Volume 1: Inner Mongolia Fengyun] Chapter 567: The Fierce Collision Between the Tanks of the Eastern Crusade (2) (2nd Update)——

Chapter 567: The Fierce Clash Between the Tanks of the Eastern Crusade (2) (2nd Update)

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. The comparison between the two seems to be slightly better than the Japanese army's 97 type, but the BT-7 has an obvious advantage, that is, the BT-7 is quite fast, with a maximum speed of 66km per hour, which is quite fast even in the later generations. 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 have basically predicted their fate, when the chariot army of the squadron is overwhelming, they are crazy, the Japanese tank troops did not flinch, and launched a charge towards the Chinese armored forces, they believe that even if the small body of the 94 and 95 bean chariots alone is wiped out by their troops composed of more than 30 chariots, they will 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 were 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 fought in the pass, so the vast majority of the soldiers of the 14th Division have heard of the rules of the Inner Mongolia Military Region and Han Yunhua, this squadron does not accept prisoners, and all the defeated are faced with only death, and the soldiers on the front line are 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, and he didn't have the hand to accept this beautiful fireworks." Wan Guoquan shouted excitedly.

That's right, Wan Guoquan's secret weapon is the full 150 Soviet T-34 tanks, which are 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 L42 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... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］