The magnification of the commander's periscope was not enough to clearly see the Matilda II, which was originally produced in Britain. The main gun had been replaced, and the German armored soldiers who regarded it as a 40-small water pipe tank with empty defense quickly paid the price for this.
The Matilda II tank slowly shook its little head and aimed its brand-new Soviet main gun at the German tank. The already narrow and crowded turret almost had to fight sideways because of the larger 76mm breech block.
, but this is nothing to the Soviet tank soldiers who have long been accustomed to the cramped and cramped fighting space of the T34 tank.
"The Kraut tank, 750 meters away, aim at his turret and fire!"
boom--
The yellow-orange-orange shells that exited the turret directly hit the inner armor plate at the rear of the turret, making a clanging sound that echoed in my ears. The F-34 76.2mm main gun, whose armor-piercing power far exceeded the British 2-pounder gun, burst out with blazing fire.
With the muzzle flash, the hooded armor-piercing projectiles that spiraled out of the barrel stably crossed a distance of more than 700 meters and hit the joint between the turret and the body of the German tank, piercing the armor.
boom--
The ammunition explosion shocked the German commander on the spot. It was so unexpected and shocking that it was estimated that it could withstand the direct fire of the British junk 2-pound gun armor-piercing projectile at a distance of 750 meters. The German commander was stunned on the spot.
One shot penetrated the front armor of the tank, not to mention causing the ammunition to explode. Is this the same broken iron armor-piercing bullet used by the British John Bull? How come this scene is exactly the same as being penetrated by the Russian T34?
On a battlefield where every second counts, the thinking time left for a commander will not be much more than the reaction time.
At the moment when the German armored commander's brain was disconnected and he was thinking about what was going on in a daze, another Long 75 No. 4 tank, which had penetrated the armor plate on the front of the body, was blown away on the spot.
His head and body were in different places, and the powerful ammunition explosion, which was only four or five meters away from the German commander's car, was deafening.
"Damn it! These bastard Russians have tampered with the British tanks! This is not Matilda like those plowing farm tools at all!"
After a tank was destroyed, it was possible to use the luck of the Russians to hit some tricky weak points to prevent it. In less than ten seconds, another tank's head was blown off, but it was not a fluke at all.
, those British Matilda tanks that look unchanged from the front projection have big problems in the hands of the Russians!
After two tanks were destroyed, the advancing German tanks also slowed to a stop and began to fire at the Soviet troops.
Compared with the very few Type 75 Type 4 F2 tanks that Malashenko first saw a few months ago, the urgent need to effectively deal with Soviet tanks on the front line has led to a sharp increase in the production of Type 4 F2 medium tanks. Appeared in
The German armored regiment in front of Malashenko has 18 of the latest brand-new tanks, which have been officially named Type IV G.
The two sides stopped and entered into an exchange of fire at a distance of 700 meters. The firepower of the German Commander No. 754 was no less powerful than that of the Soviet tank. It was immediately displayed.
Matilda, which was still domineering on the French battlefield and frightened the German armored soldiers into shouting monsters, was no longer reusable. The armor defense with a physical thickness of 75 mm and almost no inclination was simply not enough to withstand a 75-meter-long armor at a distance of 700 meters.
Number 4's aim was straight.
After just two rounds of back-and-forth shooting in the ping-pong-pong game, as many as eight British-made Matildas and Valentines were destroyed on the spot.
Realizing that these strange British tanks, like the T34, could threaten their own tanks head-on at a distance of 700 meters, the Germans changed their tactics as quickly as possible and eliminated more numbers in the shortest possible time under the same enemy fire threat.
The best choice is to attack these British tanks first, which can be killed with one shot.
The skillful tactical coordination and fast reaction speed of the German armored forces accelerated Malashenko's plan to bankruptcy.
Malashenko, who originally planned to let these British tanks with new guns pretend to be pigs and eat tigers to output two more waves, looked a little solemn, worried that the rookie tank soldiers who had just graduated from school would not be able to withstand such pressure and collapse.
He patted the shoulder of Iushkin, who was sitting side by side with him on the other side of the gun block, twice to signal him to search for the enemy and fight on his own. Malashenko grabbed the microphone next to him and decided to say something. He first put this
Let’s help stabilize the morale of the rookies who are facing a bloody battle for the first time on the battlefield.
"Hold those German sons of bitches! Don't let them move forward! I will fight beside you, comrades! Destroy them!"
It was only after these new recruits arrived that Malashenko found out that he had been included in the latest version of the Tank Academy textbook as a model and role model.
The school teachers who are now applying their knowledge even regard the raid on the village of Nibotrikaya that they fought just a few months ago as a classic example, vividly describing in class how Malashenko kicked the group of
The kraut's ass poked them in the ass.
Malashenko, who was surrounded by this group of fresh graduates and asked questions, realized that he had become a star on campus. With the looks of admiration for him among the school students, Malashenko had a reason.
I believe that my own encouragement will play a big role.
Just as Malashenko screamed loudly into the radio channel, the destroyed Matilda and Valentine tanks began to make some movement.
The German-made 75mm hooded armor-piercing projectile, which is equivalent to less than thirty grams of TNT warhead charge, is slightly less powerful.
Although it can basically make the members injured and lose combat effectiveness after penetrating the armor, it is not always possible to use this small charge and an unstable number of projectile fragments without fragmentation slots to cause the ammunition to explode and kill the entire vehicle.
It is as powerful as the Soviet armor-piercing grenade with a large amount of powder.
This batch of tanks sent by the British are not only equipped with the basic British configuration of the mk19 vehicle-mounted wireless communication radio, but the relative safety of the diesel engine also does not make these British tanks with poor armor like German gasoline tanks after being penetrated.
It caught fire on the spot, and objectively speaking, there was enough time for the surviving crew members to escape.
Many of the surviving tank soldiers who opened the tank hatch cover above their heads and abandoned the vehicle to escape were injured to varying degrees. As soon as they climbed out of the tank, they fell to the ground along the armor like a rolling ball.
Seeing this, the workers and militiamen immediately jumped out of their positions without saying a word and dragged these injured Red Army soldiers back to the trenches at the risk of a hail of bullets.
Beside them, the roaring steel behemoths were still trying their best to protect this extremely important tank factory behind them.