Chapter 178: The Death Zone

"Boom Boom ......" With the continuous bombardment of the Vietnamese army's large-caliber artillery, one shell entered the gorge through the valley mouth.

THE ARTILLERY USED BY THE VIETNAMESE ARMY AT THIS TIME IS GENERALLY A SOVIET-STYLE D-20 HOWITZER, THAT IS, OUR ARMY'S TYPE 66 HOWITZER, AND THE CALIBER OF THIS THING IS 152MM......

WHAT IS THE IDEA OF 152MM DIAMETER?

THE TANK GUN IN OUR ARMY'S 59 IS ONLY 100MM, AND THE VIETNAMESE ARMY T62 TANK GUN IS ONLY 115MM, IN OTHER WORDS, THE CALIBER OF THE VIETNAMESE ARMY'S ARTILLERY IS ALMOST HALF LARGER THAN THAT OF THE TANK GUN.

The larger the caliber, the larger the shell, and the greater the lethality.

Some people may say that this caliber is only a few tens of millimeters larger, and tens of millimeters are only a few centimeters, where can the power be?

A few centimeters are really nothing if you just count them in terms of length, but the shell is cylindrical, and a few centimeters larger in the circumference is a terrible thing...... This is a bit like the bucket we use at home, the water that can be filled with a diameter of a few centimeters is almost increasing in multiples.

Similarly, the charge of this shell is a few centimeters larger and the charge is also increasing exponentially, so this Vietnamese army is not comparable to a tank gun when it hits in...... In an instant, the whole canyon was filled with explosions and echoes, like a huge bell ringing in our ears, and the vibration from our feet almost made us unstable, even if we were hiding in the second half of the canyon, we could clearly feel the energy from the collision between the cannonballs and the rocks, and the whole canyon seemed to tremble and tremble.

I can't help but secretly rejoice that I called Wu Zhijun's class back early, otherwise. At this time, they were afraid that they would have been beaten by this artillery fire and there would not be even a bone left.

At this time, I faintly heard something different in the interval between the shell bombardment. It soon became clear that it was the sound of a tank's motor...... The more devilish tanks are in!

I couldn't help but secretly praise in my heart: This Yue devil is really not a vegetarian. I would have thought of this way to go deep into the canyon...... You must know that this howitzer is bombarding the first half of the canyon, let's not talk about going out to defend, it is difficult to even poke your head out to see the situation.

Some might say, aren't we just around the corner? Vietnamese artillery shells won't turn around, will they? weishenme can't probe to see the situation?

The reason is that most of the two walls of this canyon are hard stones, and when the shell explodes, the gravel and shrapnel will bounce between the two walls...... So there was a lot of gravel shooting down the canyon into the corner at high speed, just like me...... Even in the cave around the corner, you can hear the whistle of rubble flying by outside the cave.

However, the rubble and shrapnel could kill people but could not threaten the tank's armor, so the Vietnamese tanks were able to take advantage of this time to occupy the first half of the canyon.

However, I was not too worried about this method of the Vietnamese army, for two reasons: first, there were two tank wreckage blocking the exit of the canyon. I don't believe that the Yue devils have a way to pass quickly. The other thing, of course, is that I've already laid out the directional explosives in various locations and kept their location in mind, which comes in handy.

So he continued to hide in the cave and waited, waiting for the next move of the Vietnamese army.

Because I believe that the Vietnamese army will eventually need infantry to occupy the tank when it cannot quickly pass through the gorge. Since infantry is needed to occupy ...... Then the howitzers of the Yue devils will definitely have a moment to stop bombing.

Sure enough, after ten minutes, the shelling stopped, and I leaned out of the tank to take a look...... I couldn't help but be startled: the more devil's tank had already moved forward to the corner and even poked out of the turret. It's just that I was a little surprised that the tank that came up this time turned out to be not a T62, but a light tank smaller than the 59 in our army......

Later, I learned that it was an American-style M41 light tank, which was handed over from the Yankees by the Vietnamese devils.

This tank, although thinly armored, has little firepower. But there are too many jungles and paddy fields in this part of Vietnam, especially the muddy roads during the rainy season, which is an absolute nightmare for heavy tanks. On the contrary, light tanks were more suitable for the battlefield in Vietnam, so the U.S. military invested heavily here and used them to equip the South Vietnamese army. After the U.S. withdrawal, the Viet Cong seized large quantities of M41s from South Vietnam.

......The first thing to fire was the anti-aircraft machine gun on the Vietnamese tank, and as soon as the machine gun fired, it was like a crazy rainstorm, and the two walls of the rocks were shot out of the line of fire, and the stones were beaten down piece by piece like tofu.

It's a pity that ...... However, I knew that the anti-aircraft machine gun must have been fired indiscriminately without a target, because the first half of the canyon was already filled with smoke and gravel dust after being bombarded by Vietnamese artillery fire.

