Chapter Twenty-Five: Glacier and Snow Field—Encounter (Part I)

Regarding the appearance of this encounter, Zhang Shixin estimated that either he was too unlucky, or the other party deliberately arranged such a trap for him to drill into it.

Fortunately, Zhang Shixin did not leave a hand, to be correct, he was forced to leave a hand.

Many times, even if he was able to call for fire support, because he was worried that his self-propelled artillery system would be directly exposed, he let the other party chase after him to fight, which could not be regarded as a very serious problem for Zhang Shixin.

However, now is not the time to hide it.

Therefore, in the periscope of the King Tiger tank, Zhang Shixin clearly saw the bursts of fire in the direction that the other party rushed over and the subsequent rising gunsmoke, Zhang Shixin naturally knew that his self-propelled artillery and self-propelled rocket artillery should hit the other party very badly.

Although on the tactical map, there are still many red dots engaged in artillery battles with the Type 58 formation, but a considerable number of red dots remain motionless in place.

This is the case of damage to the tracks or suspension system of the opposing tank.

Compared to reality, very few tanks will directly attack the opponent's tracks, because many times, the gunner simply doesn't have that time to take your aim. Their main way of shooting is to place the crosshair in the middle of the opponent's car to maximize the hit rate.

However, the long-range support of artillery is different, as opposed to directly destroying the opponent's tank fighting vehicle, high-explosive grenades and high-explosive rockets are more likely to inflict blows on the lower part of the tank hull.

There is a direct correlation between the ballistic curvature of this artillery shell and the rocket.

So, in many cases, even if the high-explosive grenades and high-explosive rockets do not directly hit the opponent's hull, they will cause damage to tanks that are very close behind.

The low body of the Soviet tank is not only smaller in the face of direct fire, but also easy to jump eggs. In some cases, it is even more possible for the precision strike of the artillery to graze the roof of the tank and fly backwards.

Many of the tanks of the GLP Alliance have relatively low hulls, so once the shell misses the target, it is often the tank fighting vehicle that follows behind it that is unlucky.

The higher the German tank went to the later models, the higher the hull became, and many of the artillery's curved shells were able to directly hit the target.

For example, the trajectory of the M12's shell is relatively average, and in the game, as long as the target is the German rich and handsome series, then ...... Place the landing point a little further back of the car body, and you will be able to hit the target in many cases.

But in reality, the trajectory of the shell is directly related to a series of factors such as weight, discharge pressure, barrel diameter and so on.

Just like the trajectory of a 203mm shell, in reality it is much lower than that of a 150mm shell.

Weight is a factor, and it's important.

Therefore, the heavier the shell, the lower the trajectory.

However, there are exceptions, that is, howitzers of the same caliber, if the barrel is longer, the trajectory is also lower, so to a certain extent, it is difficult to effectively strike at the enemy behind the obstacle in many cases.

The game is a game, and they can set their own set of ballistic trajectories to form characteristics, but realistically, it is still necessary to be more practical.

The cannon has the straightest trajectory...... Well, it should be said that it is still very straight at a certain distance, beyond a certain distance, the trajectory will be affected by gravity and will be gradually pulled down the trajectory.

The trajectory of the howitzer depends mainly on the caliber of the shell, the length of the barrel and the amount of propellant. However, there is one thing, even the smallest caliber 75mm howitzer, its ballistics will not be effective as a mortar, these are two different things.

Mortars have a lot of high ballistics, and this and mortar shells are generally lighter than howitzers of the same caliber (mortars are generally short). The length of the barrel converted from the mortar is also very small, generally no more than 20 times the diameter. At the same time, the angle of fire is on the high side, which makes it not surprising that the mortar is able to hit the enemy behind the obstacles.

As for self-propelled rocket artillery, the conventional ballistic trajectory should be between the howitzer and the cannon, which is directly related to the propulsion fuel, in actual combat, the howitzer can't hit the enemy, the rocket artillery still has no hope, but it can relatively easily hit the target that the cannon can't hit.

