Throwing stones at the heavy armor of the German King Tiger tank obviously could not destroy the German King Tiger tank, and even now the Soviet anti-tank weapons aimed at the King Tiger tank for normal fire cannot penetrate the armor of the German tank in most cases.

On the one hand, it was because the Soviet Union was rushing to produce 76-mm anti-tank guns, in order to one-sidedly pursue production capacity, which ultimately affected the anti-tank performance of this artillery, and on the other hand, when this kind of gun was designed, it was not developed for such a single goal as anti-tank.

To put it simply, this Soviet 76.2 mm anti-tank gun was designed as a full-fledged infantry support weapon when it was developed. What is a multi-functional platform? It is to try to make this kind of artillery capable of supporting fire in a curve, and it can also have a certain anti-tank capability at the same time.

The original design idea was to use one gun to do the work of two or even three types of artillery, and then greatly simplify the pressure on equipment in logistics and production. And in the era when this kind of artillery was born, the mainstream of the world's tanks was still T-26 and Renault and other small beans, and using a 76 mm caliber to take care of anti-tank tasks was simply a knife to kill chickens.

However, with the advancement of the war, the thickness of the world's tank armor has made a qualitative leap, especially the German Wehrmacht, the opponent of the Soviet Union, which is equipped with the Tiger tank and the King Tiger tank is in the forefront of the world in technology.

Moreover, the rapid development of science and technology in Germany, and the terrible breakthrough in high-tech materials, the USSR simply did not have time to take care of research. In 1935, German material technology experts published a paper on reinforced steel materials, and in 1939, German military enterprises began to widely use the world's leading armor steel in material technology to produce their own armored vehicles.

Subsequently, through a series of research and development, Germany developed a cloth material to cover the outer armor of the tank and enhance its ability to resist the strike of anti-tank weapons. It's just that this material has not yet been popularized, and only some troops are testing and using it for the time being.

The huge gap between the increase and decrease between one's own tank guns and the enemy's armor becomes particularly obvious. In World War II, anti-tank warfare was mostly face-to-face bayonet fighting, and once one side lost confidence in the weapons in its hands, it can be imagined how much impact it would have on the war situation.

The Soviet soldiers really didn't have the courage to use stone as a weapon against the German tanks, at least in this battle. Before Zhukov and Vatutin could agree on whether to retreat from the front, most of the Soviet positions were occupied by the Germans.

The German soldiers easily jumped over the broken barbed wire barrier of the Soviets and jumped into the Soviets' trenches. With the weapons in their hands, they desperately opened fire on the Soviet army, which was already collapsing, and killed the tree soldiers who fled backwards at the end of the trench.

"The Soviets are running! Keep firing!" an officer who had just jumped into the trench from behind the tank waved his pistol and shouted encouragement to the soldiers around him. Beside him, one German soldier after another, carrying their own weapons, was crossing in front of him, towards the other end of the trench, sprinting as fast as they could.

"Bah!" a German soldier leaning against the wall of the trench pointed his Mauser 98K rifle in the direction of the Soviets, pulled his rifle, and then expertly pulled the bolt for the next shot. He didn't know if that shot had hit his enemy, but the training had taught him how to survive the battle, and the training had numb him to aim at the enemy and fire as quickly as possible.

Beside him, a second German soldier also lay on the wall of the pit, and he also aimed his gun in the direction of the Soviets, then aimed and fired. The two men kept firing gun after shot, oblivious to the bodies of the three or four Soviet soldiers stacked right next to them. The corpses seemed to them to be nothing more than dirt, something indistinguishable from stone sandbags.

A German Leopard assault gun crawler slowly curled, picking up dirt and letting it fall at some point. The huge load-bearing wheels made the heads of the German soldiers in the nearby trenches look a little smaller. The metal tracks rubbed past the steel helmet, crushing the Soviet corpses across its path into the dirt.

The heading machine gun in front of the hull kept spewing tongues of fire, and tracer bullets were densely woven into a web of fire directly in front of the assault gun, and several Soviet soldiers were enveloped in this net of fire, and then turned into bloody corpses spread out on the way back.

