"Our honor is loyalty! Waffen-SS comrades, forward! ”

Gustav. Schwarzenegger picked up the intercom and shouted the SS slogan. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Less than 2,000 meters in front of him, the tank cluster of the Soviet Red Army also began to rumble forward. They all belonged to the 16th Tank Brigade of the 46th Mechanized Corps of the Red Army. Although the Soviet Red Army lacked self-propelled guns and armored vehicles, the establishment of tanks was quite adequate.

A tank brigade has 2 tank regiments and more than 200 tanks at full strength, and now that the world revolutionary war has just begun, most of the tank brigades are of course fully equipped.

However, the quality of Soviet tanks is mostly not very good, and it has traveled more than 100 kilometers from Brest to Vovomin, almost 200 kilometers, and along the way it has been constantly bombed by aircraft and attacked by Polish reactionaries and SS cavalry, and all the 46th tank brigades can now operate only more than 180 tanks, including more than 120 T-34s, more than 40 KVs, and 16 T-26 Spitfire tanks and 18 KV-2, but T-26 and KV-2 are ready to be used to fight fortified positions. Therefore, it did not appear on the front line.

In addition, the 46th Tank Brigade had seventy or eighty tanks under repair, which were thrown on both sides of the road from Brest to be repaired.

By the way, the Soviet Red Army was significantly inferior to the current German army in the ability to repair and maintain equipment. After all, Germany is an old industrialized country, and now it has integrated many European industrial countries, and has even more machinery manufacturing capacity than the United States. Naturally, 21 Panzer Divisions and 16 Panzergrenadier Divisions could be supplied with enough and good enough mechanics. On the other hand, the Soviet Union, although the size of the armored forces was almost twice as large as that of Germany, the scale and technical level of its mechanical manufacturing industry were far inferior to that of Germany, let alone the entire European Community.

Therefore, it was simply impossible for the Soviet Union to allocate repair and maintenance personnel to their tank corps and tank brigades according to German standards. In addition, the quality of the equipment is already a bit problematic, and the T-34 and KV-1, the two main tanks of the Soviet army, have not been tested in actual combat, and it is normal to have a high failure rate on the battlefield.

However, the more than 120 T-34 and KV-1 tanks were still a large part of the black pressure, and the infantry behind them numbered more than 10,000 people, all shouting "Ula!" Ulla! The slogan pressed forward like a tidal wave.

"Stop moving! Prepare for battle! ”

When the distance between the two sides was about 1000 meters, Gustav. Schwarzenegger ordered his company to halt its advance. At this distance, the 48 times caliber 75mm tank gun of the Type 4H tank was more than enough to penetrate the frontal armor of the T-34.

According to the information now available, the thickness of the frontal armor of the T-34 was 45-60 mm and it was beveled at an angle of 32 degrees.

The KWK40/L48 75mm tank gun of the Type 4H tank could penetrate an 85mm homogeneous steel plate at a 30-degree bevel angle using ordinary PZGR39 armor-piercing shells at a distance of 1,000 meters. It was a bit difficult to deal with the KV-1, but it was enough to fight the T-34.

And thanks to Carl. Zeiss Fu, the sights of German tank guns are also more than a grade better than Soviet tank guns. Therefore, at a distance of 1,000 meters, a well-trained German tank gunner was enough to hit a Soviet tank.

"Og! The artillery is ready to shoot! When Captain Schwarzenegger had given the order, he half retracted his body and gave orders to the Norwegian gunner Auge as he closed the hatch.

"Ready, sir!" Norwegian Nazi Auger replied loudly.

Captain Schwarzenegger looked through the periscope of the tank to find a suitable target, and before he could find the target for the "fire", he heard "Boom! There was a muffled thud, and then I felt a slight shake of my tank. Captain Schwarzenegger knew that a tank had fired, but it was not his car that fired.

"Hit! Haha, a T-34 has been blown up! ”

The voice of Sergeant Kliman came from Schwarzenegger's headphones, a tall and handsome Nordic Germanic who had just joined the "Viking" division last year and was a commander trained by Schwarzenegger himself.

Seeing that his students had already made contributions, Captain Schwarzenegger also hurriedly selected a T-34 tank more than 900 meters away.

"Ogy, 11 o'clock! See that T-34? ”

"See!" The Norwegian Nazi Auger hurriedly turned the muzzle of the gun, aimed at the T-34 that was moving fast, and then pressed the trigger of the coaxial machine gun. A string of tracer bullets was quickly fired, sending a spark into the outer shell of the T-34. Seeing the coaxial machine gun hit, Augur did not hesitate to pull the electrically activated trigger.

"Boom!" Schwarzenegger felt a loud vibration of his tank, gripped the handle to steady his body, and then looked through the commander's periscope. The T-34 tank was found unscathed.

