Chapter 230: Iron Armor Rushes Forward
"Do you want a wave attack on the tank?" Fan Chong had planned to do some research on this, but Meng Xiang vetoed it at once.
"Tank armor should be like a tsunami, keep pushing forward, destroying everything in its way!" Meng Xiang waved his fist, his eyes lit up.
When Meng Xiang heard that Hu Er's troops were attacking the artillery position in two ways, he directly contacted Hu Erdao, "The artillery is handed over to the planes to clean up, you just have to concentrate, keep attacking forward, don't stop, and keep cutting through all the defense lines of the devils." ”
He had a different view on Tiger II's approach of separating the tanks, and that it was the assault of the tanks that were concentrated together that could best shock the enemy and break their will.
"You just need to attack, attack, keep attacking!" Meng Xiang kept waving his arms in the command center, but the only onlookers were rat two.
At this time, Meng Xiang couldn't wait to drive the tank forward to raid, and couldn't help but ask Xiaohuadao: "Is there a commander mode for driving a tank?" ”
"Not enough to answer!" Xiaohua replied.
Meng Xiang knew that there was a play as soon as he heard it, but the conditions did not meet the requirements.
"What do you need, is it a Red Police tank produced by the base? Grizzly bears, rhinos and apocalypse? Meng Xiang couldn't help but think of the picture of the apocalypse sweeping everything in his mind.
But he searched through the entire interface and couldn't find any signs for the production of these weapons.
"What is the prototype?" Meng Xiang kept speculating, but in the end, he was frustrated to find that their prototypes were likely to be Cold War weapons after World War II, and they needed a third-level base to produce.
"Let's try them all! If you produce one of each tank, you might be able to run into it. When Meng Xiang sighed, the tank corps commanded by Hu Er gathered together again and penetrated the second line of defense of the devil.
"Keep going!" Hu Er ordered with a cold face. The devil originally faced the Central Army with a total of three lines of defense, and as the Vanguard Army moved south, a temporary line of defense was added, but it was penetrated by the tank regiment of the Vanguard Army.
"Where there are many people, you rush there! Crush all the enemies in front of you. Meng Xiang couldn't see the live broadcast picture, but he could hear the roar of the tank engine in his ears, imagining the assault scene of a hundred tanks, and his heart was stirred with blood.
Hu Er faithfully carried out Meng Xiang's instructions. The torrent of steel began to rush towards the defensive line where the devils were concentrated, guided by the reconnaissance planes in the sky, and the smoke and dust rolled up obscured the clear sky.
"They're strong!" Toshiyuki Suzuki couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the smoke and dust that was several widths billowing in there.
"Order all the artillery to stop them!" Xia Yuan Xiong Mi gritted his teeth and said, the 132nd Wing was completely defeated by the aircraft of the vanguard army, with nearly 3,000 dead and wounded, and only more than 300 people intact. The 117th Wing also suffered more than 500 casualties, and with such an attack, his division was one less wing.
"Report! The Central Army on the opposite side of China began to attack! The adjutant of staff came running and reported.
"What?" Xia Yuan Xiong Mi looked south, where the shouts of fighting were continuous, although it was not as loud as the rumbling of the artillery on the side of the vanguard army in the north, but it was more shocking.
"Draw part of the artillery to deal with the Central Army in China!" Xia Yuan Xiong Mi could only choose this, the scale of the attack in the south was not small, without the support of artillery, even if the imperial soldiers were very brave, they would have to suffer great losses.
Regardless of whether the Central Army participated in the battle or not, it could not stop the advance of the torrent of steel, and in the flames of machine guns and tank guns, the tank troops broke through the third line of defense of the devils, and only one was left in front.
These lines of defense were all directed against the Central Army, there were no anti-tank trenches, no anti-tank mines, and the only bit of barbed wire could not stop the Iron Knight who was detonated by the power of the internal combustion engine.
Wu Sanshan's tanks drove while directing the artillery to fire at the area where the devils were concentrated.
Suddenly, after the tank made a squeak, the engine stopped and roared, and after rushing forward for more than thirty meters, it stopped.
"How?"
