Transmigrated as the Crown Prince

Moscow.

"..." Stalin was smoking his pipe silently in the underground office. On the table in front of him was a telegram just sent from Stalingrad that urgently needed medicine. In fact, there is no shortage of medicines in the rear, especially in Moscow. There are mountains of medicines produced by the Soviet Union and supported by the Americans. Although there is no miracle drug like penicillin, other drugs such as sulfonamides are very abundant.

But the problem is that they can't break through the German encirclement outside Stalingrad. No matter how much supplies they hoard, they can't enter Stalingrad.

Stalin naturally would not give up the city named after himself easily. They tried various methods, such as airdrops from airplanes. However, the German army deployed mobile radar vehicles near Stalingrad, and any aircraft that entered the airspace within 50 kilometers around Stalingrad would be shot down without exception.

Another example is using the Volga River, but both sides of the Volga River have long been occupied by the German army. The German army has laid dense mines in the river, making it impossible for surface ships or underwater submarines to pass. And at night, the searchlights set up by the German army on both sides of the river will illuminate the river as if it were daytime.

Before they could figure out how to support Stalingrad, bad news came from the front. The German troops that originally besieged Smolensk began to advance toward Moscow after resting for more than half a month.

On the outskirts of a town more than 100 kilometers away from Smolensk, the vanguard of the German army encountered the Soviet army, and a fierce battle began. This Soviet army is a pure infantry team. Lacking heavy weapons, they are unable to fight back against German tanks. The fired bullets hit the Jackal tank's armor and had no effect other than making a crackling sound and scraping off some paint.

The German steel behemoths crushed these Soviet troops mercilessly.

After easily wiping out the Soviet troops on the periphery, the German troops who were about to attack the town suddenly saw several heavy tanks slowly driving out of the town.

"Hey! It's the Soviet IS-1 heavy tank!!" As early as when the Soviets produced the IS-1 prototype, the tank's detailed data had been sent to the German tank troops, so they recognized the tank on the other side at a glance. Those big guys. We know that these IS-1 heavy tanks are equipped with 85mm artillery. The muzzle velocity of tracer high-speed armor-piercing projectiles is 1030 meters/second, which can penetrate a 130mm thick vertical armor plate at a distance of 1000 meters; the muzzle velocity of tracer armor-piercing projectiles is 800 meters/second. Seconds, it can penetrate 102 mm thick vertical armor plates at a distance of 1,000 meters. In other words, these heavy tanks are enough to pose a threat to one's own side at a distance of one thousand meters, but their number is a bit small, only five.

"I want to block just these few..." Before he finished speaking, the corner of the German tank company commander's mouth twitched slightly. These five IS-1 heavy tanks are also followed by bt-7, T-26, KV-1, KV-2, and even American M3 light tanks and M3 "Grant/Lee" medium tanks, etc.; one One car after another, seemingly in an endless supply.

"Hey, these guys, get ready to fight!" He was no coward. He couldn't escape without firing a shot. He had to destroy these IS-1 heavy tanks no matter what. But before he finished speaking, he saw an IS-1 heavy tank on the opposite side suddenly stopped, and then a puff of black smoke erupted from the muzzle.

"Tsk, tsk, these idiots!" The company commander couldn't help but sneered. The distance between the two sides was about 1,500 meters at this time. He did not believe that the Soviet artillery shells could cause harm to them. Sure enough, the shell landed far away on the slope behind the German tank, splashing a piece of mud.

Soon, the distance between the two sides shrank to 1,200 meters, and the company commander shouted an order. "Stop! Fire!"

"boom!"

The driver immediately stepped on the brakes. Just as he was stopping the car, the gunner had completed his preparations and stepped on the trigger hard. There was a loud bang, and the entire tank swayed. A 75mm armor-piercing projectile flew out of the muzzle and headed straight for the IS-1 heavy tank on the opposite side. However, contrary to everyone's expectations, the shell did not hit the Soviet tank, but flew over the tank and fell into the town behind.

"Beck, you idiot! Just aim and hit!"

"boom!"

The second shell was fired, and this time it accurately hit the front armor of the IS-1 heavy tank. However, the shell obviously did not penetrate the armor. The tank shook twice and continued to move forward.

"Hey, what the hell! Put on armor-piercing discarding sabots!!"

Because our own tungsten-cored armor-piercing projectiles have so far been invincible and have not met any opponents, the discarding sabots have almost no use. In addition, they are expensive to manufacture, and each tank only carries about five of them.

Although most of the later generations of discarding sabots fired armor-piercing projectiles were large-caliber smoothbore cannons, rifling not only did not play any role in discarding sabots, but would drag down the stability of the shells and bring unnecessary resistance. Fortunately, the stubborn British insisted While holding on to their rifled cannons, they finally figured out how to use the rifled cannons to launch armor-piercing shells. As a result, Yannick and the German tank troops were greatly advantaged by the time and space.

The loader quickly stuffed the discarding sabot into the barrel and reported loudly. "Loading complete!"

"Stop and fire!" Following the company commander's order, the tank fired the armor-piercing discarding sabot. Living up to Yannick's advance deployment, this armor-piercing discarding sabot showed its powerful penetration ability and easily penetrated the frontal armor of the IS-1 heavy tank. The entire tank exploded, and the Soviet troops inside Not a single tanker escaped.

The remaining four tanks were also destroyed.

"Get ready to fire smoke grenades." Looking at the Soviet tank group rushing over, the company commander felt a little scared. Although he was not a coward, he was not reckless either. Just when he was about to launch smoke bombs and escape, suddenly dense rockets covered the attack area of ​​the Soviet tanks. Accompanied by one after another explosions, several IL-10 attack aircraft flew across the sky.

After firing the rockets, the Il-10 attack aircraft formation did not rush to leave. Instead, they hovered in the air. After the smoke on the ground dissipated slightly, they swooped down again and fired fiercely at the remaining Soviet tanks. 20 The millimeter cannon tracer bullets connected in a straight line, sending sparks flying across the Soviet tanks they were locked onto. Another huge explosion came, a Soviet tank exploded, and the turret flew far away.

"Haha! This support came just in time! Everyone is here, attack forward! Destroy these bastards who don't know how to live or die!" The attack aircraft's attack reduced the number ratio of the two sides from the original 5:1 to less than 3:1. The German tank crews rejoiced and immediately rushed towards the Soviet tank group.

(Sorry, today’s chapter)