readx; Policastron, a small border town in northwestern Greece, would never have known that there was such a town in northern Greece if it had not been for the world war and the battle of Thessaloniki between China and Germany. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Like most small towns in European countries, Polycastelon is a very typical stone building, which is different from the Eastern countries and the American countries, and most of their towns are stone buildings due to the influence of history and tradition. Unlike China and the Ben, almost before the First World War, the city was dominated by brick and wood buildings, a fire can burn the whole city to the ground, China is in Chen Jingyun after the unification of the country, the rapid economic development in the past twenty or thirty years, especially in the thirty years in order to stimulate domestic demand, the political axe spent a lot of effort on the construction of infrastructure, which led to the acceleration of urbanization, a large number of cement buildings appeared in the city, replacing a large number of old-fashioned brick and wood bungalows.

Historically, why can't the Pacific Theater fight decent street battles, especially the Chinese battlefield has hardly fought any street battles, it's not that the bald head didn't want to fight, but he couldn't fight at all, at that time China didn't even have a decent cement building city, often only a few buildings such as railway stations in a big city are cement buildings. And without a solid cement building as a cover, there is no talk of street fighting.

The reason why street battles occurred so frequently in World War II was because European cities were generally built of stone and cement, so that there were large-scale urban battles such as the Battle of Stalingrad and the Battle of Berlin.

This Polycastelon is one of those cities, and although it is small, it does not affect its strong surname.

When the 67th Division of the Chinese Army blitzed this town three days ago, it dispatched two tank companies, two infantry battalions and an artillery battalion to form a whole battle group, and the defenders were only one battalion of enemy troops, so that they could capture Polycastelon in just half a day.

Now, the offensive and defensive roles have been reversed, and the defense is on the Chinese side, the 6732nd Infantry Battalion of the 67th Division, and this 6732 Battalion is not deployed all its forces here, one company is deployed across the river, and another company is deployed in a small village to the south. The only actual deployment in the town was two infantry companies and battalion units, including an arms platoon with four short-barreled 105mm self-propelled assault guns, a battalion headquarters platoon with two infantry vehicles, and a reconnaissance platoon with multiple jeeps.

There are more than 800 troops in the whole town, with ten infantry fighting vehicles and four 105mm assault guns as the main heavy weapons. Not to mention infantry fighting vehicles, although this weapon is also claimed to be armored, it can only protect against bullets and shells, and the 20-millimeter machine gun that comes to the door is actually not very useful. The battalion's main firepower came from four 105-mm assault guns.

This 1943 105mm self-propelled assault gun uses the T9 tank chassis as the chassis and also has a simple turret, but the turret and hull protection is relatively poor, because they have to free up weight to equip the 105 gun and carry more shells. Don't look at the 1943 assault gun, its appearance is not good, but the firepower is not small, a cannon used to be a 105 mm high-explosive shell, any construction fortifications can be hit, and it can also go up to shoot a shot, and if it can't pierce armor, it can also shock the crew of the enemy tank.

At first, the classification boundary of the 1943 assault gun was a little difficult to define, because you said that he was a tank, but the mobile surname, the armor-piercing surname of the artillery and the protection ability were so poor that any tank commander was enough to scold his mother for this, but you said that it was not a tank, he also used the chassis of the T9 tank, and also had a turret, anyway, he had the shape that the tank should have, but he did the work of an artilleryman. But if you want to divide him into self-propelled howitzers, it is not good, because although the main gun he is equipped with has a caliber of 105 mm, the elevation angle is relatively small, resulting in a relatively short firing range, and the firing range cannot be compared with those official self-propelled howitzers with a range of more than ten kilometers.

This nondescript monster is actually an infantry support weapon developed by the Army Armament Department specifically for heavily mechanized units. It is positioned as a battalion-level support artillery to replace the previous towed 75 mm and 105 mm light infantry guns. After all, although the towed infantry guns equipped with traditional infantry units are light and can be pulled by any jeep, with the development of mechanized troops becoming more and more rapid, and China's heavy mechanized troops are mainly used in Central Asia and Siberia, and referring to the brutal street battles on the Soviet-German battlefield, the Chinese Army found that if it also attacked Soviet Russia, in the face of large-scale street battles such as the Battle of Stalingrad, then the mechanized infantry lacked an effective support weapon. That's why the assault gun was developed. Not only can it be used to fight ordinary enemy soldiers, but it can also be used to tear down walls, and when necessary, it can barely be used as a tank to lead troops to attack or as an anti-tank self-propelled gun.

