Andre laughed. "There’s nothing to keep secret. Didn’t you hear about the Sudetenland operation?"
"hmm!" Ryan nodded. "I heard that some areas fought back and many people died."
"At that time, I was a second lieutenant of the National Defence Force commanding a No.3 chariot platoon." Andre stared at the front and said slowly, "The order was that we should receive a Czech tank company stationed at the border."
"There should be no resistance in the future, but it still happened. The No.2 car in front of me was hit by the Czech 3 tank, and the smoke blocked my vision … When I ordered the car to reverse, I saw a conductor of mine climb out of the No.2 car with a burning face like a demon from hell." Andre looked at Rennes. "Have you ever seen a dead man?"
"There’s always a small person to take the fall and you’ll be eliminated, right?" Ryan said, "Nice to meet you, Lieutenant" as he swayed with the tank.
"I answered your question. Can you answer me a question?" Andre looked at Ryan mouth asked.
"Of course" Ryan nodded his head.
"Why don’t you say something?" Andre looked at Ryan carefully and asked.
"What do you mean?" Ryan frowned and asked
"I missed the target," Andre replied.
"This thing, I get full marks for shooting fixed targets in school. Since I can do it, what do I need you as a gunner for?" Ryan smiled.
Andre also smiled to follow such a conductor-very interesting.
When they stopped to camp, the whole tank company had already visited Poland. They inspected the ruins of a border road and set up tents. There were several people in the company who were silently stunned by the roadside because they saw that the two sides of the road had been carried to the roadbed of the road and dumped dozens of Polish soldiers there at random.
However, most people still choose to sleep, because they are exhausted after walking in the middle of the night, and they need to regain their physical strength and raise their spirits to face their first battle in the morning.
Before dawn, the battalion commander Hans called him, and all the captains assigned them to fight for a while.
"Marcus! Ryan! You two car groups are responsible for covering Captain Carter’s tanks and following him to attack the village next to the road. The Poles may have set up defensive positions there, so you should cover the armored grenadiers to capture it. "
"Military reconnaissance shows that the Poles are strengthening their border defense. You must attack the village quickly!" Pointing at the map, the battalion commander Hans concluded by folding his map.
"Sir!" Marcus raised his hand and asked, "How many infantry are following us? How far do we stop after taking the village? "
Hans laughed and patted the pants dust on the map in his hand. "Two companies from the 1st battalion of the 5th Panzergrenade Regiment will attack with you! After taking the village, some infantry will be stationed in us. I received it very simply and tried to move forward. "
After receiving himself, Ryan rushed back to his tank 113. On the way, he saw German grenadiers loading ammunition into their rifles and some people jumping into armored personnel carriers.
"Clark! Pack an ammunition! Including those three submachine guns! " As soon as he got back to his chariot, Ryan gave orders, "Check the line platform again! I need to keep the communication with the company commander open. "
Then he shouted to his chariot driver, "Bowman! Start the engine! Test a throat phone! I need you all to hear me. "
Then he looked at the gorilla-like Bruce next to him and pointed to the ammunition compartment next to him, "Bruce! Choose a high-explosive Grenade! This time we are supporting the infantry attack, and there is no threat from the enemy armored forces, but you’d better find an armor-piercing projectile and put it in a convenient position! Just in case "
Bruce is usually talkative and doesn’t think much of young Ryan, but he will still carry out this kind of modest order. After all, he was trained to cooperate with the battlefield, so he nodded and pushed a Grenade into the gun bore and closed the bolt.
Leaning out of the car, Ryan raised his telescope and looked at the distance. The dense fog in the early morning of this day made the distant Polish village shrouded in mystery.
Not far away, Carter tank 111 started, and a black smoke was emitted from the rear of the car, followed by the tightening of the crawler, and the whole tank moved slowly forward.
Then Marcus, the commander of the No.112 tank, nodded at Ryan, made a fist gesture, and then moved slowly along with his chariot.
Let’s go!’ Ryan, with his hand on the throat phone, ordered his tank to quiver gently and then shake violently, followed by the whole chariot and left a cloud of smoke behind him.
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Three tanks moved forward slightly in the fog, followed by several armored vehicles and dozens of SS infantry who had jumped out of the armored vehicles. Even if they were half exposed, Ryan could feel the huge roar of the engine in the tank depot.
In the small village in the distance, the SS soldiers could be vaguely seen putting machine guns on a low wall beside the road, followed by a pull of the bolt. Ryan knew that they were very close to the Polish army line, so he had to get into his tank turret and conveniently open the hatch.
"Clark! Search for the target directly ahead! If you find anything, fire immediately, "he ordered as he repaired the hatch."
