"Baga! The Chinese have machine guns! Fight back!" Captain Hirono Shimoto, the tank squadron leader who was in the commander's position in the tank, roared at the top of his lungs while slapping the driver in front of him on the back.
This is because Japanese tanks are not equipped with in-car intercoms, but the noise inside the vehicle is too loud and the commander’s orders cannot be transmitted to the driver’s ears. The command signal light specially developed for this purpose is not used by the driver at all during the battle.
It will take time to see. That’s why we developed body language, like Hirono Shimoto, patting the back hard, which means moving forward.
Of course, instead of advancing towards the position and approaching the position of 400 meters, the front of the tank is not facing the direction of the position on the top of the mountain. Instead, it faces the position with the thickest armor edges and corners, so that it can withstand Chinese firepower.
It also facilitates the firing of the 57MM tank gun located in the turret.
However, since the machine gun can penetrate the 20 mm thick armor on the side of the 89 tank, the steel plate with a maximum thickness of 25 mm and the edges of the armor on the front also make people feel unsafe. What can be done now is to make the tank move to make it difficult for the enemy.
hit.
The choice made by Hiroshi Shimoto in a few seconds was undoubtedly the right one.
The radio station faithfully transmitted Shimoto Hiroo's orders to the ears of the remaining tank crews. At the same time, the engine of the Type 89 medium tank he was riding in, with a maximum power of 170 horsepower, roared crazily and spewed out bursts of black smoke.
The track was driven to accelerate diagonally along the hillside, and the 57MM gun pointed diagonally at the position at three o'clock and fired brazenly.
The biggest difference between tanks and fortifications is that tanks are movable rather than dead objects, and the 57MM short-barreled artillery of the 89 tank is far more powerful than the 20mm machine gun. If the tank is fired at each other, the tank will naturally be more advantageous.
Therefore, although the 1st Squadron of the Tank Brigade was caught off guard and lost a tank, it was still not enough to scare the squadron leader back. Of course, he did not dare to retreat. There was no order to retreat. If he retreated, the consequences would be
Might as well die in a tank.
However, the heroic tank brigade captain did not know that the 57MM short-barreled manual cannon equipped with the 89 tank, despite its large caliber, was actually another failure of the Japanese military industry.
Of course, we cannot blame the Japanese military industry experts for being so scumbag. This also has something to do with the Chinese opponent they have been eyeing.
In fact, China's opponent is too weak, so weak that it basically has no tanks. The enemies in the target do not have tanks, so what are the tanks and guns used for? In order to save resources to the maximum extent, Japanese military designers
The seemingly powerful 57MM tank gun is designed with functions such as destroying machine gun fire points, civil fortifications, and suppressing infantry firepower at close range. It is an absolute good helper for infantry.
The Japanese army, whose combat concept still existed in World War I, had never regarded tanks as a main force. Tanks were nothing more than a weapon to assist infantry in military operations.
In the early stages of the war, this combat concept was undoubtedly successful. What they faced was the Chinese army, which at most only had mortars, mountain guns, and anti-tank guns. Not to mention the Type 89 medium tank, the Type 94 and Type 95 were mainly used for
Reconnaissance mini tanks are almost always rampant in China.
Except in the Battle of Songhu in the southeastern battlefield, the occasionally impressive 37mm war-proof artillery made by the Third Reich caused some trouble for the Japanese tanks. In the North China battlefield, except for the poison gas, the tanks almost overwhelmed the tenacious resistance of the Chinese.
The last straw, never failed.
This also led to the Japanese army still adopting this concept in 1937 when it developed the Type 97 medium tank, which was about to be deployed in a large number of troops. The 57MM short-barreled artillery was still their only choice. A good helper for the infantry was their greatest compliment.
It has been proven on China's battlefield that the sandbags and other civil engineering works that the Chinese are accustomed to piling up are basically no match for the 57MM gun. If one shot doesn't work, then two shots are needed.
Including the angry Hiroo Shimoto, the Japanese tank crews all had a strong belief that under the roar of the imperial tanks, the Chinese resistance would ultimately be in vain.
They didn’t know that the Type 97 medium tank equipped with a 57MM tank gun with slow muzzle velocity and weak armor-piercing capability was almost defeated by the 7th Armored M3 equipped M3 light tank of the Empire in which the sun never sets four years later in the Battle of Yangon, Myanmar.
The journey becomes a journey.
The 57MM tank gun, which is invincible on the Chinese battlefield, cannot even penetrate the 13mm to 44mm armor of the M3 light tank. If you want to ensure penetration, you must get as close as 200 meters, which is almost the distance of a tank bayonet. But before that, the Japanese
The 37mm tank gun equipped with the Imperial M3 light tank has already blown up the newly equipped Japanese Type 97 tank.
In the Jiuguan position, in order to make his machine gun firepower withstand the bombing of large-caliber howitzers, Liu Lang ordered empty gasoline barrels to be filled with sand and gravel to block the front, and the gaps were also filled with sand and gravel, and then especially
If it's not enough, bury a 15MM thick steel plate behind the gasoline barrel.
