Chapter 189: A Tragic Exchange
"Three o'clock, enemy infantry!"
"Roger!"
Compared to the cramped armored vehicles, the trenches built by Portuguese soldiers were luxurious suites, but Shepard preferred to stay in the cramped tin box, even though its armor wasn't too thick.
Shepard, who was sitting in the loader's seat, watched as Plomri to his right turned the turret, and then a muffled sound and vibration came from outside the car, which was the enemy firing a breech-loading mortar with a magazine.
Shepard saw through the observation window a cloud of smoke and dust more than a hundred meters exploded, which was caused by the explosion of a mortar shell, and there were a few Cuban soldiers there just now, but after the explosion, they had disappeared without a trace, I don't know if it was *** or moved to another place.
"These guys!"
Sitting in the gunner's seat, Plomri scanned his front vigilantly, an undulating slope that had been a mercenary position, but had been broken through by Cuban paratroopers just twenty minutes earlier.
Then six BRD reconnaissance vehicles and a platoon of paratroopers came in.
It can only be said that the quality of the mercenaries is really unstable, if the defense line is torn apart, change the shadow company, the first reaction must be to find a way to close the gap in the defense line, but the first reaction of those French mercenaries is to abandon their positions and prepare to retreat to the tank farm, and even when they retreat, these guys even threw down machine guns and bazookas.
As a last resort, Shepard could only let the two A60 armored vehicles and two 0s around him stop in place like machine-gun bunkers, stuck in the position of the gap, waiting for Charlie Matt to organize a counterattack.
Plumri, who was sitting next to Shepard, poked his head out of the turret and yelled at the mercenaries who were cowering behind the car.
"You guys with cerebral palsy, why don't you go back and hold the line and wait for the Cubans to invite you to Havana to smoke cigars, right?"
The position of the four vehicles led by Shepard was very dangerous, and these fragile armored vehicles were not responsible for holding their positions as a fortress, but to use their mobility to move between positions to provide fire support, but Shepard, who was forced by the mercenaries to retreat without permission, put these vehicles in the front.
"Attention cars, watch out for those BRD whose 14.5mm machine guns can easily penetrate us, so everyone ......."
Before Shepard finished speaking, about two hundred meters to the left in front of him, a flat iron head was revealed, it was a BRD machine gun turret hiding behind the hillside, and the reconnaissance vehicle saw the Shadow Company armored vehicle parked in the defensive position at a glance.
The Cuban gunners did not rush to fire, but waited for the anti-tank group to their left to take position, armed with RPG bazookas, which, at this distance, were quite capable of knocking out their opponents.
It's just that the actions of the anti-tank team are a little inked, and just as the shooter was loading ammunition, the gunner of the 0 armored car on Shepard's left, that is, the car he was sitting in before, noticed the BRD gunner in front of him and immediately pulled the trigger on the BRD turret, and the two roaring heavy machine guns immediately rained bullets on the BRD armor.
Such a change made the Cuban car crew startled, the driver reversed directly without saying a word, and the gunner was even more clever, he directly lowered his body and retracted himself back into the car in an extremely awkward posture.
Although the armor was clanged, fortunately, because the driver reacted in time, only a dozen or so bullets hit the armor of the turret, and the rest of the bullets hit the back of the hill.
However, the anti-tank team was not as lucky as the reconnaissance vehicle, 0 timely informed of the enemy's position, coupled with the guidance of tracer bullets, the A60 armored car that Shepard was in locked onto the hillside, and when the anti-tank team emerged, fired a mortar shell. z.br>
The mortar shell did not fall on the head of the Cuban anti-tank team because of the angle, but exploded in front of them, and the explosion caused the bazooka to aim crookedly, and the bazooka lost control and fired at the sky.
The Cuban anti-tank group, which failed in the sneak attack, immediately fled down the hill with a roll and a crawl.
Although the sneak attack was not successful, it was enough to make all the Shadow Company crews feel a lot of pressure, and not long after the two cars exchanged fire on the left, in Sheppa
The second A60, about 200 meters from the west side of Germany, spotted a Cuban reconnaissance vehicle in front of it.
Seeing that the latter didn't seem to find himself, he showed half of the body behind the hillside, and the gunner in the armored car immediately controlled the turret to turn, ready to give the other party a ruthless blow, but when he aimed, the direction of eleven and two o'clock in the A60 armored car suddenly lit up.
The 14.5 mm large-caliber armor-piercing incendiary bomb easily tore through the A60's hull armor at a distance of two hundred meters, and the gunner sitting in the turret was the first to fall, while the loader on his left was hit by a ricochet and crawled out of the hatch with a scream.
The driver reacted when he was beaten and tried to escape, but in the end he was unsuccessful, he only had time to fall for about ten meters, and then he was caught up by the bullet again.
The Cuban crew had gone through a chain of bullets until they could even see the holes in the front of the A60 armoured car.
"Car three, car three, answer!"
"Attention carts, reverse back, reverse back!"
Seeing that the friendly forces did not answer, Shepard could only let the remaining two cars follow him backwards, and after seeing the Shadow Company crew reversing, the two Cuban reconnaissance vehicles immediately couldn't bear it and prepared to drive out to beat the water dogs.
They targeted Shepard's car, which was retreating back down the hill, but due to the angle, they couldn't catch up with Shepard, who was reversing at full speed.
So the commanders of the two cars made a bold decision directly, they let the reconnaissance vehicle drive up the hill, and when they tried to climb the hill, the 0 reconnaissance vehicles on the left and right sides of Shepard had found a new angle of fire.
So the two reconnaissance vehicles that were still climbing the slope were subjected to blocking fire from their flanks, one reconnaissance vehicle was the first to penetrate, the driver died on the spot, only the gunner dragged the bleeding body to crawl out, and the other vehicle was attacked after being directly and difficult to hit back in the rain of bullets, after the two sides carried out a brutal fire, the Cuban reconnaissance vehicle was all killed, and 0 was ignited the engine, and the occupants inside escaped from the car with the flames on their bodies.
After the loss of two vehicles on both sides, the battle of tanks came to an end again, and the Cuban paratroopers chose to retreat, giving up the newly opened defensive line, but the defenders who had regained their positions did not have the slightest sense of joy.