"Five hundred meters ahead, I found devils, the number is unknown..."

Inside the tank radio, the alarm sounded.

"Turn on the lights."

Taking a deep breath, Sun Desheng, who was also in the tank, gave the order.

At this moment, the former commander of the cavalry battalion, the current commander of the armored battalion of the Independent Regiment, and the director of the Zhao Jiayu Machinery Factory, had a solemn face.

The armor manual that accompanied the No. 4 tank was plain and clear.

Tanks are not suitable for night operations.

The tank's field of vision is already limited, the situation is even more serious at night, there are many blind spots in the field of vision, and it is very difficult to coordinate the infantry tank at night, and the effect of the flares is not so ideal.

But only the attacking side is qualified to decide when and where the battle will begin.

He didn't have a choice.

Besides, the entire independent regiment is the most suitable to deal with this group of devils who burst in at night, and the armored battalion bears the brunt.

With the heavy armor, powerful firepower, and high-speed mobility of the No. 4 tank, they can quickly rush to the battlefield, quickly defeat or even severely damage this group of devils, and they will not suffer too many casualties.

The other troops, facing this group of elite devils at night, will not please anyone, and it is easy to suffer heavy losses.

Of course, the tanks at night are severely limited, and the coordination of infantry and tanks is difficult, not to mention that they are just a group of novices who lack actual combat, even if this group of devils does not have anti-tank weapons, but the flesh charge of the devils will inevitably cause a lot of losses to the armor.

Still.

With thick armor protection, as well as an inner lining, the Devil's flesh bullet attack may destroy the tank's tracks, outer armor, and even the rear engine, and in the worst case, lead to the scrapping of the tank.

But the crew in the tank will be injured at best, and there will definitely not be many casualties.

And then what!

Boss Chen will be reimbursed twice next month!

And the devils, even at night, it takes at least twenty people to blow up a tank.

No loss, no loss.

With Sun Desheng's order, in the team of half-track armored vehicles located at the rear of the convoy, three half-track armored vehicles slowly stopped, but the engines were still roaring frantically.

At the same time, on the body, under the control of several fighters, a searchlight with a diameter of two meters with armored partitions was slowly raised, clicking, three thick pillars of light appeared, and a fan-shaped area of one kilometer in front of the convoy was slender.

The devils who were hiding in front were also illuminated clearly.

In order to cope with the night encounter, Sun Desheng was prepared and deliberately arranged searchlight headlights.

"Tank company, attack."

Sun Desheng shouted again.

Dadada·····

Boom...

In an instant, the tank tracks were activated, and at the same time the 75 main gun on the turret, the coaxial machine gun, the twin 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun with shields on the half-track armored vehicle began to roar.

Dense shells and bullets hit both sides of the road where the devils were hiding·····

And.

The fire was still charging along with the advance of tanks and armored vehicles.

·······

"Yaga."

Brushed by the tears stimulated by the three huge pillars of light, the captain of the devil team, the leader of the first combat team of the Yamamoto Special Forces, couldn't help but scold, and of course his complexion changed greatly.

The flares are poor, but the searchlight definitely makes the view the same as during the day.

After swearing, before he could respond, he heard a dense rain of bullets hitting him, forcing him to lower his head and dodge.

At the same time, around him, the screams were heard one after another.

Although the Devils were concealed before the battle, the lack of strong cover near the road, and the rudimentary dirt slope did work against Mauser pointed bullets, but it was difficult to protect against 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets.

As for the 75 shells, it is even more the same as papier-mâché.

Sun Desheng's group had ten tanks and twenty half-track armored vehicles.

Three of them were in charge of searchlight at the rear, and only 17 armored vehicles were fired, but there were also a total of 10 75 guns, 20 coaxial machine guns, and 34 12.7 mm heavy machine guns.

And three of the half-track armored vehicles also had an 82 mortar on the body.

On the rest of the half-tracks, there were also general-purpose machine guns carried by the infantry, as well as Mauser rifles, which were also firing.

With such ferocious firepower, coupled with the illumination of three high-power searchlights, the two sides were the first to face each other, and the tank company reimbursed most of the devil's squad of troops, and he was unharmed.

The devil wants to fight back, even if he can't hit or penetrate, it's good to be brave.

But there really can't be helped.

In a hurry, they did not have time to build strong and reasonable fortifications, and in the face of the enemy's fierce artillery suppression, it was difficult to find an opportunity to counterattack, and in the face of the dazzling high-power searchlights, they could not see anything at all.

