Since Malberg's current chemical industry has a very poor foundation and no resource reserves, the only gunpowder they can obtain on a large scale is black powder, which has the worst explosive power, mixed with a little TNT, so even the shaped charge warhead has a penetration capacity of no more than 90 mm.
In the past large-scale battlefields, this kind of thing would not pose any threat to the tanks on both sides, but here, 90 mm is more than enough.
'Wuhu~'
The demon gunner who was playing whack-a-mole looked at the two Bergs who were blown away by his main gun with satisfaction, staring at the gun aiming with bared teeth.
'Hmm? What's that?'
He caught a glimpse of a head sticking out from the edge of the trench, and he quickly turned the wheel to rotate the turret. However, before he finished turning, the soldier carrying the Iron Fist anti-tank gun had already pulled the trigger.
'boom! '
There was a crisp firing sound accompanied by smoke, and a large iron lump flew towards the tank at a high speed and hit the vertical armor plate in front of it. The primer was triggered, and the copper conical charge cover formed a directional metal jet under the push of energy, which impacted the steel plate with high temperature.
Before anyone in the tank could react, a corner of the tank's strongest front armor quickly turned red and melted, and countless high-temperature particles sprayed into the vehicle body from the damaged area. The crew members didn't even have a chance to scream before they were smashed into pieces by the metal jets at thousands of degrees.
The moving goblin tank emitted a series of sparks and black smoke, and finally slowly stopped in place.
"Bang! Bang..."
The demon soldiers following behind the tank raised their guns and fired in the direction of the smoke, killing the soldier who had just launched the unknown attack. Then the team leader slapped the outer armor of the iron coffin hard: "Hey! Move quickly!"
Similar situations occurred one after another among the tanks charging ahead. At first, the demon army didn't know what was happening.
Until the ammunition stored inside a goblin tank was detonated by the metal jet, and the shell exploded and blew off the turret.
The soldiers who followed them were killed in large numbers before they realized that their tanks had suffered a fatal attack. Even the demon machines with magic shields were caught off guard and suffered heavy casualties, causing the demon vanguard to fall into chaos and their offensive to stagnate.
Unfortunately, such counterattacks come and go quickly.
In a short period of time, from research and development to mass production, loading and transportation to the front-line distribution, the time is too short and the quantity that can be provided is limited. The fact that Malberg can deliver a batch is the result of the joint efforts of many parties.
However, the battle results reported back were enough to make the people of Malburg excited. Although the first batch delivered was small, if the rear arsenal worked at full capacity, the production volume of anti-tank tubes would soon reach a terrifying number.
Its manufacturing difficulty and cost are really too low. The most valuable parts of the whole body are the firing pin mechanism inside the sleeve and the pure copper metal cover inside the warhead.
After a brief chaos on the demon side, the frontline commander ordered his troops to continue to break through the defense line at all costs. In fact, such an attack did not cause any serious damage to the demons.
The military approach taken by the demons is quite different from that of other continental countries. Apart from minerals, the scarcity of other resources means that they rarely make a weapon reach a very advanced level, and even their aircraft bodies are simplified versions.
To put it bluntly, it is not cost-effective. The cost of scarce use of specific resources will rise sharply, so it is better to take a step back and solve the problem of whether there is any resource first.
At the very beginning, the demon clan used absolute numbers as the core concept for building their army. Anyway, my body is inferior, but I have something that you don’t.
The demons have chaotic elements due to geographical factors, and their use of magic elements is naturally restricted. Too powerful magic bodies are useless to them because they cannot bring out the body's upper limit.
The solution they came up with was to reduce the combat effectiveness of individual aircraft, simplify the production process and increase output so that more soldiers could get the opportunity to be equipped with aircraft.
The Demon Race is one of the few countries that can issue standard magic machines to any qualified machine pilot. This is one of the reasons why the Demon Race was able to briefly develop to the point of threatening the racial power of all the countries on the continent in the past.
I have something that you don't, and you don't have as many as I do. You think that one of your machines can beat two of mine, but in fact, it's five of me beating one of yours.
The same is true in the field of tanks. My tank is rubbish, but I have it and you don’t.
In their eyes, a tank is a piece of artillery that can carry its own defenses and move around. So as long as it can meet the following four requirements: defensive capability, attack capability, the ability to move on its own, and low manufacturing cost, it is a qualified weapon.
Anyway, it can blow up the position, defend against machine gun and rifle fire, and serve as a mobile defense point to provide protection for the soldiers behind, which is enough.
However, when a restraining weapon with lower production and use costs comes into being, this idea of forming a military will become a fatal flaw.
