Chapter 31 Bazooka
Chapter 31 Bazuka
"Bang bang bang..." The m1911 who pulled out his waist fired several shots, easily knocking out several tank hands crawling out of the tank. In an instant, I was the only living person left on this local battlefield.
The engine of the tank was ignited, and the flames reflected the surrounding mud and corpses red. The unpleasant smell of gasoline made me almost breathless. The air around me became hot and hard to bear at this moment, making you sweat like rain even if you lie on the ground.
What's even more terrible is that the flames exposed me to the guns of the US soldiers behind me. Of course, I also found this on the machine gun positions at this time. In an instant, the mortar and anti-aircraft machine guns smashed the US soldiers, making them fall to the ground and dare not act rashly.
But even so, I still dare not stand up and run, because once I do this, the US military only needs one bullet to end my life. In order for the tanks to survive and for their own saving, I think they will be willing to take this risk.
The sound of the tank track "crying" sounded again, and the light appeared on the only gap not far from me. I don't have to think about it, and it won't take long to see another tank pop up there.
"Blast it off, don't let it pass!"
At that time, I was only thinking about this. Once it was let over, it would not be a problem of a tank, but a question of whether a whole US military could escape.
But how to blow it up?
I climbed a few steps to the side, pushed away the bloody corpse of a volunteer soldier, and took out the recoilless cannon pressing under him, but I soon discovered a problem. If this shoulder-carrying weapon was fired on the ground, it would be impossible to get accurate. If it squats up and fires, it would be almost a matter of death under the guns of hundreds of American soldiers behind me... At that time, I was afraid that the shells would be fired into sieves before they could even be fired.
So I quickly pushed the recoilless cannon away, crawled onto another soldier with the light of the fire, and pulled out three anti-tank grenades from his grenade bag. But when I saw the surrounding environment, my heart couldn't help but tighten. In the middle of the earth dike was a tank with a raging fire, and I couldn't get close to the earth dike. This meant that when the tank collapsed and exposed its weakest "belly", it was impossible to blow it from my perspective, at most it was to blow its side armor.
But neither Sherman nor Pershing's side armor can deal with. The rear armor is indeed OK, but ironically, if I want to blow the tank from behind, I can't block this gap, which means I have to deal with the next tank...
"what to do?"
This is the second time I asked myself the same question. Because time is tight, the roar of the tank is getting louder and louder. As the tank is about to break through the gap, I am still helpless about it.
Wait! That gap can only accommodate one tank, which means that it is the only way for the tank. If I have a mine... It's a pity that I don't have one. I only have anti-tank grenades in my hand, but anti-tank grenades seem to be used as mines. I remember that this kind of anti-tank grenade is triggered by collision. If a few such grenades are thrown in front of the earthen embankment, the tracks press the grenade when the tank passes...
I'm so smart!
Thinking of this, I didn't say anything, and I opened the security pins of the three anti-tank grenades and threw them all into the open space in front of the earth dike. I thought about it and felt that the three grenades seemed not enough, so I turned around and took the anti-tank grenade in my hand.
But before I could even hurry to throw it out, the tank drove up "crackly". The tank drove very slowly and was very careful. Before climbing the earthen embankment, it even fired a machine gun on the way forward to ensure there were no mines in front. I think this is because of the lessons of the previous two tanks being blown up, so it was so cautious!
The first thing that stretched out from the flame was a thick and large gun barrel, which was a 90mm thick tank gun modified from anti-aircraft guns. From this, I knew that this was another "Pershing". It is said that the idea of transforming anti-aircraft guns and installing them on tanks to become tanks was learned from Germany, in order to have the amazing power of anti-aircraft guns with the same high initial speed as tank guns.
But now I don’t care about this. I just wonder if the anti-tank grenades on the ground will explode...
The tank began to climb up the hill with the rumbling motor. Seeing the huge gun barrel lifting high, my heart also raised higher and higher. Then with a "tent" sound, the high-lifted gun barrel also drooped down fiercely, and the tank crossed the earth embankment. But what made my eyes burst was that the grenades did not explode at all! Perhaps it was because the soil on the earth embankment was too soft, or for some other reason, it didn't explode anyway...
Damn! Now it’s over! The duck that reaches the mouth flies like this, and maybe we won’t be able to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements!
I couldn't help but sigh, and angrily pulled away the insurance pin of the only remaining anti-tank grenade in my hand, and threw it into the tank without any hope...
"boom!"
To my surprise, as soon as the anti-tank grenade was thrown, the tank in front of me turned into a ball of fire with a few loud noises. The change was so fast that the tankers inside had no chance to escape.
