readx; Outside Pyongyang, Lieutenant Colonel Bae took a hot shower in a newly requisitioned North Korean house before changing into a clean new military uniform, and it was not easy to take a hot bath in the Korean winter, in fact, when he led his troops to attack south from the Cheongchon River defense line a few days ago, he did not take a good bath, at most he wiped himself with a hot towel. www.biquge.info In addition to the weather problem, in fact, there is no time, his troops have been in a state of mobile combat for the past few days, although the speed of advance is not very fast every day, but it has always been a continuous mobile operation, and it has not stopped at all. In such a state, not to mention the ordinary officers and soldiers below, even Lieutenant Colonel Pei, a middle-level officer, couldn't spare enough opportunities to take a shower.

After the 52nd Regiment captured this small village outside Pyongyang, it was naturally unceremoniously accepted from the Chinese army, and this house, as the largest house in the surrounding area, was naturally requisitioned by the Chinese Army as a temporary regimental headquarters. As for who the owner of the house is, no one cares what he thinks.

China said that the soldiers of the two countries have each gathered hundreds of thousands of troops on this small Korean Peninsula, and nearly one million soldiers are fighting brutally to the death for the interests of their respective countries and nations. As North Koreans in the war zone, the Chinese soldiers of the two countries did not take into account their life and death, otherwise the Chinese army would not have carried out indiscriminate shelling of Anju and Akutagawa on the Cheongchon River, nor would it have carried out high-altitude bombardment of Pyongyang.

And this is the advantage of keeping the enemy out of the country, and military generals can single-mindedly achieve military superiority through various means, regardless of whether these military actions will cause casualties among their own people.

Therefore, in this war, a large number of casualties were not only the soldiers of the two countries who fought bloodily, but also a large number of Korean people, rich and poor, who could only tremble under the fire of the two armies, and prayed in their hearts for various faiths to live. There are also a large number of North Koreans fleeing the war zone, especially from Pyongyang to the Cheongchon River, where many North Koreans have fled their homes to avoid becoming innocent casualties in the confrontation between the two armies.

Obviously, the owner of the house where Lieutenant Colonel Pei was located was also a member of the fugitive army, and he had fled at home just after the outbreak of the war.

And this kind of thing is something that Lieutenant Colonel Bae doesn't care about, what he cares about is when he will be able to take Pyongyang, and even if he can't take Pyongyang, he will cut off the communication line between Pyongyang and the Anju front.

"Regimental seat, the order from the division headquarters has come down, let's cooperate with a tank battalion of the 1st Panzer Division to attack in the direction of Ben's left flank!" The staff officer of the major walked in, still holding the latest divisional orders in his hands.

Lieutenant Colonel Pei took a look at it and looked puzzled: "How can we take on the cover task of the tank battalion of the 1st Armored Division?" And what about the motorized infantry regiment of their 1st Panzer Division? ”

The 1st Panzer Division is not an all-tank unit, but an armored composite unit, in addition to an armored regiment, there are two motorized infantry regiments and a motorized artillery regiment. Although from a strategic point of view, the motorized infantry division is used to cooperate with the armored division, but this cooperation is a strategic cooperation, such as covering the flank and rear of the armored division, the motorized infantry division is generally alone to undertake a secondary front combat mission, after all, the motorized infantry division is not a simple motorized infantry unit, but also has tanks and a large number of armored vehicles armored troops. In actual engagements, for example, when the armored division launches an attack, it attacks alone, while the motorized infantry division is on a combat mission on the secondary front, and it is rare for the motorized infantry division to directly cover the tanks of the armored division to attack.

Because this kind of task is generally the task of the two motorized infantry regiments under the jurisdiction of the armored division, it is their task that accompanies the tank battle, how can it be entrusted to their own troops?

The major chief of staff said: "The 2nd Motorized Infantry Regiment of the 1st Armored Division has suffered heavy losses in these two days of fighting and is currently resting in the rear, while the 3rd Motorized Infantry Regiment is currently covering a tank battalion of the 1st Armored Division to attack in depth on the Pyongyang Central Line. ”

"So the task fell to us?" Lieutenant Colonel Pei said.

Staff Major nodded.

After hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Pei pondered for a while and said, "How are the troops resting now?" ”

"Since yesterday, the troops have rested for fourteen hours and have already received a part of the supplies from the logistics department of the division headquarters." The major staff officer said: "The troops are ready to fight at any time!" ”

Lieutenant Colonel Pei nodded: "Well, since that's the case, let's start moving, don't let the troops of the First Armored Division wait for a long time!" ”

A few hours later, Lieutenant Colonel Pei met with the battalion commander of the 13th Tank Battalion, he was a major, this major was about the same age as Lieutenant Colonel Pei, both were in the early thirties of the army, but he was much shorter, looking at most about 1.7 meters.

