Chapter 750: The First Soul Under the Steamroller (4)
In the open northwest direction of the battlefield, a large number of fantasy tanks suddenly poured out.
Fueled by a 900-horsepower diesel engine, the E-50 Tiger's wide tracks mercilessly crushed countless wheat seedlings, leaving wide track marks behind them, passing less than two kilometers in the middle of the road, bringing Soviet tanks under the guns of the KWK 42 105mm L52 tank gun.
After the first salvo, seven Soviet tanks had an extra round bullet hole on the right side of the body, and two fragile T-70 light tanks were directly detonated with ammunition, and the turret was blown up by the detonated ammunition.
As more German tanks stopped firing, more and more Soviet tanks were reduced to steel graves and placed in the open on the battlefield.
The heavy tank battalion completely crushed the Soviet offensive with a single charge, and the surviving Soviet tankers got out of their tanks one after another, abandoned their vehicles and fled, and the infantry turned around and ran to the rear.
However, the FI-382 helicopter, cruising in the sky, faithfully guided the movement of the Soviet troops for the artillery behind them.
The artillerymen were able to smash round after round of shells on the heads of the Soviet infantry running in the wilderness, and each crater was stained with red and white liquid.
The red is blood, and the white is brain.
Just as the E-50 "Tiger" tank was raging on the battlefield, the four Il-2 attack planes suddenly lowered their altitude, and after spreading out the formation, the four planes formed a column and rushed towards the Tiger tank group from the right side. The two Il-2 attack planes in the lead first fired four RS-132 rockets each, and the two planes that followed behind dropped a bunch of bombs.
A Tiger tank numbered 224 was unfortunately hit by an RS-132 rocket on the top armor of the turret, the fragile top steel plate was pierced by the rocket, the crew members were killed and wounded, and the tank lost control and stopped on the battlefield.
The two Tiger tanks were paralyzed in place by the shock wave generated by the falling bombs that exploded at close range, and the tracks broke and were thrown out.
The triumphant figure of the Il-2 attack aircraft had not yet left, and another ferocious attack fell on the E-50 Tiger heavy tank battalion.
Major General Pushkin, who had always been quite afraid of the German army's mysterious tanks, hurriedly made a decision when he learned that the German army's mysterious tanks had finally appeared on the battlefield.
The SU-122 self-propelled artillery regiment shifted its position and cooperated with a medium tank brigade to meet the German heavy tanks head-on, and the Katyusha rocket artillery battalion, which had been in a hidden state, changed its target and suppressed the advancing German mysterious tank group.
Accompanied by flying dust and choking firing smoke, 132-mm rockets smashed into the German heavy tank group with a terrifying whistling sound.
Previously, because of the shelling of the village of Smirley by Soviet artillery, the Tiger heavy tank battalion entered the army formation, and the distance between the tanks was very large, but there were still tanks hit by dense rockets, two E-50 Tiger tanks were attacked by the empowerment, the top armor was penetrated and suffered a fatal blow, and three others were damaged to varying degrees.
The black smoke from the explosion of the rocket floated in the middle of the battlefield, twisting and deforming, gradually rising and dissipating, and in the gray smoke and dust, an E-50 Tiger tank suddenly rushed out, followed by a second, a third······
The fighting spirit of the tankers was not dissipated by enemy fire, and they continued to pursue the retreating enemy.
Two FI-382 helicopters lowered their altitude and followed behind the tank group.
Another helicopter did not move and hovered in mid-air.
With a burst of shouting, the self-propelled artillery battalion, which had been hiding in the north of the town of Shelbshiki, turned its muzzle one after another, pointing its muzzle in the southeast direction.
The smoke and dust raised by the "Katyusha" rocket artillery battalion when firing a salvo was too great, and the black smoke emitted when the rocket flew out of the guide rail was extremely dazzling, and the firing range of the Katyusha rocket was very short, only about 8,000 meters.
The "Scorpio" 88-mm self-propelled cannon was the first to open fire, and the "Wild Bee" 150-mm self-propelled howitzer followed, and the rocket artillery positions that had just ravaged the battlefield were suddenly in flames.
The fragile truck was overturned by high-explosive shells, the rails fell off and flew out, and the gunners who were reloading the rocket launchers were torn apart by sharp shrapnel and their bodies were scattered next to the rocket launchers.
