Commanding the monkey to drive Model I and C towards the approximate location, Li Qing kept staring at the system map and tried his best to avoid the red dots displayed on the map. Finally, half an hour later, he found the suspected destination and looked at the distance. There was still a blocking position about one kilometer away, and the fight between the two sides was not too intense.
Looking at the dense red dots representing the enemy on the small highland on the map, Li Qing felt his scalp numb. Our green dots were semi-surrounding the small highland, because there was another one about 300 meters to the right of the small highland. If we attack the enemy's blocking position by force, we will be flanked from two directions, which will be quite troublesome.
Looking at the system map and contacting the commander of our position through the radio, Li Qing directed Monkey to drive the tank into the position. It was about 700 meters away from the small highland, and our soldiers had already reached the enemy position. Two hundred meters away, the warring parties were suppressing each other, with constant gunshots and explosions. Fortunately, the rear command post was on the back of a small hill. Li Qing asked the monkey to stand by on the outside. After getting off the tank and asking a few soldiers, he successfully found Company H. commander.
Li Qing looked at the sharp-eyed middle-aged man in front of him and gave a military salute: "Hello, Lieutenant, I am Boss Reinhard Li. I am leading a tank destroyer squad and have been ordered to come for support."
"Hello, Major Boss Li, I am the commander here, Neisser. I hope we can have a happy cooperation. Where are the other tanks in your team?" The middle-aged man returned the military salute and said happily.
Li Qing briefly introduced the situation, and Neisser spread a military map in front of Li Qing. This map looked much more detailed than the one Li Qing had.
"This is our position. We have a position at 9 o'clock and 11 o'clock. Their troops are not many. Although they can attack us from both sides, fortunately there is a fairly wide strip between their two positions. river, so it is unlikely that the right position will come to support." Neisser pointed at the map to explain the situation of both sides to Li Qing, looking very optimistic.
But Neisser immediately showed a look of helplessness on his face, and continued: "The two enemy positions have eight to ten simple fortifications, which are equipped with heavy machine guns and some light howitzers. The specific model number is unknown. Our H Company currently only has The two PAK 37mm light anti-tank guns may not be effective when fired at close range. A strong attack will pay a high price. I reported the situation to the superiors. The staff issued a new order, asking us to wait for you and prepare to take it together. Get down from these two positions."
Li Qing looked at the map and thought carefully, combined with the terrain he observed on the way here, pointed to two places about 1 kilometer away from the position and said: "There is no problem, but we still need time now, my team is on the way here , I will ask them to fire here and first pull out the machine gun bunker on the small high ground at 9 o'clock, and then pull out the machine gun bunker on another position at 11 o'clock. We can't occupy the position, so we will hand it over. I’ve given it to you, and I need to arrange some shelters in these two places in advance, and I’ll have to ask your people to help.”
"That's no problem. I will arrange for a class to help you, so let's take action."
A squad of soldiers assigned by Neisser hurriedly headed towards the first location I mentioned with their tools. Li Qing used the radio to access the team channel and gave the order to gather at the designated location to prepare for battle.
After a while.
"Reporting to the commander, a reinforcement tank unit has appeared on the enemy's position. It should be a tank team of 4 tanks. Two tanks appeared on each position. No self-propelled artillery was found!" A soldier hurriedly ran towards Li Qing. Neisser made a report.
"How is it possible? The information we received indicates that the enemy does not have tanks. When did they receive reinforcements?" Neisser expressed shock after hearing the soldier's report.
Some people say that the Yugoslav army at this time had almost no armored troops, anti-tank or aviation weapons. This was also the confidence that the German army dared to carry out a high-speed mechanized mobile warfare here.
"It's not a big problem. Didn't your reinforcements just arrive?" Li Qing decided not to worry about it, smiled and patted Neisser on the shoulder: "Since they are here, we can only welcome them, and we will clean them up together!"
About half an hour later, a call came over the team's radio that they had arrived at the designated location and had completed their dispersal and concealment.
After Li Qing and Neisser discussed the further battle plan, they climbed onto the No. 1 Type C tank, looked at the time, Thursday, April 10, 1941, 7:35, and picked up the microphone: "Hey, hello, Rand Hey, can you see the fortifications and tanks on the small high ground at 10 o'clock where you are?"
On an unknown highland, Randall stood in the turret of the command tank that had been simply camouflaged with tree branches. His upper body was exposed outside the potato. He had headphones on his head. He was observing the small highland about 1 kilometer away with a telescope. He heard the radio Li Qing's voice came, and he picked up the microphone and answered: "As you can see, there are 7 machine gun bunkers visible, and one is blocked. There are two tanks, which should be Da Mao's T-26."
"Can you hit it?"
"It should be possible to calculate the distance. Our 43 times caliber 47mm anti-tank gun has a maximum range of 4000m and an effective range of 1180m. It can penetrate 60mm vertical armor. It looks like it will be a piece of cake for the enemy's tanks and machine gun bunkers." There was a cheerful person. A voice came, and it should be Eisenberg, the commander of No. 403.
"First concentrate your firepower to destroy two enemy tanks, then call the bunkers from left to right, use AP bullets (armor-piercing bullets), and fire directly when you are ready." Li Qing's voice came from the earphones.
Looking at the three No. 1 tank destroyers parked behind the grass about 30 meters ahead, with branches covering the tanks to hide them, the crews were busy. Randall picked up the microphone and took a deep breath: "Hey, hello. , with the target of car 178 as the target, cars 403 and 716 were confirmed to maintain the same target in real time, and the first two targets were..."
"Bang!" With a sound, Kupisch, the gunner of the No. 178 car, fired the first shell.
The T-26 on the left side of the position at 10 o'clock had its tracks interrupted by the shells fired by them. Although the shells fired by the 403 vehicle subsequently hit the tank body, they ricocheted. The third shell fired by the 716 vehicle went straight. It was shot from the connection between the upper armor of the T-26 and the turret armor.
716 commander Biersak shouted excitedly: "The target has been penetrated!"
Randall clearly saw the whole process of the tank being destroyed through the telescope, and his excitement was palpable: "The 716 vehicle penetrated the target. The target has no movement. It is confirmed that it was destroyed. Good job!"
The members of the 716 crew excitedly shook their fists in the air in celebration, with arrogant smiles on their young faces. They were lucky enough to get the team's first kill.
