Chapter 893: The Battle of Singapore II
readx; "I knew that I wouldn't be stupid enough to line up to kill us!'" Sergeant Lee shouted while not forgetting to command the battle: "Prepare to stop shooting!" ”
At the same time, on a small hill hundreds of meters away, behind several tree stumps, several men in yellow military uniforms said, "This soldier is nervously staring at the many tanks and other armored vehicles rushing towards them, the 4312th Battalion is not only supported by the division's tanks, but also has a certain number of armored vehicles, although these wheeled or tracked armored vehicles are only weakly protected by steel plates, under normal circumstances, they will not directly throw them into the open area to attack the enemy's position, But now the situation is different, on the one hand, a large number of enemy anti-tank firepower is attracted by those tanks, and the enemy's remaining machine guns are difficult to cause too much damage to infantry fighting vehicles, and secondly, this open area is relatively wide, from the sortie to the enemy's position is two or three hundred meters away, and the speed of the tank charge is so fast, you can't let the tanks rush up, and the infantry behind is still chasing behind slowly, so you must use these infantry fighting vehicles with a certain amount of armor to transport infantry, This allows the infantry to keep up with the tanks in order to provide adequate infantry support to the tanks before reaching enemy positions. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In fact, this kind of coordinated infantry and tank operations used to be commanded in armored divisions and infantry divisions, because around 1941, only armored divisions and infantry divisions of the Chinese Army were equipped with a considerable number of infantry fighting vehicles, and only infantry fighting vehicles could keep up with the speed of tank assault. However, after 1942, China further expanded the number of tank equipment, not only armored divisions and infantry divisions equipped with a large number of tanks, but also had the spare capacity to equip ordinary infantry divisions with a tank battalion, so that ordinary infantry divisions have tank assault capabilities, so in order to cooperate with tank operations, these ordinary infantry divisions are also equipped with a certain number of infantry fighting vehicles, of course, the number cannot be too much, it is impossible to be equipped with hundreds of armored divisions and infantry divisions, There are only a few dozens.
Although the price of all-tracked infantry fighting vehicles is too expensive for ordinary infantry divisions to equip in large quantities, they are also dedicated to the modification of those ordinary wheeled vehicles, and the addition of weak steel plate armor makes them have the most basic protection capabilities, although they cannot be expected to withstand artillery fire, but they can still withstand bullets head-on.
Of these vehicles that are now charging with the tanks, only four are infantry fighting vehicles, and the other seven or eight are such modified wheeled armored vehicles.
This small armored force was galloping forward at a speed of more than 30 kilometers per hour, saying, 'Naturally, I will not sit idly by and watch them approach.'
A short but extremely stout man was leaning over a 37-millimeter anti-tank gun at this time, and at this time he was aiming at a Chinese tank about 300 meters ahead, although it was hundreds of meters away, but he could still recognize it at a glance as a Chinese T16 tank. As a veteran Cao Chang, he can recognize the appearance of many active tanks in Britain, the United States and even China.
When he put this tank in the crosshairs, he did not hesitate to open fire, and immediately after firing the gun, he stepped back and shouted: "Reload!" ”
At this time, the observer next to him immediately shouted excitedly: "Hit!" ”
However, as soon as the words fell, he revealed disappointment again: "I hit the position of the head of the enemy tank and was bounced away!" ”
Cao Chang next to him frowned when he heard this: "Baga, if it is a cannon, you can defeat them just now!" ”
Now he is not working on a 57-mm anti-tank gun, which is the most powerful in this army, but a 37-mm anti-tank gun of 96-type.
If it was in the thirties or even in the early days of World War II, the 37-mm anti-tank gun would still have a lot of power, but now it is 1944, and the 37-mm anti-tank gun at this time is almost powerless in the face of the latest cutting-edge tanks in World War II in various countries, and if it wants to achieve good results in the face of the main tanks in service in various countries, there are only anti-tank guns with a caliber of more than 57 mm.
It is said that the 57 mm anti-tank gun in the army is not nothing, one of the 57 mm anti-tank guns is the main anti-tank gun in the army, but the cost of this tank gun is not low, after all, the anti-tank gun is not an ordinary artillery, if you want to obtain good armor-piercing ability, you must have a long tube, and what does the long tube represent? It represents a higher manufacturing process, a higher scrap rate, and a higher cost. Therefore, don't look at the small caliber of 57 mm, but the actual cost is not low, and it is said that it is limited by the level of the domestic industrial base, because the total output of a 57 mm anti-tank gun is also limited, and most of this is attached to the Australian battlefield.
