Chapter 452: captured

Chapter 452 seized

In this battle, Sponek made the mistake of thinking that his strategy could deceive the Soviet army.

This idea may be normal, because the Soviet army usually goes straight in combat, and even the attack time and tactics are very regular.

In this case, the Soviet army suddenly became flexible and even thought of Sponek's front, which caught Sponek by surprise and made a series of mistakes.

For example, he asked the "Tiger" to immediately reinforce the east.

At this time, Sponek should be able to judge that it is too late to reinforce the east. The result of hasty reinforcements will only make the "Tiger" malfunction or be submerged in the torrent of T34.

The correct approach should be to pull all the "Tiger Styles" back to Zhankoi's defense.

If you do this, first of all, you can still use the rails to maneuver because you have enough time to prepare without directly entering the battle.

The second is that you can rely on building cover to block the streets, and you can even fight and retreat. It is not difficult to hold for five hours until the reinforcements arrive at dawn.

But Sponek did not.

Under his order, four "Tigers" went to reinforce the east side... Since the east side is being reinforced, and the east side is fighting, of course they can no longer be pulled by flatbed trucks to the battlefield.

Otherwise, the tracked vehicle used for traction is destroyed and the "Tiger" cannot move. It can't even get off the flatbed. At the same time, the accuracy of the "Tiger" will also be affected, because the chassis is fired on a moving flatbed Unsteady, which is similar to the reason why warships shoot on shaky seas, so they have poor accuracy.

So, it is reasonable for a "Tiger" to be unable to function due to a malfunction. The German "Tiger" troops lost 25% of their combat effectiveness before the battle began.

Another mistake was that these "Tigers" were not coordinated enough.

Actually, the German "Tiger" reinforcements have a chance of victory.

If the "Tigers" did not rush to the battlefield in two batches, but three appeared together... one can be in the middle, and the other two can cover the flanks.

So, even if a dozen T34s swarmed towards them at the same time, and were divided by these three "Tigers", and each "Tiger" dealt with four to five targets, it was still possible to win.

One can imagine that kind of scene, T34s came up one after another, and they were killed before they entered the distance that threatened the "Tiger" or when they stopped and aimed at the distance. In the end, more than a dozen T34s would be destroyed on the way to attack. .

It would be more ideal if it is equipped with a few "No. 3" and "No. 4" tanks for cover.

Then the other T34s that came up were no exception. Even at this time, the Soviet army should retreat or even collapse... This is not a question of how many tanks are lost, but a question of thinking that the attack is just meaningless casualties.

But the three "Tigers" of the German army did not come up in one batch, but one came up first.

This one can almost be said to give the Soviet army a chance to practice, although it has given the Soviet army enough shock.

Then, after the Soviet army knew that the monster could be destroyed from the front within two hundred meters, the two "Tigers" that the German army came up next could not achieve the previous effect.

All the factors together made the German army lose the initiative in this battle.

Without the "tiger" cover, the German army was like a toothless tiger. It was chased by the Soviet army all the way and hid in the city, hoping to rely on street fighting to resist the Soviet army.

But this is clearly wishful thinking.

The Soviet army has the powerful T34, and those buildings are like paper in front of it. They can easily break through a wall and lead the Soviet army to wipe out a building.

The other is that the 1st Guards Brigade is equipped with "Poposa" and rocket launchers...they are sharp weapons for street fighting.

So Shulka was not worried about this at all. He didn't even follow his men into Zhankoy. He stopped the Cossack and commanded his platoon to surround the "Tiger" tank and even organized a defense.

"Don't let anyone approach it!" Shulka ordered: "Including our own people, those who disobey are allowed to shoot!"

"Yes, Captain!" replied the Cossack.

This is one of the second batch of two Tigers.

The other "Tigers" were all blown up.

The first one was destroyed by the Soviet army. After the Soviet tanks destroyed it, they were worried, and then two T34s approached the wreckage from the flanks and fired two shots... If the T34 is attacked from the side, it can penetrate at a distance of 800 meters. One shot hit the engine, and the tank quickly burst into flames.

Shuerka didn't even have time to stop it.

The two vehicles in the second batch were paralyzed by Soviet tanks from the side. One of the surviving German tank crews climbed out and detonated it from the inside with explosives... It's not surprising that they would carry explosives, Shulka thought, they should have been ordered on the first day of training, once they were hit If so, every effort should be made to blow it up so that it does not fall into the hands of the enemy.

The third car emitted a plume of black smoke, and no one climbed out of it.

Sometimes this does happen, for example, after the armor-piercing projectile penetrates the armor, the steel fragments brought up fly around and kill the occupant, or the occupant is stunned and unconscious under the huge momentum.

Shuerka was not sure whether it was the latter, and immediately ordered the Cossack: "Go in and destroy the people inside!"

"Yes, Captain!" Cossack pulled out a grenade as he spoke.

"You're crazy!" Shulka hurriedly stopped him: "Don't flick it with your hands!"

"Yes, Captain!" The Cossack looked stunned, because the best option to deal with the enemies inside the tank is the grenade.

Otherwise, if you enter the tank cabin to fight the enemy, it is almost courting death...unless the enemy has no ability to resist.

What the Cossacks didn't know was that it was totally worth the risk for Tiger.

The Cossack even took off the submachine gun, because it was difficult to climb into the tank compartment with the submachine gun on his back.

He chose to use a flashlight and a pistol.

Then, after the subordinate opened the hatch, he quickly popped his head out and fired two shots into it. He retracted his head and waited for a while before summoning up the courage to jump in.

After a while, there were two "bang bang" gunshots inside. Everyone pointed their guns at the hatch of the tank, and their fingers were tensely on the trigger.

Then, the voice of the Cossack sounded: "I killed them, Captain! The others are dead, only the driver is injured and stuck and unable to move. I let him go with his companions!"

Shuerka couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he heard this, which means that they captured a "Tiger" and it was basically complete.

The role it can play is probably no less than the Soviet occupation of Zhankoi.

If you choose one of the two, Shulka will even choose "Tiger". ,

But of course, it would be better to have both.

(end of this chapter)