The eight hundred and ninety-first chapter counterattack (2)
This feeling of powerlessness on the battlefield is terrifying...it is like knowing your death but being powerless.
Some "Sheerman" tanks even gave up and stopped and fired at the enemy with their tank guns.
But this is obviously useless. The shell was bounced away by the "Tiger" armor without exception. Before the bomb is bounced away, a spark of Mars flashed out due to a violent collision with its armor.
Then, these "Sheerman" tanks turned into fireballs one after another.
Some of them were destroyed by the front "tiger" style, while others were destroyed by other tanks approaching the side, but no matter what they were destroyed, the result was the same... death, flame, and complete destruction.
Major General Jaton shouted at the walkie-talkie: "Ask air cover, request air cover, we are attacked by enemy tanks!"
"Sorry, Major General!" The pilot's answer almost made Major General Jaton despair: "There are smoke everywhere and the visibility is poor, and the tanks and personnel are mixed together, so we can't distinguish between us!"
If pilots cannot tell the enemy and us to accurately attack, let alone warships that are undulating with the waves in the sea... The shells they fire will deviate from the target a few kilometers away from their targets without moving, and can only play a role when large-scale artillery fire covers them.
So Major General Jaton could only watch German tanks rush into the US crowd, heading machine guns and parallel machine guns firing everywhere, knocking rows of American soldiers who were fleeing in panic to the ground.
Some American soldiers are smarter. They immediately lie down when the tank barrel turns to them. Those with more experience know how to roll, crawl, and then jump up to hide in the shooting corners of the tank... The 4th Infantry Division of the US once participated in the battle with the German African Legion in Africa, and can be regarded as an experienced veteran unit.
But this still had no effect, because there were still a group of German soldiers behind the tanks to attack the US army.
The US military in World War II can be regarded as the strongest firepower unit, even infantry, because they are equipped with M1 semi-automatic rifles in batches, with a rate of fire several times that of bolt-pull rifles.
However, at this time the German army had equipped the STG44, and its firing rate and fire sustainability were not comparable to that of M1, not to mention that the formation of the US military was still swept away by tanks and was difficult to deal with.
Therefore, even if the tanks in front became targets for German soldiers in the rear. After a burst of bullets and the explosion of grenades, the US soldiers quickly became corpses lying on the ground.
The fast-running American soldiers finally organized defenses on the "Atlantic Barriers", but this defense could not resist the German tanks, even if it was only a short time.
The De Tank Group "rumbled" up, no matter how many artillery fire was, and the defense line was blown up and smoke was everywhere before it covered the infantry to advance towards the defense line.
The US soldiers soon found that they had almost nothing to resist or stop the German tanks from advancing, so they finally collapsed at this moment, and threw down their defenses one after another and fled towards the sea.
This approach is correct, because the beach is in front of the "Atlantic Barrier", which is a minefield and obstacle set by the Germans themselves... Although the American engineers opened several passages in this, there were even iron plates paved with paving tanks in some places.
However, such a passage is still not suitable for large numbers of tanks to advance.
That is, De Tanks are likely to be unable to pursue them.
However, this approach is also incorrect, because the fortifications of the Atlantic barriers are only 270 to 360 meters away from the sea, which is completely within the range of tanks and even German soldiers' rifles
In other words, the German army did not need to pursue them at all.
Major General Jaton knew this well, so he kept ordering on the walkie-talkie: "No, we can't retreat! This is our last line of defense, I order you to come back..."
But this order has lost its effect.
No one paid attention to this order, as I said before... Fear will make people lose the most basic judgment. Anyone knows that Major General Jaton is right when his head is still awake. The "Atlantic Barrier" is the last line of defense of the US military and cannot give up anyway. Otherwise, they will only have soft beaches and sea water that constantly slaps towards the shore.
But the US soldiers still rushed toward the beach in large numbers, mixed with many soldiers from the Dehai Defense Division.
The most embarrassing thing among them should be the soldiers of the German defense division... They had just disarmed the US military and became prisoners of the US military, so they had to raise their hands to the German army again.
But things are not as simple as they thought.
German tanks drove one by one onto the "Atlantic Barrier" and took a little time to adjust the angle of the body... The "Atlantic Barrier" is generally located on high ground. If the tank wants to shoot, the body must be adjusted to the downward tilt state.
Then the machine guns and artillery ruthlessly spit out flames at the beach. Whether it was the Dehai Defense Division soldiers or the US soldiers, they were knocked down in panics or bombed into the sky.
Some tanks aimed at the landing craft that was receiving deserters. With a "boom", the landing craft filled with people was blown into a ball of fire. The landing craft immediately lost its balance, and was then overturned by the waves amid the screams and screams of the US soldiers.
Seeing this, other landing craft quickly started and tried to withdraw in time, but more and more tanks appeared on the shore, blocking them tightly on the beach with machine guns and shells.
What's worse is...the infantry following the tank entered the defensive position.
Because the German coastal defense division surrendered quickly and the US military did not have time to destroy it, most of the machine guns, artillery and other machines in the fortifications were intact. After the German infantry came up, they aimed them at the US military on the beach... A more violent rain of bullets swept across the entire beach like a storm. Due to the impact of the waves, the corpses of US soldiers were everywhere on the divider between the beach and the sea, densely packed, like wood piled up together.
"We were counterattacked by the German Armored Division and suffered heavy losses!"
"The 4th Infantry Division requests reinforcements!"
"The 1st Infantry Division is progressing slowly, and the enemy's firepower is much stronger than expected!"
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Eisenhower in the command center soon received the news. He turned his eyes to Hark with a pale face. After a while, he said: "Mr. Director, it seems that we were wrong this time... We couldn't deceive the Germans. To be precise, it was the Germans who successfully deceived us!"
Chapter completed!