Originally, there were also two Type 1 anti-tank guns on this position, but before the army was hit by the 43rd Division of the Chinese Army fierce heavy artillery fire and air raids, these two valuable Type 1 anti-tank guns were destroyed one after another, although there are still a few 37 mm anti-tank guns, but it is obvious that the 37 mm anti-tank guns are difficult to threaten the T16 tank of the Chinese Army.
Although the T16 tank is considered to be not strong in the Chinese Army, it is also developed by China in World War II and used to replace the T10 tank, and the design is designed at the beginning of the use of large-angle inclined armor, and the armor used is also made of the same armor material as the T15 tank, so although the thickness does not seem to be high, the protection capacity is also relatively considerable in the active tanks in various countries. The reason why the Chinese Army says that the protection of the T16 tank is not strong is because the Chinese Army compares the T16 with the T15, T17, T18 and other tanks, and the protection capabilities of these tanks behind here are the top in the world, so the T16 protection is weak in comparison.
Despite this, however, the T16 tank was not a mere 37-mm anti-tank gun that could penetrate it, let alone hit the top position where the armor thickness was second only to the frontal turret.
Sergeant Li clearly saw one of the enemy's anti-tank guns firing at him, and after feeling a slight shock to the hull, he immediately asked loudly: "Are you okay?" ”
"It's okay, resist!"
After Sergeant Lee's tank came to an emergency stop, a 75-mm tank gun on it was shocked, and after a ball of artillery flame was released from the muzzle, a 75-mm high-explosive bomb flew to the position of the anti-tank gun of the Chinese army.
The chief of Ben Cao touched the blood on his face, and did not look at the corpses of the soldiers around him, but continued: "What are you waiting for, loading!" ”
The few soldiers who seemed to be stunned by the shells struggled to get up, and the soldiers who stepped past their comrades continued to reload, and then pushed the anti-tank guns that had been somewhat displaced to recover their positions, and then Cao Chang took aim again and opened fire!
"Yaga!" He shot the tank again with his superior gunnery, but the tank continued to look forward, and the machine gun on the tank was continuously spraying bullets, and the bullets were being fired in his direction.
Cao Chang ignored the little bit of dirt stirred up by the bullet in the dirt in front of him, but directly loaded it himself, and it didn't take long for another shell to be fired, but what made him desperate was that the tank was still nothing.
"How is this possible, Yaga, these damn Shina people, how is this possible!"
He took off his coat, pushed the gun to reset his aim with his strong and strong hands, and then took the shell from the gunner next to him.
Just as he was loading the fourth shell, an explosion was happening in front of him, and his whole body was swept away by the explosion wave, which Type 96 anti-tank gun was also overturned, and the corners of his mouth had begun to bubble with blood when he fell to the ground, but he still muttered: "Load, fire!" ”
Blood bubbles continued to flow from the corners of his mouth as he muttered to himself, and at this time there was already a large hole in his right chest, and blood was gushing out, almost instantly staining the ground beneath him.
Sergeant Lee looked at the anti-tank gun position in the distance and saw that there seemed to be no movement there, but he was still not at ease, but continued to strafe the direction with his vehicle-mounted machine gun, and fired a third high-explosive shell a few seconds later.
This skirmish between the anti-tank guns and the tanks is long to say, but it lasts very short, no more than twenty seconds before and after, and the same happened between the other Chinese tanks and the anti-tank fire on this battlefield.
Sergeant Lee's tank was advancing rapidly, stopping from time to time to fire a shot, but the vehicle-mounted machine guns were intermittently strafing, suppressing any possible Japanese troops.
And he was hit by a number of anti-tank artillery shells, half of which were hit in an emergency stop. According to the common belief, tanks should not stop when fighting, because to stop is to turn themselves into stationary targets. But the actual situation is that the tank will often stop and fire when fighting, this is because in this year, if the tank is in the middle of the exercise, then the hit rate will be as low as a heinous, in order to be able to achieve the hit rate, so the tank will stop and fire when fighting, even if it has been equipped with a one-way vertical device of the Chinese T12, T15 and other series of tanks and the United States M4 tank can not achieve a good hit rate in the case of driving gun.
Not to mention the era of World War II, even in the fifties and sixties until the end of the twentieth century, the hit rate of mobile firing of tanks was very low, and it was usually in the mode of stationary fire.
Therefore, although stationary shooting will attract enemy fire, this is also something that has to be done, and you can't always go all the way and let out the cannon.
Despite being hit by a number of shells, Sergeant Lee was fortunate that his tank was still able to move forward and fire, and it seemed that the multiple hits did not cause much damage to the tank.
As the dense charge of more than a dozen tanks gradually approached the position, suddenly a tank vibrate, and then stopped at high speed, and then a closer look can be found that its right track has all fallen off, revealing a huge idler.
