At 8 o'clock in the afternoon, the morning fog along Yunzaobang had completely dissipated. At this time, Japanese aircraft began to dispatch. At the same time, Japanese mountain artillery also began to rumble and pour shells on the Chinese army's positions.
More than two dozen Type 13 carrier-based bombers dropped more than 1,000 kilograms of bombs on the Chinese army's forward positions in just half an hour. The roar of the explosions resounded through the sky, and the flames and smoke engulfed Zhang Xiaoping and others.
The position we just set out from was completely covered.
Zhang Xiaoping looked worriedly at the position at the rear that was completely covered in smoke. He thought that the 88th Division was probably seriously damaged. Thinking that they had endured such a level of blow in the past two days and still held on to their position, he felt very worried.
For admiration.
Of course, he no longer cared about this. He had already heard the sound of the engine getting closer and closer in the distance. He turned around and said: "Get ready to fight!"
Ti Jing and Ti Niu instantly found their shooting positions, set up their guns, loaded their guns, and started taking aim.
Tian Boguang moved forward unhurriedly for a certain distance, then extended his G-31 semi-automatic rifle out of the trench to observe. His mission was to attack any Japanese infantry that might threaten them.
Ti Jing and Tieniu looked at the increasingly clear outline of the Japanese tank in the distance and knew it was the Japanese Type 89 tank. The data and performance of this tank had been explained many times by Zhou Wen.
The Japanese Type 89 tank (the Japanese army collectively refers to tanks as tanks) has a total combat weight of 12.7 tons, a crew of 4 people (driver, machine gunner, gunner and commander), a maximum speed of 25 kilometers per hour, and a frontal armor of 17 mm.
Equipped with a 37mm tank gun and two 7.7mm vehicle-mounted machine guns at the front and rear.
This weird tank, which only has the armor and firepower of a light tank, but can match the speed and maneuverability of a heavy tank, would only appear in a brainless army like the Japanese army, and it was actually used until the early days of the Pacific War.
The only saving grace of the Type 89 tank is its use of a diesel engine.
Seeing 12 Type 89 tanks sneaking away along the simple road, surrounded by black smoke, Ti Jing knew that this was a complete Japanese tank squadron, and it was also the only tank squadron of the Japanese Ninth Division.
The Type 89 tank is one size larger than the previous Japanese armored vehicles, so long-distance shooting is not a big problem for Ti Jing, not to mention that the gun chamber now contains tungsten core armor-piercing bullets. According to Zhou Wen
The saying is that if you hit a Type 89 tank within a thousand meters, it will be penetrated as long as you hit it.
The division of labor between him and Tieniu was that he would take the lead and Tieniu would hit the middle. They had to stop the Japanese tank column from the beginning, and then there would be various target shooting.
At this time, the first Japanese tank had already driven off the road and was about to move sideways to clear the intersection. The tanks behind it followed each other with a very small distance, because the Japanese army had never considered the Chinese army to be anything other than a limited force.
A few mountain cannons and other weapons that can threaten the mighty and majestic tanks of the Japanese Empire.
So they were all eager to pass through the long and narrow road, line up on solid field as soon as possible, and then they would crush them all the way while singing military songs. The moment of harvesting glory and merit was about to come.
At this moment, a shell fell from the sky and exploded ten meters away from the road. In an instant, two Japanese engineers who were guiding the tanks on the roadside were carried into the air.
Ti Jing knew that this was a test firing from the mountain artillery battery, and that the Japanese tank column would soon receive a salvo of six mountain artillery fire. He began to aim at the exposed left rear part of the first tank, which was the fuel tank of the Type 89 tank.
Location.
As expected, just when the Japanese tanks were trying to speed up the road, the first salvo from the mountain artillery battery came as scheduled. Six fiercely rising flames on the road enveloped the Japanese tank column. Although the 4.7 kilograms of grenade
-The bullets were not enough to cause fatal damage to the Type 89 tank, but the track of one tank was still blown off.
After the first round of shelling, subsequent shells flew in almost without any gaps, as if the Chinese shells were free of charge, and the Japanese army began to panic. No one wanted to be unlucky enough to be hit directly by a grenade on the car body.
If it doesn't hurt the car, it will hurt the people. So the Japanese tank formation became even more crowded.
There was a tank in the middle, perhaps not believing that the wet and soft ground in southern China would impede the tank's progress, so it drove directly off the simple road from the queue. The thick tracks rolled over the mud and drove towards the hard ground. After a while, it was just
It can struggle in the mud at the speed of a turtle crawling. The roar of the engine is accompanied by thick black smoke from the rear of the car, like the last roar of a beast that is about to die.
At this moment, Ti Jing's first shot hit the fuel tank on the side of the first tank. At a distance of 400 meters, his shot accurately penetrated the armor on the outside of the tank. The temperature exceeded 1,000 degrees.
The 13.2 mm tungsten core armor-piercing bullet directly ignited the diesel fuel in the fuel tank. It was just a small flame at first, and soon the flames rose up and completely surrounded the rear of the tank.
At this time, Ti Jing had no time to observe his results. In less than 5 seconds, he fired one shot at the second to fifth tanks respectively, and all of them hit.
Because Zhou Wen specifically explained that when it comes to Japanese tanks, it is not necessary to destroy them, but only to damage them. The purpose is to make the Japanese tanks lose the ability to continue fighting. Even if they can drag them back for repairs in the end, they are not afraid, as long as they cannot play a role in this battle.
When Tiejing finished shooting a magazine and reloaded, Tieniu also completed his shooting almost at the same time.
In terms of anti-tank gun shooting skills, Tieniu is superior to Tiejing. The key is that Tieniu has a concentration that is difficult for others to match.
According to Zhou Wen, once Tieniu starts shooting, all his senses and attention will be focused solely on the target and will not be easily disturbed by other factors. This may be related to his simple and straightforward character. This type of person
Once you focus on something or a certain behavior, the resilience and persistence you show are unimaginable to others.
In addition, he also has a certain talent for shooting, and has been trained by Zhou Wen to use a rifle for long-distance target shooting for a long time, so it is not difficult for him to shoot targets that are countless times larger than the human body at a distance of one thousand meters.
Of course, Tieniu's concentration will also bring disadvantages, that is, it is not easy to observe other unexpected factors on the battlefield, and someone needs to be reminded and guided at all times, so Zhou Wen specifically asked Tian Boguang to partner with him.
Tieniu's first shot started from the sixth tank and continued until the tenth. Because the Japanese tank crews were too arrogant and did not take any precautions, the entire formation slowly advanced in dense columns on the road, completely
It was a living target, so all five of Tieniu's shots also hit.
In fact, because a Japanese tank drove down the road in the middle of the road, the fifth tank that Tieniu actually hit was the eleventh tank in the Japanese column.