Predatory map of ominous birds

Just as the fierce battle outside Odessa was in full swing, Fafnir received an order: to ask his No. 223 Tiger King to return to the city of Odessa to provide cover for the retreat of a special force.This special force, led by an SS major named Hugo Wevin, will break through the Soviet encirclement and retreat from the south of Odessa under the cover of some of the elite Wehrmacht troops that have been transferred back.

Fafnir looked at this army with curiosity—there were indeed some elite SS soldiers in it, but there were more boxes and nerds who looked like glasses brothers couldn't beat them. The Major hardly ever showed his face, and the few times he did, he wore a mask, so that the face under the mask could not be seen at all.There is an acquaintance in the team--Fafnir has a deep memory of this person's cold reptile-like eyes, Captain Andre Anderst, he is now a captain. "It's a military rank obtained by killing the old, the weak, women and children." Fafnir thought to himself, but he didn't want to ask the poisonous snake about this question at all.

The breakout was quite smooth, and there were not too many Soviet Red Army obstacles along the way. After all, they were still far away from encircling the Germans, and the occasional Soviet tanks became Fafnir's bait.The captain of the poisonous snake along the way didn't seem to recognize the sergeant back then, and the two of them hadn't talked at all.

Finally, when it was about to break away from the siege, this force ran into a large force of the Soviet Red Army.Fortunately, the Red Army was too busy fighting the Germans defending here at this time, and could not spare too many troops to intercept this small force; unfortunately, the Red Army used heavy artillery to destroy this force.A round of shelling, all the trucks carrying the boxes and the eye brothers were all right, but the SS soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

Fafnir sat unscathed in the No. 223 King Tiger car. He watched a heavy cannon tear up a barrel car and sent it into the air, "It's a 152 heavy cannon. The Russians really think highly of us. A volley from an artillery regiment? Huh? Isn't that Captain Andrei the Viper? 152 in the middle? He's out of luck! The Russian shells avenged their people..." The snake-eyed man Without saying a word, the captain was torn into countless pieces by the 152mm shell.

Fortunately, the shelling went quickly, and Fafnir's Tiger King was well concealed. It seemed that the observing Soviet soldiers felt that there were not many targets worth shelling, so they stopped the artillery bombardment.The soldiers of about one company of the Soviets were under the cover of several T34s and were ready to come down to capture the prisoners.Fafnir took the opportunity to attack suddenly, and reimbursed the unaware T34s at the beginning, scaring the Soviet infantry to flee in a hurry. Fafnir did not dare to pursue, and immediately retreated with the remaining German tanks and armored vehicles leading the truck.

Major Hugo Weaving was completely fine, and he didn't seem nervous at all - after all, he couldn't see the expression under the mask.By night, this unit successfully joined the corresponding Waffen-SS unit and handed over the entire convoy.Major Hugo got out of his car and got into a strange enclosed vehicle of the SS. He seemed to have taken off his mask before getting into the car, but because of the darkness, no one saw his movements or appearance-except for night. Apart from Fafnir, who had no vision, Fafnir could clearly see a red skull face under Major Hugo's mask, with no skin at all and atrophied muscles. It was a skull at all. "Seems like a big deal. The world just got a lot more interesting."

Soldiers of the National Defense Forces set off for the construction after handing over the trucks and boxes.Fafnir dozed off in the car, and the driver followed the rear lights of the lead car ahead in the darkness.At dawn, they made a resupply, and the personnel also took a break in the Soviet village on the side of the road.At night, they returned to Odessa, King Tiger was towed away for overhaul, and Fafnir and the crew immediately went to take a shower and go to bed.

Unbeknownst to him, factories in Germany have already started production of new equipment.

In 1942, after the development of the Panther and the Tiger, the German Army came up with a proposal to design fresh tank armored vehicles with common parts.Panther and Tiger 1 were quite successful on the battlefield. Daimler and Porsche put forward the design drawing of the new car on this basis, and the development of the e-series officially started.

