Chapter 174

Ryan, who was still on the road, quickly fell on the ground, grabbed the telescope in front of his chest, pressed the voice generator in his throat, and cried out: "no enemy was found at ten o'clock! I didn't see it at nine o'clock! "

Then he adjusted the direction of the telescope, only to see a stream of black smoke: "eleven o'clock is blocked by black smoke! Guard that direction

"Car 124! Cover the back! We're under attack! God Marcus 112, who had driven to the front of the crater, cried out, "I'm right in front! No enemy found

"This... Hiss... 2... 5... This is... Car 125..." there was a weak voice in the earphone. It was the captain of car 125. His voice looked flustered, but more confused: "I... we... Were hit..."

However, the smoke around car 125 soon dissipated. It didn't look like the combustion of car 125 itself, but the dust and smoke from the explosion.

"No enemy found!" From the earphone came the voice of the captain of car 115: "I'm just outside! I don't see the enemy

Ryan also straightened up some of the body, carefully looking for the direction of the enemy may appear, but found that all quiet strange: "smoke dispersed! No enemy

"This is car 112. It's clear ahead!" Marcus followed.

Ryan jumped out of his tank and ran to the injured tank 125. He moved carefully and looked a little timid, but he finally got close to the tank 125. Then he turned around and yelled to the bold captain of tank 115 behind him: "it's a mine! It's not an attack

"Marcus! You're on guard! " As Carter got out of his turret, he ordered, "give it to tank 124 in the back."

Everyone got out of the car and looked around. They all stood at the side of the roadbed to see the 125 tank in the mud. The mine broke the track of the 125 tank and blew up a load-bearing wheel. Ryan climbed up the tank and was helping to pull the unfortunate captain of the 125 out of the hatch.

He passed through the armpit of the commander of car 125 from behind with two hands, and was pulling him out of the tank with his chest in his arms. When he saw someone coming to help, he immediately called out: "don't come here! There could be mines! Stand there and don't move. "

After another full 40 minutes, the first company still stayed in the same place. The driver of tank 125 was injured in the head and the loader sprained his foot. Their tank could not continue to attack because of broken track and damaged load wheel and no proper tools.

Now the situation is very simple. Tank 125 can only be left here waiting for the troops behind to come up. They can't just leave a wounded tank here. If they meet the defeated Polish army, they will be very dangerous - although the probability is very small, they still dare not do so.

"All right! Now there are two ways! " Carter thought about it and said, "the first way, we all stay here and wait for the troops coming up! The second way is to leave one tank to cover them and the other tanks to move on and carry out our original plan. "

"Stay." Marcus thought for a moment and said, "we only have one platoon to attack. Even if we can attack the town, we still don't have the ability to defend it if there is a counterattack."

Ryan held his chin in his hand for a moment, then pointed to the sign on the river behind the town and said, "if we take the town, then move on and take the bridge, we can narrow our defensive position."

"The river is not small, but infantry can swim across it. What about my wings? " Lieutenant Polk looked at Ryan and asked, pointing to the thin lines on both sides.

Ryan laughed, pointed to the town by the river and replied, "I used this method in school. We ambush a tank in the town behind us. If the poles cross the river with infantry, they must lack heavy weapons. One tank is enough to drive them back to the other side of the river."

Polk took a look at Ryan and thought the idea put forward by the young man with small freckles on his face was good: "yes! I think we can do that. "

"That's it!" Carter nodded.

At eleven o'clock at noon, they had a simple lunch. The five tanks in the first row left behind the 124 and 125 tanks in the second row and set off alone towards the town in the distance. Unfortunately, the 2nd platoon of 1st company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Armored Regiment, 3rd Armored Division of SS withdrew from the battle.

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"Captain, Lieutenant Polk. The investigation is clear. " Carrying a submachine gun, Ryan climbed over the low wall, jumped back into a collapsed courtyard, ran to Carter and others, and whispered: "about 100 Polish infantry are resting on both sides of the street. There are four cars, one on the street, and three at the end of the street. The bad thing is that they have two Renault ft-17s. The position is very bad. We can kill one at most."

