Meyer was so excited that he left only two tank destroyers to help guard the French admiral and escort him back to the rear, and the rest of his troops, all of them, were left behind to wait for the next order.

It was a break before the war, and Meyer's men were quickly carrying out tank maintenance.

When I was fighting just now, I was quite excited and didn't feel anything, but now, when the battle is over, I look at it again, and my own tank is really seriously injured.

The opponent's 40-mm bangbang gun, in the front armor plate, left several holes, the largest one, can even be stuffed into a fist, however, the armor plate was not penetrated, the Panther 3 tank, well protected the tank crew!

Supposedly, the damaged tanks should retreat to the rear and use electric welding and other equipment to fill in the damaged parts before they can continue to participate in the battle, but now, they are obviously not willing to wait.

What are you waiting for, a big battle is just around the corner, the 1st Panzer Division that encircles and annihilates the whole of Britain, they must join the war!

"Be careful, be careful!" At this time, on Meyer's tank, several people were working carefully.

The blind shell is still in the chamber, and the shell must be brought out first.

This is quite dangerous, when the shell is loaded into the chamber, it has to be fired, and it is dangerous to withdraw the shell.

Theoretically speaking, there is an inertia safety on the shell, and the inertia safety will be lifted only when the shell is out of the barrel and the speed is sufficient.

This is a necessary measure, otherwise, for example, the fuse of impact explosion, without this set of insurance, is prone to explosion if it is hit during transportation, which is quite dangerous.

But where it's mechanical, then there are unexpected situations, what if this shell is a special case?

Gently opening the tail of the gun, the loader carefully inspected the tail of the shell, and the firing pin had hit, leaving a small crater at the bottom, but the propellant in the barrel was not fired, it seemed that the fuse was a problem.

He exerted force with both hands, but the barrel did not move.

"The heat expands and contracts, and I can't take it down." He shouted.

When firing, with multiple fires, the temperature inside the chamber is very high, and the space becomes larger, so it is easy to reload the shell, but now, the battle is over, and the space inside the chamber becomes smaller.

In normal times, this is not a problem, after all, in the cold state, the shell must be able to be loaded.

The problem is that in the fierce battle just now, they fired more than 20 shells, and every time they fired, there was a residue of propellant.

These residues make the interior space smaller, and at the same time, the friction becomes larger, which is difficult to take down.

"It seems that the old way is the only way to go." The gunner said, "Shake the barrel to the lowest and take the steel drill." ”

On the side of the hull of the tank, a long steel drill can be pulled out, which is just one meter longer than the barrel of the tank, which is used to maintain the barrel of the tank.

After every firing, the gunpowder residue in the barrel must be cleaned in time, and now, this steel drill has a different purpose.

The gunner, a veteran, held a cigarette in his mouth and a steel drill in both hands, shoved it all the way to the innermost point, and then shouted: "Give me the hammer!" ”

In normal maintenance of tanks, sledgehammers are indispensable.

"Smash!" The gun commander shouted to the driver.

The driver was a little worried: "In this case, will the shells explode?"

Tank guns, they are all high-pressure guns, and there are a lot of propellants, if you are not careful, you will blow up the shells, and you will definitely blow up the barrels, and then send them all to the sky. ”

"I've avoided the fuse of the warhead, let's do it!" With a cigarette in his mouth, the gun commander continued: "Come, hard!"

"Boom!" The sledgehammer smashed down.

"Come again!"

Five times in a row, in the turret on this side, the loader shouted loudly: "Move, move!" ”

"Go on!"

After more than 30 hammers, the shell slowly withdrew from the chamber.

When the last blow was over, the loader grabbed the shell and carefully took it out.

"Stay here and leave it to the sappers." Meyer said.

Dumb shells, which are quite dangerous, need to be left to the sappers to detonate, and this has nothing to do with them, and now they need to quickly maintain the vehicle to prevent similar problems from continuing to occur.

Standing on a Hunter tank destroyer, Meyer looked into the distance, he knew that the battle he had just fought was just a contact with the opponent's striker, and the next big battle would soon begin.

There was a roar from the east, Meyer raised his head, looked at the sky, and suddenly felt unhappy: "Hey, why did you come so early, you can't scare the British away!" ”

When they learned the news, their own air force also arrived quickly.

A dozen Stuka flew past Meyer's tank company and headed in front of them, where the main force of the British armored division should have been.

It would be bad if they bombarded indiscriminately and scared the British away.

It's a pity that his words, the pilots in the sky can't listen.

Hans flew five hundred meters in the air in his own Stuka, which was already his 87th combat flight since the beginning of the war, and he flew three sorties almost every day, which was simply a natural fighting machine! If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't attack at night, I'm afraid he would have to fight and attack at night.

At the same time, Hans's results have accumulated to 203.

According to the regulations, if the accumulation exceeds 200, he will have to come down from the front line and go to the rear to train the cadets, but now the war is still going on, and the confirmation of Hans's results is not so fast, and the report is also very slow, so Hans is still flying on the front line.

This can be regarded as a loophole for him, but he will not be able to drill for long, and when the French campaign is over, he will definitely be ordered back to the rear.

Cherish every opportunity, like now!

Under the belly of the plane, two 500-kilogram bombs were hung, which were the most common combat loads for Stuka, whose eyes were so sharp that he could see far away on the ground at a glance.

Just now, he flew over his own tank position, and as he flew over, he flailed his wings at the men below.

If he knew about the complaint below, he would definitely spit on the bottom.

They were going to blow up the bridge and cut off the rear of the British armored forces. Create an opportunity for your own armored forces to encircle and annihilate the British armored division.

Of course, after blowing up the bridge, if there is a chance, they will also blow up the fuel trucks for the supply of the British armored division or something.

"Skanovsky, you know what? HS-129 looks pretty good. As he flew, Hans spoke to his rear-seat heavy.