543 came at a good time
As a traverser, Li Le knew how many aces Germany had in World War II. These trump cards are like shining stars, radiating dazzling brilliance in the vast night sky.
To be able to fight a bloody way among these trump cards and become the most shining star cannot be done by luck alone.
Everyone said that Marseilleu was a flying genius, but after all, he did not become the number one among the German ace pilots.
Everyone knows the famous Mitchell? Wittmann, but he still can't be the true god of war in the German armored forces.
If you want to become a real god of war, you must not only have unparalleled combat quality, but also have luck to live long enough.
Obviously, Karyus was able to become the most powerful tank commander in World War II, and it was definitely not just a matter of luck.
Now, the young tank commander, who was nominated by the Führer to serve in the new armored tank destroyer battalion, has become the second star in the German armored forces.
Because of his age, he graduated from the armored forces school much later than Wittman, but this did not shake people's hopes for him.
The Führer rarely mentioned the names of ordinary soldiers in front of the generals, and the last tank commander mentioned was named Wittmann, who was already the most brilliant man in the German tank forces.
Wittmann destroyed 47 British tanks in Britain, which is now the highest record in the German armored forces.
So, when the Führer mentioned Karjus, the officers of the school were very fond of this young man, and he was soon assigned to serve in one of the main Leopard tank armored battalions on the Eastern Front.
This armored battalion originally had 55 Leopard tanks, which was seriously overnumbered. Recently, 15 tanks were transferred to form three more armored battalions.
This time there was a local counterattack, and the Soviet Union had so many tanks that it was terrifying, although most of them were tanks like the T-26, but there were also many KV-1 tanks that showed up.
The battle was fought so fiercely that the 1st Panzer Division was exhausted. They had been advancing for a day, and many units had only half of their ammunition, and the combat pressure was quite high.
When they heard that the 505th Independent Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion was ready to join the battle, they decisively gave up part of their positions.
In his periscope, Karyus saw Soviet tanks in the distance, which flew past the wreckage of destroyed friendly forces and rushed towards the German positions.
In the turret of Tank 111, the skilled loader had already loaded the shells, and the commander of the guns of Karjus quickly aimed at the opposite T-26 tank and pressed the firing device.
"Boom!" It's still a familiar sound, it's still a familiar taste. A cannonball flies into the distance, just like when it was training.
The only difference is that the opposite side is no longer a target, but a real enemy tank full of people.
The Leopard tank's shells are heavy and heavy, and it is absolutely overkill to attack the T-26 tank. The shell easily pierced the Soviet tank, igniting the flammable materials inside, causing the entire tank to burn.
"Clank!" With a crisp sound, the 88 mm caliber cannon exited a metal shell and fell on the floor of the tank.
A pungent puff of smoke poured into the tank, causing Karyus to hold his breath. A tankman looks very glamorous, but it's not actually an elegant job.
The elegance of killing and killing, it is estimated that it will not be possible until the twenty-first world to fly a drone to drop bombs.
Regrettably, it is 1941, and there are still more than 70 years before drones dominate the battlefield.
Without the slightest hesitation, the loader, using his strong muscles, quickly loaded a cannonball into the chamber of the cannon.
Then he smoothly closed the bolt of the gun, completing the entire reloading action. Once again, the gun commander took aim at the target, firing a deadly shell at the opponent.
This time, he chose a big guy. The tank that was moving was a heavily armored KV-1 heavy tank equipped with the Soviet Union.
"Phew!" With a loud bang, the shells fired from the 88 guns on the Leopard tank hit the front of the advancing KV-1 tank like a hammer.
Then the heavy tank stopped, and a puff of green smoke came out of it. The Soviet tankers inside jumped out of the tank in panic and ran as fast as they could.
"Two!" The gun commander muttered about his battle record while slightly adjusting the direction of the turret.
Compared to assault guns, tanks are much easier and more convenient to deal with multiple targets, so the battlefield missions performed by the two weapons are also different.
Just as Karjus's crew was about to attack the third Soviet tank, a shell fired by the Soviets hit the front of the turret of Tank 111, where Karjus was located.
"Dang!" With a crisp sound and a slight jolt, Karjus immediately realized that his tank had been hit.
