Chapter 204: Wittman's Battle
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Now, the German tank, is a standard five-man group.
There are three people in the turret, the gun commander, the commander and the loader.
The gun commander is responsible for operating the tank gun to fire, the commander is responsible for observing the surrounding situation, indicating the target, and at the same time calculating some shooting elements in advance, and the loader is responsible for carrying the shells.
There are two people in front, the driver on the left and the mechanic on the right.
Now, Wittmann, as the commander, is quickly and efficiently determining the shooting elements, which is a very simple scale conversion.
His big triangle can coincide with a two-meter-long triangle a thousand meters away, and now, as long as he knows that the opposite side is a T-26 tank with a width of 3.4 meters, he can convert the distance according to the width of the opponent's tank and the proportion of his own triangle.
Yes, it is mental arithmetic, which is the knowledge that every commander and gun commander must master, memorize the dimensions of the enemy's tank, and at the same time know mental arithmetic!
After a quick calculation, the gun commander was notified, and the gun commander pressed a button according to the instructions, and the hydraulically driven turret turned an angle to adjust the gun elevation angle, and then the gun commander heard Wittmann's order.
"Fire!"
Fire! The gun commander's hand pressed the firing button, and the whole tank roared violently.
Rumble!
At the muzzle of the gun, a ball of fireball appeared, and directly in front of the fireball, a blunt-headed armor-piercing projectile flew over!
Inside the turret, there was a choking smell of gunsmoke, and Wittmann shouted, "Start!" ”
Initiate! The tankmen in front, having completed the action of gearing after the launch, stepped on the accelerator fiercely after Wittmann's order arrived.
The V12 diesel engine roared happily, drove the driving wheels, drove the tracks, and began to move forward again!
All of this is almost all done in one go.
At this time, the 75-mm armor-piercing projectile had just flown to the opposite side!
The blunt head slammed into the T-26's hull with precision, colliding with it with a loud noise.
At this moment, Kochagin was shocked, Kristof was shocked, and the loader was shocked.
How is this possible?
Now, the distance between the two sides is 1,500 meters, and at this distance, the other side actually accurately projected shells!
Soviet tankmen, when shooting, almost always fired within 500 meters, so that they were able to maintain an accuracy rate of more than fifty percent, at a distance of one thousand meters, the best shooters could only guarantee a hit rate of one percent, and now, the other side actually hit themselves accurately at such a distance?
Their surprise lasted only a moment.
Then, the 15 mm thick armor was violently penetrated, with countless flying pieces of broken iron, with huge kinetic energy, the head-squatted armor-piercing projectile crashed in at a speed of more than 500 meters per second.
"Boom!"
The ammunition inside the tank, at the high temperature of the impact, was detonated in an instant! The huge flames and black smoke completely surrounded the tank, and in the column of smoke that soared into the sky, half of the turret was lifted up violently!
There can be no living! The duel of tanks is so cruel!
Just like in the war song of the Panzers, if we are in danger, then at least our faithful tanks will give us a metal grave!
Weitmann's tank was roaring, black smoke was emitting from the engine in the tail, and he rushed towards the Soviet tanks in front of him, for him, those Soviet tanks were his prey, his results!
Just now, when he saw the black smoke rising from the opponent's tank from the sight, he felt a faint pleasure in his heart.
"Order the 1st Company, don't rush too fast, pay attention to the formation!" In the rear, Kurt, the commander of the 1st Panzer Regiment, gave the order loudly.
Hearing his order, the electromechanical crew in the command tank quickly twisted the knob of his radio and adjusted it to the frequency band of the company-level command, and shouted loudly: "1 company, 1 company, don't rush too fast, keep in formation!" ”
Electromagnetic waves were silently transmitted, and in the tank of the commander of the 1st Company, the electromechanical officer received this signal, and changed the radio station in front of him from the receiving state to the transmitting state, and shouted loudly in the frequency band inside the 1st Company: "1st Company, 1st Company, pay attention to maintaining formation, don't rush too fast!" ”
When he finished shouting, he quickly switched to receiving mode.
As the radio waves continued, the mechanics of Wittman's tank, receiving the message, shouted at Wittman: "The company commander said we were rushing too fast!" ”
"Slow down and wait for our comrades." Wittman shouted, and then, he was rejoicing: "Eight hundred meters ahead, at eleven o'clock, a BT-5!" ”
In later films, you can see images of these heroes, tankmen holding radios, shouting about the public channel. Actually, this is simply not possible.
The 1st Panzer Regiment, hundreds of tanks, if everyone shouts together, there will be only one result, there is a murmur everywhere, and no one can hear it.
Therefore, in the use of tank radios, the calls of different workshops are different channels, and the delivery and answering also need to switch back and forth, and the communication between the vehicles in the battle is very frequent and the amount of information is very large.
In this case, the commander only commands the battle of the vehicle is a task that requires a high degree of concentration, and it is impossible to operate the complex radio, so in the five-person tank, there is a full-time communicator to carry out tedious radio operations, and in the battle, according to the commander's instructions, quickly send information, and receive and sort out the information transmitted back from the outside and concisely convey it to the commander.
Of course, if there were tanks like in the USSR, there would be no need for electromechanical crews, because they would not have a radio station at all, they could pass on cavalry, on carrier pigeons.
Or, show half of your body and use your body language to command.
For example, now, the BT-5 tank inside the target, the turret is open, and the commander is shouting loudly with his upper body exposed.
Well, not bad, courage!
"Boom!" Wittmann's tank, fired for the second time.
In the sight, Wittman held his breath and observed, the second result?
Damn it! It's flying!
Instead of concentrating the BT-5 tank, the shells flew over the roof of the turret of this tank! Directly in front of its trajectory is the tank commander!
In the field of vision of the sight, it was just a matter of a moment, Wittman saw the other party's commander, the upper half of the body, and the whoosh was gone all of a sudden! A 75 mm armor-piercing bullet hits a person's body directly, and it will definitely turn into minced meat in an instant!
And the lower half of the body, which was intact, fell into the tank turret with blood at this moment.