739 Fire Dragon Chariot Sortie

Lei Guang immediately arranged for the fire dragon chariot to prepare for the attack, at this time the first armored division was equipped with a total of thirty fire dragon chariots, this equipment is still being tested, so there is no large-scale equipment, this equipment has a miraculous effect against the fortress fortifications, so the Huaxia army plans to equip it on a large scale in the future.

Its practical fire dragon chariot is still more dangerous to deal with the defense of the Japanese army, because the effective spray distance of the fire dragon chariot is 150 meters to 200 meters, which is related to the wind speed and direction, and the Japanese water dragon cannon attack distance is 200 meters to 300 meters.

Later, Lei Guang saw that everyone was looking forward to the fire dragon chariot, so it was not easy to say much about this difficulty.

In order to ensure that the fire dragon chariot would not be destroyed by the Japanese water dragon cannon, Lei Guang designed a set of attack tactics for the fire dragon chariot.

Lei Guang divided the thirty fire dragon chariots into six groups, each group of five, and the fuel spraying width of each one was about 50 meters, that is to say, five fire dragon chariots were enough to open a gap of more than 200 meters on the Japanese defense line, and six groups of fire dragon chariots could open a gap of more than 1,000 meters, which was enough for the subsequent invasion of artillery chariots to drive straight in.

Each dragon chariot group is protected by ten plundering artillery chariots, and behind each dragon chariot on both sides, there is a predatory artillery chariot, which shoots at the breastwork, suppressing the enemy behind the wall with bullets and shells, so that the Japanese soldiers do not have the opportunity to use the water dragon cannon, and there are five snipers behind each predatory artillery chariot to accurately snipe the water dragon cannon firing group that appears behind the battlement.

These snipers are actually not equipped with sniper rifles, the sniper rifles of the Huaxia Army are still relatively few, most of them are equipped with sniper teams, they use ordinary rifles, but the marksmanship is excellent, and they are used as snipers.

Hundreds of meters behind the dragon tank, there are also a number of horse trucks, when the dragon tank completes the flamethrower burning mission, the horse truck will take the lead in the kill, dump sandbags into the trench, build two slopes in the trench, and then rush out of the trench and build an inclined plane under the breastwork.

The whole plan is deployed seamlessly, and it depends on whether it can be successfully executed.

In order to facilitate the cover of the plundering artillery vehicles and snipers, Lei Guang chose to attack the Japanese positions during the day.

On 17 June, the wind was blowing easterly and the wind speed was two metres per second, and the fuel sprayed by the Fire Dragon Chariot would be blown back by the wind, making it unsuitable for attack.

On June 18, the wind was blowing westwards at a speed of three meters per second, which was the perfect time for the Dragon Chariot to spray fuel.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lei Guang ordered the Fire Dragon Chariot to attack.

Six groups of fire dragon chariots split into three directions and simultaneously launched an attack on the Japanese position, and the fire dragon chariot and the predatory artillery chariot rolled up a cloud of dust and quickly approached the Japanese position.

On the Japanese position, all the Japanese soldiers entered the combat state, the Japanese soldiers dug a trench more than ten meters behind the breastwork, when the Huaxia Army opened fire, the Japanese soldiers hid in the trenches, at this time the Japanese soldiers were worried that the Huaxia Army would cover the Japanese positions with fire, so they entered the trenches first.

Seeing that the invading artillery chariots were getting closer and closer, but not a single shell fell on the position, the Japanese soldiers realized that this time the Huaxia Army did not intend to use firepower to cover the position, so they took the water dragon cannon and came behind the breastwork.

The Japanese soldiers set up the barrels, loaded the propellant and explosives packs, and the aiming hand held a simple rangefinder to measure the distance of the plundering artillery chariot, and the launcher held the fire tube and prepared to ignite......

300 meters away from the Japanese position, the invaded artillery and combat vehicles stopped according to the original plan, and fired a rain of bullets at the Japanese position, shells and bullets covered the Japanese position for a time, the water dragon cannon firing group was too close to the battlement, many Japanese soldiers were hit, fell to the ground and died, and some water dragon guns were detonated, killing many people.

However, the snipers who followed the Raiding Artillery Chariot did not play a role, because the smoke and dust from the explosion of the shells were too large, and the bullets would also raise smoke and dust when they hit the breastwork, and the smoke and dust would cover the breastwork, blocking the sniper's view tightly, which was not expected by Thunder Light before the battle.

The front-line commander improvised and ordered the infantry to rush forward and remove the snipers.

The fire dragon chariot continued to rush towards the Japanese position, during this time, several Japanese water dragon cannons fired explosive packs, and the protection of the plundering artillery chariot could only reduce the probability of the water dragon cannon firing shells, and it was impossible to completely eliminate the possibility of water dragon cannons firing cannons.

At this time, another shortcoming of the water dragon cannon was exposed, that is, the accuracy was too poor, which was also the chronic disease of this simple anti-armor weapon, if this weapon had high accuracy and long range, then all countries in the Lin Fei era would not need to be equipped with anti-tank guns.

