Chapter 821
Rennes was indeed in a tough battle. No matter how strong the German armored troops were or how brave the German paratroopers were, they were still human. When facing several times the enemy, they would be suppressed and casualties would occur.
Boro's men had almost 15 killed. Although they maintained the offensive momentum, they no longer had any extra troops to defend and expand their flanks. This was very dangerous for an offensive force, because it meant that if they continued to move forward, they would probably be surrounded and annihilated.
As the commander of this offensive force, Renne doesn't want to sit and wait for death in this state. He called Borrol, the commander of the paratroopers, on the radio communication channel, and wanted to discuss an effective way to deal with it: "Captain Borrol, I know that continuing the attack now will put a lot of pressure on you. I really want to know if you can hold your position here and wait for me to come back."
"Impossible, Captain Renne, in this case, if I guarantee that my troops will not be completely destroyed, I will not be able to give you any promises." Borol said to Renne with his phone: "I can't hold on for even five minutes. The enemy may tear open our defense line and cut off our retreat at any time."
Rennes was silent for a few seconds before he spoke, "This way, Captain Borol, I will leave you two tanks to help you hold on for 15 to 20 minutes. I can't guarantee that I can escape unstoppable. You must keep here as a frontier position for my retreat."
"God! Renne, do you want to do it alone?" Marcus's voice came from his headphones: "You'd better not joke about your life. If you escape from our cover, you'll probably be killed by the Soviet soldiers who swarmed up in one kilometer."
Renn pressed his throat telephone and replied: "I'm not kidding. No matter how dense the attacks in the sky are, it is impossible to destroy all Soviet artillery. As long as one cannon is missed, the bridge may be destroyed."
"Then you just rely on yourself to sweep the entire Soviet positions and find those cannons that don't know where to set up? This is suicide!" Marcus persuaded, "You don't have the chance to complete this kind of task, it's really impossible."
"Yes, I know, but I saw the target, there was an artillery position on the front, and I saw the branches that were blown by gunpowder gas when the fire was opened." Renn said, holding his headphones, "There was not bombed there, and I think they will fire new shells soon, which is very bad for us."
"My God, I think you are crazy, I think I will agree to you doing this, I am crazy, too." Marcus said this depressedly.
Renn turned off his company call channel and issued an order to continue fighting in the channel of the car: "Okay! Bowman, now we are going to have an exciting racing car. What I need now is how fast you can drive this tank."
"Andre, the armored target in front is handed over to you. Bruce, choose the shell correctly, we have not much left." Rennes pulled out his gun and loaded the bullets as he explained the mission: "Okay, gentlemen, let's go!"
Baumann gave the tank a chance, and the adjusted gearbox of the Tiger tank made the giant drive an unprecedented speed. In theory, the Tiger tank's off-road speed can exceed 25 kilometers per hour, but in fact, in combat, German tanks rarely reach this terrifying speed. Even the lighter Leopard tank may not challenge such a limit.
But now the Tiger tank drove a terrible speed of 20 kilometers. It crossed the Soviet trenches and easily broke the dead branches on the roadside, and used the maximum speed it could drive to approach the target it was going to destroy. Some Soviet soldiers appeared in the jungle from time to time, but Alice's machine gun made them regret that they had made such a stupid action.
The terrifying rate of fire of the mg42 machine gun made the Soviet soldiers on the front of the tiger tank instantly turn into bloody corpses, with broken limbs and broken arms flying far away, and even the tree trunks in the distance were broken due to the extremely high rate of fire of the machine gun.
A Stalin tank parked in the woods adjusted its artillery angle and aimed at the German tiger tank that rushed left and right on the Soviet position. The terrifying 122mm caliber main gun translated slightly and fired the first deadly shell at a specific position.
It may be because the accuracy of the aiming system of the Soviet tank is really not high, or because the combat quality of the Soviet tank crew is not as terrible as the Germans, or it may be because the luck of the Rennes crew was too good. In short, the shell did not hit its target, and flew over the rear of the Rennes tank, allowing the Rennes crew to escape the disaster.
