Chapter 17, Anti-tank guns of the Japanese army

Early the next morning, the atmosphere on both sides reached its peak, and all the heavy artillery on Lu Qiang's side was pulled out, B-4 heavy hammers, Type 66 howitzers, and Type 59-1 cannons, raising the barrels, facing the direction of the Japanese army, and the Japanese side was not willing to be weak, and the large caliber or all were pulled out.

There are Meiji 45-year 150mm heavy cannon, 89-type 150mm field cannon, 96-type 150mm heavy cannon, Meiji 38-year 150mm field howitzer, Taisho 4-year 150mm field howitzer, 96 type 150mm howitzer. The cannons are complicated, but they are all 15cm, but they are not as strong as Lu in terms of range. In particular, many of them are antiques.

There is no way, the Navy always competes with them for share, there is no resource to research new guns, and these old antique guns have to be re-produced. Although the style is old and antique, but these cannons have beaten the Chinese army to a great extent, and it is miserable.

"Boom!" The first 203.2mm shell was pushed out of the barrel by the impact of the primer explosion, and flew towards the Japanese position, flying into the sky, with a huge recoil, the pushed gun pushed back, and the hoe hit the ground deadly. The artillery of all kinds that followed opened fire in unison, and the sound of artillery firing on the artillery positions was deafening, and shells of various calibers were overwhelming.

In the air like a meteor, the extremely fast flying cannonball smashed on the Japanese position, bursting out with dazzling light, huge energy, 203.3mm shell charge of 100 kilograms, one down, slightly softer ground, is a huge crater with a diameter of twenty or thirty meters. Shells rained down and swept across the Japanese positions.

Many Japanese soldiers who had not yet reacted were completely blown to slag. Like a wooden sampan in 12 typhoons, there is not even slag in the tearing. The pillboxes were directly pierced by artillery. One by one, they were taken off and taken on a dirt plane.

B-4 lives up to the title of Stalin's hammer. In the face of its shells, any fortification is scum, even if the Japanese dug the air-raid shelter five or six meters below and destroyed it with one shot. Although its accuracy is a little worse, it doesn't matter, the accuracy is insufficient, the number is to make up for it, and the ground is washed directly with shells.

The artillery fire engulfed everything on the Japanese position, and the fire did not really start. Under this artillery fire, the Japanese army lost at least one and a half wings of troops, and the Japanese artillery team in the rear was helpless, because the opponent's artillery was not within its range, but they did not dare to step forward, for fear of being directly blown up by the other party, after all, the sky was still the other party's.

The aggrieved Japanese endured half an hour of artillery fire, and the sound of the artillery finally stopped, but the small-caliber mortar 105 howitzer did not stop.

59 tanks were on top in front. The infantry followed and killed the Japanese position, but there was no resistance along the way, because the Japanese were all killed in the position. Those who are alive have long since run out of their positions, leaving behind a messy, lifeless abandoned position.

Crossing the Japanese front-line positions destroyed by artillery. After entering the second-line position, it was blocked by the Japanese army.

Gunfire erupted. Bullets flew like demons flying in the chaos. If you're not careful, you'll be killed by bullets that come from nowhere.

The 59 with bullets on their shoulders slowly moved forward, this time they had to use the infantry as cover, and they couldn't run fast to shovel into the Japanese position.

"Jingle Bell!" Bullets hit the armor of the tank, and the bullets flew everywhere, so you have to pay attention to these stray bullets.

"Da Da Da ~~" A soldier who was following the tank and eating exhaust suddenly leaned out half of his body, and swept the Japanese side, the muzzle of the gun jumped straight out, and a large number of bullet casings were jumped out. But before he could sweep for a few seconds, he was shot in the head by a 6.5mm bullet from the Japanese army, and the first casualty appeared.

The coaxial machine gun of 59 swept at the Japanese army, suppressed the Japanese army, and the 100mm gun did not stop, shelling the Japanese army.

"Hurry up, pull the cannon over." A Japanese lieutenant commanded several Japanese soldiers to push a 100mm gun with a 75 times diameter barrel onto a gun position. The location is very good, and the concealment coefficient is quite high. The 100mm barrel was aimed straight at the oncoming 59, and the distance between the two sides was about 600 meters.

A hood-cap-piercing shell was stuffed into the chamber, and with a clatter, the bolt was locked, and the gunner aimed at the frontal armor on the head of a 59.

"Boom!" The anti-tank gun opened fire violently, and the 75 times diameter barrel allowed the gunpowder to burn sufficiently, and the shells flew towards the 59 at maximum speed.

0.1 seconds later, with a bang, the front of a 59 was suddenly penetrated, the shell drilled into the interior and exploded, and the shrapnel splattered everywhere, killing the occupants inside. The broken fuel tank caught fire in an instant, the entire 59 became a large torch, the ammunition also exploded, the turret flew 5 or 6 meters high, and the infantry behind it was smashed to death two or three, and the impact of the explosion also blew the wave of people who followed behind.

