Chapter 149: Bloody Battle Berg: Powerful Tiger Style

It turned out that not only Wittmann, but also the German armored troops were very bold, or rather crazy.

After listening to Wittman's plan for a night attack, the other three tank commanders agreed without even thinking about it.

"It's crazy, but I love it!" "Ha, what if you deal with a battalion of Frenchmen, let alone a night attack, even if you swagger away?" "What? Platoon commander, you say they don't have anti-tank guns? It's a shame that I could have heard the ...... of 'jingle'."

These are the original words of the other three commanders after listening to the plan,

When everything was ready, the four tanks split into two groups and staggered towards the woods next to the village in the faint moonlight, from where they could attack to avoid the deep and shallow trenches in the village.

However, it is said that it is a forest, but in fact, there are not many trees still erected in it.

"Car No. 3 and car No. 4, have you arrived at the location?" Wittman, who arrived at the sortie, radioed two other vehicles.

"Hey, we're here." The commander of car No. 3 smiled and said, "Platoon commander, have you just arrived?" It seems that this time we are faster. ”

"Oh, dude." Wittman laughed too, "Then let's see who can break through the French camp faster, los!" los! los!!! ”

With Wittmann's order, the four tanks turned on their headlights at the same time, and the engine power reached its peak, and the huge tanks roared and rushed towards the French military camp.

The charge was followed by more than forty German soldiers, who had not intended to join the night attack, but when they saw the four tanks in support, they changed their minds.

Because the four tanks in front of them were something they had never seen before.

This type of tank is generally like an enlarged version of the No. 4 tank, it is the same as the No. 4 tank, the turret and hull armor are designed with a large inclination, and the shape is relatively low, and in terms of the main gun, its main gun is obviously not the same 75mm tank gun as the No. 3 and No. 4, it is thicker.

It's Germany's new heavy tank, the Six, but it's more often called by its other name, the Tiger!

In addition to the fact that the Tiger tank still uses the 88mm anti-tank gun, it can be different from the original version in other aspects.

In terms of armor, the Tiger tank of this life has reduced the thickness of the armor and adopted inclined armor, which greatly reduces the weight of the vehicle without reducing the overall protection ability of the vehicle, thereby improving the mobility of the vehicle, reducing the failure rate of the vehicle, and making its appearance low.

In terms of power, it abandoned the original 700 hp 12-cylinder Maybach HL/230 engine in favor of the 650 hp HL/210.

Although at first glance, the reduction in horsepower will make the already conservative maneuverability of the Tiger even worse.

But in fact, the new Tiger greatly reduced the weight of the hull because of the use of inclined armor, so that the new Tiger equipped with a 650-horsepower engine not only did not weaken in maneuverability, but even completely destroyed the 700-horsepower old Tiger.

Last but not least, the biggest change, is the suspension of the Tiger.

Instead of the staggered load-bearing wheel torsion bar suspension of the old Tiger, the new Tiger adopts a double/multi-layer independent vertical coil spring suspension system similar to that of the later Merkava 3.

Although the Tiger with this suspension system has made certain sacrifices in terms of member comfort and other aspects, it has made great progress in more, similar to battlefield repairs, production speeds, and rare metal consumables.

This completely cured the tiger-like Achilles heel.

In fact, not only the Tiger suspension has been replaced, but the suspension of the No. 3 and No. 4 tanks is also different from the balanced spring suspension of the previous generation, and all combat vehicles under 30 tons in Germany in this world have adopted the balanced leaf spring suspension like the "Stalker".

Leaf spring suspension systems are simple, inexpensive, easy to produce, and extremely reliable.

Of course, the disadvantages of leaf spring suspension are also obvious, such as the small diameter of the load wheel, the short movement stroke, the stiff support, the bearing capacity of the single suspension system is too small, and so on.

But the flaws are not hidden, and the balanced leaf spring suspension is the most suitable for the German medium and light tanks.

Speaking of now, Gaisser, who has seen the tiger, changed his previous caution and decided to take a few soldiers to the French military camp to make waves, after all, with the support of the tiger, even if he is surrounded, he can easily break through a road and rush out.

As a result, while the four tigers roared towards the French camp, more than 40 German soldiers followed closely behind and launched a charge, and the originally quiet night suddenly became full of shouts and killings.

The French army did not expect that the German army, which had a double-digit remaining, would wait for reinforcements at the last moment, let alone that the reinforcements would still be a big killer like the Tiger type, and even more unexpected that the German army, whose total number was less than one-sixth of itself, would dare to launch a night attack on itself.

Of course, even if they thought of it, there was nothing they could do, after all, they had no choice but to do without anti-tank guns.

Well, even if their four anti-tank guns are not blown up into the sky, they can't stop the Tiger, after all, the 25mm small water hose can't penetrate the front armor of the Tiger even if it sticks to the face of the Tiger.

However, after all, the French army is the "world's first army", and they still have the combat quality they should have, in the face of the German army's menacing night attack, the French troops on the perimeter immediately began to counterattack the German army, and the bullets rained down on the German army, but the effect achieved was a beautiful music (the sound of bullets hitting the armor) in addition to hitting a few German unlucky eggs.

Compared with the "musical" French, the German attack was much more powerful, four 88mm anti-tank guns fired high-explosive grenades around, incarnated as four death-spreading death, and the German infantry due to huge casualties, so more than half of them held MG42 and MP40, bullets were scattered around like money, and soon, the French alert troops on the periphery were swept away.

However, the alert force is a vigilant force after all, and their task is to guard the large army behind them, and such a fierce firefight allows them to complete their task well.

"What?! What the?! Bruno was awakened by the sound of firefighting, and he got out of bed in a panic, quickly put on his clothes and ran out of the tent.

"Battalion commander! The German army is counterattacking! Run! Benhamin came running from the place where the fire was fighting, and passed by Bruno without stopping, and ran straight in the direction of France.

Bruno was an excellent commander, he quickly calmed down, and judging from the intensity of the gunfire, although the fire was very strong, the number of troops who attacked him was small, and most of them were the remnants of the German army that he had killed.

"What run?! Stop me and fight back on the spot! Bruno stopped a few French soldiers who wanted to run away and shouted, "You are embarrassed by dozens of German attacks at night? ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he understood that his soldiers did not flee because of the German soldiers, because a Tiger smashed through a tent in front and rushed out, and the anti-tank grenades thrown by the French soldiers could only be heard.

That's an anti-tank grenade? Are you sure that's not a smashing cannon? It was Bruno's last thought before he took an 88mm high-explosive bomb in his face.