Don't underestimate the front armor of the tank and the armor in front of the turret.

It's like not underestimating the steel plates that are installed under the pilot's feet.

It has been proven that this can greatly reduce the death rate of pilots.

The two sides launched a firepower bombardment, and soon, the Japanese army understood the power of these chariots that had been modified by the Eighth Route Army and had a rather strange shape.

In the midst of the roar of artillery fire, due to the distance between the two sides, it is difficult to achieve accurate strikes, and one of the ten shells can be considered a good hit rate.

The devil's shells, occasionally lucky enough to smash on the extended steel plate anti-artillery device in the front of the tank of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side.

After the explosion, in the anticipation of Xiyuan Shaozuo, the smoke was quickly blown away by the cold wind, and what caught the eyes of this old devil was the still intact chariot of the Eighth Route Army.

The anti-artillery steel plates in the front of those strange combat vehicles that were transformed by the Eighth Route Army were not at all penetrated by the guns carried by the Japanese tanks.

These steel plates were specially thickened, and some of them were specially built by reusing the armor of captured Japanese tanks.

Taking into account only the thickness of the frontal armor, it was even much more than 100 mm.

This has almost reached the thickness of the armor protection of some heavy tanks on the European theater.

You must know that even during World War II, the strongest Tiger heavy tank that the German army terrified the enemy and was never able to conquer, the strongest front armor was only more than 100 mm.

In contrast, the German Tiger tank is extremely expensive, and the tank itself weighs 68.5 tons, even if it is amazingly powerful, considering its own bulkiness and high cost, it actually does not play as good on the battlefield as imagined.

And after a special transformation of the detachment, the front armor and the position of the battery were equipped with a forward anti-gun steel plate device.

The cost is basically negligible, that is, to install some anti-gun steel plates on the original tank of the devil, and there is nothing difficult in technology.

Since the steel plate guards added are only a few parts, they do not cause additional load on the hull itself, and do not affect the combat mobility of the vehicle itself.

"Yaga-"

Seeing that the long-range bombardment did not achieve effective results, Xiyuan Shaozo roared angrily.

This is also a common headache for many Japanese officers.

These Eighth Route Army troops, which were obviously in the occupied areas of the Great Japanese Empire, were living in the cracks, isolated and helpless, and did not have much military industrial base and logistical support.

It's very difficult, like kraft candy, you can't get rid of it.

In addition, these Eighth Route Army, despite its backward equipment, were extremely creative, and the Japanese army had captured a lot of equipment in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and most of those equipment originally belonged to the Japanese army.

Including some Type 89 cartridges, Taisho 11 type light machine guns, Type 92 heavy machine guns, as well as some infantry guns, mortars and the like.

As a result, the soldiers who seized these equipment claimed that they had seized the new equipment developed by the Eighth Route Army, and after the devil officer carefully inspected it, they found out with a confused face:

A bipod was added to the grenadier and a steel shield was added to the front of the light machine gun.

The Type 92 heavy machine gun is even more exaggerated, and the Eighth Road even adds a single-wheel device to the base, which can run and run at any time and pull and go.

At first glance, these modified Japanese-style weapons have a nondescript meaning.

However, after a little thought, the Japanese army soon found that the grenadier with a tripod was more stable and easier to use, and trained gunners.

A light machine gun with a shield can even be used as heavy machine gun firepower, and at the same time effectively reduce the probability of the machine gunner being reloaded.

As for the Type 92 heavy machine gun, after adding wheels, it directly integrates firepower and mobility, which effectively improves the shortcomings of the heavy machine gun itself and its bulkiness.

Don't underestimate these slightly improved equipment, in the ensuing confrontation, the Eighth Route Army was stunned to achieve a lot of results with these seemingly subtle advantages.

This is precisely where the units of the Eighth Route Army are full of creativity and thoughtfulness.

It's just that the Japanese army can't learn these things, and they can't learn them.

The devil can't recover all the large number of grenadiers created by the huge military industrial system of the Japanese army, reinstall the tripods, and change the inherent operation mode that the Japanese artillery was used to, right?

The Eighth Route Army's mode of using improved weapons may not be applicable to the Japanese army.

Maybe it's Dong Shi's imitation, but it will make people laugh and be generous.

At this time, the advantages of the modified tank were immediately apparent.

With the artillery of both sides bombarding, although the Japanese side had an advantage in the number of tanks, the number of attacking artillery was also larger, and the artillery fire was more intensive.

