Chapter 250 Fighting Tanks
Qi Heng stared at Wu Weiguo's eager face for a few seconds, but nodded and agreed:
"Okay, it's accurate. Let the machine guns and mortars be ready for combat. The scouts will take action after they come back, but be careful not to ask the Japanese to knock our cannons with grenade launchers."
"Yes!" Wu Weiguo nodded and responded.
"Bai Laosi, go and call Shangguan Youhao to come, and then notify the Second Company to prepare for combat and wait and act with the 58th Division spy company."
Bai Laosi turned around and left: "I understand!"
While waiting for news from the reconnaissance platoon, the artillery company's machine guns and four mortars were lifted off the rain cloth and prepared for combat. The ammunition platoon soldiers also moved several boxes of shells off the ammunition truck and wrapped them in rain cloth and placed them on the side of the road.
The soldiers of the 58th Division's Special Corps and the Second Company also took off rifles from behind, took out grenades from the box and hung them on them, silently waiting for the order to be issued.
"Battery Commander, Battalion Commander, I've almost figured it out."
The mouse hurried back, but this time he didn't have the strange grass rings he had before.
"Battery Commander, the brothers of the 58th Division are right. The Japanese infantry are about the size of a small team and are making fires on the side of the road.
The Japanese parked four trucks on the road, and there were three motorcycles on the side. I was a little worried that I didn’t see it all, so I thought about going around to the side and found that they had three big iron turtles hiding beside the woods under the road!”
"Tank?" Qi Heng frowned.
"Yes, it's a tank." The mouse nodded repeatedly.
"The Japanese have tanks?" Staff Gao became worried again: "Why should we take a detour?"
"Don't we also have war defense artillery if they have tanks? What are we afraid of?" Because Staff Gao kept muttering about detours, Qi Heng was a little unhappy.
"Well, battalion commander, our combat defense artillery is not available for the time being." Wu Weiguo explained weakly.
"Our 20mm machine guns can also penetrate the armor of Japanese tanks, and if we do it while they are having a meal, we have a great chance to knock them out before they get on the car."
Qi Heng said seriously:
"Even if the Japanese tank hands have been hiding in the car and not getting out of the car, we still have mortars. We can knock off the infantry hiding behind the tanks and then use machine guns to greet the tanks. If we take a step back, if the machine guns don't work, our blasters can easily get close to their tanks to commit blasting."
"Bail Commander Qi, you have the highest military rank here, and we all obey your command." Company Commander Han was also a little dissatisfied with General Gao's statement and secretly choked General Gao.
"Well, then let's just listen to Battalion Commander Qi." Staff Gao became a lonely man and had to respond.
"Let's go, let's go ahead and take a look? Staff Gao, aren't you a fighter? Wait for a moment in the battalion headquarters first?" Qi Heng waved his hand. Taking Wu Weiguo, Shangguan Youhao and Company Commander Han went up to the front together, leaving Staff Gao to stare alone in the battalion headquarters.
"Battery Commander, over there? Did you see it?"
The mouse was lying in the grass by the roadside? He quietly pointed to the corner of the road ahead.
"I can only see infantrymen, how many bonfires have been lit? There are trucks on the road, where are their tanks?" Qi Heng held the telescope and observed them carefully. No Japanese tanks were found.
"Where is on the road? I'm blocked by the truck and can't see it." Mouse replied.
"I can't see it here. Do we want to walk forward?" Wu Weiguo asked.
Qi Heng shook his head slightly: "It's too risky to move forward. The Japanese must have sentinels? If they discovered it, we will probably have to be reimbursed here before the brothers come later."
"Okay." Wu Weiguo felt a little regretful. If he didn't figure out the model of the Japanese tank first, there might be variables when fighting.
"That mouse, do you know what model of the Japanese tank is?" Shangguan Youhao asked without much hope.
The mouse was confused and asked blankly: "What is the model?"
Well, I must not know each other anymore. Shangguan Youhao patted his head helplessly: "Do you know what they look like?"
"One big, two small, different in length, the largest one looks like the smallest one. The largest one has a short tube on it, with a string of wheels. One of the two small ones looks similar to the big one, but it is a little smaller, like the cub it has, and the other one has four wheels, which is different from the other two."
The mouse described the general appearance of the three tanks with gestures.
"It should be a big tank, a small tank and an armored vehicle, not three tanks." Shangguan Youhao narrowed his eyes and nodded.
Qi Heng agreed: "The big one should be the Type 89 medium tank, the small one is the Type 92 or Type 94 light tank, and the four-wheeled armored vehicle is probably the Type 87 armored vehicle. I didn't see the specific ones clearly. I have fought these types of tanks in Shanghai and Nanjing. The armor is not thick, so it is not a big problem for our machine gun to penetrate his side armor."
"If you want to say the Type 94 light tank, let alone the side, you will be sure to kill him even when you hit him in the front." Wu Weiguo was in a spirit: "Don't talk about the machine gun, I guess if Yang Wu hits him accurately with a mortar."
Qi Heng nodded: "Yes, we have anti-tank weapons, so their light tanks and armored vehicles are not very threatening. The most important thing is to knock down his medium tank for the first time when the fire is opened, and then suppress the Japanese infantry, Wu Weiguo, can you do it?"
This time, his artillery player was the protagonist. Wu Weiguo was very excited. He heard Qi Heng’s question, and he nodded heavily: “Please ensure that the mission is completed. If the Japanese tank cannot be destroyed, I will carry the explosive pack to blow it up!”
"There is no need to hold the explosive pack. You have only been married for a few days. Think more about how to let your parents hold their grandson." Qi Heng said with a smile.
"Article prepared, and I started fighting as soon as the gunshot sounded!"
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"Bang!"
When the machine guns entered the position, the four mortars also found their own position. Qi Heng held his Browning and fired a shot in the sky, announcing the beginning of the battle.
"Da da da da da da!"
At Qi Heng's request, the Second Company and the 58th Division's spy company concentrated four light machine guns this time, and the scorching bullets swept towards the Japanese infantry who were burning fire on the roadside like a storm.
These Japanese infantry did not notice the danger at all. They did not get up in surprise until the gunshots sounded, and then fell to the ground in an instant by the violent rain of bullets.
"Enemy attack!"
A Japanese lieutenant shouted with a hint of horror. Judging from the intensive machine gun fire, the Chinese army attacking them had at least one battalion, and such a number of Chinese soldiers were not something he could stop.
"Where is the tank! Come and support!"
The lieutenant howled loudly.
Chapter completed!