While fierce fighting was raging on the outskirts of Odessa, Fafnir received an order: his Tiger King No. 223 was asked to return to the city of Odessa to provide cover for the retreat of a special force. This special force, led by an SS major named Hugo Viven, was to break through the Soviet encirclement and retreat from southern Odessa under the cover of some of the elite Wehrmacht troops who had been redeployed.

Fafnier looked at the unit with curiosity—there were indeed elite SS soldiers in it, but more often than not, there were truckloads of boxes and nerds who looked like the glasses couldn't be beaten, and the major who led the group barely showed up, and the few appearances were made with a mask, and the face under the mask was completely visible. There was an acquaintance in the team - Fafnier remembered the man's cold reptilian eyes well, Captain André Anderst, who was now a captain. "It's a military rank that I got by killing the old, weak, women and children. Fafnir thought to himself, but he didn't want to ask the viper about it.

The breakthrough was still quite smooth, and there were not too many Soviet Red Army blockers along the way, after all, they were still far from encircling the Germans, and the occasional Soviet tank became Favenir's bait. The serpent captain along the way didn't seem to recognize the sergeant either, and the two of them didn't talk to each other at all.

Finally, just as it was about to break out of the encirclement, this unit collided with the large forces of the Soviet Red Army. Fortunately, the Red Army was too busy fighting the defending German forces to intercept this small force, which unfortunately the Red Army used heavy artillery to wipe out the force. After a round of shelling, all the trucks carrying boxes and the eye brothers were unharmed, but the SS soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Fafnier sat in the No. 223 King Tiger car unscathed, he watched a heavy cannon tear a barrel car into the air, "It's a 152 heavy gun, the Russians really look up to us, this is all an artillery regiment's salvo, right? Huh? Isn't this the poisonous snake Captain Andrei? 152 is in the middle of the game? His luck is really bad! The Russians' shells have avenged their people......" The captain with snake eyes was torn into countless pieces of flesh by the 152mm shells without saying a word.

Fortunately, the shelling went quickly, and Fafnir's Tiger King was well hidden, and it seemed that the observing Soviet soldiers felt that there were not too many targets worth shelling, so they stopped the artillery bombardment. About a company of soldiers of the Soviets, under the cover of several T34s, was ready to come down and take prisoners. Fafnir took the opportunity to make a sudden attack, and at the beginning he reimbursed the T34s who were unaware, so frightened that the Soviet infantry fled in a hurry, and Fafnir did not dare to pursue, and immediately retreated with the remaining German tanks and armored vehicles leading the trucks.

Major Hugo Weaving was completely fine, and he didn't seem nervous at all—he couldn't see the expression behind the mask. By night, this unit managed to connect with the receiving Waffen-SS units and handed over the entire convoy. Major Hugo got out of the car and got into a very strange enclosed SS vehicle, and before getting into the car he seemed to remove his mask, but because of the darkness, no one saw his movements and appearance - except for Fafnier, who had night vision, Fafnier clearly saw that under the mask was a red skeletal face, completely skinless, with atrophied muscles, and a skull at all. "It seems like something terrible. This world has become more interesting. “

The F-FDTL soldiers set off for rebuilding after handing over the trucks and box crews. Faviniel was napping in the car, and the driver followed the rear lights of the guide car in front of him in the darkness. At daybreak, they made a replenishment trip, and the personnel took the opportunity to rest in the Soviet village on the side of the road. At night, they returned to Odessa, where the Tiger King was towed away for maintenance, and Fafnir and the crew immediately went to take a bath and sleep.

Outside of his knowledge, factories in Germany have already begun production of new equipment.

In 1942, after the development of the Panther and Tiger, the German army proposed a proposal to design a fresh tank armored vehicle with universal parts. The Panther and Tiger 1 were quite successful on the battlefield, and Daimler and Porsche presented the design drawings of the new cars on this basis, and the development of the E-series officially began.

During this period, Daimler submitted a prototype of a new heavy tank: the Lion tank. It weighs 95 tons, has staggered wheels, has a tall body, and uses a 105 mm tank gun. During the test, the two companies presented design drawings for the E50, E75 and E100 – still with staggered load-bearing wheels and a tall body.

