Chapter 356: Steel Behemoth
At this time, most of the tanks that Garibo was accompanied by Italian-made M11/39 tanks, which were armed with a 37 mm main gun and two "Breda" 8 mm machine guns, and could march at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour on the road and travel up to 200 kilometers at a maximum distance.
However, a tank of his level is like a paper fold in front of the armored regiment led by Hu Rentian, and the tank designed and built by the arsenal controlled by the Dragon Chamber of Commerce is based on the famous "Tiger Tank" as the prototype, and it is the product of reconstruction and upgrading, which is absolutely ahead of all the armies in the world for more than ten years, even if the Germans devote all their resources, it will take three years to develop a similar tank.
For example, the heavy tank that Hu Rentian is driving now, numbered "Tiger", each tank can carry 5 soldiers, weighs 57 tons, is 8.45 meters long, 3.7 meters wide, 2.93 meters high, has a maximum speed of 38 kilometers per hour, the caliber of the main gun has reached 88 mm, and there are two 7.92 mm machine guns, the rotation range of the main gun has reached 360 degrees, and even if it is parked there, it can be fired without dead ends.
In addition, each tank was also equipped with 92 shells and 4,800 machine gun bullets, and it was like a steel monster rumbling and crushing in the process, facing the sporadic shelling and machine guns from the Italian side, hitting these steel muscle monsters, sparks flew everywhere, and they could not penetrate the heavy armor.
With a loud "bang", a moving tracked armored car was blown up to the bottom of the side, and the whole thing was lifted up, and the head and feet were buckled to the ground, and the Italian soldiers inside couldn't escape from it for a while even if they weren't killed.
In the tank cabin, Hu Rentian personally turned the turret and aimed at the second enemy tank.
"Hahaha~~~ Cool! Hurry up and fire cannonballs for Lao Tzu~! ”
When the soldiers pushed a new shell into the chamber, Hu Rentian fired decisively, and the 88-mm main gun spat out flames, shaking the sand and gravel on the ground to the spot and flying more than half a meter high.
The whistling shells pierced through the center and hit an Italian M11/39 tank in the center, knocking it in two!
"Hahaha~~~ It's so fucking cool~! Hurry up and continue to load the cannonballs! ”
At the rear of the team, Qiao Han, who saw this scene, was frightened, and instantly had no idea of fighting back, and ordered loudly: "Withdraw and retreat, withdraw quickly!" Bring General Garibal to our car, use the other tanks to attract the enemy, and get out of here quickly! ”
He knew that these Italian light tanks alone would not be able to fight the opponent's steel-muscled monsters, not to mention that others were still attacking their flanks, and they were not even given a chance to turn their guns.
And the guns on their side hit the body of the opponent's tank, except for splashing some sparks, it was really not lethal at all.
And the big guys were at full throttle, and after two rounds of shooting, they were already in front of them, and they looked like they were ready to hit them directly.
It was not a pleasant thing to be hit by a steel monster driving at full speed, and once these tanks and armored vehicles were knocked down, there was no resistance at all.
Chauhan decisively ordered a retreat, just as the armored car he was riding in had not yet been noticed by the wolf-like heavy tanks, dragged General Garibal, who had climbed out of the carriage in a hurry, turned the front of the car, stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and returned the same way in a puff of smoke, fleeing without a trace.
"Hahaha~~~ A bunch of waste, this is the so-called Axis powers? This is what is called fascism? It's not enough for Lao Tzu to fight~! ”
After blowing up six armored vehicles and three tank vehicles of the other side, the rest of the people who could still move also scattered and fled, without fighting spirit.
Hu Rentian's armored troops were not many, and he didn't plan to chase those deserters separately, so he immediately gathered his team and returned the same way, hiding behind the shadow of the small dirt bag.
Of course, they also seized some weapons and ammunition from the opposing armoured vehicles and tanks, as well as dry food and fresh water, the latter sometimes more important than the former.
"Brothers, good job~! That's it for today, it's time for us to shift, go, go east with Lao Tzu, the North African desert is so open, it's just right for our fast movement warfare~! If you want to catch those dogs, you can't catch them, you can't beat them, you can't kill them, hahaha~~~~"
Hu Rentian and the others counted the loot, trimmed it slightly, and then drove towards the depths of the desert to the east, leaving only the sand and dust in the sky.
However, the reason why they were sent to the North African battlefield by Zhou Yu was because of the next game of chess, the next big game.
What Zhou Yu wanted to do was not to help the British army resist Rommel's attack, nor to contain the German army's eastward advance to besiege the Soviet Union, but to buy people's hearts and minds and hire African troops on the North African continent to train them.
This time, Hu Rentian brought many people of African descent, and some of them can still find relatives here, and Zhou Yu wants to use this relationship to bury this chess piece in the key part first.
As for the "key part" in Zhou Yu's mind, it is very simple, he has always wanted to indirectly or directly control the Red Sea and the outlet of the Mediterranean Sea, which has a vital role in his future plans, and it is also a powerful means to restrain the European powers.
The Suez Canal is like the throat of the Mediterranean, as long as this throat is choked, those white men who have bullied the Chinese will have to bow to him.
If you don't want to bow your head, it's okay, whether you want to transport or do business, sorry, just like the Age of Discovery has just begun, honestly go around the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, even if that will increase a lot of costs invisibly, but those don't need Zhou Yu to help them calculate.
Of course, at this stage, he did not tell the public about the goal of his long-term plan, because it was still in the stage of adjustment and implementation.
The main thing now is to be a-stirring stick when these powers are at their most ferocious, and to mix all their stinky together.
For Zhou Yu, the more chaotic the situation in Europe, the better, and the smaller the gap between the warring sides, the better, only then can he get the most out of it.
As one of the 140,000 Chinese laborers who assisted the European battlefield in World War I, Zhou Yu deeply remembered the pain.
In the distance, there were the Eight-Nation Coalition and the Opium War, all of which left many shocking scars on the bodies of the Chinese people.
Closer to life, on the Somme, on Verdun, on the battlefields of various countries, how did those people treat the Chinese laborers? What to do with these allies? I didn't even treat them as human beings!
Yes, now they always look happy when they see Zhou Yu, but that is only based on the former's strong economic strength.
Those arrogant guys still look down on the Chinese in their bones, and even look down on all other colored people, including the bigwigs of the New World Congress.
Although they were still polite to him on the surface due to Zhou Yu's identity, and the Dragon Chamber of Commerce was becoming more and more powerful in the states and counties of the Federation, even if they didn't like it in their hearts, they still greeted him with a smile.
But Zhou Yu noticed more than once that at the ball, at the dinner, some high-ranking guys intentionally or unintentionally alienated him and isolated him, and only those core members of Roosevelt's think tank were close to him, including his iron buddy Ford, Lao Ren, and Faneva's technical nerds.
Look down on Lao Tzu? It doesn't matter, Lao Tzu looks down on you too! It's just that it has taken the ride of the Age of Discovery and the Industrial Revolution and entered modernization ahead of schedule.
Our great country in China has thousands of years of history and heritage, and in the previous textbooks and history, he was powerless to change anything, and could only stare at the rows of cold numbers to mourn his misfortune and be angry.
But now it's different, now that he's here, and he has the corresponding power in his hands, then he has to do something.
First of all, let's make this war more violent!