"Damn, it didn't hit! Aim and hit again! ”

The "Click......Click" coaxial machine gun fired again.

"Boom!" The Norwegian Nazi Auger fired another shot, this time the T-34 was hit, the shell tore through the 45mm armor mounted at a 32-degree angle on its front, and the tank suddenly rose black smoke, rushed forward a few steps under the action of inertia and then did not move.

Captain Schwarzenegger soon found another target, "10 o'clock direction, Auger, see, 1 KV-1 tank!" Deal with it with high-speed armor-piercing shells! ”

The frontal armor of the KV-1 was much thicker than that of the T-34, reaching 110mm, and like the T-34, it was arranged at a large angle and at an angle. It is impossible to shoot with a 75mm caliber armor-piercing projectile, and can only be fired at a close distance with a high-speed armor-piercing projectile with tungsten alloy as the core. Tungsten was extremely scarce for Germany in the original time and space, and the proportion of high-speed armor-piercing shells using tungsten alloy cores in the ammunition of tank guns and anti-tank guns was very low.

However, now Spain, the main tungsten mining area in Europe, has joined the German camp, and Portugal, although it is still a neutral country, has signed a tungsten ore cooperation agreement, and all tungsten ore in Portugal is sold to Germany! As a result, the Germans can now use tungsten-core high-speed armor-piercing shells openly.

More than 80 No. 4 tanks and 30 No. 3 assault guns opened fire, and 75mm armor-piercing shells swooped down on the masked Soviet tanks like a meteor shower. Soon the battlefield was littered with the wreckage of a burning Soviet tank, but the Germans' tanks and assault guns were intact.

"Comrade Commander, why don't our tanks return fire? Why are only the tanks of the Germans firing? ”

The political commissar of the 16th Mechanized Corps of the Soviet Army, Fedulov, and the army commander, Major General Sokalov, saw that the tanks on their side were shot and caught fire one after another, but they were only beaten and did not fight back.

"Our tanks have to get close to defeat the Germans!" The corps commander, Major General Sokalov, was still calm, and he explained, "The main guns of the T-34 and KV-1 can only penetrate 60mm of vertical homogeneous steel plate at a distance of 1,000 meters, and I am afraid that they will not be able to deal with the latest German tank No. 4." So it was instructed that you should not fire until 500 meters! ”

Although the caliber and diameter of the Soviet T-34 and KV-1's 42 times caliber 76.2mm guns are not low, the muzzle velocity of the shells is only 688 m/s due to the pursuit of versatility of the shells and the relatively backward industrial technology. This is much lower than the German 75mm tank gun/anti-tank gun, which used armor-piercing shells, and the Soviets did not yet have high-speed armor-piercing shells. So they could only charge under German fire in order to close the distance and open fire.

After paying the price of the destruction of thirty or forty vehicles, a part of the T-34 tanks and KV-1 tanks of the 16th Soviet Mechanized Corps finally rushed to a distance of less than 500 meters from the German tanks.

"Rush up!" Military Political Commissar Fedulov habitually shouted, "Comrades, for the sake of the victory of the cause of GCISM, fight hard!" ”

But it was not "Ula!" who answered him! Ulla! Instead, a shout of "Air Raid!" Hide! ”

Then Fegulov was dragged into a crater by an unknown person, and then the strange cry of the Stuka bomber as it dived reached his ears.

"Boom, boom!"

A series of explosions rang out, and Fegulov, undaunted by the danger, straightened up inside the crater and looked forward. It was found that the Soviet tanks fighting on the battlefield were not being bombed, they were engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the German tanks on the opposite side, and several German tanks No. 4 had already been hit!

Sokalov suddenly screamed: "Hell, the Germans are bombing our artillery positions!" ”

"Artillery positions?" Fedulov turned his head to look behind him, and saw that seven or eight thick columns of smoke had risen about 1.5 kilometers away. There was exactly the position of an artillery regiment under the 16th Mechanized Corps!

It turned out that when the tanks of the two sides were fighting, the Soviet artillery was also firing at the German rocket artillery positions - of course, none of the rocket artillery was there, and the German rocket artillery had already been transferred. So the counterattack of the Soviet artillery did not hit any targets, but instead attracted indiscriminate bombardment by German aircraft.

"What about our planes? What about air cover? The people in the Air Force are derelict in their duties, this is a crime! Sokalov couldn't help but curse.

Today's battle was not easy to fight, first the Germans surrendered with rocket artillery, then they encountered the German armored forces with strong firepower, and now a regimental artillery position was bombed again. If you continue to fight like this, you will be afraid that you will lose the battle!

Thinking of his experience of being demoted and almost becoming a reactionary in Finland because of his defeat, Sokalov couldn't help but shudder. (To be continued.) )