Chapter 67: Forced into a big pit (please ask for monthly votes!)
Right in front of the Japanese infantry who were only ten meters away from the tank.
The 17mm thick armor of the 89 tank was torn apart by the 20mm machine gun like paper.
At least two shells left holes as big as eggs in the front armor of the 89 tank. The overturned steel plates proved the powerful kinetic energy of the machine gun shells within a distance of 500 meters.
Of course, these are only superficial injuries. The most terrible damage is actually inside the tank.
The powerful kinetic energy of the 20mm machine gun shells is enough to support the warhead to penetrate the thin steel plate and cause a bloody storm in the small tank cab.
The tank driver died immediately. Although a warhead that penetrated the steel plate and was severely distorted did not hit him head-on, the speed at which the steel plate fragments were shattered by the kinetic energy of the shell was no less than that of the bullet, almost
It was all sprayed on the front of the tank driver wearing a tank cap.
It was like being hit head-on by a sledgehammer. Although the entire head did not explode immediately, it was definitely the type where seven orifices suddenly appeared on the face.
Seven or eight big bloody holes suddenly appear on a person's face. It can scare people to death not to mention at night, but also during the day.
The death of a Japanese tank driver may not be too sad for other tank members. Their foreheads are sweating and their hearts are beating like drums. How can they have time to care about others?
But the tragedy is that the dead tank driver's foot was still on the accelerator, and the rudder was still crooked.
The Type 89 tank drew a perfect arc similar to drifting and crashed into the ruins deep inside where Japanese infantrymen of various MMPs were still hiding.
Damn it, uncle...the Japanese infantrymen cried.
Most of them reacted very quickly and ran away like quails when the tank hit them. Except for a few unlucky ones, they basically did not become meat floss cakes at the scene of the car accident.
However, the tank sadly revealed weaker side armor. What is even more tragic is that the 89 tank is not that awesome. After hitting two walls in a row, it collapsed...
Desperate wails rang out from the tank, and the Japanese commander frantically pushed open the overhead hatch in an attempt to escape.
Unfortunately, he was still too slow.
Ten more artillery shells roared back and forth, sending dust flying into the ruins. Three consecutive artillery shells penetrated in succession. The high temperature caused by the continuous violent friction between the artillery shells and the steel plate instantly increased the temperature in the cockpit by hundreds of degrees.
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The blood spurted by the tank driver who was killed in the first few seconds burned sizzlingly on the steel plate of the bulkhead, and at the same time, the stored tank gun shells also exploded.
In the eyes of the Japanese infantry, the tank that almost took them away collectively was like a volcano about to erupt in their hometown. First, thick smoke came out of the car, and then there was a brilliant and earth-shattering explosion.
The explosion of dozens of 57mm tank gun shells even caused this 12.7-ton behemoth to jump more than two meters high from the ground before falling hard.
The turret full of rivets, carrying the Japanese major with his half-stretched body, flew up to a height of more than ten meters visible to the naked eye, and then landed hard on the battlefield dozens of meters away.
They didn't know whether that unlucky guy would be hit by this thing because of his bad luck cover. What they knew was that the terrible blast of air blew away the few companions who had just managed to escape from the collision between the tracks and the car body.
More than ten meters.
Judging from the way they remained silent after landing, you can tell that they probably won’t have to complain about the damn humid weather in Songhu, China.
"Damn it, where is the artillery squadron?" Toyoda was almost incoherent in shock and anger. "Order the artillery squadron to fire immediately to kill the Chinese machine guns."
After a while, the combat staff replied with some difficulty: "Captain Toyota, according to regulations, our infantry cannot shell within 200 meters of the opponent's position..."
Seeing the 89 tank that Major Tokugawa was in being chased and turned into a torch by two machine guns, the Japanese Major felt cold all over, even though the victory seemed to be on his side.
Although the two machine guns are very strong, and given sufficient geographical advantages, the tanks are no match for them, but this is not enough to affect the entire battle situation.
