Chapter 189: The Might of the Tiger (2)
After resting and replenishing at the supply points on the outskirts of the city, the Germans launched a second offensive. The purpose of this attack was to seize the central area of the city, and even if it could not be reached, it was necessary to advance the battle line into the city, and this order made the heavy losses of the armored troops even worse, but the German armored soldiers ended a short rest with a look of hesitation and drove their cars to the battlefield.
The air support promised by the command also arrived on the battlefield at this time, and the fighters patrolled over the city, looking for Allied tanks hidden in the streets to bomb them. But the air force's support came and went quickly, and when the fighters who had run out of ammunition slowly left the battlefield, Hu Bin knew that the time had come to really test the German army.
By this time night had fallen, but the Allies and Germans had no intention of temporarily ceasefire.
The four Tigers led the remaining German tanks from four streets side by side to launch an attack aimed at the center of the city, while the soldiers of the infantry regiment cautiously advanced behind the chariots. The Allies immediately understood the German movement, and immediately mobilized the remaining tanks to gather nearby, trying to start a decisive battle with the German armored division on the way to the center of the city.
"This time, even the motorized troops have joined the attack, and our commander seems to be under great pressure from the general headquarters." Hu Bin, of course, was the one who slowly pushed forward behind Doyle's tiger style, and the radio was used by the two of them as a tool for chatting.
"It seems that the fighting on both the north and south fronts has reached a stalemate, and the command intends to open a gap in this direction, but the large-scale deployment of troops will inevitably attract the attention of the Allies, so now we can only rely on ourselves to accomplish this goal." Doyle, after all, is an aboriginal and cares deeply about the development of the war, unlike the numberers who come out of thin air, who only know a little about the situation of the war.
"How far away is the 04 Tiger wreckage to be seen?" Hu Bin asked about the topic he was most concerned about.
"On another street less than three hundred meters from here, Cornin and the others are just too impatient, otherwise how could they fall into the trap of those Allied guys." Doyle said regretfully, the same Tiger commander. He had good friendships with the others, and he was saddened by Cornyn's death.
"We're going to avenge them."
"That's right, I ...... Damn, enemy attack. Doyle suddenly tuned the channel to the public channel and shouted.
The sound of artillery and machine guns rang out in the next moment, and in the dim moonlight, a spark could clearly be seen bouncing off the outer armor of the Tiger walking in front. It was only the effect of the bullets from the armor-piercing machine gun, and the armor-piercing bullet flew past the edge of the Tiger turret and hit the wall of a building on either side of the street, opening a large hole in it.
"No opposing vehicles were found, priority was given to striking machine-gun fire points." Doyle gave a quick glance at the enemy situation ahead. But the cunning enemy tanks were not easily exposed to the tiger's field of vision. The 88mm gun adjusted the angle slightly, and then a shell was sprayed with a deafening roar. In the distance, the second floor of the building was collapsed by the tremendous force of the shells, and the two machine-gun fire points above were instantly muted.
A scream came from far and near, and several German infantrymen who were following behind the Tiger thought it would be safe to follow behind the large iron block, but they did not expect to be hit by a cannonball that fell from the sky. The fragmented shrapnel instantly took the lives of several fighters, and only then did someone shout a warning "mortar".
The enemy's fierce firepower made Hu Bin's heart panic, this kind of defense is completely different from some time ago, but the tiger style that started the head is still slowly moving forward, Doyle has seen too many such scenes. Only such a scene can cast the immortal feats of the tiger style.
Ricocheting, ricocheting, unpenetrated, or ricocheting. The enemy's artillery fire seemed to be completely helpless against the tough and heavy armor of the Tiger Style. The impact of the dense attacks even affected the Tiger's speed, but it still did not penetrate its frontal armor. Doyle's crew endured the shock and concussion, taking advantage of the gap between the two vehicle-mounted machine guns to suppress the opposite direction, and the friendly forces behind them finally reflected in the sudden attack.
