About half an hour after the artillery attack began, American infantry, supported by tanks, began to appear on the battlefield. According to experience in Italy, in order to avoid excessive losses under the enemy's superior artillery and aviation firepower, the German army generally

Do not place too many soldiers in the trenches at the front. Most of the soldiers are in the anti-cannon holes at this time to prevent shelling. When the enemy approaches and the shelling ends, they will quickly enter the trenches to resist.

Later, the Americans began to play tricks. They first provided fire coverage, and then pretended to extend the firepower to the rear. When the Germans left the anti-aircraft holes and poured into the trenches, they turned back to provide fire coverage. But in Italy, this

The trick did not have any effect, and the Germans were not fooled at all. Because the Soviets had played similar tricks countless times on the Eastern Front. Therefore, whenever the shelling stopped, the Germans would not rush to

After entering the trenches, they added some small, strong anti-gun holes in the trenches on the front line. These anti-gun holes were very small, and generally only one or two machine gun teams could be accommodated in each hole. After the shelling, those capable

The small unit will go out to check the situation at the front. If they find that there is no large group of enemy troops following them, they will quickly run back to the artillery cave. Since there are few people coming out, they will run very fast. And if the enemy really invests

These people just leaned on the machine guns to push forward, and soon a large number of troops would enter the trenches and give the enemy a head-on blow.

However, this attack by the US military was just a feint attack. There were not many troops invested, just a dozen M-4 Sherman tanks and hundreds of soldiers following the tanks. They took advantage of the cover of the artillery bombardment.

They have advanced to less than a hundred meters away from the first trench.

A group of PA-38 attack aircraft of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing are circling at high altitude in the deep area of ​​the German defense line. They are searching for the enemy's suppressed artillery. Most of the enemy's suppressed artillery are well concealed. As for those in aerial reconnaissance

Everyone knows that most of the exposed artillery pieces are fakes made by Germans using telephone poles. As early as when the US military landed in Omaha, a 155mm artillery group in a certain area once made the Americans nervous.

As soon as the infantry boarded it, they were immediately sent to capture the 155th coast artillery position. As a result, when they got there, they discovered that these guns were just wood painted black.

The real suppression artillery of the German army can only be discovered after firing.

The small German troops had already entered the position, and they began to try to suppress the advancing American soldiers with mg-42 machine guns, buying time for reinforcements from the troops behind. However, this was a very difficult thing, because the enemy was over there.

There are also more than a dozen M4 tanks. Under their pressure, any long burst of more than 5 seconds will risk being shelled by tanks. Under such circumstances, without the support of other firepower, relying on these mg-

42, is absolutely unable to prevent the enemy from entering the first trench. Now, there are two weapons that can provide fire support, one is the rear suppression artillery, and the other is an anti-tank gun. Several German soldiers fired at a 75mm anti-tank gun.

The tank gun ran over. The anti-tank gun was buried in a bunker. The barrel was almost flat on the ground. Under the muzzle brake, the Germans also spread a large green canvas that was watered.

.When firing in this way, there is no need to worry about exposing the target due to the gunpowder gas from the muzzle kicking up dust on the ground. It’s just that the German fortifications were repaired in a hurry, so there was no time to equip these anti-tank guns with a sturdy one that could withstand shelling.

The bunker can only be covered with a layer of camouflage net.

It is difficult for the tank to find the anti-tank gun before it fires at the tank from the ambush position. In many cases, even after it fires at the tank, the tank cannot find it. In Africa, Marshal Rommel had many times

The anti-tank guns set up in this way can kill a large number of British tanks. In fact, if those British tanks can find the anti-tank guns attacking them, they can destroy such unarmored targets with only a few grenades. However,

, tanks' narrow field of vision makes them perform no better than blind men in many cases.

A more extreme example occurred in Italy. At that time, several US soldiers used a 37mm anti-tank gun to fire at a Tiger tank that had lost the protection of infantry. The US 37mm gun did not penetrate the Tiger tank at all.

Possibility of armor. Even the armor on the tail of a Tiger tank cannot be penetrated by a 37mm knocker. But those Americans were very smart. They broke the tracks of the Tiger tank with one shot first.

Then he began to use the 37mm cannon to hit the armor of the Tiger tank. The poor Tiger tank turned the turret in vain, trying to find the damn attacker. However, it just couldn't find it.

To the anti-tank gun that was almost within easy reach. In the end, the Americans emptied several ammunition boxes and hit the poor Tiger tank with more than a hundred rounds. As a result, the armor inside the tank collapsed due to metal fatigue.

Phenomenon. In the end, the crew of the Tiger tank had no choice but to surrender to the US military.

But the situation now is completely different, because there are several PA-38 attack aircraft cruising less than two hundred meters above the German position.

Now those anti-tank guns hidden in bunkers rely on the camouflage net above their heads. When they are not firing, they may be able to barely deceive the eyes of attack aircraft, but once they fire, haha, the attack aircraft's field of view is better than that of tanks.

Too many.

Even some anti-tank guns were discovered by attack aircraft without firing. In the previous shelling, the camouflage nets on two anti-tank guns were not fixed firmly enough and were blown away by the air waves set off by the shells.

As a result, the cannons were directly exposed under the noses of those attack aircraft, and then... naturally there was nothing going on with these two cannons.

Several German soldiers ran to a 75mm gun. They skillfully unbolted the gun, loaded the shells, and began to aim at the American tanks.

"It would be nice if we were closer." Sergeant Fritz thought as he looked at an M-4 tank through the scope. Those Americans were very cunning. Their tanks did not charge directly, but hid.

At a distance of 500 meters from the first trench, direct fire from tank guns was used to provide support to the soldiers.
Chapter completed!