Alien Arms Empire.

Chapter 721 Chapter 721 Never Seen
The Dahua army that is attacking has not yet fully expanded its formation. According to their experience, there is a distance of about 1000 meters to 500 meters before hitting the enemy's defense.

This distance is a normal combat distance. At this distance, the hit rate of tank guns can be greatly improved.

But this time, they were stunned by a sudden shell when they were about 1500 meters away from the village.

The artillery shell penetrated the front armor of the Dahua 1 tank with great force, and penetrated the entire turret of the tank, and then broke an infantry in two.

Yes, under the watchful eyes of everyone, the unlucky soldier was directly hit by the shell that changed its path after penetrating the armor. The huge impact directly split him into two parts, leaving his two legs in place, and his upper body flew away. It's been a long way.

Everyone was stunned for a moment, still urging the troops, the Dahua officer who told his subordinates that he was about to enter the enemy's attack range, stared at the wreckage of the paralyzed tank with wide eyes, and forgot himself for a while. what to say.

You must know that the tanks of this era, including the No. 4 tanks equipped by the Tang Army in large quantities, all use short-barreled tank guns with low chamber pressure.

Low chamber pressure has the advantage of low chamber pressure, the recoil of the artillery is small, and the tank does not need to be too heavy, and the turret of the tank does not need too high structural strength.

However, this kind of artillery is not without disadvantages. Such artillery shells are small and have an average range. The most important thing is that its ballistic trajectory is curved.

The curved trajectory is not conducive to long-distance fire attacks, and the requirements for the sight are also higher, so even the No. 4 tank of the Tang Army can only fire at a distance of 500 to 1000 meters to ensure the accuracy of the hit.

But the Leopard tank's high-pressure long-barreled 75mm tank gun is completely different: it has a high chamber pressure and a straight ballistic trajectory, so its long-distance hit accuracy is much higher than that of the No. 4 tank.

This change is enough to support the Tang Kingdom's tank troops to open fire calmly at a combat distance of more than 1000 meters, attacking those Dahua tanks that do not have much armor defense at all.

Frankly speaking, the tanks of the Dahua Empire are not without improvement. When it was first born, its armor was basically at the level of the Japanese Type 97 tanks during World War II.

In other words, its actual protection ability is slightly weaker than that of the No. 4 tank, and the sides and rear can only resist the attack of 12.7 mm caliber machine guns.

However, in actual use, the Dahua Armored Forces still reported the lack of armor protection of this tank, so many improvements have been made to this tank in the future.

The biggest improvement is to imitate Tang Jun's tanks, welding some steel plates on both sides of the tank, and adding thick armor to the front.

This improved version is called the Dahua 2 tank, but in fact it is the 1 type, the internal structure is exactly the same, but the armor on the front is 30mm thicker.

This improvement allows this Dahua 2 tank to barely have the ability to resist the artillery of the No. 1000 tank at a distance of 4 meters.

Therefore, in addition to the more than 3000 Dahua 1 tanks that were widely equipped at the beginning, more than 2 Dahua 1000 tanks have also been equipped one after another.

The problem is that although the thickness of the armor is an important indicator to measure the defense of the tank, the quality of the armor itself is actually equally crucial.

For example, the T-34 and IS-2 tanks of the World War II era are quite beautiful on paper, but the actual combat results are often not satisfactory.

In the combat records of the German army, the commander or commander often mentioned that these Soviet tanks, which were not badly armored, could be destroyed at a longer distance.

The reason is that in pursuit of production quantity, the intuitive result of armor quality was ignored: the cast turrets of Soviet tanks should have been better, but the defense level was poor due to the existence of a large number of air bubbles.

To be able to produce such a large number of tanks in a short period of time, Dahua Empire's industrial capabilities are one aspect, and the overall quality of tanks is generally another reason for its fast production speed.

Therefore, at a distance of 1500 meters, Tang Jun's new tank can easily penetrate the Dahua 2 tank, or the armored Dahua 1 tank.

"Accelerate! Accelerate!" Because they were not close to the usual combat distance, the tank commanders of the Dahua Empire hadn't gotten into their tanks yet.This gave them a good view of the wrecked tank.All of a sudden, all the tank commanders were shouting to get their tanks to speed up.

Continuing to advance without haste will only become a living target for the enemy.Not knowing why the enemy was able to fire at such a long distance, the unprepared commanders of the Dahua Armored Forces had to perform their most proficient traditional art: "acceleration".

This is the only magic weapon for their attack. Because Dahua Empire's tank sighting system is extremely backward, their normal combat distance is only about 200 meters, which seriously restricts Dahua tanks from taking advantage of their firepower.

