Chapter 1446 Direct Attack

With the increase of combat experience and the continuous familiarity with the 122 heirloom main gun, the heavy tank crews of Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division gradually discovered.

When dealing with those German tanks that are not so tough, 122mm high-explosive grenades can often achieve quite good results.

For example, the German No. 3, No. 4, and even the Black Panther, as long as the 122mm high-explosive grenade hits some special shooting points, such as the lower part of the front armor of the turret near the turret seat ring. The 122mm high-explosive grenade with a full charge can at least blow up the German turret steering machine on the spot and completely destroy the German main gun optical sight.

The neck of the German tank is stuck and the eyes are blinded, and it becomes a waste that loses combat effectiveness and can only withdraw from the battlefield.

Of course, this is only the best case for the Germans.

The real story that happened in the battle is that in most cases, the German tanks could not withstand the fatal blow of the 122mm high-explosive grenade to the key vulnerability.

Such as being hit by the explosion of 122mm grenade, breaking the armor of the vehicle body downwards, shocking the mechanic and driver inside the vehicle body, the barrel of the gun bursting on the spot, becoming a burst gun that can no longer fire, or even being shocked to catch fire on the spot until the ammunition explodes.

As long as you are hit by a 122mm high-explosive grenade, you will definitely not have a good ending. The reality is so cruel and real.

So even if the ammunition in the barrel is a high-explosive bomb loaded in advance, the Red Army gunners who are responsible for shooting still choose to mobilize the steering machine and elevation machine in their hands to accurately aim at the German tanks. After being sure that they can hit the target with one shot, they instantly pulled down the firing lever tightly held in their right hand, and the powerful 122mm sub-packed high-explosive grenade was ejected in the hot flames.

Boom boom boom——

The kinetic energy shock wave that instantly spread out from the muzzle brake stirred in the air, and even the small puddles after the rain under the muzzle pressed out small pits that formed instantly and rippled.

The incoming 122mm high-explosive grenades hit the German machine gun fire points, anti-tank gun positions, and the unlucky tanks that were targeted by several IS6s at the same time.

The wreckage of the machine guns and anti-tank guns, with bloody body fragments, was blown away by the shock wave.

The German tanks that were accurately hit by several 122mm high-explosive grenades at the same time were completely enveloped in the huge explosion and flames, and disappeared.

When the flames faded, the shock waves dissipated, and the instantaneous smoke and dust produced by the explosion gradually settled.

The miserable appearance of the German tanks, which were hit all over the face and the whole face was finally revealed. The 122mm high-explosive grenades with a very fair charge left horrible traces of destruction on the German tanks.

All the gunners aiming at the German tanks had rich combat experience, and they often exchanged experiences with other gunners in private. It was not the first time that they used high-explosive shells to bombard German tanks.

Therefore, almost all of these 122mm high-explosive grenades were aimed at the German tanks, not just randomly fired after putting them on.

The upper front part of the sturdy vehicle body, which was most likely to cause the useless effect of hearing a sound, was completely avoided. Except for one or two high-explosive shells that were slightly off target and hit other non-lethal armored positions due to emergency parking, all the remaining high-explosive shells hit the main armor belt on the front of the turret of the German tank.

The Red Army gunners knew very well that the consequences of doing so would be fatal to the German tanks, blowing off the gun barrel, blocking the turret ring steering machine, damaging the main gun sight, and penetrating the vehicle body armor downwards to kill the crew members. The effects of these damages were unbearable for the German tanks. At the very least, they would make the German tanks lose their combat effectiveness on the spot and be forced to withdraw.

The combat effectiveness of the German armored soldiers without tanks was even worse than that of the infantry. The German infantry could at least have a big gun in their hands, but the German armored soldiers who abandoned their vehicles could not even have a submachine gun in their hands. It was difficult to protect themselves with a small pistol on such a fierce battlefield.

None of the German tanks that were hit hard by high-explosive bombs had a good end in the end.

The two Type 4 tanks with the weakest defense were burned on the spot, and even the ammunition exploded on the spot. The narrow internal space of the vehicle body could not withstand the powerful damage of the 122mm high-explosive grenade. The moment the vehicle body armor was penetrated, it was doomed to destruction.

The fate of the last three Panther 1s was slightly better, at least they could leave a relatively complete body, unlike the No. 4 tank, which was blown to pieces and had its head removed, but at most they could only leave a complete body.

The armor of the Panther 2, which was also pierced through the body armor, burst directly, like a wooden floor pierced by a lead ball falling from a high place, with hideous wounds.

The huge power of the 122mm high-explosive grenade also lifted the barrels of these Panthers, and the slender 75mm main gun barrel like a fishing rod was blown into two pieces. The remaining barrel wreckage on the turret was only about the same length as the early No. 4 tank barrel with a 24-caliber shorter 75 main gun, making it a veritable "pig-nosed panther".

The Black Panther used flammable gasoline as fuel and could even catch fire on its own in the early D model. After being bombarded by more than one 122mm high-explosive grenade, it was inevitable that it would catch fire.

The raging flames that shot out from the cracks in the armor licked the black armor, but not even one crew member escaped from the motionless wreckage of the three Panther tanks in time.

Whether they were killed on the spot or seriously injured and lost the ability to escape on their own, they could only watch the fire spread and burn to death in the car.

This kind of thing is no longer important now. After a loud explosion of ammunition in a while, no one will care how the carbonized and charred bodies in a pile of black steel wreckage died. It's that simple.

Just one round of salvos instantly wiped out all the remaining German anti-tank firepower on the position.

The German infantrymen who were in a strong shock had not even recovered from the deafening and extremely close 122 gun salvos before the terrible sound that all German soldiers on the Eastern Front least wanted to hear rang in their ears again.

"Comrades, destroy the German fascists! For the motherland, Ura!!!"

Ura-ra-

When this roar, which was almost equivalent to the sound of the end of the war, rang out, whether the German army still had the courage to continue resisting after hearing it was no longer important to the final outcome of the battle.