398: Tanks are not a panacea
In this battle, tank No. 313 fired a total of 18 shells, destroyed nine houses, one machine gun bunker, and fired nearly 1,000 bullets from the coaxial machine gun, killing about 100 enemies. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
There is no doubt that the No. 313 tank once again became the pacesetter of the 103rd Division, the difference is that the previous pacesetters were obtained during training, but this time, they were obtained in actual combat.
The performance of the No. 313 tank made the top management of the 103rd Division see the gap between the armored forces and the ordinary infantry, and thus began to give the top brass confidence.
It can be said that the appearance of tanks instantly destroyed the enemy's will to resist, but it cannot be denied one point, that is, the combination between tanks and infantry, and the final effect achieved is by no means one plus one equals two.
The staff officers of the 103rd Armored Division made a preliminary summary based on the battle situation in the small town of Abatu Gaiyi, because it was the first battle of the armored forces, although everyone knew very well that the combat effectiveness of the armored troops was very strong, but how strong was it? But no one knows.
In this battle of Abatu Gaiyi, many staff officers of the division headquarters observed from a distance and recorded something from time to time, and in the end, after summarizing and organizing in many aspects, a relatively positive data was obtained.
In the face of a battalion of the enemy, the 103rd Panzer Division only needed to send one tank and two companies of infantry to defeat the opponent.
All it takes is two tanks, and a battalion of infantry, to have absolute certainty of annihilating the opposing side. This is a relatively conservative estimate, because it is still unrealistic to expect accurate data just from this battle.
Later, it is necessary to summarize the most appropriate distribution ratio through more battles, and only when they get accurate data can they effectively help the commander to assign tasks.
At least, if they had already had this result, they would not have sent three more tanks to participate in the attack this time, so that although the three tank crews could accumulate some experience, it would also waste the Empire's precious war resources, especially the already tight oil resources.
They must calculate the most suitable combat ratio and save every drop of fuel as much as possible, which is also a necessary way to maximize the combat effectiveness of the 103rd Division.
'Pay attention to the enemy's machine gun bunkers, use mortars or tank guns to attack them as much as possible, and make sure that the infantry is advancing after the machine gun bunkers are completely scrapped!' ’
Zhu Kuan's car group also received the latest report issued by the division headquarters, and this information was the battlefield situation reported by Zhu Kuan's car group, and the division headquarters gave a more stable solution after studying it.
To be honest, this scheme is not very good, it can only be said to be a move in desperation, of course, when the infantry encounters such a situation, it can also use snipers to take out the opponent's fire point.
But this is not safe, because after all, the sniper's energy is limited, a sniper cannot only stare at a machine gun, and he has more tasks to do on the battlefield.
Moreover, the sniper could not completely destroy the position, he could only delay the machine gun attack.
In later generations, in this case, there are more ways to choose, you can use mortars, grenades, and even individual rocket launchers to solve such a position, of course, there are also anti-materiel sniper rifles, which are good things that can directly damage the opponent's heavy machine gun, although it may not be able to bring much casualties to the enemy, but at least it can ensure that this heavy machine gun cannot be used normally.
Although the current Royal Army has begun to standardize and diversify its equipment, there are still too few options to choose from.
There is only one type of rifle, an improved version of the Mauser rifle, and there are not many improvements, that is, according to the size of the Chinese, the layout of the rifle has been changed to make it easier for the Chinese to operate this rifle, and its reference is the Zhongzheng rifle of later generations.
Later, the Type 03 automatic rifle was added, and the sniper rifle was also changed to an improved version of the Mauser rifle, which can fire special sniper bullets, and can also use ordinary rifle bullets when necessary, but the effect and wear of the gun chamber will be more serious.
The machine gun is only the Makqin heavy machine gun, Wang Sirui has been attaching more importance to the general-purpose machine gun, at present has just been successfully designed, after four years of experiments and improvements, it has finally reached the ideal requirements, but there is still a period of time before the troops are installed.
The advantages of the standardization of equipment are also obvious, and the logistical supply pressure on the troops has dropped sharply in an instant, and there will never be any more ammunition that cannot be used at all, as it was before.
In fact, it was quite helpless at the beginning, who let themselves not have enough production to support the use of the army? At the beginning, Wang Sirui also used the Japanese 30 rifle as much as possible to achieve a unified caliber as much as possible.
