Chapter 456: Recoilless Cannon
"Note that the armored units of the French were found ahead. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info"At the same time, the German tankmen on the opposite side also spotted them, and almost at the same time as they were discovered, they made a decision to accelerate forward!
Now, it's a race to see who can run faster, who can rush to the bridgehead first and occupy the bridgehead!
If you look at the distance, the German armored forces, which are farther from the bridgehead, however, in front of the German armored forces, there are still some motorcycles!
When the armored troops are charging, they do not charge forward aimlessly, they need to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, all of this, for the time being, is achieved by motorcycles, when the motorcycles detect the enemy's situation and report, the commander of the tank unit behind will make a decision, meet the battle or retreat.
Commanding armored forces is a complete science.
For example, now, in front of the German armored forces, at a distance of two or three kilometers, there are several motorcycles, at this time, the rider of the motorcycle twists the accelerator, and with the roar of the engine, the motorcycle quickly goes to the bridge over there.
Torris, the rider at the front, was so skilful that his bike was even flying when he crossed a small dirt slope!
When the front wheel hit the ground again, the sturdy fork retracted a large section, and he twisted the throttle, and the motorcycle continued to roar towards the bridge in front of him.
Finally, the front wheel of the motorcycle stepped on the bridge, and at this time, the French on the opposite side were still two kilometers away from the bridge!
"Quick, quick!" Locke, the squad leader of the reconnaissance squad, shouted: "Occupy the bridgehead position on the opposite side!" ”
Occupy the other side!
Now, the war has just begun, and this is a theoretical rear, so the French have not deployed troops here at all, they can preemptively occupy the opposite bridgehead and protect the bridge!
The motorcycle drove onto the bridge, rushed over it quickly, and then, on the opposite side of the bridge, at this time, the French tank over there was still a kilometer from the bridge!
Now the bridgehead was temporarily under the control of the German troops, however, the tanks behind them were still two or three kilometers away, and the tanks of the French on the opposite side were already close at hand.
Motorcycles were nothing to tanks, they could quite have approached, killed the Germans, reoccupied the bridges.
In fact, the French commander also thought so, even De Gaulle in the back, after seeing this situation, did not have too many doubts at all, he believed that it was not too difficult to occupy this bridge, and his own S-35 tanks could easily crush the other side!
At this time, the 47-mm tank gun of the S-35 tank was already preparing to be loaded, but Bailey gave up using the tank gun after thinking about it for a while.
In this day and age, if a tank gun fires, the tank has to stop, which wastes precious time, and what they need most is to race against time, after all, the Germans have tanks in front of them.
So, abandon the use of tank guns and switch to machine guns!
German motorcycles are not protected by any armor, so as long as you rush over and rely on machine gun fire, you can also kill those motorcyclists!
Bey continued to take one last look with his binoculars, intending to get back into the turret, when he spotted a motorcycle on the opposite side, a little strange, on the sidecar of the motorcycle, actually quickly assembled a long tube!
Motorcycles, which can be said to be a kind of panacea, are possible due to the large horsepower, as small as the reconnaissance of the passengers, as large as towing various artillery pieces, and even airplanes.
At present, most of the motorcycles equipped by the German tank units are only for reconnaissance use, and the sidecars of these motorcycles are mainly equipped with machine guns.
However, Germany has also made some emergency plans, for example, its own scouts may encounter the opponent's tanks and cannot escape, what should they do in this case?
In this concern, a small number of individual cannons were installed in the Scout's motorcycles, and this was the 75mm recoilless gun codenamed LG40!
Ordinary artillery, when firing, has a strong reaction force, which on the one hand leads to the need to increase the weight of the artillery mount, on the other hand, it leads to the low accuracy of the shot, the vibration of the gun body, which will lead to errors, which is also the principle that on the battlefield, any two shells will not fall in the same crater.
How to eliminate the backseat is a problem that many military brick-builders have studied, and it was originally developed in the hands of Major Davis of the US Navy.
His idea was also very simple, to fire two projectiles with opposite tails in a barrel with open ends.
When firing, the forward shot is a real warhead, and the other is a false projectile thrown backwards, so that the forces of the front and rear cancel each other out, so that the artillery fire does not recoil. The dummy projectiles were scattered not far behind the tail of the gun.
The world's first recoilless gun, invented in 1914, is known as the "Davis Cannon".
Unfortunately, it was still not practical, and a few years later, it was improved, and instead of a false projectile, it was the gas of gunpowder that was projectile backwards, and the reaction force was eliminated as long as the front and rear forces were counteracted.
So, recoilless guns, just like that, appeared.
And Germany is also keeping up with the trend of the whole world, developing all kinds of advanced weapons, of course, it will not let go of recoilless guns, which are relatively lightweight.
The developer Krupp used a large number of light alloys to manufacture the LG40, and the total combat weight of this gun was only 145 kg, which could meet the tactical requirements of the German airborne operation.
And this weight, including the gun carriage, and now, installed on the side of the sidecar, there is no need for the gun carriage, the whole gun, only eighty kilograms!
So, what are its advantages over bazookas? That, of course, is the long range, this is artillery after all, even if it is now only 75 mm caliber, its range has reached a maximum of 6.8 km!
And the bazooka, which has a range of only a few hundred meters. Of course, the bazooka is much lighter, which recoilless guns cannot match.
Now, against the S-35 tank from a kilometer away, it is simply too easy!
The gunner, sitting on the back seat of the motorcycle, quickly shook the steering wheel and kept his eyes firmly on the sight, and the huge figures of those S-35 tanks seemed to him to be the best targets.
It was too late to do protection, and as soon as he took aim, he pulled the trigger.
"Boom!"
A huge explosion sounded, and at this moment, there was a rumbling sound in his two ears, and a sharp pain came out of his ears.
Blood, slowly oozing out from within.
In terms of operation, he had to wear earmuffs, but now, he had to race against time, and when the opponent's tanks continued to get closer to a thousand meters, the tank's machine guns would kill them all.
He had no choice. As a soldier, I have long had the consciousness of sacrificing myself!