Chapter 620: Iron Behemoth
Xue Kui fired the last shell, and after being hit by the opponent's tank twice, he struggled to drive the tank, rushed to the front, and hit a tank with a bombardment.
The weight of the T33 is only nearly thirty tons, and the thickness of the armor is too far from that of the T62. The commander and driver of the tank were killed by the violent impact, and the tank was incapacitated.
The two tanks that followed Xue Kui saw that the captain seemed to be desperate, and they all moved closer to him, shouting in the headsets.
But at this time, Xue Kui's headset had been damaged in the impact, and the blood on his head covered his vision, making his vision blood-red.
He was unconscious, but he could see the enemy, and at this moment, he only had the enemy in his mind. With the tank a few meters back and the front end already badly deformed, he didn't wait for the two tanks to get closer, the throttle increased, and he crashed into a tank gun car with a roar.
The roaring impact caused the two chasing tanks to shout continuously, but he turned a deaf ear, and at the moment of crashing the fourth tank gun car, his tank finally stopped.
Xue Kui was lying in the tank, the blood of the steamed bun was already flowing slowly along the clotted blood scab, and his breathing had been cut off.
"Captain!!"
The commander of one tank quickly jumped onto the hatch and flew out of the hatch, and the tank in the cabin, which was already unprotected, jumped in at the same time that another tank destroyed the approaching enemy tank.
"Captain......
The commander quickly found all the members of the tank in the battle compartment and cockpit, and after a brief inspection, it was confirmed that the captain and his crew were all killed.
Silently weeping, he cleaned up the relics of the three and removed the communication system of the three people. The moment he left the tank, he sadly took out a grenade and threw it into the tank, and then, wiping away his tears, returned to his tank with a roar.
At this time. The battle was nearing its end, and after nearly twenty minutes of fierce fighting, in addition to the destruction of more than a dozen T62 by tank artillery vehicles, it was a crushing attack on the T33.
The battlefield is expanding and expanding, but the Russian army has fewer and fewer tanks and tank artillery vehicles. The wreckage of the battlefield was everywhere, the smoke was billowing everywhere, and the flames were blazing.
The armored vehicles also joined the ranks of the remaining tank artillery vehicles at this time, and they hid behind the tanks and sneaked up from time to time in the chaotic battle. But after all, moving tanks are difficult to lock, and they don't show much merit in the fierce battle, except for accidentally injuring their own tanks.
The anti-aircraft machine guns and machine guns on armored vehicles are more than enough to deal with them, and they are sharper than tanks, after all, the gunners who control them take seven or eight seconds to shoot at angles and speeds far more than tanks. It also needs to pass the command twice to come quickly and directly.
Tom tom. Fleeing tanks and artillery trucks were hit and smoked, were hit and caught on fire, and paralyzed on the battlefield. In just a few minutes, the fleeing tanks and artillery trucks stopped one by one in the chase.
In the fierce battle, tanks, armored vehicles, and infantry vehicles on both flanks not only surrounded the enemy's tank group, but also piggybacked on the infantry and cavalry in the rear.
Armored vehicles and tanks spit tongues of fire, flying in flesh and blood. In only a few minutes the cavalry and infantry were routed, and in pursuit they were quickly strangled.
In less than half an hour of fighting, the new 36th Army of the Russian army did not have a single tank left, not a single tank and artillery vehicle left, and their record was only to destroy less than 200 tanks. It can be described as a complete failure.
When the armored vehicle pursued the fleeing Russian army, Yu Lei's order was issued again.
The trucks behind rumbled into the battlefield, and all the enemy supplies left behind were captured. They drove away all the moving trucks, concentrated the fuel and ammunition of the truckloads, refueled the returning tanks, and quickly cleaned up the battlefield.
"Dismantle all the personal relics and communication equipment in the tank, and blow up the periscope!"
"Except for bullets and fuel and food on the battlefield, they are all wanted, and they are burned in a centralized manner!"
One after another orders sounded in the gradually falling night, and the Iron Lion, who had been fighting fiercely for more than half an hour, quickly replenished ammunition, replenished fuel, and repaired damage in battle.
In just ten minutes, the infantry cleaned up the relics of their comrades in the damaged T62, recovered all the headsets and communication systems, and blew up the more advanced observation devices than the current countries, but they had no time to deal with the remains of their comrades, and only carried out cremation in a centralized manner, because they were about to pull out.
The battle lasted nearly twenty minutes longer than expected, so they did not dare to stay too long, lest they be bitten by the enemy forces behind, and they had to clear the road as soon as possible and advance towards the predetermined goal.
While piles of flames lit up the night sky, Yu Lei's steel lion rumbled forward with a roar.
