Chapter 18: The Battle of the Town (7) Plan Pass

Licorice was pulled behind Daniel, Daniel pointed to the corner of the front left door, signaling that there was an enemy there, Licorice nodded in understanding, turned and slipped into a small path on the left, trying to outflank him, but embarrassingly, the road was completely obscured by the collapsed houses. Now it's either a storm from here, or a long way to get there. When Licorice was hesitating, a No. 4 tank drove over in the rear, and the commander of the tank saw Licorice and other infantry leaning against the corner and hesitating, and instantly understood the situation.

"Is there anti-tank fire ahead?" A young commander opened the hatch and leaned out of his body to ask, and Licorice looked directly at Daniel.

"I don't know very well, when I just looked over, I saw a dozen infantry and a machine gun squad, and then they were beaten back!" Daniel shook his head and said regretfully that he didn't know what was going on.

"Load an armor-piercing bullet first! If there are no armored targets, load high-explosive shells to help the infantry destroy the enemy! The young commander said to the loader.

"Understood!"

Then the No. 4 tank drove around the corner under the command of the commander, and just halfway through the body, a shell hit his head and front armor, making a "ding~~" sound, ricocheting, the shell grazed the armor plate and jumped to the right side of the No. 4 tank, crashed into a ruin, and exploded.

"Quick! Aim at the Renault in front of you on the left and fire! Under the command of the commander, the gunner quickly shook the direction machine, aimed the main gun at a Renault light tank and fired, "Boom~~~" armor-piercing shells directly penetrated the front armor of the Renault tank, detonated the ammunition carried by the Renault tank itself, and exploded into a brilliant fireball.

"Armor-piercing bullets!" While the gunner was firing, the commander at the same time ordered the loader to load another armor-piercing round.

"Target, the Renault tank right in front, fire!" With the efforts of the loader, three seconds later another shell was fired by the gunner, accurately hitting the last Renault tank, this time without causing an explosion, but looking at the large hole in the front armor of the Renault tank, you also knew that the tank was already useless. Then the commander ordered the loader to load the high-explosive shell, and at the same time controlled the machine gun to strafe the infantry, and as a high-explosive shell sent the French machine gun squad into the sky, Licorice rushed out with the infantry.

After rushing around the corner and hitting an infantry with a single shot, Licorice clearly saw the damage caused by a tank, unlike the situation when he was pressed and beaten by a French tank before, and unlike the previous incident of hearing that a French B1 tank was unmatched in the armored group of his teammates, this time he completely witnessed how a tank overturned two enemy tanks and a large group of infantry without being scathed.

Sure enough, is the current war the world of mechanized troops? Licorice thought silently in her heart.

With the strafing of tank machine guns and the mending knives of the infantry, the French soldiers on the opposite side have been completely wiped out, but the follow-up enemy should soon counterattack, and must first take the cathedral, and then rely on the terrain there to better gain a foothold, and then think about driving the French out of town. But this is all the commander's thinking, and now what Licorice needs to do is attack under the commander's orders.

Before they could take a few steps forward, a large number of enemies rushed out, and the No. 4 tank just now met its opponent, a B1 heavy tank. The frontal armor of B1 is not what the current No. 4 tank can penetrate, only by attacking the side can there be a chance, but the armor of the No. 4 tank is fragile in front of B1, and finally the commander of the No. 4 tank who felt that there was no chance of winning commanded the tank to retreat to the back of the alley, and then came to deal with this B1 after shouting for support, and this enemy tank did not know why, so it stayed here without the next move, but this is bitter licorice, and the infantry on the opposite side is like a tiger with the help of the tank, The completely suppressed more than a dozen German infantry here couldn't raise their heads, and Licorice took advantage of the fact that most of the enemy infantry on the opposite side raised their heads and shot their squad leader in a gap between changing bullets, and then quickly retreated. I feel like it's not a thing at all like this.,I have a strong shooting ability.,But the chance to shoot yourself is really very rare.,If you can shoot as much as you want.,A platoon will be wiped out to show you.。

After a short while, the No. 4 tank parked behind finally moved, it seemed that he had contacted the helper, and another No. 4 tank came from another direction, and they decided to flank the B1, the 47 mm tank gun mounted on the turret of the B1 tank was not as big a threat to the No. 4 tank as expected, the main source of threat was the 75 mm tank gun on the hull, and the steering speed of the B1 tank was a huge weakness, after a day of fighting, the German armorers had grasped the weakness of the B1 tank.

