Second Lieutenant Matsuda's leg was punctured, but his movements were extremely flexible.
The tactical movement of rolling on the hillside at high speed is comparable to the ball pushed by a dung beetle. If coupled with the smell of it, it is simply...
Therefore, he quickly hid behind a boulder weighing nearly 300 kilograms. Unless the Chinese used infantry artillery to blast him, his life would be saved.
Especially after seeing the sergeant who looked at him so disgustingly that he didn't even want to hide it, his helmet was hit by a heavy machine gun bullet from an unknown source.
The material of the 90 steel helmet cannot withstand the powerful warhead at all. The warhead directly penetrated the helmet and left a hole as big as a thumb. There was no need to detect his heartbeat. Just look at the blood flowing like a waterfall from the gap in the helmet. Matsuda
The second lieutenant knew that if the sergeant did not die, then Amaterasu would truly appear.
With his heart pounding, Lieutenant Matsuda actually felt grateful for the bullet that pierced his calf.
Although that feeling made the Japanese Army second lieutenant who once raised his samurai sword and swore to shed the last drop of blood for His Majesty the Emperor a little ashamed.
"For His Majesty the Emperor, I have to live well." Second Lieutenant Matsuda quickly found a justifiable reason for himself, and quickly hid his head behind a big rock, determined never to look at the Chinese position again.
The Chinese were crazy. In order to stop this attack by the imperial infantry, they spared no effort in ammunition. Not only rifles, but also many machine guns were firing desperately.
Sparks flew from the boulder where he was hiding.
Second Lieutenant Matsuda did not dare to look towards the Chinese position, but this did not prevent him from setting his sights on Tank 89, which was less than 200 meters away from him.
The nearly invincible big guy is turning the tracks to adjust the direction of the muzzle of the 57MM short-barreled artillery. Even if an unknown number of bullets fall on its huge body, nothing can be left except some sparks.
The 89 tank is only 350 meters away from the Chinese position. At such a close distance, no fortifications can withstand the power of the tank gun. Once the gun is fired, a firepower point will be annihilated.
So, Second Lieutenant Matsuda saw the brilliance coming from his own tank!
It was definitely the most brilliant fireworks he had ever seen in his life, not because of the 57mm tank gun of his own tank, but from the tank itself.
Covered by smoke, the Chinese gunner who had been locking the Japanese tank 89 finally pulled the breech, and a tungsten core armor-piercing projectile rushed towards the thick armor of the 89 tank.
In fact, the 37mm anti-tank artillery is not considered the main artillery of the Four Lines Regiment. They are rarely seen on previous battlefields, not because it is not powerful. The 37mm anti-tank artillery that can fire grenades and armor-piercing projectiles has actually been
It is an extremely excellent anti-armor gun on the Chinese battlefield.
During the Battle of Songhu, a combat artillery regiment with 16 combat artillery pieces even destroyed 17 Japanese 89 main battle tanks.
The main reason why the Four Lines Regiment used less armor was that the Japanese troops they encountered did not have much armor. The machine guns alone were enough to deal with them. Another reason was that the 37mm combat anti-cannon was too heavy, and the gun mount was as high as 450 meters.
The gun body weight of kilograms makes its maneuverability somewhat weak.
Unless it is necessary to concentrate fire on the Japanese infantry, otherwise, the 37mm anti-tank artillery rarely has the opportunity to enter the battlefield.
For several main gunners of the Chinese anti-tank artillery, they feel helpless to sit on the sidelines most of the time. This time they can follow the 683 Brigade on the battlefield and have the opportunity to be on the front line to compete with Japanese tanks. It is definitely their dream.
A chance to prove yourself.
Therefore, as the main gunner of the No. 1 gun, Zhen Dazhuang was very excited. After finding the Japanese tank in the smoke, it only took him 30 seconds to adjust the muzzle and fire a hard shot at the Japanese tank that had just finished shelling.
But shooting training steel plates and movable tanks are actually two different concepts, especially on a battlefield where a large amount of smoke and gunpowder smoke are artificially created, resulting in extremely poor vision. Zhen Dazhuang made a mistake with his shot. By coincidence, he happened to hit the target.
On the armor edges and corners of the front edge of the 89 tank.
That is the thickest part of the 89 tank. The key is that the edges and corners can deflect cannonballs!
With a loud sound of "Winter!", a small hole was made in the edge of the front armor of the 89 tank, and a spark that could blind people's eyes exploded, but the tank was fine.
"Damn it!" Zhen Dazhuang, who wore the rank of sergeant, punched the gun mount hard, and then shouted sternly: "Load the shells! Keep doing this stupid thing."
What is going on? Lieutenant Matsuda, who had no idea what was going on, was stunned.
But the Japanese soldiers in Tank 89 were not stupid. After feeling the shock to the tank, they stepped on the accelerator, and the sudden advance of Tank 89 once again escaped bad luck.
The No. 2 gun just happened to fire, and a shell landed 50 meters behind, hitting a patch of rocks. The stone fragments shattered by the armor-piercing bullets flew, directly mowing down several Japanese soldiers who were bending forward nearby.
