Rise from eight hundred.

Chapter 922 The Missed Cornfield!
Second Lieutenant Matsuda's leg was pierced, but his movements were extremely flexible.

The tactical movement of rolling on the hillside at high speed is comparable to the ball pushed by the dung beetle. If it is matched with the smell on its body, it is simply like that.

Therefore, he quickly hid behind a boulder weighing nearly 300 kilograms. Unless the Chinese bombarded it with infantry artillery, his life would be saved.

Especially after seeing the sergeant who once looked at him disgustingly and didn't want to hide it was hit by a heavy machine gun bullet from nowhere.

The material of the 90 steel helmet can’t resist the bullet with powerful kinetic energy at all. The bullet directly broke into the helmet and left a hole the size of a thumb. You don’t need to probe for his heartbeat, just look at the blood flowing like a waterfall from the gap in the helmet, Matsuda The second lieutenant knew that if the sergeant survived, then the real Amaterasu had manifested.

The little guy was thumping, and Second Lieutenant Matsuda was grateful for the bullet that pierced his calf.

Although that feeling made the second lieutenant of the Japanese Army who once held a samurai sword and swore to shed the last drop of blood for His Majesty the Emperor feel a little ashamed.

"For His Majesty the Emperor, I have to live well." Lieutenant Matsuda quickly found a reasonable reason for himself, and quickly hid his head behind a big rock, determined not to look at the Chinese position again.

The Chinese were crazy. In order to prevent this attack by the imperial infantry, they did not spare any ammunition. Not only rifles, but even many machine guns were desperately firing.

Sparks flew from the boulder on which he was hiding.

Second Lieutenant Matsuda didn't dare to look at the Chinese position, but this in no way prevented him from casting his eyes on the 200 tanks less than 89 meters away from him.

That almost invincible big guy was turning the tracks to adjust the direction of the muzzle of the 57MM short-barreled artillery. Even if an unknown number of bullets fell on its huge body, it would leave nothing but sparks.

The 89 tanks are no more than 350 meters away from the Chinese position. At such a short distance, there is no fortification that can withstand the power of tank guns.As soon as the gun goes down, a firepower point will be annihilated.

So, Second Lieutenant Matsuda saw the brilliance of his tanks!
It was definitely the most brilliant fireworks he had ever seen in his life, not because of the 57mm tank gun of his own tank, but from the tank itself.

Covered by the smoke, the Chinese gunner who had been locking on the 89 tank of the Japanese army finally pulled the breech bolt, and a tungsten-core armor-piercing projectile rushed towards the thick armor of the 89 tank.

In fact, the 37mm anti-aircraft guns are not considered the main guns in the Four-row Regiment. They have rarely been seen on previous battlefields, not because they are not powerful. It is an excellent anti-armor gun on the Chinese battlefield.

In the Battle of Songhu, an anti-aircraft artillery regiment with 16 anti-aircraft guns even destroyed 17 Japanese 89 main battle tanks.

The four-row regiment used less, the main reason is that the armored forces of the Japanese army they encountered were not much, and the machine gun alone was enough to deal with them. Another reason was that the 37mm anti-aircraft gun was too heavy, and the gun mount was as high as 450mm. The weight of the gun body in kilograms makes it a little weak in maneuverability.

Unless it is to concentrate fire on the Japanese infantry, otherwise, the 37mm anti-aircraft artillery has little chance to enter the battlefield.

For the main gunners of the Chinese anti-aircraft guns, most of the time they just sit on the sidelines and feel quite helpless. This time they can follow the 683 brigade to the battlefield and have the opportunity to be on the front line to compete with the Japanese tanks. It is definitely their dream. Chance to prove yourself.

Therefore, as the main gunner of the No. 1 gun, Zhen Dazhuang was very excited. After finding the figure of the Japanese tank in the smog, it took only 30 seconds to adjust the muzzle and slammed the Japanese tank that had just finished shelling.

But training steel plates and a movable tank are actually two concepts, especially on this kind of battlefield where a lot of smoke and gunpowder smoke are artificially mixed, resulting in extremely poor vision. Zhen Dazhuang made a mistake with this shot. On the armored corners of the front of the 89 tank.

That is the thickest part of the 89 tank. The key is that the edges and corners can also fly shells!
"Boom!" With a loud noise, a small hole was punched in the corner of the front armor of the 89 tank, and a spark that could blind people's eyes burst out, but the tank was fine.

"Damn it!" Zhen Dazhuang, who was wearing the rank of sergeant, punched the gun mount hard, and then yelled, "Load the shell! Fuck you again."

What's wrong?Second Lieutenant Matsuda was dumbfounded for not knowing why.

But the Japanese soldiers in the 89 tanks were not stupid. After feeling the shock to the tanks, they slammed on the gas pedal, and the 89 tanks that rushed suddenly escaped bad luck again.

The No. 2 gun also just fired, and a shell fell 50 meters away, hitting a piece of rock, and the stone fragments shattered by the armor-piercing shell splashed, directly sweeping down several Japanese soldiers who were bending forward nearby.

