"These shrubs are really annoying!" said Lieutenant Joyce, "and those shrubbery scissors they gave us are even more annoying. They are almost never useful."

In France, farmers are used to planting some shrubs in the fields as fences to separate the fields. These shrubs are very flexible, and when tanks knock them open and run over them, the flexible branches of these shrubs can easily be damaged.

It gets caught in the tracks and gets entangled in the road wheels. In order to move freely in such an environment, the US military has prepared a kind of bush scissors for its tanks. This thing is installed on the front of the tank and can cut off bushes.

, so that when the tank drives over, there will be no problem of the road wheels getting entangled in the bushes. In theory, this way, the US tanks will gain battlefield mobility that exceeds that of the German tanks. In order to ensure that the road wheels will not get entangled.

, German tanks generally avoid those bushes, which makes the German tanks almost able to maneuver along the road, while the US tanks that can pass through the bushes at will will have many opportunities to go around to the enemy's side and fire.

Yes, go around to the enemy's side and fire. Most of the M4 tanks invested by the US military in Normandy are models equipped with only a 75mm gun. The power of this gun is completely behind the times, and the reputation of the M4 has been dragged down by this gun.

.Use this gun, m4

Tanks will be at a disadvantage even when facing an old thing like the No. 4 tank. As for the Tiger and Leopard, even at zero range, this gun cannot penetrate their frontal armor - neither the front nor the turret.

Tigers and leopards can

It can easily penetrate the front armor of the M4 at a distance of 1,500 meters. Therefore, if you want to deal with the Leopard, the M4 equipped with a 75mm gun can only find a way to go around the side of the Leopard. Only by firing from the side can it penetrate the Leopard.

If the opponent is a tiger, then you not only have to fire from the side, but you also have to fire from a relatively close distance from the side to have a chance of penetrating the tiger's side armor - compared to installing almost all the armor on the front

The armor on the sides of a leopard and tiger is much thicker.

If you are unlucky and encounter a 70-ton King Tiger, well, the best way is to draw a circle and curse it: "Breakdown! Breakdown! Breakdown soon!" Because even at a very close distance,

The 75mm gun of the M4 tank is still unable to penetrate its side armor.

This curse is very efficient most of the time, at least much more reliable than the 75mm short-barreled gun. On the Eastern Front, once, the Soviets captured a intact King Tiger, so they decided to use it

Let's take the things back to the rear and study them. How to transport them back? There is a train station 40 kilometers away, so the Soviets drove the King Tiger and planned to drive directly to the train station. Then, um

, the Soviets walked for nearly 20 hours on a 40-kilometer road, stopping in the middle and repairing the car 5 times - an average of once every 8 kilometers! The performance of the Tiger King in the hands of the Soviets may also be due to the Soviets

I am used to driving something like the T-34 that can mess around at will. When I drive the King Tiger, the movements are too rough, but it is also obvious how unreliable the King Tiger is.

Joyce stopped the M4 tank and jumped out of the tank. The bush shears did eliminate the situation where the road wheels were entangled, but it caused another kind of trouble - the bush shears themselves got entangled in the bushes.

. And the probability of this happening is even higher than the probability of the road wheel getting entangled in the branches of a shrub. Once this thing gets entangled and cannot move, the only way to troubleshoot the problem is manually.

However, this thing has many faults, but troubleshooting is also simple. In today's offensive, small groups of German armored units counterattacked more and more frequently. The chance of encountering enemy tank units has greatly increased. In this case,

Marching through hedgerows is much safer than marching along the road, so it's worth spending some time tinkering with your bush shears.

It took about ten minutes for Joyce's crew to repair the bush shears, and everyone got in the vehicle and continued driving. In the previous operation, due to some mechanical failure, Joyce's tank fell behind the large force.

Now he has to speed up to catch up.

Starting the bush shears, he crossed a bush fence, and then walked around a country house. Joyce's eyes widened - a King Tiger tank appeared less than a hundred meters away.

"Quick! Fire!" Joyce shouted. The lone King Tiger tank was facing them from the side, and it had probably fallen behind. But here it met Joyce's M4 tank.

Before the King Tiger could turn its turret, the M4 tank fired an armor-piercing projectile. The armor-piercing projectile hit the King Tiger tank's turret, but the bullet fired.

"Damn it!" Joyce was about to order the loader to continue loading, but saw the barrel of the King Tiger tank slowly turning around.

