Chapter 17: Strong enemy attacks ()

As soon as they climbed up the hillside, the five IIS-2s were a little slow, as if the fat man had walked a long road, and the old man went up the stairs. The white smoke rising from the tail seemed to be under excessive burden. However, this was just a surface phenomenon. After adjustment, they quickly returned to their normal state of movement. The thick muzzles were raised high, like a fighting and fearless "Niuke Fairy". The surrounding T-34s were like the younger brother in front of the saddle and behind the horse. Both the turret and the barrel seemed smaller and thinner.

There are more than two types of combat vehicles in the aggressive Soviet armored group. Many assault guns and self-propelled artillery without independent turrets are mixed in the T-34 behind. One of the gun shields is extremely unique, with an eyeball-like appearance with an eye socket-like edge, which is simply a strange monoeye. The other is like putting a large flat iron box at the front of the tank chassis, and then welding the front half of the tank turret to the left-hand side of the front of the box - they are also equipped with cannons on the body, and they look much more rugged than the German No. 3 or No. 4 assault guns.

After breathing a sigh of relief, Lin Neng suddenly felt that this battle was far less optimistic than he had imagined. The Soviet tanks and assault guns, which were ugly in appearance, had undergone screening and tempering on the battlefield. They were the strongest equipment of the Soviet army during World War II. They also had a significant numerical advantage here and could also receive powerful air and artillery support. It was difficult to stop them from moving forward!

Lin Neng didn't know if the others on the defense line were also shook his confidence because of the enemy's powerful formation, so he retracted his head and lay on his side in the crater, took out the kraft paper bag containing bullets from his pocket, tore it open, and the shiny 10 rows of bullets made him feel a little relaxed. After calculation, there should be 4 bullets in the rifle's magazine, so he pulled the bolt and directly pushed the bolt forward to reset the bullet bridge clamp to automatically eject, and took out a round from another row of bullets and filled it manually to reset. The one missing bullet and the other four rows were placed on the edge of the crater, and the remaining five rows were re-plugged back into the pocket.

Lean. He leaned the Mauser rifle to the side and took out the "Bobosha" and the bullet bun. This Soviet submachine gun uses a circular drum of 71 rounds, so the bullet bun is also close to round, with a complete backup single drum and some scattered bullets. Lin Neng removed the drum originally installed in "Bobosha" and felt that it was obviously lighter than the backup drum. He pounded it a few times and took it apart, and felt lucky: there were only less than 10 bullets left inside, which was enough to shoot a shuttle. He took it to the battle without knowingly, and he might lose his chain at a critical moment, and he would not be able to be so lucky to be rescued by his companions every time!

He quickly changed into a spare drum. He wanted to load the scattered bullets into the old drum, but the rumbling sound of the cannon had already begun the battle. He turned around and saw that the first ones to fire were those "tank chassis mounted on flat boxes" Su-152. This self-propelled cannon was equipped with a powerful 152mm Cannon howitzer. The maximum range of the grenade was 9 kilometers, and it had a strong lethality against the fortifications and armored targets. When firing, they stopped in place to obtain better accuracy, and the sound of the cannon echoed in his ears like rolling thunder. At a distance of only 3 kilometers, the grenades they fired flew across the battlefield in a relatively low arc. When they landed on the German position, they could see the ground shock caused by the huge explosion. The gray-white smoke rushed to the surroundings and above, and finally formed a huge mushroom-like cloud of smoke.

In the front trenches, Lynn had been bombarded with larger caliber shells, but this was the first time he had seen the scene of heavy shells bombarding positions with his own eyes. In addition to his deep shock, he could only silently pray for the brothers stationed on the front positions. Of course, he also needed to pray for himself. With the power of this shell, just one shot would be enough to flatten the hill where they were.

With the gunfire of the su-152 as the number, dozens of Soviet chariots - su-76, su-100 and t-34 swept into fire. Although the medium and long-range artillery fire has sorted out the village and the German positions, direct fire still has its value. The front-line artillery positions, machine gun bunkers, and suspected command positions were all bombarded. The German soldiers who were rushing to the front-line trenches from the reserve positions were also blocked in the traffic trenches. They had to curl up at the bottom of the trenches to avoid the shelling. In this case, only a few guards were defended on the front-line positions.

Soviet tanks, assault guns and self-propelled artillery continued to implement battlefield suppression with stop-going shooting, but only the five I-2s moved silently without firing. The model1943l/43 122mm tank guns equipped by these heavy tanks ranked first among the main battle tanks of World War II countries in terms of caliber. Their power is so powerful that it can give most German tanks a fatal blow at a distance of 1,500 meters, and the maximum range of the blast grenades fired was an astonishing 14 kilometers. The gun was heavy, and each I-2 had only 28 normal ammunitions. This time, it was aimed at the old opponent in the German camp, and it seemed that it was intentional to leave the ammunition for use at a critical moment.

