One Hundred and Seventy-Two Villages

Three tanks were moving forward in the slightly fading fog. Behind these tanks were several armored vehicles and dozens of SS infantrymen who had jumped out of the armored vehicles. [Starting] Even with half of his body "exposed" outside, Ren can still feel the huge roar produced by the engine inside the tank.

The houses of the small village in the distance can already be vaguely seen, and the SS soldiers set up the machine gun on a low wall by the side of the road, followed by the sound of pulling the bolt. Ren knew that they were very close to the Polish army's defense line, so he had to get into the turret of his tank and closed the hatch smoothly.

"Clark! Search for the target directly ahead! If you find anything, fire immediately." He ordered while closing the hatch.

"Boom!" As soon as Renn gave the order, he felt his chariot shake slightly. He knew that a tank fired, but it was not his car: "Andre! Hold on! Someone spotted the target What? Car 2! Marcus! What happened? Are you firing? Answer!"

"Hiss... hiss... car No. 3... you... what?... I can't hear you..." Marcus answered intermittently through the earphones: "1... drive... hell!"

"Fire!...Fire!" Another voice shouted at the same time, and it seemed that Carter, the commander of No. 1 car, was giving them orders.

"Damn it! Car No. 1 is firing! Bowman! Reverse!" Ren got up from his seat, frantically trying to open the hatch above his head: "Car No. 2! "Shoot" smoke bombs! Cover our retreat!"

"Smoke...bomb! I fired!" Car No. 2 replied a little more coherently: "Fire!"

"Boom!" Because the hatch happened to be opened, Ren heard the loud noise of the cannons outside. Fortunately, he was still wearing headphones, otherwise he would not be able to hear anything now, but the dust blown by the airflow still made him feel He had to retreat back into the tank turret, shut the hatch and yelled, "Damn."

"Stop! Bowman! Stop! I'll say it again! Stop! Bastard!" Ren kept yelling and cursing, and finally he felt his tank stop, so he pushed open the hatch again and got out.

Picking up the binoculars hanging on his chest, he took a careful look at the small village in front of him, and found that there were more than a dozen Polish defenders retreating inside, and beside those Poles, a French Renault ft-17 tank was slowly moving reversing.

"Andre, at 11 o'clock! Do you see those infantrymen? No need to aim, just shoot out the grenade!" He didn't dare to be careless when he saw the enemy tank, and quickly ordered loudly through the throat sounder: "Bruce !Armor-piercing rounds! Load! Quick! Quick! Quick!"

He felt the turret of his tank turn slowly according to his command,

The cannon in front of the turret was pointing in the direction he needed, and at this time Ren found that the smoke from the No. 2 car was drifting over, seriously affecting his vision.

Not far in front of his tank, car No. 1 was reversing. Because of its panic, it pushed down the fence on the side of the road, and then fell into the ditch on the side of the road.

"Boom!" Ren felt a huge vibration from his tank. Because he didn't hold the handle tightly, he was shaken here and there, and the back of his head hit the hatch behind him. The severe pain came and stimulated him. brain. Anyway, his tank opened fire, and the shells went nowhere.

"Damn it!" He covered his head, got into the turret and tightened the armrest, facing Andre beside him: "Aim and shoot again! The target is a Polish tank! The same direction!"

"Boom!" Car No. 2 fired again, and a house in the village collapsed, setting off thicker black smoke. Obviously, No. 2 car didn't find its target at all, and it was there for its own courage. Still to vent his anger, he opened fire and hit a building.

"Boom!" The No. 1 tank also fired, but the shells really didn't know where they went. Because of the angle, the No. 1 tank had a towering barrel, and according to common sense, it couldn't hit anything at that angle.

At this time, Ren felt that the turret of his tank had adjusted its position slightly, so he subconsciously tightened his hand holding the armrest inside the car.

"Boom!" There was a loud noise, this time Ren saw the tail of the tank gun in the turret sit back deeply, and the brake was also pressed to the shortest position, followed by a tremor in the entire tank . He quickly moved his eyes to the front of the commander's periscope, just in time to see about two or three meters to the left of the French-made Renault tank in the distance, mud and sewage rose into the sky.

Obviously the shot missed the target, but Ren saw a Polish tanker jump out of his tank and ran back in panic. Within two seconds, another member of that tank also got out. Run away with a Polish infantry in the rear.

