artillery arc

Chapter 407: Grassland, Grassland

The armored impact of the 40th Tank Army was completely different from that of the st Mobile Army.

The First Mobile Army was highly synthetic and had a large number of half-tracks, so the infantry could keep up with the impact of the armored forces. The tank company of the First Mobile Group was also equipped with a mechanized infantry platoon, using the M3 Grant Lee tank as an infantry fighting vehicle.

The 40th Tank Army didn't have any of these. Especially the half-track vehicle, which Ant didn't produce, and it all depended on the United States for transfusions, and the amount of transfusions was limited, and no one except the First Mobile Group could get much.

As for Grant Lee tanks, the 40th Army did not have a single one.

Therefore, the accompanying infantry of the 40th Tank Army could only hang on the tanks and became "armored cavalry".

This was actually very dangerous, because the Prosons were all veterans, and they knew that before infantry could attack tanks, they had to cut off the accompanying infantry first, and the infantry hanging on the tanks became targets for machine guns.

The only cover the infantry could rely on was the T34's turret, but the T40 of the 34th Tank Army was the "original version" with a small turret, so it could not provide much cover at all.

Proson's machine gun swept over, and the first wave of casualties appeared immediately. Those who were shot fell straight off the tank, and even pulled their companions down with them.

The original T34 had a poor field of vision, and the commander who was also a part-time gunner could not see where the machine gun was during the bumpy ride, so he just let Plossen's remaining machine gun fire points harvest several rounds of infantry.

By the time the T34 finally found the firing point, stopped and began to aim, the experienced Plossen machine gunner had already moved his position - he even changed the gun barrel during the process to avoid wasting time.

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Sergeant Hook, the machine gunner of Plossom, moved forward with the machine gun with the barrel replaced, and his assistant gunner followed behind with ammunition on his back.

There was a tripod on the second firing position. Sergeant Hook put down his machine gun and checked the tripod first, then cursed: "Damn artillery preparation, this tripod is unusable, the hand wheel is stuck, and the range cannot be adjusted. Let's just shoot."

The assistant gunner was a new soldier. He asked, "Is this okay? The machine gun's own scale is—"

"Never mind that. The enemy is right in front of us. Just rely on experience and tracer bullets to calibrate your fire." Sergeant Hook pushed aside the tripod, placed the bipod of the machine gun on the leaking sandbag, opened the bullet pressure plate, and said, "Load!"

The assistant gunner loaded the ammunition belt and just as he got it in place, Sergeant Hook lowered the bullet plate, pulled the bolt to load the rifle, and started firing.

Without the stability of a tripod, the machine gun shook violently.

The sergeant did not adjust the sight at all, and based on his experience alone, his first round of shooting hit a tank.

Because it was too far away, we couldn't see the effect of the attack at all. We only knew that the anti-aircraft machine gun on top of the tank immediately fired back.

The assistant gunner immediately retracted his neck, but Sergeant Hook remained unmoved and continued to fire a long burst of shots, and the tank's anti-aircraft machine gun immediately went silent.

The sergeant continued to fire, dutifully suppressing the accompanying infantrymen.

The assistant gunner was a little worried: "Why isn't the anti-tank gun firing? It's all the enemy tanks firing! Not a single tank has stopped!"

The sergeant patted his helmet and said, "Stop talking nonsense and change the barrel!"

The assistant gunner quickly got up, opened the barrel latch according to the usual training steps, pulled out the hot barrel and threw it on the ground.

At this time, the sergeant said, "The anti-tank gun position is probably under the enemy's special attention. Do you know how many sentries were ambushed last night? I think they all confessed."

Deputy Shooter: “Huh?”

"Don't stop, keep changing the barrel!"

The assistant gunner hurriedly completed the final steps, lying down again to hold up the ammunition belt.

The sergeant began firing again.

Suddenly, an Ante tank stopped and a cloud of black smoke came out from the rear of the vehicle.

But it didn't look like any anti-tank fire hit it.

All the tank crew members got out of the tank and rushed towards the Plossen position with PPSh.

The sergeant immediately turned his gun around and greeted them.

After a long burst of shooting, at least three people were shot and fell.

At this moment, the deputy gunner suddenly saw an ANT tank that was very close stop and the turret began to turn towards this side.

He shouted: "We have been discovered! Over there!" "Go!" The sergeant picked up the machine gun and rushed into the communication trench.

The assistant gunner hurriedly picked up the ammunition box and tried to catch up with the sergeant. At this time, a shell fell. The impact was like a heavy punch hitting the assistant gunner's back, causing him to fall forward.

He felt his head buzzing and swollen as if it was about to explode.

Everything around him seemed to have turned into chaos, and he was about to sink into the ocean of chaos.

Suddenly, the sergeant's voice appeared: "Are you okay?"

With the sound, everything around him became real again, and then the deputy gunner saw the sergeant's face and the hand he stretched out.

"Get up, kid! You didn't even bleed, you must be fine! Get up now!"

The deputy gunner shook the sergeant's calloused hand.

The next moment, his body was dragged up by the sergeant.

"Let's go to the next position. The enemy will replenish their artillery!"

The sergeant turned and ran, and the assistant gunner stumbled after him. A second few seconds later, a second explosion was heard behind them.

The storm swept past the helmets, but the shock wave never reached the two people in the communication trench.

After running a few steps, I heard the sergeant's curse in front of me: "Damn, the communication trench is about to be blown up by the enemy's artillery fire. We have to get out of the communication trench. Follow me, keep your body low, and run!"

After saying this, the sergeant rushed out of the communication trench.

The deputy gunner then discovered that the communication trench ahead was completely blocked by mud and he had no choice but to go out.

He took a deep breath and jumped out of the communication trench.

The sergeant's back was just ahead, moving through the grass that was torn to pieces by the artillery fire.

The deputy gunner ran, not daring to look to the right - the roar of the Ant Army tanks came from the right.

Suddenly, the sergeant in front fell down, and the assistant gunner also lay down quickly.

The next moment, the tank's road wheels came into view and a T34 rushed past the sergeant not far in front of him.

A figure wearing a Proson helmet suddenly stood up from the bushes, and with a wave of his hand, a mallet-like object flew in a parabola and fell towards the tank.

It's a cluster grenade!
The grenade landed on the back of the tank and exploded immediately.

The tank stopped and flames shot out from the hood.

The cover on the turret was opened, and the Ante tanker stretched out his submachine gun and fired a round at the surroundings before leaning out -

A Proson soldier rushed forward and stabbed the tanker's chest with his tactical knife.

The Ant stared at the Proson soldier with wide eyes and slowly slid into the tank.

The Proson soldier stood on the tank and pulled out a grenade.

Machine gun fire came from the right side of the assistant gunner's field of vision, and Soldier Proson fell backwards with the grenade still unpulled, and disappeared into the bushes.

He turned his head and saw another Ante tank covering its companions with a coaxial machine gun.

At the same time, there were still infantrymen on the backs of the two Ante tanks who had not been shot down. Now these infantrymen were jumping off the vehicles one by one and firing everywhere with submachine guns.

The Ants may not have good tactical skills, but they are really brave. Even elite infantry like Proson can rarely beat the Ants in hand-to-hand combat.

The deputy shooter yelled, “What should I do?”

The next moment, he saw the sergeant in front of him stand up, holding an MG34 machine gun and firing at the Ants.

(End of this chapter)