The Rise of the Empire

With a ding, another 37MM shell hit the front armor of the Cricket tank. The sharp warhead was smashed into pieces by the thick armor, leaving no impact except a shallow mark.

"We are as comfortable as lions hunting hyenas!" The smell of blood and gunpowder smoke made the loader fall into a kind of fever before the battle. He tirelessly took out a row of new 40MM shells from the ammunition magazine behind him, and fired He reached the ammunition supply plate on the side of the artillery, then pushed hard, and with the sound of locking, a row of new shells was loaded.

"1 o'clock, 700 meters, target 1!" Rommel once again pointed out the location of the target. The gunner and loader turned the handle together, the turret moved slowly, and then the muzzle was slightly lowered and fired the first round of shots. , 650 meters, three armor-piercing shells roared towards the target, two shells missed, and the other shell left a terrifying penetrating wound on the Renault tank turret.

The encounter between the armored forces of both sides was a one-sided massacre. After entering the battlefield, the Renault tanks even had no time to get familiar with this terrifying Shura field, and were turned into a pile of burning iron boxes by precise mid-range shots. Not only because of the equipment problems of both sides, tactics and training also played a key role.

Although even in World War 2, the engagement distance between tanks to destroy targets was relatively close, generally around 800 meters, but this does not mean that the shooting distance is so close. In fact, generally speaking, when the two sides are 1,500 meters apart When I went up and down, I started corrective shooting. In the later stages, many tank crews even started shooting at 2,000 meters. They gradually locked on the target through differential shooting, and then got closer and killed it with one hit.

In this regard, the German armored soldiers who can shoot continuously and have machine gun-assisted correction do very well. The continuous firepower can quickly bite the opponent. Most of the French armored soldiers who were on the battlefield for the first time were very uncomfortable with this situation. Timely hits at 1,000 meters away were very rare, but when the continuous sound of gunfire came to mind, when the clouds of flames were on the vehicle. When there was an explosion next to the body, the French immediately became confused!

There was no dedicated wireless communication vehicle and no reliable and accurate command system. The French tanks entering the field after a long march were in a very messy formation. There was no coordination between them. Many tanks just subconsciously moved in the direction of the battlefield. Driving, either following the map or following the car in front, when they suddenly entered the battlefield and were hit by a volley of artillery fire, the French tanks became even more confused. As if they had insulted the sheep in the encirclement, they were attacked by the hunters. The massacre!

The whistling cannonballs are like knights' spears. In the hands of experienced hunters, they easily kill enemies in the distance. The inverted wedge-shaped battle formation like an eagle spreading its wings easily crushes the opponent's first charge, rough-skinned. The backbone of the Wasp assault cannon is as thick as an eagle's claws. The two wings composed of cricket tanks on both sides are flexible. They constantly move between the wreckage and various obstacles, using platoons as combat units, easily harvesting the lives of the opponent.

Rows of Renault tanks like a tidal wave were destroyed by armor-piercing shells, and even a 75MM shell directly penetrated an unlucky French thin-skinned "car" 600 meters away. A chariot that was running on the battlefield a second ago turned into a piece of parts and was thrown into the air. Then it fell down one after another, and even hit the friendly vehicles nearby. This kind of impact of blood and fire was not ordinary. Tolerable. The Bavarian Legion rumbled past the French tanks that had turned into wreckage and continued to charge forward. They knew that their real test was yet to come!

A red light flashed from the corner of Rommel's eye,

In less than half a second, a cricket tank on Rommel's left suddenly stopped violently. With a violent explosion, the tank that had been showing off just now fell to the side like a drunken man and rolled over. Thick smoke poured out from the breach, and after more than ten seconds, the two tank crews stumbled out.

"It's the FT10. The real owner is here. Be careful." Half a minute later, the sharp-eyed Rommel saw the FT10 tank destroyer with smoke still coming out of the muzzle from the side of a hill. Although there was no radio communication, Rommel still made contact with the platoon next door by relying on semaphores and flares. After countless drills, the two groups performed a perfect cooperation!

The Renault chariots on the outside move forward quickly. They are farther away from the opponent and move laterally. It is very difficult for the opponent to hit them. It is like a cunning lone wolf constantly teasing the opponent outside the range of the hunter, and then Opportunities for real killers are average. While the hills provided cover for the French, they also blocked the opponent's view. The two battle platoons rushed towards the newly emerged opponent in a pliers-like battle formation!

After a series of soft blasts of compressed air, a series of smoke grenades suddenly sounded from behind the French tank position hidden behind the hill. The frightened French subconsciously wanted to turn the long car body. Although the FT10 itself was considered a It is an armored truck gun, but in fact the artillery cannot fire 360 ​​degrees. If you want to deal with the target behind, you must turn the vehicle body, which is very laborious for a wheeled combat vehicle because it cannot rely on the different speeds of the two tracks to achieve a smaller turning radius like a tracked vehicle.

But fortunately, the French also played a mixed game. Several Renault tanks turned around the turret first, but they faced nothing but black smoke. Accompanied by the roar of the tanks and the harsh sound of tracks crushing gravel, several steel beasts rushed out of the black smoke and pointed their slender 40MM machine guns at the FT10 tank that was making a hard turn in the distance!

"Free fire at full speed!" As Rommel's car fired a string of shells, the 2-pound shells roared and flew towards the target, easily smashing the side armor or rear armor of the FT10 like the scythe of death. A series of bullet holes appeared on the bodies of these new era French cavalry. Like the scythe of death, the beating muzzle immediately sent this small group of French tanks into hell.

Machine guns that fired faster than artillery were also firing. The Germans were surprised to find that those Renault tanks, nicknamed cars, could not even withstand the steel-core armor-piercing bullets of the 12.7MM machine gun. These bullets easily knocked through the opponent's fragile armor, and then turned the driver inside into a ball of flesh!

"This discovery deserves to be written into the tactical manual." Rommel said with satisfaction as he looked at the Renault tank in the distance that was turned into a burning iron box by the steel core bullets of the large-caliber machine gun and the armor-piercing incendiary bombs.

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