"It can't go on like this."

The captain of the devil brigade is also a veteran of many battles, and being recognized by Yamamoto as the leader of the first combat team also shows that his command ability is outstanding, and he quickly realizes that he must change his tactics.

Originally, he planned to wait for the tanks to approach, and then let the heroic samurai of the Empire rush forward with explosives packs to destroy the enemy tanks, and in the night environment, it couldn't be easier to blow up the tanks.

But what he didn't expect was that Tubalu had already prepared and actually prepared a searchlight, and this power was greater than that of an air defense searchlight.

With searchlights to provide illumination, he continued, and before the enemy could get closer, his elite brigade had already suffered heavy losses, and even if he could destroy the Tubalu tank force in front of him, he would not be able to continue the attack.

It is also impossible to transfer positions.

Under the searchlight, the hidden position of his troops was like daylight, and the enemy's fire was crazy and powerful, and if he came out of cover, he would die.

So the enemy's searchlight must be eliminated first.

Glancing ahead with difficulty, he quickly judged the location of the enemy's searchlight, which was more than a kilometer away from him, such a distance, the guns were ineffective, the Type 38 rifle, the Type 92 heavy machine gun was not good, only the Type 92 infantry gun, or mortar could reach.

Moreover, these two weapons can only be barely used.

The Type 92 infantry gun has poor mobility, as does the mortar, and it is extremely risky to face a tank gun with a quick response.

If only there was an enemy recoilless gun, or a large-caliber heavy machine gun······· At this moment, a thought came to the old devil's mind, these two direct-fire weapons were very suitable for the current situation.

It's a pity that the empire didn't.

"Artillery units destroy the enemy's searchlights."

He quickly gave the order.

Behind the position, on the back of the hillside, the devils quickly began to assemble Type 92 infantry guns, as well as mortars. A few minutes later, several Type 92 shells, mortar shells cut through a large arc and fell near the searchlight in the rear.

Type 92 can also be fired at large elevation angles and used as a mortar.

Boom Boom Boom ·····

The blast wave rose near three half-track armored vehicles equipped with searchlights.

I have to marvel, the quality of these elite devils is really powerful, the first round of shelling, accurately hit the searchlight, of course, there are also reasons for the proximity.

"Drive, shift positions."

In the face of the bombardment of the devils, the searchlights had to move their positions to evade, which also caused the lights that had been illuminating the devils' positions to shake and a large blind spot.

Without stabilizing the illumination, the speed of the devil's casualties suddenly decreased.

At this time, the tank company was only more than 200 meters away from the devil's position.

"Continue to suppress enemy searchlights."

"Demolition samurai prepare."

The Devil Captain continued to give orders, and he found a squadron leader and said:

"You take the men and make a detour from behind to attack the enemy's searchlights."

Behind the hillside in the rear, Type 92 infantry guns and medium-caliber mortars fired non-stop, and behind bunkers such as earthen bags and ditches, devils wearing white cloth strips only hugged the explosive bags in their arms, their eyes were crazy.

The Devil Heavy finally got a respite and found a suitable position to set up their machine guns.

There are also more than two dozen devils who fled from behind, crossing an arc to attack the searchlight position a kilometer away.

In the tank, in the face of the devil's response, Sun Desheng also issued a new order:

"Mortars suppress enemy artillery, infantry dismounts."

A direct-fire tank gun could not threaten the devil artillery located behind the hillside, but a mortar on a half-track armored vehicle could.

Three 82 mortars changed direction and aimed at the artillery positions of the devils.

Meantime.

In the rear of the half-track armored vehicle, some fighters jumped out of the vehicle with submachine guns and followed behind the tank, while others were prepared to provide fire cover with the help of firing holes on the wings.

Because of the lack of firing range and lack of experience, the mortar artillery group has never played an artillery battle, and the mortar of the tank company was unable to suppress the artillery fire of the devils for a while, resulting in the searchlight being suppressed and the illumination has been unstable.

Even one of them was hit by the devils, there were casualties, and the searchlights became two.

When the tank was less than fifty meters from the devil's position.

"Smoke bombs."

The captain of the devil brigade was violent, and on the devil's position, the devil holding a grenadier fired smoke bombs one after another.

Bang bang bang·····

For a moment, smoke covered the front of the position, obscuring the tank's view.

