Chapter 305: Snow Red and Blood White (6)
The problem of relatively difficult to start is that the narrow tracks and overlapping load-bearing wheels are frozen, which is simply a nightmare for tank soldiers. Zhang Xuewu is very glad that the Iron Cavalry Tanlou did not use the design of overlapping load-bearing wheels with shooting tanks!
Moreover, a small fully enclosed machine gun turret with a perimeter mirror was designed on the turret of the new Iron Cavalry Type II tank. This turret was designed as a small turret that can withstand large-caliber machine gun bullets. Because Zhang Xuewu found that many tanks were destroyed, it was because the parallel machine gun and coaxial machine gun could not meet the requirements of protecting the vehicle. The most important thing is that the tank hand thrust the body to operate the machine gun outside the turret of the vehicle body? The probability of being hit is astonishing, so the designer installed a machine gun turret on the Iron Cavalry Type II main battle tank. This seems to be the best solution before the remote-controlled machine gun was released. [..com]
The battle in Chaoyang has entered a white-hot stage. The 2nd Division, the 8th Division and the 12th Division commanded by the Huozhou Libing use three-face feint attacks, focusing on the tactics of attacking the east of the city, and in conjunction with the 150-mm cannon of the Type 97, attempting to tear a gap in Chaoyang's city defense.
The Type 97 150 mm cannon was developed by the Japanese army based on the Type 96 150 mm cannons of its technical reserve. As the suppressed fire artillery of the Japanese field heavy artillery gang, it is an improved type of Type 89. The Type 97 cannons are mobile and fortress-type, which can pull the entire cannon maneuver. The fortress-type produced a total of 30, equipped with the fortress-type garrison troops under the Kwantung Army. The mobile type is mainly equipped with the Japanese field heavy artillery gang. This time, the Japanese field heavy artillery gang gave the Kwantung Army ten extremely precious mobile Type 97 150 mm cannons, which are used for fortress attacks.
The overall city defense of Chaoyang Fortress is centered on Langshan Fortress. The layout along the Daling River was carried out. The main reason why the Japanese army dared not cross the Daling River in the past was that the eastern side of Chaoyang was generally covered by support troops. The Japanese troops crossing the river were likely to be attacked by defenders and reinforcements and were wiped out. However, this time the Daling River was frozen, even heavy artillery could be easily passed. Moreover, Chaoyang Fortress was isolated at this moment, so Huozhou Li's army dared to give it a try. As long as he captured Chaoyang Fortress at the fastest speed, even if he was taken back by the Chinese army, he would achieve his previous goal, which was to attract Zhang Xuewu's main force in the 10th War Zone to create fighter jets for the attacking Tojo Hideki.
Therefore, whether it is the Second Division, the Eighth Division, the 12th Division, or the main force of the 12th Division who attacked Chaoyang, or the three divisions who wanted to eat the Fourth Division of the Zhanyang Youth Army, they were all full of fighting spirit as if they were injected with chicken blood.
Huozhou Li troops arranged the 36th Division in the Kuangshan Fort east of Chaoyang to block the reinforcements of the Chinese army in Chifeng and put all the heavy artillery and wild mountain artillery troops into the attack on Chaoyang. The artillery fire in the sky seemed to be as if it would wipe the Chaoyang Fortress from the earth?
For the fierce but not very effective artillery fire of the Japanese army, and
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O's attack on Chaoyang's security commander Dai Peng had a question at this moment?〖Japan〗 I am not particularly rich, and I always hold a small bowl of pickles when I eat. They have been repeatedly devastated by the air force before the arsenal in the Northeast!
Even if production resumes, how much output can be?〖Japanese〗 I clearly know that their 150mm field heavy howitzers have no effect on the main body of Yongbei, but they even bombarded the 75mm, 90mm and 105mm artillery?
Now at least two Japanese artillery groups have been severely damaged by the counterattack of the defenders' artillery fire? Are Japanese crazy? Dai Peng believes that abnormality must be a monster! Is Japanese his strategic intention not to capture Chaoyang? If it weren't for the capture of Chaoyang and opening up a path? Why did the Japanese army make such a big move?
The newly formed Fourth Division of the Youth Army under Zhanyang's troops is a first-class elite. The blocked reinforcements indicate that the Japanese army blocked at least one division. In addition to the Japanese army besieging Chaoyang, Dai Peng did not think that the Japanese himself would have such a large formation with a feint attack?
You should know that in just a few days, the Japanese army suffered more than 5,000 casualties outside Chaoyang City. Under the cold conditions, most of the Japanese wounded soldiers were difficult to be rescued in time. However, the Japanese army in the east of Chaoyang City had broken through the outer defense line of the Second Regiment and was bombarding Chengguan with heavy artillery! If the Chengguan was collapsed, then Dai Peng could only give up the main defense line and retracted his troops to Langshan for the final resistance. The life gate of Chaoyang Fortress was in the east of the city!
Just when Dai Peng was at a loss, Lu Yu suddenly found Dai Peng and saluted and said, "Captain Dai, our army still has eight shooting light tanks and a test tank, which can be put into the Chengguan defense operations in Dongcheng."
