Chapter 5 Methods of Fighting Tanks

Her eyes were dark and bright, her smile was as curved as a crescent moon, her long eyelashes, her nose was straight, her face was slightly dimpleted, and her voice was crisp and pleasant.

The look of surprise on the face of the head of the Tian regiment flashed, and he also heard that the name was a bit nonsense, and it was estimated that people didn't want to report their real names. He didn't care, stretched out his hand and pointed to the sandbag next to him, and said with a smile: "Miss Hu, please take a seat." ”

Shen Chen was not polite, anyway, she was not a soldier of Captain Tian, so she sat down generously and said first: "Captain Tian, let me fight Little Japan with you!" Fighting face-to-face, my strength is not enough; Playing cold guns and sniping, my marksmanship is okay. ”

"It's not just okay, I think it's even better than the top marksman in the army!" Commander Tian stretched out his thumb again, paused, and said, "But fighting is the responsibility of soldiers, you are a civilian, and your relatives at home are still waiting for you to go back!" ”

Shen Chen's mind spun sharply, he instantly thought of his words, sighed, and said with a bitter face: "I have no relatives." I fled from the Northeast, and I was the only one left. I hate little Japan, and I fought with them in the Northeast, and the hatred is as deep as the sea! If Commander Tian doesn't agree, then I'll carry a gun and fight myself. ”

"That's it-" Commander Tian couldn't judge whether what the girl in front of him said was true or false, it could be seen that Shen Chen stood up and was about to leave, and hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop him: "No matter how good your marksmanship is, how can one person fight a group of Japanese soldiers?" Either you stay first, or if your family comes looking for you, you'll have to go back. ”

"Okay, I promise." Shen Chen smiled and nodded vigorously.

Commander Tian stood up and looked around, and said: "The Japanese tanks and artillery are powerful, you should still be like just now, don't stay on the main position, just shoot with a cold gun." As for me, send someone to protect you. ”

"Don't use it?" Shen Chen had long realized that there were constantly curious and surprised eyes around him, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly, woman, what a trick!

"I'm the commander here, and you've got to listen to me." Captain Tian was not ready to be accommodating, so he beckoned a guard and introduced: "Zhao Youcai, he is my guard, he has good marksmanship, and he is also proficient in national arts; This is Miss Hu, and you are responsible for protecting her. ”

"Yes!" Zhao Youcai is tall and strong, but also neat, standing upright and saluting, obeying orders without a word.

Shen Chen nodded helplessly, smiled at Zhao Youcai, and said hello.

"Get a set of military uniforms for Miss Hu, so that you don't have to mix up with the enemy and you can't tell the difference." Head Tian looked at Shen Chen again and instructed Zhao Youcai, "Send someone to the front of the position to collect the bullets of the three or eight guns for Miss Hu." ”

Well thought out! Shen Chen smiled gratefully and turned to leave the shelter of the command headquarters. Walking behind the sandbag bunker with his waist bent, Shen Chen attracted countless concerned and curious glances. However, she was attracted by a soldier who was tying a cluster grenade, ignoring the gaze of a group of men.

Commander Tian had just finished arranging several officers, and when he looked up, he found that Shen Chen had entered the shelter again.

"Regiment commander, I remembered one, no, a few ways to fight tanks." Shen Chen said eagerly: "In the Northeast, I have seen others fight devils like this, and it still has some effect. ”

Captain Tian looked at Shen Chen, guessing her origin and the reason why her marksmanship was like a god. After a while, he put aside some cranky thoughts and stretched out his hand, "Come, sit down and talk slowly." ”

Despite all kinds of speculations, but at the moment of the great enemy, and with Shen Chen's amazing performance, Head Tian couldn't take care of it anymore.

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At the beginning of the Battle of Songhu on August 13, the Chinese* army had an advantage in terms of strength, but the inferior Japanese army relied on strong fortifications to resist stubbornly, so that the Chinese* army, which lacked heavy weapons to attack the fortifications, was unable to complete a major breakthrough.

On 15 August, Japan officially announced the formation of the Shanghai Dispatch Army, with Senior General Matsui Ishine as the commander and two divisions leading the troops to Shanghai for reinforcements. Upon hearing the news, the Chinese side also continued to increase its troops, and the fierce fighting between the two sides became more intense.

On 9 September, the Japanese army launched a powerful offensive against the Chinese* army along the Jungong Road, the Songhu Highway, and the line of Yuepu and Luodian, and the two armies fought to the death.

Although the Kuomintang also used tanks and chariots in the battle, the officers and men did not have the experience of infantry and tank cooperation, and the Japanese army had a lot of anti-armor weapons, so the Kuomintang suffered great losses, but the effect was not obvious.

On the other hand, for the Japanese army's tank and tank offensive, the national * army did not have too many means of restraint. With the exception of a very small number of anti-aircraft guns, most of them can only be destroyed by the flesh and blood of soldiers carrying cluster grenades or explosive packs.

Although Shen Chen's mind from the afterlife could not build a bazooka immediately, some simple methods could still be figured out.

In the Spanish Civil War, the Spaniards could not come up with a countermeasure against the German tanks, and in desperation they had to fight the tanks. People lie in trenches or trenches, and when the tank is about to drive over them, they suddenly jump up, climb to the top of the tank, shoot inside the vehicle through the observation hole, or pry open the crew hatch cover or artillery firing hole with a crowbar, and shoot inside. Some fighters poured gasoline into the engine and set it on fire.

In this hand-to-hand battle, the Spaniards invented an extremely simple anti-tank weapon called the bottle bomb. Almost everyone can do it, every family can make it, and this weapon posed a threat to German tanks to some extent.

As soon as you see an enemy tank coming, shake the bottle vigorously and throw it at the tank. After the bottle smashed into the tank, the yellow phosphorus that flowed out burned in the air immediately, and the flames were fierce. This weapon itself cannot destroy the tank, but it often causes great damage to the tank.

The burning smoke would soon enter the crew compartment of the tank, first causing panic among the pilots, who, for fear of an explosion, would always quickly stop the operation and climb out of the hatch. At this time, it is easy to be killed by anti-tank men with guns; If the tank is using a gasoline engine and the fuel tank is outside, the bottle bomb can often ignite the tank tank, and then cause the tank to burn, lose fuel and stop moving.

It was not until the Soviet-Finnish War in 1939 that the bottle bomb was carried forward by the Finns and gave it the official name "Molotov cocktail". During the ongoing war, the Finnish military mass-produced Molotov cocktails, which were thrown by hand or with stone throwers to entertain Soviet tanks.

But the time when the "Molotov cocktail" really became famous in the First World War should be in the Soviet-German war. Faced with a flood of German tanks, the Soviets thought of this simple and terrible weapon.