The father of the sword is Kong Jie

Chapter 1040 The Power of the Eighth Route Army Modified Tank

Don't underestimate the front armor of the tank and the anti-gun layer added by the front armor of the turret.

It's like not underestimating the steel plates installed under the pilot's feet.

As it turns out, that can greatly reduce pilot sacrifice rates.

The two sides started to exchange firepower, and soon, the Japanese army realized how powerful these originally imperial tanks with rather weird shapes were after being refitted by the Eighth Route Army.

Amidst the roar of artillery fire, due to the long distance between the two sides, it is difficult to achieve precise strikes. If one of ten shells hits, it is considered a good hit rate.

Occasionally, with good luck, the devil's shells hit the extended steel anti-gun device on the front of the tank of the Eighth Route Army on the opposite side.

After the explosion, under the anticipation of Shaozuo Xiyuan, the gunpowder smoke was quickly blown away by the cold wind, and what caught the old devil's eyes was the chariot of the Eighth Route Army that was still intact.

For those weird chariots transformed by the Eighth Route Army, the anti-gun steel plates on the front were not at all penetrated by the artillery carried by the Japanese chariots.

These steel plates are particularly thickened, and some of them are re-used from the armor of captured Japanese tanks, and are specially made after being re-melted.

Considering only the thickness of the front armor, it even exceeds 100 mm.

This has almost reached the armor protection thickness of some heavy tanks on the European battlefield.

You must know that even during World War II, the strongest Tiger heavy tank that the German army terrified the enemy and was still unable to conquer, the thickest front armor was only more than 100 millimeters.

In contrast, the German Tiger tank is extremely expensive, and the tank itself weighs 68.5 tons. Even though it is amazingly powerful, considering its bulkiness and high cost, it actually does not play as much role on the battlefield as imagined. outstanding.

After a special modification by a team, a modified Japanese tank with a forward-extending anti-gun steel plate device was installed on the front armor and the position of the turret.

The cost is basically negligible, and it is technically not difficult to install some anti-gun steel plates on the devil's original tank.

Since the added steel plate protection device is only a few parts, it does not cause additional load on the vehicle body itself, and will not affect the combat mobility of the tank itself.

"idiot--"

Seeing that the long-range bombardment did not achieve effective results, Major Xiyuan howled with anger.

This is also a problem that many Japanese military officers often have headaches.

These Eighth Route Army units were obviously in the occupied area of ​​the Great Japanese Empire, living in the cracks, isolated and helpless, and did not have much military industry foundation and logistical support.

But it is very difficult to deal with, like brown sugar, you can't get rid of it no matter what.

In addition, these eighth route armies, despite their backward equipment, were extremely creative. The Japanese army had seized a lot of equipment from the eighth route army, and most of those equipment originally belonged to the Japanese army.

Including some 11-type cartridges, Taisho [-]-year light machine guns, [-]-type heavy machine guns, and some infantry guns, mortars and the like.

As a result, the soldiers who seized the equipment claimed that they had seized the new equipment developed by the Eighth Route Army. After the devil officer checked it carefully, they found out in a daze:

A bipod was added to the grenadier, and a steel plate shield was added to the front of the light machine gun.

The [-]-type heavy machine gun is even more exaggerated. Eight roads even added a single-wheel device to the base, which can be pushed and run at any time, and pulled to go.

These Japanese-style weapons that have been modified seem a little nondescript at first glance.

But after thinking about it for a while, the Japanese army soon discovered that the launch of the grenade with the addition of a tripod was more stable, easier to use, and trained gunners.

A light machine gun with a shield can even be used as the firepower of a heavy machine gun, while effectively reducing the probability of being shot by the machine gunner.

As for the Type [-] heavy machine gun, after adding wheels, it directly integrates firepower and mobility, which effectively improves the shortcomings of the heavy machine gun itself.

Don't underestimate these slightly improved equipment. In the ensuing confrontation, the Eighth Route Army relied on these seemingly slight advantages to achieve a lot of victories.

This is where the Eighth Route Army troops are full of creativity and thinking.

However, the Japanese army could not learn these things, nor could they learn them.

The devils can't recover all the large number of grenades produced by the huge military industrial system of the Japanese army, reinstall the tripod, and change the inherent operation mode that the Japanese artillerymen are used to?

The combat mode of the Eighth Route Army using improved weapons may not be applicable to the Japanese army.

Maybe it's Dong Shi's imitation, but it will make people laugh and be generous.

