New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

"Hurry up! The Americans are coming up! Hurry up and get to your place!" Amid the shouts of the officers, Park Changfan covered his helmet with one hand and held a Mauser 98k carbine in the other. The corporal named Harris ran towards the front along the zigzag traffic trench.

Park Chang-beom is a Japanese, at least in his opinion.He was born in an ordinary citizen's family in Seoul, the Empire of Japan.A few years ago, he joined the Imperial Japanese Army and took part in the Nomenkan operation to punish Soviet Russia.As a result, very unfortunately, Park Changbeom became a prisoner.The attitude of the Soviets towards prisoners of war is not bad, at least, in Park Changbeom's opinion, it really isn't bad.Although they ate poorly every day, they were still potatoes except potatoes, and the cooking level of the Soviets was absolutely dark. As for the way potatoes were processed, they only knew how to boil potatoes in water, except for boiling them in salt water.The Soviet soldiers still had black bread to eat, but these prisoners could only eat potatoes every day.

But Park Changfan didn't think it was very painful, because except for the period after joining the Kwantung Army, Park Changfan almost never had enough to eat before.For the Soviets, at least during that period, potatoes were still in abundance.

Of course, here in the Soviet Union, there is absolutely no such thing as eating and not working.The prisoners of war were sent to Siberia to do logging.Siberia is actually not bad, it's just a bit colder, and there are more bears in the wild.For example, in the logging area where Park Changbeom was located, two big brown bears often came out to make trouble.This made Park Changfan always terrified.Later, Park Changfan was dragged to Poland by the Soviets to repair new national defense projects.Then the Germans came and he was captured again.

As a citizen of an ally, the Germans did not make things difficult for Park Changfan.They asked him to follow the German army and do some chores. Later, as the soldiers became increasingly tense, they simply dragged Park Changfan, who had service experience, into the German army.As a result, Park Changfan was able to appear among the defenders of Cherbourg.

Park Changfan followed Corporal Harris and ran along the zigzag traffic trench, one foot deep and one foot shallow, while enemy shells continued to explode not far from him.Fortunately, none of these shells entered the traffic trench, so Park Changfan was not injured.

At this time, Harris in front of him turned a corner, and Park Changfan was about to follow, but he heard a loud noise, and then, a wave of air rushed to his face, pushing him directly into the traffic trench.

Park Changfan's head was buzzing, and after a while, he barely got up from the ground.He shook his head, feeling that he seemed to be a little more awake.So he picked up the gun that was thrown on the ground and continued to walk forward.Turning the corner, he saw the source of the blast—a large, smoking crater in the traffic trench ahead.Apparently, just now, a shell fell into the traffic trench.If it wasn't for the corner that blocked it just now, Park Changfan might have gone to see Aunt Amaterasu.

"Quick, run quickly! Don't just stand there!" a voice shouted from behind.

Park Changfan turned his head and saw a tall German soldier who was 1.8 meters five.

"Hayi!" Park Changfan didn't know why, so he said this.Then quickly took his gun and ran towards the trench ahead.

Numerous shells exploded around the trenches.The clods they raised kept hitting Park Changfan's helmet.Park Changfan carefully poked his head out of the trench and looked out.He saw, just over 100 meters away from him, the figures of a group of American soldiers were flickering in the smoke.

Park Chang-beom stretched out his Mauser 98k carbine.But he didn't fire right away.He was still waiting for the officer's order. Without an order, he was not allowed to shoot indiscriminately.He knew this rule very well when he was still with the Japanese Imperial Army.

The order to fire had not yet been given, however, because the enemy fire had not extended back. The 203 mm caliber shell, when it explodes, the shrapnel is still very lethal after flying 50 meters.So when the vanguard of the U.S. Army advanced to about 60 meters from the first trench of the Germans, the American artillery fire began to extend toward the rear.

At this time, artillery fire has already caused certain losses to the Germans.Just now, several shells fell into the trenches. Fortunately, the trenches are zigzag, and the constant corners block most of the power of these shells.Otherwise, the German soldiers would not know how much they would have died.

"Fire!"

With this order, the German trenches began to spew deadly flames.Park Changfan fired a shot at an American soldier.But the American soldier was very sensitive, and just made a lying down motion.The bullet fired by Park Changfan also missed.However, the core of the firepower of the German infantry has never been a bolt-action rifle like the Mauser 98k, which needs to be pulled once to fire a bullet. Their core of firepower has always been various general-purpose machine guns.It used to be mg-34, now it is mg-42.In Cherbourg, although the number of defenders is small, the weapons are very sufficient.This makes each infantry squad have an average of 1.5 mg-42 machine guns.

