Chapter 217: 216 River Beach Battle
"Enemy tanks!" shouted a German soldier from the position. Not far across the river, a dozen Soviet tanks were trying to wade across the river to storm German positions.
Two soldiers with iron-fisted bazookas stooped forward in the trenches, and soon came to the attack position that had been prepared for a long time, but there were too many tanks in front of them, and on one front, a dozen Soviet tanks had already driven to the middle of the river.
The river is not deep, it is not shallow, it is full of corpses of the Soviet Red Army, and it is estimated that there are many people who can't float up with bags on their backs, so most of the Soviet tanks drove forward along the lĂŹ, and it looked like they were going to cross the river successfully, and with the cover of the tanks, the infantry behind were obviously not so badly killed and wounded, and they also mustered up the courage to rush forward.
Soon, due to the different depths of the river, the two T-26 tanks stopped in the water and stopped there like two reefs, and had to adjust their turrets to fire at the German positions on the other side of the river. Under the cover of these tanks, the Soviet troops for the first time landed on the opposite bank of the river.
"Boom!" In the bushes, a German anti-tank gun took the lead in firing, and the first shell hit the body of a Soviet T-26 tank that had just crossed the river and landed, and the armor of this tank was directly penetrated, and it moved forward for another meter before emitting black smoke and not moving. A Soviet tanker with a bloody face crawled out of the tank, and before he could struggle a few times, he stuck to the tank hatch and stopped moving.
The tank was destroyed, and the Soviet infantry following it was disorganized, and soon a large number of them were knocked down by machine guns. However, the Soviet artillery was revived at this time, and probably the few remaining cannons opened fire at this time. The shells fell on the German positions, although not dense, but the psychological pressure on the Germans was obvious - the German machine-gun fire began to shift positions, and the infantry, lacking fire cover, were hit by the machine guns of the Soviet tanks.
As soon as a German soldier showed his head, he was hit in the head by a stray bullet, and he lay backwards in the trench, and instantly stopped breathing. A nearby German soldier crawled over to look at him, picked up his rifle and evacuated the trench.
"Boom!" another German anti-tank gun hidden in the shadows opened fire, and a shell accurately hit another T-26 tank, this shell pierced the armor from the junction of the turret and the hull, directly detonating the ammunition stored inside the tank, and the explosion threw the entire turret away, and the powerful explosion caused the nearby Soviet soldiers to fall.
A Soviet infantryman bravely climbed onto his own tank, knocked on the hatch and pointed to the bushes in the distance, and then the Soviet tank, which lacked a communication system, finally spotted an anti-tank gun that was being loaded with ammunition not far away. Immediately after that, the tank began to turn the turret, and soon pointed the gun at the German anti-tank gun position.
At this time, the German anti-tank gun that fired first hit a T-26 tank not far away, and at this time there were already three Soviet tanks burning and exploding on the battlefield, and the smoke somewhat obscured the vision, but the Soviet tanks were still attacking frantically with numerical superiority.
The Soviet tanks finally found the tank killer hiding in the corner, and soon the 75mm anti-tank gun began to hail violently. Some of the bullets hit the gun's shield and splashed sparks, while others pierced the shield and hit the German gunners behind.
"Boom!" After the 45 mm caliber gun on the Soviet T-26 tank was aimed at the anti-tank gun, it finally opened fire, and a shell hit the German artillery, directly knocking the cannon into a part state, and the surrounding German soldiers were knocked to the ground by scattered fragments, and the tank destroyed the German position at once.
In a forward trench, the German soldier with an iron-fisted bazooka saw the instructions of the machine gunner behind him, and two seconds later, the machine gun began to roar, and the bullets flew into the crowd of Soviet infantry again, taking away one young life after another. Taking advantage of the cover of the machine gun, the anti-tank bazooka shooter pointed his head and carried the bazooka at a T-26 tank that was approaching.
"Bang!" There was a small muffled sound, and the rocket in the bazooka flew out of the tube and hit the chassis of the T-26 directly. Soon the tank was immobile, and its gearbox inside the front armor appeared to have been completely destroyed, and it was estimated that the driver inside was also dead.
Hurriedly bending down, the German anti-tank man fled along the trench back to his position, he completed the anti-tank task smoothly, and had to quickly change the firing position, because soon the Soviet infantry reacted and began to look for the surrounding foxholes.
Four huge explosions in one breath made four puffs of black smoke rise from the crowd of the Soviet Union, the German artillery found its target to attack, and another round of artillery fire caused the Soviet infantry to begin to retreat in despair. However, they did not have the courage to cross the river again at the cost of the guns of the Overseers behind them. Therefore, after hesitating by the river, he turned his gun and rushed towards the German position.
