The King Tiger, whose turret rotation speed had reached such a low level that it was impossible to watch directly, still did not give up. Perhaps it was the crazy and life-threatening fanaticism and courage that supported these SS soldiers to still fight.
Kulbalov was not interested in the madness of these SS fanatics. Now he only wanted to quickly kill the SS Tiger King who was endowed with stubborn resistance, and then go back to find Malashenko to complete the task. It was as simple as that.
"Load the shells, aim and keep firing! Hit the Kraut's junk truck until there is no more movement!"
As the most powerful heavy tank actually put into combat in the entire history of World War II, the King Tiger indeed has strong protective power worthy of its full combat weight of nearly 70 tons in this era.
If you were to compare it to other ordinary German tanks, they would have given up on the spot after taking more than a dozen 122 shells and been beaten into tatters. But the King Tiger, this kind of wild steel giant with ferocious armor and rough main gun,
A beast, but it can still stand firm like a rock in the sea and continue to fight.
For this kind of monster whose defense has reached a perverted level, the best way is to continue to use powerful and destructive firepower to completely destroy it. Kulbalov does not intend to give his opponent the slightest chance of fair competition. This is not a bullshit knight at all.
The spirit is palpable.
I have an absolute numerical advantage in my hands, so I must make good use of it.
Use this overwhelming and overwhelming numerical advantage to crush you alive until you can no longer struggle to your death. In other words, it is complete destruction.
Several IS6 heavy tanks, which were sent out by Kulbalov and prepared to approach the attack position and fire, had already entered the last firing range that could penetrate the King Tiger turret from the front.
At the same time, other Red Army tanks staying in the rear for fire support have also been loaded.
The black muzzle was pointed directly at the SS King Tiger that was already unable to move but was still struggling in its death throes. The outcome after another salvo was almost determined.
But at the moment before the gunners of the Red Army vehicles were about to fire, the King Tiger, which had already aimed at the target it wanted to attack, took the lead again and roared to fire. The 88mm main gun with a 71-fold caliber barrel ejected again
The blazing fire, but this time the fire was a little different from the usual state in the blink of an eye.
boom--
"...."
Speechless and somewhat jaw-dropping, this was the truest state of mind of Kulbalov, who saw the scene in front of him clearly after a loud bang.
The King Tiger did open fire again before the Red Army took action, but no one expected that the outcome would be like this.
The entire barrel was instantly exploded, torn into pieces, and twisted into a four-petal bloom. The originally huge muzzle brake had now disappeared along with the small half of the barrel in front of it. Kongliu seemed to have been blown away by explosives.
The rear half of the gun barrel was suddenly inserted into the turret like an internal explosion, and there was no more movement.
"...Comrade division commander, the battle is over, the German guy's broken car blew up on its own."
"...."
Malashenko, who was far away, could not clearly see what happened in the moment when the fire suddenly appeared. After learning the specific situation from Kulbalov's mouth, he was speechless.
"Exploded your own body? Damn it, this...isn't this too fucking ridiculous!?"
The intensive bombardment of the 122mm high-explosive bombs just now not only caused damage visible to the naked eye, but also caused some internal damage that is not easy to find or cannot be seen at all, such as the barrel explosion.
direct cause.
The 71 times caliber 88mm main gun barrel, which is as good as a fishing rod, is inherently fragile and easily damaged. This German-made main gun barrel, which has a very high scrappage rate after processing and drilling, is not that indestructible.
Several 122 mm high-explosive bombs exploded concentratedly on the front of the vehicle body, releasing astonishing chemical destructive power and rapidly expanding. The explosion flames impacted upward and spread, invisibly destroying the main gun barrel, which was longer than the front end of the vehicle body.
Caused fatal damage.
This kind of damage did not blow up the main gun barrel on the spot and destroy it, but it left cracks that were difficult to detect with the naked eye and even a slight distortion.
The SS armored soldiers fighting in the car had no way of knowing that the main gun barrel had become like this. They could only continue to fight to the death, firing shells at the Russians, hoping to drag a few more people on the road with them before they died.
The result derived from this is that the projectile pushed by the gunpowder gas at high speed rushed into the barrel as usual. The sharply expanding gunpowder gas had not had time to push the shell out of the barrel and was released from the muzzle, densely covering the gun.
The cracks on the tube wall could not withstand the astonishing chamber pressure and instantly collapsed and spread.
With a loud bang, the propellant gas and chemical energy were released instantly, and the Tiger King's proud gun barrel was directly divided into two parts from the front half. The front half of the gun barrel and the muzzle were retracted
The weapon was completely lost together, leaving only the remains of the rear half of the barrel that could no longer be fired and the scorching residual temperature.
The few SS armored soldiers in the car were actually lucky. The artillery shell exploded in the barrel during the process of exiting the barrel, instead of exploding directly in the breech block. If the firing failed in the breech block and was fired on the spot.
If it explodes, then the Tiger King will have already ascended to the sky on the same spot, with its head blown off, and there will be no other second ending option.
Knowing that it was no longer necessary to completely destroy it, Kulbalov immediately changed his order. It was no longer a complete destruction but to capture alive prisoners. This was what Malashenko conveyed to him on the radio.
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Although there was no accompanying infantry on board, several reckless Red Army tank crews still carried out their mission thoroughly.
The first IS6 heavy tank that arrived next to the King Tiger immediately stopped on the spot, avoiding the direction in which the King Tiger's hull heading machine gun and turret with coaxial machine gun pointed. The IS6 commander drilled out of the turret from the side of the King Tiger.
, left his car, charged with the Bobosha in his hand, and climbed up to the King Tiger's turret with three hits of the gun.
"Come out! Surrender! Or die!"
The German commander of this Red Army car commander was obviously not very good at it. It was very difficult for him to speak a complete sentence. He could only shout these few simple German words he had learned earlier and shouted into the car.
Time passed by minute by second, but there was still no movement from the German guy in the car.
Comrade Commander, who couldn't bear it anymore, was reaching for the grenade on his waist, preparing to give the stubborn Germans in this car some hard food. At this moment, the turret roof that had been closed suddenly made a noise.