Chapter 533: Annihilation of the Enemy in the North Battalion of the War of Resistance (4)

Wang Tiehan said excitedly: "Hurry up and let them drive the tank up and bombard him with little Japan for me."

The arrival of the FT-17 tank drew excited cheers from the officers and men of the third battalion

There are two sources of FT tanks for the Northeast Army, and the tanks now used are handled by foreign companies in Tianjin and Harbin in 1922, through the French Boisu company, in the name of "agricultural tractors", which escaped the arms embargo of the great powers on China and bought, and arrived in the Northeast in 1924~25 years one after another.

Previously, Zhang Zuolin also got a batch of FT-17, but this was not bought by Zhang Zuolin with huā money, but given by others.

In October 1922, the Soviet Red Army had achieved a complete victory. General Titeririchs, the last head of the Provisional Primorsky Region of Tsarist Russia, ordered his troops to retreat near the Sino-Korean border, and announced that all those who voluntarily left the country would leave the country with him.

Among the White Russian exiles, the first regiment under General Borodin and the third regiment under General Morchanov, mixed with male nv civilians who had no money, fled to the vicinity of Hunchūn in China, and they totaled about 7,000 people. After that, 200,000 White Russians followed.

In order to get Zhang Zuolin to take him in, Borogin and Morchanov gave Zhang Zuolin a large amount of arms in their possession, including several FT-17s. Zhang Zuolin thus agreed to the entry of these White Russians, and they then moved to Harbin and other places in the northeast to live.

However, to be precise, the tank that Belarus gave to Zhang Zuolin was the real FT-17, and the tank that Zhang Zuolin later bought from France was called FT-18 in France.

The difference between the FT-17 and the FT-18 is simple: the FT-17 uses a polygonal riveted turret from Renault, while the FT-18 uses a more cute round cast turret from Berliet. The tanks used now by the Northeast Army are all FTs with such cast turrets.

But for some reason, these two tanks are uniformly called FT-17 in the Northeast Army.

It's just that these tanks used by the Northeast Army now, whether they are called FT-17 or FT-18, will not be approved by the French, because the Northeast Army has made some improvements after these tanks arrived in the Northeast.

The original FT-18 was armed with a 37mm Pito SA18L21 gun and a Haqikaisi 1914 heavy machine gun, while the FT-17 of the Northeast Army was not equipped with these two weapons, but switched to the Haqikaisi Type 1922 light machine gun and the Type 14 3.7cm infantry gun produced by the Shenyang Arsenal. Therefore, the tank of the Northeast Army should be called the FT-18 modification.

The tank company commander was in front of the barracks guarded by Kawashima in a very stylish manner, and under the frantic attack of the Japanese army, he casually lined up the twelve tanks in a horizontal row, and then rumbled towards the barracks.

The barracks in the Beidaying barracks are all red brick buildings with a lot of water, and they can't resist the shè fire of the tank guns at all, but the tank soldiers did not shè at a long distance, probably feeling uneasy, so they went straight to the barracks under the leadership of the head car.

The roar of the rumbling tanks caused a huge coercion on the stubborn Japanese troops in the barracks, Kawashima was greatly alarmed, looking at the tanks that were gradually approaching, Kawashima couldn't understand why these tanks didn't fire shelling? Didn't they have shells and wanted to knock down the barracks with the hull?

Regardless of whether the tanks of the Northeast Army had artillery shells or not, these rumbling tanks were a mortal threat to Kawashima and his men, and they must not be allowed to get close to the barracks, otherwise they would die without a place to bury.

Kawashima ordered the Japanese army to brave the dense bullet rain of the Northeast Army and fire wildly from the mén window, intending to suppress the firepower of the Northeast Army. At the same time, Kawashima immediately organized a tǐng team, and more than a dozen soldiers took off their shirts and rushed out of the barracks with grenades in a vain attempt to blow up the incoming tanks.

Although the armor of the FT-17 is only 6-22mm, the power of the grenade is really not large, and the armor of the FT-17 does not pose any threat at all.

However, the tanks of this period had a common weakness, that is, all the tanks in the world at this time used gasoline engines, and even until World War II, the vast majority of tanks were still the same. The fatal drawback of tanks with gasoline engines is that they are afraid of fire.

At this time, once the tank was blown up or ignited, the fire could not be extinguished, and the tankmen could only abandon the vehicle and let it explode and burn out. This is also the reason why Molotov cocktails were still used a lot against tanks during World War II. The most famous Molotov cocktail is the Molotov Molotov Molot

However, Kawashima's struggle was obviously futile, and even impossible to succeed, the dense rain of bullets from several directions blocked the windows of the barracks held by the Japanese army tightly, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers just rushed out, and were immediately hit like a sieve by the dense rain of bullets, and a few Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to be wounded and did not die, before they could throw the grenades in their hands, were knocked down by the Haqikes M1922 machine gun bullets on the oncoming twelve tanks. More than a dozen members of the tǐng body died in an area less than ten meters in front of the barracks. ,

Kawashima had no choice but to take out all his limited forces to die, so he ordered his soldiers to throw grenades from the mén window.

