"The whole company is free to hunt, shoot..."

Half a minute after Michelle Weitmann issued this order, he used the Tiger 2 tank to knock off a Sherman who secretly poked his head out of his head at a distance of 1,800 meters. The huge power of 88mm/l71 times directly exploded the opponent, and the entire tank quickly burned into a fireball. Although the US provided the Red Army with a diesel conscience version, the probability of dying for death was much smaller than that of the Langson lighter (gasoline version of Sherman) "every time you hit, every time you hit", the diesel that operates at high temperatures will still explode.

He is one year older than Pep, but he is only in the rank of SS captain, and serves as the company commander of the 3rd Company in the 101st Heavy Armored Battalion of the SS. Since the National Defense Force formed 12 Heavy Armored Battalion and achieved good results, the SS has also established its own Heavy Armored Battalion system accordingly. From the 101st, a total of 6 were listed. Weitmann was selected as the first batch of experienced Tiger tank commanders and was promoted to company commander. In today's armor breakthrough, he opened the way for the entire offensive cluster on the right wing.

However, this standard tactical synergistic approach cannot play Weitman's strengths. After the deep pursuit and the disbandment of the queue, the free hunting moment that he is best at finally came.

Although he had a lower rank, he had a great reputation. He was the most famous grassroots armored commander on the Eastern Front with Otto Karius of the 502nd Heavy Armored Battalion of the National Defense Forces. He had both won the Cross of the Double Sword Silver Oak Leaf Knight and received the reception from the Head of State.

Although the tanks, tanks, self-propelled artillery, and anti-tank guns destroyed by the crew of the two were not the highest, they all had brilliant and legendary records: Karius's crew met seven Red Army T-43 tanks in a narrow road. Within a distance of less than 200 meters, he destroyed all the enemy troops with his superb psychological quality and effective tactical use without any damage; and although Weitmann did not have the Battle of Pokaki in this time and space, when he attacked a large-scale attack in the summer of 1943, he led three tanks to attack from a long distance, and reimbursed a newly equipped Red Army tank brigade in one breath by 70%.

These two stories were absorbed by Goebbels into the special movie "Legend of Tiger", and the two immediately became household names of war heroes. In the idea of ​​protecting war heroes, Hoffman ordered the two to be summoned back to China as tactical instructors, but Karius refused. Although Weitman was ordered to be an instructor for three months, no one could see that his thoughts and aura were not in teaching. Just as Marseille returned to China as an instructor for less than 4 months, he began to hold back and finally went to the front line again. Some people were destined to belong to the battlefield.

"At 1 o'clock, a big head t-43, uh, 2400 meters."

"Roar up at full speed! Get ready for tungsten core bullet!"

With a "clang", a shell was pushed into the cannon chamber.

The opponent seemed to have noticed the rushing Tiger 2 tank, but did not choose to fire. At this distance, he had no chance to penetrate the opponent. While he used frontal armor to face the enemy, he also found a way to find a reliable sheltering place such as a slumped hill with prominent landmarks.

"2200 meters! Shoot!" Weitmann noticed his opponent's intentions. Just as the opponent was about to adjust the angle and retract his body, he decisively ordered the fire.

"Boom!" The shell was quickly fired, and then the next moment it penetrated the big head of the t-43. This is the image of the German tanker for the t-43/85. Seeing the Red Army tanker climbing out in a mess, Weitmann nodded with satisfaction and turned to looking for the next target. He was not interested in slaughtering the opponent's crew.

What satisfied Weitman the most was not only the thickened armor, the sharper cannon and a stronger engine, but also the inconspicuous small accessories gun vertical stabilizer.

German tanks originally had no stability instruments. They have always fired through short pauses, using their own accuracy and the world's strongest sight-seeing system to kill enemies. However, after seizing a large number of Sherman tanks, the designers became very interested in the vertical stability instruments on Sherman. This system can help the tank maintain the pitch angle of the muzzle when passing through uneven grounds. In other words, it can fire while moving, which greatly enhances the strike ability.

Of course, the system on Sherman cannot be used directly, because Sherman's main gun is very light, and the required strength and adjustment angle are not comparable to that of the Tiger. The Tiger requires greater force, but the adjustment amplitude is not only small because of the heavy Tiger turret, but the oscillation angle is small, but the unique interlaced and overlapping load-bearing wheels of the Tiger will reduce the bumps on the road by an order of magnitude.

After repeated verification, the vertical stability system suitable for Tiger type has finally been developed, and the first batch was used on the Tiger 2 tank. In order to take care of experienced gunners, they will make advance corrections based on experience and feel. This system also thoughtfully installed a shutdown function, but after practice, it was found that although the machine is not always the best, it is better than manual labor most of the time. Especially for novices with average experience, it is very superior.

