Chapter 1343: Cat and Mouse

The actual situation was even worse than Tao Zhenyu imagined, just after his troops had just withdrawn from the battlefield, the German reconnaissance troops had already been dispatched, and as time passed, the Germans gradually narrowed the scope of reconnaissance, and the reconnaissance troops on both sides had understood each other's general direction after several contacts. But it's clear that I can't fight anymore today. The Germans lacked night vision devices. Although Huaxia has it, it is more difficult to fight with night vision equipment that has a visual distance of only a few hundred meters, unstable work, and cannot be recognized by friend or foe! Therefore, in the current situation, the Germans are using the remaining time to deploy and wait for the next day to attack, while Huaxia is considering the direction of the breakthrough, but it has not yet been determined whether the idea will slip out of the opponent's encirclement network at night or fight during the day. Either way, the choice will be very difficult. Conducting a large-scale night march in bad weather is difficult in itself, as can be seen from the 2 percent tanks that Tao Zhenyu "lost" because of road conditions. And if it was daytime, after a bloody battle, Tao Zhenyu really didn't know how many things were left in his battle group!

And when they were entangled, neither the Germans nor Tao Zhenyu could have imagined that a small army would secretly follow the Germans. "Platoon commander, look at the car in front, you really want to be a moving mud ball!" The gunner said through the observation hole, pointing to the Type 29 tank in the distance, which was moving slowly through the mud. "Okay, don't talk about it, we're also this virtue." Meng Yan said a little depressedly. I was expecting to follow the German reconnaissance vehicles to find my large troops, but who knew that I followed the reconnaissance troops, and a large number of German tanks suddenly appeared behind me! Fortunately, there are many other parties, and the noise is relatively loud. Meng Yan took the troops behind a mountain col and escaped before the other party found out. And when the German army left with a bang, Meng Yan began to think about whether he was going to do something tonight.

The so-called bolder the official position, the smaller the son, not only in the officialdom, but also on the battlefield. Tao Zhenyu needs to be responsible for the life and death of thousands of officers and soldiers, and he must be cautious. And Meng Yan is different, his troops are very small, and it can be said that the ship is small and easy to turn around. The situation is not good, and I only have a few cars in total, so it's not easy to run? So he dared to fight. Today seems to be a very good opportunity, although the other side has many vehicles, but there are few trucks and personnel carriers, in other words, they have very few infantry. The cordon will be sparse at night. There will be no such annoying things as minefields.

With the idea of leaving if he could catch a handful, Meng Yan planned tonight's action. But then a series of events came as a bit unexpected! In the end, at the end of the battle, Meng Yan once said such a classic sentence: "At night, everything is possible!" "With the night generals, everything is silent, a sparse light rain falls from the sky, and the distant ones are not flickering with fire. Although the Germans tried to control the lights as much as possible, it was obviously impossible to completely eliminate them, and this was also the case in China. The Germans were resting and preparing for the next day's big battle. At this time, Meng Yan, who had slept for 4 hours, was refreshed, and after drinking two cups of coffee, he started to act with his equally excited teammates.

Originally, his plan was simple, two tanks went out and then ambushed. Shoot two shots in the back to see if you can attract some German tanks. If the other party comes out, then let the two tanks in front of them play an ambush, if the other party does not come out, then it can only be nonsense, or what can I do? Rush in and fight to the death with the German army? Do you want to? Meng Yan still wants to live for two more days!

So, Meng Yan began to spread out his small army in the night, with two tanks in front, himself in the middle, and then one tank in the back. TWO TANKS ARMED WITH MORTARS WERE TOGETHER WITH THE REAR TANKS, FIRING TO COVER THE RETREAT IF NECESSARY, AND TWO ARMORED VEHICLES ARMED WITH 57MM GUNS SERVED AS RESERVES. And two? Well, one of them is used to transport the wounded, and the other has communication equipment and passwords that can communicate with superiors, so this car should not be mixed in. Generally speaking, there is no artillery for command tanks, because the space in the car is not enough, and the gun barrel in front of the turret may be just a wooden stick, and this time in order to ensure the number of combat vehicles, Tao Zhenyu would rather be equipped with a separate communication vehicle, and definitely not a special tank, so up to now, the tanks that Meng Yan can use are 4 instead of 3. Well, the plan is simple and can be understood by everyone. But the change in the situation still exceeded Meng Yan's expectations. My tank hasn't driven over yet, so why does it seem that something has come out on the other side? What's going on?