This is the first tank to be destroyed by the Japanese army using anti-tank guns since the beginning of the year, and it was destroyed by the Japanese army's human bombs and heavy artillery strikes. Human bombs, blowing up a tank will kill a Japanese soldier, and it may not be successful, heavy artillery strikes from a long distance, the accuracy is too poor, so it is still the most real anti-tank gun.

"Attention, the devil has an anti-tank gun!" The first 59 tank was destroyed, and the movement of the ammunition explosion was too great, and the crew members of the surrounding tanks found it, and the commander saw the destroyed 59 through the observation hole, with a palm-sized bullet hole in the front, which was obviously pierced by armor-piercing shells.

"When will the devil's anti-tank guns penetrate our tanks?" A rhetorical question came from the channel.

"Who knows? But beware, the devils have anti-tank guns that can penetrate us. ”

"Where there is a shield, there is a spear, the commander said, the industry of the devil is not bad, and it is not strange to be able to build an anti-tank gun that penetrates our tank."

"It's useless to talk too much, once you find out, you will directly fire and blow them up."

"Yes!"

The Japanese army only built six of these anti-tank guns, all of which were pulled to the battlefield in Lu'an, and it was just the first cannon to face the enemy, and it successfully penetrated the front of the 59, so that the Japanese army who fired the cannon was overjoyed, and finally did not have to fight with human life.

Of the six guns that were the first to be transported, three were already on the Japanese positions, and even they did not know where the other two were.

But with just three anti-tank guns, how can you deal with nearly a hundred 59s? Moreover, the crew of the 59 is not blind.

The commander of a 59 opened the hatch and took out a periscope, this battlefield where bullets were flying, leaning out was tantamount to looking for death, so the periscope played a role at this time.

The second shell was loaded, the gunner calibrated Zhu Yuan, and the 59 that ran in front of him did not hesitate to fire.

"Bell!" The second shot did not penetrate, hit the turret of that tank, jumped out of the way, plunged into the ground, and blew up a crater.

The crew sitting in the tank was also shocked in his heart, just now the body was like a heavy hammer blow, the loud sound was the sound of jumping off the shell, his tank was shot by the Japanese anti-tank gun, but it did not wear it.

The commander and the crew were sweating profusely, they were frightened, and if they had broken through just now, they would have hung up by now.

I still haven't found the location of the Japanese anti-tank guns, but it is certain that the Japanese army only has two or three of these anti-tank guns at most, because the interval between the firing is too long, if the Japanese army had a large number of such anti-tank guns, they would have been overwhelming, they would not have lost a tank for so long, at least half of them would have to be accounted for here.

"The tanks accelerated and rushed past the Japanese positions, and the infantry followed closely behind, not allowed to fall."

The engine of the 59 roared in a burst of rage, and its speed increased sharply, and it ran to 30 yards, rushing to the Japanese position to collect money. If it weren't for the craters everywhere, the speed of the tank could not be raised, and the 59 would only run 30 miles.

"Quick, stop the chariot of China!" Seeing the sudden acceleration of 59, the military cao on the Japanese position immediately shouted, regardless of whether the grenadier was powerful enough or not, fired shells and smashed 59 at him.

For a time there were explosions around 59, and some Japanese soldiers fought in vain with grenadiers.

Human bombs are indispensable, and it has always been the Chinese/army who went to their tanks with explosives packs, but only from Lu Qiang had tanks, and the Japanese army was desperately added with the explosives pack.

Under the cover of other Japanese troops, several Japanese soldiers holding explosive bags suddenly rushed out of their positions, and after pulling out their fuses, they swooped down on the tanks in front of them.

The movements of these Japanese soldiers were seen by the infantry following behind, and naturally they would not let him get close to the tank, and the 81 bar swept at the Japanese troops who rushed towards the tank, and one by one they were all sieve, and the coaxial machine guns of 59 also opened fire to block the Japanese troops who rushed over.

"Fire!" The anti-tank gun was reloaded, the barrel opened fire, and the shell flew towards a tank raised from the bow, easily tearing the crotch armor, which was paper-paste for hood and cap-piercing shells.

The armor was torn, the shell turned into the hull and exploded, the flame shrapnel swept through the hull, the raised gun barrel slowly hung down, and puffs of white smoke came out of the muzzle, and the tank was destroyed by the Japanese army.

"I found it, at 1 o'clock, behind that dirt pit, damn / little devil, really well hidden." A commander saw the flash of fire there, and then noticed that a tank had been destroyed, and said in the channel.

"Let me come,, dare to hit me, just scared labor and management." In the ricocheting tank, the commander yelled as he told the gunner to turn the barrel around.

"Boom!" A 59 next to him stopped sharply and fired first, which commander laughed and said, "Haha, I ate the meat." ”

The high-explosive shell landed on the side of the anti-tank gun and missed, but it also startled the Japanese soldiers, and the loader hurriedly stuffed the shell into the chamber, ready to shoot another one before dying.

"Miss, look at me!" The commander sneered, firing at the anti-tank gun, "Boom! ”。

"Boom!" The Japanese side finished loading, and they also impatiently pulled the cannon rope and shot the shells out. (To be continued.) )