While the Soviet Red Army was tortured and killed by the Northern Air Force in the air, Isov and others on the ground were also in trouble. The Soviet army's retreat to the north is an obvious thing, and there is no need to consider breaking through to the south, which is the key offensive direction of Chen Feng's department. The same is true for the west, where the Gobi desert is all gone, and even if it succeeds, it will be wiped out by the harsh natural environment. Now the Soviet Union and Japan have just signed a neutrality treaty, if the Soviet Red Army suddenly breaks into the range of Japanese power at this time, it is easy to cause diplomatic disputes, and even the joint efforts of the two sides will come to naught, so only the north is the most suitable for the Soviet army to break through in the four directions of east, west, south and north.

With such a judgment, the main force of the Eighth Theater of Operations went to the north of the Soviet army last night to build a position, and according to Chen Feng's order, it was necessary to completely annihilate this Soviet-Mongolian coalition army and give the Soviet Union a disadvantage.

As soon as the breakout began, Major General Isov sadly discovered that there were at least three Chinese infantry divisions to the north, and there were also a large number of tanks there. In fact, what Major General Isov did not know was that it was not three infantry divisions that stood in front of them, but an integrated division of the Eighth Theater of Operations. However, Major General Isov's vision is still good, although the integrated division has only one division number, but its total strength is not less than the three infantry divisions of the Nationalist Government.

However, at this point, Major General Isov knew that he had no way back, and that the ammunition supplies they carried in the south this time were not very sufficient, and in the battle last night, the headquarters and ammunition depots were the focus of the attack of the Chinese artillery units. From the beginning, he was taken care of by the heavy artillery unit, so after Major General Isov gathered his troops, he found that all the ammunition in his department could not last for two days. Because of this, Major General Isov had to break through.

In order to be able to successfully break through, Major General Isov put the only 270 tanks in his command at the front of the troops, and he asked the tank troops to clear the way for the infantry.

The formation of a collective charge of several hundred tanks was extremely spectacular, like a torrent of steel, rushing towards the position of the Eighth Theater Guard Division.

Five kilometers north of the Soviet position, Ma Cao sat on a T34 tank, holding a telescope and closely watching the movements of the Soviet-Mongolian forces. Seeing that the Soviet Red Army began to move. Ma Cao put down the binoculars, and then ordered loudly: "The Soviet Red Army has begun to break through in our direction, and our task is to intercept them and destroy them!" ”

"Intercept them. Destroy them! All the officers and soldiers shouted in unison.

"Good! It's going to be like that. Act in accordance with the original plan. The artillery units immediately shelled, and the armored units were ready to charge! ”

"Boom Boom"

On the way of the Soviet tank charge, shells fell from the sky everywhere, and more than a hundred large-caliber field heavy guns set up a barrage of steel on the way to the Soviet army to break through. Blow, fly, and scrap Soviet tanks.

Fortunately, this distance was not very long, less than five kilometers, and it was nothing in front of the BT fast tanks equipped by the Soviet army, and the Soviet Red Army ran out of the restricted area of shelling by Chinese artillery in only ten minutes.

However, the disaster was not over, and when the Soviet armored unit was less than a kilometer away from the headquarters of the guard division, Ma Cao ordered his armored brigade to charge immediately.

This is a duel between steel monsters, and this is a collision between iron streams. 270 Soviet tanks and 400 Chinese tanks quickly collided in the second large-scale armored war in northern China. The first time was the Battle of Inner Mongolia between the Soviet Union and Japan, and the Soviets won that time, but this time the Soviets were not very lucky.

Major General Isov is very confident in this armored battle, according to the information obtained in advance, Chen Feng's department does have a large number of tanks, but they are all Type 94 and Type 95 light tanks captured from the Japanese army, these two light tanks Major General Isov has seen in the Battle of Nomenkan, and their performance is extremely rubbish, and they are not as good as the BT7 fast tank of the Soviet Union.

As the commander of a tank division, Isov is still relatively good at armored combat, and he also participated in the Battle of Nomenkan a few months ago, and is one of the few senior commanders in the Soviet Union who have participated in actual combat training. He is well aware of the characteristics of armored warfare, and perhaps although weapons and equipment are important in the operations of other arms, they may not necessarily be able to determine the outcome of a campaign.

But in terms of armored combat, it is different, whether the tank performance is advanced or not, the most important factor in whether the battle can be won, if the hardware conditions are not good, then even the best commander will come in vain.

And his tank 59th Division was originally formed to deal with the Japanese, and the BT7 fast tank equipped with it was specially designed to deal with the Japanese Type 97 medium tank with more powerful performance than the Type 94 and Type 95 light tanks, so this battle Major General Isoff was bound to win.

However, reality has dealt him another heavy blow.

"Boom"

A BT7 tank that rushed to the front opened fire, obviously this tanker is an armored fighter with a lot of combat experience, and he knows that the first strike is stronger, and this tanker has a strong sense of reaction and hits the target with one shot. Looking at the huge fireball burning on the body of the Chinese tank not far away, the Soviet tanker smiled.