Numerous problems arose during the testing of the Lion tank, the drivetrain was as unreliable as ever, with frequent breakdowns, taking up huge tonnage and space, insufficient engine power, many breakdowns throughout the car, and a slow run of no more than 20 kilometers per hour. The only thing that can be commended is that the gun performed well, but it was dragged down by weak armor - because the traveling gear and engine took up a lot of space and tonnage, the armor was still weak even after a well-designed ricochet ramp, and the engine was front-mounted so that the whole car immediately lay down after being hit in the front! and after the armor was strengthened, the speed was unacceptably slow, and replacing a stronger engine required more space and tonnage, and the endless loop was almost unsolvable.

By 1943, as the captured Soviet Stalin tanks were sent to the German War Office for evaluation, the director of the Panzer Corps became more and more unacceptable to the design of the two companies - the improved E-series had become as large and heavy as the Lion tank, and he had been exhausted by the lion's little patience, and finally exploded after seeing the new E-series drawings!

His Excellency the Director of the Armored Forces drew his pistol and prepared to duel with the designers of the two companies! Or shoot all the design teams directly! Finally, he was stopped by the Minister of Armaments of the Reich, and the two of them called the design team together and scolded him, and the Superintendent of the Panzer Corps expressed his envy for Stalin's method of shooting unqualified designers, and at the same time threatened to enforce this law in the Reich. In the end, the Minister of Armaments and the Chief of Armored Forces unanimously decided on the future of shooting the Lion tank, and the completed prototype was directly returned to the furnace! Then the design of the new E series must be proposed within a month, otherwise it will be difficult to say.

By the time of '43, the potential of the No. 4 tank had been exhausted, and all the production lines were only producing the No. 4G modification, and half of the No. 4 production line was directly converted to the production of the Panther G. The Tiger tank was discontinued, and the King Tiger tank was also discontinued after the completion of the first production, preparing to move to the production of the E series.

In the second half of '43, the prototype of the E series was finally made. The rear engine, the transverse engine, the abandonment of staggered load wheels, the introduction of a new-shaped turret, and the reduction of the height of the vehicle were all adopted by German designers.

E50: The actual weight of the car is 46 tons, the engine is mounted horizontally at the rear, and the body is lower than the Tiger and Panther tanks without staggered load wheels, and the body is still beveled armor similar to the Panther, and the design of the Panther 2 is incorporated into the E50. The turret resembles an inverted saucer, but it is elliptical, and the front of the turret is made of two pieces of wedge-shaped armor, covered with a gun shield, and the gun is an 88mm L71 gun with a central turret. The engine uses the new DB800, and the 900 horsepower allows the guy to run up to 50km on road and 35km off-road. 150 frontal armor, 100 on the sides, 80 in the rear. The turret is 180 front, 100 on the sides, and 80 at the rear.

E75: Enlarged version of E50, more than 85% of parts are common to E50. The turret was mounted on a 128L55 gun with a tonnage of 72 tons, and the engine was HL234P50,1200 horsepower. It allows this big guy to run up to 30 kilometers on the road and 20 kilometers off the road. The frontal armor is up to 170 thick, 120 on the sides, and 100 at the rear, while the turret is 220 on the front, 140 on the sides, and 100 on the rear.

E100: With a tonnage of up to 105 tons, it looks more like a rat in another design line, but the turret has also been transformed into a high-bottomed saucer, using a 128L70 gun, using an HL335 engine, a huge engine with a horsepower of up to 1900. The speed reaches 30~20 km/h. The body with terrifying armor of 220 on the front, 180 on the sides, and 150 on the back, combined with a terrifying turret of 300 on the front, 200 on the sides, and 150 on the rear, makes this guy look indestructible.

Eventually, the High Command decided to produce the E50 and E100, while the E75 was scrapped. On the other hand, Dr. Porsche was warned to stop using electric power on the rats, which allowed the 180-ton rats to gain more internal space and stronger armor – no wonder! Dr. Porsche was going to use a gas turbine! The 3,000-horsepower gas turbine was a tragedy