Chapter 224: The Confrontation of Armored Clusters (Part II)
An Gang Wuchen did not expect that when he was fighting the idea of the Chinese army, the Chinese army was also fighting his idea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"General Dai, the Japanese armored forces have stopped, and it seems that they want to change their minds to counterattack our army, are our artillery units ready?" Wei Qidong immediately contacted General Dai Anlan.
"The artillery just arrived, just waiting for your news from General Wei, the little devil actually stopped, that's just right......" General Dai was excited.
"The coordinates of the enemy's position are XXX, XXX......" Wei Qidong immediately reported the location coordinate area where the Japanese armored forces stopped.
As soon as the artillery in the rear of the "received ......" received the coordinate instructions, they immediately began to calibrate and fire the elements.
Here, Angang Wuchen was still waiting for the good news with anticipation, but at this moment, suddenly, the sound of sighing came from far and near, and Angang Wuchen, who was very familiar with this sound, suddenly changed his face.
"Enemy artillery fire ......"
"Boom, boom, boom......"
Angang Wuchen's voice was directly drowned in the huge explosion, and the shells rained down directly, enveloping the surrounding area, Angang Wuchen and his armored troops bore the brunt, if it was a tank that was directly hit by the shells, whether it was the 94 type, the 95 type, the 89 type or the 97 type, there was basically no reason to survive.
And this shell with a caliber of at least 75 mm or more, even if it did not directly hit these armors, even if it fell near them, it was enough for them to drink a pot, and some light Type 94 was even directly overturned.
"Retreat, retreat......" Even if he didn't hear the direct order of Angang Wuchen, the rest of the remaining armor knew to escape, this artillery fire was too fierce, at least a hundred cannons fired a salvo.
The Japanese armored group was already a bit of a government order, but now it was suddenly hit by such a fierce artillery fire, and it was even more chaotic, and they could only flee for their lives.
The armor is not as good as the infantry, if the infantry is shelled, I am afraid that they will lie on the ground directly and do not move, or find a crater to hide in the first place, but the armor is not good, and stop still in the shelling area, isn't that looking for death?
Because it was night, even if there were flares to provide lighting support, the line of sight was still far worse than during the day, and with such a fierce bombardment further blocking the line of sight, some of the indiscriminate Japanese armor directly collided together, huddled together, and for a while due to poor communication, they were still inseparable.
One of the Japanese Type 89 was caught in the middle and couldn't stand it, and the commander angrily opened the turret and stretched out his head to prepare for command, but by coincidence, a shell fell directly and smashed his head into the tank at once.
With a "boom", the shell exploded directly inside the tank, and the entire tank was exploded into a ball of scrap metal on the spot, which was the first tank to be blown up from the inside by a shell, and it was also rare.
However, it was fortunate that the shell fell into the Type 89 tank, and if it had exploded on top of it, the impact of the explosion on the several tanks huddled around would have been even greater.
Under the intensive artillery bombardment, many Japanese armor directly lost their way, but they only had one purpose, that is, to try their best to escape from this concentrated bombing area as quickly as possible, and some armor even ran back in a panic.
"Stop the shelling...... Wei Qidong, who had been observing the effects of the shelling in the surrounding area, immediately reported to the artillery, and the artillery quickly stopped the shelling.
The Apache quickly descended, and then began to target the scattered fleeing Japanese armor.
"Baga, it's Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi, knock them down......" A Japanese captain had more than ten armor around him, and he was immediately angry when he saw that the armor not far away was being killed by Wei Qidong's helicopter without resistance.
At this time, the Japanese tanks and armor did not have anti-aircraft weapons on them, so they had to find anti-tank guns to try. However, their dozen tanks are not equipped with anti-tank guns, and the personnel carrying anti-tank guns have been exposed to the outside before, and they have been blown up by the artillery of the Chinese army.
Therefore, although this Japanese captain wanted to knock Wei Qidong and Tang Xinyi down, he could only stare dryly, and their dozen or so armored vehicles were gathered together, and it was so easy for such a big target to escape Wei Qidong's eyes not far away.
"They're coming......"
"Shoot ......"
"Boom Boom Boom ......" tank guns bombarded indiscriminately, and actually wanted to use tank guns to knock down the helicopter, Wei Qidong wanted to be stupid, and he would not lower the helicopter so low, if he was really killed by the tank guns, then he could only blame himself for being too stupid.
"Whoosh...... Wei Qidong naturally wouldn't make such a stupid mistake, and the rocket was launched directly.
......More than a dozen rockets hit more than a dozen targets, leaving no mercy behind.
When the Apache swept overhead, all that was left was a pile of burning and smoking scrap metal below.
"Brother Dong, the little devil reinforcements are coming......" At this moment, Tang Xinyi suddenly reminded.
"Understood, finish the work quickly......" Wei Qidong said.
Tang Xinyi sped up and flew directly to the front end of the Japanese army's escape armor, and then the fuselage reversed.
"Bang Bang Bang ......"
"Whoosh ......"
Wei Qidong familiarly switched weapons, sometimes using chain guns, sometimes using rockets, and pushed back in the opposite direction of the Japanese armored deserters, which was equivalent to retreating while fighting.
After pushing all the way through, the ammunition carried by the Apache was basically exhausted, and he could retire with success.
With the retreat of Apache, it also heralded the end of the largest armored cluster battle in human history, although the results of the battle have not yet been counted, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that the Chinese army has achieved a complete victory.
By daybreak, the results of the battle were roughly counted, and the Chinese army had destroyed 32 armored vehicles, wounded 73 vehicles, destroyed 351 enemy armored vehicles, damaged 228 vehicles, and captured 31 vehicles.
It can be seen from the results of the battle that the Japanese armored forces of this sortie suffered heavy losses, and the main force was almost annihilated, and the commander of the Chinese army was naturally very excited to achieve such a victory.
The German advisers who participated in the war with the army were also very shocked, although it was said that the lightning tactics of the Chinese army were born from their German army, but they were perfected a lot by Wei Qidong. And the most important point is that they really saw the huge role played by the armed helicopter in this armored battle, which Wei Qidong said.
You must know that there is only one armed helicopter dispatched by China this time, although it is relatively advanced, but if dozens or hundreds or even more are dispatched at one time, I am afraid that the armored cluster of the little devil is simply a joke. With an armored cluster coordinated by a helicopter group, it will be even more invincible.
This battle gave the German army a high reference value, and even Guderian, the father of German armor, was very interested, and he directly ordered all the German advisers involved in this armored battle to write a detailed report to him.
Guderian had been studying the way the armored group was fighting, and he felt that he could extract a lot of useful information from this battle in order to further strengthen his theory of blitzkrieg.