Strictly speaking, the 1943 assault gun was developed from the T13 self-propelled anti-tank gun, both used the same chassis and main gun, but the 1943 assault gun had an additional improvised turret. When the T13 self-propelled anti-tank gun was developed, the army was in order to obtain a cheap and powerful anti-tank weapon to supplement the lack of firepower of the T9\12 series tanks to deal with the KV series and IS series tanks in the Soviet army, but with the weapons of the T15 and T18 tanks, the tank firepower of the Chinese Army was greatly improved, especially the service of the new 105 mm 50 times the caliber main gun and the new type of shelled sub-caliber tungsten alloy armor-piercing projectile, which greatly improved the anti-tank firepower of the Chinese Army. Colonel Ji Baitian, head of the armor-piercing section under the ammunition department of the Army Armament Department and also in charge of the research and development project of the armor-piercing projectile, asserted that this ammunition is enough to sweep the frontal armor of all tanks in service and in the next ten years, including China's own T18 tank.

Just like the development of tanks in the post-war period in history, the service of new armor-piercing shells has greatly improved the armor-piercing ability, and after the war, the armies of various countries feel that they can't defend themselves anyway, so the tanks of France, Germany and other countries are all thin-skinned and stuffed goods, and they only need to be able to withstand small-caliber cannon strafing.

At present, the tank firepower of the Chinese army belongs to this state of serious surplus, and the self-propelled anti-tank artillery developed specifically to supplement the lack of tank firepower has also lost its existence value, and it has returned to the mission goal of the early self-propelled tank guns of the Soviet and German armies: to provide fire support for infantry.

At this point, the development of self-propelled tank guns in the Soviet Union and Germany and China is somewhat opposite, their self-propelled tank guns were initially used as infantry fire support, and then the tanks were insufficient to slowly add long-barreled cannons to them for use as anti-tank firepower, but China was used as anti-tank fire at the beginning, but now it is reduced to infantry support firepower.

The fundamental reason for this is that China has a surplus of tank firepower, and the Soviet Union and Germany have a serious shortage of tank firepower.

The development of any piece of equipment is linked to the various conditions and strategic positioning of the country where it is located. This is like those black uncles in Africa, if you give them hundreds of F22s, they have to be put on the grassland to rust, for them, it is better to have J-6 and J-7.

At this moment, the four 1943 assault guns of the 6732nd Infantry Battalion were scattered and hidden in the buildings of the town, and the muzzles were aimed at the west.

In the sky, more than a dozen F6D fighter-bombers, under the cover of a number of F12A fighters at high altitude, adopted a low-altitude flying attitude, using mounted rockets and 20-millimeter guns on the fuselage to strafe a group of German troops outside the town of Polypolicastron.

The sound of explosions rang out as planes roared, and on the roof of a small three-story building in the town, several officers of the Chinese Army were using binoculars to observe the German situation outside.

After a while, one of the captains put down his binoculars and said with a dark face: "This German army has more than 400 troops in the forward, and if the air force's reconnaissance is not wrong, then there are at least three or four thousand German troops behind it." ”

"If you fight like this, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult!" Next to the captain was a major, and he was the commander of the 6732nd Infantry Battalion, Weng Shutong: "It is impossible to have support from the division headquarters, they have now been attacked by at least 10,000 German troops, and they are also cooperating with the 2nd Panzer Division to watch the Thessaloniki side, I am afraid it will be difficult to draw troops to reinforce us." And the third division, they will not be able to reach it until at least the day after tomorrow. In other words, we had to survive these two days! ”

Weng Shutong's words made several officers around him frown, of course, this is not to say that they are dissatisfied with Weng Shutong's words, but they are in trouble with the upcoming crisis.

"Let's go, go down, let's talk about the defensive battle plan again!" Weng Shutong said that he was the first to go downstairs, and the officers around him also followed.

Not long after, in a building full of various communication antennas, Weng Shu and others appeared in the conference room of this temporary headquarters.

As soon as everyone sat down, Weng Shutong did not speak immediately, but sat there, and he was also very tricky in the face of the current crisis. In fact, the main task of the 6732nd Infantry Battalion was to hold the Polycastron and ensure the logistics supply channel of the 67th Division. And the last sentence in this sentence is the point, holding Polycastelon is only a premise for ensuring the logistics channel of the 67th Division. While holding Policastron, he also had to ensure the safety of the surrounding area so that the convoy could reach the 67th Division safely, which was why he sent two companies of troops to the perimeter when the forces were so tight.

When he was thinking about this, he remembered the telegram sent by his father, who was the governor of Hebei Province in China a few days ago: This battle is not only about the interests of the country and the nation, but also about the honor of my Weng family.