Chapter 34: Crusaders vs. Grizzly Bears
The tanks in the Darjeeling belt have been advancing in a group of 5, and the muzzles of the guns are blooming in unison, and the chariots attacking from the outside cannot do it if they want to attack the rear of the turret of the chariot on the other side through the vehicle in front of them.
Although he successfully knocked out 2 Matilda tanks by blowing up the convoy chrysanthemum, they were all miscellaneous soldiers among the miscellaneous soldiers, and they were directly counterattacked by Darjeeling.
A ram tank, after hitting a Matilda tank, was hit directly into the turret by Ruke Lily's Churchill Mk.VII.
The Ram tank is an American M3 Grant medium tank as a chassis, some parts of the hull and turret have been redesigned, the gun mount on the right side of the hull and the 75mm gun have been canceled, and a new single turret has been installed, and the British QF2-pounder or QF6-pounder tank is installed, and now the participating Ram tanks are equipped with stronger QF6-pounder guns, but even if this single-turret design is much better than the multi-turret M3, the armor is not much better than the M3, and the thickest part is more than 70mm, But is that enough?
In front of Churchill Mk.VII., it was still like meat.
In addition, two Valentine infantry tanks were lost, two of which had been poking out of the same corner of the wall and firing one shot at the other, one hitting the other Matilda tank, and the other over between the two tanks and hitting the rear of the flag car Black Prince tank.
The tail armor of the Black Prince tank is only about 50mm, and these Valentine infantry tanks are also equipped with QF6-pounder guns, which can definitely penetrate in general, however, the hull part is blocked by the Matilda tank that is already lying down, and can only hit the rear of the turret, and the rear of the turret of the Black Prince tank is also more than 100mm, plus it is not a vertical incidence, and the shell is directly bounced.
Just as the two tanks were retracting, the 300mm guns of the terrible Churchill Royal Sapper Tank turned around -
"Boom!" Needless to say, whether or not the Valentine infantry tanks were destroyed, they were directly buried in the ruins of the house.
The A15 Valentine infantry tank is a light tank, only 16t, but as an infantry tank, the maximum speed is only 24km/h, which is not at all as flexible as many light tanks, let alone reversing, it is impossible to escape the explosion range of 300mm shells. The armor was up to 60mm thick, which was negligible in the face of a 300mm cannon.
In this round of firefighting, the swap ratio of the two sides, Maple Leaf High School is simply a big loss.
"I can't help it." Oreo switched channels and began to command his team, "Move into battle formation!" ”
The single column formation is in the form of a marching army, turning into battle, of course, you have to try to spread the chariot on the road, the leading Grizzly tank has just fired a shot, is being loaded, and there is nothing to be done about the two cruiser tanks that are galloping, so the two Grizzly tanks behind are driven out from the side of the leading tank.
Just when the gunners of the two Grizzly tanks rotated their turrets to aim at the two cruiser tanks -
"Boom!" The guns of the Cromwell and Crusader tanks were the first to breathe flames!
Due to the slow reaction, the distance between the two sides has been reduced to less than 50m in these times, and firing the cannon is almost equivalent to a hit!
The two Grizzly Bear tanks, which were just about to open fire, were immediately hit by 95mm armor-piercing shells and 57mm armor-piercing shells!
So close, any armor-piercing projectile can basically penetrate the Grizzly tank based on the Sherman tank, the thickest part of the Grizzly tank's armor is 75mm, and the QF6-pounder gun can be worn one by one.
It's just that now this Grizzly tank has just driven out of the front car, and the front of the hull has reached 60 °, that is, the equivalent armor is 150mm, plus the unreliability of the British tank gun with rifled pressure brush speed in the face of beveled armor, the armor of the Grizzly tank directly bounced the shell to the side, smashing the wall of the building.
Another 95mm armor-piercing shell also smashed into the Grizzly Tank's armor at a high inclination, but this level of impact and vibration was enough for the metal jet hidden deep inside to shoot out like a laser before the shell was bounced off!
The metal jet of the armor-piercing projectile does not show a completely straight line like the beam, and at the moment of hitting the target, the metal jet spreads outward in a fan shape, that is, it is closer to the vertical than when the armor-piercing projectile is incidence.
The metal jet desperately drilled into the armor, but was blocked by the external carbon coating and transferred to the judgment device for judgment. The judging device determined that the Grizzly Tank had been penetrated and raised the white flag.
The two types of artillery are compared side by side here, and the advantages and disadvantages are clear.
Of course, this is not to say that armor-piercing shells are inferior to armor-piercing bullets, which have a slow initial velocity, their trajectory is more susceptible to wind direction, and their firing range is short, which means that the position of the combat vehicle CQC at this close range can be advantageous. The armor-piercing shells of the specified specifications in the battle lane competition are not accurate above 300m, and under the same caliber, it is still better to use armor-piercing shells in long-range artillery strikes.
Matching the fighting style of the convoy led by Rose Fruit, Darjeeling's choice of chariot artillery was very correct.
However, the Crusader tank's fire was not useless, and the tank that had just turned the turret to aim here shook and had to re-aim, and the time difference decided that she had lost the opportunity.
"Dangdang!" With two bangs, the Crusader tank and the Cromwell tank crashed into the gap between the three Grizzly tanks.
The sighting of the Grizzly tank was again interfered with.
At this time, the artillery of the Crusader tank quickly turned an angle and aimed at a grizzly tank in the middle, and spewed flames again!
Burst Reload...... This skill is sometimes quite easy to achieve, as all members of the turret except the gunner have to hold a shell in front of the bolt before firing the gun, and open it as soon as the shell is ejected and stuff it in, rather than the normal operation of removing the shell from the ammunition rack again.
This is very dangerous in conventional warfare, and it is strictly forbidden, but some people in the battle lane who use medicine to reduce weight and ammunition will never explode are not so concerned, and even, if it is a small-caliber gun, some people will directly pick up a dozen shells and pile them in front of them and be ready to reload at any time.
QF6-pounder gun, caliber 57mm, at this time the commander Cranberry, who was playing a cameo role as a loader, placed an ammunition box on his knee, which contained several shells, and this box could also be used as a small coffee table for black tea when the vehicle was driving smoothly.
It's a pity that because the vanilla's chariot was destroyed just now, it slid to the right side, causing the two chariots to collide, and the cranberry teacup was shattered, and the teacup was broken, which meant that all restrictions on the operation of the chariot were lifted!
The chariot, which usually has to be stabilized with black tea at any time, has lifted the restrictions, and both vehicle skills and shooting have been upgraded to a higher level!
The 57mm armor-piercing bullet was operated on the hull of the Grizzly tank in the middle at zero distance, even if it was an oblique incidence, but this zero distance paste face made the Grizzly Bear tank, which was not thick or thin, had to pop out the white flag.
(To be continued)