The more important targets Wittmann referred to were the "Fireflies" behind the earthen wall. As the British towed anti-tank guns were continuously destroyed, those "Fireflies" had to expose their turrets for a long time in order to

Better attack the approaching German tanks. This gave Wittmann an opportunity.

"Turn the muzzle to the one o'clock direction!" Wittmann gave the order. The gunner will quickly turn the muzzle there. There is a "Firefly" emerging from the turret, firing continuously at the swarming German tanks.

"Aim more carefully, more carefully...Okay, fire!"

An 88mm armor-piercing round was spit out from the muzzle of Wittmann's Tiger, and then accurately hit the "Firefly". With the light of the illumination bomb, Wittmann saw in the telescope that the "Firefly"

The turrets flew into the sky.

"Nice job!...down there...reverse!"

The Tiger tank suddenly retreated backwards. Almost at the same time, a shell landed on the front side of the Tiger tank. Due to the angle of incidence, the shell ricocheted and failed to penetrate the armor. But the shell

The vibration caused by hitting the front steel plate still made the people in the car feel dizzy. Wittmann himself also hit his head on the hatch. Fortunately, he had a helmet, otherwise he would not have suffered a bloody head.

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"10:30 direction!" Wittmann shouted.

While reversing, the Tiger tank's turret began to turn towards the target. However, the Tiger tank's turret was notoriously slow to turn. Before the Tiger turned the turret, the "Firefly" turned toward Wittmann's tank again.

A shot was fired. But this time, the shell fired by the "Firefly" deviated from the target and failed to hit. At this time, Wittmann also pointed his muzzle at the opponent. However, the opponent immediately disappeared behind the earth wall.

Wittmann's tiger temporarily lost its target.

Wittmann's tank began to stop, then began to move forward, and at the same time pointed the gun barrel a little to the right of where the disappeared "Firefly" tank had just been. After observation, Wittmann judged that that

A "Firefly" will most likely emerge from this position. What he has to do now is to keep an eye on this position and approach it quickly so that he can give it a fatal blow when it emerges.

Sure enough, about half a minute later, the "Firefly" emerged from where Wittmann expected.

Wittmann's Tiger stopped suddenly, quickly aimed at the newly exposed turret of the "Firefly", and fired in front of the "Firefly".

To say that Wittmann's luck was really good today, at night, against such a small target, his tank actually hit two targets with two rounds. This shell successfully destroyed the "Firefly" again.

"Captain, you did a great job!" the pilot Heinrich Rammel also shouted excitedly.

"Reverse toward the 5 o'clock direction!" Wittmann knew that if he destroyed two "Fireflies" in a row, he would definitely become a target for the British to fire, so he had no time to celebrate and gave the order to retreat.

Things were just as Wittmann expected. Several "Fireflies" turned their turrets and fired at Wittmann's Tiger. Fortunately, Heinrich Rammel tipped the Tiger so that it almost flew up.

First, he escaped this round of bombardment by moving coquettishly.

During the reversing process of frantically dodging, the gunner Carl Wegener fired a random shot at a "Firefly". Carl Wegener actually fired this shot just to scare the opponent and interfere with it.

As soon as it fired, I didn't even think about whether it could hit the target. However, a miracle happened. Such a shot actually hit the target accurately again.

"Can you hit like this?" Even Wittmann and his friends were a little shocked. There were times in Wittmann's fighting career when he was particularly lucky, but almost every time he got particularly lucky, there would be some

Unlucky things. If you are so lucky today, will something bad happen next?

But now is really not the time to think about this. When these fireflies concentrated their firepower on Wittmann's tiger, No. 4, who was approaching, also took the time to open fire. However, their luck was not as good as Wittmann's. This time

Dun's artillery fire only hit one Firefly. However, four "Fireflies" were quickly lost over a short distance in a short period of time, which also caused a large gap in the British defense.

Taking advantage of the gap where the British firepower was weakened, the German support vehicles quickly filled the anti-tank trenches with prepared materials, and a large number of soldiers rushed to the earth wall: a gap opened. The remaining British tanks initially remained

They tried to resist and drive the Germans off the earth wall. However, the German anti-tank team quickly set up "tank killer" rocket launchers and destroyed several British tanks in succession. As a result, the British army's first counterattack was defeated.

