One Thousand and Seventy-Eight Distances Are Meters

Throwing stones at the thick armor of the German King Tiger tank obviously cannot destroy the German King Tiger tank. Even now the Soviet anti-tank weapons are aimed at the King Tiger tank for normal fire, and in most cases they cannot be hit. Wearing German tank armor. ;?.?`

On the one hand, it was because the Soviet Union was rushing to produce 76mm anti-tank guns, in order to one-sidedly pursue production capacity, which eventually affected the anti-tank performance of this artillery. On the other hand, when this artillery was originally designed, it was not for Anti-tank was developed with such a single target.

To put it simply, this Soviet 76.2 mm caliber anti-tank gun was designed as a comprehensive infantry support weapon when it was developed. What is a multifunctional platform? It is to try to make this kind of artillery capable of curved support shooting, and at the same time have a certain anti-tank capability.

The original design idea was to use one type of artillery to do the work of two or even three types of artillery, and then greatly simplify the equipment pressure in terms of logistics and production. In the era when this kind of artillery was born, the mainstream of the world's tanks was still small beans like T-26 and Renault. Using a 76mm caliber to take care of anti-tank missions was simply overkill.

However, with the advancement of the war, the thickness of tank armor in the world has made a qualitative leap, especially the German Wehrmacht, the opponent of the Soviet Union. The Tiger tank and King Tiger tank equipped by it have reached the forefront of the world in technology. Under the circumstances, using a gun that was designed with multiple functions in mind to counter the advanced tank protection system designed by the German professional design team is absolutely powerless.

Moreover, the rapid development of German science and technology, the terrible breakthrough in high-tech materials, the Soviet Union did not have time to take into account research. In 1935, German material technology experts published papers on strengthening steel materials. In 1939, German companies began to generally use armor steel, which is the world's leading material technology, to produce their own armored vehicles.

Later, through a series of research and development, Germany developed a cloth material to cover the outer armor of the tank to enhance its ability to resist anti-tank weapons. It's just that this material has not been popularized yet, and only some troops are testing it for the time being.

The huge gap between the increase and decrease between the own tank gun and the enemy's armor has become particularly obvious. During World War II, most of the anti-tank operations were face-to-face bayonet fighting. Once one party lost confidence in the weapons in their hands, it is conceivable how much impact it would have on the battle situation.

Soviet soldiers really didn't have the courage to use stones as weapons to face German tanks, at least in this battle, they really didn't have the courage in this regard. Before Zhukov and Vatutin reached an agreement on whether the front line should retreat, most of the Soviet positions were already occupied by the Germans.

The German soldiers easily crossed the broken barbed wire barrier of the Soviet army and jumped into the trenches of the Soviets. Holding the weapons in their hands, they desperately fired at the collapsed Soviet army, and drove those tree army soldiers who fled back,

Killed at the end of the trench.

"The Soviets are gone! Keep firing!" An officer who had just jumped into the trench from behind the tank waved his pistol, loudly encouraging the surrounding soldiers. Beside him, German soldiers one after another, carrying their own weapons, were crossing in front of him, towards the other end of the trench, sprinting at their fastest speed.

"Boom!" A German soldier leaning against the wall of the trench pointed his Mauser 98k rifle in the direction of the Soviet army. He clicked his rifle, and then pulled the bolt skillfully to prepare for the next shot. He himself didn't know whether the shot just now hit his enemy, but the training taught him how to survive in this battle, and the training made him numbly aim at the enemy and fire as fast as possible. ?`

Beside him, the second German soldier also lay down on the wall of the pit. He also aimed his gun in the direction of the Soviets, then aimed and fired. The two men kept firing one shot at a time, turning a blind eye to the bodies of three or four Soviet soldiers piled up next to them. To them, those corpses seemed to be just dirt, something indistinguishable from stone sandbags.

The tracks of a German Leopard assault gun rolled slowly, picking up the mud and letting the mud fall down at a certain point. The huge road wheels dwarfed the heads of German soldiers in nearby trenches. The metal tracks rubbed past the helmets, crushing the corpses of the Soviet soldiers across its path into the mud.