However, the modified tanks on the side of the Eighth Route Army were equipped with anti-artillery devices, and they were not easily destroyed by the Japanese tank guns.

Moreover, the Japanese army was always worried that the Eighth Route Army would conduct anti-tank operations with individual rocket launchers, and the distance between the two sides was relatively long, and the hit rate was already very low.

On the contrary, after two rounds of concentrated firepower, the Eighth Route Army successfully blew up the devil's three Type 95 light tanks.

When the Japanese army used a powerful military industrial system to build these combat vehicles, they probably never thought that one day they would be destroyed by their own tank guns in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese probably did not consider whether the use of the artillery of the 95 light tank and the 97 medium tank could blast the armor of the 95 and 97 medium tanks.

Now the Eighth Route Army has given the answer.

Yes, indeed!

Even the thickness of the armor at the front of the hull, which is the thickest of the devil's 97 medium tank, is only 25 mm.

And tank guns were designed with armor-piercing capabilities in mind.

It seems that most of the Japanese tanks, equipped with their own artillery, can easily destroy the hull itself.

Boom –

With a large number and a large advantage of tank artillery, it was defeated in the hands of a small number of tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army.

Xiyuan Shaozo felt aggrieved and realized that it was not a way to continue fighting like this.

He noticed through the telescope that the strange combat vehicles modified by the Eighth Route Army were equipped with anti-artillery devices in the front armor and the front armor of the battery.

But it seems that there are no such outlandish anti-artillery devices on the side of the tank.

Case......

"The 1st Light and Medium Tank Squads immediately outflanked from the left flank, and the 2nd Medium and Light Tank Squads outflanked from the right flank.

The rest of the vehicles are engaged in frontal combat.

Annihilate these damn eight-way attacks from three sides! ”

"Hey!"

After Xiyuan Shaozuo's order was issued, the devil immediately mobilized the chariots, and the two chariots went around a little farther from the left and right flanks, and detoured to the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army in the more central area of the ranch.

As for the head-on enemy direction, in order to cover the detour of the flanks on both sides, the old devil Xiyuan specially ordered to advance 150 meters again and strengthen the fire attack.

They even organized a few medium tanks to drive directly into the 200-meter artillery range of the Eighth Route Army, and dragged these Eighth Routes with the most crazy and adventurous moves.

The confrontation between the two sides intensified, the roar of artillery fire was incessant, and the scattered gunpowder smoke seemed to be unable to disperse even the cold wind that was constantly blowing.

After the two-way chariot troops set off, Xiyuan Shaozuo was very nervous to observe the troops of the Eighth Route Army a few hundred meters away through the telescope, he was afraid that these Eight Roads would detect the clues and retreat in advance.

Then his plan to attack from three sides and finally strangle the Eighth Route Armored Force in one fell swoop will be in vain.

Ultimately......

The scene that was gradually revealed on the battlefield made the old devil Xiyuan secretly happy.

It seems that all the chariots of the eight roads and five are in a bitter battle. No one was at all aware of the two-way roundabout chariot troops he had sent.

This means that once the chariots on his two flanks successfully detour, under the strangulation of three sides, they will definitely be able to destroy these Eighth Route Armies in one fell swoop.

Although Xiyuan Shaozo also felt that the plan was going well.

It's just that the battle situation is urgent, and Xiyuan Shaozuo can't think about it so much, this opportunity to destroy the enemy is just around the corner, how can you know the result without giving it a try?

Aren't the generals of the Japanese army who are gamblers always like this?

Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, would they still be worried that the US military would have defended Pearl Harbor a long time ago?

The other side.

Commanding more than a dozen modified tanks and armored vehicles, and confronting the Japanese tank units several times their size, it was the commander of the first armored corps under the armored corps built by Kong Jie's detachment.

The commander of the first company was excited at the moment, and he did not fall into the consciousness of the Japanese armored soldiers on three sides.

What I know is that the devil besieged him on three sides with several times the armored vehicle, and those who don't know think that he surrounded the little devil!

And then through the walkie-talkie attached to the command vehicle, when reporting to the command.

A voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Hey, I'm Kong Jie!" ”

As soon as he heard that the old regiment commander had personally answered the call, the company commander became more and more excited.

"Good news, old chief! Our attack went exceptionally well, and we have successfully surrounded two tank squadrons of the devils, including a squadron of medium tanks and a squadron of light tanks. ”

"If nothing else, we can wipe out the devil's chariot troops immediately!"

