Chapter 637: 637 hit
"1100 meters! 1100 meters away in front!" While confirming the other party's fire position loudly, the captain of the leopard tank behind kicked the backrest of the gunman's chair with his feet. Obviously, when he heard this distance, the captain hesitated for a moment, because he rarely heard the order that he had to fire at a distance of 1100 meters, and had not adapted for a while.
After all, Germany's 75mm caliber long-body gun has almost awesome penetration. When this gun faces opponents at a distance of 1100 meters, similar to French B1 tanks or Soviet T-26 and KV-1, the main gun of the Leopard tank is penetrating enough to destroy them at a distance of 1100 meters. However, in order to ensure hit accuracy and extreme confidence in their own armor, members of the German tank crew often do not fire at the extreme distance to attack their targets.
They will let the opponent enter a relatively easy-to-destroy distance, and then suddenly fire to kill the opponent in large quantities. At this time, if the opponent attempts to retreat, they will still be unable to immediately escape from the attack distance of the Leopard tank, and will take a few more rounds of attacks, so the German armored troops' large-scale destruction record was born.
But now there is an enemy tank that actually fires at a distance of 1,100 meters. This obviously provokes the pride and honor that the German armored forces have long possessed, and also shakes the accumulation of experience in the combat distance between German armored forces.
This is not a T-34 tank. Although this Soviet tank has just been in service for a short time, it turns out that its 76mm caliber main gun cannot penetrate the front armor plate of the mid- and late-stage Leopard tank. This is not a KV-1 or 2 tank, because the power and sound of firing are different. Obviously, this is a new tank that has never appeared on the battlefield.
"Don't be idle! Open fire! Open fire! Find a way to turn the tank. I want to turn the body of the car to the direction of the opponent's attack! Quick! Quick!" The two car captains reminded their subordinates not to be idle again. They must get rid of the current situation of being shrouded by long-range attacks as soon as possible to ensure that they are not killed by the opponent here in a confused manner.
"Go forward! Open the lower roadbed, and the front of the car faces the direction of the opponent's firepower! Reload the new 'super' armor-piercing bombs, so that the opponent can also know how powerful we are!" The ace tank leader issued a loud attack order. No one in the world could suspect that the armored forces of the German army were suppressed. No matter how powerful the opponent was facing, the arrogance buried deep in his bones of the German armored forces had never been dusted.
The leopard tank power wheel rolled up the track and rolled forward, swung to both sides with mud, and rushed towards the opponent he had never met before. The 75mm caliber long-body tube cannon that had once been invincible on the battlefield, and the black hole muzzle pointed at the direction that the blue smoke had not yet dissipated at the fastest speed.
"Fire!" In the distance, in the narrow tank compartment, a Soviet Red Army tank captain issued an order to fire again. There was a knife-shaped scar on his face, extending from the top of his head to the jawbone. The wound was hideous and terrifying, destroying a cold and handsome face.
The captain did not wear a standard anti-collision leather hat, but casually hung his headphones around his neck. His voice was extremely cold, just like an echo from the abyss of hell, which made people shudder. Another thing that was different from other Soviet soldiers was his neckline. His neckline was not the red collar seal of the Soviet Red Army logo, but a pair of black wolf-headed icons.
"Boom!" Without any hesitation, his gun captain immediately fired the shells. The terrifying large-caliber ammunition flew 1,000 meters this time, and finally hit the German leopard tank that rushed down the slope at the end. Through the observation window on the tank, you can see the moment the shells hit the front armor plate of the leopard tank.
The front armor of the Panther tank is inclined. If it is used to deal with shells attacking from the front, this inclined armor design can increase the defense effect and cause the opponent's artillery to jump. However, at this moment, the Panther tank is rushing down the roadbed, so the incident angle of this Soviet tank shell doubled, almost offsetting most of the inclined armor.
At the same time, this Soviet tank that fired was not a T-26 fast tank with obviously insufficient main gun caliber, nor a T-34 tank and KV-1 tank with equal power. Instead, it was a Stalin tank with less than 25 units with a 122mm caliber main gun!
On the basis of sacrificing the rate of fire, this tank artillery that uses ammunition is a bit more powerful than the current main 88mm caliber tank artillery in Germany. Although the overall performance is not stronger than the world-famous 88 gun due to difficulty in loading, this cannon is quite impressive in terms of armor-piercing power, and finally gave Soviet tanks the ability to face the head-on battle with German tanks.
