"Boom boom..." As the Vietnamese army's large-caliber artillery bombarded continuously, one shell after another passed through the mouth of the valley and entered the canyon.
The artillery used by the Vietnamese army at this time was generally the Soviet D-20 howitzer, which is our army's Type 66 howitzer. The caliber of this thing is 152mm...
What does 152mm caliber mean?
Our army's 59 tank gun is only 100mm, and the Vietnamese army's T62 tank gun is only 115mm. In other words, the caliber of the Vietnamese army's artillery is almost half larger than that of the tank gun.
The larger the caliber, the larger the shell, and the greater the lethality.
Some people may say that this caliber is only a few tens of millimeters larger, and a few tens of millimeters is only a few centimeters. How powerful can it be?
If you just calculate it by length, those few centimeters really don't count, but the cannonball is cylindrical, and a few centimeters larger in the circumferential direction is a big deal... This principle is a bit like the buckets we use at home, the caliber
The water that can be held by a few centimeters larger is almost doubled.
Similarly, the shell is a few centimeters larger and the charge is also increasing exponentially, so when the Vietnamese army fires in a cannon, it is beyond the reach of a tank gun... In an instant, the entire canyon was filled with explosions and echoes.
It's like there's a giant bell in our ears
There was a constant "buzzing" sound, and the vibrations coming from under our feet almost made us unsteady. Even if we were hiding in the second half of the canyon, we could clearly feel the energy from the shells colliding with the rocks.
The whole canyon seemed to be shaking and trembling.
I couldn't help but secretly feel glad that I called Wu Zhijun's class back early. Otherwise, they would have been beaten to the bone by this barrage of artillery fire.
At this time, I faintly heard some different sounds in the interval between shell bombardments. Then I quickly realized that it was the sound of a tank's motor...the Japanese tanks were coming in!
I couldn't help but secretly praise in my heart: This Yue Jap is really not a vegetarian, he actually thought of this way to go deep into the canyon... You must know that this howitzer blasted hard at the first half of the canyon, let alone go out to defend, just
It was difficult to even poke my head out to see what was going on.
Some people may say, aren't we at a corner? The Vietnamese artillery shells can't turn, right? Why can't we poke our heads to see what's going on?
The reason is that the two walls of the canyon are mostly made of hard stone. Once the shell explodes, the gravel and shrapnel will bounce between the two walls... so a lot of gravel will be shot into the corner at high speed along the canyon, just like me.
...Even if you are hiding in the cave around the corner, you can still hear the whistling sound of gravel flying by outside the cave.
However, these gravels and shrapnel can kill people but cannot threaten the armor of the tanks, so the Vietnamese tanks can take advantage of this moment to openly occupy the first half of the canyon.
But I'm not too worried about the Vietnamese army's tactics. There are two reasons: First, there are two tank wrecks blocking the exit of the canyon, and I don't believe that the Vietnamese can pass through quickly. The other is, of course, that I have already arranged them at various locations.
Directional explosives and keeping their locations in mind will come in handy right now.
So he continued to sit in the cave and wait, waiting for the Vietnamese army's next move.
Because I believe that when the tanks cannot quickly cross the canyon, the Vietnamese army will eventually need infantry to occupy it. Since infantry is needed to occupy it...then the Vietnamese howitzers will definitely stop bombing at that moment.
Sure enough, the sound of gunfire stopped after ten minutes. I poked my head out of the tank and took a look... I couldn't help but be shocked: the Japanese tank had already come around the corner and even poked out the turret. It just surprised me a little.
What's surprising is that the tank that came up this time was not a T62, but a smaller light tank than the 59 tanks in our army...
Later I found out that it was an American M41 light tank, which was taken from the Americans by the Vietnamese.
Although this kind of tank has thin armor and low firepower, there are too many jungles and paddy fields in Vietnam. Especially in the rainy season, the muddy roads are definitely a nightmare for heavy tanks. On the contrary, light tanks are more suitable for the battlefield in Vietnam, so
The U.S. military invested heavily here and equipped the South Vietnamese army with it. After the United States withdrew, the Viet Cong captured a large number of M41s from South Vietnam.
"Da da da..." The first thing to fire was the anti-aircraft machine gun on the Vietnamese tank. Once the machine gun started firing, it was like a crazy rainstorm, shooting lines of fire on the rocks on both sides, and the rocks were beaten into pieces like tofu.
Fall down.
It's a pity... I know that this anti-aircraft machine gun must be firing randomly without a target. The reason is that the first half of the canyon was filled with smoke and gravel dust after being bombarded by Vietnamese artillery fire. If the Vietnamese machine gunner was in this situation,
If you can still hit the target, you can be called clairvoyant.
