Chapter 1348: Commander of the Light Pole

"What the hell are they trying to do?" As the battle continued, Hube found that the fog of war in front of him not only did not dissipate, but the shape of the battlefield became more confusing. If the assault of the Huaxia tank was carried out in order to provide an opportunity for the wheeled vehicles behind, then now? What will the other side do when the next wave of wheeled vehicles in China is blocked by German armored vehicles? The other party's feeling is a bit like a tactic of adding oil, sending his own vitality into this meat grinder little by little. And then let yourself eat a little bit? It's not scientific! The Chinese general on the opposite side is not a German spy! They definitely do it for a purpose!

"The situation doesn't seem to be bad, although we have lost a little more, but the proportion of tanks is relatively low, from the economy and the crew, we should be the one who takes advantage, Zhou Xuan, this guy is right, if the wheeled combat vehicle can share the firepower for the tank, then let the wheeled armored vehicle lose more!" Xu Huaide naturally did not give the Germans a record in vain, and he did not gain any advantage on the field by using the almost brutal attack on Huaxia in the early stage. The only good thing was that the number of German tanks and infantry fighting vehicles was greatly consumed, and of course, the losses of the Chinese were also very large. So now the question is, what is the purpose of Huaxia paying such a big price?

Now the Germans' tank destroyer No. 4 should be the bare-pole commander, right? Xu Huaide silently calculated the changes in the composition of the opponent's forces, the tank destroyer is definitely not suitable for carrying out the attack mission alone, and the problem of too small a firing range and no turret directly affects the perception and battlefield reaction of this weapon! It's like the case of a machine gun that fires fiercely but never attacks alone, and the machine gun is the heart of fire support, but it must be accompanied by the rest of the infantry squad to carry out the mission. Xu Huaide's own work was much more detailed than Hu Bei's. He broke up his tank destroyer and incorporated it into armoured companies. And not like Hubey, a group of tanks, a group of tank destroyers. And the result of this is that once the tank is hit by the opponent's focus. The flanks of tank destroyers will be threatened by Yanzhòng. The sides of the No. 4 tank destroyer are quite fragile, on the same level as the historical leopard.

Xu Huaide's original tactic was to let the tank destroyer give full play to its firepower advantage. As a support point in the armored attack, and even when it is used together, it is necessary to ensure the safety of the two wings, which was possible in Huaxia at that time, because the Type 29 tank has a certain advantage over the No. 4 tank, but if the Germans play like this, they must first ensure that the number of No. 4 tanks on the flanks is higher than that of Huaxia, and ensure the safety of the two wings, so as to give full play to the frontal strong attack and defense of the tank destroyer. And the Germans made a mistake on this issue. It is true that the tank destroyer did not say that it could only be used for defense, there was only one principle of its use. That is, to ensure that there is no threat in all directions except the front! He can rely on cover, offense, and allies for defense, and tanks for offense!

"If we continue to throw troops into both wings, we can completely cut off the spearhead of the other side. However, this seems to be a bit different from the defensive counter-attack plan that was developed at the beginning. An officer looked at the shape of the troops on both sides on the sand table and said with some hesitation.

"At the beginning, of course, it was defense and then counterattack, but defense is also about posture, we can't let the Germans put themselves in a position and then attack, we have to decide where to fight and when to fight. Although it is a defense, we must take the initiative, for example, like now, the Germans have suffered heavy losses in tanks, and of course we have paid a great price. But it was difficult for the Germans, who had only tank destroyers, to organize an effective offensive, and unless the Germans retreated now, they would be in a dilemma. If Kruger wants to change, he will have to reinforce Hubey. Then we can use the Hube group as a bait to attract the entire German army to attack, and then slowly consume them until finally they can no longer hold on. Then we fight back. Xu Huaide sneered.

Of course, Hube can't find this problem yet. Because Huaxia hasn't let his head break the blood, although the loss is heavy. However, in terms of the proportion of results and losses, the two sides are almost equal, which has never appeared in the original battle of the same level! Whether offensive or defensive, the German armored forces always have to suffer a little loss in the face of the Chinese armored forces, and this time, he seems to have taken some advantage! Of course, Hube was not a mediocre man, he was well aware that the loss of the tank troops led to the emptiness of the two wings, so he did not rush to attack, but waited for the mechanized infantry to come up, and used the latter's tanks and anti-aircraft guns to make up for the holes in the defensive line! However, although it is blocked, the mechanized infantry division is more accompanied by tank attacks, and it is an auxiliary force for armored assault, and if it is hard to face the opponent, then it will be worse in terms of speed and strength.

