Volume Four, Chapter 40, Baladic Part 2
Such a situation minimizes the losses of the armored forces assault. After just five minutes, the bulldozer that rushed to the front pressed the minefield and slammed on the barbed wire mesh. With the roar of the engine, the barbed wire mesh was uprooted. But unlike dawn, several bulldozers advanced in tacit understanding and pushed the barbed wire mesh that had not yet broken, and they scraped the ground and scraped all the German infantry who had just poked their heads out to escape, regardless of height.
Zhang Liuji ignored the poor German infantry. Since the breakthrough was opened, he had to pour in at all costs. With this thought, he came on the radio and shouted that each vehicle would accelerate to seize the bridge on the Ornan River in the small town. After receiving such an order, each vehicle did not slow down when passing through the trench, but instead opened the accelerator to accelerate. The streets of the small town were not spacious. Just when Major Zhang Liuji was worried that the narrow street would cause congestion in the troops behind, the clutch suddenly cracked and the driver Gao Zonghan shouted in a daze: "Many soldiers! Many soldiers!!"
"What are so many soldiers?" The engine in the car roared, and the tail smoke fired by the cannon was not drawn out in time. In the smoky atmosphere, Major Zhang Liuji didn't know what the driver was saying. When he looked up and looked forward, he saw the street full of gray German infantry. They were wearing those unicorn helmets and holding rifles in hand, as if they were about to reinforce the breakthrough, but they didn't expect that they saw several steel monsters suddenly jumping out of the intersection of the street. In panic, the people in front wanted to retreat, but the people behind still advanced. For a moment, the people in the street were blocked here.
"Accelerate, press over!" Zhang Liuji's eyes suddenly chilled. He knew what the result of the chariot crushing it. It would be the broken arms and limbs on the street, with blood and flesh. But now the two sides just happened to be in the same street, so he could not stop and call these people to surrender.
"Accelerate. Press over! How can I grab the bridge if I don't press over!" The major ordered again, saying the sound of gold and stone.
The engine roared again, even though the car was noisy and wired headphones were carried. But because of the turret cover, everyone could still hear the desperate screams of German infantry outside and the sound of bullets hitting the front armor plate. The flat streets instantly turned into muddy swamps. Car 065 took the lead, and dozens of chariots were driving up and down on this "swamp", leaving behind flesh and blood and wretched sounds all over the ground.
It was his luck to encounter German reinforcements. At least before crushing these Germans, the counterattack firepower should not appear. Maybe the chariots would soon reach the other end of the bridge. However, Zhang Liuji was too optimistic. Before the straight street was completed, the German Maxim machine guns fired wildly at the first few chariots on the roof somewhere in front of him. The attack was so sudden. Fortunately, the German machine gunners still held the old concept and believed that as long as the narrow gap of the observation hole of the chariot was shot, it would cause substantial damage to the passengers in the car. Then he let go of Major Zhang Liuji whose head was exposed. Otherwise, even if he was wearing a standard bulletproof vest and an infantry helmet, these machine gun bullets could still bear him.
It is not scary to make such a mistake, but putting the machine gun position on an unprotected roof in an attempt to get the shooting world from a high point. This may be able to curb the infantry, but it is extremely stupid to face armored combat vehicles. Soon, without the command of Zhang Liuji, the 072 behind him collapsed the roof with a "bang" shot, and the machine gunner fell from the roof without any suspense.
Many of Baldics are old houses left in the last century. The European-style windows are extremely tall. Usually these tall windows may be extremely beautiful, but now they are potential threats from armored forces. A Maxim machine gun or cluster grenade may appear in that window. Fortunately, there are only sporadic gunfires along the street and some machine gun positions arranged on the roof. When the last machine gunner was shot off the roof, the troops had already rushed to the riverside of the O'Henan River. German machine guns, which used piles of sandbags and more than a dozen horse-rejected horses as bunkers, began to strafusely at the chariots, and on the bridge, more German infantry rushed to the other end of the bridge.
"Quick! Hurry!! The Germans are going to blow up the bridge." Zhang Liuji completely forgot that he was the commander rather than the vanguard army, and just wanted to arrive at the other end of the bridge immediately.
"Battery Commander, Infantry all fell behind!" Dai Baoshu, the staff officer in the same car, had to remind him.
"Don't worry, rush over and guard the bridgehead." Zhang Liuji decided to say. Soon, the chariot rushed to the stone bridge under his order. After more than 30 meters passed, before the bridgehead, an unknown street corner flashed with flames, and a shell hit the front armor plate. A loud bang, after the front armor was smashed, the flames of the explosion of the shell burst into the gap. The driver, radio, and staff officer Dai Baoshu, who was sitting in front, died immediately. Zhang Liuji's body was also pushed hard, and a "uh" hit the engine partition behind him. As for his head, the steel helmet hit the steel plate inside the turret cover with a bang, and then he was unconscious.
The wolf-type tank uses a diesel engine, which reduces the possibility of the engine catching fire; although its shells are only 57mm, they are not equipped with hundreds of rounds like British and French tanks. The reason is that they have a special watertight compartment for shells; coupled with the automatic fire extinguishing device in the car, the possibility of ammunition in the car being exploded to the lowest level compared to the tanks of the same generation. However, even with such exhaustion, the twenty-mm armor cannot withstand the close-range direct shooting of the 77mm field cannon. The 065 car was destroyed immediately, and the temperature inside the car rose sharply, and the leaked diesel also caught fire.
The command vehicle rushed across the bridge and was ambushed by the German anti-war chariot field cannons. The 072-following him rushed across the bridge without stopping. They spitted tracer bullets and fired at the German field cannon positions, but there were quite a few field cannons waiting for them here, not only 77 field cannons, but also more than a dozen 80 mortars. The shells roared, or fell from the air like raindrops, or flashed from the corner door holes. In more than ten seconds, several rushing vehicles instantly lost half.
"Damn it, this is the German ambush formation!" Captain Song Desheng, the third company commander who was detouring from the side, looked at the scene on the other side of the river and felt like a knife. He was rushing along the banks of the Ornan River with a roundabout jackal chariot to the bridge. He saw Car No. 065 rushing across the other side and getting shot without moving, and it started to smoke. He felt that the battalion commander had died. Then he saw that the guard chariot was attracted by this, and then he rushed up and was beaten by the Germans again, with a heartache blue face.
Chapter completed!