Chapter 172: Mao Chenzhen (6)

"Squeak squeak squeak......"

A sound of metal track friction slowly came into everyone's ears, and along with the sound of track friction came the slowly approaching figure of the Japanese army's Type 89 chariot.

With the increasing fame of the Independent Brigade, the Japanese army has now raised the threat of the Independent Brigade to the highest level, and the Independent Brigade is not the first time to fight with the Japanese tank troops. Not only that, but they kept firing at the positions of the independent brigade with the 7.7 mm machine guns on the vehicles as they moved, and it was obvious that they must have carried several bases of ammunition, and the machine guns on the tanks never stopped at the beginning, and the turrets were also moving around, and once they found that there was target activity on the position, the Type 90 57 mm tank gun would not hesitate to shoot at it.

Tank shells exploded one after another on the positions of the 2nd Regiment, and now the Japanese troops have learned to be obedient, and they honestly move forward step by step, as long as they think there is movement, they will fire a burst of artillery fire, and the chariots will not easily break away from the cover of the infantry.

The three chariots, which were three or four hundred meters apart from each other, always turned their fronts towards the position of the second regiment, slowly turning from side to side, and were not in a hurry to break through to the position.

"Grass...... These little devils are really good at learning. Seeing through the telescope the chariot in front of him that refused to move his nest, Su Jin couldn't help but curse hatefully.

Wu Yonglin, who had been following Su Jin closely since the Japanese army began to attack, turned around and shouted, "What about the battle defense artillery, where are you dead, hurry up and knock out those turtle shells for Lao Tzu." ”

"Yes!"

It was a young soldier who answered him, and I saw him and his three companions pushing a PAK37 battle defense gun towards the prepared gun position while answering, but because the position was so badly damaged, the ground was full of floating soil. In some places, it takes a lot of effort to pull out a person who steps on it, and the 432-kilogram anti-aircraft gun is even more difficult to push, and the four gunners are sweating profusely, but the anti-aircraft gun can only move forward at a turtle speed.

Su Jin saw that he was so angry that he put down the binoculars in his hand and beckoned more than a dozen soldiers to pull and drag together to push the battle defense gun to the predetermined gun position.

After coming to the gun position, a short and sturdy gun commander wearing the rank of sergeant panted and stretched out his thumb to the front, roughly measured the distance, and shouted loudly while shaking the handle: "Target 1012 meters, azimuth 248, armor-piercing shells ready!" Cannonball...... What about shells? ”

"Cannonballs...... Come...... Come on! ”

Panting and carrying two boxes of shells, one foot deep and one foot shallow, two soldiers came to the back of the battle defense gun, and a loader opened the shell box and took out a sharp and slender shell and put it into the magazine. Then the bolts snapped together, and there was a metallic click.

"Reloaded!"

"Putting ......"

As a sergeant gave an order, the soldier standing behind the anti-aircraft gun pulled the cannon rope, and the entire anti-aircraft gun shook violently, and the cannonball flew forward at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

"Damn, I missed it!"

"Come again! Armor-piercing shells! ”

"Target 1010 meters! Put! ”

"Boom ......"

There was a dull sound in front of him, and a bright flower bloomed in front of the gunsmoke everywhere, it was so bright that Su Jin behind the telescope had to squint his eyes slightly.

It was a bouquet of blooming flowers.

Su Jin had to admit that this was perhaps one of the most beautiful metal ceremonial flowers he had ever seen in his life.

When Su Jin opened his eyes again. This eight-nine chariot is rapidly disintegrating under this bouquet of ceremonial flowers. Su Jin removed the binoculars and watched the funeral of this chariot for a long time, he knew that the ammunition on this chariot had been detonated.

The detonated chariot's ammunition ruthlessly lifted its turret open, and the rushing light of the fire illuminated the still trembling chariot eerily. Quick as a wink. The steel monster that had been formidable a moment ago was now an ugly pile of metal ruins, rippling in the firelight.

"Good...... Hit! ”

There was a low cheer from the position, and even Su Jin clenched his fists slightly, with a smile on his face. The Japanese tanks used carburized nickel-chromium steel armor. The frontal armor reached 17 mm, which was enough for the heavy machine guns of the national army, but for the PAK37 combat anti-aircraft guns, such an armor thickness was not worth mentioning at all.

Perhaps it was stimulated by the success of this battle defense gun. The muffled sound of PAK37 anti-aircraft guns soon sounded on the position, and the three zigzag 89 chariots that were originally blocking the front were hit one after another in less than a few minutes, and the originally majestic chariots instantly turned into a pile of scrap metal.

"Bagaya deer! Order your troops to speed up and advance in a skirmisher formation! Seeing that three tanks were destroyed in a row, the commander of the 7th Wing, Kazuo Izao, was furious and immediately ordered the infantry to speed up and rush towards the position of the independent brigade.

