The little mouse Patton was already excited at this time. His car was only four or five hundred meters away from the enemy's position, and he could even see the enemy walking around in the trenches. He couldn't help but click the driver's head and signal the other party to accelerate.

The ft-17's maneuverability is indeed not very good. Even if the driver knocks the accelerator to the end, it looks like a turtle crawling. Even because of the rapid acceleration, Patton's car turned off and broke down.

"Damn it!"

Patton cursed. When he saw his comrades surpassing him one by one in the periscope and crushing towards the barbed wire in front of the enemy's position, he was determined to kick the driver. Patton has always wanted to be the veritable number one tanker among the US military, and to implement this honor, the best way is to break through the enemy's trenches on the battlefield. Today was originally a good opportunity, but they were all destroyed by the incompetent driver!

Patton looked at his comrades singing rapidly, and he was really envious and jealous. When the driver finally caught fire again and the tank resumed its power and continued to move forward, he almost sang: "g0!go!go!"

The first row of ft-17s hit the barbed wire. Whether it was Patton, other tank players, or Greg and Clement, who were watching behind, all agreed that the next battle was not very suspense. For ft-17, breaking through barbed wire is simply a tiny meaning.

It was indeed a little bit of a problem. Ft-17 easily crushed it, effortless and relaxed. However, the next scene broke Patton and others' glasses.

The first ft-17 that ran through the wire fence continued to move forward for less than a hundred meters and suddenly exploded. The explosion came so suddenly and inexplicably, which made Patton puzzled. Why did this tank explode? Is the temperature inside the car too high, causing the ammunition to explode? Or was it because the road conditions were not good and the ammunition was pushed off the shelf?

Of course, Patton's attention soon changed. Because he felt that this was an accidental low-probability event. It was an accident. Anyway, one, two or even ten or twenty tanks were broken, or if it could break through the enemy's position, such a small loss would be acceptable!

Anyway, Patton thought so, and he urged the pilot to move forward quickly. As the brigade commander, he could not be the tail of the crane, nor could he be the deputy squad leader! However, Patton soon discovered something was wrong, because the previous explosion was not a low probability event, nor was it accidental. Many ft-17s in charge ran quite happily just now, but in the blink of an eye, they separated their heads or simply took a dirt plane.

When such accidents are becoming more and more frequent, Patton is shocked!

What's going on? Is the enemy's secret weapon?

In fact, Greg and Clement also noticed emergencies on the battlefield. When the tanks charging exploded without warning, they realized that the situation was wrong. The Russians on the opposite position were probably not the kind of earthy leopard who was scared to pee the first time they saw the tank. The other party probably had expected that they would use the tank and had already made targeted arrangements!

Patton, Greg and Clement widened their eyes and kept sweeping around the ft-17 tanks that were moving forward. They knew that if they wanted to know what tricks the Russians had used, the best way was to widen their eyes and see everything clearly as soon as the explosion occurred.

Patton and the others were lucky, and soon they witnessed the entire process of the explosion - the explosion did not happen from within ft-17. The reason came from outside!

"Mine!"

Greg and Clement looked at each other, and from their expressions, we can tell how surprised they were about this discovery. In their impression, ordinary anti-infantry mines could not do anything to the strong tanks because of their small charge. Moreover, they had not hit the enemy's defense line before, and the infantry was running wildly in this crazily a few days ago, but they didn't see any landmines?

Poor Greg and Clement would never have imagined that there are indeed no anti-infantry mines in this area, but anti-tank mines are buried. Anti-tank mines are unlikely to stomp on and infantry, so it is natural that they are fine.

Next, Patton has to make a choice. Whether it is to continue attacking the mines or temporarily retreat, and call on the support artillery fire behind to plow this piece again?

Soon, the brave Patton chose the former. The reason is very simple. The Patton family's creed is to attack. It is better to kill them with one knife than to retreat and run. And Patton is also very clear that Greg and Clement could not provide any decent firepower to plow the land. Compared with the Russians' naval gun support, their firepower was really a slag.

Soon, under the leadership of Patton, the somewhat panicked American tank soldiers recovered their calmness. Because the crazy first tank player rushed to the front with a move, telling his soldiers that he was not afraid of any landmines.

Yes, Patton likes to do such crazy things the most. During Operation Torch, this man braved artillery fire and air strikes to help unload the cart at the landing ground, and later he dared to drive a jeep alone to bravely break into the mine formation. When he broke through the Atlantic barrier, in order to cross a "gutter", he personally measured the water depth under the attention of the German army on the other side.

Anyway, from the perspective of a normal person, Patton is a person with a pitfall in his mind. I think so anyway. Of course, I have to admit that when the battle is in a stalemate, if you want to break the stalemate, you need a commander like him who has pitfalls in his mind. When they set an example and experience their achievements, they will definitely greatly boost morale.

This time was no exception. Under the leadership of the brigade, the American tank soldiers took the initiative to hit the accelerator one by one, screaming and snarling towards the Red Army's position.

