The next moment, the whole town was enveloped by artillery fire.
People die differently. There will always be sacrifices on the battlefield, either now or in the future.
That night, in the sixth round of shelling, despite the protection of the bulletproof insert, Ding Ren was hit by shrapnel in the carotid artery. He twitched while holding his neck, and soon died, without even time to rescue him.
That night, the team members guarding Valding made the Germans realize how far a charge can go - they repelled their six attacks, including a night raid, leaving not only more than a hundred German bodies, but also seven tanks.
After learning that his Faros battle group had suffered such heavy losses, Bayerlein, as the division commander, even doubted his life. He confirmed it several times before he believed his own losses. The target that was originally envisioned to be taken down with a charge has not been taken down after so many charges.
And what made him doubt his life even more?
He almost had an illusion that what he encountered here was not an American army, but a German army!
An enemy in Bastogne was actually using German weapons!
Not only MG42, but also many STG44, which were seriously insufficient in the German army, and even reached the point where each person had one.
Not only that, even the anti-tank rockets they used to destroy tanks were Panzerfaust 60.
Even their cannons were made in Germany!
"So we have all become transport captains..."
What is the most painful thing in the world?
When fighting with the enemy, the enemy uses their own weapons, and the number is larger than theirs, and the quality is better than theirs.
Although Bayerlein was a little skeptical about life, the war had to go on.
The next morning, the rumble of the artillery platoon broke the silence of dawn. The earth was groaning again, the broken walls in the town were shaking again, and bricks and gravel fell again.
Xu Shan commanded the machine gunner to drag the MG42 machine gun to the ruins of the cafe, and everyone was in the corner.
Ten minutes later, the bombardment still did not stop. The whistling sound of the shells cut through the thick smoke and fog, and the rumbling explosion shook the whole Valding. The fierce bombardment almost destroyed the entire town.
Zhang Chen covered his ears and lay in the ruins. The choking dust rushed into his wide mouth. Amid the deafening explosion, he heard the shouts of his comrades.
"The Germans--are coming up!..."
A burst of assault rifle fire drowned out the shrill exclamations, and a short burst of shooting immediately sounded between the ruins. The muzzle flashes and bursts of German shouting in the dust and fog.
Behind the rolling dust and fog, some Germans who could not be seen were desperately holding submachine guns and rifles, firing at the team members lying in the ruins. Some of the team members were shouting, some were holding assault rifles and firing at the dusty streets, and some were calmly suppressing the Germans with bursts of shooting.
Compared with them, the firepower of the Germans was undoubtedly much weaker. Although some of them used assault rifles, most of them were K98 and MP40. After all, the few STG44 assault rifles in Germany were to be distributed to the entire front.
Thanks to the donations of hundreds of thousands of German troops, the task force obtained more than 20,000 assault rifles. The lack of manpower and firepower made up for it. These weapons were naturally kept by George, so the task force became the only army in this era fully equipped with assault rifles.
Thanks to the firepower advantage of assault rifles, they were always able to repel the German attacks again and again.
The bullets fired by the Germans' submachine guns hit the brick wall and whizzed over everyone's heads, but were soon suppressed by the accurate and fierce firepower of the assault rifles.
Xu Shan jumped out of the window and fell to the ground. He crawled towards a crater, his open mouth constantly swallowing the diffuse dust. Behind him, the machine gunners used machine guns to shoot at the swarming Germans. Soldiers on both sides of the ruins were also firing crazily with assault rifles.
For a moment, the town was full of gunshots, shouts and grenade explosions.
"Cannons, where are our cannons?"
Xu Shan shouted loudly,
Just as his words fell, accompanied by a dull whistle, a series of mortar shells fell on the group of German soldiers. The violent explosion blew away the smoke and the Germans in the smoke...
On the second day of Bastogne, the German attack was repelled again, but the reinforcements promised by the United States have not arrived until now. In fact, the 101st Airborne Division is still living a life of debauchery in Reims. The military police are dragging the paratroopers out of the women's beds and bars in bars and hotels one by one. It must be said that sometimes allies are really unreliable...