Chapter 127 Tank Battalion
The roar of planes in the sky became louder and louder, and the gunshots on the ground also passed by. These two sounds were chasing me like death talismans, rushing, making me make a decision immediately.
What to do? Do you hide in the tunnel desperately? If the Philippine battalions block us, and even the entire regiment, it will almost declare that our mission to block the enemy reinforcements failed.
Zhao Yongxin and his men also looked at me anxiously, but Hu Zili ignored me, as if he believed that I would definitely have a solution, and just waited for me to give orders, which made me feel even more confused.
Suddenly, I saw the convoys of vehicles that were still bombed on the road and the bodies of the enemy troops who were still in a hurry to clean up on the open ground. I couldn't help but think about it and immediately ordered Zhao Yongxin: "Everyone has it, give up the position and gather at the road!"
"Deputy Battalion Commander Cui!" Zhao Yongxin was shocked when he heard this order: "I'm afraid this is not good! Give up the position?"
"Yes! You're gathering on the highway?" Hu Zi also came up and said, "Turn the troops onto the highway. Then the planes exploded and the enemy attacked on the ground. This..."
"Execute the order!" I didn't have time to explain to them anymore, and gritted my teeth and ordered again: "Every unit immediately withdraws from the position and gathers on the road!"
"Yes!" The soldiers responded and ran towards the open ground with their guns in their arms.
"Let's go! Turn over!" When the soldiers walked to the open ground, I gave several orders one after another, and the soldiers followed without thinking. The open ground was filled with mud and water and the blood of Philippine soldiers, so when the soldiers stood up again, the cotton coats were already red and yellow. From a distance, they couldn't tell whether they were wearing cotton coats or camouflage uniforms from the Philippines camp.
"What's the point!" At this time, Xu Feng, who was commanding the third and fourth companies across the road, ran over and pointed at me with an angry face and asked, "Why did you give up your position and pull the troops onto the road to serve as targets for the enemy? How could you command wars like you?"
"Battery Commander Xu, there is no hurry to explain. You should order other troops to enter the air-raid shelter!" I couldn't help but respond helplessly.
With a strange roar, a wild horse fighter plane flew over our heads with a strange roar. The soldiers fell to the ground in a conditioned manner, but strangely, the fighter plane did not fire at us or dropped bombs. Soon, four or five of them emerged from the clouds, and they were all circling around us.
At this time, the Philippine camp, which was originally hiding in the forest, walked out carefully, slowly climbed onto the high ground where we gave up, and put on various light and heavy weapons, but after a long time, no shooting was launched.
It seems that not only Xu Feng understands what I am doing, but even the enemies of the Philippine battalion cannot figure it out. What they can't figure out is how we gave up our positions so easily and ran to the open land to serve as living targets for them. People have such concerns, and things that are often too easy to get will scare them. They must be wondering if there is any trap in this...
It turns out that their concerns are necessary, but it seems too late now.
"Fight!" I lie on the ground and fired a sniper rifle with a few shots, and killed two enemy machine gunners and a guy holding a bazooka rocket launcher in my hand. Whoever lets you have weapons of mass destruction, can I hit if I don't hit you?
Although the soldiers were still confused, they were not vague at all when shooting the enemy. As soon as I ordered the soldiers to find favorable terrain, some lying in the puddles, and some used the enemy's corpses as cover, and they all picked up the light and heavy weapons in their hands and attacked the enemy. In an instant, the guns and cannons sounded again, but the enemy was condescending and had fortifications as their support, so they quickly gained the upper hand.
But at this time, the soldiers unexpectedly thought of it and the Philippine Battalion did not expect it. The Mustang fighter jets in the sky quickly dived down and dropped bombs towards the Philippine Battalion's position. With the blasting explosions, the gunshots of the Philippines Battalion were quickly hoarse. Just as they were bombed for no reason, two Mustang fighter jets roared back and dropped two incendiary bombs...
With a "boom...", two orange-red flames rose high, and the location of the Philippine camp suddenly turned into a sea of fire. With the shrill howls coming from the fire, the volunteers could clearly see a group of firemen waving their arms and jumping around in the forest. After a while, it was quiet. The only thing left was a burning mountain of flames.
Those "wild horses" did not give up and continued to search for troops that could be found in the forest. Once they found that there were any movements in the forest, they roared and dived, or dropped a few bombs, and finally flew away a few circles around us before they flew away with satisfaction. But what they didn't know was that most of the troops they could find were from the Philippine battalions, because the volunteers basically hid in the air-raid shelter that had been dug long ago.
"What's wrong with them?" After the enemy plane flew away, Hu Zi slowly stood up and looked at the burning position in front of him and said, "Can they be... those planes belong to our army? I don't look like them!"
"That's the enemy's plane!" The old squad leader replied with certainty: "I recognize that, and our plane does not have incendiary bombs, right?"
