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Chapter 340 Opening Battle

The 178th Division Tank Battalion led the way, with its commander, Zhao Tianlei, driving a reinforced composite armored version of the T-34. In the daytime scouts' reconnaissance report, they found information about the 1st Battalion of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment stationed there, but Zhao Tianlei did not take this infantry battalion seriously. For him, as long as he did not find the opponent's tank positions, his tanks were invincible!
So even when facing enemy positions sandwiched between two small hills, Zhao Tianlei drove the tank forward without hesitation. In his tactics, Tank Company 1 directly rushed over the hill, then turned around and faced the two hill positions, and together with Tank Company 2 behind them, they attacked from both sides, and used tank guns to destroy the heavy firepower of the hill position of this infantry battalion. Then the main force of the infantry regiment followed Tank Company 3 to charge and eliminate the infantry on the position!

There is no need for any conspiracy or trickery, just use your strength to crush this infantry battalion!
Now that they have heavy firepower at hand, the Dragon Country's artillery and tank battalion have already realized that the heavy equipment will take the lead and fight as the main force. As for the infantry, in their minds, they are used to clean up the battlefield in the end!

Zhao Tianlei accelerated forward and rushed across the hilltop area in one fell swoop, but he did not expect flashes of fire on the left and right sides, and two armor-piercing shells directly hit the sides of the tank!

There were two loud bangs, and the huge noise of the explosion made Zhao Tianlei's ears buzz!
However, the tank's composite armor jumped but was not penetrated, only leaving two faint cracks. Obviously, under such close conditions, the composite armor should not be able to withstand a few shots!

However, the follow-up tanks of Tank Company 1 did not give Goelroyd more opportunities. After the fire from the two anti-tank guns exposed their position, the following two tanks immediately turned their guns and quickly counterattacked at the location of Goelroyd's anti-tank gun!
After two bangs, a QF 2-pound anti-tank gun was instantly blown away, and several John Bull artillerymen next to the gun were also blown away, and the remaining limbs fell next to Gollroyd!

If this kid wasn't dozens of meters away from the artillery, this shot would have taken him away!
This is not a Northern Army tank!
Gollroyd's scalp tingled, and he immediately realized that he seemed to have made a mistake!
The opponent's sharp and rapid counterattack, coupled with the fact that the tanks had no reaction after being hit, made him realize at once that it was the Dragon Country tanks that were coming to attack!
In the report, the Dragon Country tanks that beat the Southern Army's bunch of idiots were unexpectedly so tough that they destroyed their anti-tank positions in one fell swoop!

This script is wrong. According to the normal sequence of performance, shouldn't he destroy the first tank of the Northern Army in one fell swoop, then block the main road, and then the subsequent tanks are caught in a dilemma, and then he destroys the second and third tanks, and finally destroys all the tanks of the Northern Army here? !
There was nothing wrong with my first wave of attacks, they did hit the opponent, but the opponent's tanks seemed to be fine?
At this distance, the side and rear armor of the T-34 tank is at most equivalent to 54 mm in thickness, and its own armor-piercing projectiles should be able to penetrate it completely.

But when it hit the opponent's armor, it was like setting off a firework and there was no reaction at all!
The enemy tanks even had time to slowly turn around and fire at their own positions on the hill!
Facing the Longguo troops that were charging up following the tanks, the firearms company on the hill position opened fire. The flames from the machine guns were like a guiding light. For the tanks, all they had to do was aim at the bright light!
As for Gollroyd's two anti-tank guns, the tank that missed the first shot immediately fired another one. With a loud bang, the other anti-tank gun that had not had time to move was also overturned to the ground. At a distance of more than 200 meters, it actually had to fire a second shot, which made the tank's aimer a little ashamed!

Zhao Tianlei didn't have so many thoughts. He turned the muzzle and blasted a bright Vickers heavy machine gun fire point into the sky with one shot. Then the gunner observed another bright light and adjusted the muzzle. Now the tank is equipped with a laser rangefinder sight, and the accuracy of distance observation does not depend on day or night.

This greatly increases the power of the tank.

Originally, the distance had to be determined by sighting and observation during the day. Now, the sighting and observation system directly measures the distance and gives the inclination angle to the target, which greatly improves the speed and accuracy of the tank's aiming at the target.

With this kind of stationary aiming at targets within a thousand meters, the hit rate can be at least 70 to 80 percent.

Therefore, Gollroyd's Firearms Company's 10 machine guns were all killed before they could even survive the second salvo from Tank Company 1!

After losing the machine gun fire point, facing the charge of the 178th Division's infantry and the tank fire suppression, the firearms company was destroyed in just a few minutes of struggle.

In fact, facing the machine gun fire support and artillery bombardment of more than 20 tanks, for the position with only simple trench defense, there were only less than 50 soldiers alive in the position of more than a hundred people after losing the machine gun fire point. An infantry company followed and charged forward, and the battle turned into a one-sided massacre!

So at this firearms company position, facing the rushing Longguo Volunteer Army, the remaining soldiers simply raised their hands!
Although it was dark and the person who raised his hand was killed by mistake, in the end, more than 20 trembling John Bulls were still left on the battlefield! On the other side, Gollroyd quietly slipped away from the anti-tank gun position of the firearms company and ordered his infantry battalion to retreat!

He had secretly counted them just now and found that there were more than 20 tanks in front of him. Such a large tank force was definitely not something the Northern Army could possess now.

Gollroyd finally remembered the brigade headquarters and reported the intelligence here to the 27th Brigade!
Then request a retreat!

Of course, his request was approved and he could retreat back to the brigade headquarters to gather and prepare for a counterattack.

However, the brigade commander, Brigadier General Cawdor, was unsure as he had no idea how many enemies had come. So while he ordered Gollroyd to retreat, he also ordered him to leave behind a reconnaissance team to find out how many enemies there were.

Was this just the 1st Battalion, Royal Leicestershire Regiment, or was it his entire 27 Brigade?

However, even though he could not figure out the enemy's intentions, Brigadier General Cowder ordered the Middlesex Battalion to seize the Cheongcheon River Bridge.

At the same time, he ordered the 27 61mm howitzers of the 18st Field Artillery Battalion of the Rogue Eagle assigned to his 105th Brigade to deploy and prepare to bombard the attacking Longguo troops.

At the same time, Brigadier General Corder also called for support from the 24th Division, requesting that an anti-tank force be sent for rapid reinforcement. In the telegram to the 24th Division, Brigadier General Corder directly doubled the more than 20 Gollroyd tanks into more than 50 T-34 tanks!

Because in this case, the Rogue Eagle's 24th Division would have to send at least a tank company and an anti-tank company for reinforcement.

At this moment, although Brigadier General Corder thought of defending the retreat route, he did not intend to retreat.

He didn't know what kind of enemy the 27th Brigade would face tonight.

The defeat of a forward firearms company did not seem too much to Brigadier General Cawder.

While waiting for the Gollroyd Battalion to arrive, he was able to launch a sharp counterattack with his three main battalions and one howitzer artillery battalion!
However, he had miscalculated tonight. At this moment, not only did Zhao Tianlei's tank battalion hold on to the Gollroyd battalion, but the rest of the troops had already arrived and began to attack the positions of several battalions of the 27th Brigade!
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