Chapter 3 Brave Heart

As an excellent tank that overwhelmed the German armored forces with overwhelming absolute superiority in equipment quality in the early stage of the Soviet-German War, the F34 type 2x caliber 2mm tank gun equipped on the 1941 T3476 medium tank in Lin Jie's hand at this moment is undoubtedly far superior to the German tanks rumbling on the opposite side in terms of firepower and armor penetration.

The center point of the gun mirror field of view was roughly adjusted by the distance between the shooting target. Lin Jie, who was busy with the triple duties of gunner, commander and loader, did not react at all. How did he learn and master these professional armored soldier skills.

Lin Jie, who only wanted to survive in this battle, was sure that he had aimed the muzzle at the target, and then instinctively raised his foot and stepped on the firing pedal of the main gun.

The BR-350B 76mm windshield armor-piercing grenade that had been pushed into the chamber was immediately ignited by the sudden impact of the firing pin in the breech block. The BR-350B windshield armor-piercing grenade with a muzzle velocity of 655 meters per second immediately rushed towards the German Type IV C tank that was pointed at by the muzzle like an arrow from a string.

It was both expected and somewhat surprising.

The German Type IV C tank, which was stationary at a distance of more than 500 meters because it stopped and fired at Lin Jie's car, had no time to dodge the sudden attack of the shells. As expected, the shells fired by Lin Jie accurately hit the front armor of the vehicle.

The early Panzer IV C tank's 30mm thick upper front rolled steel armor could not withstand the attack from the T3476 medium tank. The BR-350B hooded armor-piercing grenade, which could still penetrate 85mm vertical steel armor at a distance of 500 meters, was naturally more than enough to deal with the 30mm armor defense of the Panzer IV C.

The Germans have always adhered to the vertical armor design since the beginning of the war, which has given the T3476 tank a more perfect firepower space.

It was as easy as a red-hot razor stabbing into a cream cake.

This 76mm full-caliber armor-piercing projectile from Lin Jie left a fist-sized penetration hole in the upper front armor of the Panzer IV tank and continued to move forward. The warhead warhead with a warhead charge equivalent to 108 grams of TNT explosive equivalent was instantly detonated in the internal space of the Panzer IV tank under the action of the armor-piercing delay fuse.

Boom——

Just like a bottle of champagne opened by a corkscrew after being shaken violently, the German Panzer IV tank, which was detonated by the BR-350B type hooded armor-piercing grenade inside the body space, could not withstand such power at all. In an instant, the explosion of 100 grams of TNT equivalent detonated dozens of 75mm shells located on the chassis of the body, causing a strong tank explosion.

The explosion sounded, and the flames shot up into the sky.

The five German tank crew members who were in combat inside the Panzer IV tank had no time to react or escape because of the rush of time. In the end, they could only struggle and wail in the flames of the shell explosion and gasoline burning in the tank and were roasted into charcoal.

Looking at the German Panzer IV that was engulfed in flames due to the explosion of the shells fired by him, the corpse of the German tank commander who struggled in the flames and finally failed to escape and was half-hung outside the turret and covered in flames was so dazzling and eye-catching in Lin Jie's eyes.

What he did in just ten seconds took the lives of five people at once, but if he didn't do it, he would have died.

War has never been about who is right or wrong, but only about who can stand to the end with a smile and usher in the final victory.

Witnessing the "war achievements" that Lin Jie had achieved after his busy work just now through the observation windows at their respective positions, the driver and the mechanic who were looking at the scene in front of them and felt unbelievable immediately exclaimed excitedly in the chassis of the vehicle.

"Oh my god, Comrade Lieutenant, you hit him! Look at those German bastards, they're on fire! Haha!"

"The great Red Army is invincible! Go home and eat shit, you spicy invaders!"

Listening to the cheers in the narrow and closed body space of the T3476 medium tank, Lin Jie, who was already sweating profusely due to the continuous series of busy actions and tense environment, did not dare to neglect it at all, and immediately issued orders to his two subordinates.

"Seryosha, start the car and take us away from here, keep moving forward at the first gear! Nikolai, come up and help me load the shells! We have to continue to attack these German devils, hurry up!"

"Yes, comrade lieutenant, I'll be right there!"

After receiving Lin Jie's order, he left the position of the mechanic at the front of the chassis with difficulty, and finally crawled to the position of the loader in the turret with his body hunched over, and then reached out to transfer the body of Captain Brasovsky, the original commander and gunner of the vehicle, to the chassis for temporary placement.

This series of actions that sounded light and simple were extremely difficult for the already tall Slavs. The T34 tank sacrificed a considerable amount of internal space in the vehicle body at the cost of using large-area inclined armor to enhance the defense of the entire vehicle, which was too difficult for the mechanic Nikolai who had to complete Lin Jie's order.

With sweat all over his forehead, Nikolai climbed to the position of the loader that should have been Lin Jie, took out an armor-piercing shell from the chassis and held it in his arms. Then, under Lin Jie's command, he began to load the shells with a slightly unfamiliar movement.

"Two o'clock direction, about 350 meters away, armor-piercing shells ready!"

"One armor-piercing shell, loading completed!"

With the help of the turret electric steering machine, he desperately turned the adjustment wheel by hand, and through the fairly good observation field provided by the gunner's wide-angle periscope, he turned the turret at the fastest speed and aimed the muzzle at the next target.

Unconsciously, Lin Jie had completely integrated into the combat state, and then moved his perspective back to the gun mirror field of view next to the breech block, and began to make the final gun barrel pitch and direction adjustments before firing.

After a simple naked-eye distance measurement and a rough judgment based on experience, the target was locked. Without any time to hesitate, Lin Jie immediately raised his foot and stepped on the main gun firing pedal. Another hooded armor-piercing grenade that was ready to fire in the barrel was immediately fired at the target amid a burst of fire from the muzzle.

When another German Type 3 tank in the same group was shot through the turret armor by Lin Jie, and the three surviving crew members immediately abandoned the vehicle and fled, a thunderous shout from the direction behind Lin Jie's vehicle was heard by all the crew members.

"For the Soviet mother, destroy these German devils! Davarish, Ura!"