Chapter 670: Melee Combat
But the result may have disappointed Heisenberg, because he did not notice that the sun was setting by this time...... Perhaps because the battle was tense or because the flames on the tanks lit up the war zone, the battle would not be as simple as Heisenberg imagined, and victory would not be within reach. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Heisenberg didn't notice this, but Zhang Chi did.
In fact, this is what Zhang Chi has been waiting for, and the purpose of his troops to let Xu Jingzong's 3rd Panzer Company delay the German outflanking is also here...... Fight a night battle with a German tank group.
The reason why Zhang Chi dared to do this was because he knew that all tanks in this era, including the "Sherman", did not have the ability to fight at night...... The first to equip tanks with night vision devices is said to have been Germans, but that was 45 years old, two years before now.
On the other hand, Zhang Chi learned one thing from the Japanese infiltration warfare, that is, in night battles, it is often the side with more troops that suffers, and the tank with poor perception of the outside world may be even more so.
Of course, these are just Zhang Chi's speculations, and whether this is the case or not depends on the outcome of this battle.
When he saw the German tanks appear in the rear, it was almost the same when he looked at the sky, so Zhang Chi ordered to the walkie-talkie: "All of them, the anti-tank troops withdraw from the battlefield!" ”
"Yes!"
The advantage of the M3 anti-tank gun is that it is small and lightweight, and several infantry can push it and quickly hang it on the back of a half-track armored vehicle or car, and then withdraw from the battlefield under the cover of self-propelled anti-tank guns......
This made Heisenberg a little incomprehensible.
Originally, Heisenberg thought that the Chinese artillerymen would turn their guns and fight against the 3rd Panzer Battalion, after all, the anti-tank guns had a long range, so that they could at least hold out for a while to cover the breakthrough of their tank troops. But these strange Chinese removed all the anti-tank guns, leaving only the tank units and supporting infantry...... Even if the armor of the "Sherman" tank is thick, it will not be able to block the shells of tank No. 3 in the rear!
At this time, Heinz's voice came from the walkie-talkie again: "I see you, attack, Colonel!" Victory is at hand! ”
"Yes!" Heisenberg didn't think much of it, and immediately gave the order to attack at full speed.
At the moment when Heisenberg attacked, the sun finally left its last rays of afterglow and disappeared on the other side of the sand sea, and the sky quickly disappeared, turning into a dark gray, and the flames on the tank became brighter and brighter.
At this time, Zhang Chi had already withdrawn from the battle group with the anti-tank troops, and looking at the passing sunlight in the distance, he picked up the walkie-talkie and ordered: "Armored battalion, attack at full speed!" ”
"Full speed attack!"
"Full speed attack!"
……
Orders are passed from the commander of the armored battalion to the company commander, who in turn passes them to the platoon commander...... Soon, more than 70 "Sherman" tanks were in motion, (by this time the expeditionary force had already lost eight "Sherman" tanks, and two more were out of order and could not move, so only 72 were involved in the battle).
With the roar of engines, dozens of "tanks" rumbled towards the attacking German tank group in front of them, and the supporting infantry also followed closely behind the tanks, and their rifles were even loaded with bayonets, because they knew that a melee awaited them in front of them.
The tanks of the two armies were moving in the opposite direction, so in a few minutes the tank groups of both sides met and mixed together.
In a way, the Sherman tank was not cost-effective in close combat with the Germans, for the simple reason that the Sherman was heavily armored and powerful, and it was able to easily destroy German tanks from a distance, which was not the case with German tanks.
And if the distance is close, for example, at a range of 500 meters, the German No. 3 tank can destroy the "Sherman" tank, so the "Sherman" tank's firepower and armor advantage can almost be said to be non-existent.
Therefore, when Heinz Landau, who was observing the battle situation with a telescope behind the tank group, saw the tanks of the Chinese army advancing, he couldn't help but be happy...... It seems that the enemy tanks have been cornered and are going to die together.
This was a good thing for German tanks, because at least ...... German tanks were no longer outside the firepower of the "Sherman", one after the other, and they were senselessly destroyed.
At the same time, Heinz Landau believed that no army could match the German army in terms of courage in close combat.
So Heinz Landau ordered: "Attack, destroy them!" ”
But Heinz Landau was wrong.
First of all, on the courage of close combat...... The Germans were of course very confident compared to the British army or the British colonial army, but the army in front of them was the Chinese army, an army that crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and an army that defeated the Japanese army again and again for its close combat.
The quality of the German army is indeed good, but it is still far from the Chinese army, or the kind of army with which the equipment is backward and relies heavily on close combat and courage, especially the Chinese army, which has also developed the skills of night combat and stabbing in the battle against the Japanese.
Like now......
As soon as the tanks of the two armies met, the infantry behind the tanks were strangled together, and even many Chinese soldiers had unexpectedly thrown two grenades and rushed into the enemy camp in front of the tanks.
The German army is a country with relatively advanced weapons and equipment, and advanced equipment naturally does not attach importance to close combat, while Japan is just the opposite, especially the Japanese also pay attention to the so-called "bushido spirit" to practice swordsmanship and bayonet play when there is nothing to do, so the melee ability exceeds that of the German army is not a little bit.
As soon as the expeditionary forces, accustomed to fighting with the Japanese army, hit the German army at this time, they felt like tigers entering a flock of sheep, and there was no pressure of bayonets and rifle butts, which only caused the Germans to scream and wail, and then quickly dropped their tanks and retreated like a tide.
If the tank loses the cover of the infantry and is still in this dark night, it is like a blind man who does not know where to fight, and even worse...... The expeditionary force also had the Bazooka rocket launcher in their hands, which was a sharp weapon for killing tanks at close range, so with the whistling of rockets, the German tanks were blown up in all directions.
But that's not the main course.
While Heinz Landau was watching all this in amazement, the tanks of the Chinese army had penetrated deep into the tank group in front of the German army.
Heisenberg's outflanked tank group followed closely behind, and the German tanks suddenly became confused between friend and foe...... Observing whether a tank is friend or foe in the dark is often based on the direction of advance and the direction of the barrels, and the barrels of the tanks of Heisenberg's 3rd Panzer Battalion are facing exactly the same as their own people.