Chapter 647: Baktu Tank Encounter
When many articles mention the first large-scale tank attack in China, they directly point to the battle of Baktu this time
Because Baktu is too inconspicuous on the map, and lost the role of a treaty port in the future, people in later generations are familiar with Tacheng, so this tank duel is often called the Battle of Tacheng.
When they were in Outer Mongolia, Soviet Russia and Huaxia also used tanks to attack each other several times, but whether it was the defense of Zamyn-Uud or the guerrilla warfare along the way north of Darkhan, although the number of tanks used exceeded that of the tank division of the Eighth Army in the Battle of Tacheng, it was not used so intensively. Generally, it is a concentrated attack on the enemy with less than 100 vehicles.
Even when confronting the Japanese, there were large-scale tank formations, but the Japanese Douding tanks were not worth mentioning, they were simply like killing chickens. These are also generally not recognized by the world.
In the Battle of Tacheng, the tank division under the personal command of Hu Shi totaled 639 vehicles, and although the tanks of Soviet Russia on the opposite side were only 368, they were also huge.
It's just that at the beginning of the encounter, the vanguard army was the first to attack 8 Il-10 attack aircraft.
The Il-10 was one of the best attack aircraft even in the fifties, and many of the settings were aimed at ground armored forces. At this time, it was also a small test against the immature armored forces of Soviet Russia, and only one round of attacks killed 11 Russian tanks. And this is not the main thing, what is more important is that under the onslaught of attack aircraft, the already loose formation of Soviet and Russian tanks became even looser.
The communications of Soviet and Russian tanks have always been extremely backward, and before the Soviet and Russian tanks reorganized themselves into formation, the tank units of the vanguard army on the opposite side were pressed up with yellow sand. Through the communication relay of aerial reconnaissance, the tank unit of the Tiger Ten had long known the enemy's movement and distance. At a distance of more than 2,000 meters, the formation change had been completed.
The core criterion for tanks, especially the strips of main battle tanks, is to look at the combat mode.
The tanks of World War II are all first-generation tanks, which belong to the kind of mobile artillery that must be stopped and can fire and fire, which is equivalent to a mobile gun wearing thick armor. Of course, if you get closer, you can also fire without stopping, anyway, the distance is closer, and the hit rate will be greatly improved.
At this time, the Russians saw more than 30 Tiger Kings coming straight towards them with smoke and dust, and before they could see the situation in the sand and dust behind the Tiger King, which covered half of the sky, rows of tank shells covered their heads into the group of more than 100 forward tanks that burst forward.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was more than 1,300 meters, and the vanguard Jun lined up behind a more than 200 leopards and the Tiger-style Tanyak regiment opened fire directly, and the reconnaissance of the Tiger King in front of them checked the communication information, and they determined the coordinates of the Soviet Russian Tanyak.
The head of the hood came first for a while
o Attack of the projectile.
Even if it's high
o bombs, a lot of thin-skinned sleeper bt series in the Soviet Russian tank were also scattered by more than twenty cars at once, and those who followed the step
Ing and riding
ing was directly pushed by the shock wave and poured a large piece down. And most of the other tans are also violent
o The cattle was so shocked that he didn't react for a long time, until the hideous figures of the tiger kings rushed over with the wind and sand, and fired in a panic.
The Tan Lu Ke Division led by Tiger Ten was numbered the 37th Division, which belonged to the 77th Jun under the command of Tiger Ten.
When the pioneer Jun was reorganized into the Guard, although the Jun regiment was rearranged, some of the Jun and divisions were numbered with new numbers, and some still adopted the original number.
It can be regarded as inheriting the original glory.
For example, the number 29jun is now in the 8th regiment. With the advanced medical treatment conditions of the pioneer Jun, Song Zheyuan did not have a sick king at this time, but the old foundation of Yuan 29jun was inherited by Zhang Zizhong, and most of them were included in the eighth Jun regiment. This glorious title has also been retained, not only that, but Zhang Zizhong also chose the previous two numbers 59jun and 77jun when choosing.
With Kuanren's Feng Zhi'an directly transferred to the General Headquarters in Chang'an, 77jun was on
was directly taken over by Tiger Ten. The 37th Division below was directly changed to the Tan Lu Ke Division, with Hu Shi concurrently serving as the division commander, and the chief of staff was Ji Xingwen, and there were only more than 600 Tan Tak without full strength, of which the Tiger King Tan Tak had formed more than one battalion and more than 80 vehicles, which belonged to the only heavy Tan Tak regiment.
In this attack, more than 50 Tiger Kings with fierce anti-attack fire were directly arranged in the vanguard, and rushed up against the artillery fire of the Soviet and Russian tanks.
Due to the status of the Central Asian Jun regiment, of the more than 300 tanks of the Soviets, only 113 were T34, and only 35 were of the KV series, and they were dragged to the rear. Caught off guard and engaged in the Pioneer Jun, there were only more than 100 BT series and T26 cars running happily in front of him.
