Chapter 6: The Battle of the Harbor (Part I) The Appearance of the "Tiger".
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Alas, I stood all day at the Southern Book Festival in Pazhou...... Luckily, my shift will be over tomorrow...... I'm exhausted...... 5555555。
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"General!! Our vanguard was fiercely blocked by enemy armoured forces in the vicinity of the port area, and we were unable to advance a single !! Wow......" After an explosion, a missed 170mm high-explosive grenade directly pierced the weak armor of the communications armored vehicle, and after the strong kinetic energy exploded, it was quickly torn in two.
"......" A middle-aged man wearing the uniform of a lieutenant general in the Grunshire Army was silent for a while, and then said in a cold whisper: "Hasn't our main tank unit arrived in the port area yet?" ”
"General, you also know the speed of our main armored forces...... It's a bit slow, so ......," a staff officer said helplessly.
"So what are our self-propelled artillery units doing? What about fire support from the front!? The middle-aged man roared.
"General...... Our self-propelled artillery brigade seems to have been spotted by the opposing side's high-speed reconnaissance tanks during the transfer...... They called for support from the naval guns...... "The other staff officer did not continue.
The middle-aged man knew that if the self-propelled artillery regiment to which his unit belonged was confirmed, not to mention that the other side was supported by dozens or hundreds of 200mm caliber naval guns, even if the opponent's artillery countermeasures, I am afraid it would not be much better......
"Leave the self-propelled artillery brigade alone, you get the main forces to speed up, we must take this port area by tonight!" The lieutenant general coldly gave the order.
Because he was well aware that his troops had now become a lone army, and the two port cities to the northeast had been recaptured by the two Gultoka Imperial Panzer Corps that had forcibly landed. There is no way back for them.
Moreover, to the southeast of the city, King Capani[***]'s northern cluster once again mobilized a large number of troops to pounce on these port cities in coordination with the remnants of the Principality's Union army. His troops have been fighting for several days and are serious in terms of ammunition consumption.
If he hadn't taken the port area and boarded the convoy at night, they, the Panzers, would have died in a place they had never heard of before.
But now, if they want to take the port area, they must defeat this mysterious force with powerful armor.
Merely......
What he didn't expect was that the only way he relied on, the Grunshire Naval Transport Fleet, had already followed the two sub-fleets of the North Sea Fleet, which had been joined by the Gultoka Empire, and the Second Naval Fleet of the Grunshire Empire, which had been fought all over the ground, had withdrawn to the military port on the mainland.
If he had known, he might have hoped that he would have been able to surrender directly.
Because he did not expect the navy of the Grunshire Empire to be able to directly confront the navy of the Gultoka Empire.
In fact, in this area known as the Yadelchs Sea, a medium-scale naval battle broke out, and the two detachments of the Gultoka Empire merged together to besiege the Second Fleet of the Glenshire Imperial Navy.
No matter in which aspect, the Grunshire Empire, the second naval fleet, was at a disadvantage in the face of these two naval detachments of the Gultoka Empire.
Especially as the main battleship of the battleship, the Grunshire Empire's Greville-class battleships have only 9 390mm main guns (here it is a metric system rather than an inch system), so when facing the Himmsky-class battleships equipped with 9 420mm main guns, the same armor protection ability is not as good as the opponent's Greville-class battleships.
As a result, after only two hours of fighting, only about half of the Second Fleet of the Grunshire Empire, and the injured fleet, which was mostly small and medium-sized warships, forcibly withdrew from the warring seas.
And they also pulled the transport fleet, which was the intended retreat of the army's armored forces, back home and silently licked their wounds......
As for why not leave the transport fleet behind?
Then the light cruisers and destroyers of the Gultoka Empire don't mind adding a little more to their impressive achievements.
However, the navy retreated in defeat, and seemed to have forgotten to inform its army colleagues. Otherwise, the Panzer Corps, which had begun to retreat some time ago, and now had to storm Gtorivo because of other unfavorable news, would have been able to easily return to their pre-departure positions.
Even if they fought head-to-head with the reinforcements sent by the Gultoka Empire on the road, they could still have a considerable number of troops to break through.
Just now...... Even if they wiped out all the members of the Elven Dragon Security Company that Zhang Shixin relied on the port area to hold on, I am afraid it would be useless.
But because they didn't receive any similar news, Zhang Shixin's situation became very dangerous.
