Chapter Ninety-Six: Tank Squadron
The Japanese tanks drove to the mountains with the sound of "rumbling" motors, and the sun flags planted on the tanks fluttered in the wind in the morning light.
Standing in a Type 97 tank, Ishida Shaosa, who came out of the turret, confidently held a telescope and looked at the mountains...... His move may be dangerous, because officers with binoculars on tanks often become the target of the enemy's snipers' focused "care", but Ishida was unwilling to give up the thrill of watching his tank squadron destroy Chinese positions in one fell swoop. Of course, his move was also to show his courage to his subordinates and inspire them to fight.
This is not because Ishida is arrogant, but because he is very clear: not only did the Japanese army lack anti-tank equipment during Chinese this period, but even the Americans also lacked anti-tank weapons...... Ishida Shaoza's idea is a fact, although the United States is an industrial power, but during this period there was a common saying that "the best anti-tank weapon is the tank", so individual anti-tank weapons were ignored for a long time, and the United States only developed Bazooka rocket launcher emergency equipment for the US military in 42 years, and it was originally used in the North African battlefield.
On the battlefield in Asia, the United States has not realized the lack of individual tank equipment, and that is because the armor of Japanese tanks is too thin, and the armor of its Type 95 tank can even be penetrated by machine guns; as for medium tanks such as the 97, any anti-tank gun, mortar, howitzer, etc., can easily kill it, and in addition, the US military also has tanks with better performance, so it does not matter to some extent whether there is individual anti-tank equipment or not.
But the battle is different.
At present, the Japanese army has fully mastered air supremacy and sea supremacy, and mastering air supremacy and sea supremacy means grasping the initiative in war.
Just like now, the seaplanes cooperated with the warships to launch a fierce bombardment of the artillery of the Chinese and American coalition forces, which made the Chinese troops in front of them lose artillery support. Seven or eight seaplanes hovering over the mountain ridge continued to dive down and drop bombs, suppressing the heavy equipment of the Chinese army on the mountain ridge...... These heavy equipment refers to mortars, anti-tank guns, etc., which can pose a threat to Japanese tanks, and they will be good targets for seaplanes.
At the same time, these seaplanes can also basically block the support of American tanks that the Chinese army may receive.
To put it simply. At this time, the Chinese troops stationed in the mountains had no planes, no artillery and no tanks...... So Ishida could no longer think of anything else that the Chinese army could pose a threat to his squadron of medium tanks.
At this time, Ishida Shaoza even began to fantasize about leading the infantry of the Second Division to enter the airport and occupy the entire Kuah Island in one fell swoop.
On the way to the mountains, the tank would inevitably crush some Japanese corpses into a ball of flesh, and the heavy smell of blood from both sides couldn't help but make Ishida Shaoza frown, and then his eyes turned from the aperture of the telescope to the sides.
"The casualties are really big!" Looking at the corpses all over the ground, Ishida Shaozo couldn't help but sigh: "These bastards, I will make you pay!" ”
However, at this moment, Ishida Shaoza suddenly found that a corpse moved in front of him, and the corpse did not look like a Japanese soldier.
At first, Ishida thought he was dazzled, but it was not yet dark, and the shadow of the tank and the exhaust fumes released further obscured his vision, and he believed that it might be the struggle of the injured man before he died. So I didn't pay much attention to it.
But the next second he saw another movement, this time he saw clearly, it was a Chinese wearing a British saucer-shaped helmet, although his helmet was coated with blood and looked like an injury, but the bright eyes and the cluster grenade in his hand clearly told him that it was an illusion.
"Bastard, we're in ambush!" Ishida shouted: "Fire!" Kill those Shina people! ”
However, it was good that he didn't call it, and this called it caused a misunderstanding among the Japanese tank crews...... Ishida's original intention was to tell the other tanks to fire at the Chinese who were lying in ambush and ready to blow up the tank, but the tanks mistakenly thought that the young man was ordering to fire at the mountain, and the Japanese tanks had to stop before they could fire.
So more than a dozen tanks stopped one after another. "Boom" towards the mountains with a fierce bang.
This scene was so anxious that Ishida Shaoza screamed "wow", but his cries were quickly drowned out by the sound of cannons and machine guns.
The next second, he couldn't scream anymore, because Zhang Chi's sniper rifle had already fired a bullet that killed him on the turret.
The soldiers who had been ambushed in the corpses jumped out one after another, threw cluster grenades under the Japanese tanks, and then rolled over one by one...... Then I just heard a loud "boom". The bottom armor of the Japanese Type 97 tank was only 8 mm, which was even thinner than the top, and of course it could not stand the explosion of cluster grenades, and all of them were blown into a fireball at once. Even a significant portion of the ammunition in the tank was detonated. The explosion lifted the entire turret and flew far away, and then the infantry that was about to follow was also blown up.
Among them, some of them were lucky, and the two tanks may have fallen behind because of a malfunction and did not keep up. So they narrowly escaped, at this time they saw that the tanks in front of them had turned into a ball of fire, where did they dare to drive up, only stopped in place and did not know what to do.
The Japanese army couldn't help but be stunned when they saw this scene, they originally expected these tanks to take them all the way to the airport and win the whole battle, but they didn't expect that they would become a pile of scrap metal before they warmed up on the battlefield...... They never imagined that the Chinese and American coalition forces would dare to blow up tanks directly with grenades like them, and hide them in the pile of dead people disguised as corpses.
Then the Japanese army roared and charged towards the mountain again, and the Japanese seaplanes above the mountain also swooped down very cooperatively...... But there was no doubt that such a charge was in vain, and the bullets that poured down from the ridge once again added many corpses below, and even the soldiers had the strength to turn their fire to the seaplanes in the air, and in the blink of an eye, two more seaplanes were smashed into black smoke and fell down on Mount Austin.
In this kind of battle without air supremacy, the Chinese troops fought too much, not to mention the fact that at this time it was a seaplane flying in the sky with a big gap in firepower and speed with the bombers.
(To be continued.) )