Chapter Seventy-Seven: The First Tank Battle in Another World (Part II)
In the later period of World War I, Britain, France and Germany continued to introduce fighters with better performance, the most famous of which was the British "Camel" fighter. It has good maneuverability and powerful firepower. In the last year or so of World War I, a total of 1,294 enemy aircraft were shot down, making it the best fighter of its time.
The "Camel" aircraft was designed by the British company Soprovis, and its military name was the Soproyis F.1 biplane, with a maximum level flight speed of 195 km/h and an altitude of 5,800 meters. Two machine guns were installed in parallel in the upper part of the aircraft engine, and a firing coordinator was adopted. Because the machine guns were covered with a raised bulge above each other, like two humps, it was named "camel".
Design work on the aircraft began in 1916, when the aircraft rose to prominence in World War I, and fierce air combat required highly maneuverable fighters. Against this background, the "Camel" fighter made its first test flight on February 22, 1916, and was soon put into production, participating in combat in July 1917. The "Camel" is a single-seat fighter with two boat guns and 45.4 kg of bombs. The two aces, Captain Tololop and Ullet, used it to shoot down six enemy planes in one day. With its agile circling performance and powerful front-firing firepower, this prestigious aircraft shot down a total of 1,294 enemy planes in the 16 months from July 1917 to November 1918, setting a record for the results of a single aircraft in World War I.
Both the British Air Force and naval aviation were armed with such aircraft, totaling more than three thousand units. A total of 5,500 Camel aircraft were produced, and in addition to the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, Greece, and the United States used such aircraft.
In order to shoot at the artillery school, Ouyang Yu purchased a total of 20 camel fighters, each with a price of 4,500 silver coins, and the pilot recruitment price was 2,000 silver coins for 50 percent of the training degree, and 3,000 silver coins for 75 percent were all expensive to death.
With the eyes in the sky, Ouyang Yu's artillery, although it is absolutely below in number, but it is comparable to the artillery group of the imperial army, and its own loss and destruction ratio is kept at about one to three, after half an hour of fierce artillery battle, the various types of magic crystal artillery of the imperial army were destroyed by one-third, and about one hundred took the initiative to withdraw from the artillery battle, the artillery battle ended with the tragic victory of Ouyang Yu's artillery group, and the Ouyang Yu army also lost most of the artillery in this battle, and finally only eight 1902 76mm field guns and five 152mm-200p cannons remained。
After the defeat of the air force and artillery, it did not frighten the commander of the Second Army, Lieutenant General Merlin, but aroused his fighting spirit, he ordered the ground offensive, and the old-fashioned Lieutenant General Merlin, who was in his fifties, was not very fond of tanks and airplanes, and he always believed that the infantry was the core of the army, and other weapons and equipment were for the victory of the infantry.
On the twenty-kilometer-wide defensive line, the infantry of the Imperial Army, under the cover of more than 100 magic energy tanks, launched an attack on the position of Ouyang Yu's army, here Lieutenant General Merlin made a huge mistake, he did not concentrate on the use of magic energy tanks, but distributed them evenly among the infantry, with an average of one tank every two hundred meters.
"It's time for us, brothers, to show the Imperial Army guys a little color!"
Colonel Marshall stood on his MKI tank and waved his fist, mobilizing the morale of the soldiers of the independent tank battalion around him, and after making a bold statement, Colonel Marshall got into his tank, and the engines of the forty-two magic crystal tanks powered by magic crystals were started, and the heat dissipation grid behind the tank emitted a blue light.
"Let's go!"
Colonel Marshall's tank took the lead, and the other tanks followed his tank in an inverted V-shape, and behind the tank battalion was the first battalion of infantry sent by Ouyang Yu.
"Comrades soldiers, now is the time for you to fight for the great motherland of the Duchy of Luxon, the respected leader, Count Ouyang, is watching you behind you, the people of the motherland are watching you, for the peace of this world and the safety of your relatives in the motherland, for the defeat of the evil Phoenix Empire, for the sake of our respected leader, forward!"
"Ulla!" ×N!
The political commissar of the 1st Battalion used his sharp words to arm their minds with nationalism and nationalism, so that the ordinary soldiers of the 1st Battalion temporarily forgot their fears and threw themselves into the battle at the cost of their lives.
On the way to attack, the systematic soldiers in the first battalion repeatedly told their ordinary comrades-in-arms to the precautions on the battlefield, so as not to lose their lives as soon as the ordinary soldiers who had not received much training entered the battlefield.
