On July 17, the 19th Group Army of the Republican Army went straight to Cloncurry, a transportation hub in northern Australia. This heroic unit from Liaodong has gone through several major battles in Liaodong, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. It can be said that it has numerous military exploits. Now it is yijing Become one of the aces in the Republican Army.
The 19th Army was one of the first units to be reorganized from Jinháng mechanized infantry division. Its infantry division was reorganized into a three-regiment mechanized infantry division. Each of the newly organized mechanized infantry divisions was equipped with a tank battalion with 78 tanks. With 52 armored vehicles, 90 large-caliber artillery pieces and more than 1,480 vehicles of various types, its mobile combat capabilities and logistics support capabilities have been greatly improved compared to the original infantry division." "Please search Piao Tian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster ! .
But at the same time, in view of the oversized establishment of the armored divisions, which resulted in slow response times in actual combat, the armored divisions were downsized. Each armored division has three armored regiments and an armored reconnaissance battalion. In this way, the first armored division is now equipped with 258 vehicles. There are 1,460 tanks and 86 armored vehicles, 54 self-propelled howitzers, 36 self-propelled anti-tank guns and other various vehicles. The number of tanks equipped is roughly the same as that of the original light armored division.
The 19th Group Army currently has two armored divisions and two mechanized infantry divisions, with more than 670 tanks and more than 270 armored vehicles. It is also equipped with an Army Aviation Division. The 28th Army, which marched with the 19th Group Army, The 29th and 51st Army Groups each have an armored division, and each group army has less than 400 tanks.
The blue sky is clear, and the winter climate in Northern Australia is cool. On the rolling wasteland, hundreds of tanks stir up yellow dust all over the sky. The engines roar, breaking the eternal tranquility of this large Gobi wasteland.
58 tanks, 26 self-propelled anti-tank guns and 28 infantry fighting vehicles of the 452nd Armored Regiment were lined up in front of the scheduled departure point. Behind these fighting vehicles were more than 310 six-wheel trucks, jeeps and more than 40 motorcycles of the Armored Regiment. The mechanics are checking the vehicle's engine, rotating system and other vulnerable parts, making final preparations before departure.
Tank soldier Wei Jiyan was lying in the shade of the tank, fiddling with a captured Smith & Wesson pistol in his hand, muttering in his mouth: "We only allocate such a small amount of water, how can it be used on the battlefield?" Will you die of thirst? Damn it!"
"It's not good to have water, have you heard? Yesterday, the army's supply convoy was attacked by an air attack in Dajala. The dirt road we passed when we came here turned into a sea of flames. I was also worried that we would run out of diesel today. So I have no choice but to continue to lie down in this sandy nest!" The driver Xie Wenxuan had a sinister smile on his face. "The awesome 4th Cavalry Division was defeated in Croydon yesterday. I heard that the losses were not small... "
At this time, the commander Yin Hao came over from the direction of the command car, waved his hand and said to them: "Get in the car, get ready to go!" The soldiers climbed up from under the car body. They slowly climbed into the open hatch and filled with oil vapor. There was a smell inside the tank, but I couldn't close the hatch.
The sound of artillery was still rumbling in the east. More than 20 kilometers away, the 19th Group Army Yijing exchanged fire with the enemy. A group of bombers passed overhead in the sky. They made a rumbling sound and flew towards the battlefield ahead.
As the order was issued, the 51st Army of the Republican Army began an attack on the enemy's flank from the south of Creekside.
For armored units, in some cases, the losses caused by mechanical reasons are even greater than the losses on the battlefield. In a week of fighting, the 452nd Regiment lost a total of 20 tanks, of which only 7 were lost.
It was destroyed on the battlefield, and the remaining 13 had to be sent back to the tank repair shop in the rear due to mechanical failure.
Due to various reasons, the 51st Army currently has only more than 280 tanks and less than 100 armored vehicles left. Even so, when these tanks are deployed in the vast northern Australian wilderness, they are still facing the enemy more than ten kilometers wide.
The defense launched a frontal assault.
Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles bumped forward on the gravel-strewn Gobi, up and down, and the huge steel bodies appeared and disappeared in the wilderness. The diesel engines roared, and black smoke was emitting from behind each tank body, and then
Submerged in the sky full of yellow dust they raised.