Success and failure are both due to the same person. In the past, Ernesto's anti-tank and anti-machine weapons had to build up their power in order to penetrate the thick magic barriers of the former Empire's machines, but the demons don't even have to do that.
Therefore, the war will not move forward in the direction that the demons envision, where they crush all resistance with a sea of cheap tanks and machines, but will move towards another future outcome that they cannot control.
The modified Iron Fist, whose cost has been compressed to the limit, can destroy a tank with one punch. A tank crew requires a minimum of four soldiers to operate it. The cost of a cheap tank is enough to produce hundreds of Iron Fists.
The Iron Fist doesn't even need to be replaced with iron pipes, and it is still loaded with black powder. How can you compete with it in terms of cost, output and working hours?
Therefore, when a war of attrition really begins, the demons will suffer a great loss.
In this life, the feud between the bazooka and the tank did not have time to emerge in the Seris Alliance of Medea. Instead, the demons ran into the muzzle of the gun. Isn't this a kind of good luck~
Chapter 467 White Tiger
However, being caught up in an ocean war of anti-tank rockets is something that will only happen in the future. For now, they have to taste the power of the tiger.
The last line of defense was successfully breached by the Demon Armored Cluster. They left most of their machines at various breaches to continue eroding the surroundings, further expanding and consolidating the gaps to prevent being surrounded by the enemy.
At the same time, the more mobile tank groups acted as the spearhead and headed straight for the heart of the Mutiful defense line, the base camp for logistics and supplies transfer, and the capital city of Mutiful.
As long as the tank division cuts off the connection between the defense line and the capital, the Mutivl Defense Line will be an isolated salient without any support, and it will be a fait accompli for the demons to surround and annihilate it.
Observing the smoke and dust rising in the distance, Franz, who had changed into a neat Alliance cadet uniform and wore the Malberg national and military emblems on his arms, put down the telescope in his hand, took a deep breath, retracted his upper body from the hinged cabin into the command tower, and said to his companions around him in a deep voice: "They are coming!"
Gunner Sayaf, who was sitting outside the loader's hatch, took a long drag on his cigarette before going inside the turret and muttering, "Finally, let them have a taste of what we have learned over the years."
The loader pulls down the hatch cover and buckles it, then turns the circular handle in the center of the hatch cover to retract the four extended retaining rods of the linked handles to seal it, and puts on the radio communication headset.
At the same time, the radio operator and heading machine gun operator sitting in the co-pilot seat also debugged the radio equipment. The driver squeezed the steering wheel with both hands and started the ignition. The whole tank shook slightly, and the surging power began to be output to all equipment.
This Tiger tank is the first batch of castrated export versions that have been refined. In fact, not many things have been castrated, just the shield generator and the anti-gravity device.
The powertrain has also been optimized, upgraded from the original 16-cylinder Magic Engine to an 8-cylinder symmetrical hybrid engine, and the basic output horsepower remains unchanged at 1050.
Whether to castrate it or not is still a matter of personal opinion. After removing the two major devices that occupy volume and weight, its body weight has jumped to 65 tons, which is 5 tons lighter than the original version.
The original complete version of the Tiger weighed 70 tons, but it was reduced to 55 tons after the anti-gravity assembly was reduced.
The removal of anti-gravity has resulted in more space. The ammunition capacity has increased from 130 rounds to 170-180 rounds, and there is also a rocket launcher and 9000 rounds of machine gun ammunition.
Because of the initial weakness of magic shields against saint-level warriors, the Tiger tank was designed with a certain doomsday weapon mentality of a single soldier breaking through from the beginning, placing great emphasis on single-soldier combat effectiveness. Even the Alliance had prepared for the possibility of being unable to guarantee logistical supplies for the tanks.
We were also prepared for the possibility of a sudden surge in troops due to breakthroughs in Allied tank technology and institutional transformation, so even the basic Tiger type had more than 100 rounds of ammunition, and we were prepared to fight one against many and for a long time.
Even the joints between the armor steels are welded instead of the more convenient riveting. Although the vertical armor does not have the angle bonus of the inclined armor, the Tiger's vertical armor is welded to other structures into a whole. In terms of comprehensive defense capability, it is not much worse than the inclined armor.
Of course, the main reason is that the inclined armor cannot be installed.
Under the limitation of design index, a large amount of spare ammunition and various devices limit the minimum height of the Tiger. If the inclined armor is installed at this height, the inclined armor plate will be longer and heavier than the vertical armor plate. Who knows, the final product will be a 100-ton king...
