"Forward, forward, forward! Bolshevik Party members, members of the Youth League, Red Army soldiers of Comrade Stalin, we are going to destroy all the evil Nazis! Colonel Chukhin, commander of the 1st Tank Brigade of the Soviet Red Army, stood in his T-34 command tank with high spirits, shouting loudly at the infantry commandos advancing on foot. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Hundreds of T34 tanks of the 1st Tank Brigade followed closely behind the heroic tank brigade commander, and the tracks pressed the Poles' wheat fields forward quickly.

"Hurry up, victory will belong to the Soviets!" Colonel Chukhin raised his fist at the infantry assigned to the 1st Tank Brigade.

"Ulla! Ulla! The soldiers cheered feverishly, they were the most loyal Soviet fighters, belonging to the glorious 1st Tank Army.

Just look at the number, you can see that the 1st Tank Army and the 1st Tank Brigade are definitely the leading teams in the Soviet Red Army. Their glorious history can be traced back to the 1st Cavalry Corps, the basis of the 1st Tank Army and the 1st Tank Brigade, the ace units of the Soviet and Russian Civil Wars, all of which were automobile units of the 1st Cavalry Army.

In the more than 20 years after the civil war in Soviet Russia, as Stalin's own people (the First Cavalry Army was Stalin's old subordinate), he has always been cared for, even in the era of the Great Purge, even the indicators of reactionaries are much less than those of other troops, and the officer corps has always remained stable, so the morale and combat effectiveness of the troops have always been the best in the Soviet Red Army.

The arrival of the 1st Tank Brigade and the subsequent flanking of the Germans during the daytime Battle of Vovomin on June 10 were also key to turning the tide of the battlefield. To this end, Ponomarenko, political commissar of the Western Front, also signed a commendation order, calling on the entire front army to learn from the glorious 1st Tank Brigade.

So the 1st Tank Brigade is at its peak now, and everyone doesn't realize that they are facing the most powerful and deadly armored force in the world!

"The morale of the Soviets is very high!"

"So what? At the beginning of the war, the morale of the Poles, the British, and the French was very high, but when it came to our German armored forces, it was not good. ”

The armored command vehicle of Major Rudel, commander of the 501st Heavy Armored Battalion, was parked next to a Tiger heavy tank. The top hatch of the Tiger tank was open, and the commander of the 1st Heavy Tank Company of the 501st Battalion, von Brown. Captain Norder leaned out and was talking to Major Rudel.

Both of them were veterans of the Wehrmacht, who had graduated from tank schools two years before the outbreak of the World War and joined the 1st and 3rd Panzer Divisions. After that, he fought all the way from the Polish Campaign, the Western Front Campaign, and the Balkan Campaign, and he did not suffer a single defeat. Now having become the commander of the formidable 501st Heavy Tank Battalion, of course, he will not put Soviet tanks in his eyes.

And the troops they command today are indeed strong, with 55 Tiger tanks drawn from 3 heavy tank companies.

These tigers in their hands are also slightly different from the historical ones, and the difference is mainly in armor protection. Not vertical armor, but inclined armor of 45 degrees - 60 degrees. The protection was even better, and not only were the Soviets' tanks powerless to penetrate their front, but even the flank armor was not something that the Soviets' 76.2mm tank guns could handle. The Tiger 88mm KWK36L/53 tank gun, when using a cap-piercing projectile (PZGR39), can penetrate (50% probability) a 100mm thick homogeneous steel plate placed at a 30-degree angle at a distance of 1000 meters. If a high-speed armor-piercing projectile with a tungsten core is chosen, then at a distance of 1000 meters, it can penetrate a homogeneous steel plate with a thickness of 138mm and placed at an angle of 30 degrees. Almost no known species of tank/assault guns have the ability to reach the Tiger with frontal armor.

It can be said that in addition to the fact that the mobility is not ideal and there are a lot of various minor glitches, the Tiger tank is a very ideal tank.

However, these are data on paper, and what the Tiger tank is like still needs to be tested through actual combat.

"Major Rudel, the Soviets' tanks are still moving forward, and it looks like they're going to get around our left flank." The headset came Bernhard, the commander of the 505th Battalion. Major Schwantt's voice. The 1st Company of the 505th Battalion was also a Tiger tank company, deployed on the left flank of the 1st Company of the 501st Battalion. If the Soviet 1st Tank Brigade had bypassed the left flank of the 505th Battalion of the 1st Battalion, it would have been able to attack the entire back of the Steiner cluster.

"Sir, you can't let them go around, it's the position of the 3 smoke launcher regiments," Feng said. Captain Nordel immediately reminded Major Rudel, "So we must strike!" ”

The original plan was that 55 Tiger tanks were ready to ambush the Soviet tanks, but the Soviet tanks went in a big circle, not like they were going to attack the German flank, but like they were going to hit the German army's ass.

