Six Hundred and Thirty Seven Hits
"1100 meters! The distance ahead is 1100 meters!" While loudly confirming the opponent's firing position, the commander of the Panther tank behind kicked the back of the gunner's chair vigorously with his own feet. Obviously, when he heard this distance, the gunner hesitated for a moment, because he rarely heard the command to fire at a distance of 1100 meters, and he hadn't adapted for a while.
After all, Germany's 75mm caliber long-barreled artillery has a terrible penetration that is almost against the sky, and when this artillery is at a distance of 1100 meters, it faces opponents like French b1 tanks or Soviet t-26 and kv-1 At that time, the penetration of the main gun of the Panther tank was enough to destroy them at a distance of 1100 meters. However, in order to ensure the accuracy of the hit and the extreme confidence in their own armor, members of the German tank crew often do not fire at their targets at extreme distances.
They will put the opponent into a relatively easy-to-destroy distance, and then suddenly open fire to kill the opponent in large numbers. If the opponent tries to retreat at this time, they will still not be able to get out of the attack distance of the Panther tank immediately, and they will suffer a few more rounds of attacks. This is how the large number of destruction records of the armored forces was born.
But now there is an enemy tank that opened fire at a distance of 1,100 meters. This obviously provokes the long-standing pride and honor of the German armored forces, and it also shakes the accumulated experience of the German armored forces' engagement distance.
This is not a t-34 tank. Although this Soviet tank has just been in service for a short time, it has been proved that its 76mm main gun cannot penetrate the front armor plate of the mid-late Leopard tank. This is not the kv-1 type Compared with the Type 2 tank, because the firing power and sound are different, it is obviously a new type of tank that has never appeared on the battlefield.
"Don't be in a daze! Fire! Fire! Find a way to turn the tank around. I want to turn the tank in the direction of the opponent's attack! Quick! Quick!" The two commanders reminded their subordinates not to be in a daze anymore. They must get rid of the status quo of being shrouded in long-range attacks as soon as possible, so as to ensure that they will not be killed by the opponent here in a daze.
"Go forward! Drive down the roadbed, and face the direction of the opponent's firepower! Load the new 'super' armor-piercing bullets, let the opponent know how powerful we are!" The ace tank commander loudly issued an attack order. Anyone who suspects suppressing the armored forces of the German army, no matter how powerful the opponent is, the arrogance buried deep in the bones of the German armored forces has never been dusted.
The power wheels of the Leopard tank rolled up the track and rolled forward, carrying the mud to the sides, rushing aggressively towards the opponent he had never met before, the 75mm caliber long-barreled artillery that was once invincible on the battlefield, The muzzle of the black hole pointed at the direction where the blue smoke hadn't dissipated with the fastest speed.
"Fire!" In the distance, in the small tank compartment, a commander of a Soviet Red Army tank gave the order to fire again. He had a knife-shaped scar on his face, extending from the top of his head to his jawbone. The wound was hideous and terrible, ruining a cold and handsome face in sevens and eights.
The driver did not wear a standard anti-collision leather cap.
Instead, he casually hung the earphones around his neck. His voice was extremely cold, as if echoing from the abyss of hell, which made people shudder. Another place that is different from other Soviet soldiers is his collar. His collar is not the red collar badge of the Soviet Red Army logo, but a pair of black wolf head icons.
"Boom!" Without the slightest hesitation, his gunner immediately shot out the shells. The terrifying large-caliber ammunition leaped a distance of 1,000 meters this time, and finally hit the German car rushing down the slope at the end. Leopard tank, through the observation window on the tank, you can see the moment when the shell hits the front armor plate of the Leopard tank.
The front armor of the Leopard tank is slanted. If dealing with shells coming from the front, this sloping armor design can increase the defense effect and cause the opponent's shells to ricochet. But at this moment, the Leopard tank is Shooting down the embankment, the angle of incidence of the Soviet tank's shell doubled, almost canceling out most of the slope of the sloped armor.
At the same time, the Soviet tank that opened fire was not the t-26 fast tank with an obviously insufficient main gun caliber, nor the t-34 tank and kv-1 tank with the same power, but less than 25 tanks were mass-produced, with a A Stalin tank with a 122mm main gun!
On the basis of sacrificing the rate of fire, this kind of tank artillery using divided ammunition is a bit more powerful than Germany's current main 88mm tank artillery, although the overall performance is not as good as the world-famous tank artillery because of the difficulty of loading and other reasons. The 88 gun is strong, but this gun is not trivial in terms of armor-piercing power. It finally gave Soviet tanks the ability to confront German tanks head-on.
