Realizing that the time had come, Malashenko did not hesitate at all. He immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie beside him and spoke loudly to the surrounding crew members who were on standby.
"Now, fire! Aim at the side armor of those T4s and destroy them!"
The Red Army gunners who had already put armor-piercing grenades into the gun barrel and were on standby did not hesitate at all. The already tall T4 tank had already filled the main gun sight with four times magnification at a distance of one hundred meters.
The entire field of view is filled. Under such circumstances, even if the sight keeps shaking with the main gun, the main gun can still achieve an almost perfect hit rate.
Boom boom boom boom——
The four KV1 heavy tanks, including Malashenko's vehicle, opened fire almost at the same time and immediately sprayed out hot muzzle flashes, enveloping the 76mm hooded armor-piercing grenade with high-temperature burning propellant in the barrel, hitting them accurately in almost the blink of an eye.
on a very close target.
The T4 tank body and turret side armor with a physical thickness of 40 mm and a horizontal inclination of 40 degrees can only provide an equivalent armor thickness of 50 mm of defense on the horizontal ballistic attack route, which can ensure penetration at a distance of 100 meters.
For the Soviet-made 76mm tank gun with 70mm vertical homogeneous steel armor, it is basically a piece of paper.
The 76mm L-11 tank gun, which fired directly at an extremely close range, killed four T4 tanks on the spot without any suspense. The large area of T4 tanks uses tilted armor to enhance the tank's defense by sacrificing the space inside the vehicle.
The interior is extremely narrow, which is simply adding fuel to the fire for the Soviet-made armor-piercing grenade, which is already known for its high charge and large damage effect.
The 76mm armor-piercing grenade detonated instantly after triggering the armor-piercing delay fuse in the narrow space of the vehicle body, immediately bursting out into an extremely hot and dazzling fireball, unleashing its devastating power.
The broken projectile fragments flew at a speed of more than 400 meters per second, easily tearing the fragile human body protected only by basic uniforms into a bloody thing, followed closely by the burning fire dragon that rushed over and forced its way into the wound.
The human body was raging wildly, and the powerful chemical energy explosion shock wave rushed to the finale and tore the bodies of the four dead German armored soldiers into mottled pieces of flesh.
A tank with strong armor like a mobile fortress can indeed provide strong battlefield protection to the flesh and blood crew members, but the tank itself, filled with fuel and dozens of rounds of ammunition sitting under the butt, is a mobile explosive.
Bag, arsenal, the German tank crew was penetrated by Soviet armor-piercing grenades filled with the largest amount of charges in the projectile warhead. The survival rate of the German tank crew was almost 1 out of 10.
The four T4 tanks, whose side armor was penetrated almost at the same time, turned into blazing steel crematoria like champagne amidst the fire and explosions. Just five seconds ago, they were trying to get around.
The German armored vehicle crew that approached Malashenko and his party were all killed on the spot, and no one left the vehicle alive.
There is never a good thing in this world that can have its cake and eat it too.
Although the T4 tank, which sacrifices almost all the internal space of its body, can dominate for a while due to its strong defensive power of its sloped armor, the consequences once its armor is penetrated by an armor-piercing projectile are so horrific. The narrow body
The space is like a popcorn pot, providing the best environment for the devastating explosion power to be released. The T4 tank with extremely poor human-machine efficiency has no chance of allowing the crew members inside to escape alive.
After witnessing all four friendly tanks being destroyed on the spot by a single salvo, the last remaining captured T4 tank immediately braked suddenly and stopped its frantic progress.
"What to do with Hermann? What should we do? Wolfe, Clark, and Heitsom were all killed! Oh my god, why do the Soviets know so clearly about T4's weaknesses!? We are in trouble.
Their trap!"
After hearing the extremely idiotic words of his own crew member, the German commander rolled his eyes in anger and horror.
Why do the Soviets know so clearly about the weaknesses of the T4? This is basically their own tank, okay!? Don’t you understand where the weak points of the armor of the Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks are? How do the instructors at the Armored Forces School teach
What a fool like this!
The commander, who was complaining in his heart, didn't bother to speak up and scold his idiot loader. The Soviet-made 76mm tank gun, which uses a whole 76mm shell to be loaded in one piece, is very convenient to load, and it can be operated by a skilled and strong loader.
If you hold a ready-to-fire bomb in your arms, it will take less than five seconds to close the breech and prepare to fire. The German commander, who is still pointing the side armor of his vehicle at the muzzles of four KV1 heavy tanks, has no time left.
Not much left.
"Reverse! Quick! Klein, reverse immediately! Aim the front armor of the car and the front of the turret at those Russian KV1s, otherwise we will all die here!"
The German tank commander, who had already fought so hard, no longer dared to hope that he could destroy the Soviet heavy tank force from the side. The five T4 tanks that he finally gathered were beaten in an instant until he was the only one left. He regretted himself.
The German commander who was hiding behind the bushes just now to provoke these steel behemoths really wanted to get himself beaten up.
"This is simply an asymmetrical tank battle! Those idiots with haircuts sitting in the office drinking coffee should be brought to the battlefield to see for themselves! This is what they call a clumsy and useless heavy tank. I really don't know what it is.
What kind of idiot can sign his name on a report about the poor performance of the Ivan heavy tank in actual combat!"
The German tank commander, whose heart was as violent as a huge wave, only hated why the German army failed to pay attention to the research and development of heavy tanks early before the war.
This German tank commander, who has served under Army Group North since the beginning of the war, has followed his troops all the way to this point. The Soviet KV series heavy tanks have extremely rough skin and thick flesh like an unyielding wall. The terrifying defensive power is not as good as the armor-piercing ability.
The poor and weak ordinary German army is simply invincible in front of tanks!
Many comrades around me, including myself, would always express their feelings during leisure chats about how great it would be if they could personally experience the Russian kv1.
Although those rare German armored soldiers who have driven the captured KV1 always complain that the maneuverability of this thing is shit compared to the German tanks. But after they actually go to the battlefield, who will do it for such a little thing?
Accept the difficult operability and give up the treasured kv1?
Compared to throwing his own life in the German Panzer III and IV tanks whose armored protection was almost useless in front of the Soviet army, what does it mean to use all your strength to control the KV1 heavy tank without any power-assisted device?