Chapter 2369 “Never thought this would happen”

"Cough cough cough cough"

"You almost coughed up your fucking lungs. You can't die, can you?"

"Fuck you! I can't die before your daughter sleeps with you. If you curse me again, I'll be beaten!"

Even if they had just survived a catastrophe and survived, they still couldn't avoid bickering and scolding each other. Such things are indeed quite common on the battlefield, at least among the brothers under Wittmann.

Wegener, who was leaning against the huge body of the broken-legged Tiger King, was coughing violently and gasping for breath. He was still holding the heavy gas mask that he had just taken off his head.

Although Heschel, the mechanical and electrical engineer beside him, was patting his back and breathing hard to make him feel better, his words were very "unnecessary", which made Wei, who was always quarreling with Heschel on a daily basis. Even though Gena was out of breath, he still wanted to "ask for advice" from this arrogant guy and compete for victory.

"I really didn't expect that one day we would be rescued by Russian tanks. I never even dreamed of such a thing. What's even more ironic is that it was the Wehrmacht troops who drove over and rescued us. Those who I have always looked down on, A coward who wants to surrender at every turn? Is there anything more ridiculous in the world? "

Wegener, who felt a little better and could finally breathe, stared at the huge steel giants not far away who had just stopped the car, feeling inexplicably like a clown, funny and ridiculous.

When Heschel, the mechanical and electrical engineer who accompanied and took care of him, heard this, he also put down the kettle that had just filled Wegner's water, and looked up at the things not far away that he had seen for the first time. The huge steel monster blurted out some words of amazement.

"It's unbelievable. Is that the Russian heavy tank? I thought our King Tiger was powerful enough, but when I saw these things today, maybe it was my imagination, but I always feel like these big guys are stronger. The same thing. Those Yankee shells just hit them like scratches, and few of them even penetrated the armor, and most of them bounced away."

"It's hard to imagine how you guys fought against this kind of monster on the Eastern Front before? Are all those Russian tanks so perverted? There shouldn't be a large group of these things rushing over like a vast ocean as soon as the battle starts, and they can't be killed. Our troops are overwhelmed, right? What’s the name of this tank?”

Herschel had never been on the Eastern Front; he had been drafted during the mobilization of the Atlantic Front as a good-achieving young man preparing to go to college. After a three-week basic training and armored training course, he was packed up and sent to Normandy, where he met Wittmann and Wegener, and became an armored soldier in the true sense.

Therefore, Heschel had never seen what the Russian tanks looked like, let alone had any fighting experience with the Soviet army. Now he could only try to obtain information from Wegener, who was fighting on the Western Front from the Eastern Front.

"IS6, this Russian tank is called Stalin VI. It is the third type of Stalin tank we encountered on the battlefield. The Russian heavy tanks belong to the entire Stalin series."

"As for you saying it is strong, it is indeed very strong. It is so strong that it will give people a terrible headache every time it appears on the battlefield. But fortunately, this is the most elite heavy tank of the Russians. There are not many of them. Most of the time They all serve as the core force, leading the sub-level Stalin 2, Stalin 1, and T34 into the battlefield.

"So it's not completely impossible to deal with it. You just need to kill the tanks that cooperate with it, isolate it, and then concentrate your firepower to destroy it. Even if you can't destroy it, you can at least disrupt a wave of Russian offensives. That's usually the case. made."

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The awkward chat between Wegner and Herschel continued, while the driver on the other side was leading two loaders to check the 70-ton Royal Sister's injuries. The armor-piercing bullets fired by the Yankees accidentally hit her. Injected from the front of the right crawler track and penetrated continuously.

Not only the front end of the track and the guide wheel were destroyed, but the torsion bar and multiple road wheels were also smashed to pieces. The King Tiger was in this state and could not be quickly repaired and restarted. Returning to the battlefield, this is also the biggest headache for the German army, which is in short supply of spare parts and new vehicles. This is true for both the SS and the Wehrmacht.

