"Hurry! The Americans are coming up! Hurry, get to your position!" Amid the shouts of the officer, Park Changfan covered his helmet with one hand and held a Mauser 98k carbine in the other hand. He crouched and followed a

Corporal Harris ran along the zigzag traffic trench toward the front.

Park Chang-beom is a Japanese, at least in his opinion. He was born in an ordinary citizen's family in Seoul, the Empire of Japan. A few years ago he joined the Imperial Japanese Army and participated in the Nomenkan campaign to punish Soviet Russia. The result

, it is very unfortunate that Park Chang-bum became a prisoner. The Soviets’ attitude towards prisoners of war was not bad, at least, for Park Chang-bum

It seems really not bad. Although the food they eat every day is very poor, except for potatoes, the cooking level of the Soviets is also absolutely dark. As for how to process potatoes, in addition to boiling potatoes in salt water, they only know how to boil them in water.

Boiled potatoes. The Soviet soldiers also had black bread to eat, but they prisoners could only eat potatoes every day.

However, Park Chang-bum did not find this very painful, because except for the period after joining the Kwantung Army, Park Chang-bum had almost never had enough to eat. Among the Soviets, at least during that period, potatoes were enough.

Of course, among the Soviets, there was absolutely no such thing as eating and not working. Prisoners of war were sent to Siberia to specialize in logging. Siberia is actually not bad, it’s just a bit colder, and there are more bears in the wild.

.For example, where Park Chang Bum is

In that logging area, there were two big brown bears that often ran out to cause trouble. Park Chang-bum was always frightened. Later, Park Chang-bum was taken to Poland by the Soviets to repair new national defense projects. Then, the Germans called, and he

He was captured again.

As a citizen of an ally, the Germans did not give Park Chang-bum too much trouble. They asked him to follow the German army and do some odd jobs. Later, as the soldiers became increasingly nervous, they simply pulled Park Chang-bum, who had served in the army, into the German army. So,

Park Chang-bum was able to appear among the defenders of Cherbourg.

Park Changfan followed Corporal Harris, running along the zigzag-shaped traffic trench, one foot deep and one foot shallow. Enemy shells kept exploding not far away from him. Fortunately, these shells did not hit the traffic trench, so

, Park Chang-bum was not injured.

At this time, Harris in front of him turned a corner, and Park Chang-bum was about to follow him when he heard a loud noise, and then a wave of air hit his face and pushed him directly into the traffic ditch.

Park Changfan's head was buzzing, and after a while, he reluctantly got up from the ground. He shook his head and felt that he seemed to be a little more awake. So he picked up the gun dropped on the ground and continued to walk forward.

Turning the corner, he saw what he had just seen

The source of the air wave - there was a large, still smoking bomb crater in the traffic trench in front. Apparently, just now, a shell fell into the traffic trench. If it hadn't been blocked by the corner just now, Park Chang-bum would have just

I was afraid and had already gone to see Amaterasu.

"Hurry, run quickly! Don't just stand there!" a voice shouted from behind.

Park Changfan turned his head and saw a tall German soldier, about 1.85 meters tall.

"Hai!" Park Changfan said this without knowing why. Then he quickly took his gun and ran towards the trench in front.

Countless artillery shells exploded around the trenches. The clods they raised kept hitting Park Changfan's steel helmet. Park Changfan carefully exposed his head from the trench and looked out. He saw that it was more than a hundred meters away from him.

, the figures of a group of American soldiers were flickering in and out of the smoke.

Park Chang-bum stretched out his Mauser 98k carbine. However, he did not fire immediately. He was still waiting for the officer's order. Without an order, he was not allowed to fire indiscriminately. This rule was when he was still with the Japanese Imperial Army.

It's already very clear.

However, the order to fire has not yet been issued, because the enemy's artillery fire has not extended backwards. When the 203 mm caliber artillery shell explodes, the shrapnel will still be very lethal after flying 50 meters. So when the leading soldiers of the US military advance

When they were about 60 meters away from the first German trench, the American artillery fire began to extend toward the rear.

At this time, the artillery fire had already caused certain losses to the Germans. Just now, several artillery shells fell into the trenches. Fortunately, the trenches were all zigzag-shaped and kept turning corners to block most of the power of these shells. To

Otherwise, no one knows how many German soldiers will die.

"Fire!"

Following this order, the German trenches began to spit out deadly flames. Park Chang-bum fired a shot at an American soldier. But the American soldier was very agile and just made a lying down movement. Park Chang-bum shot

The bullets missed. However, the core firepower of the German infantry has never been the Mauser 98k.

