Sometimes weapons that are too advanced are not always a good thing for soldiers on the front line. The sharp reduction in participation is actually a very serious problem.
It is every soldier's dream to turn a battle into a beach landing game, because life is the most important thing.
But the reduced sense of participation is also a really boring thing: just like Liu Guozhu at this moment, he feels that the battle in front of him is a bit boring.
He didn't even make too many decisions, he just helped the gunner find the next target, and then looked for another target after the gunner fired...
For them, this game is like a hyper-realistic beach landing game, where you are fixed on a turret and use a powerful cannon to destroy the swarming enemies.
"Missed!" The gunner shouted loudly and regretfully when he saw that his cannon had missed the target. His tone was not even nervous, but full of regret.
As the tanks of the Dahua troops directly ahead were destroyed one after another, the angle between them and the tanks of the enemy's attacking troops gradually increased.
So aiming becomes difficult because you have to calculate the forward speed of the enemy tank in advance. As a result, their shells began to miss, and it took almost two or three shots to destroy a target.
After all, they have no crosswind sensor or ballistic computer. All operations need to rely on the gunner's personal shooting experience and the 5x magnification precision sight in front of him.
This is a technical job, but anyone who has played shooting games knows that it is very difficult to shoot the gun in advance through the scope.
Because you need to use the fastest speed to determine the distance between the opponent and you. This is an empirical job. You need to refer to the scale on the scope and compare it with the actual size of the target to quickly calculate an approximate distance.
On modern main battle tanks, this work is usually done instantly by a laser rangefinder, but in this era it is the little head behind the gunner's eyes that does this work.
After determining the distance, you can then estimate the advance by referring to the relative speed of the opponent. This also requires experience and calculation, and it also relies on the experience of the gunner to operate freely.
Just like an old player in a shooting game, the moment you open the scope, you start shooting based on experience. The probability of hitting the first shot is not high, and corrections all rely on experience.
What's more, it is impossible for the enemy to maintain a constant forward speed. Even passive deceleration or steering caused by terrain factors will affect the hit rate of the artillery shell after it is blasted.
God knows whether these advancing Dahua tanks will slow down because of a rock in front, or suddenly change their direction to avoid friendly forces...
In short, it is basically impossible to blow away an enemy tank with two cannons. If you can do it, you can only say that you are lucky.
The only situation where hit accuracy can be guaranteed is when both sides are relatively stationary, so attacking an enemy tank heading directly in front of you has the highest hit rate.
Under normal circumstances, gunners and vehicle commanders will first fire at enemy tanks facing their own tanks, because they are easy to hit, and they can also eliminate the target that poses the greatest threat to their own tanks! After all, those targets that are not easy for you to hit, are not easy for them to hit you either!
Therefore, for a tank from the World War II era, the rate of fire is actually a very important performance indicator. Therefore, the is-2 tank that uses divided ammunition is definitely not a good tank. Its rate of fire can simply be described as a scam.
Moreover, its ammunition reserve is only a pitiful 28 rounds. Excluding the ridiculous calibration consumption, it is estimated that only one-third of the shells can actually hit the target.
This means that the IS-2 tank's continuous combat capability is extremely poor. The only more reliable winning tactic is to use the 122mm caliber artillery to kill with one hit.
However, combined with the Soviet tank tactics that already had an advantage in the middle and late stages, the IS-2 relied on high defense and thick blood to resist the line and cover the T-34 to submerge the Germans, so these shortcomings were not obvious in actual combat.
Liu Guozhu's crew members are all veterans. They have experienced the War of Qi and their cooperation has become quite tacit. The gunner has a lot of actual combat experience. After changing to the Panther tank, he also conducted a lot of actual combat shooting training, so his skills are quite good.
He calmly adjusted the Panther tank's turret, re-aimed at the target, and pointed the slender barrel at the Dahua tank in the distance again.
The next second, he stepped on the pedal again and fired out a cannon, accurately hitting the body of the Dahua tank.
There was another ball of flames, and another Dahua Empire tank was paralyzed on the battlefield. Because the 75 mm caliber long-barreled artillery is so powerful that it is enough to ensure that it can directly penetrate its target at any angle.
The distance between the two sides was getting closer. The Lion armored reconnaissance vehicle hidden on the flank that had not fired suddenly fired a shot, destroying the Dahua tank that was trying to approach the village in a roundabout way.
This completely disrupted the position of the Dahua tank unit, because they had already encountered a powerful and outrageous opponent in the front. The Lion armored reconnaissance vehicle that opened fire at this time became the straw that broke the camel's back. .
