In this regard, Zhang Chi convened a meeting within the expeditionary force. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As soon as the meeting began, Zhang Chi sent the materials and pictures of the "Tiger" tank that he had received from Montgomery.

As Chinese soldiers, they always thought that the Yankees' tanks were the most advanced, but they did not expect that when they looked at this "Tiger" tank now, it was simply a heaven and an underground.

"General!" Wu Min, the commander of the tank regiment, asked: "These materials ...... Is that we will soon have to deal with such tanks? ”

"Yes!" Zhang Chi nodded.

Zhang Chi's answer quickly caused a stir in the meeting.

"General!" FELLOW VILLAGERS EVEN TOOK THE DOCUMENT AND ASKED: "THESE DATA CAN'T BE TRUE, THE FRONTAL ARMOR IS 102MM, AND THE ARTILLERY IS 88MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS?" ”

"Of course it's true!" Zhang Chi replied angrily: "Otherwise, why should I send them to you?" ”

The officers were speechless.

They actually knew it was true early on, and they just hoped it wasn't.

"General!" Of course, the most concerned about this issue was Wu Min, the commander of the tank regiment, who frowned and said while looking at the data on the documents: "If these data are true, then how should we fight this battle?" The tank in our hands is no match for such a tank at all! ”

Wu Min was right, the Germans mounted the 88MM anti-aircraft gun on the tank, and everyone knows the power of the 88MM anti-aircraft gun, which can easily punch the thick frontal armor of the "Matilda" out of a hole the size of a basketball at a distance of 1,500 meters, not to mention the "Sherman" tank with thinner armor.

AT THE SAME TIME, ITS ARMOR IS 102MM THICK, AND EVEN THE SIDE AND EVEN THE REAR ARMOR IS 82MM...... IN OTHER WORDS, EVEN THE REAR ARMOR WAS MUCH THICKER THAN THE FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE "SHERMAN" TANK, 76.2MM, AND THE "SHERMAN" COULD NOT DESTROY IT EVEN IF IT WENT AROUND ITS REAR.

Zhang Chi thought for a while, and said: "First of all, the enemy will not always be as easy to fight as the Italian army, and the battlefield will not always be as lucky as when we fought the German 21st Panzer Division when we were in Mahairama. ”

There was silence in the conference room for a moment, and the faces of the officers unconsciously showed some shame.

This may be the after-effect of using American-style equipment...... Since the expeditionary force was trained in Burma, it has had an absolute advantage in equipment, whether it is light weapons or heavy weapons.

After several years of fighting in this advantage, from Burma to the Pacific islands, and then even back to the Northeast, the equipment can be said to be getting better and better, but the Japanese army has not changed much, and even weakened due to the deepening of the war and the lack of resources.

As a result, the officers and men of the expedition gradually became accustomed to fighting wars in which they were superior in equipment, and now they were a little uncomfortable when they heard that the Germans had tanks that were more advanced than the "Sherman".

"yes!" Staff Officer Liang said next to him: "Fighting this thing, it doesn't mean that we can always maintain our equipment superiority, if only such a war can be fought, then little Japan should have been crippled by the Yankees a long time ago?" But the result? What we see in the Pacific theater is often that the Yankees can't do anything about small Japan, and in the end we still have to go! ”

"That's right!" The fellow villager nodded and said, "Brothers, weren't we also in a weak position in equipment when we faced Little Japan?" Aren't we playing well at home? ”

"But...... Can it really be the same? One of the officers whispered, "We're dealing with a guy as big as the Germans......"

"What are you talking about?!" Zhang Chi interrupted him and said: "If you want me to say, the war we fought in the past was bitter, at that time the devil had a tank, we didn't have a plane, and we didn't have a plane, although those planes and tanks of the devil are nothing now, but at that time, we used bayonets and flesh and blood to fight with the devil." Now we still have tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles......"

Zhang Chi had never experienced that kind of battle, and even if he did, it was in the early days of the Burma War. The main reason why he said this was to let the officers and men recall their combat experiences when they were weakly equipped in the past and to arouse their bloody nature.

"That's it!" Staff Officer Liang nodded and said: "We have endured all those hardships and tiredness, today we can say that we have everything, can we still be afraid that the German devil will not succeed?" ”

"That's right!" The officers said:

"If we can fight, we will fight, if we can't fight, we will fight!"

"Even if you gnaw with your teeth, you have to gnaw off the German devil's Rausch tank!"

"What are a few tanks? I don't believe they can go up to the sky! ”

……

Looking at the appearance of the officers, Zhang Chi couldn't help but nod with satisfaction.

He was most worried that the appearance of the "Tiger" tank would affect the morale and confidence of the officers and men, and now it seems that at least he does not have to worry too much about this issue for the time being.

"Secondly!" After a pause, Zhang Chi continued to return to the topic: "The Germans do not have many such tanks, according to uncertain intelligence, there are probably five, and I believe that Germany is likely to dispatch at night and choose to attack in the early morning!" ”

"General!" Wu Min couldn't help but ask suspiciously, "What are you guessing based on?" ”

"The reason is simple!" Zhang Chi casually picked up the photo of the "Tiger" tank and shook it, and said: "This thing weighs a total of 57 tons, which is nearly twice the weight of the 'Sherman' tank......

Wu Min couldn't help but let out an "oh" when he heard this.

The North African battlefield is a desert terrain, and the desert is characterized by extremely high temperatures during the day and extremely low temperatures at night, and sometimes even reaches 37 degrees Celsius during the day and below zero at night.

This is also the reason why the "Matilda" tank cannot adapt to the North African battlefield...... "Matilda" tank also has the problem of engine overheating, they drive in the high temperature during the day, and often have to stop to cool down after advancing more than ten kilometers, otherwise it will break down or even catch fire.

If the same problem exists with the "Tiger" tank, it will naturally choose to act or fight when the temperature is low at night, otherwise it will undoubtedly affect its combat effectiveness to a considerable extent and even cause many uncertain dangers.

(Note: The gasoline engine used in the Tiger tank was determined by the lack of rare metals in Germany to make diesel engines and the low production of diesel fuel, which made the Tiger tank more susceptible to fire due to the engine overheating, just like the "Sherman" was codenamed "Langson Lighter".) ）