Chapter Seventy-Seven: Heavy Machine Guns in the Building
Leave your squad alone on this dark rumbling street? How is this possible, Li Jing categorically refused: "No, the infantry needs to cover us, in this way, behind us, you rely on the buildings on both sides to build a defensive line, don't let the enemy touch from behind!" Be careful, don't get in the way, we have troops coming behind us......"
The infantry commander took the order, and after a while, there was a noise and shouting, and the infantry gradually dispersed to both sides of the road according to the order, set up machine guns behind temporary bunkers, and aimed at the darkness in the rear!
"Boss Li, the enemy's heavy machine guns in front are set up in the building, we can't effectively strike at them, we need your support!" Kosher's gruff voice came over the radio.
"Roger! We're going to attack right away, so wait! ”
"No. 178, No. 403, No. 716, you go forward, be careful not to block the back road, do you see the machine gun fire in front?"
"See, it's a little farther, more than two kilometers, you can try!" Commander No. 178 Hilmer replied.
"They're in a building, one to four floors, they're shooting out of the window, try it with AP armor-piercing shells first!" Li Jing thought about it for a while, the distance is still a bit far, but if it is closer, it will be within the effective range of the heavy machine gun, which is too dangerous!
A short time later, three shells hit the open space in front of the building.
Randall held up the binoculars to observe, and then shouted into the microphone: "The three shots didn't hit, the distance is still a little far, that building should be a concrete wall!" ”
"Okay, change the HE high-explosive shells, try to get into their windows, boys, the time has come to test you......" Li Jing reluctantly asked everyone to change the shells.
The AP armor-piercing projectile has good penetration, but the warhead is heavier, and the penetration will decay with the distance traveled, and if it is too far, the effect is almost non-existent; HE high-explosive bomb has great lethality, but it will explode after hitting an obstacle, the penetration depth will be much worse than that of AP, and it has little effect on targets with thick armor, and the advantage is that the warhead has a large charge, so the warhead is much lighter than AP shells, and it can hit far!
Because there is a system, through the live situation of the system, the darkness cannot stop Li Jing's gaze, so you can see the details of the building opposite, the windows are not big, less than 1.5 meters high, and only about 1 meter wide.
But for the ordinary crew of the destroyer team, it is still too far away, and it is now night, except for the occasional explosion of fire, which can make the window show its outline, the rest of the time can only see the muzzle flame of the heavy machine gun, and it depends on luck to a large extent if you want to hit the shell into the window.
The quality is not enough, the quantity is to make up! Li Jing couldn't think of a good way: "Listen to my instructions, let's try it first, car No. 178 will come first!" ”
Hilmer replied, "Roger!" ”
"Today's wind is not strong, lateral error can be ignored......"
"See that muzzle flame a little higher on the left? It was a heavy machine gun position on the 2nd floor, about 2300 meters away, aiming at that position, slightly to the right about the aperture of the two machine guns, and up by one degree! ”
According to Li Jing's command, the artillery is actually aimed at the middle of the two windows on the 2nd and 3rd floors, the distance is too far, considering the problem of ballistic parabola, let's try it first!
Soon, the voice of the gunner Kupisch came: "Ready!" ”
"Fire!"
Kupisch pulled the firing wrench, the 47mm gun was fired with a "boom", the shell flew out of the barrel with the flames, and the strong recoil took the No. 1 tank destroyer back for a certain distance, and the whole body shook under the drive of recoil, and the three members of the crew had to hold on to the handrail next to them to try to control their shape.
The shell flew towards the target at a speed visible to the naked eye, drawing a meteor-like arc in the sky, and then crashed into the building, exploding under the window where the target's heavy machine gun was located, exploding a large burst of fire.
"It's a little lower, but the enemy's heavy machine guns have ceased fire, just to be on the safe side, turn it up by half a degree, and get another shot!"
"Fire!"
This time, the shell finally didn't disappoint everyone, and the shell got into the window, exploded in the room of the building, illuminating the entire room, and then causing a raging fire!
There was a burst of cheers around, and the opening went smoothly!
"Good boss Li! Keep knocking out all the firepower points in the building! Let them taste what it is like to be beaten too! Think we'll be able to do anything about them if we hide in the building? Hahaha! A rough voice came over the radio, and Kosher was visibly stunned.
"According to the method just now, the distance is about 2400 meters, after aiming, look at the position of the muzzle flame and fine-tune it left and right, and now fire freely!" Without further ado, Li Jing hurriedly gave the order to attack.
The bullets whistling around were noticeably louder, "Poof! Burst! Burst! The sound of bullets hitting the ground and the "clanging" sound of bullets hitting the tank, their tank squad has become the focus of care.
Fortunately, the distance was far enough, and only a heavy machine gun could barely hit this distance, but the lethality of the bullet was obviously much weaker, Li Jing retracted his head into the turret, covered the hatch, and sat in the tank to stare at the situation outside.
"Everyone wear helmets, pay attention to protect yourself, seize the time, victory will be ours in the end!" Li Jing didn't have any other good way, so he could only cheer everyone on the radio.
As the No. 1 tank destroyer continued to fire, the machine-gun fire points in the opposite building were knocked out one by one, and each knock out a fire point caused a cheer from the surroundings.
The fire points in the enemy building on the opposite side were dumb one after another, and the tanks attacking in front also acted quickly at this time, and the bunkers in front of the building were smashed and scattered, and the surviving soldiers in the bunkers were helpless by these iron shells, so they could only scatter and flee, and were knocked down by the machine guns on the tanks and the accompanying infantry on the way to escape.
After the outside of the building was cleared, the infantry who charged behind the tank rushed into the building in a swarm, quickly sweeping away the remnants of the enemy layer by layer, and the gunfire in the window of the building from time to time indicated that the building was finally not far from being completely taken!
The hail-like rain of bullets finally stopped, except for the guns still firing in the building, there was no obvious gunfire nearby, Li Jing just poked his head out to observe the opposite building, guessing the battle situation inside.
At this time, there were already follow-up troops coming up, the same squad of tanks and accompanying infantry, this time there were more infantry, and they began to set up defensive positions at various intersections in an orderly manner.
Looking at the follow-up troops passing by, everyone finally breathed a sigh of relief.
At this time, Randall quickly ran forward and raised his head under the tank to report the situation to Li Jing: "Boss Li, sir, we have injured 3 people!" ”