artillery arc

Chapter 455: Sand Defense
Thirty minutes later, the landing craft hit the beach.

"Ready!" the navy driver shouted as he frantically turned the wheel to lower the landing craft's hatch.

Although Alomeev was a veteran, he still became nervous.

The worst-case scenario involuntarily emerged in his mind: as soon as the hatch was opened, the enemy's machine gun fire swept over, killing all the people on the landing craft.

The imagery is so vivid that it seems to have really happened.

At this time, the navy helmsman began to blow the whistle.

This means that the landing craft hatch has been fully lowered.

The soldiers around Alomeev shouted: "Hurrah!"

They wrapped Alomeev, rushed down the landing craft, and then quickly dispersed, everything was just like in training -

Alomeev couldn't help wondering: "Where is the enemy's beachhead firepower?"

He stopped and looked around, and found that on the beach, illuminated by the dawn in the east, there were no firing points spitting flames, nor any anti-tank piles to stop landing tanks and vehicles.

A group of Balas people who went to the beach were carrying baskets on their backs and looked at the "Black Grim Reaper" that rushed onto the beach with shocked faces.

Aromeev finally realized that this beach was not the one he had scouted before! They had gone the wrong way!

At this time, the bishop of the brigade came running over, shouting, "Hey, Brigadier General, is this a mistake?"

Alomeev squatted down, took out a waterproof map, spread it out on the ground, then took out a compass the size of a fingernail and studied the map with the compass.

The bishop who was accompanying the army ran over and asked breathlessly: "What happened...did we land in the wrong place?"

Aromeev: "Yes, I think our landing site is two kilometers west of the original landing site."

Before the bishop could answer, a soldier shouted, "Look, the landing craft is running away!"

Everyone looked back and found that the landing craft that had just brought them up began to reverse and retreat.

The Marine infantryman who was close to the landing craft was waving his hat and chasing after them: "Hey! Did you leave us in the wrong place? Come back!"

Alomeev shook his head: "No, they won't come back. They are going to meet the second wave of troops landing. We have to hurry--"

Before he could finish his words, gunfire was heard from the east.

Brigade Bishop: "Sounds like the beach we were supposed to land on? But we are all here."

Aromeev slapped his thigh and said, "Anti-tank guns! The anti-tank guns assigned to us by the general have landed on the right beach! Quick! Everyone gather, we have to march over and attack the enemy position from behind to rescue our friendly forces! If the enemy launches an armored counterattack, we will need those anti-tank guns!
"Quick! Everyone gather, quickly!"

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Moha, the original landing site.

Karamazov lowered his head, huddled behind the slender body of the ZIS-30, and urged loudly: "Reload quickly!"

The ZIS-30 vehicle has no armor at all, but who would have thought that facing the enemy's beach fire, the ZIS30's thin body would be so reliable - maybe it's because the enemy doesn't even have enough heavy machine guns?

Several machine gun bullets had already hit the bulletproof plate in front of Karamazov, and the car body had also been hit by many bullets, but nothing happened!

Karamazov even suspected that the enemy had no heavy machine guns at all, so they could use this ZIS30 as a vortex today!

He felt that Venus was waving at him, so he shouted more eagerly: "I want a cannonball!"

Finally the gunner came over with the shells: "Soak them in some water, and see if you can make them fire!"

"Give it to me!" Karamazov took the shell and thrust it into the barrel. He fixed his eyes on the sight and quickly turned the elevation control - yes, everything on the ZIS30 was kept simple, and the elevation and steering controls were all hand-cranked.

Karamazov's target was a sandbag bunker, where Baras's light machine gunners were mounting their machine guns and firing.

After locking the target, Karamazov pulled the gun rope hard, and the main gun of ZIS30 spewed out flames.

A large cloud of smoke immediately rose from the front of the sandbag bunker, and the machine gun fire stopped abruptly.

Karamazov shouted: "Now we'll show them how powerful we are! Reload!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the machine gun started firing again.

The smoke and dust caused by the high-explosive bomb also dissipated at this time, and you can see that the machine gunner's helmet has been blown off, his head is covered in blood, and the red area completely covers his eyes. It is unclear whether he can see the target.

But the machine guns kept firing.

Karamazov: "Reload! Don't you have any powerful high-explosive shells?"

Loader: "Do you remember that our main gun is only 57mm? The high-explosive shells only have this much charge, and this is the power! At least it is better than the high-explosive shells of the 45mm gun, be content!"

"Wait a minute!" Karamazov stopped the loader who was about to put a new high-explosive shell into the barrel, "Load armor-piercing shells! The general said in the pre-war briefing that the enemy's morale and fighting spirit are low, maybe armor-piercing shells will work wonders!"

The loader looked puzzled: "What miraculous effect?"

"Just bring it here!"

The loader put down the high-explosive shell in his hand doubtfully and stuffed an armor-piercing shell into the barrel: "Alright!"

Karamazov licked his lips as he aimed.

He aimed at the sandbag bunker that the high-explosive bomb had failed to reach, and then pulled the gun rope hard.

The armor-piercing bullet hit the sandbag, instantly penetrated the sandbag and hit the machine gunner himself.

