Chapter 455

A German soldier with dusty vamp stooped into a pile of ruins. He held his helmet in one hand and a G43 rifle in the other. It was dusty as it slid into the bottom of the pit.

"Sir! There are some British soldiers in the opposite building. They have machine guns in their hands. " The Scout saw his company commander and platoon leader in the crater. Around the crater, about 70 German soldiers were scattered.

The company commander carefully looked at the map near the block, and then looked at his deputy: "the enemy has set up defensive positions here and here, and we will suffer losses if we make a frontal attack. Either wait for the Rockets of the "demolition brigade" or make a detour to make a strong attack. "

"Wait a minute. The news from the battalion says that we will have some powerful support weapons in the afternoon." The Deputy looked at the map, drew two strokes and said, "it's not worth it to be such a shabby block."

There was a rumbling sound from the corner. A huge gray object appeared at one end of the street, followed by another strange tank. However, the black-and-white iron cross on the tank body reassured the German grenadiers.

The first one is a German No.3 assault gun. There is nothing special about this tank. However, looking at more than a dozen achievements of the gun barrel, we know that this assault gun is definitely the best among the infantry. And the strange car body in the back, which is also the site of No. 3 tank, is a little strange to the soldiers.

On the body of No.3 tank, there is a huge round semi open turret. The front of the turret is not a big gun, but four small guns that look majestic. No mistake, this is a German 30mm caliber quadruple self-propelled anti-aircraft gun combat vehicle. At ordinary times, these special vehicles belong to the air defense forces of the division headquarters, but now they are transferred to participate in street warfare as the hot "super weapons" in urban warfare.

"Hey! I said! That's what the battalion said about support? " A Grenadier swallowed a mouthful of his own saliva and asked some of his comrades in arms and the company commander. But he heard that this thing was more powerful than the "building demolisher" in the hands of those engineers.

"I don't know..." the commander of the Grenadier shook his head, but there was a smile in his eyes. The support he expected was nothing more than some rockets and other weapons. What he didn't expect was that he could have such powerful equipment. It seems that the attack will be very simple in a moment, and his troops will lose a few soldiers less.

Soon a new round of German attack began. This time, the No.3 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun was the first one. The four Black Muzzles of the gun aimed at the high-rise buildings garrisoned by the British army, and then the blazing fire was emitted at a terrible speed.

"Bang! Bang! Bang The shell easily penetrated the original thick concrete building, smashed the furniture into broken powder, with gravel and broken steel fragments. These metal torrents penetrated the body of the people inside, and then splashed around with blood and broken limbs. In just a dozen seconds, a building guarded by dozens of people in Britain has become a broken wall full of bullet holes, in which only the occasional sound of falling stones is left except for the groan of despair.

"Bang!" A clear shot. The British garrison finally started to fight back, but compared with the overwhelming firepower of the German team just now, the sound of the gun was as weak as a groan.

"Ding!" The bullet hit the gun shield in front of the No.3 self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and built a Mars. However, the bullet was obviously just like a scratch for the heavy anti-aircraft gun shield. Soon, the huge turret of the anti-aircraft gun began to rotate and aimed at the window that just opened fire.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang The four anti-aircraft guns roared again, and the shells hit the window directly, and the whole window frame fell into the street. The original rectangular window opening was hit by the dense shells of anti-aircraft guns into an oval shape. The German grenadiers watching from behind have no doubt that the people in this room are absolutely dead and can't die any more.

Self propelled antiaircraft gun is a kind of artifact in this kind of street battle because of its high elevation and comprehensive armor protection. Because it has to deal with targets such as aircraft, it can adjust the turret angle very quickly and the relative reaction time is shorter. Therefore, it can deal with threats from all directions more quickly.

