The three words "Manchurian Tiger" (there are no Siberian tigers in Russian, only Siberian tigers, so the Soviet Union borrowed translations from Japanese intelligence) has become a lingering nightmare for the Soviet army. You can even use a thorn in your eye! A thorn in one's flesh! to describe. From being equipped with only a small number of elite troops at the beginning of the war, to being the main force in batches two years later, the 'Manchurian Tiger Panic' not only circulated in the mouths of soldiers, but also officially appeared in Soviet intelligence and literature. Lukin was blunt in his report to Stalin: "The Manchurian Tiger tank is no less of a threat to us than the steel monster that first appeared on the Somme, and all the known anti-tank weapons cannot effectively deal with it, not even the expensive and difficult to manufacture 57-mm extra-long cannon, which cannot penetrate the frontal armor." These words speak to the hearts of the front-line troops. In order to find a way to deal with it, the Soviet army has also used manpower and material resources to encircle and suppress it countless times, but so far it has not obtained a good physical vehicle. Even if the sacrifice is huge, encircling some damaged ones, it will summon the Chinese Air Force to bomb indiscriminately. At the beginning of last month, Vasilevsky found a damaged Manchurian Tiger in a mudslide, and it took thousands of people several days to pull it out, but when it was sent to Kazan, it was destroyed on the train by more than 20 Chinese dive bombers.

The 'Manchurian Tiger Panic' also forced the Soviet General Staff to become an anti-tank department to study tactics to combat it. In a world war that swept the human world, it was enough to prove the strength of the 'Manchurian Tigers' by asking the General Staff Headquarters of the 10 million army to expend energy to study and deal with the enemy's tank. So far, the Soviet army only knows that the frontal armor of the 'Manchurian Tiger' has a large tilt angle, and the actual thickness of the protection is likely to be between 160 or 200 mm, and it has also adopted advanced new technologies such as engine transverse, mechanical supercharging, shock absorption, and hydraulic assistance. Stalin also thought about simply copying it, but first, there was no complete physical reference, and second, many domestic technology reserves in the Soviet Union were insufficient. To know. This kind of 'Siberian Tiger' main battle tank based on the 59D tank in the later generations, even if Yang Qiu pinched the accurate drawings, it took seven years and mobilized thousands of technicians, including many well-known foreign mechanical experts, to successfully develop it.

The Soviet tanks destroyed by it, and the defense lines broken through by them, made the Soviet Union have no time to wait for the technology of the laboratory, so they had to focus on the naval guns, which are the 100 mm and 130 mm naval guns of the navy. The BS3 100 mm naval gun originated in France and is a very powerful naval cannon. Originally, Stalin demanded that it be installed on the T34. However, because of the long rear range and strong recoil of the naval gun, the T34 chassis could not withstand it, so it had to be stuffed into the KV chassis.

This is Ponov's car, the KV100 heavy tank.

KV100 is actually not a good tank, and even the Soviets themselves did not like it. Because the chassis of the KV tank itself is very unstable, after the enlarged gun mount, there are problems such as turret swing when firing, poor accuracy, difficulty in ammunition loading, too slow turret maneuver, and repeated chassis failures. Therefore, the Soviets knew that T34/76 and T34/85 would not be able to deal with the 'Manchurian Tigers'. I had to continue production, and at the same time build a batch of KV100 for emergency.

Therefore, when the night battle type of the 'Siberian Tiger' 'Night Tiger' appeared in front of him and quickly destroyed 3 tanks on his side, one can imagine how nervous the recruits of the 45th Brigade Tank Brigade of the Soviet Army would be. However, Ponov is still very confident. Because the terrain and the darkness of the night would force the opponent to engage in close combat, this gave him the opportunity to destroy or even capture a complete 'Manchurian Tiger' by using his numbers and infantry. He was full of faith. But the tank under the ass was very disobedient, and the turret maneuver speed was twice as slow as the T34, which made him miss the opportunity to counterattack and fire at the first time.

"Boom." Take advantage of the hesitation of the Soviet army. The 'Night Tiger' tank platoon opened fire again, and the 85mm high-speed tungsten alloy armor-piercing shells easily tore through the armor of the four T34s. And almost at the same time as the target was destroyed, the tank platoon quickly reversed and retreated into the dark forest, as Ponov expected. "Rush! Davarich! Kill them all! "Ponov also thought that the opponent retreated because he was weak and afraid of close combat, so he immediately ordered a pursuit." Boom, boom, boom. "One shell after another, chasing the reversing 'Night Tiger', flew away, but the T34/76 had been proven to be unable to penetrate the frontal armor of the 'Siberian Tiger' at zero distance, so the tank platoon quickly disappeared into the black woods.

"Watch the search, they must not have escaped!" The tankmen widened their eyes, and the infantry also took advantage of all kinds of darkness and various bunkers to expand the search area. But Ponov didn't know that when he led everyone to search and advance in the dark, the troops were also being led into the circle of death by him little by little. "Boom on the left!" As soon as a Soviet infantryman came out of the way saw a dark shadow behind a low tree, a flash of light pierced his pupils, followed by an explosion behind him.

"Boom!" In the darkness beyond the eye of the eye, a searching KV100 exploded after being hit by an armor-piercing shell. 500 meters away, Bonov's heart suddenly shrank, and the chill from his feet spread quickly throughout his body. He didn't expect that the KV100 heavy tank, which thought it was powerful, would die no slower than the T34 in front of the 'Siberian Tigers'. This is where the Soviet army is most dissatisfied with the KV100, after stuffing into the huge naval gun, the KV chassis can no longer withstand thicker and heavier armor, and it also destroys its own structure, so that the protection ability does not rise but falls. Of course, the Soviet top brass, which has always spared no effort in the Soviet Union, would not tell the officers and men of these serious defects.

