Chapter 9 Ahead - Tiger Tank!
"Fire" "Boom!"
After withstanding several accurate artillery bombardments and knocking out half of the bridgehead artillery position, the emperor ** finally went crazy.
After receiving an order from the command to hold the bridgehead at all costs, he frantically shelled the Gallia army on the south bank of the river, regardless of whether the enemy could be seen visually or not.
All the artillery fire, including the chariots, that were placed at the bridgehead was firing with the aim of stopping the enemy's attack.
Gunfire and explosions were heard on the west and east banks and inside the city. The emperor is fighting fiercely with the Galia army.
How did the Galyas break through the defensive line, what were the troops doing along the river, and why did they let the enemy slip under their noses?
The emperor of the bridgehead didn't know, they only knew that the defense line on their river bank had been broken through, and the defense line in their hearts had been broken by the enemy.
Dense fog and the sound of fierce battles could be heard from the city.
Chaotic communications and all kinds of contradictory intelligence put these emperors on the front line under psychological pressure far greater than that of friendly forces in other directions. This pressure was made even more difficult to suppress by the enemy's strange and precise shelling, and finally made the move of blind fire.
Fortunately, they didn't have enough time to plant explosives, otherwise the emperor who jumped over the wall in a hurry would probably be able to blow up the bridge.
"Boom!" "Reload!"
The flat-firing gun fired another grenade blindly at the opposite bank, and the commander did not know whether it had caused effective damage to the enemy, but only a counterattack could keep them from collapsing under the enemy's constant squeezing and shelling. Even if it is clear to almost everyone that such blind shelling is simply futile.
"Bang!!"
But even this futile struggle is now coming to an end.
Because Galia's troops at the bridgehead had already begun to attack, even if the cannon in the city rumbled, the emperor of the bridgehead could still clearly hear the roaring engine of the Galia chariot approaching in the dense fog and the sound of heavy track friction.
"There's a chariot on the bridge!
There is no need for the commander of the gun to speak, this distance is an armored target on the bridge, and even a blind shot can be blinded.
Three Imperial tanks and two flat-firing guns fired shells in the direction of the bridgehead, but only the sound of "bells" was heard, and the sound of enemy vehicle engines and tracks was still approaching.
Apparently the shells that hit the enemy did not destroy the enemy's tank, he was still advancing.
"Don't stop!" "Boom! boom!"
Before the commander could finish speaking, his whole body was blown out of the fortifications by the blast of air.
An 88mm round hit the bridgehead fortifications, and the Imperial defenders on one side were either killed or crushed underneath the collapsed fortifications.
Another shell hit the Balbina tank, which exploded.
The soldiers around the bridgehead, who were not affected by the explosion, did not understand when the Galia tanks were equipped with such large-caliber tank guns. Listen to the sound of approaching tracks on the bridge.
Two Tiger tanks painted with iron crosses slowly emerged from the dense fog, and the angular German shape and heavy tracks with huge gun muzzles spoke of his formidable power.
also shocked the emperor of the bridge.
"Fire, fire, fire!"
The terrified emperor hysterically threw all his weapons towards the bridge, and suddenly appeared on the bridge, and the enemy chariot roared.
Individual rockets, anti-aircraft artillery shells, and tank artillery shells followed, but none of them could penetrate the Tiger tank's solid frontal armor.
After the first round of firing of the Emperor **, the second round of firing of the Tiger tank began.
"Bang-!
Two more cannons, this time because they were in the visual range, the effect of the ** attack was better than just now, one of the two shells hit the bridgehead fortifications that were not completely destroyed, and the other hit an emperor ** chariot. The astonishing explosion occurred again, a battle defense gun hidden in the fortifications was completely destroyed, and the ghostly shell drilled directly into the firing port of the fortification, and the explosion in the fortification was still a grenade. The entire fortification was blown away with the explosion, and the ammunition hidden inside was completely detonated.
Just two salvos of two Tiger tanks destroyed the bridgehead and two combat vehicles that the emperor had been building for several days.
But even so, the emperor did not abandon his position, and they were ready to resist by relying on the remaining individual fortifications and buildings.
Because several buildings near the bridgehead have also been transformed into defensive points, a 45mm anti-aircraft gun was arranged by the emperor in the house near the bridgehead.
Although the outer gate was destroyed, the anti-chariot ability of the emperor ** was still not completely lost.
"Boom!" "When!"
But even so, in the face of the Tiger tank, the poor 45-mm anti-aircraft gun still did not play any role, and the third shot of the anti-aircraft gun still failed to penetrate the armor of the Tiger tank and exposed its position.
"Wengโ"
The motor is activated, the turret of the tank slowly moves to the direction of one o'clock, the muzzle is lowered, and a grenade is fired aimed at the base of the house.
The effect of the shelling was immediate, and the houses that had undergone simple renovation could not withstand this kind of brutal shelling, and the emperor ** who was under the house was completely buried by the collapsed house, and the emperor's artillery position was completely destroyed, and at the same time, it was ......
"Boom!"
After withstanding three futile close-range shots from the last Imperial tank, the second Tiger fired an armor-piercing shell that pierced the thin-skinned toy vehicle with one shot.
Shells are fired from the front of the vehicle and from the flanks and back.
Although the overall frame of the vehicle was not destroyed, the armor-piercing projectiles that passed through the hull at high speed killed all the members of the vehicle. Seeing that the enemy's chariots were blocking in front of him like a pile of scrap metal, the Tiger tank didn't even stop, and directly drove over with full horsepower, squeezing the entire Imperial chariot away.
During this period, the machine guns on the chariot and the accompanying infantry at the rear of the chariot were also busy, and under the cover of the tank, they strafed the emperor of the bridgehead with dense vitality.
The staggeringly high accuracy and power of the tank machine gun is a nightmare for all defensive soldiers.
Losing the protection of the bunker fortifications, many imperial soldiers finally retreated into several buildings near the bridgehead and resisted stubbornly, and were named one by one by the two Tiger tanks that were freed up later, and all of them were reimbursed in the house.
Although the Gallia military headquarters demanded that the city be kept as much as possible, no one cared about those things in the face of casualties, and the two Tiger tanks used grenades to destroy all nearby buildings that had enemy resistance or might threaten the safety of the bridgehead in order to clear a safe bridgehead for the infantry.
When more and more Gallian infantry entered the bridgehead area controlled by their own chariots and began to occupy the building and further develop into the city, the emperor ** near the bridgehead began to shrink and retreat into the city.
Anyway, the west and east banks have long been broken through by the enemy, and there is no point in us holding on here.
With this in mind, the commander in charge of the defense of the bridgehead area gave the order to retreat.
But they never imagined that this was the real meaning of the appearance of the attacking troops on the west and east banks -- to let the enemy withdraw from the bridgehead area on his own initiative, break through the most impenetrable river bank and advance into the city, and finally force the enemy to leave the city.