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It should be said that the zt41 tank is just like the tiger king tank in history

This is true in appearance and in other aspects

This is entirely because of Yan Guang's own suggestions

Of course, it is impossible for this to happen in all places. As a half-baked military fan, Yan Guang is quite familiar with some of the shortcomings of the Tiger King tank.

Tiger King Tank, also known as the No. 6 Tank Tiger ii, of course, the British called it the 'Royal Tiger'—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

The Tiger King Tank is a heavy tank produced by Germany in World War II. Most of the Tiger Ii tanks were derived from the Leopard tank, but the design concept is similar to the Tiger I. The design aims to dominate the battlefield. Although its heavy armor and powerful artillery are beyond the reach of the Allies, due to insufficient number and inappropriate application, it has no big impact on the overall front line.

The Tiger King tank is welded in armor like the Tiger I, but the Tiger King made the armor into an inclined shape like the T34, which is similar to the Leopard tank. Even if the large turret is cut in half due to the main gun along the center line, the space is spacious. 80 round shells are arranged ring-shaped around the turret and on the floor. There are also many racks in the turret. The head of the car has a good view, but most of the car captains still choose to extend their heads out of the car.

In addition, the long gun body 88l71mm gun equipped with the Tiger King tank is powerful, and can penetrate 180mm thick armor within 1,000 meters, and can penetrate 132mm steel plates with a vertical inclination angle of 30 degrees in two thousand meters, and even the I-series tanks, m26 Pershing cannot resist it. It can open fire from outside the combat distance of the Allied tanks, but the barrel wears rapidly due to the high of the shells, and then its main gun was changed to a two-stage type to facilitate the exchange.

The Tiger King tank is probably the most powerful tank in a single combat power during World War II———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

Despite this, the Tiger King tank still has many technical problems. The most significant problem is that the steering control system is often suddenly scrapped due to the pressure caused by excessive weight of the vehicle; and the pads are prone to oil leakage

In addition, the engine of the tank not only has amazing fuel consumption, but also can easily overheat or even shut down. This is because the Tiger King Tank did not use the engine specially developed for it, but directly used the ready-made 700 horsepower Maybach HL230p45. This type of engine was originally equipped with a lighter Leopard tank 45 tons and Tiger I tank 60 tons, making it drive the Tiger King tank weighing nearly 70 tons. It is a "small horse pulling a big cart". The engine must always be fully operational to drive the tank, which will inevitably greatly reduce the engine life and reduce its reliability. The employees of the design manufacturer Hensher, chief engineer of Tiger King Erwin Adler, explained after the war: "The frequent failures of Tiger King Tanks are mainly attributed to the hasty production without testing and verification." The excessive load of the power system is a common problem of heavy tanks, and it is particularly obvious on Tiger King Tanks.

Originally, there was already a custom-built and improved HL234 engine specially designed for Tiger King Tank, which was designed to replace the carburetor structure of the p45 series using mechanical oil injection technology. The engine uses mechanical oil injection technology to replace the carburetor structure of the p45 series, which improves combustion efficiency. The rated output power of the engine is expected to be around 1,000 horsepower and 736 kilowatts. There is even a supercharged plan that can allow the engine to output more power. However, due to the tight war in the late Third Reich, the scarcity of resources, and the threat of air strikes from factories and research institutions, these power upgrade plans can only stay in the drawing stage until the end of the war, and even a project sample cannot be made. Of course, whether it can be made is how many years it will take to be made. This is also a problem in itself.

In addition, the weight of nearly 70 tons of Tiger King tank has also become a fatal injury, because most bridges and roads cannot withstand its huge pressure. Once there is a mistake, it has to be abandoned and overly complex machinery has become a big problem.

Although Yan Guang was just a half-baked military fan, he asked a Russian online game called WOT, which is the world of tanks. He also knew some of the tanks like Tiger King. Therefore, Yan Guang played the D-Series, that is, the German-Series tank. He naturally would not let go of the famous tank of Tiger King.

Therefore, Yan Guang must endure the tiger king's slowness in the game.

