Imperial Overlord

In his tank, Wittmann looked at the distant target through the periscope: "Aimed? Time waits for no one."

The new gunner's eyes rested on the sight, and pressed the distant target with the precise scale on the lens, adjusting the angle little by little.

This is a very meticulous work. It can be said that the gunner is second only to the commander in importance to a tank.

"I'm aiming! It's like a cheetah is keeping an eye on its prey!" This gunner was obviously younger than Wittmann. He was only 20 years old this year, and he was a young warrior.

Don't look at his young age, but he is quite talented when it comes to being a tank shooter. Wittmann was very satisfied with his gunner, and he felt that he and the other party got along very well.

"Training rounds! Load!" With an order, the tall loader Homan directly pushed the ammunition into the tank's artillery.

"Fire!" Wittmann shouted the command loudly, and almost at the same time, the gunner stepped on the pedal to fire.

"Boom!" The 88mm caliber tank gun made a deafening sound, and a blazing flame erupted from the muzzle.

The training bullet hit the distant target in an instant, leaving a huge hole in it. It's just a training session after all, and it's a bit too extravagant to use real shells.

Inside the tank, the breech block was opened, and a hot cartridge case fell into the cartridge storage device with a clanging sound, and then a pungent smoke also leaked into the tank.

The pungent smell of the incendiary charge made Wittmann narrow his eyes, and the entire tank seemed to have been ignited, and there was a gray-white smoke everywhere.

The smoking machine above the head is working non-stop to extract the smoke from the tank, but after all, this is not a job that can be done in an instant, so the smoke is still in the air for a while.

Unlike today's modern tanks, there is an automatic smoking device in the middle of the gun. After the tanks of World War II fired, part of the gas burning in the gun chambers would be directly poured into the tank.

This is also the main reason why the tank troops are not as handsome as most people think. If you don't believe it, you can put a firecracker in your bedroom and you can understand the conditions under which the tank troops are fighting.

"Second target! Translate the turret!" Wittmann didn't hesitate because of the smoke inside the car. He loudly issued a battle order, asking his men to continue fighting.

The energized motor started to help the turret to rotate. Because the weight of the turret is not small, in fact, the turret speed of the new Panther tank can only be regarded as passing, and it is not particularly good.

The sound of the motor creaking, the turret turned a little bit, and the muzzle of the 88mm caliber cannon turned to the target position a little bit.

"I saw it!" The gunner's eyes were still on the sight, and he quickly saw his target from his sight!

Wittmann did not delay. At this time, he had already begun to look around the periscope through the commander to find the next target to be destroyed by fire.

At the same time, the tall Homan once again picked up the training bullet and stuffed the heavy shell into the gun chamber of the artillery.

The breech block was automatically closed, and the artillery immediately completed the preparations and entered the state to be fired. The whole action was done smoothly by Homan, without a little bit of lag.

Although this was only a training, he still regarded it as a trial on the battlefield. Enduring the choking smell that permeated the car, Wittmann had already seen where his next target was.

"Squeak..." The gunner pressed the button that controlled the tank's turret to adjust the tank gun to the position facing the target.

He saw his sight, and the scale on it pressed down on the target again. Just like a cheetah on the grassland, he once again stared at his prey.

"Fire when you're ready!" Wittmann shouted to his gunner after finding his next target.

"Boom!" The new gunner stepped on the firing pedal without any hesitation, and a training bomb was shot out again, hitting a distant target.

The second shell also hit a distant target, and the instructors supervising the training nodded in satisfaction. The performance of the Panther tank is so satisfying to everyone that everyone gave an unimaginable evaluation.

The Army has decided to send people to visit a battalion-scale performance of the Panther tank, so that the generals can intuitively feel the power of the Panther tank.

Guderian is now on his way back to Berlin from the Eastern Front. As a senior commander in the German armored forces, he can't wait to take a look at the legendary Panther tank.

As the second shell hit the target, the smoke in the tank thickened again, and the choking smell made people feel a little uncomfortable.

As the fan above the head kept turning, the pungent fumes were drawn out of the tank a little bit.

