Chapter 85: The Battle of the Oilfield (2)

"Bang!"

A Japanese soldier fell under Zhang Chi's gun.

The Japanese soldier was very patient, and he hid in the window of a civilian house with a machine gun and never fired a shot.

Needless to say, what he wanted to do was to wait for the tank to pass and then strafe the infantry behind the tank.

He was almost on the verge of success, because the machine gunners of the tanks and armor-piercing vehicles did not even notice him, not even the soldiers of the engineering regiment who followed the tank.

It is conceivable that if he plays a role, it will bring great casualties to the soldiers of the engineer regiment, and may even create an opportunity for the infantry to be separated and the other Japanese troops blow up the tanks.

It's a pity that he smashed a piece of the glass on the window in advance in order to facilitate observation and shooting before lurking.

He was not wrong in doing so, and who would notice that a piece of glass was missing from the window in such a hail of bullets? And even a piece of glass is missing.

But Zhang Chi noticed, not only noticed but also quickly judged that there was an enemy behind the window.

The reason is ...... The rest of the glass in the window was intact, except for the perforated one.

Of course, it is also possible that shrapnel or bullets shattered the glass, but if that were the case, there should be some broken glass hanging on it, but there was nothing there.

So the Japanese soldier became a dead man before he could pull the trigger.

"Bang!" Another gunshot rang out.

This is a Japanese soldier hiding in a ditch next to the road, the ditch is black, it should have been burned by oil leaks here and then extinguished by the efforts of the Japanese and Burmese troops, so the ditch became a good hiding place for the Japanese army...... He only needs to squeeze in and turn over, and his whole body will be black and integrated with the gutter, especially when it is still dark night, who can find him?!

The Japanese soldier waited for the tank to pass by, then pulled the cluster grenade in his arms and threw it under the tank.

As for how he himself would escape after blowing up the tank, he didn't think about it and didn't care.

But he didn't succeed because he habitually held the cluster grenade in his hand and waited for a while...... At this time, the habitual action of the veteran, the purpose is to avoid the grenade being thrown back by the enemy.

But it's because of his habitual movements...... A little inconspicuous green smoke rising from the ditch caught Zhang Chi's attention.

Zhang Chi quickly made a judgment that it was the fuse of the explosive bag or the green smoke from the grenade, so he held his rifle and aimed at that position and waited, waiting......

The Japanese soldier had just poked his head out and before he could throw a grenade, he was knocked to the ground by a shot from Zhang Chi.

Then there was a loud bang, and the cluster grenade kicked a cloud of sand and filth out of the ditch, along with the body of the Japanese soldier, of course.

"Bang!"

This shot knocked down a Burmese, to be exact, the Burmese Independence Volunteers, because Zhang Chi saw the white handkerchief wrapped around his head.

He was hiding behind a low wall and throwing grenades at the engineering regiment on the road, which was supposed to be a building, but most of the wall was destroyed and there was only a little ruin, so it was used by the Burmese volunteers.

It is not surprising that the Burmese Volunteers would be so brave, perhaps they were motivated by the heroic fighting of the Japanese army, or perhaps for the independence and freedom of Burma...... Zhang Chi had already seen this in the battle on the highway bridge.

But the problem with the Burmese Independence Volunteer Army is that it has just been formed, and the quality of its soldiers is too poor, for example, this Burmese man, he is in a very good position, hiding behind a dark broken wall and throwing grenades, no one knows where the grenades came from, and he can even throw all his grenades.

But he was about to poke his head out again, and his white turban stood out in the darkness...... So just before he threw out the grenade, a bullet from Zhang Chi killed him in time.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of "ding ding dong dong" from the tank in front of him, and Zhang Chi quickly realized that this was the enemy's blocking fire, and the "ding ding dong dong" was the sound of the enemy's machine gun bullets hitting the tank armor.

Sure enough, the demon in front of him shouted loudly in the next second: "Devil tank!" ”

Zhang Chi had just poked his head out to observe, when he saw two fireballs explode a hundred meters away on the opposite side...... The devil tank was blown up just after it appeared.

THIS IS THE PERFORMANCE OF DEVIL TANKS, FOR EXAMPLE, THE TWO TYPE 95 TANKS THAT HAVE JUST APPEARED, THE THICKEST FRONTAL ARMOR IS ONLY 12MM, SUCH AN ARMOR THICKNESS CAN EVEN BE PENETRATED BY HEAVY MACHINE GUNS ON ARMORED VEHICLES, LET ALONE TANK GUNS ON M3 TANKS.

The Panzers continued to advance, and an M3 led by an M3 quickly pushed two Japanese tanks on fire to the side of the road...... Although the M3 tank was also a light tank, its total combat weight was almost twice that of the Japanese Type 95 tank.

After a while, the devil shouted again: "Devil tank......"

Zhang Chi poked his head out to take a look, and five more Japanese tanks appeared on the other side of the road, led by two Type 97 medium tanks, followed by several Type 95 light tanks, which were at the end of the road one by one in the hope of stopping the advance of the engineer regiment.

But what makes people feel strange is that although the Japanese tanks were deployed in the front and there were quite a few of them, they basically did not fire, and only a few Type 95 occasionally fired a few shots......

You must know that the devil's tank has just come up, and tank warfare focuses on preemptive strike, that is, the first enemy to open fire. Especially in this situation, the devil obviously knows that the tank unit of the engineering regiment is advancing deep along the highway to the oil field, and at this time, the devil's tank should be loaded with armor-piercing shells and hit several tanks of the engineering regiment down with artillery fire.

But the Japanese tanks did not do this, they just tried to fire a volley of machine guns at the M3 tanks.

Why did the devil do this? If they had come up with a burst of artillery fire, the few tanks led by the engineer regiment would have been reimbursed long ago...... ALTHOUGH THE PERFORMANCE OF THE JAPANESE TANK IS NOT VERY GOOD, THE TYPE 97 MEDIUM TANK IS EQUIPPED WITH A 57MM CALIBER GUN, AND THE ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS IT FIRES CAN PENETRATE 55MM STEEL PLATES, WHILE THE FRONTAL ARMOR OF THE M3 LIGHT TANK EQUIPPED BY THE ENGINEER REGIMENT IS ONLY 44MM.

The fighters also knew this, so the tank stopped at the moment and did not dare to advance...... AT THIS TIME, A FEW SHERMAN TANKS SHOULD BE TRANSFERRED UP, ALTHOUGH THE ARMOR THICKNESS OF THE SO-CALLED MEDIUM TANK OF THE DEVIL IS ONLY 25MM, WHICH IS INFERIOR TO THE M3 LIGHT TANK IN THE HANDS OF THE ENGINEER REGIMENT, BUT THE 37MM GUN EQUIPPED ON THE M3 TANK IS DIFFICULT TO POSE A THREAT TO ITS FRONTAL ARMOR.

Zhang Chi looked back and soon found out the reason why the Japanese tanks did not open fire: there was an oil storage tank hundreds of miles behind them, and the devil was worried that he would accidentally hit the oil storage tank and cause another uncontrollable fire!