Chapter 188: The Might of the Tiger (1)

The real battle began when the armored forces entered the city, which had been run by the Allies for so long that the defenses were quite well constructed. The concrete obstacles on the main road caused great problems for the German advance, the enemy hiding in the buildings forced the Germans to clear room by room, and the pre-planted mines and explosives and anti-armor mines made it even more difficult for the Germans. The loss of several tanks per distance made the skilled armourers have to pick up submachine guns to take on infantry tasks after losing their vehicles, and every panzer killed during this period is a great loss for the Empire.

The brutal fighting lasted three hours, and the German Panzers barely established a safe zone on the outskirts of the city at great cost, and when the remaining forces of the next two infantry regiments were stationed here, the sporadic resistance was completely wiped out.

The Germans' intentions were obvious, which led the Allies to lay obstacles on the road to the city center, intending to use street fighting to completely annihilate the German army's living forces. The complex street environment also made the encounter distance between the two tanks to within 300m, and the accuracy of the guns was greatly improved at such a distance, making it difficult for the gunners to miss the shells in battle, which was bad news for most tanks compared to the Germans who were slightly inferior to the armor on the opposite side, taking the No. 3 tank as an example, it would take at least two tanks to destroy an M4 in the match.

After securing the safe area, the formations began to disperse and expand their control from all directions, and Hu Bin's pursuers were forced to break away from the large force and rush into a street with three escorted No. 3 tanks.

Losing the cover of the Tiger Brother, Hu Bin began to feel the difficulty of the battle, he was well aware of the restrictions of street fighting on the combat effectiveness of his tank, although the Chaper's firepower was outstanding, it did not have a turret, although such defects were not obvious in open areas. But in an urban environment with difficult terrain and complex terrain, such a flaw is fatal.

A No. 3 tank, which was clearing the way for the pursuers, had just put its head out of the corner when a single shell unloaded its tracks, and the Allies had laid a position of an anti-tank gun and two machine guns at the intersection ahead. The radio heard the other commander's hissing and desperate cries for help, but before Hu Bin could turn the muzzle, the second shell fell on the body of the No. 3 tank that had slid out of half of the body. The cries for help on the radio were interrupted in an instant, and Hu Bin commanded the pursuers to bombard a shotgun on the opposite position, and the explosion and scattered fragments instantly destroyed the threatening anti-tank gun on the Allied position.

Stallone slammed on the accelerator, the pursuer roared and reversed back to get out of the way, while the remaining two No. 3 tanks fearlessly rushed up and continued to clear the way for the pursuers.

Just when Hu Bin was about to direct the chariot to continue to advance behind No. 3. A British Churchill heavy tank rushed head-on from the street in front. The first two No. 3 tanks opened fire rapidly, but failed to pose any decent threat to Churchill's frontal armor, and instead Churchill shot through one of the No. 3s, and the driver of the car was seriously injured instantly.

Hu Bin shouted to reload the armor-piercing shell, Stan struggled to puff up the tendon flesh of his whole body, and pushed the heavy cannonball into the barrel that was still emitting heat and gunsmoke, and the reload time of nearly ten seconds was shortened to about seven seconds by him, and Ferrey lived up to expectations, crippling the rapid-fire gun on the opposite Churchill turret with one shot.

"Enemy turret damaged!" Ferré shouted out his results. Hu Bin takes a risky command of Stan to crash into a high-explosive shotgun. In the ten-second reload time, the two No. 3 tanks fired fiercely at Churchill, who could not open fire, and successively damaged the observation holes and tracks of the opponent, making the heavy tank a huge target. Ten seconds later. The loaded pursuers opened fire quickly, directly penetrating the relatively weak turret section of Churchill's armor. The power of the high-explosive shell acted directly on the fragile turret interior, triggering a series of detonations, and the column of fire that flew into the tank superstructure.

The radio heard the cheers of the crew of tank No. 3. However, Hu Bin did not relax in directing Stan to load an advanced high-explosive armor-piercing projectile in an effort to ensure the breakdown rate of the artillery in the next encounter.

The two No. 3 tanks continued to move forward, and the wounded driver was replaced by the commander. In the battle just now, the commanders of the two No. 3 tanks fully realized the weakness of their firepower, and in the following battle, they focused their attacks on the tracks and barrels of the local tanks, and handed over the heavy responsibility of output annihilation to the pursuers behind them.

