Chapter 334 Winter Beast (Part 2)

The several comrades who died tragically on the spot due to an 85mm high-explosive bomb gave great shock to other German soldiers present. This feeling of ringing ears and being covered in blood was completely different from the ordinary light weapons shooting. Stopping the Soviet tanks in front of the position as soon as possible became the top priority of the German army at the moment.

The German troops stationed in the village of Vomano did not have any heavy weapons worth mentioning. They only had the best anti-tank weapons, which were only 8 PAK38 50mm anti-tank guns. This kind of thing was extremely difficult to deal with T34 medium tanks, so it was natural to imagine what it would be like when dealing with KV1.

Sometimes, even if you know it is useless, you have to bite the bullet and do it for some reason. For the current German army, using 50mm PAK38 to deal with KV1 with strong armor and powerful guns is like this.

Several frozen German soldiers followed their superiors' orders and pushed out the 50mm anti-tank guns placed in the rear gun caves with all their strength.

Most of the time during the Western European battlefield, the German army, which had been advancing smoothly, placed anti-tank guns on the gun positions of the first-line defense positions and were ready to be deployed at any time even when they were temporarily on the defensive. The British and French coalition forces who retreated and fled under the German army's rapid advance were almost not worth mentioning. Even the German recruits who had just been added to the front line knew that it was almost impossible for the weak French to fight back.

But when Operation Barbarossa was launched and the front line was pushed to the vast Soviet land, the German army, which initially used the same tactics against the French to deal with the Bolsheviks, soon found that this did not work.

Even if the Soviets who shouted "Ura" were beaten back ninety-nine times, the bodies left behind would form a blood-red lake in front of the position. These Russians who didn't care about casualties would still counterattack for the hundredth time, using the weapons in their hands and even the lives of the successive generations to make the German army doubt and tremble about the existing war form again and again.

What's more terrible is that the German army, which originally thought that the French artillery was powerful enough, really found out how ridiculous their previous ridiculous cognition was wrong after encountering the Soviet field artillery group.

The Soviet artillery can be used not only in attack, but also in defense and in shooting. In the most perverted case, when a German soldier came out to urinate in the middle of the night and smoked a cigarette, he could summon dozens of 152 howitzers to bombard him with a tsunami of thunder and fire, which was even more grand than the scene of ancient emperors urinating and being served by servants.

After suffering several losses in this way, the German army rarely put anti-tank guns on the stage since then, not to mention the more expensive and difficult to maneuver 88 guns. Because of the fierce counterattack of the Soviet army, these anti-tank weapons may lose the first position at any time, so they are generally deployed further back than ordinary anti-tank guns.

In order to avoid the Soviet artillery fire, it is a common practice for the German army to send anti-tank guns into anti-gun holes in advance. Although this will delay some battlefield reaction time, it is obviously much better than the miserable result of a wave of justice 152s being blown into parts.

After being pushed to the gun position by the German army, the anti-tank guns immediately began to turn around and prepare under the operation of the gun crew. Malashenko, who led the troops to rush to the front of the entire tank group, immediately noticed this situation in his commander's periscope. It is undoubtedly the best choice to knock them out before these Germans open fire.

"Kirill, load the high-explosive shells! Iushkin, do you see the German anti-tank guns in front of you? Aim at them and fire at will!"

"I'm already doing it, comrade commander!"

The series of coordinated actions, including Kirill loading the shells and Iushkin aiming the gun, were smooth and flowing. Iushkin, who had his right eye close to the main gun sight and was holding the steering and elevation control, almost achieved man-gun unity. The first 50mm anti-tank gun that was loading armor-piercing shells was then firmly locked in the sight.

"The car can't stop, you have to fire while moving, Iushkin! Remember the aiming point!"

"I know what to do, comrade commander!"

Although he said so, it was not easy for the KV85 heavy tank to really aim at the target when it was moving at full speed on the off-road snow. The main gun sight that shook violently was as difficult as a sniper shooting at a target while running all the way.

Despite all the insurmountable obstacles, Iushkin, who was manipulating the steering and elevation controls and aiming with his right eye at the same time, did not waver at all. Aiming at the German anti-tank gun and destroying it with one more shot was the only thing in Iushkin's mind at the moment.

"Damn it, the Russians are aiming at us! Fire, quickly fire and shoot him down!"

The German gunner, who was in charge of commanding the entire gun group with binoculars in hand and braving the severe cold and snow, was almost trembling when he spoke as he looked at the extremely terrifying scene in the binoculars in front of him.

The Soviet heavy tank that was still moving forward at a high speed in the slowly rotating turret looked so terrible. The turret that was obviously different from other heavy tanks around it and the thicker and longer main gun were so abrupt, but the German gunner, who had the scythe of death on his neck, could no longer care about these "insignificant" things.

Accompanied by the German gunner's hoarse roar, the German gunner who tried his best to set the aiming point on the Soviet tank as quickly as possible was also extremely nervous. He had seen rough-skinned and thick-skinned tanks in previous battles. How durable the Soviet heavy tanks were, the stressed German gunners almost forgot that they even stopped breathing.

"We must kill him! Just this one shot!"

boom--

The Type 40 tungsten-core armor-piercing projectiles that ejected from the barrel of the PAK38 50mm anti-tank gun screamed in the wind. After all, the open-air combat environment is still much better than the environment in the moving tank turret. The German gunners, aiming at the advantage of speed, finally attacked before Iushkin.

The Type 40 tungsten-core armor-piercing projectile, which has extremely strong penetration power against vertical armor, hit the front edge of the turret of Malashenko's vehicle with an extremely accurate impact point in the blink of an eye.

Because the aiming time was too hasty, the German gunner suddenly opened fire as soon as he put Malashenko's carriage into the aiming ring. This Type 40 tungsten core armor-piercing projectile, which brought great psychological pressure, hit the prototype turret immediately. At the edge of the gun mantlet, the huge impact and impact of the shell made Iushkin, who was about to step on the firing pedal, immediately tremble.