On the battlefield, there is nothing but piles of burning fires at this time. As for the corpses of the Russian army, Yu Lei didn't have time to clean them up, and the guns and those large-caliber guns, except for blowing them up, did not carry them.
While they were pulling out, the Soviet side of Russia was anxious. Serokov only reported that at the beginning of the battle, the tank artillery vehicles easily routed the enemy's small tank forces, destroying hundreds of the opponent's tanks in just one round of artillery bombardment, and after the tank artillery vehicles were still effective, there was no movement, and they have not been contacted until now.
Meretskov had a faint premonition that the newly formed 36th Army might be more than lucky.
The bearded man also received a report quickly, and in his feeling, I am afraid that the 36th Army may not be able to be left.
It is necessary to hold the enemy, or to give time to reinforcements in the Caucasus region, and block the enemy in a range, otherwise, with such a strong attack force, continuous interception is just a refueling tactic.
Both the bearded man and Meretskov understood this, and immediately ordered the 9th and 10th armies, which were still pursuing, to let the small forces continue to move first, to catch up with the enemy, to find out where the army was going, and the target of their expected attack, and to bite them.
The Ninth Army was all infantry, and after receiving the order, the Tenth Regiment sent a tank regiment to march rapidly, following the traces left on the snow and pursuing it as fast as possible, making sure to catch up with the enemy.
But their speed was not faster than Yu Lei, although Yu Lei was delayed for nearly an hour, it was not something they could catch up, but two hours later, this line head army arrived at the scene of the tank battle.
Hiss......
The wreckage in the headlights made everyone gasp.
Here, it was like entering a scrap iron recycling center, and the wreckage and steel fragments everywhere made the back of the commander of this tank regiment cold, and the cool air continued to surge.
The tank was moving slowly, he stood in the hatch and looked at the familiar T33s, looking at the tank gun trucks that were larger than the original, and what gradually rose in his heart was not shock, but fear.
The enemy's combat effectiveness can be called terrifying, he walked out of thousands of meters and did not see a single enemy tank, what he saw was his own.
Is the enemy's tank so powerful?
When the regimental commander saw the wreckage that no longer smoked, a sense of powerlessness rose in his heart.
Just when he was afraid and his fighting spirit was about to be lost, a steel giant beast appeared in sight.
"It's ...... Enemy tanks! ”
He yelled, "Stop!! ”
The tank stopped in front of the T62, which was intact except for the deformed nose and bent barrel. The regimental commander jumped onto the tank that was almost stuck in the body of the tank's gun truck, and the flashlight shone into the cabin.
"What? Found a relatively intact tank? ”
Meretskov looked in disbelief at the confidential officer who handed over the message.
"Yes, Comrade General."
The confidential officer stood up and reconfirmed.
"Great! That's great!! ”
Meretskov looked at the message in his hand, and kept muttering it in his mouth.
This is too important, with the enemy's tanks, they will be able to copy them very quickly, at most three or two months, and no matter how long it will not be more than half a year.
"Order, quickly collect the wreckage of enemy tanks and all related items on the battlefield, and secretly send them to Moscow!"
Following Meretskov's order, the tank regiment that arrived first did not pursue it further, but stayed and began to search for the wreckage of enemy tanks all over the battlefield at night.
After more than an hour of searching, they found nearly forty wreckage with the engine intact, but only half, or most of them were still intact, all of them were hit by artillery, only the tank that was initially seen was deformed, but relatively intact, and even the interior was not destroyed.
While searching the entire tank, a Japanese-style melon grenade was found in the combat compartment, and it was fired, but it did not explode.
After the Russian army carefully took the grenade out of the cabin and threw it into the distance and landed, it exploded, making the Russian army who was still holding the grenade just now sweat, and his hands and feet trembled.
It was a grenade that went wrong, fortunately it didn't explode, maybe the enemy left in a hurry, or maybe the shelter of several broken tanks and artillery trucks around him that he hit left out the enemy troops who were cleaning the battlefield, leaving behind almost intact tanks.
Meretskov directly ordered this tank regiment to abandon the pursuit of the enemy, transport the wreckage of the enemy's tanks back to Moscow, bypass the enemy's route and march quickly.
He knew very well what this tank would bring them, and according to the situation on the battlefield, the gap in skill made his own tank like a toy. With this captured tank, their victory was not far off.
At this time, Yu Lei did not know the importance of the tank wreckage to the Russian army, and even Dong Ku ignored the destruction of the tank wreckage due to the tense situation, resulting in the T62 being obtained by the Russian army. However, this preliminary product, and some of the technical skills that are not up to standard, such as smelting, fire control system, smoke system, etc., are all being tested, including artillery, which is also a smoothbore gun, not a rifled gun. (To be continued......)