Chapter 244

"So now I'm promoted to second lieutenant and command this platoon?" Borol looked at the letter of appointment and promotion documents sent by the battalion, and his face was not happy. He has been here for a whole night, gathering up the parachute platoon of 38 officers and men, and now there are only 21.

In other words, the whole paratrooper platoon was killed and missing 17 people, more than one third. Among the remaining 21 people, there were two wounded. One was because the parachute was perforated by the anti-aircraft gun, and the landing speed was too fast, resulting in foot fracture; The other man could fight, but his face was like a mummy.

Now he has been appointed as platoon leader and is in charge of commanding. In addition, he is only a force of 20 people, defending almost a kilometer wide and narrow line of defense. To be honest, he would rather leave the job to someone else. After all, it's not a good job.

In the congratulations of his men, borol walked out of the room with his mp-44 assault rifle and cigarette in his mouth. The good news is that he now has a bofos 40mm antiaircraft gun and an iron fist anti tank team strengthened from the battalion. Now he can actually use 22 troops, including a medical guard.

As for why he was given an anti tank team, it is a very bad news: the German Air Force investigated the southwest of the Netherlands in the early hours of the morning, and confirmed a very bad news: the French * team is entering the Netherlands, the armored forces are making their way, and the government is moving towards the warhaven area.

"Under the command of the division headquarters, a defensive position should be set up here to block the advance of the other party's troops for at least two hours." The officer who came to give the order followed him out: "then you can retreat to the Williams bridge, join the paratroopers there and continue to organize the defense."

"20 paratroopers? Stop a French armored division here? " Borol looked at the officer and said with a smile, "if you can help me find some support, maybe I can try."

"Support? We can't give you too much... But you can tell me. I'll try to meet your requirements. " The officer was stunned, then said quickly.

"Help me find a tank, No. 113 of SS Panzer Division 3." From his coat pocket, borol took out a picture of a freckled boy leaning against the 113 tank with a shy smile: "the captain's name is Ryan."

The paratrooper officer who came to deliver the order was stunned, then he laughed: "OK! I'll go back and ask you. If their tanks can be jammed into the plane, I'll let them come here to help. "

"I'm kidding." Borol handed the officer a cigarette and helped light the fire: "fighting the armored division is not our strong point. I need anti tank fire. The more the better. And ammunition, enough ammunition for us to break the machine gun. "

"It should be OK." The officer patted the ash on borol's shoulder, nodded and said, "I'll let them send some back. If there are good things, I'll try to get two for you."

With that, the officer got on a BMW motorcycle, put on a pair of goggles, caught fire, and drove along the road to warhaven.

"Baru! Call the second monitor to come and have a meeting! Assign tasks. " "Let your men check all the Dutch weapons and have a try," he shouts helplessly to his men who are cleaning their guns in the distance

Balu was promoted to the monitor of class 1, while the former deputy monitor replaced the dead second monitor and was appointed as the temporary commander of class 2. Now it seems that the command system of class 1 is the best preserved, because one of the leaders of the other two classes was killed, and the deputy leader of the other class was killed.

At noon, borore, who was eating hot soup and black bread, finally waited for his supplies. To be honest, he didn't expect to have so many supplies and weapons.

An artillery squad drove two Dutch civilian cars and pulled a 75mm light anti tank gun to the village. They brought 20 anti tank mines, 20 infantry mines, 7000 rounds of ammunition and two boxes of grenades. And, of course, canned luncheon meat and hard black bread.

"Lieutenant borore?" The commander of the artillery squad was a sergeant with a big beard. He didn't look young: "I've been ordered to support you. The mission has been changed. We have to stay here for at least three hours before we can retreat. "

Borol touched his nose, and he knew there was no pie in the sky. If he was given more supplies than he expected, he would be given a more arduous task.

"Did you lose the draw, or did you beat your boss?" Borol took a puff of his cigarette, lowered his head and puffed out a smoke ring. He asked jokingly, "I've been sent to carry out this kind of ghost mission."

