Chapter 348

Shulka led the troops to guard the throat of the street, that is, a few buildings slightly below the corner.

The building at this position will naturally "break" the enemy, that is, the vanguard will always rush up, and the follow-up troops will be on the other side of the corner and can't even see the situation ahead.

On the other hand, if the tank comes out of the corner, it will be within the range of the bazooka for the first time.

In order to get a better view and prevent other buildings from blocking the shooting range of the rocket launcher, Shulka also ordered the blasting of two buildings, and then piled a few sandbags on the roof and in front of the windows to build good bunkers one by one. alright.

Then hide two tanks a few hundred meters away on the other side of the street and pull up the telephone line, and a defense is deployed.

These two tanks are mostly "Matilda".

Shulka has to admit that "Matilda", despite its many shortcomings, can still be used very well at times.

Therefore, there is a saying that is right, there is no useless equipment, if it is useless, it is only because it is not used in the right place.

Like the "Matilda", its heavy armor is very useful at this time.

The German artillery could not penetrate it... Of course, the tank guns of the "Matilda" could not penetrate the opponent either.

But that's not a problem.

Because the task of "Matilda" is to deal with enemy infantry and attract attention, as for the German tanks, it is handed over to the bazooka.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the German attack.

The first to come up were the German infantry.

They are the vanguard of the German army... Because there are too many buildings on the street, one building after another, no one can tell which building has the enemy, and they don't know the position of the enemy's line of defense, so some infantry are needed to test.

These German infantrymen are very careful and professional. They hold their rifles and use everything available on the road, such as open doors, half-collapsed walls, statues and other things that can be used to cover each other and move forward. step into.

Behind it was the sound of the tank's motor, and Shulka knew it was the "No. 3" tank from the sound.

"Let the infantry go!" Shulka ordered: "Let the tanks deal with them!"

"Yes!" The communications soldier responded in a low voice, and then used the phone to convey the order.

After receiving the news, two "Matilda" tanks slowly drove out of the hiding building, one on the left and one on the right... It seems unwise to reveal the position of the tanks as soon as they start shooting, but this is exactly what Shure card wish.

At this time, whether it is the Soviet army or the German army, its attention will always be on the tank.

Because it is the most dangerous and threatening equipment.

Sure enough, the attention of the German infantry was immediately attracted by the tanks, so they urgently called the rear tanks while hiding themselves.

It turned out to be a "No. 3" tank that came up. It clung to the corner of the building and turned, even smashing the protruding corner of the building to pieces.

This action proves the strength of the German tank crew...it is to not expose their side armor to the enemy's guns.

The side armor of the "No. 3" tank is only 32MM, and there is basically no inclination, so even if the opponent is only a small gun with a caliber of 40MM, German tankers dare not be careless.

Then there was only a "boom", and the "No. 3" tank opened fire first.

At this time, Shulka was a little strange. The German army came prepared. They should know that the "Pan. 3" tank could not penetrate the frontal armor of the "Matilda". Isn't it a waste of effort to fire so eagerly now?

Then Shulka quickly understood, because in the field of vision of Shulka's telescope, the German army seemed to be busy with something after seeing the tank.

"An anti-tank gun!" Shulka said. "The Germans have anti-tank guns hidden behind the tanks!"

This approach is very clever. The front tanks are used to attract the attention of the Soviet army, and the rear is equipped with anti-tank guns. Then, as soon as the tanks get out of the way... the anti-tank guns can open fire on the Soviet tanks.

"But their anti-tank guns can't penetrate our tanks either!" said the instructor.

"No!" Shulka said: "If they will make such an arrangement, it means that this anti-tank gun can penetrate the 'Matilda'!"

After a pause, Shulka gave another order: "Pass on the order, the Germans are probably equipped with anti-tank guns that can penetrate the 'Matilda'! Let the tanks be careful!"

Shulka guessed right, the German anti-tank gun is PAK40.

This anti-tank gun was developed by signing a contract with 39, but because the active PAK38 anti-tank gun of the German army is still enough, so the PAK40 project has been proceeding slowly.

It wasn't until the outbreak of the Soviet-German War that the German army suddenly discovered that tanks like T34 and KV1 were standing in front of them, so they urgently raised the priority of PAK40.

Its first prototype gun was sent to the battlefield for testing in November. Due to logistics and transportation problems, it was only a small amount of equipment until then.

The PAK40 anti-tank gun has a caliber of 75MM and can penetrate 116MM vertical armor at a distance of 1000 meters.

The "Matilda" tank is only 90MM thick even if it is equipped with additional armor.

Therefore, the PAK40 anti-tank gun can undoubtedly penetrate the "Matilda" head-on.

Of course, if you can penetrate the "Matilda", it means you can penetrate heavy tanks such as T34 and KV1.

This is also one of the reasons why Lucas, the commander of the Sixth Armored Division, dared to fight against the 1st Guards Tank Brigade... He knew about the battle between the Seventh Armored Division and the Soviet army, and knew that "No. 3" and "Matil "Da" can't penetrate each other even at close range.

If this is the case, that is to say, when the German army still relies on the "No. 3" tank and the PAK38 anti-tank gun, it is basically impossible to fight the enemy at a long distance... If they cannot penetrate each other, they will only The fighting got closer and closer and eventually turned into "hand-to-hand combat", otherwise the German army would not be able to advance at all.

Fortunately, the 6th Armored Division was equipped with 9 PAK40 anti-tank guns.

(Note: 9 PAK40 anti-tank guns are an anti-tank gun company. Each gun is equipped with 5 artillerymen, plus the tractor driver, spare gun crew and logistics personnel, the company has more than 100 people)

Lucas believed that anti-tank guns could knock out enemy tanks.

The problem is that the total weight of the PAK40 anti-tank gun is 1425 kg. It needs to be towed and deployed by a car. This will only become the target of enemy tanks on the battlefield, especially in offensive battles.

So Lucas came up with this idea:

First use the "No. 3" tank to launch an attack, and secretly deploy the PAK40 under the cover of the "No. 3" tank, and then only need the tank to move aside...the PAK40 can fire at the target.

"We can shoot and destroy the tank!" said the instructor. "If the tank can't move, the anti-tank guns behind it won't work either!"

"No!" said Shulka, "we're going to shoot anti-tank guns!"