It is conceivable that the impact of the tiger kings is like a strong man rushing into the kindergarten, at most encountering a little catfish-like resistance, which is not a grade at all.
There was no accompanying heavy artillery bombardment, no trenches to rely on, only
There were Soviets
In vain, he rubbed and fed the armor of the Tiger King with a 37-mm anti-tank cannon, and occasionally broke the tracks of one or two Tiger King Tanks with meat cattle, but these Soviet and Russian sheep definitely couldn't stop the tiger's pounce.
The tiger kings even rushed into the Soviet Russian group while firing their cannons, directly knocked out a xuรจ road with steel, chiseled through the formation of the Soviet Russian Tanyak, and ran into the T34 Tanyuk group that was being bombarded by the tigers and leopards behind and dodged in all directions.
Under close attack, these T34A tanks are also a bit of a threat. However, the tiger kings seemed to be addicted to the impact, just like the impact of the heavy cavalry, and the footsteps were not collected directly, and they plunged into it again.
And behind them, the first wave of more than 200 Panthers and Tigers had also followed, completely crushing the first echelon phalanx of Soviet and Russian tank forces. The 100 multi-purpose armored combat vehicles accompanying them also strangled the fleeing Soviet Russian infantry. In just ten minutes, the advance of the Soviet Russian troops was already crushed.
At this time, only two Tiger Kings were parked behind them because of the damage to their tracks, and in the pile of wreckage of Soviet and Russian tanks, their seemingly lonely figures were gradually drowned by the smoke and smoke of the melee in front of them.
The Soviet Russian tank forwards could still hurriedly put on a formation to meet the attack, but the tank groups of the second echelon following behind were still in a marching formation with a long snake formation at this time. Until the dozen or so T34 tanks in front were lost by the artillery fire hit by the King Tiger, the formation of Soviet and Russian tanks was chaotic every day.
The Tiger King's 71 times the diameter of the 88 mm fangs can directly blow up the T34 armor even from the front, and he does not bother to attack from the side armor at all. Eri maintains a T-shaped attack superiority similar to that of a naval battleship, destroying any enemy that moves along the way.
If you talk about playing against those fast-legged BT tanks, under the rush, there are still a lot of flashes that slip through the net, leaving the leopards behind to share the food. And against the T34 tank, the Tiger King firmly suppressed the formation of Soviet Russia, and saw a stupid one. Under the power of the Tiger King, the tanks of the vanguard army were once again comprehensively overwhelmed.
The Russian tank formation eventually dispersed, but under the propaganda and agitation of the iron horn, it still did not back down, and even the fierce cavalry of the cavalry regiment launched a more fierce charge with those tanks.
For more than two hours, the two sides fought fiercely.
Of course, this misery mainly refers to the Russians. Under the smoke of gunpowder, the most seen on the battlefield were the broken parts of the T34A tank and the horses and the corpses of Soviet and Russian soldiers lying in pools of blood. A single high-explosive round of a tank is enough to cause a field of unarmored combat units to fall around them, and their sabers and rifle bullets are all futile to leave the last crisp impact of their lives.
"Bypass these iron guys and rush from the flanks to the back to eliminate their steps
Soldier! โ
The cavalry of Soviet Russia is experienced, and this era is no longer the period of the First World War of cavalry against tanks, and the commander of the cavalry regiment, Vasily, knew that it would be difficult to fight against these big iron guys, so he adopted a method of avoiding reality and playing falsely at the beginning, giving full play to the flexibility of cavalry, intending to go around behind the vanguard army and destroy their infantry.
But he didn't realize that he was not facing an ordinary motorized or mechanized unit, but a tank division, and there was basically no traditional infantry running on two legs.
After rubbing past the disdainful herd of tigers and leopards, the Russian cavalry, which had lost more than half of them, finally encountered the Chinese infantry.
Accompanying the tigers and leopards advancing together, the multi-purpose tank group that took the initiative to clear the tenacious Russian infantry did not let go of the Russian cavalry and took the initiative to attack them. Hiding in a multipurpose armored vehicle, they had 15 mm of armor around them enough to block the flash of the saber. All they needed was two 20mm cannons and two machine guns on each of the 2nd Class Utility Vehicles.
Whether the warhead of the 20mm cannon hits a person or a horse, as long as it touches it, it will directly explode a mist of flesh and blood, and no blood can coagulate in the slightest before the big hole torn by the 20mm cannon, except for death.
"Retreat!" Vasily, whose left arm was rubbed by a 20-mm warhead and directly shattered, finally shouted the order to evacuate.
Those Soviet and Russian infantry can still crawl in the crater to avoid the rain of machine guns and bullets whistling in the sky, and those high-headed horses are undoubtedly obvious targets for activity, and if this continues, it can only end up in the annihilation of the whole army.
The few remaining war horses in the smoke of gunpowder and the rain of machine guns and bullets that covered the whole field were extremely fast in the wasteland, but faster than them was the multi-purpose car that soared to a high speed of 70 kilometers. Therefore, the end of the Russian cavalry was already doomed from the beginning.
Annihilation!