Compared with the defenders in other positions, Natalia and Bella, who were stationed at the front bridgehead, were much busier - because of the terrain of the village, the defenders could not deploy a large number of troops to defend against the enemy, so they could only use the natural barrier of the bridgehead as a defensive base to hold back the enemy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 However, this is only in the general case......

"Boom!"

A huge explosion occurred in the Soviet formation, many infantry were blown up, and a tank was also affected to a certain extent, although it did not receive a frontal impact, but it also briefly stopped, delaying the pace of the attack. And the initiator of this explosion was none other than the KV-2 heavy tank of the Soviet army, which was thousands of meters away.

In fact, the Germans have not officially launched an attack until now, and they originally planned to use the advantage of the number of artillery fire to make some breakthroughs at a long distance, but they were beaten by the KV-2. At such a distance, the tank guns they used did not do anything at all against the armor of the KV-1 and KV-2.

Under duress, the Germans moved up and they used the PAK40 75mm anti-tank gun, which had a very good performance in both the African and Eastern European theaters, and the German soldiers also had a very good evaluation of it. Although the 88 gun has a better reputation, it is not always necessary to wear the high penetration depth of the 88 gun, and compared with the PAK40, the 88 gun is much more difficult to transport and hide, and it is not as convenient as the former to use.

Because it was too dangerous to face the enemy head-on, the Germans first hid the PAK40 in the woods and then opened fire on two KV series heavy tanks. Since this anti-tank gun fires much faster than tank guns of the same caliber, the scene becomes quite spectacular under the continuous excitation of several guns.

However, the spectacle is spectacle, but this is only the situation on the German side. Although these shells were fired quickly and accurately, most of them hit two KV series tanks, but the breakdown effect was obvious - none of them could penetrate them.

What was shown in the telescope tubes of the German officers was exactly the shells they fired, one after the other, hitting the two KVs, and then the tanks were not moved at all, and the warheads were softly ejected, or they were directly ricocheted...... In short, no matter where it hits, it can't penetrate those two monsters.

On the other hand, although the L-11 main gun of the KV-1 tank on the Soviet side did not have much lethality at this distance, the KV-2 was different. Even if the accuracy cannot be guaranteed, the lethality is not false at all. In Natalia's words, for the Germans, it didn't matter who Bella targeted, it just mattered who was unlucky.

"Fire! Go on! The German officer standing next to PAK40 shouted, "That tank must be destroyed now, or our troops will not be able to rush forward under the fire of that monster." ”

However, some things are not simply done with one or two slogans, and the armor that cannot be penetrated, even if you say that it is broken, it is impossible to become penetrable, and this is the case with the PAK40 in the face of these two KVs. This made the soldiers on the German side anxious - they did not have much numerical superiority, and after seeing that the Soviet army had such a monster stationed at the bridgehead, their confidence was even more lost.

The first to retreat were the German panzers, who said that if the artillery could not handle the two tanks, they would definitely not lead the team to advance, because that would undoubtedly be a suicide act. And the infantry knew that after the armored side retreated, they would definitely not charge alone, and after thinking about it, the German side could only continue to find a way to get these two KV tanks at a long distance.

The perspective cuts back to Natalia and Bella's side, although none of the shells fired by the Germans can penetrate the armor of their tanks, but listening to the sound of "clanging" from outside the tank is also super annoying, not to mention that this kind of inability to penetrate is only temporary, no one can say whether any shell will hit a weak area, and then very coincidentally become a breakdown, which is difficult to say, after all, for Natalia, although this kind of thing has not happened to her, But I still heard of it, and the KV series of tanks happened to have similar design flaws.

(PS: Bomb Zone - refers to a type of area above the tank.) Generally speaking, it refers to a nest-shaped structure on the tank, when the incoming shell cannot directly penetrate the armor, it happens to hit the lower edge of the upper armor (or the upper edge of the lower armor), and the ricocheting phenomenon occurs, and the direction of the ricochet is just towards the armor on the other side, then the shell will penetrate the area that the direct shell cannot reach at a relatively vertical angle, forming an unexpected breakdown effect. This phenomenon occurred in the early models of the German 'Black Panther' medium tank, mainly because the Germans were eager to imitate the successful design of the Soviet army, but did not take into account the design of their own tank turret position. ）

Natalia looked around the battlefield again and found that in addition to the German artillery in the forest, which was still shelling, the other units had also found their bunkers, and the KV-2 had extremely limited damage to the German army. Seeing this, she picked up the microphone and said, "Bella, don't hit those bustling Germans, shoot into the woods first, otherwise they really think they are safe!" ”

"But ......," said Bella, with some difficulty, "I can't see the target!" ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" Natalia said with a smile: "Just use your high-explosive grenade and return two rounds at the approximate position where the shells were fired at the location in the woods over there, and I meant to make them retreat." ”

"That's ...... Okay......" Bella cut off contact and immediately gave orders to his gunner to begin firing back at the enemy. However, the KV-2's return fire was relatively slow, not to mention that the turret rotation was much slower than other tanks, and the KV-2 had to adjust its hull to ensure balance when firing. For such a long time, it was difficult not to detect its movements, and the German gunners still had plenty of time if they wanted to retreat.

However, they didn't believe that they could be blindly hit by this guy, and they still didn't believe in evil to continue attacking this KV-2. (To be continued.) )