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On September 16, 1916, on a hillside known to the locals as "Viper Ridge", about 20 kilometers west of Sorochinsk, Major Triandafilov was half-exposed outside the towering tank control tower, ignoring the hail of shells and shrapnel that splashed around him, as the familiar silhouettes below emerged in swarms from the morning mist. Pinshu %77%77%77%2e%76%6f%64%74%77%2e%63%6f%6d◇↓,

This 20-ton "Leopard" tank was abandoned by the Chinese armored troops on the battlefield of Sakmara, 160 kilometers away, more than two months ago.

The Independent Experimental Armored Battalion was expanded from the long-established Independent Experimental Tank Company, with two tank companies, one armored vehicle company and one self-propelled artillery company, and was equipped with a variety of captured weapons, ranging from tanks and self-propelled guns to semi-automatic rifles and hand-held machine guns (called submachine guns in the Chinese army).

Before the launch of the Chinese offensive, the battalion was equipped with 25 tanks, 5 self-propelled guns, and 23 armored vehicles, including: 5 captured and repaired "Leopard" heavy tanks (called "Iron Leopard" medium combat vehicles by the Chinese army), 13 "Wolf" medium tanks (called "Flying Wolf" light combat vehicles by the Chinese army), 7 "Fox" light tanks (called "Jiehu" machine gun combat vehicles by the Chinese army), 3 "Wolf 75" self-propelled howitzers (called "Fire Wolf" self-propelled infantry guns by the Chinese army), and 13 "Camel 75" self-propelled cannons (called "alpacas" by the Chinese army) self-propelled field guns) 2 units, 9 "Camel" half-track armored vehicles, and 14 Russian-made "Austin-Kegles" half-track armored vehicles.

The above-mentioned various types of Chinese armored vehicles have also been occasionally captured by the Russian army before, and comprehensive mapping and testing have been carried out, at the special request of Commander Nakasidze, who once served as the director of the armored forces. Copies of the relevant materials were copied and deposited at the headquarters of the Ural Front, which was finally put in handy this time.

Trian Dafilov led the crew carefully selected by him to study and practice day and night with reference to the technical materials issued, and soon found out the operation methods and technical characteristics of the tank, and took out a considerable part of the small number of shells to shoot live ammunition, with the aim of making the gunners of each vehicle familiar with the observation mode and ballistic characteristics of the main gun as soon as possible.

Right now. The time has come to put all these efforts to the test.

Triandafilov was a little less confident in the Leopard tank, which was equipped with a medium-barreled 57 mm gun, which was barely able to penetrate its 30 mm frontal tilt armor at a distance of 500 meters.

As for the long-barreled 37-mm gun of the "Wolf" tank, although it is enough to easily penetrate its own 16-mm thick frontal inclined armor at a direct range of 500 meters, it is completely powerless against the frontal of the "Leopard".

If the enemy had concentrated hundreds of Leopard tanks for a frontal assault this time, as in Sakmala, Triandafilov would not have been confident enough to hold off the enemy, even though his superiors had reinforced him with an additional 57mm self-propelled anti-tank gun company, a 76.2mm field artillery company towed by a half-track, an anti-aircraft company carried by a half-track, and two cavalry companies used as dismounted infantry.

Putting down the binoculars, Trian Dafilov pressed the switch on the throat transmitter, and the voice passed through the original "Zhantong-2" on-board radio station in the car. It reached the ears of the commanders of the subordinate companies within a range of 500 meters.

"The companies are engaged according to Plan A, taking care to conserve ammunition and keep their distance - listen, your task is to lead the enemy in front of the anti-tank gun position, and wait for them to be weakened before launching a counterattack, and no one is allowed to attack without my orders!"

……

"Company commander, isn't it our tank on the other side?"

Hearing the question from Corporal Zhu Xiangcheng, the commander of the gun, Zhong Yi only hesitated with a puff of smoke. Pressing the switch of the throat microphone and roaring: "It's the enemy!" Target - 15 degrees to the right enemy flying wolf to change the chariot, armor-piercing shells. Three shots in a row! ”

True, the vehicles on the opposite side are exactly the same as those under their seats, but that doesn't change the fact that they are enemies.

With only two crew members in the turret of the Flying Wolf Tank, and the commander had to double as a loader, Zhong Yi quickly pulled out a slender 37 mm shell from the ammunition rack on the inner wall of the turret and stuffed it into the chamber with a "clang". Closing the bolt, he patted Zhu Xiangcheng's left shoulder and signaled "Loading completed".

Zhu Xiangcheng's right eye was attached to the scope, his left hand turned the small handwheel to rotate the turret, and his right shoulder was against the shoulder rest stretched out from the tail of the gun to control the pitch of the gun. When he thought the time was right, he pulled a small trigger with his right hand, and the shell roared out, and the recoiled tail was bounced back into place by the hydraulic device just before it reached the shoulder rest—a slight mishap that could break the shoulder rest along with his shoulder.

A second or two later, Zhong Yi, who was lying in front of the commander's magnifying periscope, the commander's mirror for short, saw a small column of dust rise in front of the left of the target.

"Three degrees to the left, two degrees to the close, keep shooting!"

"Yes, three degrees to the left, two degrees to the near, immediately correct."

Zhong Yigang filled the second shell into the barrel, and Zhu Xiangcheng suddenly shouted in a fuss: "Company commander, company commander, the target has disappeared!" ”

"What? How can it be? ”

Zhong Yi looked in front of the commander's mirror, and the flying wolf chariot painted with white, blue and red markings on the turret opposite was indeed gone.

After a while, the shout of the battalion commander Fu Liang sounded rustling in the earphones: "There are wolf cubs, I am an old wolf, the enemy has retreated to the back of the hillside, and it is not allowed to pursue without my order. ”

"Our battalion commander is quite an understanding person."

Zhong Yi muttered in his heart while instructing Zhu Xiangcheng to use a vehicle-mounted machine gun to strafe the small bushes in front of him, and from time to time load grenades into the barrel to bombard him.

Soon, the infantry armed with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles jumped out of the field of view of the commander's mirror, followed by a support group carrying light machine guns, battle defense guns and mortars, Zhong Yi hurriedly reminded: "Xiao Zhu, pay attention to controlling the firing range, don't hit your own people." ”

Zhu Xiangcheng said "understood" cleanly, and after a puff of smoke, he called out sticky: "Company commander......"

"What's wrong?"

"Can you please not call me 'little pig'?"

Zhong Yi squinted his eyes and reminded again with an unchangeable attitude: "Corporal Xiao Zhu, control the shooting boundary." ”

…… (To be continued.) )

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