Chapter 337: Steel Graveyard
Dai Peng frowned and said: "It's not to ask this question, you see that this ninety-seven change has blown a shallow crater on the sandbag debris attached to the front armor, although it broke the spare load wheel of the combat vehicle attached to it, and only left a burnt mark on the front armor plate, but the entire ninety-seven change was smashed as if it had been smashed by a sledgehammer?" It's like stewing a pot of buckle meat, and the charioteers inside haven't even had time to open the escape door behind the car, and I really lack experience in using tanks and armored vehicles! Don't they know that during tank battles, the hatch must be opened to prevent the secondary shock wave generated by the penetration of the hull? ”
Lu Yu smiled and said: "I say that any type of combat vehicle in my current service is a target compared to our jackal light tank, the breakdown and destruction rate is more than 79 percent, and it is almost impossible to slip and ricoult, for the iron cavalry medium main battle tank, the combat vehicle of the Yue army is simply vulnerable, and the combat vehicle of the Yue army, whether it is a 37 mm long tube tank or a 47 mm tank gun, cannot penetrate the engine armor of the iron cavalry medium main battle tank even from the tail, However, the chariot unit inherited the madness of its army, and the wreckage in front of us was the last chariot of the army that I destroyed, and it seemed that it should be the last reserve of the chariot of the army, and I used the tracked armored car and the front end of the car to install explosives to open the breakthrough of the blockage, and I went crazy like a mad dog with its tail lit. ”
Dai Peng nodded and said: "The last madness of the man is indeed like a wave of madness, I thought that when the Wolf Mountain Fortress was almost unsafe, I said that I couldn't stand it, this battle was fought to who could hold out for the last five minutes, we withstood the huge casualties, and held the tunnel of the Wolf Mountain Fortress, but now more than 2,000 corpses of young men are still left inside, piling up human lives, desperately, it is our old business!" If it weren't for Chief Zhang, I would never have believed that the firepower of our [***] team would have surpassed that of myself? But even if we have an advantage in small arms firepower, human life is human life after all, and the price of victory is too expensive. ”
Lu Yu took a deep breath and said: "The last wave of attacks of the Yue army has wiped out the entire guard company of our test detachment, I have used up the last ammunition, even the machine gun bullets have been exhausted, and the young man in the co-pilot rushed to the army chariot in the smoke with a bundle of cluster grenades, just when I was preparing to bomb the car for the first time, it happened that several young men from the logistics detachment sent a few test shells through the artillery blockade line of the Yue army, and almost every shell was stained with sticky blood!" ”
Lu Yu paused and said: "This new type of artillery shell is still in the research and development period, the research institute called it a broken armor bullet, this test only carried twenty rounds, used to test its degree of broken armor, now it seems that the effect is not bad, I have checked a destroyed army tank before, the hole penetrated is not big, but all the members of the army vehicle crew inside were killed by the broken turret lining fragments, the radio station and other equipment in the car body were also destroyed, the tank only looks like little damage on the outside, There are two military chariots that were directly blown up, that is, the two on the far left were almost reduced to parts, and the degree of deflagration at that time was extremely great, and it is estimated that it may be a Spitfire tank modified by Yue himself. ”
Dai Peng looked at the wreckage of the destroyed chariot of the Yue army, in the face of the steel monsters of the Yue army during the first offensive and defensive battle of Chengde, the [***] people could only use their flesh and blood to resist the attack of the Yue army, if it were not for the use of Chengde's strong fortifications and a small number of chariot defense guns, the thin iron cans of the Yue army could also be rampant.
Lu Yu kicked the wreckage of the army chariot with his foot, and the hatch that was crooked on the side had fallen off half, and the dark corpses of the army charioteers inside were distorted and deformed, and the military chariots were distorted and deformed due to the use of gasoline engines, once the chariot was hit, there was a high chance that it would catch fire, and the ammunition in the car was continuously detonated, and the loss of the crew was almost 100 percent, and the charred and twisted corpses often gave people a strong visual impact, but this was commonplace for tank soldiers.