"Mechanical failure!" The Tiger 315 had jumped out of the tank, dodging bullets while continuing to the hull of the tank to check the tank's condition.
Even if the tank is a good product built in the base, there may be accidents, such as a shell that exploded next to the tank and caused some damage to the tank, and after a burst forward, the engine went wrong. This time, in order to ensure the smooth movement of the tank, it was followed by ten trucks of maintenance vehicles. But the tank's protrusion had already left those trucks behind.
Tank corps attacks will not stop and wait for these tanks that have stopped for various reasons, they will just continue to advance until they reach their destination.
"Can it be fixed?" Wu Sanshan asked eagerly. He knew that the Tiger 315 and others had a solid basic knowledge of tanks, and they could cope with simple mechanical repairs.
"Needs to be looked at closely!" Tiger 315 said honestly.
"Then you check, I'll attack." As soon as the tank stopped, a devil poked his head out of the trench and slowly surrounded him.
An armored car drove up, and an ensign on top shouted: "Come on!" "In order to protect the tankers to the greatest extent, once a tank breaks down and stays behind enemy lines, there are armored vehicles that lean over and pick up the personnel. Tanks are generally blown up outright.
"Can it be fixed?" Wu Sanshan asked the tiger 315 ways.
"Yes, it will take half an hour!" Tiger 315 didn't raise his head, and replied while busy.
"Then we're not leaving! Go ahead first! Wu Sanshan shouted loudly when he heard this, "We can fix it in half an hour!" ”
Since there were still too few armored vehicles, they still needed to go to the front to rescue other tanks and had to go. The second lieutenant could only shout at them: "Beware devils, good luck!" The shouting faded away, and the armored car drove away.
Although the tank did not move, the two machine guns with 2,394 rounds of ammunition continued to attack, and before long, the corpses of more than a dozen devils fell around, and they couldn't get close at all.
"Boom!" A shell landed nearby, and Wu Sanshan hurriedly retracted into the car, dodging the flying shrapnel and only eating a mouthful of sand. The stationary tank became a live target.
After an interval of some time, another cannon rang out. It was the roar of a lone piece of artillery nearby.
Massively concentrated artillery positions are being swept over and over again by Stuka and HS-123. The devils, who had blown up most of the artillery, had to scatter the remaining artillery, but the HS-123's 20mm cannon was still chasing and killing. Several key parts were broken, and the cannon was temporarily obsolete.
The scattered artillery still escaped the bombardment, and when they saw that Wu Sanshan's tanks were parked there and were still strafing outside, they immediately attacked them.
"Damn it, if the tank can't move, I'll bomb you all over the head." Wu Sanshan scolded loudly, the taste of being beaten passively was really uncomfortable. It would be good that the armored car was there just now, and it could be driven over and swept with a machine gun for a while. Being beaten passively like this now won't last long.
But before the 75 mountain gun could bombard the third gun, it was scattered by a single shell.
A tank came from a distance, Wu Sanshan had already recognized that it was Wang Zhongfa's BT-7A tank, and it was his 76.2 mm regimental howitzer that made a contribution just now and scattered the 75 mountain gun of the devil.
"Why are you back?" When Wang Zhongfa's tank stopped close, Wu Sanshan asked loudly. There was also something wrong with his radio station, and he couldn't hear it clearly.
Wang Zhongfa showed his head, bared his big teeth and said with a smile: "The devil's defense line has been penetrated by us, and we have killed it again!" He looked at Wu Sanshan's tank, and said with a smile: "We want to be like that Zhao Zilong, killing seven in and seven out on the devil's position." ”
"you, you only have 50 shells on that broken tank, how can you fight seven in and seven out? There will be no shells for three rounds, where is it like ours, 188 shells, enough to bombard. Wu Sanshan quipped. Although the BT-7A tank only had 50 rounds on it, there weren't many that were worth the shot of its 76.2mm howitzer.
"It's a pity that this car is thin, if only it were thicker. It's like the kind of tank of the regiment commander. You just stopped there, and that mountain cannon couldn't help you. Wang Zhongfa said with a little longing in his eyes.
