With the coordination of Soviet infantry and tanks, the German anti-tank gun positions were easily dealt with.
At this time, the Soviet tanks should be said to have certain night fighting capabilities... Mainly because of the "tank phone" and the following infantry, so as soon as the enemy anti-tank gun position is discovered, bullets will pour towards the target.
Following the infantry will also guide the tank gunner to the target, and once the gun passes by, there will be nothing left.
However, this reaction speed is still slow. The faster ones are the infantry's mortars and rocket launchers. A few rounds of shells will quickly silence the anti-tank gun.
In fact, anti-tank guns are not so easy to deal with. The problem is that there are not many anti-tank guns in the German army that can pose a threat to the T34. Except for the PAK40 and 88MM anti-aircraft guns, the others are almost negligible.
As a result, there was a serious shortage of anti-tank units. Fifty Soviet T34s swarmed forward and broke through the German defense line with the loss of only three tanks.
Soon, German troops were defeated everywhere... Not all German troops were elite, especially the follow-up reinforcements, so they fled in large areas when they thought they could not stop the enemy's attack.
Shulka and the soldiers followed behind, raising their guns and aiming at their backs, and then killed them one after another.
In a way, this doesn't make much sense, since the outcome has been decided and they have withdrawn from the battle, but as enemies, neither side will spare the other in this situation.
As a result, bullets were fired one after another, and rows of fleeing German soldiers fell into the cold snow.
Soon, the white snow was covered with bright red blood stains, as if the white cloth had been stained with red paint, which was extremely dazzling.
At this time, there was a sudden gunshot, and the turret of a T34 was lifted up and thrown far behind... This is a unique phenomenon when the "Tiger" hits the T34, mainly because its 88MM anti-tank gun is too powerful
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The Germans often refer to this phenomenon as the Soviet T34 taking off its hat to the "Tiger".
This even caused a kind of panic among the Soviet troops.
Although the Soviet soldiers did not say anything, in fact, even if they did, they could not be heard amid the gunfire.
This was Shulka's feeling. He felt that the troops that had been marching forward with great morale just now suddenly fell half short.
"New tanks!" Shulka heard someone shout: "German tanks!"
The screams were full of fear, which was not normal for the soldiers of the 1st Guards Tank Brigade. They were all veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles. They had long been used to all kinds of dangers and accidents, but now because of the "Tiger"
appeared and panicked.
It was only after the war that Shulka found out what was going on.
In fact, this phenomenon is normal and very common on the battlefield. For example, the German army panicked when they discovered on the battlefield that the Soviet army had rocket launchers that could easily destroy their tanks... What they were more afraid of was not the equipment itself, but the equipment itself.
Ignorance of this equipment.
Human beings are naturally afraid of what they don't know.
The reason why Shulka didn't feel that kind of fear was not because he was brave, but because he knew what it was and knew that it was not invincible.
"There are not many of them!" Shulka ordered loudly: "Charge forward!"
"Charge up! Forward!" the instructor loudly conveyed Shulka's order.
However, the order was not conveyed to the tank crew in time. A tank stopped, adjusted its muzzle, and took aim into the darkness.
A flare rose high into the sky, illuminating a "Tiger" parked in the snow. As the name suggests, it looked like a tiger sitting there calmly and calmly.
There was a "boom", and at this moment T34 opened fire.
The shell obviously hit the "Tiger", but there was only a crisp "clang" sound, a spark flashed on the armor, and the "Tiger" was safe and sound.
This scared almost all the Soviet troops, because the distance between them was only more than 200 meters, and the T34 was unable to penetrate its armor at a distance of more than 200 meters.
The forward speed of several tanks obviously slowed down because they didn't know whether it made sense to continue like this.
"Keep moving forward!" Shulka shouted: "Enter a distance of two hundred meters and fire!"
"Keep moving!" The order was quickly transmitted to the tank via the tank phone.
This is also one of the benefits of the tank phone. It makes the transmission of information between infantry and tanks more convenient, without the need for traditional communication through a radio.
Two hundred meters.
This information gives this uncertain battlefield and the enemy's unknown equipment a certain data, and it is also a target.
Shulka didn't think that much at the time, he just blurted out out of desperation.
But this "blurting out" played a great role.
The reason is that without this number, the Soviet tank crew would be confused: How far can it penetrate the target? 100 meters? 50 meters?
Without knowing this, T34 can only keep trying, and in the process of trying, it will keep paying a price, and it may even fail to succeed in the end, because they are likely to be wiped out on the road one after another.
However, once there is a certain data, it is different.
They don't need to try. Instead, they increase their power and rush straight for two hundred meters, then stop the car, aim, and fire...
With a "boom" sound, a cannonball was bounced away again.
Situations like this are common in tank operations. Although the penetration range has been reached, due to some special circumstances, such as the shell hitting a particularly thick mantlet, or the angle is too large, a ricochet occurs... "Tiger" because it is
The probability of vertical armor ricocheting is not very high, so it is said to be an occasional occurrence.
This cast another shadow over the battlefield.
Shulka believed that a considerable number of tank gunners at this time believed that they could not penetrate this monster within two hundred meters.
Two of the tanks even restarted, gave up their aim, and continued to charge forward.
With a "boom", a T34 opened fire in time when the "Tiger" adjusted its muzzle.
The "Tiger" "tiger body shook", and then it was paralyzed and motionless. After a while, a wisp of black smoke faintly emerged from the tank cabin.
At this time, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and some even cheered: "We killed it!"
"We are victorious!"
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But this is just one of them.
Immediately afterwards, two more "Tiger" vehicles slowly drove up from the darkness.
But this time the soldiers were not so afraid.
"Two hundred meters! Two hundred meters can penetrate!"
"Tell everyone this information!"
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This information continued to spread between the infantry and the tanks, so a dozen T34s quickly surrounded the two Tiger tanks like ants.
Needless to say what the result was, the two "Tiger"s were soon destroyed by the T34.
Another "Tiger" had an engine failure on the way here and couldn't move.