Half of the infantry squadron has already rushed into the building, and two infantry squadrons have also approached within 200 meters. If nothing goes wrong, the battlefield will shift to the inside of the building in three minutes.
However, the Japanese major still looked pale.
"Baga! We were fooled."
Toyoda Hide finally understood that the guilty conscience that he had just intuitively felt was not without reason. From the moment the captain used the 'snatching the grass and alerting the snake' offered by that country boy Yin Tengchuerji, the Chinese used to use the trick.
The fact that the machine gun was not blown up and that a machine gun was hidden is actually not terrible. What is terrible is that the other party's commander actually tolerated it until the last two 89 tanks appeared before putting the machine gun out. It was clearly important.
The idea is to kill the tank that poses the greatest threat to the warehouse building in one fell swoop.
There is no doubt that, at least so far, the other party's forbearance has been successful.
Watching helplessly as the two machine guns that blasted a Type 89 tank chased and fired at another tank that was running away in reverse, Toyoda knew that in all likelihood, that tank would not be able to escape.
As for the two 89 tanks that were said to have arrived 100 meters away from the warehouse? The bright-minded Japanese major also turned the corner in an instant. They were all food in his bowl, no matter whether you were going forward or backward.
What's even more tragic is that the two closest 89 tanks pose no threat to the machine guns on the roof, even if they want to disobey military orders and fire a shot at the roof.
The key is, they can't do it!
The elevation angle of a tank turret is not like that of an artillery piece. It is limited to the mechanical structure of the tank. It is already amazing to be able to slightly raise the muzzle and hit the second floor, let alone a height of 25 meters.
No matter how vigorously the machine cannon fired, they could only watch and stare, and then they had to think about how to escape.
Pointing your butt at the machine gun and escaping from the battlefield at full speed is probably the stupidest tactic. It is wiser to turn the front of the car and retreat to the two wings, or simply continue to move forward and enter the machine gun's blind spot.
Of course, the Japanese major would not care so little about the life and death of those tank soldiers. He was obviously more worried about his two and a half infantry squadrons. If they were finished, he, the major captain, would probably be finished as well.
It's not that the vicious commander of the company wants to remove him from his post, but what will happen if he has no soldiers?
However, with the arrow on the string, it was impossible to retreat, even if he had already smelled a strong smell of conspiracy.
Captain Koizumi Reimai, the front-line commander of the Japanese army at the front, probably thought the same thing. He was about to order the entire army to tactically maneuver to about 150 meters away from the building and start charging at full speed when he heard the sound of machine gun shells tearing through the sky.
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His face was as pale as paper and he looked back, but his sight was blocked by numerous ruins. However, only half a minute later, a loud noise came from behind, letting him know that someone unlucky had been shot by a machine gun.
Then, the four tanks in front were like fertilized deer, quickly turning their fronts and running towards the two wings without any thought of continuing to cover the infantry.
Although he knew that their decision was right, the Japanese captain still angrily scolded the eight generations of ancestors of a bunch of idiots in the tank squadron. What about the agreed-upon Imperial Army to be one? Have you surrendered to the Navy's bunch of horse dung?
However, no matter what the armored soldiers choose, the infantry only have two options, to advance or to retreat.
Although Koizumi Lingcheng is cautious, he is by no means cowardly. He knows very well that no matter what tricks the defenders in the warehouse are playing, they can defeat ten groups with one force. In the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are just false.
Therefore, the long and shrill sound of sirens came from the Japanese infantry queue, which originally needed to maintain their strength to move forward 50 meters, which was the horn of charge.
The main force of the Japanese infantry entered a full-speed charge in advance from 200 meters away.
It was a decisive decision that would rather expend a lot of physical strength and pay a higher price of casualties to storm the building in one fell swoop.
Extremely decisive.
It's just that no one from the Japanese major to the Japanese captain saw the cold look in the eyes of the Chinese top commander behind the observation hole on the fourth floor of the warehouse.
After paying a huge price and even taking the huge risk of the front of the building being blasted by the Japanese, we finally forced the main force of the Japanese infantry into the pit.