The two anti-aircraft guns fired successively, but all of them were in vain.

However, it is scary enough!Especially for the Japanese armored soldiers in the tank.

They knew very well that if it hadn't been for Amaterasu's manifestation just now, the Chinese tank guns that had been hiding quietly all the time might have hit in one shot.

"Baga! The Chinese have tank guns! Dodge on the move, find him, and kill him!" Lieutenant Hiroo Simoto, the leader of the tank squadron in the tank commander's position, yelled hoarsely while slapping the driver in front of him. member's back.

This is because the Japanese tanks are not equipped with an in-car intercom, and the noise inside the car is too loud, and the commander's orders cannot be transmitted to the driver's ears. time to see.That's why he developed body language again, slapping the back hard like Hiroo Simoto, which means to move forward.

Of course, instead of advancing towards the position, when approaching the position of 350 meters, the front of the tank no longer faces the direction of the hilltop position, but faces the position with the thickest armor edge, which can resist the firepower of the Chinese. , It also facilitates the launch of the 57mm tank gun located in the turret.

However, the Japanese armored soldiers who had just experienced walking on the edge of death would not give their lives to the edges and corners of the armor. They were lucky just now, but luck cannot be good all the time, and they believed in their own tactical level.

What the Japanese army has to do now is to make the tanks move, so that the opponent needs to hit a moving target, which is naturally extremely difficult.

The choice that Captain Hiroo Simoto made in a few seconds was undoubtedly extremely correct.

The radio station faithfully conveyed Hiroo Simoto's order to the ears of the remaining tank crews, and several Type 94 light tanks collectively fried the pot.

In the face of tank guns, they are small crispy skins that businessmen meet when they are officials, letting their opponents take what they want!

At the same time, the engine of the Type 89 medium tank with a maximum power of 170 horsepower roared wildly and spewed out bursts of black smoke, driving the tracks to accelerate along the hillside. A man wearing a tank cap The armored soldiers even poked their heads out of the turret regardless of the danger, observing the battlefield with binoculars.

Soon, the Japanese armored soldiers also found the target.

The white gunpowder smoke produced by the anti-war artillery was rising, and it was also obvious behind the Chinese position. After adjustment, the 57mm gun pointing obliquely at the position at three o'clock opened fire brazenly.

Tanks and anti-tank guns are natural enemies, and the latter was born specifically to kill the former, but this does not mean that anti-tank guns have a stable advantage.

On the contrary, tanks that can walk freely have inherent advantages, and the 89mm short-barreled artillery of the 57 tanks is far more powerful than the 37mm anti-aircraft guns.

Therefore, even though they were so silently shot by the opponent and almost didn't go to see Amaterasu as a group, the 108 tank carrying the top commander of the armored squadron of the 89th Division still did not retreat, but maintained an offensive posture.

Of course, it is the most stupid tactic to expose the vulnerable tail of the tank with the engine on the battlefield to the opponent.What's more, without an order to retreat, if he retreated, the result would be as good as dying in the tank.

Therefore, fighting against a natural opponent is also the only choice for the Japanese armored captain.

However, the heroic captain of the tank brigade did not know that the 89mm short-barreled manual artillery equipped with the 57 tank was actually another failure of the Japanese military industry despite its large caliber.

This thing doesn't have much armor-piercing ability, it's just a mobile grenade launcher, and its attacking ability is not as good as the 70mm caliber 92 infantry gun.

Of course, we can't blame the Japanese military experts for being too scumbag. This also has something to do with the opponent they have been staring at, China.

In fact, China, an opponent, is too weak, so weak that it basically has no tanks.The enemy in the target has no tanks, so what are the tank guns used for?
In line with the idea of ​​saving resources to the greatest extent, Japanese military designers designed the seemingly powerful 57mm tank gun with functions such as destroying machine gun firepower points at close range, civil fortifications, and suppressing infantry firepower. It is an absolute good helper for infantry.

The combat concept still exists in the Japanese army in World War I. Tanks were never regarded as a main force. Tanks were just a weapon to assist infantry in military operations.

In the early days of the war, this fighting concept was undoubtedly successful.What they are facing is the Chinese army that only has mortars, mountain artillery, and anti-aircraft artillery at most.

Not to mention the Type 89, which is a medium-sized tank with more than 20 mm thick armor, the Type 94 and Type 95 are mini tanks mainly used for reconnaissance. In China, almost all of them are rampant.

In the North China battlefield, apart from poisonous gas, tanks were almost the last straw that crushed the tenacious resistance of the Chinese people, and they never failed.

This also led to the development of the Type 1937 medium tank, which was developed by the Japanese army in 97 and was about to be equipped with a large number of troops, to still adopt this concept, and the 57mm short-barreled artillery was still their only choice.A good helper to the infantry is the greatest compliment to them.