A No. 4 tank showed its head first, drove out of the alley and fired a shot at the turret of the B1 tank, although it did not cause any damage, but it also led the B1 tank hull to turn fifty degrees to aim at him, and the other No. 4 tank looked at the opportunity to drive out from the other direction, continued to drive forward for a while, aimed directly at the side of the B1 tank and fired a hole, directly on the side of the indestructible B1 tank, although it did not detonate the ammunition of the B1 tank, but look at the location of the hole, The gunner and loader should be dead, and with another shot, the tank stopped in place and smoked black smoke and did not move at all.

With the help of two No. 4 tanks, there is also a platoon that has just come to support nearby, with a total strength of more than 60 soldiers, and two tanks, although they are broken into pieces under the command of each squad leader, but in the same theater of operations, everyone will still watch and help each other.

However, things were not as simple as Licorice imagined, the resistance of the defenders was unusually stubborn, and the two sides fought a tug-of-war, constantly fighting over the ruined place, and a few hours later, at noon, Licorice was once again driven out of the town.

"Boom~~~Boom~~~Boom~~~" When the troops were once again repulsed, another heavy artillery bombardment began. When the town was once again covered by artillery fire, the French army, which had suffered heavy casualties, had to temporarily withdraw to the edge of the town, and at 2:30 p.m., licorice was once again sent to the battlefield, and another German attack began, but the stubborn French defenders immediately launched a counterattack and successfully drove the Germans out, licorice felt that he was holding his breath, and now he felt very unhappy, and he was driven back again!

Two hours later, another attack began, Licorice and a few soldiers rushed back to the town, still the old place, still familiar taste, but this time, in the town the Germans encountered unprecedented resistance, only half an hour was repulsed again, on the way to retreat, the soldiers of the licorice platoon unexpectedly encountered a B1 tank, and then Licorice witnessed the B1 tank driving over and crushing several German soldiers who did not have time to escape directly to death after the ruins. Staring at the red mud that covered the ground, and echoing in his ears the wails of his comrades before they died, at this moment, the pent-up anger in Licorice's heart reached its peak!

"Daniel! How many grenades do you still have? Licorice asked softly after forcing herself to calm down.

"Plus the one I picked up on the road just now, and there are five more, don't mess around!" Daniel was also angry, but he always kept his senses and knew that they could not do much damage to a heavy tank without heavy weapons.

"I'm calm, we've just gotten rid of the big French army behind us, and now there's only the tank and three infantry that suddenly appeared, and now is the best chance to take him out! The B1's main gun and machine gun could only fire at the front, and although the turret could rotate, it didn't spin fast enough that I could approach him without interference from an angle that the tank couldn't shoot! Looking at the tank, which was less than 100 meters away from him, Licorice decided to give it a try.

"Okay, I know I can't persuade you, so I can only take risks with you, tell me about your plan." Daniel quietly stretched out his head and looked at the B1 tank with his back to them, and then spread his hands and said.

"The plan is simple, you tie up the grenades and give them a grenade, and then we shoot those three infantrymen at the same time, you hit one, I hit two, and then I rush to the tank and throw mines at them!" Licorice directly stated a simple and crude plan.

"But even if our grenades are made into cluster explosions, they won't be able to break through their armor!"

"Blow up his tracks first, then set it on fire!" Licorice glared and said in a fierce tone.

"Where did we get the fire?" Daniel asked curiously.

"Whoa! There are so many bottles of wine hidden by Gallic chickens! Licorice said, pointing to a small cellar that had been blown out earlier.

"Okay, let's get moving, or we'll have no chance if that tank drives away in a while." Daniel urged, handing the already bundled grenade to Licorice.

"Let's get moving, you hit the one on the far left, give me the two on the right, and then you go and run over with the bottle."

"Good!" After Daniel responded, the two of them took their guns and aimed, and at a distance of 100 meters, even Daniel could easily hit the target.

"Bang~~" accompanied by two gunshots at the same time, two French soldiers fell in response, and before the remaining soldier could react, Licorice had already jumped out of cover and rushed out, running towards the tank while pulling the bolt, "Click~" withdrew the bullet and reloaded, and directly raised the gun to shoot in the run, and the third enemy of "Bang~" was also knocked down. When the licorice ran to a distance of only forty meters from the tank, the crew in the car had just reacted, and it was too late to rotate the turret, and when the turret was only a third of the rotation, the licorice had already run to the side of the tank, and the driver had already started the tank, but the speed of the tank was now just the speed of ordinary people walking, although the maximum speed of this tank could reach 28 kilometers per hour, but it was not easy for the originally stationary tank to accelerate.