"Suppress the infantry around the enemy's tanks."

Immediately afterward, he gave a second order.

Dadada·····

On the temporary position of the devils, a machine gun opened fire, and the fighters of the independent regiment who followed the tank had to hide behind the tank, and at the same time, the tank also turned the turret and shelled the devil machine gunners by name.

The half-track armored car in the rear also aimed a heavy machine gun at the devil machine gunner.

For a time, not only the soldiers behind the tank were suppressed, but the machine gunners of the devils also suffered heavy losses.

But at the same time, wave after wave of devil meat bombs rushed out, these devils wore plaster flags on their heads, held explosive bags in their hands, and rushed towards the tank with a howl, most of them were killed directly on the way, but a small number of them approached or even reached the vicinity of the tank.

Boom Boom...

Violent explosions came one after another, and the attacking devils suffered heavy casualties, but the tanks of the tank company also suffered losses, and one of the devils was blown up in the first wave of meat bomb charges, and one was blown up with the engine blown up, causing a fire.

Although it has been trained hard and even simulated actual combat many times, the first infantry and tank coordination of the first tank company is still full of loopholes.

There is a world of difference between simulated actual combat and real actual combat.

Fortunately, the crew escaped, and only a few people were injured.

"Go on the offensive."

Seeing that the first wave had blown up two enemy tanks, the captain of the devil brigade was inspired and organized an attack again.

The battle between the two sides lasted until dawn, and in the end, all ten tanks of the tank company were lying on their stomachs, and the tracked armored vehicles also suffered a lot of losses, especially the half-track vehicles loaded with searchlights, which were all blown up by the devils who suddenly came out of the flanks.

But less than eighty of the six hundred elites of the devils escaped in the end, including the captain of the devil's brigade, the leader of the first group of Yamamoto's special team.

"Fuck ·····"

Crawling out of the damaged tank, Sun Desheng yelled at the soldiers around him:

"Butan coordination, have you eaten all the usual training?"

No wonder he's so angry.

Although the devil charged fiercely, the firepower of the tank company was absolutely superior, and even if there was no searchlight, the tank itself carried a flare to provide effective illumination.

As a result, all ten tanks were blown up by devils.

To sum up, the reason is that there is a serious problem with the coordination between the infantry and the tank, which leads to a large number of holes in the defense, which is close to the devil death squad.

Of course, part of the reason is that this group of devils is really crazy enough, and the devils who rushed up with explosives bags didn't think to go back, and some even pounced directly under the tracks.

“·····”

After scolding for half an hour, Sun Desheng took a breath:

"What about casualties and losses?"

"The total casualties were seventy-nine, seventeen were sacrificed, and eleven were seriously wounded."

Someone immediately reported:

"Ten tanks were damaged, twelve half-track armored vehicles were lost, and all searchlights were damaged."

"Not bad."

Sun Desheng nodded in satisfaction.

After this actual battle, he saw many problems that he had not found before, and also found the shortcomings in his previous training. Moreover, after this actual battle, the tank company will inevitably be reborn.

······

Zhao Jiayu.

Inside the regimental headquarters of the independent regiment.

"Hiss·····"

"Commander, you're ·····"

Looking at the operational schematic diagram drawn by his regiment commander, even Zhang Dabiao, who had followed Li Yunlong for six years and had almost achieved a good heart, couldn't help but gasp.

Don't blame him for being frightened, it's really the hand of his own head of the regiment, which is too unexpected for normal people.

Anti-aircraft machine guns and small-caliber anti-aircraft guns are fired horizontally, dealing with infantry, this trick is very normal, Zhang Dabiao has also used it many times, it is very cool, very energetic, and super powerful. Sometimes, he couldn't help but wonder if this was the correct way to use anti-aircraft weapons.

Lay flat.

But the hand of the head of his own regiment is not just as simple as flattening.

"Hey, hey, hey..."

"The brigade interspersed with devils is menacing and maneuvering quickly, and we can't judge its exact marching route."

Li Yunlong smiled and began to say:

"With 350 large-caliber heavy machine guns and 50 20-mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft guns in Gecun, it is difficult to make an effective defensive arrangement in a short period of time, and there is no way to mobilize enough troops to surround Gecun in a short period of time."

"But."

"Hey, hey, hey..."

"Who said a heavy machine gun had to be aimed at a straight shot?"

"Anyway, there are enough machine guns now, and the bullets can't be used up at all..."