readx; In an area of about 10 kilometers outside the center of the town, the B Combat Group of the 3rd Division of the Chinese Army and the 6th Division of the Austrian Wehrmacht fought fiercely with the 9th Division of the United States Army, but the main fighting was concentrated in the core area of the town, where the main fighting forces were the 332nd Infantry Battalion and the 13th Tank Battalion of the Chinese Army, as well as the 32nd Artillery Battalion and the 878th Self-propelled Rocket Artillery Company, which were responsible for supporting them. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info.

They were engaged by the 47th Infantry Regiment of the U.S. Army's Ninth Division, the 751st Tank Battalion, temporarily reinforced to the Ninth Division, and the 60th Field Artillery Battalion, which provided artillery support.

On the surface, it seems that several thousand people have been dispatched on both sides, as if it is a general battle of tens of thousands of people, but in fact this is not the case, the scale of the battle on the side of Kechakh is actually not as much as imagined, most of the battles are between infantry companies and infantry companies, tank companies and tank companies, that is to say, the battlefield is mainly based on infantry battles between a hundred or dozens of people and a duel between several tanks and several tanks, these small-scale battles are connected, It is the formation of a full-front battle between the two sides.

Although the 332nd Infantry Battalion claims to be a thousand-man scale, the real combat infantry is less than 500 people, and the combat infantry that really went into battle in the first half hour is about 300 people, and the remaining part is the reserve personnel with the drivers of various vehicles, heavy weapons and operators, logistics and transportation personnel, maintenance technicians, etc. Since there were not many combat infantry actually participating in the battle, but both sides invested more tanks and other armored vehicles, Zhao Lindong put nearly 70 tanks into an entire tank battalion, and the Americans also reinforced three tank companies in addition to one tank company at the beginning, which added up to a whole 751st tank battalion.

As a result, in the core of the town of Quechach, the fighting between the two sides was mainly dominated by tanks, and the infantry became a secondary covering force. As a result, in this area of less than three kilometers, there are more than 200 tanks, assault guns, and other fully tracked armored vehicles of various types on both sides.

This kind of density can be said to be rare in the whole World War II, although when the Soviet Union and Germany were engaged on the Eastern Front, there were super-large-scale tank engagements, but the scope of that kind of engagement was very large, but it is rare to say that hundreds of tanks on both sides were brought together in a small place to fight.

The reason for today's situation is related to the high degree of mechanization of the Chinese and American armies and the fact that both countries have a large number of tanks, and now there are more than 70,000 or 80,000 tanks in China and the United States, and they don't know how to arrange most of these tanks.

During World War II, all countries went all out to produce all kinds of military products, even China, which did not participate in large-scale wars. Not to mention other military supplies, just tanks, self-propelled guns, assault guns and other all-tracked armored vehicles, the United States and Soviet Russia from the outbreak of the war to the present, the number of production has reached more than 100,000 units, but they have lost a lot due to years of war, but although they have lost a lot, but their existing tanks are still very large, the Americans still have tens of thousands of tanks, self-confident artillery, assault guns, the Soviet army wants some, but there are also 10,000 units.

However, China in World War II was different from Britain, the United States, Germany, and the Soviet Union, although China fought several wars with other countries, including the Southeast Asian War in 1940, the Sino-Russian War in 1941, the Sino-Japanese War in 1944, and the European War at the beginning of the year. However, the combat losses brought to China by these wars are quite small, and perhaps the losses of hundreds or thousands of armored vehicles seem to be a lot in peacetime, but compared with the losses of more than 100,000 armored vehicles of the Soviet army and the 60,000 or 70,000 armored vehicles of the United States, the losses of armored vehicles of the Chinese army in the above wars do not exceed 10,000.

Officially, because of the small combat losses, a large number of old equipment in the Chinese Army has not been consumed, but at the same time, due to technological progress, the Chinese Army has been forced to put into large-scale service of more advanced equipment, which has also led to a large number of old equipment being forced to be mothballed, or withdrawn from the first-line troops to equip the second-line troops. The most obvious examples of this are the T9\12 series tanks, as well as the T8 light tank and the T10 Southern tank. These tanks were not bad before World War II, and they were barely the main force in the early stage of World War II, but today they are outdated and outdated in the late stage of World War II, and the T9 \ 12 series is forced to continue to equip the second-line troops due to the huge number of them, but those T8 and T10 tanks have been completely retired and directly mothballed.

Therefore, although China's total output of various military materials during World War II was not as good as that of the United States, today in 1945, China is definitely the world's largest in the number of various military equipment it holds.

After all, everyone is producing in large quantities, and others are consuming and producing at the same time, but you only produce but do not consume, and the extra ones are very obvious gaps.

Otherwise, how could the Chinese Army dare to claim to be the world's first, isn't it because the Chinese Army has the largest number of armored vehicles in the world, and now the Chinese Army has more than 100,000 armored vehicles of all kinds, more than the US Army, although more than half of them were produced in the early and pre-war stages of World War II, but it is not wrong to say that this total number is the most.

Looking at the production and existing holdings of the main tanks of various countries, the total production of China's T15 and T18 tanks has reached about 13,000 units, and after the losses of many foreign wars, it is about 10,000 units. As for the T9 \ 12 series of tanks are more, this series of tanks includes more than 20,000 modifications, but this series of tanks is used for foreign military aid, and also uses the chassis to modify a large number of special tanks and self-propelled guns, assault guns, etc., so the T9 \ 12 series of tanks are not much extant, only more than 5,000 units, but the T9 \ 12 tank chassis modification of various assault guns, self-propelled guns is up to more than 10,000, basically T9 \ The chassis of the 12 series formed the chassis of the main tracked artillery of the Chinese Army.