Tank guns and anti-tank guns are often a variant of cannons.

Of course, there are exceptions, such as the 88mm anti-aircraft gun, which is defined as an anti-aircraft cannon, but it is an exception if it is used to fight tanks and the tank gun that is modified.

It is worth mentioning that with sufficient ammunition, the 88mm anti-aircraft gun is indeed capable of reaching a rate of fire of 4 seconds or even a little more than 3 seconds in front of a very skilled crew.

However, such a rate of fire is basically meaningless for real combat.

What's the use of shooting without aiming, no matter how fast the rate of fire is?

The situation now is that even the medium tank formations of the GLP Alliance, even hiding behind the wrecked wingman, are often hit by rocket launchers that only God knows where they fly, and then the whole crew suffers heavy casualties.

In terms of penetration, the penetration of rocket artillery is higher than that of high-explosive grenades of the same caliber, but because the kinetic energy output of the charge is different, the effect of rockets against enemies with certain armor protection is not better than that of high-explosive bombs, and there is even a little gap.

Therefore, if you are hit by a rocket, as long as the hull is not penetrated and directly hits the ammunition rack, it is very difficult for a tank to have such a thing as ammunition detonation.

High-explosive shells are different, if the high-explosive shell directly penetrates the turret, there is a high probability of detonating the ammunition......

According to this situation, the Type 58 formation saw from time to time that the ammunition rack of the opposing tank and combat vehicle exploded, and the entire hull was torn apart and damaged by the strong explosion kinetic energy. These cases, many times, are the masterpieces of self-propelled howitzers.

If the opponent's hull is torn open with a large round hole, or a crack, it looks like the damage to the hull is not very serious, and in fact it has lost its combat capability, which is often the combat effectiveness of high-explosive rockets.

According to Zhang Shixin, rocket artillery is used to slaughter infantry, and the effect is better than that used to attack tanks.

But in this situation, Zhang Shixin took advantage of the distance between the two sides, so he also used rocket artillery.

If the tank units of the two sides are glued together, then Zhang Shixin does not wonder whether these rocket launchers are hitting the enemy or their own people......

In contrast to Zhang Shixin's superior firepower to suppress and easily destroy the opponent's tank, the commander of the opposing armored unit was sitting on a PLS-H35 command-type heavy tank, constantly calling for friendly support.

But in this place, for him, he had to face a dilemma, that is, the nearest friendly troops were forty kilometers away.

He couldn't help but feel helpless to lift a stone and shoot himself in the foot.

Because, indeed, he chose this place as the place of engagement,

As for the reason?

It was also because Zhang Shixin had to bite the bullet for the same reason as he desperately wanted to see his vision too broad.

Except for a small depression that is not very small, many places can be clearly seen.

He naturally also knew that the opponent's artillery position was naturally in the depression. But if he's going to destroy the artillery that he hates, his troops will have to destroy the damn armor.

His unit did not lack armor for combat, but he lacked infantry for combat.

Even if you count the transport troops, there are about 1,000 people when you count them at full strength.

Moreover, even if these people get on the chariot, they will not play much role in this kind of terrain.

He knew that there was no hope for reinforcements in a short period of time, so he could only bite the bullet and let his subordinates, who were constantly destroyed and retreat, charge at the formation that the other party had arranged.

At the same time, he was also urging the heavy Tan troops to move faster.

He is naturally well aware that in doing so, there is a possibility that there will be some non-combat attrition. But there was no way he could not do it, and if the medium tank formation was slaughtered by the enemy, then his heavy tank formation had little hope of easily defeating the opposing armored forces. It can only be named by the opponent's heavy artillery.

It's not that the GLP Alliance does not have its own self-propelled artillery, but the self-propelled artillery developed by the GLP Alliance has not been mass-assembled for one reason or another.

