Chapter 206 Frontal Attack (4)
This temporary rest not only slows down the cavalry troops, but also allows the soldiers of the tank and motorcycling troops to get off the car to move their muscles and drink some water, which is also convenient and convenient. Because even in modern society, long-term rides are not a comfortable thing. Although East China has considered the comfort of driving as much as possible when designing and manufacturing these armored vehicles, it is of course far from being compared with modern vehicles, due to the technical conditions of this era, almost all soldiers were spit out by the vehicles. Therefore, after one training, the whole body seemed to be disastrous, and it was not less expensive than the training of infantry soldiers.
Trucks and armored personnel carriers are slightly better. Although the waves are larger, the space inside the car is larger, not too cramped, and the ventilation is better; the space in the tank is much narrower and the structure is tight. Not only is the movement space small, but the smell of dry air and oil fill the space inside the car. Therefore, tank soldiers are the most difficult, and even normal driving is extremely expensive. Therefore, after analyzing the results of the training, the technicians concluded that after driving for 3-4 hours, it is best to rest for 15-30 minutes to maintain combat effectiveness.
After the rest, the transport convoy and cavalry continued to set off, and after about two hours, they walked more than 40 kilometers. At this time, the drone had discovered the Mongolian cavalry, with the two sides being about 18 kilometers apart, but the Mongolian army was resting at this time.
After Wei Liwenxun, he immediately ordered the transport convoy to stop advancing, rest on the spot, eat some dry food, and prepare for battle. Therefore, at this time, the transport convoy and the Mongolian cavalry were actually resting less than 20 kilometers apart. However, the People's Army knew the existence of the Mongolian cavalry, but the Mongolian cavalry did not know that the People's Army's transport convoy was not far from him at this time. The spies of the Mongolian cavalry just came forward to the position more than 10 kilometers in front of the army as usual, so it was impossible to find the People's Army's transport convoy.
When the Mongolian army had enough rest and set off again, Wei Li immediately ordered the rest to end. The entire army should get on horseback and get on the car, but the trucks and cavalry remained in place, and the tank company and the motorcycling company went to fight. At the same time, Wei Li, the deputy company commander and instructor also boarded their own tanks. No one expected that the first formal battle after the establishment of the People's Army's motorcycling unit was actually started by a logistics transportation team.
After driving for about 10 minutes, the Mongolian cavalry could be seen in front of him. Wei Li took the banner of ranks in a horizontal line, so the tanks immediately adjusted their positions. The 12 tanks lined up in a horizontal line, spreading for more than 200 meters, and distanced from the armored personnel carriers behind them. At this time, Wei Li took the banner of preparing for battle. At this time, the drivers and machine gunners of each tank also closed their car covers and used the periscopes inside the car to observe the situation outside the car. At the same time, the gunner also filled the shells into the barrel and prepared to fire. The captain of the tanks turned out to be half of the body exposed from the top cover. At this time, they all shrank in, only half of their heads were exposed, and they all blocked the handle of the machine gun on the roof.
In principle, after the battle begins, the captain should also enter the car, close the hood, and use the turret periscope to observe the situation outside the car. However, the periscope has a narrow field of vision and limited observation range. It is also impossible to use the 12.7mm caliber machine gun on the roof. After all, the large-caliber machine gun is very powerful in dealing with infantry and general fortifications. In the advance of the frontal offensive troops, tank guns have basically never used tank guns, just roof machine guns and front machine guns to deal with the attacks of the Mongolian army. Of course, this is also because in this era, tanks do not have real opponents, and the actual risk is not great. Therefore, during the formal battle, the captain still risked opening the roof cover, observing the situation, and operating the roof machine gun himself.
Wei Li only exposed his eyes from the roof of the car, silently calculating the distance with the Mongolian army. After feeling that the distance between the two sides was closer to within 1,000 meters, he immediately shouted: "Let's fire."
At this time, the gunner had already been ready to fire. After hearing the order, he immediately fired at the Mongolian army. At the same time, Wei Li also pulled the trigger of the machine gun and fired at the Mongolian army. The machine guns in front of the car opened fire at about the same time. When the commanders of other tanks saw that the company commander's car fired, they also fired and fired at the Mongolian army.
For a time, the Mongolian army exploded in the queue, with people falling over and horses falling, and countless casualties were killed and injured.
After the distance between the two sides gradually narrowed, the Mongolian cavalry also fired on horses, but the bullets hit the tank. Although it was "sharp" and sparks were everywhere, it could not hurt the tank at all. After the distance was closer, the tank artillery could not play much role. Instead, it was two machine guns with full firepower, but it was enough to make the Mongolian army corpses everywhere and blood flowed.