A No. 4 tank in the back sprang around the body and sprang out. The infantry support short-barreled howitzer above was a shot at the most dense fire, and the flames from the exploding grenades lit up an area, killing and wounding many enemies at the same time. The figure of an M4 in the shadows was also illuminated. But the exposed M4 was not afraid at all, and directly hit the turret of No. 4. The Four's already very broken front armor was pierced by the shell, which touched the shells inside and exploded directly into a cloud of fireworks.
"Ferry!" Stallone yelled, suddenly stepped on the accelerator and turned to the side, then turned the body forward again, revealing the black hole cannon muzzle from the tiger's body.
"Fire!" Ferré shouted and pulled the gun line. A high-explosive armor-piercing projectile streaked through an almost straight trajectory and hit the turret of the M4.
"Damn, bounce off." Hu Bin saw a spark flash from the M4's gun shield, and their shells did not penetrate the enemy's turret. "Dodge, he's going to fire." Seeing that the M4 had given up on the impenetrable Tiger tank, he aimed his gun at the pursuers who were slowly retreating and trying to run away after firing the gun.
A violent shock came from the body, the enemy's shell bounced, and the beveled armor on the front of the pursuer allowed it to dodge, but the ears of Hu Bin and the others roared at the moment of being hit. Hu Bin steadied himself and looked blankly at the others, Ferrey's head seemed to hit the spot, covering the wound and trying to stop the bleeding, Stallone desperately maneuvering the rudder and shouting something, and Stan was loading a high-explosive armor-piercing shell into the chamber of the cannon, seemingly unaffected. The voice suddenly returned to the pursuer's compartment, and Stallone was asking loudly about the damage to the vehicle, while Ferrey looked a little gloomy, the mistake of the cannon had nearly buried the entire crew.
"Reloaded!" Stan's calm voice stunned the others for a moment, and then everyone's eyes turned to Hu Bin.
"Check the body!" Hu Bin suddenly shouted loudly.
"The artillery is normal." "The engine is fine." "The ammo rack is in good condition!"
"Ferré, one more time." Hu Bin did not hesitate to give the order to attack again, and the young gunner Ferre who received the order seemed to be ignited by this sentence.
The Tiger 88mm gun opened fire again, the left front load-bearing wheel of the M4 took a hard shot, the tracks and part of the armor were blown apart, and it is estimated that the driver inside will not die. The M4, which was broken and heavily damaged, reluctantly returned a Tiger shell, which exploded into a ball at the moment it hit the Tiger armor, which was actually a high-explosive shotgun. on the radio. The Tiger's signal soldier let out a scream, apparently affected by the shotgun just now.
The Stalker poked his head out again to attract the attention of the M4, but Sherman, who was still reloading, could only watch as the pursuer's muzzle slowly aimed at it. Ferrey did not give the opponent a chance this time, and the shell directly penetrated the turret of the M4, completely incapacitating the enemy tank.
"Keep going!" Doyle's voice came over the radio, and it seemed that he had taken over the position of signal soldier. There was no time to fear, there was no time to grieve, and all German troops on the way to attack had to forge ahead until the final victory or the sacrifice of their lives.
The heavy body of the Tiger slowly crossed the wreckage of the M4, and the two German infantrymen behind jumped onto the wreckage. Threw a grenade through the gap into a scrapped tank. There was a scream of terror from the carriage, but it stopped abruptly as an explosion rang out.
After following the large army for a distance, Hu Bin saw the tiger-like wreckage that had been paralyzed here, but when Hu Bin tried to repair the wreckage with a universal wrench, he was told by the space that it could not be repaired, which made Hu Bin, who was trying to occupy the tiger-like wreckage, disappointed.