For example, the PL-LSP33 self-propelled gun, which is based on the PL-LT33 light tank, can only carry a 100mm-PLS28-L35 howitzer because the chassis is too light. The mobile surname is very good, but the firepower is too small to be in the eyes of most GLP officers.

In addition, the 180mm self-propelled howitzer based on the failed PLS-33H heavy tank is very powerful and has a good rate of fire, but it inherits the poor maneuverability of the prototype, and many commanders of the artillery doctrine also can't accept the movement speed of this ghost.

The maximum speed is 22 km/h on road and 8 km/h off-road......

Many commanders criticized this thing for greatly dragging down the mobility advantage of the armored forces, and it can be said that the towed artillery may be faster than him.

So, this thing is now a self-propelled gun for infantry.

Well, if Zhang Shixin knew about such a thing, he would also classify this thing as garbage in the garbage.

Although there is also a 180mm self-propelled howitzer based on the PLS-H35 advanced production heavy tank as a chassis, modified with a modification. But this thing is still experimenting, and it has not been mass-produced at all.

Therefore, the young general of this GLP alliance also very much hopes that he can have a self-propelled artillery unit and give the opponent's self-propelled artillery a hard blow.

Now, though, he had no hope.

The troops of the front line suffered heavy losses under the heavy fire of the opposing side. He can't do anything now, because he is still leading a heavy tank formation, and is on the way.

However, when he received the opponent's medium tank formation, he dropped a dozen destroyed tanks and slowly retreated, he felt a little strange.

But what he thought about was, did the other party lure him into pursuit?

After thinking about it again, he gave the order to pursue. Because for the sake of his own future, he had to bite the bill and continue to attack.

He didn't quite think of Zhang Shixin's plan, but guessed half right.

But in the same way, Zhang Shixin didn't expect the other party to pursue so directly.

He felt that his arrangement was not wasted and would come in handy.

In the periscope, Zhang Shixin looked at the infantry wearing a white military uniform and carrying a tank killer on his shoulder next to the Tiger King Tank, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch.

He laid out two defensive lines, a combination of the Cheetah tank destroyer and the Su-100 tank destroyer, and the last was a mixed infantry line formed by his Tiger King and these infantry.

Zhang Shixin knew that even with the fire support of the self-propelled artillery system, it seemed very unreliable to expect the current number of armored troops to resist the opponent's armored clusters, and at the same time, if there was an accident, he would have to end up with the annihilation of the entire army.

Although Zhang Shixin could escape with a small number of officers and the princess in a fast tank, the rest of the people definitely had to be trapped in this place......

Not to mention that Zhang Shixin did not betray his subordinates' style, even if he could do this kind of immoral thing, he knew very well that without the protection of sufficient strength, he would be blocked by the armies of the two countries in this area at any time.

Therefore, he commanded the troops to stay here and fight as much as possible, mainly in the hope of defeating this armored force. Otherwise, his prospects are really not good.

Zhang Shixin didn't expect that in this case, the Type 58 would be able to play much of a role, although the combat effectiveness of the Type 58 was buffed by technology, Zhang Shixin felt that it was stronger than the T-34-85 equipped with 100mm-D10T.

This of course refers to the overall combat efficiency, the accuracy and rate of fire of the 56-85JT tank gun are much better than those of the 100mm-D10T, but the power of a single shot is still not comparable to that of the other side.

He let the Type 58 intercept, not only to block the opponent's assault speed, but also to allocate time for his tactics.

In fact, the TD line of defense with the mixed line of infantry also had a unit of heavy tanks of KV-1s for maneuvering.

According to Zhang Shixin's operational ideas, the KV-1S even had to cover the retreat of the TDs when necessary.

In this battle, the time was really too rushed, and Zhang Shixin was able to have a hard-fought battle in such a place where there was no terrain advantage to speak of.

Zhang Shixin knew that the key to victory or defeat was whether he could defeat the enemy within a certain period of time, at least let the other party give up the idea of pursuit.