As Franz and others were getting ready, the demon's goblin tank cluster also drove into the 2000-meter death distance with smoke and dust all over the sky.
"Freedom to lock on to the target."
Gunner Sayyaf put his eyes close to the sight and stepped on the turret rotation pedal. The entire turret basket slowly rotated under the power provided by the gearbox, and the fire control self-stabilization system steadily put the target into the crosshairs.
'Aiming locked.'
"Fire!"
'Boom! '
The Tiger 88 gun barrel fired from its high position, and the muzzle brake expelled smoke backwards. At the same time, a tungsten core armor-piercing bullet accurately hit the leading goblin tank across a distance of more than a thousand meters at a speed invisible to the naked eye.
The armor defense of the front armor plate, which is not even as thick as the caliber of the Tiger main gun, is a joke in front of the 88mm main gun. The tank turret flew into the sky the next second when the tank commander just stuck his head out to chat with each other.
The infantrymen sitting on the tanks suffered even more and became passive human explosive anti-armor
Franz looked at the turret taking off and shouted, "Beautiful!!!"
'Wuhu! Sayyaf is awesome! ! ! '
Everyone in the crew cheered immediately. Although they had absolute confidence in the Alliance's Tiger tanks, it would be a lie to say they were not nervous when seeing the tide of enemies coming in. After all, they were just a group of kids who had just graduated from school.
Going to the battlefield right after graduation and having to influence the outcome and direction of a battle or even a campaign is too stressful.
Seeing the comrade who was talking and laughing before turned into a flying turtle in the next second, the tank commanders around him were suddenly stunned. They shouted "enemy attack" and hid inside the tank.
With the artillery fire from nearly two thousand meters away, they could not find the enemy for a moment and could only wander around in confusion searching.
The first shot hit the enemy tank and blew away its turret, which greatly boosted the morale of the crew. They quickly aimed at the second and third tanks. The vertical and flat body of the tank and its own weight carried the huge and slender 88mm smoothbore gun, which did not seem out of place or top-heavy at all.
The extremely stable shooting platform and the world-leading gun aiming system also maximized the shooting accuracy of the 88mm artillery. Three consecutive artillery fire from 1500 meters away hit the target accurately. In less than a minute, three goblin tanks were destroyed one after another.
The demon tanks, which couldn't find the Tiger's position at all, fired wildly in the general direction. For a while, the sound of gunfire and artillery fire filled the air. Sayaf continued to shoot at the tanks calmly through the floating design and 3x magnification sight.
"Bang!!!"
Another tank was violently penetrated from the front, and then the shell exploded and flew off.
Every moment a tank was blown up, and the infantry behind it also suffered badly, making the other tank commanders of the unit feel extremely depressed.
'Who saw it! Where is it!!!'
"I see it! 12 o'clock! 1440 yards away... Yes, it's a tank!"
'You are not talking nonsense! What a tank!'
'It's too far to see clearly!'
"Never mind, whoever hits first hits first!"
Dozens of shells hit the Tiger tanks one after another, exploding hundreds of meters in front of them. The disadvantages of the 50-plus mm guns were immediately apparent.
"They spotted us. Fire a smoke bomb and let's retreat."
Franz withdrew his gaze from the observation port and pulled a lever near the top hatch. The primer of a smoke bomb was ignited and shot out, exploding, spreading mist in front.
The white-painted Tiger slowly retreated into the jungle.
Chapter 468: Floating in the Air or Really Ascending to Heaven
'Hurry up, hurry up, reload!'
'alright! ’
'fire! '
'Shoot him!'
'Just fire when you're ready, free fire.'
With the help of smoke bombs for positioning, more and more goblin tanks began to fire in the direction of the Tiger. The shells fell into the jungle like raindrops. The explosions overturned branches and ignited a fire that set the jungle on fire and obscured the vision of both sides.
This was a good thing for the demon tanks, as they needed smoke to block the view of the tank on the other side due to their short attack range. No one noticed that their tanks were climbing a gentle slope, and the entire terrain was slowly rising.
However, due to the problem of mechanical failure rate, hundreds of tanks of the tank divisions of the entire army broke down intermittently due to various problems along the way. Now there are only about a hundred tanks scattered across the entire front line.
Faced with an unknown small threat, the demon commander did not let the troops rush in and waste precious tank time, but instead sent out 10 tanks to try to deal with the opponent.
At least 10 against should be able to destroy the opponent.
Franz had already directed the driver to drive the Tiger into the bunker they had built in the morning, tilting the tank so that only the front half of the car was exposed.
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