Chapter 367: Ambush (2)
After a single cannon fire, a fierce exchange of fire broke out in the otherwise quiet forest, and the sudden attack of the French heavy fire group was extremely effective, and the first attack knocked out more than 10 SS infantry fighting vehicles and disabled or destroyed five Wehrmacht No. 4 tanks.
It was not until the second round of shelling began at the French anti-tank gun position that the officers and men of the 713th Panzer Battalion of the 7th Panzer Division hurriedly reacted and hurriedly drove the tanks to scatter off the marching route, while trying their best to align the relatively thickly armored front in the direction where the French anti-tank guns were deployed.
But this trick did not have much effect, although the No. 4 tank had excellent defense, it was still enough to face the direct attack of the French 75mm anti-tank gun at a position of less than 200 meters, and it could only hope that the main equipment with a large angle of inclination in the front could bounce off the French anti-tank shells.
The second round of attacks quickly hit the German tanks.
It has to be said that the design of the German tank is quite good, and the large inclination greatly enhances the ricochet rate, especially for the now popular tungsten core armor-piercing projectile with strong armor-piercing ability.
However, the group of French troops in front of them was relatively earthy, and they were not equipped with shell-piercing shells, and they still used old-fashioned armor-piercing shells (APC).
This armor-piercing projectile has a greater wind resistance because of the addition of a blunt-tipped soft quilt cap in front of the armor-piercing body (soft material is relative to the hard armor-piercing body), so it has a lower muzzle velocity than ordinary armor-piercing projectiles (AP), and the effect is not as good as that of AP shells when dealing with vertical homogeneous steel armor.
However, due to the addition of a soft quilt cap, the cap can shatter the hard layer of the armor surface when hitting non-homogeneous steel armor with a hardened case, so the effect is better than that of AP shells.
However, the APC was not originally developed to deal with heterogeneous steel armor, it was originally developed to deal with inclined armor.
After the appearance of inclined armor, the sharp corner of the front of the warhead is easy to be slid away by the inclined armor when the ordinary AP shell hits the target, resulting in a ricochet, so the designers specially added a quilt cap on the warhead cone, so that the armor-piercing projectile can produce a positive effect when hitting the inclined armor, so that the internal hard armor-piercing can hit the tank armor at a better angle.
However, this design brings another problem, that is, this blunt quilt cap will greatly increase the flight resistance of the armor-piercing projectile, making the speed of the armor-piercing projectile slow down and the trajectory of the projectile bending, and in order to solve this problem, the designer added a softer sharp hat in front of the quilt cap - hood - to reduce wind resistance, improve the speed of the projectile, and optimize the trajectory, which has become one of the most advanced armor-piercing shells - armor-piercing bullet (APCBC).
Although the APC used by the French army now has a slower bullet speed and a curved trajectory, in the face of a German tank at a distance of only 200 meters, even if it is a British 2-pounder urine cannon, as long as it is aimed accurately, it will definitely hit accurately.
After a series of loud noises, five more German tanks were smashed into scrap metal, and when the smoke cleared, only a few German tankmen staggered out of the hatch.
After the French fired two rounds of artillery in a row, the German tank crews discovered the distribution of French anti-tank guns, and now they didn't care that the chamber was filled with armor-piercing shells, and they hurriedly aimed at the target with a shot.
Needless to say, the killing effect of armor-piercing shells on soft targets did not achieve much in this round of German counterattacks, only two anti-tank gun positions were hit head-on due to bad luck, and the anti-tank guns were directly returned to the state of parts.
After the German round of fighting, the French loaders also happened to stuff a new shell into the breech.
Just as the French army was about to fire the third round of shells, a loud roar came from behind the German tank line, and then more than a dozen huge tigers rushed up!
This is the hidden knife of the German army, the trump card of the 7th Panzer Division, a whole company of 14 Tiger tanks!
The appearance of the huge and low-profile Tiger immediately attracted the attention of the French army, and after recognizing that it was the legendary Tiger tank, they began to panic, and turned their guns to give priority to the Tiger to be defeated.
"Boom!" Another round of artillery rang out, and countless shells flew towards the roaring Tiger, but the Tiger was still advancing after the smoke cleared, and if it weren't for a few more bullet marks on the front armor, perhaps no one would have thought that the French guns had just hit.
But that's the Tiger pose!
The Tiger tank in the German-French battlefield only represents one meaning, that is, as long as the German commander puts the Tiger type, it can reverse any battlefield situation!
That's what it means to be an ace!
At the same time, the 88mm main gun of the Tiger black hole hole spewed flames, and one after another 88mm anti-personnel grenades flew towards the French position, setting off a piece of stumps and broken arms.
The French commander reacted quickly enough to see that his 75mm anti-tank gun could not penetrate the Tiger and immediately ordered the anti-tank gunners to pull the guns and retreat, while the tank group hidden behind the anti-tank gun position started the engine, and then the cover of the woods moved towards the two wings of the Tiger.
At the same time, the infantry line encircling the rear of the German army column was ordered to intensify the attack on the German grenadiers, in order to clear the German infantry as soon as possible and then besiege the Tiger together with the anti-tank front.
When neither the French tank guns nor anti-tank guns could get a chance at the enemy tanks, an infantry siege was indeed effective against the tanks.
After all, more ants can bite elephants to death.
At the same time, the German Panzergrenadier line.
"Barrel! Barrel! Hans dragged the red-barreled MG42 and climbed a tree and turned around and shouted to Fogel.
"It's coming!"
Fogel answered, and at the same time swept down a French soldier who was trying to take advantage of the machine gun fire to continue forward, and then reached out and pulled a cold barrel from the barrel pouch behind his back and placed it next to Hans.
Hans removed the chain, opened the barrel safety and pulled out the hot MG42 barrel from the side and set it aside, inserted the barrel and closed the safety, loaded the chain and immediately turned around and fired.
This is where the MG42 excels, not only because it has a fast rate of fire, but also because it can quickly change the barrel.
The sound of the ripper disappeared for only a minute before it sounded again, and a dense rain of bullets poured down on the attacking French soldiers again, and the powerful 7.92mm bullets continued to pierce the trees and hit the French soldiers hiding behind the trees.
After crying dad and mother, the French army was defeated again in the face of the fierce firepower of the German army.
......Seeing the French army retreating like a tide, Hans let out a long breath and lay on the ground with his back to the sky.
"Old... Top dog...... Did they retreat? Crystal heard the gunfire stop, and poked his head out of the back tremblingly.
"You're hiding in the back?" Seeing Krystal poke his head out from behind, Hans breathed.
"I, I'm scared......" Crystal scratched his head.
"The more afraid you are, the closer death is to you!" Hoffman said coldly from the side.
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