However, the grenades themselves were not as far as the grenades with wooden handles, and the angle at which the grenades were thrown by the Japanese troops was greatly limited in the dense rain of bullets, so these grenades exploded within 30 to 40 meters in front of the barracks, and shrapnel flew sideways and the flames flashed in this area.

The grenades carried by the Japanese army were limited, and even if the Japanese army threw grenades, the Japanese army would not be able to hold out for long, and there was really no way for Kawashima to do so.

However, the grenades constantly thrown by the Japanese army still played a certain role, and the tanks that were bombarding forward finally stopped more than fifty meters away from the barracks.

The delighted Japanese thought that the grenades they threw frightened the tanks, and they couldn't help but let out a burst of excited screams. However, their joy lasted only a short time, and the shouting of the Japanese soldiers stopped abruptly, because they saw that the tanks of the Chi Na men were beginning to turn their turrets and adjust the angle of their muzzles, and the muzzles of the black dòngdòng were pointed in unison at the barracks where they were.

It was too late for the desperate Japanese to take any more measures, and they saw that the guns of those tanks flashed one after another, and with the continuous flickering fire, the barracks they were guarding and resisting followed the fire and beat wildly with the firelight.

After the sound of tank artillery stopped, there were already 12 more black and irregular holes in front of the barracks they were guarding on Kawashima, and thick smoke and dust rose from the barracks, which kept rushing out along the mén windows and the 12 newly opened "windows", and the gunfire of the Japanese soldiers in the barracks immediately thinned out, but the coughing and screams of the Japanese soldiers inside continued to sound one after another.

And that's not all, the tanks outside began a second round of shelling.

Before the second round of shelling was over, the barracks in front could no longer withstand the fierce artillery fire, and collapsed with a bang, and then the wings on both sides also fell. After the smoke and dust cleared, the original barracks had become a ruin.

The officers and men of the three battalions jumped up from the roofs and shelters at this time, and cheered loudly and indulgencely, and the great anger that had accumulated in their hearts was not given some vent until this time.

However, the tankmen did not seem to be relieved of their hatred, and one tank started again, driving directly onto the ruins, and the other tanks followed suit, using the hard and cold steel tracks of the tanks, repeatedly crushing on the ruins, and in the crushing of the tanks, from time to time there were miserable wails from under the ruins.

The tank company's cheerful move once again drew bursts of cheers and applause from the officers and men of the third battalion.

Although Kawashima was completely annihilated, the gunfire in Beida Mén was still very strong, and Wang Tiehan ordered Jiang Mingwen to gather troops and prepare to go to Beimén to encircle and annihilate Ono's squadron.

Li Xiangpu hurriedly came from behind at this time, and reminded Wang Tiehan and Guan Yiheng a little anxiously: "Yixing, Jiesan, Captain Han has received reliable information that the Japanese troops stationed in Liaoyang, Benxi Lake, Tieling, Fushun and other places are already heading towards Shenyang. Among them, the Japanese garrison stationed in Tieling had already taken a car south two hours earlier. Now that the main force of the Seventh Brigade has been withdrawn, there are no regular troops near Shenyang except for the battalion of the Fourth Route Army in the Northeast Arsenal, and if we do not evacuate the Beida Battalion in time, once we are touched by the Japanese reinforcements, it will not be easy to leave at that time. ”

Guan Yiheng also calmed down at this time, and said to Wang Tiehan: "Jiesan, what Deputy Commander Li said is true, we must withdraw immediately, not only can we not stay here for a long time, but even the troops in the arsenal cannot stay for a long time, we must evacuate Shenyang before dawn." ”

Wang Tiehan looked at his watch, nodded and said, "The situation is indeed very serious, and we have to evacuate the Beida camp immediately." In this way, I took the chariot company to the north mén, solved the Japanese troops as soon as possible, and then immediately withdrew to the arsenal. ”

Then, Wang Tiehan said to Li Xiangpu and Guan Yiheng: "Deputy Commander Li, Yixing, don't be idle, let's ...... Each regiment and battalion of the 7th Brigade has trucks for transporting supplies, and each company also has large trucks, and you have organized these troops to use these vehicles to transport as much ammunition and fuel as possible from the 621st Regiment, the 619th Regiment, and the troops directly under the brigade, which are all the ...... we need in the War of Resistance in North Manchuria."

"Commander, look at what's that?" Jiang Mingwen on the side pointed to the sky in the southeast direction and said loudly in surprise.

Li Xiangpu, Guan Yùheng and Wang Tiehan looked in the direction of Jiang Mingwen's finger, and saw a few flickering lights in the sky above Dongta Airport in the southeast.

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