Chapter 88
By July 1945, the Red Army had reached a distance of only 60 kilometers from Berlin, and the Allies were almost on the verge of capturing the Ruhr industrial area. The end of German fascism is imminent, and Fafnier is finally reunited in Berlin with Dick Carr, Juncker and Dirk, who have survived to this day.
Carl's face was hard to smile anymore, the huge scars on his face had caused a certain degree of necrosis of his facial nerves, and the whole face was no longer the young and energetic smiling face it was before the war. He is still fighting in a Tiger King, and the production of E50 has not been much, and the loss is not small. The Lynx, which had been rationed to Carl, had been lost, and he had to drive another restored Tiger King.
Juncker still drives a Panther, and the Panther has fallen behind in just one year, but fortunately, Juncker's luck and the good maintenance of his Panther make it possible for this Panther to still use accurate firepower to strike the enemy - at least against the T34 and Stalin Type 1 and 2 tanks. And the panther is equipped with an infrared headlight, making this panther an out-and-out killer "night leopard" in the dark night.
Dirk was the one of the few people other than Fafnir who was the most able to maintain his former face and mood, and this guy was a hopeless optimist, always convinced that he would survive until the end of the war and enjoy life. He is now a tank destroyer converted from a Tiger tank - the huge body has no turret, a long 128mm L68 gun and a three-sided retractable shield, which is just a psychological comfort, and the 128 gun is not equipped with an automatic reloading system, in order to make up for this shortcoming, the entire crew specially arranged 3 loaders. Because of this, this tank destroyer was able to reach speeds of up to 30 km/h, and was named the "Great Emir".
Seeing Dirk jumping up and down like a monkey on this humble "Great Emir", several people laughed. Carl's hideous smile and Junker's grinning grin, combined with Faveniel's grin, seem to have gone back to 1939 and 1940.
Several of them were also grouped together, known as the "Hofmog" battle group, with troops belonging to the Küstrling landing field, to carry out combat missions to stop the Soviet breakthrough.
In the early morning of July 5, 1945, the Soviet positions fired 10,000 artillery shots, turning the German positions into a sea of fire, and then countless tanks and infantry began to assault the German Küsterling under the cover of extended artillery fire and attack aircraft.
Favinier's E50 shielded an E100 mammoth as the backbone of the resistance fire, attacking the oncoming Soviet Red Army steel torrent with all its might. Karl's King Tiger and Juncker's Panther served as active fire points on another defensive position a kilometer away, while Dirk's "Great Emile" provided fire support a kilometer behind Favinier. "So many tanks...... Favenir muttered to himself as he looked at the countless Soviet tanks in the periscope, but he did not stop striking at the outcropping Soviet tanks, the priority targets were the Stalin 3 tanks, then the Stalin 2 and Stalin tanks, and the large number of T34s could only be handed over to the infantry to use the "iron fist" for close attacks.
The roar of machine guns and artillery never stopped, and the Soviet Red Army's overwhelming offensive was unstoppable from the beginning, and although countless Soviet fighters were immediately knocked down by the fire of the German defensive positions, more soldiers rushed up immediately. Moreover, the number of heavy artillery of the Soviet Red Army was too large, tens of thousands of heavy artillery shells fell every minute, and the German infantry also suffered heavy casualties, and only a few hours later, the forward positions were too weak to hold on.
Favinir's armored battle group also suffered huge losses, those No. 4 tanks were drowned in the sea of artillery fire and tanks of the Soviet Red Army almost at the beginning, and those national soldiers had only been driving tanks for three months to half a year, and they were not at all opponents of the well-tested Soviet tank crews, and they were quickly lost. Fortunately, the "Iron Fist" issued by the infantry was still quite a powerful anti-tank weapon, and the National Militia could still look forward to it a little as infantry, so under the leadership of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS veterans, it still played a great role and destroyed many Soviet tanks that broke through.
However, after all, the Soviet Red Army, which was superior in numbers, fought until the night of July 5, when a large number of German tanks were destroyed, and the remaining tanks also ran out of ammunition and fuel and had to be withdrawn and resupplyed, relying entirely on infantry to defend the line.
The Soviet Red Army was preparing for fire and non-stop assault throughout the night, and by the early morning of July 6, the German infantry on the front line was finally exhausted, and the soldiers in the rear were blocked by the Soviet Red Army's fire wall and were unable to reinforce, and the first line of positions was completely lost.
During the day, the German tanks, which had been restocked, again withstood the breakthrough of the Soviet Red Army under artillery fire and air strikes. Fafnir repeatedly smashed the incoming Soviet tanks into scrap metal, and the slow speed of the E100 finally dragged itself down - the battle was destroyed by concentrated fire at noon, and the E100 became a fixed point of fire. Although Favinir's E50 was rescued with all its might, it was destroyed by Soviet heavy artillery around noon. Fortunately, several of Fafnier's friends are still safe and sound, but they are also in a hard battle now. On the night of July 7, the position was lost, and the Soviet Red Army dropped hundreds of tanks on the defensive line, but they still had thousands of tanks in the assault, Karl and Fafnir, Dirk, and Junker were ordered to retreat to Berlin to prepare for street fighting, but they were now entangled by the Soviet Red Army and could not retreat.