The longer the time drags on, the more disadvantageous it will be for Zhang Shixin's troops, who are behind the enemy's battle line.

But he had no choice, if he insisted on rushing forward, the heavy tank troops behind the opponent's medium tanks would not be vegetarians. He can't do such a stupid thing to send sheep into the mouth of a tiger.

There is also another factor in his shrinkage of troops, the opponent has too many destroyed and damaged tanks, and many Type 58 and self-propelled guns are difficult to accurately strike at the opponent even if they find their targets.

Therefore, after the TD defense line was arranged, he let the Type 58 formation retreat.

Normally, the TD unit should be at the back of the line, striking at the enemy with its own accurate or powerful anti-tank guns.

But now the situation is different, the King Tiger tank is more suitable for providing fire support in the rear, and the 105mm-kwww.xstxt.orgm tank gun forms a terrifying barrage.

However, Zhang Shixin knew that he couldn't expect too much from the KV-1S's cheating turn, if someone forcibly broke through the defensive line, the KV-1S itself would be difficult to protect, and how could it protect the Su-100 tank destroyer?

Therefore, Zhang Shixin had to give up the idea of strengthening the last line of defense, and it would be more effective for the KV-1S heavy tank to continue to be a firefighting team.

The steering of the Cheetah tank destroyer is very good, especially the suspension system modified with electric transmission, and the original steering efficiency has been improved to a certain extent.

Therefore, with the Cheetah tank destroyer in front, the effect is better than that of the KV-1S.

……

The Type 58 tank slowly retreated, while the GLP coalition tank units kept bypassing the destroyed and damaged wingman and pursued the Type 58.

The Type 58 tank's hull, which extends from the T-34-85, is simply unable to effectively resist the 85mm-PT33-L45 tank gun mounted on the PL-M33 medium tank, as long as the opponent's tanks hit and penetrate the front armor plate of the Type 58, then the Type 58 will at least end up being reimbursed by the enemy.

Although there are bugs like small universal parts and small first aid kits, these things are all surnames at once, and if the opponent repeatedly destroys and damages Type 58, even if Type 58 is not blown up on the spot, it is difficult for Type 58 to continue fighting.

However, the lethality of Type 58 85mm shells is undoubtedly much stronger than that of these PL-M33 medium tanks, and as long as a shell penetrates the opponent's armor plate, it will inevitably be able to cause some damage to the opponent.

What's more, a PL-M33 medium tank was hit by two Type 58s at the same time, and the ammunition rack was immediately blown out.

And the PL-M33 medium tank of the opposing side will have a hard time doing this.

Of course, this is the buff effect brought by technology, which opens up the comparison of the power of the two, which is not very equal.

More importantly, the cannonball that uses a whole piece of energy stone as a charge has the defect of insufficient power in Zhang Shixin's eyes.

Therefore, Zhang Shixin knows that he actually occupies a very big advantage in this regard.

If it weren't for the fact that there were too many opponents, Zhang Shixin believed that under one-on-one conditions, the Type 58 would have a certain possibility to easily destroy one of the opponent's PL-M33 medium tanks without damage.

But now, even with the support of long-range artillery fire, the Type 58 formation is still constantly retreating, and several tanks have even been destroyed or lost their combat capability by the enemy's unfatal fire.

Under artillery attack, the losses of the armored forces of the GLP Alliance were much higher than Zhang Shixin's Type 58 formation.

In terms of the situation where the battle has reached this point, the loss ratio of the PL-M33 medium tank and the Type 58 is about 8.5 to 1, although this amount is also worthy of Zhang Shixin's pride, but, don't forget, Zhang Shixin is a small business, and the heavy industry capacity of the GLP Alliance is enough to throw off Zhang Shixin's nine streets.

The loss of these two or three hundred PL-M33 medium tanks, for the GLP coalition, is nothing more than a number.

But the loss of dozens of Type 58 vehicles was a very heavy loss for Zhang Shixin.

