Chapter 167: A Duel to the Death
It was with such a powerful artillery that the "Ferdinand" heavy tank destroyer became the only weapon that the Germans could now nibble at the "KV-220" tank.
Sun Hui locked onto the "Ferdinand" heavy tank destroyer that destroyed the "Leningrad" as quickly as possible, and fired a shot, hitting it in the face, sparks flew everywhere, Sun Hui saw that this cannon did not penetrate the opponent's frontal armor, but only left an ugly scar on it.
Seeing such a result, the girls were shocked.
Sun Hui, who is familiar with history, was not surprised by this result, the front armor of the hull of the "Ferdinand" heavy tank destroyer was composed of two 100 mm thick steel plates overlapped, with a thickness of 200 mm, the front armor of the fighting compartment was also up to 200 mm thick, and the side and rear armor were 80 mm, which was the thickest among the German armored vehicles at that time, and it was not easy to destroy it.
After receiving a shot, the "Ferdinand" did not stop, but continued to move forward, Sun Hui noticed that its tracks were much wider than he knew, and he guessed that Porsche should have made targeted improvements.
As in history, the "Ferdinand" tried to continue firing, but it was too slow to reload, and before it could fire, it was attacked by the "Neva".
"Neva" also noticed that the frontal armor of the "Ferdinand" was difficult to penetrate, so it quickly went around to the right side of the "Ferdinand" and opened fire, due to the poor firing angle, this gun was not able to penetrate the opponent's side armor, and the shell bounced off, but the "Fatherland" bought time.
Xiao Tiantian quickly reloaded Sun Hui with an armor-piercing bullet, and Sun Hui aimed at the side of the "Ferdinand" fully enclosed turret and fired a shot.
At this time, the distance between the two sides had reached within 1,000 meters, and the 85-mm armor-piercing bullet accurately hit the hull of the "Ferdinand", drilling a large hole in it, and the "Ferdinand" immediately rose into smoke and stopped, and then a series of explosions occurred, which should have caused the explosion of the ammunition depot. Although the explosion was very severe, this "Ferdinand" did not appear to be blown apart, but only a strong fire-breathing smoke, and there were no people on fire inside, and it is estimated that all the crew members hung up.
"Turn to ten o'clock, Lili!" Ye Chuchu shouted, "There should be another one over there!" ”
Sun Hui's eyes still did not leave the scope, he knew that Ye Chuchu was talking about the "Ferdinand" that hit the "Leningrad" first, and now the other party did not fire, probably because the loading speed was too slow, so it was necessary to find it as soon as possible to attack, otherwise it would be too dangerous to wait until the other party loaded the shells and fired.
Du Lili made every effort to manipulate the "Mother of the Motherland" to turn, and the "Ladoga Lake" and the "Neva" also followed, and the cooperation was very tacit.
"It's right in front of us! Hidden in the bushes! Did you see that? Ye Chuchu shouted at the wireless phone.
Sun Hui observed carefully, and sure enough, he saw something crouching in the bushes in the distance, stretching out a long cannon barrel, which seemed to be aiming.
"See! Hit him! Hit him! Solnyrev yelled over the radio.
"Fire! Hurry up! Lomonosov loudly urged the gunners to open fire.
The "Neva" opened fire first, and the shell hit the closed turret of the "Ferdinand", and for a time the fire burst out, and the distance between the two sides was about 1,500 meters at this time, and the gun of the "Neva" was not able to penetrate the turret of the "Ferdinand". Immediately after that, the "Ladoga Lake" also opened fire, and the shells hit the front of the hull of the "Ferdinand" fiercely, but still failed to penetrate.
At this moment, "Ferdinand" opened fire.
Sun Hui saw a flash of fire from the other party's muzzle, and then a violent explosion came from the queue.
At this time, the turret of the "Mother of the Motherland" was facing ahead, and Sun Hui could not see which teammate's tank was shot from the scope, but judging from the dull explosion, the tank that was shot was probably more than lucky.
"The Neva was shot." Ye Chuchu's voice came from behind, "No one came out......"
Hearing Ye Chuchu's words, Sun Hui's heart couldn't help but sink.
Without thinking too much, Sun Hui stared at "Ferdinand", who had already shown a huge figure in the scope, looking for a place on the other party's body that could be shelled.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was about 1,200 meters, and the "Ferdinand" was facing the charging "Mother of the Motherland" and the "Ladoga Lake", and the 85 mm 55.2 times diameter tank guns of the "KV-220" and "T-150" were difficult to penetrate their 200 mm thick armor.
Sun Hui locked the front of the "Ferdinand" hull, fired violently, the shell came out of the chamber, flew straight forward, hit the front of the "Ferdinand" hull, and made a large deep bullet mark in its frontal armor, Xiao Tiantian quickly picked up a shell, filled the chamber with one hand, Sun Hui quickly locked on the bullet marks, and was about to fire, but suddenly heard a loud noise, the "KV-220" tank vibrated violently, and sparks flashed everywhere in the tank.
"'Mother of the Motherland', watch out for your back! There are 'Tiger' tanks in the back! Lomonosov shouted anxiously over the radio.
Sun Hui was taken aback, but he couldn't care about anything else now, and just as Du Lili was about to slam the turn, he still pressed down the artillery lever.
The armor-piercing bullet came out of its chamber again, hitting the frontal armor of the hull of the "Ferdinand", and penetrated through the bullet marks just shot, and the "Ferdinand" first emitted black smoke, and then flashed a huge fire, and the entire enclosed turret was lifted up by the air wave generated by the big explosion, turned over in the air, and smashed upside down on the hull.
There was no time to carefully observe the results of the battle, so Sun Hui took advantage of Du Lili's manipulation of the "KV-220" tank to make a sharp turn on the spot, and searched for the figure of the "Porsche Tiger" that attacked him from the scope.
At this moment, Sun Hui suddenly heard a dull cannon sound, he realized what was happening, and he couldn't help but feel cold for a while.
That's the sound of "Ferdinand" firing!
There is also a hidden "Ferdinand" firing at its own tank!
"Everyone...... be careful," as soon as Sun Hui's words came out, something came in from the right side of the tank, followed by flashes, sparks, and rising flames.
Sun Hui understood what was happening, and he was about to stand up, but found that his body was already on fire.