Chapter 451: Turnaround

Some veterans who have come back alive after a near-death experience often describe the terrifying feeling of a bullet whistling through their faces, which almost burned their skin.

But Malashenko and Lavrinenko, who were running for their lives in the snow only one meter apart, encountered something even more terrifying than a bullet rubbing against their faces.

An 85mm wind cap armor-piercing shell spiraled out of a rifled gun barrel and whistled past the two men. The shell flew through the air at a speed of more than 750 meters per second, passing by the two men a few dozen centimeters away. Malashenko and Lavrinenko, who did not react in an instant, felt the cold wind that symbolized death almost at the same time.

Swoosh——

Boom——

Boom——

The triple sound of whistling through the air, the roar of the muzzle fire, and the penetration of the target armor mixed together and echoed in the ears. At a shooting distance of 500 meters, it can still effectively penetrate the 120mm vertical homogeneous steel armor. The powerful 85mm gun-fired BR365 type wind cap armor-piercing projectile is simply not something that the German SDKFZ251 type half-track vehicle can resist.

The front armor of the vehicle body with a thickness of only 15mm was directly penetrated by the full-caliber wind cap armor-piercing projectile. The final result of failing to trigger the armor-piercing delay fuse because the armor was too thin was not a good thing.

The 85mm wind cap armor-piercing projectile penetrated the armor from the driver's position and drilled into it. After hitting the German driver's head into a ball of paste, it continued to rush forward.

The German soldiers who sat in a row behind the driver became the best victims. The 85mm armor-piercing shells with strong armor-piercing kinetic energy were like a string of candied haws, directly cutting all the five German soldiers sitting in a row in half along a trajectory!

The SDKFZ251 half-track vehicle, which killed more than half of its soldiers instantly, staggered to a stop like a wild boar killed by a single shot. The surviving German soldiers, who were covered in the minced meat and blood of their comrades, screamed and jumped out of the vehicle to escape. The half-track vehicle that was about to speed up the arrest of Malashenko and Lavrinenko has now become a living minced meat coffin.

"Vozhi! The shells from there, damn it, it's all for nothing!"

Malashenko exclaimed in his heart. When he saw the German armored vehicles being killed instantly, he couldn't help but look back at the direction where the shells came from just now, trying to find the answer he was looking for in his heart.

But before Malashenko, who had just turned around, could find any traces, Lavrinenko, who had already found the result he wanted, exclaimed in an instant.

"Malashenko! Look! Our comrades are here to support us!"

Before Lavrinenko could finish his exclamation, the KV85 heavy tank that rushed out from behind the small slope like a dragon out of the sea with full throttle had already revealed its true form. The powerful and majestic figure plus the splashing snow special effects were more shocking to Malashenko than a blockbuster movie!

"177! It's my car!"

Before he could finish his exclamation in his heart, Nikolai, the temporary loader who had just stuffed a high-explosive bomb into the gun barrel, pushed open the turret hatch above his head, leaned his upper body out of the turret, and waved to Malashenko to signal the two to speed up and run over.

Behind the command vehicle of the 177th Regiment, a number of KV85 prototypes, like prehistoric beasts, were leading more KV1 heavy tanks over the slope and rushing straight ahead.

Just as Malashenko and Lavrinenko witnessed the arrival of their own large forces and accelerated their gallop, Lavrinenko, who aimed the second high-explosive shell in the barrel at the target, stepped on the firing pedal again without hesitation.

The KV85 heavy tank, which was still in the acceleration stage after just crossing a slope, was not moving very fast. The deep snow that had originally seriously hindered the maneuvering speed now became a soft buffer to reduce the shaking of the gun mirror.

Iushkin, who was confident that he could hit the target, instantly sent out the 85mm high-explosive shell from the barrel with a high speed scream. The 85mm high-explosive shell with 660 grams of TNT in the warhead of the projectile was obviously not something that the fragile armor could withstand.

The 85mm high-explosive bomb that hit the right front wheel of the SDKFZ251 half-track vehicle tore apart the fragile side armor of the vehicle, and the flames with the power of the wildness flowed along the broken armor welds into the vehicle body.

The fuel supply pipeline at the front of the vehicle became the final fuse for the disaster. The ignited gasoline soldiers were divided into two groups to detonate the front engine and the rear fuel tank of the vehicle body into sky-high torches almost at the same time.

A whole squad of German soldiers neatly lined up in the open-air combat room at the rear were instantly unlucky. The flames from their feet almost killed these German soldiers on the spot or turned them into "flame supermen" in the blink of an eye.

The strong desire to survive that burst out in the last moments of life prompted these already dead flame bodies to jump out of the car and scream in pain to try to extinguish the flames on their bodies, but the flames of death burning due to the explosion of the fuel tank were not so easy to extinguish.

The raging gasoline flames that burned everything on these German soldiers could not be extinguished by rolling on the spot or clapping their hands. After a while, these German soldiers, whose vitality was quickly devoured by the raging fire, had exhausted the strength to howl in pain. Their charred bodies fell to the ground and gradually began to emit a disgusting barbecue aroma until they were burnt and carbonized.

The four half-track armored vehicles that chased out of the village were knocked over by Iushkin in less than half a cigarette. The remaining two German half-track armored vehicles, shocked beyond words, turned their heads and stepped on the accelerator to run away.

What? You said you want to get off the car and fight dozens of Soviet heavy tanks? Damn it! Are you stupid or crazy?

But the German army, who had such thoughts in their hearts, had just put them into action and had not had time to run far. Malashenko and Lavrinenko, who were running wildly in the snow, had already stopped.

Get on the car to command? Sorry, the brave Red Army tank soldiers don't need it! Comrade Regiment Commander is still a famous tank hero even without a car!

"Comrades! Destroy these bastards, crush them! Ura!"

Although the scene was a bit awkward with no thunderous Ura in response but only the roar of diesel engines, the strange scene of "infantry" commanding tanks was still staged on Malashenko.

Almost no one could hear Malashenko's passionate command, but the meaning was understood from his waving arms. The KV1 heavy tanks that attacked together had no intention of letting go of the last two German armored vehicles and chased forward. At the same time, a magnificent heavy tank with battle scars and scratches from unpenetrated armor-piercing bullets stopped beside Malashenko.