The good news is that the tanks have not been penetrated, and they can continue to fight. But because the battlefield was so chaotic, he couldn't find the enemy tanks that fired at him.
"Hell! There are so many of them! The mechanics who operated the machine gun complained loudly at this time.
The number of enemy tanks is really too much, and the number of tanks deployed in this section of the area is estimated to be more than 200 at least.
"Boom!" The commander of the guns of Karjus fired a third shell at this time, which directly hit a T-26 tank that was trying to rush up.
The force of this shell was so great that it directly penetrated the turret of this T-26 tank, sending the deformed turret flying a long distance.
It was like a massacre, and the Leopard tank, armed with an 88 mm cannon, had an overwhelming advantage over tanks such as the KV-1 and T-26.
Li Le's "foresight" in tanks won the advantage for the German armored forces. The German armored forces finally overwhelmed the Soviet Union in technology and no longer had to rely on tactical superiority to achieve victory.
After destroying three Soviet tanks, more German tanks appeared on their positions, raining shells on the Soviet tanks.
In just an instant, several Soviet tanks were destroyed, burning and smoking across the vast plain.
The battle is an exaggeration to describe it as one-sided, with Soviet tanks rushing forward and then being destroyed by German tanks in the way of the charge.
A few minutes later, the German commanders discovered that the efforts of the Soviet tank forces were not without effect, and the distance between the two sides had gone from 700 miles away to about 400 meters.
"The Soviets had just too many tanks, maybe more than 300 tanks, and we couldn't handle it." The gun commander grumbled as he opened fire.
Just now, for the first time, he missed the target, and a valuable shell was wasted.
In the heat of battle, anything can happen, and even a well-trained crew can make all kinds of mistakes.
What's more, the Soviet KV-1 tank was heavily armored and much more powerful than the American tanks equipped by the British.
So it is not easy to destroy such a tank. The 505 Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion here is equipped with Leopard tanks, and there is no difference between them, but the 1st Armored Division on the other side is quite under pressure.
The division also had a number of tanks armed with 50 mm long-barreled tank guns, which were much more difficult to deal with the KV-1.
"The 3rd Company was transferred to support the 1st Panzer Division...... We're on our own now. Inside the headset, the commander of the 1st Company reminded his men.
The 1st Company, which had the largest number of tanks, was the only fully equipped company in the 505th Armored Battalion. The 2 company had only 13 tanks, and the 3 company had 12 tanks.
Although there are no destroyed tanks in the entire armored battalion, the enemy's tanks are fighting more and more, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer, which makes everyone feel the danger.
"Boom!" Karyus felt his tank shake again, not because the enemy shell hit again, but because his gun commander fired the 10th shell of the day.
10 shells hit 7 targets, directly destroying 7 enemy tanks. Karjus was still happy with the figure, after all, it was his first time in battle.
Before he could rejoice, his tank was hit again. The shells fired from the opposite tank hit the front of his tank's hull, still not penetrating the heavy armor there.
However, because of the distance, this shell is obviously more powerful. The sound of banging on the armor plate was also louder than just now.
"Maybe we should get out of here." Karjuus frowned cautiously and muttered something quietly.
It was at this time that a huge explosion erupted in the midst of a Soviet tank complex. Then the second explosion swept away several more Soviet tanks.
Karjus saw a huge explosion through the periscope, and then he saw the Soviet tanks like an ocean, and began to retreat in a panic.
Explosions rang out one after another, and the Soviet tanks receded like a tidal wave. Karjus lifted the hatch of his tank and poked his head out to look in the direction of the Soviet tank in the distance.
There, more than a dozen Stuka dive bombers were whizzing down from the sky, smashing huge bombs into the densest spots of Soviet tanks.
Such attacks were round after round, and the Soviet tanks were paralyzed and paralyzed, and most of the explosions were destroyed on this small plain.
"It's just in time!" Inside the headphones full of interference, the battalion commander's voice came from which he didn't know whether it was complaining or sarcastic.
"Isn't it, we would have called for air support a long time ago, but they were at least 20 minutes late." The company commander of the 1st company heard the words of the battalion commander and answered it with some emotion in the intercom.