Chapter 72: The Decisive Battle in the Border Area (10)
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Serb, in today's Q&A, said that the British seized the body of the E100, and said that the surname can be quite poor.
This situation is not unexpected, because compared to the rat tank, the E100 is more compact, although the rat is heavier than the E100, but there is a problem, that is, the rat tank in history, can be regarded as having experienced actual combat, but it turns out that the surname of the rat tank, relative to the entire battle situation, can be said to have no great impact.
As Germany's overall armored force upgrade plan in World War II, Plan E has greatly improved and updated many models according to the prototype or even the tank developed and produced in the early stage as a model.
The E10 system is more responsible for the reconnaissance role of the later type of the No. 2 tank, so the existence of the E10 itself is more inclined to the reconnaissance vehicle system rather than a pure combat tank.
The E25 is used as an upgraded version of the No. 4 tank to replace the column, the E25 tank destroyer, in fact, can also be regarded as the No. 4 tank destroyer at all levels of the enhanced version, there are rumors that the E25 tank destroyer, in fact, is also equipped with a dedicated 88mm anti-tank gun, but this situation, more of a rumor.
The E50 replaces the Black Panther and Black Panther II, and in the plan, it is a system that is an enhanced and updated version of the main medium tank rather than a full reading power, because of its design ideas, there are many references to the Black Panther II.
The E75 appeared as an upgrade template for the King Tiger tank.
The last is the E100, however, the E100 is unlikely to be an upgraded version of the Mouse tank, as the two are considered to be at odds with each other in many ways. At the same time, because of the super heavy tanks of more than 100 tons, the actual combat data is very rare, so the Germans in the super heavy tanks of more than 100 tons, in fact, are barely passable, and at the same time, there are only rat tanks with actual combat experience. It can be said that super-heavy tanks of more than 100 tons, including the KV-5 and KV-6, have proved that this thing no longer meets the needs of the operation.
So, no matter what the body of the E100 is, but it can make a very bad evaluation for the rather lazy British, then, the suspension system of the E100, according to the current point of view, has a lot of problems.
The most important basis of a tank is not fire protection, but the engine, as well as the suspension system.
After all, no matter how good the armored firepower is, if you can't move, then everything is in vain.
The E series also has a lot of less popular numbers, such as E90 and the like.
If the E75 is considered a Tiger III, then the E90 should be a replacement for the Lion in terms of weight.
And the Lion tank, he himself was the thing that planned to replace the Tiger tank (Hitler had such intentions). However, although the Lion tank has a serial number and a tank No. 7, it is still a mystery whether there is a prototype or not.
Therefore, the existence of the E90, in the eyes of many people, has become a lightly armored version of the E100.
The E-series, as well as the VK-numbered tanks, have one thing in common, that is, the number refers to the weight of the chassis.
Like the prefabricated VK-4501(H) of the Tiger, its chassis was expected to weigh 45 tons, but it was actually heavier.
The E75 is an estimated chassis weight of 75 tons, while the E50 is expected to weigh 50 tons. Therefore, the most appropriate indicator of the E90 should be the lion rather than the lightweight E100.
However, in any case, although the E series is advanced, the limited surname of the era makes these tanks a little weaker in the game than the surnames of many models in the game.
For example, if it is really confrontational, the E50 is at a disadvantage compared to the WZ-120.
As a side note, what the subsequent numbers of the Germans represented.
H stands for Henschel, P stands for Porsche, D or DB stands for Daimler Benz, and M stands for MAN.
Man also designed prototypes such as the No. 4 tank, but for many reasons, the company was responsible for the production of trucks and other work until the end of the war, and the tank order was not favored by the military.
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The armored forces of the Papal States were a grievance, because their vehicle gunners found that the armor-piercing shells they fired were not effective in penetrating each other head-on.
The use of high-explosive shells is limited by the size of the caliber, and it has no obvious effect.
For example, can you expect an inferior high-explosive shell with a caliber between 70mm~100mm to blow off the front of the turret above 200mm?
It is not that they did not think of forcibly rushing over and surrounding and dividing each other.
However, the firepower output behind the opponent, mainly tank destroyers and assault guns, after paying a certain number of friendly casualties, they realized that they had to force their way over, and they had to face a more accurate attack from an enemy hiding in the second line because of the shortened distance.
If the dispersion (accuracy) of a tank gun or anti-tank gun is 0.4, then the error is 0.4 meters at 100 meters, and the error at 1000 meters is 4 meters, and depending on the distance factor, it is actually much more difficult to hit the enemy at an area of 1000 meters than at a distance of 500 meters.
It can be said that if you are destroyed by the other party at a long distance, you can only blame yourself for your poor character. Because the other party is just trying their luck to launch a cannonball.
Since they could not rush past or retreat, the remaining tanks could only slowly continue to fire at Vatutin's troops along the side of the destroyed wingman.
Many Pope [***] armored gunners looked at the shells they fired quite helplessly, even if they hit the enemy, but the other party continued to counterattack them as if nothing happened, they could only keep roaring: "Where did you come from?!" ”
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Vatujing also thought in his heart at this time: "This kind of casualty has not retreated, the other party is a group of crazy people." A bunch of crazy people who are not afraid of death! However, since you dare to die, I dare to bury it! ”
Vatutin's eyes revealed a hint of cold killing intent.
