However, Wan Guoquan was not afraid, but the expression on his face was extremely excited, yes, excited. The Japanese army's Type 97 tank is indeed a very good performance tank, but Wan Guoquan knows very well that this kind of tank is not as powerful as the Japanese boast, compared with the current Soviet-made BT-7 light tank equipped with the armored division of the military region, the performance can only be regarded as equal, and now the Japanese army's armored force only has more than 30 combat vehicles, while his armored force has more than 290 tanks, and Wan Guoquan has a long trump card in his hand, which is the secret weapon that completely defeats the Japanese tank unit.

This is not Wan Guoquan's big words, in the battle of attacking the head of the pack, the Inner Mongolia Military Region captured nearly 300 tanks of various Japanese troops, although the vast majority of them are Wang Weizhou's mouth of the iron king eight, that is, the 94-type 95-type bean chariot, but there are also dozens of 97-type, as the only armored expert in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, Wan Guoquan knows the data of the 97-type chariot well, and even his own first car is a 97-type chariot, but he has just changed to a new one.

Don't look at the Type 97 tank, which is called a medium tank, in fact, the total combat weight is only 15 tons, which is only equivalent to the light tanks of the United States and the Soviet Union and other countries. The Type 97 medium tank generally had armor thickness of 25mm and a crew of 4 people. The commander and gunner were located in the turret, the driver was on the right side of the front of the hull, the machine gunner was on the left side of the driver, and the turret was located to the right of the longitudinal center of the hull. The main armament is a Type 97 57 mm short-barreled gun, which can fire grenades and armor-piercing shells, and carries 120 rounds (80 grenades and 40 armor-piercing rounds), and its armor-piercing shells can penetrate 50 mm thick steel armor at a distance of 1200 meters. The secondary armament is two Type 97 7.7 mm heavy machine guns with a capacity of 4,035 rounds, one of which is a front-mounted machine gun and the other is mounted on the rear of the turret to the right. The use of an air-cooled diesel engine as a power plant, an asymmetrical turret, a riveted armored hull and turret, a frame-shaped antenna of the radio station and a driving wheel in front are several major features of the 97 tank.

The main battle tank BT-7 of the armored division of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is a little worse than the Japanese army's Type 97 in terms of firepower and defense, and the BT-7 is equipped with a 45mm gun, and the 45mm 20K gun equipped with the BT-7 is the same type as the 45mm gun of the T-26. The 45mm gun is sufficient for a light tank of the same class in terms of lethality and penetration, however, the armor of the BT-7 tank is weak, with only 20mm in front and 15mm in the side and back. Therefore, it is difficult to be competent for the task of storming the enemy's position, and it is generally used to develop victory after a breakthrough. Compared with the two, it seems that the Japanese army's 97 type is slightly better, but the BT-7 has an obvious advantage, that is, the BT-7 is quite fast, with a maximum speed of 66km/h, which is quite fast even in the eighties and nineties. The Japanese Army's Type 97 has a maximum speed of only a pitiful 30 kilometers per hour, and its flexibility on the battlefield is far less than that of the BT-7, so in terms of combat effectiveness, the Japanese Army's Type 97 is slightly inferior.

However, whether it is BT-7 or the Japanese army's Type 97 can only make a move on the Asian battlefield, at this time the tank on the European battlefield has reached a period of rapid development, like this thin skin and big light tank has been gradually eliminated from the battlefield, the Soviet Union is facing more than 10,000 tanks like this, and the largest number is this BT series of tanks. Therefore, after reading Han Yunhua's conditions, Stalin sent these light tanks, which in his eyes no longer had much value, to the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

The duel between tanks and tanks was more brutal than that between cavalry, and the charioteers had little chance of surviving if they were attacked. Especially with the continuous development of tanks, the caliber of the main guns on the tank is getting larger and larger, and heavy tanks are easy to say, but the armor of light tanks with a thickness of more than ten mm basically cannot give much security to the charioteers.

The Japanese charioteers had basically anticipated their fate, and when the Chinese army's chariot army was overwhelming, they behaved wildly, and the Japanese tank troops did not flinch, and launched a charge towards the Chinese armored forces, believing that with the small body of the Type 94 and Type 95 bean chariots, even if the Chinese army wiped out their troops composed of more than 30 chariots with numbers, they would lose a large number of chariots. …,

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

The guns on the Japanese tanks were the first to fire, and dozens of armor-piercing shells rushed towards the Chinese tank troops with flames, and the momentum was very terrifying. Immediately afterwards a huge explosion sounded in the Chinese armored forces, and the rumbling sound was incessant.

Seeing this situation, the Japanese became excited and fanatical, shouting "Long live the Great Japanese Empire" and "Long live His Majesty the Emperor", from these dozens of chariots they saw the hope of victory, the Japanese 14th Division had fought in the Guannai, so the vast majority of the soldiers of the 14th Division had heard of the rules of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and Han Yunhua, this Chinese army did not accept prisoners, and all the defeated faced the outcome of only death, and the soldiers on the front line were breathless under the pressure of great fear.