Colonel Marshall's tank battalion and 1st battalion soon approached the front line from the rear, and by this time the Imperial Army had launched an offensive against the front positions, and Colonel Marshall soon discovered his first target, an FT-1 wolf tank of the Imperial Army.
"One o'clock in the direction of the wolf poured one, the distance ...... Four hundred and twenty meters, stop, the pillar gives me a little aim. ”
The gunner, nicknamed Pillar, put the target into the scope with some nervousness, "Ready." ”
"Fire!"
"Boom!"
The 40mm Magic Crystal Cannon on the turret of Colonel Marshall's MKI tank fired a hybrid magic projectile with a strong armor-piercing effect, which could penetrate 20 mm thick steel armor at a distance of 500 meters, and 50 mm steel armor at a distance of 100 meters.
Perhaps because of nervousness or some other reason, the terroir-piercing shells flew past the wolf-filled turret, and the angry Colonel Marshall shouted, "Pillar, you fucking hit the crooked!"
The gunner's face was red and he didn't dare to refute, and when the loader reloaded the shell, he immediately fired, this time it was not crooked, and the terroir armor-piercing shell accurately hit the front of the turret of the wolf, and the wolf's thin armor was penetrated, and the terroir armor-piercing projectile exploded after shooting into the wolf's inside, and the crew inside was killed instantly.
"Well done the pillar, I'll give you credit when I go back!"
Colonel Marshall saw from the periscope that the penetrated wolf bush had stopped moving, a large amount of black smoke came out of the gap in the tank and ignited a fire, and after more than ten seconds, the ammunition inside the wolf bush was detonated, and the turret was thrown several meters into the air by the blast wave of the explosion, and then smashed heavily to the ground.
The sudden appearance of the tank troops of the coalition army frightened the attacking Imperial soldiers, and the Imperial soldiers who had fully understood the power of the tank were very aware of the vulnerability of the infantry without anti-tank weapons in front of the steel monster, in the past they always relied on their tanks to beat the coalition forces to the ground, and now when they faced the tank attack, they were not much better than their enemies, some soldiers turned around and ran, some soldiers lay down and prayed to the ancestors to let the tanks not see them, only a small number of Imperial soldiers mustered up the courage to rush to the coalition tanks。
"The one who sent him to death is here, notify the cars to beat me hard!"
Colonel Marshall's tank stopped, and the communications soldier opened the top cover of the turret and poked out half of his body, waving two small red and white flags, and waving flags at the surrounding MKI tanks, the biggest gap between the coalition army and the imperial army is that there is no radio, and everything has to be done half a beat slower, which is fatal on the battlefield, which is one of the main reasons why the coalition forces are always losing consecutive battles.
Colonel Marshall's order was conveyed one by one, forty-two MKI tanks stopped firing at full strength, the forty mm magic crystal cannon on the turret, the seventy mm magic crystal cannon on the front of the hull, and the four magic crystal machine guns on both sides of the hull kept firing, the soldiers of the Imperial Army kept falling like dominoes, and the infantry of the Ouyang Yu Army who followed the tank also knelt on the ground and raised their guns to shoot, the infantry effectively filled the blind spot of the tank's vision, and all the Imperial soldiers who wanted to get close to the MKI tank were all shot。
"Hahaha...... Hahahaha...... Die, die!" Colonel Marshall was already in a frenzy at this point, "order the cars to go forward and crush these sons of bitches!"
The forty-two MKIs of the independent battalion advanced again, and the soldiers of the first battalion of Ouyang Yu's army also followed up, carefully protecting these seemingly powerful steel monsters.
"Whoosh...... Boom!"
When the smoke of the explosion cleared, Colonel Marshall's MKI was unscathed, Colonel Marshall hurriedly turned the tank commander's periscope to look in the direction from which the burst was ejected, and from the periscope he saw more than 20 magic tanks of the Imperial Army rushing towards him.
These Imperial tanks were transferred by Lieutenant General Merlin, and after learning that the Coalition also had tanks, Lieutenant General Merlin was stunned for a moment and then quickly recovered from the shock, and immediately radioed the Magic Tanks on his side, asking them to rush to and destroy the Coalition tanks quickly.
"Haha, the opponent finally appeared on a large scale, waved the flag, and told the others that we would catch up. ”
Forty-two MKIs of the separate tank battalion quickly turned to meet the enemy, leaving the infantry of the first battalion, and the first tank battle in another world began.