The only gap in front of us that the tank could pass through was blocked under the gaze of the Volunteer Army and the US military, and the US military's way to break through was blocked.
Many US troops have never understood how this tank was blown up under this situation. Because their guns were always aimed at me, in the fire, they neither saw me burying anti-tank mines (if I had one), nor did they see me lifting a recoilless gun to fire at the tank. They thought they were already in sight and would be saved soon, but the "Penshing" exploded inexplicably...
They could not believe that all this was true, so when they were captured later, many American soldiers were constantly asking this question.
I slowly climbed out of the range that the tank flame could reach, until I entered the darkness on the side of the mountain that I dared to stand up and hug my waist and run towards the machine gun position on the top of the mountain. When I ran to the top of the mountain, I looked down. The only two remaining "Sheerman" tanks were helplessly wandering in front of the tank wreckage, then turned around and drove back.
"Captain Cui!" At this time, Li Guo couldn't wait to meet him, and when he saw that I was fine, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"Captain Cui!" Li Guoqiang felt relieved and couldn't help but have an objection to me: "It was because of military emergency, and I was not convenient for me to stop you, but next time, don't take such a thing to yourself. Look at how dangerous it was just now. You can only come back alone with a dozen soldiers you brought with me..."
When Li Guoqiang said this, he couldn't help but pause, and his face became heavier and heavier.
I couldn't help but pat his shoulder, sighed and said, "They are all good comrades, after the war..."
But when it comes to this, I don’t know what to say, because I don’t know what to do for the soldiers who died after the war. Can I bury them well? Maybe after this war, we can’t even find their bodies! Take good care of their families? This seems not to be what we can do, because we don’t know whether we can leave this battlefield alive and return to our country. Even if we return to our country alive, there will be so many comrades who died in the sacrifice that cannot count...
Everyone says that no matter what, they will get used to it after watching too much, but when they see one comrade after another falls beside them, they can't get used to it.
"Captain Cui!" At this time, only one soldier shouted at me excitedly: "Captain, look, the American devils have surrendered!"
Looking at the soldier's eyes, two people came out of the US military position. They raised their hands and signaled that they were not armed with weapons. They didn't know where they pulled a piece of white cloth from and hung it on the branch as a white flag. They shouted "don't shoot!don't shoot! (Don't shoot!"" while slowly walking towards us.
I looked at Li Guoqiang and I, and both sides saw disappointment in each other's eyes. How great would it be if the US military could hold on for a while! But now...
No, I can't let them surrender like this!
I raised my rifle and shot it, hitting the branch in the hand of the US military. The white flag fell to the ground. This shot made the two US soldiers covered in mud and water stand on the spot, not daring to move at all, and also surprised and shocked the volunteer soldiers.
What was unexpected was that I didn't let them surrender, and what was shocked was that it was the first time they had seen my marksmanship. You should know that even if there was light from a flare, it was not easy to hit a branch two hundred meters away, not to mention that the branch was still shaking in the hands of the American. Although I had a sniper battle with the enemy at the foot of the mountain just now, the soldiers didn't see it at that time. Now I showed this trick and let them know that their regiment commander was still such a powerful sharpshooter. Even Li Guoqiang looked at me with surprise and couldn't speak for a long time.
"Stay there!" I shouted to the two American soldiers in English.
When they heard that I could speak English, the soldiers were so surprised that their chins almost fell off, and they all gave me a surprised look. Someone even whispered: "Can our regiment commander say the American devils?"
I didn't care about so much and continued to shout to the two American soldiers in English: "Report your names and military ranks!"
"Lt. Col. George, the Third Infantry Battalion of the Second US Division!"
"Major Angus, the Third Infantry Battalion of the Second US Division!"
"Listen to Lieutenant Colonel George!" I shouted at them without hesitation: "Because you have raised your hands to our army to express your surrender, but then shot and killed thirteen soldiers of our army, we have reason to doubt the authenticity of your surrender, so we do not accept your surrender!"
I am making excuses. When the US military discovered that it was surrounded by us, several people did raise their hands to surrender. I am taking advantage of this loophole now.
"But your respected volunteer army!" Lieutenant Colonel George defended me a little dissatisfied when he heard this: "But at that time, only a small part of the surrender was not representative of our entire army!"
"You are right!" I replied, "But I have reason to suspect that the small number of people who surrendered directly participated in the shooting of our soldiers. You don't deny this!"
"This..." George hesitated for a while and didn't know how to answer. In fact, this could not be denied, because he could not know who raised his hand and who shot it.
"So out of dishonesty for those soldiers' fake surrender, we have reason to doubt the authenticity of your surrender, so we cannot accept your surrender!"
