Chapter 2579 If you can’t be beaten to death, you’ll be buried alive.
During the war, human life is worthless. Compared with dying in battle, living is sometimes more painful.
Not to mention, after the end of the last world war, many European and American veterans, especially those who were severely injured and left with lifelong disabilities, had no choice but to commit suicide after their lives fell into extreme difficulties. Their fate was even more tragic than those who died in battle.
Compared with Europe and the United States, Southern Africa has done well enough. It has never defaulted on pensions for disabled soldiers, and every now and then there are condolences from federal governments at all levels, as well as social charity organizations, at least they have a pension.
Therefore, these expeditionary officers and soldiers on the front line do not have much worries about the future. Even if they die in battle, their relatives can receive a large pension.
Hooker's detachment moved quickly and quickly arrived on the battlefield.
The situation was not good. The German army chose a very clever location. It was located in an open square and was surrounded by very strong tall buildings. The Panzer IV tanks could advance, attack, retreat or defend, so it was difficult to make a detour.
On the second street adjacent to the square, Hooker encountered friendly troops whose attack had been frustrated.
"There are German troops stationed in several buildings over there, equipped with G34 machine guns, and there are German snipers on the streets. We tried to attack, and three people died." The second lieutenant who was injured in the shoulder wanted to avenge his comrades, and was slightly injured.
Don't get off the line of fire.
Hook hides behind a broken window and observes.
The houses here are indeed quite sturdy.
After experiencing many major bombings, most of Cologne's buildings have become ruins, and only a few buildings with particularly strong structures have survived.
The square where the No. 4 Tank is located should be the city center of Cologne. The building structure is obviously stronger than other areas. Hooker did not see a few complete buildings along the way. There are many here.
There is also a clock tower next to the square, which is the commanding height of the surrounding buildings. If Hook was a sniper, he would place his sniper position on the clock tower.
"It's best to go through the house next to it, but we don't have enough explosives -" Hook didn't want to walk through the street, it was too dangerous.
Regarding urban warfare, during the last World War, the Southern African Expeditionary Force summarized a fairly mature set of tactics.
Now that the Russian battlefield has been improved, the Southern African Expeditionary Force has accumulated quite a wealth of experience in urban warfare, and is not only very comfortable with it, but also very familiar with it.
The most cruel thing about urban warfare is fighting for every inch. Every house and every room may contain enemies. Therefore, according to the experience of the Russian battlefield, the safest and most efficient way is to destroy all the buildings along the way.
The biggest problem of paratroopers is their lack of ability to attack difficult areas. Otherwise, there would be no need to work so hard and they would just blast them all the way through with heavy artillery.
Anyway, Cologne is a German city, so it wouldn’t hurt if it was completely destroyed.
"We still have some here." Qi Li looked at the dozen or so people around him with a slightly troubled expression.
That Panzer IV tank alone was enough for the paratroopers to drink a bottle, not to mention how many German troops were in the buildings around the square, so the fight was bound to be very difficult.
The 106th Armored Brigade on the opposite side is not completely cannon fodder. After all, it was withdrawn from the Russian battlefield and replaced by a servant army with a weak will to fight. At this time, it will either withdraw from Cologne or surrender, and will not stay to fight to the end.
If there was no deep hatred between the Southern African Expeditionary Force and the 106th Armored Brigade before this, then after the fierce battle, both sides had the other's blood on their hands. This is not something that can be easily forgiven.
Regardless of what others say, Second Lieutenant Qi Li definitely wants to avenge his men.
"Wait a little longer and then take action after dark." Hooker was not in a hurry to attack and wanted to drag the German troops on the opposite side to death.
Although the Panzer IV is fierce, it also has very high logistics requirements, and its fuel consumption per 100 kilometers will be dozens of times higher.
The ammunition carried by No. 4 is also limited. Each shot he takes is one less. When the ammunition is used up, No. 4 will be a toothless tiger.
Moreover, after dark, the No. 4 tank operator's vision will be affected. If he launches an attack at that time, the chance of success will be much greater.
"Be careful, that No. 4 car may carry this night vision device -" Qi Li reminded Hu Ke not to be careless, the Germans' technology is really terrible.
Night vision devices, as mentioned earlier, are another black technology mastered by the Germans.
Of course, night vision devices are not unique to the German army. The Southern African Expeditionary Force also has similar equipment. Hooker has two night vision devices, which are respectively equipped for snipers and machine gunners.