At this time of the battle, Vatutin's troops also suffered some casualties, but more of them were the various tanks and chariots of King Kapani [***], and his troops, the casualties were relatively small.
After all, the huge gap in surname ability is not a situation that can be easily ignored in this situation.
It's like a trained elite soldier who has to deal with a street thug, and the problem is not quite the same.
Similarly, all kinds of tanks, mainly the WZ-120, have basically no problem facing the enemy head-on.
Of course, it is not without accident that there is a certain number of assault guns in the ranks of the enemy army.
In some cases, an enemy 150mm high-explosive shell hit the front of the WZ-120's turret, and the gunner and driver had to be seriously injured at least. Therefore, knowing that assault artillery poses a greater threat to his troops, Vatujing has always been the same as Zhang Shixin, and all troops will kill the opponent's assault artillery first.
The enemy with fewer and fewer assault guns, Vatutin knows very well that unless the other side really ignores the casualties and forcibly rushes over, then, if he continues to fight like this, the enemy's combat effectiveness will inevitably be wiped out.
This is not the backwardness of the weapons of the bullying enemy, but the result of the battle due to the gap in strength.
If you fall behind, you will be beaten, and it is an iron law in every world.
However, before Vatutin received the news that the artillery unit had wiped out the enemy's artillery unit, the lurking reconnaissance unit once again conveyed a message to Vatutin's ears.
"The other side has sent about 10,000 infantry troops and is coming on foot!"
Vatutin silently looked at the sky and thought in his heart: "At this time, infantry troops were also sent...... Could it be that the other party wants to use repeated offensives to drag down our physical strength? ”
Vatujing immediately shook his head, he thought that such a possibility was not very big, and even if the other party did this, but in the face of Zhang Shixin's troops, which were mainly based on automatic firepower, these enemies were more likely to be sent to death.
He knew very well that except for the snipers, Zhang Shixin's troops were basically armed with an assault rifle, and such a firepower was quite powerful.
An infantry squad with such firepower, coupled with a 12.7mm heavy machine gun, can easily crush an infantry company in a charge of the enemy in a minute or less.
It can be said that rather than Zhang Shixin paying more attention to the upgrading of armored forces, it is better to say that the weapons of the infantry standard, Zhang Shixin has reached the point where it can support the point that it does not need to be upgraded for a long time.
It's like Zhang Shixin has a better choice in terms of data, but with the AK gun clan that can exert full combat effectiveness in almost all areas, does it need to replace new weapons more urgently?
The answer, of course, is no.
There is another circumstance, which Vatujin is also very aware of, that is, the physical strength and energy consumption of summoners is very small.
For example, if a normal loader is reloaded with a base number of shells after a fierce battle, his hands will be sore.
But the summoners are still alive and well as if nothing is happening. Therefore, if the other party really uses wheel warfare, what Zhang Shixin has to do is to let the troops of the Kapani Kingdom take turns to support.
But despite this, Vatujing still conveyed his thoughts to Zhang Shixin:
"Boss! Be prepared for a night battle with the enemy. ”
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After Zhang Shixin received Vatujing's telegram, he was slightly stunned, but he still quickly turned on the system, and quickly made a choice by using the display that he was out of the battlefield. If there is a real need for night battles, then many of the weapons and equipment needed in the next need will need more quantities.
Zhang Shixin discovered the warhead of the bazooka, and after he unlocked the rank of major general, there was an additional type of warhead with a blasting charge.
This is the kind of warhead that has been regularized in Zhang Shixin's original world.
Explosive charge rockets are more powerful than hollow jet projectiles, but they are much weaker in penetration of single-layer armor.
But the hollow jet charge has a big problem, that is, it is basically powerless against composite armor. Therefore, after many tanks are now draped in composite armor modules, the hollow jet charge has gradually withdrawn from the stage.
At the same time, shells/rockets with hollow jet charges are more of a joke for unprotected infantry, because they are basically lethal, unless someone is unlucky enough to be hit directly by rockets scurrying around.
Therefore, after seeing the rocket with the explosive charge, Zhang Shixin touched his chin and bought a certain amount after thinking for a while.
I don't know if it's a problem of system pumping or balance, but the penetration depth of a hollow jet rocket is better than that of a rocket with a blasting charge.
Zhang Shixin can only summarize this phenomenon as the "SERB phenomenon".
Next, Zhang Shixin also purchased a large number of other weapons and materials, corresponding to the possible outbreak of fierce battles in the future.
Zhang Shixin found a reason, and after summoning a large number of weapons and materials, he quickly distributed them to the defense forces in various regions as quickly as possible.
However, when Zhang Shixin watched a box of rockets being assigned to a squad with anti-tank rocketeers, he suddenly remembered an interesting thing.
That is, in Zhang Shixin's original world, there is a joke about "RPG panic".
