Chapter 96 Giant Beast Armor

At this time, the mortar howitzer, which had been laid flat and parallel to the ground, had an angle with the direction of the front of the tank.

However, this angle was not vertically 90 degrees, but about 120 degrees.

The muzzle was pointing at the oblique rear of the tank.

As we all know, there is a spade at the rear of the self-propelled artillery that needs to be lowered into the ground when firing.

The body needs to withstand the strong recoil when firing with the support of the spade.

Ruger's small tank did not have this design at first, and even when the mortar howitzer was just installed, he didn't pay much attention to this matter.

But later in actual combat, he found that even if the conventional recoil of this gun had been reduced to a very low level, without the spade, the tank would still move too much.

Especially when firing grenades instead of mortar shells at long-range targets.

This not only affects the accuracy, but also causes considerable damage to the body itself.

So after many experiments, he also installed a spade that moves down quickly at the rear of the body.

But in order to balance rapid lowering and sufficient support, his self-propelled spade is a little close to the ground after entering the combat state.

This also has an advantage. If the gun is not fired parallel but slightly raised at an angle, even if the spade is not lowered, the vehicle body will press it down due to recoil.

At least it can play a large part.

But there are pros and cons.

For example, now, Ruger dare not let the muzzle and the front of the vehicle fire directly.

Even if the gun barrel has been adjusted to be level with the ground, theoretically the recoil of the gun firing will be horizontally backward and will not press down the vehicle body.

Because in this case, even if there is a bulge on the ground behind the vehicle body, it will give the spade a forward force to move backward, making his plan to use the recoil to accelerate and escape fail.

Therefore, he can only adjust the muzzle to the rear and fire. In this way, the vehicle body rushes forward under the recoil. Even if it encounters a pit during the process, the spade that is tilted backward as a whole will be squeezed and lifted up.

As for why the muzzle was not pointed directly to the rear, it was not only because there was not enough time, but also because his gun could not turn to the rear.

There was no turret on his small tank, so the gun could not rotate 360 ​​degrees.

A 120-degree angle with the front of the car was almost its limit.

And such a large rotation can only be achieved by turning the tail clockwise to the left.

Because only the left side of the front compartment of the small tank had enough space or groove to accommodate the gun body, the right side was where Luger was because of the cockpit.

But it was all worth it.

Under the recoil of the three grenades with propellant charges close to the peak, the small tank rushed forward quickly as if the rocket booster was suddenly turned on.

And because of the angle problem, it shifted sideways and just avoided the edge of the big mouth of the metal behemoth rushing forward.

"Ha, eat dust!"

After confirming from the scout Lao Quo that he had successfully escaped from the dragon's mouth, Luger could not help but roar.

But before he could be happy for long, the metal beast that found that it failed to bite forward stretched out two 37mm claw guns and banged at the back of the small tank.

The speed of the rapid-fire cannon shells was very fast, at least 800 meters per second.

With this flying speed, even if the stability and accuracy of the gun body itself were slightly poor due to structural reasons, a considerable number of shells hit the Honey Badger tank.

However, Ruger did not take it to heart.

First, the small tank was designed to deal with the ghosts that would come out of nowhere, so even the rear armor was not thin.

Although the side armor had been penetrated before, and two layers were penetrated, it was shot by the armor-piercing shells of the 75mm anti-tank gun.

The special armor-piercing shells of the 75mm caliber anti-tank gun are also comparable to the small grenades of the mere 37mm rapid-fire gun?

However, after being hit, when he heard the incredible banging noises behind him, Ruger realized that he had underestimated his opponent.

In addition to grenades, the shells fired by the opponent were mixed with armor-piercing shells.

It seems that the difference in ammunition will further affect the stability of the artillery during continuous firing. The rapid-fire cannons on the two claws of the metal Tyrannosaurus Rex still use two different ammunitions.

Probably because of this, because of the posture and orientation, the guy's cannon with armor-piercing shells is farther away from Luger, and the ammunition that hits the tank is less.

However, even so, the bullets at the rear of the car still scared Luger.

The armor-piercing shells of the 37mm anti-aircraft gun can penetrate a 24mm thick steel plate at a distance of 800 meters.

With the distance between the two sides being only a few dozen meters, even if the honey badger armor cannot be penetrated, it will cause considerable pressure on it.

If someone hits the old wound with a few more shots, the armor of the small tank is not impossible to be penetrated.

This aspect is fine, but more importantly, the mortar rapid-fire cannon on the small tank has no turret.

Even if Ruger had specially strengthened the gun structure when he built this gun, it would only be immune to heavy machine gun attacks at medium and long distances.

From the beginning, he had never considered the possibility of being directly hit by the opponent's large-caliber artillery.

So if the gun was directly hit by a rapid-fire cannon, even if the gun was strong enough, it would be more or less affected.

Even if you don't care about the problem of reduced accuracy, it would be terrible if the gun exploded due to hidden injuries.

So Ruger, who was being hit by the Metal Tyrannosaurus Double Claw Cannon, was busy steering the steering wheel left and right to avoid shooting from behind, even though he was not in danger for the time being.

However, as he dodged along the zigzag route, his relative speed naturally dropped.

After the metal Tyrannosaurus rushed over, it gradually slowed down and turned to chase in the direction of Ruger's escape.

For a moment, the crisis on Ruger's side not only did not shrink, but became even greater.

"NND, this won't work!"

"If you just hide, you have to do your best, how can you fight back?"

Just as he was secretly looking for a solution, he heard a roar from not far away.

It turned out to be the female warrior who was knocked away before, jumping over again.

The blood stains on the corners of her mouth were not wiped dry, and the dents on her chest armor plate hit by the Tyrannosaurus were still pressing on her internal organs, but she still rushed over with two long-handled swords.

"Don't!"

Ruger shouted hurriedly.

He knew that the female warrior probably drank the special red potion of this world - the life recovery potion, and felt that she was fine again.

But the Tyrannosaurus monster in front of him was really not so easy to deal with.

Ruger's system cannot view other people's information, but he can roughly infer the strength level of the female warrior through the battle power comparison.

For reference, the ordinary fallen zombies on the ground are considered level 1, and the nightmare-level fallen zombies in the evil cave are considered level 36.

The fallen rogues that had fought with the female warrior before should also be novice monsters near the novice village, probably at level 2 or 3.

However, their strength is much higher. Although it is not at the nightmare level, it is also higher than the ordinary difficulty.

Probably a compromise to nightmare, about 20 levels but less than 30 levels.