Chapter 695: Armored Battle

The mobility of the cavalry gave Kampf a good sense of the form of the battlefield. When his Forward Scout Company entered the battlefield, he keenly noticed that something was wrong. Combined with the information received from the rout, he could determine that the integrity of the position had been destroyed, the entire Russian position had been beaten to pieces, and the Chinese Army had entered a state of harvesting, and an army of almost 23,000 men was spreading out on a wide front, and they would sweep the entire Russian position like a wave.

"I was a little stunned when I got the news, we were now heading towards the center of the other side, and the sharpest armor of the other side was pointing at our head. The urgent need to advance was undoubtedly looking for death, so I decided to change the direction of the attack and launch an attack on the left flank of the Huaxia Army, and my subordinates lived up to expectations and launched an attack on the opponent's flank before the Huaxia Army could react. Kampf wrote in his diary.

If you talk about the mobility of the legion, the Huaxia troops are a small number of armored troops with a large number of infantry to attack, and the overall mobility and perception are obviously inferior to the combination of Kampf's cavalry and armored vehicles, so when the opponent suddenly turned, Peng Yi did not find the other party's attempt. To some extent, Kampf's approach did catch Peng Yi off guard.

But for various situations on the battlefield, Peng Yi was somewhat prepared. In order to prevent the fragile infantry from being attacked by the opponent's cavalry and artillery when the foothold was not stable, after completing the division and encirclement, Peng Yi also specially placed an independent armored battalion on the left and right flanks, and the two reinforced armored battalions did not begin to participate in the attack. They were a new force to keep the attack going, and now this separate armored battalion has become the core of the Russian cavalry assault!

Up to 30 companies of cavalry and a regiment of various armored vehicle battle groups were still quite formidable. In the battle of contact with the advance of the Chinese Army, the cavalry under the cover of mortars and various armored vehicles easily tore apart the resistance of the Chinese Army forward, and these troops, who only had light machine guns and light mortars in their hands, were obviously unable to resist the cavalry and armored vehicles that poured in like a tide. After a moment's delay with their own flesh and blood, this improvised cordon collapsed, but their sacrifice was definitely worth it, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Major Sun Qianming of the 1st Independent Armored Battalion of Huaxia was ready. A quick cluster of Russians will be contingency with an infantry regiment!

The Huaxia armored forces generally take brigades as the basic units, and a brigade has five battalions under it. They rarely fought independently, and were usually assigned several battalions to large regiments. But unlike an ordinary armored battalion. There are also reinforced armoured battalions that serve as independent combat units, which will be assigned to regimental units as offensive spearheads and defensive shields. Because it is generally not necessary to perform long-distance interspersed tasks. So they have fewer supply vehicles, and correspondingly, they are equipped with a larger number of combat units. And it's also a synthetic unit. Within the establishment there are three tank companies, one assault gun company and one mortar and light howitzer mixed company. Such a compilation can be said to take into account basically all possible scenarios.

Three armoured companies can provide assault power. A fire support company can provide mobile fire support to troops, while an assault gun is an almost versatile unit that can be used as a support artillery piece as well as for assault and defense. Well, when the assault is carried out, it is also output from the back. And this time Major Sun Qianming met the first opponent of his life, the Russian armored car regiment and a large number of cavalry.

Although the Russians were relatively small, they were a regiment after all, which was equipped with no less than 80 vehicles of various types. Among them there were about 3 companies of armored vehicles of the T1 type. They were armed with 2 Maxin machine guns. (Each company of the Russian army has 2 platoons and 2 company vehicles, a total of 10 vehicles.) ๏ผ‰ใ€‚ THEN THERE ARE 3 BATTERIES OF T47S ARMORED VEHICLES ARMED WITH 1MM ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS. THESE SIX-WHEELED VEHICLES ARE EQUIPPED WITH A 47 MM GUN BEHIND THE HULL, AND ALL HULLS ARE PROTECTED BY 6 TO 8 MM THICK STEEL PLATES ON THE OUTSIDE. AT THE END OF THE PACK ARE 3 ARTILLERY CHARIOT COMPANIES, INCLUDING 10 T2 CHARIOTS EQUIPPED WITH 75MM CANNONS, WHICH ARE KNOWN AS HINDSIGHT AND CAN ONLY BE TURNED OVER AND ATTACKED. AND 20 T57 SELF-PROPELLED GUNS ARMED WITH AN OPEN WARHEAD WITH 3MM FLAT-FIRING GUNS. Of these, with the exception of self-propelled guns of the T3 type, the rest were wheeled armored vehicles. The defenses are relatively thin.

"A tank company is arranged on the left and right flanks, the third tank company and the assault gun company are responsible for frontal defense, self-propelled mortars and truck guns provide fire support, and cooperate with the infantry on both flanks to shrink the battle line and establish a defense system on the spot." After coordinating with the commander of the infantry regiment, Sun Qianming still decided to adopt a more conservative defensive counterattack style. The opponent has strong anti-armor firepower, and it is superior in numbers, so it is really irrational to rush forward.

