Chapter 1388 The Leopard in the Cage (Part 2)

It is not easy to accurately hit the moving Panther F-type turret, but it will be different if the distance is close enough. For the experienced gunners of Stalin's 1st Guards Tank Division, hitting an object the size of a tank turret from a distance of five to six hundred meters was a sure thing.

The second wave of artillery shells that roared in with a shrieking sound was quite accurate. Most of the artillery shells hit the front of the turret with just one shot.

What happened next was just as Malashenko expected. The shells tore through the frontal armor with ease, penetrated into it, and exploded inside the turret above the center of the vehicle, releasing astonishingly powerful destructive energy that swept through everything around it.

One by one, the Black Panthers who were accurately hit became manned space rocket launch pads. The turret head, which was not large, was directly pushed upward by the flames bursting out from the vehicle body, and they took off vertically on the spot and fled. go out.

Strong ammunition explosions swept through the wreckage of every Panther that was hit in the middle of the turret and penetrated the armor. Once the 122 Heirloom with a too huge charge in the warhead penetrated the armor and successfully triggered the armor-piercing delay fuse, Almost without exception, the German tanks that were penetrated met the tragic end of exploding their ammunition, and it was the same this time.

The commander in front of him looked through the periscope at the burning remains of the Panthers whose corpses were separated. Malashenko finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

It seems that there is no big problem with my judgment. Even if those weird Black Panthers opposite are really Black Panther 2 that should not exist on the battlefield in history, at least the armor on the front of the turret is definitely not. Invincible, quite a targetable weakness.

"Well done, comrades! The weak point of this German thing is right at the front of the turret. If you aim there, you can hit it with one shot! Keep fighting!"

In fact, even if the development trend of German tanks has deviated from the original historical trajectory due to the indirect butterfly effect, the principle of never departing from the original principles is still more applicable.

The supposed weaknesses remain unchanged, and the approximate weaknesses can be found through a simple tank configuration analysis. This is extremely simple for Malashenko, who understands various German drawing vehicles.

The German armored forces that only withstood the first wave of attacks and survived could not continue their good luck. The second wave of 122 armor-piercing shells hit them all over the face, killing eight Panthers on the spot.

At the beginning of the battle, the German armored forces were actually quite confident in the performance of their new vehicles.

The enhanced front armor of the vehicle body can protect it from any known enemy anti-tank weapon bombardment. The relatively weak armor thickness of the turret is indeed an obvious weakness, but because of the relatively small front projection area of ​​the turret, the probability of being directly hit in actual combat is not high, at least compared to the car body. small.

There is no absolutely invincible tank in the world. At least from the perspective of a medium-sized tank, these new Panthers can indeed meet actual needs and are considered good. They deserve a considerable degree of confidence.

The German armored forces did think so, and of course they did so in actual operations.

But the new Black Panther, which was supposed to be powerful enough, had its crotch stretched out like a bird's eye as soon as it entered the battlefield. The group of Russian guys on the opposite side who didn't know what the evil was, obviously knew that their own weakness was in the armor on the front of the turret.

Because after shooting the upper armor once and finding it useless, everyone immediately aimed at the turret and opened fire?

This may indeed be true, but it is possible to make such a sensitive and rapid battlefield response in just a few seconds, instead of continuing to shoot at the armor on the front of the car body for a second try. In the final analysis, reactions like this are too forced and somewhat unjustifiable. They really cannot be explained by common sense.

If they really just reacted like this based on circumstances, then the rich combat experience and real combat power of the Russians on the opposite side would be too unbelievable and quite scary.

Knowing nothing about the truth, they can only make wild guesses, but the wild guesses are ultimately irrelevant and have no results. The German armored soldiers still have to face the most difficult and fatal problem at hand.

"All tanks continue to move forward. The assault guns immediately stop and fire at those Russians! Suppressive fire!"

The German army had indeed done this before, but the result was not very good.

Especially when facing those Russian heavy tanks with strong armor and sharp guns, almost every one of the German forward medium tanks that tried to engage in crossfire was beaten extremely miserably and their bodies were separated on the spot.

The Russian heavy tanks with strong armor and powerful guns are by no means so easy to destroy. Trying to challenge these Russian heavy tanks with medium tanks is simply a fantasy. If you hit it, it will either ricochet or fail to penetrate. No matter how hard you try, it will be useless.

Letting the assault guns accompanying the attack immediately stop and fire, it is just to play a diversionary role, nothing more.

The commander of the German forward armored forces did not think about how to kill these annoying Russian heavy tanks. He just wanted to contain them as much as possible and prevent them from having too much effort and time to concentrate on dealing with him. That was all. So simple.

After receiving the order, the German assault guns immediately stopped and prepared to fire. This batch of German assault guns not only had the most common three-shot, but also the four-shot that Malashenko had never seen before, that is, through the four-shot. The No. 4 assault gun transformed from the No. 1 tank also made its debut.

It didn't take long for these German assault guns parked in the wilderness to launch the first wave of salvo artillery fire. Knowing that firing armor-piercing shells had no effect, the German assault guns changed their approach and directly loaded high-explosive shells towards those on the position. The Russian monster is coming.

Malashenko didn't take these German assault guns seriously at first, but after a brief moment, there were continuous shocking explosions outside the armor, and he immediately felt something "off". Come.

"These bastards! They are actually firing high-explosive bombs!"

Generally speaking, unless a high-explosive grenade with a large caliber and sufficient charge hits the tank armor and penetrates the weak points of the tank armor, causing serious damage from the outside to the inside, it is generally difficult to attack the heavy-duty armored cannon. tank, causing any substantial damage.

However, sometimes to deal with thick-skinned heavy tanks, direct damage is not actually needed.