Chapter 47 Tank Battle (2)
The "Captain Hundred-Man" tank seemed to realize the intention of the "T-34", and swirled the turret and aimed at the "T-34". The "T-34" still rushed forward while continuing to fire at the "Captain Hundred-Man" tank. Although the shells did not have any effect even if they hit the "Captain Hundred-Man" tank, the thick smoke and dust of the shells completely covered the periscope of the "Captain Hundred-Man" tank, making the tankers inside unable to aim at it.
With a "boom!", the "Captain Hundred Man" tank opened fire in panic, but unfortunately, even though the "Captain Hundred Man" tank was equipped with the most advanced fire control system of this era, it still could not hit the moving target under this situation. The shell exploded from afar behind the "t-34". But this could not affect the speed of the "t-34" advance at all. It still drove towards the intersection with a blast...
Three hundred meters!
Everyone on the battlefield, including the British troops stationed on the 237th high ground, understood the purpose of this "T-34" tank. The sound of gunfire was much less at this moment, because everyone understood that the victory or defeat on the battlefield at this time almost depends on the success of the tank, so everyone turned their attention to this tank that we didn't even know who was inside.
Two hundred meters!
The "t-34" tank was very fast, and the distance of one hundred meters passed in the blink of an eye. But just after a while, the only British tank "Churchill" that entered the open area also responded. It turned a corner and penetrated diagonally between the "t-34" and the "Captain Hundred People", as if it wanted to block the "t-34"'s way forward, but the "Churchill" tank was too slow. After turning a corner, it easily bypassed "Churchill", and left it to continue to drive towards the intersection.
The Churchill was not bad either. Seeing that the speed was not as good as the "t-34", he gave up his intention to intercept, and then slowly turned the turret and aimed its barrel at the "t-34" that had just rushed through it. At this time, the "t-34" happened to expose its weak rear armor in front of "Churchill".
Just when I was worried, I heard a few loud noises of "boom..." Before the "Churchill" could fire, the other volunteer tanks fired five shells and three shots. The "Churchill" who exposed the flanks to the soldiers came and fired the guns without rushing, but a purple light instantly turned into a fireball. None of the tankers inside fled out in a hurry...
One hundred meters!
The "Captain Hundred-Man" tank is close to the "T-34". It can be said that the "Captain Hundred-Man" tank has another chance, because at such a close distance, the "T-34" tank must advance along a section of road before it can get into a narrow intersection, so the "Captain Hundred-Man" tank can almost hit the "T-34" with just one shot in front of it.
The British tankers were not fools. Sure enough, they quickly adjusted the tank's turret at this moment. Then with a "boom", a burst of smoke burst out from the "t-34" tank turret, and the speed was significantly slowed down, and then a wisp of blue smoke rose...
It's over, I'm hit!
Seeing this, my heart couldn't help but sink, just a little short of... A distance of 100 meters was only a few seconds for the "t-34" tank, and it was only a few seconds away from it.
What should I do now? Then use human lives to pile them up? Use tanks to pile them up?
Even if I am willing and the soldiers are willing, this battle will not end successfully within half an hour before the enemy plane enters the battlefield.
Is it possible that the enemy will not dispatch the plane?
Impossible! Because aircraft are the best weapon to deal with tanks, maybe the moment our tanks appeared, the British army began to call for support from the Air Force. What's more, this is the first time our army has been invested in tank combat on the battlefield, so the US Air Force will also treat it with caution.
What should I do? Withdraw the troops? This time, the battle between our infantry, artillery and armored soldiers was declared defeated?
Although I don't want to, I have to admit that once the enemy's tanks continue to be put into battle, our army, whether it is tanks or infantry, will fall into a very passive situation. In another half an hour, if the enemy air force also enters battle, our army will not have the possibility of victory.
Although we have tanks, our tank troops are not enough to defend against enemy tanks and aircraft.
Retreat now maybe the best option...
But at this moment, people in the world were stunned that the "t-34" that was blown up from the blow, suddenly moved again... That's right, I didn't see it, so I quickly raised my telescope and looked at the "t-34" not far from the intersection.
The smoke gradually dissipated, and the entire turret of the "t-34" that appeared in the aperture of my telescope was cut off halfway, and the "big head t-34" turned into "little head t-34". Even the barrel was tilted to the side weakly, and blue smoke kept popping out of the tank cabin inside, and there was still some flames.
This is the power of the 105mm caliber tank gun of the "Captain Hundred-Man"? If it hits a shot, it is not a question of whether it can penetrate the armor, but whether it can be preserved intact. I can't believe that a tank has been bombed to this level, and there will be living people inside, and the tank can still be activated...
But I was indeed not wrong, because not long after, the "t-34" with only half a head started to move again. Under everyone's amazing eyes, it moved again, and the speed went from slow to fast. Before the "Captain Hundred Man" type had a chance to fire another shot, it stuck into the intersection. Then with a "clang" sound, the track of the "t-34" hit the "Captain Hundred Man" type tank hard.