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Ten minutes ago, about 27 BT-7s, led by 9 VK-2802 "Shadow Leopards", were reconnoitring around the perimeter front when they discovered the self-propelled artillery brigade of the Grunshire Army, which was separated from the protection of the main armored forces when the position was shifted due to insufficient range.
Although the other side also found several BT-7s that were not well hidden, under the intensive direct fire shelling, these BT-7 tanks and an unlucky VK-2801 "Shadow Leopard" were beaten into parts in just a few seconds......
It's just that before they could transfer themselves, a dense number of shells flew in the sky, including 27 rounds of 420mm naval gun high-explosive shells......
In just three minutes, this self-propelled artillery brigade has become a pile of scrap metal, except for a few self-propelled guns and armored vehicles that were chased and beaten by the light tank units under the Elven Dragon Security Company......
There was a GZS-33 155mm-L40 "Ferren" medium self-propelled gun, which was directly hit by a 420mm high-explosive shell, and was instantly blown into a state of parts, and an armored car more than ten meters away was overturned, and the members of the artillery crew were basically missing arms and legs except for the driver of the armored car, and the corpse fell to the ground mutilated;
Compared with them, the personnel on this GZS-33 155mm-L40 "Ferren" medium self-propelled gun quickly became a state of parts, and flesh and blood were splashed all over the ground, and some things were even baked half-baked by the high temperature and flew down dozens of meters away......
Some of the self-propelled guns on the periphery were lucky enough to avoid the shelling of the ship's guns, but after receiving the summoning order, the LT troops painted with an elven dragon on the turret did not seem to let them go, and saw some remnants of the opponent running away, and also ventured to pursue the opponent.
I have to say that the hit rate of the naval gun's shelling is very helpless, Zhang Shixin has 3 BT-7 when he just picked up, a 420mm shell exploded 20 meters near them, except for a lucky BT-7 can barely staggering out of the battlefield, the other two BT-7 members were all killed, the vehicle was seriously damaged, one of them was even shocked off a few load-bearing wheels......
Zhang Shixin wanted to protest such a thing, but he didn't have time to find out which bastard gunner adjusted to shoot Zhu Yuan......
Because the other side seems to have sent more troops to join the battlefield......
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The GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank has its own advantages with the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipment type, and the protection ability and firepower of the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipment type are better than the opponent's, but in terms of mobility, the opponent is much better than the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipment type.
After many engagements between the two sides, the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipped with street cover can easily destroy a GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank with three to four shells at about 500 meters, while the opponent can only use its 70mm tank gun to penetrate the weakest lower hull armor plate of the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipped with a distance of 300 meters.
Therefore, in the case of medium-range shooting, the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipped with the opponent's GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank was defeated by a ratio of 30 to 1.
It's just that the number of the opponent is too much, and after destroying more than 50 GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tanks and artillery against the enemy's self-propelled artillery brigade, the remaining more than 100 GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tanks still rushed into the port area.
However, when these GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tanks rushed into the outer buildings of the port area, they were surprised to find that there were still a large number of self-propelled assault guns in the battle.
Fierce fighting broke out between the two sides in the outer complex of the port area.
More and more GLT-33 Viper II medium tanks bypassed the front armoured defenses, easily wounding from the side and destroying the Leopard G tank No. 4. However, they immediately encountered the opponent's self-propelled anti-tank guns and assault guns. (Note 1)
Whenever several GLT-33 Viper II medium tanks surrounded a No. 4 Leopard G tank, a Grizzly SPG appeared around the corner of the street to protect a Rhino tank destroyer and pointed its barrel at them.
After the two GLT-33 Viper II medium tanks were fired, the Rhino tank destroyer took the lead and slowly retreated again, and then waited until most of its body was hidden behind the Grizzly SPG, and then slowly retreated into the corner of the street with its steel body......
The remaining GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank fired at the Grizzly assault gun, but with the 80mm hull frontal armor and 100mm fighting compartment frontal armor, the GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank mounted on the 70mm-TPS33-L35 tank gun fired 500m armor-piercing shells that all wore 68mm armor-piercing shells, which was undoubtedly useless for the Grizzly assault gun, and a few shells were even bounced into the house next to it, smashed through the window, and exploded in the hall.
By the time they finished loading their shells and were ready to fire again, the Grizzly Assault Gun was gone......
Just as they rushed up to pursue the two tanks, the commander looked at the turning point of the street and found not only two self-propelled assault guns on both sides of the road, but also three tanks more than 200 meters away with their barrels pointed at them......
