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Bitter!
A tank without infantry cover would be an absolute nightmare, especially in the dark.
Can a tank defeat an infantryman?
The correct statement should be that under certain conditions, such as when the line of sight is good and the field of vision is wide, the infantry is far from the tank in terms of firepower, defense, and mobility. In other words, it is basically not the same level.
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However, under certain conditions, such as now...
The high ground of 518.6 is covered by the train of our company, which prevents the Vietnamese tank crews from opening the hatch cover and getting out to observe; it is difficult to observe the enemy infantry through the periscope in the dark night; with the headlights on, it will soon be possible.
It became the target of enemy tanks, anti-tank missiles and rocket launchers; the observation range of the night vision device was only the front... So at this time, the Vietnamese tanks were almost in a state of deafness and blindness.
In this case, it is very difficult for a tank to defeat an infantryman, and the infantryman is very likely to know the blind spots of the tank's firepower, observe the blind spots, and just use these blind spots to climb next to the tank and hold the blasting tube.
Something like that blew up the tracks...the tank was disabled again!
But the reality is not so easy, because tanks are tanks after all, they are a bunch of things known as the kings of land warfare, and this is what happens on the battlefield... Whenever you are in a desperate situation, you will make a final struggle, and this kind of struggle
The abilities that emerge often surprise people.
This may be what we often call the fight between trapped beasts... Anyone who has fought in a war can understand this phenomenon. For example, we ourselves have experienced it several times... Being surrounded by the enemy is almost a desperate situation.
Sometimes, I will think in my heart: Who cares! Just die, you are going to die anyway, just fight with the enemy!
We will be like this, and the Japanese will certainly be like this too... This is why it is best to use the tactic of "surrounding three and one" on the battlefield.
It's a pity that we don't have the conditions to do this this time... The reason is that the enemy's troops are tank troops. Once they use that "encirclement of three ques and one"... then the Vietnamese tanks will most likely use their mobility to break out of the encirclement.
Then turn around and take a bite.
Therefore, the focus of the tactic of "surrounding three ques and one" should be to have similar maneuverability, or even to surpass the enemy before it can be used... For example, the Mongolian cavalry is very good at using this tactic. Their approach is to surround the enemy on three sides and force the enemy.
Flee in one direction... When the enemy is fleeing, the Mongolian cavalry will use their better mobility to pursue them all the way! The enemy has no fighting spirit and morale at all when they are fleeing, and then the Mongolian cavalry can't run as well.
Fast, so the Mongolian cavalry were almost used as targets to shoot at!
It is precisely because of the extensive use of this tactic that the Mongolian cavalry can always achieve maximum results at the minimum cost on the battlefield. Otherwise, how could Mongolia have such a small number of men to win such a big victory in Eurasia?
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But if it were the other way around...if the Song Dynasty, which mainly relied on infantry, also tried to "encircle the Mongolian cavalry"...then the commander would definitely have water in his head.
It is not difficult to imagine that the Mongolian cavalry can use its mobility to break out of the encirclement easily. Then, while running, it waits for the Song Dynasty infantry who are out of breath behind wearing heavy armor and carrying weapons... Maybe there is still time to sit down and have a drink.
Milk wine, some food or something!
The same is true in this battle. When we used a tank company to deal with the two infantry companies charging by the Vietnamese army, we could indeed use "encirclement three ques and one", but now we are dealing with a group of Vietnamese tanks... and it is still better than mine.
If there are more and more advanced tank groups in Army 59, then this tactic is obviously not practical.
So we can only surround them to death...The consequence of surrounding them is that they may have to withstand a desperate blow from the Vietnamese army.
I say "possibly" here because not all troops will have this desperate attack... some troops with poor quality will collapse directly.
But I believe that the Vietnamese tank unit in front of me will have... The reason is very simple. It is because they are the 320th Division, the ace unit of the Vietnamese army.
If they collapse, what kind of ace troops can they be called? And they are still the tank troops among the ace troops... The Vietnamese army, like our army, regards tanks as treasures, so tank troops are selected with excellent military quality.
of soldiers.
So the Vietnamese tank group made a move that surprised me in front of me... The five T62s in the front rushed towards the 59th tank group of our army at full speed, and the remaining ten tanks quickly adjusted
A head pointed directly at us...
I know very well what the Vietnamese tanks are doing. Those five T62 tanks were actually sacrificed. Their purpose was to hold back our 59th tank group so that other tanks could break through.
