Chapter 46: The Hunt
The sun hung high in the sky and scorched the earth with its fiery light. Because of the scattered clouds in the sky and the sparse vegetation on the ground, most of the heat is transferred directly to the surface, and the lower air becomes very hot, and the view will be a little crooked, but this does not prevent us from spotting the French tanks.
A D1 tank in front of me was defeated by us, and went directly into the alley in front of me, I didn't use a microphone, and shouted directly at Alicia next to me: "He got into the alley, you go after him, I'll go around." ”
We made a turn, and in front of us was the front half of the D1 tank, although due to the design of the French tank's forward turret, they were able to return fire even in this state. But the narrow alley wasn't enough for them to turn, and if they had to turn the turret, they would have been destroyed before they could even target us.
"I'm sorry, but you can't leave now." Yorkson's words seemed to tell the end of the fate of the D1 tank and its crew.
They were about to turn the car sideways to increase the chance of ricocheting, but it was too late to do that. With the sound of cannons, the D1 light tank was pierced both on the side and back, while the two executioners silently exited the alley and began to look for their next target
Why this situation has occurred has to start from more than half an hour ago. After destroying the two tanks, we burst into the city and began to encircle the remaining vehicles, but the friendly forces had done so well that they had completely exceeded my expectations - the enemy was completely scattered.
After receiving this information, I canceled the plan of collective hunting, because not only was the target too large and vulnerable to counter-sneak attacks, but the operation efficiency was also relatively low. After completing the simple grouping, we also divided into three groups to start our hunt.
The initial sneak attack went very smoothly, and the enemy was caught off guard several times, but it was not very satisfying to stand up. Since the enemy had most of the hard tanks on the front line, the enemies we caught were almost always Soma series tanks, which was a far cry from what I would expect from a D-series tank or even a B-series tank. And as we went deeper, the enemy also realized the gravity of this operation, and began to try his best to converge, and it seemed that he was preparing to break through.
Due to the lack of efficient anti-tank weapons in the city, the French relied on their own tanks with excellent armor to run amok at will. If we destroy some Soma series tanks this time, although we will inflict heavy losses on the enemy in terms of numbers, but this will only hurt them in the skin, and they have the capital to fight again, and there will be no such a good opportunity at that time.
"Trode" Alysia doesn't seem to be used to calling me with a new scale, but she seems to have come to her senses: "Trode, there's a D2 medium tank on my right, I'm being seen behind the house, you go ahead of me and fight it." ”
The 47mm SA37 gun of the D2 tank is more threatening than the 37mm SA18 gun of the D1 tank, and although it is somewhat difficult to penetrate our F2 at long distance, which has been enhanced compared to previous versions, it is impossible to penetrate it at a distance like street fighting. Moreover, the armor of the D2 medium tank is much stronger than that of the D1 light tank, and it is also a question whether the KwK40L/43 equipped with our KwK40L/43 can penetrate in one shot, so even if we are in a hurry now, we still try our best not to do it.
I'm walking down the alleyway, and the ground in front of me is darkening. This is not surprising, it is normal for large shadows to appear on the ground in the middle of the roadway under the shade of buildings and buildings, but only in Europe, of course. Now that we are in North Africa, most of the houses are flat-roofed and have very low floors, and at this kind of time when it is already close to noon, these houses simply do not provide much shade.
In this way, the formation of the shadow in front of it is only possible all the time, that is, the thing stops there. In the current situation, there is no need to think about it, it must be the tank of the French. Although I didn't want to encounter the enemy alone at this distance, it seemed that they hadn't spotted us yet, so I immediately told Yorkson to drive the chariot to the left so that Natel could turn the turret to the right. Because of the length of the main guns, we had to suffer more than the French in such street battles.
"Yorkson, just the previous paragraph, go full speed, or we'll be passive when they don't react to what's going on." I instructed my crew one by one: "Nattel, you have to hold your shot, wait and don't deliberately aim, first adjust the barrel to the height of the armor on the bow of the French cars, and then wait for the main gun to move to their hull with the car, and then you can fire." ”
"You're all set, let's go!" Yorkson pushed the lever down, and our tank sped up speed, and I looked out through the captain's observation hole to see the enemy, and just as we reached the T-junction, a D1 tank came into view. Nattel's hand had already been put in place, and with a direct pull, a cannonball flew out.
At this distance, the shells had not yet fully accelerated and did not penetrate to the highest level, but this was more than enough for the upper armor of the D1 tank. Just as we were about to pass through that intersection, I saw a prominent hole in D1's upper armor.
"I guess it's scrapped." After breathing a sigh of relief, Natel asked me about the tank.
"It's true that it was pierced, but it's hard to say if that position is lethal. If I make an extension cord from the bullet hole alone, I can hit a driver or a radio station or the like. "Because the process was too fast, I couldn't analyze the situation accurately.
"Anyway, we can't go back and make sure, now we're going to help the crew over there." Roy pointed to the right, which was the direction of Alicia, and we could have turned at the intersection just now, but this D1 tank happened to block us, so we had to go further on a detour.
I glanced behind me from the observation hole, and immediately shouted in a very loud voice, "I'm going to go!" Oh no, Natle turn the turret quickly, that guy isn't dead yet! ”