Chapter 24: Facing the Blow
Sun Hui realized what had happened, and cold sweat suddenly flowed down his forehead.
They ran into a German armored unit.
The cold wind blew suddenly, the thin fog quickly blew away, and the German tanks and armored vehicles were clearly displayed in front of Sun Hui and the girls, and similarly, the "KV-1" tank also appeared in front of the German army.
There was an awkward silence.
Sun Hui knew that the Germans should have been very broken when they saw their "KV-1" tank.
"Rush head-on! Lily! Sun Hui said in a deep voice, "Try to get as close to them as possible!" ”
"Okay!" Du Lili gritted her teeth and launched the tank and rushed straight towards the German tank troops.
Ye Chuchu glanced at Sun Hui, but didn't ask him why he did this.
She didn't know that Sun Hui did this based on his deep understanding of the history of World War II.
Although the German advance in the Soviet Union was very smooth in the first months after the start of the Soviet-German war, with the onset of winter, there were already signs that the Soviet army was about to carry out a counteroffensive, and in the counteroffensive a large number of new tanks with very good performance would be put into service. Among them was the tank of the "KV-1" type. The KV-1 was slow, bulky and unwieldy, and its armament was not ideal, but its armor protection was so strong that it could not be countered by any German artillery except the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun. For a number of reasons, the "KV-1" tank did not serve the Soviet army for a long time, and the number of equipment was not very large, but a few "KV-1" encountered by the Germans alone was enough to make them panic.
The place of the first encounter between the Germans and tanks of the "KV-1" type was on the territory of Lithuania. At that time, a tank of the "KV-1" type plunged straight between two German bridgeheads located on a river, forcing a German unit marching along the bridge to withdraw for several miles. The tank stood alone in the middle of the road. The Germans brought in an artillery battery with six Type 38 50-mm anti-tank guns, but the shells fired from these guns flew at the touch of a touch after hitting the armor of the "KV-1" tank. The "KV-1" tank freely adjusted its 76.2 mm gun, and at a distance of 900 yards (822.6 meters), two German anti-tank guns were destroyed one after another, the other four guns were damaged to varying degrees, and its gunners suffered heavy casualties, but the "KV-1" tank itself was unharmed. That night, the German commander sent 12 sappers to crawl to the "KV-1" tank, and stuffed the explosive packs into the suspension of the tank and detonated them, but the explosives did not break the tracks or cause any other serious damage to the tank, but fortunately there were no Soviet infantry around, and the sappers were able to survive. The next day, an 88-mm anti-aircraft gun was slowly pushed from the bridgehead to the tank and took up a position 800 yards (731.2 m) from the tank, which on the surface did not appear to have been spotted by the "KV-1" tank, but just as the gunner squad of the anti-aircraft gun had completed the last preparation for the position, the Soviet tank turned its gun and knocked the 88-mm anti-aircraft gun into the ditch with one shot. The situation was so serious that a Soviet tank actually stopped the advance of a German infantry division. On the third day, the Germans brought in six tanks to move back and forth in the nearby woods and fired at the "KV-1" tank from different directions at the same time, but the shells did not cause any damage to the tank, and the Soviet tank continued to fire back, but it failed to detect another 88-mm anti-aircraft gun behind it. The anti-aircraft gun fired seven shells in a row before destroying the KV-1 tank, and even then the crew of the KV-1 tank was still alive, only later when German soldiers threw a few grenades through the loose hatch that the tank crew was killed. When inspecting the tank afterwards, the German gunners were surprised to find that out of all the shells they fired, only two 88-mm shells actually penetrated the armor of the "KV-1" tank, while the rest left only some deep pits in the armor plates. The 50 mm shells fired from the German anti-tank guns left only some blue-blue marks on the armor plates. The German infantry division, having sobered up, continued to advance, but it was intercepted by 1 Soviet tank for 48 hours.
Ye Chuchu didn't know this, what she had to do now was to fully support Sun Hui in the fight.
At the moment when Du Lili launched the tank forward, Sun Hui had already manipulated the turret to steer, aimed at a "No. 4" tank, and fired first.
Probably because of the hasty aiming, the muzzle was lower, and the armor-piercing shell did not hit the target, but hit a very close distance to the "No. 4" tank and bounced, but the flying armor-piercing projectile hit a truck, setting it on fire.
Although it failed to hit the No. 4 tank, Sun Hui's gun took the lead, and the No. 4 tank was so frightened that it hurriedly retreated, and it actually collided with a No. 4 tank behind.
Ye Chuchu didn't wait for Sun Hui's command at this time, he had automatically loaded him with an armor-piercing bullet, Sun Hui raised the muzzle, and aimed at the "No. 4" tank, and was about to fire, when a shot came from nowhere, hitting the turret of the "KV-1" tank, causing the body to shake, but no one screamed this time.
"Coming from the left, Brother Sun, it seems to be a 37mm anti-tank gun." Ye Chuchu reminded Sun Huidao.
"Leave it alone, take out the biggest threat first." Sun Hui said as he adjusted his aim.
At the moment when Sun Hui was about to press down the gun lever, the "No. 4" tank opened fire, and the German gunners hit the front of the hull of the "KV-1" tank with one shot, but the shell easily bounced off the armor.
Sun Hui sneered and fired, this time he directly hit the turret of the "No. 4" tank, and directly lifted the turret away, the German tank stopped in flames, and the German tanker who was not dead crawled out of the tank while howling and slapping the fire on his body.
When Wang Linlin saw the Germans crawling out, she immediately fired a machine gun and shot them, knocking them to the ground in an instant.
Seeing that the "No. 4" tank was destroyed, Du Lili became bold and drove the tank forward desperately, seeing that the "KV-1" tank rushed over like a mad rhinoceros, the German tanks retreated one after another to open the distance, and concentrated artillery fire on the "KV-1" tank.