Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 503 Artillery Defense Line
Because of lack of intelligence, Changzhu Taro could only organize an artillery line of defense.

This line of defense is centered on the road along both sides... Most of the tanks maneuver on the road, so there is no problem in deploying it this way.

The problem was that he didn't also take Aritomijiro's tank squadron into account.

Devils actually have a chance to defeat T34.

For example, the Devil's Type 97 tank can penetrate the T300 at a distance of 34 meters, which could have been part of the artillery defense line.

Therefore, the correct approach is that Changzhu's artillery wing should pre-build tank bunkers for 97 when building fortifications... that is to dig a hole in the ground to hide the tank body underground and only expose the turret.

In this way, the bombed area will be much smaller. It is difficult for the T34 to destroy the Type 300 from 97 meters away, but the T34 is a moving target exposed on the open ground. The most important thing is that it only has ten vehicles.

In addition, the Devil Artillery Wing also has 10 92 infantry guns and two 105MM caliber howitzers. Although these artillery can't penetrate the tank armor, they are enough to pose a threat to the following infantry.

Therefore, the artillery and the Type 97 cooperated with each other to cover each other. Although the T34 could not be completely wiped out, it was not a big problem to block its attack or even make it lose more than half of it.

But Taro Nagatake did not have this sense of synergy.

Neither did Aritomijiro, otherwise, in his telegram to the Artillery Wing, he did not hope that they would prepare anti-tank equipment, but told the Artillery Wing to build fortifications... Aritomijiro, who was beaten and fled, only thought about his own chariot Unable to compete with the opponent's new tanks, it never occurred to me that for the imperial army at this time, the best anti-tank equipment is not in the hands of the artillery wing, but in their own hands.

There was not much time left for the artillery wing. They had just set up the cannon and built a semi-open sandbag fortification in front of the cannon, when there were bursts of cannon fire from the south.

Nagatake Taro raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the sound of the guns, and saw a troop of chariots coming in this direction a few miles away, at least twenty or thirty.

But after another look, Changzhutaro found that something was wrong. The tanks on the two wings were models he had never seen before, and they stopped from time to time and fired at the imperial tanks trapped in the middle. When he was watching, there was one Type 95 was destroyed.

Could it be that is the enemy's new tank?
Changzhu Dalang took a closer look at this chariot. It was a chariot with a strange shape and an angled turret. It was much faster than the imperial chariot. They outflanked the imperial chariot from both wings and seemed to hope to surround the imperial chariot and cut off its turret. The back road... This made Changzhu Taro feel unbelievable that such a thing would happen when fighting the Eighth Route Army!

"Ready for battle!" Changzhutaro shouted to the communication soldiers more than ten meters away.

While repeating Nagataketaro's order aloud, the messenger signaled to his assistant to pass the order down with semaphore.

Compared with the Field Artillery United, the Mountain Artillery United prefers to use semaphores instead of telephones, and this has become a habit.

The reason is that the Mountain Artillery Wing fights more often in mountainous areas... The mountainous terrain is complex and the position changes frequently. It is very inconvenient to lay out telephone lines, so the semaphore is more convenient than the telephone.

This habit was carried to the plains by them.

The devil artillery who received the order immediately loaded the shells.

"Aim at the enemy chariots on both wings!" Nagatake Taro ordered again.

The artillery adjusted the elements nervously and aimed the muzzle at the enemy tank.

"Fire!"

Following Taro Nagatake's order, more than a dozen cannons fired a row of shells at T34.

Then Changzhu Taro realized that the 92 infantry guns could not penetrate this new type of tank... He could see clearly in the telescope that a few shells hit the enemy tank but the target was unharmed.

This seems to be expected, otherwise the Chariot Alliance would not have been defeated so embarrassingly.

Changzhu Taro put away the binoculars and hesitated for a moment, then ordered: "Organize a blasting team to prepare to blow up the chariot, and the artillery will target the enemy following the infantry!"

This is standard operating procedure for artillerymen facing tank forces.

If the artillery can't penetrate the armor of the enemy's tank, it is obviously a waste to continue to use the cannon to hit the tank, and it is also a useless effort.

At this time, artillery fire should be used to separate the enemy's infantry and tanks so that the tanks cannot be covered by the infantry, and then the demolition team will rush to the tanks from the dead end of the firepower to blow them up.

Nagatake Taro, as a regiment captain with rich combat experience, of course knew this, so he organized such a defense without thinking.

But Nagatake Taro didn't consider one thing... This tactic is more suitable for use when there are complete fortifications, such as trenches, barbed wire, anti-tank trenches, mines, tank barricades, etc.

These will slow down the speed of the enemy tanks, and only when the speed of the tanks slows down can the demolition team keep up with the tanks.

Or the speed of the target tank is relatively slow.

For example, the Type 97 has a top speed of 38 kilometers per hour, but the cross-country speed will be slower, reaching a speed of about [-] kilometers per hour, and it is possible for soldiers holding explosive packs to catch up after sprinting.

However, the T34 has a top speed of 55 kilometers per hour, and the cross-country speed can reach more than [-] kilometers (the average speed is more than [-] kilometers depending on the road conditions).

This area is also the Yuncheng Plain, which is flat and easy to navigate. If there is any trouble, it is that the ridges of fields plowed by the people will bump up and down when driving, but there is no big problem in accelerating the speed.

Once the tank speed is fast, how can the blaster catch up with the tank?

How to estimate and control the explosion time?
How to fix the explosive package on the tank to blow it up?

If these problems are not solved, it will be futile to stop the Demoman, unless the tank drives right past the Demoman's position or nearby for him to hit.

Gangzi only knew that he had run into the Devil's artillery wing when the tank in front reported.

"The front is being bombarded by the enemy!" Car No. 1 reported: "It is estimated to be the Devil Artillery Wing, requesting instructions! Requesting instructions!"

Being the commander of a unit is often a multiple-choice question.

For example, at this time, Gangzi is faced with the choice of fighting or not.

Fight, can the tank company retreat under the artillery wing?

If you don't fight, you just caught up with the Devil Chariot Squadron, and the duck you ate made it fly?Gangzi is not reconciled.

After thinking for a while, Gangzi ordered: "Fight! Charge forward at full speed, unless you break through the enemy's defense line, don't let go of the accelerator, and don't turn back!"

Gangzi dared to do this because he was inspired by the "infiltration warfare" of Androvich's crew.

This infiltration battle gave Gangzi the greatest experience, which is the speed and mobility of the T34 tank.

Not only that, but he also learned the benefits of speed and mobility... Originally, Gangzi thought that speed and mobility were nothing more than being able to get to the battlefield faster.

It wasn't until he saw Androvic's style of play that he realized that they were more than that.

(End of this chapter)