readx; Although China's armored forces claim to be the world's first, and they are widely regarded as the most powerful in the world, this impression is based on the fact that before World War II, China's armored forces were really famous in the 20s and 30s against Soviet Russia and against the Chinese war, but since the second Sino-Chinese war, in fact, China's armored forces have not fought any hard battles. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Although the scale of the Sino-Russian War in 1941 was also huge, the Chinese Army mobilized millions of troops, including tens of thousands of tanks, to participate in the war, but the Russian Defense Forces at that time were too poor to allow the Chinese Army to really exert the power of heavy mechanized troops, and a small-scale military conflict between China and the Soviet Union in 1940 was the same, and did not allow the Chinese Army to gain experience in large-scale mechanized troops.

In other words, although the Chinese Army is known for its heavily armed mechanized troops, it has not fought a decent mechanized war during the entire World War II.

However, although it has not fought a large-scale mechanized war, the Chinese Army has continued to maintain the upgrading of equipment, especially tanks, and the surname of the tank can almost surpass that of other countries in the same period for more than a whole generation.

Soviet Russia, in particular, has always maintained a deep guard against China's large-scale mechanized corps.

And now, the European expeditionary force sent by China has also allowed countries to confirm whether China's armored forces are as strong as before!

At the same time, it is also looking forward to whether the Chinese Army can bring a new trend to the next development of the armies of the world.

In the past 20 years, the development of China's three armed services has always been in the direction of the world's trend, whether it is the development of the navy, the air force or the army, most of the time it has been concerned by all countries, and it has always kept catching up with the pace of China's three armed services.

Even in the early stage of World War II, although China did not directly participate in Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, Germany and other countries, China's three armed forces are still the leaders of the world trend, from the T15 tank, to the tracked infantry battlefield, and then to the Qingshan-class aircraft carrier, F8 carrier-based fighter, F4 fighter, F10 jet fighter, each of these new equipment has attracted widespread attention and imitation from various countries.

And now, the T18 tank of the Chinese Army also belongs to the same category! After its official debut on the battlefield in Greece, it quickly attracted the attention of countries around the world.

Countries soon discovered that although the T18 is nominally the successor to the T15 tank, the two are completely different products, not to mention the rest, the perverted protection surname alone is absolutely incomparable to the T15 tank. And more importantly, the positioning of this T18 tank in the Chinese Army is not a heavy tank, but a main battle medium tank, and in some internal publications of the Chinese Army, the T18 has been called a main battle tank. However, it can also be seen from the fact that China has not developed heavy tanks after 1941, and China obviously regards the T18 tank as a main battle tank equipped in large quantities.

In fact, countries do not say that there are no advanced tanks with surnames, such as Germany's Tiger 1, Tiger 2, and Leopard tanks are actually relatively good, while Soviet Russia's IS series and T44 are also good tanks, and the American Patton tank actually has the possibility of comparing with T18 in some aspects. But the problem is that your firepower can keep up with the pace of T18, your protection can't keep up, your protection and firepower can't keep up, you can't keep up with the mobile surname, even if you keep up with all of them, your tonnage is better than T[***], and the cost is much more expensive.

After all, although the T18 tank can be advanced, it is positioned in the Chinese Army as a tank that can be mass-produced and fully reequipped, not those that only produce a few hundred or thousands of vehicles. As with other equipment produced in China, the issue of surname-to-price ratio has been taken into account before considering the surname Neng.

The emergence of T18 has allowed countries to see the new development direction of a new generation of main battle tanks, Germany is immediately accelerating the research and development of E series tanks, while the Soviet and Russian side is in addition to accelerating the service of T44-85, it is also accelerating the process of developing T44-100 tanks, and the United States is also conducting research on new tanks. And the goal of the development of new tanks in these countries is no longer aimed at the T15 of China, but at the T18 tank.

In addition to the shock that the T18 tank has brought to various countries, countries around the world are actually more looking forward to seeing some progress in the combat mode of the Chinese Army!

In addition to continuing to adopt the mature battle group model in divisional command, the Chinese Army also widely used infantry fighting vehicles for infantry and tank coordinated operations, in addition to the Chinese Army's European Expeditionary Force also widely used a variety of new weapons, including recoilless guns and new 1944 automatic rifles. Although these two weapons are not new, other countries have been equipped with them, especially automatic rifles, which have been equipped in Soviet Russia and Germany, but China has not replaced semi-automatic rifles in a comprehensive way.

As the face of the Chinese Army, the European Expeditionary Force uses all the latest equipment, including T18 tanks, 1943 tracked infantry fighting vehicles, 1944 recoilless guns, 1944 automatic rifles, and 1943 general-purpose squad machine guns

These new equipment brought about a change in the mode of operation, not to mention large-scale field battles, when China broke through the Greek border, it once again made people feel the assault ability of the Chinese army's armored forces, but this was nothing in the late stage of World War II. What was even more surprising was the change in the Chinese Army's mode of operation in street fighting.

