Chapter 171
Like a shadow
Because experienced and trustworthy soldiers were guarding the surroundings, Linn was able to stand at the door pedal with confidence to observe the battle in front of him with a telescope. The tank column attacking from near to far showed accurate night artillery fire from the beginning, and combat vehicles in the distance were frequently shot. Although the outlines of the T-34 and the Leopard tank were somewhat similar, looking at the direction of their movement, it is basically confirmed that the Soviet tanks were beaten.
The scene was at a disadvantage, but the Soviet tanks did not retreat, but instead fought back with the artillery flames generated when the German tanks fired. The shells were not far away, and the explosion flames were often surrounded by yellow-green camouflage-coated chariot bodies. Such artillery battle lasted for several minutes. Three tanks caught fire in the distance, and only one near the distance. Considering that the German tanks using gasoline engines were more likely to catch fire after being shot, the Soviet tanks using diesel engines were mostly caused by ammunition in the car that exploded, and the proportion of war losses between the two sides can be imagined.
With the engine roar still faintly, the cannon sound subsided. Lin Neng was surprised and proud: Compared with the Tiger and Tiger Kings that used 88mm guns, the Leopard tanks and their 75mm guns were slightly smaller in all indicators, but they were not at all disadvantages when fighting. With such a sharp bodyguard in front of them, the hope of rushing out of the Berlin encirclement increased greatly! What is this called? It is better to come early than to come by, so who made me encounter such a coquettish armored force?
As soon as Lin En was a little proud, he heard a low shout "There is an enemy". His foot slipped down and rubbed hard on the edge of the pedal on the inside of his left leg. The skin suddenly hurt. However, this was not considered a injury on the battlefield. He quickly pressed his throat and asked, "Where is an enemy?"
"Sir! Here!"
Brewer, who was squatting in front of the right side of the military bucket car, waved his hands repeatedly. Although the infrared night vision instrument was not used, Lin En sincerely admired the keen vision. He bent over and looked over and saw that some black shadows were moving forward along the ruins of the building next to the road. At the bend in front there was a large courtyard with a factory-like appearance. Its outer wall collapsed and cracked. Many black shadows entered the courtyard from this side. It seemed that they were taking a shortcut to encircle the German armored convoy.
"It's broken!" Lin Neng exclaimed in a low voice. Seeing that the number of these black shadows was small, there were still hundreds of people. It was obviously not the spontaneous behavior of the Soviet infantry. If it were just a battalion-level or regiment-level Soviet commander organizing the invasion, it would not have trapped the German breakout troops with more than 20 tanks, armored vehicles and dozens of combat infantry accompanying them, and they would have been afraid of attracting all the nearby Soviet combat troops.
"What should I do? Do you rush over?" Brewer asked worriedly.
Lynn didn't have time to think about it. It was estimated that the factory was only about 200 meters away. So he quickly turned back to the bucket cart and ordered Noah: "See there are no yards in front? Shoot a rocket there, hurry!"
As before, Noah had no doubts or hesitation about Lynn's instructions. When he loaded rockets into the quiver, Lynn whispered: "Everyone gets in the car, we go around from the left. No matter what happens, you can only open fire after listening to our orders!"
After saying that, Lynn himself returned to his driving position. In order to prevent the flames during the launch of the bazooka and his companions from hurting his companions, Noah moved two steps to the side, carried the bazooka forward, glanced roughly, and spoke without turning his head, "Sir?"
Lynn immediately started the car. When he heard the familiar and smooth engine roar, he shouted: "Shoot!"
A thick gray smoke suddenly spurted out from the tail of the rocket launcher on Noah's shoulder, which was covered with bright yellow flames. It weakened, and the spindle-shaped rocket flew out quickly, and the more dazzling and bright flames appeared at the tail of the rocket. It flew faster and faster, and soon there was only that ball of light left in its sight. Everyone was looking up, but Noah quickly returned to the car. Lynn did not hesitate, stepped on the accelerator and turned the steering wheel to the left, left the road and drove into the ruins. Although there was a vaguely visible street and alley here, the ruins all over the ground made the military bucket truck only move forward in a violent jump, and the deafening explosion was also heard.
"Hey, Noah, it seems like he missed a little!" Brewer said a little out of place.
"It's okay, just give our troops a reminder!" Lin Neng replied, turning the steering wheel to the right and driving south along a small street that was basically parallel to the main road. After a while, the sound of cannons and machine guns came to the front. The German armored unit who wanted to break through had already realized the "tails" behind him. As long as he didn't take it lightly, the last four Leopard tanks would be enough to block these Soviet infantry lacking heavy weapons.
The military barrel cart and every passenger were fighting against the rugged roads, and the sound of gunfire in the distance also "awakened" from the short dormancy, one after another, with no sense of thinness, and the broken blocks were also flashing with fire. In just a blink of an eye, you could see many columns of rising smoke in front of you.
"There are enemies!" Frederick exclaimed. If Wolfrum had not stopped him, he almost pulled the trigger and fired with an assault rifle. In fact, the Soviet infantry traveling along the ruins were still thirty or forty meters apart.
Lynn freed up his left hand and quickly took off his helmet: "Gordon, it's up to you!"
