According to the prior arrangement, after the tank battalion eliminates the enemy, it should immediately return to the small village and continue to hide, so as not to be bombarded or air strikes by the German army.
After the guard battalion that cleaned the battlefield came back, Sokov raised his telescope and looked at the destroyed German tanks and armored vehicles. While looking, he also smiled and said to Yakov: "Yakov, if you win twice like this, it would be almost equivalent to killing a German armored regiment... Hell, what is that?"
Yakov was startled and asked hurriedly: "Misha, what happened?" As he said that, he also raised his telescope. "What did you see?"
"The tank battalion has been withdrawn," Sokov pointed to the distance and said gritting his teeth: "But why is the ball tank still staying on the battlefield?"
Yakov held up the telescope and searched for a moment. Sure enough, he saw the well-behaved ball tank, still staying on the battlefield. However, after a while, he observed carefully, and found two people squatting next to the tank, as if repairing something. He said in an uncertain tone: "Misha, is there something wrong with that tank?"
Sokov did not observe anymore, but asked the radio operator to contact Bere. When he heard Berere's voice coming from his headphones, Sokov asked furiously: "Comrade Colonel, have I ordered all the tanks to return to the small village immediately after completing the combat mission? Why is Lieutenant Varenra's ball tank still stuck on the battlefield at this moment?"
"Comrade Brigade Commander, please listen to my explanation." Bellei replied slowly, "When we returned, the ball tank had a malfunction, and Lieutenant Varianla was leading people to carry out maintenance. Once the tank was repaired, they would immediately return to the village."
"Why don't you send someone to help repair the tank?" Sokov felt panic when he saw the spherical tank in the distance: "If the enemy carnage or bombing, the tank will not be saved."
"Don't worry, comrade comrade commander." Seeing Sokov was so worried about the safety of the ball tank, Bere comforted him and said: "The target of a tank parked on the battlefield is very small. Unless the German army covers the area with artillery fire, the possibility of being destroyed is very small."
"What about the air strike?" Although Bere said that the artillery could not accurately destroy the spherical tank, Sokov asked worriedly: "If it is discovered by an enemy plane, it is still possible to be destroyed."
"Air attack, you don't have to worry about it." Bie Lei said with a smile: "Look, there are so many burning tanks and armored vehicles on the battlefield, and the thick smoke they produce will block the pilot's vision and make them unable to see the target on the ground clearly."
Bere's explanation made Sokov feel a little more at ease, but he still said to the sender with concern: "Comrade Colonel, tell Lieutenant Varenra to move quickly and must fix the ball tank before the German army launches a new attack."
"Don't worry, comrade brigade commander." Berre replied: "The reason I asked Lieutenant Varenra to drive this tank was because he had rich experience in mechanical maintenance and could promptly eliminate various faults in the ball tank."
After Sokov finished the call, he threw the sender and headphones to the radio operator, and then said to Yakov: "Yakov, you are right. The ball tank is indeed malfunctioning. Lieutenant Varenra and others are undergoing emergency repairs."
After hearing Sokov finished speaking, Yakov raised his hand and looked at his watch, and asked with concern: "It has been almost an hour since the end of the battle. The enemy may launch an attack at any time. Can Lieutenant Varianla and others repair the tanks in time?"
Sokov sighed and said with a wry smile: "Under the current situation, we can only leave it to fate."
The German army's new round of attack came faster than expected. Before Varianla and others repaired the tanks, the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles appeared in Sokov's field of vision. Seeing this, Sokov was so anxious that he stamped his feet. He quickly ordered the radio operator: "I inform Colonel Bereh quickly, and say that the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles were coming up, so that he could prepare for attack."
"Wait a minute, Misha." Yakov heard Sokov's instructions to the radio operator and quickly stopped him: "The enemy only has three tanks and seven armored vehicles, so there is no need to dispatch the tank battalion hidden in the small village..."
"Yakov, the enemy has three tanks left. The ball tank cannot cope with so many enemies." Sokov said anxiously: "If I don't order Colonel Bo Lei to attack, I can only watch the ball tank be destroyed by the enemy."
"Misha, the situation is not that bad." Yakov said cautiously: "According to my observation, there should be no problem with ball tanks fighting against three. As long as Lieutenant Varrenla and others can kill three enemy tanks, the remaining armored vehicles will not be a concern."
Yakov's words reminded Sokov that the spherical tank was once hit by the German tank during the battle, but due to the arc armor of the spherical tank, the armor-piercing bullet became a jumper. Although the Germans now have three tanks, they are not necessarily opponents of the spherical tank. Thinking of this link, Sokov did not ask the radio operator to contact Bo Lei anymore, but raised his telescope and quietly observed the situation on the battlefield.
The spherical tank that was parked in place without moving, waited for the German tank to enter the five hundred meters range, and before the other party stopped firing, the gun was fired first. The two-gun tank gun aimed at one of the tanks and fired at the same time. One shell fell into the air, but the other shell accurately hit the tank's track. The tank that was interrupted quickly turned around in circles on the spot and did not continue to fire the gun and fight back.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the German tanks spinning in place, the gunners of the ball tank loaded again, and once the enemy tank stopped, they launched another shelling. This time, both shells hit the tank with broken tracks. After the high-temperature jet of the armor-piercing shell penetrated the armor, it produced a splashing effect in the tank body, killing the tank crew inside, causing the shells inside to explode. In an instant, the German tank turned into a fireball and burned in place.
Killed a German tank, and the ball tank adjusted its shooting direction again and opened fire at another tank that was racing. However, Lieutenant Varrenla and his team did not seem to be just right, and both shells were empty. Before they could complete the new round of loading, they were hit by the armor-piercing projectile fired by another German tank. Fortunately, the armor-piercing projectile just rubbed against the surface of the arc armor and bounced away, without causing any substantial damage to the ball tank.
