New World War II Eagle Strikes the Sky

The 155mm grenade is quite powerful. Even if you stay in the tank, you can feel the vibration caused by the 155mm grenade exploding nearby.And for those soldiers staying in the half-tracked armored transport vehicle, it was not just as simple as vibration. The air wave from the explosion of the 155mm grenade can already shake the vehicle violently. If you are unlucky, if the shell lands a little closer, it will even be enough to overturn the armored vehicle directly.And the shrapnel of the 155mm shell hit the weak armor of the half-tracked armored vehicle, making a series of clanging sounds.Although according to the design, the armor of the half-tracked armored personnel carrier should be able to defend against the shrapnel of 155mm artillery shells, the sound still made the soldiers in the vehicle feel their hearts in their throats.

Fortunately, the shelling ended soon.Then, the sound of engines was heard in the sky, and Allied attack aircraft appeared.

Appearing in the sky are the pa-20 attack aircraft and pa-38 attack aircraft of the No.47-attack aircraft wing.The wings of these planes are full of rockets.This thing can even kill thick skin like a tiger directly from the front.

As the shelling stopped, the anti-aircraft gunners or anti-aircraft machine gunners who had hid in the car opened the hatch one after another, climbed out, and prepared to fire wildly with various anti-aircraft weapons.However, their response was obviously slow, and the attack planes of the US military had already started firing rockets.

Before the shelling was over, the US military's attack planes were already circling near the battlefield on standby.As soon as the shelling was over, they launched their attack, successfully making a time difference.When the Germans just climbed out, before they had time to turn the muzzle or the muzzle of the gun, the US attack plane had already fired a series of rockets at them.

To say that rockets are really a good thing, although military fans of later generations will immediately pop up concepts such as "sexy, low-end, and not on the table" when they see rockets, and even As long as you see a shot of an airplane launching a rocket, you will curse backward thinking.In fact, even in later generations, when the opponent's air defense has been suppressed, and when it is used to deal with living targets, rockets are still a very effective means.Even the richest and most handsome U.S. Air Force is equipped with aircraft like the AC-1.9 worth 130 million US dollars, which are specially used to bully **.Moreover, shooting rockets is also a common training program for the U.S. Air Force in the 21st century.

As for World War II, rockets are even more of a high-end, foreign-style good thing.In that era, there were no anti-aircraft missiles, and the killing range of anti-aircraft artillery was very limited.Large-caliber anti-aircraft guns have slow response, low rate of fire, and low attack efficiency against small targets.The effective range of small and medium-caliber anti-aircraft guns is quite limited, and the effective range of some anti-aircraft guns, such as 20mm anti-aircraft guns, is even far inferior to aviation rockets.In this way, aviation rockets are almost a stand-off weapon.It is really good for the first round of attack.

Ma Long fired eight aviation rockets at a half-track vehicle with twin 37mm anti-aircraft guns.Among the targets, the 8mm anti-aircraft gun is the highest priority target.The German 37mm anti-aircraft guns, like the American 37mm anti-aircraft guns, are derived from the Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns, which are quite close in performance.Judging from the test of the previously captured German 40 guns, the effective range of this gun against air targets is greater than that of aviation rockets.And the damage is amazing, so in the attack, this kind of artillery is determined to be the highest priority target.

There is a problem with rockets, that is, the accuracy is not high. Even if it is a modern rocket, even if it is used by a rich and handsome man like the modern United States, the aviation rocket that uses a laser gyro is not considered a high-precision weapon, let alone a weapon. It’s something from World War II, and if it’s not done well, it’s not uncommon for the rockets fired to fly and then turn around by themselves.In the Pacific Ocean, there was an unlucky U.S. fighter jet that was launched by itself, then circled in the air, and was shot down by a rocket that flew back.It might be the weirdest shot down ever.

However, Ma Long was not so unlucky. None of the rockets he fired had such a thing as flying upside down, and the third rocket hit the target accurately, blowing up the half-track armored vehicle into a big fireball.Although the other rockets didn't hit any big targets, they didn't catch anything. Several German soldiers who had just jumped off another armored vehicle were blown away by a rocket that Malone shot off.

In the first round of attacks, because the American attack planes paid more attention to attacking those self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, especially those 37mm anti-aircraft guns with thicker and longer barrels, many self-propelled 37mm anti-aircraft guns were attacked by more than three The situation of the attack aircraft attack.Such a concentrated attack would of course have another consequence: most of the tanks were left unharmed.

In order to strengthen the anti-air firepower, the Germans replaced some of the mg-34 machine guns on the tank turrets with large-caliber mg-131s.For example, Wittmann's Tiger tank was replaced with an mg-131 machine gun.In the round of assault just launched by the US military, their machine gunners also fired a series of bullets at a PA-38 attack aircraft.However, these bullets did not shoot down the plane, and the bullets did not even touch the skin of the enemy plane.