"It's a big loss now......" Zhang Shixin shook his head helplessly.

Zhang Shixin said that he had lost a lot, not because of the loss of money, but because it would take him a certain amount of time to be able to make up for the number of these tanks.

However, Zhang Shixin did not have time to continue to dwell on such sad things, because the other party's heavy tank troops finally rushed up.

Looking at the feedback from the tactical map, Zhang Shixin found that these tanks should be an improvement on the PLS-H35 advanced mass-produced heavy tanks encountered in the last raid. Because the barrel is significantly thicker, it indicates that the opponent's power has also increased.

Zhang Shixin knew that he could not change the improvement of the opponent's armored forces, and he could only pray that these improved PLS-H35 heavy tanks did not strengthen their defenses too much.

I'm not afraid of being ruthless, I'm afraid of all kinds of not wearing.

Zhang Shixin knows this truth very well.

It is not that the defensive surname is not necessarily useless, but in a specific situation, the tank with better defensive ability can often have some big or small impact on the battle situation.

However, when the remaining Type 58 medium tanks retreated to a certain distance, Zhang Shixin let the self-propelled rocket launchers attack again.

If the Type 58 tank was damaged and destroyed by his own people, he could only blame himself for being unlucky.

In just 2 minutes, thick smoke rose over the area, mixed with blue fireballs and the sound of violent explosions.

Zhang Shixin knew that during this period of time, dozens of his self-propelled artillery pieces or self-propelled rocket launchers had tilted more than 1,000 shells and rockets towards the opponent.

Among them, rockets still account for the majority of the number.

"If you can't be blown up, you can be scared to death." The corners of Zhang Shixin's mouth turned up slightly.

Although red dots appeared on the tactical map and were constantly lost due to the continuous smoke, Zhang Shixin could not determine whether the opponent was destroyed or only slightly injured.

However, Zhang Shixin knew that if the artillery shells covered the dense area, Brother Rat would not be able to stand it, let alone these tanks that did not look as hard as the Tiger King?

Well, although the size of the rat brother is an artillery magnet, and the hit rate is very high.

However, it is also necessary to look at the number of shells attacked.

Zhang Shixin found that he suddenly wanted to see what the real 10,000-gun salvo was like.

Of course, Zhang Shixin didn't want to test the effect with his own troops, he knew very well that if 10,000 artillery pieces covered this area......

Well, it is estimated that he has to write a suicide note to De Perry and Hayley beforehand, and then let the two of them remarry.

Ahem...... Isn't this a curse to die early?

Phew...... Spit said, it's okay to think about this kind of thing, I'm really tired of it?

The elf dragon on Zhang Shixin's shoulder looked at this fool speechlessly, and rolled his eyes routinely, indicating that he was really speechless.

……

Compared with Zhang Shixin's time to think of some stupid things, the young general couldn't help but be dumbfounded when he saw that the team in front of him was covered in artillery fire for several minutes.

He naturally knew very well what such a saturated fire cover meant.

He knew very well that these troops were finished, and even if a small number of them did not die on the spot, I am afraid that the end would not be much better.

When the smoke cleared, the young general found that except for a few tanks that could still womb backwards, the other tanks had become a "member" in a hell like a steel graveyard.

He didn't know if he should move on, but ......

When he remembered the ridicule of the teenagers who were similar to him, he knew that if he backed away, he would always be looked down upon by those whom he disdained......

The remaining hundreds of heavy tanks moved. Towards the "hell" that is still burning, the ground is soaked in muddy water from the snow that has melted in the heat.

More than a hundred vehicles were reduced to dead steel wreckage in a few minutes of shelling, leaving many tank crews reluctant to take a step forward.

However, the four words of military justice are firmly on their hearts, and even if they are unwilling, they do not want to implicate their families......

……

Zhang Shixin was speechless and looked at the GLP Alliance armored troops who rushed over again, a little speechless in his heart, but he also knew that the real battle was about to begin.

ps: There is one more change in the evening.

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