After a long period of use, the German army also mastered the method of using this weapon in street warfare. For example, arrange assault guns to accompany operations to deal with the threat of the enemy's tanks; For example, let the infantry cover the rear, protect the rear open fort where the anti-aircraft gun is relatively weak, and so on. In a word, this kind of weapon is very easy to use in street warfare. It is simply the most terrible weapon to attack fortified positions.

With an order, the German grenadiers began to jump out of the trench and charged the British position from several directions. However, the British garrison's counterattack did not come. It was only after the German troops rushed into the building that the sound of guns came from inside.

More than ten minutes later, a German platoon commander with a cigarette walked out of the building and came to the company commander who was leaning against the fender of the self-propelled anti-aircraft gun: "it's done. There are 45 British soldiers inside. When we went in, there were 17 left. We resisted in several rooms for a while. Two of us were killed and four of us were injured."

"When do you leave?" The company commander asked the sergeant standing on the body of the antiaircraft gun. With a smile, the conductor pointed to a street corner not far away, and said in a strong Ruhr accent, "we are ordered to help you take that place, and then go back to the division headquarters to replenish ammunition and fuel." So the engine of the chariot was started, the exhaust pipe trembled and emitted black smoke, the German attack continued, and the British began to retreat from the surrounding area. Just half an hour later, the Germans occupied half a block nearby, took control of two air raid shelters and wiped out about 200 British soldiers. The Grenadier's company commander sent off the armored vehicles that supported them, walked down a British air raid shelter full of rotten smell, and saw the disgusting scene inside. It may have been abandoned for several days. It's full of corpses. Although it's only March now, we can see deworming and swarms of flies. Because the ventilator was turned off, the temperature was very high, so the bodies here began to rot and deteriorate. There are civilians in the body, about dozens of people. From the ragged clothes, we can see that there are children and the elderly, as well as men and women. Of course, the faces of these bodies have long been unrecognizable. It's incredible that from the scene, many people were killed by hand grenades. In the middle of the air raid shelter, several hand grenades exploded, ending the lives of these bodies in the air raid shelter. Of course, there are more than a dozen bodies of British soldiers, which were apparently moved over later. It's the soldiers killed by the British garrison nearby. When it was still under British control, it was used as a huge morgue. It can be seen from some details that it was once used as a hospital and a headquarters. Later, it was abandoned because of the power failure. There were several bandages littered beside the bodies of two British wounded soldiers who were apparently rescued. There were several maps on the ground, which seemed to be covered with dust“ Tell the engineer battalion to come and deal with it. " The company commander covered his nose with his hand, frowned and said, "tell everyone not to spend the night here, and try to stay away from here after disinfection." Looking back at a wrist less corpse lying not far away, it can be judged from the trace that the British soldier exploded here with a grenade. I don't know what caused him to die with these civilians, but obviously many people were not killed, but left this once crowded air raid shelter. The German Grenadier company commander walked out of the air raid shelter and returned to the place where the sun could shine. He looked back and asked his deputy, "have you checked in another air raid shelter?"“ It was very clean, with only a few dozen panicked British refugees. They handed over their grenades and they were very cooperative. " The Deputy answered as he lit a cigarette for himself. The company commander nodded, suddenly remembered something, and continued to ask, "are there any prisoners?"“ yes! Two wounded soldiers. " The Deputy replied, "when their men left, they didn't take both of them away. They were both seriously injured. I think it's useless to carry them away."“ Well The company commander also lit a cigarette, then left the empty cigarette box at his feet, said with a bitter smile, "give them a good time, we don't have any extra medicine to waste. Let's hurry up and have something to eat. At 3 p.m., we'll try to attack again. " This is the war. When you see dozens of corpses lying in front of you, you have no other special emotions except nausea. You are no longer pitied or sad. Some of them are just apathy, which makes people unable to distinguish good from bad. There is no sense of guilt when ordering the execution of the other party's wounded soldiers, because it is only a matter of course. The next second, it is possible that those saved drugs can save yourself - of course, only God can know whether these drugs can save your conscience at the same time. On March 21, street fighting continued in London.