The only chance for the water dragon cannon to blow up the plundering artillery chariot is to concentrate multiple water dragon cannons and attack one plundering artillery chariot at the same time, making up for the lack of accuracy with the quantity, and in this battle, the Huaxia military fire cover, resulting in very few water dragon cannons that can fire explosive packs, so none of the explosive packs hit the fire dragon chariot at all.

The Fire Dragon Chariot finally approached the Japanese position, and inside the Fire Dragon Chariot, there were only two crew members, a driver and a launcher, and the reason for such a configuration was that the gasoline launcher and the gasoline storage device were quite huge, and it was necessary to save the space of the crew and allocate it to these two systems.

Although there was only one crew member in the turret, it still looked very cramped, and the launcher used a simple optical rangefinder to calculate the distance, then adjusted the barrel pointing and sprayed gasoline at the Japanese position, at which point the support fire of the Huaxia Army stopped attacking.

The gasoline used in the fire dragon chariot is refined, easy to explode and burn, and has a pale yellow color, unlike the oil dumped during the previous battle of Lushun Fortress, which is black in color.

The yellow oil column sprayed at the Japanese position, the oil column was straight at the beginning, flew to the back, and then dispersed, falling like raindrops, almost every Japanese soldier was drenched, gasoline fell to the ground, and on the ground converged into a stream, flowing slowly, and the whole battlefield was filled with the mixed smell of gunpowder smoke and gasoline.

The Japanese soldiers are no strangers to gasoline, in the Battle of Lushun, the Monkey King airship once used the trick of throwing oil drums, the Japanese soldiers at that time knew to use a shovel to bury the gasoline, and now these Japanese soldiers are even more so, they saw the gasoline scattered and immediately started to dig the soil to bury the gasoline.

These Japanese soldiers did not have sapper shovels, so they used their hands. The water dragon cannon itself is a big cylinder, so some Japanese soldiers use the water dragon cannon as a shovel, shovel soil and bury oil, it is now June, the northeast is very warm, the land is soft, very easy to dig.

The original plan of the fire dragon chariot was to spray all the gasoline and then shoot incendiary bombs with machine guns, but now that the Japanese soldiers were actually burying gasoline, the crew changed their minds and lit the fire now.

The crew fired incendiary bombs with machine guns, and as soon as the incendiary bombs touched the gasoline, they immediately ignited the gasoline, only to hear a loud "boom", and a huge fireball rose from the Japanese position, and a large group of Japanese soldiers exploded in the fireball, falling with a full body of flames, and turned into charred flesh in the flames.

After the fireball was extinguished, the fire burned on the Japanese position, and the flames were wrapped in thick smoke and rose into the sky, and the Japanese soldiers had gasoline on their bodies, and these gasoline were also ignited, and the Japanese soldiers turned into groups of human torches.

A person can die of pain when touched by a little spark, let alone a fire all over his body, and the severe pain of the flames makes them scream heartbreakingly, roll with all their might, and run around without a head......

There was a great chaos on the Japanese position, so the fire dragon chariot was not satisfied, and continued to spray gasoline, as soon as the gasoline was poured on the flame, the flame suddenly jumped up more than ten meters high, and the Japanese soldiers saw what it was to "add fuel to the fire" this time.

The fire also ignited the explosives package of the water dragon cannon, and from time to time there were violent explosions on the position, and what was surprising was that the explosion of the explosive package could often blow a huge gap in the concrete breastoping wall, and the Huaxia army almost did not need to build an inclined plane on this side.

When the dragon chariots saw the fire rising, they stopped spraying fuel, but they did not retreat, but approached the front of the trench, because the process of building the slope took a certain amount of time, and if the gasoline burned out at this time, the dragon chariot had to "mend the knife".

Taking advantage of this time, the horse truck rushed to the trench like an arrow, shook its head violently on the edge of the trench, aimed the rear of the car at the trench, and five or six fighters jumped out of the wagon, jumped down the trench, leaving two fighters on the truck, and threw the sandbags in the wagon down the trench, and the soldiers in the trench used these sandbags to pile up the slope.

The process of piling up the inclined plane was relatively slow, and the senior commanders such as Lei Guang and Li Mingming in the rear were anxious, if the flames were extinguished at this time, the Japanese army would counterattack in a big way, and the soldiers in the horse trucks and trenches would be in danger.

Lei Guang turned his head to look at the staff officer beside him, and said in a deep voice: "Record my words - I am Lei Guang, and I ask Your Majesty to equip us with an armored vehicle that can quickly build bridges." ”

Lei Guang was talking, when suddenly a dense burst of gunfire came from the trench, and soon a soldier came to report: "The Japanese army has sent troops into the trench and is exchanging fire with our soldiers. ”

Although the Japanese soldiers were burned to death, the Japanese army did not retreat, and the Japanese commander saw that the Huaxia army was approaching the trench, and immediately dispatched a trench death squad to keep the Huaxia army out of the trench.

If the Huaxia army was blocked out of the trenches, the Japanese army would be able to re-establish its defenses, and the Huaxia army would really have lost its previous efforts.