Chapter 872: Supporting the Frontline

Against tanks, anti-tank mines are always effective, and in later generations they are no exception.

It is not easy to dig a pit and bury a mine, but it is easy to bury it if it is not in the ground, but directly in the snow.

It's even simpler, just throw it into the snow, and if it snows overnight, you won't see anything the next day.

In front of the position, the mines have long been arranged, but in the bitter cold weather, part of the mine fuses will also be frozen, resulting in the failure to trigger.

It is impossible for all weapons to be effective, and at low temperatures, how to maintain the combat effectiveness of weapons is always the most important.

Rear, airbase.

"Quick, quick, start the engine!" With the sudden attack on the front, in the rear, the Air Force also immediately went into combat mode.

The defense line on this side belongs to the air defense area of the Volunteer Air Force, and the young Bruce, wearing a cold flight suit, felt the cold wind blowing on his face like a knife, and stepped into the cockpit in a few steps.

Start the engine!

Cold weather can make it extremely difficult to start the engine.

If it is a liquid-cooled engine, it takes a longer time before starting, for example, the ground crew should boil water and pour it into the cooling channel to heat the cylinder, which belongs to preheating, and this process will take at least ten minutes, or even half an hour.

Air-cooled engines, on the other hand, do not need to be so troublesome, as long as they simply turn the crankshaft to let the lubricating oil flow, and at the same time, this batch of engines has been replaced with the latest winter lubricating oil, which will not solidify into a paste at low temperatures.

The ground staff outside, first use the crankshaft of the engine to rotate, run a few times to let the lubricating oil flow, and then officially start.

These engines also need to be started from the outside by using manpower, two tall Finnish ground crews, shaking the shaker together, the speed from slow to fast, you can see in the exhaust pipe, prongs of black smoke, constantly coming out, and then, more and more, finally, the engine started!

After starting, Bruce didn't take off immediately, kept the plane's engine running, and idle for a few minutes until all the instruments in front of him were normal, and then released the brakes.

The MB152 fighter, which is not the most advanced French fighter with this performance, glides onto the runway and takes off slowly, and behind it, one fighter after another, takes off.

Support the front line!

At this time, the battle on the front line was at its most intense!

The T-34 tank, like a tidal wave, kept pouring up.

"Boom!" Another T-34, destroyed, after all, on the positions of the Finnish army, the number of anti-tank guns was the largest, in addition to the latest 17-pounder guns, there were also original anti-tank guns.

For example, for a 50-mm anti-tank gun, a special tungsten alloy warhead is needed to hit the KV-1, but to fight the T-34, as long as an ordinary steel-core armor-piercing projectile is enough.

They were firing incessantly, firing at the onrushing Soviet tanks, and at the same time, the Soviet tanks were hailing them with more intense artillery fire.

"Boom!" A T-34, firing on the march, actually hit the dead mouse with a blind cat and accurately hit this anti-tank gun position, and in a huge explosion, the position was thrown away, and several gunners, even with anti-tank guns, were lifted up.

Fighting, bloody and brutal.

"Quick, fire!" Pattifo continued to shout loudly, and with his shout, the 17-pounder let out another earth-shattering roar.

This is already the twentieth launch.

The cannon body has been continuously fired and heated, and it can be seen that when the snowflakes fall on it, it is immediately vaporized, and this cannon does not know if it can experience continuous firing.

And their results are all in front, they maintain a fairly high hit rate, more than fifty percent, and have already destroyed eleven tanks!

Moreover, they were also very lucky, until now, the nearest shell on the opposite side, several meters away from them, except for one loader who was carrying the shell was scratched by shrapnel, the rest of the people are still intact, yes, physically intact.

"Boom!" Their artillery opened fire again, the shells flew to the target three hundred meters away from the opposite side, and a heavy KV-1 tank, which was accurately hit!

In the loud explosion, the KV-1 tank burst into flames, and except for the driver in front of him, the rest died along with the tank.

However, behind this KV-1 tank, at least four or five T-34 tanks, with black smoke, rushed up at full speed!

The Soviets' will to fight at the end of their lives has been suppressing the Finnish troops on the defensive line, and they already have a premonition.

The army of the Soviets is advancing with the tactics of a sea of tanks, and it can be said that the tactics of the Soviet Union are quite effective now.

As long as their tanks are not afraid of death, they rush up in one go, as long as there are enough of them, they will be able to break through their own defenses!

And now it seems that the situation is developing in favor of the other side, and behind the Soviets, the tanks are still densely packed, as if they are an army of ants, and there is no end in sight.

The battle line has been conquered, and it is just around the corner.

At this time, the Soviet side was also quite excited, and Gorelenko, commander of the Seventh Army, listened to the battle reports from the front.

"Our army is still two hundred meters away from the enemy's defense line, and our army will rush through the Finnish defense line with one blow!"

"So far, the casualties are still expected! Presumably more than a hundred tanks were lost. ”

More than a hundred! If it was before, it would have hurt a long time ago, but now, they are fully mentally prepared.

The meeting at the top completely convinced Gorelenko that tanks are for consumption, and as long as they can withstand attrition, they will be able to win!

And this time, they are carrying out the orders of Comrade Stalin, testing this latest tactic in real combat, and from now on, it seems to work well!

"Report, it was found that the Finnish side took off fighters." Just then, new news arrived.

"Let our air fleet, too, take off fighter jets and meet the Finns!" Gorelenko said.

Receiving his order, the airfield in the rear began to be busy, and the fighters that had been ready for a long time took off one after another.

And on the front line, the fighters of the Finnish Air Force have already flown over the battlefield.

Bruce's fighter plane, flying at the front, when it reached his own defense, he realized how critical the situation on the ground was!

The tanks of the Soviets are all over the mountains, and the formation is very grand, and this torrent of armor will definitely be able to crush the defense line!

"Dive down and attack the Soviets' tanks!" Bruce shouted over the radio as he pushed the stick and the fighter began to dive.