Some book friends asked why the weight of the Tiger 1 in this book was positioned at 50 tons instead of the historical 56 tons (early), and there are three main reasons for this:

1. In the early 30s, the level of armor technology such as engines and transmission systems was limited;

2. Tanks and anti-tank weapons in other countries are not powerful;

3. Germany in the book can continuously obtain a variety of rare metals, which is of great significance for improving the defense of armor, 100 mm of armor containing an appropriate amount of nickel and chromium elements will greatly exceed the same thickness of ordinary armor, and Germany during World War II in history is extremely lacking in these rare metals.

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When it was getting dark, the distant sound of artillery finally approached the woods step by step, and if nothing else, a night battle was inevitable.

"Lieutenant Colonel, are you going to fight the Russian army at night?" Looking at the blurred scenery ahead, Maxim was very helpless to put down the telescope in his hand, in this era when there was no night vision technology (the earliest active infrared night vision device in history was invented by the Germans in 1940), night battles can only rely on flares, searchlights and people's naked eyes, these are obviously not very reliable, some people have counted that under normal circumstances, the gun hit rate of night battles is less than 1/2 of the day, especially anti-tank weapons that require accurate shooting, The low hit rate in the dark of night is simply unusable, and the tank battle scene in this situation can be imagined.

"Doctor, they're now part of the operational sequence of the DPR Army!" Pointing to the German officers and soldiers in the front position, Kony Pukamp said, "The situation does not allow them to make many choices, and to evacuate without permission is to flee from the battle, and the whole line of defense will be dragged down because of this, which is by no means the character of our German soldiers!" ”

"But those new tanks ......," Maxim lowered his voice, "I'm afraid you don't know that the Russian army is deadly in the war." Their soldiers can rush up regardless of casualties, and if these new tanks are captured by them, I'm afraid it won't be good! ”

"We've heard of this for a long time!" Konypkamp unhurriedly took out his silver cigarette case and handed it to Maxim, but Dr. Mino, who was a little nervous, did not accept it this time, perhaps in his opinion that the open flame of the cigarette would attract enemy fire.

Konipkamp had to take out a cigarillo on his own and light it with a lighter, and the shelling that Maxim feared did not materialize, in fact. The sparks in the bunker of this forest are difficult to see from a distance of 100 meters.

"Don't worry, Doctor, they're battle-hardened soldiers who know how to deal with situations! Besides, if our T-1 can be easily captured by the other side, it will not be the tank we want! ”

Maxim could not find any rebuttal to this, and it was true that the unprecedented size and thick armor were a major asset for this new German tank to stand out from enemy artillery fire, infantry shocks, and even enemy tanks. The 88mm gun on their turret was the best of its kind.

On the way out of the train station and driven to this position on his own power, Maxim also saw their good power, and the scene was as surprising as seeing an elephant running smoothly.

Besides. The tank was also armed with three powerful G-7 machine guns, and its dense rain of bullets could tear apart a heavily armed infantry in an instant, which, when combined with enough to make any enemy infantry trying to get close to the ground, retreat.

Thinking of this, Maxim finally felt a little relieved, although these tanks are not equipped by the Russian Army, and it is impossible to continue to stay in the Russian Republic in the future, it is absolutely impossible to let them fall into the hands of his own enemy. However, as soon as Maxim thought about the previous battles in the Russian Civil War and the fate of several tank units of the Russian Army, his mood suddenly darkened, and those works that embody a lot of his sweat and painstaking efforts were even regarded by him as his "children". Without exception, they were drowned in the crowds of Soviet and Russian troops, and they were destroyed by advanced or unadvanced anti-tank shells, or improvised weapons such as explosive packs, incendiary bombs, and bundles of grenades. Even if it was his newly developed T-1 self-propelled anti-tank gun, Maxim did not think that they would end up in any other way.

In his heart, Maxim did not believe that Democratic Russia could win this brutal civil war, and even with the support of the Germans, the Russian army, which lacked ideals, fighting spirit and cohesion, would at best hold up for a few more years, but he never told outsiders about this.

In the midst of the sound of gunfire, night still fell as promised, and Konipukamp and his party had been in this hidden fortification for most of the day. Most of the people were tired and hungry, and the soldiers in charge of logistics soon brought a field dinner, but only bread, tortillas, canned meat, and vegetable soup that barely had some temperature. Something is better than nothing, people are trying to eat, but they hear a loud bang, a shell from the Soviet Russian army fell at most 200 meters away, which did not threaten the safety of any expert, but sent a signal to people: the battle, the real battle has begun.

Next, the shells rained like rain from small to large, from sparse to dense to this land that had just appeared, showing a bit of spring, the most common 76.2 mm field guns of the Russian army and a few 105 and 120 mm howitzers brought the shock far less than a German Salsa rocket artillery battalion, but the scene of bursts of fire and golden flowers still made people worry about the safety of those German soldiers and equipment on the outside position.

"Sure enough, it's 20 minutes, not a bad point!"

When the fire stopped, Konypkamp suddenly said that unlike the others, he had been looking at his watch calmly throughout the shelling, rather than looking out through the periscope aimlessly.

"That's right, the Russian army usually has 20 minutes of artillery preparation before the attack, and the next thing is to charge at the expense of casualties! This is used as an engine and a big truck in our army, as soon as they hear the sound of the guns of the Soviet Russian army, the soldiers will say: the engine is started, everyone should be hidden, don't be stupid when the big truck comes, shoot desperately at the opposite side! ”

Maxim's lame refill had eased the atmosphere in the bunker, but after a while, strange noises could be heard from a distance.

"It's the trumpet, the charge of the Soviet Russian army!"

