Chapter 1464: Not an anti-tank trench
At about ten o'clock that night, the front of Baxian County.
In the dark of night, more than 400 tanks rumbled forward in several echelons, the whole earth seemed to be shaking, and behind the tanks was dense infantry, and behind the infantry were various types of artillery and rocket artillery pulled by cars.
At the same time, Jinghai on the right flank and Dingxing on the left flank also began to attack synchronously, and hundreds of thousands of troops rumbled forward on the entire defense line, such a spectacular large-scale night battle is rare in the entire history of World War II.
Especially in tank warfare, before the German night vision tanks appeared, it was impossible to see large-scale tank night battles, and Jiang Haoran's move undoubtedly created a precedent for tank warfare.
Historically, the German night tank only appeared at the end of World War II and was equipped on the Leopard G tank.
Of course, the current history has long been full of holes, in order to catch up with Jiang Haoran's footsteps, Germany's science and technology has also made a big leap, jet fighters, helicopters, Leopard tanks, and so on have all appeared on the scene, and the infrared night vision in front of us has also begun to be used in tanks and armored vehicles, but these high-tech technologies are impossible to equip the island army in the short term.
Moreover, before this battle, the Germans did not expect that the Chinese army would be equipped with night vision equipment, even more advanced and farther.
Under the heavy pressure, a large number of anti-tank mines planted by the island army were crushed, dense spurs and barbed wire were directly crushed into the soil, and the barrels of the straight spurs were lined up, and the barrels of the straight spurs were lined up, moving forward with a posture of crushing everything, and then forward.
Because the reconnaissance planes had already detected that the enemy had built an anti-tank trench tens or hundreds of meters in front, there were also a lot of bulldozers mixed in the middle of the tank phalanx, and the minesweeper tank also had the function of a bulldozer.
Of course, an anti-tank trench of tens or hundreds of meters does not refer to a single trench, but to a wide line of defense formed by countless criss-crossing wide and deep trenches.
In this era, the anti-tank trench is still very effective, in the most famous tank battle of World War II - the Kursk tank battle, the German army invested almost half of the country's armored forces, the Soviet army was not to be outdone, the tank army accounted for half of the country's tank army into it, but due to the initial defeat, resulting in the loss of more than half of the anti-tank weapons, the anti-tank trench began to show its might.
The Soviet army built anti-tank trenches in depth and staggered, so that the German armored forces were as dangerous as fighting urban warfare, and there was a danger of overturning the vehicle if they were not careful, which greatly curbed the speed of the German army's offensive.
Similarly, in order to contain the extremely large armored forces of the Soviet Union, the German army also dug numerous anti-tank trenches, which caused many T-34 tanks to suffer doom.
Because of this, the national army has made ample preparations.
In the dim moonlight, a dark strip was not far ahead, and the tanks were fearless, still rumbling forward.
The enemy on the defensive line still did not move, and everything revealed a hint of strangeness.
Not far behind the tank phalanx, a tracked command armored vehicle was parked on the side of the road, and Yang Changshun, commander of the 3rd Tank Division, was standing on the side of the road, looking ahead through night vision binoculars.
In the telescope, the minesweepers have almost overlapped the dark area, that is, they are close to the edge of the anti-tank trench, but it seems that they have stopped.
"Report to the division, the head of the first echelon Zhang wants to talk to you." A soldier jumped out of an armored vehicle with a walkie-talkie.
Yang Changshun took the walkie-talkie, put it to his lips and said calmly: "Say!" ”
On the walkie-talkie, a voice howled: "Division, there is no anti-tank trench ahead. ”
"Ah...... It's not a trench, what is that? Yang Chang said.
"It's just some triangular ash blocks, twenty or thirty centimeters long and half a meter wide, and they are densely packed along the entire defense line, stretching more than 100 meters wide."
"A triangular block of ash?" Yang Changshun frowned, and immediately yelled at the walkie-talkie: "Crush it!" ”
Dozens of tons of Panther tanks will still be afraid of these foreign ash blocks?
A few minutes later, the walkie-talkie sounded again, it was still the same voice just now, but the voice had changed a little, and it was all crying: "Master, no, the tank is stuck, and it can't move." ”
"What, it's stuck......" Yang Changshun began to pick his head, a few triangular pieces of ash can jam a tank weighing dozens of tons? This situation was unheard of, and he didn't know what to do for a while.
"Woohoo!"
Suddenly, without warning, countless streams of fire erupted from the enemy's defensive line, rushing straight to the forward positions of the national army.
"Boom, boom!"
The explosion was earth-shattering, countless tanks were wrapped in the skyrocketing fire, and the tanks stuck in the front row suddenly became live targets, and one by one was torn apart under the heavy shells of the enemy.
Although the Battle Leopard tank is equipped with the most advanced composite armor in the world today, it cannot withstand large-caliber guns and mortars.
"Artillery suppression, artillery suppression, hurry up!" Yang Changshun howled hoarsely.
Yang Changshun suddenly had a bad premonition, since the afternoon the aircraft and artillery have been bombarding the enemy's defense line in turn, but the enemy's artillery has been holding back, but at this time, such a dense heavy artillery group broke out, I don't know how they hid.
The artillery regiment of the national army soon began to return fire, and all types of artillery frantically smashed to the front line, and the enemy's firepower was sharply reduced, but it was limited to short-range small-caliber artillery, and long-range large-caliber artillery fire was not affected at all, and the dense rain of bullets immediately brought huge casualties to the national army.
The attack was blocked, and the commanders of the two infantry divisions also quickly drove to the front and joined Yang Changshun to discuss countermeasures.
The tank troops were in a dilemma, and the infantry began to brave artillery fire to go up to the front row of obstacles, and since the tracked vehicles could not cross the triangular ash block, they could only go up and move away from it, which was the result of discussions between several division commanders.
But soon, several division commanders found out that this plan did not work either.
There are still countless hidden bunkers hidden in the enemy's defense line, light and heavy machine guns, rifle bullets are flying everywhere, it is difficult for soldiers to get close to the front line, even with the help of tanks and tank wreckage to cover up, a person can not move a piece of ash at all, and the area in that area is full of mines, it is simply not to take care of the top and take care of the bottom.
If the infantry can't do it, then you can only use shells to clear the obstacles, the tanks and infantry are retreating, and the tank guns and Katyusha rocket artillery are all smashed up.
But it's still useless, unless the cannonball can hit the ash block directly, and it can be blown to pieces, otherwise the triangular object rolls over or has a sharp angle pointing upwards, the threat is still there, you can't expect every shell to hit a block of ash, even if it works, how many shells do you have to smash, and when?