The sound of falling mortar shells sounded again, the Allies tried to stop the German advance at all costs, and the remaining tanks appeared in front of the street one after another. One after the other were wrecked. There were more and more bullet marks on the front of the Tiger, and finally a shell pierced the machine gun hole. Following the signal corps, the driver also had a shell through the chest and died on the spot. The Tiger Commander, Doyle, who had suffered serious attrition, had to hand over the task of the signal corps to the gunners. He sat in the driver's seat.
Hu Bin's pursuers were not unscathed, and a mortar shell hit the roof of the chariot, but fortunately it was not very powerful, and only destroyed the observation hole. Hu Bin had no choice but to let Ferré direct the movement of the chariot through the observation holes in the gun emplacement. To add insult to injury, the right side of the pursuer's armor was pierced by a shell during the re-outcropping fire. The pilot, Stallone, was hit in the arm by this shell, but fortunately, Stallone upgraded his protective suit before and blocked the aftermath of the shell at the cost of all the shields. Hu Bin glanced at the ammunition rack behind him with palpitations and wiped a cold sweat, and then decided to double the fear in his heart to the enemy.
Hu Bin didn't know how many stubbles the infantry following the Tiger had changed, let alone how far away their destination was from here, and he only had the enemy in his eyes now, as well as the remaining ammunition on the chariot. When the last high-explosive shotgun was loaded into the chamber, several people realized that the ammunition had run out.
Stan had already exhausted his stamina in the process of continuous reloading, and was replaced by Hu Bin, the scorching sulfur-smelling air was very choking, but several people in the chariot were sweating and gulping the air into their lungs. A Churchill rushed up under Tiger fire, exposing itself to the muzzle of the pursuer's gun. Ferrey subconsciously fired a shell that broke Churchill's track, only to remember later that it was the last shell. The other chariots in the rear gathered fire to kill the rushing Churchill, but Hu Bin and the others were a little confused about the next battle, the pursuers who lacked secondary weapons had lost the ability to continue fighting, but the crew members were unwilling to give up this chariot that had been fighting together for a long time from the bottom of their hearts.
"Let's go, this day will come." Stan silently saddled his submachine gun and slung two grenades to his chest, the veteran setting an example for the others. Hu Bin told the other tanks on the radio that they had run out of ammunition, and then parked the pursuers on the side of the road. Hu Bin, who walked out of the chariot, remembered that he was still a sniper, and at some point, he had subconsciously regarded the chariot as a part of himself, perhaps because the small space and the sound of thick artillery gave him too much passion and security.
After calling a passing German soldier, Hu Bin knew where he was. It took the Germans a full three hours and paid an unknown price, and even Hu Bin ran out of ammunition, but they only advanced less than 700 meters. The wreckage of chariots and the corpses of soldiers were strewn all over the street, and the craters almost plowed the otherwise paved road.
The central part of the city was not far ahead, the fountains and flower beds in the square could already be seen, and the Allied fire points and the remaining tanks were on the opposite line, and behind them was the bridge that the two sides had fought so hard for.
Hu Bin and the other three climbed into a building closer to the front line. What you see is the strong Allied line. Beckoning the three of them to guard the entrance downstairs for themselves, Hu Bin put a table under the window and set up a sniper rifle to observe the situation on the Allied lines.
Three-person machine gun fire points, well-fired anti-tank guns, infantry firing through sandbag-reinforced holes in building windows, and snipers hiding in the shadows undetected. The armguards frowned secretly, the Allied defense line was quite well constructed, if it could not organize a powerful attack to penetrate it in one fell swoop, the German army would inevitably be dragged into a war of attrition.
He was hoping that the Tiger tank would perform a miracle again, but Hu Bin saw that Doyle's car was destroyed by an anti-tank shell. Three M4s rushed out of their respective bunkers. Its muzzle is firmly locked on the Tiger tank, which poses the greatest threat to its own defenses.