Different from his own men, Wittmann is currently fighting on the other side not too far away. Although his clothes are somewhat similar to his own, a closer look can reveal that there are many differences. The major of the armored force of the National Defense Forces chatted and talked.

"So, how did you get these IS6s? Did you sneak attack the Russian military train transporting new equipment and hijack the train? Or was it some other special way to make money?"

Although the relationship between the Wehrmacht and the SS has dropped to an unprecedented freezing point and is extremely tense due to the "Cherkasy Incident" in Ukraine (the time the SS attacked the Wehrmacht).

However, Major Klose, who is responsible for leading the rescue team, still has a good impression of the ruthless man in front of him who has achieved the first place in the armored combat record rankings with his own strength and real swordsmanship. This feeling can be regarded as Compassion between strong men.

All in all, Major Klose, who had just led his team to win a battle and was in a great mood, beating the shit out of the Americans and driving them away, was now very willing to answer Wittmann's questions and make friends with this SS armored soldier. .

After all, he owed himself one more time, and favors are often the hardest thing to repay, right? There is nothing wrong with making friends with strong people, not to mention you owe yourself a favor.

"Speaking of which, it was an accident."

"The troops on the front line carefully planned an ambush, using elite armored and infantry forces, and investing in the latest tactical equipment. I don't know the details because I didn't participate in that battle."

"But the final result was an elite Guards tank unit of the Russians. What was its designation? Oh, yes, it was the Fourth Guards Tank Division. We fought a beautiful local counterattack on the southern front of Poland. They underestimated the enemy. They advanced rashly and stretched the front too long, unable to gather enough combat energy at the first time, so they were quickly defeated by our well-prepared local superior forces.”

"The good news is that not only did we defeat and repel the Russians, we also temporarily gained the power to clean the battlefield. The ruins of the battlefield are ours."

"The final result is that we recovered a total of 12 vehicles that were abandoned by the Russians, were paralyzed, were penetrated but did not catch fire or explode, and there were also IS6s that crashed into the wreckage in a panic and stalled and abandoned the vehicle."

"These IS6s were towed back and taken away as quickly as possible. This is the first time we have harvested such a large number of Russian new heavy tanks on the battlefield. In the past, we have only picked up the wreckage, and in most cases we have not been able to take them away. Being able to take pictures. Studying and analyzing the weaknesses of these IS6s was of great help to our operations. They were quickly brought back to China for disassembly research and various tests. Guderian came to inspect them in person and warned Henschel and Porsche. , MAN people must analyze and study it carefully.”

"After that, there's nothing worth mentioning."

"These IS6s have lost their most important value after being dismantled and studied, but it is too wasteful to just scrap them or leave them idle. It just so happens that there are some troops on the front line who have collected some parts of this thing before. By piecing it all together, we can guarantee that these vehicles will have at least hundreds of motorized hours of combat time.”

"You know, the real situation we have now is that the survival time of many armored soldiers on the battlefield is less than hundreds of combat hours, and human lives are not as long as those captured Russian tanks. So it is only possible to use them to fight. It became a natural thing. After all, there is a real shortage of vehicles. It is a crime to waste these powerful heavy tanks and abandon them. "

Listening to this answer, Wittmann looked at the IS6 heavy tanks of the Wehrmacht in front of him that had been repainted and used the same two-color tiger pattern camouflage and iron cross logo as the King Tiger. He had a complicated expression and said some emotional words. blurted out.

"So you received these vehicles and were sent to the nearby battlefield on the Western Front to put out the fire, right?"

Major Klose nodded, smiled and spoke.

"Otherwise, what else can we do? Some things have to be done by someone, and my brothers and I are the most suitable ones. The ones we drove before were the captured Russian KVs. They were almost used up, and we were ready to return to China to rest and receive our own I bought a tank. I didn’t expect to hear such an incident right after I returned home. I just bought a new car, haha.”