Gangzi was indeed bullying the Japanese for not following the infantry.
Not having following infantry may seem inconsequential in a tank battle, but this is not the case in reality.
The reason still lies in the external perception ability of the tank... What can be seen and heard in the tank is very limited. As long as the field of vision is good, the tank can still rely on speed, machine guns, steering, etc. to deal with infantry. It is really impossible to use crawlers to roll over it.
You can also press it, although it's a bit dangerous.
But if the enemy fires a few smoke bombs to obscure the line of sight, the situation will be very different.
The visibility was reduced after the smoke grenades. Although the tanks could still vaguely see the road and enemy tanks, they could not see the enemy infantry at all.
But with a tank as big as a tank and a "rumbling" motor sound, enemy infantry can easily find it in the smoke.
As a result, the tanks have become moving targets for the enemy's infantry... This is another situation where "the enemy can hit me but I cannot hit the enemy".
Since the war began, Chimi Konno first pointed his target at T34, and then at T26, but it was only now that he discovered that his real target should be the enemy infantry.
However, it was too late to retreat at this point.
Because if you retreat at this time, you will undoubtedly expose the weak armor at the rear to the enemy, and the T26 will be able to destroy it... Only then did Imano Chimi understand why the T26 had not fired. If they did not fire, they would force them to
They can't turn around.
Chimi Konno gritted his teeth and ordered: "Keep moving forward and pass through the enemy's formation!"
The tank "rumbling" drove into the smoke, and then a terrifying scene appeared for the Japanese.
There was only a "chirp" sound, and a rocket came directly with a trail, and then with a loud "boom", a "Type 1" tank was hit until black smoke erupted.
Imano Chimi couldn't help but widen her eyes when she saw it, and shouted as if she had seen a ghost: "Spray bomb! Their spray bomb can actually penetrate the first type?"
No wonder Imano Chimi was so surprised.
He had done research on the Eighth Route Army before the war started. It was difficult for the Eighth Route Army's spray-injection bombs to penetrate the Type 97 armor from the front. They only needed to tie sandbags or shell casings around the armor to make the spray-injection bombs completely invisible.
effect.
Well, the frontal armor of the "Type 1" tank is 50mm thick, so the Eighth Route Army's spray-injected ammunition should be powerless against it. This is one of the reasons why Chimi Konno dared not come forward to fight without the cover of infantry.
But now it is discovered that this is not the case. The spray-injected bullet penetrated the frontal armor of the "Type 1" very easily.
"This is impossible!" Chimi Konno yelled like crazy.
But what happened next soon made Konno Chimi despair...
With a scream, the rockets flew towards the Japanese's "Type 1" tanks one after another. Soon, five "Type 1" tanks were beaten into a pile of scrap metal. Some of them had been beaten from the factory to
It was destroyed without even firing a single shell.
To be precise, they may have launched it.
After the high-temperature jet of the rocket penetrated the armor of the tank, if it happened to hit the artillery shell, it could be detonated. Two of the "Type 1" vehicles were blown into parts with a loud "bang".
Imano Chiwei hesitated for a moment, then shouted: "Fire, fire!"
The machine gunner sitting in the passenger seat was stunned for a moment because he could not see the target at all, but he still followed the order and pulled the trigger and fired bullets into the smoke.
Perhaps out of fear, other tanks also fired their machine guns, and some even fired armor-piercing shells as they marched.
But all their efforts were in vain. Not only were they unable to hit the target, but they further exposed their position.
Then there was another "boom" explosion, and the Japanese lost several more tanks.
This round was fought by the T26 of the Eighth Route Army. The 45mm gun of the T26 could hardly penetrate the frontal armor of the "Type 1" even at close range. However, when the enemy tank got closer and closer, it would naturally shine the side armor on its muzzle.
Before... So after the sound of the cannon, "One Type" became the trophy of T26.
The Japanese were also jealous at this time, and they used T26s as their targets and moved forward to fight in close quarters.
A "Type 1" tank was ignited by an incendiary bomb. He accelerated toward T26 with the flames, hoping to draw the fire to T26.
But before driving very far, there was a "boom" and the track was broken.
It turned out that a soldier discovered the enemy's intention. In order to protect the tank, he rushed towards the tracks of the enemy tank with a cluster grenade...
At this critical moment, no one among the soldiers hesitated, because they all knew what tanks meant to the Eighth Route Army.
A "Type 1" tank slowly turned its gun barrel towards the T26. It may know that it cannot win this battle, but it can at least destroy an enemy tank.
The T26 had just fired a shell and did not notice the danger on the side in the smoke.
Just when the gun barrel turned to T26, suddenly a rocket hit the "Type 1" at close range and destroyed it... and the soldier who fired the rocket was injured by shrapnel because it was too close and fell in a pool of blood.
It's not like he didn't know that rockets couldn't be fired at this distance.
He just knows that the "can't" mentioned here is just because the rocket will accidentally injure the shooter.
But if it's for tanks, he doesn't need to consider this.
What's more, it's not just a tank, there are three comrades in the tank.
A "97" tank opened fire while rushing towards a rocket launcher at high speed...it happened to see the position at the moment when the rocket launcher was launched.
Just as the rocket launcher shooter was about to be crushed under the tracks of the tank, suddenly a T34 came out from the side and knocked the 97 aside hard.
The crew of the T34 tank was also knocked to pieces, and the tank commander even fainted with a broken head and blood.
It is not cost-effective to hit the Type 97 with the T34, because it can be completely aimed and destroyed with artillery fire.
But T34 still did this, and the result of the collision was that both sides were injured.
However, it is still worthwhile to do so, because this is coordination, this is what the Eighth Route Army soldiers pay for each other... The lives of soldiers are not different whether they drive a tank or follow the infantry.
This is actually not like a tank battle. If it is a tank battle, it is a bayonet fight between tanks.
In terms of overall strength, the Japanese tanks are actually no worse than the tanks of the Eighth Route Army.
Because the Japs are either "Type 1" tanks or "Type 97" tanks, both of which are much better than the T26.
The Eighth Route Army has an advantage with only ten T34s.
It was later discovered that the T34 actually did not destroy a few targets in this battle, and most of the results were achieved by the T26 and the infantry.
However, in the end, the Japanese lost the battle due to lack of infantry cover, and they lost miserably. They only destroyed six T26s at the cost of annihilating the entire army, and one T34 broke down due to a violent impact.