Travel through the Qing Dynasty and become emperor

Chapter 685 The Battle of the Kings (2)
The loud noise from the left flank in front made Chen Jitang immediately realize that his flank troops were under attack. He quickly picked up the binoculars and looked in that direction. He saw that the front position of the 1st Division had already begun to attack. After a fierce exchange of fire, more than a dozen enemy tanks were penetrating into the inner circle of the division in a "Z" formation.

Faced with this situation, Chen Jitang did not panic, because he had already seen that the enemy's raid troops were few in strength, and the organized offensive was also very weak.When a highly mobile tank unit encounters a large enemy force, it does not give priority to evacuation, but instead makes this kind of behavior. The problem is very intriguing.There is no doubt that this coalition force is delaying time in this way.

"Order the 1st Division to handle the battle on its own, and we will move forward at a faster speed." Chen Jitang turned sideways and said to the correspondent waiting for instructions below, "Tell them to deal with these flies as soon as possible, so that they don't affect the artillery battalion behind. "

The correspondent immediately conveyed Chen Jitang's order.At the same time, the battle of the 1st Division was in full swing. The three Covenanters who rushed into the Dragon Army tank camp first, but obviously moved too fast, and they lost the protection of the rear. Perhaps relying on this fast forward The insertion speed can make the dragon army suffer a little in the initial assault, but when the battle enters a stalemate, their end will come.There was no suspense in this battle in a small area. Several consecutive shells were fired, and almost instantly, the turrets of the two Covenanters were directly overturned to the ground, turning into two piles of worthless scrap iron .Although the last one escaped the first wave of artillery attack from the Dragon Army, its nightmare had just begun. A shell directly hit the track on its flank. The latter becomes a dead target that does not move.The five French soldiers in the cabin obviously also had a premonition that the situation was not good. One of the soldiers in black armor opened the hatch and got out, preparing to escape from the "living coffin", but before he could escape After two steps, a shell hit the tank's turret directly. The flying shrapnel and the cracked armor sheet hit the soldier, cutting off the entire calf of his right leg.Immediately, before he could scream a few times, a dragon army tank rushing over from the flank, ran over firmly on his rolling body, like an iron wheel running over a tree. banana.

After annihilating the three Covenant vehicles that charged into the front of the array, the tank formation on the right wing of the 1st Division immediately began to charge. With this powerful assault, the forty main battle Crusaders that were originally in the rear position The tank came out, and less than 150 meters behind them was a dragon-type heavy tank with enough firepower to frighten people.

In terms of strength alone, the British Crusader tank has no way to compete with the enhanced Dragon tank of the Dragon Army. Whether it is the thickness of the armor or the power of the artillery, the Dragon tank has a huge advantage , thick armor, excellent defensive appearance, and 92mm tank guns are the most favorable conditions against enemy tanks, and its biggest weakness is the lack of radio communication devices. The Bureau of Industry has just rolled off the assembly line, and it is still in the testing stage. It has not yet achieved mass production. Due to the urgency of the Sino-Indian war, the military decided to put the Dragon tank test directly on the Indian battlefield and match it. The radio device has not been developed in time. In this way, due to the lack of radio communication devices, there is no effective cooperative combat capability between tanks. In sudden tank battles, the Dragon tank is bound to be here. Suffer some disadvantages.But its designers believe that in the face of such a powerful tank, apart from nuclear bombs, no offensive weapons will pose a threat to it. Even without the addition of radio devices, it will be a well-deserved king on the battlefield.

The Dragon heavy tank uses many parts of the Tiger and Panther tanks. At the same time, it also embodies many new technical features. The Dragon is equipped with a 92mm cannon with a barrel length of 6.3 meters. It is the most powerful tank in the world today. The tank artillery can directly penetrate the main armor of the American M2000 "Sherman" tank at a distance of 4 meters. Can penetrate all types of tanks in the world today.

The body and turret of the Dragon tank are steel armor welded structures, the bulletproof shape is better, and the thickness of the frontal armor is much higher than that of the Tiger tank.The entire tank weighs 67.5 tons. The turret is controlled by the hydraulic engine to rotate, and it can also be rotated manually. It is equipped with two tracks, a 660mm narrow track for railway transportation and a wider 800mm combat track.The maximum effective range of the tank's main artillery is 10 kilometers. It is equipped with a muzzle brake and a monocular sight. The range of the artillery is +17 degrees to 8 degrees. At close range, there are very few weapons that can actually destroy its frontal armor.The crew of the tank is 20 people, namely: the commander, the gunner, the loader, the electromechanical officer, and the front machine gunner.The above data created the strongest steel monster in history.