Therefore, once it entered the free hunting state, the advantage of Tiger 2 was quickly stimulated. In less than 15 minutes, Weitmann had achieved three tanks and two tanks. He only hit 2 shells. The hard and thick cold-rolled forged nickel alloy steel armor easily blocked these two attacks. Not only did Germany not only have sufficient nickel resources, but the entire European production line was started at full speed. In addition, there was no threat of strategic air strikes, so he was not worried about the little armor steel at all.

On the evening of May 25, the Red Army Command received news: The German army broke through three defense lines in the Volga River, tore open a gap of more than 10 kilometers wide, and the supply lines that besieged Rostov were cut off and were forced to detour towards Chernyakovsky's attack troops. The two are still separated by 100 degrees of kilometers, mixed with at least 5 infantry divisions of the Klester cluster.

"How did Comrade Rotmistrov fight? The 5th Tank Army, known as the most elite, was defeated by the enemy in one day?" Zhukov was furious, "No, they must be allowed to block the gap immediately, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable."

"Comrade Rotmistrov died..." Vatujing was speechless for a long time and finally replied.

"Sacrificed?" Everyone looked at each other. What's going on? Even Zhukov was surprised: How could a commander of an army or the most elite tank army commander, die so quickly?

After the German army broke through the preset position of the 5th Guards Army, General Rotmistrov mobilized six tank brigades to come forward to blockade and fight against the German army.

He thought the German tanks were the more than 300 when the attack was attacking. After passing through the two front lines of defense, the German army lost more than 70 vehicles (60% can be recovered) for various reasons, and the number was reduced to less than 300 vehicles, which was less than the opponent. Moreover, the German army had a bloody battle, and the energy of both oil, ammunition and armored soldiers were at a low point, so he wanted to take this opportunity to win a winning situation.

But he never expected that Pipp and Meyer were holding two leopard armored battalions in their hands. After all these forces rushed in, the situation suddenly reversed, and what made the Red Army even more difficult was that they found that the German army was equipped with new tanks, one similar to the tiger, but its defense was obviously better than the tiger, and its artillery was sharp. It was a random name to destroy the t-43/85 at a distance of about 2,000 meters, and the latter had to rush within 1,000 meters to have a chance to kill the opponent. As for the leopard, although its defense was worse than the tiger, its maneuverability was better than the t-43, and its artillery was not bad either. The circle ability made the Red Army dizzy.

After a fierce fight in the afternoon, the German army lost more than 50 tanks (half of which can be repaired), but the Red Army was killed more than 200. More than 40 were killed by 88mm/l71 tungsten-core armor-piercing bombs at a long distance alone. Seeing that the momentum was not good, Rotmistrov called for retreat. Unexpectedly, the tank lineups of both sides who had just been entangled together had just separated. The German F-190f ground attack aircraft roared and killed Rotmistrov's armored vehicle with a 250-kilogram bomb.

Actually, it’s his fault for being unlucky. If he escaped in a tank, he might not have been so lucky. But after such a fierce steel collision in an armored vehicle, even the tanks would not be guaranteed to survive. A mere armored vehicle with a bright antenna, wouldn’t it be clear that he would tell his opponent that this is a command vehicle? If you don’t blow up, who will you blow up?

"The 5th Guards Army lost half of its tanks and are currently retreating towards Literiakvo. The situation is not optimistic. I have asked Comrade Moskarenko (General) to take the 38th Army and the command center to command." Vatujing's forehead was full of sweat. The 5th Guards Army was repelled in one afternoon. Comrade Stalin knew it was worth it. So he didn't care about other aspects and directly sent out the vanguards of the 38th Army. He originally wanted Rokosovsky to send troops to respond to him, but the latter had two armies who were isolated on the periphery and were eager to open up the connection. How could he have spare energy?

Bad news follows one after another: the 4th Armored Army under the Southern Army Group launched a sharp attack. Like the 1st Armored Army, the army has powerful assault forces including the 3rd, 10th, 16th, 17th and 4th Armored Grenadier Divisions. A mechanized army and an infantry army of the Red Army have been surrounded, and its destruction is expected to be imminent.

It seemed as if there was not enough bad news. At night, news came from Orenburg. The main force of the German Oriental Army Group turned around and headed south. The 5th and 8th Army besieged Orenburg, and the remaining armored troops passed by, and Orenburg defenders were only 40,000. Once the place was lost, the Ural River would be cut off, which means that the South Wing War Zone would not receive material replenishment from the Ural Industrial Zone in the short term.

Zhukov's face turned pale...
Chapter completed!