In a position where the battlefield can be viewed, Linn realized that if German tanks or anti-tank guns fired at this time, they would be immediately counterattacked by Soviet superior artillery fire. Facing powerful opponents like I-2 and Su-100, Tiger tanks dare not underestimate them. As the Soviet armor cluster advances step by step, the battlefield situation gradually develops in a direction that is extremely unfavorable to the defenders, even if you have decades of knowledge beyond this era and develop history.

Zhan understood that Lin En was only anxious. Seeing that the Soviet T-34 at the forefront was only more than a thousand meters away from the German front line, the vehicle-mounted machine gun was about to play a close-range suppression effect, and one of the T-34s suddenly exploded. Although there was some smoke on the battlefield at this time, the overall vision was still relatively good. Since no shells or rockets were attacked, and the slightest self-failure explosion was eliminated, there was only one possibility left: landmines!

An ordinary anti-tank mine is usually not enough to blow up medium tanks like T-34. Take the teller, the most equipped German army, as an example. Although this disc mine is equipped with a full 5 kilograms of explosives, it is difficult to directly blow up the bottom armor of Soviet tanks or cause serious shock injuries to the internal members of the tank.

The smoke of gunpowder slightly dissipated, and the t-34 in the thunder did lose its left track and the front induction wheel on the same side. Since it was still outside the range of the German machine gun, tank crews soon escaped from the open hatch. These people did not join the accompanying combat infantry, but did not retreat directly to the rear, but waited far away. They seemed to think that the battle would soon end with their own victory, and they could calmly repair their tanks.

Although a tank on our side was crushed with mines, the Soviet armored combat group did not stop and wait for the infantry to clear the mines. In fact, once the Soviet army sent infantry to clear mines in front, such a distance would just allow the mortar or heavy machine gun on the German positions to play a role. In order to reduce the chance of touching mines, Soviet tanks selected roads with more bullet craters to drive. In this way, although the overall propulsion speed was slowed down, the front tanks might also expose their sides, but it was the most time-saving and effective way in previous battles.

Lin En couldn't help but sweat for the safety of his defense line again. What he unexpectedly expected was that about 5 kilometers behind the village, several German soldiers pushed out a Type 41 150mm smoke launcher from the hidden array position. This weapon is basically the same as the Soviet Katyusha rocket launcher in terms of operation. It consists of six round launch tubes tied together in a star-shaped distribution and a pak36 37mm anti-tank gun. Six fire rockets or high-explosive rockets can be launched within 10 seconds, with an effective range of 6 to 7 kilometers.

Although this equipment was developed in 1938 and is easy to use. A little improvement can greatly strengthen the firepower density of front-line troops, it has never been paid attention to by the German military. There are actually many opportunities to change the end of World War II, such as Dunkirk in 1940, Moscow in 1941, Stalingrad in 1942, Kursk in 1943, and even Normandy in 1944. However, when Lynn arrived, the empire was not far from its doomsday. What can one do with one person?

Amid the squealing sounds, the German smoke launcher opened fire. The rockets dragged their long tail flames over the village, but their range seemed not far enough and fell one by one in front of the Soviet tank cluster. Some were only a few dozen meters away from the German trenches, but Lin Neng's question was quickly answered. These rockets made a pounding sound after they landed on the ground, and a large amount of white smoke surged out of the bullet body. In just a blink of an eye, a large area in front of the German position was filled with the smoke that was difficult to penetrate.

Obstructed by the smoke, the Soviet artillery fire suddenly had no effect. Lin Neng turned around and saw the German soldiers reloading the smoke launcher quickly. In just two minutes, the unsightly equipment opened fire again. Six fire rockets still flew to the front of the village on a crooked trajectory. Soon, the entire German position was shrouded in the white smoke. It was like a terrible monster, gradually swallowing twenty or thirty tanks in the front of the Soviet army into its belly and slowly spreading to the east.

At this moment, Lynn saw the "groves" hidden on the edge of the woods moving. They avoided the enemy's sharp front and quietly deviated towards the opponent's flank. Taking advantage of the weakening of the enemy's firepower, the German soldiers who had been blocked in the traffic trench and second-line positions also quickly entered the frontier trenches. The anti-tank combat teams using "tank killers" and "dolls" even used the fox pits and large craters in front of the trenches to jump forward. The defenders who sounded the battle horn were large-caliber anti-tank guns ambushed in the woods around the village!
Chapter completed!