Chapter 567: Armored Train
The vast grassland desert, recorded the hooves of the Qin and Han dynasties, carried the majestic wind of the Tang Dynasty, and also gave birth to the tyranny of Meng Yuan, and now in this land, it has ushered in a powerful iron horse, a powerful cavalry completely armed with steel, like a wild beast that crawled out of eternity, and the entire grassland was shaken.
More than a hundred tanks and armored vehicles, plus hundreds of cars, constituted an unprecedented liliang, which was running wildly on the grassland, and the yellow sand that was lifted up filled the sky and obscured the sun.
Zhang Tingshu was leading the most powerful armored Liliang of the Feng army along the edge of the Mongolian steppe, and according to Jihua, he was going to lead the tank crews from the flank around the Borshonozyne Mountains to the back of Sherlovayagora to cut off the Trans-Siberian railway and turn the Russian soldiers in the small city into fish on the chopping block.
Second Young Master Zhang knew very well that his success or failure was not only related to the gains and losses of a city, but also related to the development of tactics, how to build the land liliang of the Feng army. Although the Feng army was successively equipped with armored vehicles and tanks, and played a considerable role in the battle, many people still insisted that the tanks were only a cover for the infantry and served as a mobile battery.
Of course, there is another point of view among the Feng army, that is, the status of tanks should be improved, and even that tanks are the kings of future land warfare. Zhang Tinglan did not participate in the controversy between the two factions, but as Zhang Tinglan's younger brother, he naturally knew the eldest brother's thoughts.
Zhang Tinglan has talked to Zhang Tingshu many times about the problem of tanks, and he is very respectful of this new weapon. As the saying goes, a mule is a horse, and it is pulled out to slip away. The reason why Zhang Tinglan did not draw a conclusion was that he was waiting for the actual combat verification, and only the real record was the most convincing.
Second Young Master Zhang is now shouldering this mission. He was in the tank, his mind churning and tumbling, thinking about how to win this crucial first battle. His body also swayed with the undulation of the tank, as if he was in the middle of the waves.
If it's the first time you're sitting in a tank, it won't take you more than ten minutes before you vomit. However, I can't stand it often, in a small space, a few big men are crammed into the tin jar, and the temperature soon reaches more than 30 degrees. Soon the smell of sweat and gasoline mixed together, irritating the nostrils and making people sick.
Zhang Tingshu leaned his upper body out of the tank, and a cool wind was blowing in his face. After running for 20 kilometers in a company, suddenly two tanks lay on their stomachs one after the other. Stopped on the road and couldn't move. Zhang Tingshu saw that the time was almost noon. Hurriedly ordered all to stop, have a good lunch, and then take a break.
The soldiers who had been given the order to rest all crawled out of the tanks, greedily breathing in the fresh air, and some of them thrashed their sore muscles hard. Sit inside the steel behemoth and fight your way into the enemy camp. That's a majestic thing, but behind the glamour, there is also the bitterness of the tank crew, and driving a tank is not a comfortable thing. Especially early tanks.
Due to the backward means of shock absorption, the tank had to withstand unimaginable bumps and vibrations, and even in World War II, the Russian tank crews were shocked to death in the process of rapid marching. Of course, this has something to do with the shoddy manufacture of Russian tanks, but it also shows that it is not easy for tank crews.
Today, the industrial level of the Feng army is not as good as that of the Russians during World War II, as the first generation of armored liliang, these soldiers have also suffered unimaginable torture, and they finally rested, and they all hurried to recover their energy.
At this time, the Jishu personnel in charge of maintenance also ran over, and the reliability of the early tanks was also a big problem, so during the rapid raid, a large team of nannies had to be followed behind. This time, the Feng army sent all the only more than 100 trucks.
In addition to ammunition and fuel, there are several vehicles with maintenance equipment and spare parts, and they are ready to rescue the vehicle in trouble.
Zhang Tingshu walked forward and came to the tank in the nest, five Jishu personnel were in charge of repairs, and there were two Germans with high noses, they were the backbone of Jishu who was responsible for repairs, and the other apprentices were staring at each other, for fear of missing any key places.
