Steel Soviet Union

Chapter 2205 Mechanical Surprise Attack

For the vast majority of German soldiers today, the BMP43 infantry fighting vehicle, which has only been tested and equipped by the Leader Division so far, is definitely a very trendy thing that only a few people have seen.

If only a few people have seen it, it is actually not the worst, because the witnesses can record a little bit of the real situation they saw with their own eyes, and then tell their commanders and comrades, and the German army can also use this to some extent to target the BMP43. Have a little understanding, make some corresponding analysis and judgment, and maybe try to find some possible weaknesses.

But the problem is that the German soldiers who have seen this thing with their own eyes, regardless of whether they are the SS or the Wehrmacht, have either become the dead souls of the leader's division under the rolling iron flow, or they have surrendered and attended the Siberian farmhouse for free. So far, there has never been a German army that has seen this thing with its own eyes, and has been able to retreat in full form and narrate its experience.

Perhaps a few surviving German deserters slipped away from the nose of the leading division and were lucky enough to join the main German army to report their situation.

But these few eyewitness reports are too fragmented. At most, they allow the Germans to establish a vague understanding and roughly know that the Russians have such a new thing with unknown details. As for the specific details and technical overview, they are all blind and don't know anything. Naturally, there is no way to summarize the information and send it to the front-line troops.

This is nothing more than a group of German soldiers who were frightened by the rapid iron flow and screamed in a panic that the Russian tanks were coming, because the BMP43 was indeed the body of a tank.

"Act the enemy! Prepare to fight! Stop those Russians quickly!"

"Stop it!? Are you crazy? We only have dozens of broken guns and don't even have anti-tank guns. Are we going to stop them on this dirt road?"

"The Russians are taking aim! Watch out!"

Boom——

The explosion power of the 85mm high-explosive grenade is neither small nor large. It can only be regarded as moderate at best. When encountering a decent fortification bunker, it is not even moderate and can only be said to be too weak.

But if it's infantry that hits a soft target, then that's a different story.

The 85mm high-explosive grenade exploded on the roadside and spattered bright flames and hot shrapnel. Several German soldiers who were very close to the roadside and had just laid down and raised their guns were unable to dodge. They were instantly hit by the oncoming metal. The rain of shrapnel covered his face, and almost his entire face was instantly torn into bloody paste. He just threw himself onto the street and died without saying a word.

"Continue! Load high-explosive bombs! Cover the infantry fighting vehicles. Any Germans who can still move on the road are targets. Blast them until they can't get up!"

As the mainstay of the entire reconnaissance team, the firepower of the three T43 medium tanks is not very strong. By the standards of the leader division, this kind of firepower is just a mouthful.

But on the other hand, the firepower of the Germans on the opposite side was not even as good as this. They didn't even have a decent anti-tank gun, let alone a tank. A bunch of innocent idiots were blocked on the dirt road and only had straight balls to be bombed.

The only one that can be called relatively reliable anti-tank firepower is the vehicle-mounted 75mm anti-tank gun mounted in the shed of the modified 251 half-track vehicle.

The Germans, who seriously lacked a platform for carrying barreled artillery, were already a little bit confused at the last moment when the building was about to collapse. Even though the fragile body of the 251 was not suitable for carrying the 75mm gun of the same type as the Panzer IV, it was still desperate to dominate. Just put the bow on, no matter whether it is easy or not, put it on first.

The final result was that the forcibly installed 75mm cannon was not easy to use and was seriously inconsistent with the flexible adaptability of the 251's original design.

Not to mention the slow response speed on the battlefield. In the shed that accommodates the three-person combat team of the loader, gunner, and commander, plus the 75mm cannon, which is very large for the 251 and is really a small car-pulled cannon, occupies space. The remaining ammunition rack capacity that can be used to store artillery shells is even more pitiful, only 18 rounds.

Having made so many sacrifices to create a crappy mobile direct-aiming artillery platform, whether it is actually useful or not is another matter entirely.

Just as Alsim asked, the tank platoon leader commanded his own vehicle and two tanks under his command. The targets killed in the first round of fire were the lead vehicle and the rear vehicle of the German convoy, and the 75-gun 251 The car happened to be the first car to open the road.

To deal with this thin-skinned convertible that looks very crispy at first glance, armor-piercing bullets are too high-impact and may even cause harmless passage through the armor. High-explosive bullets are what will send this car to the Germans. The best choice for hitting the road.

The 251 artillery car, which was precisely hit by the 85mm grenade on the side armor of the car body, did not even have time to turn awkwardly, and the fragile side armor of the hood was torn apart with a loud explosion, leaving a shocking tear. Big hole.

The flaming storm carried armor fragments and shrapnel, taking away the lives of all five crew members in the vehicle in just a breathless moment. Without the protection of fully enclosed armor, the skin was so thin that even Deshka could hit him head-on. The crispy cargo met such a tragic end, followed immediately by the explosion of powerful ammunition from the ammunition rack at the rear of the vehicle, which exploded and shot straight into the sky.

The entire 75mm artillery was almost torn off from the rigidly connected artillery shield. It was lifted into the sky amidst the violent explosion and fell freely towards the rear of the convoy. Go, roar down.

A panicked German soldier who couldn't dodge became the unlucky guy who died tragically unexpectedly. The heavy breech block suddenly fell from a height of seven to eight meters in the air and hit him on the back of the head.

The German soldier who lay on the ground seeking cover died on the spot without any pain. However, the appearance of his death was too miserable. His whole head, including the feces spoon helmet, was completely smashed and turned into a lump of fleshy mud. The breech block was so black and hot from the explosion of ammunition and oil, and the scorching smell of meat adhering to the steel wafted into the nostrils of the surrounding German troops.

It's just that no one has time to complain about how disgusting the smell is right now. Their own lives are at risk and adrenaline is rushing. How can they care about this?

First there are the artillery trucks that pose the greatest threat, then there are the machine gun half-tracks carrying the MG42, and finally there are the troop transport trucks that pose no threat and are purely transportation tools.

All the vehicle bunkers where German soldiers could hide nearby were not spared. After a few cannons were fired, they were named one by one by several T43 vehicles that fired at a very fast speed and sent into the sky one by one.

Under the cover of the tank's direct firepower, one of the BMP43 infantry fighting vehicles that was used as a courier delivery vehicle and there were only two left at the moment also stepped on the accelerator and approached the target's face in the rush of speed. Alsim, who has already mastered the skills of getting out of the car during sports, was the first to kick open the car door, pick up the AK in his hand, jump and join the battlefield.