Chapter 1107 Explosions

Before Malashenko could send a telegram, the roar of German engines in the sky had already sounded.

The piercing air defense alarm echoed above the position. Malashenko, who was shocked by all this, immediately ran out of the brigade headquarters first. When he looked up, he saw a sky full of German fighter planes roaring towards him.

"Bastard! I really fell into a trap!"

The German planes didn't come earlier or later, but chose to come at this time. It can be said that the trap set for Malashenko was obvious, but it was too late to realize that he had fallen into the trap at this moment.

"Hide, find an air defense shelter! Hide quickly, hide, quickly!"

The position outside the October State Farm had just been captured. Malashenko had not even completed the battlefield cleaning, let alone pulling those towed anti-aircraft guns over to deploy them.

Except for those machine guns that were better than nothing for anti-aircraft shooting, there were no other defensive weapons that could organize effective anti-aircraft firepower on the entire position.

But using anti-aircraft machine guns to fight back against an air raid of this magnitude is obviously an extremely suicidal act. Malashenko would not think that he was so stubborn. Since he was bound to be bombed, he would find a place to hide first!

Although Malashenko's loud reminders and orders were shouted out in a roaring way, all this was still relatively late. The tanks that had just finished a fierce battle and were parked on the position could not dodge in time anyway.

The double 37mm gun Stuka in the front pushed the throttle and dived straight down first. The two 37mm anti-tank guns under the wings aimed at the nearest tank target in the field of vision and fired instantly.

Boom, boom, boom——

The 37mm stepping stone that did nothing on the ground once went up to the sky, the scene it encountered could be said to be a hen turning into a phoenix, completely against the sky.

In order to pursue a higher penetration depth, the 37mm guns were loaded with sub-caliber tungsten core armor-piercing shells, which were originally ineffective on the ground. The dive angle of more than 60 degrees allowed these armor-piercing shells, which were originally ineffective on the ground, to have a better angle of incidence and show completely different effects when facing Soviet tank targets with thick skin and flesh and accustomed to using inclined armor for defense.

The first IS1 heavy tank that was caught and hit was hit by several bullets in the blink of an eye. The solid steel body was full of wounds left by the 37mm guns, which was shocking.

After several consecutive bursts, the German pilots stopped the attack in advance, intending to save some of the spare ammunition that was already carried in the pod, and destroy several Soviet tank targets and achieve the greatest results as possible.

After the clumsy body like a pregnant seagull changed its posture and whistled over the head, the IS1 heavy tank that was hit and devastated had stopped moving and opened the turret cover.

The commander, who was seriously injured and had blood on his mouth, was the first to climb out with difficulty. He covered his wounds with his hands and didn't even have the strength to stand up. He rolled down from the car and lay on his back, his life or death unknown.

The armor-piercing shells of the 37mm knocker did not cause the ammunition to explode, but they actually penetrated the armor and caused internal injuries to the IS1.

The dome armor of the hull and turret is not as strong as the main armor belt on the front. Its protective effect in front of the 37mm knocker can be said to be basically the same as a blank sheet of paper.

Although the tungsten core armor-piercing shells that penetrated the armor were not loaded with explosives and would not cause an explosion in the car, they caused a large number of collapsed armor fragments, which bounced around in the car together with the armor-piercing shell cores, causing huge damage.

It was lucky to be able to escape from the tank with serious injuries and a breath left, struggling to abandon the car.

Inside the motionless IS1 tank, the driver with half of his head smashed, the gunner with his intestines spilled out, and the loader, who was most likely hit in the torso by the core of an armor-piercing shell and had a big hole in his stomach, almost cut in half, all died at their posts, bleeding all over the floor.

The only one who survived was the seriously injured commander. The damage caused by the simultaneous top-to-top firing of two 37mm guns was much greater than what was shown in the game.

The first Stuka's direct fall was just the beginning, and the German bomber formation that followed closely also began to join in this air raid feast.

The bomber formation composed of Dornier 217 and Junkers 88 flew over the position, and the black bombs carried in the bomb bay and under the wings immediately fell straight down and hit the target accurately.

Most of the Red Army soldiers who were fleeing had already found their own shelters and took shelter nearby, but those majestic steel behemoths had nowhere to hide and could not escape such a large-scale air raid.

Asking the tank soldiers to abandon their steel partners who had been with them day and night and only care about their own lives is like abandoning their beloved lovers in times of crisis. There will always be some tank soldiers with rare equipment who are unwilling to abandon their equipment and still intend to try to save their vehicles during this bombing period.

Malashenko has repeatedly emphasized that in the face of German air raids and unstoppable situations, all tank crews under the brigade are allowed to abandon their vehicles and seek cover immediately.

The war had already been fought in 1943, and the strategic output values ​​of the Soviet army had already soared, fully meeting the losses and needs of the front line.

Compared with a tank coming off the assembly line, Malashenko valued a veteran crew with rich combat experience more.

After all, tanks can be rebuilt if they are gone, but people are gone for real. The loss of some ace elite crews is irreversible and irreparable. The question of whether to save people or vehicles under air strikes has a very clear answer.

But the facts have proved that Malashenko's orders do not always work. At least those crews who are stubborn and unwilling to abandon their vehicles have already disobeyed the orders of the brigade commander and are still trying to save their tanks from the fierce air strikes of the Germans.

Malashenko, who was hiding in the trenches nearby and had a panoramic view of all this, was very anxious, but he had no choice but to stare anxiously because he had no suitable communication device at the moment.

You can't suddenly jump out and shout loudly at this time? That would be no different from courting death.

250 kg, 500 kg, and even 1 ton heavy aerial bombs carried by Dornier 217 fell on the battlefield like thunder, making a loud noise.

The huge flames were almost connected in the dense bombing like a blast.

The mushroom clouds produced by the explosion of heavy bombs were even more smoky and rushed straight into the sky. One after another, the mushroom clouds rose from the ground, which was a terrible scene like the end of the world, shaking the earth, as if no life could survive in this earth-shaking catastrophe.