However, although the casualties were heavy, the Mongolian cavalry did not retreat. After paying a huge price, the two sides finally entered the distance between close forces. At this time, the captains of each tank got into the car and covered the top cover. After all, no one dared to joke about their lives. But despite this, the Mongolian cavalry was still helpless against the tank, because even if they were shooting at close range, they still could not penetrate the steel plate of the tank. Although some soldiers drew out their saber and slashed at the tank, it would be useless. At this time, although the tank could only fire normally by the machine gun in front of the vehicle, the tank itself was a huge and terrifying weapon, and it could easily crush the cavalry based on its size and weight.
Of course, the Mongolian cavalry could still withstand a while by simply rolling with the chariot body, but at this time the motorcades behind also followed. All the infantry loaded on the chariot had gotten off and quickly fought with the Mongolian cavalry around the tank. With the cover of the infantry, the chariot commanders could open the roof cover and re-start the roof of the vehicle to shoot. The Mongolian cavalry was unable to assault the tank, so they were completely beaten by the tank and were defeated.
As for Maksarzab, Haishan saw that the situation was not good, he had to hurry to order a retreat. On the way to retreat, he was chased by tanks. Under the fierce firepower, countless casualties were killed or injured.
The tanks chased for more than 10 kilometers before they stopped chasing. At this time, on the battlefield where the two sides fought, almost everywhere were the bodies of Mongolian soldiers, guns, sabers and flags. Only a few soldiers who had not yet died were groaning and screaming in pain. Of course, a few Mongolian soldiers who were caught were captured by the People's Army.
At this time, the transport convoy and cavalry behind also rushed forward. Wei Li was very excited, but he did not forget the overall situation. Although the battle was not long, the waiting time in front of him had been almost an hour and a half. Therefore, if you had to arrive at the Dalinol Lake Camp at night, you could not waste any more time. You didn't have time to clear the battlefield and could only check your own losses. After checking, in this battle, no one was killed, only 16 soldiers were injured, but they were not heavy. After simple bandage, you could continue to move forward. In addition, 34 prisoners were captured and 37 horses were harvested.
However, almost two hours passed after this delay, so Wei Li ordered the cavalry to stay behind to clear the battlefield, and led the tanks, motorcyclists and transportation convoys to arrive at the Rinore Lake Camp first. The captured Mongolian soldiers were also taken away by the transportation convoy, but left the horses to the cavalry.
As a result of the final clearing of the battlefield, 1,271 Mongolian soldiers were killed by the People's Army, and the injured and fleeing soldiers. The Mongolian army suffered 2,500 casualties in this battle. Even the two main generals, Maksarzab and Haishan, were won, which could be regarded as a big defeat. Therefore, when Maksarzab and Haishan fled back to their base, the whole army was shocked. No one expected that the strange chariots of the People's Army were so powerful. Only a dozen were dispatched, and with 1,200 infantry, they completely defeated 3,000 Mongolian cavalry.
When the main general Damuding** recruited other generals to discuss, everyone felt helpless because the battle could not be fought. Even Tao Ke and Tao Hu believed that the strange chariots dispatched by the People's Army this time were stronger and more powerful than when they fought with him. Therefore, everyone could only decide to temporarily stick to the camp, and at the same time sent people back to Kulun to report the news, and like Russian officers to ask for advice on countermeasures.
Due to domestic order restrictions, Russian officers could not leave Kulun and go to war with the army. Therefore, when they first went to war, all the generals were very happy because they actually had no good feelings for Russia. At the same time, they were afraid that the Russian officers would seize their military achievements. Now they are desperate, so they can only place their last hope on the Russian officers.
In fact, when facing the tanks of the People's Army, Russian officers could not have any good solutions. When he was in Kulun, Taoke Taohu told the Russian officers about the armored combat vehicles of the People's Army that he encountered, but the Russian officers did not believe Taoke Taohu at all, and believed that Taoke Taohu was talking nonsense. If there was such a strange car, it was completely just that Taoke Taohu was making excuses for his failure.
It turned out that the Russian officers sent to Mongolia were all dispatched from Europe and had never fought with the People's Army. Of course, they were somewhat dissatisfied with the People's Army. If they were soldiers stationed in the Far East, they would not easily deny Tao Ke Taohu's statement, because the People's Army had also dispatched armored warriors in the battle with the Russian army. Even if they had never seen it, they had heard of it. In addition, the Russian soldiers who had fought with the People's Army had seen the strength of the People's Army and would not randomly deny matters that they did not understand.
Chapter completed!