However, the reveling Japanese infantry were soon stunned by what they saw, only to see that the Chinese chariot only paused slightly backwards after being attacked head-on, and did not break down and become paralyzed, or even exploded, as the Japanese imagined. Instead, they continued to drive forward as if nothing happened, and at the same time the flat muzzle of the cannon fired retaliatory shells.

After a few explosions, several Japanese tanks were directly disintegrated, and the power was far beyond everyone's expectations, and even Wan Guoquan, who was sitting in the car, was surprised.

"Hahaha, the little devil is unlucky for you this time, I didn't expect the Soviet T-34 to have such great power, Lao Tzu's 150 giant besieged more than 30 little Wang Ba, it's not easy to capture, *** accept this beautiful fireworks." Wan Guoquan shouted excitedly.

That's right, Wan Guoquan's secret weapon was a full 150 Soviet T-34 medium tanks. The T-34 tank was balanced in terms of armor, firepower and power. The body armor was 45 mm thick, which was comparable to the German Type 3 and 4 tanks, but the frontal armor had a 32-degree bevel and the sides had a 49-degree angle. In terms of firepower, the T-34 was armed with a 76-mm L/30.5 cannon L-11 from the beginning, and by 1941 it was replaced with a 76-mm F-34 L/42 cannon. The F-34 cannon could penetrate 69 mm of homogeneous steel at a distance of 500 meters and 61 mm at a distance of 1,000 meters, and none of the German tanks of the time could withstand such heavy fire. The F-34 cannon can also fire high-explosive and fragmentation rounds against soft targets, so it has the ability to support infantry attacks. A T-34 tank usually has 77 rounds in reserve, including 19 armor-piercing rounds, 53 high-explosive rounds, and 5 armor-piercing rounds. In addition, the turret of the T-34 is a cast hexagonal type, the thickness of the frontal armor is 60 mm, the sides are also 45 mm, and the bevel of the body extends all the way to the turret, so the T-34 is almost a right-angled triangle from the front. Bevel armor has two advantages: first, it is easy to bounce off after a shell hits (i.e., 'ricochet'), and its power is greatly reduced; Secondly, according to the triangular principle, after a horizontally fired shell hits the beveled armor, the thickness of the steel plate that needs to pass through it is equivalent to the hypotenuse of the triangle, so the frontal armor of the T-34 tank with a thickness of 45 mm and a bevel angle of 32 degrees is equivalent to 90 mm, and the side armor of the 49-degree bevel is equivalent to 54 mm. Such frontal armor directly led to the fact that in 1941 German tanks were equipped with no artillery gun that could not penetrate at a distance of 500 meters.

Historically, the T-34/76 first entered the war in Grodno, Belarus on June 22, 1941, and in a series of battles that followed, the Germans could not find a tank that could compete with it, which was the "T-34 crisis", which led to the obsolescence of a large number of German tanks and forced them to introduce newer tanks to cope with the situation. So using the T-34 against the Japanese Army's Type 97 is not an anti-aircraft gun to fight mosquitoes, making a big fuss.

The battle presented a one-sided posture, and in the face of the Chinese armored forces, which were absolutely superior in quantity and quality, the Japanese army's tank, which was not the most elite tank wing, was almost completely powerless to fight back and was blown up by the Wan Guoquan Division. There were no less than 33 Type 97 chariots, all of which turned into burning fires in just 40 minutes of fighting, and only Major General Inoue Taro on the infantry position felt cold. …,

At the beginning, Wan Guoquan did not plan to use the BT-7 to deal with the Japanese army's tank troops, because if the BT-7 is used, although it can also be victorious, it will have to suffer certain casualties, and 33 Type 97 tanks can at least cause the loss of 15 tanks to Wan Guoquan's armored division, which is what Wan Guoquan does not want to see, and the commander blows this T-34 like a god, and even calls him the "king of land warfare" in Asia, so Wan Guoquan wants to try the power of this guy.

The power is very strong, and the Japanese are very sad. The tank wing, which had been given high hopes by Major General Taro Inoue, was completely annihilated by the Chinese army almost without any achievements, and such a blow was fatal to the Japanese army at present. Originally, Major General Inoue Taro thought that although it was impossible for these 33 tanks to defeat the hundreds of tanks of the Chinese army, it should not be a problem to delay for more than an hour, and one hour was enough for reinforcements from Shuangliao City to arrive.

But the rapid destruction of the chariot force caught Major General Inoue off guard, and for 40 minutes, a full 20 minutes from the scheduled hour, which meant that in the next 20 minutes, his infantry had to use flesh and blood against the huge armored forces of the Chinese army.

Not long ago, the intelligence department reported that there was a large number of Chinese cavalry cruising around his position, and once the position was abandoned, his infantry would become the prey of the Chinese cavalry and armored troops.

Resistance was necessary, and Major General Inoue had prepared for the worst, and he ordered the brigade guard squadron to plant explosives in all warehouses, and in the event of a rout of the troops, then immediately blow up all the supplies, ammunition, and equipment.

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