"Pound ......"

Explosions at very close ranges are completely different from those at longer distances. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThe blazing waves came in an instant, stinging Captain Yazov's exposed skin. In an instant, a JS-2 heavy tank, about 50 meters to the right of the JS-2 tank in which Yazov was riding, turned into a ball of fire. This hapless tank was not only shot through the frontal armor by some unknown anti-tank gun used by the White Army, but also detonated its ammunition.

Although the destroyed JS-2 heavy tank belonged to Yazov's company, the GC fighter who was accustomed to seeing dead and wounded did not move, did not even take a second look, but immediately raised his binoculars to search the White Russian position in front of him - it was a forest that had just been plowed by artillery several times, and there were scorched black and smoking trees everywhere, and there was no possibility that an anti-tank gun without armor would have existed there.

So what Yazov wanted to search for was the armored vehicles of the White Army, and he felt that at a distance of more than 700 meters, he could easily penetrate the armored vehicles of the JS-2 tank with a thickness of 100mm on the front and a homogeneous steel plate with a certain inclination, which should be a Tiger tank or a Rhino tank destroyer, and maybe even the legendary E-50A heavy tank!

However, Yazov searched for a long time and did not see any big guys, and just when he felt strange, he suddenly saw two small guys that looked a bit like SU-57s were quickly retreating.

"It's ...... SU-57？ Yazov almost exclaimed, because he clearly saw that this small high-hitting gun without a turret was equipped with a 57mm gun, most likely the ZIS-2 type!

Yazov's eyebrows suddenly twisted into a ball, and the White Army actually modified a tank destroyer like the SU-57, which is a bit troublesome. There are too many woods on the Rzhev front, and everywhere such small tans can be hidden.

However, it is difficult for the ZIS-2 anti-tank gun to penetrate the frontal armor of the 100mm JS-2 with an inclination angle at a distance of 700 meters...... Now how to shoot one at a time, what the hell is going on? Could it be that the Germans helped the White Russians improve the ZIS-2 anti-tank gun?

This is so reactionary!

"Comrade Baron! The Empress's little hammer smashed another 'Stalin'! ”

At this moment, deep in the woods, Colonel Kaminsky was supervising the battle with a few staff officers and guards - the first line of defense of the 8th Panzergrenadier Division of the White Army had been broken by the Soviets on the morning of April 5, but Major General Voskoponico and Colonel Kaminsky did not flee with their troops. Instead, they retreated to the forest area north of Rzhev as planned, relying on the woods and the strongholds built in advance to delay the Soviet offensive.

The "Olga" tank destroyer showed the style of the queen of black artillery in the battle on April 5 and 6.

The small size of the "Olga" tank destroyer is very easy to get in and out of the woods, and it is also easy to hide. The howitzers and rocket artillery of the Soviet army could not hurt the "Olga" Tan Annihilation with 12-57mm armor (57mm inclined welded armor on the front of the hull).

Even Soviet tanks could hardly hit the "Olga" tank with a height of only 2.16 meters at a long distance.

However, a British-made 6-pounder tank gun owned by this tank destroyer can penetrate the frontal armor of the JS-2 at a distance of 1,000 meters (the shell-piercing shell is not very accurate at this distance, but it is still very accurate at 750 meters) when using shell-piercing shells!

As a result, the "Stalin" heavy tank, which Stalin and the Soviet High Command had high hopes for, had not yet met the legendary and extremely powerful E-50A (because the E-50 was a European Community cooperation project, so the secrecy was not very good, and the Soviets had known that there was such a thing for a long time), and they were beaten all over the ground by the "Black Cannon Queen Olga".

Probably also because of the outstanding performance of the "Olga" Tanan, several divisions of the White Army Panzergrenadier on the Rzhev front were repulsed for dozens of kilometers, but did not collapse. Instead, they fought and retreated, and also inflicted a lot of losses on the attacking Soviet troops.

Kaminsky saw a Stalin tank that had been smashed into a fireball more than 1,000 meters in front of him, and thought: I don't know when the British invented this kind of shell-piercing shell? If they had given the shell-piercing shells to Stalin before 1943...... The Soviet Union wouldn't have ended up like it is today, right? This Stalin's luck was really bad.

Thinking of this, he put down his binoculars and said to a White Army staff officer who had just called him "Comrade Baron": "Now shift your position, the Red Army will soon be shelled...... Also, don't call me Comrade Baron, it sounds strange, just call me Sir. ”

"Okay, Comrade Sir!"

……

"Comrade Major......"