At this time, the advantages of modifying tanks were immediately revealed.

With the bombardment of the artillery of the two sides, although the Japanese side had an advantage in the number of tanks, the number of offensive artillery was also larger, and the artillery fire was more intensive.

However, the modified tanks of the Eighth Route Army were equipped with anti-gun devices, which could not be easily destroyed by the Japanese tank guns.

Moreover, the Japanese army has always been worried that the Eighth Route Army will use individual rocket launchers to conduct anti-tank operations. The distance between the two sides is relatively long, and the hit rate is already very low.

On the contrary, the Eighth Route Army successfully destroyed three Type 95 light tanks of the Devils after two rounds of concentrated firepower.

When the Japanese army used its powerful military industry system to build these tanks, they probably never thought that one day they would be attacked and destroyed by the tank guns produced by themselves in the hands of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese army probably did not consider whether to use the artillery of the [-]th light tank and the [-]th modified medium tank to blast the armor of the [-]th and [-]th modified medium tank.

Now the Eighth Route Army has given the answer.

It is indeed possible!

Even the thickest front armor of the Devil's 25 modified medium tank is only [-]mm thick.

The tank gun was originally designed with armor-piercing capability in mind.

It seems that most of the tanks of the Japanese army and their own artillery can easily destroy the car body itself.

boom -

With a large number of tanks and guns with great advantages, they were defeated by a small number of tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army.

While feeling aggrieved, Shao Zuo Xiyuan also realized that it is not an option to continue fighting like this.

He noticed from the binoculars that the strange tanks transformed by the Eighth Route Army had anti-gun devices installed on the front armor and the front armor of the turret.

But there does not seem to be such a weird anti-gun device on the side of the tank.

That being the case...

"The first light tank and medium tank squadron immediately outflanked from the left flank, and the second medium and light tank squadron outflanked and outflanked from the right flank.

The rest of the tanks fought frontally.

With the force of attack from three sides, annihilate these damned Eight Routes! "

"Hi!"

After Major Xiyuan's order was issued, the devils immediately mobilized their chariots. The two chariots circled a little farther from the left and right wings, and detoured towards the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army in the more central area of ​​the ranch.

As for facing the enemy head-on, in order to cover the detour of the flanks, the old devil Xiyuan specially ordered to advance another 150 meters to strengthen the fire attack.

They even organized a few medium-sized tanks to drive directly into the 200-meter shelling range of the Eighth Route Army, dragging these Eighth Route Army back with the most craziest and risky move.

The confrontation between the two sides intensified, the roar of artillery fire was endless, and the scattered gunpowder smoke seemed to be unable to be blown away even by the constantly blowing cold wind.

After the detoured two-way chariot troops set off, Major Xiyuan watched the Eighth Route Army troops hundreds of meters away through the binoculars very nervously. He was afraid that these Eight Route Army troops would notice the clues and retreat early.

Then his plan of attacking from three sides and finally strangling the Eight Route Armored Forces in one fell swoop will come to nothing.

finally……

The scene gradually revealed on the battlefield made the old devil Xiyuan secretly happy.

All eight-way and five chariots seemed to be in a bitter battle.No one noticed the two roundabout chariot troops he sent at all.

This means that once the chariots on his two wings successfully detour and strangle them from three sides, they will surely destroy these Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop.

Although Major Xiyuan also felt that the plan went a bit smoothly.

It's just that the battle situation is urgent, and Shao Zuo Xiyuan doesn't care to think so much. The opportunity to destroy the enemy is right in front of him. How can we know the result if we don't try it?
Haven't Japanese generals who are gamblers always been like this?

Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, would they still worry that the US military would have already defended Pearl Harbor?
the other side.

Commanding more than a dozen refitted tanks and armored vehicles, it was the company commander of the armored corps under the armored corps built by Kong Jie's detachment to confront the Japanese chariot force several times larger than his own.

The first company commander was excited at the moment, not at all aware of being encircled by Japanese armored soldiers on three sides.

What he knew was that the devil surrounded him on three sides in a row with several times the number of armored vehicles, but those who didn't know thought he surrounded the little devil!

And then when reporting to the command through the walkie-talkie attached to the command tank.

A voice came from the other end of the walkie-talkie: "Hi, I'm Kong Jie!"

Hearing that the old regiment leader answered the phone himself, the first company commander became even more excited.

