Chapter 57: The Last Knights (11)

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It's finally time for annual leave, and it's really hard to work overtime for so long. tot……

I watched the storm again with my colleague last night, and the other party said that the movie was very enjoyable, but he said that the machine gun didn't need to change bullets? I told him that movies are movies, even if it is M249 (the thing in Lu Liangwei's hand), there are no bullets after seven to eight seconds of continuous strafing, and the 100-round chain box is not very durable.

Then he talked to me about how easily a grenade could blow up an assault car?

I'll just say that the thickness of the front armor of that thing is about 15mm from its quantity, and at the same time, the grenade obviously pierced the heat dissipation hole, which is equivalent to an unprotected position. It is the engine that blows up directly, and there is also a considerable possibility of overturning.

We talked a lot, and then he came up with a hilarious idea......

"When will China have films of this quality?"

I held back a smile for a long time before I said a sentence to him: "Wait for the time when the brain-dead anti-drama disappears." ”

It's not that I look down on domestic TV series and domestic movies about the plot in this regard, but I can say very fairly, you first deliberately belittled the combat effectiveness of those military forces, and almost reached the point of being useless, such a situation can really show a certain film art?

For many people who know something about that period of history, it is clear that these films themselves have a certain degree of insult to the deceased at that time.

After all, if it is really like those anti-Japanese dramas, and he is really stupider than a pig, where did the casualties of nearly 30 million soldiers and civilians come from?

Having said all this, the main reason is that after the end of this part of the chapter, the plot before the "Pearl Harbor Incident" will be written in a large way.

Of course, according to recent ideas, the first battle will not be on the territory of China.

And as a reminder, the battle took place in 1936 in southwestern Europe.

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"I've always had a question in my mind as to why the reinforced armoured units fought like this during the battle known as the 'Death of the Knights'. Even if they turn around and defeat the remnants of Anfield first, instead of fighting Duke Zhang Shixin, then, perhaps, there will be a very big change in the history we are experiencing now. ”

These words, in later generations of a scholar of historical and military studies, the director of the Holy See Library of the Holy See, Lapel? Derelicas said it at a forum.

And when the reporters at the forum heard this, they were very excited. Because they seem to be able to hear some pretty shocking inside information.

So, a reporter asked Lapel: "Doctor, I don't know the situation at that time, do you know the answer?" After all, this war, in the war that Duke Zhang Shixin has experienced, also has a certain weight. ”

Lapel shook his head: "This, I can only say one thing, except that the commander-in-chief of the armored forces at that time can know why he did this, and those who experienced that battle at that time can only be quite puzzled about this situation." Especially the Grand Knight of Anfield, he himself knew very well, if it hadn't happened, he himself would have known that he would be in danger. ”

"Then Duke Zhang Shixin should have been with ...... at that time Miss Binnyne had an agreement, so why would he break the agreement between the two and adopt the tactic of abandoning the rescue operation and retreating while fighting? And now, many people may have a little bit of a complaint about Duke Zhang Shixin's doing this. Another reporter made a question that Lapel was rather difficult to answer.

But the latter, after a moment of silence, took a different approach......

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And at this time, in the retired high-level nursing home of the Elven Dragon Security Company, an old man looked at the TV in the room, broadcasting this debate, and he shook his head coldly.

But he still read the report without saying a word.

After this show was converted into another news, a beautiful girl came in the old man's door, and the girl said to the old man: "Grandpa, the boss is here......

"Leah, you should call the other party president, there is only one boss." The old man interrupted his granddaughter.

The girl known as Leah pursed her lips a little dissatisfied, but didn't say anything.

Because she knew very well that for the old man, who could be said to be the first generation of management of the Elven Dragon Security Company, there was only one boss......

At this time, a young man walked into this room and said respectfully to the old man: "Grandpa Dimitri, happy life." ”

What follows is a meaningless polite conversation in the heart of the old man Dimitri.

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At dusk that day, in a cemetery three kilometers northwest of the headquarters of the Elven Dragon Security Company, Dimitri walked up to a tombstone and muttered.

The tombstone reads:

Nikolai? Fedorovich? Vatujing (Note 1), 1901.12.16~1972.11.18.

Dimitri, of course, did not know what Vatutin's birth was, but in fact it was the year he met. Zhang Shixin also avoided others from suspecting him, and chose Vatujing's original "real life", and this secret, like many people in this cemetery who have been sleeping underground, is tacitly known.

Dimitri didn't know this, and at this time, he silently recalled the battle at that time......

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Time goes back a few decades ago, and Dimitri's second-echelon troops have completed the front of the tank ambush.

Although his subordinates are more tank destroyers, the tank ambush tactic does not necessarily involve digging a tunnel to hide the tank chassis, which does not make much sense for many tank destroyers without turrets. At the same time, just such a little time is not enough to make such a move.

