Chapter 3115: The Fake Tiger Ascends to Heaven (Part 1)

"Loading armor-piercing shells! Target Russian tanks, 800 meters ahead, gunners ready!"

"Hey! Armor-piercing shells loaded!"

"Ready--fire!"

Boom--

The Japanese-made 56-caliber barrel, which was copied from the German Kwk 36 88mm tank gun, shook, and the muzzle brake flashed with flames, and a high-speed whistling 88mm full-caliber capped armor-piercing shell rushed straight to the target.

It's funny to say that the Japanese Army, which had never mass-produced such a large-caliber, high-pressure, long-barreled tank gun, couldn't even copy the Germans after getting the full set of technical data and Tiger samples provided by the Germans.

The scrap rate of the trial-produced tank gun barrels remained high, resulting in unacceptable high costs and low production efficiency. The barrel life and shooting accuracy of the actual test firing of the imitation sample gun were far from the design indicators given by the Germans.

The once arrogant Army idiots naturally thought that the Germans deliberately falsified data and boasted that the actual performance of the short 88 gun was not that good.

But they turned around and took the sample gun on the Tiger tank sample provided by the Germans for comparison test.

Hey, guess what?

The clown turned out to be the Army idiots themselves. The design indicators in the technical data provided by the Germans were all real. This was a big embarrassment.

In fact, if they were willing to spend some time to slowly tinker and digest foreign technology, they should be able to get it done, but the Army idiots who were eager to put new heavy tanks into production now lacked time the most.

The Navy's technology for making this kind of high-pressure long-barreled artillery is better, and they have all kinds of large-caliber guns and are full of experience.

But the Army idiots who really can't put down their face would never ask the Navy idiots for help.

In the end, they had no choice but to go back and find the Germans again, and bring back the Germans' cannon crafts, equipment, production lines, technical parameters and even artillery experts so that they could start production immediately.

The price was that the Japanese Army, which was already short of portable assets, had to invest a submarine full of gold to pay various expenses for the Germans who were asking for too much.

This move even made the Germans themselves unable to do anything.

You Japanese can even make the world's largest caliber 460mm naval gun, but you can't even handle a tank gun that is far less difficult, and you still want to take the initiative to stick your head out and be slaughtered like a pig?

It's one thing to not understand, but it's another thing to slaughter the Japanese without hesitation.

It's just that the Germans kept a careful eye at the last minute and didn't tell the Japanese about the current situation of the Tiger tank on the Eastern Front.

Instead, they chose several representative battles on the Western Front to show the Japanese, showing that the Tiger was powerful enough to beat all kinds of Xie Mantou to the ground, which was exactly the right medicine for the "Mantou Crisis" on the Japanese side.

So the final result was that the Japanese went back to play with their guns happily, and the Germans also made a lot of money by pulling gold with trucks.

Everyone had a bright future, which was indeed the case at the time.

Except for the Japanese tank troops who were driving Tigers to fight IS7.

Ding bang——

A huge metal collision sound came from the root of the gun shield on the front of the IS7 turret, and the sparks flew upwards with the blunted and deformed warheads, and rushed straight to the sky.

"Shooting is invalid! The target is still alive!"

"What!?"

The Japanese tank commander who was waiting to shout "onboard" was stunned on the spot when he heard the gunner's report.

He swung the commander's periscope, which was copied from the later Tiger, and took a closer look.

It was discovered that the Russian monster tank was not paralyzed or exploded after being hit by a cannon. Instead, it continued to move forward like a beast rushing out of a cage. Just looking at the dust flying behind the car, it was enough to see how fast it was.

"Onboard! Hit! Onboard! Onboard!!!"

"What's that sound?"

"It came from outside the car. It's someone shouting outside!"

"Baka"

The Japanese tank commander didn't know who he was scolding when he shouted "Baka".

The accompanying infantry outside the car, who only saw the tracer of the shells directly hit the Russian tank, thought that their "Imperial Army's fierce Tiger IV heavy tank, the decisive weapon of the battle", had already completed a one-shot kill, and were shouting like chicken blood.

The more the two-legged infantry outside the car shouted, the more the Japanese tank commander and the entire crew inside the car felt that the sound was sharp and piercing.

It was as if a slap was slapped in the face, and he couldn't hold his face at all.

"Come on! Keep shooting! Loading armor-piercing bullets!!!"

The Japanese tank commander, who was angry and embarrassed, actually didn't believe it. He didn't believe that the powerful main gun that could penetrate the 160mm thick armor plate in one shot in the target test could not even scratch the skin of the Russian tank opposite.

It must be the poor impact angle that caused the ricochet!

It must be right!

Recalling that the German instructor not only said it himself, but also used the photos he brought with him to show the actual results of destroying the Russian "main T-3485 tank".

The more the Japanese tank commander believed that this powerful heavy tank that he had never seen in his life would definitely not be able to deal with the Russian's broken tractor, the effect of another shooting would definitely be different.

"The armor-piercing bullets are loaded (liao)!"

"Aiming at the target!"

"Yoshi! Shoot!!!"

Boom——

The Japanese devils, unwilling to accept defeat, fired another shot, and the second full-caliber armor-piercing shell hit the crotch of the IS7's front lower body.

This time, there was no ricochet. The inclination angle of the IS7's arrow-shaped front lower body was relatively small, but it did not mean that the Japanese army's short 88 attack of the Tiger copycat would be effective.

Ding bang——

The projectile that broke through the outermost homogeneous steel armor plate failed to move forward, but was directly stuck in the composite armor plate sandwich under the front of the mass-produced IS7 with the bullet head embedded in the armor plate and the bottom of the bullet still exposed outside.

"These Japanese devils are crazy! Driver, stop the car, since they are looking for death, let them do it! Gunners are ready to fight back, and armor-piercing shells are loaded!"

Facing an old opponent like the Tiger.

The commander, who was already familiar with its performance and quality, directly ordered the armor-piercing shells to be loaded, hoping to rush to a close enough distance to entangle the Japanese to prevent them from escaping.

But at the moment, it seems more necessary to suppress this arrogance first.

If the Japanese devils really hit the tracks with a shot and paralyzed them, it would be a very troublesome thing, and it would be embarrassing.

The IS7 was paralyzed by the Tiger, which would become a "classic joke" passed down by word of mouth among the tank commanders.

The huge 130mm full-caliber armor-piercing projectile was pushed into the chamber by the last manual loading process.

The heavy but not bulky tortoise-shell turret immediately began to rotate and point at an extremely flexible speed that was not like that of a heavy tank, and the final precise aiming was ready.

"Send the Japanese devils' fake tiger to the sky, fire!"