Another German anti-tank man poked his head out with an iron fist bazooka, but the tank opposite him was not a fragile T-26, such a huge tank that the Germans had never seen before, and his rocket missed after a slight hesitation, and this rocket hit the turret of this strange tank, but did not penetrate the armor steel plate on it, but only splashed a spark and a cloud of white smoke.
The KV-1 tank is no longer a small part of the T-26 tank, it is a super secret weapon that the Soviet army is mass-producing, and it can be said that it is specially designed for the German heavy tank No. 3 on the battlefield in Spain.
Equipped 76. The 2 mm caliber cannon can be said to be the largest tank gun at this stage, and the power can completely destroy the German No. 3 tank, of course, this tank is also defective, compared with the German army's mature Leopard tank load-bearing structure and engine gearbox system, the KV-1 tank has a complex structure, frequent failures, and is rarely equipped with on-board radio systems.
However, the tank's armor was so thick that it was obvious that a close-range individual anti-tank weapon could not penetrate its frontal armor, so the tank continued to swagger forward, and used the guide machine gun in front of the hull to kill the German anti-tank man who attacked him.
Led by this KV-1 tank, Soviet units were already approaching the German defensive positions. Several other T-26 tanks and two KV-1 tanks of the Soviet Red Army then moved in this direction, and it seemed that they wanted to make a breakthrough here and destroy the German defenses in the vicinity.
"The Polish troops have not taken a step back after fighting such a Soviet Red Army for more than a month? What are you kidding?" In the German front headquarters, the commander of an infantry regiment put down the binoculars in his hand, glanced at his staff officer, and asked: "They are much more powerful than the Poles!"
In fact, the German commander misunderstood, because this offensive did not represent the overall strength of the Soviet Red Army; first of all, because this unit has been deployed in Belarus and Ukraine, it has been less affected by the Great Purge, and the combat effectiveness of the unit is quite complete; secondly, this unit has concentrated almost all the tanks and ammunition that can be found nearby, so it can be said that it is fighting a division battle with the supplies of a group army; finally, the commander of this unit is named Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov.
"If reinforcements don't arrive, I'm going to abandon my position here and retreat. The German regiment commander glanced at the silent regimental staff officer, and said with some annoyance: "I can't watch my troops die here!"
Suddenly, on the destroyed anti-tank position, a shell pierced through a tree branch and hit the leading thickly armored KV-1 tank, hitting the side of the turret, directly penetrating the armor here, completely destroying the seemingly invincible steel monster.
Immediately after, another shell flew out from about the same position, knocking a T-26 tank that was following the KV-1 tank into parts, and the explosion directly swept down the surrounding Soviet infantry, and this sudden attack made everyone stunned.
Behind the destroyed German anti-tank position, the muzzles of two belated German Leopard tanks were emitting a slight white smoke. They fired the shells just now, and they were a greeting to the Soviet tanks that were rampaging on the river beach. On the sides of the turrets of these two tanks, two numbers are painted in hollow letters: 112, 113.
"Bowman! Full speed ahead!Stop when we're ready!" Wren put his eyes on the commander's observation scope and ordered loudly: "Andrey! Aim at that big guy! T-26 leave it alone! Bruce, armor-piercing bullet loading!"
Marcus's voice came from the headphones, with a hint of excitement and madness: "Wren! leave it to you, big guy! T-26, I'll clean it up! Forward! Forward! Forward, let them see what a tank is!"
Amid the cheers of the German infantry, two German Leopard tanks burst out of the bushes and rushed from the flanks to the Soviet attacking forces. A German soldier raised his arms and shouted frantically long live as he watched the tracks run over a German corpse beside him - war makes people crazy.
"Boom!" a shell hit another KV-1 again, the side armor could not withstand the force of the 75 mm long-barreled gun, and the Soviet heavy tank also lost its life in an instant, and stopped on the battlefield in an instant, and after a while, the tank crew got out of the turret and prepared to escape, but was beaten into a sieve by the German machine gunners on the side.
Finally the German tanks that suddenly appeared, the few remaining Soviet tanks began to turn slowly, as if trying to aim the stronger frontal armor in the direction the German tanks were coming from. However, another German anti-tank gun, which had been hiding in the corner and pretending to be dead, opened fire, because looking at a piece of the butt of a Soviet tank, it was really hard to help but kick it.
"Boom!" another Soviet tank was hit in the tail, causing a stern explosion, and walked into his grave with several tankmen covered in fire.