Chapter 536: Have You Ever Seen a Tank with a 155mm Main Gun?
This strawberry soldier, who had just boasted to the Boers that the Great Song people would not retreat, was probably just using this to cheer himself up. However, the Song Dynasty poet Lin Sheng heard that he was blowing this cowhide, I am afraid that he will lift the coffin board, is it possible that Lao Tzu's inscription on the hotel wall "Straight to Hangzhou as Bianzhou" praises the spirit of never retreating?
However, no matter how much the rough embryos on the airport have a sense of belonging to the so-called green paint area, at this time, they can only harden their heads and swarm the British soldiers, otherwise the C-17 will not be able to descend and everyone will have to play together.
I don't know if it is suspected that the huge casualties caused by the previous bombardment by 155mm howitzers were due to the fact that the Boers viciously planted explosives in advance, and the British, who claimed to be gentlemen, frantically stormed the airport but did not ask the other side to raise the white flag and surrender.
As the de facto commander of this mixed force, Jin Wen took it for granted that with two 155mm guns and a modern main battle tank on his side, it was almost impossible for the opponent to make a move to assemble a large force and attack the airfield, well, he thought that at least the opponent would not carry out such a large-scale military operation before the arrival of reinforcements in the green paint area.
In addition, the Boers who were in charge of the perimeter reconnaissance were suddenly not very good at their brains, which created a situation in which a large number of British infantry were now within range of the crossing troops.
As a result, the advantage of the 155mm howitzer was suddenly gone, and even if they had the courage and ability to use these two guns as cannons, the rough embryos that were stuck by the British became fragile items for their rat throwers.
Since the people who can really fight with guns are the only ones who can fight with guns outside the artillery, there is almost no depth in this airfield defensive position, which means that there is no room for the rough embryo to play the magnetic tactics of retreating first and shelling later.
What, you say they can rely on that Arjun main battle tank to drive the British out of the airfield and then carry out shelling? Please, who do you think is the protagonist of KIA shouted by the rough embryo of the 101st Airborne Division on the radio? If it weren't for the fact that those two unlucky third brother tank soldiers were killed instantly by the British with suspected mortar weapons, you don't know how to use this iron turtle to drive the British out of the airport?
As mentioned above, the airfield was built on an extremely arid plain, and the British had relied on a well dug at the edge of the airfield for water use, and due to the number of defenders and the terrain, it was impossible for them to expand the defense area to include the wide area of the well.
Clearing the runway of the airfield, which was a battlefield not so long ago, took up those monkey versions of "Vickers" tractors, well, tanks that were captured by the Crossing Crowd. Moreover, the tight construction period has also increased the demand for water from the crossing public, the construction personnel have to drink a lot of water, and the dust prevention of the construction site has to be sprinkled, and the problem cannot be solved by only using animal power to fetch water and transport water.
The militia were quite hands-on, and they used a small broken generator to replace it with a water pump, but they still couldn't solve the trouble of transporting water by animal power.
At this time, the third brother, who had just tinkered with his car, spoke, anyway, we have to walk around and try the car, so let's transport the water back.
The horsepower of the engine of "Arjun" is even equipped with a pull, and it is enough to walk through the water of the day, and the well is also within the visual range of the position, and the road is also paved, so everyone originally thought that nothing would happen in less than a few minutes.
Who would have thought that the "pride" of the Indian military industry would lie down on the side of the well! That's right, strictly speaking, there is a distance of about ten meters from the well!
What else can I do, Xiubei! The rough embryo handed over by the four third brothers got out of the car and moved the tools again. By the time the shells fired by the British naval mortars fell, Arjun's condition showed no signs of improvement.
The British, who were already using tanks in battle, certainly would not let go of a good opportunity for several crew members to gather outside the vehicle, and the battle began with the attack on "Arjun".
Opium Ox seized this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fire on "Arjun", and when the two rough embryos of the 101st Airborne Division rushed to the tank in a UTV, they could only helplessly and sadly announce the two friendly KIAs.
However, the "Arjun" crew, which had hung up the commander and driver, with the assistance of two rough embryos of the 101st Division, hid in the tank and kept carrying the British attack and frantically exporting firepower, plus the girl was guarding the only water source in the vicinity, which properly contained a lot of opium cattle troops.