A Russian word "comrade", let Otto. Braun felt a lot of emotion in his heart. The person who was talking to him was the commander of a tank destroyer company of the White Bandit Army, a young Russian man in his 20s. Listening to the tone of his voice, he must have been a Soviet not long ago, perhaps a GC fighter, but now he has betrayed the party and the people!

"This is the 'Olga' tank destroyer produced by the Kirov plant, which was modified from a T-50 tank and used a British-aided 57mm tank gun."

The white bandit company commander didn't expect that the person who spoke to him in blunt Russian was a loyal GC fighter, so he told Braun the details of the "Olga" tank destroyer he was using.

"Have you ever used it to destroy a Stalin tank?" Braun asked again.

He didn't ask out of curiosity, it was a mission - the Soviet Red Army encountered a number of "Olga" tans on the Rzhev front on April 5 and 6, and hundreds of JS-2s and T-34/85s were destroyed (because the Soviets were advancing, a considerable proportion of the damaged tanks could be repaired, so the losses were not so large), which surprised the Soviet high command.

Therefore, the Soviet high command issued an order to the German Red Brigade detachment that had infiltrated behind enemy lines to find out the situation of the army's new tank destroyers.

"Our company has destroyed 4 JS-2 and 3 T-34/85s," replied the White Bandit Captain proudly, "Comrade Colonel, don't look at its cannon caliber, but it uses an armor-piercing shell given by the British, which is very powerful!" ”

A very powerful armor-piercing projectile!

Otto. Braun was eager to get his hands on a few samples, but after looking at the tank destroyer company of 13 "Olga" tanks in front of him, he immediately dismissed the idea.

His troops had only one Sdkfz.234/2 Cougar armored vehicle, which could not defeat 13 "Olga" Tananan, and even a surprise attack would not be possible.

And acting rashly is likely to expose the "Red Star Operation" in advance, which is really worth the loss.

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"Hurry, hurry, rush forward!"

Shura was kicked twice in the back of the head, and it was Valentin, his commander and commander of a tank company. Ivanovich. Captain Valennikov was kicking him - it was passing on orders to him to advance!

Because the problem of in-car communication has not been effectively solved, Soviet tank commanders often use their feet to convey orders to the driver.

One kick is a stop, and two kicks are a move.

Shura knew that it was time to charge, and the whole person trembled a little with excitement, and stepped on the accelerator heavily. The 13.9-ton BT-7 tank immediately roared forward at a speed of nearly 50 kilometers per hour.

In front was a collective farm garrisoned by an infantry regiment of the White Army, stuck on the choke point from Rzhev to Nelidovo. However, this infantry regiment did not have many anti-tank weapons, and there were no "Orga" tank destroyers, so it was impossible to hold back the powerful 7th Guards Tank Army!

Now the 7th Guards Tank Army and the 8th Guards Tank Army of the Red Army have begun to carry out the "Great Detour" operation. Both tank armies were advancing northwest of Rzhev (while the 1st and 2nd Guards Tank Armies were still making a feint at Kuvshinovo northeast of Rzhev, and the troops that were beaten all over the ground by the "Queen of Black Artillery" of the White Army were actually feints), the first target was Nelidovo, and after the capture of Nelidovo, the 8th Guards Tank Army would advance westward to the west of the West Dvina and Toropets, while the 7th Guards Tank Army would go north to Andreapol.

Any detour of the two Guards Tank Armies would seriously threaten the flank of the German Army Group North, and even the Veliko Luki, which was now an important logistical transit point for Army Group Center, and could not afford to be missed. Because last time Velikiye Luki was almost captured by the Kalinin Front under the command of Zhukov, the German Central Front learned its lesson and deployed the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division, which was subordinate to the command of Army Group Center, there.

And this ace division of the German Waffen-SS, which has now handed over the defense zone to the 3rd Panzer Division, itself is advancing along the forest road opened by the Soviets during the last raid to Toropec, 71 kilometers away.

By order of Marshal Manstein, they had to seize control of Toropets and the Western Dvina before the Soviet troops in order to ensure the absolute security of the Veliky Luki and Pskov-Smolensk railway lines!

And in the long marching convoy of the 5th SS Panzergrenadier Division, there is also a weapon similar to the SU-57 and the "Olga" tank destroyer, the Type 38 tank destroyer, that is, the famous "Stalker" tank destroyer! However, this tank destroyer was not used to replace the "Rhino" tank destroyer, but was assigned to various panzergrenadier regiments in a company unit (14 units per company), replacing the original anti-tank gun battery.