In medieval Europe, heavy and thick armor that wrapped around the body was once popular. When this trend developed to the extreme, ordinary swords could not pierce the heavy armor of the knights. The battle between the knights might hit the point where both sides were exhausted and could not decide the outcome. In the era of large-scale industrialization hundreds of years later, the uneven development of technology and thinking made similar funny situations again. Two heavy warships might not be able to penetrate each other's armor. The solution to the problem was to develop artillery equipped with larger caliber, and the naval competition continued to escalate.

On land, emerging armored vehicles also encountered the same situation as naval warships. The most representative one is the British "Kitchener" heavy tank. Its 37mm tank cannon cannot penetrate the front armor of its own turret at any distance. Fortunately, the British do not have to worry about their opponents introducing and equipting this tank. Based on their understanding of German and Irish tanks, the power of this tank cannon seems to be able to meet the needs. Just as their opponents think that their tank cannons can easily deal with "Kitchener", both sides were misled by inaccurate or even false information, and this mistake was soon reflected in the Battle of the Cohen Peninsula...

Boom!

Accompanied by the 50-dial 75mm tank cannon, another armor-piercing bomb made by Krupp's arms was released from the chamber and flew toward a target two hundred meters away at a speed of more than 700 meters per second. A British "Kitchener" heavy chariot with only a huge head exposed.

The shells hit the front of the turret of the British chariot and instantly shot countless Mars. Without waiting for the results to be confirmed, the German "Teutonic Knight" that just opened fire had sparse hair and shiny scalp shouted: "Armor Piercing Bullets!"

The young and strong loader quickly withdrew from the shell of the previous shell. The clanging sound of the shell falling from the frame was a pleasant note in the battle symphony. He took a bullet from the shell stand with a half-man-high armor-piercing shell, and tried his best to stuff it into the cannon chamber.

At this moment, the captain who was always staring at the front of him slapped his legs with regret: "The shell failed to penetrate the target."

The cannon leader approached the shooting scope and muttered in a voice that only he could hear clearly: "Damn it, when you encounter a hard shell turtle, do you have to get closer to pry its shell open?"

The fire rate of purely artificially loaded artillery is usually inversely proportional to the caliber. The 75mm gun of the Teutonic Knight is loaded once, and the British tanks on the opposite side can often be fired once and a half or even twice. The shells fired by the 37mm gun repeatedly hit the armor of the German tanks, constantly making a muffled sound like a heavy hammer hitting the bottom of the pot, making every crew member inside the tank stay in the air at all times. Although the caliber of the enemy tank cannon is only half that of its own, the German tank crew did not feel at ease, because during the training course, they were asked to learn and remember the effective penetration depth of various artillery. When the German 37mm anti-war vehicle cannon was used to use tungsten-core armor-piercing shells, they could penetrate any part of the Teutonic Knight except the front of the turret at a distance of 200 meters.

After a fierce firefight, the chariot was shot many times but not penetrated once. Second Lieutenant East didn't feel lucky, but speculated that the performance of the 37mm cannon of the enemy's chariot and its armor-piercing shells was not as high as before the war. Since this is the case, why not take the initiative to press forward? On the one hand, it can improve the armor-piercing effect of the chariot cannon, and on the other hand, it can shock the opponent in momentum?

After a moment of thought, the second lieutenant's sonorous voice rang in the cabin: "Matt, inform the 4th and 5th cars to follow us, and the other chariots were shooting in place; Rud, advance 50 meters in one gear... Everyone sat firmly!"

Advance means that the probability of being penetrated by enemy artillery increases accordingly, but the driver of the chariot did not hesitate at all. Amid the extremely loud roar of the diesel engine, the three "Teutonic Knights" moving side by side were like elephants walking around their territory, moving forward in a steady and slow gait. During the advance, their artillery paused their firing, coaxial machine guns and the vehicle's first machine gun repeatedly fired, and bullets with tracer bullets flew across this narrow battlefield...

After advancing about thirty meters, the command car where Lieutenant Rost was located was broken by an enemy shell. Hearing the abnormal noise from outside the vehicle, the driver knew something was wrong. In order to prevent the chariot from deflecting in place, exposing the relatively weak side of the defense to the enemy's muzzle, he quickly took emergency stop measures.

The second lieutenant also immediately asked the correspondents to notify the two wingers that were operating in concert to stop.

Perhaps there was something wrong with the communication equipment. Only one of the two "Teutonic Knights" who were moving in unison stopped moving forward. The crew on the other chariot obviously did not notice the situation of their companions and continued to move forward alone. When this guy stopped, he had already surpassed his companions and became the target of the enemy's fire-raising attack!

