Quetzal led his troops to retreat, and rushed north with the puppet officers and soldiers, and they retreated to the camp from which they had set out.

On the other hand, the German and puppet troops in the city of Loyev, under the leadership of the German battalion commander Krist, abandoned all the wounded, women and children and tried to storm the German defenses.

For a time, Balzen's front was flanked. In this time and space, it is normal for an army to be flanked like this, and the defense line is torn apart. Thanks to the powerful firepower of the Soviet army and the excellent quality of the soldiers, those enemies who were out of the cover of the city buildings were driven back.

Grimster was so angry that he realized that his men had become targets for machine guns in the process of running through the thousand-meter-long wilderness with only 400 men.

Indeed, lacking heavy weapons, they left behind more than 200 corpses and fled into the city in a hurry. In order to prevent them from trying to break through again, Evgeny led his troops to intensify the shelling. His battalion was mainly used to contain the enemy's breakthrough in the city, so he sent only a small number of men to assist Balzen in a frontal battle with the tanks.

The resistance battle ended with a Soviet victory.

On the battlefield, as many as fifteen iron lumps were abandoned, some still burning with raging flames. To the north of the Soviet position, hundreds of dead bodies lay on the ground, some of them even without the appearance of human beings.

The pursuing troops of the Voroshitin battalion withdrew, and they became the first soldiers to clean up the battlefield.

The weather was already a little hot, and the soldiers who had just finished the battle were covered in sweat, and many of them took off their shirts and hurriedly picked up shovels and began to repair their trenches.

No one can be sure that the enemy will not launch a new attack, and if he does, he should prepare as soon as possible.

However, some fighters were too tired, also because they were frightened by the crazy German tanks. They sat in the trenches, panting, resting with their eyes closed, and smoking cigarettes to suppress their fears.

Natasha sat with her legs curled up in her arms, thinking back to the battles of the past few days, a few days ago, her two female soldiers were almost killed, and she clearly told them, which is really a prophecy. There is a way that artillery fire is merciless, and as a Hero of the Soviet Union, he was almost killed by German artillery.

The girl's palpitations and melancholy appearance worried Igor so much that he untied the kettle and handed it over.

"Drink some water, crush the shock!"

"I ...... I don't drink. ”

"You're still thirsty, and look your lips are peeling."

The girl still looked indifferent, and Igor, scratching her hair full of dirt, asked, "Is it because your gun is damaged, and you are very upset?" ”

The girl nodded slightly.

"Alas! In the end, it's a weapon, it's a weapon, it's a consumable. You shoot with it a lot, the rifling is rubbed violently all the time, and after a while it becomes a smoothbore gun. It's not a bad thing to be damaged now, and I think the commander will order someone to make another one for you. ”

"Commander?" Natasha raised her head slightly, picking up her spirits slightly.

Igor estimated that she wanted to open it, and continued to comfort: "Don't worry, you still have an SVT40, it has been with you since last year!" ”

She has two exclusive weapons, but over the course of her time, she has grown fond of anti-tank guns. It was a kind of pure violence, and the enemies who were hit would be torn apart by a powerful force, and this violence fascinated the girl.

In particular, she remembers that in the battle for the town of Luvanka last year, she used an anti-tank gun to wound an enemy tank, which contributed an excellent contribution to the troops. Of course, she was almost killed in that battle, and when she thought of this, the girl looked back.

It was the uncle in front of him, who was twenty years older than himself, in the battle of Luvanka, who was also quick and took himself to avoid the shelling. The commander is his savior, and this Igor is the same.

For Igor, he was a little embarrassed to be stared at by a girl with big eyes.

Igor saw that many soldiers were already entrenched in the wreckage of the once-frantic No. 4 tank, talking about the authentic products. He immediately found the topic, stood up and patted the dust on his trouser legs, and pulled Natasha up.

