artillery arc

Chapter 527 Raid on the Military Depot (Update 23/81)

The mission of the 51th Tank Brigade of the 120st Tank Corps was to disrupt the enemy's supply lines.

Captain Ivan was calling the brigade headquarters on the radio: "Brigade Command, Brigade Command! First Battalion, First Company, calling the Brigade Command!"

There was only rustling sound in the headphones.

"Sukabulie." He dropped the phone and looked up at the tank commanders standing on their tanks. "We can't get in touch with the brigade headquarters. Can we just have four tanks to continue the mission?"

"Do we still want to continue the mission?" The commander of the second vehicle said with a wry smile, "Didn't you notice? The enemy's main supply nodes are all equipped with anti-aircraft guns. What can we use to fight against the 88mm anti-aircraft guns? We can't even see where the anti-aircraft guns are, and the shells are flying towards us."

The commander of the No. 88 tank immediately agreed: "Yes, and the 88 gun has a very fast firing rate. The Plosson artillerymen are well-trained. They can re-aim immediately after destroying a tank. An anti-aircraft battalion with four guns can destroy an entire tank company."

Everyone had a gloomy look on their faces.

Captain Ivan also looked bitter.

At this time, the commander of the second vehicle suggested: "Why don't we just not attack any supply depots or military depots? We can just intercept enemy trucks on the road and kill as many as we can."

"Right," the other tank commanders agreed immediately, "We can keep sweeping along the road and destroy all the Prosun trucks and horse-drawn carriages we encounter! Kill everyone on board!"

Captain Ivan nodded: "That's a solution..."

At this time, the tank driver on guard shouted: "Company commander! Look, there's a fellow villager running over here!"

Captain Ivan immediately looked up and saw the Ants dressed as railway workers running towards him, shouting, "Hey! Tankmen! Don't shoot, I have information!"

Captain Ivan immediately put away the map, climbed out of the tank and jumped to the ground in three steps, just enough to step forward and shake the hand of the fellow villager: "Hello, who are you?"

"I'm a hired worker of the Prosons. I got wind of the news at the freight station that our tank troops are attacking the supply lines on the highway. All the Prosons' anti-aircraft guns are down! You will definitely be severely punished by the anti-aircraft guns if you go over there!"

Captain Ivan smiled bitterly: "We have learned this lesson before."

"But after discussing it with several of us, we came up with a solution!" The fellow took a deep breath, "The enemy's anti-aircraft guns are in fixed positions. We can use trucks to block their cannons! We can even drive trucks into the gun positions to prevent them from loading ammunition!"

Captain Ivan was stunned. After a few seconds, he asked, "What are you going to do?"

The fellow villager laughed and said, "It would be good if I could kill one person. No, I want to kill two, because my wife might also be implicated."

Captain Ivan took a deep breath and said, "No, we can't let you die. These are the only tanks left in our company, but there are many tank crew members who survived. Take us to the parking lot and let us drive our cars to ram them!"

A tank driver immediately said, "We still have PPSh and grenades. Not only can we use our vehicles to ram the enemy, but we can also sneak in and kill the enemy severely. The enemy won't notice that the hired workers led the way."

Captain Ivan was overjoyed: "That's it. You guys take control of the 88mm gun, and our four tanks will rush in and do something big!"

"okay!"

The fellow was also very happy: "Okay! Come with me. I ran here and it took me an hour and a half. It will probably take about the same amount of time to go back..."

Captain Ivan: "If you get on our tanks, we can drive to the distance where the enemy can almost hear the sound of our engines, and then stop."

"That's fine. I know exactly where the enemy checkpoints are along the way. I'll command you to bypass the checkpoints!" The fellow villager straightened his felt hat.

"Get in the car!" Captain Ivan waved his hand, but then he remembered something and asked, "Are you a believer in the secular sect?"

"Of course, but I hid the emblems and scriptures of the secular sect. The palace guards came to search but didn't find them. I also passed the inspection of the transport team." The fellow looked very proud. "In fact, before the fall, I wanted to follow the army, but the army collapsed too quickly and I was left behind."

Captain Ivan: "Did you want to trick them from that time on?"

The fellow villager's expression suddenly froze, and after a moment he said: "No, I tell you the truth, I just wanted to make a living at the beginning, after all, people need to eat, and I have a wife and an old father to support. Even if I work like a beast of burden for the invaders, it is always good to be alive.

"But a few days ago, the Prosens insisted that we had let the guerrillas in, causing their supply to be blown up, and then they started shooting every tenth person.

"They didn't investigate or give us a reason, they just killed us for fun. That's when I realized that in the eyes of the Prosen people we are not human, and we are not the same species as them.

"They didn't feel any guilt for shooting us, and they even felt happy. There may be some good people among the Prosen people, but too many Prosen people are demons in human skin, so I have to fight the demons and take back my home.

“My co-workers all think so.”

Captain Ivan patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's not too late. Have you read Admiral Rokossov's pamphlet? Victory will come. Now is just the long night before dawn."

Fellow villager: "I haven't read it. These books are probably banned in the occupied areas."