Then there are the southern tanks T16 equipped by Southeast Asian and domestic forces, as well as the T19 amphibious tanks equipped by amphibious forces and marines, which are also quite a few, reaching several thousand. In addition, there is a very large number of T14 light tanks, this 8-ton light tank is widely equipped in all Chinese troops, mainly as reconnaissance tanks, the number has reached more than 3,000.

Then there are T11 heavy tanks, T17 heavy, T13 tanks, T9E tanks and other tanks with relatively small output.

At the same time, the second-line troops of the Chinese Army are also equipped with a large number of T10, T8, and T6 series tanks, and some T9\12, T8, T10 and other tanks are also mothballed.

Coupled with a larger number of self-propelled artillery, assault guns, infantry fighting vehicles and other fully tracked armored vehicles, it is not a lie that the Chinese Army has more than 100,000 armored vehicles!

Due to the fact that there are too many armored vehicles retained, this has led to the fact that the Chinese army is widely equipped with tanks and assault guns, and in addition to the fixed establishment, it has established a large number of reading tank battalions, tank annihilation battalions, heavy tank battalions and other units, and these reading battalion-level armored units will be temporarily strengthened to the front-line combat troops, and among the three tank battalions commanded by the 67th Infantry Division mentioned earlier, there is a reading tank battalion.

China retains a large number of armored vehicles because of the small war losses in World War II, and the reason why the Americans also keep so many armored vehicles is purely because their production capacity is strong enough, and he immediately produced two for the loss of one on the front line, so during World War II, the larger the Americans' tanks were, the more they spent, and of course the military expenditure was much more than China's.

These two armies are not short of tanks and other armored vehicles, even if it is just for a small Kechakh, it is dozens or hundreds of armored vehicles that drive out to fight.

In these years, even if it is a battle of 1,000 people, if you don't have dozens of tanks in it, you are embarrassed to say that you are a participating country in World War II.

The small Kochach has a total of more than 200 all-tracked armored vehicles of the Chinese and American armies, and this is naturally very lively.

As soon as Bao Erqing left on the front foot, Lao Li took car No. 311 south, and not long after leaving, he exchanged fire with an American M26.

However, because of the distance, when the two sides found and exchanged fire with each other, the distance was a full 1,800 meters, and the two sides did not say that they were fighting in the endless plains, although the area where the Kechah was located was not mountainous, but the terrain was also undulating, and the tanks of the two sides were 1,800 meters away, which could make the other side unable to get the firing range with a little maneuver.

So when Lao Li fired two shots and failed to hit the M26 tank, he continued to move forward with car No. 311, and on the right, car No. 136 and car No. 138 also cooperated to move forward, and the battle groups of the two tanks were covering each other to move forward.

On the opposite side, two U.S. M4 tanks, also supported by two M26 tanks, began to maneuver in a wide range and tried to attack around the flank.

The duel between the tanks of the two sides is far from over.

For Lao Li, the battle continues, and for Bao Erqing, the battle continues.

When he finally returned to the rear, he found a medical soldier to urgently bandage his arm, and he was lucky, although his arm was bloody, it was only a flesh wound, not a bone, so there was no major problem after the emergency bandaging to stop the bleeding. But then he saw an officer with the rank of captain, about thirty years old, walking into the infirmary, and then glanced inside and looked at Bao Erqing and said, "Sergeant, are you the commander?" ”

Bao Erqing had just been bandaged, and when he saw the commander asking, he immediately saluted and said, "Report to the chief, I am the commander of car No. 137!" ”

The officer asked, "Where's your tank?" ”

Bao Erqing said: "Report sir, my tank was destroyed by the Americans!" ”

The officer frowned slightly: "Oh, then how many did you knock out?" ”

Bao Erqing said: "Report to the chief, knock out two Yankee's Sherman tanks!" ”

The captain looked at Bao Erqing's arm at this time: "How is it, can you fight again?" ”

Bao Erqing said: "Report to the sir, the doctor said that this is just a flesh wound, and I can continue to fight!" ”

Indeed, as a commander, he commanded tank battles, and this injury would not have been good in peacetime, but now that it is wartime, Bao Erqing can indeed continue to command tank battles if he is barely strong.

The captain nodded and said, "Okay, I'll give you another tank!" ”

A minute later, Bao Erqing saw a T18 tank with the body number 345 in the open space outside.

However, when he walked to the No. 345 car next to him, he found that the T18 tank had obviously just experienced a fierce battle, and there was an obvious big hole on its left side, and when he saw this hole, Bao Erqing knew that it should have been penetrated by the Americans' 75 mm tank gun, but although it was broken, it did not cause much damage to the inside of the tank, otherwise the No. 345 tank would not have been able to drive back here, of course, what he didn't know was that the four crew members of the tank were reimbursed for three, Moreover, the turret was also temporarily damaged, and only one driver was left to temporarily withdraw from the battle with the tank, and after emergency repairs, it appeared here, and the captain just now organized the crew of the No. 345 car, which had been injured, but was obviously able to fight again. When Bao Erqing took the big black man and two other crew members he didn't know into the No. 345 car, he could clearly see the blood stains inside, and he could still feel the slimy blood stains when he reached out and touched it.

Sergeant Bao Erqing hung his injured arm, and then ordered through the headset: "Go, brothers are still waiting for us!" ”