Chapter 1388 Leopard in a Cage (Part 2)

It is not easy to accurately hit the moving Panther F turret, but it is different if the distance is close enough. For the experienced gunners of the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division, hitting an object the size of a tank turret at a distance of five or six hundred meters is a sure thing.

The second wave of shells that came with a whistling sound was quite accurate. Most of the shells hit the front of the turret accurately with just one encounter.

What happened immediately afterwards was just as Malashenko expected. The shells easily tore through the front armor and poured into it, and exploded inside the turret above the center of the vehicle body, releasing amazing destructive energy that swept everything around.

Every Panther that was accurately hit became a manned space rocket launch platform. The turret head, which was not big to begin with, was directly pushed up by the flames bursting from the vehicle body, and it took off vertically on the spot and rushed out.

Strong ammunition explosion swept through the wreckage of each Panther whose turret was hit and armor was penetrated. The 122 heirloom, which had a huge amount of warhead charge, once penetrated the armor and successfully triggered the armor-piercing delay fuse, the German tanks that were penetrated almost all suffered the miserable fate of ammunition explosion, and this time was no exception.

Looking at the burning wreckage of the Panthers in the periscope of the commander in front of him, Malashenko finally breathed a sigh of relief and was relieved.

It seems that there is no big problem with his judgment. Even if those weird Panthers on the opposite side are really the Panther 2 that should not exist on the battlefield in history, at least the armor on the front of the turret is by no means invincible and is a considerable weakness that can be targeted.

"Well done, comrades! The weakness of this German thing is on the front of the turret. Aim at that place and you can shoot through it with one shot! Keep fighting!"

In fact, even if the development trend of the German tanks has deviated from the original historical trajectory due to the indirect butterfly effect, the principle of "everything changes but never deviates from the essence" is still more applicable.

The weaknesses that should exist remain unchanged. Through simple tank configuration analysis, the approximate weaknesses can be found. This is very simple for Malashenko, who knows all kinds of German blueprints.

The German armored forces that survived the first wave of attacks failed to continue their good luck. The second wave of 122 armor-piercing shells hit them head-on and directly killed 8 Panthers on the spot.

At the beginning of the battle, the German armored troops were actually quite confident in the performance of their new vehicles.

The enhanced upper front armor of the vehicle body can be immune to any known enemy anti-tank weapons. The turret with relatively thin armor thickness is indeed a relatively obvious weakness, but because the front projection area of ​​the turret is relatively small, the probability of being directly hit in actual combat can be said to be not high, at least compared with the vehicle body, it is still small.

There is no absolutely invincible tank in the world. At least from the perspective of a medium tank, this batch of new Panthers can indeed meet actual needs and is quite good, and it is worth a considerable degree of confidence in it.

The German armored soldiers really thought so, and of course they did so in actual operations.

But the new Panther, which should have been powerful enough, was so bad as soon as it entered the battlefield. The group of Russians on the opposite side, who didn't know what was wrong, obviously knew that their weakness was on the armor on the front of the turret.

Because they found it useless to shoot at the upper front armor once, and immediately all the members aimed at the turret and fired?

It is indeed possible, but it can make such a sensitive and rapid battlefield response in just a few seconds, instead of continuing to shoot at the upper front armor of the vehicle body for a second attempt. In the final analysis, such reactions are too forced and unreasonable, and cannot be explained by common sense.

If such reactions are really made just by chance, then the rich combat experience and real combat power of the Russians on the opposite side are too unbelievable and quite scary.

Without knowing the truth, the German armored soldiers can only guess blindly, but guessing blindly is not the point after all, and it is not worth it. They still have to face the most difficult and fatal problem in front of them.

"All tanks continue to move forward, and the assault guns stop immediately and aim at those Russians and fire! Fire suppression!"

Let the medium tank troops stop immediately and fire at the Russians to play the game of shooting. The German army has indeed done it before, but the result is not very good.

Especially when facing those Russian heavy tanks with strong armor and powerful guns, the German forward medium tanks that tried to launch a shooting were almost all beaten extremely miserably and their bodies were separated on the spot.

The Russian heavy tanks with strong armor and powerful guns are not so easy to destroy. Trying to challenge these Russian heavy tanks with medium tanks is simply a fantasy. The result of hitting them is either ricocheting or no penetration. No matter how hard you try, it is useless.

The assault guns accompanying the attack stopped and fired immediately, just to play a diversionary role, nothing more.

The commander of the German vanguard armored force did not think about how to kill these annoying Russian heavy tanks, but only wanted to contain them as much as possible and not let them have too much time and effort to concentrate on dealing with themselves. That's it.

The German assault guns that received the order immediately stopped and prepared to fire. Among these German assault guns, there were not only the most common three-barreled ones, but also the four-barreled ones that Malashenko had never seen before, that is, the No. 4 assault gun transformed from the No. 4 tank, which also made its debut.

It didn't take long for these German assault guns parked in the wilderness to launch the first wave of salvos. Knowing that firing armor-piercing shells would have no effect, the German assault guns changed their tactics and directly loaded high-explosive shells to attack the monsters of the Russians on the position.

Malashenko didn't take these German assault guns seriously at first, but after a short moment, the shocking explosions that continued to explode outside the armor immediately gave him the feeling of "something wrong".

"These bastards! They're actually firing high-explosive shells!"

Generally speaking, unless a large-caliber, high-explosive shell with enough charge hits the tank armor and penetrates the weak point of the tank armor, causing serious damage from the outside to the inside, it is generally difficult to cause any substantial damage to a heavy tank with strong armor and powerful guns.

However, sometimes, direct damage is not necessary to deal with a heavy tank with thick skin and flesh.