According to past experience, no matter how much M4 fires, it may not be able to penetrate the tiger-style defense, but Hu Bin opened his mouth wide at this moment and tried to tell Doyle to be careful. The spatial cue had just sounded, and the group of contractors who had never shown their heads showed their sharp blades at the last moment, destroying the Germans' best hopes in one fell swoop.
The Sherman Firefly, a Allied tank designed to counter the German Tiger tank, is equipped with a 17-pounder anti-tank gun and uses a special armor-piercing projectile of the latest design. Its powerful penetrating power can directly penetrate the Tiger's frontal armor.
Three armor-piercing shells hit the Tiger tank in full distribution, and except for one that was blocked by the tracks and failed to penetrate, the remaining two shells directly penetrated the 102mm thick frontal armor of the Tiger. Hu Bin's heart tightened, and Doyle happened to be in the driver's position. There was a good chance that those two shells would affect that guy.
The Tiger's advance was finally stopped, but its rotating turret told the enemy that it had not yet been defeated. The 88mm gun, with the last of its aftermath, hit a firefly that could not retreat, and a puff of smoke rose from the engine of the vehicle that had been hit. Struggling forward, sliding for some distance before sliding in place.
One of the crew members peeked out of the escape door behind the Tiger, but was hit in the back by a bullet from nowhere, and after two struggles, he was silent. Hu Bin angrily searched for the enemy who had just released his cold gun. only to find that the opposite side was full of Allied soldiers shooting with their heads out.
With the intention of killing one by one, Hu Bin blew off the head of an Allied soldier, but then a lot of bullets came at the window where he was. Hu Bin, who fled to the side in a hurry, heard a familiar scream, and then was hit by the shock wave against the wall behind him, and rolled down the stairs to the first floor. Hu Bin, who was once again saved by the shield on his military uniform, no longer dared to show his head at will, and leaned against the other three downstairs, wanting to just stay and wait for the result of the battle.
A familiar cannon sound, and the subsequent cheers of the German army made Hu Bin a little more energetic, and he carefully poked half of his head out of the window, and found another Tiger slowly driving into the square under enemy fire, while the wreckage of a Sherman on the opposite side was slowly emitting black smoke.
But then a few hidden fireflies reappeared, inflicting heavy damage on the newcomer Tiger tank, and silenced the German army, which had just begun to raise some morale. Hu Bin shook his head slightly, wanting to retract his head, but in the afterglow, he found that Doyle's Tiger wreckage turret was slowly rotating, although slowly, but it was indeed rotating.
"Stallone, me off!" Hu Bin turned around and shouted.
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"You're a fucking crazy Reed, Ferre, Stan, you two are crazy with him, and the fucking thing is, I'm going crazy with you." Stallone kept cursing in his mouth, but he followed closely behind Hu Bin, and although Ferrey was frightened by Hu Bin's plan, he followed without saying a word when he was ready to act. As for Stan, the guy had a rare smile, but Stallone thought it was a giggle that only a terminal psychopath would show.
Hu Bin's plan was simple, rush out, enter the tiger wreckage, confirm Doyle's life and death, and then improvise. When Hu Bin uttered the word "improvisation" under Stallone's questioning, he almost drove Stallone crazy. But it was such a seemingly unreliable plan, but it was approved by most of the crew members except Stallone.
"Can't you just call a tank to cover it? Aren't you a lieutenant, you don't even have that power? "I saw the intersection of the street, which was blocked by a combination of multiple machine guns. Stallone said in horror.
"Chariots? Stallone, you're a genius. Hu Bin looked at the battlefield full of bullets in front of him, and the blood on his head cooled down a lot, but he was awakened by Stallone's words.
"I'm a idiot!" When Sylvester Stallone stepped on the accelerator of the pursuer and moved forward frantically, his heart was full of remorse, if he didn't say what he just said, Reed might have sobered up, how could this act of sending people to death be done by a normal numbered person.
