Chapter 39: Tiger Tank
As he spoke, Xu Wen secretly instructed the system's portable warehouse to drop the three tanks on the open space about two hundred meters away from them.
Then Xu Wen asked Li Wu and the others to drive the tank to continue to lead the infantry forward to chase and kill.
The tank he commanded himself gathered more than a dozen soldiers from the original Qingfeng Village and rushed towards the location of the Tiger tank.
As the most powerful tank in the middle of World War II, the Tiger tank has a thickness of more than 100 millimeters of frontal defensive armor, and 80 or 90 millimeters on the sides and back.
In addition, its weapon system is equipped with an 88mm tank gun, which is a significant increase in power from the 75mm tank gun of Tank IV.
Therefore, after rushing to the side of the Tiger tank, Xu Wen immediately jumped from the No. 4 tank and climbed onto the Tiger tank with four soldiers, announcing that he would take this nurse tank as his command vehicle.
More than a dozen other fighters also got into the other two brand-new No. 4 tanks.
Standing in the Tiger tank, which weighed more than 50 tons, Xu Wen couldn't help but feel excited, because in history, the Tiger tank had a very high fuel consumption because of its heavy size, and it often had to retreat and refuel every two or three hours of advance in battle.
There is a very serious dependence on logistics, which seriously reduces its combat effectiveness.
However, now under Xu Wen's hands, these problems will no longer exist, because Xu Wen has a system, and he can exchange points for the system anytime and anywhere from the system to the store, and exchange for gasoline fuel to replenish it.
Greatly improve the endurance of the nurse tank, which is also the combat effectiveness of the improvement.
Therefore, the high-spirited Xu Wen lined up behind the other three No. 4 tanks and made all the preparations for battle.
Immediately waved his hand: "Let's go!" Keep attacking! ”
The soldiers in charge of driving the car drove the tank and the combat vehicle and galloped forward.
At this time, the entire 19th Brigade had been completely defeated, and there were scattered and fleeing devils everywhere.
Under the guidance and cover of other tanks and armored vehicles of the independent battalion, 8,000 soldiers of the Wuxi defenders were chasing and killing the Japanese army all over the mountains.
On the battlefield, gunfire was everywhere, explosions continued, and everywhere there were devils screaming and being shot and killed.
Xu Wen and others were driving a Tiger tank, and when three No. 4 tanks joined the battle from the flanks, there happened to be a group of devils who were busy fleeing from the road.
Without any hesitation, Xu Wen immediately commanded the Tiger tanks to fire at them.
Hearing a loud bang, the Tiger tank's 88-millimeter tank gun fired, and the muzzle of the gun flashed red, and a high-explosive grenade weighing more than 10 kilograms roared forward like a meteor.
Bang! The cannonball accurately hit the group of devil routs and exploded violently.
A dazzling red light rose into the sky, and more than a dozen devil soldiers around the explosion point were suddenly blown up and flew out screaming.
Some even had their hands, feet, and heads blown off, turning them into mutilated corpses.
Seeing this scene, Xu Wen smiled with satisfaction and praised: "Dry! That's what you want! ”
Then, he picked up the wireless walkie-talkie in the car again, and ordered loudly: "All units listen to the order, the devils of the 19th Brigade are no longer worried, and the task of harvesting the heads will be handed over to the brothers of the Wuxi defenders."
Follow my command vehicle and keep moving forward! We are going to completely crush the entire 16th Division! The enemy's artillery wing, baggage wing and other logistics units are in front, rush over with me and kill them! ”
"Roger!"
"Roger!" Li Wu, Wu Yongqiang, Sun Fugui and others responded in unison.
Immediately commanded their tank and moved closer to the Tiger tank where Xu Wen was.
With the addition of these three tanks, the number of tanks under Xu Wen has increased to eight, plus ten Humvee military vehicles and one armored vehicle, the total number of armored combat vehicles has reached nineteen.
This is almost the number of a tank and combat vehicle wing of the Japanese army, but the combat effectiveness and firepower are incomparable to that of a tank division of the devil.
After gathering together, Xu Wen immediately led them to continue to advance in the southeast direction, where there was the Devil Artillery Wing and the Baggage Wing.
And Zhou Weiguo saw that Xu Wen had transferred the tanks and armored troops away, although he didn't understand Zhou Weiguo's true intentions, but he still directly took hundreds of infantry from the independent battalion and followed.
Seeing this, about seven or eight hundred other Wuxi defenders also followed them.
As a result, nearly 2,000 infantry spontaneously followed behind Xu Wen and their tank armored troops, and rushed forward in unison.
As for the remaining more than 6,000 national troops, they were already immersed in the excitement of chasing and killing other devils, and they couldn't extricate themselves.
They will not withdraw their troops until they kill all the Japanese troops in their sight.
In other words, although Kuaba Tatsuji arranged for people to run back in advance to inform the artillery and baggage and other directly subordinate wings, stop advancing, and retreat quickly.
But how is it possible for a person to outrun a tank and an armored vehicle on two legs?
The devil who almost went back to report the news had just met with the artillery wing, and he had not yet had time to explain the order.
Xu Wen had already completely defeated the 19th Brigade on his side, and he swarmed with nearly twenty tanks and armored vehicles.
Before the devil artillery wing turned around and fled, they were spotted.
Undoubtedly, Xu Wen immediately ordered the Tiger tank to open fire, and the other seven No. 4 tanks also opened fire.
For a while, the cannon roared, and high-explosive grenades flew into the convoy and crowd of the devil's artillery wing with a roar.
At that time, the artillery wing of the 16th Division was only equipped with a small number of trucks as towing vehicles, and most of the artillery and ammunition had to rely on pack horses to transport.
Therefore, they were a semi-mechanized and half-mule artillery unit, and when they met Xu Wen and them, the whole team was a mixed team composed of trucks in front and pack horses and other livestock in the back.
Suddenly bombarded by tank shells, several trucks in front of them were destroyed on the spot by powerful explosions, pack horses, mules and horses were frightened, and struggled to turn around and flee in panic.
However, how could they outrun the flight speed of the shells, and soon the second round of shelling by Xu Wen's department arrived as scheduled.
Boom boom boom! Another series of violent explosions resounded, and clusters of dazzling red light rose to the ground, and countless explosion fragments flew wildly, blowing up the devil artillerymen with people and horses, people with cars, and with artillery to the ground, and for a time the devil artillerymen were blown up with flesh and blood, and screams were repeated.
The most fatal thing was still to come, after the two rounds of the tank fired a salvo, 11 armored vehicles Humvee military vehicles opened fire one after another, and one after another anti-aircraft machine guns and general-purpose machine guns fired an extremely dense rain of terrifying bullets.