"Well, my Hero of the Soviet Union! Now look at the tank that you can't hit with multiple armor-piercing shells, I want to see what kind of mystery it is! ”

Natasha was only slightly torn in her uniform, she was at the forefront, and when she appeared at Balzen, who was studying German tanks, Balzen thought that this girl seemed to have almost experienced a disaster.

He nervously asked, "Comrade Speroskina, are you alright?" Your face is dirty, do you have any injuries on your body? ”

"I'm fine, thank you for your concern."

"It's great! You're here to take a look at this tank, take a good look, this damn turtle, kill and injure a lot of us! ”

Natasha walked to the front of the paralyzed tank with a blank face, and then came a shocking discovery.

On that plane, the Soviets conducted an experiment in 1943. The Soviets fired high-explosive shells from field guns to bombard the wreckage of the King Tiger tank, but even at a distance of only 200 meters, the large-caliber high-explosive shells failed to penetrate its armor. That's because the explosive power of a high-explosive bomb spreads out in all directions, unlike an armor-piercing projectile, almost all of the explosive power is condensed in a small area that may be only two millimeters, and the strong pressure directly melts the armor.

All she saw were marks on the frontal armor of the No. 4 tank. There were five fist-sized craters on it, only about a centimeter deep, which must have been caused by the recoilless gun. There were also four pits above the gun shield, which means that its frontal armor had been hit nine times.

Seeing that the girl was intently studying, Balzen leaned over and asked, "My dear, this tank is extraordinary!" I think you shot at it too, there are some narrow dents in the armor, which should be your achievement. ”

Natasha nodded and claimed two traces: "These are indeed made by me with armor-piercing bullets, it's really bizarre, I can't even hit them." Could it be that the armor of this tank has been greatly strengthened? ”

"It's really strengthened! And lo and behold! With that, Balzen opened the driver's window, and Natasha also saw the driver's periscope in this position, which had indeed been broken by herself.

The corpses in the tanks were all removed, along with the unfinished ammunition, and even the fuel in the tanks was pumped out. The entire tank has become a complete mass of scrap metal.

The driver's window was opened, so Natasha could see the thickness of its frontal armor intuitively, and she stretched out her right hand to caress it, surprised to find that it was almost as thick as the palm of her own hand.

Natasha asked in surprise, "Sir, have you measured how thick this armor is?" ”

"It's been measured and it's a shocking result! Ninety millimeters! ”

Ninety millimeters? What is this concept? In fact, it was Yang Mingzhi's invention that prompted the Soviet army to start mass production of RPGs in the first year of the war, and the German front-line troops also copied them. The anti-tank capabilities of both the Soviet Union and Germany have been greatly strengthened, and strengthening the armor thickness and metal materials of the tanks has become a key method of maintaining the combat effectiveness of the tanks.

In that plane, the final version of Tank IV, the frontal armor was strengthened to 80 millimeters, making it resistant to most anti-tank guns. On this plane, the Germans had to face increasingly severe blows from rocket-propelled grenades.

All the shells produced by Yang Mingzhi in the swamp have no armor-piercing ability at all, because the arsenal really has no materials to make tungsten core armor-piercing shells, let alone plan to produce hollow armor-piercing shells.

Most of the regular arsenals of the Soviet Union were not short of these materials, and the armor-piercing version of its mass-produced RPG warhead could easily penetrate 50 mm of armor at a distance of 100 meters. Because it is super-caliber, a small number of large-caliber RPG warheads are even more powerful to hit the collapse of the reinforced version of the No. 4 tank.

The No. 4 tank, which was brought to Gomel for repair, was damaged by two Soviet RPG armor-piercing shells, with only two small holes, and the metal heat flow killed all the crew members, which also damaged the engine.

By now, the crawlers and load wheels have been shattered, and the possibility of repairing them has been completely lost.

Balzen explained: "Now I understand perfectly well that even a 57-mm armor-piercing projectile will not necessarily be able to penetrate it, let alone your anti-tank gun!" If I had known this, I shouldn't have let the Catfish rocket launcher stand still. More than twenty people died because of this tank, and I have a lot of responsibility! ”