Several MG-42s fired at the same time, and the dense intertwined fire net rolled towards the American soldiers.Immediately, seven or eight American soldiers were knocked to the ground.The rest of the Yankees immediately fell to the ground or hid behind the m4 tank.At this time, the American m4 tanks advancing at a low speed with the infantry also began to fire.

They stopped suddenly, stopped, and then quickly fired at the fire point of the machine gun that was firing just now.Such shelling would be fatal to a machine gun fire point.With their fire support, the American infantry who had been suppressed began to advance again.However, the Germans were not without the strength to fight back. At least, Park Changfan knew that there was a deadly Pak-40 anti-tank gun hidden in a bunker on his right.

说起德国人的反坦克炮，人们总是最容易想起大名鼎鼎的flak－36型88毫米高炮，或是他的反坦克改型pak-43式88毫米反坦克炮。但事实上，德军反坦克炮的主力是看起来并不算太起眼的pak-40式75毫米反坦克炮。这款火炮1000米距离上能击穿116mm的装甲板。这个穿甲能力虽然不如pak-43，但也足以摧毁美国人的m4谢尔曼坦克了。

Sure enough, just as an M4 Sherman tank of the US military stopped to shoot at the machine gun firepower point, the Pak-40 anti-tank gun hidden in the bunker opened fire.The distance between the two sides was less than 300 meters. At such a distance, the German anti-tank guns had considerable accuracy and power.This gun directly penetrated the frontal armor of the m4 tank.The m4 immediately belched black smoke.Then two tank soldiers covered in fire got out of the tank, but were immediately knocked down by the German machine guns.

At this time, an American soldier holding a rifle with a grenade suddenly appeared behind the tank. He shot the grenade in the direction of the anti-tank gun, then dodged and hid behind the tank .

The grenade landed next to the bunker.But it didn't explode, it just kept emitting white light and emitting red smoke—this was just a round of ammunition used to indicate the target.

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"Enemy anti-tank artillery was found in area 12!" Ma Long, who was flying over the German positions, heard such a call from the radio. 12 districts are just below him.He craned his neck and looked down.Down below, there was a place where red smoke was rising.

"It's there!" Malone immediately rolled 180 degrees, then pulled the joystick, and dived towards the target.

……

The 1600-pound bomb dropped by Malone didn't quite hit the bunker directly.But the explosion of such a huge bomb nearby still silenced the pak-40 anti-tank gun immediately.The shock generated by the close-range explosion was enough to stun or even kill the gunners.

At this time, a weakness of the German army became very obvious.That is, the number of German troops is too small.So much so that when facing the multi-channel attack of the US military.The Germans could not deploy enough men in either direction.For example, in area No. 12, the German army does not lack anti-tank guns, but it lacks qualified gunners.There are only two groups of serious gunners, and the other gunners are temporarily drawn from the infantry.These men basically had no artillery training.They can only use the most primitive aiming method-open the running bolt and look forward through the barrel.This aiming method is so slow that trying to hit an enemy tank with it is like letting a blind cat catch a live mouse.

In the attack just now, Ma Long had already killed an experienced gun crew.Then, his subordinates eliminated several blindly exposed anti-tank artillery that were obviously controlled by novices.The German anti-tank defenses on this line were thus overwhelmed almost immediately.The decline in anti-tank firepower also made the German machine guns in trouble.Almost as soon as they opened fire they were met with tank fire.With the support of tanks, the U.S. infantry advanced step by step, getting closer and closer to the city of Cherbourg.

"Put the reserve team into the 12th area!"

"Quick! Put the reserve team in the ** direction!"

The commanders of both sides issued almost identical orders almost at the same time.

The reserves of the two armies were also mobilized immediately.The German reserve team is of course closer to the target area, but firstly, the US military has a higher degree of mechanization, and secondly, the German army is still being bombarded continuously.At the same time, the attack aircraft of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing continued to fire into the trenches with machine guns, and threw napalm bombs at and towards the traffic trenches.This greatly slowed down the speed of German reinforcements.As a result, the reserve teams of both sides arrived almost at the same time and collided head-on.