This is only the front of the fortification, and it is covered with a layer of steel plates, then two layers of logs, and then laid with a thickness of 1.5 meters of soil and sand. As long as it is not hit by a 105-caliber howitzer from the front, these few
The four heavy firepower point fortifications that took the engineer company five days to build can be called permanent fortifications.
Several 89 tank main artillery 57MM tank guns of the 1st Squadron of the Tank Battalion to which Hiroyuki Shimoto belonged were really weak in front of these fortifications.
Unless he has the ability, one shot can directly hit the opening area of less than half a square meter.
But in the crazy maneuvers of the tank, he can hit the fortifications, which is already an extraordinary performance. If you want to hit the nozzle, go back to China and buy lottery tickets first! See if you can hit it.
War requires luck, but if you rely entirely on luck, your death will be ugly. In the end, it all depends on your strength.
The Japanese tanks were like ants bursting into a nest, maneuvering in disorder on the hillside and firing back. The three light tanks were moving even faster, firing wildly at the position with two 7.7mm machine guns to suppress the firepower on the position.
At this time of the battle, a gust of mountain wind blew by, and the yellow-green poisonous smoke became much thinner, because the smoke from crazy shooting and shelling began to cover the fighting positions on the top of the mountain and on the hillside.
But the line of sight was much better than before. The figures of the independent regiment soldiers wearing gas masks flickered in and out of the Japanese army's field of vision. The figures of the Japanese soldiers wearing gas masks were even more clearly distinguishable in the eyes of the condescending officers and soldiers of the independent regiment.
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"Baga, the Chinese actually have this? Damn the intelligence agent, why didn't you report it in advance?" Lieutenant Colonel Hatori couldn't help but screamed in anger after seeing all this through the telescope.
This kind of mentality, in modern parlance, is called: Don't see the poor eating a piece of meat. What the Japanese commander, accustomed to a smooth journey, wants to see is him firing gas bombs, and then the impoverished and poorly equipped Chinese army will either retreat in embarrassment or the whole army
Submerged in chemical weapons that violate the conventions of human warfare.
Unfortunately, this time he was facing Lang Tuan Zao, who would not give him such a chance.
Liu Lang, who had stayed in a corner of Sichuan and worked hard for four or five years, had already known about the stinky virtues of Little Japan, so why would he give them such an opportunity? If it weren't for the current complicated political situation in China and the heavy suspicion of the bald principal, Liu Lang would
It can even equip the national army with gas masks.
The profits earned by Huashang Group in recent years from pirated sulfa drugs from the future are enough to support this huge consumption.
However, Liu Lang, who lives in this generation, knows that many things can be solved not only by money. The magnificent Patriotic War brought forth heroes in large numbers, but the various complex struggles behind the scenes are far beyond the imagination of ordinary people, even if their
The goals are the same.
Eliminating the bad and retaining the good, survival of the fittest, is the only law of nature, and the Chinese nation is no exception. If it wants to rise again on this planet, rebirth, breaking all the rules, and starting over is what this nation must experience.
Liu Lang, who has come to this era, can only comply with the rules of the times. All he can do is to fight to the end, just like the battle of Jiuguan at this time.
What he can do is to use his soldiers to defeat this seemingly powerful group of devils and let them understand that they may have been able to do it before, but they really can't do it here.
Whether it is equipment or soldier training level, the independent regiment surpasses them.
"Boom, boom, boom" four consecutive artillery shells exploded more than 20 meters around the firepower point fortifications. Although they did not cause harm to the fortifications, they blew up several trenches into smoke. Several soldiers who were caught off guard were blown away by the shock wave of the shell explosion.
Fly far away.
The medical soldiers who had been waiting in the trench quickly lifted up the stretcher and carried the injured soldiers to the other side of the position through the communication trench.
At this time, no one expressed sadness for the casualties of their comrades. As long as they were still alive, they shot desperately at the Japanese troops below the position.
Killing more little Japs is the greatest comfort to the sacrificed and injured comrades, rather than using tears. This is what the officers and soldiers of the All-Independence Regiment learned from the speech of the regimental commander when they took the oath to fight.
The flag with the word "death" handwritten by the old father of the family was hung at the Jiuguan frontline headquarters and in front of the regimental commander's desk.
In the war to defend the country and the nation, no one can die.
Obviously, the training level of Japanese tank crews is very high. Even when maneuvering at high speed, their guns can fire accurately, even if it is just a test fire.
They will be more accurate in subsequent bombardments.
The firepower of the Japanese army was also very fierce. In addition to the four tank guns firing wildly, a heavy machine gun squadron on both wings of the main position also fired wildly with six heavy machine guns. The six 7.7mm heavy machine guns of three light tanks also fired wildly. Up to
Twelve grenadier soldiers also poured grenades desperately towards various fire points under increasingly clear sight.
After resisting two consecutive shells at the fortification where the machine gun was located, a machine gun shooter who shook off dust wiped the black ash from the gunfire on his face, cracked his mouth, and revealed a mouth of yellowed teeth.
,Laughed.
Damn it, since you can't beat me to death, it's my turn to beat you!