The German artillery used only two salvos, and the positions of the Katyusha rocket artillery battalion were abandoned.
As a reserve Soviet medium tank brigade, the T-34 tank group, which was on standby, received an order to leave the assembly area and march in the direction of Smilje Village, but did not notice that in the eastern sky behind him, a group of aircraft with its back to the rising sun and its whole body shining with golden light flew towards the T-34 tank group.
A squadron of FW-190G fighter-bombers, despite Soviet ground artillery fire, swept over the T-34 tank group with a strong wind.
250 kg and 500 kg aerial bombs fell into the tank group, flames and black smoke engulfed the surrounding tanks, and even more ferocious was an inconspicuous weapon, suspended under the wings, the MK-103 30mm cannon pod.
Equipped with tungsten core armor-piercing shells specially designed for attack tanks, the muzzle of the 30mm cannon swept over the unobstructed engine compartments of the T-34 tanks.
Tracer armor-piercing shells marked the pilots' trajectory, and tungsten-core armor-piercing shells easily pierced through thin steel plates, paralyzing T-34 tanks in place.
A squadron of fighter-bombers swept over the battlefield, destroying and damaging nearly thirty T-34 tanks at the cost of two planes being shot down.
Soon, however, the rushed SU-122 self-propelled artillery regiment joined the ranks of the T-34 tanks, and the replenished tank group still rushed towards the German heavily armored battalion.
At this time, the T-34 medium tank was still equipped with a 76.2 mm tank gun, which was as weak as a toy gun in the hands of a child in front of the powerful E-50 heavy tank.
The specially trained Soviet tankmen, aware of their inferiority in weapons, resorted to specially trained tactics that bordered on suicide.
Never stop and shoot at enemy tanks while on the way, take advantage of your speed and rush into their queue to hit them in the flank.
This suicidal tactic led to a strange scene on the battlefield, with an E-50 Tiger tank parked in place, shaking its turret, and firing at enemy stakes.
On the other side is the T-34 tank group, which is rushing like a wolf pack.
Charging along the way, the T-34 tank was hit from time to time, leaving its corpse on the battlefield with black smoke and flames.
None of this could stop the remaining T-34 tanks from charging, and one Tiger seemed to sense the enemy's intentions and shook its body to try to turn the strongest frontal at the approaching tank.
However, a 105mm armor-piercing projectile pierced the turret of the opposite T-34 tank head-on, but the opposite T-34 tank did not weaken the momentum of the charge, and hit the front armor of the Tiger tank, the sound of steel collision sounded, and the T-34 tank engine was still spinning, pushing the opposite Tiger tank to move backwards slowly.
The opposite Tiger tank did not make any more movements, and neither side fired again.
A 122-mm armor-piercing bullet whizzed and hit the left side of the Tiger tank in the rear of the body, ending the tank.
Under the cover of the sacrifice of the T-34 tank group in the front, the SU-122 self-propelled guns successfully evaded the attention of the German heavy tanks and gained a hard-won opportunity to open fire, firing one large-caliber armor-piercing projectile after another at the German tanks.
Fierce tank and anti-tank battles fought from the sky to the ground, from the rear to the front line, and in the relatively calm town of Shelbsiki, Captain Michel Wittmann anxiously awaited the moment of sortie.
"Rockets, rockets, where are the rockets?"
Captain Weitman, half exposed outside the turret, looked through the woods south of town with a telescope.
Last night, some Russians entered the woods, because the sight was not good, the Germans did not act rashly, and now the battle situation on the battlefield is in a stalemate, and the time has come to break the situation.
In Captain Weitman's expectation, six reloaded "donkey" 150-mm self-propelled rocket launchers in the north of the town took more than 10 seconds to launch 60 rockets and carry out a covering shot into the woods south of the town.
81-mm mortars followed suit, covering the woods with constant fire.
"Armor, assault." Captain Wittman shouted over the radio.
The huge body of the E-50 heavy tank, numbered 401, slowly accelerated, drove out of a civilian house and headed south along the road.
In the courtyards of the surrounding houses, war monsters drove out of their hiding places, rushed out of the residential areas, followed by the E-50 "Tiger" tanks of the Fourth Heavy Armored Company led by Captain Weitmann, and rushed straight into the woods south of the town.
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