To put it bluntly, it is actually the 90mm caliber artillery that they have worked hard to equip the tank with. In fact, the performance of the short-barreled 75mm caliber tank gun that is ahead of the Tang Army is all wasted by the garbage sighting system. up.

Soon, these Dahua tanks that were not yet ready for battle began to accelerate, and when they desperately began to charge, another shell hit them head-on, and once again penetrated a Dahua tank body.

The gasoline burned violently, and the Dahua tank crews in the tank were engulfed by the burning flames before they could get out of their tanks.

A Dahua tank passed by the wreckage of the tank, and the blazing flames made the Dahua soldiers following behind one after another avoid it.

The thick smoke covering the sky kept rolling, and the commanders of the Dahua Empire, half of their bodies protruding from the tank turret behind them, looked nervously at their scorched companions, their cheeks flushed by the flames.

People will always end up in the same direction because of their habits. After using tanks on a large scale, it is quite common in the tank troops of the Dahua Empire that the captain pokes his head out.

Because of poor vision and almost no communication, the tank commanders of the Dahua Empire are more accustomed to leaning out to direct the battle.This is not the patent of Tang Jun's commander, but tank commanders all over the world do this.

Still haven't found out who was attacking their Dahua troops. They wanted to pass through the wilderness quickly, but they soon ran into trouble.

Two Stuka dive bombers rushed to the battlefield, and then began to straf the ground.Such an attack was fatal to the Dahua army, and soon they lost their positions.

With the 500-kilogram aerial bomb exploding in the open space, the Dahua army's attack was severely frustrated.The remaining tanks began to reverse, and the infantry seemed to be planning to retreat.

But soon, this kind of retreat was stopped, and more tanks of the Dahua army pressed up, and the death order given above was: "No retreat."

At least thirty tanks continued to approach the village under thick smoke that obscured their view.The Tang Army grenadiers defending the village opened fire first, and a sniper knocked off the hat of a lucky Dahua tank commander with one shot.

The frightened commander quickly got back into the turret, but at this moment, another Dahua tank was knocked off the turret by the incoming shells.

At this time, many tanks of the Dahua Empire had already discovered the enemy in front of them: because the smoke from the muzzle was getting thicker and thicker, the hiding place of Liu Guozhu's Leopard tank was found.

In fact, he also had to move his position - more and more exhaust gas from the muzzle had begun to affect his commander's aiming.

In the choice of reversing and moving forward, Liu Guozhu chose to move forward!It's a risk, but it has relative advantages.If he chooses to reverse the car, he must at least retreat a long way to avoid the muzzle smoke in front of him.

In addition, the smoke from the engine exhaust pipe behind the car body will also be drawn to the front of the tank, which also needs to be considered.

Moving forward is different, he will throw the exhaust and muzzle smoke behind him, and as long as he stops, he can continue to fire immediately.

Therefore, his Leopard tank rushed out of the reverse slope, smashed through the bushes in front of it, and exposed its distinctive hull to the sight of all Dahua troops.

At the same time, the Leopard tank that had just come to a stop again spewed out a puff of smoke, blasting away the approaching Dahua tank in the distance.

It really exploded!The power of the shells overflowed severely, and one shot penetrated the entire vehicle body, even stopping the advancing tank immediately.

Immediately afterwards, the Dahua tank exploded, and the tragic explosion affected the infantry of the Dahua Empire next to it, forcing the surrounding Dahua tanks to dodge one after another.

In fact, the shock that this cannon brought to the commanders of the Dahua Empire tanks was far less than when the Leopard tank smashed through the bushes to reveal its true face.

Although because of the camouflage, the tank commanders of the Dahua Empire had no way to immediately recognize the car body with a smooth and neat sloping armored head that they had never seen before.

But they still clearly realized at the first time that this is a new type of tank from the Tang army that they have never seen before!At this moment, their eyes widened involuntarily.

"That's not Tang Jun's No. 4 tank!" A Dahua commander who had reacted blurted out. Just as he shouted, the enemy tank spewed out another burst of flames, and the shells roared and hit accurately. A Dahua tank.

Because he was attacking the oncoming enemy tanks that were almost relatively stationary, the veteran gunner of Liu Guozhu's vehicle crew had a frighteningly high hit rate. After all... he sacrificed his own unique hatch in exchange for the one in front of him. 5x magnification for more accurate aiming.

Of course, there is this 75mm long-barreled tank gun that he loves to death!

(End of this chapter)