Chapter 364 Routine Maintenance

"Quick, quick, quick!" On a vast plain, company commander Heinz said loudly, looking at his subordinates.

Tank soldiers look majestic. In fact, tank soldiers are the hardest and most tiring. It’s like seeing spiders make a web every day, and they have food. No one sees spiders who actually need to re-learn the web every day.

Tanks need routine maintenance every day.

Now, Heinz's tank company is maintaining their tanks.

The five-person driving system is quite suitable. Only five people can maintain the tank to reduce the labor intensity.

As a platoon leader, Wittmann is no exception. At this time, he and his crew are maintaining their tanks.

Several people smoked a long gun brush to clean the gun barrel.

The gun barrel has been placed at the lowest level. In the state of depression, how long the gun barrel is, the gun brush must be as long as it is, and even more than one meter long.

This cannon brush is made of steel bars. There is a group of cleaning brushes in front of it, which is just stuffed into the cannon muzzle. Then, a few people shouted and shoved the cannon brush into the inside, and then turned it outwards. smoke.

When the cannon was brushed out, a black smoke rose up, and those that flew out were all leftovers after the cannon was fired.

Although advanced propellant is used, there will still be a lot of gunpowder residue inside the high-pressure tank gun. If it is not cleaned up in time, then the next time you shoot, it may explode due to excessive resistance.

One time is not enough, put it in again, the second time, the third time, until the cannon brush comes out clean, it is not over.

Several people were sweating profusely, put the gun brush aside, and then adjusted the tightness of the crawler.

The track of the tank is very important. It is precisely because of the track that the tank can walk on the ground. At the same time, the track is made of high-strength steel.

Even so, the track often has various problems, just like the chain of the bicycle, it needs to be adjusted after a long time of use.

Too loose or too tight is not good.

If the track is too loose, the tank will easily loosen the track when turning, and if it is too tight, the track will easily break once it is pressed against something hard.

In normal training, if the track is not suitable, it will break down at most. On the battlefield, once there is a problem with the track, it almost means death. No one will ignore these.

Every day, after a long-distance raid, routine maintenance must be carried out, which is related to their life and death on the battlefield!

In addition, it is necessary to check piece by piece, if the crawler has cracks, it must be replaced immediately!

At this time, on each Panther tank, a row of spare tracks are hung in front, which can be used as additional armor and can be changed to the tracks at any time when needed.

Changing the crawler is even more of a hard work, with a sledgehammer and an iron drill serving together.

"The track is just right, no need to adjust it," the driver shouted to Wittmann.

The track is just right, which is really good news, so, next, it's time to relax.

Lying behind the Panther 3 tank and feeling the residual temperature of the engine is the most pleasant time. Now, there is only one last thing left, waiting for the arrival of the supply vehicle to replenish ammunition and fuel!

Here, it belongs to the Fuhuodawa area.

Not far away is the slowly flowing Vistula River, and ten kilometers to the south is the surrounded Polish army.

In the triangle of the Bug, San and Vistula rivers, the Waffen SS Panzer Division caught up with the retreating Polish troops and surrounded them.

But now, it is still difficult to eat these Polish troops in one go, especially after the start of the attack, there will definitely be Polish troops breaking through, which is the most unfavorable.

Therefore, they did not launch a general attack for the time being.

At the same time, the fighting in the past few days has terrified the Polish army. Their cavalry is no match for tanks at all, and their infantry is even more of a lamb to be slaughtered. After finding that they were surrounded, the Polish army was digging fortifications desperately and turning to defense on the spot.

So, let's just stalemate, of course, it won't be too long.

The tank troops that rushed all the way, after the routine maintenance, refueling and reloading, will launch a general attack at most tomorrow.

The Poles were frightened and foolish. If they tried their lives to break through the encirclement just after they encircled them, they would still be able to escape a part of it. After all, the German tanks were also exhausted at that time.

Sitting behind his tank, leaning against the turret, Wittmann silently lit a cigarette and began to smoke.

Taking a puff of cigarettes between battles is already the greatest enjoyment.

Not far away, he looked at the company commander, Heinz, who was standing on a tank, observing the surroundings with binoculars. Now, Heinz was planning tomorrow's battle.

As a company commander, there are more things to be responsible for, and for Wittman, what he prefers is to rush up and kill the opponent!

This behavior of Wittmann is often criticized by the company commander. In the eyes of the company commander, Wittmann can only be a tanker and cannot be a more suitable commander of the armored force. When he became a platoon commander, After the company commander, more, it is necessary to take care of all tank operations.

And Wittmann, once addicted to fighting, it is easy to put this education in the back, Wittman rushes ahead, and his tank platoons rush up behind him, which often evolves into this situation.

Under this kind of impact, the Polish army often collapsed at the touch of a button, and Wittmann rushed past the opponent's position, then turned around and encircled the opponent.

In his eyes, the battle against Poland is as simple as that. Of course, if you encounter a strong opponent, there are other tactics, and he is quite looking forward to it.

He was smoking a cigarette comfortably when suddenly, Heinz shouted: "Alarm, prepare to fight!"

alarm!

Just to the north of our side, where there is a vast expanse of space, suddenly there are countless dust flying up, it must be a troop marching!

The distance is too far to see clearly here, it is likely to be a cavalry unit supported by Poland!

alarm!

At this moment, all the tank crews quickly jumped on their chariots. Except for a few that were dismantling their tracks, the rest of the tanks started rumblingly.

The advantages of diesel engines are fully demonstrated, and they are quite fuel-efficient. Although they are waiting for refueling, they can still run dozens of kilometers with the remaining fuel in the tank, which is enough to deal with an unexpected encounter.

Wittmann's tank rushed to the front again, the engine at the rear rumbled, and Wittmann's eyes stared at his high-magnification sight.

What's in front of me? If it was Polish cavalry, they could be crushed with machine guns!

In the field of vision, the target gradually expands, and finally, the outline of the opponent can be seen, which is also a tank!