"But it's exciting, isn't it, don't look like you're dead, after this world is over. I'll ask you to go to the Angel Bar and have a drink. Hu Bin stared at the tiger-like wreckage not far ahead, he was gambling, betting on a very small possibility, which would be a gamble for him to decide the future path, and the result of losing the bet was to take the lives of himself and the three people who accompanied him.
"That's what you said!" Stallone, who was already on the thief ship, stepped on the accelerator directly to the bottom, allowing the pursuers to rush out of the street in a furious manner.
Only when you are truly immersed in the scene do you know how dangerous this square is like a place of death. The ricocheting sound of machine gun bullets hitting the steel plate of the chariot never stopped, and Hu Bin had a premonition of danger with his high perception. Immediately ordered Stallone to brake, and a cannonball hit the road in front of the pursuers, stirring up a cloud of dirt. Several M4s saw that prey had come to the door again, and they all exposed their turrets to cover. Ready to destroy the enemy as before, but this time the prey made a surprising move.
"It's now." With a loud shout, Sylvester Stallone placed the pursuer's vehicle in front of the Tiger wreckage, and then pressed his hands down on the vehicle's territory. Got out of the driver's seat. Hu Bin and Stan, who were waiting next to him, grabbed him by the shoulder, and Ferrey opened the escape door on the side of the pursuer, and the four of them quickly evacuated the pursuer's carriage. Got into the chassis of the Tiger wreckage.
Armor-piercing shells mercilessly penetrated the pursuer's vehicle, but the shell-depleted hunter struggled to cause a martyrdom, remaining intact to withstand enemy attacks. Hu Bin and the others, who had burrowed under the tiger-like wreckage, blended into the wreckage along the maintenance door below, and the blond-haired figure appeared in front of Hu Bin.
"Doyle!" Hu Bin frowned and looked at Doyle, who was covered in blood, but the young blonde captain waved his hand to indicate that he was fine, he pointed to the bloody corpse in the driver's seat and said: "The blood is Victor's, that unlucky guy was shot through the heart, but fortunately he didn't feel any pain when he left." ”
Doyle's mental state was quite optimistic, and it seemed that Hu Bin and his arrival surprised him and looked very excited, and after the two pulled the other three companions into the tank car, they began the improvised phase of the plan that Hu Bin said.
"Well, we've worked so hard to get into this iron coffin, now let's talk about what we should do." Stallone said with an angry look, but he very much expected Hu Bin to come up with a feasible plan.
"Doyle, how's the Tiger doing?" Hu Bin ignored Stallone's complaints, but turned his head to ask Doyle first.
"It was bad, the engine was fine, the fuel tank was not damaged, but the turret seemed to be jammed and I tried to move it a few times without success. One of the front load-bearing wheels fell off, both tracks were broken, and the driving unit was seriously damaged, and it is estimated that it needs to be returned to the factory for overhaul. Doyle said with a frown, and it seemed that even he had little hope.
"Here's this, see if you can get this big dick moving." Hu Bin took out a golden wrench and handed it to Doyle, but his heart tightened at this moment.
Doyle first wrinkled and fiddled with the little wrench and looked at it for a while, and Hu Bin's heart trembled, but then the guy patted his chest and told Hu Bin that he could completely repair the tiger style with this prop.
Hu Bin breathed a long sigh of relief, collapsed in the narrow chariot carriage, and looked at the hatch above, but his eyes seemed to be cast into the depths of the distant sky through the steel plate. When the others saw Hu Bin's appearance, they didn't bother him. After a while, Hu Bin straightened up suddenly, grabbed the small wrench handed over by Doyle, and pressed it on the inner wall of the tiger-shaped carriage. (To be continued......)
PS: I forgot to ask you for leave, it's my turn to be on duty this week, and the updates in the next few days may have to come to an end temporarily. But please rest assured that friends who have been chasing books, I will always code words during the shift, and I will update a few chapters for everyone after I go home after the end of duty. The duty may continue until the end of this week, so please understand that.