Chapter 349: Pressing Over
The SD KFZ 232 heavy armored vehicle, this is the official designation, and in private, for convenience, this heavily equipped cheap armored vehicle is called a wheeled infantry fighting vehicle, which is to distinguish it from the tracked 251 series armored vehicles. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Why is it cheap? Because the parts of this car are common to a large number of Ford's ten-ton trucks, this kind of generalization, it has brought about a reduction in costs, and after Ford set up a factory in Germany, the price of the truck was cut by half, which is the charm of generalization.
On the other hand, because of the wheeled type, compared with the crawler chassis, the wheeled type is much less resistant, and the speed of travel on the road is faster, and the fuel consumption rate is lower.
If there is a shortcoming, it is its cross-country ability, which can never be compared with the track, and later on the muddy land of the Soviet Union, the passability of this wheeled infantry fighting vehicle is far inferior to the tracked one.
Still, at least for now, it is still suitable for war on the European continent.
At the same time, this infantry fighting vehicle is heavily referenced in the design of the truck, the engine is arranged in front, the driver is on the left side, and the engine is on the right side, so that the space behind it, which is equivalent to the part of the body, is quite spacious.
Here, a combat group of ten people was arranged, just the space of an infantry squad.
Because there are tires on both sides, like the infantry fighting vehicles of later generations, the door is opened from the back, and when necessary, it can even jump from behind in the middle of the march, so that the infantry is still relatively safe with the hull in front of it.
In the upper part of the hull, there is the turret.
The design of this infantry fighting vehicle is much more advanced than the open-ended armored personnel carriers of the 251 series, it can fight directly on the battlefield!
On both sides of the hull, there are small holes that allow infantry to shoot directly inside the hull.
In this way, a new problem arises.
The Mauser rifle was too long, even as a cavalry gun, and further shortened, and was not suitable for use in small infantry fighting vehicles. Therefore, the armored infantry battalion had to choose new weapons for the sake of combat needs.
If it were possible, of course, they would like the 6.8mm MP38 submachine gun, which they can equip them with, and now, the entire army, is competing for this submachine gun everywhere.
As an ordinary motorized rifle division, they couldn't grab others, so they had to settle for the next best thing, armed with MP36 submachine guns, although they were second-hand replaced by the SS, they still made them excited, especially since this batch was a model with 75 rounds of drums!
A small submachine gun, ideal for use inside an infantry fighting vehicle, and now it comes in handy when it collides with cavalry!
If the infantry went down and hastily set up the interception line, they could only be crushed to death by these cavalry, and sit in the infantry fighting vehicle, which was extremely safe, and then, through the firing hole, fired outside.
As soon as cavalry appears, fire!
In the turret of an infantry fighting vehicle, it is enough for the commander to pay attention only to the front, and in case there is a fish that slips through the net, the defense on both sides is handed over to the vehicle-mounted infantry, which is very suitable.
So, after the cavalry appeared in the field of vision, a German soldier immediately pulled the trigger of his submachine gun, and in the sudden gunshot, a shuttle of bullets swept towards the cavalry outside, and killed this guy immediately.
"Boom!" Two seconds later, the grenade exploded, and by this time, the infantry fighting vehicle had long since left.
The 230-horsepower diesel engine is roaring, and black smoke is constantly coming out of the exhaust pipes on the side, and in the process of this hedging, the ignition must not be turned off, which is to discredit the German armored vehicles!
If you want to keep the ignition out, you need to kick the throttle! The driver stepped on the accelerator and kept moving forward, and then he shouted, "Attention, impact!" ”
Strike!
20 mm machine guns, 180 rounds of ammunition, half of which are grenades, half of which are armor-piercing, and now, the grenades have run out, just when the commander was about to change his weapons and operate the machine gun on the side, the cavalry of the Poles rushed over!
The turret is very small and can only be operated by one person, this infantry fighting vehicle, in fact, is operated by three people, a driver, an electromechanic, and a commander, gunner, and machine gunner.
The tall war horse rushed towards the infantry fighting vehicle, and on horseback, the rider wanted to jump up from the horse at the last moment of the collision!
If these armored vehicles are not destroyed, then the charge of the Polish cavalry will fail, and when they find that the sides of the armored vehicles can also fire, then they will destroy these armored vehicles, there is only one way left.
Jump on it, pull the grenades and blow them up!
He was brave, but his actions, in the eyes of the driver, were purely suicidal.
When he operated the war horse and galloped over, the driver here also discovered his intentions, and then stepped on the accelerator to the end.
The roar of the engine, clearly audible on the battlefield where the guns were raging, this infantry fighting vehicle, suddenly accelerated.
So, the cavalry on this side was standing on horseback, and before he could jump over, his horse had a close contact with the infantry fighting vehicle.
On the ten-ton chassis, the transformed infantry fighting vehicle is also about ten tons, and the armor in front of it hit the war horse fiercely.
In a collision, it is always the mass that wins, and this is the case when a chariot collides with a chariot, and even more so when a chariot collides with a horse.
The war horse was neighing, and the violent impact immediately knocked it down, and the sharp pain of the broken leg bone made it wail, and the cavalry on horseback was also thrown down at this moment.
For the infantry fighting vehicle, the impact only made it shake slightly, and at the moment of the collision, the driver stepped on the clutch for fear that the engine would stall, and then he raised the clutch and continued to press the accelerator all the time, at the same time, both arms picked up the steering wheel.
The opponent's war horse fell to the left, and now, he turned to the left!
The wide off-road tires were crushed to the war horse, one after another, and when the four tires were crushed over, the war horse had lost its life.
At the same time, on the other side of the war horse, a cavalryman who had been crushed by half of his body stroked the head of the war horse with his last strength, and just now, the off-road tires also pressed on the cavalryman's body.
One man and one horse, almost at the same time closed their eyes, this tragic battle has nothing to do with them.
Fighting, such bloody and cruel, at such times, tolerance for the enemy is cruelty to oneself! If there is no armored infantry battalion to participate in the battle, then all the remaining infantry soldiers on your side will be trampled to death by these cavalry!
These Polish cavalrymen are all ruthless, and they were the same in the battle with the Soviet Union a few years ago, and they even like to step on the enemy's horses and listen to the sound of broken bones.
This is the battle, the battle of blood and fire.
The remnant sun is like blood.