Chapter 820: The battle on the other end of 821
On the other side of the bridge, the front-line soldiers of the Soviet troops, who had already begun to rout, were approaching one of the main routes through which they would retreat. If it was a bit crazy for Wren to attack with two tanks on the other side of the bridge, the No. 111 tank on this side and one tank in the second platoon could only cope with it.
A kilometre ahead of them, there was already a pile of burning wreckage of Soviet tanks, ranging from obsolete T-26s to advanced T-34s, trying to approach and retake the bridge, but their efforts proved futile.
The Soviet soldiers flocked to the German positions like a tidal wave, and the German positions withstood the test of the tide, as resilient as a reef in the attack like a wave, unmoved by the lapping of the waves. The German machine-gun positions were efficiently slaughtering the Soviet troops rushing onto the road, and in some places the corpses of Soviet soldiers had even begun to pile up a second layer.
"That's not good! We need backups! I'm running out of grenades and they're still attacking. Damn!" Tank No. 111 was left on this side of the bridge, and the original plan was to defend it slightly, but I didn't expect the Soviets to come so quickly and fight so resolutely to escape.
Because of the internal structure of a Tiger tank, the ammunition that can be carried is not too much, and the German Tiger tank in another time and space is square, and the load wheel adopts an advanced torsion bar structure, so it can hold more ammunition.
Unfortunately, the pilots of the Tiger have enjoyed a different treatment, their tanks have a better bullet protection shape, more practical speed and off-road performance, and in general, the defense performance has been improved a lot, and the reliability has also been improved to a new level...... However, the trade-off was that the shock structure used by this tank was relatively outdated, which took up a lot of space inside the tank, which made the Tiger tank carry less ammunition than the Leopard tank.
Because it is mainly used for anti-tank warfare against enemy vehicles, the shells of the Tiger tank are mainly armor-piercing shells, and since the introduction of tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, this limits the total number of howitzer shells carried by the Tiger tank, and does not improve much in terms of dealing with infantry.
In fact, this defect is not a fatal weakness under the same conditions, and in the subsequent improvement of the King Tiger tank, the Tiger tank's Christie shock absorber has been replaced by a torsion bar shock absorber that has been mature and will be used for decades to come, saving a lot of internal space for the King Tiger tank.
Unfortunately, the soldiers of the 502 Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion did not have a better King Tiger tank, so they had to use the Tiger tank to face the almost endless onslaught of Soviet infantry and tank troops. There may be thousands or even tens of thousands of people on the other side, and an attack of this magnitude on the shoulders of hundreds of German soldiers is obviously a bit too heavy.
The 111 crew at the front of the tank had used up their last grenade and had to retreat from the bushes where they were hiding, as the Soviet tank's increasingly accurate artillery fire was already threatening it, and shifting position was the best option for the 111 tank.
The only tank in the 2nd platoon that followed Wren to the bridge, at this moment, it is estimated that he is very envious of his companions who are broken on the way, after all, they don't have to fight on such a fierce battlefield, and it can be said that it is a very happy thing anyway.
In order to cover the retreat of Tank 111, the Tiger tank also fired frequently, and an armor-piercing shell accurately hit a T-34 tank that wanted to rush up. However, the shell fired by the 76 mm cannon on the top of another T-34 tank also pierced the mound and hit the front armor plate of the 2-row Tiger tank.
"No. 111. I was hit! I was hit. In the headset, the Tiger tank commander in the second row screamed a little nervously, he knew that he had not been penetrated, but the sound that echoed inside the body of the car really made everyone nervous.
In the tanks of World War II, there are no very good automatic automatic fire extinguishing devices, and the probability that those automatic fire extinguishers are easy to use is actually not very large. Tanks that have been pierced through their armor can easily be killed, and in most cases the occupants of the tanks either jump out of the vehicle immediately or are roasted into a pile of charcoal.
The chance to escape is not impossible, but it is a little short. In a matter of minutes, you have to push open the hatch, get out of the tank, dodge the oncoming bullets, jump off your vehicle, and find a suitable position to dodge - this is no easy task.
Therefore, if a tank crew in World War II is hit, the first reaction is to jump out of the tank and escape. In this case, if you are frequently hit by shells, it will greatly affect the judgment of the moment when you are penetrated.
