Chapter 455: Chinese Tiger King VS Sherman

The Chinese army that had counterattacked from Jask did not pay attention to the Allied soldiers who raised their hands and surrendered. Instead, he passed by them with a blank face, and quickly pounced on the hills.

The area around Jasque is not much different from the Middle East, it is barren and hilly.

The defensive line that China had built on the periphery of the Jask base was built on the hills. These small hills are the only commanding heights in the area.

Fighters in the sky continued to attack the emerging American armored division, and dense artillery fire exploded in the Sherman tank group. In addition to the tanks that were lucky enough to dodge, many Shermans had already caught fire in their nests.

As the main land weapon used by the United States to support the Allied forces, Sherman appeared in many parts of the world. In particular, the 200,000 American reinforcements that arrived in India with the reinforcements brought a large number of Marine tanks and armored vehicles. After all, in many parts of India, the role of tanks is huge. Not to mention the proximity to the Middle East, where tanks will be the main weapon of war.

In the complete opposite of the desert, in the desert, there is no way for tanks to move forward. The desert is most suitable for the rapid advance of tanks, there is no need to build roads, there is no barrier from mountains and rivers, and everywhere is suitable for the large-scale deployment of tank troops.

Tank units, arriving in the hills, immediately stopped their advance. Inside the tank, in the eyes of the sightman, a torrent was rolling in the distance, and a large number of Shermans were moving towards them at a rapid pace.

This was the largest concentration of Allied tank forces in the area today, having lost a large number of tanks in three consecutive days of attack. And there are quite a few tanks under the blows of the Chinese Air Force. Become a pile of scrap metal.

These tanks were the armor that had survived with great difficulty, and Edward had no intention of preserving them. For the Allied forces, which have lost their air superiority, these tanks will be wiped out by China sooner or later, and it is better to do a big job.

And behind these Sherman tanks, a large number of infantry followed. The Butan was also very familiar with the Allied forces, and there were many armored vehicles among them. It looks a little bit Chinese.

It's just that under the blow of the Chinese Air Force, the armored team of the allied forces seemed a little flustered, and it was not as neat as the usual infantry and tan coordination.

"Each vehicle attacks on its own, the main target. Eliminate this bunch of little guys. "Occupied the highest point of the hills. The commander of the armored regiment immediately gave the order to attack at will.

Sherman, who weighs only 33 tons in battle, can indeed be said to be a group of little guys in front of the 45-ton battle weight of the Chinese Tiger King. In particular, the King Tiger's 125-mm smoothbore gun compared to Hillman's 76-mm tank gun. More lethality than a little bit.

As an alternative to the Chinese tiger. In order to adapt to a more brutal battlefield environment. Become a new type of Chinese main battle tank. The Chinese King Tiger is completely detached from the design concept of the Chinese Tiger, with a low turret body, just like the Rhino and Apocalypse tanks. Advanced wedge-shaped inclined turret.

The use of high-strength defensive alloys, the latest high-horsepower engines, automatic filling systems, on-board electronics, on-board optical sighting, infrared aiming at night. All this is completely beyond the scope of the strength of the previous Chinese tank, although he is completely different from the Chinese Tiger, and it is also different from the German Tiger tank and even the Tiger King, but Chen Shao still named him the Tiger King, which belongs to the Chinese King Tiger Tank.

The Sherman under the hill also found those Tiger Kings who occupied the commanding heights, and their powerful appearance was different from the appearance of any tank in the world, so that these Allied armored soldiers driving Sherman could be discovered at a glance.

Trying hard to adjust the elevation angle of the gun barrel, they were disappointed that although they could rely on the distance here and hit the hills, if they got close to the hills, the angle of the gun barrels could not rise to the angle of hitting the top of the hills.

There was no need for an order, seeing that the Chinese tanks appeared in front of him, Hillman, who was at the forefront, had already begun to launch artillery strikes on the hills.

However, before their shells had fallen on the hills, the self-propelled artillery battalions of the heavy artillery regiments and armored regiments in the Jasque base were already attacking them. At the time when the Warhawk-3 issued a warning to the tank troops. The artillery units in the rear also received a warning from the air force, and the heavy artillery regiment did not hesitate to turn the guns and turn the target to the Allied tank units.

The war eagles hovering in the air also directly scattered their firepower at the Allied tank troops, striking together in the open air, and the Allied tank troops, which were already in an untidy formation, became even more panicked. Especially those infantry who followed behind the tanks, still in the wilderness, where there was no slightest obstruction, dense artillery, so that these infantry suffered heavy casualties.

On the hills, Sherman's artillery fire stirred up a lot of dust and smoke, and some shells hit the Tiger King directly, but these shells were either bounced off by the wedge-shaped armor or blocked by the hard armor. The heavy alloy armor is not at all penetrated by some 76 mm caliber armor-piercing shells. Unless it is a tank gun of more than 100 mm, or an armor-piercing projectile with sufficient kinetic energy. Otherwise, with these Shermans, it will be absolutely impossible to penetrate the armor of the Tiger King. Either it is to break through the armor of the track and blow it off, otherwise there is not the slightest threat to the Tiger King.