For the Soviet defenders, who lacked anti-tank weapons, the infantry assault guns, which were not so thickly armored, were already steel behemoths that could not be destroyed in front of them. On the frontal position, they relied on countless frenzied counterattacks at night, as well as countless times of rushing at German assault guns with explosives bags to stop the advance of these monsters.

Sometimes, in order to destroy a German assault gun or tank, an entire company of Soviet soldiers would be killed on the defensive line, and many more even entire battalions would be routed. After more than a year of cooperation, the German army has already formed a set of skillful infantry and tank cooperative combat mode, and it is not an easy thing for the Soviet army to take advantage of this model.

"For Stalin!" Suddenly, not far from the side of a German Leopard assault gun, a young Soviet soldier jumped from the ground. Holding a bag of explosives, he shouted slogans and rushed at the German assault guns, which were still advancing. This is a common trick used by Soviet infantry, and it is relatively safe to approach from the side.

"Suddenly!" a German grenadier who was not far behind the German assault gun greeted the Soviet soldier who was trying to die with the enemy with a dense rain of bullets, holding an MP-44 assault rifle in his hand. The bullet pierced through the opponent's weak body, knocking the opponent into a sieve.

Of course, the infantry and tank coordination is not only the tank covering the infantry to carry out a surprise attack on the enemy position, but the tank must also be protected by the infantry behind it, so that it can survive and carry out a breakthrough when there are enemy troops on all sides. This is a technique that deserves serious study and learning, and it is not as simple as a group of soldiers following behind a tank.

When the Soviet soldier holding the explosive bag fell to the ground unwillingly, the explosives on his body exploded, and the Soviet soldier was left with nothing left with a loud bang, while the German assault gun in the distance was still slowly advancing his low but sturdy body.

Suddenly, the assault gun halted its advance, tilted slightly to the left, and the pitch-black muzzle of the long-barreled 75 mm gun fixed directly in front of it was aimed at a Soviet pillbox that was firing heavily in the distance. The bunker is a concrete-reinforced permanent bunker with a certain camouflage of weeds.

With a bang, a puff of smoke erupted from the muzzle of the German assault gun, and the entire tank body trembled. A shell easily hit its target at a distance of 100 meters, and the high-explosive shell exploded less than a meter from the machine-gun bunker, kicking up a cloud of smoke and gravel. The bunker was also suppressed in an instant, and the firing stopped.

More German soldiers got up from the ground and launched a general attack on the Soviet positions that had lost their fire support, and hundreds of German soldiers rushed into the well-arranged defensive positions of the Soviet army, driving the opponent who had little resistance from inside. The Soviets threw away their armor and fled towards the second-line defensive positions behind them.

Several German soldiers hid in the trenches waving a German swastika flag full of bullet holes, and the majestic Leopard assault gun leaned its low body next to the destroyed Soviet pillbox, and its body was just covered, which was considered to have found a more suitable cover for itself.

"Sir, we have captured the first layer of the enemy's defensive position, and are expanding our gains on both flanks, and the enemy's resistance is much weaker than the day before yesterday, and I think they are short of ammunition. A German battalion commander stood at a table in front of the regimental headquarters, pointed to a map full of contour lines, and reported to his superiors the results of the attack: "Because of the assault gun cover of the division headquarters, we lost only 50 soldiers. ”

The regiment commander nodded, acknowledging the report of his subordinates. His infantry regiment consisted of three infantry battalions, and he used two battalions of troops in this attack, with about 1,000 men involved in the attack. As a result, by the time he captured the enemy's position, he had only 50 soldiers killed, and he was already very satisfied with the result.

What worries him is that the Soviet defenders have always been known for their madness and bravery, and these soldiers are good at fighting back as soon as they lose their positions, and use the lives of countless soldiers to retake the positions that have fallen. So he hastened to give an order so that his troops could minimize their losses in the event of a possible counterattack: "Let the troops stop advancing and consolidate their defensive positions." It is possible for the Soviets to fight back, and we have to hold our positions as long as possible. ”

He looked at the map, then marked the position he had just captured, and then laughed happily: "Now we are the closest to Moscow, almost 12,700 meters. ”