All the vehicles were within the visual distance of the night vision device, and the so-called forward ambush tank was only 300 meters away from Meng Yan! To put it mildly, if it wasn't raining, you could hear the shouting on the other side! By this time, they were quite close to each other's camp. The ambush force was only about 700 meters away from the cordon on the other side's perimeter! And the tanks and other vehicles driving from the opposite side are only 400 to 500 meters away from the ambush troops, and this is not the most terrifying! These guys came out with the lights on! Big wattage light bulb, if this thing is swept over, then Meng Yan and them will be all finished! Meng Yan could feel drops of cold sweat oozing from his back, and the clothes that had just been dried on the engine were now completely wet! Meng Yan almost watched one of the half-tracks turn to his side, and then the two headlights on the front of the car turned around!

"The driver helps me take out that half-track, and we hit the tank behind us, and immediately reverse after shooting!" In an instant, Meng Yan gave the order to attack, and this is how Zaohua made people, before the driver could aim the machine gun at the front of the car at the target, when the loader had just picked up the shell and not loaded, a cannon sound suddenly came from behind him! "What's going on!" Meng Yan made a way to stop shooting, then stood up and observed the situation behind through the commander's conning tower at the top of the turret, the night vision device could only see the front, and nothing could be seen behind, but fortunately, something seemed to have been destroyed in the back, and the fire on the wreckage allowed him to see the surrounding situation.

"Captain, in the back, a lot of tanks!" Meng Yan's headphones remembered the sound of the guard tank commander stumbling! "Oh my God, I just want to make a fuss at night! As for it? You will come with me from the beginning! First it broke down, then it fell behind, then it was flanked! There's no end to it! Meng Yan wailed in his heart. The situation at that time was like this, when Meng Yan found that the opponent's armored troops came out, the No. 4 car located in the back also discovered the opponent, and it seemed that the other party had also discovered him! The other party did not have a night vision device, his own night vision device was installed in front, and he could only rely on himself to see behind the head door, and the opponent's turret turned to car No. 4. And the turret of car No. 4 also turned to the opponent, thanks to the electric servo, car No. 4 spotted the opponent first, and then hit the fatal blow!

The dull sound of the cannon and the orange flames that burst out from the muzzle of the cannon were so dazzling in the dark night! The sudden explosion shocked everyone on the battlefield! The German commander who found the No. 4 tank didn't seem to have time to inform his superiors, and under the light of the fire, Meng Yan could see a long convoy about 500 meters behind the burning tank!

"Fight out of the camp first, and then withdraw from the battlefield!" In an instant, Meng Yan made his own decision, the vehicles behind seemed to be many, many, and the front did not seem to be many, through the night vision devices and the lights of the camp and the headlights of the German vehicles, Meng Yan judged that the number of the other party would not exceed 6, and there was only one tank! The most correct choice when you encounter a flanking attack is to take out one side first, and then take the other side! THE TWO TANKS LYING IN AMBUSH IN FRONT OPENED FIRE QUICKLY, AND THE ROAR OF THE 12.7MM MACHINE GUNS AND THE ROAR OF THE ARTILLERY MADE THE CONFUSED GERMANS EVEN MORE CONFUSED, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? I just came out to meet a teammate, why was I ambushed as soon as I went out? Didn't it say that the Huaxia armored forces were in the northeast direction? How did it suddenly come out of the southwest? Could it be a mistake?

The deployment of the Germans is still very rigorous, and in a hurry, it is difficult for the Germans to gather enough troops to encircle and kill a battalion-level armored unit (this is the Germans' estimate of Tao Zhenyu's battle group), so there is not enough time during the day, so they can only act at night, anyway, this is the rear of the German army, and the approximate location of the Huaxia battle group is also known, so the troops marching at night can naturally turn on the lights to act. In order to prevent the night attack of the Chinese troops, the German forward troops first discharged a small force to confirm the identity of any vehicles that approached, and then brought them into the camp. As a result, the sad Meng Yan was caught between these two troops!

