Lieutenant Melnikov didn't intend to use the bomb before the shells were fired, and after a beautiful turn, the nose of the Il-2 re-aimed at the battlefield and fired straight at a black German tank: the 23-mm armor-piercing shells clanged the front armor of the tank, and five or six armor-piercing shells easily pierced the thin top armor of tank No. 4, and the shattered armor-piercing fragments and deformed high-temperature projectiles killed the three SS armored men in the fighting room at once. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

As soon as the nose was pulled, the Il-2 climbed quickly, "It didn't hit the power compartment, it's still running!" ”

Sergeant Georgie in the back seat saw it clearly, but as soon as he finished speaking, Melnikov heard his communicator bomber in the back seat shouting again: "It's reimbursed, our anti-tank artillery!" Who's it?! ”

The German tank in the back exploded violently, a 76.2 mm armor-piercing shell accurately hit the tank turret, and there was a violent ammunition explosion in the tank fighting compartment with no living people, and the turret was thrown up!

The Il-2 sometimes fails to completely reimburse the target with a single hit, but today there is no need for the pilots to "make up the shots" -- the artillerymen of Yakov in the distant positions have fired one cannon at a time, and one by one they "help" the comrades of the Air Force to "make the final call."

Some of the tanks that have temporarily lost their combat effectiveness have problems with their drivers, and some have casualties in the fighting compartment - as long as they do not catch fire and explode, the artillery comrades are not polite at all! The fascists must not be allowed to drive these tanks back for recycling!

The German attacking forces were already busy with air defense, and the 12 Il-2s were wrapped around the Germans like a grim reaper, and the tanks had lost the momentum of the attack for a while - all the commanders were staring at the ghosts on their heads, and they were worried that the next target of those winged guys would be themselves!

The Il-2 is armed with two 23-mm "Voya" (ВЯ) cannons developed by the designers of the Central Design Bureau, Volokov and Yarcev, and uses new 23-mm shells, including anti-personnel incendiary, tracer anti-personnel incendiary and armor-piercing incendiary bombs. All projectiles weigh the same amount, about 200 grams, which is twice as large as the projectile of the 20-mm "ШВКА" cannon, which contains 10 grams of explosives.

In general, the Il-2 used only armor-piercing incendiary shells, and the anti-personnel shells of the ВЯ gun exploded twice as effectively as the 20-mm Schwark (ШВКА) cannon! Each gun weighed 66 kilograms, with a rate of fire of 550-650 rounds per minute, and a single burst of two guns could make a tank full of holes - an armor-piercing projectile could penetrate 25 mm of armor at a distance of 400 meters, while pilots preferred to attack at a much closer distance, which German tanks could not resist at all.

Each ВЯ cannon has 150 rounds of ammunition, and an Il-2 carries 300 rounds of ammunition at a sortie, and pilots like Melnikov generally only use a burst of fire that lasts from 0.5 to a second, and as long as two or three tanks hit one or two or three rounds of shells, they have to lie down.

The lethality of the Il-2 against the opponent's armored forces can be seen in this - a good pilot can repeatedly launch more than ten attacks on a tank with a cannon alone, not to mention the rockets and bombs! As soon as the tank unit is discovered by the Il-2 fleet without the cover of aviation or sufficient air defense units, "corpses are everywhere" is the most normal outcome!

The group lit one big torch after another on the ground, and the SS could not bear it, and it would only be slowly consumed if they remained in this open area! The tank men hung up the reverse gear and retreated at high speed, and the infantry had to retreat when they saw this situation -- the infantry comrades on the reconnaissance battalion position had not opened fire except for the heavy machine guns, and they were beaten back after a fierce attack!

Melnikov didn't want to let go of the prey below, and the 12 Il-2s were "ghosted", haunting the Germans until the German anti-aircraft artillery appeared - those 20-mm anti-aircraft guns were still far away!

Bombs were dropped on the heads of the German infantry, and the attack aircraft group had already completed the air attack mission very well, returning from ultra-low altitudes.

"Captain, the fighter unit has dispersed the German Stuka, and they say that they have also discovered the German artillery position, which is 10 kilometers away."

Melnikov was just about to fly over his ground position, and through the cabin, he could clearly see the soldiers cheering and shouting at his group of planes inside the door! "Let the fighters come here, the second and third teams will return, and the first team will follow me, see the specific location of the German artillery from above, and find a way to contact those artillery on the ground!"

