Chapter 153, Crusader Tanks
"The battlefield is very terrible, people will die every moment, maybe the comrades who talked to you one second will die the next second, don't have any luck on the battlefield, you have this exciting time, why don't you wipe your weapons, so as not to get on the battlefield? Something goes wrong, but it's going to be fatal. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info" The veteran said slowly, without raising his head at all, and methodically wiping the weapon in his hand.
"No, don't scare me." For the words of the veteran, some people think that they are exaggerated.
"Believe it or not, pull it if you don't believe it." The veteran was also a little impatient, and after saying these eight words, he didn't speak again.
However, these recruits, listening to the words of the veterans, seemed to be somewhat convinced, and they were not poor and excited, and some of them also picked up their weapons and equipment and checked them.
That night, the Avenger tank was transported to Marut, and as the first Avenger to go to war, everyone paid close attention to its performance, and even followed a few engineers to prepare to record the Avenger's data.
The next morning, the Seventh Army assembled under the sound of a loud trumpet, and after another hour of speeches, the army set out and headed for Selum.
Selum was not far from Marut, a few tens of kilometers away, and before the arrival of the army, the Mustang planes had already dropped more than a dozen tons of bombs on the positions of the German troops.
The first to arrive was still the armored troops, a large number of 59-1 tanks, mixed with a small number of 59-2, as for the Avengers, with the movement of the army, not with the armored forces, because there were still a few engineers to protect, they had to watch the Avengers fight, and record data, if necessary, even with the tanks.
Selum, Allied positions.
After repeated tug-of-wars, the position was full of devastation.
A new round of German offensive began, and tank No. 3, along with the infantry support, moved together.
On the Allied position, the defenders fought back frantically against the Germans, trying to contain the German attack.
At the front of the position, there were corpses all over the place, both German and Allied.
The German tanks rose and fell, and the tracks crushed the blown up and fluffy earth, leaving a deep track imprint.
Because they are infantry support tanks, they are slow, which also brings more convenience to aiming.
"Bang!" Flames erupted from the muzzle, and a grenade erupted from the short-barreled 75 gun of the No. 3 tank, which smashed into the Allied positions, and in an instant, several corpses were blown away.
The infantry following the tank fired at the Allied positions on the opposite side, and the machine guns on the tanks made a sound like tearing cloth, and the majestic bullets were sprinkled on the opposite side.
In the face of the compact attack of the German army, the Allies were somewhat disturbed, after all, they had the armies of various countries here, and they were very unified.
Although there was some turmoil, but it was still able to fight back, the British army's 12-pounder anti-tank gun was a good anti-tank weapon, against the No. 3 tank, one cannon at a time, there was no ambiguity.
However, once the anti-tank gun fires, there is a great chance that its position will be exposed, and it is inconvenient to move, there is no protection, exposure means death, and the Germans will not let him exist anymore.
"Boom~"
A No. 3 tank was turned off its head, and the detonated ammunition blew the turret three or four meters high and smashed it to the ground, smashing the three German soldiers who were following the tank into meat sauce and two seriously wounded.
Although they followed the tank and did not have to worry about the threat of bullets, once the tank was destroyed, they were unlucky.
As soon as the 12-pounder gun opened fire, it turned its muzzle in search of the next target.
In the German ranks, a three-bolt stopped and the 75mm gun was aimed at the 12-pounder anti-tank gun, which had just been spotted by the car.
"Bang!"
The three turrets opened fire suddenly, the recoil made the tank tremble, the shell drew a small arc, and landed in the anti-tank gun position, with a bang, the gun was blown up into the sky, the slender barrel was bent suddenly, and the three gunners on the gun position were also killed in the explosion. There was also a lot of ammunition on the gun emplacement, and the power of these ammunition was not small.
In addition to the 12-pounder anti-tank guns, the British also had some small 3-inch guns, but they were not very useful.
The lack of effective anti-tank weapons allowed the Germans, under the cover of tanks, to rush to the positions of the Allies, and then there was a hand-to-hand fight, which was a comparison of which side of the team was bloody and not afraid of death.
It is clear that the Germans were brainwashed by the mustache, were very fanatical about the mustache, and were not afraid of death.
And the Allied forces, which were put together in a patchwork piece, were a little lacking in stamina, and they fought more and more and retreated, and then they were driven off their positions by the Germans.
However, at this time, the Allied Warlords drove the retreating team from behind, and at the same time, their tanks also rushed forward to assist the infantry and retake their positions.
Around this position, the two sides fought back and forth I don't know how many times and how many corpses were dropped.
The British Crusader was Type II, equipped with a 2-pounder gun, the caliber was 40mm, and it was very difficult to fight the German No. 3 tank, and it is no wonder that the Allied armored units were beaten by the Germans, and as for the Type 3 equipped with a 6-pounder gun (57mm), it only came out at the end of World War II.
The crusaders, who used armor-piercing shells, fired several shells at the No. 3 tank in front of them, but none of them penetrated, but it was itself, which was confused by the No. 3 tank, and the turret did not know where it had blown up.
However, there are still a small number of Churchill II infantry tanks, with the Crusaders rushed to the position, for the Churchill infantry tank, whether it is the third tank or the three protrudes, are somewhat powerless, the thickness of the frontal armor reached 102mm, but its main gun is still a 2-pounder gun, it is very difficult to fight, only to hit the weak point to penetrate the No. 3 tank or the three protrusion, but its own armor is quite thick, so that the German tanks are powerless, and their Tiger did not go to the battlefield.
The Churchill tank slowly advanced, the huge hull, so that the tank like a land battleship (suddenly thought of the earth dog tank, TOG), it seems that the British tank was designed and manufactured by the Admiralty, it is no wonder, after all, the tank is called a land battleship by them, the full name of the Crusader is not the "Crusader Cruiser Tank", throughout World War II, the British design concept is still the backward design ideas of the cruiser tank and infantry tank, which was not abandoned until the end of World War II, and then there was a centurion.
The British Churchill tank and the German tank No. 3 fired at each other, and neither of them could take each other for a while, but the Crusader tanks, one after another, were destroyed, but they were also ready to go around the rear, since they could not penetrate the front, then hit the side and the back.
The crusaders who rushed to the back of the three, beware of the anti-tank infantry, who were armed with bazookas or anti-tank grenades, and the threat to the thin-skinned crusaders was enormous. There are also the three protrusions of the black spear hidden in the back, and when they see which crusader slows down, they will be given a fatal blow. (To be continued.) )