Chapter 1176 1177 is also rivet
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"Hey, we're crossing the first line of Japanese positions...... If we attack further, we may be hit by heavy fire! Anti-tank guns or their tanks will fire at us. A German commander said to his comrades by pressing the throat intercom.
When the first shell of the German tank hit a Japanese tank behind a bunker, the officers and men of the German armored forces, who had experienced a hundred battles, had already guessed that the Japanese tanks had arranged bunkers and defensive lines on nearby positions. It's just that they only learned a little about the performance of Japanese tanks from the allies and military advisers in the Far East behind them, which is still far from fully experiencing the Japanese tanks.
Therefore, the German army was more willing to experience the performance of Japanese tanks and the Japanese fighting style in this battle - this is a very important thing to summarize some basic rules of war against Japan. This is why it is said that actual combat is the best teacher of the army.
The wide tracks of the German Leopard tank rolled slowly on the battlefield, and the hull of the Leopard tank continued to roll forward with the continuous rolling of the tracks. Although the German armored forces quickly determined that the retreating Japanese tanks were definitely not all, the tank commander on the battlefield Meyer decided to let his troops cautiously approach the Japanese lines.
"The troops of the 1st Company should pay attention to your flanks! We need to be careful of the enemy's sneak attack! The distance is already very close, don't easily expose your side armor, it is very necessary to be cautious! The tanks of the 2nd Company continue to move forward, coordinate each other's goals, and try to find all the bunkers where the Japanese tanks are hidden!" He gave various combat orders while letting the tanks and armored vehicles at the battalion headquarters follow the tanks in front of him.
On the other side of the Germans, inside the Japanese tanks, the commander with the command knife was also carefully examining the terrible German tanks in the periscope. After all, these Japanese tank units were the first time they had seen such a majestic enemy tank unit.
The slightly square turret of the Leopard tank, as well as the tents and load-bearing wheels hanging from the turrets, make the upper part of these tanks slightly bloated and messy, and the simple sloping hull armor also has a very distinctive rivet structure on both sides.
I have to admit that if you look at it from an aesthetic point of view, the German tank is definitely the perfect existence to crush the Japanese tank. The modern shape and the camouflage paint that is closer to the actual combat, plus the numerous external parts and equipment, make the German tank more in line with the aesthetics of today's people.
In particular, the exaggerated proportions of the 75 mm caliber high-caliber tank gun, when pointed majestically forward, can definitely bring a strong sense of oppression to all enemies. If you see the power of this weapon, you will be even more afraid of this exaggerated weapon, and most of those who had been lucky with it have now been buried under the shells of this weapon.
"The hulls of these German tanks were also riveted, and it seems that their technology was not much better than ours. They may just be using heavier armor, so as soon as our shells hit their armor plates, the rivets will peel off around their hulls......" A Japanese tank commander analyzed rationally, trying to find his own superiority in the other side. Unfortunately, he did not know that the two rows of rivets were not actually fixed rivets for the main armor of the Leopard tank, but a temporary armor fixed structure with a thickness of 30 mm attached to the outside of the main armor.
The overly optimistic Japanese tankers, by this moment had aimed their sights at the hulls of the advancing German tanks, and they had pressed the fire switch, ready to shoot deadly shells into the enemy's tank hulls. The atmosphere became suffocating little by little as the distance between the two sides continued to get closer, and the surrounding gunfire and shouts did not affect these people who were preparing for the decisive battle in the slightest, everyone just waited quietly, waiting for the best time to open fire.
In the third salvo, the Japanese fled backwards of the 10 Type 97 tanks of the Anda squadron, and only the poor one continued to gallop backwards. And Captain Miyamoto pinched the radio intercom and was crying out the name of Squadron Leader Anda over and over again. Obviously, one of the shells fired by the Germans for the third time just now hit the car of the Squadron Leader Anda, and then the contact between the Squadron Anda and the Captain Miyamoto seemed to be completely broken.
