The artillery battalion slowly came up from the rear. These tanks, armed with long-barreled 76 guns, needed an open terrain for mobile combat, and according to general experience, it was best to find some advantageous features below the muzzle, but it was not necessary to deal with the Japanese army. They received radio information that the enemy might appear from the southeast, but the radio warned them that it was their own reconnaissance unit that appeared first from there, and they remembered not to miss it. Chu Tingchang's command has been accurate to the millimeter, completely out of this era.

A mishit is certainly unlikely. The usual tank misfires occur when the commander, who does not dare to drill out of the turret, looks at the outside through the periscope in poor light.

The Wolverine's vision was so good that at this time, on every chariot, all the crew members except the driver were standing and looking around. The crews were issued two telescopes according to U.S. military standards, but many had three or four telescopes, and some even had 20x telescopes for the Navy.

It can be seen that the half-track and reconnaissance vehicles of their own side are rapidly withdrawn, and the battalion commander tries to get in touch with the retreating reconnaissance unit, but the signal is not ideal after a few kilometers. It is strange that the order given directly by the military headquarters 100 kilometers away is always clear.

Now the military department pointed out for them the approximate direction in which the enemy was going to appear. The tank destroyers rumbled forward. The Type 97 tank was an old adversary, and the Japanese stuffed the most capable anti-tank gun into this light tank (the Japanese standard was medium), but at medium and long distances, there was no threat. However, this tank was given some valuable tactics by the Japanese because it had more firepower than the Stuart and better mobility than the Sherman. In some cases, it was indeed able to maneuver around the direction of the Sherman's weaker armor, a tactic that was often used in the flatter and more open terrain of Australia, and was successful in some battles. So recently, Japanese tankers have gradually developed a strange self-confidence.

The Wolverine's tall hull allowed them to spot the Japanese tanks in pursuit earlier. The Japanese were chasing the hounds that fled quickly. The hounds kept a distance of about 1.5 km. At such a distance, it was almost impossible for Japanese gunners to hit moving targets.

The artillery battalions, lined up in loose formations, rushed to the flank of the enemy. They were also not sure to hit a moving target from a distance of 2 km, so they had to get closer.

Dong Quan, the commander of the artillery battalion, once served as a company commander in Zhou Youfu's unit and had some experience. He wanted to spread out as much formation as possible, use his firepower, and annihilate as many enemies as soon as possible. As for whether it was possible for the enemy to take advantage of the open terrain and make a detour to his flank, he didn't think much about it. The Wolverine is not easy to be outflanked by the enemy, one is the advantage of 360 ° observation without dead angles, and the other is that it also has good maneuverability, and the speed of this destroyer is much faster than that of Sherman. And because it lacks a heavy top, the center of gravity is also lower, making it less likely to roll over when turning at high speeds.

The Japanese tanks finally noticed the appearance of enemy tanks on the flanks. Group Leader Makoto Ogata is in a squadron that is being pursued. After seeing the enemy's situation, he hurriedly drilled out of the turret to observe, but fortunately, the distance was still far away, and it didn't seem to be the Sherman he was most worried about.

From the frontal projection, it appears to be some kind of reconnaissance vehicle with a very high chassis and a small turret. In Ogata's old thinking: a small turret means that the cannon won't be too strong. He ordered the whole body to turn and meet the enemy head-on. It was a fatal mistake he made. On such terrain, facing the enemy head-on, although it can strengthen the defense, it is bound to make it impossible for the tank to get out at speed, and if the enemy rushes hard, his troops can only carry it to the end.

Seeing the enemy's wrong response, Dong Quan certainly had enough confidence to face the battle head-on, he just wanted to take advantage of the enemy's mistake and put the battle into the most favorable track for himself.

The frontal defense of the Wolverine was close to that of the Sherman, the frontal turret was smaller, and of course it was not afraid of enemy 47-mm shells. In fact, the most feared incidents of this type of destroyer crew are, in order: air strikes, warp weapons, infantry attacks at close range (* throwing directly into the turret), heavy rain, enemy tanks, and anti-aircraft artillery.

The threat of Japanese tanks was actually only the second-to-last.

The artillery battalion pressed hard, so that the Japanese 97 tanks lost the best opportunity to respond, and now they can only reverse while firing back. Ogata realized that it was some kind of new tank that was rushing over, as they looked getting bigger and bigger. The small, low-looking turret seemed to contain a powerful cannon. The enemy's sporadic fire, although it did not hit the tank, but the force of the explosion that fell in the mud was really not small.

The Japanese had several hits, but they were completely ineffective against the target. Ogata ordered each to look for cover, but in the reversing state, finding cover was not easy. One of the problems with the tank car is that the driver's backward vision is close to 0.

With a fierce charge, the wolverine narrowed the distance to within a kilometer of the enemy. Now that Dong Quan realized that the enemy could not escape, he ordered to slow down in order to increase the accuracy of the artillery fire. Due to the fact that they had experienced a battle to destroy the pillboxes, these vehicles did not have enough ammunition and did not dare to shoot at will while moving, so they could only fire with short stops with better accuracy.