The two tanks in ambush in front fired a barrage of bullets and shells at the German convoy with their headlights on at a distance of less than 500 meters. The only one in the queue was quickly destroyed, with the shell piercing the engine behind the hull and igniting the diesel fuel in it. THE 12.7MM MACHINE GUN USED ARMOR-PIERCING ROUNDS TO SIEVE THE WEAKLY DEFENDED HALF-TRACKS. The exchange of fire was very short, only a minute, and the six German tanks that came out to meet them turned into a string of scrap metal. And after completing the mission, the two Type 29 tanks immediately put up reverse gear and prepared to leave.

The sudden outbreak of the conflict directly stimulated everyone on the battlefield, whether it was Meng Yan who was hiding in the shadows and beating a stick, or two German armies preparing to converge! The Germans who were resting in the camp were returned to their positions under the sound of sirens, observing the situation outside from the observation window. The Germans moved quickly, and the high-powered searchlights equipped in the camp began to sweep across the entire area of engagement. And the flares are also fired into the air by mortar or grenadiers, and then a small parachute is opened and swayed down! The flares equivalent to tens of thousands of candles instantly turned the battlefield into daylight! However, there is a problem with the flares that are dropped, and that is that the light changes so strongly that the person facing the light source will fall into a temporary blindness.

But fortunately, Meng Yan was not among them, because when the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks attacked, he had already turned the hull of the vehicle, and then the turret was aimed at the opposing vehicle coming up from behind, and the No. 4 tank fired a series of shells! Reasonable distribution of firepower is a commander's must have the ability, two tanks at a distance of a few hundred meters sneak attack a convoy of armored vehicles is too easy, then you have to deal with the guy behind with car No. 4, the two tanks began to alternately cover the retreat, the muzzle of the gun continued to shoot a deadly shell at the convoy in the distance. Although at night, but with the "help" of German flares, the attack of the two tanks was still fruitful, at least Meng Yan believed that in less than 2 minutes, he and his allies destroyed at least 4 targets, and there was a big explosion in the opposing convoy!

"Puffy!" Just as the flares turned the battlefield into daylight, the smoke bombs fired from the mortars behind the positions restored the fog of war that had been torn apart! But even so, the German counterattack still put Meng Yan and his troops on the brink of life and death. Here came a combat force with at least one company or more of tanks and other combat vehicles, and a dense network of tracer shells formed a web of fire. From time to time, the beams of searchlights or vehicle headlights swept over the retreating tanks.

It was already a matter of life and death, and Meng Yan's counterattack was merciless. All combat vehicles retreated while firing. 4 tanks and 2 infantry fighting vehicles were constantly pouring fire on the convoy in the distance. With a bang, the sound of shells hitting armor came from the side, and a ball of flames erupted from the front of the hull of Tank No. 3. Then a puff of smoke poured out, and it seemed to have been pierced! Meng Yan tried to cover the evacuation of the crew of Tank 3, but unfortunately, the fire caused by the hit tank made it the best target, and soon the damaged tank became the focus of concentrated fire from the opponent. A tidal wave of blows followed, and a barrage of shells hit the hapless tank. In less than 1 minute, there were at least 10 more shell hits! Eventually, with a loud bang, the entire tank was blown apart.

HOWEVER, DURING THIS TIME, MENG YAN AND HIS COMRADES DESTROYED AT LEAST 3 TANKS OF THE OPPOSING SIDE, AND THE 120MM MORTARS IN THE BACK ALSO CAUSED CERTAIN LOSSES TO THOSE LIGHT TARGETS IN THE CONVOY. In the firelight, there can be layers of figures, hit by flying shrapnel. Burning vehicles become the best source of light for sneak attackers. But even so, the situation of Meng Yan and his group became worse and worse, because at this time, their pressure not only came from the convoy outside, but also the German troops in the camp moved! The roar of tank engines came from the camp, and more and more flares were fired from the camp.

"It's time for us to go, we'll be dead if it's too late!" Meng Yan shouted in the channel. And that's when things changed again.

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