Therefore, when designing heavy tanks, Yan Guang did not emphasize the weight of the tank, but emphasized the importance of reliability and maneuverability

Therefore, although the zt41 tank was similar in appearance to the Tiger King, it weighed only 60 tons. At this time, a high-power diesel engine was specially developed for the zt40 tank.

A high-power diesel engine with a power of 750 horsepower, plus a weight of 60 tons, enables the zt41 tank to travel at 35 kilometers per hour

Of course, this degree cannot be compared with the zt40 weighing only 45 tons, but it is quite impressive among heavy tanks.

On the other hand, the thickness of the front armor of the zt40 has reached the level of 200 mm homogeneous armor, while the side and back are 100 mm, which is obviously stronger than the Tiger King tank.

In addition, in terms of main gun, it is also equipped with a 105mml68 tank gun.

Within a range of 2000 meters, it can penetrate all the tanks in service, whether from the side or from the front.

The main reason why it can use a total weight of 60 tons to reach the level of Yuehu King tank is that the concepts of Chinese engineers and German engineers are different.

One of the characteristics of German weapons is precision and complex. Although the reliability of these German equipment is pretty good, if the equipment is too precise and complicated, it will undoubtedly bring a lot of trouble.

For example, the labor hours and costs required during production, logistical inconvenience, reliability issues caused by excessive complexity, etc.

zt41 can reach this level mainly because they pay great attention to the simplification of equipment. Therefore, although it is indeed very similar in appearance, its internal structure is almost completely different.

It is also very convenient for production because of simplification.

Although it is unlikely that the Russian T34 can almost form a sea of ​​tanks with strong production capacity, the zt40 and zt41 are still much easier to produce than the Black Panther and Tiger King.

On the other hand, unlike the relatively barren Germany, although it was a bit exaggerated after entering the era, compared with most countries, China is still a kind of vast land and wealthy, and there are also a considerable amount of rare metals on China's land.

Therefore, when designing tanks, the armor of these tanks contains a considerable degree of rare metal, which also allows the tank to reduce its weight while also making the armor protective force equivalent to 200 mm thick steel armor.

However, although it has armor equivalent to 200 mm thick, when entering a distance of 1,000 meters, when facing Germany's 88 mm anti-aircraft gun, the front armor of the zt41 still seems quite fragile.

Even so, there is no need to mention the zt40 tank with a front armor thickness of only 120 mm. Although the zt40 is similar to Black Panther Two, it is obvious that even Black Panther Two cannot withstand the shells fired by the 88 mm anti-aircraft gun within a distance of 1,000 meters.

Moreover, since it is on the battlefield, it is impossible to reduce the possibility of being shot by anti-aircraft guns through various maneuvers like in the game. Now there are friendly vehicles everywhere nearby. Although it will be much more difficult for German anti-aircraft guns to shoot tanks if they enter a mobile state, the possibility of tanks hitting friendly vehicles will also increase a lot.

Therefore, while performing limited maneuvers, the tank driver can only try to improve the tank's degree and strive to rush to the German position faster

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Seeing that the extremely fast zt41 was about to rush onto the position defense line, anti-aircraft gunners also turned their targets to these medium-sized tanks that were most threatening.

"boom"

With a cannon, the loader who covered his ears saw a zt40 hit by the 88mm anti-aircraft gun directly. The hit shell penetrated the front armor of the tank, directly detonating the ammunition in the turret.

The ammunition that was exploding caused a huge explosion and exploded the entire turret into the sky.

The 88mm anti-aircraft gun fired quite fast, reaching 15 to 25 rounds per minute, otherwise it would not have been called the most successful artillery during World War II.

Therefore, after destroying a tank, the gunner soon aimed the muzzle at the next tank and waited for the loader to fill it up

"alright"

After filling the ammunition into the gun, the filling hand shouted loudly to the gunner

It’s not a big deal that he is like this. After all, he often works near artillery and listens to the loud noises of artillery shooting every day. Seriously speaking, their ears are not quite useful, let alone they are still on the battlefield where gunfire is constantly sounding?

