Arc of Gunfire

30 minutes later, the landing craft rushed onto the beach.

"Ready!" The navy driver shouted while turning the wheel to lower the hatch of the landing craft.

Although Alomeev was a veteran, he was still nervous.

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

This imagination was so vivid that it seemed to have really happened.

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

This meant that the hatch of the landing craft had been completely lowered.

The soldiers around Alomeev shouted together: "Ura!"

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 beach firepower?"

He stopped and looked around, and found that there was no firepower point spitting flames on the beach under the white light in the east, nor was there an anti-tank pile to stop the landing tanks and vehicles.

A group of Balas people who were going to the beach were carrying baskets on their backs, looking at the "Black Death" rushing onto the beach in shock.

Aromeyev finally realized that this beach was not the beach he had approached and scouted before! They had landed on the wrong side!

At this time, the bishop of the brigade ran over while yelling: "Hey! Brigadier General, is this a mistake?"

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

The bishop ran over and asked breathlessly: "What's the matter... Did we land in the wrong place?"

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

Without waiting for the bishop to answer, a soldier shouted: "Look, the landing craft is gone!"

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

The naval infantrymen near the landing craft were chasing them while waving their hats: "Hey! Did you put us in the wrong place? Come back!"

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

Before he finished speaking, there was a sound of gunfire from the east.

The brigade commander: "It sounds like the beach where we were supposed to land? But we are all here."

Aromeyev slapped his thigh: "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 force march over, attack the enemy position from behind, and save friendly forces! If the enemy launches an armored counterattack, we need those anti-tank guns!

"Quick! Everyone gather, hurry up!"

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Moha, the original landing area.

Karamazov lowered his head, curled up behind the slender body of the ZIS-30, and urged loudly: "Reload quickly! Damn it! ”

The ZIS-30 vehicle has no armor at all. Who would have thought that facing the enemy's beachhead firepower, the thin body of the ZIS30 would be reliable - maybe because the enemy has few heavy machine guns?

Several machine gun bullets have hit the bulletproof shield in front of Karamazov, and the body of the vehicle has also been hit by many bullets, but nothing happened!

Karamazov even suspected that the enemy did not have heavy machine guns at all, and could use this ZIS30 as a vortex today!

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

Finally, the gunner came over with a shell: "Soak it in water, try to see if it can be fired!"

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

Karamazov's target was a sandbag bunker, and Barras's light machine gunner was setting up his machine gun on the bunker and firing.

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

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

Karamazov shouted: "Let them know how powerful we are now! Reload!"

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

The smoke and dust caused by the high-explosive shells also dissipated at this time. It can be seen that the machine gunner's helmet has been knocked off, his head is full of blood, and the red area completely covers his eyes. It is not known whether he can see the target.

But the machine gun has been firing.

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

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

"Wait a minute!" Karamazov held down the loader who was about to put the new high-explosive shell into the barrel, "Load the armor-piercing shell! The general said during the pre-war briefing that the enemy's morale and fighting will are low, maybe the armor-piercing shell will have a miraculous effect!"

The loader looked puzzled: "What miraculous effect?"

"Just bring it to you!"

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 while aiming.

He aimed at the sandbag bunker that the high-explosive shell had failed to hit just now, and then pulled the gun rope hard.

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

The next moment, the machine gunner's internal organs burst out in a fan-shaped area behind him, and a big hole appeared on his body that he could put his head through.

The assistant gunner of the machine gun was covered in blood. He stared at the big hole in his partner's body with wide eyes. He opened his mouth to shout, but he couldn't even make a sound - it should be 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 leaking air, stood up and ran away.

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

The loader didn't have a scope and couldn't see the effect of the attack clearly. He could only mutter while loading: "Is it really useful? The armor-piercing bullets are only so much charge, not even as good as grenades!"

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

Karamazov continued to shoot, aiming at all 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 not high, and armor-piercing shells can scare them to death! Hit the enemy's morale!"

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

So all the ZIS30 troops who rushed to the beach on wooden boats changed to armor-piercing shells.

The 57mm gun of this small car has a fast firing rate. If the loader is powerful, it can even fire one round every three seconds.

Then the gunners of the 225th Division's annihilation regiment are all veterans. As a result, these 30 anti-tank guns began to systematically eliminate machine gunners, officers and non-commissioned officers.

As long as humans are hit by armor-piercing shells, they will be sprayed all over the ground. Then the penetration ability of this thing far exceeds the defensive ability of the fortifications on the beach at this time. As a result, as long as they are targeted, they will die.

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

Finally, the total collapse happened!

Balas soldiers poured out of various bunkers and ran to the rear.

Karamazov shouted: "Okay! Let's go!"

The driver stepped on the accelerator, and the ZIS30 directly smashed the bow that had been damaged during the beaching process, 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?"

Karamazov: "Of course it's to scare the enemy! Besides, don't you have a submachine gun! This is also a machine gun!"

He picked up the submachine gun and started splashing water at the fleeing enemy.

ZIS30 runs fast and bumps terribly. Now splashing water like this, you can only rely on faith to hit it.

But the sound of bullets crackling around made the fleeing enemy run faster.

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Alomeev stopped and shouted: "Wait a minute!"

The naval infantry immediately squatted down and hid, while holding their guns and guarding.

Alomeev's adjutant ran over: "What's wrong?"

"There's smoke ahead, follow me to find a commanding height."

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

On the top of the rock, Alomeev raised a telescope to the smoke in the distance.

His expression immediately froze.

The adjutant was startled: "What's wrong? Is it a terrible thing? The enemy armored forces counterattacked?"

"No," Alomeev handed the telescope to the adjutant, "If I'm not mistaken, it's the ZIS30 of the general's troops herding sheep."

The adjutant: "What?"

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

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

Alomeev: "Let the troops see the enemy rushing over and don't rush to open fire, capture prisoners. And be careful not to accidentally hurt the friendly ZIS30, that thing is basically like streaking, and throwing a stone at them can cause casualties."

The adjutant immediately turned around and jumped off the rock and passed the order.

A moment later, a large group of people wearing the uniforms of the Balas Guards were driven in front of the well-rested Marine Infantry.

The NCOs who had been prepared for a long time took the lead and shouted in the broken and quick Balas language: "Surrender your weapons and we will not kill you!"

The Balas people were stunned, and when they saw that it was the Ant Marine Infantry, they surrendered quickly.

At this time, the ZIS30 that had been chasing them rushed in front of Alomeev, and it even skidded after a sudden brake. The gunner on the car held 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 225th anti-tank artillery regiment, reports to you!"

Alomeev saluted back: "Why did you get here? Where is the beach?"

"Report to the brigadier general, the beach has been captured. The enemy not only refused to surrender, but also dared to fight back against our army!"

Alomeev raised his eyebrows: "How did you deal with the bunkers? Use 57mm grenades? Not enough?"

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

Alomeev frowned, and after a few seconds of silence, he finally laughed out loud.