Lying in the crater, Shi Neng carefully raised his head slightly to observe the situation on the battlefield, and more than a dozen Panthers and No. 4 tanks pressed towards the three T-54s from three directions, which was obviously a trick of frontal feints to outflank the two wings.

To tell the truth, the T-54 of Shan Neng really held on to his own side and sweated, so many tanks forced over, no matter how you look at it, it is a rhythm of two fists and four hands, and once the T-54 is killed, then the next battle will be a one-sided slaughter for the Red Army.

Of course, Shi Nengzhi didn't want to be slaughtered, but there was too little he could do at the moment, and he really couldn't participate in the battle between tanks. Not to mention that the Black Panther is the fourth tank that can crush him. What's more, he doesn't even have a helper by his side, what can he do alone?

Just when Shi Neng was very anxious, he saw an astonishing scene, three T-54s under the siege of a horde of enemies, actually fought and retreated, constantly using accurate shots to blow up the onrushing enemy tanks. On the contrary, the German tanks that came up under duress could not help the T-54 in the slightest, like moths to the flames.

That scene left a deep impression on Shi Nengzhi, T-54 is Zhao Zilong in the drama in his heart, and he can kill seven in and seven out under the Changsaka slope. This also directly determined that later, when New China was preparing to build a tank unit, Shi Neng Zhi especially insisted that the T-54 must be introduced first, even if it is much more expensive, but it has the benefits of being expensive!

Shi Neng thought a lot at that moment, and admired the Soviet big brother even more, seeing that the tanks produced by the big brother were so powerful. One can withstand five or six enemy vehicles. And just 20 years ago. The Soviet Union also relied entirely on imports for tanks and other heavy machinery. This fully illustrates the superiority of socialism. It shows that only communism can save the proletariat.

He wanted to return to China as soon as possible to win the victory of the revolutionary struggle, how he hoped to see his motherland become strong again like the Soviet Union, and hoped that in the future, he would sit on tanks made by Chinese designers and crush all the imperialist hooligans.

Just when Savo was imagining a better life in the future, the situation on the battlefield changed dramatically. As mentioned in the previous chapter, old Hemsstra had so much fun that he retreated into a minefield without paying attention, and unfortunately lost his track and a load wheel. That is, the 888th T-54 at this time lost most of its mobility! Like a wounded tiger. Face a horde of hungry wolves!

Shi Nengzhi's heart suddenly pinched, no matter how you look at it, it is more than lucky, and even he is vaguely blaming himself, he shouldn't compare the T-54 to Zhao Zilong's, when he was in Changbanpo, Zhao Shuai's horse also fell into the trap, how unlucky this is!

I don't know if any comrades have watched "Fury", at the end of the movie, the Tiger Slayer Hero Fury was destroyed by a mine and most of his martial arts were finally sacrificed heroically under the siege of a group of German soldiers.

At this time. The situation with number 888 is very similar to rage. But please comrades must pay attention to one thing, "Fury" is. If there is really that kind of egg-hurting situation on the battlefield, a tank against a battalion, and an infantry battalion equipped with boxes of "iron fists", the squatting style of fighting will be finished in minutes.

Anyway, the German soldiers in the movie are quite brain-dead, obviously equipped with an iron fist anti-tank bazooka, but they just don't use it, they prefer to use submachine guns and grenades to play human flesh and charge and deliver food, I don't know if the Germans have suicidal tendencies? Or is the screenwriter brain-dead? Or this is the so-called political correctness, you see, a lame Sherman can block a battalion of German soldiers, and a battalion of German soldiers can abuse the Red Army that "can only play crowd tactics", that is to say, a Sherman can kill the Red Army with a number of battalions. Well, democracy is the same as hanging, let's hurry up and follow the model of US imperialism to democracy!

But to tell the truth, this technique is really not clever, but it is a bit of a high-level black. Because even if one of the tracks is blown off and the load wheels are damaged, it does not mean that the tank can only drop anchor and remain in place.

It must be noted that the tank is not a wheeled vehicle, and the active wheels on one side of the wheeled vehicle are hanging, which is really immobile, but the tank is different. Even if one of the tracks and load-bearing wheels is damaged, the other side of the track can still continue to work, as long as the driver is not a fool, the tank at this time can at least turn in circles, and the driver with a higher level of skill can also drive such a tank in slow and low-speed movement.

So that state in the rage is completely avoidable, and the group of GIs who have opened and hung up can move the tanks off the road and hide in the surrounding houses or woods, instead of standing straight in the middle of the road and playing some kind of hero complex.

For example, at this time, the driver of the old Hemstra carefully controlled the tank to continue to move, and slowly retreated the tank into a huge crater to minimize the area of the hull being bombed.

After parking the tank, the driver carefully climbed out of the car through the escape door under the car, and began to check the damage to the tank on his prostrates. It should be said that the situation is very bad, the track is broken, it is nothing, it can be replaced under battlefield conditions, the more troublesome thing is that a load-bearing wheel was blown up, this thing can only be replaced with a new one, and this cannot be repaired under battlefield conditions.