"Boom!" Ryan’s command was just finished when he felt his chariot flash slightly. He knew there was a tank fire, but the gun was not his own car. "Andre! Steady! Did anyone find the target? Car 2! Marcus! What happened? Is it your fire? Answer quickly! "
"PSST … PSST … No.3 car … you … what? …….. I can’t hear you clearly …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
"Fire! ….. Fire! " Another voice shouted at the same time. It seems that Carter, the commander of No.1 car, is giving them orders.
"mom! Car 1 is on fire! Bowman! Reverse! " Ryan got up from his seat and tried to hit the hatch above his head. "Car 2! Fire smoke bombs! Cover our retreat! "
"Smoke … play! I launched! " Car No.2 answered a little "fire!"
"Boom!" Because the hatch cover happened to be hit, Ryan heard the loud noise of the cannon outside. Fortunately, he was still wearing headphones, otherwise he would have been unable to hear anything by now. However, the dust lifted by the airflow forced him to retreat to the hatch inside the tank turret and shouted "Damn it".
"Stop the car! Bowman! Stop the car, please! I say it again! Stop the car, please! Bastard! " Ryan kept shouting and cursing, and finally he felt his tank stop, so he pushed the hatch cover out again.
Holding a telescope on his chest, he took a closer look at the village ahead and found that there were more than a dozen Polish defenders in the village, and a French Renault f17 tank was slowly reversing around the Poles.
"Andre 11 o’ clock direction! See those infantry? Don’t aim at the Grenade! " Seeing the enemy tanks, he dared not be careless and hurriedly ordered the throat transmitter, "Bruce! Armor piercing bullets! Fill it! Come on! Come on! Quick! "
He felt that his tank turret was slowly rotating as he ordered, and the cannon in front of the turret pointed in the direction he needed. At this time, Ryan found that the smoke emitted by the No.2 car was drifting, which seriously affected his vision.
Not far in front of his tank, the No.1 car was reversing and pushed down the roadside fence because of its desperation, and then plunged into the roadside ditch.
"Boom!" Ryan felt a huge shock in his tank-he was shaken by the shock because he didn’t hold the handle tightly, and the back of his head hit the back hatch, and the pain stimulated his brain. Anyway, he didn’t know where the tank flew when it caught fire.
"Mom!" He grabbed his head and got into the turret, tightened the handrail and pointed at Andre around him. "Aim and fight again! The target is Polish tanks! In the same direction! "
"Boom!" Car No.2 was shot again. A house in the village should have collapsed and set off more intense black smoke. Obviously, the root of car No.2 didn’t find its target. I don’t know if it was for courage or anger that it hit a building.
"Boom!" The No.1 tank was also on fire, but the shells really flew everywhere. Because of the angle problem, the No.1 car was towering with the barrel. According to common sense, it could not hit anything at that angle.
At this time, Ryan felt that his tank turret had been slightly adjusted, so he realized that he was holding the handrail tighter.
"Boom!" There was a loud noise. This time, Ryan saw the tail of the tank gun in the turret and sat down deeply. A brake was also pressed to the shortest position, and then the whole tank trembled. He quickly put his eyes in front of the captain’s periscope and saw the mud rolling into the sky about two or three meters to the left of the French Renault tank in the distance.
Obviously, the gun didn’t hit the target, but Ryan saw a Polish tanker jump out of his tank and ran back in panic. Within two seconds, another member of the tank also emerged and ran away with a Polish infantry behind the house.
"tu! Tu! Chug! Chug chug! " The German machine gun finally rang. Ryan got out of the tank and looked back to see some infantry cats rushing through their own tanks and rushing into the small village where flames and smoke were burning. Soon an armored car passed by, and the armored car machine gun kept spraying flames.
"Forward!" Ryan ordered his driver to "get over there!" Load the armor-piercing bullets! Alert 11 o’clock! Clark! Pay attention to cover the infantry! "
After about a second, he commanded the No.113 tank to start and roll over the village with a roar, and the No.112 tank stopped panicking and followed the No.113 tank all the way into the village.
"No.2 car! Car 2! Did you hear that? " Ryan kept asking questions on the phone.
Finally, he wanted to respond, "I’m … No.2 … No.1 car … I may need help! I saw them turn into the ditch. "
I don’t know what happened, but Ryan found that his communication equipment suddenly became better, so he held down the dialogue machine and said, "There is an abandoned Polish tank in the farmland about 9 meters at 11 o’clock! French-made Renault f17, I want to go and have a look! Go back to No.1 and see if you can help! "
"No.2 … white! Be careful yourself! " Marcus answered in the earphone, followed by tank 113, which stopped and slowly backed up.
