"High-explosive reloading, charge number one." Each of the Karl cannons was organized into a company, and at this time, next to the second gun, Eva, the commander was meticulously directing.

Historically, there was only one type of this kind of cannon, that is, concrete armor-piercing shells, which could penetrate a concrete layer up to 2.5 meters thick, and were specially designed to hit the enemy's fortifications.

And now, this cannon has been improved, and it also has the task of firing high-explosive shells, and the trajectory is even better, at the end of the shell, it falls directly from the sky, falling vertically, and it is useless to hide behind any cover.

With his order, a loading cart next to him began to get busy.

The shells of this cannon weigh two tons, so ordinary means of loading are simply ineffective, and in order to cooperate with this gun, the Rheinland company also specially designed an ammunition carrier using the chassis of the Panther 2 tank. This type of carrier is equipped with a mechanical boom and a special shell transport clip, which allows the mortar to be replenished directly on the battlefield.

Now, with the order of the company commander, the mechanical crane slowly transfers the two-ton warhead to the tail of the gun, and after accurate alignment, it is pushed into the chamber with a special push rod, all of which is hydraulically assisted and very easy.

Depending on the range, they used two types of propellants, charge one was of short range, and now, they did not need particularly long distances.

During the whole loading process, the gun body is always horizontal, and when the reloading is completed, it begins to erect.

Go hard, come on!

The two gunners on both sides quickly turned the grip and shook the barrel of the gun!

This cannon body weighs more than a dozen tons, but it relies on the strength of two people's arms!

Yes, at the time of design, because the power of the hydraulic system was not enough, the result was that the erection of the gun body needed to rely on manual means! It may also be that this system is inherited from ordinary howitzers, that is, it requires a manual swing machine and a steering machine.

As long as I am given a fulcrum, I can lift the earth, and it is perfectly possible to reduce the force requirements through mechanical solutions, but this comes at the cost of distance.

From now on, the gunners on both sides have shaken dozens of times, and the gun body has only risen at a small angle!

It is already very hard to turn the crank of a 105 mm or 155 mm howitzer in the heat of field conditions, let alone a super cannon!

Even for the strongest gunner, each pitch action takes 4 to 6 minutes. Therefore, the standard rate of fire of this mortar is 6 rounds per hour, and even if 1 shell is fired every ten minutes, the hand crank should be taken into account.

Because, not only do you have to shake it up, but you also need to put it flat every time you reload! It's definitely the worst job ever!

The gunners have long been accustomed to it, and German guns have always had this characteristic, such as the Tiger tank, which is also slow to shake the turret, but another advantage is that it has high accuracy and can be accurately shaken to a certain angle.

At three minutes and fifty seconds, the gunner slowed down, and then, stopped: "The angle is correct." ”

As long as the high and low machine is shaken, in terms of direction, you can only fine-tune one angle, the steering of a large angle is carried out by the chassis, and the rotation of two tracks can change the entire gun body to a large angle, from this point of view, it can also be said to be a self-propelled gun.

"Fire!"

"Boom!"

The longer the barrel, the more work the gunpowder does, and the greater the speed of the shells that go out, the farther it hits.

However, the mortar gun is the opposite, its barrel is not even twice the diameter of the muzzle, the utilization rate of gunpowder is very low, it belongs to the smoothbore artillery with a large firing angle, low muzzle velocity, and high arc trajectory.

Although the firing range is short, the projectile is powerful and is mainly used to destroy strong fortifications. (If you don't have a conscience cannon, you can see it as this kind of cannon.) ）

Now, when fired, the 2-ton warhead is only accelerated to a speed of 245 meters per second, and the naked eye can keep up with its advance.

Shrouded in black smoke, the warhead made a graceful curve and flew towards the Soviet soldiers rushing towards the opposite side.

Due to the low speed, the sound of its friction with the air became even more muffled, and the Soviet soldiers couldn't help but raise their heads and watch a behemoth appear in the sky.

Then, the thing flew above their heads and fell straight from the sky as if it had exhausted all its energy!

Yes, it just fell vertically! This ballistic, quite strange, this warhead, which fell from the sky, increasingly showed itself huge, and the faces of Soviet soldiers with frightened expressions.

No one is not afraid of death, especially in front of the enemy's secret weapon.

The whining sound of the bullet falling down was like a howl of death, and the attacking Soviet soldiers stopped their steps and looked for a place to hide.

There was chaos all around, and in the middle of them, the commander of the T-34 tank, also opened the lid above his head and looked into the sky.

Bigger and bigger, bigger and bigger, and almost in an instant, his tank was shrouded in darkness.

When he realized what was happening, the commander only had time to shout: "Quick, speed forward!" ”

Just now, the infantry outside was in chaos, and the tankmen did not dare to move, for fear that the indiscriminate opening would press the infantry, and in the infantry coordination, this was a very terrible thing, and the tankmen were under great psychological pressure by pressing their own infantry under their tracks.

And now, I can't take care of anything, hurry up!

Hearing his order, the driver in front stepped on the accelerator, but unfortunately, the tank had just moved half the length of the body, and the huge bomb on it fell on the turret unbiasedly!

What does it feel like to be smashed by a two-ton shell? If this tank could talk, it would scream.

"Boom!" As a high-explosive bomb, after hitting the ground, it will explode immediately, but now, it first hit the turret, and then the explosion occurred, although it was only between less than a second, and the iron turret of more than ten tons was smashed flat at this moment!

Yes, it's just smashed flat! A two-ton shell, falling from the sky and accelerating to a speed of several hundred meters per second, has quite a huge amount of energy!

And the entire tank, with the collision, also moved towards the ground, the coil springs on the load-bearing wheels broke because they could not withstand the huge pressure, and the tracks were also forced to press dozens of centimeters downward!

At the moment of impact, the people inside the tank were bleeding because of this violent collision, and the commander at the top was directly crushed into a meat patty!

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