Redemption of WWII

Chapter 71 The Belittled 'Tiger' 2

The [-]th Armored Division of the British Army was only slightly frustrated in the face of a German tank unit that suddenly appeared. 【】Then the Dama Jindao began to move towards the mountain pass again, as if these German tanks did not exist.

It's no wonder that anyone with 250 advanced 'Sherman m4' tanks will not be afraid to face the enemy's 40 tanks that look like pan [-]'s. 'Brian' just sent a battalion of tanks to drive the German tanks away.Although destroying these tanks can be regarded as a credit, but 'Brian' is really not interested in destroying all these tanks now. What 'Brian' thinks now is to quickly drive the German troops aside, so that he can move on to Tobruk again.Of course, if these Germans are desperately entangled, then 'Brian' doesn't mind letting these Germans have a taste of the iron fist of British tanks.

A battalion of British tanks rushed at the German Panzer IV at full speed.The other brigade tanks of the British army still moved forward at a constant speed.

As time passed by every minute and every second, 'Brian' saw these German tanks through the binoculars, not only did not retreat, but the formation of dozens of tanks spread out on the mountain pass.Undead happened to block the road between these two mountains.Here 'Brian' was very angry, and said in his heart, "It is said that a good dog does not block the road, but you have to block the road. You should all die. You are looking for death. Don't blame me for being cruel."

'Brian' shouted loudly on the line, "Forward tank assault, wipe out the German tanks. Don't leave them a single one."

'Brian' was furious, with serious consequences.

The British tank, which had already entered the range of its own tank gun, ran more happily after receiving this order.After receiving this order, the tanks of the forward brigade also stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and followed the tanks of the front battalion to kill like the German army.

An armored battalion of the British Seventh Armored Division has 20 'Sherman m4' tanks and 15 armored assault vehicles.Including all the commanders, there are a total of 525 people, which can be said to be a relatively large battalion.It was changed after Meng Ge went to North Africa.The purpose of this is to change the role of tanks as a weapon from assisting infantry in attacking to the main force of attacking.This kind of thinking is of course in line with the operational needs of World War II, and it is also a relatively advanced concept.

The Germans had only 40 tanks on the pass.According to past rules, the British army only needs to send 20 'Sherman m4' tanks.The Germans would retreat in a hurry, but today these Germans don't know what medicine they took wrongly.Not only did they not retreat, but they also blocked the way of the British.This made the proud British tank commanders feel insulted.These British tank commanders decided that they must leave a profound lesson for these Germans, so that they can learn the etiquette they should know when they see British tanks in the future.

The British tanks opened fire first, at a distance of 2000 meters from the German tanks.The few British tanks driving at the front couldn't bear to move impatiently for a long time. When they saw the German army entering the maximum range, they all adjusted the elevation angle of the barrel to the maximum and fired the guns out of the barrel.

When the 'Sherman m4' was designed, the theoretical maximum range could reach 2800 meters, but in fact, due to the influence of air resistance, the kinetic energy of the gun's launch at 1800 meters had already been exhausted.The rest is basically flying a distance by inertia.If it is a high-explosive grenade, it is okay to say that the fuze of the gun is installed on the outside, as long as it touches something else, it will explode immediately.But armor-piercing is not like this. Without a certain pressure, if armor-piercing is not moved by strong kinetic energy, it is impossible to explode.

The barrel of the older 'Sherman m4' was only three meters long and had an effective range of only 1000 meters.The effective range is not even as good as the German Panzer IV, if it weren't for the thick armor and the durability of the engine.The British army is really unwilling to use this tank.The 'Sherman M4' of the 1800th Armored Division of the British Army are all improved barrels, which have been lengthened to 1800 meters.In this way, the effective range has increased to 1500 meters. It is said that [-] meters is actually the largest data.It is the result of testing under completely sealed conditions.In the real environment, with the influence of air humidity, temperature and wind, it is not bad to have [-] meters.

Especially in the desert area with extremely harsh natural conditions, the range of the main gun of the 'Sherman m4' is actually only 300 meters.The general combat distance of most tankers in the British army is to choose to fire within 1 kilometer, so that the accuracy is guaranteed.

