Chapter 391 Davarish! Bobosha!

As the Iron Eagles taxied and took off from the airport runway, the battle on the front line became increasingly intense and out of control.

Just as there is absolutely no invincible tank in this world, the KV1, which is powerful enough to compete for the top king-class heavy tank in 1941, is not indestructible. The desperate attacks of the German tanks at the cost of huge casualties gradually began to cause more and more casualties to Malashenko's troops.

The side armor exposed to the field of vision of the two German armored groups on the battlefield was constantly subjected to fierce attacks. The sharp 40-type tungsten core armor-piercing projectiles were able to exert the strongest armor-piercing firepower when dealing with the completely vertical 75mm physical thickness side armor of the KV1 heavy tank and directly penetrate it without any suspense.

The tungsten core armor-piercing body wrapped under the armor of the projectile easily tore open the side armor of the tank and shot into it, directly breaking the Soviet tank crew in combat without any reaction time into two on the spot.

Some of the surviving Soviet tank soldiers who had managed to escape and avoided the trajectory of the tungsten core armor-piercing body were also doomed. The armor fragments that collapsed when the tungsten core armor-piercing body penetrated the rolled homogeneous steel armor on the side of the vehicle body were more powerful than bullets.

With only a black leather tank cap that was not bulletproof for impact protection, the flesh and blood Soviet tank soldiers could not withstand such a storm of attacks. In the blink of an eye, the shrapnel that attacked tore through the coat and fireproof clothing and poured into the body, tearing the blood vessels, muscles and internal organs into a pool of blood-red sticky paste and then passing through the other side of the body. In this case, there was no need for rescue at all.

One by one, the KV1 heavy tanks that seemed intact on the outside were stagnant on the battlefield with artillery fire flying, and the internal crew members had already been killed and wounded. These KV1s have become ghost tanks equivalent to steel tombs.

There are about ten KV1 heavy tanks on the battlefield with such results. The German army, which has fired hundreds of armor-piercing shells since the beginning of the war, has a hard time achieving such results.

The Type 40 tungsten core armor-piercing shells, which can only produce good effects on vertical armor, are difficult to achieve on a battlefield with complex and ever-changing situations. It is difficult to control the angle of incidence of the shells from the time the shells fly out of the tank muzzle to the time they finally hit the target.

Compared with the acceptable losses suffered by the First Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment of the Guards under Malashenko, the German tanks under Walter, whose armor protection is so weak that even the Soviet 76mm tank gun can hit them with one shot from 700 meters away, suffered losses that are geometrically multiple of the losses of Malashenko's troops and can be said to be heavy casualties.

Countless turrets of the Type 3 and Type 4 tanks and the wreckage of tanks torn into pieces by the strong ammunition explosion were scattered all over the ground. Some German tanks that were lucky enough to avoid ammunition explosion after the armor was penetrated did not have a good fate.

Using gasoline, an extremely unstable, flammable and explosive oil, as tank fuel, once the German tanks that failed to penetrate the armor would inevitably catch fire on the spot even if there was no ammunition explosion.

The rapidly spreading fierce fire would spread to the engine compartment and fuel tank through the fuel supply pipeline in a very short time. At the least, it would catch fire and burn, and at the worst, the fuel tank would explode directly. The battlefield at this moment was full of results. The burning steel bodies presented the most miserable situation with a relatively intact and undivided posture.

Since the start of the war, it is roughly estimated that at least 38 tanks have been lost in succession. Such a heavy loss of half of the tanks is simply unimaginable and completely unbearable in normal times.

But now that the battle has reached this point, Lieutenant Colonel Walter cannot order a retreat no matter what. Not to mention whether it is possible to escape from the enemy's nose in the fierce confrontation with the Soviet army, the final result of losing so many tanks but still failing to achieve the tactical goal is even more unacceptable to Lieutenant Colonel Walter at this moment.

The dozen KV1 heavy tanks that were separated from the tank cluster by Malashenko's earlier order have now covered the accompanying Soviet infantry and rushed to the German defense position to tear open the defense line.

The two vehicle-mounted 62mm DT light machine guns mounted on the KV1 heavy tanks kept firing, harvesting the lives of all the exposed German soldiers on the position. The German soldiers who were suppressed by the vehicle-mounted machine gun fire from the water could not get out of the trenches at all, and the Soviet infantry who were advancing step by step along the trenches attacked like a tide.

Originally, they thought that with the fully automatic firepower network formed by the MP40 and MP38 submachine guns in their hands, they could resist the Soviet army, which only had Mosin-Nagant rifles and DP light machine guns with bayonets, in the narrow trenches, and effectively prevent the enemy from continuing to advance through the trench traffic network that was like a spider web.

But the German soldiers who were caught off guard soon discovered that the enemy Soviet soldiers had a brand-new fully automatic weapon that they had never seen before.

This brand-new Soviet submachine gun equipped with a disc-shaped large-capacity drum magazine, which is similar to the Finnish Suomi submachine gun, has extremely fierce firepower. The MP40 and MP38 submachine guns in the hands of the German army, which use direct-insert magazines, are far inferior to this abnormal Soviet weapon in terms of firing rate and firepower durability. The tiny advantage they have in progress is almost useless in the current face-to-face close-range trench battle.

The only comforting thing for the German infantry at the moment is that the number of this new Soviet submachine gun is not too large.

The total number of Soviet submachine gunners who appeared in the trenches and advanced bravely was only about 30 people. The MP series submachine guns, which existed as basic weapons in the German infantry squad, could still compete with them with the advantage of numbers.

But even so, the German side, who was caught off guard and completely unprepared for the appearance of this new Soviet submachine gun, still lost a large number of people in the first few minutes of the trench battle. The Soviet infantry that kept pouring in like a flood from the gap in the position brought increasing pressure to the defending German army.

Dadadada——

After a series of rapid-fire shots that sounded like drum beats, a German soldier who was about to rush up to fight with Lieutenant Colonel Yakov with a bayonet on his Mauser 98K rifle was immediately knocked to the ground, and the muzzle of the brand-new Soviet submachine gun that completed this masterpiece was emitting wisps of smoke.