Chapter 1379 Not Enough Depression Angle

The opponent is really cunning!

When the 66th Armored Battalion of the vanguard arrived, battalion commander Karl Mauss looked at the tank in the mud in the distance and admired his opponent.

The height is too low.

It is impossible for our own tank guns to have such a depression angle, that is to say, if our own side launches an attack rashly now, almost all of our own artillery shells will fly over the opponent's turret and will not hit the opponent's tank at all. .

However, the opponent can easily project their shells on their own tanks. Although the additional armor has greatly improved the protective performance of the Tiger tanks, they can carry them hard, but after all, they also have to cause armor. of damage.

If the angle is not coincidental, maybe it will be penetrated by the other party.

Now, a thousand meters away, Karl Mauss ordered his tank to stop advancing. He looked at the tank with only the turret exposed, and he almost admired the other side.

The opponent's position is also very clever, just on the side of the road, that is to say, if your own tank unit wants to advance, it must pass from its side, even if it is a Tiger tank, the side is hit by a 122mm tank gun. Also quite scary.

A tank stuck in a mud pit actually blocked the path of the entire armored division. I really don't know what to say.

"Our best way is to call for air support." Beside him, the gunner also spoke: "We can't hit it, but our HS-129 attack aircraft can easily destroy it."

"Yeah, the best way is to call our attack aircraft, but our time is precious!"

Yes, time is precious.

Attack planes can't be in the sky all the time. It takes at least twenty minutes to call HS-129. They will lose precious time!

What is Karl Mauss worried about? Of course, I am worried that the enemy will run away!

There is no doubt that these tanks will not appear here for no reason. They must have accidentally fallen here when the enemy is retreating. That means that their large troops are nearby. Tank battles are the most exciting, and Karl Mauss can't help but want to catch up.

Twenty minutes was enough to make the opponent run away, and he was running out of time.

"But our depression angle is not enough," said the gunner.

"The angle of depression is not enough, let's make up the dunnage!" Karl-Mauss said, "Take off our dunnage, put it on the back of the tank, support the tank, and increase our depression angle!"

Because it was driving in a swampy area, the tank troops had been prepared for a long time. Behind each tank, there was a thick log. Anyway, the Soviet Union was not lacking anything else, at least this wood was not lacking.

This piece of wood was originally intended to be used when the car was trapped, but now it can be taken out in advance!

"We have to aim at it, otherwise it's easy to overturn," the gunner said.

"Understood." The driver in front gently turned his steering wheel, and the hydraulic transmission of the Tiger tank understood the intention. The track on the left turned forward, and the track on the right turned backwards, allowing the tank to move in a dashing manner. A turn in place.

The hull was facing the Stalin tank, and the loader got out of the turret, climbed to the back of the tank, pulled the wire, loosened the log carried behind the hull, and it rolled down.

"Reverse!" the loader shouted, standing behind the tank.

The crawlers on both sides were shaking, and they slowly retreated back to the log. When the crawlers contacted the log, the log turned and the bark outside was gnawed by the crawlers. Fortunately, Eat hard, go up smoothly!

When both crawlers went up, the body of the tank leaned forward at once. The gunner looked down at his field of vision, and immediately shouted loudly: "Okay!"

Although the car body is only raised about ten degrees in the back, it is enough to support the aiming of the tank gun. The gunner is slowly turning his steering wheel, he must aim!

German tank guns and sights are quite precise, which allows them to fire at long distances, while the Soviet ones are not good. Beyond 500 meters, the hit rate is considerably reduced. When the distance is 1,000 meters, the hit The rate is not even ten percent.

Now, the Stalin tank only leaves a turtle shell on the horizon. It was originally intended to kill a few more German tanks, but now, the German tanks stopped a thousand meters away, and the gunner was aiming Seeing that the other party was actually going to tilt the tank up, his heart sank.

"The German tank actually increased the depression angle by the tilt of the car body. We have no time, let's fight." The gunner said to the commander.

The commander Yuri also sank in his heart. It seems that the tactics they have formulated are not useful, and they plan to wait for the other side to get close to kill a few more vehicles. Now it seems that the other side does not plan to approach at all, and wants to reach them from a long distance. fire.

Because the reloading speed of the Stalin tanks was too slow, they did not fire immediately. By now, Yuri knew that it was no longer necessary to wait.

"Aim for me." Yuri said, "Their hulls are tilted up, just so we can hit the top of their turrets, and we must penetrate their tanks!"

The protection of any tank cannot be the same everywhere. The top is definitely the weakest. For example, the Stalin tank has a frontal protection of more than 100 mm, but the top is less than 50 mm, so the HS129 in the air can easily use 40 mm. A millimeter cannon can penetrate it.

Germans, certainly the same.

"Understood." The gunner carefully adjusted his tank gun, and when he stepped on the trigger, he saw the target tank, and there was a burst of fire.

"Boom!" Almost at the same time, both the 88mm tank gun and the 122mm tank gun fired!

If it is larger than the caliber, of course, the 122mm is more dominant. However, the German technology is more advanced. When the shell flies out of the barrel, the rear shell is thrown away, the tail is opened, and the slender core, Fly towards the opposite side.

At the same time, Karl Maos shouted: "Drive!"

Of course, he also saw the opponent fire. Although the distance was a thousand meters, he still couldn't take it lightly. Compared with the opponent, his advantage was that he was able to move.

Black smoke billowed from the rear of the Tiger tank, the diesel engine rattled, the tracks gnawed at the bark, and crashed down from the logs behind.

Then, the 122mm cannonball flew past the top of its turret, interrupting the radio antenna behind it, and the cannonball flew with a terrible whistle, causing the eardrums of everyone inside the turret to ache.