Chapter 46: Tank Battles
"Boom
Early the next morning, the sun had just risen from the top of the eastern folding mountain, and there was a burst of artillery fire on the battlefield.
On the line of contact between the Volunteer Army and the United ***. Cannon sounds like this are not uncommon for a long time, but unlike usual. This time, the sound of artillery came from the artillery units of the Volunteer Army.
I lay on the trench and 'touched' the pocket watch in my pocket to see the time, and the pointer was well pointed to seven o'clock. Not a single point is bad. I chose this time because I found that the American and British forces rarely attacked in the early morning. I think this has something to do with their superior living conditions! Rich British and Americans! They are used to living a leisurely life, always treating the early morning as a day, so they are always used to hoping for a good start.
Because of this habit, early morning is often the safest in the duel with the British and American forces. He said that sometimes they would also fire a burst of artillery at the positions of the volunteers without any purpose. But that's just their artillerymen doing boring morning exercises.
But I didn't let them get their wish, and chose this time when they just got out of bed and were about to wash up. I could almost see the Brits brushing their teeth and shaving to music, when suddenly a burst of artillery fire blew them up, panicked, and angry.
That's exactly what I wanted. Provoke your opponent to make them lose their minds, which is a bit old-fashioned, but it is very useful. Shells exploded in piles on the enemy's positions, kicking up clouds of dust and gunpowder smoke on the enemy's positions, and I raised my binoculars to look at the enemy formation, and at first I would see several enemies running in a panic for cover, but after a while there was nothing to see, only clumps of loess and barbed wire and sandbags thrown into the sky".
Fifteen minutes passed quickly, and the artillery fire began to move slowly into the enemy's depths. In order to better lure the enemy out of the fortifications, the soldiers beat machine guns and rifles one after another. At the same time, the trumpet of the charge was sounded, and then the characteristic shouting of killing also sounded, as if the whole army launched a general attack on the enemy's position. It's just that not a single fighter from the position charged the enemy.
The enemy was fooled, and in the aperture of the telescope, I could clearly see that the British soldiers on the opposite position had their heads out of their heads and set up all kinds of weapons on the trenches, and some British soldiers even felt strange that they had poked their heads out and looked around because they only heard the shouts of killing and did not see the volunteer soldiers.
But before they could react, another heavy bombardment was followed by a heavy bombardment, which lifted them into the air, one by one, and then fell heavily to the ground along with the dust and sandbags.
At this point, even if they realized that they had been fooled, it was too late, and I nodded with satisfaction, if the shelling could achieve such an effect, then the pressure on the soldiers to charge would be much less later.
Ten minutes later, three red 'colored' flares rose in the sky. The trumpet and shouting of killing sounded again, and at the same time, the artillery of the Volunteer Army also began to suppress the enemy's artillery in depth, and this time the charge was real!
I saw 11 Xiabi tanks, which had long been ready for sorties, take the lead in burrowing out of the tunnel, lined up on the open ground, and drove majestically towards the enemy's position with a huge roar.
The soldiers also jumped out of the trenches one after another, 'holding' bayonets, submachine guns, machine guns and other weapons, and followed the tanks all the way towards the enemy's position. The fighters, even without tank cover, did not hesitate to charge at the enemy in the face of enemy fire and bullets. Now that they have their own tanks in front of them to clear the way, I don't know if it's a psychological effect. Even I felt that the soldiers' footsteps were particularly firm and their shouts of killing were particularly powerful! Although the dust and exhaust behind the **** of the lower blue are almost comparable to the smoke bombs of the US military, the soldiers don't mind at all, and they drill into the smoke and dust one by one.
"Boom". The tanks of the Volunteer Army fired several shells at the enemy positions in the advance. I saw a few earthen pillars burst up, and the remaining sections of barbed wire arranged by the British army in front of the position were also blown into the sky.
"Well done". I couldn't help but praise secretly.
If we do not include the period of "replacing the war with war" when the tankmen of the volunteer army were artillerymen, this can be said to be the first time that they have gone to the battlefield. The first time they went to the battlefield, they were able to hit the enemy's barbed wire while the tanks were moving, which shows that the tankmen of the Volunteer Army have indeed put a lot of effort into their 'shooting' skills.
Come to think of it, China has only just been founded. At this time, the people of the whole country were hungry and tightened their belts, and even many elderly people donated their coffins to buy weapons and equipment from the Soviet Union. How could the fighters not cherish such a tank?
Moreover, the Propaganda Department, the Art Troupe, political commissars, instructors, etc., through leaflets, slogans, volunteer newspapers, performances, and even meetings and heart-to-heart talks, have been publicizing to the soldiers all the time about the contributions made by the domestic military and civilians in resisting US aggression and aiding Korea. So the fighters all know how difficult it is for us to be stunned by these tanks and these shells. In this case, the volunteer ten... Dan Kenian, how can they not like to practice this book and practice '' skills, Sun Yi casually fired a few shots, and let us see how powerful.