It should be said that this choice of the Vietnamese army is quite wise. First of all, the performance of the T62 in all aspects is much better than that of our 59 tanks. The Vietnamese army did not overestimate their capabilities by using five T62 tanks to hold back fifteen 59 tanks of our army.
It's even possible to break out...
Tank battles don't simply add up the combat power and say, "Can't our army's fifteen tanks still defeat the five tanks of the Vietnamese army?"... The reason is that the 59 medium fire control system of this era
Extremely backward, not even the most basic rangefinder...
To fire artillery, you need to know the target distance. I know this as well as someone who has studied artillery tactics... So I thought that if there is no rangefinder in this tank, then it cannot observe like an artillery observer, and even has to judge the distance in the periscope.
... Then it is easier said than done to judge accurately!
Therefore, the gunners in the 59th Army in this era spread a saying to each other: "Judging distance depends on the gunner's eyes, and shooting depends on the shooter's experience."
To put it simply, the gunner has to rely on the size of the object seen in the periscope to judge the distance... This is easier said than done. If it is a familiar object, such as the 59 tank itself... then
The gunner himself knows the length, width and height of the 59 medium, so he can estimate the distance by looking at the approximate size of the object.
But...if the object is a T62 or other tank that the gunner is not familiar with, then the error will naturally be large.
What's even worse is... if the target is still moving irregularly, that is, the distance between the enemy and ourselves is changing all the time, it will be even more difficult to hit the target.
The Vietnamese T62 obviously also knew the shortcomings of our 59. So it took a "z" shaped route when moving towards our tank group... This action is a bit like the tactical action of infantry charging towards the enemy's firepower point, but its nature is different
The obvious difference is that the purpose of this action by the infantry is to prevent enemy firepower from controlling its own movement patterns, while the T62 takes this action to make it difficult for our artillery fire to calculate its distance.
In addition, our army's 59th center had to stop before it could aim. So the problem here quickly emerged... The Vietnamese army's T62 seemed to only need to constantly change directions and make irregular movements, which was very difficult for our army's 59th center.
Hit it, and it can destroy our tanks one after another while moving...
In other words, the equipment on the battlefield cannot simply be compared with the superposition of combat effectiveness. Just like the comparison between the 59 and the T62... Due to the gap in the fire control system, sometimes even ten 59s and one T62 are not matched.
There is difficulty.
Fortunately, our tanks also have their own advantages, that is, they have coordinated infantry cover...Having infantry coordinated cover means that they have a stronger awareness and overall view of the battlefield. The tank driver hides in the tank and has nothing but a periscope.
In such a large place, no other place can be seen, and sometimes even enemy tanks around or behind are not noticed. With the cooperation of infantry, these problems will not exist. The infantry can notify the tank of various situations outside at any time through the walkie-talkie.
Another benefit is that infantry also has attack power against tanks... On the one hand, this attack power comes from the rocket launchers in the hands of the infantry, and on the other hand, the infantry can help the tank crew judge the distance of the enemy tank.
So these fifteen 59 tanks did not stop and aim at them as the Vietnamese army imagined. Instead, they increased their horsepower and carried the infantry to disperse in all directions... Anyway, the hit rate was not high, so they simply did not aim and instead maneuvered quickly.
Get up. The most direct benefit of this move is that the Vietnamese tanks will hit
It is also very difficult. Another advantage is that because the Vietnamese tank does not have infantry coordination, its perception is not high. It does not know when our tank comes around behind it... Then follow the enemy tank in a straight line, and then follow it.
Hit its butt hard and see where it can go!
This is also one of the subjects of our army's simultaneous infantry and tank training. It mainly focuses on the 59 that has many shortcomings but a large number. Once it encounters a relatively small number of T62 on the battlefield, it should react.
So I don't have to worry about our army's tanks. The rest are the problems our second company has to face...
There are only a dozen tanks left in the Vietnamese army... Although most of these tanks are T54, M41 and the like, which are not advanced tanks, their opponent is us... a force composed of armored vehicles and infantry.
Team!
From this point of view, the commander of the Vietnamese tank unit is quite wise. On the front is the 59th Tank Group... Because the appearance of the 59th Tank is basically the same as that of the T54, it is undoubtedly easy to fall into a melee when breaking out from this side; the left wing is
On Highland 518.6, the right wing is a wall of fire blasted by artillery shells... It is even more impossible to break out from these two sides, so there is only the rear side...
This is really hard for us infantrymen on the rear side. You have to know that when these tanks are at full power, they will be thirty or forty yards away. This bunch of steel monsters "rumbling" rushed towards us...
…It’s not that easy to stop them! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users please go to m. to read.