It has been proved on the battlefield in China that the sandbags and other earthworks that the Chinese are accustomed to pile up are basically not the enemy of the 57mm gun. If one gun is not enough, then use two guns.

Including the angry Captain Hiroo Simoto, the Japanese tankers all had a strong belief that under the roar of imperial tanks, the resistance of the Chinese would be futile in the end.

They didn't know that the Type 57 medium tank equipped with a 97mm tank gun with slow initial speed and weak armor-piercing ability was almost defeated by the 3th armor of the m7 light tank of the Empire on which the sun never set in the Battle of Rangoon, Myanmar four years later. Brigade hit Chengxiang.

在中国战场上所向披靡的57mm坦克炮甚至无法打穿m3轻型坦克13毫米至44毫米装甲，如果想保证击穿，必须得抵近至200米几乎是坦克拼刺刀的距离。可在那之前，日不落帝国m3轻型坦克装备的37毫米坦克炮就已经将新装备日军的97式坦克给打爆了。

On the opposite side of them, the area where the two 37mm anti-aircraft guns are located is a sunken fortification built by an infantry platoon using Japanese bomb craters and blasting. In the bomb crater, six layers of sandbags were piled up to form a ring-shaped fortification, and hundreds of kilograms of large stones were used in the middle of the sandbags, just to ensure that the Japanese army would bombard it with infantry artillery after they found it, so as to ensure a certain survival rate.

Although a bit rudimentary, this is the strongest fortification that the commanders and fighters of the 921 Division, who have been at a firepower disadvantage for a long time, can make in a short period of time.

Moreover, it was proved after the war that it was this simple but strong enough earthwork that blocked the bombardment of the Japanese 57MM tank gun.

A shell even directly hit the outer layer of sandbags, blowing away four full layers, and even shattered the big rocks in the interlayer, but it did not completely break through the earthworks piled up by numbers. The four gunners in the fortifications Although his mouth and nose were bleeding from the shock, his life and precious artillery were saved.

Of course, those Qingchai who almost smoked the eyes of the Chinese soldiers on the battlefield into rabbit eyes also played a huge role.

Even if the Japanese armored soldiers poked their heads out of the tank to observe regardless of life and death, they could only give an approximate location under the thick smoke.

They were lucky to be able to hit the periphery of the fortification with one shot within three shots.

War requires luck, but if it depends entirely on luck, it will be an ugly death, and in the end it depends on strength.

Surprised by the tank guns, the Japanese tanks were like a nest of wasps that had exploded. They maneuvered disorderly on the hillside and counterattacked. Four Type 94 light tanks drove fast, firing wildly at the ground with two 7mm machine guns to suppress the ground. on the firepower.

The two 37mm anti-aircraft guns no longer concealed it, and stared at the 89 tank that was breathing black smoke and was desperately maneuvering. As long as this big guy was killed, the Type 94 light tank with only machine guns would pose no threat to them.

"Baga, why does Tuhachi have anti-tank guns?" Nobi Nobita saw all this through the binoculars, his eyes widened in disbelief.

The Major of the Japanese Army is used to the 921 Division, an old opponent, who routinely operates a bunch of old rifles. With a few light machine guns, they are definitely the elite of the elite. If they have mortars, they are the main force.

Suddenly, the Chinese actually came up with such sophisticated weapons as anti-tank guns. Naturally, they were extremely uncomfortable psychologically.

This kind of mentality, in modern terms, is called: Can't see the poor eating a piece of meat.

The Major of the Japanese Army is not used to it anyway, at most he is angry that the poor have started to eat meat, but for Second Lieutenant Matsuda in the center of the battlefield, his mentality has collapsed!
That was much worse than when he was covered in 'true fragrance' before!

The reason is simple, the Type 89 tank was still 180 meters away from him, but when the sparks bloomed on the tank, everything changed.

The tank maneuvered crazily on the hillside like a wild boar shot by an arrow, and he felt that the big rock he was staying on was not safe enough, so he took a fancy to another rock seven or 80 meters away.

So, with the efforts of a disabled second lieutenant and the madness of the "Arrow Boar", the second lieutenant and the wild boar met miraculously on the battlefield.

The shortest distance between the two sides will never exceed ten meters.

You have to say that in normal times, Lieutenant Matsuda would regard this big iron bump that was emitting black smoke as the best cover.

But now, watching the Chinese side fire after the 89 tanks one after another, smashing a large boulder with a height of one person that rubbed against the tracks of the 89 tank in half, the second lieutenant of the Japanese army who shrank behind the boulder just wanted to say a few words. A stupid armored soldier yelled: Don't come here!

No one knows, the thing that annoys the poor second lieutenant of the Japanese army is not that he retreated too fast, but why didn't the bullet just hit his thigh directly?In that case, at least I can lie in that dung field for a while!Instead of watching yourself being torn to pieces by Chinese artillery.

Sure enough, there is no absolute in this world, and sometimes hell can turn into heaven!

Your arsenic, my medicine!Maybe that's what it's about!

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