But the good times were short-lived, and just as the No. 3 tank was about to cross the street, a Cromwell tank rushed out at full speed, apparently lying in ambush for a while, and only now showing its sharp claws. The side armor of the No. 3 tank was damaged, the tracks broke off directly, and then Cromwell hit the side of the turret, killing the gunner and loader instantly. Before the two vehicles behind him could react, Cromwell quickly retreated, hiding behind the walls of the building.

The commander of the No. 3 tank, who had just taken over as driver, desperately turned the turret in an attempt to return fire before the tank was destroyed, but the Cromwell's rate of fire was consistent with the British artillery, and the second shell hit the engine of No. 3 directly.

Hu Bin could even imagine the scene of friendly crew wailing under the raging flames, due to the small body, the design scheme was too backward, the escape door on the No. 3 tank could not allow the crew to evacuate quickly, and even in order to increase the defense of the body, many crew members used steel plates to weld the excess escape door to play a role in resisting the armor-piercing machine gun.

The commander of the last remaining tank No. 3 roared and ordered the vehicle to rush forward in an attempt to avenge his companionship, but the front load-bearing wheels were destroyed by a precise spot shot from Cromwell, who was waiting behind the wall.

"Hunters retreat, leave us alone." The commander of the third tank finally calmed down, he already knew that his tank was bound to be destroyed by the enemy, and the pursuer without a turret had no advantage in such a corner telescopic duel, and if he rushed to support himself, he would probably put himself in it.

The Cromwell was a new type of cruiser tank developed by the British to replace the Crusader tank, which was outdated in design. Its main armament is the Crusader's 57mm rapid-fire gun, and some are equipped with OQF six-pounder short-barreled howitzers for short-range infantry support, and the frontal armor thickness reaches 63mm, which can effectively resist frontal fire from 70mm guns. The main power is only a 300 hp engine, but its weight of only 28 tons allows it to rise to a maximum speed of 60 mph, making it a very good cruiser tank.

"Retreat!" Hu Bin decisively gave the order to retreat. Stallone immediately turned the car around and headed towards the intersection next to it, speeding up the dangerous street. After that, the radio did not hear the voice of the commander of the No. 3 tank, which cast a shadow on everyone's hearts.

"Evacuate to this area." Hu Bin pointed to an area they had just cleared out on the city map and said to Stallone. "There is no one else to escort us, and we have lost the ability to continue fighting. I'll try calling nearby allies and see if there's anyone who can cover us. Hu Bin picked up the microphone of the radio and began to call for nearby friendly support.

The previous Cromwell obviously didn't want to let go of this threatening pursuer, so he copied Hu Bin directly from the nearby street and cut a hole in the back armor of the fleeing pursuer. When Stallone heard the sound of the vehicle being hit, he pressed the throttle even harder, trying to make the vehicle run faster, and as long as he turned into the corner in front of them, they had enough time to turn around and counterattack.

But Cromwell's next shot cut off the pursuer's tracks. completely shattered the hopes of Hu Bin and others, and the whole chariot stopped in the middle of the road like an iron coffin, and was shot at the chrysanthemum by the enemy. Stallone climbed out of the escape door on the chassis of the tank, ready to repair the damaged track with his kit, but the Cromwell interrupted the other track of the pursuer, completely dumbfounded Stallone.

"Lao Tzu fought with it." After Stallone came back to his senses, he showed a trace of madness, and he picked up a rocket and was about to rush out to fight with the Cromwell, but was pulled back by Hu Bin with one leg. Cromwell was still playing with Hu Bin and their chariot with a short-barreled rapid-fire cannon, but he didn't notice that the shadow of death had loomed over them.

A tall figure stood in Cromwell's back way. The slender barrel of the Tiger heavy tank slowly aimed at Cromwell's boxy body, and then let out a tiger roar in the standard Cypriot style, stabbing the enemy chrysanthemum in the soul. Cromwell's engine was instantly smashed into a ball of scrap metal by 88mm large-caliber shells, and the flames burned the radio and ammunition racks. That Cromwell unrelentingly turned the turret. He replied with a cannonball at the stupid big black behind him, and in addition to adding a decoration to the Tiger's frontal armor, it also declared the end of its resistance.

A member of Cromwell's crew attempted to evacuate the half-crippled vehicle from the escape hatch, only to be sifted into a sieve by two heavy machine guns on the Tiger tank. Then the second shell completely blew Cromwell's turret into a product of abstraction, and Hu Bin saw through the observation hole that the Allied soldier who was beaten into a sieve actually dropped a watch, and this Cromwell was actually operated by a contractor.

"Hey. You're all right. The roof of the Tiger's turret was lifted, and a blonde young armored soldier poked his head out of the hole, a bold move on a battlefield full of artillery.