Not only is he slightly shorter, in fact, the height of the soldiers in China's tank troops is relatively short, and there will be no tall tank soldiers, this is because the space of the tank is limited, if the tank is too tall, there will be all kinds of inconveniences when fighting against the tank, and now a large number of T6 tanks are equipped like this, and the new T9 medium tank because of the use of inclined armor, although it increases the defensive capability but leads to a more narrow internal space, tall people can not drive at all, Therefore, when the armored forces recruit tank crews, they generally limit their height.

But short is short, but these tank soldiers are the same as other soldiers, the body is very strong, don't think that driving a tank is just to control the tank and open the gun, that's not a game, the internal driving environment of the tank in this year is actually very bad, the internal space is small, and the temperature inside the tank is very high after the tank, it's better in winter, but if it's summer, it's just an oven, the driver and the commander are better, but those loaders are even more tragic, In this year's tanks, there was no such thing as an automatic loader, so they could only be loaded manually, and if they were not physically fit during the battle, it was estimated that they would not be able to hold out for half an hour. This situation is a common problem of tank forces in various countries, and this defect still existed until the sixties and seventies, such as the famous 62 tank in later generations, and its driving experience was extremely bad.

So the physical training of tank crews is actually no less than that of ordinary infantry units.

Lieutenant Colonel Pei obviously thought of him before, and immediately came over and said, "Brother Gan, I heard that your 13th battalion has made a lot of contributions along the way!" Congratulations! ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the bronze Double Sword Medal on Camp Commander Gan's left chest, and immediately smiled again: "The Double Sword Medal is also here!" ”

The battalion commander of Nagan smiled and nodded: "I won a small victory on the Akutagawa side, and only then was I promoted by the master seat and awarded a bronze double sword medal!" "It's a small victory, but looking at his face, I know that he is actually quite complacent.

Of course, you have to be humble when you should be humble: "I can't compare to you, you and I graduated at the same time, and when I was just a small platoon commander, you were both winners of the Silver Double Sword Medal!" ”

When Lieutenant Colonel Pei was in the middle of the war in 1923, he won the Silver Double Sword Medal with his indisputable military exploits, which was very popular among a group of military academy classmates at that time.

Of course, Lieutenant Colonel Pei had nothing to be proud of in these old adult things, and immediately said: "You and I don't have to brag to each other, you tell me how your troops are prepared!" ”

Although Lieutenant Colonel Pei's military rank is higher than that of Major Gan, this time the combat operation is dominated by the 13th Tank Battalion, and his 52nd Regiment is just cooperating, and the two people are not under control, so everyone is considered equal in this operation.

Fortunately, the two are classmates of the same military academy and have had contacts in previous years, so there is no need to worry about unpleasant cooperation, otherwise if they change to another motorized infantry regiment, it is very likely that there will be some conflicts in command.

Although the combat order has already stated that this operation is mainly based on the 13th Tank Battalion, Major Gan still maintains a low-key attitude in the specific operation command and takes the initiative to discuss with Lieutenant Colonel Pei.

"This time, the task of our battalion was to break through the enemy's position No. 78 in front and support the 12 tank battalion of our regiment on the flank. However, in the morning battle, the enemy reinforced a squadron of anti-tank guns here, and our battalion was destroyed two tanks during the operation, and now our battalion needs your troops to provide cover for our battalion, and send infantry units to bypass their flanks and strike at the enemy, our tank battalion will rush directly to crush their defenses in one go! ”

Camp Commander Gan said as he pointed to the map on the table.

After hearing this, Lieutenant Colonel Pei looked at the map carefully: "The terrain here is a bit rugged, which is not very conducive to your tank operations!" ”

Battalion Commander Gan nodded: "That's true, there are a lot of hills and trenches in front of the enemy's position, and their anti-tank fire is deployed very hidden, if you attack rashly, the speed of my tanks will not be able to rise!" ”

The 13th Tank Battalion is a medium tank battalion, and all the tanks under its jurisdiction are T6 tanks, and the armor protection of T6 tanks is only 25 mm, and it is vertical armor. Both the 37 anti-tank guns equipped by China and the 37 mm anti-tank guns of the Chinese army can penetrate the armor of T6 tanks at medium and close range.

The advantage of the T6 tank has never been in terms of protection, but in its mobility and not weak firepower. However, this advantage was still excellent at the end of World War I in the twenties, but after the thirties it was already significantly behind, even though the C type of the T6 tank has been replaced with a new engine, but the new engine is more to solve the stability of the power system, and the power has not increased too much, the speed of the T6 prototype has reached 30 kilometers, and the speed of the T6C model has increased slightly, but the top speed is only 35 kilometers.