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Chapter 1607: Tank Duel

On the evening of 3 August, a powerful air formation of 30 airships landed one after another in the steppe outside Leninabad. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

An Jiajun's airships are all made of aluminum airship inner frame, and the outer layer is supplemented by silk skin, which is made of silk coated with anti-static waterproof and insulating coatings, which can effectively prevent spontaneous combustion. The power system uses four 1200 horsepower ducted engines, and the ducted propellers on both sides of the cabin can be deflected upward, down, left and right according to the pilot's operation, making the airship rise, descend and turn left and right, which is far more flexible and convenient than ordinary airships with rope-controlled tails.

In particular, the landing of the airship, under the genius design of Ding Molan, has made a fundamental breakthrough. Generally, the airship must rely on the airship to throw the rope when landing, rely on manpower or winch to tow, and then use the way of the mooring tower to land, so its use is limited by the site, and the airship using the vector ducted propeller will not be concerned by this aspect, because as long as the direction of the engine is adjusted, the descent of the airship can be realized, and when it lands to a certain height from the ground, the use of plates and ladders to realize the loading and unloading of various materials.

This airship with vector ducted propeller uses a 1,200 hp star engine manufactured by Syria Aviation Power Company, with a protective duct outside the propeller and a rotating shaft in the engine compartment, and its operating principle is exactly the same as that of the cross-shaped tail. Although they are all rope controlled, they have an additional mechanical locking structure.

In just a few months, Syria has carried out four updates to the airship, the fourth generation of the airship is 250 meters long, 130 meters wide, 80 meters high, with a total area of 1,000 square meters of cargo compartments, deducting the weight of the external cabin itself, the load can reach 100 tons. According to the calculations of the mathematicians of the Syrian Research Institute, this should be an important node of the airship load, beyond this node, the cost will increase significantly, which is not conducive to large-scale production.

On the vast grassland, the airships landed in turn, and when they were two meters above the ground, the airships stopped steadily, and then stretched out the alloy steel plate from the pod. The first to come out were cranes, crane trucks, excavators, and other engineering vehicles, followed by the officers and men of the missile brigade.

The officers and men disembarked from the boat and formed a team, and then they took the battalion and company units to get on the boat and tied the large wooden box carrying the F-2 missiles with a thick iron rope, and the crane stretched out its long grasping arm to grab the box and gently put it on the special vehicle with a load of 16 tons, which had been waiting for a long time.

The F-2 missile weighs 12 tons and is loaded with 1.5 tons of high-energy explosive warheads, and it needs to be transported with extreme care, otherwise it will cause an unpredictable tragedy.

It was already one o'clock in the evening when the 30 missiles were safely delivered to the designated launch site. The launch site was built by the engineering unit half a month ago, and it was originally just prepared, not wanting to come in handy soon.

During this period, Zhou Dingcheng, Wu Yanzi, Zhuang Zhenhua, and other generals of the Ninth Group Army went to visit the officers and men of the missile brigade.

Bai Siwen, commander of the missile brigade, was originally the commander of the artillery battalion of the 58th Brigade of the 16th Division, and later entered the non-commissioned officer school for artillery professional training. When Zhou Dingcheng was the deputy commander of the 16th Division, he often went to the grassroots level, so he was very familiar with Bai Siwen.

After three months of training by rocket experts in Syria, Bai Siwen, a missile brigade, is already very familiar with the operation process of missile launching, but this is the first time that the missile has been fired.

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In the early morning of 4 August, the armored cluster of the Central Asian theater of Soviet troops appeared on the outskirts of the city of Jizzak, east of the Latau Mountains.

When the Soviet tank cluster appeared on the horizon, it was seen that the artillery positions at the foot of the Latau Mountains suddenly burst into flames, and the earthquake trembled, and Li Jinlong's front concentrated all the artillery of the five artillery regiments and roared in unison, and the muzzles of 120-mm and 150-mm howitzers and 120-mm cannons spewed out angry fire, while rows of II-type rocket artillery shot out fire one after another, soaring into the sky, overwhelmingly falling towards the Soviet tank clusters.

For the Soviet tank cluster on the march, this sudden encounter was seriously ill-prepared. In order to advance quickly, the Soviet tank troops threw a large number of heavy howitzers and cannons almost all to the infantry behind, with only a small number of anti-tank guns, plus their own ammunition was insufficient, so they were completely suppressed by the artillery of the An Jiajun in this duel.

The Soviet infantry, which was transported by truck and followed the tank, did not have time to build a bunker, and was immediately blown up by this rain of bullets that split their heads and faces.

Although the artillery of the An Jia Army carried out a large-scale artillery bombardment and the accuracy of the artillery fire was insufficient, the heavy artillery fire still destroyed some of the Soviet tanks, ammunition transporters and trucks. The artillery fire fired by the Soviet tanks when they returned fire was not like the artillery of the Anjia Army, which had reconnaissance planes to guide in the air, and the destination was not clear, and it was difficult for the shells fired to threaten the artillery of the Anjia Army.

The Soviet tanks braved the hail of shells that fell like a hail, and they tried to close in on the artillery positions of the An Jiajun army, and through their own efforts, destroy the opponent.

It is a pity that when there was still a kilometer left in the position built by the An Jiajun, an anti-tank trench with a width of five meters and a depth of two meters appeared in front of him, such a width and depth were not at all surpassable by the T26, T28 and BT7 tanks of the Soviet army, and they could not advance or retreat for a while.