"These two tanks, one is a problem with the tracks, and the other is a little trouble with the transmission, you must know that this is a desert area, and the wind and sand are still very large, but they are all minor problems that can be solved quickly!"
Zhang Tingshu looked at it on the side, and then said to the tank soldier beside him: "From today onwards, all of you will add a course, give me a good lesson on how to repair tanks, and require that within half a year, everyone can handle the short-answer questions, of course, the deeper the learning, the better, and this achievement will also be included in the evaluation!" ”
"Regiment commander, we are in a war, this maintenance work is done by the masters, it's okay, let's practice shooting kung fu!" A soldier said with a bitter face that in addition to intensive training, Fengjun also arranged a lot of cultural courses, in addition to basic literacy, there are also mathematics, physics, chemistry, language and other courses, and the soldiers basically have no spare time.
Tank soldiers are considered to be high jishu troops, and the requirements of cultural courses are second only to pilots, which has long made everyone miserable, and some people are even looking forward to fighting more than training, and now Zhang Tingshu has added another one to them, how can these people not complain about it!
"Nonsense!" The second young master was not polite at all, and frowned: "Let me tell you, the battlefield will never be staged according to the rehearsal, if the logistics vehicles do not keep up during the war, you will not move, waiting for the shells?" What if you're under siege and surrounded by enemy troops? As the saying goes, you don't have to press yourself, learn more things, without your losses, take 10,000 steps back, and when you go home from the army, you can't find a job, and you can still repair the tractor! ”
The more the second young master talked, the more justified he became, he was really thinking about them, and these guys dared not to appreciate it, how could it be unreasonable!
"This craft is not only related to the combat effectiveness of the troops, but also related to your happy life in the future, listed as the most important content of the evaluation, I personally supervise, which one is not up to the mark, you just wait to be punished!"
The soldiers finished their lunch, rested for a while, and then moved on. The tank roared forward, running over the grass more than half a man tall and climbing over the rolling hills, with little trouble except for the occasional nest of the tank.
When the sun was setting in the west, they finally reached the edge of a stream, took a sip of cool water, and poured it into their stomachs, and felt very comfortable.
Zhang Tingshu studied the map carefully, and they had already bypassed the Borxiao Nozine Mountain. Less than thirty kilometers further on, this time it was the target Sherlovayagora!
"All have a good night's rest, and at dawn they will try to surprise the Russians!"
While Zhang Tingshu was making arrangements, Feng Yong, who was in charge of the Air Force, was not idle. He summoned his staff officers and flight captains to discuss tactical matters carefully.
To make Blitzkrieg work. The Air Force must act as a spearhead. Kill all the threatening targets and disrupt the order of the Russian army, and then the tank crew can deliver a fatal blow.
"Ladies and gentlemen, tomorrow is the first time we will conduct joint operations with armored forces, and this is a completely new form of warfare, and you must be careful and attentive. We must not mess things up and disgrace the Air Force, otherwise we will be severely punished! ”
In the active mobilization of the Feng army, the Russian army in charge of Sherlovayagora also felt a hint of mountain rain coming and the wind was full of buildings. Paul was appointed temporary commander, and his mission was to take advantage of the mountain danger to block the Chinese army as much as possible and buy time for the Russian army to move troops.
As the Feng army gradually gained a firm foothold, the pressure on Paul's shoulders increased, as if the Feng army would come over anytime and anywhere. From the bottom of their hearts, after the Battle of Borja, the Russians have begun to face up to the Feng army as an opponent.
Among the intervening forces, China is undoubtedly weaker than those powers, but China is the most determined to intervene and the most able to endure sacrifices, because it concerns China's territory of more than one million square kilometers, for which Chinese soldiers are willing to throw their heads and spill their blood!
When Paul was rescuing Borgia, he encountered the attack of Liliang in the air of the Feng army on the way, and in his heart, he already had a trace of instinctive fear for the Feng army, and he could not forget the tragic situation of his subordinates who had no power to fight back at all, and the corpses were scattered all over the place.
