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Chapter 260 A superior move
This shout seemed like an order, asking the various companies of the tank battalion to stop chasing the Japanese artillery, turn around immediately, and start accelerating towards the direction where the Japanese tanks appeared!

At the same distance, the T34 has thick skin and strong flesh, and it will not be seriously damaged even if it is hit by a dozen 57mm cannons. However, if it is hit by a 34mm tank shell from the T76, it will instantly become scrap metal.

For the T34, this tank battle was a completely one-sided hunt. Both the Japanese medium and light tanks were vulnerable to a single blow, and a single hit would kill them.

Therefore, even if the members of the tank battalion have little combat experience and a low hit rate, it is not a big problem. Even if the hit rate is only 20 to 30 percent, it is still an overwhelming advantage against the Japanese!

As for the M3 tank, after the armor has been upgraded and modified, it will be a tough nut to crack for the Japanese medium and light tanks if they face it head-on.

Therefore, as long as the M3 tank is sandwiched between the T34 tanks and the Japanese tanks cannot seize the opportunity to attack from the side, the M3 tank will not have any weaknesses!
The 76mm tank gun is exactly the same as the T34, and it will be equally deadly to any Japanese tank that hits it.

Therefore, the current tactic of the tank battalion is to place the T34 tanks on the outside of the formation, and two T34s and four M4 tanks form a row to charge forward. Although the opponent has a squadron consisting of ten medium tanks and two light tanks, which is twice as many, the two tank platoons of the tank battalion have no scruples!

When the distance between the two sides approached 500 meters, the tank battalion started firing. At this distance, the 76mm tank gun was able to hit the medium tank with one shot. Although the formation of the tank battalion was half thin, it was not at a disadvantage.

Although the tank battalion opened fire before the enemy, the distance was far and the accuracy was poor. Only one of the six guns hit the target, which exploded a Japanese medium tank and made it smoke.

"Stop and aim!" The battalion commander was touched by the accuracy of the aiming while marching, so he ordered the tank battalion to stop. Immediately, the tank battalion stopped, and the gunners adjusted the position of the muzzles with sweat on their foreheads to aim at the moving Japanese soldiers, "Fire!"

When the sight captured the image that overlapped with the Japanese tank, it fired decisively!
Although the six shells were fired one after another, there was almost no difference after they were fired. Immediately, three more Japanese tanks were hit, emitting black smoke and exploded after rushing for a while!

6V8! The Japanese' numerical advantage was greatly eliminated!

At this time, the Japanese tanks also opened fire and launched the first attack!
8发57毫米和37毫米的炮弹，有3发击中了停下来的T34和M3坦克，只见这4辆坦克晃动了一下，小鬼子的穿甲弹就从坦克装甲上爆炸开来，根本没有破开T34和M3坦克简易复合装甲的机会。

For the T34 and M3 tanks, this is like a mosquito bite, a little feeling, but not much!
At this moment, the gunner in the tank was sweating profusely and loading the ammunition nervously, and soon completed the installation of a new shell.

The gunner then began to re-aim at the Japanese who were still charging, and continued to fire without hesitation at the Japanese tanks aimed at in the sight!
This time the Japanese tanks approached within 3000 meters. At such a close distance, 6 of the 5 artillery shells hit directly!
Boom boom boom! A series of armor-piercing shells penetrated directly into the interior of the Japanese tanks and detonated the shells inside the tanks! This time, the Japanese tanks exploded again and again!
The remaining Japanese tank drivers were still rushing forward like crazy, howling and stepping on the accelerator to the bottom!

Prepare for a close-range artillery attack with the tank battalion!
"M3 retreat!" Seeing that the Japanese were going crazy, the battalion commander ordered the M3 tanks to start reversing. The M3 now only had simple composite armor installed on the front, and the rest of the body could not withstand the Japanese 57mm cannons firing directly at the face!
The four M4 tanks immediately demonstrated their flexible and maneuverable characteristics. Although reversing was slower than driving forward, it still greatly increased the distance from the rapidly approaching Japanese tanks.

The remaining two T34s continued to stay where they were, firing at the approaching Japanese tanks at a distance of only about 100 meters, directly blowing the turrets off!
Facing the last remaining Japanese tank, four M4 tanks launched a round of concentrated fire!
Not surprisingly, all three shells landed on the only Japanese tank!
With a series of explosions, a squadron of Japanese tanks disappeared into thin air!
For the tank formation of the tank battalion, it only took more than ten minutes to slaughter all the tanks in this squadron of the Japanese devils!

Such powerful combat efficiency depends on the powerful 76mm tank gun. In the battlefield of Northeast Asia, the current 76mm tank main gun is the absolute king, and the Japanese have few ways to fight against the 76mm tank main gun.