"Then take a good look at this." Captain Ivan took out a small notebook. "Whenever I lose confidence in the future, I will look at this. Let your co-workers see it too! It will make them full of confidence in victory!"

The fellow villager took the crumpled booklet and read the words on the cover: "On Ant's Victory and Proson's Failure——"

"You can get in the car and watch it later, let's go!"

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after a while.

The fellow on the tank suddenly shouted, "Stop! If you go any further, the enemy will hear the engine."

Captain Ivan quickly called out on the radio: "Stop!"

The four tanks stopped one after another.

Fellow villager: "From here, it will take you 20 minutes to reach the military station. I will take you along the route I sneaked out, and we will be in in no time."

Captain Ivan nodded: "Then we will launch the tanks in 40 minutes to attract the enemy's attention and provide cover for you." The temporary commando leader said: "To be safe, let's wait minutes, just in case."

"Good!" Captain Ivan saluted the commandos, "Good luck, Davarich."

"See you in Prosenya." The commandos returned the greeting.

Fellow villager: "What is this Prosinia?"

"General Rokossov advocated a way of saying goodbye. We used to say see you at the Invalides."

"Is that so?" The fellow nodded thoughtfully, "Okay, let's go!"

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40 minute later.

When Major Hans of the Anti-Aircraft Battalion heard the sound of tank engines in the distance, he immediately raised his hand and signaled the two officers who were chatting with him to stop.

After the small talk stopped, the engine noise became more pronounced.

"Arau!" Major Hans shouted, "Get into position! Quick! Turn the guns in the direction of the engine noise."

Gunners rushed to the gun positions from all directions and removed the rain cover from the cannons.

On the barrel of the 88 gun closest to Major Hans, there was a silver line and two white kill rings, and the gunner who was commanding the gunners next to the cannon had the Iron Cross medal on his collar.

Major Hans himself also had an Iron Cross, which he obtained when he was a pilot, but he was soon shot in the eye and became one-eyed, and could no longer fly a plane into the air.

After that, Major Hans came to the anti-aircraft artillery unit. In fact, this was also the destination for many pilots in the Air Force who could no longer fly. The top leaders seemed to believe that their experience as pilots would be helpful in commanding anti-aircraft artillery.

However, in Ant's Proson anti-aircraft artillery unit, they usually have to lay flat to attack tanks - just like now.

Major Hans shouted, "Get ready! Whichever artillery group finds the enemy tank first and achieves victory first will be rewarded with a case of beer today!"

"Then it must be us." The gunner with the Iron Cross laughed.

No one noticed that an Ante holding a Bopsa appeared behind the gun position.

The Ant man first took out a grenade, pulled the string and threw it into the No. 2 gun position.

At this moment, Major Hans turned around and made eye contact with Ant.

"Guerrillas!" he shouted.

The Ants opened fire, but they were not very skilled shooters, so the first few bullets hit the floor at Major Hans' feet.

Then Major Hans was shot in the leg, and then in the waist.

He fell to his knees, holding his stomach in pain, his free hand still trying to draw the pistol.

At this time, the grenade at the No. 2 gun position exploded, and all the gunners who were watching this side were blown to the ground.

The gunner at the No. 40 gun position then remembered to take the MP placed next to the gun position, which was the only self-defense weapon for the entire gun crew.

However, the first time he pulled the trigger, the gun did not fire. While he was frantically checking what had happened, the Ant man turned the gun towards him.

At this time, more Ants rushed out and threw grenades at the gun crew.

Explosions rang out one after another, along with the sound of PPSh-99 bombs firing.

In the distance, a group of gendarmes were running towards this side with submachine guns, but the machine gun responsible for covering the anti-aircraft artillery position opened fire, and a fire net composed of green tracer bullets swept across the gendarmes' team.

The Ant who opened fire was still wearing a tanker's fur cap, and the two Proson machine gunners next to him had been shot dead.

At this time, a T34 appeared outside the entrance of the military station.

The tank's hull machine gun and turret machine gun opened fire together, knocking down all the Plossen defenders who were preparing to besiege the anti-aircraft artillery position.

The second T34 knocked down the oil tanks piled up like a wall, rushed into the military station while firing, and fired a shot at the large oil pump inside the military station.

The oil pump immediately spewed out tall tongues of flame, illuminating the originally gray sky like a torch.

The third tank appeared and fired a shot at the main building of the military station as soon as it appeared, resulting in a quarter of the wooden house collapsing.

The last tank arrived late and opened fire on the cars in the military station parking lot.

The Plossons directed all their firepower at the tanks, but without the 88 gun, this firepower could only polish the T34's armor.

A Proson soldier took out a new funnel-shaped anti-tank weapon, but it was knocked down by a machine gun before it got close to the tank. The funnel fell to the ground and rolled out in a semicircle.

The fire spread to every corner of the military station, and things kept exploding to produce orange-red fireballs.

The Plosson employees seemed to have known this would happen. They all hid in a safe place and watched everything coldly.

Some people even took out their treasured fine wines to share with everyone.

(End of this chapter)