The next moment, the machine gunner's internal organs spurted out in a fan-shaped area behind him, and a big hole appeared on his body, big enough for his head to fit through.

The assistant gunner of the machine gun had a bloody face, stared at the big hole in his partner's body with wide eyes, opened his mouth to shout, but couldn't make a sound - probably because of the excessive mental stress that caused the muscles controlling the vocal cords to stiffen. In the end, the assistant gunner could only make a sound like a leak, stood up and ran away.

Karamazov saw all this through the scope and shouted: "Good! That's it! Quick, keep loading armor-piercing shells! Let's kill the enemy machine gunners one by one!"

The loader had no scope and could not see the effect of the attack clearly. He could only mutter as he loaded the shells: "Will it really work? The armor-piercing shells only have so much explosives, not even as good as grenades!"

"Don't worry about it, just reload!"

Karamazov continued to shoot, aiming at the machine gunners or officers.

At this time, someone shouted on the radio: "Karamazov! Why are you firing armor-piercing shells?"

Karamazov: "Didn't you notice? The enemy's morale is low. Armor-piercing bullets can scare them to death! Destroy the enemy's morale!"

"Eh? Hiss (gasping sound), eh? It seems to be true. Quick, quick, change to armor-piercing bullets! Let's try it too!"

Therefore, all the ZIS30 troops who rushed to the beach on wooden boats were equipped with armor-piercing shells.

The 57mm gun on this small vehicle has a fast firing rate, and if the loader is powerful, it can even fire one round every three seconds.

Then the gunners of the 225th Division's Annihilation Regiment were all veterans, and as a result, these 30 anti-tank guns began to systematically eliminate machine gunners, officers and non-commissioned officers.

Humans would be sprayed all over the ground if they were hit by armor-piercing bullets, and the penetrating power of this thing far exceeded the defensive capabilities of the fortifications on the beach at that time. As a result, anyone who was targeted would surely die.

After several waves of volleys, more and more Baras soldiers began to flee.

Finally, the total collapse happened!

Baras soldiers poured out from various bunkers and ran towards the rear.

Karamazov shouted: "Good! Let's move forward!"

The driver stepped on the accelerator, and the ZIS30 directly smashed the bow that had been damaged in the process of beaching, rushed onto the beach, and rushed towards the fleeing enemy.

Loader: "We don't have machine guns! What can we do if we catch up with them?"

Karamazov: "Of course it's to scare the enemy! Besides, you have a submachine gun! This is also a machine gun!"

As he said this, he picked up his submachine gun and started throwing water at the fleeing enemy.

The ZIS30 thing runs fast and shakes terribly, and now with water splashing on it, you can basically only rely on faith to hit it.

But the sound of bullets hitting the surroundings made the fleeing enemy run faster.

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Alomeev stopped and shouted: "Wait a minute!"

The marines immediately crouched down and hid, holding their guns on guard.

Alomeev's adjutant came running over: "What's the matter?"

"There is smoke and dust ahead. Follow me to find a high point."

After saying that, Alomeev rushed out with big strides and directly rushed onto a large rock next to him - this kind of rock seems to be very common on the Balas Plateau.

On top of the rock, Alomeev raised his binoculars toward the smoke in the distance.

His expression froze immediately.

The adjutant was startled: "What happened? Is it something terrible? The enemy armored forces counterattacked?"

"No," Alomeev handed the binoculars to the adjutant, "if I'm not mistaken, it's the ZIS30 of the general's unit herding sheep."

Adjutant: “What?”

He quickly raised the telescope, and then his expression froze.

"This... is indeed like herding sheep. What should we do?"

Aromeyev: "Tell the troops not to open fire when they see the enemy coming, and take prisoners. Also, be careful not to accidentally damage the friendly ZIS30s. They are like streaking, and a random stone thrown at them can cause casualties."

The adjutant immediately turned around, jumped off the rock, and went to pass on the message.

A moment later, a large group of people wearing the uniforms of the Barras Guards were driven in front of the well-rested naval infantry.

The non-commissioned officers who had been prepared for a long time took the lead and shouted in broken and quick-learned Balas: "Surrender your weapons and you will not be killed!"

The Baras people were stunned, but when they saw that they were Ant Marine infantry, they surrendered quickly.

At this time, the ZIS-30 that had been chasing them rushed in front of Aromeev, braked suddenly and even skidded. The gunner on the car held on to the gun carriage tightly to avoid being thrown off.

After the car finally stopped, the gunner jumped out and saluted Brigadier General Alomeev: "Report! Karamazov, the third company commander of the first battalion of the anti-tank artillery regiment of the 225th Division, reports to you!"

Aromeyev responded: "Why are you here? Where is the beach?"

"Report to the Brigadier General, the beachhead has been captured. Not only does the enemy refuse to surrender, but they also dare to fight back against our army!"

Aromeev raised an eyebrow. "How do you deal with the bunkers? With 57mm grenades? Not enough?"

Karamazov shrugged. "We blew air and the bunkers were all destroyed, like a castle made of sand."

Alomeev frowned, was silent for a few seconds, and finally laughed out loud.

(End of this chapter)