If you are not very confident in your tank, maybe the first reaction of the tank crew of the 2nd platoon is to abandon the car. However, they are now also cautiously reversing, hoping to get out of dangerous bunkers.
The movement of two German tanks backwards proved that the German defensive positions were compressed, and some of the German soldiers who were defending in foxholes were now having an even more difficult time. They were overwhelmed by the dense barrage of Soviet bullets, and Soviet units began to approach the core of the German defensive positions.
Above the sky, a Stuka 2 attack plane swooped down, two 20 mm cannons following the crowd of Soviets attacking, highlighting their blazing tongues. The cannonball hit the ground, forming two straight lines of rubble that cut through the crowd, leaving two slender paths of blood.
The Stuka 2 flew back from the bridge, threw its ammunition and was about to return home, but when it saw the fierce battle on the bridge, it used dives and cannons to conduct a bloody attack aircraft standard scrubbing mode. Yes, what an appropriate adjective, what a metaphor for washing the earth with blood and soul, and turning the once living life of the earth into dust and dirt.
"It's long overdue! It's been delayed until now!" said the commander of tank No. 111 with a relieved look as he watched the Soviets' attack in front of him rout. He didn't know how long his side of the line would last, and how long it would take for those distant reinforcements to arrive.
Not until everyone has rested enough - of course, in this case, no one will feel like they have rested enough. If possible, everyone wants to be able to rest for three days and three nights or more. The Soviets attacked again, this time with a lot of tanks along the road, and then a new round of attacks began.
Although they were not the elite of the Soviet army, these troops had a super desire to escape, so they attacked overwhelmingly, hoping to open a way to escape so that they could escape. In order to keep themselves alive, human beings can often burst out with more powerful power, so these Soviet troops, which are not the main force, still played a rhythm that gave the German army a headache.
"Boom!" Another armor-piercing shell hit the target, and a Soviet tank caught fire and exploded, and the crew on it was lucky this time to jump out of the tank and escape. Another tank crossed the wreckage of this tank and continued its attack towards the German position.
"Damn! we need reinforcements! we need shells and more tanks. The tank commander of the 2nd platoon shouted loudly in the headphones. His tanks had less than 20 shells left, and if the enemy continued the attack, the German tanks could be forced to withdraw from the battle because they were running out of ammunition.
"Boom!" A shell hit the back of the Soviet tank, and a huge explosion lifted the tank up, and the sudden attack made the Soviets a little confused, because they all saw the attack coming from behind them.
"I suppose, you need reinforcements?" A familiar voice sounded in the earphones, in the earphones of the tank commander in the second row.
"It's them back!" the commander of tank No. 111 shouted in his headset, and the other tanks in the 2nd platoon actually rushed out from behind the Soviet attacking troops, and the 4 tanks with several armored vehicles cut into the Soviet troops like sharp knives.
"Haha! Welcome back!" The commander of the 2nd platoon of tanks, who was already a little desperate just now, laughed loudly at this time: "We cover your two wings, and you can come to us as quickly as possible." ”
"I don't think we need your support at all, we have our own support behind us. On that side, the four tanks that broke down halfway and left the team attacked along the kilometer with a large number of German grenadiers, and most of the Soviet troops in their passage disarmed and surrendered, after all, the feeling of being surrounded was not very comfortable, and being flanked from both sides was obviously not a situation that the Soviet troops could handle.
"Wren! The brothers who have stragged behind have arrived! Nine tanks are a lot!" The commander of tank No. 111 was overjoyed, but did not forget to give the good news to Wren and the others, who were fighting the other side of the bridge.
"Then if you're not busy, come and help us! There are too many Soviets! Our attack is not going well. Wren didn't speak, Marcus' voice came from the headphones. It looked like they were playing very hard, because Marcus, who had never been nervous, seemed a little hectic when he spoke.
Looking at his ammunition that was about to bottom out, the crew of car No. 111 looked a little helpless, and he had to press the throat intercom to answer again: "My ammunition is running out, so I can't go over to help you immediately." ”
"That's really good news. Marcus said with a wry smile: "Because our situation is about the same, and the ammunition is almost ...... Run out! hey...... Someone on the right, on the right, is firing at me!"