Chapter 165 T62 (2)

The situation is urgent.

The two T62s of the Vietnamese army slowly drove into the canyon one after the other, opening up a distance of dozens of meters between each other...... I think that even the length of this interval was carefully studied by the Yue devils before the war.

Weishenme says so?

Although the firepower of the tank is large, there will be a problem, that is, the tank gun has a certain elevation angle...... For example, the maximum elevation angle of the T62 is only 17 degrees, which determines that it cannot hit too high and too close.

To put it simply, if the Vietnamese T62 dares to drive into the canyon without any scruples and without any infantry cover, then any soldier can easily blow it up as long as he jumps from the top with the explosive bag in the process.

But now...... The two tanks were one in front of the other, and they were separated by a few tens of meters, so that the tank guns and machine gun fire of the latter tank could provide cover for the previous tank.

Moreover, the Vietnamese army also knew very well that the tanks must be covered by infantry, and at the same time understood that this was their rare opportunity to break through the canyon, so they organized their troops to rush up behind the tanks again......

I knew very well what would happen if we let them rush through the canyon like this, and on the other side of the canyon was the heart of our army, where there were regimental commanders, wounded, logisticians, and the few artillery units of our army. Although there are still two companies of troops (one reserve and one substitute company) and a few tanks, I don't think they can stop the Vietnamese offensive with the T62 as the vanguard, because compared to the T62, our Type 59 is far from the T62 in terms of firepower, protection and fire control system.

For example, the tanks in our army's 59 are equipped with 100Mmm rifled guns, while the T62 is 115mm smoothbore guns.

One might think that rifled guns are better than smoothbore guns...... Perhaps so with firearms. Smoothbore guns are old stuff from the last century. Rifled guns are much better than smoothbore guns in terms of accuracy and range. The reason is that the rifling in the barrel allows the warhead to rotate at high speeds...... As soon as the warhead rotates, it will be more stable in the air, while the bullet of the smoothbore gun will constantly roll in the air, which affects both the range and the accuracy.

But that's not all with tank guns.

Just like rifled guns, rifled guns will also have a rifled engraved inside the chamber, and the shells fired will also rotate at high speed...... In this way, the shells fired in this way will indeed be farther and more accurate, which has led many countries to change tank guns from smoothbore guns to rifled guns for a period of time.

But...... Another problem was discovered after the switch to rifled guns, the shells fired by rifled guns were indeed farther and more accurate, but a lot of kinetic energy would be consumed in the process of high-speed rotation of the rifled guns. This significantly reduced the armor-piercing ability of the shells. Most of the opponents of tanks are tanks, and they usually fight in close quarters...... So sacrificing armor-piercing ability to increase range and accuracy, which is not so important, becomes an unwise choice.

In addition, rifled guns are expensive, difficult to maintain, and have a low life (rifled guns will be smoothed out if they hit a certain base number of shells, and the barrel will have to be replaced...... and other reasons, so that the trend of changing tank guns from rifled guns to smoothbore guns once again appeared.

To put it simply...... That is, compared with the 115mm smoothbore gun of T62 and the 100mm rifled gun of our army in 59, the armor-piercing ability can be said to be a heaven and an underground, plus the protection performance of T62 is better than that of our army 59, so the situation is really not optimistic.

Of course, I didn't think about that at the time. All I know is that we can't just let the Vietnamese tanks carry their infantry through the gorge, otherwise it will directly threaten our command or even the 217 heights where I am located from the rear.

No matter which of these two cases. It is very likely that the defenses we have organized in the area around the pass will fall apart.

But...... What can I do?

How could I stop this steel beast from advancing?

At this time, the battle situation had a new change, first of all, the Vietnamese army had climbed the side wall of the two canyons. Obviously, they wanted to climb higher and use the cover of the side wall to confront our troops, and at the same time they could also cover the advance of the T62.

This was followed by the appearance of a third T62 at Taniguchi...... The T62 did not follow into the canyon, but drove up a slope made of gravel and logs at the mouth of the valley...... This is an old trick of the devils, in order to allow tank guns with very low elevation angles to reach high places...... This T62 was used entirely as fire cover.

It should be said that this trick works, but it is not ...... I saw that the tank gun adjusted for a while, and then with a few cannon sounds...... Several of our bazooka shooters screamed and fell off the side wall of the canyon.

