Chapter 347 347 Railway Cannon
"Wren!" Alice climbed out of the tank, looked at Wren leaning on the tank turret hatch, and asked, "How is my watch today?"
Since that day Wren was wounded and took Alice to the front line once, and felt the real bloody fight, Alice's growth in the entire tank battalion is obvious to all.
Wren soon returned to the tank crew with his wounds, and the only Tiger tank on the German front line was often sent to the front line to support operations, and a few days later an offensive operation was carried out with Alice's forward course machine gun.
The result was that this time Alice did not disappoint everyone, she calmly pulled the trigger like an old soldier, and beat the French soldiers in front of her into a sieve one by one. After the battle, Alice missed lunch due to discomfort, but she managed to survive and became an electrician in the Wren car group.
But the side effect was obviously very fatal, and that was that Miss Alice would always come to Wren after the battle and ask how her watch was. At first, Wren was still able to talk and mention his own suggestions for improvement, but then Bruce and Bowman began to laugh at Wren, causing Wren to blush and have nowhere to hide.
Now it's the case that Bruce, who had just climbed out of the tank to breathe, and Bowman, who had poked his head out, began to whistle and laugh loudly again. Wren had no choice but to pretend not to hear, and smiled and encouraged Alice: "Very good! It will be more perfect next time to control the rhythm of shooting and save some ammunition." ”
"It would be perfect next time to control the rhythm of the shooting and save some ammo!" Bruce said to Andre in the voice of the scholar Wren on the side.
"Bruce, go refuel the tank!" Wren commanded loudly with a straight face.
"Yes! yes!" Bruce jumped out of the tank with his ass twisted, and muttered with a smile: "Otherwise, I will go to refuel, I am born to work hard! Bruce! Go refuel! Bruce! Reload the shell!"
While pretending to complain, he picked up two empty gasoline drums from a shelf behind the Tiger tank. Then he looked at Wren and Alice unscrupulously, laughed and walked away.
Not far ahead, the grenadiers were building defensive positions, which they had improved on the French, then set up several machine-gun emplacements, and had set up mortars for support in a paratrooper pit next to the Rennes tank.
These grenadiers have been able to say that they have been elite soldiers in a hundred battles along the way, their eyes are resolute and profound, their combat effectiveness is tenacious and they have rich combat experience, and their positions are reasonable and tight, and the French soldiers have suffered countless hardships at the hands of these grenadiers.
A grenadier company commander walked up to Wren's tank with a cigarette in his mouth, knocked on the side skirt of Wren's Tiger tank, and then said angrily: "Wren? We found two amazing big guys over there, and the captives said they were loading ammunition for those two big guys, and we were almost going to eat "ruthless". ”
"Let's go, let's take a look!" just as someone came to clear the siege, and Wren ended the conversation with Alice. He picked up the MP-44 assault rifle that had been with him for a long time, then got out of the tank and jumped to the ground.
His shoulder was injured, so his movements were a little deformed, not as graceful as usual, but he was still agile, and the sound he made when he landed on the ground was not loud. Alice jumped out of the tank and followed Wren - she was almost Wren's little heel now, and she followed Wren wherever he went.
A few people walked around a few buildings in the small station, and not far away they saw a place that looked a bit like a construction site, with improvised cranes for hoisting, and two French locomotives in good condition.
Of course, there was something even more amazing parked there, a huge cannon barrel lay flat on a huge train car, and it was difficult to estimate how big this cannon barrel was, but he guessed a little, this thick cannon barrel could not be held by anyone.
The two French train guns were quite well camouflaged, there were quite a few canvases around them and some canvases painted on the roofs of civilian buildings, and there were two anti-aircraft gun firing positions next to them, and it seemed that the French had been preparing to fire here for more than a day or two.
"The French prisoners confessed that this is a French train gun, with a caliber of 400 mm and a range of about 15 kilometers, and they are going to shell our military facilities near Amiens with these two guys. The grenadier company commander took a puff of his cigarette and pointed to the side: "See a shell the size of a man over there?"
Wren and Alice looked in the direction pointed by the grenadier company commander and saw that at least 20 shells were stacked on the side, many of them covered with canvas, and two shiny "super shells" were placed on the outermost side, which seemed to be ready for launch.