The British troops stationed on the heights were not weak either. Although they suffered heavy casualties under the rapid fire of our army's two rounds of artillery fire, they could not help but be shocked when they saw that the volunteers, who were usually very poorly equipped, suddenly drove out more than a dozen tanks from the front. But they were recognized as the world's trump card troops, and these unexpected blows did not deter them, and the surviving soldiers had already emerged from the trenches one by one, raising all kinds of weapons and firing at the charging volunteers.
But it is a pity that the volunteer soldiers, who have always been inferior in equipment, have achieved an unprecedented advantage in equipment on this local battlefield, because the volunteers now have the frankness known as the king of foot combat...
Rows of machine-gun bullets fell on the hurried high ground, but only then did they realize the helplessness of the former volunteer soldiers in a duel with them. The bullets did little except "sonorous" on the tank's armor with a sound like frying beans.
On the other hand, the tanks of the Volunteer Army showed their might at this time, only to see them slowly 'pressing' forward, while rotating the turret to adjust the angle, and then only listening to the sound of "boom", a shell directly hit the British trenches piled up with sandbags, and immediately those trenches and people with sandbags bombarded into a mess.
Speaking of Xiabi, I think even modern people will be familiar with this kind of tank that defeated Germany. During World War II, Xia Zhang Wound once created the famous "Xia Bi Crisis", the so-called "Xia 34 Crisis" refers to the "Blitzkrieg" launched by Germany in the early stage of the war, and paid more attention to the maneuverability of tanks in the manufacture of tanks, rather than the firepower and protection of tanks, so when they invaded the Soviet Union, they found that they did not have any tanks that could compete with Xiazhou Danke. "The tank is also famous all over the world.
However, due to the advent of the German Tiger tank, the millimeter cannon of the lower longitudinal equipment could not pose a threat to it, so the more powerful lower calcium was developed. The next relaxation is the tank that the volunteer soldiers are now equipped. The "defense" behind it refers to the caliber of its tank gun in millimeters. Like the advanced tanks of this era, the tank guns used by Xia Mifei were also high-firing guns. Because of the increased caliber of the tank gun, it uses a redesigned turret with a larger space, so it is also called the "34 under the head"
The Volunteers had never used tanks on the battlefield before, because of habit, so the British troops who were guarding the high ground only found out helplessly at this time that they had almost no anti-tank weapons, even if they had a large number of recoilless guns and rocket launchers in their hands, but they were all high-explosive shells, incendiary bombs and smoke bombs against the infantry.
So, eleven "big heads." In the absence of any effective interception. Unhurriedly driving in front of the soldiers, leading a large number of volunteer soldiers to charge towards the strong heights, seeing that the team was about to successfully attack the concave heights, at this time an enemy "Churchill" tank suddenly appeared at the corner of the road at the foot of the mountain, and listening to the roar of the motor, there seemed to be a steady stream of tanks driving up behind.
The British are in a hurry!
Seeing this, I couldn't help but laugh secretly, maybe they were beaten by the artillery bombardment and lost their minds, or they were panicked by the tanks of the Volunteer Army, otherwise they would never let this kind of slow and small firepower infantry tank take the lead, which would hardly play any role except for blocking the intersection.
The tankmen of the Volunteer Army must have always paid attention to this highway junction at the foot of the mother highland. At this time, as soon as the figure of the enemy tank was spotted, the turrets of three tanks immediately rotated towards the "Churchill" tank.
I couldn't help frowning when I saw this. Although the fighters are well-trained, they are ultimately inexperienced and do not know enough about the enemy's tanks.
Although the "Churchill" tank is very poor in all aspects, its biggest feature is that its protective "performance" is quite good, especially its frontal armor has reached a blade millimeter thickness, which greatly exceeds that of the German "Tiger" tank, and it is impossible for the 8-mm high-altitude "shooting" gun on the lower blue to penetrate the "Churchill" in the front!
Seeing this, I didn't scold myself, why didn't I think of telling my tank crews of the army all the data of the British tanks before the war? It's too late to regret it now,,
With a few roars, "The cannon is concave." The tankmen of the Volunteer Army really came from the "Hero Tank Regiment", and two of the three shells hit, which is already a high hit rate for a tank in advance. But alas, the result was exactly what I expected. After the smoke cleared, "Churchill" continued to drive forward slowly.
"Boom", I'm a little funny today. The "Churchill" tank also fired. And it can actually hit", but the millimeter cannon on the "Churchill" tank did not do anything at all against the armor of the lower 3 blades. Although the armor of the Xiabi tank is only 4 mm.