Adhering to the principle that firepower is king, Ren Zhong chose a 76mm main gun for the tank, which was basically an invincible problem for the Japanese at that time!

On the battle front of dozens of kilometers, the front line of the Japanese charge and the Japanese artillery positions were smashed to pieces by the tank battalion, and most of the artillery was destroyed.

What was most difficult for the Japanese to accept was that the three tank regiments of the tank division that attacked were destroyed head-on by the enemy without even causing any waves!

This is the heaviest loss since the tank division was formed!
This time, they had the advantage in numbers and fought a fair and direct decisive battle.

However, facing the Eighth Route Army tanks, which were clearly outnumbered, the Japanese had small tanks that were obviously inferior in armor, and the T34/M3 was a mountain that they could not avoid!
After the baptism of this battle, the Japanese finally realized that in terms of tanks, the pride of the empire was now completely outdated. Faced with the very powerful tanks produced by the Eighth Route Army, it was completely unfeasible for the Japanese to rely on past experience to win.

The current tank divisions are just waiting to be beaten to a pulp by the tank battalions of the Eighth Route Army, and there is no chance of winning. With a layer of 50mm simple composite armor on the front, the frontal protection capability of the two tanks of the Eighth Route Army almost reaches the effect of 100mm equivalent armor. With such a strong frontal armor, how can the Japanese 57mm guns compete with it?

Armor of this thickness would be difficult to penetrate, let alone at 500 or 300 meters, even if you were to get within 200 meters.

This is a real iron wall!
Borrowing the concept of composite armor from the main world, after a small-scale transformation and upgrade of the T34 and M3, with the focus on enhancing the frontal armor protection, the frontal protection of the tanks modified by Ren Zhong has reached a very abnormal level.

Chen Brigade commanded the front.

"Li Yunlong and his men have crippled four of the Japanese's artillery positions and a tank division!" The chief of staff happily read the battle report.

"Now the front line requires a charge after a round of artillery counterattack, and cooperate with the tank battalion to wipe out the Japanese troops surrounding the tank battalion and the frontline positions in one fell swoop!"

With an excellent real-time communication system, the brigade commander now has a very clear understanding of the entire battlefield situation on the battlefield covering dozens of square kilometers.

In this way, even if the brigade commander has fewer troops than his opponent, he can use flexible and maneuverable deployment to form an advantage in manpower and firepower on the local battlefield, separate and surround the Japanese, and then quickly annihilate them!
The transferred 107mm artillery fire was used again, launching a new round of covering strikes on the Japanese's charge positions. After the artillery fire had rebaptized the Japanese, the cowardly puppet troops had already fled away. As for the few remaining Japanese, all this was like a nightmare, as they were hit twice in one day!

After the artillery fire stopped, the Willys Jeep machine gun company hidden behind the scenes proudly stepped forward! The dense heavy firepower fell on the uneven Japanese troops, and for a moment the Japanese fell down one after another like wheat being cut!

In fact, the mobile firepower vehicle built by Ren Zhong has great lethality and is invincible against infantry.

The carriage around the machine gun was made of 5mm thin steel plates, but it basically blocked the shooting of rifle and light machine gun bullets.

This level of armor is the most basic guarantee for charging into battle.

Just when the Japanese thought that this was the difficulty of hell, the tanks came from behind them again and crushed them again from the place where they had just been killed!
Compared with jeeps, we also need to observe the Japanese's defensive strength and avoid heavy firepower such as Type 92 infantry guns and heavy machine guns.

But the tank had no scruples at all and rushed in recklessly to grab the kill.

To be honest, in this era, the Japanese have a lot of things that threaten tank production.

Compared with heavy tanks like the T34, what strategies and tactics are there? Just rely on your thick skin and push forward. For most Japanese infantry, this thing is useless even if they sacrifice their lives. Let the Japanese experience what despair is!
Following the jeeps with firepower came the Eighth Route Army's reinforcements. The main regiment that had been hidden came out in full force and broke through the Japanese's defense line like a stream of water. This round of recoil made the Japanese, who were already frightened by the artillery shells and only five out of ten of them could survive, completely lose their organized resistance in this wave of charge.

In the sweep of jeeps, heavy machine guns, tanks and infantry, they lost all resistance.

After fighting for most of the day, the charge of the Japanese's four infantry divisions and one tank division was completely disintegrated!

Thousands of Japanese soldiers died on the front line, and more were scattered around like frightened wasps.

For tanks and jeep fire vehicles, now is their best time for hunting!

Just like driving away pigs, we gradually consume the Japanese!
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