What's even more unlucky is that the armor-piercing projectile from the new Soviet Stalin tank was hit by the shells, which was quite coincidental. The front heading of the machine gun muzzle and the front armor plate of the Leopard tank body was the welding point of the front heading machine gun muzzle and the front armor plate.
So in this case, the originally thick front armor plate of the Leopard tank was penetrated. The shells, with broken armor and various small parts that were shaken by huge vibrations, gathered into a hot torrent of steel, splashing back and forth inside the body of the Leopard tank, breaking through all the things that blocked the road.
"Oh my God! Car No. 1 was hit! Car No. 1 was hit!" The Leopard tank No. 2 is still on the roadbed. As soon as it has completed its steering, the captain of the car unit No. 2 saw the scene of his friendly tank being destroyed. It was an ace tank that destroyed more than a dozen enemy tanks! It was an idol-like existence in everyone's mind! It was destroyed so easily on this unknown highway.
Five members of the tank crew, five lively lives, and soldiers who were still alive just now became five piles of corpses that were broken into holes by shrapnel. There was no time on the battlefield to give the living compassion, and a pile of mud smoke rose on the side of the No. 2 Leopard Tank.
"It's two tanks! They have two new tanks!" The captain of the No. 2 tank knew that their communication channel must have his own people in the rear listening. While commanding the battle, he reported as much as possible to the battalion headquarters and even the regiment headquarters division headquarters in the rear.
"Stop moving forward, reverse slowly, pay attention to the distance of the roadbed in the rear, release smoke, and load armor-piercing bombs!" None of the German tank crew members who had been through the battle formation were soft persimmons. After a brief panic, all the staff of Car No. 2 calmed down, because each of them knew that nervousness could not allow them to save their lives on the battlefield. Only calmness could make him live longer.
"Dark green paint! Their turrets are larger and have no edges!" The captain of Car No. 2 stared firmly at the Soviet tank in the distance, which was slowly approaching, and loudly reported his observation results.
"Boom!" The tank gun of the Leopard tank opened fire, and an armor-piercing projectile accurately hit the turret of the Soviet tank. It seemed that the power of the new German tungsten alloy super armor-piercing projectile was very terrible. It almost penetrated the thickened armor of the Stalin tank at a distance of 1,000 meters. Unfortunately, the Germans were not very lucky, and the shells hit the thickest turret of the Stalin tank.
The shell did not penetrate the opponent, leaving a deep pit on the armor of the Stalin tank as a commemoration. However, the huge shock had damaged the internal structure of the Stalin tank. The Soviet tank stopped swayingly, and a little smoke came out of the hood of the engine at the rear.
"No puncture! Super armor-piercing bombs, loading!" The captain put down his telescope and loudly urged his men to prepare for the next attack.
And behind a bush not far from this German tank, in the Stalin tank cabin with a black five-pointed star that had not been moved, the man with scars on his face narrowed his eyes and snorted coldly, cursing: "Idiot, when he saw that he had made a contribution, he rushed forward...to go up and die?"
No matter how much he scolded, the loading hand beside him was like a deaf person, pushing the bullet into the barrel without a sound, and then bent down from under the floor to fire the medicine, stuffed it into the barrel and closed the barrel.
"Fire!" Scarface did not hesitate at all and immediately ordered to continue firing. This may be the longest-distance record of the two sides' fire exchange since the outbreak of World War II. Before this, only German tanks fired unilaterally, but there was never any incident in which the opponent's tank fired at a distance of 1,100 meters and hit the destruction of German tanks.
However, it was obvious that the Soviet tanks had too slow fire rate and were unable to save their poor companions. Just before the Soviet tank fired the second shell, the German tank had already fired the second shell and the third shell. One shell hit the track of the Stalin tank, knocking away more than a dozen tracks of the Stalin tank, and destroying three load-bearing wheels. Another shell finally did not disappoint the expectations of the German tank crew, penetrated the front armor of the Stalin tank body, and completely destroyed the steel giant beast that rushed out to get a bargain but was fired out by one shot.
"Finally penetrated!" Before the German tank crew members could breathe a sigh of relief, they felt that their tank was trembling violently as if it had been magnitude 8 earthquake. These soldiers who had been fighting in the tank for a long time knew that their tank was hit by the opponent's artillery.
Chapter completed!