B1-bis

After the four tigers recognized the enemy, they immediately stopped the car, which caused many nervous infantrymen who were advancing close to the tank to accidentally hit the hard rear armor.

"What are you doing?" Eric touched his aching head, and cautiously stuck his head out from behind the tank.

Immediately afterwards, he saw a number of "big five and three thick" French heavy tanks in the woods not far away pointing at him with their black muzzles.

"God!" Eric was startled, and immediately put his head back.

"Bah! Bah! Bah!" Just as he retracted his head, the muzzles pointed at the tigers spewed out rounds of flames, smashing armor-piercing bullets on the tigers.

Eric, who was leaning against the tank, clearly felt several shocks, which were the result of the kinetic energy of the armor-piercing projectile.

Eric hurriedly turned around again. Although he didn't understand why the French tanks didn't rush out to kill him before, he knew very well that as long as there was something wrong with the tiger that blocked the cannonballs for him, those French tanks would no longer be there. Like before, I stayed where I was and fired.

Fortunately, the still-roaring engine and the spinning turret told Eric that it was safe and sound.

"Free fire!" Wittmann patted Wall on the shoulder while using the vehicle-mounted Fu.5 ultra-shortwave radio to give orders to other vehicles, motioning him to fire quickly.

"Boss, the grenade we used." Wall was stunned for a moment.

"Would you like to replace it?" Joseph also asked immediately.

"No change! Grenades!" Wittmann stared closely at his target, a strangely shaped tank - the French B1-bis heavy tank.

The B1-bis heavy tank was developed in the late 1930s. It was born in response to the expansion of the German army. It was developed by thickening the armor and increasing the horsepower of the B1 heavy tank. It is the most advanced heavy tank in the French army so far.

The reason why it is said to have a strange shape is mainly because the configuration of its two main guns is really rare (not only is the turret equipped with an SA34 47mm tank gun, but also an SA32 75mm 17-time diameter short gun on the front right side of the car. tube howitzer), and in addition to its strange shape, its design is also extremely strange.

The B1-bis heavy tank adopts a single-man turret arrangement, which means that the man in the turret has to perform all the duties of the gunner, the loader and the commander, and complete a series of tasks such as target search, artillery loading, and firing. The turret crew brings a lot of stress and attrition.

However, although it is a wonderful thing as a whole, it still caused huge trouble to Germany in history-a large number of No. 2 and No. 3 tanks equipped by Germany in the early days of the war could not penetrate the B1-bis60mm inclined 45 degrees at any distance. The front main armor, the side and back also need to be very close to penetrate. Usually a B1-bis can beat several German tanks. In the face of such "monsters", Germany can only hand over 88mm anti-aircraft guns and Stu card to deal with.

But now, the situation is reversed.

A total of 23 B-1bis, madly pouring shells at the tiger that was born a few years earlier, but only left a small pit on the tiger's 100mm thick main armor inclined 50°.

In this era, perhaps only large-caliber anti-aircraft guns and French dive bombers could destroy the Tiger.

"Boom!" With the violent vibration of the No. 1331 car, an 88mm high-explosive grenade in the gun chamber left where it had been before and accurately hit the target pointed by Wittmann 200m away.

After the violent explosion, the flames and thick smoke dissipated. Except for a deep pit and a few shallow pits on the turret of the B1-bis that was hit, only the armor became a little darker, and the rest did not change at all.

Grenades with instant fuzes cannot penetrate the armor of the B1-bis.

However, after eating an 88mm grenade, the ferocious B1-bis had not been able to fire a shell for a long time - the members inside were obviously not as good as the tanks they drove.

"Armor-piercing projectile loading!" Wittmann commanded the Tiger to load a PzGr39TS steel-core shelling armor-piercing projectile while bearing the slams of other French tanks.

"Aim at the target, launch!"

"Bah!" There was another tremor, but this time, it was no longer a high-explosive grenade that did not threaten tanks, but a PzGr39TS, Germany's most advanced today!

Shelling armor-piercing projectiles are something that existed a long time ago. For example, the Soviet Union was equipped with 152mm shelling armor-piercing projectiles with 95mm armor-piercing projectiles as the core as early as 1923, but those armor-piercing projectiles are only used as anti-tank artillery shells, and are not subject to various countries. Pay attention to.

But Germany is different. PzGr39TS was specially developed by Lyon. It was precisely designed by German engineers. The position of the steel core in the middle is more reasonable than that of other countries, and the material of the steel core is also harder. It can penetrate homogeneous steel armor with a thickness of 84mm and a 30-degree inclination, and can penetrate armor of the same material with the same inclination angle of 110mm at 500m. This armor-piercing ability ranks first in the world!

In other words, it is easy to understand, that is, PzGr39TS can penetrate the main armor of any tank (except Tiger) within the visual distance! Of course, the premise of achieving this condition is that the German gunners must be accurate enough.

And now, the poor B1-bis is only 200m away from the No. 1331 car, and its main armor thickness is only a pitiful 60mm. Although its inclination angle is 45 degrees, it is far from enough to stop the Tiger gun. .

The 39TS armor-piercing projectile flew out of the gun chamber with a flame, and the light metal collar on its periphery broke away from the core the first time it flew out of the gun chamber, leaving only a slender steel core that was spinning at a high speed and rushed towards it. its goal.

After 0.25 seconds, the bullet accurately hit the front armor of B1-bis, and it easily got into the "belly" of B1-bis while rotating at a high speed, and then carried the melted fragments of the tank's front armor and penetrated the rear armor. Get into the soil!

It matched the B1-bis!

However, even if the armor-piercing projectile was shot through, the melted front armor fragments still penetrated the bodies of all the members of the tank, killing them in the steel tomb.

"Loading armor-piercing bullets!" Wittmann coldly continued to give orders, and at the same time selected a new target.

Just after the No. 1331 car took the first kill, the other tigers also put on armor-piercing bullets and started to kill the Quartet. Almost every cannon fire will turn a French tank into a pile of scrap metal.

After losing 6 or 7 tanks in a row, the commander of the French armored force finally realized the gap between the enemy and the enemy, and realized that his guns could not penetrate the front of the tigers no matter what.

"Move! Move! Get around and behind these German bastards!" The French commander quickly made the wisest decision, "We're going to avenge our dead brothers! Let these German bastards know about us. Awesome!"

The French armored units immediately dispersed according to the commander's order and surrounded the German tank units on both sides.