At the head of the line was the King Tiger tank, which appeared at the end of the Second World War, and was a heavy tank of the German army.

However, at that time, this tank was almost untimely, and it appeared at a time when World War II was nearing its end, Germany was defeated under the blows of the Allies, there was a lack of raw materials, and the factories that produced the King Tiger tank were frequently bombed by the Allies.

The First Armored Division is equipped with a tank company's King Tiger tanks, these tanks are naturally exchanged by Ye Feng from the "Nuwa" department at a high price, Ye Feng only exchanged a total of thirty vehicles, the two armored divisions are each equipped with a tank company's King Tiger tanks, and the remaining few are currently in the tank factory.

These tanks will be used as samples, disassembled, mapped, and copied. In addition to these King Tiger tanks, the factory also has several T-34 tanks and several Tiger tanks, which are naturally also used as samples for easy imitation.

Ye Feng believes that the M4 is cost-effective and reliable, and there may be a certain gap compared with the famous T-34 and Tiger tanks, but the opponent of the new 6th Army is Little Japan, and the M4 Sherman tank is completely sufficient for the Little Japanese Douding tank.

The two large armored divisions, equipped with a small number of King Tiger heavy tanks, were solely for the unexpected. Like this attack on Jiaxing City, this King Tiger heavy tank company of the 1st Armored Division played an important role.

The highway to Jiaxing, near Jiaxing, is controlled by the little devil Botian detachment. In order to guard against the new 6th Army, on both sides of this half of the road, Little Japan built several permanent, solid cement fortifications and deployed a lot of anti-Japanese artillery.

After confronting the Hata detachment for so long, the 3rd Infantry Division found out the situation of the Hata detachment clearly, in order to reduce the losses of the M4 Sherman tank. In order to quickly break through these fortifications of Little Japan, in order to break through to the city of Jiaxing as quickly as possible, this King Tiger tank company acted as a pioneer.

King Tiger Tank has rough skin and thick meat. The firepower is fierce, and it is fully capable of taking on this heavy responsibility.

As a famous heavy tank, its heavy armor and powerful artillery made the Allies unmatched on the battlefield in later generations. And the concept of inclined armor is adopted. Super protection.

Armor: Body: Upper Armor: 150mm/50°Lower Armor: 100mm/50°, Spherical Machine Gun Mounts are 100mm Spherical, Side and Rear Armor 80mm/21°, Bottom and Top Armor 28mm.

In addition to its super armor ability, its firepower is also extremely ferocious, and the King Tiger tank uses a 56 times caliber 88mm tank gun, with a long barrel, which looks very visually impactful.

This 56x caliber 88mm tank gun was the most penetrating of any German tank gun equipped with tanks during World War II. With a length of 6.3 meters, it can directly penetrate the main armor of the American-made M4 Sherman tank at a distance of 2,000 meters or more. The types of ammunition used included armor-piercing, armor-piercing and grenades, and not only the "Sherman" tank, it could penetrate almost all models of Allied tanks in World War II.

The King Tiger Tank took the lead, driving slowly along the highway, the speed is not fast, and the poor mobility is the disadvantage of the King Tiger Tank, however, this does not affect the implementation of this mission, Tongxiang County is not far from Jiaxing, even if it is a little slower, it is not much slower in time.

These 11 King Tiger tanks went out of the control area of the 3rd Infantry Division along the road, and two or three kilometers further forward was the first line of defense of the little devils.

On the road ahead, as well as on both sides of the road, the little devils built a lot of cement fortifications, and some mines were deployed on the road, the purpose of which was to defend against the attack of the new 6th Army.

Just the first line of defense, the little devil deployed twelve 37mm anti-aircraft guns, and built a solid cement bunker for these anti-aircraft guns, all the anti-aircraft guns of this gate are protected by these cement bunkers, and this road, as well as the area around the highway, are all within the range of these anti-aircraft guns.

In addition to these twelve battle defense guns, there are also a lot of cement fortresses, each cement fortress seems to be not big, only three or five shooting holes, but there are a lot of these fortresses, just the first line of defense there are dozens, these cement fortresses are deployed a large number of light and heavy machine guns, each such cement fortress has at least one machine gun.

In addition to the cement forts, the imps also built other cement fortifications, such as trenches, ring fortifications, bunkers, etc., all of which were cement structures or reinforced with cement.

It seems that the little devils have invested enough money, such a strong fortification, in exchange for any other Chinese army, don't want to break through these fortifications.

As the mysterious new 6th Army gradually got some understanding, Okamura Ninji really invested in it, and the Japanese divisions in Suzhou, Wuxi, Jiaxing, Shanghai and other areas were generally equipped with a large number of anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft machine guns, and a large number of battle defense runs. Even if they were built, most of them were solid, permanent cement fortifications.

This is a plain terrain, the terrain is flat, the field of vision is wide, the highway is not far away, and there are even some small rivers, and there are many water networks.

Such terrain is not a good terrain for armored forces, but whether it is a Sherman tank or the rest of the armored vehicles, there is a certain depth of wading, a shallow river, everyone will choose to wade through, a deeper river network, everyone will go around, or build a bridge to pass.

Both armored divisions have a boat bridge battalion, which is specially set up for the terrain of the water network in the south, and the soldiers of the boat bridge battalion can quickly add pontoon bridges for everyone to pass through the larger rivers.

