Glorious Mission 1937

While the Soviet Red Army was brutally killed by the Northern Air Force in the air, Isov and others on the ground also encountered trouble.It was obvious for the Soviet army to withdraw to the north, and there was no need to think about breaking through to the south. That was the key attack direction of Chen Feng's troops.The same is not true for the west. Going west is full of deserts and Gobi deserts. Even if you can succeed in breaking out to the west, you will be wiped out by the harsh natural environment.The same goes for the east. If you go east, you will enter the Hulunbuir Grassland controlled by the Japanese. Now that the Soviet Union and Japan have just signed a neutrality treaty, if the Soviet Red Army suddenly breaks into the Japanese sphere of influence at this time, it will easily cause diplomatic disputes, and even It will also make the previous joint efforts of the two sides come to naught. Therefore, in the four directions of east, west, north, south, only the north is the most suitable for the Soviet army to break through.

With such a judgment, last night the main force of the eighth war zone went to the north of the Soviet army to build a position. According to Chen Feng's order, the Soviet and Mongolian coalition forces must be completely wiped out to give the Soviet Union a blow.

As soon as the breakout began, Major General Isov found sadly that there were at least three Chinese infantry divisions in the north, and there were also a large number of tanks there.In fact, what Major General Isov didn't know was that it was not three infantry divisions standing in front of them, but a reorganized division in the eighth war zone.However, Major General Isov's vision is still good. Although the reorganized division has only one division number, its total strength is not less than the three infantry divisions of the Nationalist Government.

But the matter has come to this point. Major General Isov knows that he has no way out. The ammunition and supplies they carry are not very sufficient this time. In the battle last night, the headquarters and the ammunition depot were attacked by the Chinese artillery. focus.From the very beginning, he received the heavy care of the heavy artillery unit, so it was only after Major General Isov gathered his troops that he discovered that all the ammunition in his unit could not last for two days.Because of this, Major General Isov had to break out.

In order to successfully break through, Major General Isov put the only 270 tanks in his troops at the forefront of the troops. He asked the tank troops to open the way for the infantry.

The collective charge of hundreds of tanks was extremely spectacular, like a torrent of steel, rushing towards the position of the eighth theater guard division.

Five kilometers north of the Soviet position, Ma Cao was sitting on a T5 tank, watching the movement of the Soviet-Mongolian coalition forces with a telescope.Seeing that the Soviet Red Army started to move.Ma Cao put down the binoculars, and then ordered loudly: "The Soviet Red Army has begun to break out in our direction. Our task is to intercept them and destroy them!"

"Stop them. Destroy them!" All the officers and soldiers roared in unison.

"Okay! This is the momentum. Act according to the original plan. The artillery unit will shell immediately, and the armored unit is ready to charge!"

"boom boom"

Shells fell from the sky everywhere on the way of the Soviet tank's charge, and more than 100 large-caliber field heavy artillery built a steel barrage on the way for the Soviet army to break through.Blow up, fly, and scrap Soviet tanks one by one.

Fortunately, this distance is not very long, less than five kilometers away, which is nothing in front of the BT fast tanks equipped by the Soviet army. It took only 10 minutes for the Soviet Red Army to run out of the restricted area of ​​the Chinese artillery.

However, the disaster did not end. When the Soviet armored forces were less than one kilometer away from the headquarters of the guard division, Ma Cao ordered the armored brigade under his command to charge immediately.

This is a duel between steel behemoths, this is a collision between iron currents and torrents. 270 Soviet tanks and 400 Chinese tanks quickly collided together. This was the second large-scale armored war in China's northern Xinjiang.The first time was the battle of Inner Mongolia between the Soviet Union and Japan. The Soviets won that time, but this time the Soviet Union was not very lucky.

Major General Isov is very confident about this armored warfare. According to the information obtained in advance, Chen Feng's troops do have a large number of tanks, but they are all Type 7 and Type [-] light tanks captured from the Japanese army. Major General Isov, a light tank, had seen it in the Battle of Nomonkan. Its performance was extremely rubbish, and it was simply not comparable to the Soviet bt[-] fast tank.

As the commander of the tank division, Isov is relatively good at armored combat, and he also participated in the Nomonkan Battle a few months ago. He is one of the few senior commanders in the Soviet Union who have participated in actual combat experience. .He is well aware of the characteristics of armored combat. Maybe weapons and equipment are important in the combat of other arms, but they may not be able to determine the outcome of the battle.

But it is different in terms of armored combat. Whether the performance of the tank is advanced or not is the most important factor in the success of the battle. If the hardware is not good, then even the best commander will be useless.

And his 59th tank division was originally formed to deal with the Japanese. The bt7 fast tank equipped was specially designed to deal with the Japanese Type [-] medium tank, which is more powerful than the Type [-] and Type [-] light tanks. Therefore, Major General Isov is bound to win this battle.

However, the reality gave him another heavy blow.

"boom"

A bt7 tank that rushed to the front opened fire. Obviously, this tanker is an armored fighter with very rich combat experience.Looking at the huge fireball burning on the body of the Chinese tank not far away, the Soviet tanker smiled.