At this time, the left position of the independent brigade was the second regiment, and the right position was defended by the third regiment, and a large group of Japanese troops was all dispatched, and four squadrons pounced on the positions of the second and third regiments respectively, perhaps because the three tanks were a little frightened after being blown up in almost a few minutes, and the rest of the tanks were also much more cunning, they always used low pits or low terrain to cover their bodies and slowly approached forward, and from time to time they would expose their turrets to the position and shoot a few shots or shoot a few bullets before immediately retracting their heads.

As the Japanese approached, the first sound on the position was the 12.7 mm M2 Browning heavy machine gun, which was only equipped with battalion units due to its weight of 58 kilograms. However, because it has the advantages of strong firepower, stable ballistics, and extremely long range, and the most important thing is that it can also be used as a high-level dual-purpose machine gun in special times, which is a very good suppressive weapon, and on the other hand, the Japanese army has not yet had any machine gun that is its opponent, so it has been loved by the infantry since it was equipped with troops.

"Knock knock...... Knock knock ......"

The low sound of gunfire rang out, and a rain of metal bullets rushed towards the Japanese troops in the distance under the impetus of gunpowder, and the power of the bullets with a caliber of 12.7 mm was undoubtedly very powerful, even if the Japanese army's 89 type chariots were hit within 500 meters, they would be beaten into a sieve.

With the firing of more than a dozen M2 heavy machine guns on the position, the Japanese troops who were approaching the position of the independent regiment were unlucky, and many Japanese soldiers underestimated the power of the M2 heavy machine guns, and some soldiers still habitually hid behind tree trunks or some mounds when dodging, but soon they found out that they were wrong. Powerful bullets easily pierced through the bunkers they were hiding in, then effortlessly tore their fragile flesh to shreds.

Unconvinced, some Japanese soldiers set up Type 92 heavy machine guns to counterattack, but the result was a great disappointment, and most of the machine gunners who tried to challenge the opposing heavy machine guns were broken into parts by the powerful bullets fired from the opposite side.

Seeing that his soldiers were so suppressed by the rain of bullets fired from the opposite side that they couldn't even lift their heads, Kazuo Iza did not show weakness and brought in ten Type 92 infantry guns to counterattack the front.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

Shells exploded around the heavy machine gun bunker, and Su Jin, who was at the observation post, saw with his own eyes that a machine gun bunker was hit by a shell, and the M2 heavy machine gun and two machine gunners were blown to pieces.

Seeing that the Japanese army's counterattack came so quickly, Su Jin was also secretly surprised, worthy of being the elite field division of the Japanese army, whether it was experience or combat skills, it was much more ferocious than the second- and third-rate divisions of the 101, 106 and even 27 that he had encountered before.

Su Jin frowned, raised his binoculars and continued to observe.

"Boom ......"

A shell suddenly exploded not far behind his head.

It was a shell fired by a 70-caliber Type 92 infantry gun, this shell did not directly hit the bunker where he was, because he was too close, Su Jin was violently pushed into the tunnel by the huge air wave formed by the explosion of the shell. It felt like a little grasshopper to be carried out in one hand. Slammed into a pile of rocks and concrete fragments, his combat uniform could not protect his back, and the sharp stones added several wounds to his back.

"Traveler!"

"Sir!"

There were several exclamations next to him, and then several figures quickly pounced and pressed Su Jin under him.

Feeling the heavy pressure on his body, Su Jin couldn't help but scolded very annoyed: "Damn, what are you doing, Lao Tzu is not dead, what are you pressing Lao Tzu for!" ”

Soon, Su Jin was pulled up by the people around him, and Wu Yonglin was the first to pounce and reach out and touch Su Jin's body everywhere, but he was quickly slapped away by Su Jin with his hand.

"Lao Tzu is not a girl, what are you touching...... I don't care about you! ”

"Brigade, you can't be here, it's too dangerous here." Seeing that Su Jin was unharmed, Wu Yonglin, who was almost scared to death, breathed a sigh of relief, and hurriedly said to the guard next to him: "You immediately send the brigade back to the brigade headquarters, if something goes wrong, Lao Tzu will shoot you!" ”

"Yes!"

Several of Su Jin's guards were almost frightened, if something happened to Su Jin, they would be to blame for their death, so they couldn't help but pick up Su Jin and run back.

"What are you pulling Lao Tzu for, Lao Tzu has feet and will walk by himself!" Su Jin also knew that it was really inappropriate for him to stay here, it would distract Wu Yonglin, he didn't struggle, and let the guards support him to retreat to the brigade headquarters, but he also yelled at Wu Yonglin before retreating.

"Battalion Commander Wu, immediately convey my order, notify the mortar battalion, and immediately launch a counterattack against the Japanese artillery fire in front!" (To be continued.) )