"Everyone take off the helmet!" Wolfrum immediately greeted. After that, he shouted and cursed in pure Russian that shocked most of his companions. The Soviet infantry in the ruins heard that they did not turn their guns and shoot at this side, but instead accelerated their movements one by one. After walking a while, Lynn turned into a road with less fragments. A Soviet car was parked in front of him, and several soldiers stood beside him. Wolfrum shouted at them with a roaring roar. These guys quickly made way to the side, but when the German iconic military bucket car passed by, their eyes flashed with extremely doubtful eyes - but they still did not fire.
Through the entire street at a speed of nearly 40 kilometers per hour, Lin En turned left skillfully, rushed over the last short distance, and finally returned to the main road. The team of German tanks and armored vehicles also returned to the front of their sight. However, unlike Lin En's playful smoothness along the way, these German tanks were being violently blocked by Soviet troops. There were three buildings far and near on both sides of the street that had not yet completely collapsed. A series of bullets were shooting out from these buildings, forming a very dense crowd.
The level of the tank does not pose a direct threat to the tanks, but the German soldiers riding on the semi-tracked armored vehicles are in trouble. The open-top carriage cannot provide all-round protection at all. As Linn saw, no one has got out of the car for combat yet. In order to prevent the enemy infantry from approaching the convoy, several non-command armored vehicles have been pulled to the wings of the column. The armored infantry are operating the vehicle-mounted machine gun or using their carry-on weapons to fire at the surrounding targets through the shooting holes on the wall of the carriage.
Seeing that the two Leopard tanks at the end of the armored convoy had turned their guns back, Lin Neng was afraid of a mistake, so he did not accelerate the pursuit, but followed far behind. Even so, one of the German tanks opened fire on this side. Fortunately, the two sides were still separated by about two kilometers, and Lin Neng turned to avoid it in time, which did not cause the tragedy of friendly forces killing each other, but reminded himself: this unprotected military barrel car should be far away from those violent and fierce guys.
Temporarily entering the ruins, Lynn got out of the car with a telescope. German tanks in the front line were firing fire to bombard the three buildings with Soviet combatants. The explosions flashed frequently. The 75mm-caliber long-barreled tank guns were considered sharp can openers to deal with armored vehicles, but they were a little helpless to deal with such large buildings. The smoke from the artillery fire had not yet dissipated, and a series of gun bullets were shot out slightly far from the landing point of the shells. Moreover, these buildings were only tens or hundreds of meters away from the main road, which was the ideal commanding heights of urban defense warfare. The Soviets had probably paid a considerable price to seize them from the Germans before.
The German armored convoy had to bite the bullet and rush forward. Anyway, the Soviet soldiers did not have effective individual anti-tank weapons such as Bazukka or Iron Fist, and did not carry anti-tank artillery to a high place. Moreover, such a breakthrough was no more than conventional offensive operations. After rushing over, the main force still needed to consider logistics supplies. Just a few minutes later, most of the convoy drove by the side of the buildings. During this period, only one half-track armored vehicle seemed to have suffered irreparable damage. Therefore, after the surviving personnel were transferred, they were ruthlessly pushed to the side of the road by the tanks behind.
Lin Neng adjusted his telescope and observed for a long time, but he always felt that the tricks were not working here. Wolfrum would not have used a loudspeaker to shout "I am the Soviet Red Army" and told the Soviet soldiers in the buildings not to fire. So he thought about taking a detour, but the large area of the city under the night was dead, and there was no way to go directly to the safe zone. In the end, he had to leave his fate to intuition. When the German armored convoy completely passed through the Soviet machine gun and submachine gun intercept line, Lin Neng quickly returned to the car and called on the soldiers who had dispersed their guards to come up. Start, move forward, turn, turn left at the intersection of the street, and enter a deep street.
A car of people remained silent, but Wolfrum played a "double act" at this time: a person talked to himself, and changed his tone and tone from time to time, as if two or three people were talking to each other, and they were speaking language that their companions could not understand. But it has to be said that this move saved these German soldiers a lot of trouble, because many Soviet soldiers could be seen in the ruins on both sides of the streets. In the dim environment, the unique appearance of the vw82 military bucket truck was still relatively easy to identify, but the Soviet troops were on the offensive, and it was common for the capture and use of German vehicles. Moreover, this bucket truck seemed strange because it lost the front cover of the car. Moreover, how could normal people expect that a small group of enemies would dare to sway in their territory? I vaguely heard that it was their own people talking, and they all raised their guns and let it go.
After turning two streets in a row, Lin En had successfully avoided the buildings stationed by the Soviet army. He had only traveled several kilometers in the enemy-controlled area. Finally, the Soviet army's checkpoint appeared in front. Although there was no barbed wire frame and crossbar, there were light and heavy machine guns on both sides. Even if he could rush over by the Soviet sentry unprepared, he might be chased by their bullets. There was no other way, Lin En had to turn his head and say to Wolfrum: "My big star, let's have another bet!"
Wolfrum had no expression on his face. After a moment, he saw that the car was approaching the Soviet checkpoint. He shouted a few times. The Soviet sentry who had already stood up and waved was stunned for a moment, then retreated immediately, and then stood attentively saluted. I wonder what he thought when he saw a group of guys who seemed to be passing by, would he seriously doubt that he was dazzled?
Afterwards, Lynn asked what he said, and Wolfrum replied calmly: "Get out of here, we are from the division's general staff, and we must not let a fascist leave Berlin!"
Chapter completed!