My experience on the battlefield told me that like this kind of blind shooting without a target, although the bullets are very scary, the possibility of hitting myself is very small. So I didn’t think much about it, and I just raised the gun and found it.
He aimed towards the Vietnamese tanks.
The next second I saw a figure in the smoke below, manning an anti-aircraft machine gun on a tank and shooting wildly into the canyon, so I decisively pulled the trigger... After a "bang" gunshot, there was more dust in the canyon.
There was blood, and the sound of machine guns suddenly stopped.
"Third squad leader!" I shouted into the intercom.
"Here!" came the scholar's reply from the intercom.
"Get ready for Dynamite No. 5!"
"Yes!" the scholar responded, and after a while he responded: "The No. 5 explosive is ready!"
I didn’t speak anymore, but quietly watched the Vietnamese tanks continue to move forward... Because the path in the canyon was narrow, the Vietnamese tanks had to slow down at the corners, so this location is undoubtedly a good place to place directional explosives.
, and this can also be said to be an important military location for defense in the second half... No, if the Vietnamese tanks successfully occupy the corner of the canyon, then they can use tank guns and anti-aircraft machine guns to bombard our defensive positions indiscriminately, then
I am afraid that this canyon will not be preserved.
It is precisely for these reasons that a considerable part of my directional explosives are deployed near the corners. No...the No. 5 explosives are not far in front of the Vietnamese tanks.
As I watched the M41 drive up to the location of the explosives, I shouted to the intercom: "Detonate!"
As soon as I finished playing, I heard a loud "Boom!"... The explosives I buried underneath were originally used to deal with T62, so I buried dozens of kilograms of them, but what exploded now was a bomb.
A light tank... so the tank exploded almost at the moment the explosive exploded. I knew that the ammunition inside the tank was detonated, and the whole tank quickly turned into a ball of fire.
The entire canyon is bright red.
However, this did not seem to stop the Vietnamese army's offensive. Then another tank quickly appeared around the corner, a light M41... It completely ignored the light tank that exploded into a ball of fire and continued to drive forward.
There was a harsh sound of steel friction, and they continued to move forward against the wreckage of the tank.
What surprised me was... all of this seemed to have been planned by the Vietnamese army. The Vietnamese army seemed to have known for a long time that we had explosives or mines to blow up the first few tanks in the row, so the tanks in the front were
Light tank.
In other words, these tanks of the Vietnamese army knew that coming in would lead to death, but they still drove in like this...
I was just surprised, but the movements of my hands did not stop. As I gave the order, a boulder weighing more than ten tons fell from the top of the tank... with a "bang" sound, it hit the top of the M41.
It is said that the thickest armor-piercing part of this M41 tank is only 31mm, and the thinnest bottom is only 9mm, so when the boulder hit it from a height, it was completely deformed. Even if the people inside were not shocked to death,
I was afraid that I would be caught in the deformed car body and lose half my life.
I secretly thought that now there were two tanks and a large boulder... The tank behind was unable to hold it up. Unexpectedly, the tank following behind it opened fire without saying a word...
With this artillery fire, it didn't take long for the boulder to break into several pieces and get out of the way. Then the tank continued to drive forward to push the tank in front into the ditch beside the road... This ditch was originally the small river, because
The river was cut off, so now it has become a ditch more than one meter deep.
This is the same time I saw such a style of play, using tanks to fill it... The Japanese are constantly blocking the tank with too many wreckage, making it impossible for them to pass through?
But this trick seems to be very effective, because my directional explosives are also limited, especially around corners... Because they can't be deployed too densely, after blowing up two anti-tank ones, the only ones left are almost anti-infantry ones.
"First squad leader!" I immediately shouted into the intercom: "Prepare the rocket launcher!"
"Yes!" Wu Zhijun responded and immediately led two soldiers and rushed forward carrying rocket launchers.
The weakness of tanks, especially light tanks without night vision capabilities, when entering this canyon is that the viewing angle is too narrow to prevent infantry from approaching from blind spots. In addition, the armor of light tanks is thin. As long as the rocket launcher is close to the target, it can basically hit it accurately. Of course I
I won't miss such a good opportunity.
However, the Vietnamese were no fools either. A large number of Vietnamese infantry soon followed the tank. They took advantage of the tank's armor-piercing cover to emerge and swept into the canyon with various weapons...
They wanted to prevent our rocket launcher shooters from approaching the tank, but unfortunately... I had already arranged to set up explosives nearby, so with my order, a piece of rubble exploded from the top of the canyon, only to hit
The Vietnamese infantrymen screamed to the sky.
Soon, the corner of the canyon turned into a death zone for Vietnamese infantry and tanks. (To be continued.)