Chapter 348: Tank Company
In the wilderness, as a tank crew of the 5th Armored Division of the Chinese Army stationed in Korea, the crew of Tank No. 112 was required to go to Korea to fight in the name of volunteers, and if he was unfortunately captured, he could not tell his identity as a Chinese soldier. Commander Li Fei of the No. 112 tank was complaining to the company commander Ma Liangang in the intercom: "With the above order, we have to cross thousands of mountains and rivers to this place where birds don't lay eggs, and we're as tired as a dead dog!" ”
"Don't complain, pay attention to the unity with the North Korean soldiers, they can hear the conversation on the intercom!" Company commander Ma Liangang responded very boredly while shaking with the tank. Before leaving, they deployed the tank engine gearbox, checked the tank tracks, and adjusted the accuracy of the tank guns.
"They can't understand Chinese, and you and my crew are Chinese in this tank company, so what's there to worry about? I heard that the number of Chinese troops who came to participate in the war did not exceed 1,000, and most of them were distributed in tank units, heavy artillery units, and aircraft units. If he really dies in battle, Lao Tzu won't even have a pension! Li Fei is like a chatterbox, let's talk non-stop, the domestic army is about to be replaced with new tanks, armored vehicles, etc., and he has to use this old tank when he comes to North Korea, but he is still very excited, driving the old tank can also kill the enemy!
"Keep the channel clean, Li Fei, you kid beep again, Lao Tzu will throw you to the tank track!" After finishing speaking, the company commander Ma Liangang gave orders to the other tank commanders in a few simple Korean words.
The tanks knocked down the bushes and slender trees, and the tracks rolled up some muddy dirt, followed by mules, horses, and Korean infantry struggling to follow the ruts made by the tanks' tracks. Fortunately, the position of the ROK army was in front of him, and after some reconnaissance, Ma Liangang spread out a partial map on the big tree pressed by the tank, and introduced to several officers of the DPRK army around him: "I have observed that the ROK army has built a simple defensive position. There could be two to three anti-tank guns, but their location could not be determined. There is a lot of bush around the position, and it is likely that they are hiding there. ”
"How many people are there?" A North Korean officer asked, who was the commander of the infantry regiment that followed the battle, and although he was a higher rank than Ma Liangang, he still obeyed the command of the Chinese officer.
"I estimate that the number should be around six hundred. There were at least five infantry guns, more machine guns, but whether there were tanks or not is not yet known. I suggested that the infantry regiment send a company to launch a tentative attack to find out the ROK fire, and then our tank company would lead the attack, and the infantry would follow. ”
Ma Liangang's caution paid off, and after an infantry company of the North Korean army launched an attack, Ma Liangang found that there were at least ten infantry guns on the South Korean position, and the caliber should be around 37 mm and 45 mm. Moreover, the artillery was cross-arranged, and it was clear that pocket formations were prepared for the attacking troops. The strength of the army is about a battalion, and the problem is not big, the key is that the location of the enemy's anti-tank guns has not been discovered, which still makes Ma Liangang a little worried.
"Tanks No. 112 and No. 113 will take the lead, No. 114, you will be in charge of the left flank, No. 113. You and I guard the right flank and cover the infantry in the middle. As soon as the anti-tank gun was detected, it was immediately destroyed. Then rush directly over to destroy their defensive positions, drive them out of bunkers with guided machine guns, and leave the rest to the infantry. Li Fei, who was in charge of the three tanks, found that the three tank commanders still looked puzzled after finishing the lecture and interpreting the explanation, and had to repeat it again. In fact, before the offensive began, Li Fei and his tank crew, including Li Liangang, were explaining tactics to the North Korean commanders until thirty-five minutes later. The offensive begins.
"Check the ammunition and reload the tank gun." Li Liangang ordered loudly in Korean: "Unload the excess fuel and the daily necessities piled on the tank, and hand them over to the battalion headquarters for safekeeping." Keep the intercom working and get in the car! ”
The language problem was definitely an insurmountable hurdle for Li Fei, who commanded three tanks, and many times he had to lie on the tank cover. Dancing orders to tanks No. 113 and No. 114, as for whether they can understand or not, are two different things.
The tank's tracks pushed through the bushes, and the dirt on them was shaken to the ground, and then rolled up by the tracks, mixed with black dirt, and tossed aside. The rumbling of the engine was accompanied by the clatter of broken branches. When the Chinese tank appeared on the battlefield, it seemed to have a trace of unstoppable domineering.