Lu Yu pointed to the place where the military tank was hit and said: "The design institute said that this kind of artillery shell has a very good effect on reinforced concrete bunkers, but it is a pity that only the 100-millimeter rifled gun on our test vehicle can fire, and the 100-millimeter smoothbore gun equipped with the iron cavalry medium main battle tank of the standard-shaped mounted unit cannot be fired." ”
The corners of Dai Peng's mouth showed this kind of murderous expression and said: "Since the rifled gun is so easy to use, as a use of troops, just write a report on it, so that future models can be equipped with 100 mm rifled guns." ”
Lu Yu spread his hands helplessly and said, "Sir Dai, I'm just a little captain, what's the use of us writing a report?" Even the design institute has debated the trade-off between smoothbore guns and rifled guns, in fact, the two kinds of artillery have their own advantages and disadvantages, now the rifled guns have high requirements for the forging of barrel materials, and the smoothbore guns have high requirements for shells, and the armor-piercing shells of the smoothbore guns are expensive, and the warhead can not be filled with secondary charges, so most of the iron-mounted medium main battle tanks equipped with smoothbore guns are mostly ammunition is tail stabilized multi-purpose ammunition, and the surname price is relatively high, as far as my personal combat experience is concerned, the firing distance of a 100 mm rifled gun is long, and the shooting accuracy is high, The experimental gunners of the armament department used fixed conditions of 1,000 meters to shoot at standard targets, and it cannot be said that they were nine out of ten, and the hit rate was at least 80 percent or more, and the shooting accuracy of the smoothbore gun was only about half of that of the rifle, and the technicians of the research institute said that it was because we did not have a hydrodynamic scientific research team, and the shape and drag coefficient of the shells were not optimized to the best, and it was still not a big problem to optimize 1,500 meters, and it was difficult to say how far away. The choice of smoothbore guns is mainly to consider the muzzle velocity problem, the potential of the muzzle velocity of the smoothbore gun far exceeds that of the rifled gun, the rifled gun of the iron cavalry is now not more than 800 meters per second, and the speed of the smoothbore gun firing armor-piercing shells far exceeds our test rifled gun, but the cost of the rifled gun is indeed very high. ”
Dai Peng touched his injured forehead with some dissatisfaction, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "I'm really strange, why can I make an iron bike so short?" Lao Tzu's head still hurts. ”
Lu Yu also said helplessly: "Chief Dai, who told you to say that you are uncomfortable to take off the tank hat, it is very dangerous to take off the tank helmet when fighting and driving, this time you are lucky not to hit the protrusion." However, according to the actual use experience, the grassroots troops also recommend increasing the height of the vehicle, and lengthening the hull, especially the internal space of the turret is too narrow, 100 mm shells are too big and heavy for a loader, when the iron horse is designed, the ammunition storage box is designed according to the 75 mm gun to load 75 rounds, and the water tank ammunition box loaded by our test vehicle can only hold a pitiful 38 shells. The carrying capacity of thirty-eight shells is obviously somewhat insufficient! ”
Under Dai Peng's encouraging gaze, Lu Yu also completely opened the conversation box and continued: "In addition, the tail of the turret of the iron cavalry medium main battle tank should also be relatively high, which can increase the depression angle of the tank's shooting, and the shape of the machine gun tower should also be relatively improved, and the protection of the front of the machine gun tower should also be slightly strengthened. Speaking of which, in actual combat, the machine gun tower is very useful, providing cover for each other and destroying enemy forces that take advantage of the terrain to get close, and in battle, the machine gun outside the turret of the Jackal light tank is basically useless. ”
Dai Peng nodded and said: "The tactical use of the Kwantung Army is still remarkable, I said that I attacked the fortified under the condition that the firepower was not as good as our army, and the casualties were so large that they still rushed up in batches without hesitation, and the people behind stepped on the corpses of the people in front, and the final onslaught even the core fortress of Wolf Mountain was almost lost, if it weren't for the weather becoming clearer, the air force violently attacked the attacking troops of the Yue Army with close support, and bombed the opponent's heavy large-caliber cannons and supply lines, it is difficult to say who wins and who loses!" As Chief Zhang said, he is a group of two-legged brutes, and the most effective way to deal with brutes is to let them know what the fear of death is.
As the fighting subsided, more and more soldiers and surviving citizens came to the breakthrough to visit the steel graves of the Yue Army, and several surviving technicians also appeared near the breakthrough one after another with equipment and tools, wearing masks and ignoring the charred corpses of the Yue Army.
As the commander of the garrison of Chaoyang Fortress, Dai Peng naturally has no time to talk too much, he also has to clean up the mess of the battlefield, and Lu Yu has to cooperate with the surviving technicians to record the real data of the battles between our side and the enemy's tanks, and the significance of his work can be described as very significant, because the destroyed tanks do not lie, so every bullet hole must be measured, photographed, and sampled.
The fact that the actual battlefield of such a well-preserved tank battle is concentrated in an area of less than two square kilometers is unique in the history of world warfare, and the preciousness of this kind of actual combat data is incomparable in natural history, but all the officers and soldiers and technicians who participated in the investigation and sampling have not eaten meat for a whole year, and some have even stopped eating meat for the rest of their lives
The battlefield in the east of Chaoyang City is called the steel cemetery by the surviving people, not only to commemorate the tragic battle of Chaoyang, but also because the steel chariots of the Kwantung Army here failed to finally break through the Great Wall of flesh and blood of the [***] people.
(To be continued)