Chapter 948: 949 Meet
"If we attack now, we can indeed allow the Imperial divisions on the flanks to retreat, but our losses will be large, and our reconnaissance team has not confirmed the woods over there, so it may be dangerous. Wren put down the binoculars in his hand and said to the officer sitting on a car on the side of the tank: "I only have two tanks, counting the 4 Tiger boats you brought to the battalion headquarters, we only have 6 tanks in our hands, and it is obviously not a wise choice to launch an attack at this time." ”
As a hound with a keen sense of smell, Wren has a very keen intuition of danger, and he sensed the smell of danger overflowing from the woods, so he frowned and put forward his opinion to his battalion commander: "I don't feel good, maybe this attack will be very dangerous." ”
"The Imperial Division suffered heavy losses in the previous battle, so this time we belong to the cover operation against them. The battalion commander reluctantly answered Wren's worries, after all, the Imperial Division withstood Zhukov's fierce attack in the previous battle of the Bulge, and in the end the entire division suffered heavy losses.
"It's as if the troop losses of our battalion were small. Wren smiled bitterly and said no more: "With 1 Tiger tank, I need someone to cover our retreat, and I also need someone to watch out for the situation in the woods." I think it would be better to apply for some additional support. ”
The battalion commander nodded and said to Rennes: "I have applied for support, but as you know, our strength has been very tight recently, after all, it is not easy to use the strength of one of our army groups to fight against the entire southward cluster of the Soviet Union. ”
"Marcus! Launch tanks! We must carry out a local attack to cover the retreat of the Imperial divisions. The woodland in front of us has not been reconnoitred, and I feel the danger, this time it is more troublesome, and you and I will take the center and let the Tiger tanks at the battalion headquarters attack. Wren pressed the throat intercom and arranged the offensive mission this time.
"Boom...... Boom...... "A Tiger tank has been activated, the commander of this tank nod to Wren, and accelerated to the front of the entire army, this time the Tiger tank at the battalion headquarters took the lead, attacking the Soviet defensive positions from the flank.
"Marcus, I have a hunch that Wolf's guy is nearby! Wren asked Bowman to start the tank, then pressed the throat intercom and continued to Marcus: "You keep a distance of 20 meters behind me, and if I am attacked, help me suppress the enemy's fire." ”
"Wren! If it's Wolf's guy, I think we should release the smoke, and we're not in a good offensive position against Stalin's tanks, they have a chance to fire first, and we'll be killed by Wolff in one go." Marcus's voice came through the headphones, but his tank started and followed behind Wren's tank.
Wren ignored Marcus's complaints, but picked up his binoculars, and looked at the woods in front of him as much as possible, his gaze cautiously swept over some dangerous areas, and then said to Andre as he observed: "I don't see anything wrong in the woods, that's the biggest problem, we're probably going to expose the flanks, it's not good news." ”
"Bruce! Reload armor-piercing shells! If the other side doesn't directly destroy us, I think we should at least return fire. Andrei shouted to Bruce beside him: "Use tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, and prepare armor-piercing shells of the same type for the second shell!
"I didn't find ......anything on my side," Wren said, and then called the Tiger tanks that had been released in front of them, and asked them to report their observations, and no one found any sign of the enemy, but everyone felt that they should continue to monitor the suspicious woods.
"If we spread smoke, we won't be able to aim and shoot back. Wren frowned and replied to Marcus, who had once again asked for smoke cover: "Compared to this, I want to play to our superiority in artillery and armor, the Soviets are nearby, and all the commanders pay attention to their own safety." ”
"Boom!" In the woods in the distance, an armor-piercing projectile drew a bright straight line and directly hit the side armor of a Tiger tank, because of the angle, this armor-piercing projectile did not penetrate the side armor of the Tiger tank, but folded out a dazzling right angle and flew diagonally into the sky.
"Enemy attack! Soviet tanks are firing!" With a shout, all the German tanks began to turn around, after all, they were veterans who fought the battlefield, and they began to aim the thickest frontal of the tanks at the direction of the enemy's fire at the first time. The three Tiger tanks turned in unison, and the King Tiger tanks of Rennes and Marcus also completed the steering as fast as they could.
