Chapter 470: Blowing Up the Tank
A new German offensive began at six o'clock the next morning. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
After half an hour of shelling, the infantry, guided by tanks, launched a new offensive towards the dilapidated second line of defense of the Soviet troops. The position held by Lao Zhu's company was attacked by two tanks and a company of infantry.
After the first round of shelling, the company was again attritional, and the total number of men was only 28, half of whom were wounded. Looking at the German troops rushing over, Lao Zhu said to Lei Zifeng, who was lying on the side: "Xiao Lei, use mortars to bombard the infantry behind the tank and separate the enemy's tanks and infantry." ”
The reason why Lao Zhu dared to let the mortars open fire before the Germans approached the trenches was entirely because a batch of shells was sent by the class last night, which was enough to squander for a while.
Although only Lei Zifeng and another soldier were left in the mortar platoon, it did not affect their combat effectiveness in the slightest. Lei Zifeng poked his head out and gave a thumbs up, after briefly measuring the distance, he personally adjusted the angle of fire of the mortar, and then started to shoot rapidly.
A succession of shells drew arcs in the air, roaring down and exploding in the ranks of the German infantry, raising columns of smoke, flying shrapnel cut down many soldiers, and the rest hurriedly lay on the ground to avoid the shelling from the Soviet positions. However, because of the limited field of vision, the German tank crews did not notice the shells flying out of the Soviet positions at all, and they still maintained their original speed and rushed towards the Soviet positions with great momentum.
Seeing that the German tanks gradually broke away from the ranks of the infantry and rushed towards their positions alone, Lao Zhu couldn't help but smile on his face. He turned his head sideways and asked the fighters lying on the side: "Which of you is going to blow up the German tank?" ”
Beside him was a fighter from Kazakhstan, after hearing Lao Zhu's words, he put the rifle in his hand aside, grabbed two anti-tank grenades, held them in his hand, and said to Lao Zhu in broken Russian: "I'll go!" With that, he crawled out of the trench with his hands and feet.
The German tanks that were driving found that a Soviet soldier had crawled out of the trench, and knowing that it must have come to deal with him, he hurriedly turned the on-board machine gun and fired at the position of the soldier. The dense bullets hit the mud in front of the soldiers as if they were boiling a pot, and the sand splashed made the steel helmet clang.
Finally, after the shooting was over, the soldier just looked up, trying to find out if there was a suitable crater nearby. Here, the machine gun on another tank also began to strafe, and several bullets hit him directly, and he was shocked, his head tilted back, and then his head fell sharply, and he never moved again.
Seeing that the soldiers who went out to bomb the tank were sacrificed, Tang Sanshui was so anxious that he slapped his leg hard, and said a little angrily: "Machine gun cover, I'll go and blow it up myself." He snatched the grenade from the soldier next to him, and climbed out of the trench with his hands and feet, crawling towards the rumbling tank.
Compared with the warrior just now, Tang Sanshui's technical and tactical level is more skilled. Before leaving the trench, he found a half-man-deep crater more than ten meters in front of the trench. After a few steps of climbing, a lazy donkey rolled and rolled directly into the crater, fortunately dodging bullets fired from German tanks.
However, the crossfire on the two German tanks firmly blocked the top of the crater, so that Tang Sanshui couldn't probe to see what was going on outside.
Lao Zhu, who was staying in the trenches, saw that Tang Sanshui was in danger, and hurriedly shouted at Lei Zifeng, who was bombarding the German infantry: "Mortar, two artillery aimed at the German tank!" ”
Because the distance was too far, and Lei Zifeng was hitting Xing's head, he didn't hear Lao Zhu's shout at all. It wasn't until Lao Zhu bent down and ran to his side, leaned close to his ear and shouted a few words loudly, that he stopped firing at the infantry, turned the muzzle, and bombarded the German tanks.
To tell the truth, when a mortar hits a tank, unless you are particularly lucky and the shells fall directly through the open turret roof, no matter how many shells you hit, you can only hear a sound. More than a dozen mortar shells flew and exploded around the tank, and the flying shrapnel hit the tank body with a bang, but it had no effect on the occupants inside.
However, the only benefit, even if the smoke rises, temporarily obscured the sight of the German tank crews, giving Tang Sanshui the opportunity to roll from one crater to another, and flexibly approach the German tanks.
The German infantry in the distance, seeing that the mortars on the Soviet positions had stopped firing, also got up from the ground and rushed up with guns in hand.
Seeing that Tang Sanshui was only more than thirty meters away from the German tank, Lei Zifeng was afraid of being injured by mistake, so he took the initiative to stop shooting at the tank, and instead re-aimed the muzzle at the German infantry. A series of shells fell, and the charging German soldiers had to lie on the ground again.
And at this time, the tank had already entered the bombing distance of Tang Sanshui. He poked his head out of the crater, measured the distance, and with a flick of his hand, threw an anti-tank grenade out. The grenade landed on the left side of a tank and exploded, instantly breaking the track on the left side, and the German tank spun in circles in the distance.
Tang Sanshui hurriedly rolled over and rolled into another crater, and threw the remaining anti-tank grenade at the other tank from here. After a loud "boom", the German tank, surrounded by blazing fire, stopped in place and burst into flames.