When Karen discovered the Dragon tanks standing out from the front line of Dragon Army tanks, his first thought was to follow the previous British armored attack tactics and command the four tanks under his command to move at high speed to avoid the leading tanks. The frontal view of the Dragon tank, and then interspersed with its flanks.No matter what kind of tank it is, its observation port can only observe the enemy's movements within a certain range, and the same should be true for the Dragon type.It is under such circumstances that the operations of any tank unit have very high requirements for the coordination and cooperation between the tanks of each other.But this time, Karen's fate was obviously not good. He encountered a big nail. He commanded the four tanks that rushed to the flank and encountered a catastrophe.When they detoured to the side of the dragon tank at a distance of nearly 200 meters, the target stopped suddenly, and then quickly fell back.At the same time, a shot was fired towards a covenanter rushing up from the left flank.Although the gun missed the target during the rapid fallback, the protruding Dragon tank safely retreated into the formation of the three Leopard tanks that followed.

"boom!"

With the sound of a cannon, the Dragon tank adjusted its muzzle after returning to a safe position, and roared at a rushing Crusader tank with unparalleled and earth-shattering vigor, and the shell hit the Crusader tank accurately. The frontal turret turned it into a twinkling bonfire.

The remaining three Covenant tanks could not fight the outflanking tactics they saw, so they had to build a defensive position on the spot. At the same time, they focused on a Leopard tank on the left flank. After three consecutive gunshots, this The side armor of a Leopard tank was hit, and thick smoke billowed out from the tank's vent hole and lookout port.In the next display of the dragon's power, it was like entering no one's land. One shot at a time blasted the enemy's tanks to pieces, but it also attracted more firepower to counterattack. In order to protect the dragon's tanks, all The Bear and Lion tanks had to temporarily give up the group attack on the enemy tanks. Chen Jitang also ordered the Dragon tanks not to participate in the attack, but to keep moving at a constant speed within a radius of two kilometers.

However, when they were besieging the Leopard tank, the other tanks of the Dragon Army on this line also launched a counterattack. The two Tiger tanks on the right flank fired at a Covenanter directly in front of them at the same time. With one shot, the explosive power of the shell tore through the front armor of the tank and caused an explosion in its cockpit. With a deafening roar, the Covenant was torn into pieces.

At the same time, another covenanter that rushed into the dragon army was also directly hit by shells from all sides, turning it into a pile of worthless scrap iron.The last remaining British tank in this shock formation was a Matilda infantry tank with better maneuverability, but it was too late to turn, so it drove back and retreated. It was too late, and the two Bear tanks outflanking from the left had already aimed their muzzles at its flank armor. With the sound of two cannon shots, the remaining British tank was completely scrapped.

Just when the 1st Division of the Dragon Army had just started the tank encirclement and annihilation battle, Chen Jitang had already led the tank troops in his direction and advanced to a position several hundred meters in front of the left flank. The attack of the French Charr tanks lurking in the sunken area of ​​the woods, although he kept reminding the formation on the right wing close to the woods to beware of the enemy's ambush, but a reckless Tiger tank was destroyed in the battle on the first day of the new year, which made Chen Jitang feel very sad. Annoyed, although the current loss is insignificant compared with the results of the battle, it definitely cannot meet his requirements. If the destroyed tank is a supply tank, he may feel better, but the Tiger is his main battle heavy tank , originally equipped with not many, at this time when the large-scale battle has not yet started, how can it be easily lost?
But now Chen Jitang didn't have much time to get angry, because the forty French Soma tanks lurking in the jungle had rushed out and rushed directly into his tank battle formation.During this process, a Leopard tank on the right flank of the front array fired a shot at one of the Soma, hitting its left armor, but unfortunately, the shell failed to inflict damage on Soma. The damage, presumably from the wrong angle of the shot, the shell slipped away.However, this Soma immediately launched a counterattack. With the rotation of the turret, a furious shell flew out of Soma's barrel, and the direct counterattack hit the front of the Leopard-style turret. The huge explosion impact knocked the fragile The Leopard tank fell to the ground and could no longer move.

(End of this chapter)