Went down.

At this time, the morning star has risen, and the eastern sky has begun to turn white - daybreak is coming! If the British resistance cannot be completely defeated before dawn, the Allied forces will have overwhelming air superiority at dawn.

and naval superiority can smash the Germans who are still in combat mode to pieces.

So now, after the gap opens, the first reaction of the Germans is to put more troops into the gap and tear it wider and wider. The victory or defeat will be decided in one fell swoop before the sun comes up.

Now, the German engineers blasted a gap in the earth wall, and the tanks could pass through the thick earth wall along it. Wittmann also directed his tanks to move in this direction. Victory seemed to be just around the corner.

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Sergeant Bednar slowly woke up. He found that he was lying on the ground. Not far away from him was their 6-pound gun. The loader George fell next to the gun, his blood flowing

On the ground, he was still holding a cap-piercing round to be loaded in his hand. On the other side of the gun, the gunner Silva fell there, his eyes wide open.

Bena rubbed his eyes, and with the light of the flares, he saw many Germans advancing towards the gap not far away. About five hundred meters away, a Tiger tank also drove towards the earth wall.

Come.

Benner struggled to crawl towards the 6-pounder gun - his injured leg left a trace of blood on the ground where he crawled. Benner climbed to George's side first, and he

He stretched out his hand and tried to take the cap-piercing bullet from George's hand. However, George held it tightly, and it took a lot of effort to get the bullet out of his hand. Then he struggled to remove the bullet from his hand.

Fill the gun chamber, then start to endure the waves of dizziness, adjust the gun, and aim at the target.

At this distance, the 6-pounder can only penetrate the Tiger from the side, but now, the Tiger tank is facing him diagonally from the front. Benner knows that at this angle, even at zero distance, the 6-pounder can only penetrate the Tiger from the side.

The pounder gun couldn't attack the Tiger tank. But he also knew that he didn't have time to wait for the tank to expose its side, because once there were several German infantrymen less than twenty meters away from him, they

You may find yourself at any time and give yourself a shot; secondly, you may lose too much blood and may fall into coma again soon and never wake up again.

In Benna's current state, he couldn't even take effective aim. There was a shadow in his eyes, and he could only reluctantly point the gun in the general direction of the enemy tank, then pulled the match rope and fired the gun.

Amid the sound of gunfire, Bena's vision went dark and he fell to the ground.

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Wittmann felt his Tiger tank shake violently, and he knew that his tank had been hit.

"Fortunately, there was no breakdown." Wittmann thought as he looked around through the command tower. This look completely shocked Wittmann because he found that the barrel of his tank was actually short.

A big chunk.

Wittmann opened the hatch cover, leaned out, and took a closer look. Yes, the barrel of his Tiger tank was much shorter. Now the length of the barrel was almost only the barrel of the early Panzer IV tank.

Longer. Apparently, the shot just now happened to hit his own barrel and broke it into two pieces.

Without the artillery, Wittmann had no choice but to withdraw from the battle early. So while everyone was swarming forward, Wittmann's crew could only retreat slowly.

"Damn it! I knew I had used up all my luck just now!" Wittmann shook his head slightly. However, he immediately discovered that he was not unlucky, but had great luck - the British

The battleship opened fire.

The three battleships began to use their main guns to fire wildly at the position that had just been breached.

"These British guys are so dark! Aren't they afraid of accidentally injuring their own people? There are many British soldiers still resisting in that area!" Wittmann opened his eyes wide.

Giant artillery shells of 380 mm and 406 mm continued to fall near the breach, like a rain of fire falling from the sky. In such shelling, whether it was unprotected light infantry or heavy tanks,

It was blown to pieces. Wittmann even saw a Tiger tank weighing more than fifty tons being blown into the air during the artillery fire, somersaulting in the air, and then flipping the turret downwards.

On the ground, Wittmann understood that if he had not had to retreat because the cannon was damaged, his tank would have been among the tanks that were blown to pieces in the gunfire. Witnessing this scene, Wittmann

We know that in today's battle, the Germans' chances of winning are extremely slim.

At this moment, he saw a large group of stars shining with bright red light in the sky. Wittmann knew that those were not stars, but Allied aircraft. The sunlight had not yet reached the ground.
Chapter completed!