Just as he was shouting in panic, the side of his tank was penetrated by an incoming anti-tank rocket. A line of white smoke flew out from the ruins on this side and directly hit the side of the tank.
On the armor.
The rocket did not cause a fatal explosion, and the dwarves in the vehicle had no time to think. They jumped out of the penetrated tank and ran away like rabbits whose tails were set on fire.
The Tang army didn't even fire at him, they just looked at the frightened tank commander and the dwarf tank crew members who later jumped out of the tank, and allowed them to escape back to their own positions.
The battle here is basically over. Two of the three tanks of the Dwarves were killed by a Type 96 main battle tank of the Tang Army without even firing a single shot. The remaining one was also eliminated by the Tang Army's anti-tank team.
Already.
On the other side, the dwarf tank platoon leader, who heard intermittently on the radio that his own tank was penetrated, had begun to sweat on his forehead.
"Stop! Target position is 2 o'clock!" He ordered loudly. The tank kept moving forward under his command. After shaking slightly for two times, the mighty-looking turret began to turn.
Because the armor is too thick and heavy, the turret rotation speed of this Type 10 tank is too slow. This is also an important reason why the dwarf tank just could not aim at the Tang army tank.
Even because the armor on the front of the turret is too thick, the Dwarf Type 10 tank needs to lock the turret when going uphill, otherwise it will easily cause the turret to start turning on its own, damaging the motor or even damaging the gear structure.
Under the hysterical working of the motor, the tank's turret rotated little by little, and the sight quickly captured a camouflaged target.
This Tang Army tank was already pointing its thick barrel in this direction. Seeing all this, the dwarf gunner trembled in fright and stepped on the firing pedal.
"Boom!" With a loud noise, the 100mm tank gun in front of the dwarf's tank spurted rolling flames from the muzzle, and a shell went straight towards the Tang Army's tank.
It took almost only a moment for the shell to directly hit the main armor on the left side of the turret of the Tang Army tank. Immediately afterwards, the shell began to deform, and then left a dent on the armor of the Tang Army tank, which was wiped away.
The paint on it created a black burn mark, then changed its trajectory and flew to the upper left.
Yes, it bounced off!
Seeing that the shells he fired failed to penetrate the enemy's armor, the dwarf gunner's face turned pale. He shouted loudly and ordered the loader to quickly load new shells.
At the same time, he began to slightly adjust his artillery, aiming at the body of the Tang army's tank. According to the dwarves' experience, the tank's body armor was somewhat thinner than the turret armor.
Just as he was adjusting, the Tang Army's tank opened fire. The same black muzzle spurted out a ball of blazing flames, and then a shell directly hit the dwarf tank.
The huge impact force made everyone in the car feel the tank shaking, and the metal jet that followed rushed through the car body, like a steel knife, mercilessly cutting anything in the way.
The radio station in the dwarf tank was penetrated by fragments, and dazzling sparks burst out. The loader holding the shell was hit by a single fragment, and the shell in his hand also fell. The commander's face was still pressed against the periscope.
Blood had already begun to spurt out from his stomach, but he did not feel any pain at this moment. The backrest of the driver's seat in the car was penetrated, and shrapnel rushed out of his chest, smashing the instruments on his side.
The next moment, the shell that had penetrated the shell and ignited the propellant began to explode. The violent flames instantly filled the entire tank. Due to the extremely rapid expansion, the hot gas with nowhere to go directly lifted the more than ten tons of turret.
He stood up and was thrown directly into the air.
Because there are no effective safety measures, not even an automatic fire extinguishing system, the tanks of the Ice Empire that are penetrated will basically explode tragically. At least, when facing the 125 smoothbore cannon, their tanks are vulnerable
There is no difference from a piece of paper.
Another dwarf tank that was still searching for the location of the Tang Army tank was immediately blocked by the flames of the explosion.
The dwarf captain sitting in the car wearing headphones heard the explosion of his own platoon car. He nervously looked through the periscope above his head to check the situation outside, but only saw billowing black smoke, and he was no longer there.
The hull of the No. 201 tank that moved again.
"Damn it!" He knew that his platoon leader was finished, and he was almost certain that he was almost finished too.
"Reverse! Reverse immediately!" In the flash of lightning, he thought of a way to survive: reverse immediately and use the burning remains of the platoon leader's car as a bunker to avoid the fatal blow of the Tang army's tank.
After hearing his order, the tank he was in suddenly stopped, and the inertia caused everyone in the car to sway back and forth. Then, the driver's desperate voice came from the earphones: "Stop it! Turn it off.
Got it!"
Driving a tank is not an easy task. It takes a long time of training and precise operation to drive a tank weighing dozens of tons freely.
In order to pursue performance, the dwarf tank power system is not very reliable to begin with, and it is naturally nothing new for some accidents to occur on the battlefield.
It took almost only a second for the dwarf commander to issue a new order: "Abandon the vehicle! Quick! Get out of here!"
While giving the order, he opened the hatch above his head. The gunner's actions were not slow either, he also opened the hatch and climbed out of the vehicle.
The loader is in a worse situation. He doesn't have his own dedicated exit, so he has to wait for the commander and gunner to go out first, and then he has a way to climb out - there is no way, who makes the loader the least valuable in the tank?
.
The driver did not hesitate for a moment and also abandoned the vehicle and fled. As the reliability of radio equipment has increased, armored forces around the world have generally eliminated radio operators, and tank crew members have also become a standard four-person system.
The only difference is the Tang Empire. Because the Datang Empire used an automatic loader, the tank crew consisted of three people and there was no loader.
Seeing the dwarf crew abandoning the vehicle and escaping back among the defeated infantry, Liu Guozhu had no intention of pursuing them.
He had completed his mission and supported the special forces to hold the position. It was already dawn, and the follow-up landing of the Tang Army had begun on a large scale. It was obvious that the troops of the Tang Empire had established a firm foothold on the beach.