The driver, Sullivan, said in frustration: "Call the maintenance car!" ”

This conclusion is equivalent to a death sentence of No. 888, and now a large number of enemy tank groups are rushing over, how can maintenance vehicles get up? Even if the brothers of the maintenance company are not afraid of death, they can't let these comrades run to death in vain!

Old Hemstra immediately ordered: "Sullivan, Alyosha, Joey, Lyudmila, you retreat first!" ”

Artillery Commander Lyudmila was immediately stunned and asked puzzledly: "What about you?" Dad? ”

Old Hemsstra said resolutely: "I will continue to stay and fight, attract the enemy's fire, and cover your retreat!" ”

Sullivan immediately objected: "This can't be done, Dad, you can't stay, it's too dangerous!" ”

The loader Alyosha also bluffed and said: "Daddy, we are all in a wave, and if we fight together, we must retreat together!" ”

However, the elder Hemstra made up his mind, and he resolutely rejected the kindness of his comrades: "I am the commander, and you must all listen to me." Retreat now! Right away. Fast! ”

The rest of the crew refused. But old Hemsstra was very resolute, and in the old man's opinion, he was already eighty years old, and even if he died, he would not suffer, but the other lads were only eighteen or nineteen years old, and it was a pity to stay here. And for himself, his long-cherished wish is to die on the battlefield and be shrouded in horse-leather. Today, this opportunity has finally arrived, and it is good for him. Should be happy!

The boys reluctantly walked away under the beating and scolding of old Hemstra, but the old man took a large cigar to himself, and then sat down in the position of the gunner, and from the periscope he could see at least four tanks killing him.

"Want Lao Tzu's life? Hmph, even if Lao Tzu dies, you have to be buried together! ”

The old man muttered viciously as he bit his cigar, and then quickly shook his handwheel to trap the No. 4 tank in the lead. A few seconds later. The old man fired a decisive shot, with a slight shake from the muzzle of the gun. An armor-piercing bullet burst out of the muzzle of the gun.

Shi Nengzhi could see very clearly that the No. 888 tank had hit the enemy with one shot, but he felt that the power of this shell was not too small, because the No. 4 tank that was hit seemed to be unharmed, and it continued to run forward happily, completely unrecognizable that it had just been hit.

Just when Luneng was both puzzled and regretful, the running No. 4 tank fell headlong into the huge crater, and then stopped moving, and after about a second or so, a large number of sparks erupted from the gap between the turret and the chassis, like fireworks. Then he heard a loud explosion, and the turret flew in an instant.

At this time, Shi Neng couldn't help but shout: "Good job!" ”

Old Hemsstra is also very happy, commanding a tank battle is really not as exciting as being an artillery commander, he likes this kind of pure violence scene of red fruits, preferably the kind of flying hands and feet!

Of course, the old man was not happy, after all, this only solved one enemy, or the weakest of the four, and the remaining two Panthers and a No. 4 tank were not easy to deal with. Especially when his tank was damaged and the rest of the crew had already left, it was even more difficult.

For example, the old man can only load ammunition by himself, a hundred mm armor-piercing bullet is not light, and he is also old, and it is indeed enough to choke on one person and two positions!

But the old man had no regrets, he licked his dry lips, thrust the cannonball into the chamber with a clatter, and then lay back in front of the scope without panting, and after shaking the handwheel violently, he opened fire again.

Bang. The cannon was ejected, but unfortunately it did not hit, and it was slightly off, and the shell flew against the fender of Tank 4 and fell into the mud.

Old Hemsstra was not particularly discouraged, twisted his waist and removed another shell, and thumped it into the chamber again, but by the time he sat back in front of the gun commander's seat, the No. 4 tank that had been in the camera had disappeared.

The only reason why the No. 4 tank disappeared from the scope was that it was not slow to move and ran out of the scope's field of view. And this means that the old Hemstra needs to re-measure, aim, and correct the wind deviation, which is quite laborious. Especially in those days, when the fire control equipment of tanks was very rudimentary, all this had to rely on the experience of the gun commander.

It's not just about having experience in graduate school, it's about relying on luck, especially when old Hemstella wears two hats, and he needs luck even more. After all, the time interval between the two aimings is too long, and the results of the previous shot cannot provide much correction data for the next shot, so this kind of play is quite difficult.

Some comrades may be strange, when the fire control system of the tank is mentioned in later generations, there will always be a problem of the first hit rate, and with the help of the command ceremony fire control system, generally similar tanks can have a starting hit rate of more than 80%. For example, when the Germans brag about how good their fire control is, they will always say that the starting shooting rate is above 95%. The long-term mention of this starting percentage gives the impression that starting point is important, and that starting a starting point is more likely to hit than a second shot. It seems that if the starting shot is 90 percent, that serve may be only 80 percent, and the next third shot will be only 70 percent.

Is this impression correct? Of course, it's not that the starting hit rate is not important, it's important, but it's not the one with the highest hit rate. Not the highest percentage of starters. Then it's a step by step.

Contrary. If the results of the previous shot can be accurately observed and corrected, the hit rate of each subsequent shot will not be lower and lower, but higher and higher. In layman's terms, the starting shot rate is 80%, so even if this shot misses, but you observe and correct it, then the next hit rate is purely mathematical. Will be promoted!

