"Through the periscope used by the commander, you can clearly see Yana's back... Enemy tanks and armored vehicles, although still far away, but there is no doubt that the Chinese have already attacked, and it seems that they are planning to have a tough tank battle with the British ** team.

Sergeant Henry took his eyes off the captain's periscope and looked at the slit on the side, then turned his head and shouted at the stunned gunner.

"Don't be stunned! The Chinese rushed up! Get ready for battle! Get ready for battle! ”

Hearing the commander's shout, the gunner finally took action, quickly stuffed the grenade into the chamber of the short-barreled gun, and locked the tail bolt of the gun with a "click", and then held up the gun carriage of the short-barreled gun, and put his eyes on the aiming window, trying to find the target.

Sergeant Henry is fully convinced that the gunner cannot find any targets in the aiming window now, for the simple reason that now the British Army's Mark IV tank is facing the north, and the Chinese tank is also rushing from the north, so the British tank is actually facing the Chinese tank head-on, but the problem is that this Mark IV tank does not have a rotating turret, although this Mark IV tank, known as the "Western Front Trench Destroyer", does have two short-barreled guns, However, the installation position of these two guns is quite special, they are not installed in a separate turret, but are installed in two gun covers, and are located on the left and right sides of the tank, this way of arranging the gun can maximize the advantage of swinging firepower, can fire at both sides at the same time, in trench warfare can fully swing firepower, but this gun layout also limits flexibility, so, if you want to aim at the target, the Mark IV tank must have the hull facing the enemy, And it can't be like a Chinese tank with a body that doesn't move and only rotates the turret. Now Sergeant Henry had only two options, either continue to rush towards the squadron's tanks, but the tank guns could not fire, or turn the car now, face north with the left side of the tank, and stop and wait for the squadron's tanks to come into the effective range of the British tanks, and then open fire.

After careful consideration, Sergeant Henry decided to take the first method, that is, to continue to drive forward, wait for a closer moment, and then turn the hull of the tank 90 degrees to face the enemy with the side of the hull, the main reason for this choice is that the two short-barreled tank guns of the Mark IV tank have a very limited range and weak armor-piercing power, if you turn around now and stop for shelling, it is likely that you will not be able to penetrate the armor plate of the Chinese tank, on the other hand, if you continue to attack the enemy head-on with the hull, you can not only quickly approach the enemy tank, It can also rely on the thick armor on the front of the Mark IV to withstand enemy tank attacks.

Sergeant Henry is full of confidence in the frontal armor of the Mark IV, he has commanded tanks on the Western Front in Europe and participated in offensive battles many times, he is well aware of the performance of the Mark IV, this tank can withstand the frontal attack of German anti-tank guns at close range, then, perhaps, can also withstand the long-range frontal attack of Chinese tanks.

Sergeant Henry didn't believe the rumors, he thought that the Chinese-made tanks might be quite impressive in terms of structure, but China's industrial technology was far inferior to that of Germany, so he did not agree with some European tactical experts who believed that China's tank design concept represented the trend of tank development, and that the Mark IV, a British tank, was very primitive in design and was destined to be eliminated.

The first tank made in China used a turret that could be rotated, but British tank designers scoffed at this design, they believed that the survivability of the tank using a single turret structure on the battlefield was weak, once the turret failed, or was destroyed by the enemy, then the tank became a decoration, and could not continue to fight, so these British tank designers designed the Mark type tank, these tanks without exception used the design of the gun windows on both sides, in order to ensure the firepower performance on the battlefieldEven if one side of the cannon cannot be used, the other side of the cannon can still be wielded to completely suppress the enemy's trench fire.

It can be said that the main combat object of the tank designed by the British is the enemy infantry, while the tank designed by the Chinese seems to be the main combat object of the enemy's tank, in this regard, it is quite similar to artillery, and one of the important lessons of the European theater is not to ignore the enemy's artillery and tanks.

The Mark IV tank is also the last tank designed by the British to arrange the main firepower on both sides of the hull, since the French also decided to completely abandon this original design, the British ** department finally realized that they took a detour in the design of the tank, and this detour could have been avoided by learning from the design experience of the Chinese, so they quickly turned around and walked back to the correct path that the Chinese tank designers had pointed out to them a long time ago, that is, a turret that can be rotated, and the more turrets, the better, This combines the advantages of both tank designs.

As for so many Mark tanks that were about to withdraw from the stage of war, the British government began a big sale, selling them in large quantities at extremely cheap prices to those countries that needed war surplus materials, Russia, Peru, Chile, Brazil, and even the emerging country Poland.

Now, Sergeant Henry is about to represent the Emir of Tashkent in a head-to-head tank battle with the squadron, and perhaps the time has come to test the merits of two different tank design ideas.

"Four thousand feet, three thousand feet," two and a half hundred feet, two thousand feet! ”

Sergeant Henry kept using the scale on the submersible scope to estimate the distance from those Chinese tanks, although the Mark IV tank was very bumpy, and his head would touch the periscope from time to time, but thanks to the Chinese tank cap, the sergeant's head finally didn't "And the gunners also hugged the gun carriage tightly, following the bumps and rocks of the tank, feeling like holding a plate in a storm, not knowing when it would overturn."