On top of the train gun, two German soldiers were riding in various poses to take pictures, and several war photographers below were pressing the shutter on the big guy. Of course, there were many soldiers around these two huge cannons, pointing at them, and lamenting that the French were able to make such a huge artillery.
Of course, Accardo would have scoffed at it here, because in another time and space, the Germans had built an even bigger one, the Gustav Train Cannon, one of the most famous war behemoths in history.
The super railway cannon nicknamed "Dora" is still the largest caliber artillery ever developed in human history until 2015, and it is certain that if the orbiter is not launched with electromagnetic cannon technology in the future, this 800 mm caliber Gustav super gun will also be the "unparalleled" in human history.
But it's a pity that because of Accardo's intervention, there is no more Dora the king of artillery in this world, there is no longer the giant cannon named Gustav, and there is no longer a barrel length of 32 meters, and the total length of the cannon in combat state is 53 meters, 12 meters high, and the total weight is 1488 tons.
Therefore, this French cannon is undoubtedly the largest volume of artillery that ordinary German soldiers have ever seen, and most of the German rapid mobility units use 60 mm and 80 mm and 120 mm mortars, as well as 75 mm and 105 mm towed artillery, and the largest caliber of support weapons is only rocket artillery and 150 mm heavy artillery.
But compared with the big guy with a 400 mm caliber in front of him, the German 150 mm caliber "heavy gun" seems to be only a poor "little guy".
"Is this a French cannon?" Alice sighed as she stared at the behemoth in front of her, "It's so big, if this thing fires at us, we're going to kill a lot of people, right?"
"This thing should have been deployed behind the Maginot Line. Wren frowned and analyzed: "Because there is nothing cheap to use this kind of artillery to fight the field troops that are constantly moving rapidly." This thing can only deal with fixed targets, and it's a very solid fixed target. ”
"Fighting the Siegfried Line?" the grenadier company commander cracked his mouth and laughed. Ever since the French attacked the Siegfried Line, jokes about the German line of defense without zài scaring off the million-strong French army have spread among German soldiers, and almost as long as the Maginot Line is mentioned, everyone will always think of the corresponding "Siegfried Line" without zài.
"In fact, our Siegfried Line doesn't have zài, so this kind of cannon is smuggled in to us for trouble. Wren pointed to the huge cannon nearby and said: "Report on the situation here, it seems that the French government is not waiting for death, they have drawn some troops from the Maginot Line, hoping to hold us back." ”
"They don't seem to have done it......," said the company commander of the grenadiers, with a smile, "2 railway guns, 1 tank, and nearly 100 French soldiers were captured." We'll be able to mix up at least a few Iron Crosses this time. ”
"I don't expect it anymore, it's not that easy to level up. Wren smiled wryly as he pointed to the Knight's Iron Cross with oak leaves on his collar: "You write a report, it is estimated that you can mix at least two." ”
"I don't know if the division headquarters can give us two boxes of canned food. The company commander took another puff of cigarette on the side, looked at the picture of a dozen German soldiers standing on the barrel of the train gun in the distance cheering, and narrowed his eyes: "These little rabbits." ”
"Hey, beauty, can we take a picture of you?" said a war photographer who saw Wren and Alice here, and walked over and smiled. He wore a much cleaner uniform, and he also carried a beautiful Luger pistol - the P-38 pistol was used by the front-line combatants, the traditional big-headed soldiers, and only the rear personnel who never participated in the battle were armed with the Ruger pistol, which had been obsolete because of the high price.
"Well, if you don't mind, I'd like to take a picture with my captain. Alice smiled sweetly, and when she smiled, she had two shallow dimples on her face, which made her look even more cute and charming.
"Your commander?" the young photographer had fantasized about having an unforgettable night with the beautiful woman, but he was obviously a little unhappy to hear the beautiful woman say this, and when he turned his head to look at Wren, he immediately put away his thoughts.
"Long live the Führer!sir!" he stood upright, raised his arm and saluted before the photographer dared to continue: "May I take pictures of you and your soldiers?"
"Okay. Wren reluctantly stood on the side of the French train gun, Alice smiled shyly, stood beside Wren, the two of them were almost a fist away, standing in the sun, leaving a group photo of the two of them.