For such a result, Varianla and the others seemed to have been used to it. They ignored the tank at all, but continued to aim at the target just now and continued to shoot. This time, they finally successfully destroyed the enemy's tank.
Seeing Varira and the others destroying two tanks in a row, Sokov couldn't help but applaud. He knew very well that for the ball tank, the remaining German tank was not worth worrying. As long as the enemy tanks were all destroyed, the armored vehicles would definitely be scared and fled.
A few minutes later, the ball tank successfully destroyed the third German tank. However, the situation did not develop as Sokov imagined. The armored personnel carrier loaded with soldiers did not turn around and escape after seeing the accompanying tank being destroyed, but rushed up against the ball tank. Facing the armored vehicles rushing over, the ball tank fired several more shots, but the shells fell out without exception.
"Damn," just as Sokov felt relieved in his heart, he heard Yakov beside him exclaiming: "The cannonballs of the ball tank have run out of shells."
Sokov was shocked and quickly raised his telescope to look at the ball tank in the distance. He saw the German armored vehicles approaching the ball tank quickly, but the ball tank stayed still in place, neither firing nor moving. Perhaps it was really like Yakov said, there were no shells.
"What should I do?" Seeing this, Sokov felt a little panicked. If there were anti-tank soldiers on these armored personnel carriers, they could destroy ball tanks without infantry cover. Because they were too far apart, even if they wanted to save them, Sokov asked himself secretly: "Do you need Colonel Bo Lei and others to attack?"
"Misha, don't let Colonel Bere and the others attack." Yakov saw Sokov's thoughts and quickly reminded him: "If there are anti-tank hands on those armored personnel carriers, Colonel Bere's tank battalion will suffer heavy losses."
Sokov heard Yakov's out-of-the-painting voice, and he gritted his back teeth and said, "So, we can only let the ball tanks die?"
"Misha, as a commander, you must know how to choose." Yakov said with a serious expression: "Even if Colonel Bere strikes at this moment, it will be a bit too late. Once they rush up to encounter the German anti-tank hands, we will lose more tanks by then. Do you understand?"
"I understand." Sokov's heart was cut off when he thought that the ball tank was about to be blown up by the German anti-tank hands. But in order to take into account the overall situation, he could only harden his heart and prepare to watch the tank that had built many meritorious deeds be blown up by the enemy.
The German armored vehicles surrounded the ball tanks, and the machine guns on the vehicles began to shoot. The soldiers jumped out of the vehicles, and some of them lay down on the ground and shot at the tanks. Some soldiers, who were obviously anti-tank hands, crawled towards the ball tanks.
Under the cover of numerous firepower, the German anti-tank hands quickly arrived at a distance of thirty meters away from the tank. They threw the anti-tank grenades without hesitation. With the grenades with the tail wings flew towards the spherical tank from different directions. After a series of loud bangs, the tank was shrouded in smoke.
The German soldiers surrounding the tanks stopped shooting when they saw the tanks being shrouded by gunpowder and cheered on the spot. According to their ideas, no matter how powerful the tanks were, after being hit by so many anti-tank grenades, they would turn into a pile of burning scrap iron. Unexpectedly, when the gunpowder dissipated, they saw that the spherical tanks parked there did not catch fire, but some places on the surface armor were scratched by shrapnel.
Just as the German officers and soldiers were stunned, four machine guns of the ball tank fired at the same time. The anti-tank soldiers who stood up to check the results were the first to be hit and fell to the ground one after another. The machine gunners on the armored vehicles quickly shot desperately at the ball tank. Bullets hit the armor plate like hail, splashing countless sparks.
When the ball tank was shrouded by gun smoke, Sokov's heart sank suddenly. He thought the tank must have been destroyed. Who knew that when the smoke dissipated, the ball tank was intact. The several machine guns in the car were still shooting wildly at the German officers and soldiers surrounding him, and a smile appeared on his face.
"Misha, have you seen it?" Yakov shouted excitedly when he saw this scene: "The anti-tank grenades thrown by the Germans did not cause any damage to our ball tanks. It seems that the Germans are in trouble now."
After a spherical tank was fired for a while, they might have found that there were many shooting dead spots, so they began to circle around in the spots so that they could eliminate the shooting dead spots and eliminate more enemies. When the German soldiers thought of the spherical tank, they could actually turn around in the spots like a gyro. The four machine guns on the body of the car were like the sickle of the god of death, constantly taking the lives of German officers and soldiers.
Just a few minutes later, all the German officers and soldiers around the tank were killed and injured. The ball tank stopped rotating, and after pausing in place for a moment, it rushed towards an armored personnel carrier directly in front of it. After a loud "boom", the armored personnel carrier was hit and overturned several times, knocking the machine gunner on the vehicle to death.
The attack worked, and the ball tanks kept turning in the direction, and frantically hitting other armored personnel carriers and were knocked over three consecutively. The remaining armored vehicles faced the ball tanks that rushed over, and they didn't dare to stay where they were waiting to die. They turned around in a panic, and even the officers and soldiers ignored them and ran back with all their strength.
The remaining German soldiers saw that their armored personnel carrier had already run away and knew that they would continue to fight stubbornly, so they raised their hands to surrender. But they never dreamed that Varianla received the order of Sokov to not keep the prisoners, so they surrendered or not, waiting for their fates.
Seeing that the spherical tank had killed three German tanks, four armored personnel carriers, and fifty or sixty soldiers so easily, Sokov began to think in his mind: I really didn't expect that this spherical tank was so powerful on the battlefield. Should Yakov ask Ustinov to open a tank production line specifically to produce such tanks?
Chapter completed!