"Okay!" I heard the screams of the guard beside me.
The volunteer soldiers were about to breathe a sigh of relief, but what was even more surprising was that the "Captain Hundred-Man" tank did not seem to take the "t-34" seriously. It only heard its motor make a "rumble" sound, and it increased its horsepower and pushed forward, and even pushed the "t-34" backwards!
No! Seeing this, the heart I just let go of was raised again. The "Captain Hundred Man" type is a heavy tank. Its engine power is 650 horsepower, and some models even exceed 800 horses. The "T-34" uses thin armor, so the total weight is only 30.9 tons, which is not much heavier than the light tank "Xiafei" equipped by the US military. This weight is not a piece of cake for the "Captain Hundred Man" type tank...
But what can I do now? Seeing this, I couldn't help but smile bitterly. It turned out that this battle was destined to be a waste of effort from the beginning. Even if the soldiers were brave, even if the tankers could use tanks to rush up and block the intersection, there would be no change at all. The gap between us and the enemy in tanks is too big. Until now, I can't help but wonder whether I have not taken into account the gap between the enemy and us in tanks!
But just when I lost confidence in myself, I suddenly heard a loud noise, and the "t-34" with only half of the "head" exploded and turned into a huge fireball. Then there were several explosions one after another. The shells in the tank exploded one after another, and the fireball became bigger and bigger. In a short while, the "Captain Hundred-Man" type that was holding it also surrounded the flames...
The base number of ammunition on the "t-34/85" is 56 rounds, including high-explosive bombs and armor-piercing bombs. It is like a small ammunition depot. At this time, it is equivalent to hundreds of kilograms of tnt explosives. No matter how thick the armor of the "Captain Hundred Man" tank is, no matter how hard the cover is, it cannot withstand such detonation power. What's more, the engine of the "Captain Hundred Man" tank is a gasoline engine. The gasoline power is easily ignited. When it is burned by the flame, there is no possibility of moving again.
Seeing this, I couldn't help but take a deep breath, calming the excitement from my chest. What kind of soldiers are these! I seemed to see that in that "t-34", several volunteer soldiers drove the tank that they regarded as more important than life without hesitation, crashing into the enemy without hesitation, even if they were hit by the enemy's shells. Even if they were hit by the enemy's shells, they still tried their last breath to continue completing their mission. Finally, they pulled a grenade in the tank to detonate themselves and the enemy...
This reminds me of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 more than fifty years ago, Deng Shichang also drove a warship with inferior equipment to the enemy ship. Although he was unfortunately hit by the enemy torpedo on the way, their spirit was so similar to our volunteer soldiers.
"Kill!" The soldiers were aroused by the heroic performance of their comrades in the "t-34" tank, and they all shouted at the enemy's position with bayonets. The remaining "t-34" tanks were also very clear at this time that the British "Captain Captain" heavy tank blocked the intersection, and the British tanks could no longer enter the battlefield, so they were confidently concentrated all their firepower on the charge of the volunteer infantry. For a moment, the tank guns were fired, and the turntable machine guns were on the tank's turret (the secondary weapon of the "t-34" tank was two turntable machine guns), which only made the British troops on the position unable to raise their heads.
On the other hand, the British army originally hoped that their tank troops would come to reinforce, but they watched their "Churchill" tanks be so vulnerable in front of their opponents. The "T-34" tank of the Volunteer Army even rushed forward and replaced them with a medium-sized tank with a backward equipment. At the same time, they blocked the intersection and made all the tanks unable to pass.
On the battlefield, this is not just a matter of losing several tanks, but more importantly, it is a kind of momentum, or a kind of fighting spirit and morale. Just as the two sides in ancient times would send one general to fight one by one, one general would have tens of thousands of people in action, and hundreds of thousands of people were obviously insignificant on the battlefield. However, the winning side can inspire the courage and morale of their own soldiers, allowing them to fight bravely without hesitation. Then, a one-sided situation will appear on the battlefield.
Although on the battlefield now, this habit of fighting with generals alone has long disappeared. But at this moment, a single battle with generals similar to that on the ancient battlefield has occurred. And we also won, winning the United Nations Army with obvious weak equipment...
For some reason, when I thought of the United Nations Army, I remembered the Eight-Nation Alliance. Time is not far away, only fifty-years away from my current era. And coincidentally, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China 51 years ago, and among them were our current opponents, the United States, Britain, and France.
At that time, they had only sent a few thousand troops, and even some countries had only sent a few hundred troops. The total number of eight countries was only 30,000, but they could invade Beijing and fight the entire Qing Dynasty to flee to Shaanxi...