Also because of this fan, the tanks of World War II did not have three defense capabilities. The Panther tank also does not have this capability, and of course it is impossible to have countermeasures in this regard.

At about the same time that the Panther tank was in service, Germany was also working **** the so-called "anti-magnetic bomb armor" because it developed its own magnetic anti-tank bomb.

The thick coating with regular texture on the outside of the Tiger tank armor is actually this antimagnetic coating.

However, Li Le did not require the troops to be equipped with such complex anti-magnetic armor, because Li Le knew that this kind of thing did not play a big role in World War II.

Under Li Le's suggestion, cost reduction has become a practice for German armored vehicles. The simple configuration of details has become a common problem for German heavy armored vehicles.

Therefore, compared to the uniform ripples on the appearance of the German tanks of World War II, the current German tanks are smoother in appearance, but they are not "regular".

In order to increase the anti-ballistic performance of the side of the tank, the turret of the new Panther tank is full of storage boxes for sundries.

These storage boxes are also welded with iron plates, forming another layer of extra protection on the outside. So from the outside, the German tanks are not inclined "bullet-proof inclinations" in all directions.

Viewed from a distance, the sides of the new Panther tank are vertical! It's just that these vertical iron plates are just some boxes full of debris.

The core armor of the tank is a slightly inward-sloping design, and this two-layer design improves the tank's protective performance.

If necessary, German crew members can put something in it to improve the protection of their tanks.

In fact, there are some alternatives on the training tank: the box on the side of the tank turret has a spare road wheel on the outside, or simply put a bucket or iron plate inside.

The storage box for the counterweight behind the turret is also full of things, including some wrenches and tools for dismantling the tank, as well as tents and spare machine gun ammunition.

As a result, the turret of the tank is covered with all kinds of small bits and pieces, and it does not look neat. But compared to the "streaking" turret, this way of dressing up has improved the protection a lot.

The tank undulated over the rough terrain, and soon Wittmann's gunner took aim at a third target. Compared with the previous two goals, this goal is much smaller.

It simulates a hidden enemy tank, so it is only one-third the size of a standard tank target.

However, Wittmann's young gunner locked the hapless target in an instant. He steered the gun steadily and smashed the small target.

"All three shots hit the target. Wittmann's crew is still very level." An officer put down his binoculars and said to the colonel officer in the training camp beside him.

The colonel officer looked at the smashed target in the distance, nodded and said nothing. He knew that the three targets were all set at a distance of about 1,000 meters, and it was really not easy to hit all of them.

"What's the name of the gunner of Wittmann's crew?" The colonel suddenly turned around and asked the adjutant behind him who was recording the results.

The adjutant was stunned for a moment, then looked at the list he was holding, and replied, "Carl! Carl Wegener!"

"What a good seed!" The colonel praised with satisfaction, and then said: "When General Guderian comes to us, we will arrange for the Wittmann crew to do a fire show, with live ammunition and standard test steel plates. target!"

"Understood!" The adjutant heard the Colonel's words, and immediately agreed: "How many shots are scheduled?"

"Three times... no, let's say five times! We have to make the general addicted to it to prove our training results, right?" The colonel mentioned this ~www.wuxiaspot.com~ with a smile.

At the same time, in downtown Berlin, in the Prime Minister's Office, Li Le closed the last document and closed his eyes tiredly.

He leaned on the back of the chair, twisted his neck twice, and called Baumann: "I heard that General Guderian will be in Berlin tomorrow?"

"Yes! My head of state! It is you who approved him, Manstein and several generals to come back to see the new tank exercise together." Bowman replied.

Li Le nodded, didn't open his eyes, but said slowly, "Set up a time for me tomorrow, and I'll also have a look at the new Leopard tank..."

"There will be the latest economic report tomorrow, do you want to postpone it?" Bowman is the secretary of the head of state, and naturally knows the head of the state's itinerary well.

"Postponed, until the evening..." Li Le replied when he heard Bowman's question: "By the way, help me make arrangements, I want to summon Brauchitch alone."

"Understood, Führer! I will inform the army and let Brauchitch also attend tomorrow's exercise!" Bowman nodded quickly, turned and went out to arrange tomorrow's affairs.