The two anti-tank guns fired one after another, but all in vain.
However, it is scary enough! Especially for the Japanese armored soldiers in the tanks.
They knew very well that if Amaterasu had not appeared just now, the Chinese tank gun that had been hiding quietly would have probably hit it with one shot.
"Baga! The Chinese have tank guns! Maneuver to avoid him, find him, and kill him!" Captain Hirono Simoto, the tank squadron leader who was in the commander's position in the tank, roared at the top of his lungs while slapping the driver in front of him hard.
member’s back.
This is because Japanese tanks are not equipped with in-car intercoms, and the noise inside the vehicle is too loud, so the commander's orders cannot be transmitted to the driver's ears. The command signal light specially developed for this purpose is not used by the driver at all during battle.
It will take time to see. That’s why we developed body language, like Hirono Shimoto, patting the back hard, which means moving forward.
Of course, instead of advancing towards the position, when approaching the position of 350 meters, the front of the tank is no longer facing the position on the top of the mountain. Instead, it faces the position with the thickest armor edges and corners, which can withstand the Chinese firepower.
, and also facilitates the firing of the 57mm tank gun located in the turret.
However, the Japanese armored soldiers who had just experienced walking on the edge of death would not completely surrender their lives to the edges and corners of their armor. They just had good luck, but luck cannot always be good. They believed more in their own tactical skills.
What the Japanese army has to do now is to get the tanks moving so that the opponent needs to hit a moving target, which is naturally extremely difficult.
The choice Captain Hirono Shimoto made in a few seconds was undoubtedly the right one.
The radio station faithfully conveyed Shimoto Hiroo's order to the ears of the remaining tank crews, and several Type 94 light tanks collectively exploded.
Facing tanks and artillery, these little crispy creatures are just like businessmen meeting officials, allowing their opponents to take whatever they want!
At the same time, the engine of the Type 89 medium tank with a maximum power of 170 horsepower roared crazily, emitting bursts of black smoke and driving the track to accelerate diagonally along the hillside. A man wearing a tank hat
The armored soldiers even poked their heads out of the turret, regardless of the danger, and observed the battlefield with binoculars.
Soon, the Japanese armored troops also found the target.
The white gunpowder smoke produced when the anti-war artillery fired was rising, and it was also obvious behind the Chinese position. After adjustment, the 57mm gun pointed diagonally at the three o'clock position and fired brazenly.
Tanks and anti-tank guns are natural enemies. The latter was born specifically to kill the former, but this does not mean that anti-tank guns have a definite advantage.
On the contrary, tanks that can walk freely have inherent advantages, and the 57mm short-barreled gun of the 89 tank is far more powerful than the 37mm anti-tank gun. If the tank is fired at each other, the tank will naturally be more advantageous.
Therefore, even though it was so quietly shot by the opponent that they almost didn't go to see Amaterasu collectively, the 89 tank carrying the top commander of the 108th Division Armored Squadron still did not retreat, but maintained its offensive posture.
Of course, exposing the fragile tail of a tank with an engine to the opponent on the battlefield is the stupidest tactic. What's more, if there is no order to retreat, if he retreats, the result would be worse than dying in the tank.
Therefore, fighting against a natural opponent is the only choice for this Japanese armored captain.
However, the heroic tank brigade captain did not know that the 57mm short-barreled manual cannon equipped with the 89 tank, despite its large caliber, was actually another failure of the Japanese military industry.
This thing doesn't have much armor-breaking ability. It's just a mobile grenade launcher. Its attack capability is not as good as the 70mm caliber 92 infantry gun.
Of course, we cannot blame the Japanese military industry experts for being so scumbag. This also has something to do with the Chinese opponent they have been eyeing.
In fact, China's opponent is too weak, so weak that it basically has no tanks. The enemies in the target don't have tanks, so what are the tanks and guns used for?
In line with the idea of maximizing resource conservation, Japanese military designers designed the seemingly powerful 57mm tank gun with functions such as destroying machine gun fire points, civil fortifications, and suppressing infantry firepower at close range. It is an absolute good helper for infantry.
The Japanese army, whose combat concept still existed in World War I, had never regarded tanks as a main force. Tanks were nothing more than a weapon to assist infantry in military operations.
In the early stages of the war, this combat concept was undoubtedly successful. What they faced was a Chinese army that only had mortars, mountain artillery, and anti-tank artillery at most.
Not to mention the Type 89, a medium-sized tank with an armor thickness of more than 20 millimeters, the Type 94 and Type 95 mini tanks, which are mainly used for reconnaissance, are almost all rampant in China.
In the North China battlefield, apart from poison gas, tanks and vehicles were almost the last straw that broke down the tenacious resistance of the Chinese people, and they never failed.
This also led to the Japanese army still adopting this concept in 1937 for the Type 97 medium tank, which was developed and soon to be deployed in a large number of troops. The 57mm short-barreled gun was still their only choice. A good helper for the infantry was their greatest compliment.
It has been proven on China's battlefield that the sandbags and other civil engineering works that the Chinese are accustomed to piling up are basically no match for a 57mm gun. If one shot doesn't work, then two shots are needed.
