Chapter 19: A Chance Encounter with a Cobra
Ali doesn't know how many times he has done this action, the tank turns a corner with the smallest radius to change the direction of the operation, which also plays an important role in actual combat.
But now, this action has become an out-and-out suicide.
The reason why the tank can walk in the swamp is because the pressure on the track is not very large, and the ground can withstand it.
But now, one side of the track is panning, and the other side of the track is turning in place, and there is only one result: the track on this side is stuck in the dirt!
Halfway through, Ali felt a little bad, and from his experience, he knew that the left side had sunk and the body had become tilted.
He let go of the bar, trying to get the left track moving again, possibly out of danger.
Unfortunately, it didn't work, the 580-horsepower engine was emitting black smoke, the tracks were turning weakly in the blank, but the hull was not moving.
Hang up the reverse gear!
After falling in, since it can't move forward, let's go backwards and try.
Ali hooked into reverse gear, stepped on the accelerator hard, and violently loosened the clutch, and the tank only moved for a moment and stopped again.
Here, tanks are simply impassable, and this big man who came down from above, somehow thought, came up with such an idea, and now, this is the best example!
Ali thought to his chagrin that this place was simply insurmountable!
Now, let's try to get the tank out, after a while, I'm afraid the tank will have to sink to the bottom.
"Drive over and tow him with our armored car to see if it works." Zhang Feng said.
The purpose of transferring this tank is that in case it gets trapped, it can be towed by a tank, and now, on the other hand, a fourteen-ton tank is trapped, and there are only a dozen tons of armored vehicles, can it be towed?
No one dares to guarantee the ticket, but now we have to try it anyway, otherwise, if it gets dark, this tank can only be abandoned, and this is not a war, due to an accident, the damage to weapons and equipment is a very serious responsibility.
In the future, perhaps today's events will be compiled into a training outline and written into a code of conduct, and when the time comes, the 35th Armored Brigade will be out of order.
Zhang Feng didn't have those ideas, the most important thing at the moment was to get this tank back, now, it has penetrated more than 100 kilometers into the swamp area, and you can't let those unlucky tank crews walk back, right?
The armored car drove to the front, Zhang Feng jumped out of the car, untied the towing rope at the rear of the armored car, and hung it on the tank.
Zhang Feng's behavior has won the favor of everyone, this Lord Qusay, does not have a sense of nobility of those powerful people who are high, does not point fingers, but must bow down to everything, there are such people by their side, they feel very cordial.
Invisibly, Zhang Feng narrowed the distance with them, and they felt that this Excellency Qusai, who had no shelf, was very easy to get along with.
Even the gray-headed and rat-faced Ali said: "Your Excellency Qusay, blame me for not driving the tank." ”
"Don't blame yourself, if it weren't for protecting me, you wouldn't have sent the tank to the mud pond to bathe." Zhang Feng said teasingly.
Saying this, Ali blushed even more, and the depression during the day was swept away, and he felt very fortunate to have such a boss.
"Boom, boom." The armored vehicles gasped, the engines of the two tanks were running at full power at the same time, and finally, the tank got out of the danger just now and came out of the mud pit.
At this time, Zhang Feng, who was standing aside, had already been thrown off by the mud stirred up by the tracks.
The engines of the two chariots fell silent again, and in the muffled sound of the engines, Zhang Feng suddenly heard the sound of a propeller running through the air.
"Quick, pay attention to concealment, engine stall!" Zhang Feng shouted.
The toss just now helped a lot, and now, the two cars are full of mud, and from a distance, they blend into the swamp, plus the sky is dark, and the helicopter in the sky is probably difficult to find.
If in the XXI century, when infrared detectors are widely equipped, then two tanks will simply have nothing to hide, and the temperature of the engines will leak their whereabouts, but, at present, I am afraid that the Iranians have not yet fully equipped their planes with such things.
Zhang Feng hid under a small withered vine and looked up at the sky.
An Iranian AH-1 Cobra helicopter gunship, painted in gray, appeared in the western sky.
With flat heads and flanks on both sides, there are two rocket nests, a weapon that is enough to make two chariots lie on their stomachs.
Everyone was shocked in their hearts, they could see from the appearance that this was an Iranian helicopter gunship, what was it flying here for?
Moreover, this plane has been hovering at a low altitude all the time, and if it gets close and discovers everything here, I am afraid that it can only take measures to shoot it down.
Both the Type 63 armored car and the T-62 tank had anti-aircraft machine guns on them, which could perhaps be used against helicopters.
However, Zhang Feng didn't want to do this, the helicopter was the natural enemy of the tank, if the other party really found out, the only thing he could do was to run as far as he could, and stay away from the tank.
The helicopter was piloted by two pilots from the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
When the war began, Iraqi forces marched in and occupied large swathes of Iranian territory.
After an initial defeat, the Iranian army finally reacted, withstood the Iraqi attack, and now they are plotting a counteroffensive.
On the southern front, the Iraqis captured the important town of Khoram Shahr and besieged Abadan, and the counterattack on Abadan is beginning to be planned, and the command has formulated a bold plan: from the Susangild swamp in the north, using armored troops, to raid this area, complete the counter-encirclement of the Iraqi army invading Iran, and destroy the invaders on their own land!
An elite armored division had quietly reached Lamin on the other side of the swamp, and now they were waiting for oil supplies and the time for the swamp to dry up.
If you want to break through this swamp and give the enemy a surprise blow, you must plan carefully, and now, the swamp is too muddy to facilitate the maneuver of the chieftain's main battle tank, but as long as you wait for ten days when there is little rain, you can boldly penetrate it.
And in the swampy areas, not all places are more muddy, and some highlands are still relatively dry, and these places have to store fuel in advance.
The scene of the assault of the armored forces is very spectacular, but the fuel consumed is also astronomical, if you drive directly through the swamp, then, when you get out of the swamp, the fuel will also run out, at that time, what to take to capture the position?
Therefore, it is necessary to find a suitable place in the middle of the swamp in advance to replenish the tanks, so that we can have the strength to assault and occupy the Susangelde area, and then move south to counterattack Ahvaz and Khoram Shahr.
Therefore, several helicopters on reconnaissance missions have been looking for suitable locations in the swamp for the past few days, and in order to avoid being detected by the Iraqis, they have carried out reconnaissance near the western edge, and they have carried out reconnaissance before the fall of the day.
Clinker, their reconnaissance, or unfortunately passed by Zhang Feng's convoy.
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