"Your Excellency of the Volunteer Army..." George was still trying to convince me.
"Or we can do this..." I quickly proposed a compromise method: "You are still in place and are not allowed to do anything. We promise not to hurt you until we think we can trust you!"
"No, no, no... This is not in line with the Geneva Convention. You have no reason to refuse to surrender. This is an insult to us!"
"Or you can try this!" I didn't say much to him, and just raised the rifle in my hand.
George couldn't help but be stunned, then he stopped his mouth, cursed inwardly and walked back helplessly.
"Comrades!" Seeing the two Americans walking back in disgrace, Li Guoqiang couldn't help but joked to the soldiers: "A few days ago, did you ask me what it means to escape with your tail between them? Just look at these two Japanese! "
With a coaxing sound, all the soldiers were all Li Guoqiang's words made me laugh. I couldn't help but smile. Unexpectedly, Li Guoqiang was so fierce to attack the enemy, but he was both commemorating and joking about his own people.
"Woo..." Before the laughter fell, a roar of shells came from the sky. I was shocked when I heard this sound. I hurriedly shouted and pressed a soldier to the ground.
After a while, I heard a roar from all over the world, and shells exploded around, some on our hills, some at the foot of the hills, and some even in besieged US positions.
Long-range artillery, especially large-caliber artillery with a range of more than ten kilometers and dozens of kilometers, cannot accurately control the bounce point. It is common for them to deviate from their bounce point by hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters. Therefore, using long-range artillery to strike our military positions will definitely cause accidental injuries to the US military that is besieged by us.
This made me think that the US military dared not bombard our army, but now it seems that this idea is still wrong. If the US military is forced to do something like this that ignores the life and death of soldiers who are already alive.
The shells exploded around us one by one, and the mud was lifted into the air. Occasionally, I could see a few human figures in it, but I could not hear any screams because the sound of the cannon had covered everything.
After more than ten minutes, the sound of the cannon finally stopped. I poked my head out of the mud and saw that it was a big loss now. Only one of the three anti-aircraft machine guns can still see the barrel, and the others have long been flying there. There were more than a dozen mortars, but now they are gone. There is mud on the high ground. I shook my head and looked at it for a long time, but I didn't see anybody.
After a while, I saw something squirming in the mud and water. Then dirty figures sat up one after another, and I couldn't tell who was who. I counted about more than thirty people, and these big sighs were all the rest of us! The soldiers before the shelling were not prepared, and the casualties were really not light now. Fortunately, the US military only fired a firing of ten minutes because of some concerns, otherwise we would have only a few left.
"Li Guoqiang!" I sat up and shouted at the soldiers.
"Yes!" A figure covered in mud and water stood up staggeringly. I felt relieved when I heard this answer. At least this guy who loves to shoot box cannons is not dead yet.
"Be ready for battle!" I immediately gave this order to him.
We have no time to rest. The purpose of the Americans' artillery attack was obviously to prepare for their attack. I cut off their rescue route, and the only way now is to capture our high ground.
"yes!"
With Li Guoqiang's order, the soldiers rushed to drive before they could stand firm. Some straightened the remaining anti-aircraft machine guns, some were busy transporting ammunition from the tunnel, and some dug out mortars from the mud and water. However, after digging it out, they found that the barrel of the thing was mud, and they could not fire. Fortunately, there were still a few doors left in the tunnel, so the soldiers moved them all out.
"Hey, Captain Cui!"
A soldier was stunned at the ammunition box he had just pried open. I went up and saw that it was the Bazuka rocket launcher. It was because this thing was too short to use, so the US military sealed it in the tunnel, but it was still delivered to us now.
"Quick! There are still a few boxes of this thing, transport it all to me!" I couldn't wait to grab the rocket launcher and put it in my hand to weigh it. It was not heavy, and it was only about ten pounds. Although this thing is not good at fighting tanks, it is still very terrifying to deal with the starting soldiers.
So I turned around and shouted, "Li Guoqiang!"
"Come!" Li Guoqiang quickly stood in front of me.
"You can only be limited to five minutes, let the mortars learn to use this thing!" I threw the Bazuka in my hand to Li Guoqiang.
"What? Five minutes?" Li Guoqiang couldn't help but look at the weird thing in his hand in a daze.
"Is there any difficulty?" I was asking knowingly.
"No difficulties!" Li Guoqiang stood up and responded: "Please ensure that the task is completed!"
Looking at Li Guoqiang and the mortars busy, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. If I couldn't learn it within five minutes, I might not have to learn it anymore.
Chapter completed!