Chapter 57: Katyusha shrinks in a circle

St. Gloriana Ladies College, Darjeeling –

"Rose Hip has successfully paralyzed the KV troops of Truth, but there are only 4 tanks left." Orange and Huang Baihao said.

"That's enough to make sandwiches." Darjeeling still elegantly held the black tea and said unhurriedly.

Outside there was a constant roar of artillery and explosions, and the occasional crash of the armor of the chariots, but Darjeeling did not direct the battle.

"With all due respect, before we made the bread on the outside of the sandwich, it was still the filling of the rice ball."

At the time of the battle against the "reliable comrade" of Rosefruit, Darjeeling commanded his own team, led by the earth turtle, and under the continuous forward bombardment of the royal sapper tank, the entire convoy followed the retreat direction of the Banner of Truth wagon, and crashed head-on into the Katyusha's pocket formation.

Then Darjeeling stopped its advance and ordered all the tanks to drive into the crater.

That's right, it's the crater, this field is not very hard, under the power of the Royal Sapper Tank's 300mm cannon, how can it not leave a huge crater?

Darjeeling's tactic was to deliberately bombard a few craters, let all the tanks drive in, and aim head-on in the direction of the T-34 cluster and the pocket formation of T-44 and IS-3.

Then, basically remain silent, and occasionally fire a random shot to meet it symbolically.

The low altitude in the crater makes the tank a little lower, and the depth of the crater makes the muzzle of the Churchill tank flat or even the extent that it can only eat soil, the Soviet tank, do you have a depression angle to deal with this situation? The larger the caliber of the gun, the more the ricochet, the more first-class turret, the less prone it is.

Moreover, even if this situation is barely hit, it is almost parallel incidence, and the shell will be 100% bounced.

Delay the time, and wait for the arrival of the rose hips, and then raise the wolf smoke of the counterattack.

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School of Truth, Katyusha side-

"......" looked at the pile of chariots that were constantly bombarded in the encirclement but were unharmed, Katyusha's expression was slightly impatient.

Even so, she ordered the entire vehicle to be constantly reloaded with high-explosive grenades to attack. If you can lift all the dirt that is hidden by the crater, you will have a chance.

If you're lucky, any grenade that just happens to explode and hit the weak point of the enemy vehicle can be equivalent to being destroyed, at least the grenade has the advantage of almost not ricocheting.

"Lord Katyusha, having broken through the enemy of the KV, it is expected that there will be two more minutes to get here. Do you want to divide your forces to meet it? Nona, who was in charge of guarding the Rose Fruit side, asked.

"Not really." Katyusha said, "Evacuate the flag car and prepare to meet it on the spot!" ”

Yes, Katyusha intends to face the enemy in two directions on the spot, and it is impossible for the 4 cruiser tanks led by Rose Fruit to eat the Truth's own team, so the next movement of Darjeeling is obvious, and she must respond to Rose Fruit's surprise attack and drive out of the crater.

The first thing that exposes the chariot from the crater is the lower part of the head, which is where the front armor is more fragile - because in the chariot battle, the first part is not easy to hit, and if you want to hit the first one, you have to lower the barrel, and objectively increase the inclination angle and increase the ricochet rate, so that the armor under the head of the chariot does not need to be too thick.

However, when the vehicle reaches the top of the hill, the head will be lifted up and directly facing the enemy's muzzle. Katyusha wanted to seize this opportunity.

However, considering her own hit rate, Katyusha still has a risk to take if she wants to win as soon as possible.

"All vehicles of the team, Π²ΠΏΠ΅Ρ€Ρ‘Π΄ (forward)! Nona, the guard is on alert. ”

"Understood." x n

The main team of Katyusha's chariots is located in a large circle from several craters made in Darjeeling and used as bunkers, and the closest and farthest from the craters is 300~350m.

In order to increase the accuracy of hits, Katyusha ordered to reduce the encirclement so that when the depression angle of his side was pressed to the minimum, he could barely hit the hull of the frontal chariot.

The T-34 and T-44 were slightly better, and the IS-3 had a depression angle of no need to think about it, only 2Β°, so Katyusha gave up Nona, a super powerful gunner output, and let her be alert to the upcoming rose hip.

All the T-34s and T-44s stopped firing, and the "rumble" of the engines began to slowly increase, pushing the army-green chariots into motion.

For the time being, there is no need to worry about Darjeeling returning fire, the group of tanks is lying in the crater, even if the tank with a good depression angle, in this situation, no matter how hard to lower the barrel, it will not be able to parallel the barrel to the horizontal plane.

The 300mm gun that looks easy to hit the arc trajectory is not to worry about, if it is a 380mm gun assault tiger, then the Katyusha may have to escape, but the Churchill Royal Sapper Tank does not care, although they are all hundreds of mm caliber cannons, but the recoilless gun is different, no recoil is an advantage, but there are gains and losses, the tank is squatting in the crater, and the back is the other side of the crater equivalent to the earthen wall, in this situation to launch the recoilless gun, the recoil flow will cause consequences, what is obvious.

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St. Gloriana Ladies College, Darjeeling –

"The filling in the middle of the sandwich is covered with the bread first." Darjeeling looked at the chariot of truth that was approaching to the place where he just couldn't hit, and said slowly.

"Would you like to enjoy it early?" Orange and Huang Bai asked tentatively.

Now, there are three large craters in the encirclement, one with Darjeeling's A43 Black Prince and Royal Sapper tanks, one with three A22 Churchill tanks including Ruke Lily, and one with the last A22 Churchill and A39 Tortoise. All vehicles are facing the direction of the encirclement.

In the area of about 80m from eleven to 2 o'clock opposite the A43 Black Prince in Darjeeling, there are 3 T-34s with "big heads".

In a range of about 100m to 12 o'clock opposite Ruke Lily's A22 Churchill, two T-34/76 and T-44/85 were parked.

About 75m opposite the A39 Earth Turtle, there are the remaining vehicles after the Truth School removed the flag car, including Nona's IS-3, but at this time Nona still has the task of guarding Rose Fruit, and the turret is transferred to the back.

At this time, the long-awaited words of Darjeeling came over the radio -

"Lord Darjeeling, I'm here!" Rose Hip said.

Immediately afterward, several clusters of explosions accompanied by dust, exploded around the 3 "big heads" of the T-34 facing Darjeeling.

However, the IS-3, which was already heading in the direction of the Rose Hip attack, also opened fire, and took out an A30 Challenger tank with one shot, but then had to start slowly turning the turret and reloading............

(To be continued)