The armor thickness of the Xiabi tank is millimeter, although it is compared to the armor of the "Xiafei" light tank equipped by the U.S. military. How much, but the unique bevel shape of the lower Biqi is the real noise of its protective power, the first. Bevel armor is easy to bounce off after being hit by a shell. That is, the "ricochet" greatly reduces the power of the shell. Secondly, according to the triangular principle, a horizontally 'fired' shell, after hitting the beveled armor. The thickness of the steel plate that needs to be passed through is equivalent to the hypotenuse of the triangle, so the frontal armor of the tank with a thickness of 1 millimeter is equivalent to nano millimeters, and the side armor of the ferocious bevel is also equivalent to a millimeter.
Because of these two points, although the thickness of the concave armor is about the same as that of a light tank, the protection is comparable to that of a medium tank.
But it still could not be in front of the enemy's "Pershing." Compete with such a heavy tank as the "Captain of the Hundred". As if in response to me, the "Churchill" was followed by two more tanks. By the time of the fourth, I couldn't help but frown: The "Captain of Hundred" heavy tank appeared.
The enemy's tanks are more advanced than our army in terms of both numbers and equipment, so it is obvious that once the enemy tanks pour out from this junction, it will not only put our tank troops in a passive situation, but also cause the soldiers who are charging towards the blade heights to suffer a large number of casualties. Then. It would be impossible to take the high ground in half an hour.
It's too late, it's too soon! While I was secretly worried about the soldiers, our tank units also realized the danger. Soon, four tanks were divided into several directions and surrounded the junction.
"Pretty". I couldn't help but scream as I watched their reactions.
The fighters may have reacted instinctively. If you can't penetrate the enemy's frontal armor, go around to the side of the enemy's tank and fight! This is something that all tankers will strive for, and this trick is precisely "Churchill." The tank's dead 'hole'.
"Churchill. Tanks, which are called infantry tanks, are because they were developed to cover infantry and not to engage in tank battles. Covering the infantry, then the speed requirement is not high, but in tank battles. If you are not fast enough, you can only let your opponent go around your side or even behind you and attack the weak points of their armor.
The maximum travel distance in Shimohiro is Wu kilometers per hour. It was more than twice as fast as the "Churchill" tank's speed of 10,000 kilometers per hour, so when the first "Churchill" tank had just left the road, three Xiabi had already circled the "Churchill." of the side.
At this time, "Churchill" was faced with a dilemma, if they drove straight forward, they would put their side in front of the three cars, and if they turned to face the three cars. will put his other side in front of all the rest of the lower bi.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but feel relieved, and I almost saw the tank being hit and bursting into flames, blocking the path of all the tanks behind it. But just then, an unexpected thing happened.
The first "Churchill. Suddenly, he made a ninety-degree turn and stopped on the side of the road, and almost at the same time the tank hatch opened, and all the tankers inside abandoned the car and fled.
"Boom!" Of course, the tankmen of our army will not let go of this, and by chance, several tanks will be directed at the unmanned "Churchill." The cannonball was 'fired', and with a roar, the "Churchill" turned into a fireball. Of course. The soldiers would not easily abandon the British tankers who abandoned their vehicles and fled, and after a few machine gun shots, the fugitive British tanks fell to the ground.
Just when I was secretly wondering why the enemy tankmen were doing this, the second "Churchill." Slowly drove out of the intersection, and like the first one, drove the tank to the side of the road and then the crew took the road and fled.
When the third "Churchill" drove into the open without fear. Only then did I understand their intentions They were using exploding tanks to protect the flanks of other tanks, and now most of the fire of the three tanks that our army circled around their flanks was blocked by the two burning "Churchills", and the flames and smoke produced by their burning were also very effective in making those three tanks unable to aim accurately!
drip! Seeing this, I couldn't help but slap my fist fiercely, how could these British guys have such a tacit understanding! would sacrifice himself to open the way forward for the comrades behind, is this another manifestation of the British man's demeanor? Or is that how they usually practice?
I was also powerless now, so I had to watch as the first "Churchill" drove into the open field, followed by the three "Captains of the Centennial." Heavy tanks followed. Led by a nimble rotating turret, followed by a "boom". He turned a lower bi into a ball of fire.
This guy's tank gun is millimeter calibre. It was a millimeter greater than Xiabi, and the armor of Xiabi Nafeng's millimeter-thick armor was not like a toy in front of it.
Seeing that these terrifying big guys were about to drive from the highway into the open field, and seeing that they were about to enter the battlefield to conduct a *** against our tanks, at this time suddenly there was one, Min let out a rumbling motor sound, and it was 'chaotic' towards the "Captain of the Hundred" type of cannon, while rushing towards the intersection with full horsepower,