Wittman knew that when the US attack planes turned back again, the tanks that escaped this time would be in danger.But in this unobstructed place, the self-defense firepower of the tanks alone cannot withstand the attack of the attacking fleet.Now, the best way is to speed up the assault, break into the enemy's army, and make the enemy shrink back because of the danger of mistaken attack.

Apparently, other tanks are also like this idea.In fact, the German army took this situation into consideration when they set off.The tanks are attacking at high speed at this time. Under normal circumstances, the infantry will definitely not be able to keep up. So can the half-tracked armored transport vehicle be used to charge the soldiers together until they reach the enemy's position, and the infantry will get out of the vehicle and fight again? ?To do so, to take a lot of risk.First of all, if the infantry does not get off the vehicle, the tank will still not be able to get the assistance of the infantry during the assault, and it will also be very troublesome when facing anti-tank guns.Secondly, the weakly armored personnel carrier was filled with infantry and rushed into the range of the enemy's anti-tank guns. They only needed one shot to kill a group of Germans.Doing so is obviously not a good idea.Therefore, this approach was quickly rejected during discussions before the war.In the end, the plan discussed and approved was very painful for the proud Germans, because this method actually copied the inferior Slavs.

The Soviet army, which lacks enough armored transport vehicles, has always been accustomed to using tanks to carry infantry.It is to bring a few infantry next to the turret of a tank.During an assault, these infantrymen carrying automatic weapons can cooperate with tanks during combat, pointing out the location of enemy firepower to tanks, and using automatic weapons to eliminate those German infantrymen carrying iron fists.Of course, this approach often brings high casualties to the infantry carried, because these infantry are more difficult to dodge in the face of shelling and machine gun fire than their counterparts running on the ground.However, the Soviets didn't care too much about this casualty, because the price paid in the assault operation can always be recovered after the breakthrough is formed.

Now the Germans can only adopt this method. Wittmann slowed down the speed of the car, and at the same time showed half of his body and waved to a few soldiers who were lying down not far from the tank to avoid air strikes, signaling them to get on the car.Those soldiers got up and ran a few steps, and jumped onto the tank from behind.

A total of 4 German soldiers climbed onto Wittmann's tank, two of whom were holding mp-40 submachine guns, and the other two soldiers were using Mauser 98k rifles.Wittman frowned and said to them, "Hold on, guys!" Then he yelled into the tank, "Speed ​​up!"

In order to facilitate the carrying of infantry on tanks, the Soviets often welded a steel handrail behind the turret.This trick was also copied by the cottage.The four infantrymen grabbed hold of the handrails, but the acceleration of the heavy tank would not be as violent as that of a car. In fact, as long as you pay attention, if you don't hold onto it, it won't fall off.

Wittman got into the tank again, and after a while, he got out with an MP-40.

"Which of you can use a machine gun?" Wittman asked.

"I, I can use it!" said a guy with a Mauser 98k rifle.

Wittmann looked at this person. This was a half-grown child who looked only sixteen or seventeen years old, and there was only a layer of fluff on his lips.Wittmann shook his head and said, "Anyone else shoot a machine gun?"

"Me, I have fired a machine gun." A veteran with a deeply wrinkled face and a 40-year-old soldier holding an MP-40 submachine gun said, "But I am not a machine gunner, I just shot."

"Okay then!" Wittmann said, "give your mp-40 to the guy with the Mauser 98k and you go use that machine gun. Your main job is to use it for air defense - don't try to shoot down the plane, Just enough to get rid of it - boy what's your name? Chris? Well Chris drop your Mauser 98k, on the tank you can't even hit an elephant with it! Take this !"

Wittman handed his MP-40 to the half-grown kid who volunteered to be a machine gunner, then patted him on the shoulder and said: "Use this, against those guys with bazooka! Tank safety is It's up to you!"

Then he looked around everyone: "Also, if you find the enemy's anti-tank guns, shout! The canopy is open, but the sound should be louder. Use the direction of the clock to indicate the direction, understand?"

"Understood!" replied all the foot soldiers.

At this time, the attack planes of the US military turned back again.Since the 37mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns that threatened the most were all destroyed, this time, the actions of the American attack aircraft became more daring.Compared with the last time, they slowed down significantly, and when launching rockets, their launching distance was also closer.But obviously their main targets are still those self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, but the focus of the attack has changed from the double-mounted 37mm guns to the quadruple-mounted 20mm guns.

However, in the last round of attacks, those PA-38 and PA-47 attack aircraft consumed too many rockets, so now, they sometimes have to rely on the aircraft's cannon to solve the problem.However, there are some 20mm anti-aircraft guns mounted on the leopard tank, which cannot be solved by the 20mm guns on the US attack aircraft.Dealing with them requires larger caliber cannons.

Both pa-38 and pa-47 are equipped with 37 mm cannon.However, the ballistic characteristics of this aircraft gun are much worse than those of the 20mm gun, and the rate of fire is much slower.So if you want to shoot accurately, you have to fly closer and slower, which also gave the Germans a chance.