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The Third Empire - Chapter 508

Published at 19th of October 2021 11:52:06 AM


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Meyer was very excited. He left only two tank destroyers to help guard the French admiral and escort him back to the rear. All his remaining troops stayed and waited for the next order.

This is the gap before the war. Meyer's men quickly carried out tank maintenance.

When I was just fighting, I was very excited and didn't feel anything. Now, when the fight is over, I see that my own tank is seriously injured.

The other side's 40mm Bang gun left several holes in the front armor plate. The largest one can even be stuffed into the fist. However, the armor plate was not penetrated. Panther 3 tank protected the tank soldiers perfectly!

Normally, the damaged tanks should retreat to the rear and use electric welding and other equipment to fill up the damaged parts before they can continue to participate in the battle, but now they are obviously unwilling to wait.

What are you waiting for? A big war is just around the corner. Surround and annihilate the whole British first armored division. They have to fight!

"Attention, be careful!" At this time, on Mayer's tank, several people were working carefully.

The misfired shell is still in the gun chamber. We must get the shell out first.

This is quite dangerous. When the shell is loaded into the gun chamber, it must be fired. It will be dangerous to withdraw the shell.

In theory, there is inertia insurance on the shells. Only when the shells are shot out of the bore and the speed is enough, the inertia insurance will be released.

This is a necessary measure. Otherwise, for example, the fuse for impact explosion, if there is no such insurance, it is easy to explode if it is impacted during transportation, which is quite dangerous.

However, for all machinery, there will be accidents. What if this shell is a special case?

Gently open the gun door at the tail, and the loader carefully checked the tail of the shell. The striker has hit it, leaving a small pit at the bottom, but the propellant in the gun barrel has not been fired, which seems to be the problem of the fuse.

He tried hard with both hands, but the barrel didn't move.

"Heat expands and cold shrinks. I can't take it down." He shouted.

During shooting, with multiple shots, the temperature inside the gun chamber is very high and the space becomes larger. Therefore, it is easy to load shells, but now the battle is over and the space inside the gun chamber becomes smaller.

If it's normal, it won't be a problem. After all, shells have to be able to load when they are cold.

The problem is that in the fierce battle just now, they fired more than 20 shells. Every time they fired, there would be a residue of propellant.

These residues reduce the internal space and increase the friction, which is difficult to take down.

"It seems that we can only use the old method." The gunner said, "shake the barrel to the lowest and take the steel drill."

On one side of the tank body, you can draw out a long steel drill rod, which is just one meter longer than the tank barrel. This thing is used to maintain the tank barrel.

After each firing, the gunpowder residue in the gun chamber should be cleaned in time. Now, this steel drill has other functions.

The gunner is an old hand. He holds a cigarette in his mouth and a steel drill in his hands. He stuffed it all the way to the inside, and then shouted, "give me a hammer!"

The sledgehammer is essential for maintaining tanks at ordinary times.

"Smash!" The gunner shouted to the pilot.

The driver was worried: "in this case, will the shell explode?

Tank guns are all high-pressure guns, and there are a lot of propellants. If you don't pay attention and blow up the shells, you will definitely blow up the gun barrel, and then send them to heaven. "

"I've avoided the warhead fuse. Do it!" With a cigarette in his mouth, the gunner continued, "come on, work hard!"

"Bang!" The sledgehammer fell.

"Come again!"

Five times in a row. In the turret here, the loader shouted, "move, move!"

"Continue!"

Hit more than 30 hammers, and finally, the shell slowly retreated from the bore.

After the last shot, the loader hugged the shell and took it out carefully.

"Stay here and leave it to the engineer." Mayer said.

Misfired shells are quite dangerous and need to be left to engineers to detonate, which has nothing to do with them. Now, they need to quickly maintain their vehicles to prevent similar problems.

Standing on a chaser tank fighter, Meyer looked into the distance. He knew that his just battle was just a contact with the other party's forward. The next war will begin soon.

There was a roar in the East. Mayer looked up and looked at the sky. He was immediately unhappy: "Hey, why are you so early? You can't scare the British away!"

After learning the news, our air force also arrived quickly.

More than a dozen Stuka flew over Mayer's tank company and headed towards them. There should be the main force of the British armored division.

It would be terrible if they had a burst of indiscriminate bombing and scared the British away directly.

Unfortunately, his words were not heard by the pilots in the sky.

Hans flew his Stuka in the air of 500 meters. This is his 87th battle voyage since the war. He has to fly three sorties almost every day. He is a natural combat machine! If it wasn't for the night, I'm afraid he would fight at night.

Meanwhile, Hans's achievements have accumulated to 203.

According to the regulations, if he has accumulated more than 200, he will come down from the front line and go to the rear to train students. However, the war is still continuing. The confirmation of Hans' achievements is not so fast and the reporting is very slow, so Hans is still flying on the front line.

This is also a loophole for him, but he can't drill for long. When the French campaign is over, he will certainly be ordered back to the rear.

Cherish every opportunity, such as now!

Under the belly of the aircraft, there are two 500 kg bombs, which is the most common combat load of Stuka. His eyes are sharp and can see far away on the ground at a glance.

Just now, he flew over his tank position. When he flew over, he also shook his wings towards the people below.

If he knew the following complaints, he would spit at the bottom.

They went to blow up the bridge and cut off the back of the British armored forces. Create opportunities for your armored forces to encircle and annihilate the British armored division.

Of course, after bombing the bridge, if they have the opportunity, they will also bomb the oil vehicles supplied by the British armored division.

"Skanovsky, you know? Hs-129, it looks good. " While flying, Hans spoke to his rear seat machine gunner.




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