Chapter 178 Tank first battle
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When the Third Battalion Commander saw that the 027 car had two consecutive shells missed, he was speechless and felt his face was lost. In order to regain his face, the Third Battalion Commander had to order his loading and gunner, "Quick load armor-piercing bullets, aim at the Japanese tank in front, and explode it for me."
The loader who heard the order immediately loaded an armor-piercing bomb. The tank shooter also carefully aimed at the Japanese tank nearly a thousand meters away through the optical scope, and then decisively fired the gun.
I saw a loud bang, and the Japanese tank that was aimed at just now was completely exploded. The power of the 75mm armor-piercing bomb was fully reflected. The Japanese tanks were hit in a big hole, and thick black smoke was emitted. It seemed that using 75mm armor-piercing bombs to hit Japanese Douding tanks was really useless.
The first battalion commander in the distance saw the third battalion commander explode a Japanese tank, and he was not willing to be outdone. He also ordered his loading and gunner, "Please install high-explosive bombs for me and hit the tank on the left."
The loader skillfully installed a 75mm high-explosive bomb. The tank shooter immediately turned the tank turret and aimed at the Japanese tank in the distance through the optical scope.
The Type 39 tank of the first battalion commander flashed with a large muzzle, and then a loud bang sounded. The entire upper half of the Japanese tank in the distance was blown off, leaving only the broken tank chassis, where black smoke was emitted and began to burn.
The Japanese tank gang saw the Chinese tanks on the opposite side firing, and several of their own tanks were exploded, so they stopped one after another and began to fight back. The Japanese tanks could not fire the gun while they were marching. They had to stop before they could aim and fire the gun.
A Japanese tank also aimed at a Chinese tank five or six hundred meters away and fired its first shot. There was a bang. The Japanese gunner accurately hit the tank.
Seeing a shot hit, the Japanese gunner screamed happily and then celebrated. But soon, the Japanese gunner was stunned and saw the smoke dissipating from afar. The Chinese tank that he had just hit was not affected, and even the speed did not decrease, and was driving here.
The Japanese gunner was a little unbelievable and rubbed his eyes hard. Yes, he was not dazzled. The shot just now had no effect on the Chinese tank in the distance.
If the Japanese gunner had good eyesight or were close enough, you would definitely see that the Chinese tank just now had a black mark on the body. A camouflage paint with a large mouth was knocked off, revealing the metal armor under the paint.
The Japanese 37mm cannon cannot penetrate the thick armor of Type 39 at five or six hundred meters away. The armor thickness of the Type 39 tank is 45 mm, the front armor thickness is 60 mm, the side armor is 45 mm, and the side is 45 mm, and it has a certain inclination angle. Not to mention this 37mm cannon, even if it is used for armor-piercing bombs, it is possible to penetrate the Type 39 tank within a distance of 400 meters.
When the Japanese gunner was still looking disbelief and a little dazed, the Chinese tank opposite fired. The Chinese tank gully flashed, and the Japanese tank's tank suddenly turned into a pile of scrap iron with thick smoke and flames.
The tanks in the first armored regiment were only two or three hundred meters away from the Japanese tanks. At such a close distance, the soldiers who used to knock the shells to fly away were significantly improved at this distance, and several Japanese tanks were immediately exploded.
Not long after, the tanks of both sides fought together. Some of the tanks were only a few dozen meters away, and the distance was only one or two hundred meters. The two sides fought together completely intertwined.
In this case, the 360-degree turret of the Type 39 tank showed obvious advantages. There was a Japanese tank next to the tank of the first battalion commander. This Japanese tank obviously also wanted to attack the tank of the first battalion commander. The Japanese tank was busy reversing so that the barrel of his tank could aim at the tank of the first battalion commander.
The tank of the first battalion commander obviously did not have such difficulty. He needed to reverse the car to aim at the Japanese tank next to him. The tank gunner of the first battalion commander was skillfully operating the tank. The turret of the tank was rotating and turning around, and immediately aimed at the Japanese tank.
With a loud bang, a 75mm high-explosive bomb completely dismantled the Japanese tank.
The Japanese chariot wing leader Ichiro Kimura saw that the tanks of his wing were decreasing one by one, while the tanks of the turret team were not lost. And behind him, at least more than thirty armored vehicles had already arrived, which was only a few hundred meters away from him.
Ichiro Kimura, who was a little frightened, saw that his tank was not effective against Chinese tanks, so he had the idea of an armored personnel carrier coming from a high speed in the distance. So Ichiro Kimura personally aimed at an armored personnel carrier in the distance and fired a shot.
This gun accurately hit the armored personnel carrier, but it did not penetrate it. It seemed that it only left a pit one foot square on the two armored vehicles. Ichiro Kimura was a little unbelievable. What kind of armored vehicle was this? It couldn't even penetrate the tank.