Maxim tried his best to keep his composure. For any Russian soldier, this is definitely a sound they don't want to hear at any time, because this trumpet means that in the next second, countless enemies with bayonets will appear in front of you, and there is such a saying among the Russian soldiers! When the Russian trumpet sounds, if you only have a poor Mosin-Gana manual rifle in your hand and your companions are trembling with fear, you had better pray to God that you will not be hit by the bullets of the other party before you raise your hands in surrender.

The specialists and officers in this bunker, whether it is the first time to go to the battlefield or not.

At this time, they all chose silence, the sound of the ground horn was clearly heard from the front, and the shouts of the Soviet and Russian soldiers as they charged could be faintly heard, and in addition, what people heard in their ears was the sound coming from the two radio stations:

"Load each car with normal grenades and get ready to shoot!"

"Car No. 6 on standby......"

"Car No. 7 on standby......"

"Car No. 8 on standby......"

"Car No. 9 on standby......"

"Listen to my orders to shoot...... Directly in front of the target, 4000 yards away...... A salvo...... Fire! ”

As soon as the word "fire" fell on the radio, a roar of artillery was heard from the front position, and then all kinds of artillery scrambled to start firing. For armor specialists like Konipkamp and Maxim. It's not hard to distinguish these weapons, and when these sounds come together, they become a beautiful symphony in their ears.

"Each car is loaded with normal grenades...... The goal is directly ahead. Distance 3500 yards...... A salvo...... Fire! ”

The radio was apparently using the same ground frequency as the five T-1 tanks, and after each command to open fire, the commander's command to fire was followed by a very clear sound of artillery in front of him, and after two or three seconds, several loud noises were heard from farther away.

"Start the cars!"

This time, the sound of the diesel engine starting was not so clear, but it was still possible to distinguish it from the jumble of sounds, and at the same time, the sound of the radio began to be blurred by the loud noise.

"Two thousand yards directly ahead of the target, two salvos. The Heavy is ready to shoot...... Fire! ”

Kony Pukamp and others gathered in front of the periscope to observe the situation ahead, the position built by the German soldiers was flickering under the artillery fire and flares at this time, through the periscope can still find a few white figures hidden in front of the five Tiger tanks, maybe after this battle, the soldiers can consider painting their hulls closer to the surrounding environment grass gray or pale yellow-green.

"They are moving laterally, I hope the enemy has not pulled up the heavy anti-tank guns by this time!"

A German expert said anxiously that he knew that the Russian army that was storming the position did not have any decent anti-tank guns, let alone heavy anti-tank guns that could threaten the Tiger. For a tank, though. Moving laterally does expose the weaker sides of the hull to the enemy, which is something that a good tank commander would try to avoid when there are enemy tanks or anti-tank weapons in front of you.

Konepkamp ignored the expert's concerns, and instead motioned to his assistant, a Royal Naval College graduate in his early twenties, to take notes, and report his observations as he observed:

"5 T-1s move normally in a battlefield situation...... A shell that was supposed to have been fired from a 76.2-mm field gun fell 3 meters to the left of car No. 5, which continued to walk without any adverse reactions, but should be further examined after the battle...... The 5 T-1s moved the battlefield and they re-opened fire on the front, which was their 7th shot after the start of the battle, the guns were operating normally, and after the battle, the commander and gunner were asked about loading, firing, and hitting......"

At this moment, the voice of one of the tank commanders was suddenly heard on the radio:

"It's tanks, tanks of the Russians! 4000 yards ahead, the exact number is unknown, at least more than 4! ”

"Keep watching, keep watching!" This is the voice that gave the order to open fire.

In the periscope, Konipkamp suddenly saw a T-1 wrapped in flames from the explosion of several shells.

"Ahh I was hit, and here is car number 9! …… The damage to the tank is unknown, guys, are any of you injured? …… Here is car No. 9, there were no casualties, the body is in good condition! ”

Konepkamp whispered to his assistant: "The record is as follows: car No. 9 was hit head-on by an enemy shell, and there are at least two near-misses, and there are no casualties or injuries to the body, the details are to be investigated!" ”

Due to the limited number of periscopes, Maxim was not able to see the scene with his own eyes, but he really wanted to know what was going on, so he had to lean over to Konypkamp, "Can you show me?" ”

"Half a minute!" Kony Pukamp gave up his periscope for the time being, leaving his periscope open for now, and then focused his attention on the radio.

"It was the Russian tanks that fired, they must have spotted our muzzle flames, cunning guys! Each car immediately reversed and retreated 20 meters, and the armor-piercing bullet was loaded! ”

"Understood!"

"Enemy tanks were spotted, 3500 yards ahead, between 6 and 7 units, and they opened fire on us!"

A dense explosion suddenly sounded on the front position, and Kony Pukamp didn't bother to care whether Maxim, a supernumerary, had seen enough for 30 seconds, and the user of each periscope here had his own observation task, so he had to squeeze out of Maxim to "recapture" his periscope.

"At a close miss, our T-1 avoided the enemy's attack with a quick reversing!"

In a few moments, the five white Tiger tanks retreated to their new positions - although the armor test was also part of the battlefield test, there was no need for them to stay completely where they were, not to mention that team tactical maneuvering was a major specialty of German tank commanders. Immediately afterward, the radio heard the command to "open fire" again, and five Tigers fired their 88-mm armor-piercing catapults at the Soviet Russian tanks in front of them in less than two seconds.

"Estimated hit...... Estimating the ...... Estimated hit ...... Estimating the ...... Estimation of biased"

The subsequent report can be said to be expected, in this case it is obviously unrealistic to ask each Tiger to hit its own target, as for the commanders to add the word "estimate" to the report, first, because it is difficult to accurately estimate the results of the battle in the night battle, and secondly, there are not only 5 tanks on this position that are firing at the enemy, and their own tanks and anti-tank guns may become the real killers who destroy the opponent. (Full Text)