Chapter 508： Take dud

Meyer was very excited. He only left two tank destroyers to help guard the French general and escorted them back to the rear. All his remaining troops stayed behind, waiting for the next order.

This was a gap before the war. Meyer's men quickly carried out tank maintenance.

When I was fighting, I was very excited and didn't feel anything. But now, when I finished the fight, I saw that my tank was seriously injured.

The opponent’s 40mm banging gun left several holes in the front armor plate. The largest one can even be inserted into a fist, but the armor plate was not penetrated. The Panther 3 tank was well protected. Tank soldiers!

Ordinarily, the damaged tanks should retreat to the rear and use electric welding and other equipment to fill in the damaged parts before they can continue to participate in the battle. But now, they are obviously unwilling to wait.

What are you waiting for? A big battle is just around the corner. The First Armored Division that encircled and wiped out the entire Britain, they must participate in the war!

"Attention, be careful!" At this time, on Meyer's tank, several people were working carefully.

The blind cannonball is still in the barrel, and the cannonball must be taken out first.

This is quite dangerous. After the cannonball is loaded into the barrel, it must be fired out. Withdrawing the cannonball will be dangerous.

Theoretically speaking, there is inertia insurance on the shells, and the inertia insurance will be released only when the shells are shot out of the barrel and the speed is sufficient.

This is a necessary measure. Otherwise, for example, a fuse that explodes from an impact, without this set of insurance, it will easily explode if it is hit during transportation, which is quite dangerous.

However, as for machinery, there are accidents. What if this shell is a special case?

Gently opened the rear of the gun door, the loader carefully checked the tail of the shell, the firing pin had hit, leaving a small pit at the bottom, but the propellant in the barrel was not fired. The problem with the fuze.

He tried hard with both hands, but the barrel did not move.

"The heat expands and the cold shrinks, I can't take it off anymore," he shouted.

When firing, with multiple firings, the temperature inside the barrel is very high and the space becomes larger. Therefore, it is easy to load the shells, but now, the battle is over and the space inside the barrel becomes smaller.

If it's normal, that's not a problem. After all, in cold conditions, the shells must be able to be loaded.

The problem is that in the fierce battle just now, they fired more than 20 shells. Every time they fired, there would be residual propellant.

These residues make the internal space smaller, and at the same time the friction becomes larger, making it difficult to remove.

"It seems that you can only use the old method." The gunner said: "Roll the barrel to the lowest point and take the steel drill."

On the side of the tank's hull, a long steel drill can be drawn out, which is just one meter longer than the tank's barrel. This thing is used to maintain the tank's barrel.

After every firing, the gunpowder residue in the barrel must be cleaned in time. Now, this steel drill has other functions.

The gunner is a veteran. He was smoking a cigarette, holding a steel drill in both hands, stuffed it to the innermost point, and then shouted: "Give me a hammer!"

A sledgehammer is essential for tank maintenance.

"Smash!" the gunner shouted to the driver.

The driver was a little worried: "In this case, will the shells explode?

Tank guns are all high-pressure guns, and they have a lot of propellant. If you don't pay attention, if you blow up the shells, you will definitely blow up the barrels and send them all to the sky. "

"I have avoided the fuze of the warhead, let's do it!" The gun commander continued with the smoke in his mouth, "Come on!"

"Boom!" The sledgehammer slammed down.

"Come again!"

After smashing five times in a row, in the turret here, the loader shouted loudly: "Moved, moved!"

"carry on!"

After smashing more than 30 hammers, finally, the shell slowly retreated from the barrel.

After the last shot, the loader hugged the shell and took it out carefully.

"Stay here and hand it over to the engineers." Meyer said.

Misfired shells are quite dangerous and need to be left to the engineers to detonate. This has nothing to do with them. Now, they need to quickly maintain their vehicles to prevent similar problems from continuing.

Standing on a stalker tank destroyer, Meyer looked into the distance. He knew that his previous battle was just a contact with the opponent's forward, and the next battle was about to begin.

There was a roar from the east, and Meyer raised his head and looked at the sky. He was suddenly upset: "Hey, how come you come so early, you can't scare the British away!"

After learning the news, our own air force also quickly arrived.

A dozen Stukas flew past Meyer's tank company and headed in front of them. There should be the main force of the British armored division.

If they bombarded and frightened the British away, it would be bad.

It's a pity that the pilots in the sky couldn't listen to his words.

Hans drove his Stuka in the air of 500 meters. This is already his 87th battle since the start of the war. He has to fly three sorties almost every day. It is a natural fighter. ! If it weren't for the night to be unable to attack, I am afraid he would also fight at night.

At the same time, Hans has accumulated 203 victories.

According to the regulations, if the accumulation exceeds 200, he will step down from the front line and go to the rear to train students. However, the battle is still going on. The confirmation of Hans's results has not been so fast, and the report is very slow, so Hans Still flying on the front line.

This can be regarded as a loophole for him but he will not be able to do this for long. When the French campaign is over, he will definitely be ordered back to the rear.

Cherish every opportunity, such as now!

Under the belly of the plane, there are two 500 kg bombs. This is Stuka's most common combat load. His eyes are sharp and he can see the ground far away at a glance.

Just now, he flew over his tank position, and when he flew over, he also waved his wings towards the people below.

If he knew the complaint below, he would spit on it.

They went to blow up the bridge and cut off the back of the British armored forces. Create opportunities for your own armored forces to encircle and destroy British armored divisions.

Of course, after bombing the bridge, if there is a chance, they will also bomb the tanks supplied by the British Armored Division.

"Skhanovsky, do you know? HS-129, it looks very good." Hans was talking to his rear gunner while flying.