In the command post of the Red Army's position, Triandafilov saw all the performance of the US military. For this commander with some scholarly temperament, the performance of the American tanker was really not good. He kept recording something in his small notebook, and all of these will be transformed into the most valuable experience and lessons of the Red Army's mechanized forces in the future.

"Comrade Vladimir, the enemy has broken through the anti-tank mine formation!"

When the staff officer shouted this, he was actually a little anxious. The infantry was indeed under great pressure for the steel monsters that were crushing over by Boom. Moreover, there were quite a few tanks on the other side who broke through the iron net and mine array. There were twenty or thirty of them in Chuluo. No matter how you look at the infantry on the front line, they were under great pressure.

However, Triandafilov had no intention of being anxious. He waved his hand and sent the staff away, then raised his telescope to continue observing the performance of the enemy tanks.

“Too slow!”

"The ability to go beyond the tycoon is too poor!"

"The firepower is thin!"

“Laboring effective command!”

In an instant, Triandafilov recorded several notes. Obviously, in front of this military genius, the tank that Russia needs in the future must not be the FT-17. He even felt that the FT-17, which is the best comprehensive performance in World War I and the originator of modern tanks, can only be regarded as a large toy.

Yes. The tank that has just been born for less than two years is indeed full of problems. There is no need to mention the speed. This is a flaw. As for firepower, it is quite reasonable. Among the two models of the FT-17, whether equipped with 37mm Pito or equipped with machine guns, they all look thin. For example, the 37mm Pito cannon is really only a grenade launcher, with a maximum range and power, and it is not possible to hit the reinforced fortifications at all. What's more serious is that the hit rate is really terrible. Let's put it this way. If it exceeds 200 meters, it can only be heard.

Of course. This is also the limitation of the times. You cannot require tankers to shoot accurately without the most basic sighting equipment. The 57mm cannon of the British tank is even more terrible than the French Pito cannon. It is basically a scary thing.

In fact, among these shortcomings, Triandafilov paid the last one most attention - the lack of effective command. The tank performance in this year was too poor. After the engine started working, sitting in the tank was no cleaner than sitting on the runway of the airport.

Not to mention that communication is basically yelling, and even if you yell, you can't hear it. Basically, communication within the crew depends on writing boards and body language. This is still inside the tank. As for the connection between the tank and the tank or between the tank and the rear command center, there is basically no connection. At that time, the tank troops actually used carrier pigeons to convey orders!

For example, in the Cambre Battle, which was more successful in assaulting by tanks, in order to achieve the joint attack effect of infantry and tanks, how did the infantry following behind the tank communicate with the tank's hands? Use a hammer or engineer shovel to hit the tank's body!

Anyway, in that year, the commanders of the tank troops were quite hard, and their perception and control abilities on the battlefield were not ordinary. Many times, they were almost headless flies!

This kind of blind people touching elephants is very passive on the battlefield, and it is prone to make a lot of mistakes and missing a lot of fighter jets. So in Triandafilov's view, if you want to truly exert the power of a tank, the first thing you need to solve is command and communication problems!

However, it is still a bit far away to say that these problems need not be solved overnight, and they involve system engineering. Moreover, in the eyes of other Red Army commanders, Triandafilov does not have to think so long, so he should solve the troubles in front of him quickly!

Is the problem in front of you very troublesome? This is the case in the eyes of some people. For example, Patton is ready to celebrate victory. As long as he crushes the Russians' position and takes over the breakthrough, he will be accomplished! And how far is this journey? Less than 200 meters!

For Patton, victory was so easy to win for the officers and soldiers of the Allies. But at this moment, they were hit head-on!

After entering the range of two hundred meters, the anti-tank weapons of the Baltic Front can finally be used to kill. The first one to show off was the recoilless cannon. The armor-breaking bombs fired by a 100 mm caliber guy were about 300 mm in static armor-breaking power, and the real dynamic armor-breaking power was much more than 80 mm homogeneous armor.

How thick is the armor of the FT-17? The thickest part is about 22mm, which means that the 100mm armor-breaking bomb can penetrate two FT-17s! Let's put it this way, as long as the 100mm armor-breaking bomb is hit, the FT-17 will never have the possibility of survival.

Soon Patton discovered this. A ft-17 in front of his left was running and the turret flew into the sky. Then another ft-17 on the back of his right turned into a big fireball. The ft-17 was constantly destroyed, and their performance was exactly like a tofu in front of the 100mm armor-breaking bullet!

Patton later recalled: "The enemy used a very strange artillery, and every time they fired, it would eject a lot of smoke and flames. The shells they shot were strange. They seemed to have four wings... Our tanks seemed vulnerable under the enemy's artillery fire, as weak as butter... Tanks were constantly destroyed, and comrades were constantly killed... I was under a lot of pressure!"

The only good news for Patton is that the accuracy of the 100mm recoil-free cannon is relatively appropriate and the range is relatively close. For his tank troops, as long as they rush forward, there is still a glimmer of hope!