"Yes, Captain, I should be able to get in touch with the common frequency of the tank troops."

The fighters hadn't learned how to point to their targets, but Melnikov had learned - "The cannons down there should be 10 kilometers, right?" "Now the biggest threat to their own positions comes from the German artillery, their own machine guns are of little use against artillery positions, and besides, they should still have anti-aircraft fire cover, it is not worth the risk, but a cameo shelling of the school firing aircraft can still be competent.

There is still a lot of fuel, and it is not a problem to go around for a while.

The Red officers and soldiers on the ground saw that the four Il-2s did not leave, but circled to rise in altitude, and Yakov on the ground just thought about whether he could let these planes serve as his eyes in the air.

"Company commander, the call of the Air Force comrades, they have already discovered the German artillery positions, will indicate the target for us!"

"Good! Let Alexander and Grodno's artillery get in touch and unify the shelling correction! Turning to the nearby self-propelled guns, he shouted: "We are going to shell the German artillery positions and bring up all the high-explosive shells!" ”

It's time to let the German counterparts taste the shells!

After 5 minutes, Yakov got the position of the German artillery position, "Pavel, one test shot!" ”

All T34 and SU-12 have a unified firing angle at a distance of 10,000 and 500 meters, and the tanks do not care about the life of the barrel, and for the time being, they are used as ordinary cannons.

"Put!" With a loud bang, shells whistled and flew towards the German positions.

After a while, a call from the air was heard: "The bearing is the same, the distance is increased by 150." Comrades, hit hard! ”

Now Yakov's artillery position has taken out all its strength, and the gunners don't need to do anything else after adjusting the angle of fire, they just need to reach the maximum firing speed!

The boys went crazy and unbolted, reloaded, and fired again, and a comrade of an infantry platoon was borrowed to carry the shells - the shelling they had just received had caused them to lose many of their comrades, and some of them were still missing arms and legs and were carried to the medical center in the back, and the blood and the screams of their comrades were enough to stimulate the blood of the boys! In the battle just now, they didn't even fire a shot, and now they have turned their enthusiasm for their comrades into the strength of carrying shells like they are playing with their lives!

Each of its 11 self-propelled guns fired 12 shells in one minute, and even the tank crews achieved a super rate of fire of 9 rounds a minute! In the first minute, before the Germans could react, more than 180 rounds of 76.2-mm high-explosive shells fell on the heads of the German artillerymen. At first, the Germans wanted to return fire, but the overwhelming shells completely destroyed the fighting spirit of the artillerymen - who could stand and run with shrapnel whistling and reload and shoot? You may be able to fire a few shots while crouching, but those large-caliber howitzers can't be fired while crouching, and what's even more terrifying is that the nearby ammunition is violently killed after being hit by the shell!

The Germans could only lie on their stomachs in the shallow anti-shelling craters dug in the ground, just like they did and Yakov's men, hoping that not a single "long-eyed" shell would hit them directly!

There were three German artillery positions, and the other two positions were notified to the Grodno artillery that large-caliber grenades were whistling towards the German positions from the north - a few hours earlier the Grodno defenders had suffered without instructions for shelling, and this would be not only the German artillery positions, but even the places where the troops gathered were on the artillerymen's bills: it was time to get out of the wretchedness, so that the fascists could also taste the taste of Soviet artillery!

"Well played!" The artillerymen could not see the miserable appearance of their opponents, but the pilots in the air could see it clearly - the intensive artillery bombardment made the fascists cry wolf, and the German positions were covered with smoke and explosions, "Well bombed!" ”

The name of the god of war is not boasted, and under such an artillery bombardment, even the most stubborn troops will not have good fruit to eat when they are completely exposed.

"Inform the artillerymen, go 300 meters to the left, and fire another twenty or thirty rounds!" The howitzer positions were no longer worth the cost of shells, but there was nothing left for the German positions on the side.

"Yes, Captain."

Sergeant George shouted into the intercom: "Attention artillery positioners, 300 meters to the left, give the Germans another 30 shells, and we will go over and strafe for a while!" ”

"Understood, Stalin Eagle!"

George could also see that the German artillery positions were already riddled with holes, and the three hundred meters to the left were the air defense positions of the Germans, the sworn enemies of the pilots! The squadron leader instructed the direction for nothing else, and he must have to strafe for a while - there were still more machine gun bullets! (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )