The artillery attack jointly formed by ISU152 and Katyusha came and went quickly. After the indiscriminate bombardment of the roaring artillery fire, only the dilapidated German positions with boiling residual heat were left standing there, a desolate place.
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"Kurbalov, the artillery prologue is over! It's your turn to perform! Take your men and crush those German sticks into pulp for me! Charge!"
After listening to the miserable story just now, no one would feel better. Malashenko, who had been holding back the evil fire and had nowhere to vent, this time, even the tone of the attack began to change a bit, and he blurted out an almost roaring order.
It spread throughout the entire radio channel instantly.
"Leave it to me, comrade division commander! These Germans are dead today!"
The trembling of the earth brought a terrifying signal of the billowing torrent of steel rushing towards the face. The German soldiers, who had been blown to pieces in the overwhelming artillery fire, just staggered out of the defense with steps like a drunken man.
The violent vibrations coming from the shell hole and the frozen ground beneath their feet shocked almost everyone instantly.
"Tanks! Russian tanks, tanks are coming!"
An unknown scream came from nowhere and broke the brief silence of the smoke. The expressions on the faces of the German soldiers with their own small weapons in hand were different, but after hearing this terrible news, most of them were
Horrified, stunned, even unbelievable.
Whether it was the direction from which the Russian tanks were attacking or the starting point of the rapid artillery attack, the facts in front of them all told terrible news. Many German soldiers on the position were ignorant of the facts.
The soldiers finally began to realize a very critical issue to a greater or lesser extent at this moment.
The direction the Russians were calling was from behind. There should not be Russians there, but only friendly forces.
But now those Russians are attacking from behind with a swarming army. What does this mean?
Many German veterans who survived and gasped did not know the answer to this question, but they just did not want to think too much about it.
Sometimes the truth on the battlefield is actually very simple. As long as you can live long enough in this purgatory-like place and see enough things, you won't understand some things that suddenly hit your head, even if you die.
Go on the road as a wise man.
Those German veterans who were still alive understood this truth. They did not say too many words, but acted more than words. Basically, without any nonsense from the officers, they each picked up their weapons and entered the trembling positions, and took their positions.
The vanguard of those Soviet tanks that were advancing furiously were almost riding on the face of the position at this moment. And the one leading the charge was the latest T43 medium tank that Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division had just received.
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"Twelve o'clock, Russian T34!"
"I saw it, I'm aiming!"
"Loading completed!"
"Fire!"
boom--
The previous blocking advance team of the Viking Division was completely wiped out, once again causing the German army to lack key intelligence.
Those new medium tanks that have never been seen before are not within the existing cognitive scope of the German army. It is indeed shorter than the tall T34, but the overall layout of the T43 medium tank is still very similar, and it is directly regarded by the German anti-tank gun crew.
T34 misjudgment.
The 75mm full-caliber capped armor-piercing projectile that rushed straight out of the scattered muzzle fire screamed through the wind and rushed straight to the target with fierce exit kinetic energy. This full-caliber armor-piercing projectile has a good positive correction effect.
, has always been the anti-T34 artifact that the German 75mm anti-tank gun crew relied on.
As long as this kind of treasure hits the Russian T34 without ricocheting or grazing, neither the front of the T34 nor the front of the turret can withstand its vicious blow. It will punch a hole on the spot and then catch fire and explode.
It is a predictable result.
Only this time, the German army, which had a clear intelligence gap between the enemy and ourselves, was clearly facing a miscalculation.
The armor-piercing projectile traveling through the wind with extremely high kinetic energy hit the T43's solid upper armor plate that was tilted at a large angle.
Based on the heavy losses of the T34 in the face of the German Tigers and Leopards, the target was directly aimed at armor protection, and the T43 that made key upgrades and improvements was not a fool's errand.
The armor plate on the front of the car body, which has undergone essential protective changes, directly bounced away the armor-piercing projectiles ruthlessly. The German gunner and gunner, who were holding the gun scope and binoculars, only saw a silver-white projectile tail tracer.
Brilliant meteors are generally bounced straight away and pierce the sky diagonally.
"Ricochet, it didn't work!"
"Keep loading, it's still a full-caliber armor-piercing bullet, come again!"
The unwilling German gunner believed that the shot just now was just bad luck. The 75mm PAK 40 anti-tank gun was not 100% immune to ricochet when firing the T34. If one shot failed, then another shot would be impossible. The Russians would never do it.
Good luck twice in a row!
With such a firm belief in his heart, the German gunner continued to give orders and handed the 75mm custom-installed full-caliber capped armor-piercing round in front of the gun breech hand to hand. It was once again pushed into the chamber at the fastest speed, leaving the empty space just now.
The hot bullet shells that were spit out soon burned the snow under the breech of the gun until it smoked, making a hissing sound.
"Aimed! Repeat target!"
"Fire!"
boom--
Everyone knows that failure is the mother of success, but the Germans have obviously forgotten that females alone cannot reproduce offspring. This is not asexual reproduction. Failure has an upright biological father, which is called a big failure!
Bang——
call out--
The sound of hitting the armor started first, followed by the whistling sound that broke through the air. The German anti-tank gun crew, which attacked from high to low advantage, had indeed offset a certain armor inclination, but had to taste the bitter fruit of failure once again.
The 75mm full-caliber hooded armor-piercing projectile failed to create a miracle. The steel projectile smashed the hood and broke the hood. It exhausted all the remaining kinetic energy halfway forward and penetrated the armor, and the middle path collapsed.
There was a semi-penetrating projectile stuck in the upper armor plate like a joke.
I don’t know whether it was because the fuze was of poor quality and difficult to use, or whether it was completely knocked out of action due to the semi-penetration that completely exhausted its kinetic energy.
All in all, to put it simply, the shell did not explode.
Abruptly, it was like a prank graffiti painted on a cyberpunk street pissing on the face of the NCPD. It got stuck directly in the upper armor plate of the T43 medium tank, mercilessly mocking the initiator of all this, the German army itself.
It was also at this time that the German gunner, who had missed twice in succession and whose entire mental string was as tight as a wire rope, finally discovered.
Those Russian tanks that were so close that I could see the slightest detail of the track pads with a telescope turned out to be not the T34 I expected.
How to describe it as good?
From the perspective of the German gunner at this moment, the Russian medium tank, which looked like a T34 that had been forcibly flattened by a hammer on the head, could even be said to have the same turret-center layout as our own.