"I don't see the enemy's shadow! Where did they fire?" said a Tiger tank commander frowning and observing the movement in the woods with a periscope, but he still did not find out where the shell came from.
Just as he radioed the other commanders if they had any catches, another shell flew out of the woods, this time hitting the front armor of a Tiger tank, but it still failed to penetrate the German Tiger tank, but ricocheted again.
"It's a 76 mm gun! T-34 tank! Not Stalin!" The Tiger tank commander who was hit in the front armor said a little more relaxed, after all, the difference between the opponent is a T-34 tank that cannot be put on the table or a Stalin tank with amazing lethality, and the difference between this is still very huge.
The two options were circling back and forth in Wren's mind, and if the usual battle plan was followed, he might have ordered all his troops to advance at once, ready to drive into the woods to engage the Soviet tank troops. But now he vaguely felt the aura of danger, and the shadow of Wolf loomed over him, making him afraid to make a surprise decision.
After all, the power of the 122 mm caliber tank gun is very powerful, if you encounter the Stalin tank at close range, both the Tiger tank and the King Tiger tank will be dangerous, especially in the face of an opponent of Wolf's level, if they are not careful, their tanks may be destroyed here.
"Stay in formation! Keep searching for the enemy's location! Don't panic. Don't move forward!" Wren pressed the throat intercom to give the battle order, he wanted to take advantage of the superiority of German tanks in armor and artillery, and observe his opponent first.
"Boom!" the Soviet tanker fired the third shot, and the shell hit the roadbed not far in front of a Tiger tank, kicking up a cloud of white smoke. The German tanks were not in a hurry to charge or retreat, they formed a line on the road, as if waiting for some opportunity.
"We're not in a good position right now, so let's reverse and get back. In the end, Wren decided to stabilize the battlefield on his side, after all, the retreat of the Imperial Division did not cost the entire 502nd Battalion headquarters. And in this situation, Wren knows that even if he forcibly attacks, it is estimated that it will not be of much effect.
All the German tanks began to reverse slowly, but in the process of reversing, two more shells were fired from the Soviet ambush position, and as these two shells flew out of the woods, the Soviet tank troops saw that the Germans were not approaching, so they began to attack on their own initiative.
A Soviet T-34 tank burst out of the woods, but it was soon destroyed into burning scrap metal by a shell fired by Wren. Wren and Marcus's tanks were the most heavily armoured, so they pressed for the last cover, and the hapless T-34 had just driven out of the forest when it was easily destroyed by Andre, who had already been aiming at him.
"I destroyed that T-34, Marcus, did you see the second tank?" Wren pressed the throat intercom and asked the Marcus crew not far from him, but he heard Marcus's screams: "I see it! Retreat! Wren! There are a lot of Soviet tanks here!"
Wren put his eyes in the direction that Marcus's tank was guarding, and saw one T-34 and Stalin's tank after another rushing out of the woods, seeing that there were at least 30 of them, which was not good news for the German army with 6 tanks in freedom.
"Steady! Reverse and retreat!Aim the frontal armor in the direction of the enemy's attack!" Wren ordered loudly, "All tanks aim in the direction of the roadbed! The enemy may want to chase us across the roadbed and destroy these damn Soviet tanks while they climb the hill." ”
The Tiger tank was slowly reversing, and Rennes and Marcus's tanks were also falling off the road as fast as they could. The roar of the engines came and went, and it was obvious that the Soviets had no intention of letting the big fish in their mouths escape, so these Soviet tanks began to fire frantically and accelerated after them.
The shells hit the roadbed next to Wren's tank, splashing patches of dirt one after another, and what no one saw was that just a few seconds after Wren retreated off the road, a Stalin tank with a black five-pointed star on its turret on it rushed out of the woods, and Wolf leaned against the open turret hatch and watched the direction of Wren's retreat with cold eyes.
"Hello, Wren, remember me Wolf?" He was not sure that he would hit Wren's tank with one blow just now, so he chose to hide his position, and now the Soviet tank troops all rushed out of the woods, this is his attack alone: "I can't imagine that there are so many tank Armageddons on the Eastern Front, and finally the two of us have met!" Now, let's prove who is the strongest killing machine!"