Chapter 710: German-Soviet War (50)

As the German army advanced, more and more cities in Turkmenistan surrendered without a fight. In just a few days, the German army swept across most of Turkmenistan.

Faced with this situation, Stalin was naturally furious, but he had no way to deal with it. After all, the emperor was far away, so he could only withdraw some combat-capable troops back to Moscow and order the Central Asian Military District to stop the German army at all costs.

Fortunately, a long-awaited good news came at this time. The United States shipped a batch of newly produced anti-tank rockets. According to the Americans, this type of rocket can easily penetrate the frontal armor of the German jackal tanks and leopard tanks and destroy them.

Stalin was overjoyed and immediately transferred a group of soldiers to train and master the use of rockets, sent them to the front line to attack German tanks, and ordered the weapons factory to mass-produce them immediately, preferably one for each person, so that the rolling armored torrent of the German army would not be a problem!

On this day, the German armored forces approached the outer positions of Smolensk. Battalion Commander Abram held a telescope and saw a huge armored force rumbling in the distance.

"You are here just in time! Let you taste the power of the bazooka!" Yesterday, their position had just received a batch of bazookas and shooters. Today is a good time for them to show their skills and teach these arrogant German armored forces a lesson! "Prepare for battle! Anti-tank teams are ready!"

Groups of anti-tank teams carrying bazookas and rockets ran forward along the communication trenches.

In front of the position, countless communication trenches and anti-tank positions were constructed. The anti-tank teams ran to the preset anti-tank positions in front through the communication trenches, and they would run away after fighting, and never stay for long. This can not only improve the efficiency of anti-tank, but also reduce casualties on their side.

However, as the German tanks approached, Battalion Commander Abram discovered something unusual. The outer shells of these tanks were surrounded by a circle of fence-like things, which densely wrapped the entire tank. "What is that?!" He had retreated from the front line and had seen German tanks, but he hadn't seen these things at the time. Although he was confused, before he could think too much, dense rockets fell from the sky, blasting large and small craters on the Soviet positions.

The German armored forces slowly stopped because there was an anti-tank trench in front of them.

Digging anti-tank trenches to block tanks can be said to be the cheapest and most effective way. As long as the width of the trench exceeds half the length of the opponent's tank track, it can block the enemy tanks. In order to dig this tank trench, even the citizens of Smolensk participated. After working day and night, they finally dug out this long trench surrounding the entire city of Smolensk.

As soon as the German tanks stopped, Soviet soldiers carrying rocket launchers suddenly jumped out of the anti-tank positions behind the anti-tank trenches. They held their breath, aimed at the German tanks in front of them, and pulled the trigger on the grip.

Rockets flew towards the German tanks at a speed visible to the naked eye. The German tank commanders in the tanks were startled by this sudden scene. Before they could react, these rockets flew in front of them and hit the grille armor on their tanks.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Hearing the explosions close at hand, the tank commanders subconsciously touched their bodies and breathed a sigh of relief when they were sure they were safe. "Fire!" He pulled the trigger of the remote-controlled machine gun.

As early as World War II, the German army was equipped with remote-controlled weapons. Although they were far less advanced than later generations, they could be said to be the earliest prototype of all modern remote-controlled weapon systems.

The first tank destroyer equipped with this remote-controlled weapon system was the "Hunter". The MG-34 machine gun on the roof was installed on a rotating base and protected by an armored shield, while the crew could use the periscope and handle to achieve aiming and control, and pull the steel wire to fire, completely realizing non-exposed shooting.

But such a pioneering design is bound to have flaws. Apart from the problem of control convenience, the most fatal problem is that the top-mounted MG-34 machine gun only uses a 50-round drum magazine. After the bullets are used up, the crew must lean out of the vehicle to complete the ammunition replacement. Similar designs were still continued after World War II. The Japanese Type 73 armored transport vehicle and the US M114/59 armored vehicle were equipped with simple remote-controlled machine guns. The Soviet army even equipped its epoch-making tank T-64A with a remote-controlled machine gun belonging to a subsystem of the TKH-3B commander's integrated aiming system. Using the latest optical aiming equipment at the time, it fully realized the assault requirements under nuclear, biological and chemical conditions.

Nowadays, German tanks are all equipped with such remote-controlled machine guns. The coaxial machine guns and commander machine guns of dozens of tanks roared at the same time, smashing the rocket launchers who had not yet recovered.

Abram, the battalion commander in the rear position, was dumbfounded as he watched the rockets hit the German tanks and exploded, but the tanks were safe and sound, and instantly counterattacked and eliminated most of the rocket launchers, almost jumping up. "Is this the American weapon?! Not even as good as a matchstick!!" He naturally didn't know that it was the German grille armor that did the trick. The bullet hit the grille armor and was immediately detonated. All the metal jets penetrated the grille and then shot into the air in front, causing a huge waste of energy. Even if it touched the main armor of the tank, the remaining energy could not penetrate it. At most, it would leave some small pits on the armor that didn't hurt.

Just as the battalion commander Abram was madly cursing the Americans' useless weapons, another round of rockets came and exploded on the position.

While the Soviets were bombed and couldn't even lift their heads, more than a dozen bridge-building tanks drove in from behind the Germans.

These bridge-building tanks, which were modified from the chassis of the Jackal tanks, had no turrets. Instead, they had a flat, retractable steel bridge. The bridge-building tanks drove to the anti-tank trench, lifted one end of the folded steel bridge, stretched it out section by section, and laid the other end to the other side of the anti-tank trench.

This steel bridge is 20 meters long, and the width of the tank trench is no more than five meters, which even feels like using a butcher knife to kill a chicken. In just a few minutes, more than a dozen steel bridges were built. The Soviet soldiers on the battlefield were stunned to see the German tanks rumbling across the steel bridges and easily crossing the anti-tank trench, and their hearts were full of shock.

The anti-tank trench they dug with great effort and time could not even stop the German tank troops for ten minutes. If they had known this, why would they dig it so hard! !

"Boom, boom." The tracks of the German tanks were turning, rolling over the ground and rushing towards the Soviet positions.

"Destroy them! Fire! Destroy them!" Battalion Commander Abram pointed at the approaching German tanks and gave the order to fire hysterically.

"Bang!" A soldier with a PTRS-41 anti-tank rifle aimed at a tank and pulled the trigger. The huge recoil made his whole body tremble, and he felt as if his bones were about to fall apart.

This is the latest anti-tank rifle developed and produced. It uses a special Soviet 5mm metal ceramic armor-piercing bullet, which can penetrate 50mm armor plate at 100 meters. Such power is enough to penetrate the main armor of the original German No. 4 tank within 100 meters and can penetrate the 30mm thick side armor and engine of the No. 4 tank at 300 meters.

Unfortunately, this time it was facing the more powerful Leopard tank. The bullet hit the main armor of the Leopard tank, creating a spark and then was bounced into the sky.