"It's an anti-tank mine!" Sergeant Lee's face turned black when he saw that the comrade-in-arms tank in front of him had been blown up.
Anti-tank weapons are not only anti-tank guns, bazookas and the like, but also anti-tank mines, which are generally used for defense, although the power is not enough to blow up a tank into the sky, but it is not a problem to blow up the tracks of the tank, and even some anti-tank mines with the surname of magnetic surnames will explode and damage the tank chassis even if the tank is not directly crushed but drives through the middle.
Although the tank with its tracks blown off stopped, its turret was still rotating, and since it could no longer charge, it used its surname as a fixed battery, and the 75mm guns and machine guns on it fired rapidly, providing fire cover for the other tanks.
As the charging time passed, the assault group was getting closer and closer to the position of the Japanese army, and at this time, more than a dozen armored vehicles following the tank also quickly opened the door, and the heavily armed infantry quickly got out of the car, and then followed the tank to break into the position of the Japanese army.
At this moment, the battle between the infantry of the two sides began!
Without the cover of these tanks, the dozens of infantry who broke through in armored vehicles would not have been able to effectively fight against the many men in the position, but they were not fighting on their own, they had a large number of tanks and armored vehicles to support them.
More than a dozen tanks represent more than a dozen 75mm guns, plus these tanks and armored vehicles are equipped with vehicle-mounted machine guns, and these represent the fire support of the infantry with dozens of heavy machine guns at this moment!
Such a dense firepower is enough to tear apart any resistance of the infantry in a position that is only more than 100 meters wide!
Under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, the infantrymen were armed with submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles, and before they could get closer, they threw a round of grenades, but only then rushed in and engaged in a hand-to-hand battle with the infantry.
At this time, the sound of gunfire and shouts has replaced the roar of tanks as the main theme on this small battlefield, and several Chinese infantry in the tunnel cooperated with each other to extend forward, and one wanted to block the "This infantry just picked up his rifle and wanted to shoot, but he was beaten into a hornet's nest by a shuttle of submachine gun bullets."
"Han Yong, prepare the grenade!" The sergeant who had just killed the soldier was half-crouching and walked towards a first-class soldier next to him.
Han Yong is not tall, but the arms that roll up the sleeves are extremely strong, China's army food has always been relatively high, although it is impossible to achieve every meal with big fish and meat, but the rice steamed buns are full, sufficient food and a lot of training, the physique of these soldiers is many years better for ordinary people.
Although China is currently practicing a compulsory military system, theoretically speaking, every citizen with a male surname must serve in the military after reaching the age of 18, but the Chinese population base is huge, and if every citizen with a male surname is forced to serve after the age of 18, the number of troops will swell to more than tens of millions. In addition, due to China's preferential military policy in recent decades, ordinary people are more enthusiastic about joining the army, and a large number of rural children and children of urban middle and low-income classes regard joining the army as one of their life paths. Therefore, the Chinese [***] team has not been short of soldiers since the Fuzhou Uprising, even after the large-scale expansion of the army in World War II, it still has not encountered a shortage of soldiers, and many times the local recruitment stations are selected from a large number of recruits.
Generally speaking, China is ostensibly implementing a compulsory military system, but in fact it is a system that combines compulsory soldiers and volunteers, at least so far, the vast majority of ordinary soldiers in the [***] team are volunteers to join the army.
Han Yong also belongs to this kind of person, although he was healthy before joining the army, he was not strong, and after two years of training after entering the army, he has now become extremely strong.
I saw him take out a grenade launcher from his waist and attach it to the 1937 semi-automatic rifle in his hand, and then took out a grenade.
"Lao Wang, hit that?" Han Yong asked when he was ready.
The sergeant, who was called Lao Wang, lowered his body: "If you see that small dirt slope, shoot it over there!" Finish reloading and stand by! ”
Han Yong nodded after hearing this, then picked up the 1937 rifle in his hand, and after aiming, he fired the grenade, which drew a curved arc and fell into the small dirt slope, and after the explosion, there were bursts of screams.
"Haha, I knew that there was a devil behind me, and I guessed it!" Sergeant Wang laughed, and then pressed forward with his half-gloved hand, and continued to attack with his soldiers.
