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In this way, all the preparations of the Japanese army can be said to have lost their effect...... You must know that the M3 tank has five machine guns, of course, only three to four of them may work, the machine gun located on the turret is outside the tank, and someone must drill out of the turret when firing, and the fighters will not be stupid enough to drill out and operate in this case when the tank breaks into the enemy line.

But even if only three machine guns were in play, it would be terrifying firepower, not to mention that there were still more than a dozen M3s in the Japanese defense line that broke in, so the total number was a dozen guns plus thirty or forty machine guns firing at the same time. The bullets and shells poured out a line of fire in the dark night like a goddess scattering flowers, pouring down on the Japanese army, only to make the Japanese soldiers cry and howl wolves.

Among them, there are also Japanese soldiers who rushed up with explosives bags and wanted to blow up these M3 tanks, but the machine guns of the M3 tanks were one on each side of the first two fronts, and it can basically be said that there was no dead end of firepower, and those Japanese soldiers had fallen under the fire of the machine guns before they had time to rush close.

So this M3 tank is really a weapon against infantry, if you want to say that it has a dead end in firepower...... That is, there is no machine gun on the back, but the M3 is a light tank that is quite fast, and the soldiers are slamming on the accelerator at this time and rushing forward at high speed, and the Japanese can't catch up no matter how they want to approach from behind.

As for the Japanese Army's Type 95 tanks, it was even worse...... They are a considerable target for the M3 tank.

THEORETICALLY, THE JAPANESE TYPE 95 TANK CAN ALSO DESTROY THE M3 TANK FROM THE FRONT, BECAUSE THE 37MM GUN CAN PENETRATE 40MM OF STEEL PLATE AT A DISTANCE OF 500 METERS, WHILE THE FRONTAL ARMOR THICKNESS OF THE M3 TANK IS 44MM.

ALTHOUGH THE THICKNESS OF THIS ARMOR IS JUST ENOUGH TO BLOCK THE 37MM GUN, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE ENEMY AND OUR TANKS IS ONLY A FEW TENS OF METERS OR EVEN A DOZEN METERS, SO IT IS STILL POSSIBLE FOR THE TYPE 95 TO DESTROY THE M3 TANK FROM THE FRONT.

But this is only a theory, and it is the steel plate that breaks down.

In actual combat, it is not just as simple as putting a steel plate in front of the tank gun, the target of the actual combat is the tank, and the armor of the tank is often arc or wedge-shaped, which is equivalent to a steel plate standing diagonally in front of the tank gun...... There is a big difference between whether the steel plate is upright or inclined for two main reasons:

First of all, the upright steel plate will absorb all the energy of the cannonball coming from a direct shot, but the oblique steel plate will decompose part of the energy at its angle, and even produce a ricochet to ricochet the cannonball away.

Secondly, the thickness of the upright steel plate is what the defense thickness is, while the oblique steel plate will physically increase the actual defense thickness of the steel plate.

FOR EXAMPLE, IF A 40MM THICK STEEL PLATE IS UPRIGHT, THEN THE DEFENSE THICKNESS IS 40MM. HOWEVER, IF IT IS TILTED 30 DEGREES, IT CAN BE KNOWN FROM THE PYTHAGOREAN THEOREM THAT THE DISTANCE THAT THE SHELL ACTUALLY HAS TO ADVANCE IN THE STEEL PLATE AFTER SHOOTING IN A STRAIGHT LINE BECOMES 80MM, SO ITS REAL DEFENSIVE THICKNESS IS 80MM.

This is the reason why modern tanks have to try their best to make some angles.

FOR THE SAME REASON, THE TANK GUN OF THE M3 TANK IS ALSO 37MM CALIBER AND ABOUT 40MM PENETRATION, BUT IT IS DIFFICULT TO DESTROY THE FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE 25MM TYPE.

THE M3 TANK HAS DIFFICULTY PENETRATING THE 25MM ARMOR OF THE TYPE 97, SO THE SMALL CANNON OF THE TYPE 95 HAS NO TROUBLE PENETRATING THE 44MM ARMOR OF THE M3 TANK. However, the M3 tank is very easy to fight the armor of the Type 95 with only a dozen millimeters, and it can almost be said that as long as it hits, it will not explode.

Therefore, it is not too much to use the phrase "tiger into the flock" to describe the dozen or so M3s that broke into the Japanese defense line.

In the eyes of Zhang Chi and others, they watched as the Type 95 tanks in the direction of the Japanese army were destroyed one after another, and the Japanese soldiers fell screaming in pieces.

Of course, several of these M3 tanks were destroyed...... That's because it was night, and it was difficult for the fighters in the tank to see the outside environment, so they accidentally hit the enemy's tank or building and stopped.

This is not to say that the tank will be damaged, although the M3 is a light tank, the thickness of the armor is a few streets away from the Japanese medium tank.

Rather, such a sudden collision will first of all have a great impact on the unprepared engineer soldiers in the tank, and the crew in the tank will fall or even be injured due to inertia...... This is very common for tank crews, and it is not uncommon for tankmen to get injured during training.

This caused the tank to lose firepower or partially lose firepower for a certain period of time, so the Japanese army took advantage of this firepower to rush up with explosive packs or magnetic anti-tank mines.

But this situation did not last long, because soon the Sherman tank on the other side covered the soldiers of the engineer regiment to follow, so another dense rain of bullets quickly knocked all the Japanese troops in sight to the ground.

Under the onslaught of M3 and M4 tanks, the troops quickly destroyed all the Japanese defenses and opened the way for the Sino-British forces to break through.

Until the end, the reserve in the hands of Nobuo Ueda, that is, two squads of six Type 97, was not put into the battlefield, because Nobuo Ueda knew very well that even if these six Type 97 vehicles were put into the battlefield, they would not be enough for the enemy to plug his teeth.

He did so wisely, of course, and arguably the only wise choice he made in this battle...... Tanks were a valuable war resource for Japan, and he did not have the power to let tanks attack the enemy like infantry, so choosing to quietly withdraw them from the other direction was a correct act of preserving strength.

Finally, when the convoy was about to pass through the oil field, Wang Mazi ordered the tank to fire at the oil storage tank in the oil field.

With a loud "boom", the oil storage tanks burst into flames one after another.

These oil storage tanks were preserved by the Japanese army with great care...... The Japanese had long guessed that the British army would detonate the gasoline in the oil fields when they retreated (which can be guessed with their toes), so in order to preserve these important strategic materials and to restore oil production in Ringanqiang as soon as possible, the Japanese army used plainclothes to encourage some Burmese soldiers in the Anglo-Burmese army in the area of Ringanqiang.

The Japanese used a simple excuse, such as protecting these facilities to benefit Burma, because if the British withdrew and Burma gained independence, then the oil and facilities would belong to the Burmese.

Of course, the Burmese did not suspect this, so when the British ordered the oil field to be blown up and the oil storage tank was blown up, they manipulated the explosives, which allowed many important facilities to be preserved.

This is one of the reasons why the Japanese were able to bring the oil field fire under control within a few days.

But now, all the efforts of the Japanese army have been in vain, and the entire oil field is once again in a sea of fire, and the fire is still expanding.