Chapter 1136: Chariot Roar (Subscribe Only!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

That's right, Chen Xudong's secret weapon is a full 150 Soviet T-34 medium tanks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The T-34 tank was balanced in terms of armor, firepower and power, and 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 were also 49 degrees.

In terms of firepower, the T-34 was equipped with a 76 mm cannon from the very beginning, and when using ordinary armor-piercing shells, it could penetrate 69 mm of homogeneous steel plates at a distance of 500 meters, and 61 mm of steel plates at a distance of 1000 meters.

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, firstly, it is easy to bounce off after a shell hits, 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 frontal armor directly led to the fact that any artillery equipped with German tanks before 1942 could not penetrate at a distance of 500 meters.

Historically, the T-34 first entered the war in Grodno, Belarus on June 22, 1941, and in a series of battles that followed, the Germans could not find a tank that could compete with it, which was the "T-34 crisis". The appearance of the T-34 directly led to the obsolescence of a large number of tanks in the German army, which was forced to introduce newer tanks to cope with the situation.

It is precisely because he knew the excellence of this tank that when negotiating with the Soviets, Ma Zheng proposed to introduce the production technology of the T-34, but the Soviets refused.

Ma Zheng retreated to the next best thing, did not want the production line, and hoped to buy 300 T-34s from the Soviet Union. However, Moscow was only willing to sell 150 of Ma Zheng's troops on the grounds that there were not so many ready-made tanks.

150 is a little less, and it can equip a reinforced regiment, but it is better than nothing, and Ma Zheng also believes that as long as the T-34 can appear on the Chinese battlefield, all the main battle tanks of the Japanese army will be eliminated, so he spent a lot of money to buy 150 T-34.

This is the first show of the T-34 on the Chinese battlefield, and it seems to be very good. The battle presented a one-sided posture from the very beginning, and in the face of the Chinese armored forces, which were absolutely superior in quantity and quality, the Japanese army's tank, which was not the most elite tank wing, was almost completely powerless to fight back and was blown up by Chen Xudong's department.

There were no less than 27 Type 97 chariots, all of which turned into burning fires in just 20 minutes of battle, and Major General Inoue Taro on the infantry position felt cold in his heart.

At the beginning, Chen Xudong did not plan to use the T26 against the Japanese army's tank troops, because if he wanted to use the T26, although he could also achieve victory, he would have to suffer certain casualties, and 27 Type 97 tanks could at least cause the loss of 15 tanks to Chen Xudong's armored division, which Chen Xudong did not want to see.

Besides, the commander blew this T-34 like a god, and even called him the "king of land warfare" in Asia, so Chen Xudong wanted to try the power of this guy.

The power is very strong, and the Japanese are very sad. The chariot wing, which had been given high hopes by Major General Taro Inoue, was completely annihilated by the Shina army almost without any achievements, and such a blow was fatal to the current Japanese army.

Major General Inoue Taro originally thought that although it was impossible for these 27 chariots to defeat the hundreds of chariots of the Shina army, it should not be a problem to delay for more than an hour, and one hour was enough time for reinforcements from Shuangliao City to arrive.

But the rapid destruction of the chariot force caught Major General Inoue off guard, and in 35 minutes, a full 25 minutes from the scheduled hour, which meant that in the next 25 minutes, his infantry had to use flesh and blood against the huge armored forces of the Shina army.

Not long ago, the intelligence department reported that there was a large number of Chinese cavalry cruising around his position, and once the position was abandoned, his infantry would become the prey of the Chinese cavalry and armored troops.

Resistance was necessary, and Major General Inoue had prepared for the worst, and he ordered the brigade guard squadron to plant explosives in all warehouses, and in the event of a rout of the troops, then immediately blow up all the supplies, ammunition, and equipment.

The fierceness of the battle can be imagined, with infantry without anti-tank weapons to resist the world's most advanced armored group, anyone who knows a little military common sense can think of the outcome of this battle, and Major General Inoue Taro also knows what the end of this army he is going to face.

However, Inoue Taro still has a small hope in his heart, that is, it is only 25 minutes before His Excellency the division commander informs him of the arrival of reinforcements, and as long as these 25 minutes are passed, at least 120 chariots of reinforcements will arrive.

In addition, hundreds of warplanes from the headquarters were rushing to this side overnight, so Major General Inoue Taro knew that his side must not be withdrawn, otherwise the consequences would be quite serious, not only his 27th Infantry Brigade might be completely wiped out by the Chinese army, but also a great opportunity to severely damage the Chinese armored group.

"Da Da Da"

"Da Da Da"

The sound of the Type 92 heavy machine gun is constantly roaring, and the 75mm caliber mountain artillery is also constantly firing at Ma Zheng's headquarters, because the tank unit of the Saibei Corps has been infinitely close to the Japanese position, so whether it is the Japanese mountain artillery or field artillery, the elevation angle has been adjusted to the maximum, and the shells will hit the Japanese infantry position if they are not careful. As for the mortars of the front-line infantry, they were fired at almost a right-angle angle, which made Chen Xudong, who was sitting in the tank, feel admired.

However, the thickness of the T-34's armor is 60mm, and even the thickness of the side armor is more than 45mm, not to mention the Type 92 heavy machine gun, even if the 75mm mountain gun hits head-on, it will not pose any threat to the T-34, otherwise the T-34 crisis on the Soviet-German battlefield will not be possible.

"Order: The armored brigade will charge with all its might, and the mechanized infantry brigade will follow, and it will be important not to let a little devil escape."

The order was given by the tank radio.

"Boom... Boom..."

Shells were constantly exploding on the Japanese positions, and the machine gunners on the Chinese tanks were constantly strafing the Japanese positions.

The first line of defense of the Japanese army was declared lost in less than 10 minutes, and Inoue Taro urgently ordered the troops to withdraw to the second line of defense, and in order to buy time for the troops, Major General Inoue Taro had to order the chief of staff of the brigade to organize an officer death squad.

Officer death squads are a tradition of the Japanese Army, once the war is not going well, especially when the enemy stubbornly resists, the Japanese army will organize officer death squads.

Such officer death squads were generally composed of low-ranking officers above the rank of military officer, and then under the cover of artillery fire, they launched suicidal attacks on the enemy's fortifications, and the mortality rate was extremely high.

However, the risk and big benefit are also extremely exciting, once the task is completed without death, such an officer will be reused by his superiors, the most rigid rule is to upgrade the rank by 2 levels, if he participated in the officer death squad before he was a military Cao, then he was lucky enough to be promoted to lieutenant after the war, and if he was a captain, then he would be promoted directly to lieutenant after the war.

As we all know, the military cao in the Japanese army is actually not an officer, and the promotion of the officer's position has a direct relationship with the military rank, among which the promotion process of the rank is the most difficult from the lieutenant to the major commander and the major general, so the officers who participate in the officer death squad are generally officers at the two levels of the officer cao and the captain.

Soon 55 officers above and below the rank of military cao were assembled, and Inoue Taro made it very clear this time that this time the officer death squad was not to storm the positions of the Chinese people, but to destroy the chariot units of the Chinese people, and each officer was equipped with two elite soldiers as assistants, carrying explosive bags and cluster grenades to launch a suicide attack on the Chinese chariot group.