"Then why would they help us fight?" Hu Zi asked, touching his head, "These planes are all blowing up their own people, and they don't blow up us? I thought I would definitely be glorious this time, but I didn't expect this..."
"I'm going to ask Deputy Battalion Commander Cui..." Zhao Yongxin slowly got up from the mud and patted the cotton coat on his body and said, "I'm sorry, this American has let our Deputy Battalion Commander Cui fool again, but this time I didn't understand it much! Why do you think that if we stand in this open land, this American will treat us as our own people?"
"Aren't that still lying on the ground and rolling away?" I laughed.
"What's wrong with it after a break?" Hu Zi seemed to have some complaints about this: "I, Hu Zi, hate rolling the ball the most. In the past, I rolled around to avoid the Japanese bullets. In order to save my life, Hu Zi endured it, but this time it was to obey your kid's orders. At that time, I was so awkward, and I looked like a puppy playing in mud..."
"Huzi, don't say anything!" Zhao Yongxin seemed to understand something, pointed to the body of a Philippine battalion soldier on the ground and said, "Let's get out of the ground, it looks like they are. Otherwise, the Japanese bombs and incendiary bombs would be thrown at us."
"Um!" Hu Zi looked at the cotton coat that was red and black because of mud and blood, and then looked at the camouflage uniforms of the soldiers of the Philippines battalion. Then he realized it and smiled and said, "This is really worth it! Deputy Battalion Commander Cui, there are such good things next time, so I can beat you a few more!"
Hu Zi's words only attracted laughter from the soldiers.
I couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and finally deceived the American pilot. Actually, I knew in my heart that it would be far from enough to just get some stains on the cotton coat. What's more important is the rows of cars on the road, the two shiki tanks in front of the convoy, and the corpses on the ground.
Not to mention that the Volunteers do not have so many cars, even if there are, they cannot drive them without disguising them in broad daylight. Even if they drive them, they cannot drive them with heads facing south and tails facing north, and the Volunteers cannot have Xiafei tanks... All these factors are put together. When the Americans look down from the plane, they will soon make a judgment: the following are the United Nations troops, and their convoys were attacked by the red army ambushed in the forest. Although the losses are heavy, there is still a force that is making tenacious resistance!
So, they would naturally use their powerful force to bomb the "Red Army" ambushed in the forest. Maybe they would go to Li Qiwei to report their achievements with complacent results after they returned!
"Good fight!" Xu Feng walked over and patted me on the shoulder: "Eliminate the enemy cleanly, but don't throw the position easily next time!"
"Yes!" I stood up and responded.
After fighting for so long, I know very well what the position means to the Volunteer Army. The most common thing that the Volunteer Army soldiers say is that the person is in the position. If there is no order for superiors to retreat, even if the last person is attacked, they cannot give up the position. Otherwise, they will be subject to review at the least, and they will be shot directly at the worst.
It is said that when the commander of the 38th Army was blocking the US military, a US military squad hit the vicinity of the regiment headquarters. Fan Tianen's two company commanders asked Fan Tianen to retreat quickly out of the protection of the regiment headquarters. However, Fan Tianen called the frontier with a call. After knowing that the frontier position had not been lost, he grabbed the gun and was about to kill the two company commanders.
So if I hadn't successfully tricked the Americans into bombing the Philippines camp just now, I wouldn't dare to think about what happened later...
At this time, a rumbling motor sound suddenly came from the road ahead. The sound was heavy, like the thunder before the storm, and the water in the pit was covered with fine lines. Xu Feng and I couldn't help but look at each other, and we all knew that it was the American tank coming.
"Everyone has it!" Xu Feng shouted: "Enter the position and prepare for battle!"
"Yes!" the soldiers responded and soon ran towards the position.
After spending some time to put out the flames on the position, I lay on the top of the mountain with the soldiers and looked up at the road ahead. Before I could see the enemy tanks, I saw a faint black smoke rolling in the narrow valley ahead. It was the exhaust gas discharged from the enemy tanks. Because the narrow valley space was small, it could not dissipate for a while. It seemed that there were at least dozens of vehicles.
Then suddenly a tank turned around the corner and appeared in my scope, and then another one... There were Xiafei and Sherman, but after more than a dozen light and medium tanks, I was surprised to find that the one that followed was Pershing. I counted a total of twenty-three tanks, eight of which were Pershing.
Li Qiwei really spared no expense in order to rescue Gloucester Battalion. The Pershing tanks only produced more than 2,000 vehicles, and eight of them appeared here at once. The front armor of this thing is more than 100 millimeters thick, and our anti-tank grenades cannot be blown up at all.
"Passing it, the big tank cannot blow the front, it can only blow the back!" I turned around and ordered the warrior beside me.
