Now the British were caught in the front and rear of the anti-tank guns and the Tiger tanks, which was an extremely dangerous situation. The thickness of the armor of the various parts of the tank varies, and generally the armor of the front part of the tank is thicker, while the armor of its sides and tail is much weaker. Because if the tank wants to be thick in all directions, it will be too heavy for the road and bridge, as well as its own suspension system. For example, the 70-ton King Tiger tank made by the Germans could not penetrate the frontal armor of the Firefly's 17-pounder gun, while its 88-mm gun could easily penetrate any Allied tank. Theoretically, such a tank should pose a great threat to the Allies. But in fact, this thing caused even more trouble to the Germans than it posed to the enemy. In later generations, people even told such a joke: what would have happened if the Germans had been able to have 10,000 Tiger Kings in WWII? The answer was that Hitler would have to conscript all the Germans into the army for this, and then put half of them in charge of following the Tiger King, ready to repair tanks, and the other half of them to build bridges and roads 24 hours a day.

The tanks on the Allied side, on the other hand, had to cross the boundless sea by boat, cross roads that had been blown up by their own men and the enemy, and cross pontoon bridges on rivers without bridges, so their weight was greatly limited. With such weight limitations, their side and rear armor are of course even weaker.

At the beginning, the British M4 tanks, facing the German PAK-40 anti-tank guns and the No. 3 assault gun, turned the front of the tank in the direction of the German anti-tank guns. The PAK-40 anti-tank gun was powerful enough to destroy the M4 tank from the front, but the large sloping armor on the front of the M4 still had a good chance of ricocheting the PAK-40 shell. As for the assault gun No. 3, well, its howitzer is not intended for attacking armored targets in the first place, from the side to still have a chance to penetrate the M4 tank, from the front, then ...... Well, there is still a chance to interrupt someone's tracks. Without the indiscriminate entry of the 3rd Company of the 50 Triple Tank Battalion of the German Army, the British still had a good chance of breaking through this anti-tank gun position.

However, the addition of Tiger tanks from the 3rd Company of the 50 Triple Tank Battalion of the German Army immediately put the British in a desperate situation. If they continue to maintain their current state, it will be tantamount to selling the chrysanthemum to the Tiger tanks of the Germans, and if they turn around, well, even the howitzers of the No. 3 assault gun will be able to easily penetrate their tail armor.

"Retreat! Fall back! "In the current situation, the British can only increase their horsepower to accelerate the escape of the M4 tank. As for how many of them will be able to get out under such crossfire, then only God really knows.

The British M4 tank clumsily turned around in a hail of bullets, and in the process, several more tanks burst into flames. The M4 tank uses a gasoline engine, which is very flammable, and their armor is not thick enough, especially the engine part is not protected enough, and once hit, the engine can easily catch fire. So much so that the Germans gave this tank a nickname called a lighter, which means that it burns as soon as it hits, and it burns every time it hits. The remaining M4 tanks were at full throttle, heading in the direction they had come from. As for the infantry that accompanies them, well, let them fend for themselves.

In fact, the speed of the Tiger tank is not much slower than that of the M4 tank. As a heavy tank weighing more than fifty tons, this tank can also run at speeds of up to 40 kilometers. This speed is not much slower than that of the M4 tank. But now it's off-road terrain, and the Tiger tank is too heavy after all, and on this kind of terrain, it definitely can't outrun the M4 medium tank. And if you run fast and bump badly, you can't make an effective shè hit. And those M4 tanks of the British, this does not need to think about the problem of firing artillery, of course, how fast and how fast they can run. In this way, theoretically, it is still possible for the British to escape.

But this possibility is only theoretical. Although the Tiger tanks could not catch up with the British M4 tanks, their shells could easily catch up with the escaped M4 tanks. The powerful 88mm gun of the Tiger tank can penetrate the front armor of the M4 at a distance of two thousand meters, and now, the escaped M4 can use the tail of the Tiger 88 gun, and if it is accurate, the Tiger 88 gun can even kill these M4 tanks from more than 3,000 meters away.

Of course, in fact, when there were no ballistic computers, laser rangefinders, crosswind sensors and the like, the hit rate of tanks against targets at a distance of kilometers, especially moving targets, was a mess. Although the Tiger tank has a record of destroying the T-34 at a distance of 3,000 meters, it was just a blind cat touching a dead mouse. In essence, it was as if a Soviet 203-mm gun was close to 10 kilometers away and fired a shell through the top cover of a Ferdinand tank destroyer that was not closed, or that an M10 tank destroyer broke the barrel of a Tiger for the first time at a distance of 800 meters. However, it was not easy for the British M4 to distance more than a kilometer from the Germans, and in the process, one M4 tank after another was hit and caught fire.

