Four Hundred and Seventy-One New Enemies
With a crash, some unfixed pieces of the Rennes tank fell to the ground inside the tank, but no one cared about these small things at this time. Because as the tank slid under the embankment, Bowman discovered that the Tiger tank had stalled.
"Ren! The tank is off! I'm trying to find a way." Bowman checked the gauges on the gearbox and said loudly, "I need some time."
"Damn it! What we lack now is time!" Ren found that his tank was now parked at an inclined angle, and now the tank was in a state of climbing: "Hurry up and fix it, we have to get out of here, otherwise In a little while the Soviets are going to kill us all."
"Lieutenant Ren! I can't see you. Have you already driven off the roadbed? Confirm! Have you already driven off the roadbed?" In the headset, the commander of a Panther tank was calling his commander over and over again. Officer Wren.
Ren pressed the communicator in his throat and ordered in a hurry: "Get off the road! Get out of there quickly! There are Soviet tanks ambushing in the wheat field!"
While talking, another shell pierced through the air and hit the side of a German Panther tank like a heavy punch. Because of the distance and the thickness of the armor, this shell pierced through the fragile body of the Panther tank. The side armor left a black hole about two centimeters thick.
"No. 2 was hit! My God! No. 2 tank was hit! Accelerate! Accelerate! Let's retreat to the roadbed! Quick! Quick!" In the earphones, the battalion's Panther tank numbered 1 screamed loudly.
"Damn it!" Ren quickly pulled out the mp-44 assault rifle that had been with him for a long time from his side. Before he could get the grenade, he grabbed the rifle and opened his hatch, rushing out of himself as fast as possible. tank turret.
As soon as he opened the turret hatch, he saw a Leopard tank rushing down the roadbed. The shell hit the top of the turret of the Leopard tank and streaked through the air, creating a dazzling spark. Ren glanced at the Tubosi village in the distance, and found that the Soviet soldiers inside hadn't rushed out. He sighed slightly, and quickly jumped out of the tank with his rifle in hand, and climbed up the road along the embankment.
"Ren!" Behind him,
Alice opened the hatch and yelled at his back.
"You find a way to start the tank! I'll go see how the No. 2 tank is doing!" Renn replied loudly while climbing on the roadbed without even turning his head.
After kicking off a stone under his feet, Ren climbed to the top of the embankment, poked his head out, and looked at the quiet wheat field over there. This road is much worse than the roads in Germany. It is completely built with compacted soil, and it is full of potholes and ruts.
Ren glanced at it twice, then retracted his head. He didn't want to be shot in the head, and then died in this unreasonable place for no reason. He climbed along the embankment to the side of the shot No. 2 tank, and saw that the hit Leopard tank did not catch fire, but the engine was slightly smoking.
He quickly jumped onto the road, but at the same time he heard the shouts of the Soviet soldier Ula from the Tubos village not far away. Ren gritted his teeth, continued to climb onto the Leopard tank, then suddenly lifted the hatch of the tank and looked inside.
The commander's face was covered in blood, but he was obviously still breathing. The injured commander was moaning and groaning. It seemed that he was seriously injured by the concussion after being hit by the shell. Ren didn't think too much, and quickly reached out and grabbed the commander's back collar, and pulled him out of the tank's turret with force.
This set of movements was smooth and smooth. Ren pulled the unlucky commander and jumped off the roadbed in one breath before taking a breath. At this time, he saw the commander of another Panther tank running to a big rock not far from him. side.
"Go back! Start the tank and prepare to retreat! Suppress the Soviet infantry in the village! Cover me and save people!" Ren shouted loudly. He is relatively safe now. After all, there is a Leopard tank on the side close to Tubosi village as his cover, and he is only exposed to the opponent's guns for a short distance.
"Bruce! Come and help! Get the wounded into the tank!" Seeing the commander return to his tank, Ren turned his head and shouted loudly in the direction of his tank.
He yelled, and waited until Bruce got half of his body out of the tank before he turned around again and climbed onto the embankment with difficulty. This time, he returned to the road without much effort, picked up the assault rifle he had just thrown on the ground, climbed onto the tank again, walked around to the side of the wheat field, and lifted the gunner's hatch. Then skillfully pulled the unconscious gunner out of the tank.
This time he didn't go so well. Apparently the Soviet tank in the wheat field was aiming at him. One bullet flew past his hat, and the other bullet hit the ground not far from the tank, splashing a cloud. dust. He flattened the gunner on the ground and returned to the tank.