The exploding KV100 suddenly turned into a daredevil, and at the same time as the fire lit up, more than a dozen fireballs lit up in the darkness one after another. "Boom." Just like a platoon gun, in a short instant, 9 T34s and 2 KV100s were destroyed and caught fire at a very close distance. "Damn it! They can see us! Retreat, disperse retreat! Although Ponov did not know how his opponent could see through the darkness and the canopy, his experience was a hundred times better than that of Japan, and the reality of bullets told him that his opponent could see the position of each of his tanks.

In fact, he thought too much about the 'Night Tiger', even if there was an active infrared night vision device, the maximum detection distance of the Night Tiger Camp at this time was only a few hundred meters. However, as the destroyed tanks caught fire and exploded, and the sight of the woods improved, 14 'Night Tigers' of the Night Tiger Company of the 2nd Armored Division of the Wehrmacht immediately rushed out of their hiding places and rushed towards the 45th Tank Brigade with their butts. "On the left, there's one on the left! Quick, remind Culkin to be careful! "In the faint light of the fire. Ponov saw a black shadow flashing on his left, and hurriedly asked Eulkin to inform a few KV100s that were retreating there. "Comrade brigade commander, the radio is broken." Eulikin hurriedly reminded him.

"Damn! It must be the hands and feet of the Chinese! "By this point, idiots can understand that the collective failure of the radio station must be the work of the opponent." Let them follow me. "Ponov shoved the flare gun into Eulykin and told him to drill out and make a signal. As soon as the hatch was opened, the two T34s to his right were hit and stopped. "Damn! Damn it! Damn it! Ponov was so angry that he kicked the tank. Who would have thought that the forest, which he had considered the best ambush terrain a few minutes ago, would become his own grave.

"Comrade Brigade Commander, you should come and see. Damn it! We are being slaughtered! Eulikin, who had emerged from the pod, was completely stunned. Look around. Terrifyingly, the Night Tiger tank was like a group of ghosts hiding in the darkness, suddenly firing from the darkness beyond his sight, and then reversing back into the darkness. Fire, reverse, fire, and reverse occasionally hit, and you can only see them merge into this black forest with Mars.

In just half an hour, a company of 14 'Night Tigers' took advantage of the woods and the cover of darkness to score a proud score of 0 to 47 with the help of night vision devices. "Retreat, retreat to the meadows to the east!" Ponov's eyes were red, and he immediately fired three flares. Seeing the flare, the panicked Soviet 45th Tank Brigade finally settled down and quickly retreated to the open grassland to the east with the infantry. When Ponov's KV100 heavy tank was the first to rush out of the forest, he saw several dark shadows approaching quickly hundreds of meters away in the moonlight. "Fire! Rumble! This time, his KV100 was ahead of the curve and fired. The 100 mm monolithic cap-piercing shell pierced through the 400-meter void and accurately hit the frontal turret of a 'Siberian Tiger'. A scene that made Ponov crazy appeared, the hit 'Siberian Tiger' actually only paused, and then smashed a T34/76 that had just been drilled out next to it.

"What the hell are they made of?!" Both Colonel Ponov and the Eulygin were stupid. They don't know. Not only is the frontal protection of the Siberian Tiger more than 200 mm, but the actual thickness of the turret is more than 250 mm. And in the distant Chinese mainland, technicians have replaced what he sees as a powerful 'Siberian Tiger' with a 105-mm main gun and full BDD armor. The skirts and protective grilles are being prepared to be sent to the Korean Peninsula for final combat tests.

"Comrade Brigade Commander, look." Eulygin yanked the sluggish Ponov and shouted in horror as he pointed to the southeast. At the end of his fingers, a dense black shadow rolled in like a flood. "Boom, boom." Dozens of 'Siberian Tigers' main battle tanks smashed into the remnants of the Soviet army with an extremely ferocious posture.

"Let the anti-aircraft machine gun car and the Spitfire tank go up and increase the firepower! The rest of the troops continued to pass, and we had no time to delay. "In the command vehicle, Sun Liren is not interested in eating a tank brigade of less than 100 vehicles, what he has to do now is to take advantage of the night and move quickly under the 'cover' of the air force.

After receiving the order, four quadruple 12.7-mm anti-aircraft half-tracks resembling M16 and a company of multi-purpose engineering tanks of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion quickly caught up. The quadruple 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun has average performance against aircraft, but against infantry, it is simply a 'combine'. Under the fire of 16 heavy machine guns, the Soviet infantry, deprived of tank protection, became a target, and the thick 12.7 mm semi-armor-piercing shells could sweep through trees, penetrate the soil, and kill them hiding behind.

Seeing the infantry suffering heavy casualties under the bullets and gasoline, with both feet broken, and lying dying next to the wreckage of the tank, Ponov remembered something because the radio was damaged, and he had not had time to inform General Kirponos. But he didn't have a chance! Under the suppression of six electronic warfare 5 electronic jammers, the forest area connecting the Turkai Plateau, 25 kilometers northeast of Lake Sarekopa, seemed to have been wiped off the face of the earth. By three o'clock in the morning, Sun Liren's 2nd Armored Division and the 29th Motorized Infantry Division, which arrived later, had entered the plateau through the forest area and were heading for Kokshetaau, 300 kilometers to the northwest...... (To be continued......)