Dai Peng was slightly stunned and said, "No, the order given to me by his superiors is to cover you at all costs to break through at critical moments. The test vehicle must not fall into the hands of the Japanese army!" Lu Yu said helplessly: "The engine of the test vehicle has a malfunction, so we cannot leave now, so we must devote ourselves to the defense war in the east of the city. We can only die and live. At the last moment, we will blow up the tank!" Dai Peng took a deep breath and said, "I must ask forward for instructions to decide this. You are under the command of the war zone commander. New chariots are crucial even if I have the entire First Division of the garrison.
If the army is destroyed, they must also execute the orders of the war zone commander. Do you understand? Company Commander Lu?" Dai Peng immediately asked Zhang Xuewu, who was commanding the battle in Chengde, and Zhang Xuewu immediately ordered Lu Yu's experimental team to participate in the Chaoyang defense battle! Because Zhang Xuewu knew that even if he lacked resources, they would not be willing to make it even if he got the wreckage of the Iron Cavalry tank, because this Iron Cavalry tank was too expensive. The hyperosmotic carburized manganese complex was not something he could afford. Especially the additional second layer of armor also seeped into some of the crows. I am afraid that only Zhang Xuewu could do anything luxurious in the world.
After receiving the order, Lu Yu immediately sent the scientific researchers to the core fortress of Langshan. He personally drove the Iron Cavalry test vehicle to set off towards the East City under the cover of eight light-fire chariots. At this moment, the battle in Dongcheng had entered a white-hot stage. Chengguan had been bombarded by the Japanese artillery fire. In the "broadcasting" field in Chengguan, several child forts were overturned by the Japanese army's latest equipment forty-seven-mm war defense artillery. Although the Japanese army lost several war defense artillery, they opened up the attack path, and a large number of influx of Japanese troops engaged in fierce street battles with the remnants of the First Regiment of the Guards and the Second Regiment.
The defenders relied on the familiar terrain and street fortifications to resist tenaciously. Since the First Guard Division was a reserve force, the number of light weapons had not been updated, and there were only a small number of submachine guns, which did not have an absolute firepower advantage in the battle. In addition to the Japanese indiscriminate artillery bombardment, the defenders were completely in a passive state for a while.
After Lu Yu's experimental iron cavalry tank arrived, he immediately fired the war defense artillery that was approaching and shooting. The 37mm war defense artillery that the Japanese army originally equipped was not effective against fire-type light tanks, so the Japanese myself studied and began mass-producing the Type 97 47mm war defense artillery. It can be said that war is a catalyst for weapon development, which is really good at all. Just like the relationship between anti-tank guns and tank armor, it is the relationship between spears and shields.
Two forward light tanks were hit by Japanese war defense artillery in succession. Lu Yu immediately drove the Iron Cavalry Experimental Tank and rushed up. The turret side angle and front armor were hit by the Japanese army three times. As a result, the 50-mm war defense artillery of the Japanese was still unable to penetrate effectively. However, the Iron Cavalry Experimental Tank also shook violently, and the double-layer turret prevented the crew inside from being shocked.
Lu Yu immediately operated coaxial machine guns and tank guns to name the Japanese war defense guns. The subsequent six fire light tanks also escorted them, and were also equipped with 50 mm and 60 barrel-caliber fire light tanks, shooting towards the Japanese army in the direction of the breakthrough. After the seven Japanese war defense guns entering the city wall were destroyed, the Japanese attack suddenly stagnated, because six tanks, mainly Lu Yu's cavalry experimental tanks, protected two destroyed tracks and engine fire light tanks with classic ring defense fronts.
After breaking through the city gate, he actually encountered the opponent's chariot on the field. And there was also a huge tank that was invulnerable to swords and guns. The Iron Cavalry Test Tank weighed 38.5 tons and its size, with a huge flat turret and a main gun of 100 mm above, which was indeed extremely huge compared to the Japanese Army's Type 95.
Tank guns, side-by-side machine guns, and coaxial machine guns opened fire violently in the direction of the breakthrough. The influx of Japanese troops and the withdrawn Japanese officers and soldiers were crowded at the breakthrough point, and they were beaten to the point where the city was covered with corpses. At a distance of more than 100 meters along the city wall, thousands of panicked Japanese troops were shot dead on the rubble ruins.
The Chinese defenders in the city immediately used firepower to block the breakthrough. As the saying goes, their swords could not cut their handles. The artillery group on Langshan, Chaoyang Fortress, was powerless to fight against the east gate. They could only carry out fierce artillery bombardment on the other three aspects. The Japanese infantry trapped in the city wall cried and called for support in panic.
More than 20 Japanese "divine power" chariots outside the city began to drive at full power. This so-called divine power chariot actually installed a 47mm war defense cannon on the Type 95 tank. Due to the tight time, and the turret of the Type 95 light chariot cannot be installed with a 47mm war defense cannon, so the Japanese myself used the Type 95 chassis for practical purposes to create a very "fashionable" tent!
In such cold weather, it is really hard to imagine how the Japanese chariot soldiers drove a long distance in a sports car? And the so-called divine power thing is so weak that it is really unimaginable? If the 47-mm war defense gun it carries can destroy the firing light tank, then the firing light tank machine gun can kill the life of the "divine power"!!!
Chapter completed!