The half-cut gloves in his hand are actually not the standard equipment issued by the troops, although there are many types of troops in the [***] team are issued gloves, such as pilots, armored soldiers, etc., but ordinary infantry will only be issued tactical gloves in the cold zone, and that kind of tactical gloves are mainly for heat preservation, in 1941 during the Sino-Russian War, the troops participating in the war were generally distributed with this kind of tactical gloves to avoid frostbite on the soldiers' hands exposed, After all, the winter temperature in Siberia and other northern Russian regions is dozens of degrees below zero, and during the winter battle, almost the entire soldier is wrapped tightly, wearing leather tactical gloves on his hands, wearing long leatherette military boots, cotton clothes and trousers, a tweed army coat and a military hat that can cover his ears, although it looks extremely bloated, but it is much better than freezing to death and frostbite.
However, in the non-cold zone troops, there is no distribution of tactical gloves, on the one hand, there is a cost factor, if all the troops are equipped with gloves, tens of millions of pairs of gloves will be consumed a year, and there is a lot of money to be spent here, and the army is not rich and has nowhere to spend, so it is natural to save it. Another point is that fighting with gloves will affect the flexibility of the fingers, and it will be tragic if the gun is a few seconds late, after all, the north is different from the south, and the north has no way to wear it in order to protect against the cold, while the southern troops do not have this need.
However, although there is no distribution in the army, many soldiers see that the soldiers of special services such as armored soldiers and paratroopers are wearing gloves one by one, and some people buy half gloves out of their own pockets in order to be cool, this kind of half-cut gloves will not affect the fingers to pull the trigger, and can also effectively protect the palm from friction and other damage.
However, in the final analysis, the wearing of gloves by ordinary soldiers in the southern army is a spontaneous behavior, which is the same as many infantry in the Chinese Army who bought their own 1911-style pistols to bring to the battlefield, which is not a standard military establishment but an additional establishment. However, in order to take care of this behavior, the military still specially developed this kind of half-cut gloves and placed them in the army store, so that soldiers can buy them at the cost price, just like the infantry spontaneously carry a pistol, in order to take care of this spontaneous behavior, the army store has a 1911-style pistol that soldiers can buy by themselves, and the price is very low. The soldiers who were exempt from outside bought other messy models of pistols to bring to the battlefield, and the pistol ammunition was not easy to solve when the time came.
However, although the army does not supply any non-standard pistol ammunition, there are still many officers who like to bring their own pistols to the battlefield, and there are various types of pistols, because the biggest function of pistols is to be used as decorations and suicide purposes. Therefore, the officers paid more attention to appearance and preferences, and practical surnames were not a concern for them. Especially when it comes to pistol suicide, there are too many examples of defeated officers committing suicide with pistols in the war, even if it is a complete victory in the war, it is impossible to say that every battle can be won, in the Russian campaign of 1941-1942, China can be said to have fought extremely smoothly, but there are still many examples of defeat in many battles, and once surrounded and unable to break through, most officers will choose to commit suicide with a pistol after running out of ammunition and food, after all, in [***] The military is unacceptable to surrender in any form, and the military cannot accept surrender for any reason, even if it runs out of ammunition and food, and even if there is only the last person left. Although there is no explicit rule that you cannot surrender, if you do surrender and are discovered, it will immediately be treason, and even your family will be implicated.
I have to say that this is a very cruel fact, and it is a very inhumane law in the scope of [***] teams around the world.
Because the pistol is involved in suicide, in order to take care of the honor of the officers, the military is extremely lenient in the management of the pistols used by the officers, basically you like and use whatever you want, and the military will not interfere.
This is very similar to the management of sabers in the army, which is said to be carried to the battlefield by officers with a little family background.
Just gloves are naturally not as serious as pistols, the military does not think that gloves will bring much improvement in combat effectiveness to the southern troops, so they don't want to pay for tens of millions of gloves every year, but they still develop and purchase a large number of tactical gloves for soldiers to choose by themselves, I have to say that in this regard, the [***] side is still quite human.
After Sergeant Wang walked through this pit with several soldiers on his waist, he approached the small hillside, and several people took out grenades and threw several grenades at the back, supporting the explosion smoke and dust before they dispersed, Sergeant Wang rushed up with people, Han Yong saw a yellow shadow and shot continuously without hesitation, and several other comrades-in-arms also shot one after another.
After a burst of gunfire, the smoke gradually dispersed, and there were five corpses of this soldier lying on the ground, and Sergeant Wang looked at a mortar on the ground that had been turned over: "I didn't expect us to hit it crookedly and knock out one of their mortar groups!" ”
As soon as he finished speaking, he looked at Han Yong next to him out of the corner of his eye, and immediately his eyebrows furrowed: "When did you get shot?" ”
At this time, Han Yong's abdomen didn't know when it had been dyed red, and he couldn't help the severe pain, so he couldn't stand and sat on the ground, and the rifle he was holding in both hands was also scattered on the ground, and he said with a painful look on his face: "It's okay, I just ate a bullet!" ”