Chapter 370 In order to live

What Malashenko has been pursuing from beginning to end in this cruel war is actually very simple, and that is to stay alive.

In order to stay alive, Malashenko was willing to risk his life and fight for his life with the Germans.

In order to survive, Malashenko will use the things stored in his brain that has traveled from later generations to compile routines, so that he can show off his skills in front of Zhukov and his loving father Stalin and leave a deep impression on him. Laying a solid foundation for future success.

In order to survive, Malashenko did not hesitate to risk the unpredictable butterfly effect to intervene in the tank development plan that affected the Red Army in advance, so that the KV85, which would have only appeared in the Soviet counterattack in 1943, was hastily released by the end of 1941.

Kotin, who had always been confident in history, was now made a little guilty by Malashenko. To be honest, even he didn't know what these 85-gun heavy tanks equipped with prototype turrets were like. Kotin went over. There has never been a tank development project with such limited time.

And when the German army's latest Pak40 anti-tank gun finally showed its true appearance on the battlefield and was officially launched, Malashenko, who had always felt that he was relatively safe in KV1, immediately felt the unprecedented intensity. Sense of crisis.

The armor of his own vehicle was no longer invincible when facing the German army.

In today's battle, although the 75mm full-caliber hooded armor-piercing bullet fired by the German Pak40 failed to penetrate the armor, after the battle, Malashenko got out of the car and carefully observed the situation, but his hair stood on end. The horrific discovery.

A fist-sized crater with a deep depression like a moon crater appeared on the double-layered upper armor of his vehicle. The outermost 25mm sloping armor plate attached by welding had been completely penetrated and even partially broken. , as shocking as a three-ply wood board that had been shot through by a shotgun.

The more terrible thing is yet to come. The condition of the 75mm rolled homogeneous steel armor plate on the front of the car body, which is protected under the 25mm welded additional armor plate, is also as terrible as the 25mm welded additional armor plate.

The impact crater, which was enough to put half a fist in, almost completely penetrated the 75mm front armor of the car body. The driver, Seryosha, was asked to have one person inside and one outside the vehicle to cooperate with the tapping test. Rashenko's final result was that the front of his car's body was double-layered armor, and at most ten millimeters would be completely penetrated.

In other words, the Pak40 that failed to penetrate Malashenko's car head-on in today's battle was probably because the shooting angle was incorrect. If it were an armor-piercing projectile fired from a position parallel to the vehicle body, Malashenko's It’s hard to say whether the car is a pile of blazing scrap metal or whether it looks like it is ready to drive back now.

Thinking that the best heavy tanks and vehicles he could own at this stage were all bullied into this state by the Germans, Malashenko, who felt that his life was being pushed to the point of life and death by the Germans, finally no longer hesitated. In Malashenko's view, it's time to sacrifice the truth that you do the first day of the lunar month and I do the fifteenth day.

"Pak40, right? I want to see what it will be like when the IS2, which was built in 1942, rides on your face."

Malashenko, who had such thoughts in his heart, did not know that in the upcoming 1942, he had indeed contributed to the birth of the IS2 heavy tank more than a year earlier, but he had not driven this powerful and loving father. As for the heavy tank, as for what it is used for, we can probably only know it when Malashenko himself experiences it.

Malashenko, who had made up his mind to give Kotin more "powerful condiments", made a simple decision. In the subsequent specific report on the prototype tank, he must provide Kotin with some "follow-up inspiration". ".

My life has been forced to this point, and there is no need to hide it anymore. Even if the floods are raging after my death, the only thing Malashenko can do is to do his best while he is still alive. To accelerate the development of the Red Army tanks, let the IS3 and even the subsequent more powerful Stalin models be used in World War II to save their own lives.

As for what if he died on the battlefield before waiting for that day, what kind of changes and possible results would the huge butterfly effect of everything he had done bring to the entire course of World War II? Rashenko’s own words

Sorry, are you bothering me? I don’t belong to this era myself, thank you.

After all, even after experiencing several brutal wars and being influenced by the people and things around him, Malashenko, who traveled from later generations, could not completely become the same existence as the indigenous humans of this era.

If I have to give an example, the strong desire to survive and the willingness to use any means or even risk to change history for this purpose are probably Malashenko, a time traveler of later generations, and the indigenous humans of this era. The biggest difference between them.

The telegram from the Front Army Headquarters did not give Malashenko enough time to prepare for the attack. Malashenko, who did not have time to write a "research and development strategy" for Kotin, had to go to his car first and was promoted to field commander. Captain Karamov, commander of the maintenance battalion, is commanding a maintenance team to provide emergency treatment to Malashenko's damaged car.

Looking at Captain Karamov directing the maintenance squad soldiers around him to keep their hands up and down, Malashenko took a step forward and then asked Karamov, who was already sweating on his forehead in the cold winter.

"How is the situation? Can the damaged upper armor be repaired?"

Yu had just seen Malashenko coming out of the corner of his eye. Karamov, who had been busy, signaled his subordinates not to stop, and then immediately walked towards Malashenko.

"Although the situation is a bit bad, it is not beyond repair. The 25mm additional armor plate on the front of the car body has been broken due to the impact position close to the edge. If possible, I plan to help you cut it off in one piece and replace it. I want to put in a new one, but since time doesn’t allow, I have to forget it.”

"The current repair plan for you is to fill the damaged parts of the armor with two rolled homogeneous steel ingots, and then use the welding method to melt them in to repair the damaged parts of the armor. Although this is compared to the original whole piece The defensive power of rolled armor will be somewhat compromised, but under the current tight time situation, this is the best solution, and it is better than going to the battlefield with injuries. "