Fortunately, Karyus had headphones, otherwise the explosion just now might have even affected his hearing.

But even with headphones, his ears still felt uncomfortable. Karyus fastened the hatch of the tank and gave the order to fire smoke grenades.

"Shoot smoke grenades directly in front of us! Drop as close to the enemy's line as possible! Fast! He commanded loudly as he adjusted his sitting position.

Following his orders, Gun Commander Tyre immediately fired a smoke grenade, and although the landing point was not so accurate, it was not bad.

Huge white smoke obscured the view of the Soviet tanks and made the attacking German tank units safer.

Soon, however, the 3rd Company on the flank shouted loudly in the headsets, claiming that they had been violently counterattacked by Soviet tanks.

“…… Enemy...... Tank...... Many ......" On the radio, the voice of the commander of the 3rd Company was intermittently reported on the battle situation.

The commander of the 505th battalion frowned, because the battle had just begun, and it was clear that the Soviets' defenses were much stronger than he had imagined.

"Have you contacted the Air Force? We need battlefield support. The battalion commander asked, turning his head to the side and looking at the officer beside him.

The officer nodded, put his hand on the receiver, and replied to his commander, "I submitted my application before the attack, and I estimate that it will be at least 10 minutes before I arrive." ”

"Something is wrong, I feel the danger!" The battalion commander stared at the direction of the battlefield with white smoke rising in the distance, and said with some uneasiness.

Karjus gave the order to move on at the front, after all, it was not pleasant to endure the bombardment of the KV-2 tank, and he still wanted to solve the opponent and think about other problems.

However, it seems that the battle did not go as Karjus had arranged. A Soviet T-26 tank suddenly burst out of the smoke and quickly approached the German tank.

The other party started to fight back so quickly? In his mind, with a hint of disbelief, Karjus also felt a hint of danger.

"If they're not a new unit that hasn't fought us, then there must be some conspiracy!" In his mind, Karjus subconsciously thought of such a sentence.

A German Leopard tank stopped advancing, aimed at the T-26 tank and calmly opened fire, penetrating the opponent's armor at a distance of about 1,000 meters.

As in the usual encounters, the Soviet tank was easily penetrated, which somewhat calmed the German commanders.

But when the second Soviet tank burst out of the smoke, Karyus finally realized the seriousness of the problem.

It was a Soviet tank that he had never seen, or rather a Soviet tank that he had never seen in kind!

Looking through the periscope of the commander, Karyus saw a Soviet tank like no other, which also had a sloping front armor plate!

He hadn't seen a real tank, but he had seen three views and renderings of it!

In the analysis of the intelligence services, this new Soviet tank, called the T-34, was a more threatening tank than the KV-1.

As soon as he saw the frenzied state of the other party, Karjus knew that if this thing was really as terrible as the intelligence depicted, it could definitely cause problems for the German armored forces.

It was much faster than the heavy KV-1 and KV-2 tanks, and the speed of travel often meant that the tank could close the distance between the two sides faster.

"Fire!" Karjus gave the order to attack, and the Leopard tank, which had just stopped, immediately erupted a dazzling flame from the barrel of the gun painted with white battle marks.

The armor-piercing shell drew a straight line and rushed towards the target in the distance, but unfortunately this shell was clearly not the T-34 tank that was aimed, but the T-26 tank that was aimed at it.

As a result, after the explosion of the T-26 tank, the T-34 tank approached quickly, seemingly half a minute faster.

"Quick! Aim for it! That guy is armed with a 76 caliber gun, just like the KV-1 tank! In a hurry, Karjus had no time to accurately express the caliber of the opponent's artillery.

You know, the awkward 76.2mm caliber will waste too much reaction time to say, and Karjus found that he didn't have much reaction time to waste.

Because at the same time as he shouted these words, two more Soviet T-34 tanks rushed out of the white smoke.

And these two T-34 tanks were followed by at least 10 T-26 tanks. The tanks were moving so fast that the German tank crews were terrified.

"Hell!" Tyre looked through the scope and saw a T-34 tank. The guy was almost as fast as a Leopard tank, so he couldn't help but curse.

Three T-34 tanks were attacking the German tank forces head-on, and more T-26 tanks and KV-1 tanks followed suit with smoke grenades thrown by the Germans.

"Reverse! Find a way to keep your distance! Don't let the enemy get close! "The commander of the 1st company quickly gave the battle order over the radio.

