USSR 1941

Colonel Becker is right, the white cloth and the white tank can be said to be integrated... This may not be so obvious from the ground. tall tank.

But if you look down from a fighter jet or bomber flying at high speed, it will be white, and it is not easy to identify the tank from the white cloth.

As a result, although the German air force has been transferred to reinforce, most of the fighters and bombers can only hover in the air but can't do anything... They almost only see their own tanks, and they watch them being destroyed one after another.

Shulka also led his men and rushed out with the tank.

Almost as soon as the tank burst out of the house, the outcome was decided.

In tank warfare, apart from protection and firepower, initiative is also very important. The reason is that a tank division only has a total of more than 100 tanks. If the initiative is lost, more than half of it will be lost in the blink of an eye, and then it will be impossible to come back. .

Therefore, regardless of the fact that tanks are tall and mighty with cannons and machine guns with thick armor, they are actually very fragile on the battlefield. For enemy tanks, it is actually a problem of an armor-piercing bullet.

This is the case at this time of the battle.

The German 2nd Armored Division has much more tanks than the 4th Tank Brigade... The 2nd Armored Division, as a veteran German armored force, has 152 tanks, while the Soviet 4th Tank Brigade has only 63.

This is not because of battle damage. In fact, the fourth tank brigade did have battle damage, such as the previous Klin battle, and the battle to attack Volokolamsk. T34 lost more than 20 tanks due to malfunctions and other reasons .

However, these battle losses were quickly replenished... The T34 produced by the Stalingrad Tractor Factory gave priority to supplementing the Fourth Tank Brigade.

The reason why the 4th Tank Brigade only had 63 tanks at this time was that they had to use some of the real tanks to hide the truth... A total of 20 tanks led the fake tanks to Tver, and then these 20 tanks were still used. Putting it into the battle to attack Tver, this is the complete set of plays.

In other words, in the direction of Volokolamsk, the number of Soviet tanks is less than half of that of German tanks.

At the same time, the protection and firepower of the T34 are actually not bad at close range... As I said before, anyone can penetrate anyone at a distance of tens of meters, tens of meters or even only a few meters, even the "No. 4" Short-barreled guns can penetrate T34, so there is no advantage in protection and firepower.

This battle is about taking the lead.

Tank No. 239, Shulka clearly remembers that its commander, Fedosiev, drank the two-day vodka ration last night, then fell to the ground and fell asleep drooling without a quilt... Shul Only then did Ka understand why so many people freeze to death on the streets in modern Russia.

At the moment when the battle started, Shulka thought it was over, and Fedosiev was not ready at all.

But I didn't expect the tank to be very flexible.

It didn't stop at all after it broke through the doors and windows... Most T34 tanks are used to stopping and waiting for the body to stabilize before firing, but this is actually not necessary in close combat.

At the same time, the constant maneuvering of the tank also makes it less of an easy target for the enemy.

I saw the No. 239 tank "boom" while advancing, and penetrated the "No. 4" tank in front of it, which was urgently turning the turret to it.

The quality of the German tank soldiers of this "No. 4" tank is very good, because its emergency steering relies on the simultaneous movement of the body and the turret, that is, the driver and the gunner turn towards the target at the same time.

Obviously, this can double the steering speed, but it also requires almost perfect coordination between the driver and the gunner... Otherwise, neither the driver nor the gunner can accurately point to the target by turning more or less.

This requires a lot of training and quick response and adaptability.

Regrettably, they still failed to turn to the firing position in time before the T34 fired, so its fate was to become a pile of scrap metal and collapse in place.

Because of the close distance, Shulka and the others could even clearly hear the crisp sound of the armor-piercing projectile piercing through the armor of the tank. The "No. 4" tank shook as if it was shaking, and then stopped moving again. .

T34 continued to move forward, and a bullet hole appeared in front of Shulka. The steel around the bullet hole was sunken inwards, and a few wisps of blue smoke came out of it. I don't know whether it was caused by the amount of iron in the shell or the violent collision between the shell and the armor.

But of course Shulka didn't think about it at this time, he yelled "grenade"... grenades with blue smoke rolled over the tank body and went straight to the German army to follow the infantry.

The German infantry, who had been prepared for battle, were thrown into disarray when the grenade fell on them.

This is also one of the functions of the grenade, because of its delay, everyone knows what will happen next when this thing is around.

As long as you are not stupid, no one will think about shooting but how to dodge, so the goal of suppression is achieved.

With a burst of "booming", the German soldiers were blown up and down, and Shulka and others used the wreckage of the German tank as a cover to shoot at the fleeing German soldiers.

One by one the German soldiers were knocked to the ground.

Although they were all well-trained and experienced, they fell into a pool of blood before they had time to react to a series of mutations.

The No. 239 tank, on the other hand, walked around in front of the wreckage in a godlike manner, then increased its horsepower and rushed towards another "No. 3" tank.

The reason why it is said to be a "god-like move" is because the German "No. 3" tank is turning its gun tank to the right, while the No. 239 tank circled around under the cover of the tank wreckage and appeared on the left side. .

The "No. 3" tank hurriedly turned its muzzle back...but it was too late. The No. 239 tank had already been reloaded, and with a "boom", another number was added to the number destroyed.

During the battle, the Soviet army also threw smoke bombs.

This is not only to further reduce visibility and make the German Air Force lose its target, but also because the Soviet tanks are painted white, which is easier to hide in the white smoke of the smoke bombs, while the black crosses on the German tanks are very obvious... In fact, it It is simply a marked bullseye.

To make matters worse for the German tanks, they had never thought of encountering enemy tanks before. They thought that their opponents would still be infantry, just like the defense line they broke through.

The difference is that the barrels of most German tanks are filled with grenades aimed at infantry rather than armor-piercing shells.

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