Licorice easily ran up, stuffed the grenade under the induction wheel in the rear, and then quickly ran to the other side, repeating the previous action again, when the two explosions sounded, the tracks on both sides of the tank were all broken, paralyzed on the ground and could not move, the wheels could only spin, Licorice after stuffing the grenade, he pointed his gun at the hatch at the top of the turret to prevent the crew inside from taking the gun out to shoot himself. And in order to allow Daniel to come over, licorice also deliberately stood in front of the left side of the tank, which will not be hit by the fire from the front of the tank, and at the same time can lead the turret to rotate to himself, and because the tank depression angle is not enough and the licorice is very close, as long as the licorice is on the waist, even if the turret is facing the licorice, it will not be able to hit him, this is the embarrassment of the tank without infantry cover being close to the enemy infantry, but the future tanks will have roof machine guns, which can not only be used to strafe the infantry at 360 degrees, It can also be used to strafe attack aircraft for final self-defense in the case of insufficient anti-aircraft firepower, which is better than nothing, especially when the attack aircraft dives and attacks, it is very easy to hit, Soviet tanks basically have 12.7 mm or 14.5 mm overhead machine guns, and the MBT-70 and KPZ-70 experimental vehicles created by Uncle Sam in cooperation with Germany in the seventies even directly put the 20 mm cannon on the head.

In less than half a minute, Daniel ran briskly from the bunker where he had been hiding with a bunch of bottles.

"You've finally arrived, and the plan has been perfected! Pour all the wine on the hood in the back! Licorice said with a laugh.

"Hah! I thought I could try to take two bottles and pour them off the hatch, I don't believe those Frenchmen can make tanks airtight! Daniel said excitedly.

"Hurry up, it's been a long time, maybe their reinforcements will come soon." Licorice said, still pointing a gun at the hatch.

"Understood!" After Daniel nodded in understanding, he went straight to action, holding the bottle and slamming the top part of the bottle on the tank.

Gulp open the bottle, although it will spill a lot of wine, but now the time is urgent, how can you care so much, and then pour the wine directly to the hood, the liquid quickly flowed in through the radiator, and finally really took two bottles and poured them on the hatch cover. The crew in the tank already felt very wrong, but they had no choice, the only way out was pointed at a gun, and if they took the initiative to open the hatch, the other party might throw a grenade directly in, open the hatch will definitely die, stay in the car and wait for reinforcements, there is still a possibility of survival, how to choose everyone knows.

Daniel retreated after pouring the wine, and the licorice shot directly at the hood of the tank, "Bang~~" The bullet hit the hood of the tank and ricocheted, but the violent friction caused a spark, which directly ignited the tank, and the flames burned into it from the hood, burned to the fuel tank, and the fire became even bigger, and the entire tank became a fireball with constant smoke, under this fire, the crew in the tank would choke to death by the smoke even if they were not burned to death, or directly suffocated to death due to lack of air. The hatch on the top of the tank was opened, and the commander was full of fire and wanted to escape from the tank, but Daniel directly shot him in the shoulder, making his arm unable to exert force, Gan Prairie wanted to kill him directly with one shot, but looking at Daniel's behavior, he directly acquiesced, daring to crush his comrades, no matter how much he did. The commander who was hit in both shoulders kept wailing and screaming in the flames, trying to jump out of the tank on his legs, but he never succeeded, and there were other crew members below who tried to push him out to get out of the way, but soon there was no movement, and finally there was no sound, and the commander who could not escape stuck the only escape hatch, and the other crew members would not even have a chance to escape. Licorice and Daniel had retreated to the distance when the tank caught fire, preventing the ammunition inside from exploding on themselves, and watching the commander's painful death in despair, the anger in his heart finally dissipated. Looking at the raging flames, Licorice understood two things, first, the French tank was leaking! Second, the wine just now is definitely not red wine, and red wine can't be burned, because the alcohol content of red wine is very small, the degree is very low, and the contact surface with the air is less, and the boiling point is high! But the sake that can be burned in France seems to be very expensive? Licorice felt that she had discovered the truth, a truth that hurt everyone's heart.

"Run, there's such a big movement here, I'm afraid someone will come later!" Licorice said softly while holding the gun.

"Well, it's time for us to run away, your plan is really reliable!" Daniel gave a thumbs up and smiled.

"That's necessary, I've got a plan!" Licorice smiled and shamelessly responded to the compliment.

When the two turned around and fled, quickly fleeing the town, which had been reoccupied by the French, before the enemy could react, Vincent found them directly.

(PS: This chapter was originally going to be called something else, but I thought of a special reason and decided to put together seven chapters.) )