Chapter 2369 "I Never Thought This Day Would Come"

"Cough cough cough cough"

"You've almost coughed your lungs out, you're not going to die, are you?"

"Fuck you! I won't die until I sleep with your daughter, if you keep cursing me, you'll get a beating!"

Even if they had just survived a disaster, they still couldn't avoid bickering and swearing at each other. This kind of thing is indeed quite common on the battlefield, at least for Wittmann's men.

Wegener, leaning against the huge body of the broken-legged Tiger King, coughed and gasped violently, holding a heavy gas mask that he had just taken off his head.

Although the mechanic Herschel next to him was patting his back to help him breathe and feel more comfortable, the words he said were very "naughty", which made Wegener, who had been bickering with Herschel on a daily basis, still want to "learn a few tricks" from this rude guy and compete for victory even though he was out of breath.

"I never thought that we would be rescued by Russian tanks one day. I never even dreamed of such a thing. What's more ironic is that it was the Wehrmacht who drove over to rescue us. Those spineless cowards who I always looked down upon and wanted to surrender at every turn? Is there anything more ridiculous than this in the world? It's too ironic."

Wegener, who felt a little better and could breathe, stared at the huge steel monsters that had just stopped not long ago not far away. He felt like a clown, funny and ridiculous.

Herschel, the mechanic who was accompanying and taking care of him, heard this and put down the kettle he had just filled with water for Wegener. He looked up at the huge steel monsters not far away that he had seen for the first time, and blurted out some words of amazement.

"Unbelievable, is that the Russian heavy tank? I thought our Tiger King was powerful enough, but seeing these things today, it may be my hallucination, but I always feel that these big guys are stronger. The American shells just hit them like tickling, and even very few hit the armor, most of them were bounced off."

"It's hard to imagine how you fought against such monsters on the Eastern Front before? Are all the Russian tanks so abnormal? It can't be that a large group of these things rushed over like a vast ocean as soon as the battle started, and our troops were washed away, right? By the way, what is the name of this tank?"

Herschel had never been to the Eastern Front. He was drafted into the army during the mobilization of the Atlantic Defense Line. Before that, he was just a young man with good grades who was planning to go to college. After three weeks of basic training and armored training courses, he was packed and thrown into Normandy, where he met Wittmann and Wegener, and became an armored soldier in the true sense.

So Heschel had never seen what Russian tanks looked like, let alone any experience of fighting with the Soviet army. Now he could only try to get information from Wegener, who was fighting on the Eastern Front and Western Front.

"IS6, this Russian tank is called Stalin VI, the third type of Stalin tank we met on the battlefield. The Russian heavy tanks are a whole series of Stalin."

"As for you saying it is strong, it is indeed very strong, so strong that it will give people a headache every time it appears on the battlefield. But fortunately, this is the most elite heavy tank of the Russians. There are not many of them. Most of the time, they are the core force, leading the second-level Stalin 2 and Stalin 1, and T34 into the battlefield.

"So it's not completely impossible to deal with it. You just need to kill those tanks that cooperate with it, isolate it, and then concentrate firepower to destroy it. Even if you can't destroy it, at least you can disintegrate a wave of Russian offensives. Generally speaking, this is how it is done. ”

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While Wegener and Herschel were still chatting, the driver on the other side was checking the injuries of the 70-ton sister with two loaders. The armor-piercing shells fired by the Americans happened to penetrate from the front of the right track.

Not only the front end of the track and the guide wheel were destroyed, but also the torsion bar and multiple road wheels were smashed to pieces. The Tiger King, which was in such a state, could not be repaired quickly and returned to the battlefield again. This was also the most troublesome thing for the German army, which was short of spare parts and new cars, whether it was the SS or the Wehrmacht.

Unlike his men, Wittmann was standing on the other side not too far away, chatting with a Wehrmacht armored major who was dressed similarly to him, but upon closer inspection, he could find that he was very different.

“So, how did you get these IS6s? Did you sneak attack the Russian military train transporting new equipment and hijack the train? Or is there some other special way to make money? "

Although the relationship between the Wehrmacht and the SS has reached an unprecedented freezing point and is extremely tense because of the "Cherkasy Incident (the time when the SS fought the Wehrmacht)" in Ukraine.

But for the ruthless man in front of him who relied on his own strength to get the first place in the armored troops' performance ranking, Major Klose, who was responsible for leading the rescue team, still had a good impression. This feeling can be regarded as a mutual appreciation between strong people.

In short, Major Klose, who had just led the team to a victory and was in a good mood, and beat the Americans and drove them away, was now very willing to answer Wittmann's questions and make friends with this SS armored soldier.

After all, he still owed me one, and favors are often the hardest to repay, aren't they? There's nothing wrong with making friends with the strong, not to mention that you owe yourself a favor.

"Come to think of it, it was also an accident."

"The troops on the front line carefully planned an ambush, mobilized elite armored forces and infantry forces, and invested in the latest tactical equipment. I don't know the details because I didn't participate in that battle."

"But the final result was an elite Russian guards tank unit. What was the number? Oh, yes, it was the 4th Guards Tank Division, and we fought a beautiful local counterattack on the southern front of Poland. They underestimated the enemy and advanced too far, and the front line was too long, so they couldn't gather enough combat energy in the first time, so they were quickly defeated by our prepared local superior forces. Defeat."

"The good news is that we not only defeated and repelled the Russians, but also temporarily gained the right to clean up the battlefield. The battlefield remains are ours."

"The final result is that we recovered a total of 12 IS6s abandoned by the Russians, some of which were paralyzed, some were shot through but did not catch fire or explode, and some were panicked and crashed into the wreckage and abandoned. "

"These IS6s were towed back and taken away at the fastest speed. This is the first time we have harvested such a large number of Russian new heavy tanks on the battlefield. In the past, we only picked up wreckage, and in most cases we could not take it away and could only take pictures. Study and analyze the weaknesses of these IS6s This is very helpful to our operations. They were quickly brought back to the country for disassembly, research and various tests. Guderian came to inspect it personally and told Henschel, Porsche and MAN to analyze and study it carefully. "

"There is nothing worth mentioning about what happened afterwards."

"These IS6s lost their most important value after being disassembled and studied, but it would be too wasteful to just scrap them or leave them idle. It just so happens that some troops on the front line have collected some parts of this thing before. By piecing them together, they can guarantee at least hundreds of motorized hours of combat time for these vehicles. time. "

"You know, the reality is that many armored soldiers can't survive for hundreds of combat hours, and their lives are not as long as those captured Russian tanks. So it's only natural to use them for battle. After all, there is a huge shortage of vehicles, and it's a crime to waste these powerful heavy tanks and abandon them. "

Listening to this answer, Wittmann looked at the Wehrmacht IS6 heavy tanks in front of him, which had been repainted and replaced with the same two-color tiger camouflage and iron cross logo as the King Tiger, with a complicated expression, and some words of emotion came out of his mouth.

"So you got this batch of vehicles and were sent to the Western Front to put out the fire, right?"

Major Klose nodded and smiled.

"What else can we do? Some things have to be done by someone, and my brothers and I are the most suitable. We were driving the captured Russian KV before. We had almost used up all of them and were preparing to return home to rest and receive our own tanks. Unexpectedly, we heard about this incident as soon as we returned home. Now it's just the right time to buy a new car, haha."