Chapter 2312: Fight to the Death (Part 1)
Chapter 2312: Fighting to the Death (Part 1)
"Is this the end? I thought these Americans could hold on for a while longer."
Although the US armored forces did not surrender, the final result was actually the same as surrender. In the final analysis, they all lost their combat effectiveness.
Except for Wittmann's No. 007 command Tiger King that rushed out and killed the US troops, the Sherman that was used to block the road at the back corner did not face much better, and it could even be said to be worse.
After realizing that the US tank on the opposite side was alone and did not have the courage to roll out and fight one-on-one.
The 112 Tiger King, which had already killed its mortal enemy who killed its teammates, roared again, driving the 700-horsepower gasoline engine directly transplanted from the Tiger 1, driving this heavy steel body with a combat weight of nearly 70 tons to roll forward and actively seek opportunities.
Although it was an active attack, it did not mean that the decisive opportunity would be handed over to the enemy.
This Tiger King No. 112, which was obviously driven by a veteran crew, aimed the entire vehicle body at the building at the intersection where the 4a3e8 Sherman was hiding. Then it opened up the horsepower, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and pointed the muzzle at the direction where the enemy might hide in front. It crashed into the corner of the wall while roaring all the way, and went straight to meet it with bricks and stone debris all over its body.
"Damn it, that Tiger King is rushing over! Fire, fire quickly!"
Boom--
After all, the stationary ones have the advantage of firing first against the tactical mobile ones. Even if the distance between the two sides has reached the level of face-to-face contact, the Sherman, which uses static braking to brake, can still take the lead against the Tiger King. The armor-piercing shells whizzing out of the muzzle have hit the Tiger King before it roars.
Ding--
Swoosh--
It's not "armor penetration, explosion, burning, completed in an instant", but "life, ricochet, bounce, completed in an instant". It is indeed a hero of tanks, but it refers to the Tiger King on the opposite side.
Because of being too nervous to take careful aim, the armor-piercing projectile actually had no chance to take careful aim. It hit the base of the Tiger King's pig-nose gun shield and was instantly bounced off, pointing diagonally to the sky with a tracer trail like a meteor in the sky.
The only damage caused was the insignificant gap on the Tiger King's pig-nose gun shield that was smashed open, and it couldn't even hurt the gun barrel.
"Damn it! Move, move! High-speed armor-piercing projectile loading, quick!"
If you stay here and don't move, you're just courting death. In a turn-based game, if you miss a move, it's time for others to take action. The American tank commander who commanded this Sherman didn't think he was so stubborn that he could just take on the Long 88.
"Run, you son of a bitch!"
"Reload, load, reload and you'll have a chance!"
The closer it gets to the final moment of life and death, the more crazy this person tends to be, and he makes some seemingly incomprehensible actions, such as the driver and the loader muttering to each other at the same time, as if the bard's singing buff can really bring some kind of benefit to themselves.
The Sherman that is loading is moving and maneuvering as much as possible. This loading is a high-speed armor-piercing shell with greatly increased armor penetration depth. It is said that this thing has the ability to break the frontal protective armor of the King Tiger turret, but it is only hearsay. I have never heard of anyone who really used this thing to force the King Tiger successfully and came back alive to tell the legend of his tiger hunter.
At this point, he can only bite the bullet, and there is no choice now.
Unlike this Sherman that is running like a mouse and trying to avoid the enemy's artillery line.
The Tiger King No. 112, which had broken through the corner and attacked suddenly, immediately stopped and stopped maneuvering. The heavy turret driven by the electric steering gear began to aim at the fastest speed. At the same time, the vehicle body of the dual-flow transmission turned to complete the aiming at the fastest speed. The fighting atmosphere in the vehicle was also extremely tense.
"Aim at it, quickly! Driver, keep up and help accelerate, don't let it go around our side!"
In theory, the Tiger King, which has strong armor and powerful guns but a huge and bulky body, is best at sniping American tanks one by one at a long distance, so that it can better play the tactical advantage of "You can't penetrate me, but I can hit you one by one, I don't need to maneuver, and your maneuver is faster than my shells."
It is unwise to drive the Tiger King to the face of the enemy tank and bombard it.
But you have no choice in this battle situation. Tank battles in the context of street fighting will inevitably involve close-range bombardment and close combat. The advantages of the Tiger King's strong armor and powerful guns that it is proud of have been greatly offset and reduced, and the biggest shortcoming of poor mobility has been greatly magnified.
If the US military crew plays a reasonable role, the current battle situation is likely to be favorable to the US military.
But as the saying goes, the most important factor that determines the outcome of a war is people, not things. The subjective initiative of people is always the biggest variable factor in war, without a doubt.
The skilled SS crew used all their skills. The turret and the body of the vehicle rotated rapidly at the same time under the tacit cooperation of the gunner and the driver and the unified dispatch and command of the commander. The muzzle turning to the left was doubled with the blessing of the double-flow transmission. The black muzzle aimed at the target at a very close distance at an unbelievable speed.
The speed of aiming was beyond imagination, and it could even catch up with the speed of the Sherman's side-by-side maneuvering at high speed just a dozen meters away.
The lateral distance between the muzzle brake of the Long 88 and the Sherman was rapidly decreasing, and the side body of the Tiger King, with the support of the double-flow transmission, was constantly turning in the opposite direction of the Sherman's maneuvering direction. It was getting farther and farther away from the maneuvering Sherman, while the main armor belt on the front of the body, which represented the heading, was getting closer and closer to the Sherman.
Everything seemed to be tilting in a direction that was favorable to the side, but sudden accidents often happened in an instant without any signs.
"The engine is overloaded, I smell burning! We can't hold on for long!"
After being attacked at the intersection, it turned on the spot to meet the enemy urgently, and then in order to ensure that the body was heading to meet the enemy head-on and try not to expose weaknesses, it forcedly crashed into the corner of the wall to break the attack. As soon as the corner of the wall collapsed, it turned on the spot with a double-flow transmission stepping on the brick and stone ruins.
Under such a perverted and violent operation, it seemed reasonable and reasonable. The 700-horsepower gasoline engine transplanted directly from the Tiger 1 was finally overwhelmed and could not bear it.
Something in the power compartment was too hot, and the smell of burning filled the vehicle.
The loader who first smelled the smell shouted a warning, saying that the power compartment, whose condition was unknown, might burst into flames in the next second, but the only answer he got was the commander's calm and steady command.
"Don't worry, keep going! Keep turning and aiming, and listen to my orders!"