The high-strength steel tracks of these tanks made a harsh rattling sound on the ground, but they rushed towards the enemy's defensive position more than ten kilometers away without hesitation. Artillery shells fired from a distance continued to explode in the middle of the yellow dust.
z, kicking up more dust. In this cloud of fire, the armored troops of the Republican Army continued to approach the enemy's defensive positions despite artillery fire.
The chariot drove in this vast wasteland as if it were in a vast navy. Outside the vehicle was an endless expanse of undulating sand dunes like waves. Yang Maochen turned the commander's peripheral mirror and saw, in addition to a stretch of sand dunes more than ten kilometers away,
The trenches seemed to have other targets. On both sides of the chariot
There was a sky full of loess thrown up by friendly cars, but something seemed strange behind a sand dune in front of him. He quickly aimed the sight glass at the target, quickly adjusted the magnification to the maximum 12 times, and found it half-hidden behind the sand dune.
The object appeared in Zhu Chenfeng's sight, and it turned out to be the barrel of a tank that was disguised very secretly.
"Report 103, report 103, I am 226, an enemy tank was found ahead at 11 o'clock, the distance is 6500!" Yang Maochen grabbed the microphone and reported the latest situation to the company commander. At this distance, both sides are within the opponent's effective range.
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In addition, the tank movement of the Republican Army slowed down. This difāng was the location where the reconnaissance battalion passed by before the attack. It was obvious that the enemy used the period before dawn to move the tank position forward another 2 kilometers.
Since attack aircraft and dive bombers would cause great damage to the tank troops, both the US-Australia coalition forces and the Republican Army have put a lot of effort into the camouflage of the tanks, not only the painting, but also the various camouflage elements set according to the terrain.
This kind of camouflage net makes it difficult for reconnaissance aircraft flying at high altitudes to detect Yijing's hidden tank troops.
About three minutes later, the artillery of the Republican Army began to cover the discovered enemy tank positions with firepower. When the U.S. military realized that they had been discovered, the American tanks hidden behind the hills were dispatched, billowing yellow dust
Emerging on the ground line, smoke and dust raised by hundreds of tanks almost covered half of the sky.
The 17th Armored Division, responsible for the flank defense of the US-Australia coalition forces, put all their tanks into the battlefield at once.
"Oh my god, there are so many tanks! The one in the middle is their Pershing..." As a tank soldier for nearly five years, Yang Maochen has never seen so many enemy tank groups. In Northeast China or Japan, the enemy's battlefield
The tanks were no match for the Republican Army. But this time, more than 300 American tanks rushed towards them like a pack of wolves.
The two sides engaged in an almost hand-to-hand battle at a distance of less than 1,000 meters. More than 320 tanks of the 17th Armored Division of the United States and more than 280 tanks of the 51st Army of the Republican Army were about 16 kilometers west of Creekside.
A tank battle raged across kilometers of wilderness.
As the fighting continued, 300 tanks of the 29th Group Army as a reserve also arrived on the battlefield, and the enemy also sent the 14th Armored Division and the Australian 25th Armored Brigade onto the battlefield. At the same time,
The 19th Army and the 28th Army also engaged in fierce battles with more than 800 tanks from the US 1st and 10th Armored Divisions, the Japanese 5th Tank Division, and the Australian 27th Armored Brigade.
In the sky, both sides dispatched more than 800 combat aircraft. July 17, as the largest land-air battle in history, will surely go down in history forever.
The battlefield was filled with artillery fire. Tanks from both sides criss-crossed and sometimes even collided with each other. Destroyed or blown-up tanks from both sides were everywhere, emitting black smoke on the battlefield. In the south of Creekside, the Americans equipped
There are not many Pershing heavy tanks, only more than 110. As for the Republican Army, the latest
There are only more than 90 Panther tanks, and the main forces invested by both sides are Type 35 and Sherman tanks. But on the western defense line, the 19th Army of the Republic and the 1st Armored Division of the United States are equipped with the latest main combat vehicles of both sides. Here
The battlefield became the main place for the battle between Panther tanks and Pershing tanks. (To be continued.)