces should consider. Licorice muttered.
While the two were talking, a wall at the entrance of the town collapsed, revealing a T34 hidden behind, this Soviet tank directly turned the muzzle to the No. 4 tank at the head, with a cannon sound, the shell accompanied by a ball of flames spewed out from the muzzle, flew in the air for less than a second and hit the No. 4 tank, which was hit by the No. 4 tank exploded without any delay, turning into a fireball, and the other No. 4 tanks immediately reacted and turned the muzzle, The new 88mm short-barreled gun penetrated the T34 facing them without hindrance at the current distance, detonating the ammunition inside, and sending its turret straight into the sky.
With the T34 destroyed, the German tanks drove into the town vigilantly, and then cooperated with the grenadiers to occupy the small village.
"Enemy reinforcements are being quickly approached! All of them are in a defensive position! "As a squad of scouts reported the situation to the commander, the order to hold the position was quickly given.
At this time, Licorice and John had entered the village from the west from the sniper point outside, but because the enemy's support troops had arrived just after the battle, the infantry had no time to clean up the battlefield, and they did not have time to carefully search and investigate each building, so Licorice found a small building that was pleasing to the eye and prepared to use it as a temporary sniper point, but unexpectedly heard other movements.
Licorice stopped, listened intently, and pointed to a spot and glanced at John, who nodded, and the two approached the room with their guns in hand.
The two stood on opposite sides of the door, John did not hesitate, walked up a few steps quickly, kicked open the door and entered the room directly, licorice followed closely behind, cross-aimed in both directions in the room, the reason why he did not lose the grenade is because it is only temporarily used by the enemy for military purposes, and there are still civilians. No, when Licorice and John broke into the room, they saw six civilians squatting on the ground with their backs against the wall, their faces full of panic, especially when they saw the two men breaking in with guns and pointing them at gunpoint, and some of them were already screaming in horror.
"Do you know Russian?" Licorice asked, and John shook his head.
"Can anyone understand me?" Seeing John shake his head, Licorice had no choice but to say this sentence twice in German and English.
But the civilians were confused, and did not understand what Licorice was talking about, so Licorice could only leave the room with John, close the door again, leave the civilians alone, and go up to the second floor to focus all attention on the incoming enemy.
Licorice put his rifle on the windowsill and half-crouched to aim at the enemy who was approaching in the distance, and counted it slightly, the enemy attacking in this direction was about 800 infantry and 25 tanks, and the other side of the village was also attacked, that is to say, there may be a regiment of the enemy attacking, but this does not make Licorice feel afraid, not to mention that there are two battalions of troops organizing defense here, not to mention that the main force behind is also about to drive in, no more, as long as it is held for two hours, These enemies will face several times the number of troops, and more than that, because the size of the Greater German Regiment has long exceeded the size of the regiment, and it will not be long before it will be called a division, and there will be more than the Greater German Regiment behind.
The T34 tanks opened the way to the roar of Soviet soldiers, and the infantry followed, and the attack began, and immediately the defenders were in a hot fight.
The Soviet commander who was directing the attack also felt very helpless, he knew very well how many enemies there were, and he also knew how much support there would be behind the defenders here, but he had no choice, his colleagues had already been sent to Siberia for a vacation by his family because he proposed to retreat and concentrate on defense, he didn't want to go to Siberia for a vacation, so he could only take the task hard, thinking of this, he suddenly trembled all over, if he couldn't capture here, would he be finished?
"Ulla! Charge! Keep up with the tanks in front and drive this group of invaders out of our homeland! "The commander, who was dominated by the fear from within, shouted orders after the infantry, and charged with the regimental troops with the soldiers, and he had no hesitation in order not to be sent to Siberia! Just as he was about to rush to the entrance of the town with the troops braving artillery fire and bullet rain, he suddenly stopped, and a bullet had penetrated his eyebrows with a spiral wake, and under the scattering of a little blood, his body gradually stiffened, his head fell to the ground backwards, and the hand that was still pointing ahead also fell to the ground weakly with his body, splashing a little dirt and no longer moving.
"What does that mean for us? The Soviet army was extremely short of experienced officers, and as soon as we killed their officers, the soldiers below would lose command and become confused? John laughed wickedly.
