Chapter 110 The First Battle in Europe (Third update, please collect)
After landing, the Allied forces attacked cities and plundered territory all the way. The offensive was rapid and fierce.
The task force followed them, searching for weapons abandoned by the Germans. This search mainly found heavy weapons. As for the weapons surrendered by the surrendered Germans, they could be handed over directly from the US military.
"Ping'an, how do you say "maintenance" in German?"
Wang Huiqi, who was driving a jeep, asked Wu Ping'an, who was looking through a German dictionary next to him, words from time to time as a search team. They have a rigid requirement to memorize 10 German words every day.
"Wait, let me see..."
Before Wu Pingan turned to that page, Sun Yibang, who was holding a machine gun in the back seat, said immediately.
"Wartung'... means repair, maintenance, maintenance."
Then, he said several related sentences one after another, and only Wang Huiqi and Wu Ping'an listened. It was all a surprise.
“Hey, Ayi, you learned German very quickly.”
"I learned some when I was young..."
Sun Yibang said.
"The priest of the church in the town at that time was a German. I learned some lessons from him, but after so many years of not using them, I almost forgot... Stop the car, stop the car..."
In Sun Yibang's shouts , the jeep and the truck stopped. Sun Yibang, who was standing on the jeep, picked up the binoculars and looked towards the woods, with the corners of his mouth raised.
"There was an artillery position and no one there."
Soon, the group came to the artillery position hidden in the woods. There were some corpses scattered around the crater near the position. The German troops guarding here had long since retreated, leaving only six cannons.
"There are six Soviet-made M38 122mm howitzers. One barrel was destroyed, and one re-entry machine was damaged. They were all dragged back and sent to the repair shop. Maybe a few more can be equipped. ,..."
These damaged weapons will eventually be sent to the repair factory in Tunisia by ship. There are hundreds of German prisoners in the factory, who themselves are logistics maintenance personnel. The usual job is to repair and maintain tanks, cars and heavy weapons and equipment. Even the factory was their former working place. In order to support the North African Army's operations, the German army established a complete repair shop in Tunisia, where tanks and other heavy equipment were sold. Repairs and overhauls were obviously impossible to transport back to the mainland. They were all done locally in Tunisia, so they built this factory. Although the Allies had requisitioned it for a period of time after the German surrender, after the task force was established, the factory with hundreds of machinery and equipment was handed over to Li Yi'an with a wave of his hand.
I have to say that the rich are the rich. A factory worth millions was given away with a wave of his hand, but that factory was also captured.
Just as they were checking the weapons, suddenly, the sound of gunshots came from a distance.
The bullet hit Sun Yibang's neck. The moment he was hit in the neck, he fell down. Blood spurted out almost two feet high. He convulsed and died.
“Germans!”
Wang Huiqi stared at Sun Yibang’s body with wide eyes, trembling all over. At this time, counterattack gunshots rang out near him. The machine gunner on the jeep was carrying MG34 fired in the direction of the gunshots. Dozens of figures could be vaguely seen there. The dense rain of bullets knocked down four German soldiers in an instant.
Under the cover of the machine gunner, the other team members held their guns one after another, looking for cover while shooting. The crisp and rapid gunshots of the M1 carbine resounded on the battlefield.
The Germans were also fighting back. They hid in the corners of the village and kept shooting. As the two sides fiercely exchanged fire, the red and green trajectories of tracer bullets filled the air.
Compared to the German army, the firepower of the search team seemed to be superior. After all, they were using semi-automatic weapons. Just when they seemed to have the upper hand, a tank rushed through the hedgerow wall, its slowly moving muzzle, Wang Huiqi and his comrades were all stunned for a moment.
"Chariot..."
With the shouts of his comrades, the tank slowly moved the barrel and fired. Although the shell did not hit the jeep, the shock wave of the explosion lifted the jeep. It rolled over, but fortunately the machine gunner on the car had already moved his position. "What to do, what to do..."
Just as Wang Huiqi was shouting nervously, he heard the shout of team leader Li Changgeng.
"Iron Fist, Iron Fist is there, hurry up and get the Iron Fist..."
Iron Fist is an anti-tank rocket launcher captured by the Allies from the Germans. Although it is powerful, its range is too short, so the Allied forces It is almost never used, but for the task force, there is no leader. In order to avoid encountering German tanks, each search team will be equipped with several Panzerfausts.
"Captain, on the jeep..."
"Fuck..."
Li Changgeng cursed and moved towards the overturned jeep. I rolled over, and as soon as I reached the overturned jeep, I saw a wooden box that fell to the ground, containing four Iron Fist 60s.
An artillery shell exploded not far from Li Changkang, and the blown-up soil crashed around them.
Li Changgeng, holding an iron fist in his hand, stared at the tank and the infantry around the tank, his brows furrowed.
"Li Lei, Han Bing, you two bring two iron fists from the left wing to follow..."
Then, he took an iron fist himself and threw another one to Li An, said.
"Come on, come with me. The others will try to suppress the infantry and separate them from the tanks..."
After that, he put the carbine on his back, held his helmet in one hand, and ran with the Panzerfaust 60 in the other hand. The German soldiers seemed to have discovered them, and the bullets from submachine guns and machine guns immediately fired at them. Those who were following him Li An was hit by a bullet before he ran a few steps and fell down.
In the hail of flying bullets, Li Changgeng threw himself to the ground, turned to look at his downed comrades, then looked at the enemy tanks and infantry, and cursed fiercely.
"Damn..."
Then he crawled forward in the grass, getting as close to the tank as possible. Under the fire suppression of his comrades, the German infantry had shrunk behind the tank, trying to get closer. Tanks protect themselves. This also gave Li Changgeng a chance to fire, but the distance was too far.
At this moment, a flame flashed out from the left wing, and fire started from that side.
"The distance is too far..."
The missed rocket landed directly in the field not far from the tank, only blowing up some weeds, and their attack also attracted the attention of the Germans. The German soldiers They immediately shouted and used rifles and machine guns to suppress the anti-tank soldiers.
Seeing this, Li Changgeng once again crept forward. Still forty or fifty meters away from the tank, he raised the rocket launcher's simple aiming caliper to aim at the tank, and then pressed the launch button.
"Poof..."
Along with a ball of flame, the rocket flew out. The moment it hit the side and front of the tank, billowing black smoke came out of the tank cabin. A tank soldier with a burning body was knocked over by a bullet as soon as he climbed out of the tank.
Hit!
Before you cheer, bullets are coming from all directions...
(End of Chapter)