Chapter 198 General Grant Style (II)

The battle became intense at the first moment... Tank battles are often like this, they emphasize speed, so they often line up and engage the enemy and exchange fire at the first moment.

The British army was more prepared and had more tanks, so the shells fired from the British direction poured down on the German army like raindrops.

In fact, this was also due to the three-layer body design of the "General Grant" tank... This thing is equipped with two guns, a 37MM tank gun on the top, and the other is a 75MM gun on the right side of the middle.

In addition, the "General Grant" tank has a wide body and a large internal space, so the two guns have a large amount of ammunition... The former has 178 rounds and the latter has 46 rounds.

Therefore, the British army fired shells at the German army as soon as the battle started, one after another, almost without stopping.

This is also a reflection of the insufficient training of the British tank crew. The penetration depth of its 37MM caliber gun within 500 meters is only 36MM, which can't penetrate the front armor of the "No. 3" tank at all, so it is actually doing useless work. The 75MM gun is really effective.

But the firing range of the 75MM gun is very narrow, and the distance between the enemy and us is more than 700 meters. Therefore, although grenades and armor-piercing shells rained down on the German tanks, most of them did not hit.

This made Colonel Dietrich, the commander of the 15th Armored Regiment, feel more at ease... At first, he was also frightened by the British's new tanks. He thought that his troops would definitely be wiped out and the enemy tanks would break into his camp and start a massacre.

It is normal for Colonel Dietrich to think so, because anyone will have a fear of strange and unfamiliar things, especially tank soldiers, because not understanding the performance of the enemy's equipment means that they are likely to use their own weaknesses to attack the enemy's strengths.

What's more, the "General Grant" tank is very big... This guy is more than three meters tall, with a turret higher than an ordinary tank.

More importantly, the new equipment that appears on the battlefield is often a weapon developed by the enemy after understanding the performance of their own equipment, so it is usually their nemesis.

But the situation is a little different at this time...

The "General Grant" tank is not an equipment developed for the German "Phase III" tank. It is a tank that was urgently added because the British army was anxious and the "Stuart" tanks reinforced by the US army could not fight against the "Phase III" tank. It has not even been strictly tested.

At this time, Colonel Detrich saw that this weird tank did not have much firepower after the war, so he had a bottom line in his heart.

"Hold on, hold on..." When the British tanks got closer, Colonel Detrich ordered: "Shoot!"

With a burst of artillery fire, several British tanks that were hit on the opposite side were immediately paralyzed, and even several tanks were detonated. The ammunition in the cabin was blown up and the entire gun tank flew far away.

Seeing this, Colonel Detrich was overjoyed... Before this, he was worried that although the firepower of this behemoth was not good, the armor might be particularly thick, but now it seems that this is not the case.

However, Colonel Detrich was obviously too happy too early. The British tanks had a numerical advantage. As the distance between the enemy and us got closer, the accuracy of the 75MM tank gun of the "General Grant" tank became higher and higher.

This is not to say that the accuracy of American artillery is not good, but that the British tanks lack experienced crew operation, and this disadvantage will not be so obvious as the distance is shortened.

This 75MM tank gun can penetrate 100MM vertical homogeneous armor at a distance of 500 meters, and it is certainly no problem to penetrate the 47MM armor of the "No. 3" tank.

So the two sides launched a tragic battle of destruction... Both sides can easily penetrate the armor of the other side, and the competition is who can fire the shells the fastest and most accurately. This is a bit like the era of the volley gun, where the enemy and us lined up in a neat formation to shoot at each other, the only difference is that the enemy and us are not people but tanks.

Soon, there was another shrill whistling sound in the sky, and the fighter planes of both sides joined the battle again, and the battlefield was in chaos in an instant... Bullets, shells, tanks, fighter planes, etc., entangled with each other in the smoke and dust, trying their best to kill each other.

In the eyes of Qin Chuan and the German soldiers, it was a team of fighter planes whistling through the air and rushing to the battlefield a few kilometers away, and then bursts of dull explosions came from afar, like thunder.

"What happened?" Werner asked.

"It should be the 15th Armored Division fighting the enemy!" Kuhn looked out of the back compartment and said, "It seems to be fighting fiercely!"

"What should we do?" A recruit asked anxiously, "Shouldn't we go to reinforce?"

"Relax, private!" Yakop said, "They will give us orders!"

Sure enough, the order came down soon.

But the order was not to reinforce but to stay on the spot.

"Be prepared to deal with enemy tanks!" Bazel shouted, "The British are equipped with new tanks, so build fortifications and bring up anti-tank grenades!"

Bazel's words shocked the soldiers, because the German army rarely failed in tank battles... The previous failure was against the British "Matilda", but that was quickly resolved. What new tanks will the British have now?

Qin Chuan knew the answer... It should be the "General Grant" tank.

"Sergeant!" At this time, General Strike's command vehicle stopped in front of the position. The adjutant sitting in the passenger cab stuck his head out and waved to Qin Chuan, saying: "Come to the car, Sergeant, General. Need to talk to you!"

"Yes, sir!" Qin Chuan stopped what he was doing, put away his engineering shovel and ran towards the command vehicle.

"We are in trouble, Sergeant!" After Qin Chuan got on the bus, Colonel Olbridge raised a piece of paper in his hand: "The British are equipped with a new type of tank. Have you seen such a tank?"

Qin Chuan looked up and saw that what was drawn on the paper was a "General Grant" tank.

"No, no, Colonel!" Qin Chuan shook his head.

Of course Qin Chuan had to answer no. This was a tank just produced in the United States, and not many people knew about it.

"There are at least eighty of them!" General Strike said: "According to what we know now, the performance of this tank will not be worse than our tanks. The 15th Armored Division has suffered heavy losses and can hardly hold on!"

Of course Qinchuan knew this, otherwise the 21st Armored Division should not have been stationed in place but went to reinforce the 15th Armored Division.

Another meaning of garrisoning in situ is that the German army is about to fully retreat...but the retreat must be fought and retreated, otherwise the British army will chase them all the way behind.

"We only have twenty-four tanks!" Olbridge said worriedly: "Can we stop their attack?"