Chapter 89 Delivery of 50 Medium Tanks
Of course, Duan Yunpeng's arsenal and aircraft factory are now also making a lot of money for the Eighth Route Army, and in the new year, the arsenal will deliver fifty clouded leopard medium tanks, all of which were ordered by the allies.
You must know that just a few days ago, the Japanese army had completely occupied Vietnam, and this place was the territory of the French, so now the French army has withdrawn from Vietnam, but the French army is not reconciled, they want to take back this place.
So this time I am ready to unite with the British army and fight the little devils together, because the little devils are likely to annex Burma occupied by the British army next.
This batch of Clouded Leopard medium tanks was ordered by the French army and was ready to be shipped to the Vietnam battlefield immediately, along with 20 Fury fighters and 10 long-range bombers.
Therefore, the delegates who came from the Allies this time were very happy to see these tanks and planes to be delivered in the arsenal, because these tanks and planes were the most advanced, more advanced than the British and American goods, so they believed that with these equipment, they could fight a good day on the battlefield in Southeast Asia.
For the Eighth Route Army, this is of course a good thing, because this time it has made a lot of money again, and it is not easy to be able to make money from the Allies.
Duan Yunpeng has now made great contributions to the Eighth Route Army, and after the successful delivery ceremony, these equipment began to go to the front line in Southeast Asia.
Airplanes are easy to do, they can fly over directly, but the tanks have to be transported by sea, and these tanks are secretly transported by Soviet freighters.
Because now Xiaori and the Soviet Union are not at war, and they have signed a non-aggression pact.
A month later, Southeast Asia.
The Anglo-French forces and the Japanese army are now fighting fiercely.
Colonel Tom, a commander of the British army, stopped as he passed through a small town and came to the middle of the town with several officers beside him.
I saw that two-thirds of the houses in this town had been reduced to rubble, and the battle was fierce.
You must know that Colonel Tom is a veteran of the First World War, so he can see at a glance that the French army here has fought a very fierce battle with the Japanese army.
They saw several small day tanks that had been blown up, as if they had been smashed by some large-caliber anti-tank gun.
A major said excitedly: "Mr. Colonel, this must be a masterpiece of the Chinese-made Clouded Leopard medium tank!" ”
The colonel carefully observed for a while and said: "It should be right, it seems that our friendly army, this battle is good, it did not lose a tank, but it lost a lot in Xiaori." ”
The major smiled: "This shows that the weapons made in China are indeed very powerful, and we also have to find a way to get more Chinese-made weapons, especially their long-range bombers, which I think are very good weapons, and we have no way to make them." ”
The colonel nodded and said, "Yes, so next we have to suggest to the military that we purchase more Chinese weapons." ”
At this time, when they came to the central square of the town, they saw the French army and the captured Japanese army, these prisoners were about more than 200 people, and it seemed that the Japanese army was not afraid of death, otherwise they would not have surrendered.
These little devils, all of them look depressed, and they look like they've been hungry for a long time.
The commander of the French army saw that it was a friendly army coming, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him.
They now began to discuss how to proceed next, this time preparing to take back a city occupied by the Japanese and eliminate a wing of Japanese troops there.
Fifty Clouded Leopard medium tanks, still without a single loss, plus with fire support from the air, they are still very confident.
The French army had a brigade of more than 5,000 men, plus a regiment of the British army had 2,000 men, so they still had an advantage in numbers.
A few days later, the well-prepared Anglo-French forces attacked the Japanese-occupied city of Ha Long.
It was still very cold, so most of the Japanese infantry were still in the barracks, with only a few sentries and patrols around the city.
The Anglo-French army was soon discovered by the Japanese outposts, after all, there were dozens of medium tanks, and the movement was too big.
Therefore, the response of the Japanese army was also very fast, and they quickly made deployments, and the Japanese army was a defensive position from inside and outside the city.
However, first of all, the attack from the air took care of the Japanese army, and before the tanks and large forces reached Ha Long City, ten long-range bombers and twenty Fury fighters flew over the Japanese positions and began to drop bombs intensively.
Boom Boom!
After a shaking explosion, the position of the little devils has simply become a scorched earth, of course, the role that the bombers can play is also limited, and it can only be regarded as opening a gap, because there are more devil positions, and there is no way to rely on these thirty planes to bomb.
Of course, at this time, the artillery fire of the British and French troops also began to come, and the tanks also rushed to a distance of less than five kilometers from the city, and exchanged fire with the remnants of the Japanese troops on the position.
The Japanese army here also had more than a dozen tanks, although they also knew that the opposite side was a Chinese-made medium tank, which was difficult to deal with, but the Japanese also had to send their tanks.
There were also some grenadiers, who also followed.
But fifty medium tanks, completely unafraid of these Japanese counter-pots, roared through the trenches and fired at the devil's tanks.
Boom Boom!
The tanks on both sides are firing at each other, but it is clear that the quality of the Chinese-made tanks is too good, the tanks of Xiaori are thin-skinned, and the clouded leopard tank is an 88 mm tank gun, which is much more powerful than the tanks of Xiaori.
Suddenly, many of those tanks were destroyed, and some devil infantry were unlucky after the tanks and were blown to pieces.
There were some experienced Japanese soldiers, but they escaped the catastrophe, and they quickly lay down.
At the same time, the machine guns on the medium tank were also roaring, and they harvested a lot of devil lives in an instant.
The commanders of the Anglo-French forces were overjoyed to see the courage of the Chinese-made tanks.
If they had more of these equipment, they would have the confidence to recover the entire Southeast Asia occupied by the Japanese army.
Of course, this has to be done step by step.
In front of the clouded leopard, the Japanese tanks were like paper tigers, and they were destroyed one after another, and soon fifty tanks rushed into the city and began to shoot the little devils who were stationed in the city.
In the face of the Japanese machine guns, the clouded leopard did not react at all, and those machine gun bullets hit the body of the car, and they were all bounced off one after another.
The soldiers sitting in the tank felt like it was raining, but they were so safe that they didn't have to worry.
Soon, the battle for the city ended, and the Japanese fled after throwing down more than a thousand corpses.