"Reversing ......" Before he could finish his words, the three tanks and the tank destroyer that had been loaded with shells appeared in the muzzles of fire......
A few seconds later, the side ammunition storage rack of the first GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank that was fired by concentrated fire was exploded, and the entire tank was blown in two by the serial detonation of ammunition, and blue flames continued to gush from the fracture, engine, and energy tank positions......
The Grizzly assault gun and the Rhino self-propelled anti-tank gun continued along both sides of the street, and the remaining two GLT-33 Viper II medium tanks that tried to pursue them were surprised to find that the three tanks on the opposite side were actually turning their chassis and driving towards them.
"Quick! We must hurry! A GLT-33 Viper II medium tank quickly rushed up while several tanks and self-propelled anti-tank guns were being reloaded, trying to get close to the Rhino self-propelled anti-tank guns on the north side of the street.
However, before the other side could do so, the muzzle of the Grizzly Assault Gun was only about 60 meters away, and the load-bearing wheels in the middle of the hull of the GLT-33 Viper II medium tank, which was only about 60 meters away and were making low-speed steering, were a high-explosive shell......
......A burst of fire exploded at the place where the GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank was hit by the load wheel, and after a while, because the track was blown off in the center, the GLT-33 "Viper" II medium tank quickly stopped after sliding an arc to the right, and his gun barrel swept off one pillar before hitting the second pillar and breaking away......
"Abandoned Car !!" The commander quickly made a correct judgment, but when he was the first to poke his body out of the open turret roof, he "......snapped", and a 7.92mm bullet fired from a G43 sniper rifle quickly drilled into his forehead......
In a window of a three-story building in the distance, a soldier wearing an elven dragon security company, with a vulture with a sword on his feet on the right side of the epaulette, and a G43 semi-automatic sniper rifle, slowly slid into the turret after seeing the target's body leaning back, and he quickly aimed the crosshair of the high-powered scope on the cockpit roof......
A few seconds later, the sniper, hiding in the shadows, pulled the trigger again and harvested another life............
Several Panthers, armed with extra-long 75 guns, continued to move forward, and then continued to fire at the incapacitated GLT-33 Viper II medium tank......
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The above is just a small microcosm of the battle.
When the opponent's main armored force appeared, a No. 4 "Leopard G" equipped type that could not retreat was set on fire by several heavy tanks, the track broke, paralyzed in place, and fired a 75mm armor-piercing bullet at the opponent was actually ejected by the opponent's turret front armor, the commander of the No. 4 "Leopard G" equipment type was about to give an order to abandon the car, but unexpectedly, a Tiger P tank blocked in front of it, turned the hull, and gently pointed at the opponent, and then the turret slowly rotated......
The shells fired from the 100mm tank gun of the opponent's heavy tank hit the non-critical area of the front of the Tiger P, and after a few sounds similar to "clanging" sounded in Zhang Shixin's ears, the Tiger P's long 88mm gun immediately let out a roar......
And in the streets of each place, the main forces of the two sides continue to appear, which declares that the battle has entered the prelude to a white heat!
Tiger P and Tiger Style constantly appeared in front of each other's heavy tanks, and the other party's heavy tanks were far more than Zhang Shixin's heavy armored troops......
This announced that the VK-4501 project of the German army during World War II officially appeared on the battlefield of this world, and the "Tiger" family officially issued its own roar...... (GW Tiger P protests dissatisfiedly: "I have been working for a long time......)
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Note 1: Assault guns and self-propelled anti-tank guns are actually two different things, the role of assault guns is mainly to cover the troops, and self-propelled anti-tank guns are mainly to carry out powerful strikes against the opponent's armored forces.
Logically speaking, both can pose a great threat to tanks, so it is understandable that both are classified as TDs, as is the case in the game......
As a matter of fact...... For example, the Su-152 and the Su-122 or Su-122S are the difference between a self-propelled assault gun and a self-propelled anti-tank gun.
And the Grizzly is a self-propelled assault gun, and the Rhino is a self-propelled anti-tank gun.
The Tiger Hunter is a tank destroyer, and the Assault Tiger is a self-propelled concave gun, that's the truth. So the game is classified as TD, maybe because of this intention.
In addition, the so-called destroyer combat vehicle, tank destroyer, self-propelled anti-tank gun are actually the name of self-propelled anti-tank guns, which are different from country to country.
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