The core of their firepower has always been a variety of general-purpose machine guns. It used to be mg-34, but now it is mg-42. In Cherbourg, although the number of defenders was not large,

But the weapons are very sufficient. This allows each infantry squad to have 1.5 mg-42 machine guns on average.

Several MG-42s opened fire at the same time, and the dense and intertwined fire net rolled towards the American soldiers. Immediately, seven or eight American soldiers were knocked to the ground. The rest of the Americans immediately fell to the ground or hid in the M4

Behind the tank. At this time, the American M4 tanks that were advancing at low speed with the infantry also began to fire.

They made an emergency stop, stopped, and then quickly fired at the machine gun fire point that had been firing just now. Such shelling was fatal to the machine gun fire point. Under their fire support, the American infantry, which had been suppressed, began to fire again.

Advance. However, the Germans were not without the power to fight back. At least, Park Chang-bum knew that there was a deadly Pak-40 anti-tank gun hidden in a bunker to his right.

Speaking of German anti-tank guns, people are always most likely to think of the famous Flak-36 88mm anti-tank gun, or its anti-tank modified Pak-43 88mm anti-tank gun. But in fact, the German anti-tank gun

The main force of the tank gun is to look

The not too inconspicuous pak-40 75mm anti-tank gun. This artillery can penetrate 116mm armor plate at a distance of 1000 meters. Although this armor-piercing ability is not as good as the pak-43, it is enough to destroy the American m4 Xie

Mann tanks.

Sure enough, just when an M4 Sherman tank of the US military stopped to fire at the machine gun fire point, the Pak-40 anti-tank gun hidden in the bunker opened fire. The distance between the two sides was less than 300 meters. At such a distance,

, German anti-tank

The K-gun has considerable accuracy and power. This gun directly penetrated the front armor of the M4 tank. The M4 immediately emitted black smoke. Then two tank soldiers who were covered in fire got out of the tank, but immediately

He was knocked to the ground by a German machine gun.

At this time, an American soldier holding a rifle with a grenade suddenly flashed out from behind the tank. He fired the grenade in the direction of the anti-tank gun, then ducked and hid behind the tank.

.

The rifle grenade landed next to the bunker. It did not explode, but kept emitting a blazing white light and emitting red smoke - this was just a round of ammunition used to indicate the target.

…

"An enemy anti-tank gun has been found in area 12!" Malone, who was flying over the German position, heard the call from the radio. Area 12 was below him. He stretched his neck and looked down. Below, there was a place.

Red smoke rose.

"That's it!" Ma Long immediately rolled 180 degrees, then pulled the operating lever and dived towards the target.

…

The 1,600-pound bomb dropped by Malone did not directly hit the bunker with complete accuracy. But the explosion of such a huge bomb nearby still silenced the Pak-40 anti-tank gun immediately. The shock caused by the close-range explosion was enough

The gunners were left unconscious or even dead.

At this time, one of the weaknesses of the German army became very obvious. That is, the number of German troops was too small. So when facing the multi-channel attack of the US military, the German army could not deploy enough manpower in any direction. For example, now

In area No. 12, the German army does not lack anti-tank guns, but it is very short of qualified gunners.

There are only two groups of gunners in Erba Jing, and the other gunners are temporarily pulled from the infantry. These people have basically not received artillery training. They can only use the most primitive aiming method-open the running bolt and pass through

The barrel looks forward. This aiming method is too slow. Trying to hit an enemy tank with it is like asking a blind cat to catch a live mouse.

In the attack just now, Malone had already killed an experienced artillery group. Then, his men successively eliminated several anti-tank artillery pieces that were obviously controlled by novices and were blindly exposed. So the Germans were on this line

The anti-tank defenses were suppressed almost immediately. The decline in anti-tank firepower also put the German machine guns in trouble. They would be shelled by tanks almost as soon as they opened fire. With the support of tanks, the American infantry

Moving forward step by step, we are getting closer and closer to the city of Cherbourg.

"Put the reserve team into area 12!"

"Quick! Put the reserve team in the ** direction!"

The commanders of both sides issued almost identical instructions almost at the same time.

The reserves of the two armies were also immediately mobilized. The German reserve was of course closer to the target area, but firstly, the US military was more mechanized, and secondly, the Germans were still being bombarded. At the same time, the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing
Chapter completed!