"There's good news, of course. They're in a mess. There's no alert." He said as he drew a brief map of the whole town's streets on the land: "and they didn't plan to put defenses in the town, so most of the buildings were safe. I'm afraid they'll find out, so I dare not get too close. "

"It's very detailed. Hard work, Sergeant Ryan Carter patted Ryan on the shoulder, and then began to set up the task: "Ryan has our only record of firing and hitting a tank here, so his tank will take the lead and kill an ft-17 tank in the first time, so our threat will be reduced by half." Then he looked at Marcus: "I'll follow him, cover his left side, you follow me, cover both of us on the right side, all the way in. Cut them open, drive them out of town with machine guns, to the railway bridge Then he looked at the commander of tank 114: "your tanks are loaded with grenades. If there are counterattack infantry, you are responsible for dispersing them. Lieutenant Polk! Behind your tank. What's the problem? "“ How many tanks will be lost to allow us to retreat? " Ryan stood up and asked. Carter was stunned, then nodded, solemnly said: "if we are destroyed three tanks, the rest of us can retreat. Let's go“ Andre! Aim at the ft-17 tank at the corner of the street. You must destroy it in a moment. It is the only big one that can threaten us. Don't miss this time. " Ran back to his tank, and as soon as he got in the car, Ryan said to his gunner Andre“ But last time I missed. " Said Andre, frowning“ Then don't be biased this time! Or I'll call you the squint Andre As he pressed on the mouthpiece, Ryan complained to Andre. Then he touched the mouthpiece and ordered loudly, "Bruce! Armor piercing charge! Check the ammo! Bauman! Start the engine and go straight in! The fastest After crossing the low courtyard wall and rushing up the road leading to the town, Ryan's tank drove up a short uphill, and then rushed down a long downhill. The Polish garrison in the town finally found the German tank close to him“ Ryan! Fool! You're going too fast! " Carter's voice rang in the headphones: "you let us expose ahead of time."“ forward! Bauman! We've been found! Speed up Ryan looked at the narrow view in the periscope and ordered out loud, "Andre! aim! Their tankers are drilling into the tank“ parking! Bowman Ryan yelled, "stop the car!" The tank shook for a while and stopped at the entrance of the small town. The scene suddenly quieted down. The panicked Polish garrison looked at the German tank with a burst of dust and didn't know what to do for a moment“ Fire Ryan raised the corner of his mouth, with a bloodthirsty smile, his little tiger teeth slightly exposed, like a ferocious devil“ Boom Tank 113 opened fire, the shell with a whistling sound flew over a short distance, directly into the opposite ft-17 body, with dust around the ft-17 tank, the powerful force pushed the French made light tank body tremble. The light of the explosion has not yet broken through the iron plate of the tank, but the tank has burst out. Because of the explosion, the turret was lifted into the air several meters high, and all the Polish soldiers around were swept to the ground by the shock wave - then the terrible sound of the explosion came through the distance“ Hit! Andre! Good job Bauman! Drive! forward! Come on Raine cheered loudly, then followed by an order. Panther 113 roared again, emitting a stream of black smoke and charging forward. From the earphone came the voice of Clark, an electrical engineer: "God! Poles everywhere! I'm going to fire Then the guide machine gun in front spewed out a tongue of fire, sweeping the Polish soldiers to the ground: "my God! I... i... killed ten! No, at least twenty“ Andre! Alert two o'clock! There's another tf-17 tank over there! look out! Infantry on the side! Bauman! Don't slow down! They want to lean over! " Ryan's face stuck to the periscope and looked back and forth. Through the narrow gap, he saw his tank surrounded by Polish soldiers, everywhere. For a moment, Ryan's face became pale, his breathing became short, the scene in front of him began to twist, and his mind began to flash one fragmented horror segment after another. He picked up a pistol and shot one after another with his hands tied back, until he ran out of the bullets in the magazine. He stumbled out of the dim door with the gun with the empty magazine. An officer with a record book read out a paragraph that made him vomit without expression. At this moment, there was only a buzzing sound in his ears, It seems that everything in the world has gone away from him... "Ryan!" All of a sudden, a voice exploded in his ear.