After stabilizing the front, the Germans' No. 4 tank destroyer continued to attack, but although a second wave of attacks was quickly put together, Xu Huaide did not have a high opinion of this wave of attacks. "As long as you throw away another batch of tanks, Hu Beike will really be in a dilemma, and it will not be easy to retreat!" Xu Huaide commented on the shape of the battlefield, but no matter what, the direct and hardest confrontation between the Chinese and German armored forces finally kicked off, and the Type 29 tank destroyer and the No. 4 tank destroyer were the most suitable vehicles for the two troops! Both countries want to see which of these two vehicles is stronger!

"This is definitely a duel between a group of rhinos, and when I saw the low shape of the long cannon barrel sticking out of front in the other side's field of vision, I knew that the most critical moment had come, this was the most devastating weapon in China and even in the entire Entente bloc, and the glory of the Imperial armored forces had been wiped out by it and the 90mm gun above. And today we're going to change that. "The Germans were not nervous but not excited when they were about to go to war, but they were excited to meet their opponents!

"The distance is 800 meters! Fire! "The first round of collision between the two sides unfolded at 800 meters! Both sides opened fire almost simultaneously! Shells flew over a short distance between the two sides, then crossed in the air and flew towards the target, bursts of flames erupting from the heavy tank destroyer's frontal armor, and debris from the violent impact was thrown into the air. Heavy armor will leave deep or shallow bullet marks after a hard hit. The first blows on both sides, although fierce, were not fatal. After a short pause and acclimatization, the two teams continued to approach!

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "The barrel of the No. 4 tank destroyer was constantly flashing with deadly fire. AT THIS MOMENT, THE ADVANTAGE OF THE RATE OF FIRE OF THE GERMAN'S LONG-BARRELED 75MM GUN WAS VIVIDLY REFLECTED, COMPARED WITH THE SHELLS OF THE 90MM GUN, THE WEIGHT AND SIZE OF THE 75MM GUN WERE OBVIOUSLY MUCH SMALLER, WHICH WAS MORE CONDUCIVE TO LOADING. And the explosive power of the strong Caucasian is indeed terrifying, and the explosive speed of the human loader on the American M1A1 in later generations is faster than that of the automatic state, and the instantaneous output of the German elite gunner in this plane can also be described as amazing!

Shells rained down on the charging Huaxia 29 tank destroyer, and the successive blows made the originally solid armor quickly appear metal fatigue, and many theoretically impenetrable shells hit the battered armor plate after the back plate cracked, although there was an inner lining layer behind. However, the metal fragments produced after the high-speed impact broke through the protection of the inner lining, splashing and ejecting in all directions in the narrow interior of the vehicle. Some Type 29 tanks lost their combat effectiveness as a result.

The two sides tried their best to approach and attack the opponent, but in the end, to the surprise of both China and Germany, it was not the Type 29 tank destroyer that used a larger caliber gun, nor the No. 4 tank destroyer with an extremely fast rate of fire and a very high muzzle velocity, but a slightly further back. The Type 29 assault gun with the largest caliber direct-aim gun on the battlefield! ACCORDING TO THE RECORDS, THE ASSAULT GUN, NUMBERED 101, OPENED THE RECORD AT A DISTANCE OF 800 METERS, AND A 122MM CAP-PIERCING SHELL MADE A GRACEFUL ARC IN THE AIR AND SMASHED INTO THE FRONTAL HIGH-INCLINATION ARMOR OF A TANK DESTROYER NO. 4! The cap and the surface of the armor shattered at the same time, and then the round and blunt warhead smashed through the armor of the No. 4 tank destroyer like a heavy hammer!

The blow was very violent. Even one can clearly see that there is a large collapse in the left-center position of this tank destroyer! An entire steel plate was shattered, and then the shell burrowed headlong into the inside of the hull! Along the way, the crew and equipment along the way were twisted together, and after a loud bang, the powerful 75MML60 gun was blasted into the sky with a violent explosion. Then the twisted barrel of the cannon was inserted directly into the earth, like the riding spear discarded by the ancient knight after his defeat!