Sometimes, in nightmares, the Feng army will kill here again and blow everything up. Paul sat in front of him for most of the night, and did not fall asleep until the second half of the night.
In his dream, the Feng army really attacked, the dense planes obscured the day, the bombs were rained down, the whole city was in flames, and countless soldiers were wiped out, they cried and screamed in pain, and there was no ability to resist.
"Enemy attack!"
When Paul was half-asleep, a terrible alarm sounded, and his mind went blank in an instant, and the offensive of the Feng army really came, and thirty-six bombers, escorted by fighters, appeared over the Russians.
The only dozen or so planes of the Russian army also took to the air to respond, and in a hurry, Russian planes were shot down one after another. The bombers of the Feng army lowered to the height of the bombs, and one after another large bombs fell, and the city was immediately shrouded in smoke and fire.
Paul could only desperately command the Russian soldiers to extinguish the fire, and at this time, suddenly a scout ran over and reported anxiously: "Comrade division commander, we found that the Chinese army sent a large number of armored vehicles to kill them in the direction of the railway!" ”
As soon as he heard this, Paul's eyes widened Large-scale air raids are the prelude to the war, and he knew it clearly in his heart, but Paul didn't expect that the Feng army would start with armor, which was really a bit too unexpected.
"In addition to armored vehicles, are there infantry and cavalry, how many are there?"
The scout's face was a little embarrassed: "We only saw a large number of armored vehicles, and there was yellow sand behind them, and we couldn't see whether there were other troops behind us at all." ”
When Paul heard this, he frowned, and then said: "Send the armored train, all three of them are sent out, patrol the railway line, absolutely not let the Chinese succeed!" ”
As an old power, the Russians still have a bit of a foundation, as early as the Russo-Japanese War, they used a large number of armored trains, to the little devils to kill heavy injuries, after the First World War, the Russians carried forward the armored train. Now that Russia is dyed red, the rulers still prefer the powerful weapon of armored trains.
The Russians also knew that the long Trans-Siberian Railway was an Achilles' heel, so they sent armored trains as a sharp weapon to patrol along the way.
With the protection of armored trains, there will be no problems with the railway line, and if the railway can be saved, they will be able to retreat and, if necessary, retreat. Now that the Feng army sent Liliang to raid the railway line, Paul could only take out the contents at the bottom of the box.
The armored trains used by the Russians were four-section each, armed with two seventy-six-mm guns, and at the same time twenty machine guns, and were out-and-out firepower hedgehogs. The settlements of the Far East are scattered, and the Trans-Siberian Railway is like a bamboo stick of a sugar gourd, threading all the settlements.
Whoever can master the railway line wins the battle, and in the battle for control of the railway line, armored trains play a huge role. The three armored trains roared out of the city, their huge bodies speeding along the railway line, looking extremely powerful.
Zhang Tingshu led his subordinates, completely ignoring any Russian obstruction along the way, whether it was cavalry or infantry, they could all be easily crushed. The railway was already in sight, and suddenly the second young master suddenly saw the behemoth of the armored train, and he was also taken aback.
It was like a big hedgehog, it was terrifying, and the soldiers were a little uneasy, but when he calmed down, he knew it was a Russian armored train.
Zhang Tingshu couldn't help but hahadaxiao for a moment: "Brothers, others look at big things, but they are stupid guys, and they can't do without the railway line at all." We are a pack of wolves, the armored train is a big buffalo, don't look at the horns and hooves, we don't have to be afraid at all, on the contrary, we have to eat them! ”
"The 1st and 2nd battalions flanked from both flanks and were responsible for cutting the railway line, and I charged from the front with the rest of the tanks to see who was stronger!"
Zhang Tingshu assigned the combat mission, he took the lead in getting into the tank, roaring towards the Russian armored train, the difference between the two is very huge in terms of size, the armored train is more than ten times that of the tank, and the firepower is also very amazing, the machine gun bullets are like raindrops, sweeping towards Zhang Tingshu's tank.
But this little bit is extremely tenacious, and it is getting closer and closer to the armored train, and the thirty-seven-mm gun is already aimed at the body! (To be continued......)