Chapter 40 Baldik 2b
In this situation, the losses of the armored forces in the assault were minimized, and as soon as the short five minutes passed, the bulldozers rushing to the front rushed over the minefield and slammed into the barbed wire, and with the roar of the engine, the barbed wire was all uprooted. But unlike Dawn, several bulldozers moved in unison, pushing the barbed wire that had not yet broken forward, and they scraped the ground to scrape all the German infantry, tall and short, who had just poked their heads out and were about to escape.
Zhang Liuji ignored the poor German infantry, since the breakthrough was opened, it was now necessary to pour it into it desperately, and with this in mind, he shouted over the radio for all the cars to speed up in order to snatch the bridge over the Ornan River that ran through the entire small city. Receiving such an order, the cars not only did not slow down when crossing the trench, but accelerated with the accelerator wide open. The streets of the small town are not spacious, and just when Major Zhang Liuji was worried that the narrow streets would cause congestion among the troops behind, the clutch suddenly clicked, and the driver Gao Zonghan shouted in a bit of a panic: "There are a lot of soldiers!" A lot of soldiers!! ”
"What are so many soldiers?!" The engine in the car roared, and the tail smoke fired by the artillery was not pumped out in time, and Major Zhang Liuji didn't know what the driver was talking about in the black smoke miasma, and only when he looked up ahead, he saw the German infantry all over the street, they were wearing the kind of unicorn helmets, and they seemed to be about to reinforce the breakthrough with rifles, but they didn't want to see a few steel monsters suddenly jumping out of the street.
"Hurry up, press over!" Zhang Liuji's eyes suddenly chilled, he knew what the result of the chariot crushing the past was. It would be a street of severed arms and limbs, a river of flesh and blood, but now the two sides happened to meet on the same street. There was no way he could stop and shout for these people to surrender.
"Hurry up, press over! How can you grab the bridge without pressing it! The major ordered again. The language has the sound of gold and stone.
The engine roared again, and even though the car was noisy and with wired headphones, everyone could still hear the desperate screams of the German infantry outside and the bullets hitting the front armor plate because of the open turret cover. The smooth street has been turned into a muddy swamp in an instant, and the 065 vehicle took the lead, and more than a dozen chariots drove up and down on this 'swamp', leaving behind a place of flesh and sorrow.
It was your luck to encounter German reinforcements, at least until you crushed the Germans. Counter-attack fire should not appear, and perhaps the tank will soon be able to drive to the other side of the bridge. However, Zhang Liuji was too optimistic, and before this straight street was finished, on the roof of a certain place in front, the German Makqin machine gun fired wildly at the first few chariots. The attack was so sudden, fortunately, the German machine gunners still held the old concept that as long as they shot the narrow slit of the observation hole of the combat vehicle, they could bring substantial damage to the occupants of the vehicle, so they let go of Major Zhang Liuji, whose head was exposed to the turret cover, otherwise. Even if he was wearing standard body armor and an infantry steel helmet, these machine gun bullets would have killed him.
It was not terrible to make such a mistake, but to put the machine-gun position on an unprotected roof, in a vain attempt to gain a firing range from a high vantage point. This may be able to deter the infantry, but it is extremely stupid to face armored fighting vehicles. Soon, Zhang Liuji commanded. Behind him, 072's 'bang' shot blew the roof down, and the Heavy fell off the roof without any suspense.
Many of Baledik are old houses left over from the last century. European-style windows are extremely tall, and these tall windows may be very beautiful in normal times. But now it's a potential threat to the armored forces, and out that window might be a Maxim machine gun or a cluster grenade. Fortunately, there was only sporadic gunfire along the street and some machine gun emplacements on the roof, and by the time the last machine gunner was knocked off the roof gun, the troops had already rushed to the south of the Ao Nan River, and the German machine guns with piles of sandbags and more than a dozen horses as cover began to fire desperately at the tanks, and on the bridge, more German infantry rushed to the other end of the bridge.
"Quick! Hurry up!! The Germans are going to blow up the bridge. Zhang Liuji completely forgot that he was the commander and not the vanguard, and just wanted to rush to the other side of the bridge immediately.
"Battalion commander, the infantry is all behind!" Dai Baoshu, a staff officer in the same car, had to be reminded.
"No matter, rush over and hold the bridge." Zhang Liuji decisively said. Soon, the chariot rushed onto the stone bridge under his order, more than 30 meters over, before the bridge, the unknown street corner flashed, and a shell hit the front armor plate, '......boom' with a loud bang, after the front armor was smashed, the fire of the shell explosion burst into the crack, the driver, radio officer, and staff officer Dai Baoshu who was sitting in front immediately died, and Zhang Liuji's body was also pushed by a violent force. Uh' slammed into the engine bulkhead behind him, and as for his head, the helmet slammed into the steel plate on the inside of the turret cover, and then fell unconscious.
The Wolf uses a diesel engine, which reduces the possibility of engine fire to the greatest extent; Although its shells are only 57mm, they are not as loaded as hundreds of rounds as British and French tanks, and the reason is that there is a special watertight compartment for shells; In addition, the automatic fire extinguishing system in the vehicle minimizes the possibility of ammunition detonation compared to contemporaries. But even with such effort, the 20-mm armor could not withstand the direct fire of the 77mm field gun at close range, and the 065 car was destroyed immediately, the temperature inside the car rose sharply, and the leaking diesel fuel also caught fire.
The command vehicle rushed across the bridge and was ambushed by the German army's 77 anti-tank field artillery, followed by 072 and several other escort vehicles rushed across the bridge without waiting to stop, they spit tracer bullets while firing at the German field artillery position, but there are a lot of field guns waiting for them, not only 77 field guns, but also more than a dozen 80 mortars, the shells with a whistling, or raindrops from the air from the fall, or from the corner of the door flashed, more than ten seconds of effort, several rushing vehicles instantly lost half.
"Damn, this is an ambush for the Germans!" Captain Song Desheng, the commander of the third company who detoured from the side, looked at this scene on the other side of the river like a knife, he was rushing along the bank of the Ornan River with a roundabout jackal chariot to the bridgehead, and saw from a distance that the No. 065 car rushed across the opposite bank and was hit by a shot and began to smoke without moving, he felt that the battalion commander had sacrificed in his heart, and then saw the escort car attracted by this, and rushed up and was beaten by the Germans, and his face turned blue with distress.
"Shoot! I shoot it and design it towards the other side! Come back! Come back! Come back!! Song Desheng was incoherent, and the two meanings made the captain in the channel not know what to listen to. Fortunately, he himself discovered this mistake in his own excitement, and repeated: "All the cars are shooting across the river!" All tanks shoot across the river! I am the commander of the third company, Song Desheng, and I order the crew on the bridge to retreat immediately! I ordered the crew on the bridge to retreat immediately!! (To be continued......)