Ren avoided the turret this time, and after waiting for a few seconds, he jumped up and got into the turret of the Leopard tank from the commander's cabin door. There was a burnt smell in the car, and Ren knew it was best not to stay in this situation for a long time.
He had fought longer in a Leopard tank than in a Tiger tank, so even though it was darker, he quickly found what he was looking for. The two grenades were placed in the comparison In a convenient position, he pulled the safety ring and threw the grenade out at a specific angle.
"Is there any living person? Is there any living person?" He asked loudly while throwing the grenade.
"Yes!" A weak voice came from the cab: "I and the electromechanical engineer are both alive, but we are all injured, and we can't open the hatch by ourselves."
Ren stretched out his hand and grabbed the loader again. He leaned out of the car body first, and the black smoke from two grenade explosions in the distance blocked some of his sight. Sure enough, Ren was not attacked this time. He pulled After getting out of half of the loader, it was discovered that the loader was dead.
The swift-moving Ren threw him on the turret, then quickly jumped onto the front hatch of the car body, opened the hatch and pulled the electromechanical operator out. The electromechanical operator also passed out, but it seemed that there was no body on his body. The wound, probably just fainted from the concussion. When Ryan pulled him out of the tank, a bullet hit the barrel of the tank.
When Ryan jumped out of the tank with the wounded, he happened to see Bruce climbed onto the embankment. He picked up the wounded gunner and reported loudly to Ryan: "I carried the wounded back to the tank, Ender. Lie asked me to come up and help."
"Get these two people back." Ren pointed to the two people on the ground and said, while climbing onto the Leopard tank next to him, he caught the remaining driver out under the hail of bullets. Just as he jumped off the tank with the wounded and came to the edge of the road, a Soviet kv tank rushed out of the rice field.
There is a clear difference between this KV tank and most of the KV-1 improved tanks in the Soviet Union. The difference is that this tank has a huge square turret, so huge that Rennes was stunned for a moment when he glanced at it. .
A thought flashed in Ryan's mind, this is a new tank, a new Soviet tank specially designed to deal with German tank troops. Glancing at the thick tank gun, Rennes estimated that the tank gun had a caliber of at least 120 mm, and it looked like a "secret weapon" specially prepared to penetrate the armor of German tanks.
Although the tank rushed out of the wheat field, it did not drive onto the roadbed and drove onto the road, and its speed was not much faster than walking. Ren was carrying a wounded man on his back, and his moving speed was faster than this heavy "big head" tank. Ren slid down the embankment with the wounded, and saw Andre and Bruce carrying the two wounded onto the Tiger tank.
"Andre! Adjust the turret and guard the other side of the road! A new Soviet tank is coming, it's a big guy! Bruce! Prepare armor-piercing shells!" Renn ordered loudly while running.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise, apparently the behemoth opened fire, and the shell directly hit the Leopard tank paralyzed on the road, and then the tank was enveloped by a huge explosion, igniting a raging fire. The turret was also thrown into the air due to the tragic explosion.
Ren returned to his tank, put on the headset, and then pressed the throat communicator to give the order to retreat: "No. 1, this is Ren! Retreat! Retreat! Bowman! Turn on the smoke device! No. 1, turn on Smoke device!"
The Leopard tank on the other side wanted to leave a long time ago, because hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops were charging towards his tank in the Persian village. It was about to run out, and upon hearing the order to retreat, the Leopard tank immediately started backing up.
The roar of the engine sounded again, and Ren felt the shaking of the tank again. The maneuverability of the Tiger tank and the Leopard tank was much better than that of the Soviet tanks, so the two tanks quickly retreated. The Soviet tanks coming out of the wheat fields pulled away.
"Ren, you mean, have you seen a new Soviet tank?" Andrei vaguely saw a T-26 tank rushing up the road from the scope through the smoke, so he asked.
"Yes, that's right, a kv tank with a very huge turret, equipped with a tank gun with a caliber of at least 120 mm. It seems that the armor has also been thickened, so the speed is very slow." Ren nodded and said: "Take this tank immediately. Report the news to the battalion, lest they suffer."
On the afternoon of April 9, the German offensive stopped temporarily, because the troops near the village of Tupos reported an astonishing news that a new type of Soviet tank had been put into battle.