But what happened next made the tanker almost piss in fright. The burning Chinese tank stopped in place for less than a minute, and started to start again regardless of the fire on the body. The turret began to spin, aiming at his vehicle.

The Soviet tanker quickly made an emergency evasion, forcing the Chinese tanker to continue to adjust the angle of view and continue to aim.Taking advantage of this gap, the Soviet tank crew fired two shots.

"Boom" "Boom"

This time it was even more outrageous. Although both shells hit the Chinese tanker's car, they were ejected miraculously and exploded in the air, causing almost no damage to the Chinese tank.

The Soviet tanker was so surprised that he didn't know what to say. He opened his mouth wide, and his eyes revealed deep fear. Is this shit still a tank?What made the Soviet tankers even more frightening was that the Chinese tankers had readjusted their angles at this time.And shoot quickly.

"boom"

The Soviet tanker wanted to hide, but it was too late. He watched the shell shoot out from the barrel of the Chinese tank, and then exploded on his car. With a loud noise, he lost consciousness. .

The same thing can be seen everywhere on the battlefield. Soviet bt7 tanks hitting Chinese tanks can at most paralyze Chinese tanks. Only when they hit the side armor or ammunition depots can Chinese tanks be completely scrapped.As long as a Chinese tank hits a Soviet tank, the result will be a car crash.

Major General Isov was stunned, and when he approached, he realized that this nimana was a tin box made by Japanese monkeys.This is a large tank that has never been seen before.It can’t be said that I have never seen it before. Isov found that the tanks used by the Chinese army are a bit similar to the great Soviet T26 tanks, but he can be sure that it is not a T26. This guy is a whole circle bigger than the car under him. The thick barrel is even more frightening.Its wild and domineering posture shocked all Soviet tankers.And swept the entire battlefield with the domineering arrogance of the king.

Major General Isov couldn't figure it out.What kind of tanks are the Chinese equipped with and why are they so advanced.And where did this advanced tank come from?

In fact, it is no wonder that Major General Isov is so entangled. The bt59 fast tank equipped by his tank 7th division is also a good tank. The bt fast tank is a famous Soviet tank in the 30s.Its prototype is the famous Christie tank in the United States. At that time, the speed of these fast tanks was indeed impressive, and it could reach a speed of 60kmh. BT-7 is the largest series in the BT family. It debuted in 1935. It is mainly replaced with the m-17t gasoline engine imitating the German BMW engine, and the car body is also redesigned.

The bt-7 series also has a variety of models. This tank maintains the excellent high-speed performance of the bt series. The maximum road speed can reach 86 kilometers per hour when using the wheeled method, and 73 kilometers per hour when using the tracked method. The road trip exceeds 500 kilometers meters, far surpassing other tanks of the time. The 7mm gun used by bt-45 was a powerful gun in the 30s, and it could penetrate 500mm armor at a distance of 31 meters.

But this kind of power is only relatively speaking. Compared with the t34 tanks equipped by Chen Feng, the bt series fast tanks are just scum, they are simply weak.

Compared with the Soviet bt7, the t34 tank is luxurious in terms of armor, firepower and power.The thickness of the body armor is 45 mm, but the front armor has a 32-degree bevel, and the sides also have a 49-degree bevel.The turret is cast in a hexagonal shape. The thickness of the frontal armor is 60 mm, and the side is also 45 mm. The oblique angle of the body extends to the turret, so the t-34 is almost a right triangle when viewed from the front.The inclined armor has two advantages. First, the shells are easy to bounce off after hitting (that is, 'ricochet'), which greatly reduces their power.

Secondly, according to the triangular principle, after a horizontally fired shell hits the inclined armor, the thickness of the steel plate that needs to pass through is equivalent to the hypotenuse of the triangle. The capacity is equivalent to 34 mm, and the side armor at a 45-degree bevel is also equivalent to 32 mm.Such frontal armor, even if it is as strong as Germany, any artillery equipped with its army tanks cannot penetrate at a distance of 90 meters, let alone the Soviet bt series tanks.

In addition, the firepower of the t34 far exceeds that of the bt7. The 7mm artillery and two 45mm machine guns equipped with the bt2 are not on the same level as the 7.62mm l34 cannon of the t76 tank. The t30.5 tank is not only stronger than the bt series of tanks, even if you look at the whole world, there is no tank that is its opponent.And the bt series tanks are notoriously thin-skinned and stuffed, which can be called the iron coffin of Europe. Their armor is generally weak. Even the front armor of the bt-34 model in 7 is only 1937 mm, which is difficult to resist the blow of ordinary anti-tank guns , not to mention resisting the firepower of the t13 tank.

Like the massacre in the air, the steel torrent duel on the ground was also a cruel one-sided massacre. 270 bt7 fast tanks were wiped out by the Chinese artillery group, and the rest were all in less than an hour. After being destroyed, less than 10 Soviet tanks that chose to surrender survived, including Major General Isov's car. (To be continued..)