Chapter 2199: Broken tank (below)

  The driver didn't dare to be negligent, and quickly started the tank, and drove towards the direction of the Soviet army's pursuit.

  According to the driver's guess, the Russians will soon find out that something is wrong with their tank, and immediately mobilize anti-tank weapons to destroy themselves. But when he tremblingly drove the tank into the pursuing Soviet army, the other party didn't notice his strangeness. Some people even shouted in front of the tank, gesturing to him continuously, telling him to slow down the tank. Point, don't disrupt the infantry's attacking formation.

"You have all seen it." Hu Beier, the commander of the tank, said with a sneer: "Under the cover of night, the Russians did not discover our true identity at all, and thought it was their own tank. Now it is in front of us There are two choices, and I will give you the right to choose."

  Hearing what Huber said, everyone except the driver focused their eyes on him, wanting to hear what he wanted to say.

Seeing that everyone was silent and just staring at herself, Hu Beier expressed her thoughts: "The first choice, we will maintain the current speed, mix among the Russians, and retreat towards the designated position; Choose, we fulfill our military duties and launch an attack on the Russians, but as a result of doing so, our entire army may be wiped out in a short period of time. It is up to you to choose what to do!"

   After Huber finished speaking, he looked at the crowd and asked, "Tell me your choice, should you run away like a coward among the Russians, or fight to the death like a warrior."

   "Mr. Captain," just after Hu Beier finished speaking, the gunner said, "I will follow your orders. I will do whatever you say."

   Seeing that the gunner was willing to advance and retreat with him, Huber nodded and asked the loader, "What about you?"

"Since you and the gunner are willing to fight the Russians bravely, as your assistant, how can I lag behind." The loader said without hesitation: "I am willing to perform my military duties, even if I lose my life because of it." No hesitation."

   "Very good, very good." After Huber said the two were very good, he looked at the radio operator and machine gunner and asked, "Tell me, what is your choice?"

   "I, I..." the radio operator stammered for a while, and finally made up his mind decisively: "I am willing to fight and die like a brave man."

   "Very good," Huber was very satisfied with everyone's answer, and he asked the driver who was driving the tank: "It's just you, driver, tell us, what is your choice?"

   "Since we are a team, we are a whole." The driver said without looking back: "Of course I will die like a warrior like you."

   "Now that everyone's opinions have been unified, let's attack the Russians."

   "Mr. Captain, there are Russians everywhere outside." The gunner reminded Huber: "Where should we attack?"

"Look where is the command center of the Russians, let's attack there." Huber said: "As long as the command center of the Russians is defeated, their troops will fall into chaos because of the loss of unified command. As a result , our troops have a higher chance of escape.”

After observing for a while, the pilot pointed to a command cabin two to three hundred meters away, and said to Huber: "Mr. Captain, look quickly, there is a command cabin on the side of the road ahead, and there are guards outside." Soldiers, it should be the Russian headquarters, let's attack there."

  Hu Beier visually measured the distance, and felt that with the strength of his own crew, he could completely destroy the command shelter, so he decisively issued an order: "Everyone is on position, start loading, and prepare to destroy the command shelter of the Russians ahead."

  The first shell was fired, but because the sky was too dark, Huber had a slight deviation in aiming. As a result, the shell missed the target and exploded at a place more than 20 meters away from the command cabin.

  When the tank fired, it immediately exposed its target. Huber soon heard the Russians outside yelling, as if saying that a German tank was found here, and immediately mobilized anti-tank guns to destroy it. But Hu Beier can't care about these things. Now that his target has been exposed, what he can do is to make a quick decision and destroy the Russian command cabin as soon as possible, thus making this army leaderless, because of the loss of unified command And into chaos.

  When the second cannon was ejected from the chamber, everyone in the car felt the body shake violently. According to experience, this is hit by anti-tank weapons. Fortunately, I was lucky, only the body was shot, but the shells were not able to effectively penetrate the armor of the tank.

