Chapter 354 "Breaking Armor"
An ordinary KV1 heavy tank that rushed to the front of the entire tank group while traveling with Malashenko suddenly stopped, and suddenly sprayed out a burst of hot and dazzling fire as if to complement the firing of the German anti-tank guns.
The reserve ammunition rack that was ignited and exploded in the chassis of the vehicle body then exploded the first ammunition rack in the turret for the second time. The entire tank was instantly swallowed up by the rolling fire dragon, and the KV1 instantly turned into an airtight mass. A ventilated coffin of fire.
The rising flames carrying a powerful impact instantly pushed open the originally closed turret roof, and the detonating flames spewed out crazily and released destructive power, just like a volcanic eruption, full of deathly splendor.
"How is this possible!? The German's 50mm small water pipe penetrated our KV1!? What on earth is going on? Comrade Commander!"
Lavrinenko, who was also shocked and dumbfounded on the other side of the communicator, spoke first. Through the scope of his main gun, he witnessed with his own eyes the tragic scene of his own tank being killed on the spot after being shot into the soul. The gunner Iushkin I even mistakenly thought that I had an illusion. How could the 50mm small water pipes in the hands of the Germans that cannot even be drilled through the T34 be used directly on the KV1! ?
Although Malashenko, who was unexpected when he first saw this scene, was as surprised as Iushkin at first, in the end, his identity from later generations played a decisive and key role, and he realized that this scene before him It is very likely that the German army has replaced Malashenko with a new anti-tank gun. Malashenko immediately cheered up.
"Attention all crews! The German anti-tank guns are no longer the original 50mm small water pipes. They now have newer anti-tank guns to deal with us! All crews will immediately find out that the German anti-tank guns have exposed their targets. Fire to destroy, you are allowed to stop and fire accurately, I repeat, you are allowed to stop!"
call out--
boom--
Malashenko, who was holding the vehicle-mounted radio communicator, had not yet finished issuing the order. It only took less than ten seconds for the German anti-tank gun team to complete the work from loading to aiming again in one go. The 75mm hooded armor-piercing projectile that screamed in the wind suddenly came again.
The strange scene, as if possessed by an evil spirit, was ruthlessly staged again with a brace.
Another KV heavy tank located less than 30 meters away from Malashenko's right front suddenly stopped and swayed after being shot. It was lucky that the ammunition did not explode, but the final result did not represent the Soviet troops in the tank. The tank crews escaped unhurt.
The turret top cover, which was filled with the choking black smoke and the thick smell of gunpowder smoke, was pushed open immediately. The gunner and the commander, who were staggering like drunkards on the street, almost fell off the turret in a crawling posture and collapsed. In the snow beside the car, the two people who fell to the ground like corpses without even having the strength to stand up were undoubtedly seriously injured.
"Malashenko! These Germans did not break through our KV1 by chance! They now have the ability to stably penetrate the frontal armor of our tanks, and they must be eliminated quickly!"
There are extremely low-probability events like winning a five-million-dollar lottery jackpot. Lavrinenko, who was still fighting on the Leningrad front when Malashenko returned to Moscow to recuperate, encountered a strange event.
A 76mm hooded armor-piercing round fired from his vehicle hit the lower half of the semi-curved mantlet of a German Panzer III tank turret and then rebounded strangely with a very low probability.
The hooded armor-piercing grenade has a very high ricochet rate when dealing with irregularly shaped armor because it lacks the effect of being hooded. Instead, it has become the most unlucky talisman for the Germans.
The 76mm armor-piercing projectile bounced off the lower part of the semi-curved mantlet, and then directly hit the hull dome of the Panzer III tank at an oblique angle of 45 degrees.
The weak armor with a thickness of only 18 mm could not withstand the attack of armor-piercing projectiles even with a large incident angle. The 76-mm style armor-piercing projectile directly penetrated the dome of the vehicle body and then exploded inside the vehicle body. The powerful ammunition rack of the vehicle body was killed. The small head turret of the Panzer III tank was blown away more than ten meters by the explosion. The death of this unlucky Panzer III tank was really tragic.
But probabilistic events are just pure probabilistic events after all, and they can never happen repeatedly in a very short period of time, that's all.
You buy a lottery ticket today and win a five-million-dollar jackpot, and tomorrow you win another five million. This seemingly impossible thing cannot be said to have no chance of happening, but Lavrinenko and Ma have extremely keen intuition about the battlefield. For Rashenko, it is enough to prove a problem.
"I saw it! Lavry! Those German guys are using a new anti-tank gun! The armor-piercing power is so powerful that it can stably penetrate our frontal armor at a distance of less than a hundred meters. Bring several vehicles from the regiment. Prototype tanks come against me, only we can withstand those German anti-tank gun attacks!”
"Wait, Malashenko! What are you going to do! Damn it, even if this bastard becomes the commander of the Guards, he still has the same bad habits as the former battalion commander! The car directly under the regiment headquarters speeds up to catch up with him, hurry up! He All I can see now are those German anti-tank guns!”
The shocking record of two hits and all destroyed not only made the German infantrymen on the battlefield widen their eyes, but even the German artillery crews who were operating this new type of anti-tank gun for the first time in actual combat did not expect it to be so powerful. They thought that it would be the best result to paralyze the heavily armored KV1 on the spot, but who could have thought that these damn new anti-tank guns would be so powerful.
"Damn it! The logistics officer who sent these guns didn't lie. This baby can really penetrate the Russian KV1!"
"Stop talking nonsense, keep loading, aim at the next one! Several KVs are coming!"
In the last 100 meters of life and death, two tanks were successively destroyed. For Malashenko, this feeling of thinking that he had won the victory but was suddenly slapped in the face was something he had not experienced for a long time.
Malashenko was extremely annoyed, but he did not believe that the new anti-tank guns in the hands of the Germans could penetrate his KV85 equipped with a fatherly turret. The upper and lower parts of the vehicle body, which had been thickened and improved by welding additional armor, should be enough to withstand the German attack.
Malashenko, who did not want to lose more tanks, immediately took the lead and led the other prototype turret KVs of the regiment to the front.
"Iushkin! Aim at the anti-tank gun position, behind the earth slope at one o'clock, and kill him! Quick!"
"Oh, damn it! The Russian KV is turning the turret, he is aiming at us! Fire, quickly fire and kill him!"