The Mark IV uses the most popular mesh suspension, and there is basically no effective shock absorber between the wheels and the hull, and if the terrain is slightly undulating in the wilderness, the tank will jolt violently, coupled with the frequent failure of the gasoline engine, when driving in the wilderness, the Max IV is only five miles at its peak.

However, to Sergeant Henry's great surprise, he was now that the oncoming Chinese tanks on the opposite side were driving very highly, at least more than ten miles per hour, and what was even more incomprehensible to the sergeant was that the Chinese tanks seemed to be very smooth during the drive, with almost no bumps, at least no violent bumps, which made Sergeant Henry very surprised.

"Could it be that the Chinese understand any new tank technology?"

Sergeant Henry thought curiously, but his thought was quickly interrupted by a crisp cracking sound, and immediately after, he heard the driver's shout. "We were hit! The front armor plate was pierced! ”

Sergeant Henry heard the driver's shout, since the Chinese tank had already attacked, it was extremely unwise for the British tank to continue to charge forward, and even if it was facing the enemy head-on, the armor plate was actually pierced by the enemy tank gun, so Sergeant Henry quickly gave the order for the tank to turn around and stop, and at this time, he noticed that the Chinese tank was firing at a distance of a thousand feet, which was a surprising distance, and at this distance, the British tank's short-barreled gun could not threaten the Chinese tank at all.

Although he knew that it would be impossible to penetrate the armor of the Chinese tank, Sergeant Henry gave the order to open fire immediately after the tank turned around, and then the gunner and machine gunner began to shoot.

"Boom!"

"Ratt,,Squeak tart,"

The sound of gunfire and gunfire quickly intensified, and Sergeant Henry observed the battlefield through the periscope, and now the first shell fired by his Mark IV tank accurately hit a Chinese tank, but did not penetrate the tank's armor, and the stopped Chinese tank was turning the turret around, and the muzzle of the gun was pointed at the Mark IV tank commanded by Sergeant Henry.

"When"

With the flash of the muzzle of the Chinese tank, a shell hit Sergeant Henry's Mark IV tank, and pierced a hole in the left hull armor, the steel core armor-piercing shell penetrated the armor plate, and then hit the right armor plate, and was quickly bounced away, and finally stayed in Sergeant Henry's Mark IV tank, although it did not directly kill the tankmen, but it startled everyone, and the scream of the armor-piercing bullet tearing the armor plate echoed in the ears of the British tankers.

"When! Excite! While! While! ”

Just as Sergeant Henry was trying to organize the next round of shelling, his Mark IV tank was hit by several armor-piercing shells from several Chinese tanks, apparently, several Chinese tanks fired at Sergeant Henry at the same time, and the reason was simple, because Sergeant Henry's tank was the highest of all British tanks, and the target was very obvious, becoming a magnet for attracting fire.

An armor-piercing projectile hit the tank's motive and penetrated the oil pipe, and the gasoline immediately splashed out and sprinkled on the hot motive, and even worse, the spark plug was also destroyed by the armor-piercing projectile, and the wires shot bright sparks, and immediately ignited the gasoline that was sprinkled on the motive, and with a "whew", flames and smoke rushed out.

"Abandon the car! Abandon the car! ”

Sergeant Henry immediately saw the flames coming out of the engine compartment, so he immediately gave the order for the tank crew to abandon the car, although the mechanical and electrical crew tried to extinguish the fire on the engine with sand, but he quickly gave up his efforts and escaped from the tank with the gunner, and Sergeant Henry jumped out of the tank through the left hatch and was immediately exposed to the fire of the Chinese tank.

"Da Tart Hee,, Tart Tart Goo,"

The Chinese tanks clearly did not intend to let Sergeant Henry leave Tashkent alive, and a string of machine-gun bullets came and knocked the dirt around Sergeant Henry's side into the air, and one of the bullets even wiped Sergeant Henry's military boots, and only a little bit, Sergeant Henry could have fallen on this foreign land.

The lucky Sergeant Henry quickly ran to the right side of the tank to meet the rest of the crew, and everyone immediately decided that the sergeant would command him to leave the battlefield and flee back to the city of Tashkent, and then go around the city to the east, cross the small river, and retreat with the retreating British infantry.

At this time, this tank battle was still going on, and the Chinese tanks undoubtedly had the upper hand, and as far as the eye could see, the battlefield was full of destroyed Mark IV tanks, more than half of which had begun to emit billowing black smoke, which had not been dispersed until high in the air due to the lack of wind, looking like a black whirlwind on the high ground.

Henry's command ran south to seize the road, and the machine guns of the Chinese tanks followed them, and from time to time someone fell, but the others did not care about their comrades at all, and they now had only one thought in their hearts, that is, to escape as far away from the Chinese tanks as possible.

Suddenly, a loud "boom" came from the battlefield, and a British tank on fire exploded violently, apparently the internal oil fire ignited the ammunition in the car, so the ammunition exploded, almost shattering the Mark IV tank, and the fragments of the hull flew everywhere, and the brilliant and dazzling flames rushed to a height of more than ten feet, like a torch on the battlefield.

The battlefield was 4,000 meters away from Tashkent, so it was impossible for Sergeant Henry and his men to escape back to the city on two legs, so soon, when the two armored vehicles of the squadron caught up and blocked Sergeant Henry's way, he could only choose to raise his hands out of breath, so Sergeant Henry was fortunate to survive and became the first prisoner of war in the Sino-British War.