Therefore, Dimitri can only let his subordinate troops find a firing position on the spot with favorable terrain to conduct a rather rudimentary tank ambush battle.

Of course, this time he asked the armored vehicle unit, which was originally mainly ammunition supply vehicles, to retreat to an area about two kilometers behind him, so that Vatutin's troops could resupply.

He didn't expect things to get so bad at the time.

In fact, when he saw more than a hundred tank and combat vehicles in front of the retreating tank and combat vehicle units, constantly firing at the retreating Vatutin's formation, the pursuing enemy armored troops, and the smoke and dust raised in the sky, Dimitri had a wry smile in his heart:

"How many tanks and fighting vehicles can have this momentum?!"

But Dimitri still did what Vatutin had taught him and ordered his troops to start firing cover in about a kilometer.

One of the most irrational situations in the game is that the description of the high-explosive grenade is that the damage decreases as the distance increases.

Zhang Shixin didn't know if this situation was due to a mistake in the translation of the pit daddy.com, or if WG had reduced the damage of high-explosive bombs in another aspect.

In fact, the explosive power of a high-explosive projectile is theoretically ineffective within the effective range. At the same time, high-explosive shells have an advantage that armor-piercing shells do not have, that is, when the firing angle is 45 degrees Β± 0.5 degrees, the high-explosive shell can hit the farthest effective killing distance of this gun.

Of course, in the absence of a satellite or a vehicle coordinate correction, ask God what a shell fired at this angle can hit.

And even if it is an armor-piercing shell fired by a howitzer, the effective killing range is only within five kilometers, which is still the range of many special warheads.

After all, the armor-piercing shells fired by tank guns generally have a range of about two kilometers, which is even more obvious for quite old tank gun models.

But the shells fired by the cannon still have a considerable degree of penetration at a distance of one kilometer.

The so-called 500-meter average wear reflects the problem of attenuation of wear depth.

Shooting at a distance of about 1,000 meters, not to mention the low accuracy of hitting, and the effective average depth of penetration level is also greatly weakened in this case.

In fact, according to Zhang Shixin's understanding, at a range of more than 1,500 meters, the so-called effective average penetration data is quite watery, which may be biased, but in the absence of a fairly precise scope, a gunner has to aim at a mouse tank 1,500 meters away and achieve an effective hit, this probability is relatively low.

It's more of a waste of shells.

In the history of World War II, there was a Tiger two kilometers away that destroyed a reinforced M4, of course, such an RP is quite rebellious.

So, in reality, the firing distance of World War II tanks is generally more than a kilometer away, and the shelling begins. At a further distance, few officers would give the order to shoot, because the hit rate was pitifully low.

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With the cover fire of Dimitri's second formation, many tanks and combat vehicles, which were almost depleted of ammunition, quickly retreated, risking being hit by the enemy.

For the armor-piercing shells fired by the enemy's tank fighting vehicles, many of Vatutin's tank fighting vehicles did not suffer effective damage at all.

If it is possible to be hit by the enemy at a certain chance at close range, some weak points are undoubtedly foolish dreams. Under these circumstances, in front of Vatutin's retreating troops, craters that were blown up were constantly rising.

Dimitri said a word to Vatutin: "Lieutenant Colonel, there is ammunition supply about a kilometer behind, I will help you delay time!" ”

Vatutin had known about this situation for a long time, but he still said: "Don't be too forced! I'll signal you to back off then!! ”

Dimitri knew what Vatutin's meant, and he replied to Vatutin: "I know, please hurry up and replenish it!! ”

After saying this, Dimitri stopped the correspondence, because he had to order the troops to fill the gap in the path that had allowed Vatutin's troops to retreat.

The quality of Dimitri's armored troops is a little inferior to the quality of Vatutin's troops, but relatively speaking, Dimitri's troops have better defensive capabilities than Vatutin's armored troops.

Because Dimitri's department, however, has the existence of the E-50M, the E-50M with an increased armor lining, and the defense capability is better than that of the E main battle tank with an armored module.

Especially for the defensive aspect of armor-piercing shells.

In fact, the liner armor is not as light as in the game, and it has a rather severe suspension weight problem in terms of use.

So, on the whole, there are only a few tanks in the system that are suitable for lined armor, such as the E-50M.

The E-75 is okay, but after the mobile surname is installed with the lining armor plate, it directly becomes at the same level as the KV-5, such a thing, Zhang Shixin will not do.

If you compare the lining armor and the armor module, then each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Lined armor is more comprehensive, and the protection is theoretically better than that of armor modules. The disadvantage is that the weight is too heavy, although some only have about 10 mm of lined armor, but this thickness is often the same as not installed. At the same time, the lining armor must be set before leaving the factory, so as the name suggests, the lining armor has no effect on tanks and combat vehicles that have already left the factory.

