Steel rolled and roared on the wet and muddy road. The Soviet tank column rumbling from the northwest at ten o'clock was not at all the 13 to 15 tanks that Major Heinkel mentioned before, but after Wittmann repeatedly
After counting it twice, there was exactly one Soviet tank!
The heavily armored KV1 heavy tank drove directly in front of the entire tank column and was responsible for clearing the way. The slightly smaller T34 medium tanks followed closely behind like followers.
The Soviet infantrymen sitting on the tank were completely unaware of the presence of Wittmann and his party. They were talking and laughing as if they were chatting about something happy and unsuspecting.
"It's good that these Russians were completely unaware of our presence, Michel."
Wittmann, who was noncommittal to gunner Klink's words and kept his eyes fixed on the target, quickly focused his vision on the tail car of the tank column.
"Aim for the last one first, Klink, block the retreat of those Russians on the dirt road!"
Strictly speaking, this is the first time Wittmann has put the Tiger tank's millimeter main gun into actual combat. Wittmann, who has fired dozens of test rounds before, knows very well that this powerful main gun far exceeds any German counterattack.
As for tank weapons, as long as the gunner Klink can accurately hit the target with one blow, there will be no problem in instantly killing those Russian shabby tractors from the side.
The Soviet tank column, which slowly drove over from one kilometer away, did not take long to reach Wittmann's ideal firing distance: 00 meters away.
What made Wittmann feel a little uneasy was that suddenly a dozen of the Soviet infantrymen who were sitting on the tank and were chatting and laughing suddenly jumped off the slow-moving tank, holding in their hands exactly what they had done last year.
The latest submachine gun to appear in the Winter War made the German army feel embarrassed for a while.
"I didn't expect that the Russians in Leningrad would also use this kind of weapon. It seems that the production speed of the Russians is much faster than those above people expected."
Wittmann, who was sighing silently in his heart, saw the most appropriate opportunity and gently patted gunner Klink on the shoulder. Wittmann, who was not used to shouting in battle, had always used this method to keep his spirit up.
A calm mind to concentrate on analyzing the battle.
After receiving Wittmann's action command, gunner Klink instantly pulled the trigger in his hand, and the sight sight that had been firmly attached to the last T34 medium tank suddenly shook due to the recoil.
The millimeter capped armor-piercing projectile that had already been stuffed into the gun breech and was in the ready-to-fire state suddenly spiraled out of the gun bore with a muzzle velocity of up to 770 meters per second, carrying the muzzle flash.
The screams and howls of the wind rushed towards the target a hundred meters away at high speed.
At a distance of 00 meters, the gun can still ensure the penetration of 140 mm vertical rolled mean steel armor with devastating firepower. The T34 medium tank side armor with a physical thickness of 40 mm and a 40-degree horizontal incident angle equivalent armor of 50 mm can withstand it at all.
I can't stand such a ferocious attack.
The millimeter full-caliber armor-piercing projectile that was instantly shattered after being hit by the cap on the armor continued to advance. The weak side armor of the T34 medium tank body was easily pierced like tearing window paper. The tank that hit almost instantly was killed immediately.
It resounded throughout the earth with astonishing power.
boom--
Everything that happened in the blink of an eye broke the superficial false calm on the silent battlefield.
The astonishingly powerful tank explosion blew off the turret of the T34 medium tank and sent it straight into the sky. The headless vehicle, which was spitting out fire, was blown to pieces, the armor collapsed, and all the road wheels flew off.
The Soviet infantrymen who were sitting on the tank and unaware of the danger were even more unlucky. The shocking explosion of ammunition tore apart the body and consciousness before the painful part of the body could react. The fragmented human body fragments were like bursting seals.
Cans are generally flying around.
From the commander's command tower, Yu could clearly see everything within his sights. Wittmann was not surprised at all when he killed the T34 medium tank, which had been a headache for the Germans in the past, with just one blow. More artillery fire
The whistling sound immediately followed Wittmann's calm expression.
Boom boom boom——
The remaining three Tiger tanks, which had already aimed at the enemy, opened fire one after another with the sound of Wittmann's gun. The compact Carl Zeiss binocular integrated main gun sight allowed the powerful Tiger tank to have extremely high firepower at the same time.
The accuracy makes it easy to hit a tank-sized target at a distance of just a hundred meters.
The remaining three Tiger tanks that opened fire also wiped out their respective opponents with one blow, and the huge explosion echoed in the ears of everyone on the battlefield.
Four tanks were lost in just a split second before they had time to react. The Soviet tank column, which recovered from the earth-shaking explosion, immediately realized that it had been ambushed by heavy anti-armor weapons.
Stop and react.
But as to whether the heavy anti-armor weapons that ambushed our own side were anti-tank guns or enemy tanks, the Soviet tank soldiers who were temporarily blinded were completely confused.
The wireless communication stations for vehicle-to-vehicle communication that were fully equipped in Malashenko's 1st Guards Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment did not exist on these Soviet tanks that were suddenly ambushed and scrambled.
Unable to communicate in a timely and effective manner, the Soviet tanks almost fought independently, turning their bodies in the direction that the tank commander thought might be the incoming artillery fire, trying to face the enemy head-on.
But what is embarrassing is that some Soviet tank commanders with poor ears misjudged the direction of the German artillery fire. They directly reversed the course of the tank body and aimed the chrysanthemum at the black hole of the Tiger tank's muzzle, and the tank exploded.
It is completely normal for this phenomenon to occur when the sound is loud and loud one after another and the situation is extremely panicked.
"Humph, a bunch of rookies..."
Wittmann, who had always looked up to these opponents, immediately showed a disdainful smile when he saw this. The corners of his mouth slightly raised upwards and he soon blurted out the cold and deathly command again.
"The first kv1, Klink! Kill him!"
"Armor-piercing bullets are good!"
"Say hello to God for me, Russian!"
boom--
The sharp tiger roar sounded again, and another millimeter hooded armor-piercing bullet accurately hit the upper armor plate of the KV1 car body. The physical thickness of the 75 mm upper body armor plate tilted at 31 degrees was different from the one that had just been destroyed.
The fate of t34 is no different.
The armor-piercing delay fuse was successfully triggered in the fighting room of the vehicle body and then exploded. The entire 7-ton turret of the KV1 heavy tank was overturned in a spin like a hat-off salute. Even if it was as powerful as the KV1, it was
The Soviet army's main heavy tanks, which killed all sides in 1941, had frontal armor that could not withstand the tiger's ferocious blow at a distance of 100 meters.