The heading machine gun in front of the car body kept spitting flames, and the tracer bullets densely woven a fire net directly in front of the assault gun. Several Soviet soldiers were enveloped by the fire net, and then turned into bloody The corpses spread out on the way back.

For the Soviet defenders who lacked anti-tank weapons, the infantry assault guns, which were not so thickly armored, were already indestructible steel behemoths in front of them. On the frontal position, they relied on countless crazy counterattacks at night, and countless times they rushed to the German assault guns with their bags in their hands to stop the advance of these monsters.

Sometimes in order to destroy a German assault gun or tank, a whole company of Soviet soldiers would be killed on the line of defense, and even the entire battalion would be defeated. After more than a year of cooperation, the German army has already formed a set of skilled infantry-tank cooperative combat mode. It is not an easy task for the Soviet army to take advantage of this mode.

"For Stalin!" Suddenly, not far from the side of a German Panther assault gun, a young Soviet soldier jumped up from the ground. Holding a bag, he shouted slogans and rushed towards the German assault guns that were still advancing. This is a tactic often used by Soviet infantry, and approaching from the side is a relatively safe method.

"Tuttuk!" A German grenadier who was not far behind the German assault gun held an MP-44 assault rifle in his hand and greeted the Soviet soldier who was trying to die with the enemy with a dense rain of bullets. The bullet pierced through the opponent's weak body, turning the opponent into a sieve.

Of course, infantry-tank coordination is not just about tanks covering infantry to carry out assaults on enemy positions. Tanks must also be protected by infantry behind them, so that they can survive and make breakthroughs when there are enemy forces in all directions. This is a technique and tactic worthy of careful study and study, not just a group of soldiers following behind a tank.

When the Soviet soldier holding the bag fell to the ground unwillingly, the explosion on his body exploded, and there was a loud bang that left the Soviet soldier with nothing, while the German assault guns in the distance were still on fire. Slowly pushing forward his low but strong body.

Suddenly, the assault gun stopped moving forward, and adjusted its head slightly to the left. The black muzzle of the long-barreled 75mm gun fixed directly in front aimed at a fiercely firing gun in the distance. Soviet bunker. This bunker is a permanent bunker reinforced with concrete, and some weeds are used to camouflage it.

With a bang, a puff of thick smoke spewed out from the muzzle of the German assault gun, and the entire tank body trembled. A shell easily hit its target at a distance of 100 meters, and the high-explosive shell exploded less than one meter away from the machine gun bunker, setting off a cloud of smoke and gravel. The bunker was suppressed in an instant and stopped firing.

More German soldiers got up from the ground and launched a general attack on the Soviet positions that had lost their firepower support. Hundreds of German soldiers rushed into the defensive positions carefully arranged by the Soviet troops, and there was no resistance at all. The opponent of ability was driven out from inside. The Soviet army threw away their helmets and armor, and fled towards the second-line defensive position behind them.

Several German soldiers hid in the trenches and waved a German swastika flag full of bullet holes, while the majestic Leopard assault artillery leaned its low body next to the destroyed Soviet bunker, His figure was just covered, so he found a more suitable cover for himself.

"Sir! We have captured the enemy's first defensive position, and we are expanding the results to the two wings. The enemy's resistance is much weaker than the day before yesterday. I think they are short of ammunition." A German battalion commander stood In front of a table at the regiment headquarters, pointing to a partial map full of contour lines, he reported the results of this attack to his superior: "Because of the cover of the assault guns of the division headquarters, we only lost one soldier." .”

The head of the group nodded, which was considered to have approved the report of his subordinates. His infantry regiment consisted of three infantry battalions. He used two battalions in this attack, and someone probably participated in the attack. As a result, he only killed one soldier when he captured the enemy's position. This result has already made him very satisfied.

What worries him is that the Soviet defenders have always been known for their madness and bravery. These soldiers are good at counterattacking immediately after losing their positions, and use the lives of countless soldiers to regain the fallen positions. So he quickly issued an order to allow his troops to minimize their losses in possible counterattacks: "Let the troops stop advancing and consolidate their defensive positions. The Soviets may counterattack, and we must hold our positions as much as possible. "

He looked at the map, then marked a mark on the position he just occupied, and then laughed happily: "Now we are the closest to Moscow, almost only meters."

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