Fafnier took advantage of the quality of his E50 tank and the Dirk to cover the retreat, and a group of German infantry also helped them with the "iron fist" at hand, and finally withdrew to the city of Berlin together.
When Carl and Junker on the other side also retreated in this way, Juncker took the initiative to drag behind to provide cover for Carl because it was the "Night Leopard". Juncker used the vision provided by his infrared headlights to literally transform into a leopard in the dark at night, and his precise firepower either disabled or destroyed Soviet tanks. After fighting all night, Karl's King Tiger had disengaged, and when Juncker tried to retreat, he was accidentally hit in the back by a Stalin Type 2 tank, the shell ignited the gasoline, and the blazing fire provided a target for other Soviet tanks. More than ten more than 122 tank guns hit the Panther in an instant, turning the Panther into a huge fire. Miraculously unscathed, Juncker jumped out of the panther and tried to escape under cover of night, but a stray bullet hit him. In the process of falling, he was hit by dozens of bullets, and just a moment before dawn took his last breath.
On July 8, street fighting in Berlin began. The Soviet Red Army put in super-heavy GS1m tanks, but in the buildings outside Berlin, a huge guy appeared - this guy has two turrets, the front turret has two combined 280mm heavy guns, and the rear turret is two combined 128 guns, this big guy crushed the ground and slowly moved forward, while spitting terrifying firepower. This is the unfinished P1000 super-heavy tank in Germany, which attracted the attention of everyone as soon as it appeared, and both Germans and Soviets were amazed by this monster. It's a pity that this is unfinished after all, and soon after driving this guy is lying on his stomach, the walking and suspension systems are still not up to par, but the power system is still working, powering the rotation of the turret and the lifting of the shells. For both sides of the battle, Berlin was just one more heavy fixed point of fire. This thing was finally destroyed by the Russians on July 11, and the result was the destruction of more than ten Soviet tanks, blocking the siege troops in this direction of the Soviet Union for 3 days, killing an unknown number of infantry, and finally being blown up by Soviet engineers, artillery, and attack aircraft.
On July 13, under the linden, Karl's Tiger King had been defending here for 2 days, and in 2 days he used the terrain to destroy 15 Soviet heavy tanks and repelled dozens of attacks by Soviet soldiers, but the German soldiers who provided him with cover and observation were almost killed and wounded, and Karl ran out of ammunition. In the afternoon, Karl's Tiger King load wheel was destroyed, and his Tiger King was unable to move after staying in a ruin, but Carl did not give up the tank, he still commanded the Tiger King to fight. At 4 p.m. on July 13, a fateful 203mm heavy gun finally hit the top cover of the King Caltiger. The surviving soldiers on both sides of the Soviet and German sides reported seeing the shell hit the top of the Tiger King's turret after the battle, although it should not be clear according to human vision......
The turret of the King Tiger was torn to shreds, and the underneath body was lifted open, leaving no one alive. Second Lieutenant Dickkar was killed in battle, and his final personal record was recorded as 177 tanks and 144 artillery pieces.
Fafnier and Dirk fought to the death in front of the Chancellery, his E50 had been painted in many places, and now the order given to him was to break out.
Fafnir was the first to open the way, followed by Dirk's "Great Emir" and many of the infantry and citizens who were preparing to evacuate Berlin. They were met head-on by the Soviet Red Army, with Favinir's ammunition being limited to a few shells and thousands of machine-gun rounds, while Dirk's chariot was adequately ammo - 10 rounds......
Favinir worked hard to disperse the Soviet tanks, while Dirk used artillery shells to destroy the scattered Soviet tanks one by one, and the two of them provided cover for the evacuated civilians and soldiers on both sides of the road. At this time, Fafnir felt that the time was almost up, "I feel that the time has come to leave this world. It's no wonder that the amount of power I need to pay to leave this world is almost none, after all, this is a world world with a realistic record, and my power has not increased. It's finally time to get out of it, and the power of this world seems to have relaxed a little bit, and I can feel my friends Carl and Juncker dead...... Dirk is not good!" Fafnier was trying to save Dirk when a cannonball hit the ground near the "Great Emir", and the shock wave blew Dirk into the air, hitting Dirk's head first as it fell. When Faveniel rushed over to look, Dirk had already died of suffocation due to a broken cervical vertebra compressing his trachea. With no other thoughts, Fafnir drove the E50 onto the road and ordered his crew to immediately retreat with the civilians and infantry in trucks, maneuvering his tanks to provide cover for them. His men refused to evacuate, and Fafnir punched and kicked them unconscious before handing them over to the evacuees. As they moved out of Fafnier's line of sight, he began to increase his strength. The familiar feeling reappeared, and at the same time as leaving this world, his demonic power began to return to his control, as soon as he reached out and threw the E50 into his space, after a flicker, Faveniel left this world "Now I am the original Zhou Bofu again, hum." Bo Fu hovered between the nothingness of the Gear World Realm, muttering to himself, "What is the next World Realm?"
Second Lieutenant Fafnier was recorded as missing, and his final record was marked as the number one tank killer of the Third Reich, with an unprecedented number of 307 tanks, self-propelled guns, and 255 guns. Legend has it that someone saw him somewhere?
In order to correct this mistake, it is better to end this volume as soon as possible and enter the next world...... )