A small squad of Japanese troops attempted to move to the side of the Wolverine, which made them a target for everyone, and if the Japanese tanks crossed the 2 o'clock direction, then their artillery threat would gradually increase. Wolverines have relatively weak flank defenses.

After the tanks came to an abrupt stop, they began to turn the turrets, and the enemy's outflanking maneuvers, exposing their sides even more, of course, the 76-mm gun could penetrate the 97 tank from any angle within a kilometer, but the increased cross-sectional area of the enemy's exposed sides was beneficial for the gunner.

The shells whistled away, some missed the tank and left behind, some fell in the mud, but these observable errors were used by the gunner to correct the next shot. In the era when laser ranging and automatic binding fire control did not exist, the rough calculation of addition, subtraction and subtraction in the human brain was the most important part of hitting a moving target. The gunner's own judgment of distance is related to the subtle adjustment of the height; His judgment of the enemy's speed becomes his judgment of the amount of advance. As for the wind deviation, it will be left to Taishang Laojun to consider. Experienced gunners, usually not at long distances, indicated targets with a coaxial machine gun, which had a high muzzle velocity and was no longer close to the machine-gun trajectory; Moreover, when a machine gun hits the armor, it will remind the opposing tanker to constantly change the speed and destroy the calculation of the amount in advance, which is actually more than worth the loss.

After careful aiming, a Wolverine opened fire, hitting the Japanese 97 tank at a distance of 1,100 meters. The shell pierced the chassis of the tank at such a distance, knocked out the load-bearing wheels, and penetrated the hull, breaking the propeller shaft. The Japanese tanks quickly stopped.

The gunner hurried to aim, urging the loader to reload. The Japanese commander tried to escape, but his saber got stuck in the hatch and he couldn't get out for a while. The gun commander watched the dog's every move through the scope, and he really couldn't understand why the Japanese were going to get into such a small car with a knife. He shook his handwheel and raised the muzzle of the cannon slightly, waiting for the shell to be reloaded.

"Done!"

The loader shouted. He stuffed a heavy shell in 7 seconds.

The gun commander quickly pressed the firing pedal, and he had to fire the shot before the Japanese commander fled. The shell accurately hit the turret, which immediately detonated the ammunition inside the tank. The Japanese commander flew into the air with his saber.

The Japanese were attacked by a weapon that was significantly more powerful than Sherman's. The Wolverine's low trajectory makes it more likely to hit, and the wider turret space makes it faster to reload. It was a weapon designed to deal with a potential heavily armored adversary in Europe, and it was an unusually easy way to deal with an enemy in Asia.

Within minutes, more than ten Japanese tanks were destroyed. The Japanese tanks hit the Wolverines more often, but did not achieve any results except for a few slight dents in the armor. The loss of tungsten mines in Burma made the already weak level of the Japanese army even lower.

The wolverine activates and presses towards the enemy. On the radio, each vehicle group began to report its own results, hoping to be verified by their respective platoon commanders at the first time, which is of course a major event related to bounty, so many car crews did not hesitate to repeat the shooting of the enemy tanks that were already smoking to "pretend" the results.

The hound reconnaissance vehicle, which had already fled, did not leave the battlefield, and they quickly slipped away by taking advantage of the low hull, and then they were called back by the military headquarters and asked them to kill a horse pistol.

The company commander was a little apprehensive, he didn't believe that the military headquarters had such a correct grasp of the situation, he got out of the car and conducted a reconnaissance on foot, and found that the Japanese troops in the distance were indeed bitten and might retreat to the city. This is not something that can be done by stargazing at night or by turtle shells, extensive strategic prediction. How did the commander communicate with the immortals, and achieve such a precise temporary, tactical adjustment, no matter what, I can't guess.

The M8 wheeled armored vehicle, armed with a 37 mm gun, has the ability to destroy enemy tanks if the location and distance are suitable.

The tanks quickly circled around the abandoned village according to the enemy's retreat route provided by the military headquarters. No sooner had they arrived than Ogata's convoy retreated over a hill to the point where the Japanese could finally take advantage of the hillside to catch their breath before quickly turning around and fleeing back into the city. The Japanese tank turned around on its own in the muddy pond on the edge of the village, and the scene was chaotic for a while.

Several dexterous hounds suddenly emerged from the embankment and began to shoot, and from a distance of less than a hundred meters, after hitting several tanks, the hounds quickly reversed and fled into the riverbed.

The swiftness of the wheeled vehicle plays to its advantage. They moved even faster than the rotation of the Japanese turrets. Waiting for the Japanese to turn their attention to the embankment. In the other direction, another hound suddenly attacked the chaotic Japanese army from behind the low wall. Only four Japanese tanks were destroyed in the attack, and the burning tanks blocked the retreat, making it impossible for the remaining tanks to escape.

The first Wolverine climbed the high slope, it raised its hull high on the top of the slope, exposing the weak bottom armor, it was a risky moment, but no Japanese tanks fired at it. The destroyer crossed the center of gravity and fell heavily. Appeared like a god in front of all the Japanese tanks, overlooking the disorganized enemy.