When he crossed the bushes, Li Fei got into the tank and pulled the hatch of the tank. He was in charge of the right flank of the entire attacking force, so his artillery was also slightly biased to the right.
"Wang Ming, I've handed it over to you in front, and when I found the opponent's anti-tank gun, I immediately reported the location. Dong Maotun, slightly accelerated, ready to stop at any time. Watch out for the branches around you so they don't break our radio antennas. Li Fei ordered loudly. His crew was completely Chinese tank crews, so the No. 112 tank also became the most elite tank in the Ma Liangang tank company.
Li Fei saw the positions of the South Korean army in the periscope, and the South Korean soldiers occasionally stuck their heads out to observe the rumbling tanks, and if they faced the Chinese soldiers, those soldiers who came forward would be called by snipers.
"Meng Xianying, load high-explosive bombs." Li Fei was also the gunner, and he suspected that there was an anti-tank gun in the bushes on the right, and the turret began to move to the right little by little, and the gears made a nice clicking sound.
Soon the ROK machine-gun position began to fire, but after knocking out a North Korean soldier, the leaking machine-gun position was suppressed by the guiding machine gun of the frontal tank 114.
The tracer bullet dragged the pillar of light towards the machine gun position, and the earth splattered, and the place was quickly covered by the black dirt and gunpowder smoke, but judging by the gunfire, the machine gun position was already dumb.
The North Korean infantry ignored the soldier who was hit, and returned fire fiercely around him, and the bullets of the South Korean army hit the ground and the hull of the tank, and the scene was a little chaotic.
"Boom!" An anti-tank gun opened fire, and the shell hit the front armor plate of Tank 114, refracting at a beautiful angle and bursting out of sparks. Although the distance is not too far, the South Korean army's anti-tank guns are still small guns with a caliber of less than 40 mm, which are enough to deal with the Japanese's own Type 08 tanks, but they are a little powerless to deal with the T01 tanks, unless they hit the weak parts of the tank.
"Boom!" Tank No. 114, which had found its target, opened fire decisively, and the shell flew into the bushes, but did not hit the target, and before the anti-tank gun could continue to fire, a shell flew out of the No. 112 gun and hit the target, carrying with it the broken branches of dirt and plants, and of course a shield of the anti-tank gun, as well as the mutilated bodies of the two soldiers.
The attack of the tank company did not deter the South Korean soldiers, who bent over the trenches and moved quickly, and then kept attacking the tanks that had already been close to them.
"Boom!" There was another sound of cannon fire, but Li Fei did not find the location of this gun through the commander's periscope, and the shell instantly hit the No. 114 tank that hit the head, and the shell was once again flown out by the heavy armor of the T01 tank.
With limited vision, Li Fei really couldn't find the hidden cannon because of the bullets flying and the splashing dirt on the battlefield. The T01 tank has a very excellent optical sighting system, which can ensure hitting tank-sized targets at a distance of a thousand meters, but now the distance is only a few tens of meters, and it does not give full play to the aiming advantage of the tank.
"Machine-gun fire on the bushes in front of us, firing while turning the turret!" Li Fei decided to use the most stupid way to find this very clever anti-tank gun, otherwise the advancing tanks 114 and 113 would have to expose their fragile side armor, and no one could say what kind of disaster would happen at that time.
Tracer bullets alternately flew into the bushes with ordinary bullets, breaking some branches and making a crackling sound, although they could not be heard in the tank, but where there was no artillery, there was obviously nothing to block the bullet from penetrating, and if the bullet hit the shield of the anti-tank gun, it would splash sparks, and the ricochet that could be seen at a glance - especially tracer bullets, would be more obvious.
Sure enough, a volley of bullets passed through the bushes, and in the middle there were several noticeable ballistic marks that changed. Li Fei was not polite, he hit it with a shot, the tank shook a little, and he saw from the periscope that the shells hit the target, and the corpses were scattered everywhere. Almost at the same time, the repeatedly attacked tank No. 114 finally opened, sending the third anti-tank gun into the sky.
The infantry in the rear rushed up, opened fire with the manual rifles they were holding, and engaged the enemy in hand-to-hand combat with the bayonets on the rifles, and a light machine gun mounted in the back also roared, and the South Korean soldiers, who had lost their heavy firepower, began to retreat, but the North Korean soldiers did not intend to let them go so easily. (To be continued.) )