The joke refers to the fact that a terrorist appeared in front of a group of American troops, and he was holding an RPG-7 in his hand, and as a result, those American troops, seeing the situation, first said not anything else, but ......
“rpg!!!”
Thinking of this, Zhang Shixin subconsciously touched his chin: "Maybe this world will be like this?" ”
While Zhang Shixin was thinking about things that didn't quite fit in, Vatutin's troops were now covering each other and slowly retreating.
Because Vatutin found out that he made a mistake, that is, most of the tank combat vehicles did not carry a sufficient number of high-explosive shells.
The killing effect of armor-piercing bullets on infantry is not very good, although the types of ammunition that Zhang Shixin is using now are all using a certain blasting effect, but for infantry, being able to kill and injure infantry, luck is even worse than directly blasting the enemy's tank and combat vehicle from a distance.
Because the shells often drill directly into the ground, or even hit the walls through the wall.
The stronger the penetration, the stronger the penetration ability in soft terrain, and if the shell misses, even if it explodes, it is the feeling of an earthquake with the opponent, and it is difficult to kill the opponent.
"Mistaken!" Slowly backwards, Vatutin could only complain about this.
However, this responsibility is more of Zhang Shixin's problem, because Zhang Shixin did not expect that the enemy would actually send a large number of infantry on such a battlefield.
But even if Zhang Shixin predicted such a situation, he would not change his original intention, because for Zhang Shixin and the people in this battle, the enemy's armored forces were the biggest threat.
Dimitri's artillery unit is now also focused on the infantry units that are slowly advancing on the wreckage of the destroyed tanks and fighting vehicles as the enemy forces continue to rely on.
However, due to the large number of enemy tank wreckage, many shells could only further damage the wreckage and could not hurt the enemy troops behind the bunker.
There are also a lot of shells that fly directly, which is also a matter of no choice, after all, the target of the infantry is quite small, and it is also hiding behind the wreckage, and it is very difficult to hit the opponent directly.
After all, the point of landing of the shell is not something that the gunner can master.
In contrast to this situation, the enemy's armored forces are constantly advancing slowly.
After receiving this information, Dimitri pondered whether to give priority to the enemy's infantry or the enemy's armored forces.
However, soon, Dimitri issued a combat order, that is, the larger caliber artillery gave priority to attacking the enemy's infantry, and the truck artillery unit was responsible for blocking the enemy's armored forces.
Because in his thoughts, once the 128mm high-explosive bomb encounters the enemy's relatively solid tank wreckage, it is basically lethal to the enemy hiding behind the wreckage.
Artillery shells with relatively large calibers are likely to be more effective in killing and injuring enemy troops.
After all, the power of the shells is there.
The crews of the truck guns followed Dimitri's orders and targeted the enemy's armored units.
Truck guns were firing shells, and the loader was back in the back of the car, took out another box of shells, and put them on a cart and pushed them behind the guns.
The best way to fire this type of truck gun is to turn the barrel behind the hull, so that it can hit the enemy in a wider position.
Although it is said that artillery bombardment can be carried out on the march, it is not only difficult to reload quickly, but also because of the recoil factor, the recoil of the shell may cause the truck chassis to fall backwards by some distance.
Although it is said that there are also brackets on both sides of the rear of the truck gun, the recoil of the retraction. However, this thing doesn't have much effect.
Therefore, this JKP-36 128mm truck gun is actually used, similar to the shooting method of the No. 4 weapon transporter.
The recoil of the gun barrel of the No. 4 weapon carrier vehicle in the forward direction is actually very large, and the way the gun barrel is fired backwards is to use the weight of the tank chassis to rewind part of the recoil.
The truck gun also has this problem, the barrel is fired at the back of the hull, and the weight of the body is also used to rewind part of the recoil.
The main effect of the bracket is not to remove the recoil, but to fix the body.
This is also a disadvantage of the lack of body weight.
Dimitri's order was quickly validated.
The enemy's casualties and the speed of advance for a certain period of time rose to a rather large number.
The enemy's tank and combat vehicles were not able to rely on frontal armor protection and were immune to the existence of 128mm high-explosive shells, so the shells fell like a storm, and many enemy tanks and combat vehicles were injured in a very large number.
The enemy infantry, which is constantly moving forward with the battle line, has a considerable chance that while the bunker is blown up, it will also be killed and injured by the more violent explosion power, or even directly killed.
It can be said that Dimitri's order got a very good result.
It's just that at this time, Dimitri was also given to him by Vatutin's order to retreat.
Dimitri did not hesitate, but quickly retreated after letting all the artillery be quickly prepared.
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"Archbishop, the enemy forces are retreating, and the troops at the front are asking them what they should do next."
"Wait for the next order, and send more people to the front. What we need is to crush the other side in one go. After hearing the other party's retreat, the archbishop gave the battle order with great satisfaction.
"Archbishop, it seems like we should ......"
"No, when we defeat the enemy, we will have the best chance to rest."
The archbishop refused his men's request to rest the team. Now in his eyes, there is only one blow left to crush the enemy.
However, she never imagined that what he was going to face was not an ordinary defensive formation. (To be continued.) )