"It's good that you came in time, otherwise we would have really been planted here." Hu Bin poked his head out of the side hatch of the pursuer and waved at the armored soldier on the Tiger tank.

"It seems that our comrades-in-arms need help to get out the repair tools." The blonde young armored soldier shouted to his subordinates, and the two Tiger crew members immediately rushed out of the tank with their toolboxes and worked on the tracks that had fallen off the pursuers.

After a while, one of the injured track parts was replaced by the two, and the other track was directly repaired by the tool kits carried by Hu Bin and Stallone. With the engine sounding again, the pursuers were able to move smoothly again.

"The Allies have deployed a lot of tanks in this direction, it seems that they are mainly British tanks, and their rapid-fire guns are not a small threat to tank destroyers like yours, are you willing to act with us?" After the Stalker was repaired, the Blonde Armored sent out an invitation to fight together.

"I can't ask for it." Hu Bin learned in a short conversation that the blonde young man's name was Douglas, and everyone else was willing to call him Doyle, but he looked very young, but he was already a captain-level armored soldier, serving as the commander of the Tiger heavy tank numbered 02, and was a veteran veteran with three years of combat experience. The four crew members who traveled with him were also the elite of the elite, and as for the two numbered and half-hung gunners Ferre who relied on space cramming to teach, they couldn't compare to them at all, and the only one who could take the shot was Stein the Loader.

Doyle was also taken aback when he learned that the stalker's commander Hu Bin was actually a sniper captain, Doyle said that he couldn't keep his mouth shut, and after learning from Hu Bin about the stalker's achievements, Doyle said that there was nothing that could move him after that The blonde captain originally wanted to help the stalker, and was instantly raised to the height of cooperative combat.

The watch dropped by the hapless contractor who was shot indiscriminately was assigned to Stallone to upgrade his protective suit, but because the Stalker didn't play any role in the battle against Cromwell other than being a target, neither of them shared the reward for killing the contractor, which made the two of them a little glad and a little sad.

The news that the contractor has been able to independently command the Allied chariots worries Hu Bin and Stallone, and most of their numberers are not aware of the news. In the game between Space and the Lord God, Space seems to always be at a disadvantage in the supply of equipment for the Numberers, which will make it more and more difficult for the Numberers to carry out their hunting operations.

The pursuers commanded by Hu Bin under the command of Doyle did not continue to go deep into the city, but simply inspected the streets cleared before, and then turned the car around and returned to the safe area, the limit capacity of the Tiger fuel tank could only support its fierce combat for two to three hours, and it was about to bottom out at this time.

Following the Tiger back to the safe area cleared by the Germans before, Hu Bin found that the friendly forces of the infantry regiment had arranged and perfected the defensive line, but the previous large number of No. 3 and 4 tanks was much sparser, and the combat vehicles full of bullet holes were patched with temporary steel plates by the logistics soldiers, and the armored soldiers who endured the pain and bandaged and prepared to continue to fight on the front line abounded.

The Allied resistance dealt a severe blow to the German offensive, and the tank units that served as arrows suffered unprecedented losses, half of the German tanks left the wreckage in various blocks, and most of the other surviving tanks were wounded.

All the disadvantages turned the fate of the Germans in the direction of defeat, but the Germans still had their Tiger tanks. It's hard to imagine the impact of just a few tanks on the outcome of the battle, but it turned out that with five Tiger heavy tanks, the Allies suffered no less losses than the Germans.

Hu Bin, who had been following behind a Tiger tank, was quite aware of the helplessness of the allies, and when attacking the outlying cities, more than one local tank tried to sneak attack the slowly advancing Tiger, but their shells were invariably bounced off by the thick front armor, and the rockets fired from the windows of the buildings from time to time did not play any role except for adding some scratches to the side armor of the Tiger.

Every time the tiger roars of the 88mm gun, it will set off a bloody storm, and the powerful lethality and penetration of the shells make the Allied tanks with substandard armor fall into a deep nightmare, and even in the process of patrolling with Doyle, many Allied soldiers hiding in the building were frightened and fled directly after seeing the tiger, which shows what a hideous impression this gray-black figure left on the Allied forces.

However, the Tiger tank was not completely invincible, the Tiger tank number 04 was attacked by explosives packs while attacking a main road, and the Tiger with its chassis armor blown through became a ghost car after losing all its crew, but its body standing on the street was so frightened that other Allied tanks did not dare to show their heads until a long time later.

After hearing the news, Hu Bin had a different thought, maybe he could suggest that Doyle go to that place with him. (To be continued......)