Ren also found that there was a Soviet tank on his side that threatened them, but in this case he could only use a telephone to remind his companions to be careful. Because it obviously took a lot of time to turn the tank turret to kill the other party, and what Rennes and his crew lacked the most was time.
Some Soviet soldiers walked around the back of the Tiger tank and tried to approach the behemoth from behind. They quickly followed the exhaust pipe of the Tiger tank and prepared to throw the grenade in their hands on the Tiger tank's cooling grille.
"Alice! Cover me." Renne shouted loudly, then reached out and lifted the hatch above his head. He turned back and tapped the assault rifle in his hand to the rear of the tank from the side of the hatch.
"Tutu! Tutu!" A series of precise point shots, Renne's assault rifle knocked down one Soviet soldier after another behind the tank to the ground. A Soviet soldier was already holding a grenade in his hand. He was shot and fell down. The grenade fell off his hand and then exploded, blowing out all four or five Soviet soldiers around him.
"Bowman! Can you drive faster! Their infantry has begun to threaten our safety at the tail!" Rennes retreated into the turret, shouting to the driver Bowman while replacing the magazine for the assault rifle.
"The tank's track has reached its limit. We have been raiding so far from a long distance. If it weren't for the walking mechanism of this tank, it would have been scrapped halfway." Bowman pulled the gear lever in his hand to adapt to a big pit that was about to come, and returned to Renne's proposal: "This is the fastest speed. If the track is faster, it may be broken."
Renn stuffed the magazine into the assault rifle, then pulled the bolt hard, poked his head out again, and bypassed the tank's hatch and continued to fire at the back. Several unlucky Soviet soldiers fell down, and the other Soviet soldiers followed had to find cover to hide, and they suddenly distanced themselves from the Tiger tank that was close to them.
However, the soldiers who opened fire in the distance were not idle. The bullets hit the tank's hatch like raindrops. The splashing Mars and flying bullets forced Renne to retract his head again.
It was approaching and closer. The Soviet artillery position was discovered by Rennes during the first round of artillery fire. However, after an armed helicopter attacked the place, the position did not fire again. But Rennes knew that the helicopter did not attack the real key link of the artillery position. It can be said that this position was not completely destroyed.
Andre's cannon had pointed at the position of the artillery position, and the Stalin tank on the side had also fired a second shell. The shell also failed to hit Renne's tank, breaking a very thick tree near Renne's tank, splashing a piece of broken wood chips.
"Their cannons are still there! Not destroyed!" Through the scope on the tank, Andre saw the opponent's soldiers working hard to rescue a tilted cannon. The 203mm caliber drag cannon looked very huge, and the Soviet artillery was working hard to restore the tilt caused by the bombing of the cannon. After their efforts, the cannon seemed to have entered a state of fire and could carry out a new round of fire at any time.
"We have no grenades anymore! We were all covered when we covered Borol and the others just now." Bruce stuffed an armor-piercing bomb into Andre's gun barrel, and reported it helplessly.
"Armor Piercing Armor Piercing Armor Piercing Armor Piercing Armor!" Andre didn't say much, comforting Bruce while aiming the cannon at the position of the enemy's cannon: "Bowman, stop! I'm going to fire!"
The Tiger tank stopped for a short and urgent momentum. Due to the mass, the entire tank tilted forward. Inertia made the entire tank shake. Andre fired his first shell without waiting for the shaking to stop. The shell flew towards his target, flew over a long distance, rubbed against the edges of several big trees, and hit the cannon's support without bias.
At this moment, Renn saw the opponent's cannon also ejected dazzling flames, and the huge shell was pushed out of the cannon barrel, and the cannon also fired a fatal shot. Renn looked in shock as the huge guy disintegrated due to recoil. The cannon frame that was torn and damaged by the armor-piercing bullet collapsed under the action of recoil, and eventually turned into a pile of scrap copper and iron.
The shell cut through the sky and finally landed on the river bank not far from the bridge. It was so close that it was unprecedented, and the effect it produced was definitely relieved by the Soviets. The bridge collapsed under the huge shock wave, and the downhill on one side began to break and collapse.
It seemed like I had bought a lottery ticket, and the Soviets were lucky. At least at this moment, God was on the side of the Soviets.
Chapter completed!