APCBC, which is the abbreviation of the German ** team for the capped armor-piercing grenade, it also has a common number.

When the bright muzzle flame of the "Fenris" flashed, eight guns whizzed out of the chamber, and then swept the ground along the straight trajectory.

A second later, the shells hit their respective targets head-on.

When this kind of 10. The destructive power of a 2-kilogram armor-piercing warhead when it hits a hard obstacle head-on at a speed of more than 700 meters per second is awe-inspiring.

The shiny copper hood on the warhead did not have any armor-piercing ability, and under the action of huge kinetic energy, it was crushed and deformed and torn the moment it came into contact with the hard front armor of the French tank, and because of this, the position of the shell on the armor surface was stabilized, the ballistic characteristics were not damaged, and the rear of the shell continued to move forward in its original trajectory.

Then the steel armor-piercing warhead hidden by the beautiful hood viciously chiseled into the thin front armor of the French FT17, the 22 mm front armor could not stop the advance of this high-speed shell, and the steel armor-piercing warhead penetrated the metal as easily as a piece of paper.

At this time, the speed of the armor-piercing projectile was not much reduced by the impediment of the thin layer of armor, and it still had huge kinetic energy. The armor-piercing shell continued to advance forward, tearing through anything that stood in its way, whether human or mechanical, and the powerful air pressure brought by the high-speed penetration of the armor by the shells and the fragments of armor that were torn and crumbled off caused a storm of blood in the narrow interior space of the French tank. In an instant, the tank turned into a steel coffin carrying death.

But the nightmare of the French tankmen is not completely over, pzgr. 39 also carries a bullet bottom charge. With a detonation of the delayed fuse, two kilograms of high-energy ZHA medicine mercilessly smashed a whole burning hell on the heads of the French tankmen. All this happened in less than a second, and this was the first blow that the French tankers received before the German Führer advanced into the positions of the Guards Corps.

Eight French Renault tanks were torn to shreds in an instant, cracked armor plates, twisted and broken rivets and various large and small parts fragments, the mutilated corpses of the crew and the small tank turret flew into the sky with huge fireballs in front of all the French ** people. At that moment, it was as if the entire French tank assault group had been stalled.

"Well done! Keep shooting! ”

Major Rawls waved his arms in glee, now completely fascinated by the behemoth around him. The volley of "Fenris" full of momentum and power, as well as the terrifying destructive power, gave Rawls a strange enjoyment of completely overriding the enemy.

"Speed up, destroy all the French tanks, and when the battle is over, I will ask the Führer for the Führer for the gun crew that has destroyed the most enemies!" The excited Air Force Major yelled loudly at the adjutant next to him.

"It's already the highest speed, and no matter how fast it is, you can't guarantee accuracy, sir!" The adjutant replied loudly over his ear with one hand.

In the time they were talking, Fenris had already fired three volleys.

"Then keep it at this pace!" Rawls frowned, then pressed his eyes to the eyepiece of the artillery mirror in front of him and continued to observe the target.

Another salvo was fired at Fenris, a tank sniper named after the demon wolf that killed the gods in Norse mythology, and was Xu Jun's first large-scale work after he came to this world.

In fact, it is more appropriate to say that this tank sniper should be called a tracked anti-tank self-propelled gun. Because no matter how you look at it now, it doesn't smell like those tank snipers in World War II history, no matter how you look at it, it's just a huge, ugly improvised self-propelled gun, and it's a style that completely piecing together two weapons in the way of building blocks.

To tell the truth, Xu Jun really designed this kind of artillery with this kind of idea of building blocks, maybe not to talk about the design, he just made a simple calculation of one plus one equals two, at most he made a little improvement in some foundations and details.

Xu Jun's original intention to make this kind of thing was just to demonstrate to those German generals the great utility of tank snipers on the battlefield, since it is an experiment, the simpler the better, and it takes too much time and too much manpower and material resources to design a special tank sniper, so Xu Jun chose to piece together the simplest, most labor-saving and money-saving method similar to the vehicle in the existing equipment.

But what Xu Jun didn't expect at that time was that he really made up an effective anti-tank vehicle. After the end of this campaign, Fenris did not disappear from German equipment, and the manufacturer proposed an improvement plan specifically for it.

(As a result, when the improved Fenris appeared in front of Xu Jun again, Xu Jun almost couldn't believe his eyes, it was a "Fenris" version of the "Elephant" tank sniper.) )

Now this original version of the "Fenris" still retains the appearance of a simple self-propelled gun, and Xu Jun did not put any effort into its appearance design. This tank sniper gun looks like a random gun mounted on a tracked chassis, without even a semi-enclosed fighting compartment, which is simply rudimentary compared to other self-propelled guns of similar modifications.

Its simple appearance belies its essence, and only on the battlefield can "Fenris" reveal its superior strength.

In the choice of artillery, Xu Jun did not hesitate to choose the famous German 88-mm anti-aircraft gun.

In terms of rate of fire and power, it is the most outstanding artillery available now, so Xu Jun decided to use the 56 times diameter Flag36 88mm anti-aircraft gun as the sharp tooth of the "Fenris".

He then began to select the model that would carry the gun among the many German armored chassis, and he had to choose the most suitable body for the "Fenris", which was both strong and fast.

Unexpectedly, this simple screening work made Xu Jun have a headache, those light chassis either couldn't withstand this six-ton gun at all, or couldn't withstand the recoil when this kind of gun fired.