What's more unfortunate is that this armor-piercing shell from the new Soviet Stalin tank hit the part where the shell hit the very coincidentally the welding point between the muzzle of the Leopard tank's front heading machine gun and the front armor plate.
So under such circumstances, the originally thick front armor plate of the Leopard tank was penetrated, and the shells, with the broken armor and various small parts shaken off by the huge shock, gathered into a fiery blast. The torrent of steel splashed back and forth inside the body of the Panther tank, piercing through everything that stood in the way.
"My God! Car No. 1 was hit! Car No. 1 was hit!" No. 2 Leopard tank is still on the roadbed. It just finished turning, and the commander of No. 2 car crew saw it The picture of your friendly tank being destroyed. That is an ace tank that has destroyed more than a dozen enemy tanks! That is the idol-like existence in everyone's mind! On this unnamed road, it was destroyed so easily.
5 members of the tank crew, 5 fresh lives, the soldiers who were still alive and kicking just now turned into 5 piles of corpses riddled with shrapnel and riddled with holes. There was not much time for the living to show compassion on the battlefield, and a column of dirt and smoke rose from the side of the No. 2 Leopard tank.
"It's two tanks! They have two new tanks!" The commander of the No. 2 tank knew that their communication channel must be monitored by his own people in the rear. Report to the battalion headquarters or even the regiment headquarters in the rear.
"Stop moving forward, reverse slowly, pay attention to the distance of the roadbed behind, release smoke, and load armor-piercing shells!" None of the battle-hardened German tank crew members was a soft persimmon. After a short period of panic, all the personnel of the No. 2 vehicle calmed down. Come down, because each of them knows that nervousness cannot keep them alive on the battlefield, and only calmness can make them live longer.
"Dark green paint! Their turrets are bigger, without edges and corners!" The commander of the No. 2 car stared firmly at the Soviet tank that was slowly approaching in the distance with a telescope, and reported his observation loudly. the results.
"Boom!" The tank gun of the Leopard tank opened fire, and an armor-piercing projectile hit the turret of the Soviet tank accurately. It seems that the power of the new German tungsten alloy super armor-piercing projectile is very terrible, and it is almost at a distance of 1000 meters. Unfortunately, the Germans were not very lucky, and the shell hit the thickest armored turret of the Stalin tank.
The shell missed the opponent, leaving a deep crater in the armor of Stalin's tank as a memorial. However, the huge vibration had already damaged the internal structure of the Stalin tank, and the Soviet tank wobbled to a stop, with a little light smoke emitting from the engine hatch at the rear.
"No penetration! Super armor-piercing projectile, reload!" The commander put down the binoculars and loudly urged his men to prepare for the next attack.
And behind a bush not far from the German tank, in the compartment of the stalin tank with black pentagrams painted on it, the man with the scar on his face squinted his eyes and snorted coldly, and cursed : "Idiot, as soon as you see credit, you rush forward... to die?"
Cursing and scolding, but the loader next to him was like a deaf man, silently pushed the warhead into the barrel, bent down to get it out from under the floor, fired the charge, stuffed it into the barrel and closed the breech block.
"Fire!" Scarface immediately ordered to continue firing without the slightest hesitation. This may be the record of the longest-distance exchange of fire between the two sides since the outbreak of World War II. Before this, there were only reports of German tanks firing unilaterally, but there was never a report of an opposing tank firing back at a distance of 1,100 meters and hitting and destroying a German tank. Event happens.
But obviously the Soviet tanks were too slow to save their poor companions because the rate of fire was too slow. Just before the Soviet tanks fired the second shell, the German tank had already fired the second and third shells. One shell hit the track of the Stalin tank, knocking out more than a dozen tracks of the Stalin tank and destroying 3 road wheels; the other shell finally lived up to the expectations of the German tank crew and penetrated It destroyed the front armor of the Stalin tank, and completely destroyed the steel behemoth that rushed out to pick up bargains but was extinguished by a single shot.
"Finally penetrated!" Before the members of the German tank crew breathed out to relieve themselves, they felt their tanks tremble violently as if they had encountered a magnitude 8 earthquake. These soldiers who have been fighting in tanks for a long time know that this is their tank being hit by the opponent's artillery.
What is different from usual is that the caliber of the artillery that hit the Leopard tank this time is a bit large, and it penetrated the front armor plate of this early production type A Leopard tank at once. Without the slightest suspense, the electromechanicalist and the driver must be in trouble. The commander of the No. 2 car didn't hesitate at all. He was already half of his body outside. He jumped out of the turret with his hands, and then jumped off his own tank regardless of the height.