Hooker wanted to delay the attack until after dark, which also meant using night vision goggles to bully the Germans.
Now that he knew that the German army also had night vision devices, Hooker was not surprised.
"If only tanks are equipped with night vision goggles, then we don't have to worry too much." Hooker is not afraid of tanks' night vision goggles, and tigers can't stand up to a pack of wolves.
Delaying time is indeed beneficial. As time goes by, more and more paratroopers arrive. When night falls, there are more than 40 people on Hook's side, belonging to three companies.
"Start?" Hooker was full and ready to give the Germans a big surprise.
"action!"
"Brothers, follow me -" the officer charged forward, leading his men to move out one after another.
By this time, the battle had broken out, and the snipers who had taken position in advance were using their night vision goggles to start hunting the German troops.
The Southern African Expeditionary Force was well aware of the technological progress of the German army, but the German army did not know enough about the Southern African Expeditionary Force. After all, they had not had many contacts with the Southern African Expeditionary Force, and the German troops that had faced off against the Southern African Expeditionary Force had basically been disbanded.
The Germans are actually waiting. Night is a good thing for both sides. The difference is that on the German side, only No. 4 has night vision goggles, and ordinary infantrymen do not.
On the southern African side, all machine gunners and precision shooters are equipped with night vision goggles.
Many people may think that heavy machine guns are not as effective as sniper rifles on the battlefield.
This is definitely an illusion. A heavy machine gun equipped with a scope is essentially a more powerful precision rifle that can fire 600 rounds per minute and has a range of more than 1,500 meters.
What snipers pursue is efficiency and precision. One bullet can kill an enemy without wasting it.
The function of a heavy machine gun is to suppress. If it is not powerful enough, then it can be suppressed. If you can't kill with one bullet, then fire a few more shots. Anyway, there are plenty of bullets, so it's enough.
After nightfall, the German army's actions became obviously arrogant. Before, they were hiding in buildings and firing cold shots without showing their faces. Now they dared to appear in the streets in groups. They were really desperate.
The long-awaited heavy machine gunners immediately became excited.
Dong dong dong——
The power of the heavy machine gun at night is even more astonishing. The one-meter-long muzzle flash can be seen one kilometer away. The bullet chain mixed with tracer bullets looks like the scythe of death in the dark night. I don’t know that it has been exposed to the night vision device.
German soldiers were harvested intensively, and they died without knowing how they were exposed.
Precision shooters are not idle either.
Unlike heavy machine guns that are wreaking havoc, the mission of precision shooters is to kill the opponent's snipers.
Snipers are very careful in choosing their sniper points. While having a wide field of vision, they must also have good concealment.
In this way, there are actually not many positions that are suitable as sniper points. It is very easy for snipers to find the opponent's position by pushing others.
When fighting during the day, German snipers would rather not shoot in order to protect themselves when the opportunity was bad, making it difficult to detect them.
At night, snipers have much less worries, and the chance of being discovered is greatly increased. Many German snipers, or riflemen who thought they had good shooting skills, also lost their lives in this way.
Hook was simple and rude, kicked open the door across the street, threw an offensive grenade in, and broke through the door after a bright light and loud noise.
There was no one in the room, with several broken pieces of furniture lying messily on the ground. A thin layer of dust on the ground showed that no one had lived in the room for a long time.
Hook was still very careful and discovered that among the messy furniture, several lines of footprints extended from the window on the other side of the street to the upper floor through the stairs.
Hook pointed upstairs and signaled to Qi Li beside him.
Qi Li nodded, took out a defensive grenade, and sneered.
Hook tightened his grip on the assault rifle and prepared to charge.
Although defensive grenades are not suitable for offensive operations, it depends on the situation.
When Hook entered the door just now, he threw an offensive grenade. There was no problem with this choice.
Now that Hook and Qi Li have entered the room, it is not appropriate to use offensive grenades. After all, the sound and flash effects caused by offensive grenades will affect everyone in the room.
Defensive grenades rely on steel balls and shrapnel to cause damage. It is no problem to hide downstairs with a floor separated. The structure of these houses is very strong, and the power of defensive grenades will not easily collapse the floor.
boom--
Although the sound and light effect of defensive grenades is not as good as that of offensive grenades, the noise is still quite loud, especially the sound of steel balls flying, penetrating wooden doors, or hitting metal furniture. People who are familiar with it will immediately accelerate their adrenal gland secretion after hearing it.