"Yes!" The soldier responded and quickly passed the order. But I couldn't help but smile bitterly in my heart. It would be easy to put the Pershing tank on our butt! It would be fine if these tanks drove over from our defense line without any defense. We could catch him off guard and follow them behind them, but now...
Just as the tank group in front suddenly stopped, I raised my sight and looked forward, and saw more than a dozen Philippine battalions soldiers in camouflage uniforms jumping out of the roadside, pointing at the US military, thinking that they were also telling them that there was an ambush of the "Red Army" in front of them. In fact, it was not necessary for them to say that the burning flames on both sides of the road and the corpses all over the ground were enough to make the US military more vigilant.
Seeing the US military observers lifting their telescopes on the tank and looking straight at this side, I couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Go back to the tunnel, they will start shelling soon!"
Sure enough, the cannon sounded not long after, but this time the cannon seemed a little different from the past. Their target was not our army's position, but the open area beside the road.
I know that this is the US military using their artillery fire to detonate the mines buried in the open ground, clearing the way forward for their tanks. Therefore, artillery fire is a row of fires forward in a regular manner. The sound of artillery fire first extends from far to near, and then from near to far to the depth of our position.
Perhaps the US military knew how much damage their artillery fire could not cause to us who were prepared, so no shell was wasted on the Volunteer Army's positions.
The sound of cannons stopped and the soldiers rushed to the position as fast as possible, but when they saw the scene, they couldn't help but startle the soldiers. The tanks actually came up with the artillery fire, and at this time they were only a few dozen meters away from our position. At this time, we could even smell the exhaust gas discharged from the tanks.
I saw more than a dozen tanks of large and small divided into two rows, and the tracks made a creaking sound, like a hill made of steel. On the open ground covered with bullet craters, hundreds of American soldiers holding guns were lying on the ground and advancing towards our positions. Especially the three Pershing, who were lined up at the end of the line, while they were moving, the black muzzles changed direction from time to time, and then a bombardment fired a shell at our positions.
The stone chips flew around, and the mud was divided into thousands and hundreds of pieces in this instant, and then it fell on our bodies and heads like raindrops...
This is also a feature of the Pershing tank. Its advanced suspension device allows it to accurately aim and shoot while advancing, which other tanks cannot do.
"Fight!" When the tank group was more than ten meters away from our army's position, I fired the first shot with a command. At this time, if these steel giant beasts really wanted to get closer to our defense line, let alone those tank guns, even the light machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns on the tank would make us unable to stand it.
I raised my rifle and knocked down two shooters holding anti-aircraft machine guns on the tank turret. But before I could shoot the third shot, the anti-aircraft machine guns on other tanks rushed towards my position like crazy. The bullets hit the soil and stones splashed everywhere like water, which made me unable to raise my head.
The light and heavy weapons in the hands of the soldiers also opened fire, and the target was naturally the infantry following the tank, but the fire meant that the target was exposed. With a loud bang, three soldiers in a heavy machine gun were blown away and the heavy machine gun also flew into the sky, and then a clanging sound made a heavy drop to the ground and turned into a pile of scrap iron.
This made me realize that fighting tanks is not as easy as I thought. If there is no artillery fire to isolate the infantry behind the tanks, and specialize in fighting tanks with infantry, it will be a collision of flesh and blood and steel.
The reason why the government was able to successfully capture the British Royal Tank Battalion last time was that the tank could not exert its firepower advantage at night, but now it is daytime...
The distance of dozens of meters is not long for the advancing tank. Soon, a tank's long gun barrel appeared around the corner. Without thinking, I pulled out the grenade and pulled the string and threw it back, throwing three of them one after another. I knew very well that it would not pose any threat to the tank if it was not an anti-tank grenade, so my target was not a tank, but an infantryman following the tank.
I heard a few loud noises of "boom..." and a scream from the US military came from below. I think this has fully educated them. Hiding behind the tank does not mean safety.
"Dadada..." The gunshots of anti-aircraft machine guns sounded again, making the stones bean-burning fall like tofu.
I quickly ran down a few steps, then raised my rifle and poked out quickly. With a "bang!", I shot dead the anti-aircraft machine gunner who was still shooting on the tank turret. The machine gunner's head tilted and fell into the tank compartment. I could even hear the bullet penetrated the machine gunner and made a crisp sound on the tank cap.
At this moment, something terrifying happened. The tank stopped and slowly turned the turret to our position. At that moment, my heartbeat was so scared that I was less than jumped by the black cannon barrel!
Blow it up? I only have an ordinary grenade left in my hand. Although the armor of the Xiafei tank in front of me is not thick, it is not something that ordinary grenades can deal with.
Dodge? Maybe I can escape, but what should my comrades behind me do? They are still busy shooting at the enemy without noticing the tank that broke in. Once the tank is allowed to fire a few shots behind my comrades, the consequences will be unimaginable!
No, you must blow it up!
Chapter completed!