Li Yuhang's second regiment advanced at a speed of almost 30 kilometers per hour. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This speed...... If it is really not fast according to what we think now, you can drive more than 100 yards on the highway at will, that is, the speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour, and the speed of 30 kilometers per hour can be counted.

But the problem is that this is the speed of combat advance, and moreover, in the conditions of the highways of the forties of the last century...... In this era, due to the restrictions of road conditions, the car could run 50 or 60 yards quite well, and the maximum speed of the "Sherman" tank was only 38 kilometers per hour.

That is, the tank is advancing almost non-stop.

The reason why the advance speed is so fast is that there is a reconnaissance unit in front of the tank unit, which is equipped with M3 Stuart tanks and M3 half-track armored vehicles...... Compared with the "Sherman" tank, the "Stuart" tank is slightly lacking in firepower and defense, but it is fast and lightweight...... With a speed of 58 kilometers per hour, it weighs less than half the weight of the "Sherman" tank.

Obviously, such speed and weight are very suitable for reconnaissance, fast speed means that it can run ahead of the front to clear obstacles for the main force in the rear, and light weight means that it can pass through more bridges, and can also get out of the car to maintain when bad road conditions are found to facilitate the passage of the main force in the rear.

Not to mention the speed of the M3 half-track, its maximum speed reaches 64 kilometers per hour, each half-track can carry a squad of infantry and equipment, and even this half-track has a modification of mortars and howitzers, needless to say, what role these things can play is to provide follow-up infantry and necessary artillery cover for the "Stuart" tank.

In fact, with such firepower, it was more than enough for the checkpoints along the road or the Japanese pillboxes...... The Chinese army advanced towards Shenyang along roads and railways, and the Japanese had checkpoints and pillboxes along the way, especially the railways, which were fortified or artillery towers a few miles apart or at commanding heights.

If these pillboxes or turrets were built stronger, to be honest, it would be quite difficult for the Chinese army to advance all the way without stopping, after all, the important and dangerous places are under the control of the Japanese army, and it will take time to break through.

But......

These pillboxes and turrets of the Japanese army...... It was not built to defend against tanks or artillery, but against guerrillas.

As mentioned before, the Japanese army's strength in the northeast is extremely empty, and often there are only a dozen or even a few devils stationed in a village.

It is undoubtedly very dangerous to garrison a village with such a small number of troops...... During the day, it was fine, but it was difficult for ordinary people or poorly equipped guerrillas to get close to the Japanese in broad daylight, even though the number of civilians was dozens or even hundreds of times that of the Japanese army. But at night it was different, the moon was dark and the wind was high, sneaking into the Japanese station...... Not to mention a few, a dozen Japanese soldiers, dozens of Japanese soldiers are afraid that they will be drowned in the sea of people.

So the Japanese army came up with a solution, that is, to build artillery towers and pillboxes in all villages.

In fact, this method is also very effective, the people and guerrillas basically have no artillery in their hands, and if there is artillery, it is also an earthen cannon, and it is impossible to penetrate the turret and pillbox at all, so the Japanese army can be out of the day to make a fortune, and at night they will go back to the turret or pillbox to defend, and the life is still enjoyable.

However, it was precisely because the people and the guerrillas only had earthen artillery in their hands that the Japanese artillery towers and pillboxes were of little quality...... Most of them are brick and wood structures, and some are even civil structures, which are similar to the earthen houses of the common people, and are built with clay walls and logs and beams.

These turrets and pillboxes were fine against civilians and guerrillas, but they were good against tanks and artillery in the hands of the expeditionary forces...... Then it will become a pile of ready-made graves.

The "Stuart" tank "rumbled" up, and a few "booms" could collapse a large chunk of the Japanese pillboxes and turrets...... Although the 37-mm guns of the "Stuart" are not very powerful, it is still no problem to build brick walls and earthen walls, but it is really not possible...... The Japanese army basically had no anti-tank equipment in their hands, and it was no problem to shoot in front of the pillbox in the face of the devil's bullets.

Not to mention, there was really such a fight, there was a tank that drove to a position only one meter away from the Japanese pillbox, then adjusted the muzzle to aim at the pillbox hole, and then fired a shot......

Later, someone asked these tankmen what they thought, only one meter away, how dangerous is this, in case the devil desperately rushes out of the bunker with grenades or explosives bags, then the tank doesn't even have time to react?! What's more, does it have to be so close to get a shell into a perforation? There is not much of a problem in shooting a shell into the perforation from a distance of more than ten meters!

The tank crew replied like this: "Don't worry, our machine guns have been prepared for a long time, if the devils dare to rush out of the pillbox, they will definitely come out one by one, and they will not be able to get close!" As for why the tank was driven so close to ...... We just want to hear the desperate cries of the devils before they die, they are sealed in the bunker, they can't run away, just waiting for us to slowly adjust the muzzle of the cannon to aim at them, and then with a 'boom', the shell explodes inside, blowing up the inside to a mess, not to mention how happy! ”

Zhang Chi is a person who came from the battlefield, but his heart is still a little hairy when he hears this.

This is no longer just a war, but there is a smell of "cat and mouse" in it, and if this is heard by the Yankees, I am afraid that they will say something "inhumane" or something like that. But Zhang Chi can understand what the fighters are doing...... There is only one reason why they do this, and that is to hate devils, especially devils on Chinese soil.

Of course, this is only a few extreme exceptions, and more often than not, the soldiers remain calm and use the safest way to get rid of the pillboxes and turrets.

There are many ways to solve the problem, which can be solved by tank fighting or with the modification of the M3 tracked vehicle, that is, the M21 self-propelled mortar and the M17 multi-purpose artillery vehicle...... The so-called self-propelled mortar and multi-purpose artillery vehicle is to add mortars and howitzers to the chassis of the M3 tracked vehicle, which is actually a more primitive self-propelled gun. They are clearly inferior to the "Stuart" in defense, but they are much more powerful in firepower than the "Stuart", for example, the mortar is 81mm caliber.

This kind of firepower is very easy to hit the Japanese pillboxes and artillery towers, especially the artillery towers...... Aiming at the first floor, I fired a few more shots, and then I saw the entire collapse of the turret with a "bang", burying all the Japanese troops inside.

(To be continued.) )