"Are you new here? Why haven't you checked in yet? ”

A Soviet officer wearing a red armband and a large-brimmed hat walked over. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Jiang Yitao smiled and wanted to set it up, but I hurriedly stopped. The commissar of the Soviet Red Army was not easy to fool.

"Comrade Political Commissar, we are recruits of the 1st Tank Army, we can't find our troops" I walked out and saluted a standard Soviet military salute.

This political commissar looked at us suspiciously, and my cold sweat broke out, and I didn't know what was wrong.

"First Tank Army? How did you get here, they are on the southern line" The commissar's hand crept to his waist.

I knew that if I didn't answer correctly, it would be all over, so I pretended not to see his small movements and said calmly: "Oops, we haven't been here before, and we can't read the map, so I didn't expect to run wrong."

Looking at my annoyance, the commissar was also a little unsure, and asked with a frown, "Who are you?" ”

"Oh, we are Chinese, we came to study in the great Soviets, we are all family. Of course we had to stand up when our families were in trouble, so we signed up for the army."

Hearing my words, the commissar finally let go of his doubts, and he enthusiastically gave me a bear hug, "Yes, yes, we are all fighters of the Comintern, and the Soviets welcome you!" ”

I also hurriedly hugged him, pretending to be moved to finally find the organization, thinking about how to blend into the tank unit, in this battle, the infantry is just cannon fodder.

"Now that you are too far away from the First Tank Army, you will simply go to the Second Tank Army, it just so happens that I also know their leaders, and I will not treat the comrades who come from afar!" Unexpectedly, someone brought a pillow when the drowsiness came, and I quickly agreed to come down.

This commissar called a gas car and sent us to the garrison of the 2nd Tank Army. With the order of this commissar, we passed all the way unhindered and arrived at our destination safely.

We were greeted by a company commander, and I could see that he was not very happy, and no one liked the presence of a group of untrained recruits in a complete ranks, especially a technical class like tanks.

This company commander did not embarrass us, but also gave us the freedom to act alone in a friendly way, and of course gave us two tanks. On the way to receive the tank, we were all very excited, and we were all clamoring to drive the tank, and no one noticed the meaningful smile of the company commander who led the way.

Looking at the tank in front of me, I wanted to kill this company commander. The others didn't see anything wrong, and they were all excitedly touching these two monster-like behemoths. The company commander slipped away when he arrived at the place, leaving only a small soldier who didn't know anything and looked unlucky.

"What's wrong, what's the problem?" Jiang Yitao noticed my ugly face.

"It's nothing, it's a little uncomfortable" I don't want to say more, so as not to affect morale.

In fact, these two tanks were not bad, not only did they not lag behind, but they were quite advanced in the Soviet army at that time. One of them was particularly tall and had a turret that looked like a toilet, and this was the KV-2 heavy tank. There is also a gun without a turret, with a short, but thick barrel mounted directly on the body, which looks like a Su-122 self-propelled gun.

The KV-2 was largely due to the stimulation of the Tiger, and after the Tiger tank appeared on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Soviets were shocked by this war machine, and they were embarrassed to find that all their tanks had become the scum of the Battle Five in front of the Tiger.

Stimulated, the Soviet military top brass ordered tank designers to build a tank that could compete with it, but the design of the weapon did not come out overnight, and the designers had to modify the original tank.

The Soviets were far behind the Germans in terms of armor materials and armor-piercing shells, and they couldn't make steel as good as the Tiger body in the short term. The designers also had no choice but to thicken the steel, and as for the lack of engine power, they said that it would be enough to run.

The problem of defense is solved, what about attack? Small-caliber artillery can't penetrate at all, and the designers tried to increase the caliber by smashing it if they couldn't penetrate it, so the 152mm howitzer was installed. In order to place this large-caliber gun and prevent the tank from disintegrating when firing, the designers had to heighten, enlarge and thicken the turret, and finally the freak of the KV-2 tank came out. In order to retain the powerful artillery and invulnerable armor, the KV-2 paid a lot of money.

Due to the uniformity of the hull, the KV-2 inherited many of the problems of the KV-1 tank in terms of gears, transmission and crew compartment, plus the sharp increase in its weight (ranging from 53-58 tons), while the transmission still used an unimproved 373 kW V-12 diesel engine, all of which caused serious shortcomings in the KV-2 tank's mobility in combat.

The top speed is 26km/h, which is faster than a bicycle, and it is completely a live target. The most painful thing is its turret, which is a toilet bowl in life.

The Su-122 is relatively better, it has a self-propelled gun, but it is actually an anti-tank assault gun. The cost is cheap, the firepower is fierce, and the disadvantage is that the skin is crisp and the character is killed by one shot. In addition, there is no turret, and the horizontal angle of the shot is only 10 degrees to the left and right, which is cumbersome to operate.

Regardless of the tank itself, the biggest problem we face is how to drive these two guys. In the end, Luo Chen drove the KV-2, and Zhao Xue drove the Su-122 because of his years of experience in driving cars. Under the instruction of the little soldier, the two tanks drove crookedly towards the front line as if they were drunk.

Due to differences of opinion at the top of the hierarchy, the Germans did not attack after gathering troops, which provided the Soviet army with valuable time to deploy troops and gave us the opportunity to practice.

In the sea of millions of Soviet troops, 11 of us couldn't even bubble up, we were so happy that no one cared, and happily drove the tank up the hill every day, but unfortunately Lao Maozi didn't pay attention to the comfort of the tank, and every time I rested, my bones were about to fall apart.

After discussion, the commander of the KV-2 was Jiang Yitao, the observer Deng Tao, the driver Li Ming Luochen, the aiming hand Deng Tao, the ammunition hand Lin Feng, and the correspondent Zhang Li. In fact, these two cars do not have a radio station at all, and the correspondent is just a decoration.

The commander of the Su-122 was originally me, but unfortunately the shooting talent of other people was not as good as mine, so I let Mi Ji become the commander. Zhao Xue is the driver, Liu Changgui is the observer, the ammunition hand is Li Ming, and I am the aiming.

After I thought about it again, I decided to stay on the front line, we are not skilled in technology, and it is estimated that we can only be abused if we join the tank melee directly, and the most important thing is that no one in the tank unit wants us.

The infantry leaders nearby were so happy that their mouths cracked when they learned about our plans, and they were relieved to look at it, not to mention anything else.

It was too eye-catching to stay on the infantry line, so I decided to dig a "foxhole" for the tanks, and this decision was supported by everyone, so I practiced digging fortifications. So under the strange eyes of the infantrymen, we buried our heads in hard work.

My plan was to dig two U-shaped pits in the defensive line, hide the tanks inside, and arrange some branches and weeds on them, so that when the Germans attacked, we would be hidden batteries.

The project was a bit huge for us, but the day before the battle began, we were able to complete it.