"They stopped! I took aim!" The gunner sitting in front reported what he saw to Liu Guozhu behind him. The next second, the body of the Panther tank shook slightly. It was the vibration caused by a 90 mm caliber artillery shell hitting the armor on the front of the Panther tank.
The muzzle velocity of this shell was quite low, so it was easily bounced off the sloping armor. The shell left a dark scratch on the armor, and then it flew to nowhere.
Soon, the gunner responded to the enemy who opened fire on his tank. The Leopard tank fired a cannon and penetrated the Dahua tank that was parked there to reload its shells.
The gasoline engine of the Dahua tank exploded. The violent explosion and expanding flames engulfed the crew members inside the tank, and none of them escaped.
The power system of the Tang Guobao tank equipped with a new diesel engine is quite safe, has large torque and is not prone to explosion. The only drawback is that the central transmission shaft is maintained and all the power is not rear-mounted.
However, this slight flaw is actually not serious, because in theory it only increases the overall height of the Panther tank, but it balances the center of gravity in a sense.
Of course, the overall rear-mounted power package is the mainstream trend, so the Leopard tank is also the last tank with "mellow German blood" that Tang Mo has come up with.
"Are we being hit?" The electromechanical operator sitting in the front row was a little nervous. In theory, his seat was the most dangerous place on the tank.
If a shell happened to hit the curved shield of the Panther tank and hit the bomb nest area below, it would most likely penetrate the hatch above his head and kill him.
The place where he was sitting was still directly in front, and the upper armor was one of the parts of the tank that was most likely to be hit, which was very unsettling.
What's even more depressing is that, in order to find some work for him, he has a window in the front armor. This is also the only opening in the armor on the front of the Panther tank: he has a heading machine gun, and he usually has to control the machine gun. To kill the enemy...
"Yes, we were hit...but the tank is fine!" Liu Guozhu looked at the situation on the battlefield through the gap in the tank's observation window.
He saw that the enemy tanks had begun to reverse, and the infantry following the tanks were also retreating. These Dahua soldiers dragged their wounded comrades and retreated like the tide.
Liu Guozhu breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that in just less than an hour of fighting, they had almost exhausted all their ammunition.
The Panther tank has a total of 79 rounds of artillery shells in reserve, and just now they fired a total of 63 rounds. To be honest, this number is already amazing.
The battlefield was littered with burning tank wreckage, none of which belonged to the Tang State. After the Air Force achieved an exaggerated 200-0 record, the Tang Army also began to show its prowess.
Just now, in this narrow tank battle, more than 50 Dahua tanks were destroyed. It can be said that more than one integrated tank battalion was annihilated by a tank and an armored reconnaissance vehicle of the Tang Army.
Just the Leopard tank commanded by Liu Guozhu destroyed at least 35 tanks, which can be said to be an extraordinary performance.
On average, less than two shells destroyed a tank. This number is definitely worth bragging about. This is mainly because in the initial stage, the formation of a dozen Dahua tanks rushing forward was too dense and the angles were too high. Very good, so I asked Liu Guozhu's crew to improve the hit rate.
Later, the fighting distance between the two sides was shortened a lot, and this allowed Liu Guozhu and the others to take a big advantage.
Liu Guozhu stared at the enemy troops who were gradually retreating, and muttered absently: "They are retreating!"
"Hurry up and replenish the ammunition..." The loader, who was already too tired to be human, was the poorest person in the car who had the least human rights. He has no energy to speak now. Just now he loaded 63 rounds in one breath.
His military uniform was soaked with sweat. At this moment, he was slumped in the tank, unwilling to even stand up.
"You take a rest, and let the electromechanical and driver replenish ammunition with me later." Liu Guozhu also knew that his loader had just risked his life, so he comforted him.
The ammunition replenishment truck from the company headquarters is on the way, but they have to retreat to the other side of the village and find a hidden place to replenish the spent ammunition - this is a regulatory requirement, in order to prevent enemy shelling.
After Liu Guozhu and the others had replenished their ammunition, the main force of the tank battalion had arrived, and they also brought an entire combat team.
Then the Tang army launched a counterattack, breaking through the defense line of the Dahua army, which suffered heavy losses, and captured the villages farther west in one fell swoop.
The battle continued until nightfall, and the commander of the Dahua troops who rushed over found helplessly that after their counterattack, they were even further away from Wangchun City...
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I’ll leave one update for today. I’ll make up for today’s update tomorrow. Sorry.
