Chapter 832
As long as you are alive, you need to fight! They were the last British soldiers, not only to defeat Germany here, but to counterattack back to Europe, and they had a heavy burden on their shoulders.
"Mike, Mike, come on, go!" Geoffrey shouted to the loader beside him.
However, Mike did not move.
This time, Geoffrey noticed that there was a large pool of bloodstains beside Mike, and a shrapnel inserted into his back, cutting a large opening.
Mike was out of breath.
War kills people.
Geoffrey stepped on the soft ground and ran towards his machine gun position. If he died, he could not be resurrected. His only way was to pour his bullets on the Germans and let the Germans die too!
After running for tens of meters, when he ran to his position, he was stunned.
His water-cooled Vickers machine gun has fallen to one side, the barrel is bent!
Change the barrel!
The barrel of the machine gun can be replaced. When too many bullets are fired, the barrel is scrapped and replaced with a new one. However, when he bowed his head, he found that the box on the side had also been blown away. Yes, it's all scrapped!
No more guns!
Just as Gufrey was thinking about how to solve it, he heard Zanog shouting loudly from the gun emplacement next to him: "Who will shoot, who will shoot?"
"Me!" Geoffrey shouted loudly. In the past, he used to fiddle with a 2-pounder gun. Now, it doesn't seem to be much different from this kind of gun, right?
Geoffrey ran to the anti-tank artillery position. In the previous shelling, the first gunner and the second gunner were all killed. Zanog needed to find a new man to shoot.
The arrival of Geoffrey made Zanoog relax a little, and he shouted: "Armor-piercing bullets, reload!"
The only gunner left, quickly loaded the shells in the ammunition box and closed the gun door. Then, Zanog continued to shout loudly: "A distance of two thousand, prepare!"
Two thousand away? Hearing this, Geoffrey immediately shouted: "No, it's too far to hit!"
If it is a howitzer, it is normal to shoot a dozen kilometers, but the effective range of an anti-tank gun is definitely within one thousand meters!
The M5 anti-tank gun can indeed hit two kilometers away, but at this distance, he can't hit it accurately.
"We will expose the target, it will only make it easier for the Germans to destroy us, the German tank guns are very accurate!" Geoffrey continued to shout.
Almost at the same time as he shouted, another M5 anti-tank gun fired dozens of meters away.
"boom!"
The body of the cannon vibrated violently, a strong flame emerged from the muzzle, and a 76.2 mm shell flew out of the muzzle at a speed of more than 800 meters per second!
On the opposite side, there are already densely packed German Panther 3 tanks!
The shell did not hit! It got stuck in the sand several meters away from the German tank.
However, its firing angered the opposing German tanks.
I saw the German tanks stopped, and it took almost less than two seconds before they opened fire!
More than one, at least four or five tanks are firing!
"boom!"
"boom!"
Anti-tank guns use armor-piercing shells to hit tanks. However, when tank guns hit anti-tank guns, they use grenades. In contrast, the required accuracy is lower, as long as they hit the vicinity!
The accuracy of the German tank guns is very high. The shells exploded almost right next to the M5, and some tank shells even hit the gun racks!
In the huge explosion, countless sands were thrown up, and the dust was flying. Several gunners screamed and fell down.
The anti-tank gun also flew high with the explosion.
Zanog's face was pale, and if it wasn't for Geoffrey's reminder, he would have fired a gun just now.
"Put it within a thousand meters!" Geoffrey shouted. "What is the penetration depth of a thousand meters for our guns?"
The Germans had too many tanks, although it was more appropriate to put them at a distance of 500 meters, but at that time, there was too little time for them to fire.
"With a vertical penetration depth of 106 mm, it can definitely penetrate the German tanks!" Zanog said.
Although in terms of caliber, it is the same as the British 17-pounder gun, and it is still 50 times the diameter, but the power of this gun is simply not comparable to the British one.
The US gun's charge chamber volume is more than 3 liters, and the 17-pound gun charge chamber volume reaches 9 liters. The more charge, of course, means more energy. The chamber pressure of the British 17-pound gun is quite high. Although this leads to a low lifespan, on the battlefield, it will definitely not be able to use the life of the barrel, and it will be finished.
There is a popular saying in later generations, the Germans are the length of the brush, the British are the pressure of the brush, and the Maozi likes the diameter of the brush, each of which is different.
On the opposite side, the German Panther 3 tanks were still rushing up, as if they were going to conquer this place in one go. Everyone felt their hearts beating.
Originally, there was a minefield in front of the position, but the German rockets had detonated the minefield ahead of time, and most of them could pass normally, except for the unlucky ones who would press on the mines.
Forward, forward! German armored forces, indomitable!
"A thousand meters away!" Zanoog shouted loudly.
After double-checking the shooting of Zhu Yuan, Geoffrey pulled the cannon's roping forcefully.
"Boom!" The M5 anti-tank gun roared and fired its shells!
In the Mercedes-Benz tank, Karl Mauss was also watching calmly.
Knowing himself and his enemy, he is invincible in a hundred battles. As an imperial soldier, he is familiar with all the weapons of his opponent, but now, he finds that the opponent must have new equipment!
If he wasn't sure about the opponent's first shot, then now, the shells shot from another direction made him even more convinced that the raised mantlet was not a rubber toy, but a real one!
Just when I observed it, the other party had already opened fire!
"Stop!" Karl Mauss yelled.
Following his order, the driver in front stepped on the brakes, and the dozens of tons of tanks stopped abruptly. This was also the most direct response to the enemy's projectiles.
However, it did this time.
The opponent's shooting angle was high, and it would have wiped them past, but when they stopped, the opponent's shell just hit the car body in front and made a bang.
On the front of the hull, the armor thickness is 100 mm, and at the same time, there is a spare track on the outside.
The armor-piercing projectile hit the track, pierced the track, and then got into the front body armor, drilling hard, drilling in! As the most advanced anti-tank gun in the United States, it cannot let the United States down!