Hook was in a state of accelerated secretion. He rushed upstairs a little early. When he reached the corner of the stairs, he could even feel the sound of steel balls passing through the air above his head.
Hook did not hesitate, his hand holding the gun was very steady, the muzzle of the gun moved with his sight, and his finger was on the trigger, ready to fire.
There is indeed someone upstairs.
Offensive grenades are also very effective.
There were three German soldiers in total, one was directly killed and one was critically injured. The last German soldier was hiding behind the door of another room with only a slight injury to his arm.
At this time, Hook will definitely not shout "hand over the gun but not kill" like in the movie. Instead, he will shoot the person the moment he sees him, regardless of whether he is dead or not.
Bah——
Hook shot the first corpse directly, and the corpse miraculously moved. It was probably not completely dead.
Bah bah bah——
Seeing that the second one was still moving, Hook fired a burst. The power of the military rifle was so powerful that the opponent's arm and helmet were shot away at the same time. Fortunately it was night, otherwise the visual effects would have been difficult to pass the review.
When the last German soldier saw Hooker, although his arm was bleeding, he subconsciously raised his gun.
Hooker reacted faster and emptied all the magazines.
Qi Li was also fast, and before Hook's magazine was emptied, Qi Li also rushed upstairs, perfectly filling the firepower gap caused by Hook's replacement of the magazine.
"Why the hell are these people separated by only one street, and we stayed here all afternoon!" Only now did Hook feel scared.
The whole afternoon, when Hooker and the others stayed in the room, they did not deliberately lower their voices. The Germans must have noticed.
The streets were only a few meters apart. If a grenade had flown over at that time, Hook and his team would have suffered heavy casualties.
"Safety!"
Qi Li stopped chatting and checked all the rooms upstairs. After finding that there were no survivors, he announced that the combat status was lifted.
"Poor guy, there's nothing -" Henry did not forget to clean up the battlefield, but he gained nothing.
This is also normal.
The German army is now fighting on its own soil. Even if there are any valuable things, they have been mailed to their families in advance and will not be taken with them as trophies for expeditionary officers and soldiers.
Basically it would be nice to have a dagger.
The Ruger pistol was a surprise.
"Continue, continue!" Hook had just entered the state and could not relax.
The adrenal gland is a very magical thing. When it secretes, it will make people more excited. Once the excitement disappears, the whole person will be more tired. This is why many honest people will have trembling hands and feet once they do something with others.
Hook is a professional soldier and can maintain his condition for a longer period of time. During this period, people basically kill people and Buddhas block him.
It's good to fight in enemy territory. You don't have to worry about damaging public or private property. The attack route is very free. You can jump directly from the window and rush to the opposite side. On the opposite side is the square where the No. 4 tank is located.
This is already the core area of the city. The buildings are larger in scale, there are more rooms, and the situation is more complicated. Hook and the others have to search house by house without leaving any hidden dangers.
At this time, the entire city was in a fight, with gunshots and explosions everywhere. The paratroopers across the square, probably out of fear, used explosives to blow up a three-story building, causing cement blocks to fly directly.
Cross the entire square and land on Hook's side.
Hooker looked through the window and finally saw the Panzer IV hidden in a building.
The Germans are indeed very stupid. They chose a building with a very large area and opened up two rooms so that the No. 4 tank could be parked inside. In this way, the No. 4 tank could advance, attack, retreat or defend.
No wonder we stayed up until dark.
"Bazooka!" Hook called the bazooka man. This is the only weapon that can pose a threat to No. 4. A grenade is like scratching an itch against No. 4.
"The rocket launcher is useless, it can't penetrate No. 4's armor--" Qi Li was calm. He had done his homework well and knew how strong No. 4's defense was.
The frontal armor of the No. 4 is 80mm armor with an 80-degree angle. Let alone rockets, the 88mm cannon is difficult to penetrate.
"Then how to fight?" Hook lacked experience in dealing with heavy-armed units.
"Break the house -" Qi Li said expressionlessly. The hiding place chosen by No. 4 was a perfect cemetery.
"Wise!" Hook patted Qi Li on the shoulder and laughed. This was indeed a good idea.
If you can't kill him, you'll be buried alive.
Qi Li kicked me hard, and I was still injured on my shoulder.