That is, after observation and correction, the hit rate of the latter shot will necessarily be higher than the first. And if you don't make corrections, then the hit rate of each subsequent shot will never be higher than the starting hit rate.

And now, this is the situation that old Hemstra encountered, because he had to wear many hats, so every time he shot was "cold", and there was no possibility of correcting the shooting of Zhuyuan, which was naturally much more disadvantageous than correcting it after every shot.

But the test of whether a gunner is a master is also here. Experienced gunners naturally have a higher chance of hitting the first shot, so even if there is no chance of correcting the shooting element. The old man's hit rate is still very impressive.

On the fourth shot, he hit the enemy again, and the armor-piercing bullet easily tore through the turret of Tank IV, killing all the members of the turret and igniting the oil. Half a minute later, the tank began to burn, which soon turned into a flare.

"Damn it! Damn it! Kriegel cursed incessantly.

They originally thought that old Hemsstra was just fish on the chopping board, that was only the abuse portion. Who would have thought that the enemy would be so fierce that they could still die and struggle before they died, biting them to the point of blood.

"Kill that crumb!"

"Kill all the Russians!"

The members of the Panther tank were furious and seemed to want to rush up and tear the old Hemstra to pieces. It's just that what makes them depressed is that the other party's place is too special. Most of the hull is in craters, with only the turret and a small section of the hull exposed, so it can be said that the exposed target is too small, and it is really not easy to hit such a low and narrow target from a few hundred meters away!

Here I have to spit on the Western tank design again, from the end of the seventies after the T-72 monkey version was worn by Merkava in the Middle East war, the myth of Soviet ironclad seems to have been shattered. And in the nineties, with the beating of Iraq in the Gulf War, the design of Soviet-style tanks was widely complained about. It's as if Soviet-made tanks are cheap, crude large lighters.

Turning to the appearance of the M1 and Leopard 2 series, it seems that the best designed and highest-quality tank in the world is the Leopard 2, and only the German tank is a good tank, as for the Soviet Union, wash and sleep.

One of the most typical Soviet-style tanks is the so-called dispute between the tail compartment and the turret basket. In the eyes of leopard fans and German fans, the reason why the Soviet-style tank exploded was because of the unreasonable design of the turret basket automatic loader, which made the T-72 and T-80 frequently fly their heads.

Was it really the brain-dead of Soviet designers? Is it safer to put the shell in the turret or in the hull?

In order to understand this conclusion, in fact, we must first figure out a question, why Soviet-style tanks are easy to fly turrets. To put it simply, the reason why the turret will be blown up must be due to the ignition of the projectile propellant, which caused the explosion, and the reason why the shell exploded was nothing more than the tank being penetrated.

From this we can conclude that shells can be ignited, whether they are placed in the turret or in the body of the vehicle, as long as the armor is dried through, it is possible to ignite the shell. This is a general conclusion, because there is no such thing as a shell in this world, and a shell that is not a democracy is lit, and a shell in a poisonous country is on fire when it sneezes.

With this conclusion in mind, we look back at the battle between the turret and the hull to store shells, where is it safer? Let's put it this way, if there is a tank that guarantees that it will never be penetrated, then it doesn't matter where it is placed.

Unfortunately, there is no such tank in this world, so this involves a question of probability, since all tanks are likely to be penetrated, then the location where a large amount of ammunition is stored should be placed in the position with the lowest probability of being hit as much as possible.

Where is the probability of a gun being shot less than the hull? Let's put it this way, if you stand high and see far, and vice versa, the higher you are, the more likely you are to be exposed. So where is the tank higher?

Undoubtedly, it is still the turret, so to speak, according to the statistics of the Soviet Union in World War II, the most vulnerable position for tanks to be shot is the turret, so the Soviet-style tank categorically refused to store ammunition in the turret, and placed the shells in a lower and less exposed hull.

This is both the result of the Soviet Union's experience of tens of thousands of tank battles in World War II, as well as the inevitability of mathematical probability. There may be comrades who are not convinced, and want to ask, why did Soviet tanks start flying turrets since the eighties and nineties?

The reason is simple, the all-combustible cartridge formula of the first Soviet tank is problematic and can be easily ignited compared to the vote in Western Europe. The second is that in order to reduce the area of the bomb, the Soviet tank was designed to be low, which led to limited space in the car, and then a large number of hydraulic wiring was arranged, and these hydraulic fluids and engine oils were also more likely to ignite. Third, that is, the fire and explosion suppression system of Soviet tanks is very poor (before the eighties, in fact, everyone in the East and the West was equally bad, and after the Israelis solved this problem, Western tanks distanced themselves from Soviet tanks), and the response was slow, and there was no fire and explosion suppression effect at all.

As for the so-called Western tank design is more reasonable, this Nima is, take the Leopard 2, the favorite of German fans, for example, there are shells in the turret of this cargo, but some shells are also stored in the hull. You tell me that if the hull is penetrated, there is an essential difference from a Soviet tank? And what the hell is this good design? (To be continued......)

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