Chapter 498: Tank Battalion, Attack!
North of Hanyang City, outside Fengshan Gate.
The 50 T-26 tanks of the tank battalion directly under the Wuhan Garrison Command have been lined up, and the muzzles of the 50 47mm caliber main guns are also pointing straight to the devil barracks seven or eight miles ahead.
One of the tanks, numbered 01, had an open turret.
Ding Yan, who was wearing a fur hat, stood outside the turret with half of his body, looking at the north with anxious eyes.
To the north, seven or eight miles away, the sound of gunfire and explosions in the devil's camp has already resounded! Apparently, the engineer battalion directly under the anti-smuggling corps has already launched an offensive!
Every minute or two, Ding Yan would look at his watch.
In Ding Yan's feeling, time flies so slowly!
Finally, the hour hand points straight to the middle 12 o'clock!
Time's up! Ding Yan roared viciously in his heart, then waved his arm forward hard, and then opened his throat and roared hoarsely.
"Tank battalion, attack!"
With Ding Yan's roar, 50 T-26 tanks were launched at the same time.
Suddenly, the high-pitched roar of the tank engines rang out, and billowing black smoke poured out of the exhaust holes of 50 tanks.
Moments later, 50 tanks lined up and rolled forward!
Immediately behind the 50 tanks, the black-pressed infantry swarmed out from the Fengshan Gate and the gaps in the city wall, this is the officers and soldiers of the 113th Regiment and the 114th Regiment of the Anti-Smuggling Corps!
"Keep up, keep up, keep up with Lao Tzu!"
Liu Fangwu, the commander of the 113th Regiment, wore a steel helmet and a Bergman submachine gun, and strode forward while beckoning the officers and soldiers behind him to follow!
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At this time, in the devil's barracks.
Masashi Saito is directing sappers to repair the breached gap.
This wave of Chinese attack just now not only blew a gap of more than 20 meters in the trench surrounding the entire camp, but also tore a huge hole in the barbed wire fence in the trench!
If this gap is not repaired, the Chinese will be able to attack from this gap!
Just as Saito was commanding the sappers to repair the gap, a faint roar was suddenly heard in his ears.
"Well, what's that sound?" Masarui Saito immediately stopped what he was doing and turned sideways to listen carefully.
Soon, more devil soldiers also heard this roar, because the roar was getting louder and closer! In just a few minutes, it's already deafening!
However, it is impossible to tell what kind of machine is sending it out.
It was the old devil Saito Masarui who reacted first.
"Tank, it's a tank!" Saito Masaki hissed and roared, "Baga, it's a tank cluster of the Chinese!" ”
"Nani, tanks for the Chinese? Or a cluster of tanks? The rest of the devils looked at each other in disbelief.
Saito then yelled: "Flares, flares, flares, drips, flares!" ”
Amid Saito's hysterical roar, the two devils scrambled to set up a grenadier and then fired a flare into the air.
In an instant, the dazzling bright light illuminated a radius of several kilometers as bright as day.
With the dazzling light emitted by the burning of the flares, Saito Masarui and the devil who was repairing the gap saw at a glance that on the southern horizon, I don't know when there were dozens of swarthy moving iron guys, these dozens of moving iron guys, what are they if they are not tanks?
Masato Saito recognized it at a glance, this is a Soviet-made T-26 tank!
"T-26 tank!" Saito Masaki hissed and roared, "This is the T-26 tank of the Soviets!" ”
The surrounding devil sappers suddenly gasped when they heard this, all of them were T-26 tanks of the Soviets?
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In the wilderness, the 50 T-26s of the tank battalion had already set up an arrow attack formation and rolled forward.
Tank battalion commander Ding Yan drove a tank car numbered 01, which was at the arrow of the entire formation!
The T-26 tank has a crew of three, a driver, a gun commander and commander, a machine gunner and loader, and Ding Yan is the gun commander and commander of the No. 01 tank!
Through the lookout hole of the tank, Ding Yan could already clearly see the devil's camp a few hundred meters away.
The huge gap that was blown up by the engineer battalion before was also clearly visible, and without Ding Yan's order, the tank driver had already hit the direction and drove straight towards the huge gap!
Amid the loud roar of tank engines, the camp of the devils got closer and closer.
With less than two hundred meters left, Ding Yan could even see the devils running back and forth in the camp clearly!
It seems that the devils have become a mess, obviously, the Japanese devils have not seen so many tanks gathered together for a charge!
In fact, don't talk about the Japanese devils, at this time, there was no large-scale concentrated use of tanks for assault in the world!
Before that, the tank's only role was to guide and protect the infantry!
The first large-scale intensive use of tanks will not appear until next year, when the Germans attack Poland!
Under the surprise attack of the German tank cluster, Poland, which is known as the third military power in Europe, with a million troops, resisted for less than a month before being destroyed by the German army!
To be honest, when Zhong Yi proposed this tactic, Ding Yan was also surprised!
Because Ding Yan never thought that the tank could still be used like this!
But now it seems that the effect of intensive use of tanks is still very good!
Just seeing dozens of tanks appear, the devils on the opposite side are already in a mess!
"Haha!" Ding Yan couldn't help but let out a smug laugh, it has always been the suffering of the national army to eat the devil tank, and now it is finally the turn of the little devil to eat the pain of the national army's tank!
"Accelerate!" Ding Yan patted the wall of the car and roared, "Speed up, rush up!" ”
The tank driver immediately increased the accelerator, and the No. 01 tank immediately roared, and then began to accelerate, rolling towards the devil camp in front of him.
Behind the 01 tank, 49 tanks lined up and began to accelerate!
As the distance approached, the situation in the devil's camp became clearer, and it could be clearly seen that the devil was pushing out a chariot defense cannon from the camp.
Without a trace of hesitation, Ding Yan pulled down the cable of the tank gun!
Just listening to the sound of tom, a 47mm caliber kinetic energy bullet whistled out in an instant.
The next moment, there was a bang in the devil's camp less than 100 meters ahead.
Although it failed to hit the devil's defense gun, it tore several nearby devils to pieces!
Immediately afterwards, the devil infantry near the gap opened fire one after another, and the bullets of the 38 big cover, crooked handle, and Type 92 heavy machine gun rained down on the body of the No. 01 tank.
However, only the sound of Ding Dong was heard, and the No. 01 tank was unscathed!
Although the frontal armor of the T-26 tank is only 15mm thick, it is by no means penetrated by the 5.5mm and 7.7mm caliber machine rifle bullets of the little devils!
(End of chapter)