Chapter 71: T-34-57's Response

The T-34-57 medium tank was equipped with a ZIS-2 57 mm anti-tank gun, an anti-tank gun with a barrel length of 73 times the diameter and was the prototype of the ZIS-4 tank gun.

This gun can fire a BR-271 armor-piercing projectile weighing 3.14 kg at a muzzle velocity of almost 1000 m/s, penetrate vertical armor 90 mm thick at a distance of 1000 meters, and still have an armor-piercing power of 75 mm at a distance of 75 meters.

The T-34-57 tank even received the title of "tank hunter" in the later period due to its powerful anti-tank capabilities.

"Looks like they didn't find out where we attacked from just now, they just know the general direction!" The monkey let out a sigh of relief.

As the second shell of the T-34-57 tank was fired, it exploded less than 10 meters away from the place where the two tanks were, and the fire of the explosion directly exposed the turret of the tank Type I C hidden in the hollow, and the monkey opened its mouth wide and looked stunned.

Is this enemy fire reconnaissance?

Watching the turret of the T-34-57 turn to him in the dark, Li Jing broke out in a cold sweat and kicked the back of the monkey's seat: "I'm forked, run......"

The monkey, who was still staring at the barrel of the enemy's T-34-57 in a daze, reacted suddenly, and hurriedly stepped on the accelerator, and the No. 1 C suddenly burst out of the hollow of the half-slope and rushed out of the slope.

The Type I C had barely gone far down the slope when an enemy shell flew over the turret of the tank.

The monkey was also shocked into a cold sweat, and shouted loudly to Li Jing: "I'm X, hit it...... Do you understand ...... suppression?"

Li Jing quickly turned the turret, and then faced the T-34 tank parked in the open space, which was like a shuttle, and the tungsten core armor-piercing bullet "clanged" on the tank body, which seemed to have no effect at all.

The Type I and C made a sharp turn down the slope and disappeared into the darkness, and the T-34-57's guns had no target, and could only shoot blindly at some possible places, as if to vent.

Inside the T-34-57 tank, the commander's eyes were glued to the periscope, and his hands kept adjusting the direction, and he couldn't see anything except black or black in front of him......

"The target is lost, stop fighting, the muzzle fire will expose us, and save some ammo too, damn it......" shouted the commander.

The loader stopped what he was doing and complained in a dissatisfied voice: "It's so dark, I can't see where the enemy is, how can I fight this?" I said I should bring some flares! ”

The commander ignored the loader's complaints and asked the driver loudly, "How's it going?" Can tanks still be driven? ”

The driver's annoyed voice came: "I tried, it may be that there is a problem with the driving wheel on the right side, or it may be that the track is broken, in short, there is a problem with the suspension system on the right side, as long as it starts, turn to the left, you have to go out and check it!" ”

There was silence inside the tank, it was undoubtedly very dangerous to go out at this time, there was darkness all around, and no one could say how many enemies were hiding in it!

After a long while, a weak voice came from the gunner's position: "Could it be a coincidence?" Only that German tank? It's just not known when that tank was hiding there? ”

Several people in the tank looked at the gunner in unison, although it was too dark to see, but there was still a look of disgust in their eyes.

The commander asked angrily: "In this wilderness, there will be an enemy tank that happens to stop on the road we want to pass?" Do you believe this speculation? ”

"You mean, there are other ambushes?" The driver was a little nervous.

"Probably not, it's far from the road, no fool will ambush others here, we don't have a route ourselves, I guess, it should be chasing us all the way!" The commander guessed and said, I have to say, the captain guessed accurately.

"No way, we didn't turn on the headlights all the way, and at night like this, we couldn't see anything more than 30 meters, and we kept an eye on what was behind us, and there were no enemies chasing after us at all." The driver retorted.

"Then how do you explain that there will be tanks ambushing us here? It's a long way from the battle line, maybe they have some technology or methods that we don't know......"

Listening to the commander's words, everyone was silent, too many didn't understand, and they couldn't figure it out.

"Perhaps, we need to go out and check the tracks, now may be an opportunity, the enemy has just been beaten away by us, and may not be back for a while. If it can be fixed, we'll be able to get out of this damn place, and before the enemy returns......" Loader sloppily advice.

"The enemy should not have gone far...... I saw it just now, and they're fast! The gunner whispered.

The loader sneered in the direction of the gunner, "The most useless thing here is you, I haven't seen you hit ...... accurately"

The gunner was silent.

The commander stroked his forehead helplessly, the gunner was a rookie, but the loader was a coolie. The loader has always looked down on the gunner, the contradiction between the two has been a long time, don't look at the gunner usually looks like he is very bookish, it is really bad to be ruthless, otherwise with the appearance of the loader, it is impossible to only dare to take advantage of a little bit in the mouth.

The loader has no brains, and he is the only one who can talk nonsense on the battlefield, so the commander has no choice but to change the subject: "Anyway, we can't stay here all the time, it's very necessary to go out and check!" ”

"We can stay like this until dawn, tank armor is our best protection, and when dawn we can know where the enemy is?" The driver retorted that he did not agree to go out now.

"We don't know what the situation is like around us, and the enemy has already spotted us, and now we can do something while it's dark, we can't waste this time in vain!"

"A lot can happen in one night, and a single grenade can kill us all, and even if no enemy touches us at night, if we stay here all night, we may find ourselves surrounded by German troops at dawn tomorrow......"

"Why don't we abandon the car and run away?" So the driver advised!

"The honor of a soldier does not allow me to do such a thing until the last resort, and this kind of thing is no longer necessary, this is our new tank, and it must not be allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy......"

"However, one has already been left with the enemy...... "The driver still did not give up.

"That tank has been destroyed, let's hope the enemy won't get any more information...... I'll report this in detail, but I can't accept this happening in my crew. "The commander categorically admonished the crew members!

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