In fact, Kimura Ichiro's gun just now happened to hit the front armor of the armored vehicle. The front armor of the Type 39 armored personnel carrier was also 16 mm thick. In addition, the distance was a bit far, Kimura Ichiro's gun only left a pit on the armored vehicle.
This armored personnel carrier saw that the Japanese tank actually fired fire at him, so he immediately aimed at the Japanese tank and fired the cannon. The Type 39 armored vehicle was equipped with 30mm machine guns, and the fire rate of the machine gun reached fifty rounds per minute, and it fired a 30mm shell in almost one second.
The caliber of the 30mm shell was not much smaller than the 37mm caliber of the Japanese tank. More than a dozen shells hit the Japanese tank in a row. The Japanese tank was immediately exploded, and several Japanese inside were also beaten to death, including the Japanese corps leader, Colonel Kimura Ichiro.
The Japanese had fewer and fewer tanks, and the soldiers' armored vehicles had already arrived. At this time, all the shooting holes of the armored vehicles were opened. The soldiers in the armored vehicles were holding the AK47 rifle and ruthlessly shooting the Japanese infantry.
An armored vehicle is a moving fortress with fierce firepower. The Japanese with the Type 38 rifle could not get close to the armored vehicle within fifty meters. More than thirty armored vehicles and more than thirty tanks began a ruthless massacre of the Japanese.
When the Japanese cavalry saw this scene, they rushed up to help, but after the Japanese cavalry approached these armored vehicles and tanks, they found that they had no idea how to start. Several Japanese cavalrymen, holding sabers, slashing on the Type 39 tank a few times, found that only a few faint marks were left.
In the armored vehicles in the distance, the soldiers saw several Japanese cavalrymen holding sabers and slashing around a Type 39 tank. They immediately passed the armored shooting hole and used the AK47 rifle to smash the Japanese cavalry into sieves.
The soldiers of the 36th Army were all inside armored vehicles and tanks, and the Japanese could not fight at all. The Japanese were completely exposed outside without any armor protection, and the Japanese were greatly reduced.
The Japanese cavalry corps leader saw that something was wrong, and immediately ordered to retreat. The remaining thousands of Japanese cavalrymen immediately turned their horses in horror and fled to Jining.
Seeing the Japanese cavalry running away, the soldiers were not in a hurry to pursue them, because there were still several Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, as well as hundreds of Japanese infantrymen, who had not yet been eliminated.
The armored regiment was the vanguard, fighting happily here, with rumbling guns and cannons everywhere. Following the armored regiment was the mechanized infantry regiment of the Cavalry Division, and the two armies were only about ten or twenty kilometers apart.
The mechanized infantry regiment that had been marching forward was getting closer and closer to this place. The sound of guns and cannons could be heard faintly. The commander of the mechanized infantry regiment sitting in the off-road vehicle, Pan Guoxing, who heard the movement in front of him, knew that the armored regiment must have had a fight with the Japanese.
So, Captain Pan loudly ordered: "All troops should pay attention to speed up the speed of the journey, otherwise we will not even be able to drink soup."
Hearing the orders of Captain Pan, the soldiers next to him burst into laughter and everyone increased the accelerator. The advantage of off-road vehicles is that they are fast and flexible, and the disadvantage is that their off-road capabilities are not as good as tanks and armored vehicles, but this is a flat grassland, and the speed advantage of off-road vehicles is immediately reflected.
It was a distance of more than ten or twenty kilometers, and it was less than half an hour. One or two thousand meters ahead, soldiers in the first armored regiment were fighting happily there. It seemed that they were lucky and could catch the last bus. The Japanese tanks and armored vehicles were all destroyed, but there were still hundreds of Japanese who could kill them and let the soldiers enjoy their gains. Captain Pan thought.
The soldiers of the Mechanized Infantry Regiment put the accelerator of the off-road vehicle to the maximum. Some soldiers stood on the off-road vehicle compartment and shouted, looking very happy. A distance of one or two thousand meters was a short moment for the off-road vehicle driving at high speed.
As soon as it enters the range of the AK47 assault rifle, the soldiers will stand in the car and shoot. If they don’t fight, the remaining hundreds of Japanese soldiers will be wiped out by the soldiers in the armored regiment.
Wu Youqing, the commander of the Armored Division, saw the mechanized infantry regiment of the Cavalry Division coming, immediately picked up the microphone and said humorously: "All units should pay attention, the mechanized infantry regiment is here to steal our Japanese devils. Everyone add fuel and quickly eliminate the Japanese devils."
Hearing his division commander say this, the commander of the Armored Regiment and several battalion company commanders laughed out loud. His division commander was really funny. Although everyone was laughing, his hands were not slow at all and he shot at the Japanese. (...)
Chapter completed!