But what happened next made the tanker almost pee, only to see that the burning Chinese tank stopped in place for less than a minute, and started again despite the fire on the body, while the tank turret began to rotate and aim at his car.

The Soviet tankers quickly made an emergency evasion, forcing the Chinese tankers to continue to adjust their perspective and continue to aim. Taking advantage of this gap, the Soviet tankmen fired two shots in a row.

"Boom" "Boom"

This time it was even more outrageous, although the two shells hit the Chinese tanker's car, they magically ejected and exploded in the air, causing almost no damage to the Chinese tank.

The Soviet tankman was surprised and didn't know what to say, his big mouth opened wide, and his eyes revealed a thick fear, is this Nima still a tank? What frightened the Soviet tankmen even more was that by this time the Chinese tankmen had already readjusted the angle. And quickly fired.

"Boom"

The Soviet tanker tried to dodge, but it was too late, and he watched as the shell came out of the barrel of the Chinese tank and exploded on his car, with a loud bang, and then he lost consciousness.

The same thing can be seen everywhere on the battlefield, the Soviet BT7 tank hit the Chinese tank and paralyzed the Chinese tank at most, and only a few hit the side armor or ammunition depot will completely scrap the Chinese tank. As long as the Chinese tank hits the Soviet tank, then the result is that the car is destroyed and people die.

Major General Isoff was stunned, and when he got closer, he found that the Nimana was a tin box made by a Japanese monkey. This is a large tank that has never been seen at all. It can't be said that I haven't seen it at all, and Isov discovered China . The tank used by the army was somewhat similar to the T26 tank of the great Soviet Union, but he was sure it was not a T26. Its wild and domineering posture shocked all Soviet tankers. And swept the entire battlefield with the domineering spirit of dominating the world.

Major General Isoff couldn't figure it out. What tanks are the Chinese equipped with, and why are they so advanced. And where did this advanced tank come from?

In fact, it is no wonder that Major General Isoff is so entangled, and the BT7 fast tank equipped with his 59th Tank Division is also a good tank. The BT fast tank was a famous Soviet tank of the 30s. The prototype was the famous American Christie tank, and at that time these fast tanks could reach a considerable speed, reaching speeds of up to 60 km/h. The BT-7 is the largest series in the BT family, debuting in 1935, mainly with the M-17T gasoline engine copied from the German BMW engine, and the body has also been redesigned.

The BT-7 series is also available in a variety of variants, and this tank maintains the excellent high-speed performance of the BT series, with a maximum road speed of 86 km/h on wheels and 73 km/h on tracks, and a road range of more than 500 km, far exceeding other tanks of the era. The BT-7 used a 45 mm gun, which was a powerful gun in the 30s, and could penetrate 31 mm armor at a distance of 500 meters.

But this kind of strength is only relative, compared with the T34 tank equipped by Chen Feng, the BT series of fast tanks are just a scum, which is simply weak.

Compared to the Soviet BT7, the T34 tank is luxurious in terms of armor, firepower and power. The body armor was all 45 mm thick, but the frontal armor had a 32-degree bevel and the sides were also 49 degrees. The turret was a cast hexagonal type, the frontal armor was 60 mm thick, the sides were also 45 mm, and the bevel of the body extended to the turret, so that the T-34 was almost a right-angled triangle from the front. Bevel armor has two advantages, firstly, it is easy to bounce off after a shell hits (i.e., 'ricochet') and its power is greatly reduced.

Secondly, according to the triangular principle, after a horizontally fired shell hits the beveled armor, the thickness of the steel plate that needs to pass through it is equivalent to the hypotenuse of the triangle, so the frontal armor of the T-34 tank with a thickness of 45 mm and a 32-degree bevel angle is equivalent to 90 mm, and the side armor with a 49-degree bevel angle is also equivalent to 54 mm. Such frontal armor, even if it is as strong as Germany, its army tanks are equipped with no artillery at a distance of 500 meters, let alone the Soviet BT series tanks.

In addition, the firepower of the T34 far exceeds that of the BT7, which is equipped with a 45mm gun and 2 7.62mm machine guns, which is simply not on the same level as the 76mm L/30.5 cannon of the T34 tank. The T34 tank is not only better than the tanks of the BT series, but even if you look at the whole world, there is no tank that is its opponent right now. The BT series tanks are notoriously thin-skinned and large, which can be called the iron coffins of Europe, and their armor is generally weak, and even the front armor of the BT-71937 model is only 13 mm, which is difficult to resist the blows of ordinary anti-tank guns, let alone withstand the fire of T34 tanks.

As with the aerial slaughter, the steel torrent on the ground was a brutal one-sided slaughter, with a quarter of the 270 BT7 fast tanks wiped out by the Chinese artillery cluster, and the rest all destroyed in less than an hour of armored duel, with less than 10 Soviet tanks that chose to surrender surviving, including Rear Admiral Isov's car. (To be continued......)