When he heard the loader's words, the gunner nodded and shot the shell at a target again

only…

“Huh?”

What surprised the gunner was that although the shell hit the target this time, the shell was finally slipped away...

Although he just aimed at a zt41, the tank has now entered within 1,000 meters, so this situation shouldn't have happened.

It was when he was still surprised that a tank finally rushed to the defense line...

"Open Fire"

As he rushed to the German defense line, the commander shouted at the gunner

The gunner didn't say anything, but used the 105mm tank gun in his hand to send an 88mm anti-aircraft gun together with the soldiers in the bunker to the sky.

Since there were a considerable number of 88mm shells near the anti-aircraft guns, after being destroyed by the explosion of debris, the entire bunker exploded violently. After the wreckage of the 88mm cannon sent to the sky fell to the ground, it even hit a trench.

According to the observer's vision, there should be a few German soldiers there, but strangely, there is no sound there now.

But these have nothing to do with them. Under the protection of thick armor, not to mention ordinary explosion fragments, even smaller caliber artillery can't hurt them, so they don't need to worry about anything...

While the loader was still loading ammunition, the gunner fired at the outcropping of German soldiers on the position using a 12.7mm machine gun that was parallel to the tank gun.

Although the 12.7mm machine gun fire cannot be compared with the 8mm machine gun's amazing 1500 launch, it is still a weapon with amazing lethality with the 12.7mm caliber

Therefore, in about half a minute, at least four or five soldiers died under the machine gun. The reason for death is that as long as the person shot by a 12.7mm caliber machine gun is shot, unless the person hits the limbs, no matter where he is hit, he will end up with death. Unfortunately, none of the four or five soldiers were hit with limbs.

Although the 12.7mm machine gun is very useful, the gunner is only firing with machine guns that are parallel to the tank guns. No one in the car has ever thought of using machine guns on the roof to assist in the war. After all, it is still in the enemy's position, and no one knows where there will be some fish that escapes the net. Although the machine gun itself also carries a shield, if someone wants to shoot a machine gunner at the machine gun position, it is estimated that this shield will never be able to save the life of the machine gunner...

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As tanks rushed to the German positions, the German defense gradually collapsed, and gradually all the tanks rushed up and followed behind, the mechanized infantry loaded in armored vehicles also began to rush up with the pace of the tanks.

“Quick, hurry up”

When the armored vehicle stopped in front of the position, the squad leader in the car opened the door and shouted loudly to his subordinates.

Hearing the voice of the squad leader, the soldiers rushed out of the hatch door one by one, and then aimed the automatic or semi-automatic rifles in their hands at the enemies who appeared in sight.

"Smacking"

Three gunshots, a soldier knocked down a German soldier holding a Mauser 98k rifle

At this time, a machine gunner also ran to a better position, set up his 8mm machine gun, and then provided fire support to his side.

In this operation, no one carried flamethrowers and no fire spearmen participated in the battle.

It's not for humanitarianism or for the friendship with the Germans. After all, if you really want to consider that, you can't declare war on Germany.

The real reason is that almost all the mechanized troops or motorized troops in this operation, and the soldiers are also on motor vehicles. If they really carry flamethrowers or something, as long as a car or armored vehicle is destroyed, it will be very lively.

Not to mention anything else, at least one soldier in the car could not survive, even those around the vehicle would probably suffer.

And unlike ordinary flames, as long as the flame in the flamethrower is burning, it is difficult to extinguish it...

Therefore, whether from the perspective of safety or the psychological point of view of the soldiers, it is impossible to use flamethrowers on the European battlefield————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————

On the other hand, as the mechanized infantry behind gradually arrived, got off from the armored vehicles carrying them, and participated in the battle for the defense line, the defense line gradually began to fall into the hands of the National Defense Forces.

"How are the casualties?"

Seeing that the sound of gunfire was still shook the sky, but the situation had already begun to be inclined toward one's own battlefield, Li Mo asked to his subordinates?