The experience of the battlefield has taught me that although the bullets are scary in pieces like this blind shooting without a target, the probability of hitting oneself is very small. So I didn't think much of it, and as soon as I raised my gun, I leaned out and aimed at the Vietnamese tank.

The next second, I saw a figure in the smoke below being on a tank with an anti-aircraft machine gun firing wildly into the canyon, so I decisively pulled the trigger...... after a "bang" of gunshot, there was more blood in the dust, and the roar of the machine gun stopped abruptly.

"Three squad leaders!" I yelled into the walkie-talkie.

"Here!" The intercom came the reader's answer.

"Explosive Five, get ready!"

"Yes!" The reader answered, and after a while he responded: "No. 5 explosives are ready!" ”

I didn't say anything more, but quietly watched as the Vietnamese tanks continued to move forward...... Because the path in the canyon is narrow, the Vietnamese tanks have to slow down around the corner, so this location is undoubtedly a good place to place directional explosives, and it can also be said to be a key place for the second half of the defense...... No, if the Vietnamese tanks succeed in occupying the corner of the canyon, then they can use tank guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to indiscriminately bombard our defensive positions, and then I am afraid that the canyon will be destroyed.

It is for these reasons that a considerable part of my directional explosives are placed near corners, which is not ...... Explosive No. 5 was not far from the front of the Vietnamese tank.

I saw that the M41 was in the position of the explosives, and I shouted into the intercom: "Detonate!" ”

As soon as I finished playing, I listened to "Boom! There was a loud bang...... Anyway, the explosives I buried there were originally used to deal with the T62, so I buried dozens of catties, but what I blew up at this time was a light tank...... So almost the moment the explosives exploded, the tank exploded, and I knew that the ammunition inside the tank had been detonated, and the whole tank quickly turned into a fireball that illuminated the entire canyon red.

However, this did not seem to stop the Vietnamese offensive, and soon around the corner another tank, still a light M41...... Ignoring the light tank that had exploded into a ball of fire, it continued to move forward, and with a cacophony of steel scraping, it continued on its way against the wreckage of the tank.

What surprised me was...... All this seems to be the Yue devil has long been jihuahaode, and the Vietnamese army seems to have known for a long time that we have explosives or mines to blow up the first few tanks in the row, so the tanks in front are light tanks.

In other words, the Vietnamese tanks knew that they were going to die, but they still drove in like this......

Just surprised to surprised, the movement of my hand did not stop, and as I gave the order, a boulder weighing more than ten tons was smashed from above the tank...... and hit the top of the M41 with a "bang".

IT IS SAID THAT THE THICKEST PART OF THE ARMOR PIERCING OF THIS M41 TANK IS ONLY 31MM, AND THE THINNEST BOTTOM IS ONLY 9MM, SO IT IS COMPLETELY DEFORMED BY THE BOULDER SMASHED DOWN FROM A HEIGHT, AND THE PEOPLE INSIDE ARE AFRAID THAT EVEN IF THEY ARE NOT SHOCKED TO DEATH, THEY WILL BE CAUGHT BY THE DEFORMED BODY AND GO TO HALF THEIR LIVES.

I secretly said that now I have two tanks and a large boulder...... The tanks behind always couldn't stand up, but I didn't expect the tanks that followed behind to fire in front without saying a word......

It didn't take long for the boulder to break into several pieces to make way for the tanks to move forward, and the tanks continued to push the tanks in front of them into the ditch beside the road...... This ditch was originally the small river, but because the river was cut off, it has now become a ditch more than a meter deep.

It's the same time I've seen this kind of play, and I'm actually filling it with a tank...... The devils are constantly on the tank, and there are so many wrecks in the tanks that they can't even pass through themselves?

This trick seems to work well, though, as I also have a limited amount of directional explosives, especially around corners...... Because it can't be arranged too densely, after blowing up two anti-tank ones, what is left is almost anti-infantry.

"Squad leader!" I immediately shouted into the intercom, "Bazooka ready!" ”

"Yes!" Wu Zhijun answered, and immediately rushed forward with two soldiers carrying bazookas.

The weakness of tanks, especially light tanks without night vision, when entering this canyon is that the angle of view is too narrow to prevent infantry from approaching from dead angles, coupled with the thin armor of light tanks, as long as the bazooka shoots at close range, it is basically a dozen and one accurate, of course I will not let go of such an opportunity.

However, the Vietnamese devils were not fools, and soon after that tank, they followed a large number of Vietnamese infantry, and they used the cover of tank armor piercing to come out and sweep into the canyon with all kinds of weapons......

They are trying to prevent our bazooka shooters from approaching the tanks, but alas...... I had already arranged for the explosives to be planted in the vicinity, and at my order, a cloud of rubble exploded at the top of the canyon, causing only the Vietnamese infantry to scream.

Soon, the corner of the canyon became a death zone for Vietnamese infantry and tanks. (To be continued......)