"Push our 23mm anti-aircraft guns up! Suppress the machine-gun positions on the opposite side! Even the short Jiang Yuan was already carrying an automatic rifle in front of him, which showed how fierce the battle situation was at this time.
Bang bang bang! The operator of the 23-mm anti-aircraft gun, who originally thought that he would only be able to fight planes in the future, switched this guy who did not like to use the Great Celestial Dynasty to the flat-firing mode, and after a rapid short burst, the machine gun position of the opium cow, which relied on the small raised dirt bag as a cover, was instantly muted.
At the same time, the militiamen's Maxim heavy machine guns, which had been removed from the captured monkey versions of the Vickers, also seized the opportunity to pour fire on the British soldiers who had lost their fire cover.
"Iron Cross! Go to our right flank! Fast! Jiang Yuan yelled loudly into the walkie-talkie.
The number of British troops rushing over was too much, even if the crossing crowd crushed the opponent in individual equipment and built relatively strong and targeted fortifications, but the opium cattle still occupied the initiative on the battlefield by virtue of their numerical superiority, and the airfield defense positions were in danger everywhere.
After the experience of blood and fire in the Syrian scene of the dome light curtain, this short logistics manager had a better sense of the battlefield than many officers who had attended regular military academies, and his intuition told him that the right flank of the position would collapse if it was not supported by heavy firepower.
The strawberry soldier who was still bragging to the Boer Snead just now was already overwhelmed by the British firepower, and he learned from his militia teammates to raise the HK416 flat equipped with various high-end accessories to the outside of the position and shoot blindly, trying to stop the British from rushing to the position.
Boom, boom, the chests and abdomen of the strawberry soldiers felt a continuous tremor from the ground, obviously this was not the shock that the small-caliber infantry guns of the Opium Cow could blast.
"Cover your ears and open your mouth!" The Strawberry Soldier said to his militia teammates that he was familiar with the vibration, the resonance of a PzH2000 weighing up to 60 tons as it drove by at close range.
Bang! The 52-fold diameter barrel of the PzH2000 protruding from the front position emitted black and white smoke.
The British soldiers, who were already about to leap into the defensive position of the airport, were instantly knocked down by the muzzles of the guns and the waves of air ejected from their brakes. Because they did not take as effective precautions as the militia who had been prompted by the Strawberry Soldiers, these overturned British soldiers were like being hit by an oversized stun bomb and instantly incapacitated.
Bang! The highly automated PzH2000 soon fired another NATO-standard L-15A2 high-explosive bomb, and was forced to rush through the crowd, which is the rhythm of using self-propelled guns as the main battle tank!
Now the British offensive collapsed in an instant, and I originally thought that the only tank in the hands of the Boers was trapped on the side of the well, who would have thought that the cunning Boers still hid such a hand!
Compared to the tanks they built from their own copycat drawings of the Great Song people, this guy who kept spraying fire at them was simply the creation of the legendary Titans!
The British commander knew that even if its long cannon was an ornament, its massive size would make the soldiers fearful. What's more, the cannon was not a decoration for any purpose, it was just a face, and it used its devastating firepower to disintegrate the attack that it had set up that was almost successful.
There were also brave opium cow soldiers, shooting at the suspected titan creature with rifles in their hands, seemingly gambling in desperation on their luck of hitting the Achilles' heel.
Considering the increasing threat to artillery from all types of weapons on the modern battlefield, Hans also equipped the PzH-2000 with comprehensive protection, with turret armor to withstand direct fire from artillery fragments and 14.5mm machine guns, as well as the increasingly prevalent form of submunitions. In addition, the body and turret can also be equipped with reactive armor, which can be installed by the crew with the tools carried on the vehicle; It is precisely because of the above design that its combat weight will increase to 60 tons.
Apparently entering the position, which was only defended by 100 men, Juncker and his men had already retrofitted the reactive armor to the body and the top of the turret.
The kinetic energy carried by the British lead round-nosed bullets was so small that even the inert explosives contained in the reactive armor would not react at all, so why hit the Achilles heel?