He was talking about the T-34/76B tank, which was not as exaggerated as he said, and the 75mm gun was still very threatening to it. But at this time, the devil's Peeon Tank was helpless. Following the twelve tanks of the 108th Division, he met the torrent of tanks of the Vanguard Army. After a burst of fire, they were surprised to find that the seven or eight tanks in front of them did not react at all after being hit by shells.
Of the twelve tanks, there are 8 Type ** medium tanks and 4 Type 95 light tanks.
It is said that the Type 95 37mm gun can penetrate 45mm steel armor with its armor-piercing shells. But in the face of the 45 mm thick side armor of the T-34/76B tank with beveled angles, it was equally powerless.
The 57 mm gun of the ** type medium tank seems to be a large caliber, but its destructive power is only 65% of the 47 mm tank gun equipped by Soviet Russia at this time, even if it is super high-level, it can only stare at the 60 mm armor on the front of the T-34/76B tank.
They only had one chance to shoot, and before the T-34/76B tank in front of them could aim the 76.2mm tank gun, the BT boys who rushed up next to them immediately shredded their thin-skinned armor with their 45mm tank guns. The result of 12 tanks was only two BT-7s.
The tank armored unit of the vanguard army cut through the southernmost line of defense of the devils, tore a large hole nearly 300 meters wide, and directly displayed the majestic posture of steel in front of the attacking Central Army.
The artillery position of the 108th Division on the opposite side was bombed, and the pressure on the Central Army became less, and it slowly approached a little closer.
"Ahh What a tank! "The tank troops of the vanguard army were shocked not only by devils, but also by the soldiers of the Central Army on the opposite side, the charge of more than a dozen tanks in normal times was already extremely shocking, but at this moment, hundreds of tanks were pressed together, and the ground was trembling.
"That's not a devil, they're fighting devils!" Someone shouted. The tanks kept strafing the devils in the trenches, and the pillboxes were also bombarded by tank shells.
"That's the tanks of the Vanguard!" The body of the tank spits out that red five-star symbol, which many people are already familiar with.
No matter whose tank it was, but seeing the devil being beaten by the tank, the Central Army on the opposite side cheered in unison.
"Penetrated? Then kill it again! Kill him a few times back and forth! Meng Xiang shouted.
"Call back!" With a wave of his hand, the T-34/76B tank under him began to turn around and rushed towards another place where there were many devils, and the three T-34/76B tanks behind followed closely, then a dozen BT-7s guarded behind him, and then more than eighty tanks followed in three rows.
A huge steel arrow pointed firmly in the direction of the Tiger II assault.
"Keep up, kill the devil!" Someone shouted in the direction of the Central Army, and the nearly 300-meter-wide opening was instantly torn wide, and in the direction of the assault of the tank troops of the vanguard army, another unobstructed road was placed in front of the charging soldiers of the Central Army.
The BT-7 tank in front of them had already taught them how to deal with the garbage, and it was done more thoroughly. Following the trail of the tank's tracks, they threw a grenade on the head of the devil who was still cowering in the trench, and added a bayonet to the devil who was seriously wounded and fell to the ground. Sweeping up all the garbage after the steel tracks were crushed. Not only did all the devils along the way lose their breath, but the equipment on their bodies was also fully utilized. Many soldiers directly put down the rifled and smoothed old rifles, picked up the devil's 38 type and grenades, and shot at the devil with a little familiarity.
The attacking army, led by the tank units of the vanguard army, once again broke through the devil's defense line.
Shimoto Kumanya couldn't care about these tanks at this time, and his headquarters was directly launched into the sky by Stuka's 250-kilogram bombs. If it weren't for the fact that a few of them were observing outside, they were afraid that they would be served in a pot.
But it seems that wherever there are many people, the planes of the vanguard army will bomb in whichever direction. Not only their 108th Division, but also the 109th Division, which was fighting against the top of Xuecheng, was also suffering from the bombing of the fourth wave of aircraft of the Vanguard Army.
The vanguard of less than one regiment of the 81st Division of the vanguard army had already arrived at Xuecheng by a train, and was attacking the forward position of the 109th Division guarding that side.
The train was followed by five 105mm Le.FH16 howitzers, and in addition to that, the edge suddenly overshadowed nearly 100 mortars of all sizes from the Devil's Mountain Artillery.