"Please instruct!"

Boy.

This opening was obviously pursued all the way by two tank squadrons of the Japanese army, and the result was a smooth attack.

Obviously, he was encircled by the Japanese tank unit on three sides, but when he got to the mouth of a company commander, he successfully surrounded the Japanese tank unit.

You think he is bragging, but the most exaggerated thing is that when the first company commander finished reporting like this, the other soldiers who were also sitting next to the commanding chariot did not have any doubts on their faces.

In order to prepare for this battle with the Japanese armored brigade in Monxi.

The armored corps under the command of a detachment has also undergone special transformations for a long time, on the one hand, training officers and soldiers, and modifying and repairing combat vehicles.

On the other hand, it is specially designed to create a means of communication for combat vehicles.

Different from the old radio communication of the tank unit of the Japanese army, as well as various means of flag signal and gesture communication.

Through John, Kong Jie had the technical support of the US side, and even joined forces with a radio communication company of the US side to specially produce a batch of walking machines with long communication distances, which were configured to communicate with each other at any time inside the tank.

The walkie-talkie has the farthest communication distance, and even breaks through the best walkie-talkie developed by the US military, which can communicate at a distance of nearly 15 kilometers.

And in actual combat, in order to ensure the smooth communication of the various tank units.

The armored corps is specially built with a communications company.

These companies will form each node, once there is a message for communication, the node as a transmission, in this case, even if the information transmission distance is only 15 kilometers of the step, once a few more nodes are added, the same can achieve perfect communication within a distance of hundreds of kilometers.

…… Listening to the excited voice of a company commander with some trills coming from the walkie-talkie, Kong Jie, who happened to pick up the walkie-talkie to talk, smiled:

"In that case, company commander, I order you to attack immediately and eat these two tank squadrons of the little devils for me!"

"Yes, please rest assured, the old leader, I promise to complete the task!"

After the communication was interrupted, the commander of the first company immediately deployed for battle, and his heart was full of excitement, because after dragging the Japanese army for six days in one breath, according to the tactics of the week, the final local counterattack operation was to be launched, and this was destined to be a hearty battle with the elite armored units of the Japanese army.

Coupled with the perfect means of communication, I just finished talking to the old head of the regiment.

This feeling was as if Kong Jie was watching this battle from the sidelines, which made the first company commander more and more convinced that he must fight this battle well.

"Car three, car three! Car five, car five! ”

The company commander picked up the walkie-talkie belonging to the company chariot with a smaller power on the side and shouted.

"Company commander!"

"Company commander!"

The voices of the first and second rows were heard on the walkie-talkie.

"Fight according to the plan, fight according to the plan, wait until the Japanese troops on both flanks are in the middle of the plan, and directly launch a counterattack, the command is completed, the command is completed!"

"Roger!"

"Roger!"

…… Just when the commander of the first company issued a communication to arrange a counterattack deployment.

The battle plan of the old devil's two-wing chariot in the West Park to strangle in a roundabout way has been more than half successful.

From the center of the ranch where the armored units of the Eighth Route Army were located, the four Japanese tank squads, more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles, had successfully cooperated with the tank units fighting in the front and formed an encirclement on the side of the Eighth Route Army.

West Park is even ready to put a smile on its face at any time for the ultimate big win.

According to the battle plan of the old devil Xiyuan, the four tank squads of the Japanese army successfully detoured back to the two flanks of the chariot unit of the Eighth Route Army, and immediately attacked the armored units of the Eighth Route Army directly from the two flanks.

Cooperate with the rest of the tank units fighting head-on, strangle on three sides.

The chariots with roundabout wings on both sides can be bombarded against the fact that the flanks of the strange chariots modified by the Eighth Route Army do not have anti-artillery steel plate devices.

As Nishizono Shaozo analyzed before launching a roundabout battle plan:

"The modified tank of the Eighth Road is only a device of anti-gun steel plates with a protruding front, but there is no such device on the two wings.

Our army is flanked on three sides, and the Eighth Route can't always use a single-sided anti-artillery device to defend in three directions, right? ”

Victory seems to be at hand!

The leaders of the devil chariot squads led by the wings on both sides were already roaring and shouting the charging slogan of Long live the Emperor.

A total of more than 20 Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, from both flanks of this flat pasture, at full speed, rushed towards the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army in the central area......

(End of chapter)