Chapter 1298 Is It T34 or T43?

The artillery attack jointly formed by ISU152 and Katyusha came and went quickly. After the indiscriminate bombardment of the roaring artillery fire, only the dilapidated German positions with boiling residual heat were left standing there, a piece of desolation. .

"Kurbalov, the prologue of the artillery is over! It's your turn to perform! Take your people and crush those German sticks into pulp for me! Charge!"

After listening to the miserable story just now, no one would feel better. Malashenko, who had been holding back the evil fire and had nowhere to vent, even the tone of the attack started to change a bit this time, and he blurted out an almost roaring order. It spread throughout the radio channels instantly.

"Leave it to me, comrade division commander! These Germans are dead today!"

The trembling of the earth brought a terrifying signal of the billowing torrent of steel coming towards the face. The German soldiers who were blown to pieces in the overwhelming artillery fire just staggered out of the defense with steps like a drunkard. In the shell hole, the violent vibrations coming from the frozen ground beneath their feet shocked almost everyone instantly.

"Tanks! Russian tanks, tanks are coming!"

An unknown scream came from nowhere and broke the brief silence of the smoke. The expressions on the faces of the German soldiers with their own small weapons in their hands were different, but after hearing this terrible news, most of them were Horrified, stunned, even disbelieving.

Whether it was the direction in which the Russian tanks were attacking or the starting point of the sudden artillery attack, the facts before them all told terrible news. Many German soldiers on the battlefield who knew nothing about the facts finally began to realize a very critical issue to a greater or lesser extent at this moment.

The direction the Russians were calling was from behind. There should not be Russians there, but only friendly forces.

But now those Russians are attacking from behind with a swarming army. What does this mean?

It’s not that many German veterans who survived and gasped didn’t know the answer to this question, they just didn’t want to think too much about it.

The truth on the battlefield is sometimes very simple, as long as you can live long enough in this purgatory-like place and see enough things. You won't understand some things that suddenly hit your head. Even if you die, you can go on the road as an understanding person.

Those German veterans who were still alive understood this truth. They did not say too many words, but acted more than words. Basically, without any nonsense from the officers, they each picked up their weapons and entered the trembling positions and took their positions.

At this moment, the vanguard of the Soviet tanks that were advancing furiously were almost riding on the face of the position. The one who rushed to the front was the latest T43 medium tank that the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division had just received.

"Twelve o'clock, Russian T34!"

"I saw it, I took aim!"

"Loading completed!"

"Fire!"

boom--

The previous blocking advance team of the Viking Division was completely wiped out, once again causing the German army to lack key intelligence.

Those new medium tanks that had never been seen before were not within the existing knowledge of the German army. The T43 medium tank, which is indeed shorter than the tall T34, but still very similar in overall layout, was directly misjudged as a T34 by the German anti-tank gun crew.

The 75mm full-caliber capped armor-piercing projectile shot straight out of the scattered muzzle flashes and screamed through the wind, heading straight towards the target with ferocious exit kinetic energy. This full-caliber armor-piercing projectile with good centering effect has always been the anti-T34 artifact that the German 75mm anti-tank gun crew relied on.

As long as this kind of treasure hits the Russian T34 without ricocheting or grazing, neither the front of the T34 nor the front of the turret can withstand its vicious blow. A hole will be punched on the spot and then it will catch fire and explode. is a predictable result.

Only this time, the German army, which had an obvious intelligence gap between the enemy and ourselves, was clearly facing a miscalculation.

The armor-piercing projectile moving forward with extremely high kinetic energy through the wind hit the T43's solid upper armor plate that was tilted at a large angle.

Based on the heavy losses of the T34 in the face of the German Tigers and Leopards, the target was directly aimed at armor protection. The T43 with key upgrades and improvements was not a fool's errand.

The armor plate on the front of the car body, which had undergone essential protective changes, directly bounced away the armor-piercing projectiles ruthlessly. The German gunner and gunner, who were holding the gun scope and telescope and keeping their eyes open, only saw a silver-white projectile tail tracer. Brilliant meteors are generally bounced straight out and pierce the sky diagonally.

"Ricochet, it didn't work!"

"Keep loading, it's still a full-caliber armor-piercing bullet, come again!"

The unwilling German gunner believed that the shot just now was just bad luck. The 75mm PAK 40 anti-tank gun was not 100% immune to ricochet when hitting the T34. If one shot doesn't work, then try another shot. It's impossible for the Russians to have good luck twice in a row!

With such a firm belief in his heart, the German gunner continued to give orders. The 75mm custom-loaded full-caliber capped armor-piercing bullet was handed to the breech from hand to hand. Once again, it was pushed into the chamber at the fastest speed, leaving empty space just now. The hot bullet shells that were spit out soon made the snow under the tail of the gun so hot that it smoked and hissed.

"Aim [txt novel] is accurate! Repeat the target!"

"Fire!"

boom--

Everyone knows that failure is the mother of success, but the Germans have obviously forgotten that females alone cannot reproduce offspring. This is not asexual reproduction. Failure has an upright biological father, which is called a big failure!

Bang——

Swoosh——

The sound of the armor hitting came first, and then the whistling sound of breaking through the air came. The German anti-tank gun group, which had indeed offset a certain armor inclination angle with the advantage of attacking from high to low, had to taste the bitter fruit of failure again.

The 75mm full-caliber capped armor-piercing shell failed to create a miracle. The steel projectile smashed the cap and tore the cap. It exhausted all the remaining kinetic energy and collapsed in the middle of penetrating the armor, becoming a semi-penetrating projectile stuck in the upper armor plate like a joke.

I don’t know whether it was because the quality of the fuse was poor or it was completely malfunctioned in the semi-penetrating situation where the kinetic energy was completely exhausted.

In short, the shell did not explode.

It was like a cyberpunk graffiti peeing on the face of the NCPD, and it got stuck in the upper armor plate of the T43 medium tank, mercilessly mocking the instigator of all this, the German army itself.

It was at this time that the German gunner, who had missed twice in a row and whose entire mental string was as tight as a steel wire rope, finally discovered.

Those Russian tanks that were so close that he could see every detail of the track plate with a telescope were not the T34 he had expected.

How to describe it?

Probably in the eyes of the German gunner at this moment, the Russian medium tank that looked like a T34 with a hammer on its head and was forcibly flattened, could even be said to look a bit similar to the Black Panther with the same mid-turret layout.