Now, fifty years later, today, at the moment when the Chinese People's Volunteer Army confronted the United Nations again, and at the moment when a total of 17 countries including the South Korean puppet army participated in the war, we used our weak equipment to repel the United Nations' attacks again and again, and ultimately forced them to return to the negotiating table to accept the dividing line we proposed. What kind of pride and what kind of glory is this!
Only when I stand on this battlefield myself and watch the British troops called the ace troops fly by the soldiers can I truly feel my mood at this moment.
The next battle was no surprise. Although the British army was a trumpet unit, our 538th Regiment, selected by a military, could be said to be the ace among the aces. In addition, we had the firepower cover on the "t-34" tank at this time, and the soldiers rushed to the British position and launched a massacre in a short while.
The British army also wanted to escape, but unfortunately, they did not expect the Volunteer Army to counterattack. In addition, their arrogance did not build a retreating traffic trenches for themselves. Moreover, their fortifications were all built on the front slope. If they wanted to retreat at this time, they had to climb over the top of the mountain and shine their backs in front of the firepower of the Volunteer Army soldiers...
Now it is time for those "T-34" tanks to show their skills. The gunners can accurately hit the barbed wire when the tanks advance, not to mention that the tanks are more likely to aim when they are stationary. With the sound of roar, one round of shells fell accurately into the fleeing British army groups, causing the British army to fly and scream in the sky.
The machine gunners on the tank were not outdone. They all fired the turntable machine guns, and rows of bullets flew towards the escaped enemies like raindrops, killing the British troops one by one to the ground and rolling down the mountain.
Finally, the British army finally realized that resistance and escape were meaningless, so they raised their hands to the volunteer soldiers who rushed up.
"Retreat!" With my order, the soldiers standing beside me started to speak flags. The volunteer soldiers were not equipped with walkie-talkies, and the phone was only applicable when defending, so even if I, the regiment commander, had to use the method of flag shooting when commanding my own troops.
No wonder some people say that soldiers below the barracks level can't even be called back if they are released and called. Now I have deeply realized the meaning of this, let alone the battalion. If this is a war at night, I have to call back this army, and I think more than a dozen communication soldiers will be sent out to do it.
The tanks slowly drove back to their tunnel amid the cheers of the soldiers, and the soldiers returned to the 317 Highlands as fast as possible. Of course, there were teams of British prisoners escorted. But for a while, there were nothing on the battlefield except for a corpse and a few tank wreckage that were still smoking.
The 237th Heights I just captured only left one company to defend. Speaking of which, the enemy has many benefits to build fortifications on the front incline, which is convenient for our artillery and tank troops to attack, once we snatched them, it will be a ready-made fortification on the back incline...
I took out my pocket watch and saw that it was only twenty-five minutes since the beginning of the battle.
"It's really dangerous!" As soon as I returned to the regiment headquarters, Jiang Chunzeng couldn't help but greet him and smiled bitterly: "The artillery is good! The tank soldiers are good! The infantry is good! But I didn't expect that the gap between our tanks and the enemy tanks is so big. Fortunately, our tank soldiers are brave! Fight tenaciously! We lost two tanks and the enemy lost four, two to four, which can be said to be a victory. More importantly, they successfully provided us with firepower support, won 237 highlands, and achieved strategic goals!"
"Yes!" Huang Xianhua also nodded and said, "This battle was indeed very beautiful. What is rare is that all the troops cooperated so well in the first coordinated combat! However, this also exposed the problem that our tank troops are not advanced enough! If the No. 403 car had not rushed up desperately today and died with the enemy tank, the consequences would have been unimaginable!"
"Well! That tank is No. 403?" At that time, I devoted all my energy to watching the battle situation, but I didn't notice the number of this tank.
"Find out the list of all the tankers in Vehicle No. 403!" I turned around and said to Liu Shunyi: "Report their deeds to my superiors and report their merits collectively!"
"Yes!" Liu Shunyi responded and immediately rushed to search for documents.
I couldn't help but sigh inwardly, there was only so much I could do for them.
It was not until this time that the roar of the planes sounded in the sky. I originally thought that they would withdraw from the battle quickly when they saw that the battle was over, but what surprised me was that there were bursts of bombing and machine gun strafing sounds outside the tunnel, and it seemed that the sound was still bombing and strafing on the open ground...
This made me a little surprised. Could it be that our troops have not retreated on the open ground?
Send Zhang Mingxue to see the situation, but after a while he ran back happily and said with a strange look on his face: "Captain! There is no one on the battlefield. The American plane threw bombs and machine guns at the fired tanks. I don't understand what they are doing..."
"Well? There's still this?" I was confused too.
"You don't understand this!" Li An came out and smiled: "I have seen this a lot. If there is a cannon car that makes the American plane explode, there will definitely be several planes surrounding it and shooting the broken cannon. At first we didn't understand, but later we found a US prisoner and asked... What do you think is it? Those American planes! They took photos while taking photos, and then took photos back to seek credit!"
Chapter completed!