Patton thought so at the time, and led his young men to charge and prepare to cross the enemy's artillery blockade line in one fell swoop. However, things were not that simple. Triandaferov's killer move was not only recoil or not. In addition to recoil-free cannons, the grassroots anti-armor team also had a slightly smaller caliber bazooka and anti-tank gun.

When the ptrd-18 anti-tank gun uses a copper-clad armor-piercing hard steel core armor-piercing projectile, it can penetrate about 25 mm of homogeneous steel armor at a distance of 100 meters. Although this power is a bit plausible to hit the front face of the FT-17, it can hit other parts accurately.

So after being destroyed by the recoilless cannon for a while, Patton's tank troops ushered in the test of anti-tank guns. This test is undoubtedly even more difficult. After all, the target of the recoilless cannon is more obvious when it is fired, and it can be suppressed with firepower. The anti-tank guns are much less dynamic and in order to avoid exposing the target, the anti-tank gunmen deliberately sprinkled water in front of the position.

In this way, Patton's tank hands often die but don't know how they die. Patton himself has a deep understanding of this. The moment his driver was still striking forward according to his orders. But the next moment, with the sound of the car body, the poor guy's neck tilted and died.

At that time, Patton was still not sure what was going on, and was constantly trying to kick the poor driver, trying to order the unlucky guy to continue moving forward.

In the next few minutes, Patton was frightened. The tank that was parked on the battlefield was undoubtedly the best target. In an instant, his car became a magnet for attracting bullets. Although the Red Army's machine guns and rifles bullets were not enough to penetrate the ft-17's armor, dense bullets could also deform the steel plates, and even cause the inner layer of the steel plate to crack into pieces and fly in the cabin.

Tankman Mike, who participated in that battle, recalled: "The machine gun bullet penetrated the body at least once, causing minor injuries to the driver Evans and me..."

Of course, even if the rifle bullet does not penetrate the armor, it can still put great psychological pressure on the tank hand. No one can watch the steel plate in front of him constantly deform and remain indifferent. The jingle sound of the bullet hitting the steel plate hitting the inner world of the tank hand like a death bell.

Many witnesses claimed that "tanks came back with scars all over them, but the young man driving them collapsed..."

Patton is a natural soldier, and his psychological quality will naturally not collapse. In fact, after discovering that the driver was killed, he was like a ok person. After trying to re-activate the tank, he dismantled the Hatchkas machine gun in the turret. Holding the machine gun, Patton drilled out of the turret. Under the dense rain of bullets, the madman was unscathed!

I have to say that this is a miracle! Anyway, after leaving his car, Patton did not leave the battlefield, but relied on the cover of his car to start shooting against the Red Army opposite. In his own words, "Before knocking out all the ammunition, I killed at least two Russian miscellaneous parts!"

However, no matter what Patton's personal outcome was, his tank assault had been declared to be a failure. When more and more FT-17s exploded, and when the Red Flag Baltic Fleet began to shell again, the only thing the Allied soldiers on the battlefield could do was to throw down their weapons and pray to God for blessing.

It only took an hour for a tank battalion to fail from attacking. During this attack, only seven tanks returned to their starting positions in a hurry, and ninety percent of the other tanks and tankers were either destroyed or captured. Among them were their heroic brigade commander Patton.

After all the bullets were fired, Patton tried to use engineer shovels to fight with the Red Army soldiers who rushed up. The big man who once won fifth place in the modern five-event in the Stockholm Olympics really chose the wrong opponent. The same tall and powerful Russian soldier was not afraid of him. In a minute, the future General Patton was beaten up with a blue face and could not take care of himself. He was dragged back to the prisoner-of-war camp by the Red Army soldiers like a dead dog.

Of course, Patton will not be too lonely in his future career as a prisoner of war, because another second-generation official MacArthur has been waiting for him for a long time. I think it would be very speculative than these two guys who also like to show off and behave like heroes.

"Damn it, what should I do now?"

After learning that Patton was defeated and captured, Major General Greg was stunned. In this battle, not only did he lose nearly one-third of the tanks, but he also took a brigade commander into it. How do you explain this?

But Greg really asked the wrong person. Colonel Clement had not yet come back to his senses from the tank massacre just now. It was the first time he saw an army that could solve a large group of FT-17s so swiftly. The Russians opened his eyes and also made him deeply worried - is FT-17 really a weapon of failure?

To be honest, there is really no need for such an idea. The reason why ft-17 failed in Szczechin was mainly because it encountered an opponent that surpassed this era. In terms of performance, ft-17 was not out of date at all in this era. After changing to another opponent, its performance can only be described as dazzling. Who is the unlucky person who was unfortunately ravaged by ft-17?

His name is Tukhachevsky... (To be continued, please search for Piaotianyi, the novel is better, updated and faster!

ps: Bow to thank Olfin, hzwangdd and comrade Juventus!

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