Fighting while reversing is also one of the usual tactics used by Germany. The Soviet army's charge at any cost often collapsed before the German tactics of reversing and counterattacking.

"Erich, reverse!" Calyus found that the distance between the two sides was about 900 meters, and decisively gave the order to reverse.

While he was reversing, a 1-company Leopard tank stopped and opened fire, firing a shell.

The shell did not hit the advancing T-34 tank, but just grazed the side of the T-34 tank and flew into the distance.

Obviously, the shell hit the T-34 tank just now, but because the angle was too small, the shell bounced, and it looked as if it was flying by the opponent's armor.

The streamlined shape allowed the T-34 tank to obtain a good level of defense. Although it is still impossible to effectively defend against the fire of the 88 gun at a distance of 1,000 meters, if you are lucky, you can still look forward to the appearance of ricochets.

"It's fast! And it looks like the armor is also thick! The commander of the car that fired shouted loudly through the intercom, and then the Leopard tank, which had stopped and fired, reversed again and began to retreat.

In any case, the Soviet Union's introduction of new tanks did create a lot of psychological pressure on the officers and men of the German tank forces.

Not long after the German tank began to reverse, the shells of the KV-2 tank in the distance whistled by again and landed not far behind the German tank.

Several shells fell in one go, which really made the commander of the German armored forces very entangled: should he risk being destroyed by howitzers, or should he risk continuing the battle with the enemy's tanks?

"Keep retreating! KV-2 has no sight, and our smoke grenades do not disperse! Pressing the throat intercom, Karjus reminded his comrades loudly.

Just as he was reminding, a shell from a KV-2 tank fell, smashing into the hull of a Leopard tank at once.

"Boom!" The huge explosion blew off the engine cooling grille behind the Leopard tank, and also completely reimbursed the engine inside.

Even more tragic is that the gasoline was ignited by the heat from the explosion of the shell, and the tank burned all at once.

The commander of another Leopard tank that retreated behind this tank saw what was happening with his own eyes, and was so frightened that he forgot to follow the procedure of notifying the friendly troops that they had been destroyed.

Although the KV-2 tank's hits are entirely dependent on faith, sometimes the power of faith is really something that cannot be ignored.

Even if the probability is extremely low, it will not surprise people that anything happens on the rapidly changing battlefield.

It took a long time for the commander of the tank, who had witnessed the destruction of the tank, to come to his senses, hold down the throat intercom, and shouted, "Bastard! I saw tank No. 121 destroyed! I saw tank No. 121 destroyed! ”

Although this was not the first tank lost by the 505 Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion in the Soviet-German war, the loss of being destroyed by enemy tanks really shook the hearts of every German tank commander.

"Stop!" Karyus knew that no matter whether he chose to reverse or stop at this time, there was a chance that he would be hit by a shell like the KV-2 tank lottery.

So he simply didn't think about the threat of the KV-2 tank and began to concentrate on dealing with the target in front of him.

Gun Commander Tyre took accurate aim at a fast-moving T-34 tank and pressed the firing device.

"Boom!" Tank No. 111 fired a shell that hit the T-34 tank directly.

At a distance of about 800 meters, the armor-piercing shell hit the armor of the T-34 tank in just a split second.

The huge impact force caused this armor-piercing projectile to tear open the steel plate of the hull of this T-34 tank, shatter the parts inside, and flew into the body of this T-34 tank with countless shrapnel.

According to the information, the German 88-mm cannon could penetrate the armor of the T-1000 tank at a distance of about 34 meters.

Therefore, even with a very good bullet-proof appearance, the T-34 tank is still no match for the Leopard tank equipped with an 88 mm cannon.

In this case, Karjus followed the previous tactical arrangement and fired at a distance of about 800 meters, which was a very sure breakdown distance.

Affected by the unfortunate luck of the first shell, Karyus chose a relatively conservative distance before firing and attacking.

Theoretically, the German 88 mm cannon could penetrate the armor of the T-34 tank at a distance of about 1,500 meters.

The T-34 tank, which had been pierced through the armor, moved forward by inertia for a few more meters, and then a puff of black smoke came out and stopped on the way forward.

Another T-26 quickly rushed past the destroyed T-34 tank and continued to approach the German tank's position.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer, and some T-26 tanks even began to stop and fire at German tanks.

Because of the large number of KV-1 tanks and T-34 tanks, the Leopard tank crew of the 505th Independent Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion could only retreat slowly and fire back.