Steel Soviet Union

The Junkers 88 flying in the same team behind was unlucky enough to be shot down on the spot by the wreckage of its companion. The Junkers 88 on the right, which was relatively far away, also had no luck.

Counting the fragments of the aircraft's wreckage and aerial bomb fragments, the Junkers 88 on the right, which was penetrated by more than forty fragments in the blink of an eye, turned into a smoking sieve on the spot.

The fragile skin of the aircraft cannot stop these palm-sized fragments at speeds of up to one kilometer per second. The dense wounds that spread laterally from the nose to the tail can drive patients with trypophobia crazy.

Although the crew members were barely able to survive intact, it was limited to this. The left engine was directly swept away by shrapnel and turned into a hornet's nest, emitting dazzling flames and black fuel smoke. They only maintained a horizontal flight attitude for a few seconds in the unmanned state. Then he followed in the footsteps of his companions, and then fell headlong towards the ground.

The probability of an anti-aircraft shell that can be timed fuse directly hitting the belly bomb bay is comparable to winning a five million lottery ticket in future generations.

The German bombers used their luck to surprise the enemy. Although three bombers were destroyed in one breath, the remaining nine Junkers 88s, including the seriously injured pilot, continued to fly straight over without hesitation.

The opened belly bomb bay door dropped one-ton heavy aerial bombs one after another like a hen laying eggs. Malashenko, who could hear the whistling of aerial bombs through the turret hatch above his head, couldn't help but close his eyes. , the fate that will befall him in the next few seconds is completely beyond what Malashenko can decide or change.

boom--

The explosion caused by dozens of one-ton aerial bombs all falling to the ground within seconds was so shaking that Malashenko could feel the earth cracking without knowing whether he was dead or alive. Near the end of the world.

Words like "shaking the earth and shaking the world" are generally used to describe the end of the world or the creation of the world. However, Malashenko, who has never seen the above two scenes, can directly say that the hell he is in at the moment is "shaking the earth." land".

Almost half of the bombs fell on the tank cluster. The Soviet tank crews, who had tried their best to spread out their formation to avoid the German bombing, still suffered unbearable heavy losses.

The most unlucky ones, the dozen or so tanks, were reduced to parts on the spot within a few meters of the center of the blast. The British infantry tanks, which were slower than an old cow pulling a broken car, could not run at all even if the accelerator was turned on. They were not very fast. , most of the British infantry tanks that were overturned to the ground and even rolled to a stop had no chance of their crews surviving.

The cruel war will swallow up the lives of all those who dare to join it. Regardless of whether it is just or not, or whether they are good or bad, death is equal to everyone on both sides of the war.

The type of people who die fastest on the battlefield are the new recruits with no combat experience.

These young tank soldiers who had just graduated from the tank academy and were sent to the front line only fought for less than twenty minutes before their short lives were forcibly wiped out along with their military careers.

It cannot be said that it was Malashenko's fault that he was assigned to these British tanks with relatively poor performance, which indirectly led to his death in battle. Any experienced tank commander would assign the tanks with the best performance and condition to veteran vehicles. Team up to drive, in order to maximize the combat effectiveness of single vehicles on the battlefield and then increase the overall combat effectiveness of the entire system, and ultimately win the battle.

From the formation of the 1st Guards Heavy Tank Breakthrough Regiment during the Battle of Moscow last year to now, Malashenko's subordinates and soldiers have changed at least three times. They have already changed. Now Malashenko can no longer even remember The faces of those troops when they were first formed have long been forgotten.

Sacrifice, for Malashenko, who has served as regimental leader for nearly a year, has long become a dense number and names filled with battle damage summary sheets one after another, nothing more.

The Junkers 88 bomber group, which only carried these one-ton heavy aerial bombs against tall buildings, came and went quickly. After the wave of bombings, they immediately swung their much lighter empty-belly fuselages and turned their noses to prepare to return to the original route. .

The pilot Junkers 88, which had half of its tail cut off, turned extremely difficult. When other German bombers had flown away, it was still struggling to manually trim in mid-air in a last-ditch effort.

All the soldiers fighting in this land full of blood and hatred have no inferior chivalry. Adding insult to injury while you are sick is the most common way to win.

After the Soviet anti-aircraft artillery fire on the ground said goodbye to the German bombers flying away, they immediately turned the steering wheel and the helicopter to point the black muzzle at the half-disabled aircraft, but they were unwilling to accept their fate and were still struggling in vain. The Juncker 88.

All the anti-aircraft guns deployed in the factory area and on the surrounding streets and rooftops directed their vengeful fury towards the same target. No matter how bad the dense anti-aircraft firepower network aimed at with naked eyes and experience alone was, it would have shredded this aircraft at a high altitude. Reaching the 1,500-meter Junkers 88 is a matter of minutes.

The wings and tail of the aircraft were almost cut into two pieces at the same time by the dense air defense barrage. The entire fuselage was broken into several sections, but several figures with extremely strong desire for survival still jumped out of the Junkers 88.

As for what kind of fate awaits these German crew members after landing, there is almost no need to say more now.

The Soviet tank group was hit in the head by a wave of heavy aerial bombs and was almost paralyzed. Most of its firepower dropped sharply. The original intensive firepower against the Germans turned into cold cannons in twos and threes and sparse.

The German army, which had an unusually accurate grasp of fighter jets, had already launched a charge the moment the explosion sounded.

When Malashenko, who was dizzy and realized that he was lucky to be alive again, put his head to the commander's periscope in front of him and struggled to look out, the German Army Commander 75 IV tank closest to him had already rushed in. A hundred meters away.

"Iushkin! Are you still alive!? If not, run away and kill that German!"

In the next second, there were no words in response to Malashenko's roar. Only the mechanical friction sound of the breech block hitting and the sudden sound of the gun when firing revealed Iushkin's actual actions.

It was completely unexpected that the motionless Soviet heavy tank in front of him was not killed by the shock wave and was still alive. The careless No. 4 tank that did not point its muzzle at Malashenko was killed on the spot with a single shot and was killed by the powerful ammunition. The explosion hit his head in different places.

Malashenko, who could no longer calculate how many victories his crew had achieved, shook his dizzy head, completely unaware that his nose was bleeding to his chin, and he calmly spoke out an order again.