Steel Soviet Union

With the increase in combat experience and the increasing familiarity with the 122 Heirloom main gun, the heavy tank crews of the Stalin Guards 1st Tank Division gradually discovered.

When dealing with German tanks that are not so thick-skinned, 122mm high-explosive grenades can often achieve quite good results.

For example, the German No. 3, No. 4, and even the Panther only need to use 122mm high-explosive grenades to hit some special shooting points, such as the lower half of the turret front armor near the turret seat ring. A 122mm high-explosive grenade with a full charge can at least destroy the Kraut's turret steering gear on the spot and completely shatter the Kraut's main gun optical sight.

The German tank's neck was stuck and its eyes were blinded, turning it into a waste that lost its combat effectiveness and could only withdraw from the battlefield.

Of course, this is only the best case scenario for the Krauts.

The real story that happened in the battle is that in most cases the German tanks were unable to withstand the fatal blow of 122mm high-explosive grenades to key points.

For example, the explosion of the 122 grenade penetrated the dome of the car body downwards, killing the electromechanical personnel and driver in the car. The gun barrel exploded on the spot, making the gun unable to fire anymore. It even caused a fire on the spot until the ammunition was killed. Explosion is possible.

As long as you are hit by a 122 high-explosive grenade, there will be absolutely no good results. The reality is so cruel and real.

Therefore, even if the ammunition to be fired in the gun bore was a high-explosive bomb that had been loaded in advance, the Red Army gunners responsible for gunnery and shooting still chose to mobilize the steering gear and height machine in their hands to accurately aim at the German tanks. After he was sure that he could hit the target with one hit, he immediately pulled the firing lever held tightly in his right hand, and released the powerful 122mm high-explosive grenade in the blazing fire.

Boom boom boom——

The kinetic shock wave that instantly spread out from the muzzle brake stirred in the air, and even the small puddles under the muzzle after the rain made small pits and ripples formed instantly.

The incoming 122mm high-explosive grenade hit the German machine gun fire points, anti-tank emplacements, and the unlucky tanks that were targeted by several IS6s at the same time.

The remains of machine guns and anti-tank guns were blown away by the shock wave along with the bloody body fragments.

The German tank, which was accurately hit by several 122mm high-explosive grenades at the same time, was completely enveloped in the huge explosions and flames and disappeared.

Wait until the fire light dissipates, the shock wave dissipates, and the instantaneous smoke and dust generated by the explosion gradually settles.

The tragic appearance of the German tank, which had been beaten to pieces and its entire front face was finally revealed. The 122mm high-explosive grenade with a very reasonable charge left horrific traces of damage on the German tank.

However, all gunners who aim at German tanks have rich combat experience, and they often exchange experiences with gunners from other crews in private. This is not the first time that they have used high-explosive bombs to bomb German tanks. Do.

Therefore, these oncoming 122mm high-explosive grenades are almost all pointed and aimed, and they are not just put on and fired randomly.

The upper part of the solid front of the vehicle, which is most likely to cause the useless effect of hitting it and making a sound, was completely avoided. Except for the one or two rounds where the main gun was not completely stopped due to the emergency stop, it slightly missed and hit other non-standard vehicles. Except for the high-explosive shells on the lethal armor positions, all the remaining high-explosive shells hit the main armor belt on the front of the German tank's turret.

The Red Army gunners knew very well that the consequences of doing so were fatal to German tanks. They could blow off the barrel, jam the steering wheel of the turret seat, damage the sight of the main gun, and knock downwards through the dome of the car body to kill the crew members. Any of these damage effects are unbearable for German tanks, and at the end they can cause the German tanks to lose their combat effectiveness on the spot and be forced to retire.

The combat effectiveness of the German armored soldiers without tanks is even worse than that of the infantry. The German infantry can at least have a big gun. The German armored soldiers who have abandoned their tanks cannot even get together a submachine gun and only have a small pistol. It is difficult to even protect yourself on a battlefield of this intensity.

None of the German tanks that were thoroughly beaten by high-explosive bombs ended up with a good end.

The two No. 4 vehicles with the weakest defense were blown up and burned on the spot, and even the ammunition exploded on the spot. The narrow interior space of the vehicle body could not withstand the powerful damage of the 122mm high-explosive grenade, and the dome armor of the vehicle body was shattered. At that moment, the fate of destruction was sealed.

The fate of the last three Panther 1s was a little better. At least they could have a relatively complete body, and they would not have their heads blown up and their bodies broken into parts like No. 4. But at most they were just. It's just a complete corpse.

The armor of the Black Panther 2 was also blasted through the dome of the vehicle body and burst open directly, like a wooden floor that was smashed through by a falling lead ball, the wound was horrific.

The huge power of the 122mm high-explosive grenade also raised the barrels of these Panthers, and the 75mm main gun barrel, which was as slender as a fishing rod, was blown into two pieces. Part of the barrel remains left on the turret are only about the same length as the barrel of the early Panzer IV tank with a 24x caliber short 75mm main gun, becoming a veritable "pig-nosed leopard".

The Panther, which used flammable gasoline as fuel and could even run itself up to catch fire on the early D-type, was inevitably bombarded by more than one 122mm high-explosive grenade. Case.

The raging flames spurted from the inside out from the cracks in the armor licked the dark armor, but not even a single crew member escaped in time from the stationary wreckage of the three Panther tanks.

Was he killed on the spot, or was he severely injured and lost the ability to escape on his own? He could only watch the fire spread and was burned alive in the car.

This kind of thing is no longer important now. Otherwise, after a loud explosion of ammunition, no one will care about how the several carbonized corpses died in a pile of dark steel debris. It's that simple.

Just one round of salvo fire instantly wiped out all the remaining German anti-tank firepower on the position.

The German infantrymen, who were in a state of intense shock, had not even had time to recover from the deafening roar of the 122-gun salvo that had just been fired at an extremely close range. There was a terrible sound that all the German troops on the Eastern Front battlefield least wanted to hear. It rang in my ears again.

"Comrades, destroy the German fascists! For the motherland, Ulla!!!"

U-la——

When this roar, which is almost equivalent to the sound of the end of the war, is heard, whether the German army still has the courage to continue to resist after hearing it is of no importance to the final outcome of the battle.