Chapter 349 Street Fighting

Between tanks and anti-tank guns, most people, like the instructor, would choose to attack the tank first rather than the anti-tank guns that followed.

There's usually nothing wrong with choosing this, as tanks are always a threat to bigger gear.

But now this is not the case:

The tanks of both the enemy and the enemy are powerless against each other, that is to say, the tank is no longer the biggest threat, but the anti-tank gun hiding behind it is the biggest threat.

If you attack the tank first as the instructor said...even if the tank has been destroyed, the subsequent anti-tank guns can still be manually maneuvered to use the tank wreckage as a cover to attack. Even at this time, it is difficult for the bazooka to hit the target accurately because of the smoke .

But now that's not the case, the bazooka shooter just needs to aim at the tank's position and wait for it to get out of the way.

Sure enough, after waiting for a few more seconds, the "No. 3" tank gave up its gun position with a "clack-clack", and a thick and long anti-tank gun barrel was exposed.

The German artillery were even ready to shoot, they only needed to adjust the muzzle slightly to aim at the "Matilda" tank and it was ready to fire.

But they were still a step too late.

"Fire!" Shulka ordered.

There were a few "swish", and a total of four rockets on both sides of the street went straight to the anti-tank guns with howling noises.

The bazooka shooter is only 70 meters away from the anti-tank gun. The point is that they hide in the building and are condescending, and they still launch the bazooka on a fixed point such as a sandbag or a window sill. This is essentially the same as shoulder-mounted launch on a tense battlefield the difference.

So two of the four rockets hit.

The rocket hit the gun shield of the anti-tank gun. From the front, the anti-tank gun is the gun shield except for the barrel, so the hit can only hit the gun shield.

The thickness of the gun mantlet is usually only a dozen millimeters, and it is used to prevent bullets and shrapnel. Of course, it cannot stop armor-piercing projectiles that can penetrate hundreds of millimeters of tank armor.

Only two "booms" were heard, and then screams followed... The high-temperature and high-pressure jets of the rockets shot through the gun mantlet and sprayed to the German anti-tank gunners gathered in a pile behind.

Don't think about it, someone must have been pierced or burned by the jet.

After the war, Shulka saw their tragic scene, and his whole body seemed to be rotten. One piece of black here, and another piece of black there.

certainly,

That's not really "rotten", but the high-temperature, high-pressure jet stream spreads out like a fountain after passing through the gun mantlet... It's like the situation where the faucet is blocked. If the water pressure is slowly increased, the faucet will be blocked. The plug can't withstand the pressure and suddenly pops open, and the water will rush out and splash around erratically.

The difference is that the high-temperature, high-pressure metal jets that the German soldiers were exposed to were not pleasant to their bodies, and what was even more painful was that quite a few of them died after struggling for a while because they were not hit in the vital parts.

The two rockets that missed hit the corner and exploded, and the fragments and rubble that exploded also injured several German soldiers.

But these are not important, what is important is that the anti-tank gun is no longer usable.

The "No. 3" tank didn't feel the danger until then, and it hurriedly adjusted its muzzle to find the target.

If the "No. 3" tank can accurately and quickly find the target and fire grenades, it can still cause certain casualties to the Soviet troops in the building.

The problem is that it is very difficult to do. Tanks only use one observation port to observe the outside world. It is difficult to find anti-tank guns on an open battlefield, let alone in a city where there are buildings blocking everywhere and blind spots everywhere.

It adjusted the muzzle awkwardly, and fired a cannonball in a hurry, blowing up a building with shrapnel flying.

However, Shulka knew that the "Panzer III" tank had never found the target at all, because the building it attacked had only two observers.

The "No. 3" tank adjusted its muzzle and continued to attack, but it was too late.

After a few howls, the "No. 3" tank emitted a cloud of black smoke... The black smoke came out of the tank cabin, which was a sign that the tank had been penetrated.

As soon as the tanks and anti-tank guns were knocked out, the German attack was stopped.

The Germans tried several times to charge with infantry, but there was no doubt that any charge was pointless with the enemy on both sides of the street and tanks in between.

Similar battles were also going on in other directions of Tver, except that the German PAK40s succeeded in some positions, that is, they used this method to destroy the "Matilda" tanks blocking the middle of the street.

But the "Matilda" tank is not the point.

The German army tried to use the cover of the tanks to launch a storm, but every storm ended with the tank being destroyed by the rocket launcher... The rocket launcher is helpless in street battles. Houses, ruins, even a bomb crater or a wall can become its hiding place .

It only needs the cooperation of two people to run around, and it can destroy tanks within a minute when it sees them at any time, and transfer them immediately after fighting, which is very flexible.

On the other hand, tanks have to move along the streets, clumsily looking for targets, and even taller buildings are still unable to attack outside their angle of fire.

Only then did Lucas, the commander of the Sixth Armored Division, understand the crux of the problem.

"Your Excellency Lieutenant General!" Lucas reported to Kubiler: "This is not a problem with the enemy's tanks. I even believe that they will be able to block our attack even without tanks... The enemy's new equipment is too scary. Our tanks are like a target in front of them, a moving target. Our tank crews can't even feel their presence!"

"What's the meaning?"

"Tankers were shot and killed before they found them!"

"No matter what, find a way to deal with it!" Kubiler ordered: "You know the importance of the Tver Bridge!"

After saying that, he hung up the phone involuntarily.

This is obviously a difficult problem for Major General Lucas.

Of course, the rocket launcher is not a panacea, and it also has disadvantages, that is, short range and poor accuracy.

Based on this shortcoming, armored forces should fight against them in open fields with a good view, and street fighting just makes up for this shortcoming.

Therefore, Kubiler's order to "find a way to fight it" makes no sense... because the way to deal with it is not to fight street fighting with it. If you insist on using tanks and rocket launchers to fight street fighting, it is almost impossible to solve it. The short attack the other's long.

But of course, Kubiler didn't need to think about this issue.

Lucas held an emergency meeting to discuss with his subordinates, but no one found a solution.

In desperation, Lucas could only say: "We can only try to launch an attack after the sky darkens. I hope the enemy's new equipment will not be able to exert such terrifying combat effectiveness at night!"