"chug! Chug! Chug chug! " The guided machine gun in front of the tank suddenly caught fire, followed by Clark, the crew member in the earphone, shouting excitedly, "Poles! I hit him! Haha! "
"Left front!" The driver Bowman’s voice then rang. "They are firing at us! Left front! They shot at us! Cover me! I’m backing up! Mom! " He stopped the tank as he spoke.
"See the ten o’ clock direction? Andre! Let the coaxial machine gun point there! Try to! There is a machine gun position on the second floor! " Captain Rennes periscope looked at the left front for about twenty seconds before finding the Polish army machine gun position that was pouring ammunition at them.
It’s a two-story chapel opposite the village of Little Square. The roof of the chapel has partially collapsed. It was knocked down by a shell that just hit Marcus’ house, and next door to this chapel is the unfortunate building that has been completely destroyed.
And his tank also backed up to adjust its position and angle. At this time, an SS soldier was backed up by them because he relied on their tank as a bunker, and his body was exposed by the Poles.
"bang!" The German infantry returned fire and shot a Polish soldier sticking out of the building. The Polish soldier collapsed in pain and hung a rifle on the second floor window, hanging his neck and swinging back and forth.
"chug chug!" Captain Ryan’s periscope kept staring at the machine gun position. He knew that his tank coaxial machine gun was on fire, and the target position was covered by the flying gravel dust in an instant. However, with a straight light, the tracer kept drilling into the smoke, and the Polish army machine gun position was suppressed by the tank fire for a while.
"Cease fire! Andre! Cease fire! " Ryan tiptoed Andre on the back and then shouted, about two seconds later, the tank machine gun became quiet. The German infantry crossed the tank and rushed in front. Little Square climbed the second floor of the church and found five bodies of Polish defenders.
As the engine rumbled, the farmland behind Rennes Tank 113 church stopped. The Leopard tank was next to the abandoned French Renault f17 tank, surrounded by seven SS infantry.
Ryan pushed the tank hatch, took off the earphone, hung the hook and jumped out of his tank. He saw the crater that was hit by his tank and walked over to observe the f17 tank carefully.
One side of the track of this French tank was broken, and the broken track was full of rust. I don’t know whether it was because of disrepair or because something splashed by Rennes shells really hit it.
The face of a German soldier in Renault tank engine is covered with ridicule. "It’s the first time for us to fight, and it’s the first time for you, but are you going to shoot at the sky?"
Ryan pointed to the tank behind him, pointed to the concave bullet holes in the fender of the tank and the scratches on the front armor plate, narrowed his eyes and didn’t speak. He knew that he suppressed the machine gun position and forced his opponent to give up a tank and killed about six or seven Polish soldiers. Compared with the No.1 car and No.2 car behind him, this is already a very proud record.
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"So what? Do you want to show that you have been beaten? Idiot! " An infantry hey hey smiled and asked.
In the face of the infantryman’s ridicule, Ryan didn’t tell what he was. He smiled and smiled slightly freckled. Then he climbed back to his tank in the eyes of these SS infantry and got into his conductor’s position. "Bowman! Car! "
When Ryan returned to the village, they saw another SS infantry cleaning the battlefield, with three SS soldiers’ bodies covered with white cloth, and one of them had been dyed red with blood.
Captain Carter’s No.111 tank has been dragged out from the small ditch next to it, and it is also connected with Marcus No.112 tank with a steel cable. Obviously, it was rushed back to the village, and the No.112 tank pulled him up. After all, the ditch was not deep and he didn’t go to the professional trailer, so Captain Carter breathed a sigh of relief, because after all, the trailer was a battalion, and there was something to that thing, so it was a shame to lose it.
Carter and Marcus are studying the map, and the road stretches all the way to the far side of the forest, connecting another small village. After that village, there is a town not far to the east. They are discussing whether to attack a village with a tank company.
Tanks 114 and 115 are responsible for covering some soldiers of the 5th Panzergrenadier Regiment attacking the wilderness and protecting the flank of the village. Now that they have arrived back, the tanks are parked outside the village, while the second tank platoon has 5 tanks, one tank with number 124 is under maintenance, and the remaining 4 tanks are on standby at the other side of the village.
At the entrance of their village, there is still an assault gun No.3 belonging to the artillery battalion of the division. This assault gun was ordered to cover this direction. The attacking troops have now taken the assault gun of the village and are waiting for the order. The crew members are lying in the sun.
"hey! Ryan! I heard that you destroyed a Polish tank? " Captain Carter pointed to his tank with a smile on his face and continued to laugh at himself. "My first battlefield looks bad luck! There seems to be nothing to boast about except putting your tank in the ditch. "