The 313 car crew replenished some fuel and ammunition on the spot, and the replenishment was not much, but taking advantage of the opportunity to replenish, no one would dislike wasting time, and no one said exactly when the next replenishment would be, in case it was embarrassing if it went to the battlefield and ran out of fuel or ammunition.
After replenishing the ammunition, the 313 vehicle crew followed the large force and killed directly to the rear of the small town of Abagaitui, which is the place where a large number of Russian troops have gathered according to legend.
The small town of Abagaitui is left to a battalion that follows up, which will be one of the logistical transit points for their troops, but the most important transit point is Manchuria, from where there is no need to cross the river to enter Russia, and trucks can enter and exit at will.
It was expected that the day after tomorrow, two divisions of the First Army would cross the river from here and take over these places, and the Panzer Division had no defensive task, the only task they received was to attack! Offensive! Attack again!
Feeling the constant bumps of the tank back and forth, Zhu Kuan frowned tightly, although he was not afraid of this kind of hardship, but there was no doubt that the terrain here was not suitable for tank combat at all.
From the very beginning of its entry into Russia, it was still a plain area, and tank corps could maximize their advantage.
But not long after coming out of Abagaitui, they entered the hilly area, although these mountains are not too high and not steep, but one after another small hills, but they block the view of the tank, which also makes the power of the tank never be able to exert itself.
If their trajectory is discovered and mastered by the enemy, then the enemy can mobilize more artillery and shoot covering at a certain area when they move to a certain area, as long as there are enough artillery, they will not be able to escape at all.
The hilly terrain can help the Russian army cover their artillery very well, if the Russian army also carries out mechanized adaptation, in this case, although the Chinese Empire may win in the end, but it is definitely a disastrous victory.
There are not many mountains that are too high here, and there are a few occasionally, most of which are small dirt slopes more than ten meters high, but just like that, it can also make people sick to death.
Fortunately, the Russians did not master radio technology, and their communications were still very backward, so they had to rely on cavalry to complete them. The armored division can rely on its strong mobility to get out of that dangerous area before the Russian artillery learns the news, and if you are lucky, you may be able to break through and kill the opponent directly.
Of course, these should actually be considered by the high-level, Zhu Kuan is just a tank commander, his task is to lead his team to kill more enemies, and he doesn't have to worry about the rest.
As for the possible disaster, the division headquarters had already expected it, but for now, they still did not have a good solution.
The only thing that can be done is to release the reconnaissance vehicle, relying on the armor of the reconnaissance vehicle, as well as its speed and concealment, to quickly advance the reconnaissance, hoping to be able to discover the enemy one step ahead, if there are planes now, then this problem can be solved, not to mention using the aircraft to kill the opponent's artillery positions, even the reconnaissance is more effective than the reconnaissance vehicle.
……
An hour later, the sound of distant explosions could be faintly heard, which was the sound of the exchange of fire between Chinese and Russian troops.
Judging from the sound, the scale of the exchange of fire between the two sides should not be small, a platoon accelerated the speed of advancement, and the infantry in order to save physical strength, sat on the body of the tank in the morning, but there are only five tanks, and there are only a few dozen people who can sit on the body of the tank.
Because of the need to accelerate, the infantry on the tank was driven down a bit, after all, if you fall off the tank later, the consequences will be very serious.
And the infantry seemed to know the dangers of doing so, so no one wanted to continue to sit on the tank, but all walked down. As for their trucks, they were all in the country now, and after they crossed the river, they went to Manchuria, where they were loaded with supplies and went straight to where the troops were.
'......Boom'
A violent explosion, a boar tank was directly pierced, the internal shells were detonated, the huge explosion impact, directly lifted the two-ton turret into the air, the originally majestic boar tank, instantly turned into a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron, the three tank crew members inside were also directly martyred, and even, even the corpse is difficult to preserve, and even whether it can be found is still a problem.
This shell came from a desperate Russian artilleryman, the torrent of steel brought them a huge panic, countless Russian soldiers, one after another, fell to the ground, a Russian artilleryman saw that the rifle and machine gun had no effect on the steel monster, and his heart was a little desperate.
But he did not give up, but chose to lay the muzzle flat, and when a tank was not paying attention, he directly pulled the gun rope, and a 105 mm caliber shell drilled into the side of the Boar tank and lifted the tank directly.
This was the first tank lost by the 103rd Panzer Division and the first tank destroyed in the world. (To be continued.) )