"Yaga! The Chinese have machine guns! Fight back! Captain Hiroo Shimoto, the leader of the tank squadron in the commander's position, yelled hoarsely and slapped the back of the driver in front of him vigorously.

This is because Japanese tanks are not equipped with intercoms, but the noise inside the car is too loud for the commander's orders to reach the driver's ears, and the command signal light specially developed for this purpose does not have time for the driver to look at it during the battle. That's why body language was developed again, and slapping the back like Hiroo Simoto like this means moving forward.

Of course, instead of advancing in the direction of the position, approaching the position of 400 meters, the nose of the tank did not face the direction of the hilltop position, but faced the position head-on with the thickest armored angular position, which could not only withstand the fire of the Chinese, but also facilitate the firing of the 57MM tank gun located in the turret.

However, since the machine gun can penetrate the 20 mm thick armor on the side of the 89 tank, the steel plate and armor edges and corners with a maximum thickness of 25 mm on the front are also unsafe, what can be done now is to make the tank move so that the enemy is not easy to hit.

The choice made by Hiroo Shimoto in a few seconds was undoubtedly extremely correct.

The radio station faithfully transmitted Hiroo Hiromoto's order to the ears of the rest of the tank crews. AT THE SAME TIME, THE ENGINE OF THE TYPE 89 MEDIUM TANK HE WAS RIDING WITH A MAXIMUM POWER OF 170 HORSEPOWER ROARED WILDLY, SPEWING OUT PUFFS OF BLACK SMOKE THAT DROVE THE TRACKS TO ACCELERATE DIAGONALLY ALONG THE HILLSIDE, AND THE 57MM GUN THAT WAS POINTED DIAGONALLY AT THE POSITION AT THREE O'CLOCK OPENED FIRE FIERCELY.

THE BIGGEST DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TANKS AND FORTIFICATIONS IS THAT TANKS ARE MOVING RATHER THAN DEAD, AND THE 57MM SHORT-BARRELED GUN OF THE 89 TANK IS FAR MORE POWERFUL THAN THE 20 MM GUN.

So although the 1st Squadron of the Tank Brigade lost a tank by surprise, it was still not enough to scare the squadron leader away. Of course, he didn't dare to retreat, there was no order to retreat, and if he did, the result would be better than dying in the tank.

However, the heroic captain of the tank brigade did not know that the 89mm short-barreled manual gun equipped with the 57mm tank was not a large caliber, but in fact it was another failure of the Japanese military industry.

Of course, you can't blame the Japanese military industry experts for being too scumbag, which also has something to do with the opponent of China, which they have been staring at.

In fact, China's opponent is too weak, so weak that there are basically no tanks. The enemy in the target doesn't have a tank, so what are the tank guns used for? In line with the idea of saving resources to the greatest extent, the Japanese military designers designed the seemingly powerful 57MM tank gun with the functions of destroying machine gun fire points, civil engineering fortifications, suppressing infantry firepower and other functions at close range, which is an absolute good helper for infantry.

The Japanese army, which still existed in the First World War, never regarded tanks as a main branch of the army, and tanks were nothing more than a weapon to assist infantry in military operations.

In the early stage of the war, this combat concept was undoubtedly successful. They faced a Chinese army with only mortars, mountain artillery, and anti-aircraft artillery at most. Not to mention the Type 89 medium tank, it is the Type 94 and Type 95 mini tanks that are mainly used for reconnaissance in China, and almost all of them are rampant.

In addition to the Battle of Songhu in the southeast battlefield, the occasional 37-mm Third Reich battle defense gun gave the Japanese tanks some trouble, and in the North China battlefield, except for poison gas, tanks were almost the last straw that crushed the stubborn resistance of the Chinese, and they never lost.

THIS ALSO LED TO THE FACT THAT IN 1937, THE JAPANESE ARMY DEVELOPED AND FORMULATED THE TYPE 97 MEDIUM TANK THAT WAS ABOUT TO BE PUT INTO A LARGE NUMBER OF EQUIPMENT TROOPS, AND THE 57MM SHORT-BARRELED GUN WAS STILL THEIR BEST CHOICE. The good helper of the infantry is the greatest compliment to them.

On the battlefield in China, it has been proved that the sandbags and other civil fortifications that the Chinese are accustomed to piling up are basically not the enemy of the 57MM gun, and if one cannon does not work, then two guns.

The Japanese tankers, including the angry Hiroo Tsujimoto, had a strong belief that under the roar of the Imperial tanks, these resistance by the Chinese was ultimately in vain.

UNBEKNOWNST TO THEM, THE TYPE 97 MEDIUM TANK, EQUIPPED WITH A SLOW MUZZLE AND WEAK ARMOR-PIERCING 57MM TANK GUN, WAS ALMOST DEFEATED BY THE 7TH ARMORED BRIGADE OF THE EMPIRE, WHICH WAS EQUIPPED WITH M3 LIGHT TANKS, IN THE BATTLE OF YANGON, BURMA, FOUR YEARS LATER.

THE 57MM TANK GUN, WHICH WAS INVINCIBLE ON THE CHINESE BATTLEFIELD, COULD NOT EVEN PENETRATE THE 13 MM TO 44 MM ARMOR OF THE M3 LIGHT TANK, AND IF IT WANTED TO ENSURE PENETRATION, IT HAD TO REACH A DISTANCE OF ALMOST 200 METERS, WHICH WAS ALMOST THE DISTANCE OF A TANK FIGHTING A BAYONET. But before that, the 37mm tank gun equipped with the M3 light tank of the Empire had already blown up the Type 97 tank newly equipped with the Japanese army.

