In the center of the no-man's land, there is a large area of dirt and stone mountains, the highest of which is only a small hill more than 300 meters high, but it is surrounded by large and small highlands. At this time, this area has been occupied by all kinds of soldiers and fortifications, when the armored torrent reaches the other end, all kinds of civil fortifications, barbed wire and soldiers who are ready to fight, the northwest is good at defense, these three divisions are all first-class divisions, with many personnel and well-trained, more than 70,000 people, distributed in the surrounding area, more than a dozen hills.

It stands to reason that the most important thing in armor is his artillery, especially the current heavy tanks, his artillery is 88 mm, even if more than 20 tanks are fired together, his power is absolutely great, at least, the front line of defense will be under great pressure.

Because it is an exercise, to a certain extent, it is only to test the efficacy of this armored unit, and by the way, to lay the foundation for the integration of armored vehicles into the Northwest Army.

Charging from 30 kilometers away, hundreds of armored vehicles of all kinds, the momentum was extremely amazing, when the torrent of armor formed through a large open space, the protection system here began to strain, some low-level non-commissioned officers began to order, machine guns and artillery began to prepare.

These armies are first-class divisions, but they have not been in contact with armored units, and they don't know that even the lightest wheeled armored vehicle has a surface armor that is 12mm thick, and it is not an ordinary homogeneous steel plate, but the same high-hardness steel plate as the battleship. Such protection, let alone a rifle. Even a heavy machine gun may not be able to break through the surface armor. If a bullet hits, it will bounce off easily.

If you really want to calculate, I am afraid that among the small arms, only anti-aircraft machine guns, and more than 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine guns, at close range, can break through the surface armor, after all, at an altitude of 1500 meters, anti-aircraft machine guns need to have sufficient muzzle velocity and penetrating ability. At a range of less than 500 meters, the bullet is extremely powerful.

In the armored forces, the wheeled armored vehicle is nothing more than a personnel carrier, which can transport a squad of infantry from the rear to the front, and then use the armored vehicle to withstand the opponent's automatic firearms or small artillery, and the infantry get off the rear door and attack the opponent's position with a dense charge.

In this sense, armored vehicles are in a way. It's just that it belongs to the auxiliary forces of motorized infantry troops, and the real powerful ability to attack fortifications is also a medium or even heavy tank.

After several years, the Yinshan base is under the full support of Yang Yuanzhao. Having studied at least 3 generations of armor power, the current tanks have all been tested. The final shaped, especially the heavy tanks of the tank regiment. This was just finalized more than half a year ago. It uses the most advanced 600 horsepower diesel unit in the northwest, and the whole body is also extremely well protected. The body armor is all 45 mm thick, the frontal armor has a 32-degree bevel, and the sides also have a 49-degree angle. The turret was a cast hexagonal type, the frontal armor was 60 mm thick, the sides were also 45 mm, and the bevel of the body extended all the way to the turret, which was almost a right-angled triangle from the front.

Such a unique design, coupled with the armor performance of the Northwest crown in the whole world, the front is enough to withstand the attack of 108 mm armor-piercing shells, the total weight finally reached 52 tons, with 88 mm smoothbore guns of the heavy tank, in the limit speed, the powerful 600 horsepower engine, can support 52 tons of tanks, the limit of more than 60 kilometers of speed.

If the fast horse is running at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, the impact and momentum brought by it are strong enough, once it hits a person, it is extremely dangerous, not to mention 52 tons, and when the whole body is armed to the tooth tank, everything in front of it will be completely shattered by this tank.

The excellent off-road performance of the crawler type and the ability to climb over obstacles, in addition to the terrain is too rugged mountain, the tank can be used almost all-terrain, and the unique exhaust pipe and setting allow him to swim across rivers with a depth of no more than 70 cm, which is for most of China's small rivers, yes, and even as long as the silt is not too thick, a sufficient area of tracks can ensure that the 52-ton behemoth will not easily sink in.

Hundreds of armored vehicles at high speed began to accelerate from a distance of 30 kilometers, and at about 5 kilometers, formed an attack line led by heavy tanks across a full 3 kilometers, which was amazing.

In fact, in the face of a stable frontal position, all heavy and medium tanks were used, and during the exercise, in order to seek effect, all artillery and ammunition were used with live ammunition.