From the moment he stopped moving forward, Rost's chariot resumed its previous precise shooting, and after moving forward for such a distance, the penetration effect of the shells was improved with an exciting change: the second armor-piercing projectile pierced the hard British chariot turret. Although there was no fierce ammunition explosion, judging from the situation where the crew opened the hatch and evacuated in panic, the British chariot had lost its combat effectiveness.

On the German side, a chariot in the front was hit by a "broken belt" in a blink of an eye, thus losing its normal operation ability. Moreover, the British firepower deliberately avoided its parts protected by heavy armor and tried to attack the observation hole, machine gun and side of the vehicle on the front of the vehicle. After more than a dozen shells, the Teutonic Knight seemed to have given up resistance. Its artillery and machine guns were quiet. After a moment, the escape hatch door at the back of the turret opened. Two crew members successively drilled out of the cabin filled with black smoke. One of them was swept down by the British machine gun without taking two steps. Seeing that the situation was not good, the other guy hurriedly lay behind the buttocks of the chariot pretended to be dead...

Second Lieutenant Reut's car was also intensively attacked by enemy fire. Its turret and head of the car were repeatedly shot but were safe, which shows that this position is relatively safe from a technical angle. So, he summoned the chariot behind him through radio. After multiple shots failed, a "Kitchener" suddenly drove out of the hidden position, revealing the guy with a short gun barrel on the front of the car body. The main function of this 76.2mm caliber artillery is to support infantry operations. If equipped with special armor-piercing bombs, attacking armored targets at close range can still achieve good damage effects.

How could the well-trained German armored soldiers watch the dangerous man calmly and aim and shoot? While it was still climbing up the hill, at least two Teutonic Knights turned the muzzle. Compared to the difficult-to-get turret, the armor of the "Kitchener" is much easier to deal with, and the battle on the eve of the previous one is the best proof.

The aggressive "Kitchener" was killed instantly as soon as he showed his face. How could the remaining British chariots repeat the same mistake? They decisively changed their tactics and attacked the German chariot tracks to prevent them from carrying out an oppressive attack. In such a close-range battle, the gunners on both sides performed very efficiently. In a short while, the number of German chariots that were unable to move due to the injury to the tracks was increased to 4, but by this time, there were only 3 British chariots left, and they were determined to resist.

After being greatly shaken, they began to retreat, and for this reason they did not hesitate to leave the infantry behind the palace to the furious German armored unit in front of them. However, how could it be so easy to escape? The gully they are located in is no longer as digging traffic trenches than manual traffic trenches. They can temporarily break into contact with the German chariots when they march along the gully. However, if they want to evacuate from this area, they will still have to climb out of the gully from other locations. How could the Germans know nothing about this?

More than ten minutes later, Lieutenant East opened the cap of the captain's hatch and took a deep breath of the air mixed with the smell of gunpowder. The fierce sound of gunfire still echoed in the fields, but the battle in front of him was over. The German infantry were driving the British soldiers who surrendered with their hands out of the trench. Some of the "Kitchener" painted with grass green were still burning, and some were basically intact, but there were round bullet holes on the turret. The Lieutenant sat in the hatch, took out cigarettes, and looked at these difficult guys silently. They were first known to the world as the parade of the British royal celebrations, but the glory was completely covered by the "Paladin" who used multiple turret structures and more large and mighty. They were actively preparing for war

The Germans collected intelligence information on various weapons and equipment of the opponent as much as possible, compiled them into technical drawings and distributed them to the front-line troops. German officers and soldiers gave them various nicknames. "Kitchener" was ridiculed as "British Turtle", which means thick armor and slow speed. In order to deal with this British combat vehicle that focuses on protection, the German side replaced the "Teutonic Knight" prototype vehicle and the 50mm gun used in the early models with a costly 75mm tank cannon. Confident German experts believe that the new gun is enough to penetrate the front armor of "Kitchener" at a distance of 800 meters. However, judging from the combat process just now, this data is only valid for the side and rear armor of "Kitchener".

Fortunately, the British also lacked accurate judgment on the actual performance of the "Teutonic Knight". In fact, in order to meet the requirements of the German General Staff for firepower and speed, the protection level of the "Teutonic Knight" prototype was not much higher than the standard chariot "Celtic Warrior" enthusiastically promoted by the Irish. After Daimler-Benz successfully developed a new diesel engine with superior performance, engineers took advantage of the situation to improve the design of the "Teutonic Knight", and the thickness of the turret and the head of the car increased by 30%.
Chapter completed!