He circled the light antitank gun for half a turn and patted it on the barrel. In order to accompany the airborne soldiers to fight in the enemy's rear, the artillery tried every means to reduce its weight - there was no artillery shield, the direction adjustment mechanism seemed to be a little crude, and the hollow support had to be made from local materials and fixed by digging holes or finding stone pads.

The design requirement of this kind of artillery is that more than a dozen paratroopers can push this weapon, and allow this kind of artillery to launch shrapnel to support paratroopers' operations while using anti tank shells. Obviously, such a large number of requirements have created a nondescript monster, and this kind of variant 75mm cannon has average armor piercing ability, And when using grenades, the range is very limited, only 5 kilometers.

It is worth mentioning that the support mission of this kind of artillery was later replaced by 120 mm caliber heavy mortars, because in terms of size and practicality, the latter was better. And its anti tank mission is also shared by the lighter iron fist rocket launcher. This is undoubtedly ironic for a weapon. But in line with the principle of no waste, this weapon is still used in paratroopers as a supplementary firepower“ I slept with my boss's wife. " The mustache was obviously humorous. He split his mouth and said with a smile, "of course, the other cannons were sent to the main defensive position in the West. I heard that their side is the other side's main attack area. "“ If you say so, shall I celebrate? " Borol pointed around the village with a smile: "choose your own place to set up the anti tank gun position, and try to hide as much as possible. I'll give you a makchin. There are about 1000 bullets. You can arrange them yourself. "“ It seems that you've got a lot of good things. " The big beard nodded: "we'll hide the car behind the straw pile over there in a moment. When we need to retreat, I hope they will still be there."“ Sniper team, you find the best position for yourself. " Borol issued a loud pre war arrangement: "infantry each take a mine, in the two wings into the village on the road layout minefield."“ Balu, take people to bury anti tank mines in the front, arrange fire points on both sides, use Markham on the first line of defense, and discard them directly after firing all the bullets. " "Move the sandbags in the Dutch trenches and build shelters in the rooms. These houses are all made of wood and can't resist bullets," he said“ Sir, if the other side has tanks, the building may not be very safe. " Balu pointed to the rooms and said, "it's better to use trench defense outside the village..." "don't worry, as long as we beat back a French attack on the periphery, the artillery will make this place into ruins. At that time, we have a lot of places to take cover." "Pay attention to save our ammunition and fight an ambush first," he said with a smile At this time, big beard ran over and said, "Lieutenant, we found a perfect location by a small warehouse near the village, where there is a pile of straw, where our anti tank guns can be placed." He pointed to the direction as he said: "there is a drainage ditch at the front door of the small warehouse, which can block both sides and make a trench. We can guard the outside of the whole village and have a good view. "“ Baru, you take two people to help and transform the place. " Borol nodded and said, "second squad leader, you take that bofos to the other side to form a cross defensive fire. If a tank tries to get close to the anti tank gun, then you use bofos to attack their tail."“ Everyone has as much ammunition as possible! There's no need to add after lighting up! Don't move the chain! Two G42 machine gun teams left. " Borol pointed to the village behind him: "collect all the food you can find, and divide the wine!" The German Paratroopers immediately started the search task. The chairs in the residential houses were carried to the trenches, and some furniture was piled around the houses, which played the role of thickening the walls as much as possible. Wine and food were all pocketed for a picnic at the height of the battle - if there was time. And more than ten kilometers away, on the road, dust blocks out the sun. A French general put down his telescope and stood on the high ground beside the road. He pointed to his troops triumphantly and boasted to the two British journalists behind him: "the Germans left paratroopers in Holland in an attempt to disrupt our military deployment, but they overestimated themselves. My tanks can sweep through the rifles and take back the important parts of Holland. They have lost this battle“ German Paratroopers have made outstanding achievements in Poland. On the way here, I heard that they made a lot of noise in Holland. General, why are you so sure to deal with these mysterious German Paratroopers A reporter asked, looking up as he recorded in his notebook“ I have weapons they don't have. Isn't that enough? " The French general shook his head and pointed to the tanks advancing on the road below the hillside: "I have large caliber guns as support, and 200 tanks - how can they win me?" Bang. Another French reporter pressed the shutter in his hand, leaving a moment of complacency for the arrogant French general.