During this time, Daimler presented a prototype of a new heavy tank: the Lion.It has a self-weight of 95 tons, staggered road wheels, a tall body, and uses a 105mm tank gun.During the test, the two companies proposed the design drawings of e50, e75 and e100 - still the design of staggered road wheels, and the body is still tall.

There were countless problems when testing the Lion tank. The transmission system was as unreliable as ever, with frequent breakdowns. It took up a huge tonnage and space. The engine power was insufficient.The only thing that can be credited is that the gun performed well, but was held back by weak armor - due to the large space and tonnage taken up by the running gear and engine, the armor was still weak even after designing a good ricochet ramp, and the engine was front-mounted Makes the whole car lie down immediately once it is hit in the front!After strengthening the armor, the speed is unacceptably slow, and replacing a stronger engine requires more space and tonnage, and there is almost no solution to the endless loop.

By 1943, as the captured Soviet Stalin tanks were sent to the German military for evaluation, the director of armored forces became increasingly unacceptable to the designs of the two companies-the improved e-series became as big and heavy as the Lion tank , he had been exhausted by the lion, and finally broke out after seeing the new e-series blueprints!

Your Excellency, Director of the Armored Forces, drew out his pistol, and was about to go to a duel with the designers of the two companies!Or just shoot all the design teams!In the end, they were held back by the Minister of Armaments of the Empire, and together they called the design team and cursed at them. The Director of Armored Forces expressed his envy for Stalin's method of shooting unqualified designers, and threatened to implement this law in the Empire.In the end, the Minister of Armaments and the Director of Armored Forces unanimously decided to shoot down the future of the Lion tank, and the completed prototype was returned directly to the furnace!Then the design of the new e-series must be proposed within a month, otherwise it will be hard to say.

In 43, the potential of the No. 4 tank had been exhausted. All production lines only produced the No. 4 g variant, and half of the No. 4 production lines were directly converted to the production of the Panther g.The Tiger tank was discontinued, and the King Tiger tank also stopped production after the first batch of production was completed, preparing to switch to the production of the E series.

In the second half of 43, the prototype of the e-series was finally produced.The rear engine, transverse engine, abandonment of staggered road wheels, adoption of a new shape of the turret, and lower vehicle height were all adopted by German designers one by one.

e50: The actual vehicle weight is 46 tons, the engine is placed in the rear row, and the body is lower than the Tiger tank and the Panther tank without the use of staggered road wheels. The body is still similar to the panther armor. Merged into e2.The turret is like an inverted dish shape, but it is oval. The front of the turret is composed of two wedge-shaped armors, covered with a gun mantlet. The artillery uses an 50mml88 gun, and the turret is placed in the middle.The engine adopts the new db71, 800 horsepower can make this guy run 900km on the road and 50km off-road.Frontal armor 35, side 150, rear 100.The turret is 80 front, 180 side, and 100 rear.

e75：放大版的e50，85%以上的零件与e50通用。炮塔上装了一门128l55的火炮，吨位在72吨，发动机是hl234p50，1200马力。可以让这个大家伙在公路跑到30公里，越野20公里的速度。正面装甲厚达170、侧面120、后面100，而炮塔正面厚度220、侧面140、后面100.

e100：吨位高达105吨，外形更像另一条设计线路里的老鼠，但是炮塔也变成了一个高底碟子的造型，使用一门128l70的火炮，采用hl335发动机，马力高达1900的巨大发动机。速度达到30～20公里。正面装甲厚度达到恐怖的220、侧面厚达180、后面150的车身配上正面300、侧面200.后面150的恐怖炮塔，使得这个家伙看上去坚不可摧。

In the end, the High Command decided to produce the e50 and e100, while the e75 was scrapped.On the other hand, Dr. Porsche was warned to stop using the electric drive scheme on the mouse, which made the mouse with a design weight of 180 tons get larger interior space and stronger armor-no wonder!What Dr. Porsche is going to adopt is a gas turbine!Up to 3000 horsepower gas turbines are a tragedy