   Huber asked loudly, "Is anyone injured?"

   "No, Mr. Captain." The other members of the crew replied in unison.

  Hu Beier used the periscope to observe the shelter ahead, and found that the second shell missed again. Although many Russian soldiers were knocked down, the command shelter was still intact. The other party seemed to find that the target of the German attack was his shelter, and quickly started to leave here. Seeing that the command cabin of the Russians was about to run away, Hu Beier was in a hurry, and he shouted at the loader: "Hurry up and load, don't let the Russians run away."

   But before the third cannon was ejected, their tank was hit by an anti-tank weapon again, the turret was lifted off, and all the crew members were stunned.

   After an unknown amount of time, Huber woke up and found that the turret was gone. He and the other members of the crew seemed to be sitting in an open car, surrounded by nothing. Seeing that the Russians didn't notice him, Huber quickly saw the injuries of the crew members.

  After some inspections, his heart suddenly became more at ease. Every crew member was still alive, but was stunned by the shelling he had just suffered. He woke up the members next to each other, wanting to give the other party a thunderous blow while he was being ignored by the Russians.

  But after everyone woke up, they found a serious problem. The turret was lifted off, which meant that the tank's main gun and machine gun were gone. Today, each member of the tank crew has only one pistol equipped with two magazines.

   "Mr. Captain," the pilot, whose forehead was still bleeding, asked Huber nervously, "What should we do next?"

   "Can the tank continue to drive?"

  The driver replied in a panic: "I'm not sure about this. Only after restarting can I know whether the tank can continue to be used."

"Brothers," Huber said to the crowd, "now we are surrounded by Russians, and the tank has suffered heavy damage. The only thing we are proud of is that five members of the crew are still alive, which means Then we can go on the offensive against the Russians."

But this time even the gunner was a little discouraged. He said with a bitter face: "Mr. Captain, now we only have five pistols and ten magazines left. Do you think we can still make waves among the Russians with this strength?" ?"

  Seeing that the crew members became so dejected because of a small setback, Huber couldn't help being a little angry: "What's wrong with you, did a little setback destroy your confidence?"

"Mr. Captain, what we are facing now is not just a small setback." The driver said with a wry smile: "Even the turret was blown away by the Russian artillery fire, what strength do we have, continue to fight the Russians ?”

   "Then what are you going to do?" Huber asked through gritted teeth, "Are you planning to surrender to the Russians?"

   "Surrender is not enough." The driver shook his head and said, "If we still want to continue to attack the Russians under the current circumstances, wouldn't that mean we are dying in vain?"

  "Yes, yes, Mr. Captain." The loader also added: "I think it is impossible to continue fighting, but I have a good way to avoid being captured by the Russians."

"What a good way." The loader pointed to the outside of the tank and said, "Look around the tank, how many Russian corpses are there. I think we can take off their clothes, put on their clothes, and slip out quietly. "

  Although the radio operator felt that it was immoral to take clothes from the dead, but considering that if he wanted to survive, he had to use Russian military uniforms to escape from this damned death zone. He was worried that Huber would disagree, and he insisted on letting people like himself raise their pistols to fight the Russian soldiers armed to the teeth, so he cautiously persuaded: "Mr. Captain, I think the loader is right. If we want to escape the encirclement of the Russians, we can only take clothes from the dead Russians. We can use their clothes to dress up as Russians, follow these Russians, and maybe we will be able to return to our army smoothly. behind."

  Hu Beier is not a single-minded person. The main reason why he ordered the gunner to fire just now is because the Panzer IV is relatively out of date. The Soviet army lacks anti-tank weapons and has nothing to do with their own tanks. But what he didn't expect was that his tank fired three shots, not to mention missing the target, and the opponent directly lifted the turret with an anti-tank weapon. At this moment, letting his crew members, holding a few pistols, fight desperately with the Russians equipped with rifles, submachine guns and machine guns outside, is tantamount to letting everyone die. He will not do such a stupid thing.