At this time, the 88-mm anti-aircraft guns placed on the front-line positions by the artillery of the Anjia Army had been leveled. The artillerymen aimed at the Soviet tanks, and the shelling was fierce, and after the tanks were shot, they burst into flames, and then exploded, and the more than 30 tanks that broke out in front were all scrapped in just a quarter of an hour.

The remaining tanks of the Soviet army hurriedly turned and fled, braving the shells falling from the sky, desperately fleeing towards the horizon.

Under the order of Li Jinlong, who had set up his headquarters halfway up the mountain, more than 200 tanks from the armored brigades directly under the front army and the armored regiments of various divisions launched a powerful tank attack on the tank units of the Soviet army from both sides of the anti-tank trenches.

The tank clusters of the An Jiajun gradually converged and rolled forward in a wedge-shaped formation on a wide front of 20 kilometers. At the top of the wedge are a small number of Leopard II medium tanks airlifted, flanked by Leopard I and Wolf tanks, and behind this layer of steel armor are a small number of I assault guns, Type I tank destroyers, and Lightning I anti-aircraft gun trucks.

The Anjia infantry sat in armored vehicles and followed the tank clusters, ready to disembark at any moment to seize the improvised blocking positions of the enemy who had been run over by the tanks.

Hundreds of tanks from west to east, like a herd of wild cattle running wildly on the steppe, and like a large number of Mongolian knights holding their sabers high, raised smoke and dust into the sky, emitted a deafening roar, and overwhelmingly pressed the Soviet army, this spectacular scene is the only tank collision since the last European war.

However, after all, the Soviets were a force with a fine tradition, and they may have been hungry or outwhelmed in firepower, but they still responded calmly.

With a command, the T26, T28 and BT7 tanks turned around and began to fight back fiercely, one after another lines of fire crossed, pieces of smoke and dust rose up, under the fierce blow of the T26 and BT7 tank 45mm and T28 tank 76.2mm main guns, the front armor of the Wolf and Leopard I tanks rushing in front could not resist at all, and some tanks were immediately thrown into the hell of fire and smoke.

Bombs were constantly detonated, like festive fireworks, flying from the tank's exits, and smoke rose from the turret, igniting a raging fire that reduced the tank to a pile of rubble.

However, the three types of tanks of the Anjia Army were not afraid, and while returning fire, they continued to rush forward at high speed, and the tanks of the Soviet Army were also turned into burning iron coffins under the fierce shelling of the Anjia Army's tank guns.

At the same time as the tank cluster assault attracted the firepower of the Soviet army, the Anjia Army No. 1 assault gun and the Type I tank destroyer following the tank began to shoot at the Soviet tanks, and the Soviet tanks were hit by 75mmL/43 guns and 75mmL/48 guns before they could react, according to the thickest armor of the Soviet tanks at 30mm, they could not resist the attack of such a powerful anti-tank weapon, and the tanks exploded and caught fire, emitting thick gunsmoke.

A large number of Soviet tank drivers escaped from the tanks and were immediately caught by the armored infantry who followed the tank assault. The average tank driver carried only a pistol, and how was an opponent of the armored infantry with a submachine gun and an automatic rifle, so he had to obediently raise his hand and become a prisoner of the Anjia army.

Finally, the Anjia Army tank cluster that was suddenly in front rushed to the front of the Soviet army's temporary position, but was surprised to find that it had broken into a minefield, the tracks of the tanks were blown off, and the tankers were shocked to the point that they were star-populated, and before they could wake up, the Soviet troops lying in ambush on both sides used 45mm, 57mm anti-tank guns and 85mm anti-aircraft guns to shoot, and the whistling armor-piercing shells tore through the side armor of the tank, and the soldiers in the tank cabin immediately splashed their brains.

However, the tank cluster of the An Jia Army still rushed forward desperately, and finally tore a five-kilometer-wide gap in the first line of defense of the Soviet army. The remaining Soviet tanks that fell in the rear had to come forward to meet them, and a large-scale tank duel broke out.

In the endless steppe, hundreds of tanks on both sides were entangled. After a round of salvo fire from the tanks of the Anjia Army, a dazzling fire flashed in an instant, and huge fireballs continued to rise, as if the whole world was burning, and the shells fired by the tanks of the Anjia Army rained down on the heads of the Soviet tanks, and the shortcomings of the weak armor protection of the Soviet tanks in this period were undoubtedly exposed, and in the whistling sound of the shells, the T26, T28 and BT7 tanks turned into columns of smoke and scrap metal.

The battle was fought from morning to night, from the rising of the sun until nightfall.

In this huge tank duel, the Soviet tanks had poor performance and insufficient ammunition, coupled with the Anjia Army's No. I assault guns and Type I tank destroyers played a huge role, the Soviet army concentrated the tank clusters of three armored divisions and wiped out the whole army.

The three Soviet infantry divisions that followed the tank cluster encountered fierce attacks from the tanks and armored infantry of the Anjia Army, and the "Lightning" I anti-aircraft artillery vehicle showed the true colors of a killing machine, reaping the lives of Soviet infantry and artillery at a rate of fire of up to 400 to 650 shells per minute.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, the remnants of the Soviet army, who had long been dizzy with hunger, chose to surrender.