Because you can't disassemble a tank and add it again, right? In this way, it is easy to rebuild one.

The armor module has a certain inlay limit, which greatly reduces the protective parts of a tank combat vehicle, especially the suspension system on both sides, which cannot be equipped with the armor module. But the benefits of the armored module are quite numerous, and this is, of course, premised on the comparison of the same tank combat vehicle. First, the maximum weight of the armor module is lighter than that of the inner armor plate, and second, the armor module is damaged, which can be replaced fairly easily. Thirdly, the installation site of the armor module has a better impact resistance.

Therefore, the armor module has become the best choice for Zhang Shixin to strengthen the defense capability of the armored force.

In such a situation, the E-50M, which has a better defensive effect against armor-piercing shells, relied on the 105mm tank gun, known as a laser cannon, to inflict heavy casualties on the pursuing troops of the opposing side.

However, at a distance of almost six or seven hundred meters or more, the gunners of the E-50M found that their hit rate was actually not too high. In general, these gunners still have some complaints, because it is not surprising that several shells are sometimes fired at a distance of about 700m.

Of course, if the gunners of the enemy armored units pursuing from the opposite side heard the voices of these gunners, they would want to cry without tears.

Because compared with Zhang Shixin's department, which is quite advanced in terms of various surnames, their tank and combat vehicles can only be regarded as "classic cars".

There are models of tanks that do not even have high-precision shelling sights.

In this case, the price paid by the enemy armored clusters, which were constantly advancing and assaulting, was quite heavy.

Although the extent of these casualties was not entirely caused by the armored units of the other side that sniped them, and a certain number of them were damaged and destroyed by the enemy's howitzer shelling, the commander of this unit also felt almost exactly the same sense of grievance as his colleagues who were probably silently licking their wounds now.

They also have artillery units, but watching the other side's tank positions burst out one after another, and when the smoke passes, it seems that there is no effect at all, and the commander of this unit is quite eager to cry without tears.

Moreover, when he saw the tank and combat vehicle a few hundred meters in front of him, which was wounded and destroyed by the opponent's large-caliber shells from time to time, his heart had a feeling of dripping blood.

"Why is it the same howitzer, how can the accuracy of the opponent's artillery be so much higher???"

The answer is very simple, that is, Zhang Shixin's artillery unit has the bug of Eagle Eye, do you have it?

Hitting with Hawkeye and Hit without Hawkeye are two different concepts.

It is almost equivalent to a country having a large number of military satellites, and a country can only rely on rather backward means to understand the situation of the war.

It's a pity that the artillery bombardment with Hawkeye is not a hundred shots, and even sometimes three out of ten shots is considered good.

A gunner of Project 263, who had retreated to two kilometers in front of Zhang Shixin's position, watched speechlessly as the shell landed more than 20 meters away from the target, and could only wait for the loader to finish loading before shelling again.

Zhang Shixin's mobile support artillery unit also formed an artillery position nearby, constantly firing shells at the front to give some support to friendly forces.

After all, it doesn't necessarily hit the enemy, and at best, it can only be regarded as a certain support effect.

This situation is also quite normal, after all, if the landing circle of the eagle eye is described as oval, the height difference factor also has a certain effect.

After all, for self-propelled guns, in addition to shelling at the lowest and highest angles of fire, in fact, the range of the landing point will not be a circle, but an irregular semicircle, and the shelling will actually make it possible to hit the range, which will be adjusted according to the height difference.

So, sometimes the straight ray is red, which means that there is an obstacle blocking it, but other times it can hit the enemy, and this is because of the height difference.

The game is the same, because the other part of the straight ray is the ideal landing point, and the landing point circle is the location where the cannonball is likely to fall.

As a result of this calculation, in some cases, the maximum distance of the Hawkeye shelling can cause shells to fall in any position in an area of several hundred square meters.

Note 1: In Khrushchev's memoirs, Vatutin was mentioned as dying because Stalin did not allow the treatment of wound infections with penicillin. There is a certain doubt about this, because many people have a certain understanding of what Khrushchev did about Stalin, and it cannot be ruled out that there is a certain chance of smearing Stalin in this regard.

But after more than 40 days from his injuries, he died of excessive blood loss...... Such a statement is even more untenable.

So according to Khrushchev's reminiscences:

"Vatutin could have survived by injection of penicillin, but the use of this drug had to be approved by Stalin, who did not agree, on the grounds that penicillin was not Soviet (at that time the Soviet Union could not produce it), but American. Stalin believed that the United States, in order to weaken the power of the Soviet Union, could contaminate penicillin, so it was unacceptable to treat an important military general with these drugs. ”

From the above words; If we take a look at Stalin's conduct and behavior, we can see that it is not surprising that such a thing is a fact.

Therefore, the cause of Vatutin's death will not be as simple as excessive blood loss. (To be continued.) )