IN THE JIUGUAN POSITION, IN ORDER TO MAKE HIS MACHINE GUN FIRE POINT ABLE TO RESIST THE BOMBARDMENT OF LARGE-CALIBER HOWITZERS, LIU LANG ORDERED TO FILL THE EMPTY GASOLINE BARREL WITH SAND AND GRAVEL IN THE FRONT, AND THE GAP WAS ALSO STUFFED WITH SAND AND GRAVEL, AND THEN IT WAS ESPECIALLY NOT ENOUGH, AND THEN BURIED A 15MM THICK STEEL PLATE BEHIND THE GASOLINE BARREL.

This is only the front of the fortification, and on top of it is covered with one layer of steel plates, then two layers of logs, and then laid with earth and gravel up to one and a half meters thick. As long as they were not hit head-on by 105-caliber howitzers, these four heavy fire point fortifications, which took five days to build by the engineer company, can be called permanent fortifications.

The 1st Squadron of the Tank Brigade to which Hiroo Simoto belonged several 89 tank main artillery 57MM tank guns were really weak in front of these fortifications.

Unless he has the ability, a direct hit of the firing port with an area of no more than half a square meter is a single shot.

But in the crazy maneuver of the tank, he can hit the fortifications, and he has already played at a super level, and if he wants to hit the shot, he will go back to China to buy a lottery ticket first! See if you can hit.

War requires luck, but if it is all about luck, it will die an ugly death, and in the end it depends on strength.

The Japanese tanks were like ants that had blown up their nests, maneuvering disorderly on the hillside and firing artillery to counterattack, and the three light tanks drove even faster, firing frantically at the position with two 7.7mm machine guns to suppress the fire on the position.

At this point in the battle, a gust of mountain wind blew, and the yellow-green poisonous smoke was much thinner, because the smoke of frantic shooting and artillery bombardment began to envelop the positions of the two armies on the top of the hill and on the hillside.

But the sight is much better than before, the figures of the soldiers of the Independent Regiment wearing gas masks flickering in the field of vision of the Japanese army, and the figures of the Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks are even more clear and discernible in the eyes of the condescending officers and soldiers of the Independent Regiment.

"Baga, the Chinese still have this? Damn the informant, why didn't you report it in advance? When Hatori Nakasa saw all this through the binoculars, he couldn't help but scream in anger.

This mentality, in modern parlance, is called: I can't see the poor eating a piece of meat. All the Japanese wanted to see was that he would fire poison gas bombs, and then the impoverished and ill-equipped Chinese army would either retreat in disarray or be wiped out in chemical weapons that violated the Convention of Human War.

It's a pity that this time he is facing Langtuan and will not give him such a chance.

Liu Lang, who has stayed in a corner of Sichuan and has been fighting hard for four or five years, has long known the stinky virtue of Little Japan, how can he give them such an opportunity? If it weren't for the complexity of China's current political situation and the suspicion of the bald principal, Liu Lang would even be able to equip the country's military with gas masks.

In recent years, the profits made by the Chinese Commercial Group from pirated sulfonamides from the future are enough to support this huge consumption.

It's just that Liu Lang, who is in this generation, knows that many things can be solved not only with money. The magnificent Great Patriotic War produced many heroes, but the various complex struggles in the secret are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, even if their goals are the same.

Survival of the fittest is the only law of nature, and the Chinese nation will not be an exception.

Liu Lang, who came to this era, can only conform to the rules of the times, and all he can do is to make himself the last, just like the battle of the old pass at that time.

What he can do is to use the soldiers under his command to beat this seemingly powerful devil out of Xiang, and let them understand that they may have done it before, but here, it really can't.

Both in terms of equipment, or in terms of the level of training of soldiers, the independent regiment, surpassed them.

Although they did not cause harm to the fortifications, they blew up several trenches in all directions, and several soldiers who were caught off guard were swept away by the shock wave of the shell explosion.

The paramedics who had been on standby in the trenches hurriedly lifted the stretcher, carried the wounded soldiers through the trenches and moved them to the other side of the position.

At this time, no one expressed sadness at the casualties of their comrades, and as long as they were alive, they desperately shot at the Japanese troops below the position.

Killing more little devils is the greatest consolation to the sacrificed and wounded comrades, not with tears. This is what the officers and men of the All-Independent Regiment realized from the speech of the regimental commander when they took the oath to go on the expedition.

The flag with the word "death" handwritten by the old father in the family was hung in the front line headquarters of Jiuguan and hung in front of the case of the regimental commander.

In the war to defend the country and the nation, no one can die.

Obviously, the Japanese tankmen were trained at a very high level, and even at high speeds, their guns were accurate, even if it was only a test firing.

Subsequent shelling, they will hit more accurately.

The Japanese firepower was also very fierce, in addition to the four tank guns firing wildly, a heavy machine gun squadron located on both flanks of the main position was firing wildly, six 7.7 mm heavy machine guns of three light tanks were also frantically suppressed, and up to 12 grenadiers were also desperately pouring grenades into each firing point under an increasingly clear line of sight.

After resisting two shells in a row at the fortification where the machine gun was located, a machine gun shooter who shook off his body wiped the black ash of his face smoked by the gunfire, cracked his mouth, showed a mouthful of yellowed teeth, and smiled.

Holy shit, since you can't beat me, it's time for me to beat you!