But it cannot be said that the British army cannot launch at a distance of 1800 meters. The tanks of this battalion of the British army hope that the blind cats will encounter dead mice, and maybe they can really fire a few rounds.In addition, if it happened to hit the weak armor of the tank, it might be possible to destroy several German tanks just by smashing it.

It is not without such precedent.During the Second Battle of North Africa, British armored forces and German armored forces fought in the desert of Syria. British tanks destroyed German tanks 3500 meters away.But that was just a coincidence. The British tanks were on a relatively high terrain at that time, and the elevation angle of the gun barrel was also raised to the maximum.As a result, the tank gun, which was originally flying in an arc, forcibly drew a large arc, and the kinetic energy of the gun did not decrease due to the gravity of the earth during its fall, but its strength increased.And it happened to hit the joint between the front armor and the turret of a German Panzer III.Several coincidences add up to the fact that the British army destroyed the German tank at a distance of 3500 meters.

But that kind of thing has become a legend, a legend that cannot be replicated.However, the tankers of the British army are still very willing to fire at a distance of 2000 meters, and they all hope that they can continue to write the legend of the sharpshooter.

However, the distance is relatively long, and the shooting is all on the move.None of these guns hit the German tanks, not even within ten meters of the tanks.However, the movement of the tank shelling was indeed not small. The fanning formation of 40 German tanks was instantly filled with dust raised by the explosion.

Unlike the previous German tank formations, this time the German tanks formed a curved shape.In the past, German tanks were square.But this time it formed a fan shape, but it was a fan shape in which the tanks in the middle were behind and the tanks on both sides were more prominent.Originally, there were not many German tanks, but after forming this formation, it was even more sparse.

All this made the commander of the [-]th Armored Division of the British Army 'Brian' more at ease. He had never seen this kind of tank formation.I thought that these German tank commanders were novices, and they would never command tanks to form offensive or defensive formations.

In fact, 'Brian' wronged the tank commanders of the German army. The commanders of these tanks were the instructor-level tank commanders who had just been transferred from various military academies.And these 40 tanks are the 'tiger' tanks that both Rommel and the British looked down upon.The reason why these German tank commanders formed a fan-shaped tank formation was to increase the combat distance between each 'Tiger' tank and to maximize the distance between each 'Tiger' tank and the British tanks. shooting angle.Doing so can not only gain a certain space for the defense, but also enable the offense to exert its greatest power.

Of course, this formation is not suitable for every occasion, but this formation at this time and place can just resist the British attack to the greatest extent.The issue of formation was just discussed and completed by these instructors when they took over the 'Tiger' tank. No one thought that it would be useful so soon.But 'Brian' of the British Seventh Division didn't know all this.

战场上的时间过的飞快，不到5分钟的时间英国的‘谢尔曼m4’就已经边发射炮，边加大油门向前冲。最前面的一营的‘谢尔曼m4’已经越过了1000米的坦克标准杀伤线。后面跟进的一个旅的坦克也都在他们身后200米处跟随着。

The British didn't even think about stopping and going to really aim and shoot.In their eyes, there is no need for this at all.As long as you run a distance of 500 meters forward, you can hit these German tanks even without aiming.In their minds, these German tigers were practice targets.Or a target for shooting on the move.

Of course, some friends will ask why the former German army achieved so many victories when shooting from 2000 meters away.And how could these so-called British elites fail to beat German tanks at a distance of more than 1000 points.There is nothing surprising about this question. Although these British tankers are the elite of the British army, don’t forget who those who directed the shooting of the German commanders 2000 meters away are.These people are instructors, professors, experts, and great powers.Several hundred commanders were selected from the elite throughout Germany.If they don't have some extraordinary abilities, can they teach tank commanders with eyes above their heads?

When these instructors shoot, they are very different from those British tank commanders, that is, the German instructors first order the driver to step on the clutch before ordering the launch, and then order the gun to be fired.In fact, it is a gun fired when the tank is stationary, and of course the accuracy rate is higher than that of these British troops.It's just that the orders of the German instructors are very coherent, and all the actions are completed within a second or two.From the outside, it looks like a marching gun, and its accuracy is very high.

This is not something that ordinary people can do. It requires quick thinking, abnormal calculation ability and perfect control of timing.And the British army, not to mention the army, even the whole of the UK can't find such a few perverted characters.Of course, under the British system, perverts will be rejected by the Army Academy.