“Not small…”

The subordinate shook his head

According to Guderian's vision before World War II, the ideal armored division should be under an armored brigade, each brigade has two tank regiments, each regiment has two tank battalions, and each battalion has four tank companies. Among them, 3 light tank companies are equipped with No. 3 tanks, and 1 medium tank company is equipped with No. 4 tanks, and 21 tanks are equipped with 21 tanks per company. In this way, the German armored division has a total of 336 tanks. Due to the insufficient number of tanks, each battalion of the German armored division has been reduced from 4 tank companies to 3 tank companies. Two light tank companies and 1 medium tank company. However, as of September 1, 1939, the output of tanks No. 3 and No. 4 was only 98 and 211 respectively, which was not enough equipment at all. Therefore, the tanks of the German armored division were mostly replaced by No. 1 and No. 2 light tanks.

When the war broke out on September 1, 1939, the actual organization of the German Armored Division was complex. The regular armored division was 4 tank battalions. The 3sth armored division was equipped with an armored teaching battalion in addition to the 4 tank battalions, with a total of 391 tanks. The 10sth armored division and the temporary "Kempf" armored division established had only 2 tank battalions. In 1939, Germany had 4 light armored divisions in addition to 6 armored divisions. According to the organization, it should be equipped with 1 tank battalion. However, in fact, the tank battalion of the 1sth light armored division was 3 tank battalion and the tank battalion of the 2sth light armored division was 2 tank battalion.

In 1940, when the German armoured divisions were blitzing into Western Europe, there were 10 German armored divisions. The 10sth Armored Division and the "Kepf" armored division merged into 4 light armored divisions to be adapted into 6, 7, 8, 9sth Armored Divisions. At this time, the theoretical organization of the armored divisions was all organized by the 4th Battalion of the 2nd Regiment, but the 6, 7, 8sth Armored Division was only equipped with 3 tank battalions, while the 9sth Armored Division had only 2 tank battalions.

In 1941, the number of German armored divisions expanded to 21. The armored brigade was abolished. The original armored divisions each extracted 1 tank regiment and established 1120 armored divisions. At the same time, the 5sth light armored division was established and changed to 21sth armored divisions according to the organization, there were 2 regiment-based and 3 regiment-based armored divisions, equipped with 150,200 tanks, respectively, according to the history of the Soviet World War II, 135 and 209 tanks, but the actual situation was extremely chaotic. There were 3 Battalions, 4 companies, 12 tank companies, 3 Battalions, 3 companies, 9 tank companies, 2 Battalions, 4 companies, 8 tank companies, 2 Battalions, 3 companies, 6 tank companies, and other different structures.

In 1942, the German armored divisions increased further to 27, and at the same time, they tried to formulate a unified organization, that is, the tank regiment was organized in 1942, equipped with two tank battalions, with a total of 162 tanks, but the actual organizational situation was still extremely chaotic and it was still impossible to unify.

On the eve of the Kursk Battle in 1943, Germany had a total of 28 armored divisions and 16 armored infantry divisions. In September 1943, Germany once again tried to unify the organization and formulated the 1943 Armored Division. It had one tank regiment with 2 tank battalions in its organization. The 1st Battalion was equipped with a stylish black panther tank, and the 2nd Battalion had a No. 4 tank, each battalion had a 4 company, with 22 tanks in each company. The battalion and regiment headquarters had 8 tanks, 96 units per battalion and 200 tanks per regiment.

Today, China adopts the organization of 200 tanks per regiment, which means that there should have been 200 tanks under Li Mo and the tank regiments with two tank battalions. One of the battalions is equipped with the zt40 medium tank, and the other battalion is equipped with the zt41 heavy tank.

But... ahem... during the raid of hundreds of kilometers, although Li Mo and other officers of the armored units did not need to worry about fuel due to the airdrop assistance of air force transport aircraft, the tanks of this era still had many problems. Even the sharpest zt40 and zt41 tanks in the National Defense Forces today could not be avoided. At most, they were stronger than the German Meow Style and Meow King. Therefore, during the raid of hundreds of miles, about twenty tanks had to stay in place...
To be continued...