Including the angry Captain Hiroo Shimoto, the Japanese tank crews all had a strong belief that under the roar of the imperial tanks, the Chinese resistance would be in vain.
They didn't know that the Type 97 medium tank equipped with a 57mm tank gun with slow muzzle velocity and weak armor-piercing capability was almost defeated by the Empire of the Sun Never Sets in the Battle of Yangon in Myanmar four years later. The 7th Armored M3 light tank was equipped with
The journey becomes a journey.
The 57mm tank gun, which is invincible on the Chinese battlefield, cannot even penetrate the 13mm to 44mm armor of the M3 light tank. If you want to ensure penetration, you must get as close as 200 meters, which is almost the distance of a tank bayonet. But before that, the Japanese
The 37mm tank gun equipped with the Imperial M3 light tank has already destroyed the newly equipped Japanese Type 97 tank.
"The Romance of Fairy Wood"
Opposite them, in the area where two 37mm combat defense guns are located, an infantry platoon used a Japanese bomb crater and blasting to build a sunken fortification. The entire huge body of the combat defense guns was placed at a depth of one and a half meters.
In the crater, six layers of sandbags were piled up to form a ring-shaped fortification on the outside. Hundreds of kilograms of large rocks were used in the middle of the sandbags to ensure that the Japanese army would bombard them with infantry artillery to ensure a certain survival rate.
Although a bit crude, this was the strongest fortification that the commanders and soldiers of the 921st Division could build in a short period of time due to long-term firepower disadvantage.
Moreover, after the war, it was proved that this simple but strong enough earth fortification blocked the bombardment of the Japanese 57MM tank gun.
One cannonball even directly hit the outer layer of sandbags, blowing up four layers and shattering even the big rocks in the interlayer. However, it did not completely break through the earthen fortifications piled up by quantity. The four gunners in the fortifications
Although his mouth and nose were bleeding due to the shock, his life and precious artillery were saved.
Of course, those green chai that almost turned the eyes of the Chinese soldiers on the battlefield into rabbit eyes also played a huge role.
Even if the Japanese armored soldiers stuck their heads out of the tank to observe regardless of life and death, they could only give an approximate location under the thick smoke.
They were lucky enough to have one shot hit the outside of the fortification within three shots.
War requires luck, but if you rely entirely on luck, your death will be ugly. In the end, it all depends on your strength.
The Japanese tanks that were startled by the tank guns were like wasps that had exploded their nest. They maneuvered and counterattacked on the hillside in an orderly manner. The four Type 94 light tanks drove very fast and suppressed the position with two 7mm machine guns shooting wildly.
The firepower on.
The two 37mm anti-tank guns no longer concealed themselves, and just stared at the 89 tanks that were maneuvering desperately with black smoke and opened fire. As long as this big guy was killed, the Type 94 light tanks with only machine guns would pose no threat to them.
"Baga, how come Tubal has an anti-tank gun?" Nobi Nobita opened his eyes wide in disbelief after seeing all this through the telescope.
The Japanese Army's Shao Zuo has become accustomed to the 921 Division, an old opponent, which usually operates with old rifles and a few light machine guns. It is definitely the elite of the elite. If it has mortars, it means it is the main force.
Suddenly, the Chinese actually developed sophisticated weapons such as anti-tank guns. Naturally, they were extremely uncomfortable psychologically.
This kind of mentality, in modern parlance, is called: Don’t see the poor eating a piece of meat.
The Japanese Army Major Zuo was not used to it at all. At most, he was angry that the poor had started to eat meat. But for Second Lieutenant Matsuda in the center of the battlefield, his mentality was broken!
That was much more depressing than before when he was covered in 'true fragrance'!
The reason is simple. The Type 89 tank was originally 180 meters away from him, but when the sparks bloomed brightly on the tank, everything changed.
The tank maneuvered wildly on the hillside like a wild boar that had been hit by an arrow. However, he felt that the big rock he was standing on was not safe enough, so he chose another rock 70 to 80 meters away.
So, thanks to the efforts of a disabled second lieutenant and the madness of the "arrowed wild boar", the second lieutenant and the wild boar miraculously met on the battlefield.
The shortest distance between the two parties will never exceed ten meters.
You have to say that in normal times, Lieutenant Matsuda would use this big black-smoking iron lump as the best cover.
But now, watching the Chinese chasing the 89 tank with gun after gun, and directly smashing a large stone as high as a person that was rubbing the track of the 89 tank in half, the Japanese Army second lieutenant huddled behind the big stone just wanted to say a few words
A stupid armored soldier yelled: Don't come over!
No one knows that the thing that bothers the poor Japanese Army lieutenant the most now is not that he descended too fast, but that the bullet just now didn't hit his thigh directly. In that case, I can at least lie on that piece of shit.
There is breath in the fields! Instead of watching yourself being torn to pieces by Chinese artillery.
Sure enough, there are no absolutes in this world, and sometimes hell can turn into heaven!
Your arsenic is my medicine! Perhaps this is the truth!
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