Bullets are also upside down, in terms of the thick armor of tanks, even armored vehicles, there should not be many problems, but artillery, especially armor-piercing shells, this is not a joke, the configuration of the Northwest A division, the number of various types of artillery in a division, almost reached 2000, although the vast majority of them are mortars, but mortars are also artillery, an average of a dozen people a cannon such a density, in the whole world, is also unique, especially those 108 artillery, loaded with armor-piercing shells, Normally less than half a meter, reinforced concrete, non-reinforced concrete is enough to penetrate a meter, the tank looks so big, but it can't be as powerful as a permanent fortification.

Whether it is the designer of the heavy tank, or the soldiers of the special armored regiment are very confident, in this sense, they are very confident in their own things, and finally the first division agreed, but in order to be careful, the armor-piercing shells used are ordinary armor-piercing shells, that is, steel-core armor-piercing shells, not tungsten core armor-piercing shells and depleted uranium armor-piercing shells developed specifically for attacking heavy protective targets, those armor-piercing capabilities are stronger, and some are even special shells for battleships.

Rao is so, the armor-piercing shells issued by the 108 artillery are also amazing enough, when the steel torrent begins to impact, it is almost natural, the strategic artillery forces of the division began to fire, a division of about 48 108 guns, has long begun to prepare, the defenders who have not seen the power of the tank, or miscalculated the speed of the tank, the first artillery test firing, the nearest is also 2 kilometers away.

At a speed of 60 kilometers per hour, in such a complex environment as the battlefield, it is simply a big killer, and the heavy artillery in the front row, when their shells are aiming, they have already missed the target. With a range of about 10 kilometers, with a tank speed of 60 kilometers per hour, only 10 minutes to spare, a well-trained gunner must also calculate the time difference, under a bombardment, there are very few final hits. Only the fastest rate of fire mortars and some infantry guns can reach, but these small-caliber guns, when they hit the surface, more than 60 mm of bevel-cut armor, almost did not even have any damage, under a white spot, they were bounced off, and the cemented carbide armor showed great power in it.

It wasn't until within 3 kilometers that the 108 gun adapted to the speed of the armored forces, and the 108 gun began to hit those tanks, but the heavy tanks in front were simply monsters, and the distance of 3 kilometers was enough for the gunners to see the hit of the shell through the telescope.

This kind of takeover is a little unacceptable to anyone, and even the artillery bombardment has stopped slightly because of this, but the situation on the battlefield is fleeting, 3 kilometers, maybe for the infantry in full armor, it takes more than ten minutes, but for the tank, under the situation of going all out, it is only more than two minutes, when the roaring armored troops approached about 1 kilometer, the sound of firepower suddenly intensified.

The artillery fire, heavy machine guns, and even rifles of the entire division were concentrated on the more than 50 heavy and medium tanks on the front, but the barbed wire, which had no effect on the infantry and had a strong stopping effect on the infantry, was broken through one by one in front of the steel monsters like tanks, whether it was barbed wire or wooden sticks wrapped around the barbed wire, in the face of the armor force with incredible speed, there was no way to resist.

A huge roar and black smoke filled the entire position, and some front-line positions suddenly collapsed.

Even if it is a well-trained first-class division, even if it knows that this is just an exercise, the kind of deterrence and pressure brought by the high-speed advancing steel monster is unbearable for young soldiers who are only about twenty years old, especially when they collide with their own position, the feeling is very obvious.

Armored vehicles and tanks, at least weighing 20 tons, collide with each other, let alone flesh and blood, even military cars, can not withstand such a high-speed monster, let these tanks and armored vehicles go up the mountain, then there will only be one, because of these armored units and some collapse of the Northwest soldiers, will be squeezed by these armored vehicles, and there will even be a series of casualties.

Of course, the exercise team considered this, but in order to give the troops enough experience, these armored units still need to pass through the positions, but not heavily guarded positions, but the positions that have been reserved, these positions are in the center of this protective area, as long as they break through the peripheral positions they are going to, they can be unimpeded.

When the tanks passed through the reserved positions at high speed, roaring away, and no artillery could stop their footsteps, it has been proved that the heavily protected positions, in front of the armored monsters, are paper paste, and the front is enough to break through, what will be the result if this is not a drill, but a real army battle. (To be continued......)