Chapter 20: The First Kill of the Tank Squad

Commanding the monkey to drive the No. 1 C type towards the approximate location, Li Jing has been staring at the system map on the way, trying to avoid the red dots displayed on the map as far as possible, and finally found the suspected destination half an hour later, looking at the blocking position about a kilometer away, the two sides are not fierce.

Looking at the dense red dots representing the enemy on the small high ground on the map, Li Jing felt that his scalp was numb, and our green dots surrounded the small high ground in a semi-encircled posture, because there was still an enemy's blocking position about 300 meters on the right side of this small high ground, and if our side attacked strongly, it would be flanked from two directions, and it would be a lot of trouble.

Looking at the system map, contacting the commander of our position by radio, Li Jing commanded the monkey to drive the tank into the position, which is about 700 meters away from the small high ground, and our soldiers have touched the enemy's position less than 200 meters, the warring sides are suppressing each other, gunshots and explosions are continuous, fortunately, the rear headquarters is on the back of a small hill, Li Jing asked the monkey to stand by on the periphery, and after getting off the tank and asking a few soldiers, he successfully found the commander of H Company.

Li Jing looked at the sharp-eyed middle-aged man in front of him and saluted: "Hello lieutenant, I am the boss of Reinhard ▪ Lee, and I am ordered to come to support with a tank destroyer team." ”

"Hello, Major Boss Li, I'm the commander here, Nesser, may we cooperate happily, where are the other tanks in your squad?" The middle-aged man returned a military salute and said happily.

Li Jing briefly introduced the situation, and Nether spread a military map in front of Li Jing, which looked much more detailed than Li Jing's.

"This is our position, we have a position at 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock, they don't have a lot of troops. Although they can attack us on both sides, fortunately there is a fairly wide river between their two positions, so it is unlikely that the right position will come to support. Nether pointed to the map and explained the situation of the two sides to Li Jing, looking optimistic.

But Nether immediately showed a helpless look on his face, and then said: "There are eight to ten improvised fortifications in the two enemy positions, which are equipped with heavy machine guns and some light howitzers, the specific number of models is unknown, our H Company now only has two PAK 37mm light anti-tank guns, and shooting at close range may not be effective, and a strong attack will pay a lot of price, I reported this situation to the above, and the staff issued a new order, let us wait for you, and prepare to take these two positions together." ”

Li Jing looked at the map and thought carefully, combined with the terrain observed on the road when he came, pointed to two places about 1 kilometer away from the position and said: "There is no problem, but we still need time now, my team is on the way here, I will let them open fire here first pull out the machine gun bunker on the small high ground at 9 o'clock, and then pull out the machine gun bunker on another position at 11 o'clock here, we can't do the matter of occupying the position, so we will leave it to you, In addition, I need to set up some shelter in these two places in advance, and I will have to trouble your people to help. ”

"That's no problem, I'll arrange a class of people to help you, so let's do it."

A squad of soldiers from Nether's confession hurriedly set off towards the first position I said with tools, and Li Jing radioed the squad channel and gave the order to assemble at the designated place to prepare for battle.

A moment later.

"Report to the commander, a reinforced tank unit appeared on the enemy's position, it should be a tank squad of 4 tanks, two tanks appeared on each position, and no self-propelled guns were found!" A soldier hurriedly ran over to report to Nesser in front of Li Jing.

"How is it possible, we got information that the enemy does not have tanks, when will they get reinforcements?" Nether was shocked to hear the soldier's report.

Some people say that the Yugoslav army at this time had almost no armored forces, anti-tank or aviation weapons, which was also the confidence of the German army to dare to conduct a high-speed mechanized movement war here.

"It's not a big problem, aren't your reinforcements just coming?" Li Jing decided not to dwell on these, and patted Nether on the shoulder with a smile: "Since you are here, you can only welcome it, just clean it up together!" ”

Approximately half an hour later, the team radioed and arrived at the designated location, where they had dispersed and hidden.

After discussing the further battle plan, Li Jing and Nether climbed onto the No. 1 C tank, looked at the time, and picked up the microphone at 7:35 on Thursday, April 10, 1941: "Hey, hey, Randall, can you see the fortifications and tanks on the small high ground at 10 o'clock where you are?" ”

On the nameless small high ground, Randall stood in the turret of the command tank that had been simply camouflaged with tree branches, his upper body was exposed outside the potato, with headphones on his head, and he was holding a telescope to observe the small high ground about 1 km away, when he heard Li Jing's voice on the radio, he picked up the microphone and replied: "You can see that there are 7 machine gun bunkers, and one is blocked, and there are two tanks, which should be Da Mao's T-26 type." ”

"Can you hit it?"

"Measuring the distance should be possible, our 43 times the caliber of 47mm anti-tank gun can reach a maximum range of 4000m, the effective range of 1180m can penetrate 60mm vertical armor, the enemy's tank and machine gun bunkers look a piece of cake." A cheerful voice came, and it was supposed to be Captain 403 Eisenberg.

"Concentrate your fire on two enemy tanks, then call out the bunkers from left to right, use AP shells (armor-piercing shells), and fire directly when you're ready." Li Jing's voice came from inside the headphones.

Looking at the three No. 1 tank destroyers parked behind the grass about 30 meters in front of them, and covered with branches on the tanks to conceal them, the crew members were busy, Randall picked up the microphone and took a deep breath: "Hey, hey, take the target of car 178 as the target, car 403 and car 716 are verified and confirmed in real time to maintain the same target, and the first two targets are ......"

"Bang!" With a loud sound, the gunner of car No. 178, Kupisch, fired the first shell.

At 10 o'clock, the T-26 on the left side of the position was interrupted by the shells fired by them, and then the shells fired by the 403 car hit the tank hull but ricocheted, and the third shell from the 716 car went straight into the connection between the top armor of the T-26 and the turret armor.

716 Commander Belsack shouted excitedly: "The target is penetrated!" ”

Randall clearly saw the whole process of the tank being destroyed from the telescope, and his excitement was overflowing: "The 716 car penetrated the target, and the target has no action, and it is confirmed that it has been destroyed, so good!" ”

The members of the 716 crew waved their fists in celebration in a whispered voice of excitement, and the young faces overflowed with tsundere smiles, and the first kill of the team was lucky for them.