81_81266 "Fire!" Mitchell Wittman saw a British tank not far away from the commander's periscope that was gradually becoming clear in the rain. It was an American M3 tank, and there was no improved version of the 75 mm gun directly in front of it.

"Boom!" the Tiger tank's 88 mm long-barreled cannon let out a roar. The cannonball tore through the air, causing the rain to retreat from the expansion of the air current, and seemed to cut a straight line in the continuous rain, flying directly towards its target.

On the other side, the vanguard of the British 2nd Panzer Division, which had inserted itself between Bunge and Loostoft, did not know that they had rammed headlong into the defensive position of the 502nd Heavy Tank Destroyer Battalion Teaching 1st Company.

The driver of a modified M3LEE tank was maneuvering his tank up the hill, and on the side of this tank, the M3 tank, as the company commander's command vehicle, had already climbed the hill first.

"Hey, company commander, we thought we would find the Germans in the town ahead, but it seems that they abandoned the town and retreated. "Holding the intercom, the commander of a British tank was chatting with his commander.

"Boom!" the sound of an explosion that shook the ground could be heard clearly even through the tank's armor and headphones, and the commander who heard the explosion quickly lifted the hatch of the tank and poked his head out to see what was going on around him.

However, he saw that in the heavy rain, his company commander's car, which was slightly ahead of his tank, exploded into a ball of flames not far away, burning and exploding violently even in the heavy rain, which made people shudder to watch.

"Car No. 3! Car No. 3! I can't see what happened, the company commander's car exploded! From which direction did the enemy attack come from? Is there an ambush on your left, on your left?" grabbed the intercom, and the British commander began to confirm the situation with his comrades on the other side.

"I didn't find the enemy on my side! I didn't find the enemy on my side! Hell!" This armored company has a total of 6 tanks, 2 improved M3LEE types, and the remaining 4 ordinary M3 tanks, only half of which have intercoms and radios, and the remaining half are not equipped with such important equipment.

So the British commander, after the company commander's tank was destroyed, had to contact the only remaining friendly tank with a radio: "Beware of going uphill! The enemy may be in the town on the other side of the road! I can't see them! But they can see us!"

"Oh God, get the infantry up, stop, stop!" the captain of the other tank shouted into the microphone, but there were still two tanks that rushed up the hill because there was no radio, exposing their bodies to the German tanks.

"Boom!" another tank was hit by a shell, and the entire hull of the tank was pierced, spewing out a torrent of metal, and then it was piled up there as if it had lost its soul.

"Arman! Reverse!" the British driver who leaned out of the car loudly reminded his accomplice not far away, but it was obviously too late. The M3 tank had just stopped to reverse when it was hit by an armor-piercing shell.

A burst of fire erupted from the turret, and the driver in charge of driving the tank lifted the hatch and jumped out of his tank, rolling and crawling in the direction of his team.

"Stop! Stop if you don't want to die! Don't rush up the hill! The enemy is in the opposite village! At least one tank! At least one tank!" the British tank commander shouted into the intercom, "What the hell are those idiots in charge of reconnaissance thinking? We've all been attacked!"

"Give a signal to the battalion headquarters in the back and organize an attack!" the commander of the infantry appeared more sophisticated, and he quickly climbed the hill with a few soldiers, lay down and carefully watched the situation on the opposite side with binoculars, and then retreated to the side of the stopped tank unit.

He pointed in the direction of the small village and began to introduce the shape of the entire battlefield to several tank commanders: "They are well hidden, I can't see the location of the machine gun point, and I haven't found the location of the enemy tank, there are the corpses of our soldiers on the ground, they don't look very fresh, and it is estimated that they have been dead for at least 1 day......"

"I'll have the soldiers outflank the Germans, get close to the German defensive positions, and try to help you find out where the German tanks are. The infantry commander began to assign his men's offensive routes, pointing to the map and writing and drawing.

"Maybe just an anti-tank gun. A commander looked at the company commander's tank, which was still burning not far away, and spoke.

"It's about 900 meters away, and you can only see one building, some low bushes and mounds. The other side is very well camouflaged, and if we go around the wings and attack through the cover of the bushes, it may have some effect. The other commander pointed to the side.