The terrain was flat, the field of vision was wide, and the little devils stationed there saw the magnificent and murderous 1st Armored Division from a distance.

A devil lieutenant with a telescope saw so many tanks driving towards him, and immediately ran to the side of a devil Shaozo, and reported loudly: "Your Excellency Shaozo." A large number of tanks of the new 6th Army are coming, you look over there. ”

The little devil Shaozo stood in a slightly larger cement fortress, which could be the headquarters of the little devil's first line of defense. The devil Shaozo passed through the shooting hole, held the binoculars, and looked at the tank troops in front of him, and his face actually showed a trace of excitement, without the slightest fear.

"Yo Si! The tank group of the newly formed 6th Army finally came over and told the warriors to fight immediately. I'm going to wreck these tanks. ”

On the road, a wide anti-tank trench cut off the road, this deep trench. Stretching towards both sides of the road, the distance seemed long, and with this trench, the fighters' tanks could not get close to the little devils.

No wonder the little devil Shaozo is full of confidence. It turned out to be well prepared. The new 6th Army of Zhilu Dao had a large number of tanks, and the little devils not only built strong cement fortresses and deployed anti-tank artillery, but also dug anti-tank trenches so that the soldiers' tanks could not approach.

On the road, the little devils also laid a lot of mines, which could work in case the fighters' tanks crossed this trench.

King Tiger tanks. Slowly driving over, getting closer and closer to the little devils. Behind these King Tiger tanks, a large number of M4 Sherman tanks followed.

Closer to the little devil's defense line, a lot of King Tiger tanks got off the road, anyway, the terrain in this area is flat, driving in the open space on both sides of the highway is just a little slower, or disturbed by the river network, there is no big river near the first line of defense of the little devil, and the deepest river network is less than a meter deep.

A lot of M4 tanks also got off the road, and many M4 tanks directly ignored a small river not far from the road, waded through the water, and drove towards the little devils.

Less than a hundred meters away from the little devils, an anti-tank trench several meters wide blocked the way of the King Tiger tanks, and the King Tiger tanks stopped, slowly turned the muzzles, and the thick muzzles were aimed at the cement bunkers built by the little devils not far away.

The fighters haven't fired yet, they haven't aimed at the little devils for shelling, and the little devils' battle defense guns have opened fire.

In the cement bunkers of the anti-aircraft guns, the little devils were overjoyed to see the tanks parked in front of the anti-tank trenches, a distance of more than 100 meters from them.

The devil Shaozo is the same, seeing that the anti-tank trenches he dug successfully blocked the tanks of the new 6th Army, and the tanks became the live targets of his own anti-aircraft guns, he couldn't help but say happily: "Yo Xi!" ”

Next to the devil Shaozuo, there was a devil captain with a somewhat dignified face, and the devil captain seemed to find that these tanks in front of the anti-tank trench seemed to be of different models, and they seemed to be much larger than the tanks following behind, and the barrels were also much thicker.

The tanks in the back, Captain Devil Zhilu said that they were the standard tanks of the new 6th Army, and the cement fortifications on his defensive positions were designed and built for these tanks. After dealing with the new 6th Army for so long, the small Japanese side has a preliminary understanding of some parameters about the M4 tank.

Without waiting for the devil captain to remind his young master, one of the little devil's battle defense guns took the lead in firing, and in the rest of the cement fortresses and the rest of the fortifications, a large number of little devils saw their battle defense guns firing one after another, and they were all proud.

A devil second lieutenant even drew his command knife, as if he had been beaten with chicken blood, and shouted excitedly: "The tanks of the Chinese army are dead and dripping." ”

As one 37-millimeter anti-aircraft gun opened fire, these Tiger tanks were shot one after another, and seeing that their shells hit the target one after another, a large number of little devils shouted excitedly, and some low-ranking officers of the little devils shouted even more frantically.

However, an unbelievable scene happened to the little devils!

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, the sound of artillery stopped, these King Tiger tanks that were shot did not seem to be destroyed, and there seemed to be no damage at all, and many little devils who saw this scene opened their mouths in surprise, and the words of the crazy shouting in their throats were instantly stuck in the throat, as if they were grabbed by a pair of big hands.

This is only a long distance, more than 100 meters, and the farthest is only about 200 meters, such a short distance, these battles and defenses seem to have no effect.

"Yaga, all use armor-piercing bullets!!"

The devil Shaozuo held his command knife, and shouted angrily, in the shelling just now, most of the battle defense guns did not use armor-piercing shells, but armor-piercing shells or high-explosive shells, it may be that these little devils think that it is enough to use such shells in such a short distance.

Most of these little devils' cognition of the new 6th Army tanks is also based on their understanding of their own tanks, and most of the current tanks in small Japan have a thickness of 6-18 mm, and these little devils believe that even if the armor thickness of the tanks of the new 6th Army is a little thicker, it should be limited in thickness compared to their own tanks.

It is no wonder that little Japan has never captured even a tank of the new 6th Army, and some middle and senior officers have a very limited understanding of the M4 tank, which can only be said to be a preliminary understanding, not to mention the new King Tiger tank.

Seeing that their artillery bombardment basically had no effect, these little devils who controlled the battle defense artillery hurriedly replaced them with tungsten core armor-piercing shells, and the battle defense guns were immediately ready to fire again.

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Today's two watches, the first one is sent. (To be continued......)