Chapter 510

Mayer was very excited. He only left two tank destroyers to help guard the French general and escort him back to the rear. All his remaining troops were left behind, waiting for the next order.

This is the gap before the war, and Meyer's men are quickly carrying out tank maintenance.

When I was fighting just now, I was quite excited and didn't feel anything, but now, when the battle is over, I look again, and my tank is seriously injured.

The opponent's 40mm bang-bang gun left several holes in the front armor plate. The largest one can even be stuffed into the fist. However, the armor plate was not penetrated, and the Panther 3 tank was well protected. Tanks!

It is said that the damaged tanks should retreat to the rear and use equipment such as electric welding to fill the damaged parts completely before they can continue to participate in the battle, but now, they are obviously not willing to wait any longer.

What are you waiting for, a big battle is just around the corner, and the 1st Armored Division of the entire UK will be surrounded and wiped out. They must participate in the war!

"Attention, be careful!" At this time, several people were working carefully on Mayer's tank.

The blind-fired cannonball is still in the cannon barrel, so the cannonball must be taken out first.

This is quite dangerous. When the shell is loaded into the barrel, it must be fired, and it will be dangerous if the shell is withdrawn.

In theory, there are inertial insurance on the shells, and the inertial insurance will only be released when the shells are shot out of the barrel and the speed is sufficient.

This is a necessary measure, otherwise, for example, the fuze of impact explosion, if there is no such insurance, it will easily explode if it is hit during transportation, which is quite dangerous.

However, as for machinery, there will be unexpected situations. What if this cannonball is a special case?

Gently opened the tail gun door, the loader carefully inspected the tail of the shell, the firing pin had hit it, leaving a small pit at the bottom, but the propellant in the barrel was not fired, it seems to be Problem with the fuse.

He exerted force with both hands, but the barrel of the gun did not move.

"Hot expansion and cold contraction, I can't take it down." He shouted.

When firing, with multiple firings, the temperature inside the gun chamber is very high, and the space becomes larger, so it is easy to load the shells, but now, the battle is over, and the space inside the gun chamber becomes smaller.

If it's normal, it's not a problem. After all, in a cold state, the shells have to be reloadable.

The problem is that in the fierce battle just now, they fired more than 20 shells, and every time they fired, there would be residues of propellant.

These residues make the interior space smaller, and the friction force increases, making it difficult to take off.

"It seems that we can only use the old method." The gunner said, "Roll the barrel to the lowest point and use the steel drill."

On one side of the tank's body, a long steel rod can be pulled out, which is just one meter longer than the tank's gun barrel. This thing is used for maintaining the tank's gun barrel.

After each firing, the gunpowder residue in the gun must be cleaned in time, and now, this steel drill has other functions.

The gunner was a veteran. He was smoking a cigarette, holding a steel drill in both hands, stuffed it all the way to the inside, and then shouted: "Give me a hammer!"

A sledgehammer is essential to maintain a tank in peacetime.

"Smash!" the gunner shouted to the driver.

The driver was a little worried: "In this case, will the shells explode?

Tank guns are all high-pressure guns with a lot of propellant. If you are not careful, if you blow up the shell, it will definitely blow up the barrel, and then send them all to the sky. "

"I have avoided the fuse of the warhead, let's do it!" Holding a cigarette, the gunner continued: "Come on, work hard!"

"Boom!" The sledgehammer slammed down.

"Come again!"

After smashing it five times in a row, in the turret here, the loader shouted loudly: "Move, move!"

"continue!"

After smashing more than 30 hammers, finally, the cannonball slowly retreated from the barrel.

After the final blow, the loader hugged the shell and carefully lifted it out.

"Stay here and leave it to the sappers to deal with it," Mayer said.

The misfired shells are quite dangerous and need to be left to the sappers to detonate, which has nothing to do with them. Now, they need to quickly maintain the vehicles to prevent similar problems from continuing.

Standing on a Stalker tank destroyer, Mayer looked into the distance. He knew that the battle he had just fought was just a contact with the opponent's striker, and the next battle would soon begin.

There was a roar from the east, and Mayer raised his head and looked at the sky, and suddenly became unhappy: "Hey, why are you here so early, you can't scare the British away!"

When they learned the news, their own air force arrived quickly.

More than a dozen Stukas flew over Mayer's tank company and headed towards their front, where the main force of the British armored division should be located.

It would be bad if they just scare the British away in a rush of bombardment.

Unfortunately, his words were not heard by the pilots in the sky.

Hans drove his Stuka and flew over 500 meters in the air. This was his 87th battle since the start of the war. He flew three sorties almost every day. He was a natural fighting machine. ! If it weren't for the night being unable to attack, I'm afraid he would have to fight at night.

At the same time, Hans's victory has also accumulated to 203.

According to the regulations, if the accumulation exceeds 200, he will come down from the front line and go to the rear to train students. However, the war is still going on. The confirmation of Hans's victory has not been so fast, and the reporting is also very slow, so Hans Still flying on the line.

This can be regarded as his exploiting the loophole, but he will not be exploiting it for long. When the French battle is over, he will definitely be ordered to go back to the rear.

Cherish every opportunity, like now!

Under the belly of the aircraft, there are two 500-kilogram bombs. This is Stuka's most common combat load. His eyes are sharp, and he can see the ground far away at a glance.

Just now, he flew over his own tank position, and when he flew over, he also flapped his wings towards the person below.

If he knew the complaints below, he would definitely spit in the bottom.

They were there to blow up the bridge and cut off the British armored forces. Create opportunities for your own armored forces to surround and destroy British armored divisions.

Of course, after blowing up the bridge, if there is a chance, they will also blow up the fuel trucks supplied by the British Armored Division or something.

"Shanovsky, you know what? HS-129, it looks good." Hans was talking to his backseat machine gunner while flying.