The barrel of the gun rotates with the sight, targeting a moving Shermana. The barrel moved downward, turning in the direction of the Sherman's movement.

The sound of cannonballs sliding in the sky continued to sound, and the Sherman moved quickly under the fire, dodging the dense fire around him. Just as this Sherman was passing through the smoke from the explosion of the cannonball in front of it, the Tiger King staring at it shook violently on the hills, the huge body swayed violently back and forth, the heat dissipation of the cannon barrel spewed flames, and the air became scorching.

A 125-mm armor-piercing projectile shot out of the barrel of the gun with a flash of fire under a strong thrust and swooped down on the Sherman under the hills. The steaming shells ejected from behind the turret of the tank, fell onto the base of the tank behind it, and then rolled to the ground.

The armor-piercing shell reached its target in an instant, piercing Sherman's tall frontal armor, and from the junction of the turret and base, the huge momentum allowed the shell to penetrate directly into the tank, and in a short moment, a violent explosion sounded. The entire turret of the Hillman was torn off, and it became a burning ball of fire on the battlefield. Among the scattered parts, some corners of clothing can be found wrapped in human debris.

Other King Tiger tanks also took action, and on the hills, with the continuous shelling of the King Tiger tanks, countless dust on the ground were shaken, and the sand particles on the hills were constantly shaking, as if an earthquake was coming.

On the hills, many Chinese soldiers carrying anti-tank rocket launchers dodged out from behind the tanks, aimed at the Sherman tank below, and pulled the hair color button. Flames erupted from behind the anti-tank rocket launchers, and the anti-tank rocket launchers in the barrels flew out, quickly rushing towards the Sherman tank below.

Under the multiple blows, the number of Allied tanks was constantly decreasing. Burning tanks constantly appeared on the battlefield, and the tall Sherman became a good target for the Chinese army.

"Infantry fighting vehicle battalions, advancing from the left and right sides of the hills, encircling the infantry behind enemy tanks."

With the new order on the battlefield, the infantry fighting vehicle units, parked under the hills, were launched again. Split into two attack arrays, bypassing the hills where the Tiger King was entrenched, forming a huge pincer and lunging towards the infantry behind the Allied tank troops.

"The first and second battalions of the Tiger King launched an attack on the enemy's left and right flanks, with the third battalion of the Tiger King in the center."

The King Tiger tank engine on the hill let out a loud roar, smoke rose from the exhaust pipe in the rear, and the big man weighing forty-five tons went into action again. Leapfrogging over the hills, he pounced on the few remaining Shermans below.

The infantry following the tank also began to move, and the individual anti-tank rocket launchers were reloaded, ignoring the exhaust gas emitted by the tank, and followed closely behind the tank to attack the Allied tank forces.

The two sides exchanged fire again, and the remaining Shermans saw the King Tiger tanks in advance. It can be said that the enemies are very angry when they see each other, and the sound of tank gun fire is constantly resounding on the battlefield, which is also mixed with the sound of "chirping" anti-tank rocket artillery fire.

On the hills, the Chinese infantry also set up light and heavy machine guns, improved M2 heavy machine guns, and constantly sprayed bullets at the infantry in the rear of the Allied tank units, and the M2 heavy machine guns, which had an effective range of seven kilometers, completely covered any target in the field of vision. Combined with squad machine gun and light machine gun fire, it is condescending on the hills, forming a large area of firepower.

The tanks of both sides soon became entangled, and the Allied tanks, which had originally had a numerical advantage, had completely fallen under the previous intensive attacks. The form on the battlefield, with the Tiger King occupying the advantage in many aspects, soon became one-sided.

Infantry fighting vehicles, which had bypassed the hills, also suddenly shot out from the flanks of the infantry in the rear of the Allied forces at this time. Vehicle-mounted twin 20-millimeter machine guns were constantly firing at the Allied soldiers, and jumping shells kept falling on the roof of the infantry fighting vehicles. The sound of "ding-ding-dong" collision and machine-gun fire converge to play a killing symphony.

In the firing hole of the body division, the sound of rifle fire was constantly sounded. The wounded soldiers riding inside, through the shooting holes, used the lone Allied soldiers as moving targets. The magazines were replaced one by one, and inside the infantry fighting vehicle, the bullet casings from the assault rifle had been spread all over the compartment.

Infantry fighting vehicles equipped with flame launchers are even more invincible on the battlefield, spraying sprays with a distance of up to 80 meters, imprinting the battlefield with assimilation, and the cold wind in winter has also turned into layers of heat waves.

The smell of roasted meat, the smell of burnt, the burning tumbling Allied soldiers, the heart-rending wails. In the eyes of the Chinese soldiers, they looked at everything in front of them indifferently, and in their hearts, they only attacked and attacked.

Pulling the weapons in their hands and destroying the Allied soldiers who did not raise their hands to surrender one by one, their hearts were filled with joy.

These Allied soldiers are pitiful, but there is something hateful about the poor people. Thinking back to the comrades who had been sleeping forever in the cold storage under the Jasque airport, their eyes flashed more resentment towards these people in addition to indifferent killing.

Moreover, in the Chinese army, there is always a saying: "To be merciful to the enemy is to be the greatest cruelty to oneself." (To be continued.) )