"That's right, according to the intelligence, most of their officers were killed in the previous purge, the new replacement officers are all novices and inexperienced, and the soldiers below are generally poorly educated, as long as we kill the officers and make them lose their command, we can greatly reduce their combat ability." Licorice pulled the bolt and replied easily, Chen Hao had already edited these things into a book and sent them them before.
While the two of them were constantly sniping the enemy officers, there seemed to be some movement outside? Licorice reacted at a very fast speed, turned the muzzle of the gun, aimed at the direction of the door, just as Licorice turned around, an enemy roared and kicked open the door and rushed in, Licorice quickly aimed and shot, knocking down the enemy, but there was no time to pull the bolt and load, not even a chance to pull out the pistol, two more enemies rushed in with guns outside the door, Licorice was very decisive to drop the rifle in his hand, At the same time, he kicked hard under his feet, flew sideways, and rolled on the ground with John, who had just reacted, to avoid the deadly gunshot, and with the two gunshots, two bullets shot at the position they had just placed, instantly penetrating the wall behind them.
This instantaneous reaction was so simple for Licorice, as if intuition was guiding him, but it was not over, the danger was not lifted, and the two enemies who shot saw that Licorice and John were not hit, and as decisively as Licorice, they gave up the idea of pulling the bolt and reloading and shooting, because it would take at least three seconds, and in this small room, it only takes one second for the enemy to rush in front of you and knock you down. They rushed towards Licorice and smashed the butt of their guns at Licorice and John, and although John had been holding the gun just now, there was no possibility of shooting at all, and he could only use the rifle as a melee weapon to block the attack of one of the enemies.
And although licorice relied on the reaction to dodge this blow, but he didn't have any fighting experience and felt really passive now, just dodged the enemy's attack, and before he could stand firmly, the enemy quickly smashed over, licorice raised his arms to block the attack, and then was hit on the head by an enemy head hammer, licorice took a few steps back to the wall behind him, and then was kicked in the stomach, and after being knocked down, he was smashed on the head by the enemy with the butt of the gun, and immediately the head was smashed and bleeding, Fortunately, the training during this period of time was quite effective, otherwise this time he would have completely lost the ability to resist, but now he was already dizzy, unable to distinguish between east and west, north and south, everything in front of him became blurred, licorice could only instinctively pull out the tactical dagger from his calf, but before he could make the next move, a gunshot rang out in the room.
Hearing the gunshot, Licorice half-squatted up, one hand propped up on the ground, and the other looked up with a dagger, the Soviet soldier who had just knocked himself to the ground and was about to take advantage of your illness to give himself another time was frozen in place, his expression was frozen, his eyes were scattered, and his body slowly fell forward, Licorice understood at a glance that this was a bullet in the back of the heart, and he was dead, it seems that the shot just now was fired by John. Licorice stood up and looked at the other side of the room, John was fighting with another enemy with his bare hands, his gun had been knocked aside, Licorice quickly put down the dagger and reached out to pull out the P38 pistol on his waist, enduring the pain and dizziness, with a blurred vision to find an opportunity for John to temporarily separate from the other party, aiming at the last remaining enemy to shoot, with the sound of gunfire, the last Soviet soldier slowly fell to the ground, John also relaxed and sat on the ground to catch his breath.
"I think it was a mistake that we didn't practice martial arts before." John said with a pale face and slumped on the ground with his abdomen clutched.
"How do I know that snipers still need to learn martial arts! Usually sniping enemies from a distance, it is the first time that someone has been caught in this way and is either shelled or strafed. Licorice covered his bleeding head, grinned in pain,
"Thankfully, the enemy has no automatic weapons, and like us, he only has a chance to shoot, otherwise he would have caught us out at the door." John laughed dumbly.
"Didn't you fight wolves when you were a kid? Why is it so weak, don't talk so much nonsense, let's move quickly, I'm completely incapacitated now, that guy has a lot of strength just now, I guess I'm a little concussed. Licorice sat on the ground with her back against the wall and shook her head slightly.
"It's not that you're too weak, you were put down by someone twice, I think you should go to God if you don't save you, so I took two hard hits to find a chance to shoot the guy who beat you down." John said through the pain.