"It's too late!" Joyce immediately made a judgment. His armor-piercing bullets could not penetrate this guy at all, and at this distance, one shot could definitely hit the M4 tank through. Now even if he wants to escape, he can run away.

No. With the range and accuracy of King Tiger's long-barreled 88-gun, this guy can definitely kill him easily a dozen times before he runs out of its range.

"Accelerate! Crash him!" Joyce immediately gave the order. Relying on the 30-ton M4 to hit the 70-ton Tiger King, this feels a bit like hitting a rock with an egg, but at this time, this is the only option.

The King Tiger's barrel rotates very slowly. Before it turns the barrel, it can probably hit it.

The M4 tank began to accelerate with maximum horsepower and crashed into the side and rear of the King Tiger.

"Hurry up!" Joyce shouted. At this time, the King Tiger's turret was about to turn around.

Joyce's M4 tank hit the side of the King Tiger tank hard, and by the way, the gun barrel of the King Tiger that had just been turned was bent. The huge impact made Joyce's vision go dark, and he fell unconscious just a moment later.

It passed. After a while, he finally regained his breath. "What's wrong? Everything is fine?"

"I'm fine!"

"I'm fine too."

"My legs are a little bad."

"I'm fine."

Several voices came over, and it seemed that everyone was fine.

Joyce picked up his Thompson submachine gun, opened the hatch and got out. As soon as he got halfway out, he saw the hatch of the King Tiger also opened, and a German leaned out from inside, with one of his

He also held an MP-40 submachine gun in his hand.

Joyce pointed Thompson at the German guy. Seeing that he had lost the opportunity, the German guy had no choice but to throw away the MP-40 in his hand, raised his hands, and yelled something at Joyce

, it seemed to be in English, but Joyce didn't understand it at all. Joyce got out of the tank while pointing a gun at him to prevent him from doing anything. Then three more Americans got out.

They climbed onto the German tank and surrounded the German guy.

The German guy said something again. This time he spoke very slowly, and Joyce finally understood. It was indeed English, but it was very unauthentic. The Germans always meant the same thing when they talked about it -

I surrender, don't shoot.

"Come out!" Joyce signaled to the guy. He did not relax his vigilance. In the Pacific, he had seen too many Japanese who pretended to surrender and then played tricks. This made him wary of anyone who claimed to surrender.

Guys are extra vigilant.

But the Germans seemed to be more honest than the Japanese, and the German guy climbed out honestly.

"Tell them to throw out their weapons and surrender! Don't play tricks, or I will throw a grenade down!"

The German guy also complied, and after a while, several Germans filed out.

…

Just when Joyce was proud of having captured a King Tiger, the large army he was chasing fell into a crisis.

The wreckage of 8 M4 tanks and the wreckage of several cars were smoking. In the ambush just now, five Leopard tanks almost killed these M4s in a few minutes. However, the SS Major Ka

Mellon knew that now was not the time to celebrate, they had to move immediately, because the enemy's attack aircraft must have been heading here.

"Move towards Area 2, there is a shelter there." Cameron ordered. His battalion now only has these 5 Leopards left. In the tank battle, they only lost one Leopard, and the rest were all

Lost in attack by enemy attack aircraft.

"It would be great if we could have our fighter jets in the sky!" Cameron thought as he directed the remaining five Leopards toward Area 2. There is a forest there, and you might be able to hide somewhere.

past enemy attack aircraft.

Cameron also knows that it is actually very dangerous to march towards Area 2 now. That area was also attacked by US armored forces just now. Cameron knows that there are only a few anti-tank guns there, and the US military is likely to

The breakthrough has passed. If you stay at that place, in fact, you will

It's like running into the US military-controlled area, and he may be discovered at any time. However, there is only the nearest hiding place there. If you don't go there quickly, you probably won't be able to escape the attack of enemy attack planes. Therefore, in the future,

The situation depends on whether we can hide until night and sneak back when it gets dark.

At the same time, a group of PA-47 attack aircraft were rushing towards the area where the tank battle was taking place. At the same time, the officers of the 21st Attack Aircraft Wing were also analyzing the enemy's possible escape direction on the map.

"I think it's here, Area 11. If the enemy runs back, he won't be able to escape from our attack aircraft in any way." A staff officer pointed to the sand table and said to Boeing.

"If they go here, they have a chance to escape our attack, but then they will be surrounded."

"That's better than being killed by an attack plane directly. At least there is a possibility of sneaking back until night."
Chapter completed!