Chapter 810 Failure

"Armored troops, forward!" The commander of the armored troops shouted majestically into the intercom, but Qin Chuan felt that he was deliberately showing off in front of the head of state, because Qin Chuan heard some nervousness and unnaturalness in his voice.

In this respect, the major was successful, because Hitler looked at all this with satisfaction, and almost even his eyes were smiling.

Not long after, the "Tiger" formation encountered the Soviet defense line, and the major immediately ordered to open fire.

Ten "Tiger"s stopped one after another, and then each adjusted the turret to find their own targets... Their movements were very skillful, which at least showed that in addition to the well-trained tank crews, the operation should be similar to other German tanks, because only in this way can they reach this level after a short period of training.

"Boom boom", two "Tiger"s opened fire first, using grenades, hitting a civil engineering fortification and a sandbag machine gun bunker respectively... Of course, they could not withstand the bombing of the "Tiger" 88 gun, and were blown up in a fire.

Then other Tigers opened fire one after another, some hit and some missed. One of the high-explosive armor-piercing shells hit the wreckage of the T34 tank on the opposite side, exploding from the inside and immediately blowing up the entire turret.

The people watching with binoculars couldn't help but cheer. Kruger looked at Qin Chuan and Manstein with some complacency, and then said to Hitler: "Your Excellency, as I said, they are indestructible... The Soviets have no anti-tank weapons to destroy them, but we can bomb the Soviets at will until the shells are exhausted!"

"Brilliant, perfect!" Hitler put down the binoculars and exclaimed: "That's what we need. They will crush the Soviet Union under its tracks, and Stalin will beg for our forgiveness under its gun barrel..."

But before he finished speaking, a tank stopped on the exercise field and did not keep up with the convoy that continued to move forward. This was obviously abnormal.

Hitler raised his telescope and looked through it, then asked Kruger in confusion: "What's going on?"

Kruger didn't know what was going on either, and he asked the major commander from a few meters away: "What's going on?"

"Your Excellency the Marshal!" The major replied somewhat embarrassedly: "The transmission of the No. 7 tank is faulty!"

"This is an accidental phenomenon, Your Excellency the Führer!" Kruger said: "They will deal with it soon!"

Qin Chuan added: "Why don't we go and have a look?"

"Good idea, Lieutenant Colonel!" Hitler replied, and then walked towards the tank.

The faulty tank was not far from the location of the crowd, about two hundred meters. A few minutes later, everyone came to the tank. The commander and the driver were dealing with the mechanical failure in a panic... The transmission was broken, and the tank did not move at all when the accelerator was pressed, only the sound of the engine was heard.

Seeing Hitler and his group coming over, the crew members immediately put down their work and lined up to salute.

"Don't mind me!" Hitler criticized, "You want to treat this as a battlefield, so you should repair it as quickly as possible and then put it into battle again!"

"Yes, Mr. Fuhrer!" The crew responded and buried their heads in "dealing" with the tank.

But not long after, another tank had problems. The report Hitler and others received was: "Engine failure."

Then another tank was stuck in a snow pit and couldn't move. This is a common thing on the battlefield, especially in terrain like the Soviet Union, and the "Tiger" weighs 56 tons.

At this time, the major commander made another wrong decision. He ordered another "Tiger" to drag the one stuck in the snow pit out...

Qin Chuan almost went up to stop it, because he knew that there was a ban among the German tank soldiers: "It is strictly forbidden to tow the "Tiger" tank."

The reason is simple. The "Tiger" uses a gasoline engine, and its own weight has made the engine overwhelmed... This is one of the reasons for the high failure rate of the "Tiger". If other tanks are towed, it will exceed the load of the engine and cause failure or even fire.

But Qin Chuan immediately realized that he shouldn't stop it at this time.

On the one hand, he shouldn't know that the "Tiger" trailer would have problems... "Tiger" is a new tank, and Qin Chuan was not involved in it.

On the other hand, the more "Tiger" malfunctions, the more Hitler's idea of ​​taking the initiative to attack can be dispelled.

So...

In a burst of "rumbling" roar, black smoke suddenly came out of the engine of the towed "Tiger".

At first, everyone thought it was normal, after all, it was using super power to try to drag another tank out, but when the black smoke turned into flames, everyone knew that the other "Tiger" was finished.

The major commander hurriedly stopped the exercise. If it continued like this, it wouldn't be long before these "Tiger" vehicles would be grounded one by one.

This was not surprising to Qin Chuan. The failure rate of the Tiger was notoriously high, especially when it was first put into service... Three of the four Tigers that were put on the battlefield broke down after only one hour of fighting. The Germans had no choice but to blow them up because they were worried that the new tanks would be seized and studied by the Soviets.

If there was any responsibility, a considerable part of it was on Hitler.

Because as mentioned before, the Tiger tank was Hitler's dream. He hoped to defeat the Soviet Union with this tank, so he ordered that no matter what difficulties he encountered, the Tiger tank should be put into the summer offensive in 1943... So, the Tiger tank was sent to the front line and handed over to the troops just after it was developed and a lot of problems were not solved.

Seeing this, Hitler's face was gloomy and ugly.

Manstein and Qin Chuan looked at each other and didn't say anything, because there was no need to say anything in this situation. Everyone knew where the problem was... It was really unreliable to use such a tank as the main force of the attack, although it was indeed excellent in firepower and defense.

At this time, even Marshal Kluge, who had always advocated the attack, didn't dare to say anything.

Marshal Manstein whispered to Qin Chuan: "Well done, I think the Führer will give up the idea of ​​attacking!"

But Qin Chuan was not so optimistic, because Hitler subjectively wanted to attack, which can be seen from his expression at this time...If Hitler was just hesitating between the two, seeing this situation, he should be glad that he did not insist on ordering an attack, instead of looking like he is now with his dreams shattered and his heart broken.

Sure enough, after a period of suppressed silence, Hitler ordered: "Solve these problems of the Tiger as quickly as possible, no matter how much money and manpower are invested!"