Chapter 1520: 1521 abandoned car
Just as he was yelling in panic, the side of his tank was penetrated by an incoming anti-tank rocket. A line of white smoke flew out from the ruins on this side and directly hit the side of the tank. On the armor.
The rocket did not cause a fatal explosion. The dwarves in the vehicle had no time to think. They jumped out of the penetrated tank and ran away like rabbits whose tails were set on fire.
The Tang army didn't even fire at him. They just looked at the frightened tank commander and the dwarf tank crew members who later jumped out of the tank, allowing them to escape back to their own positions.
The battle here is basically over. Two of the three tanks of the Dwarves were killed by a Type 96 main battle tank of the Tang Army without even firing a single shot. The remaining one was also eliminated by the Tang Army's anti-tank team. .
On the other side, the dwarf tank platoon leader, who heard intermittently on the radio that his own tank was penetrated, had begun to sweat on his forehead.
"Stop! Target position is 2 o'clock!" He ordered loudly. The tank kept moving forward under his order. After shaking slightly twice, the mighty-looking turret began to turn.
Because the armor is too thick and heavy, the turret rotation speed of this Type 10 tank is really too slow. This is also an important reason why the dwarf tank was unable to target the Tang army tank just now.
Even because the armor on the front of the turret is too thick, the Dwarf Type 10 tank has to lock the turret when going uphill. Otherwise, the turret will easily start to turn on its own, damaging the motor or even damaging the gear structure.
Under the hysterical working of the motor, the tank's turret rotated little by little, and the sight quickly captured a camouflaged target.
This Tang Army tank was already pointing its thick barrel here. The dwarf gunner who saw all this shivered in fear and stepped on the firing pedal under his feet.
"Boom!" With a loud noise, the 100mm tank gun in front of the dwarf's tank spurted rolling flames from the muzzle, and a shell went straight towards the Tang Army's tank.
It took almost only a moment for the shell to directly hit the main armor on the left side of the turret of the Tang Army tank. Immediately afterwards, the shell began to deform, leaving a dent in the armor of the Tang Army tank, wiping off the paint on it, creating a black burn mark, and then changed its trajectory and flew to the upper left.
Yes, it bounced off!
Seeing that the shells he fired failed to penetrate the enemy's armor, the dwarf gunner's face turned pale. He shouted loudly and ordered the loader to quickly load new shells.
At the same time, he began to adjust his artillery slightly and aimed at the body of the Tang army tank. Because according to the experience of the dwarves, the tank's body armor is somewhat thinner than the turret armor.
Just as he was adjusting, the Tang Army's tank opened fire. The same black muzzle spurted out a ball of blazing flames, and then a shell directly hit the dwarf tank.
The huge impact force made everyone in the car feel the tank shaking, and the ensuing metal jets rushed through the car body, like a steel knife, mercilessly cutting anything in the way.
The radio station in the dwarf tank was penetrated by fragments, and dazzling sparks burst out. The loader holding the cannonball was hit by a single piece, and the cannonball in his hand also fell. The commander, whose face was still pressed against the periscope, had already begun to spurt blood from his stomach. At this moment, he did not feel any pain. The backrest of the driver's seat in the car was penetrated, and shrapnel rushed out of his chest and shattered. Instruments on his side.
The next moment, the shell that had penetrated the shell and ignited the propellant began to explode, and the violent flames instantly filled the entire tank. Due to the extremely rapid expansion, the hot gas with nowhere to go directly lifted the more than ten-ton turret and threw it into the air. Because there are no effective safety measures, not even an automatic fire extinguishing system, the tanks of the Ice Empire that are penetrated will basically explode tragically. At least, when facing the 125mm smoothbore gun, their tanks were as fragile as a piece of paper.
Another dwarf tank that was still searching for the location of the Tang Army tank was immediately blocked from view by the flames of the burning explosion.
The dwarf commander sitting in the car wearing headphones heard the explosion of his own platoon leader's car. He nervously checked the situation outside through the periscope above his head, but only saw the body of tank No. 201, which was emitting billowing black smoke and had stopped moving.
“Damn it!” He knew his platoon leader was finished, and he was almost certain that he was almost finished too.
"Reverse! Reverse immediately!" In the blink of an eye, he thought of a way to survive: reverse immediately, using the burning remains of the platoon leader's car as a bunker to avoid a fatal blow from the Tang Army's tank.
After hearing his order, the tank he was in suddenly stopped, and the inertia caused everyone in the car to sway back and forth. Immediately afterwards, the driver's desperate voice came from the earphones: "The engine is stalled! The engine is stalled!"
Driving a tank is not an easy task. Driving a tank weighing dozens of tons with ease requires long-term training and precise operation.
In order to pursue performance, the dwarf tank power system is not very reliable to begin with, and it is naturally not new for some accidents to occur on the battlefield.
It took almost only a second for the dwarf commander to issue a new order: "Abandon the car! Quick! Get out of here!"
While giving the order, he opened the hatch cover above his head. The gunner's actions were not slow either. He also opened the hatch and climbed out of the vehicle.
The loader is in a worse situation. He does not have his own dedicated exit, so he has to wait for the commander and gunner to go out first, and then he has a way to climb out - there is no way, who makes the loader the least valuable inside the tank.
The driver did not hesitate for a moment and also abandoned the car and ran away. Because of the increased reliability of radio equipment, armored forces around the world have generally eliminated radio operators, and tank crew members have also become a standard four-man system.
The only difference is the Tang Empire. Because the Datang Empire used an automatic loader, the tank crew consisted of three people and there was no loader.
Seeing the dwarf crew members abandoning the vehicle and fleeing back among the defeated infantry, Liu Guozhu had no intention of pursuing them.
He has completed his mission and supported the special forces to hold their position. It is now daybreak, and the follow-up landings of the Tang Army have begun on a large scale. It is obvious that the troops of the Tang Empire have established a firm foothold on the beach.