Chapter 198: A Difficult Battle

After the 4th Brigade of Independent Combat Vehicles was transferred to the Chinese battlefield, the reason why it never participated in the war. Sister-in-law Suo Keer said on the Internet, and the most suspicious Yanqing girl said???? Bayi Chinese Network? w?w?w?.? 8?1z?w.? com except for Okamura Ning, who is kept at the most critical time and used as a killer weapon. Another very important reason is that it was renovated in the Jinan Japanese Army Automobile Repair Plant.

Of course, this transformation is not a complete overhaul, and the Chinese dispatch army does not have this technical ability. The various maintenance factories of the Japanese army in the Chinese battlefield passes, even in Shanghai, did not have this strength. Not to mention an auto repair plant belonging to the North China Front? Therefore, this transformation is a targeted transformation carried out by the North China Front Army in order to cope with the tank threat of the United Nations.

Otherwise, no modifications were made, the only modifications were to find a way to cram a larger-caliber and more armor-piercing gun into this tank. In order not to suffer a loss in firepower, the North China Front took advantage of the short period of calm before the battle began, and compared a variety of artillery.

After careful selection, the only Type 90 field gun in the Japanese army that really has anti-tank capabilities was personally decided by Okamura Ninji and designated this new tank to be used as a replacement main gun. The power of this field cannon has been clearly experienced on the one-gun combat vehicle.

The Type 88 anti-aircraft gun, which is the most powerful anti-tank gun in flat-fire fire, cannot be improved to fit into the turret of this tank. The entire Chinese dispatch army has the largest number of equipment, the armor-piercing power of the Type 95 and Type 38 field guns is too small, and the Type 91 howitzers are too large, so they cannot become the most suitable choice. This field gun used by the Japanese army's one-gun fighting vehicle became the choice of the Japanese army.

However, it was not easy to fit a field gun into a small tank turret. The one-gun chariot is open-top, and this powerful field gun can be stuffed into it without considering size and recoil. However, although the turret of the Type 3 tank was consciously designed to be wide for the sake of improvement, it was not prepared for this field gun after all.

The Japanese technicians who were forced to be anxious did not think about how to stuff the Type 90 field gun into the tank turret after racking their brains. Under the dog jumping off the wall, he simply thought of a trick. After sawing the barrel of the Type 90 field gun into 38 times the caliber of the 32 times, he finally managed to reduce the stroke in recoil.

After the modification of the Type 90 field artillery, the North China Front finally regarded this tank as an improved version of the original Type 1 tank. In fact, it is not that the original North China Front Army had a wrong understanding, but that the original Type 3 tank was indeed an improved model.

Compared with the previous model of the type of improvement put into the Tongzhou battlefield, this type 3 tank is only equipped with a 294 kilowatt diesel engine. Sister-in-law Suo Ke Er said net, looking at the most terrible Yan Qing girl said that at the same time, the size of the turret was increased by a circle in order to prepare for future improvements. Another change was to increase the thickness of the armor on the side and rear from 8 mm to 11 mm in the first modification.

The biggest change is that it is equipped with an in-car microphone, so that the tank crew does not have to rely on gestures, shoulder taps, kicks, etc. to communicate with each other during combat. It is very convenient to use the throat transmitter directly to talk to each other, which greatly facilitates the command. As for the appearance, except for the slightly larger turret, the appearance of both is basically similar.

After such a change by the North China Front, the appearance of the two has a considerable difference. After all, the field guns used by modified tanks cannot be stuffed into the turret because of the limitations of the turret. The cylinders of the artillery were stationed and retreated, all of which were exposed outside the turret. Outside the shield at the front of the turret, the huge field cannon aid is very conspicuous.

And since it was a field gun used by infantry, a tank gun of a temporary modification. Although it had a recoil distance of 800 mm, it took a long time for the artillery to re-advance. There is no automatic shell removal device, only manual gun latch, which makes the artillery fire quite slow, at least half slower than the American-made M-4 tank used by the Anti-United Nations, and many other problems.

But for the North China Front, in any case, it finally has a firepower to compete with the anti-Union medium tanks. At least the caliber has caught up, not to mention that the power is still good. After test-firing the armor-piercing blaster equipped with the Japanese army's self-propelled gun, it can completely penetrate the frontal armor of several tanks equipped with anti-United Nations equipment.

It's just that the Type 90 field artillery of the Chinese Dispatch Army is limited, and the exhibition of the war situation does not allow the North China Front Army to steadily modify all tanks. After a lot of effort, two squadrons of Type 3 tanks were modified. In the previous assault of these two squadrons, Takazawa Yinghui Dazuo, who was regarded as the commander of the Fourth Brigade of the Independent Combat Vehicle, has not been used in front of the treasure at the bottom of the box.

In the process of forcibly penetrating and outflanking the right flank of the 100th Division, Chen Hanzhang's tank cluster happened to collide head-on with the Japanese army's improvised tank. In the face of this new type of tank of the Japanese army, a tank battalion of the anti-United Nations tank unit will naturally not be ambiguous. When they came up, they pressed on all fronts, preparing to fire from a distance of 500 meters according to the experience of the Battle of Tongzhou.

But no one thought that even the patchwork tank of the Japanese army would become the most difficult bone to gnaw on the anti-United Nations tank troops against it in tank battles. Although the 90-type field cannon with a shortened barrel has a much shorter range and a certain reduction in power, the basic power is still there.

Providing fire support for the operations of ground forces, the range was reduced by some and perhaps quite fatal drawbacks. However, for tank battles where the firing distance is basically within a thousand meters, or even only a few hundred meters, the firing range is shortened, and it is not enough to become a lethal effect.