The terrain on the side walls is complicated, and it is difficult to quickly change positions, and the reason why our rocket shooters were able to survive before was entirely because the elevation angle of the T62 tank gun was out of reach. At this time, the Vietnamese army has a tank on the slope, although the tank gun is not large, but according to the position of the big blow will stir up a piece of rubble, plus the rocket launcher will carry a long flame in the tail, which will undoubtedly become an obvious target on the infrared imager of the Vietnamese tank...... As a result, several anti-tank fire points of our army were quickly knocked down one after another.

As soon as the bazookas were knocked out, the Vietnamese tanks entering the gorge became even more arrogant, and they drove forward with full horsepower as if they had seen victory, followed by groups of infantry......

And I, as if I could only watch them plunge like a sharp knife into the heart of our army along the canyon.

However, I quickly thought of a question: did the Vietnamese tanks rely on infrared night vision devices to advance in this canyon? And...... Just as the flame of a bazooka can emit infrared rays, can other flames also emit infrared rays?

Thinking of this, I immediately shouted behind me: "Molotov cocktail! Incendiary bombs...... Get me a few incendiary bombs right now, move fast! ”

"Yes!" Wu Zhijun answered, turned his head and went into the tunnel.

In other words, at this time, the Vietnamese army's offensive on the 217 slope also accelerated, in order to cooperate with the Vietnamese army's attack in the canyon, so at this time, only a few soldiers of Wu Zhijun's who were responsible for transporting ammunition were available.

In a few moments a box of incendiary bombs was brought up.

We were lucky to find it, because we had done a consolidation of the ammunition depot before that, and we had shipped a batch of mortar shells to the mortar units in the middle ground, but we didn't get all the shells down because of lack of time.

At this time, I didn't dare to slack off, grabbed a cannonball, pulled off the transport insurance, and knocked it on the stone next to me...... When he was about to throw it down, he found that there was a bend not far in front of the first T62...... So I quickly changed my mind, grabbed the shell and ran forward.

Wu Zhijun and another soldier followed behind with cannonballs......

In hindsight, my move was really dangerous at the time, and at this time the incendiary bomb in my hand had been released from the transport and launch insurance, so it can be said that as long as I fell casually or did a dodging action of falling down and rolling, it was very likely to trigger the bomb in my hand...... This is no joke, the incendiary bomb in my hand will explode and save my life, and it will most likely cause the whole box of incendiary bombs behind me to explode...... I'm afraid that it will blow up our position into a mountain of flames, so that the Yue devils can get it at their fingertips.

So I break out in a cold sweat every time I think about this moment...... I almost became a sinner for the ages. From this point of view, my experience on the battlefield still needs to be strengthened.

But luckily, none of this happened...... I soon ran around the corner of the canyon, and the Vietnamese T62 rushed forward with full power, and just as it was about to enter the corner, I threw the incendiary bomb in my hand......

"Boom!" With a bang, the incendiary bomb landed on top of the T62 impartially and exploded into a ball of flames, and in an instant the entire tank was burned like a fireball, and the incendiary agent it burst out quickly spread to the Vietnamese troops behind it, only to burn the Vietnamese soldiers in the chaos and let out a burst of screams.

It should be said that if the T62 was only hit by an incendiary bomb, the lethality would be very limited.

The reason is that the volume of mortar shells is limited, and the incendiary agent that can be carried is also limited, and it will spread in large quantities when it explodes, so it looks scary, but in fact, the incendiary sticking to the tank is only enough to burn for a few seconds (the reason why the incendiary sticks to people or in the forest will burn for a long time is because it is combustible), plus most of the tanks at this time use non-flammable diesel engines (gasoline engines are easy to burn when hit), so objectively speaking, this incendiary bomb cannot blow up the Vietnamese tank, Otherwise, I wouldn't have had to make so much effort.

However, my purpose was not to blow up the Vietnamese tanks, but to affect the tank's line of sight......

Doesn't the T62 have infrared night vision? So what happens if I give it too much infrared?

If it was at other times, it might not be a big problem, but it would be invisible for a while, and when the flames are extinguished, it will be visible again.

But here's the problem...... At this time, it was the time when the Vietnamese tank increased its horsepower and entered the curve, and the path in this canyon was already small, so it suddenly lost sight and the outside of the tank caught fire inexplicably...... This is absolutely fatal for it.

It should be said that the driver of the Vietnamese army was still very qualified, and he quickly stepped on the brakes after reacting...... This can be seen in the sharply decelerating tank.

However, he was a step slower after all, and the path was next to the river, which was full of soft dirt and sand that could not bear the weight of the tank.

Thereupon...... I watched as the tank tilted slowly, and it didn't take long for it to make a "whoosh" and stir up a wave and tumble into the river.

The tank was smart enough to jump into the river if it caught fire...... (To be continued......)