"German tanks are used to acting alone or in small groups, they are confident in themselves, but we have a numerical advantage, so don't be afraid. After a while, the 3rd Company attacked head-on with us, and the 2nd Company went back to the side and killed them in one go!" The battalion commander looked at the terrain and ordered loudly: "Don't wait for support! Start attacking now!"

After a short period of discussion, the British tank units began their own attack, accompanied by the infantry, and rushed to the high ground in three directions, preparing to cross the road and launch a joint attack on the small village on the other side.

"Boom!" another explosion came, and the British offensive seemed to be accompanied by misfortune and disaster from the very beginning. Not long after their tank emerged, one of the tanks was hit in the front armor plate, and the whole tank burned up, turning into a cloud of flames and stopping in the path of the charge.

"A tank has been destroyed, I see smoke and fire on the other side, they are lying in ambush behind that building, do you see the window that is blocking the curtains, do you see that window, their artillery is there!" shouted a tank commander, pointing in the distance.

"I don't know if it's an anti-tank gun or a tank! We can't see what's going on behind the house!Speed up!Keep attacking!Keep attacking!" The tank commander shouted excitedly, because he really didn't know if the German ** team hiding there would take him as the next target, he could only pray, praying that the other party was not aiming at him.

God forbid, the other side opened fire again, and instead of choosing him, he knocked a tank to his left away, and the cannon easily pierced through the armor of the British tank, tearing through the fragile steel plates and breaking the people inside into fragmented corpses. The hit British tank came to a slow halt, plummeting into a wreckage.

"I can see where the other side is! I'm aiming!" the cannon shouted back!

"Fire, fire, fire!" ordered the British commander in a loud voice. He looked a little flustered, because the next tank to be destroyed by the other side might be his most threatening M3lee.

"Phew!" his tank finally fired the first shot of the counterattack, and the shell flew towards the gray-white collapsed building, hitting the wall of the building, knocking down half of the wall. However, unfortunately, this collapse set off a slight smoke, which made it even more difficult to see the position of the German ** team.

Fortunately, the sky was raining heavily, and the smoke was only lifted for a few seconds before being dispersed by the rain. And a gray behemoth appeared in the sights and observation periscopes of the British armored forces, and the black hole on the muzzle looked terrifying.

"Oh my God, German tanks, German tanks, it's a new tank! Aim, fire!" the tank commander shouted in fright, "Oh my God! It's firing!"

Through the periscope, he saw that the Tiger tank on the opposite side once again spewed out dazzling tongues of fire, and an 88 mm shell easily smashed another British M3 tank into scrap metal at a distance of 800 meters.

At this distance, the thickness of the M3's armor could not even withstand the attack of the Panther 75mm cannon, so the British tankers knew that if they faced the Tiger tank, which had been rumored to be more difficult than the Panther, they would have to desperately get close to their opponents and fire at the closest distance to have a chance of winning.

After all, when the Tiger tank had just been deployed and put into service on a large scale in the German ** team, there was not much left of the armored forces of the French front line counterattack. Therefore, the German Tiger tank has not been destroyed until now, which is the fundamental reason why this tank is too mythical in Britain and the United States.

Some people say that the thickness of the frontal armor of the new German tank cannot be penetrated at all, and many soldiers ask the tank to be equipped with a 105 mm caliber cannon that is impossible to achieve, and some armored units even require the troops to fire when they are close to a distance of 50 meters before firing to ensure that the front armor plate of the new German tank is penetrated.

"Boom!" Suddenly, a puff of white smoke erupted from the bushes on the side, and an M3 tank that was detouring on the side was destroyed in an instant. The outflanked British soldiers were in disarray, and the radio channels were filled with messy shouting.

"The Germans have two tanks! The Germans have two tanks! Retreat! Retreat! We are attacked! Tom is hit! Tom is hit!"

"Oh my God! Reverse! Hurry up! Their machine guns fired! Some of our infantry were hit! ”

"Hey! They're firing again! Cover us! Cover us! Jack's tank is on fire! Jack is finished! I saw him trying to climb out of his tank, only to be set on fire! He was burned to death!"

Just when the British were in a mess, the German tanks rushed out of the hidden position, and the No. 007 tank took the lead, and on the other side, another Tiger tank that had been fired and exposed also followed, and the British immediately began to retreat.

The artillery of the Tiger tank fired continuously, and the British tank was hit continuously, and it caught fire and smoked, burning and exploding. The whole battlefield was filled with the screams of the British, and the cheers of the Germans in victory