"Reporting to the old regiment leader, good news! Our attack is extremely smooth, and we have successfully surrounded the devil's two tank squadrons, including a medium tank squadron and a light tank squadron."

"If there are no accidents, the devil's chariot troops can be wiped out immediately!"

"Please advise!"

Good guy.

This opening was obviously pursued by two Japanese tank squadrons all the way, and the attack turned out to be smooth.

Obviously caught in the three-sided encirclement of the Japanese chariot troops, but in the mouth of the company commander, he successfully surrounded the Japanese chariot troops.

You thought he was bragging, but the most exaggerated thing was that after the first company commander finished his report, the other soldiers who were also sitting beside the command tank did not have any doubts on their faces.

In order to prepare for the battle with the Japanese armored brigade in Mengxi.

The armored corps under the jurisdiction of a team has also undergone special transformation for a long time. On the one hand, it trains the soldiers and refits and repairs the tanks.

On the other hand, it is to specially build the means of communication when the chariot is in combat.

It is different from the old radio communication of the tank units of the Japanese army, as well as various flag signals and gesture communication methods.

Through John, Kong Jie has the technical support of the United States, and even cooperated with a radio communication company of the United States to specially produce a batch of walking machines with long communication distances, which are configured inside the tank for anytime communication.

The longest communication distance of this walkie-talkie even surpassed the best walkie-talkie developed by the US military, capable of communicating at a distance of nearly 15 kilometers.

In actual combat, in order to ensure the smooth communication of each tank unit.

The Armored Corps is a specially built communication company.

These companies will form each node. Once there is a message for communication, the node will be used as the transmission. In this case, even a stepping machine with only a 15-kilometer information transmission distance, once a few more nodes are added, the same can be achieved. Perfect communication over distances of hundreds of kilometers.

... Kong Jie, who happened to pick up the walkie-talkie for a call, said with a smile when he heard the long and trembling excited voice from the walkie-talkie:
"In that case, First Company Commander, I order you to launch an attack immediately and eat up the two tank squadrons of the little devil!"

"Yes, please rest assured, the old leader, I promise to complete the task!"

After the communication was interrupted, the first company commander immediately deployed to fight. His heart was so excited that after dragging the Japanese army for six days in one breath, according to the tactics of the week, the final partial counterattack was to be launched. This was destined to be hearty. A head-to-head battle with the elite Japanese armored forces.

Coupled with the perfect means of communication, I just finished talking with the old leader.

This feeling was as if Kong Jie was watching the battle from the sidelines, which made the company commander more and more determined that he must fight this battle well.

"Car No. [-], Car No. [-]! Car No. [-], Car No. [-]!"

The first company commander picked up the walkie-talkie belonging to the less powerful company tank and shouted.

"Captain!"

"Captain!"

The voices of the first row leader and the second row leader came from the walkie-talkie respectively.

"Fight according to the plan, fight according to the plan, wait until the detoured troops on both sides of the Japanese army fall into the trap, and launch a counterattack directly, the command is over, the command is over!"

"Roger that!"

"Roger that!"

... Just when the company commander issued a communication and arranged for counterattack deployment.

The battle plan of the old devil Xiyuan's two-winged chariot to strangle in a roundabout way has been more than half successful.

From the two wings of the central area of ​​the ranch where the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army were located, four Japanese chariot squadrons, more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles, had successfully cooperated with the tank troops in the front and formed an encirclement of the Eighth Route Army.

Xiyuan is even ready to show a smile at any time in preparation for the final victory.

According to the battle plan of the old devil Xiyuan, the four Japanese tank squads successfully detoured to the two wings of the Eighth Route Army's tank troops, and immediately launched an attack on the Eighth Route Army's armored troops from the two flanks.

Cooperate with the remaining chariot troops fighting frontally, and strangle them on three sides.

The chariots with roundabout flanks can launch bombardment against the strange chariots modified by the Eighth Route Army without anti-gun steel plate devices on the flanks.

As Major Nishizono analyzed before launching the circuitous combat plan:
"The eight-way modified tank is only equipped with anti-gun steel plates protruding from the front, but there are no such devices on the flanks.

Our army is attacking from three sides, and the Eighth Route Army can't use a single-sided anti-gun device to defend in three directions, right? "

Victory seemed to be at hand!
The captains of the devil chariots leading the teams on both sides have roared and shouted the charge slogan of long live the emperor.

A total of more than 20 Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, from the two flanks of this flat pasture, at full speed, rushed towards the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army in the central area...

(End of this chapter)