For example, in the Battle of Xantsy, although it was only a small town, it was also a city, and the urban buildings were generally built of stone and cement, and the German army also adopted the mode of street fighting, deploying a large number of blockers, trying to let the Chinese army try what is called the European model of street fighting.

However, when the Second Armored Division of the Chinese Army launched an attack, the Germans only supported it for less than a day and was completely defeated, the Second Armored Division used a large number of 105 and 155 caliber heavy artillery of the division's self-propelled artillery regiment before launching the attack, and also received the support of two 155 self-propelled artillery battalions of the 16th Artillery Brigade. It took only one afternoon to take control of the center of the city, and then it took half a night to completely control Xanthi.

In this street fight, the surname of the 44-year-old automatic rifle can be perfectly played, more intensive firepower than the semi-automatic rifle, although the range is not as good as the 1937 semi-automatic rifle and the traditional bolt-action rifle, but it also has an effective range of 300 meters, and this range is sufficient for street fighting.

Before launching the offensive, in addition to large-scale artillery bombardment, the bomber units of the Chinese Air Force, which had already gained air supremacy on the battlefield, used television-guided bombs to carry out precision bombing, destroying the German army's headquarters, communication nodes, bridges, and other important targets; this bombing mode was completely different from the traditional carpet bombing; in the Battle of Xantsy, although the precision-guided bombs dropped by the Chinese Air Force only accounted for about 10 percent of the total number of air-dropped bombs, they destroyed more than 80 percent of the important targets of the German army.

While other countries are still afraid of street fighting, the Chinese Army has adopted a new mode of operation to stage a different urban battle for others.

And this battle will continue to play out in Thessaloniki!

On the evening of April 14, the vanguard of the 2nd Armored Division of the Chinese Army, Battle Group A, had arrived on the outskirts of Thessaloniki, but they did not immediately launch a tentative attack, but waited and prepared to guide the air force to bomb Thessaloniki.

At dawn the next day, nearly 300 planes of the Ninth Wing were deployed at a military airfield in Istanbul, western Turkey, which had been a Turkish air base had been completely requisitioned by the Chinese Air Force, along with a nearby temporary field airfield.

At this moment, a group of F6D fighters of the Ninth Wing is already ready and is running to the top to taxi into the air one after another, and in the sky, more than a dozen F12A fighters have already risen into the air and assembled in advance.

As F6D fighter-bombers took to the air and flew in formation towards the west, two squadrons of F12A fighters had already left for Greece ahead of schedule to clear the field.

After declaring war on Germany, more than 100 F12A of the Ninth Wing of the Chinese Air Force always maintained air supremacy over Greece, and the Luftwaffe also sent fighters to meet it in the first two days, but with one after another being shot down, and at that time, the Chinese Air Force mainly wanted to compete for air supremacy, and did not plan to carry out large-scale bombing of Greece, so the Luftwaffe simply did not meet it, and only waited until the Chinese Air Force dispatched bombers to meet the battle.

This time, as a few days ago, the Chinese Air Force dispatched F12A fighters in advance to clear and suppress the mission, and after the F12A fighters completely controlled the air supremacy over the ground, dozens of F6D fighter-bombers flew over Thessaloniki to drop bombs.

These F6D fighter-bombers were bombed at low altitude to ensure bombing accuracy, and because they flew too low, the F6D fighter-bombers were also shot down by the Germans. However, as soon as these F6D fighter-bombers flew away, a group of B11 bombers that took off from several airfields in central Turkey appeared over Thessaloniki, and this time they dropped not the same conventional small aerial bombs as F6D fighters, but relatively large TV-guided bombs.

Since the Chinese Navy developed and put into service TV-guided bombs for anti-ship purposes, the Air Force soon directly adopted ready-made technology without shame, and after a slight modification, it was the Air Force model of TV-guided bombs in service, and some B11 and B16 bombers were modified as carrier aircraft.

After all, the Air Force does not have to deal with huge warships with a length of several hundred meters and a width of several hundred meters, and what it needs to use with precision-guided bombs is to deal with targets such as bridges, tunnels, radars, command headquarters, communications facilities, and power facilities.

This time, when the more than 20 B11 bombers flew over Thessaloniki, they did not reduce their altitude but continued to maintain an altitude of more than 8,000 meters.

After these TV bombs were dropped, they passed through the thick clouds, and then the weapons on the B11 bomber were able to clearly see the city below from the monitor, and then according to the information from multiple reconnaissances, they selected targets and began to change the course of the TV-guided bombs, so that these TV-guided bombs deviated from the original course and fell quickly towards the new target.