"Anda! Anda! Answer me when you hear it!" After the last shout, Miyamoto shouted hysterically and slammed the walkie-talkie in his hand on the table: "What about the distance? Isn't the distance 700 meters yet? If you arrive, fire at me! Fire! I'm going to let these damn guys die without a place to bury!
The distance has indeed arrived, in fact, a minute ago, the distance between the two sides was almost 700 meters. However, the Japanese tank commanders on the front line deliberately avoided this fact, hoping to keep the distance closer, so that they could penetrate the opponent's tanks at a more certain distance.
"Tank guns ready! Fire!" In the end, in front of the German tank, in a hidden Japanese tank bunker closest to the German army, a Japanese commander couldn't help but give the order to open fire and attack, the shooter had already prepared the shells, and at this time he couldn't wait to press the fire switch, so the short 57 mm caliber tank gun on the Japanese tank turret emitted a puff of white smoke.
"Boom!" The shell fired by the Japanese tank flew in front of the German tank in an instant, and with the whistling sound of the air current, the shell was loaded on the front armor plate of the German Leopard tank. The two rows of rivets that held the temporary armor attached to the outside trembled with the force of the impact, and the heavy outer steel plate armor also shook, and the dust accumulated in the crevices and corners around it was beaten up, and the stones in some of the crevices were blown far away.
However, the shell fired by the Japanese tank gun was eventually deflected off by the armor of the German tank, which had a good bulletproof appearance, and the seemingly powerful attack only left a deep pit in the temporary armor on the outside, and did not hurt the main armor, let alone the driver and mechanics behind the main armor.
"I was hit! Tank No. 214 was hit! But the front armor was not penetrated! There was nothing wrong with the tank......" Without waiting for Meier to worry for long, a report from the members of the tank crew who was hit by the Japanese came from the headset, because the opponent's tank gun was too powerful, and even the commander of the No. 214 tank who was hit was still in the mood to joke: "We're fine! Their tank is as powerful as the main gun of Stalin's tank...... It's a pity that I've already changed to a King Tiger tank. ”
And the Japanese gunners in the ambush on the opposite side, whose eyes were still on the sights, really wanted to scold loudly for being unfair at this moment. His shell hit the opponent's tank accurately, but it was clear that the shell did not destroy the opponent, but only left a pothole in the hull of the opponent's tank.
But there was no time for him to complain, because he could see through the high-powered magnification of the sight that the gun of the opposing tank was already pointing in his direction, and it was spewing a dazzling fire.
He removed his eyes from the scope and looked at the commander beside him, and finally organized his vocabulary, and reminded him in a soft voice: "Hurry up!"
It's a pity that the other people didn't hear his reminder at all, or his reminder was too quiet, not so much a reminder as a whisper. A second later, the bunker in front of the Japanese tank was swept into the air by German shells, and neither the fragile front armor plate nor the sandbags built on it could stop the German armor-piercing shell from moving forward.
The German armor-piercing bullet struck the Japanese tank's armor, breaking all the rivets used to hold the armor in place at once, and carrying the fragments from the vicinity of the pierced armor to the Japanese crew members further behind. In just a split second, hundreds of pieces of armor and broken rivets passed through the bodies of these hapless Japanese tank crews, like meat grinders, turning these living lives into fleshy pieces.
Then the velocity of the fragments barely changed, bouncing back and forth inside the tank, splashing back and forth depending on the angle, until the energy ran out and stopped somewhere. And the shell fired by the Germans, with greater force, crashed into the engine compartment behind the tank hull.
From a distance, where Wing Captain Miyamoto was, where a tank on his position was located, suddenly exploded into a dazzling flame, the engine and the diesel fuel inside it burned, igniting the 57 mm caliber ammunition inside the hull, and a violent explosion occurred, and the flames illuminated the faces of the Japanese soldiers on all the nearby positions, reflecting their desperate expressions.
"Amaterasu, have you given up on your people? How can human bravery resist so many terrible weapons?" Miyamoto pressed the command knife on his waist and watched in horror as his chariots were destroyed one after another, while the German tanks on the opposite side, as if they were impregnable mobile fortresses, were not damaged in the slightest by the attack of the Japanese chariots.
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