Although the chassis of the medium tank can withstand those forces, because of the lack of power, it cannot drag this gun to keep up with the marching speed of the tank formation, and can only crawl behind slowly, completely unable to meet Xu Jun's requirements.

Although there are two kinds of half-track chassis to meet the requirements, the tall cab has become an obstacle when the gun fires, and as a result, the gun has to be lifted higher than the cab to shoot forward, which is simply swaggering to the extreme on the battlefield, so the half-track chassis is all denied.

Just when Xu Jun was having a headache, a report submitted by Rheinmetall reminded him of a large tracked chassis produced by the company, which had never been mass-produced at all due to its special purpose. Because this kind of thing is so rare, Xu Jun almost forgot that there was such a chassis.

That is the largest mortar of the German Army, the tracked chassis of the Karl 600 type.

After carefully studying this kind of chassis, Xu Jun felt that he had found what he wanted, but this kind of big guy was still quite far from Xu Jun's requirements, so this kind of chassis had to be completely improved.

The Karl 600 has only been produced until now, and RWE has now produced four prototypes of the chassis for it.

Because it has to carry a huge artillery weighing 70 tons, this kind of chassis is built huge and strong, 11 meters long and 3 meters wide, and its own weight alone is 50 tons, which obviously cannot meet Xu Jun's requirements, so Xu Jun ordered the Rheinland Company to re-improve the design of this chassis in half a month, and asked for the immediate production of 20 samples.

By his order, this chassis was reduced to seven meters long, 2.5 meters wide and 2.4 meters high. Due to the removal of the unneeded gun carriages, the reinforcement of the ribs, and the reduction of the number of load wheels and tracks, the weight of the hull was drastically reduced to twenty-two tons.

At Xu Jun's request, Rheinland also made improvements to the mobile device, replacing large-diameter load-bearing wheels, increasing the travel of the tracks, replacing the gearbox of the No. 4 tank, and arranging the generator installed at the rear of the car to the front of the car, which was connected in series with the engine and gearbox originally placed in the front of the car to form an integral power room.

The driver still sat on the left side of the cab according to the original arrangement, and the mechanic sat behind him. Such a layout would free up space for the entire body and rear of the car to be fitted with the flag36.

The power system uses the Maybach 507 diesel engine used on the Karl 600, which is one of the most powerful engines in Germany today, reaching 600 horsepower, and the fuel consumption is very low.

This kind of engine can still move at a speed of 10 kilometers per hour with the 124-ton body of the Karl 600 mortar gun, and now the "Fenris", which weighs only about 35 tons, is simply a leap in terms of unit power, and now it can easily run to 40 kilometers per hour.

This means that the "Fenris" can carry out a quick assault with the tank group, and the Rheinland company has finally successfully completed the task given to them by Xu Jun.

Since this was the first task that the new Führer had personally assigned to Rheinland, and in order to save the members of the board of directors of the company who were still under investigation at the hands of the Gestapo, Rheinmetall did not hesitate to devote all its strength.

Thanks to the efforts of all the workers and technical experts, "Fenris" climbed off the production line half a month after Xu Jun put forward the request for technical improvement, which was a complete miracle at the time.

Of course, there are some technical reasons for this, after all, the overall structure of this vehicle is only a shrunken version of the Karl 600, and the use of relatively mature technology, there is no great difficulty in improving, and the processing machinery and molds designed and built for the manufacture of the Karl 600 chassis are still there, as long as a little modification can be made to complete the manufacture of "Fenris".

The flag36 also made some improvements, mainly on its gun mount, since this self-propelled gun only has an unprotected open-air fighting compartment, so in order to ensure the minimum protection of the crew members, Rheinmetall deliberately lowered the gun mount height of the 88 gun.

Now the barrel of this gun extends almost against the top armor, and the gunners only need to bend down and bow their heads to get the armor protection of the body, although the armor is only 12 millimeters thick, but it is enough to deal with the enemy's small-caliber weapons.

A narrow armor shield is also installed on the upper part of the gun to protect the sight from small arms or shell fragments when the head must be exposed.

At the back of this open-air fighting compartment was a huge bomb bay, which, thanks to the ample space of the chassis, was unceremoniously stuffed by Rheinland with 88 mm shells, which gave the tank sniper a sniper charge a staggering 16 rounds, and did not make the crew feel the slightest cramped.

The whole crew of "Fenris" was nine, including a pilot, an electromechanical officer, and a mechanic, which were the basic members, and the rest were all members of the 88 gun's crew, two loaders, a gunner, an aimed, a gunner, and a bombardier formed the entire combat group. As the vehicle moved, they sat in folding chairs in the open-air fighting room, the wide hull that left a lot of room for the cannon, which allowed them to carry more provisions and personal belongings than the rest of the tank crew, and the crew of the original "Fenris" sniper was the most comfortable soldier in the German Army's armored forces at the time.

Since it was only an experimental one, Xu Jun only ordered twenty prototypes of "Fenris" from the Rheinland Company to form the Führer's Guards Tank Sniper Battalion.

Although the Rheinland Company did not know the Führer's intentions, they saw the Führer's interest and importance in this combat vehicle, and then they also discovered the potential value of the "Fenris" on the battlefield.

In order to please the young and powerful Führer as much as possible, Rheinmetall made all the preparations for mass production in the later stage, and what surprised Xu Jun was that they had already begun to develop an improved version on the basis of "Fenris".

The power and performance of Fenris played a key role in the Battle of Dusk. However, in the face of the intensive attacks of the French, even "Fenris" had to be caught in a bitter battle.