Major Rudel quickly decided, "1 Company of the 501st Battalion, 1 Company of the 505th Battalion, 1 Company of the 503rd Battalion (in fact, only half a company of 11 Tigers), the SS Panzergrenadier Battalion 'Finland' followed me, and the rest of the troops remained to continue to guard the line. ”

The 55 Tiger tanks were moving very quietly, and Colonel Chukhin, who was directing the 1st Soviet Tank Brigade on a detour, was soon reported.

"Dozens of tanks? Great, the Nazis were fooled. Colonel Qiu Xin was overjoyed.

It turned out that the commander of the 16th Mechanized Corps, Major General Sokalov, had already expected that the German armored forces would arrange escorted tank units on their flanks, and if the 1st Tank Brigade made a hard charge, it would most likely suffer heavy losses. So Sokalov played a clever trick and made the 1st Tank Brigade take a detour a little more, pretending to make a big outflanking so that the German tanks could be drawn out of the battle.

"Attention to the commanders of all tank battalions and tank companies," Colonel Chukhin ordered the battalion commanders and company commanders of the 1st Tank Brigade with the radio on the T-34 command tank, "all companies turn to the left, charge in formation, and meet the Nazi tanks!" Comrades, for the sake of the cause of GCISM, go on the offensive! ”

"Ulla!"

A cheer of "Ula" sounded in the headphones of Colonel Chukhin, and at this time the comrades answered him. Then all the T-34 tanks turned in a very short time, from a company marching column to the simplest offensive column, and then scrambled to launch a fearless charge against the German Tiger tanks.

Colonel Chuxin's tank and several other tanks belonging to the brigade headquarters company marched at the end of the charging T-34 tank, and Chuxin looked at the back of the T-34 tank in the night, and his mood was already extremely excited. Although the German tanks had a lot of firepower, it was a night with poor visibility, and it was very difficult to hit a target at a distance of 1,000 meters, and it was good to be able to hit 300-500 meters with the help of flares.

And this distance is nothing more than a blink of an eye for the T-34. And once the T-34 and the German tanks were brought close to each other in a dogfight, the T-34 could win with its superiority in numbers and mobility.

As long as these dozens of tanks are eliminated, the flanks of the German armored cluster will be completely exposed! Today's victory in Vovomin during the day will be repeated in Legionovo.

"Boom! Rumble! Boom ......"

Several flares were fired by the Soviet infantry advancing with the T-34 tanks with mortars, and in the blink of an eye, they exploded over the German tank group, emitting a miserable white glow that illuminated the magnificent body of the Tiger tank.

"Oh my God, what kind of tank is this?" Colonel Chukhin was taken aback by the German tanks in front of him.

This is not Tank No. 4! Not only is it much larger, but it also has tilting armor similar to that of the T-34, as if it were an enlarged version of the T-34 tank......

The German tanks were lined up in a standard battle formation, and the Tiger tanks of the 2 companies were separated from each other on the left and right, with a gap of several tens of meters in between, forming two charging clusters. In the rear position in the middle of the 2 assault clusters was half a company of Tigers, which lined up a horizontal formation, and further back was the battalion headquarters of the 501st Battalion, and finally 6 assault guns No. 3 that acted as the rearguard.

Two German tank companies, advancing side by side, came to a halt less than 500 meters from the Soviet T-34 tanks, followed by six assault gun No. 3 flares that targeted the 44 Tiger tanks. Then the Tiger tanks fired a beautiful salvo, 44 cap-piercing shells screaming through the air, exploding a fireball in the Soviet tanks' charging formation.

These tank crews who operate the Tiger are the elite of the elite, and now they can still hit extremely high with the help of flares, even at night. Eighteen T-34 tanks were shot. And the penetration of an ordinary 88mm cap-piercing projectile at this distance is also not something that the T-34 can withstand. The turret shield and frontal armor that the shells easily penetrated exploded inside the hull, instantly turning the seemingly indestructible T-34 tank into a huge burning fireball.

However, much to the surprise of the German tank crews, this group of brave Bolshevik tank crews was not intimidated by the sudden appearance of huge tanks and 88mm tank guns, and still charged at the German tanks with full power. It seems that he wants to rush to the Tiger tank and hit the thick "tiger skin" with the 76.2mm gun at close range.

However, the swift and accurate fire of the main gun of the Tiger tank soon cost the brave Soviet Bolshevik fighters dearly. The second, third, and fourth rounds of tank gun firing began in the blink of an eye, and the T-34s charging on the battlefield turned into burning fire cabinets.

The glorious 1st Tank Brigade of the Red Army suffered an unprecedented heavy defeat this evening! (To be continued.) )