"Is it true that the bigger the caliber, the more righteous it is?" A Chinese armored soldier who witnessed this scene was shocked and said, 800 meters away! This is something that even a professional tank destroyer could not do at a distance, but an assault gun that was originally designed to deal with fortifications and provide fire support did so. You must know that when playing vertical armor, the 122MML35 gun is inferior to the 90MML45 gun. But in real combat it is the opposite. It's very puzzling!

In fact, when dealing with armor with large inclinations, the larger the caliber, the better the effectiveness of the shell. And with the distance getting closer, the penetration depth of large-caliber low-speed artillery exceeds that of small-caliber high-speed artillery at long distances, for example, the 75MML70 of the Leopard is better than the 88MML56 at medium and short range when hitting 30-degree inclined armor, but the penetration depth is flat or overtaken after the distance point. And this effect will become greater and greater with the increase of inclination, according to the Huaxia test, in the face of 55 degrees of inclined armor, the penetration depth of the 122MML35 gun is higher than that of 90MML45, of course, this is just measured at the test site, in fact, the troops have not been notified.

"Although the power is great, the rate of fire is too slow! I can't hurt the rate of fire of a shot in 25 seconds! "The 101 car that has just achieved the record is too late to rejoice, because they now need to put a shell weighing 24KG and a propellant bag into the gun chamber, the 122MM gun used by the Type 29 assault gun is divided into parts, and the weight and size of the bullet are relatively amazing, so the low rate of fire of the guide zhì allows it to only shoot black guns in the back, the 75MM gun can shoot more than 8 rounds a minute, the 90MM gun is still achievable with 6 rounds of ammunition, and the 122MM gun can still be achieved with a maximum of 2.5 rounds a minute! Although the power is great enough, the actual combat effectiveness is still discounted!

The 101 car was lucky, because he was the first Huaxia combat vehicle to destroy the No. 4 tank destroyer from the front, and as the distance narrowed, the two sides gradually reached the distance where the bullets and bullets were biting and penetrating! The tank destroyers of both sides fired frantically at a distance of less than 600 meters, and the vehicles without turrets at close range really suffered, and they struggled to move the tracks to turn the body, put the target in the narrow field of view of the gun mirror, and fired. The high rate of fire of the Germans was offset by the narrow firing range of the artillery, and they needed to turn more angles to aim at their opponents.

"Damn, it's those wheeled armored vehicles with 6-pounder guns again, don't expose the sides, turn to the left!" A tank destroyer commander with a conning tower on the top of the tank observes his surroundings, while his gunner tries to convince the driver to turn to the right, as he sees a Type 29 tank aiming at him! The battlefield was so chaotic that tank destroyers moved around the ground like slow-moving turtles. While the covering tanks and various vehicles strive to attack the opponent with the advantage of mobility.

A round of armor-piercing shells roared and flew over the battlefield, the heavy armor was almost like paper paste in front of the armor-piercing bullets fired at a very close range, the warhead tore through the armor and then squeezed in, with the armor and shell fragments rotated and penetrated into the inside of the hull, and then in a firelight, the expensive chariot representing the highest land combat weapon technology on both sides was blown apart, leaving huge wreckage on the battlefield, like the corpse of the god of war that fell on the battlefield after Ragnarok. Light vehicles on both sides constantly sought cover from the terrain and the wreckage of the vehicle, and then fired at MK103 guns or 6-pounder guns. However, there is no place to be safe in this chaotic battlefield, when you hide the body behind the wreckage of a tank, it is also possible to notify you to expose the side back to another black hole gun, and it only takes a few seconds for the vehicle worth tens of thousands of marks and at least 4 lives on it to disappear into a cloud of flames!

The tragic exchange was the theme of the battlefield, relying on the support of the powerful and backward Type 29 assault gun and the slightly superior technical advantage of the Huaxia tank destroyer. As well as the huge number of wheeled combat vehicles, Huaxia gradually gained the initiative, and tank destroyers No. 4 were destroyed by shells coming from all directions. As the No. 4 tank was suppressed by the Huaxia Type 29 tank, Hubei's attack was completely disintegrated, and the No. 4 tank destroyers that accompanied the attack were finally withdrawn to three out of ten! In less than 4 hours, Hube had almost lost more than half of his heavily armored units! Even put a lot of heavy equipment from the mechanized infantry division in the back!

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