"Okay." He nodded and agreed with his subordinates: "When everyone goes out, in addition to picking off the clothes of the Russians, they also need to collect their weapons. With enough powerful weapons, even if we are discovered by the Russians , and have enough strength to stand out from their encirclement."

Fortunately, the Soviet army has already advanced at this moment, and no one has discovered that in the tank whose turret was removed, all the crew members are still alive, and they even climbed out of the tank, picking up the blood from the sacrificed Soviet soldiers. Take off your clothes, collect available equipment, prepare to put on makeup, and continue to mix with the Soviet army, moving towards their retreat.

  A few minutes later, all the crew members put on Soviet military uniforms, put on Popov submachine guns, picked up Mosin Nagant rifles, and stood beside the tank waiting for Huber's next order.

Just when Hu Beier was about to give an order, the driver suddenly said: "Mr. Captain, I just checked and the engine of the tank is still in good condition. In other words, we can use the tank to continue marching. Now, we are walking. Let’s move on in a tank, please give an order.”

  Hu Beier originally wanted to give the order to abandon the tank, but when he heard the driver say that the tank could still drive, he suddenly had a new idea in his mind. He waved at everyone and ordered: "Everyone go back to the tank, and we will continue our journey in the tank."

   Just like that, the five tank soldiers sat in the tank again, and continued on their way in this tank without the turret. Except for the driver, everyone looked around vigilantly with their guns, ready to shoot without hesitation if they found an enemy approaching.

  More than a dozen health workers who were treating the wounded stood up one after another when they heard the roar of tank engines not far away. It was clearly seen that it was a German tank without a turret, and there were five people in Soviet uniforms sitting in the tank. They thought it was their own people, so they waved at them desperately, signaling the tank not to come over, because there were still people lying on the ground. There are many wounded, if they are accidentally run over, their lives will be endangered.

But the next moment, someone in the tank shot at them with a submachine gun. The health workers who were caught off guard were knocked down several times, and the rest quickly lay down on the ground, scolding these tank soldiers for being blind and shooting at their own people. .

Although the health workers thought it was the tank soldiers who saw it wrong, they would shoot at their own people, but the wounded lying on the ground, there were many people who understood, and hurriedly shouted: "They are Germans, they are Germans pretending to be Germans!" Yes." After shouting, he struggled to sit up, picked up the Bobosha submachine gun that was placed aside, and fired at the oncoming tank.

   Unfortunately, all the bullets he fired hit the tank's tracks, splashing countless sparks, but did not cause any damage to the enemies in the car. When Huber saw a wounded man sitting on the ground shoot at his tank, he couldn't help the blood rushing to his head. He raised the rifle in his hand, aimed at the opponent and fired a shot, directly knocking down the wounded man.

  A wounded man not far away, seeing that the shooting of his comrades did not pose any threat to the German tanks, but sacrificed his life in vain, quickly picked up a grenade, pulled the string, and threw it towards the tank.

   There was a loud "boom", and when the gunpowder smoke cleared, the wounded saw that the German tank was still moving forward, and a figure was hanging on the body, which seemed to have been killed. And the other German soldiers, except the driver, were shooting wildly, as if they were going to wipe out all the moving objects around them.

   But their good luck soon came to an end. A T-34 tank came out from nearby, slowly turned the turret, and aimed at the moving German tank. With a loud noise, the body of the T-34 shook violently, and a flame more than one meter long was ejected from the muzzle. A shell escaped and flew directly towards the German tank not far away.

  The shell hit the German tank accurately, and the next moment, the tank began to burn. The remaining four people in the car were covered in fire, but none of them jumped out of the car. The driver continued to steer the tank forward, while the other three Germans kept shooting around. A few minutes later, the tank stopped first, and then the shooting stopped. The people in the car would rather be engulfed in flames than jump out of the car to escape.