"The armored forces of Huaxia are in front, the scale is not very large, and the front is only about 2 kilometers. On both flanks were infantry groups. "Soon Kampf received intelligence from the front. A large Chinese army appeared on its front, and judging by the width of the front of the battlefield, the size of this force would not be very large. Otherwise, the 2 km will never be fully unfolded. And he had a regiment under his command, a large number of light artillery and up to 30 companies of cavalry, and in his opinion, as long as his armored spearhead could divide the opponent's defense, then the infantry that had lost its organization was slaughtered in the face of cavalry. In fact, from a mission point of view, Kampf also had to organize the process of encirclement in order to buy time for the infantry to withdraw.

"Get ready to fight, boys!" Kampf said to the deployment below. 2 companies of armored vehicles of the T1 type were deployed to both wings. In the middle are 2 companies armed with armored vehicles of the T1S type and 1 company with self-propelled artillery batteries of the T3 type. And the T2 armored car was responsible for providing fire cover at a distance. On either side of the armored forces were 20 companies of cavalry, and Kampf threw almost all of his main forces into battle in the first attack! Relatively speaking, he is more decisive than Kulopatkin!

The attributes of wheeled armored vehicles make the Russians' combat vehicles faster than tanks, but the problem is that the off-road performance has decreased sharply, and in the process of launching an attack, 3 T-type vehicles have broken down because they have fallen into a trench or other reasons, and this is obviously not a good sign for the Russian army! When there were still about 2KM away from the position of the Chinese Army, the heavy mortars of the Chinese Army began to shell the Russian troops that were charging, and the distance was still a little far for the cavalry, and the cavalry after running two kilometers would greatly reduce the attack due to insufficient horsepower. And because the artillery fire of the Chinese troops was not fierce, the speed of the Russians' advance did not increase.

Originally, the Chinese Army and the Russians did not pay much attention to this kind of deterrent design, after all, it was too difficult to hit a moving target with warp fire, and vehicles with light armor protection could also reduce the killing of shrapnel. But in fact, large-caliber high-explosive shells are still very objective for the killing of lightly armored vehicles, and they may not be able to destroy them directly, but all kinds of collateral damage have a great impact!

The sound of shrapnel hitting the armor did not stop for a moment, and the clanging sound was incessant. But we weren't afraid, and we didn't think it could cause any fatal damage to the chariot except for some noise, but suddenly, a loud bang came from the left side of the chariot, and the ground was shaking, and I could feel the body of the chariot violently while sitting in the running position. Then, an explosion was heard from the side of the car. The chariot also skewed sharply. The driver had to stop, and we found out that one of the tires of the chariot had been punctured. After the war, a Russian gunner recounted how he was captured.

And this is not the most tragic, the most tragic tank in the shelling is the T3 self-propelled gun with an open fighting compartment. THIS VEHICLE IS EQUIPPED WITH A 57MM LONG-BARRELED CANNON WITH A GOOD POWER AND RATE OF FIRE, A RELATIVELY LOW HULL, AND 30MM ARMOR FOR FRONTAL PROTECTION. IF IT IS USED FOR DEFENSIVE OPERATIONS, IT CAN DEFINITELY BE REGARDED AS THE GREAT ENEMY OF THE CHINESE ARMORED FORCES, AND THERE IS NO PROBLEM WITH THE LONG-BARRELED 57MM GUN WITH THE CAP-PIERCING SHELL TO PENETRATE THE NO. 1 TANK, BUT IF IT IS USED FOR ATTACK, ESPECIALLY WHEN THE OPPONENT HAS STRONG ARTILLERY, THE SITUATION ON THIS BATTLEFIELD IS QUITE UNOPTIMISTIC!

A grenade with a time-delay bottom fuse exploded in the air, and under the action of the explosives, hundreds of steel balls formed a funnel-shaped barrage of bullets and strafed down from the air. Many of them shrapnel was fired from above the unprotected T3 self-propelled gun, and countless steel balls flew everywhere in the cramped fighting compartment, and in just a few seconds, two Russian soldiers who were hiding behind the shield and trying to rely on their armor to avoid the rain of bullets were scattered by the scattered steel balls. In the face of such a top-attack attack, the T3 self-propelled gun with good frontal protection is not as good as the thin-skinned T1! Before a company of T3 tanks was put into battle, 4 tanks were incapacitated due to the loss of combatants!

The two sides soon approached a distance of about 800 meters, and if they got closer, the flat-fire anti-armor firepower of the two sides could be used, and at this point, the battle between the Russian armored forces and the Chinese armored forces, which had lost a number of combat vehicles, had just begun!

As the distance between the two sides approached, the mortars and howitzers of the Chinese Army also began to stop attacking the frontal combat vehicles, and began to focus on taking care of the Russian cavalry that was preparing to charge on both sides. At a distance of 800 meters, the cavalry can already charge, and if they cannot effectively stop these cavalry at this distance, once they charge, with the support of chariots equipped with machine guns, they cannot be defended by infantry alone. Although the Chinese Army was assigned a No. 1 tank company on both flanks, the Chinese Army still used artillery to block the cavalry on both flanks, just in case.

This morning, I woke up in the side position and prepared to change the text, but when I looked at the subscription, it was not even 500! This is the recommended period, and yesterday was the first dayโ€”โ€”! I was depressed and wanted to die. Yesterday, the collection rose by about 80 in one day. What kind of thing is thisโ€”โ€”! (To be continued......)