Chapter 1385: A Victory That Doesn't Count as a Victory
The fighting continued, but everyone could see that the situation in the Soviet Union was not good.
"Boom!" With a loud explosion, one of the Stalin tanks here was blown up, and now, there are only three Stalin tanks left!
The German tanks, however, became more and more courageous.
The advantage of a high rate of fire was vividly reflected at this time.
When Stalin's tank fired slowly, it was enough for the Tiger tank to fire three or four times, and the Germans also had a high shooting accuracy, so in this way, in the confrontation between the two sides, the German tanks actually had an advantage!
If the German tanks had not gone back and forth to prevent other problems, such as those howitzer strikes, such as the grenades thrown by the infantry that appear now, the German tanks would have killed all these Stalin tanks long ago.
Even now, the constant reduction of the remaining Stalin tanks makes their situation even more serious.
The reason is simple.
If the Soviet tanks are withdrawn from the battle now, they can still show their victorious faces, and if they are all gone, they cannot be called victorious in any way.
Rokossovsky looked at everything in front of him and finally made up his mind: "Order the Stalin tanks, withdraw from the battle and put an end to this ambush." ”
If the Stalin tanks were to be withdrawn, the infantry who were still fighting, even if they gave up, they would not have a second ending except to be killed, and compared to these infantry, it was the Stalin tanks that were more important.
In this battle, Rokossovsky sent only a small number of troops, those light tanks, and ordinary infantry, and did not go to the battlefield, because even if they did, it would be useless.
"Boom!" With another explosion of the Stalin's tanks, only two remained! At the same time, this Stalin tank, before it was hit, also finally destroyed a Panther 3 tank not far away!
Retreat, retreat!
After receiving the order, the tank unit was finally about to withdraw, and at this time, a roar came from the sky, which immediately shocked everyone.
Rokossovsky raised his head and saw one plane after another, and in the lower part of the nose of those planes, there was a cannon that looked extraordinarily exaggerated, and in an instant, his face changed greatly: "Damn, flying tank!" ”
The German HS129 fighter finally arrived, and when this side was in crisis, Colonel Wolfgang-Grassemüll, who was in the back, learned of the situation of the striker, and immediately began to call for air support, and now, the urgently needed air support soon arrived.
Looking at the two Stalin's tanks that were still resisting, the HS129 fighter easily dived down from the sky, the nose of the aircraft was blazing, and the 40mm armor-piercing incendiary bombs fired at the top of the round turret of the Stalin tank.
"Tom, tom!" No 88 mm blunt-nosed armor-piercing bullet could penetrate the main armor of Stalin's tank, but from the sky, an attack on the top could be the simplest and most effective fatal blow!
This round turret is completely designed according to the ground threat, if from the perspective of ground artillery fire, even if it can hit the top of the turret, it is almost parallel to the top of the turret, and the depth that needs to be passed through is very large, but if you attack vertically from the top of the turret, it is only a pitiful 20 mm!
In later generations, Germany did not know much about this tank, in order to penetrate its main armor, even to its own HS129 attack aircraft installed 75 mm guns, this terrible cannon at a distance of 1000m at 90 degrees can penetrate 130mm thick armor, fighting Stalin tanks is as easy as a hand.
And now, because it is known that the top armor of Stalin's tank is the weakest, the attack aircraft above the head is directly hit in the head.
Tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells, with a call, passed through the thin top armor, and, except for the first shot, the next few shots, almost all of them smashed directly into the inside of the turret.
"Boom, boom!" In the midst of a loud explosion, the last two remaining Stalinist tanks were also destroyed.
Rokossovsky's face was ugly, there were only a few heavy tanks under his command, and as a result, in the first battle, all of them were destroyed.
"General, we have done our best, at least the Germans have suffered greater losses than us, just now we have destroyed twenty-two German tanks, this exchange ratio, is already the best, we still won a battle." Koroya said to Rokossovsky: "And after today's battle, we have successfully blocked the advance of the German tank units and prevented them from encircling the encirclement, and your command is still great." ”
As soon as he finished speaking, Rokossovsky quickly collapsed his body in the fortifications on the side.
Those two HS129 attack aircraft are already coming towards them!
One by one, the shells hit the ground and bloomed beautiful little flowers, of course, this is only in the eyes of the pilot.
In the eyes of the people on the ground, this is the rain of death!
One after another, the shells exploded on the ground, and after the sweepers, there were potholes everywhere, and they stood out from their hiding positions with trepidation, looking at the two sweepers that were gradually flying away.
Suddenly, Rokossovsky's face changed dramatically: "Our heavy artillery unit!" Let them pay attention to air defense! ”
Rokossovsky dared to plan this ambush on the one hand, because of the Stalin's tanks, and on the other hand, because of the 152-mm howitzers, which he valued more than he could, and even ordered them to withdraw from the battle in advance in order to protect them.
But now, in the process of retreating, the howitzer units are still pursuing the German screw cars, they are still some way away from their own infantry, and in this case, if there is another aircraft strike in the air, then I am afraid ...
When he thought about this, Rokossovsky was in a completely bad mood, and in any case, it could not be called a victory now.
"Spot the target, ten kilometers ahead, be careful, don't miss our pursuing troops, aim at those tractors and fire!" In the sky, the pilot of the long plane of HS129 shouted loudly.
Now, those tractors are dragging 152mm howitzers, retreating to the rear, as long as you kill those tractors, the howitzers will not move, and when your own screw catches up, you can easily achieve victory, and even grab those cannons as trophies!
HS129 dived down and opened heavy fire on the tractor.
"Tom tom." With an ordinary three-point shot, a 40-mm shell accurately hit the tractor in front, and the tractor's engine was blown out in an instant, igniting puffs of black smoke.
The tractor hand fell to his place, and blood flowed onto the lever.
"Our planes are coming, rush up and finish off the Soviets!" Inside the screw car, the soldiers of the reconnaissance battalion were excited.