"Help! Who's going to save us! "Witnessing one M4 tank after another being turned into a flaming flare by German fire, Bill?? Kros couldn't help but shout over the radio, "Please, whoever it is, help us!" ”

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"The British are in ambush and are calling for help!" In the command room of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing, a staff officer reported the news to Group Leader Boeington.

"These pigs have finally been taught a lesson?" Boeington, who was unabashed, immediately came up with such a sentence. But apparently he also understood that now was not the time for schadenfreude, so he asked: "How far is our P/A-38 attack aircraft?" ”

"Hmm......" replied a staff officer, looking at the chart, "and there are still five minutes to go." ”

"Order them, throw out the drop fuel tanks and accelerate to maximum speed!"

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"Throw away the drop fuel tank and accelerate! Let's save those English pigs! While giving the order, Malone took the lead in throwing down the auxiliary fuel tank and pushing the throttle valve to the end.

Three minutes later, a tragic scene appeared before their eyes. Below, on the surface of the moon, there were dozens of heaps of smoke and flames. Those were British tanks that had been destroyed by the Germans.

"At 11 o'clock, the Tiger tank was spotted!"

"No. 5-12 attacked the Tiger tank on the left, and No. 2-4 followed me to attack the Tiger tank on the right!"

Under normal circumstances, Malone's P/A-38 would have made a detour to the side or back of the Tiger tank. In this way, their rockets can be sure to destroy the Tiger tanks after they hit. And because of the sight, the German tanks did not detect the arrival of attack aircraft. And it will take time for the infantry of the Germans to pass the message to the tanks on such a chaotic battlefield. This almost means that the P/A-38s can hit a beautiful shooting percentage. However, there are still several M4 tanks on the run, and if Malone and them go around the side and rear of the Tiger tank, it means that the Germans still have time to fire at those M4s again. There has always been a rule in the Army Aviation that unless there is a special rule (such as knowing that the target is carrying a weapon of mass destruction), rescue teammates must always be ahead of attacking the enemy. Although the British upset many Americans, they were also comrades-in-arms.

At a distance of about a kilometer from the Tiger tank, Malone fired four rockets at them in one go. In fact, although the shè distance of the rocket is much more than one kilometer, the jīng degree of the rocket is naturally not high. If you fire a shè rocket at such a distance, the chance of hitting the target will be low. If it were a normal time, Malone would never use a rocket attack at such a distance. However, his purpose in this attack was not to hit the target, but to prevent the Germans from continuing to pursue the British tanks.

Just as Malone had predicted, only one of the rockets he and his teammates fired hit the target. This rocket hit the turret of a Tiger tank. But perhaps because of the angle of hit, the rocket hit the side of the turret and was deflected off by the armor.

However, this attack apparently alarmed the Germans, who quickly abandoned the pursuit and intended to retreat. Now, these tanks lack anti-aircraft protection. The self-propelled high-altitude guns assigned to them were largely damaged in the morning bombardment.

The Germans tried to escape into a nearby forest. But this was not easy, now the situation is completely reversed, and in order to retreat into the woods, the German tanks have to run more than a thousand meters, and this section of the road is not so easy to run.

However, the Germans did not sit idly by, as their tanks sped towards the woods, and their machine gunners ventured to poke out of the turret and fire at the P/A-38s with their high machine guns. However, these Malone did not take these self-defense firepower into account at all. Compared to the armor of the P/A-38 attack aircraft, the power of the 7.92 mm bullet was not even tickling.

Malone bit a Tiger tank, and he swooped over the back of that tank, whose machine gunners fired desperately at him. The tank also kept running in an S-shape to make it more difficult for Malone to aim.

Ma Long first fired a Qi shè at the Tiger tank with a 20mm gun, and the barrage from the 20 guns covered the tank at once. And the poor machine gunner was beaten in two, and the upper half of his body fell off the tank.

At a distance of about 100 meters, Ma Long hit a Qi shè with three 37mm guns. The tank stopped at once, and then smoke went up......

"The first one!" Malone counted silently while pulling up the plane and looking around, looking for a new target.

At this time, almost all the 11 Tiger tanks of the 3rd Company of the German 50 Triple Tank Battalion were smoking.

"Damn, how can they move so fast! I've got a lot of shells out there! ”

Malone continued to hover over the battlefield in a P/A-38. He hadn't been able to spot the PAK-40 anti-tank guns lurking underneath, but something larger had caught his attention.

It was a No. 3 assault gun hiding in a bunker. In the battle just now, the camouflage net covering it was blown away by the shock wave of the cannonball, so it was exposed to Ma Long's eyes at once.

"It's okay, there's another one!" Malone rolled and then planned to pull the lever and dive over. But at this moment, I don't know where a few rockets flew in, so the new target that I had managed to find with great difficulty smoked again.

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