"Tu! Thu! Thu! Thu!!" The German machine gun finally rang out. Ren got out of the tank and turned around. He saw some infantrymen rushing past their own tanks and rushing into the small village with flames and thick smoke. After a while, an armored vehicle also drove past, and the machine gun on the armored vehicle continued to spray flames.

"Forward!" Ren pressed the throat sounder and ordered to his driver: "Drive over! Load armor-piercing shells! Be alert at 11 o'clock! Clark! Pay attention to cover the infantry!"

About a second later, the No. 113 tank under his command started up, made a rumbling sound, and rolled over towards the village, and the No. 112 tank, which was constantly spraying smoke, also stopped panicking. Following the No. 113 tank all the way into the village.

"Car No. 2! Car No. 2! Did you hear that?" Ren kept asking questions into the communicator.

Finally, he got the response he wanted: "I am... No. 2..., Car No. 1... may need help! I saw them fall into the ditch."

I don't know what happened, but Ryan found that his communication equipment suddenly became easier to use, so he pressed the intercom and said: "In the farmland about 900 meters away from 11 o'clock, there is an abandoned Polish tank! French-made Renault ft-17, I want to go and have a look! You go back to No. 1 and see if you can help!"

"No. 2...understood! Be careful yourself!" Marcus' answer came from the headset, and the tank immediately behind the 113 tank stopped, and then began to reverse slowly.

"Thug! Chug! Chug!" The tank's front-guiding machine gun suddenly fired, followed by the excited shout of the electromechanical officer Clark in the headset: "Pole! I hit him! Haha!"

"Front left!" The voice of the driver, Bowman, then rang out: "They are firing at us! Front left! They are shooting at us! Cover me! I'm going to back up! Damn it!" While speaking, he stopped the tank.

"Do you see the ten o'clock direction? Andre! Let the coaxial machine gun point there! Go up as much as possible! There is a machine gun position on the second floor!" Ren used the commander's periscope to look for about 20 seconds in front of the left, and finally Locate the Polish army machine gun positions that are pouring ammunition on them.

It was a two-story chapel located opposite the small square in the village. Part of the roof of the church had collapsed, which was knocked down by the shell that Marcus hit the house just now. And next door to this church is that unlucky building that has been completely destroyed.

And his tank also started to back up, adjusting its position and angle. At this time, a soldier of the SS was exposed by their backing because he was relying on their tank as a cover. He was hit by a Polish bullet and fell to the side of the road.

"Boom!" The German infantrymen started to fight back and hit a Polish soldier sticking out his head from upstairs with one shot. Hanging around his neck, dangling back and forth in mid-air.

"Tud chug!" Ren kept staring at the machine gun position with the commander's periscope. He knew that the coaxial machine gun of his tank had fired, and the target position was covered by the flying gravel and dust in an instant, but with a straight line of light The tracer bullets kept getting into the smoke and dust, and the machine gun positions of the Polish army were suppressed by the firepower of the tanks, and there was no sound for a while.

"Cease fire! Andre! Cease fire!" Ren kicked Andre's back with his toes, and then ordered loudly. After about two seconds, the tank machine guns fell silent, and the German infantry overtook the tanks, rushed across the small square ahead, and climbed up to the second floor of the church, where they found the bodies of five Polish defenders.

With the sound of rumbling engines, Rennes' No. 113 tank stopped in the farmland behind the church. Next to the Leopard tank was the abandoned French Renault FT-17 tank, surrounded by seven or eight party members. Guard infantry.

Ren pushed open the hatch of the tank, took off the earphones and hung them on a hook beside him, and jumped out of his tank. He saw the crater on the ground made by his tank, and walked over to carefully observe the ft- 17 tanks come.

The track on one side of the French tank was broken, and the broken track was covered with rust. It was not known whether it was in disrepair or because something splashed from Rennes' shell had actually hit it.

A German soldier sitting on the engine of a Renault tank had a sneer on his face: "We are also fighting for the first time, and you are also the first time. But do you mean that you only shoot at the sky?"

Ren pointed to the tank behind him, pointed to the sunken bullet hole on the fender of the tank and the scratches made by the bullet on the front armor plate, narrowed his eyes and did not speak. He knew that he suppressed the machine gun position, forced the opponent to abandon a tank, and killed about six or seven Polish soldiers. Compared with the No. 1 and No. 2 cars behind, this is already very proud record.

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