Chapter 22: Tanks
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"Colonel, we are being ambushed by the Japanese army!" Colonel Gale got such a report.
"Do you think I'm deaf or blind?" Gail replied angrily: "I can hear the gunshots, what I need to know is the strength and location of the enemy!" ”
"It's too dark to see!" The British ** official looked around and replied: "It's everywhere, we are surrounded!" ”
"Colonel!" At this time, the signal corpsman reported: "I received a call from Second Lieutenant Burke, and there are Japanese troops everywhere on the other side of the bridge, at least more than a thousand people!" ”
This confirmed the enemy's situation, and with the bullets and shells flying in the sky, Gale knew that the situation was not good.
"Blow up the iron bridge now!" Gale gave the first order.
"The Iron Bridge has been blown up!" The signal soldier replied: "But Second Lieutenant Burke said that the Japanese can cross the river, and the river crossing is very lamented...... It only takes more than half an hour. ”
"Speed up and break out of the encirclement!" Gale gave the second order.
"Colonel!" The signal soldier replied in a louder voice amid the sound of artillery: "Several tanks and cars in front collided together, blocking the road, and it is difficult to dredge it in a short time!" ”
"What the fuck!" Colonel Gale couldn't help but curse.
"Colonel, give the order!" The British ** officer said with a panicked expression: "It only takes more than half an hour for the Japanese to cross the river, and then we will only be wiped out!" ”
Colonel Gale gritted his teeth and gave the third order: "Abandon tanks and vehicles and break through on foot!" ”
In less than twenty minutes, the British were completely evacuated, leaving only a large pile of tanks, armored vehicles, and cars full of supplies piled up on the road, and the British fled in such a hurry that they did not even bother to blow them up.
"It's a big game!" Zhang Chi and the soldiers looked at these things on the road in a daze.
"What the hell is the British?" Xiao Zhejiang was a little puzzled, he looked at the British soldiers who fled in embarrassment, and said with disappointment: "I thought they could defeat the Japanese, and this shot scared them......
In this regard, Zhang Chi feels that it is understandable, the United States and Britain and other countries have a different concept of military management from China, China's equipment is more important than human life, which is determined by China's lack of equipment, so the emphasis is that "people are in the gun, people are dead, and the gun is still there."
As for countries such as the United States and Britain, what they lack is not equipment but people, so on the battlefield, they mainly focus on saving lives, or it can also be said that humanity or something.
It is also impossible to tell whether this concept of administering the army is good or bad.
To put it mildly, it is indeed to preserve a lot of vitality under some extreme conditions.
Just like now, the tank was blocked on the road and could not move, and the Japanese surrounded it from behind, and the result of any further delay was that the tank could not save people and could not save people, so it seemed to be the right choice to abandon the tank to save the lives of the soldiers.
It's not good to say that it is not good, this often causes the entire army to collapse or lose its combat effectiveness due to errors in judgment on the battlefield, or it can also be said that it cannot hold out to the end in order to save the lives of soldiers.
For example, now, the troops sent by the Japanese army to intercept have not had time to enter the designated position, and the number of people is not large, and the firepower is not strong, the British armored regiment has time to clear the obstacle as quickly as possible, and then use the fire and protection of the tanks to break out of the encirclement, but the British army has made another choice.
"Platoon commander, what now?" The townsman asked.
"Let's get out of the way!" The hooligans who found that the situation had changed and rushed back proposed: "Anyway, now that our task of blowing up the bridge has been completed, there are so many devils on the other side, it will be too late if we don't retreat!" ”
The hooligan's proposal can be said to be exactly what Zhang Chi wants, in fact, as soon as Zhang Chi heard the gunshots and knew that the Japanese were really coming, his legs were already weak and wanted to slip away.
But the old squad leader interjected at this time: "Withdraw? Where to retreat? Listen to the sound of this gunshot......"
Zhang Chi didn't understand what the old squad leader meant, but when he listened carefully to the gunshots, he understood: there were gunshots all around, even in the direction of the British army's withdrawal, which meant that they were really surrounded by Japanese troops.
The old squad leader was right, the Japanese soldiers who were responsible for intercepting the two squadrons of the British armored regiment also saw the signal flare because they heard the gunshots, so they no longer advanced covertly but plunged into the road as fast as possible, but because the British fled too fast, they couldn't catch up, so they could only fire their guns indiscriminately in the back.
"Let's rush out with the British!" Fellow countrymen suggested.
"It's easy!" The old squad leader raised his head: "If you want to follow just now, it's already dark, let's follow like this, eighty percent will be beaten into a sieve by the British as the Japanese who are catching up!" ”
The old squad leader had a point, because Chinese at least looked no different from the Japanese in appearance, even the color and style of the military uniform were similar, and the British were like frightened birds...... Chasing them at this time is no different from looking for death.
"That'...... So what to do? Xiao Zhejiang hurriedly said: "It's impossible to wait for death here!" ”
"Platoon commander? Give the order, what to do? The hooligan kicked the ball to Zhang Chi at the right time.
The hooligan is playing a little trick, he didn't think that Zhang Chi was a qualified platoon commander, and now he just blamed Zhang Chi for all the problems...... It's best if Zhang Chi can come up with a way, but if he can't come up with a way, at least it can prove that the hooligans are right about Zhang Chi.
But does it really matter?
If you can't get out alive, what's the point of who's right and who's wrong?!
At this time, Zhang Chi had no idea, he couldn't wait to put on a pair of wings and fly out, but this was just a wish, the reality was that he and his thirty brothers were trapped here, there were interceptions in front and pursuers in the back, and it seemed that there was only one way to die here.
Suddenly, Zhang Chi saw that the British had lost a large number of tanks and ammunition trucks on the road, so he had an idea and asked, "Which of you can drive tanks?" ”
"I will."
"Me too!"
"I've been a gunner!"
……
Several fighters raised their hands.
Zhang Chi was quite surprised by this, originally he thought that these soldiers under his command were all from the engineering regiment, and it was almost the same if they could build fortifications and platoon mines, and they would say that they could drive tanks...... That's a bit of a strongman's difficulty.
But what Zhang Chi didn't know was ...... The 200th Division is the only mechanized division of the ** army, and basically all the tanks are concentrated in this division.
In the past, in order to select the best tankers, a considerable part of the division was trained to drive tanks, and then the best of the best were eliminated layer by layer. Some of those who were eliminated were later incorporated into the Engineer Corps.
It is said that this has the added advantage of having many spare tank crews in the division, and if any tank crew member is wounded, it is easy to find a replacement in the division.
"Platoon commander!" The old squad leader said suspiciously: "Even if we can open it, we can't drive it!" ”
The old squad leader pointed out that two tanks were blocked at one end of the road, and the bridge at the other end was blown up, so these tanks and equipment could not go anywhere, and it seemed that they had to wait for the Japanese army to receive them.
"I didn't want to drive them away!" Zhang Chi replied.
"Oh!" The fellow villager said: "The platoon commander asked us to drive a tank to fight with the Japanese devils!" ”
"I don't want to die either!" Zhang Chi replied.
"That platoon leader, this is ......" Everyone was a little confused when they heard this.