With a loud bang, the Sherman tank fired a shell.

The shell hit the German machine gun position... German machine guns are always the primary target of US tanks. The reason is that the German mg42 machine gun has a terrifying rate of fire, with a theoretical rate of fire reaching 1,200 rounds per minute, which is 20 rounds per second, which makes it the fastest machine gun in World War II, with extremely high reliability and suppression ability.

Allied soldiers called it "Hitler chainsaw". According to them, as long as Danfan has a mg42 machine gun in front of him, any charge launched by the infantry without cover will be meaningless.

The situation is different now.

After the explosion, the German machine gun position was blown into a crater. Several German machine gunners fell to the crater in different postures. There was also a machine gun that had been blown into parts and bullets scattered everywhere nearby.

The US tanks rumbled up, and the tank crew always thought that the area was safe under this situation.

But unexpectedly, the tank tracks just rolled onto the machine gun position and heard a "boom" sound. The anti-tank mine exploded from top to bottom and exploded the tank into a ball of flame... The Germans actually buried the anti-tank mine at their feet.

They seemed to know that machine gun positions would be the focus of enemy tanks' offensive.

Although it is understandable to do this, anti-tank mines do not have enough weight and will not detonate, but it will never be very comfortable to counterattack the enemy on the mines.

The US soldiers believed they would not do this, while the Germans did this.

"Dadada" A "Sheerman" tank used a heading machine gun to suppress the enemy's firepower to cover the infantry's advance.

As long as you are experienced tank crew members, you know that machine guns are more useful than tank guns at close range.

This is mainly because the tank guns react very slowly and cannot respond to the charges launched by enemy infantry against tanks in time.

There is no problem with this aspect of machine guns, they can flexibly and continuously put pressure on the enemy.

Just like now, several German soldiers were knocked to the ground by machine gun bullets as soon as they poked out of the trenches.

However, just as the machine gunner turned his attention to other places, a corpse on the ground suddenly jumped up and rushed towards the tank. Then, before the US soldiers behind the tank raised their guns and knocked them down, they threw out an anti-tank grenade... Although the German soldiers fell in a pool of blood, the anti-tank grenade opened the small umbrella at the tail in the air and slowly drew an arc and headed straight for the tank.

The US soldiers exclaimed:

"careful!"

"Grenade!"

...

They all saw this scene, but were unable to stop the grenade from hitting the tank side armor and then paralyzing the tank in place and unable to move.

A "Sheerman" tank had just crossed the river, and the fences that were put away around the body were still flowing down.

But it could not wait to replace another destroyed tank and consciously assumed the cover mission... This is the fate of the tank. Even if they will drive in front and become the enemy's primary target of attack and be destroyed by one after another, they still have to wait to rush in front.

"Be careful of the corpses on the ground!" The US soldiers following behind the tank warned him on the phone behind the tank: "Some of them are fake and will throw anti-tank grenades into the tank..."

This statement obviously misled the tank crew, making them focus on the dead bodies on the ground and fired several shots at the suspect's object with machine guns.

At this moment, a rocket rushed straight to the tank with a roar.

"Be careful..." The US infantry behind the tank warned loudly on the phone.

But the tank crew didn't understand what to be careful about, and then with a "boom", several hot metal jets shot into the tank cabin, and the temperature in the cabin rose sharply in an instant. The narrow and depressing space was filled with the screams and burnt smell of the tank crew. What's worse was that a little flame was emitted from the smoke, and the flames were getting bigger and bigger...

In the aperture of Qin Chuan and others' telescopes, what they saw were clusters of tanks and amphibious landing ships piled forward. In the air, there were also US fighters and bombers constantly rushing down to pour bombs and bullets onto the German positions. However, the German soldiers miraculously blocked the US charge again and again. The wreckage of the tanks became more and more, and finally they piled up to the tanks that the US military followed and had to take a detour.

"They are good!" said Colonel Slain. "What we need is such a force. If they have time to get more training, they will become a very good force!"

Colonel Slain’s words meant…many of them had no chance of getting “more training” at all.

This may be a regret, but war is sometimes so ironic: they are excellent because they dare to make such sacrifices, otherwise they would not have received any praise from Colonel Slein.

General Patton was obviously unwilling to give up this last opportunity to attack, so despite the heavy losses of the 17th Armored Regiment and Colonel Nathan repeatedly requested to suspend the attack, Patton gritted his teeth and refused to let go, and ordered Colonel Nathan to command the troops to rush forward one after another.

But in the end, Patton failed to capture Shanbier Island... The US military even captured the first two defense lines of Shanbier Island, and only the last line of defense was left to drive the German troops stationed in the island down the river.

However, at this moment, the sun slowly sets from the west, and soon the whole world falls into darkness.

"Lieutenant Colonel!" The baker's hoarse voice came from the other end of the phone: "We're staying until dark!"

"Very good, lieutenant!" Qin Chuan replied: "You fight very well. But... keeping until dark does not mean you succeed, do you understand?"

"Get it!" replied the baker: "What should we do?"

"Nothing needs to be done!" Qin Chuan said: "Hold the position and don't let anyone go, except for prisoners!"

"Prisoned?" The baker didn't understand what Qin Chuan said.

But soon the baker understood that in the following battle, many American troops even took the initiative to surrender to the Germans.

In fact, Colonel Nathan and Colonel Torres also felt this.

The reason is nothing else, just what Colonel Torres said before... If the ammunition that had not accumulated was consumed on offense, then they would not have enough ammunition for defense.

The battlefield became quiet when it was dark.

The fighters and bombers in the sky disappeared without a trace because they could not find the target.

The sound of cannons gradually subsided, and the tanks were busy building bunkers to hide themselves as much as possible.

"What should we do?" Colonel Nathan asked Torres.

Torres replied: "We can only pray that the Germans do not know that we are insufficient ammunition!"
Chapter completed!