A type of tank they had never seen before. There was no doubt that they had encountered a new tank from a certain country.
"All charges! I want to see what is hiding under the slope!" It was originally a lossless encirclement and annihilation battle! Now it has evolved into a passive situation of being ambushed, and the owner of the rough voice couldn't help but feel a little annoyed.
However, the owner of the rough voice was also relieved at the same time. If more than these two tanks appeared, their losses would be even greater, and the entire army might even be annihilated!
The enemy in the sneak attack was not close, and the Type I B tank still needed to charge for a while.
The enemy seemed to know what they would face next, and they would definitely be besieged by German tanks if this continued, so they continued to reverse after getting out of the pit, and it seemed that they were preparing to leave.
They seemed a little unwilling to leave before they left. They focused on a target that wouldn't move, Derek's Model I and B.
"Wardfa!" Derek also noticed this situation at the same time.
"Derek's team's immobilized tank, all crew members, abandon the vehicle and hide in the rearmost tank first. Move quickly. Boss Li, go get them back!" A rough voice came from the radio.
Derek is not an inexperienced recruit, otherwise he would not be able to lead a No. 1 B tank team. In this case, anyone who is not blind will know that they cannot resist forcefully.
"Okay!" Derek replied cheerfully, then took off his earphones and said to his driver: "You might get beaten up if you go out from above. I also climbed out from the driver's hatch. After I got out, I went to the back first. Hide behind a tank and wait for Boss Li’s tank to come over, act now!”
At Derek's urging, the driver climbed out of the driver's hatch first, followed by Derek. The two of them held pistols and rushed towards a tank with a smoking engine behind them.
The tank behind him had been hit by two shells in succession, one of which seemed to have penetrated the tank body. With a "Boom!", flames and thick smoke were pouring out of the driver's hatch and the commander's hatch on the turret. Derek couldn't help but break into a cold sweat when he looked at the miserable state of his car!
The infantry on the position were suppressed and did not dare to show their heads, so Derek and his team members, who were crouching and moving, were still safe.
At this time, Li Qing and Monkey's Type I and C also came to the side. A total of six members of the team who abandoned the vehicle climbed directly onto the tank. In order not to be hit by the enemy's possible cold shots, they had to keep their bodies as low as possible. Either grab the other side of the tank facing away from the enemy, or lie down on the hood of the tank.
The waste generated by the engine is discharged from the exhaust pipe at the rear of the car, but part of the heat generated by the engine still rises directly, causing the temperature under Derek's body to be quite high!
Derek couldn't control so much now. Seeing that the team members were coming up, he immediately hit the turret twice with the pistol handle in his hand, sending a signal to Boss Li inside, asking him to leave here quickly.
"boom……"
The engine of Type I C became louder, and the exhaust pipe at the rear of the vehicle also spewed out a stream of black smoke. After the tank carrying six people increased its horsepower, it flew out menacingly.
Because the tank carried six people, two of whom were clinging to the turret armrests, the turret of Type I C could not rotate, which also resulted in Type I C being unable to suppress and counterattack.
Of course, the top priority is to take away the six members of Derek's team safely, rather than fighting back optionally.
Type I C was very fast. From the start to the maximum speed, it was close to 60 yards in just ten seconds. There was the whistling sound of artillery shells flying from behind. In addition, the ground was uneven, and the tank was bumpy. , which made the six Derek team members hanging on the tank tremble with fear. They clung to the armrests or bulges on the tank and tried hard to stabilize their bodies.
Derek was already thinking about whether to get a Type I and Type C after this battle?
Seeing Derek and others successfully escape, everyone else breathed a sigh of relief.
The continuous bombardment of three No. I destroyer vehicles and the charge of five No. I B type destroyers made the enemy tanks timid. When the five tanks charged halfway, the enemy tanks quickly began to retreat.
When the enemy tank left from behind the slope, everyone finally saw the full picture of the tank.
"What kind of tank is this? A model I've never seen before!" A rough voice said in confusion.
Of course, he was not the only one who had doubts. Except for Li Qing and Monkey, everyone who saw the whole picture had doubts, because the design of this tank was different from the designs of all current tanks.
What surprised them so much was that the first impression of this tank was its strange appearance. The front armor of this tank was sloping, the side armor was also sloping, the turret was cast in a hexagonal shape, and the inclination of the body continued. to the turret, so the tank looks almost like a right triangle when viewed from the front.
It can be seen that this tank has excellent bulletproof appearance.
"These are two T-34 medium tanks from Damao. Looking at the gun barrels... they should be the T-34-57 being tested. The front armor is 60 mm thick and has an inclination of 32 degrees. The side armor is also 45 mm and has an inclination of 49 degrees. ." Li Qing just put Derek and others down and picked up the microphone to educate others in the team.
"Such thick armor? Then... can we penetrate them?" A hesitant voice came from the radio.
"It is impossible to penetrate it with our current capabilities. It has angled frontal armor with a protection capacity equivalent to 130 mm, and side armor equivalent to 100 mm. Our 75mm cannon cannot hit it at a distance of 500 meters. Wear it, unless we bring the 88 gun over..." Li Qing had these data at his fingertips.
"Then...what's its weakness?"
"As for weaknesses, they are all tanks' weaknesses, the engine and tracks..."
A rough voice sounded: "All combat units, aim at the tracks and driving wheels of these two tanks and shoot. Even if we can't penetrate them, we have to keep them! Be careful to avoid their shelling!"
Feeling that the firepower of the German tanks had increased significantly, but because the tanks on their side were reversing, they were unable to shoot accurately and were unable to effectively attack the charging tanks. The two T-34-57 tanks had already planned to escape.
The two T-34 tanks stopped retreating and charged diagonally forward, intending to make an arc to escape from here.
Three rounds of 47mm AP armor-piercing shells hit the side of a T-34 at the back. One shot ricocheted and the shell flew to an unknown place. The second shot interrupted the tank's tracks, causing the tank to slam in place. The ground drew a semicircle to the right, and the last shell just penetrated the tail armor of the turning T-34-57 tank.