At the same time, the 100th Division learned the lessons of the previous fight against the anti-coalition tank units, and was also equipped with a squadron of Type 88 anti-aircraft guns, two squadrons of 50-mm anti-tank guns, and a squadron of artillery fighting vehicles used as anti-tank guns on the side and behind the two tank squadrons. Behind these fires, there were four infantry squadrons equipped with more than forty Iron Fist anti-tank rocket launchers.

As soon as this confrontation began, the participating troops of the Anti-Japanese Union immediately felt that the tanks that the Japanese army had invested in front of them were wrong. Although the armor protection capability is not the same type of tank that the infantry encountered before, there is no big improvement. But in terms of firepower, there is a considerable difference.

Moreover, as the two armies approached, the front-line commander of the Anti-Japanese Union also showed the Japanese tanks in front of him, which were slightly different from the Japanese tanks he had encountered before. But this distance has made it impossible for front-line commanders to make any adjustments. It is only according to the original plan that the artillery can be fired first to gain the initiative.

The Japanese tanks, which had obviously made up their minds to strike first, did not hesitate at all in the face of the tank group rushing over by the Anti-United Nations, and opened fire almost at the same time as the anti-United Nations tanks. The Japanese anti-tank gun positions deployed in depth also opened fire at this time to cooperate with the tanks with long-range fire.

As soon as the tanks of the two sides faced each other, the first round of artillery fire came down. At a distance of 800 meters, the Anti-Japanese Federation destroyed seven Japanese tanks. However, the tanks of their own participating troops also suffered a big loss, and five tanks participating in the battle were destroyed by the Japanese army in one fell swoop. Moreover, all five tanks were either damaged, but all of them were completely destroyed by penetrating the turret or frontal main armor.

Firing at a distance of 800 meters, five tanks were destroyed by the Japanese at once. This was almost unthinkable in previous battles with Japanese tanks. The Japanese tank in front of him was able to penetrate the frontal armor of the M-4 medium tank he used at a distance of about 800 meters.

The power of its main gun is even higher than that of the 75 mm tank gun equipped with the M-4 tank. It was far ahead of the 50-millimeter tank guns used by the Japanese army, which was quite surprising to the front-line commanders of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. This power is almost equal to that of all the Japanese tank and armored vehicles, the Type 1 artillery fighting vehicle that poses the greatest threat against the coalition tank group.

Even in the Tongzhou battlefield, the tank troops of the Anti-Union were destroyed by the Japanese army's modified tanks, which destroyed most of the troops participating in the war at that time. However, the battle losses at that time were mainly due to the carelessness of the participating troops, who were in close combat by the enemy forces about 500 meters away. This time it was absolutely different, for the first time, the Japanese tank was able to penetrate its main armor at a distance of 800 meters.

In this battle, the Japanese army paid great attention to its superiority in firepower, and changed the original increase in horsepower to fight close combat. As a result, because of the shortcomings of the tank itself, and the corresponding tactics were adopted by the anti-alliance. It was destroyed by the anti-United Nations tanks with accurate long-range fire, one by one on the path of the impact.

Instead, he turned to wielding his current tank gun, which was modified from field artillery as much as possible, which had the advantages of high power, long range, and high accuracy. Maintain a distance of more than 600 meters from the anti-United Nations tank troops, and constantly adopt the tactics of mobile confrontation. Instead, they adopted the tactics adopted before the Anti-United Nations, trying to wipe out the anti-United Nations tank group on the way to the charge.

This change in tactics of the Japanese army, as well as the performance of the tank, were beyond the expectations of the Anti-United Nations. As a result, this tank battle, in which the Japanese army only invested two squadrons, became the battle in which the anti-coalition tank unit suffered the largest single loss in a single battle in the head-on battle with the Japanese tanks.

Fortunately, the front-line commanders of the Anti-Japanese Federation were experienced, and after the firepower of the Japanese tanks was significantly increased, they immediately ordered the originally dense stormtroop formation to be dispersed immediately. At the same time, the maximum swing of the four tanks has good observation and aiming performance, and the turret rotates quickly, because it is equipped with a vertical gun stabilizer, which has the advantage of accurate shooting between marches.

Adopt a platoon as a formation and adopt multiple sorties to widen the distance between the tanks. All tanks should never form a longitudinal attack sequence, and when attacking, they should spread out to both flanks of the Japanese tank cluster, and try to shoot accurately between the marches as much as possible, and strive to hit the target when they fire.

After carefully observing the new Japanese tank, the front-line commander asked the troops to hit the enemy tank's obvious retreat outside the turret with the first shot. Although this change in tactics reduced the impact of the tank cluster in a certain way, it also quickly reduced the battle damage.

After the front-line commanders quickly adjusted their tactics, they effectively took advantage of the weaknesses of the Japanese army's tank modification fire, and the results were quite effective. The turrets of the Japanese army rotated slowly, and the tank guns were far inferior to the American-made medium tanks of the Anti-United Nations. Although the situation is not as one-sided as before, although it can still barely contend with it, the situation is becoming more and more unfavorable.

On the Japanese side, this new tank, despite its excellent performance in the round artillery battle. For the first time, at a distance of 800 meters, it destroyed a medium tank of the Anti-Japanese Union, which can be described as a combat record in a tank battle of the Japanese army. It changed the status quo that at a distance of 500 meters, he could only be beaten passively.

However, the overly hasty changes also caused the tank to be full of problems after entering the actual combat. The balance of power that can be achieved has not been maintained for long. Fortunately, it was deployed in depth, and the Type 88 antiaircraft artillery under the command of the antiaircraft artillery firing commander was powerful and long-range, giving it considerable support. did not let these two squadrons of Japanese tanks be defeated in the first time.