Chapter 337 Steel Graveyard
Dai Peng frowned and said, "It's not to ask this question. Look, there was a shallow pit on the sandbag attached to the front armor of the 97-Change. Although it broke the spare weight-bearing wheel of the charred vehicle on it, it only left a burnt mark on the front armor plate, but the entire 97-Change was as if it was smashed by a sledgehammer? It was like a pot of stewed pork. The Japanese soldiers inside didn't even have time to open the escape door behind the vehicle. The Japanese really lacked experience in using tank armored vehicles! Don't they know that they should open the hatch door during tank battles to prevent the secondary impact of the vehicle body from being penetrated?"
Lu Yu smiled and said, "Any type of chariot used by the Japanese is a target compared to our jackal light tank. The breakdown and destruction rate is more than 79%, and sliding and jumping are almost impossible. For the Iron Cavalry medium main battle tank, the Japanese chariots are simply vulnerable. Whether it is the 37mm long-barrel chariot cannon or the 47mm chariot cannon on the Japanese chariot, they cannot even penetrate the engine armor of the Iron Cavalry medium main battle tank from the tail. However, the Japanese chariot troops inherited the madness of their army. The wreckage in front of us are the last Japanese chariots that were destroyed by me. It seems that they should be the last reserve team of the Japanese. The Japanese used crawler armored vehicles and the front ends of the cars to open the blockage breakthrough. The Japanese became crazy and hysterically like a mad dog whose tail was ignited."
Dai Peng nodded and said, "The Japanese's final madness is indeed like a bo frenzy. I thought that when the Langshan Fortress was almost out of stock, the Japanese could not withstand it. This battle was fought just by who could hold on to the last five minutes. We tingled huge casualties and guarded the tunnel of Langshan Fortress. But now more than 2,000 young men's corpses are still left in it. It is our old job to pile up people's lives and fight to the death! Without Chief Zhang, I would never believe that our ** team would have surpassed the Japanese? The Japanese were beaten to flee, but even if we have the advantage in light weapons firepower, human life is human life after all, and the price of victory is too expensive."
Lu Yu took a deep breath and said, "The last attack of the Japanese army has completely crushed the entire guards of our test team. I fired all the last ammunition and even the machine gun bullets. The young man in the co-pilot rushed to the Japanese chariot in the smoke with a bundle of grenades. Just when I was preparing to blow up the car for the first time, several young men from the logistics team sent several test bullets through the Japanese artillery blockade line. Almost every shell was covered with sticky blood!"
Lu Yu paused for a moment and said, "This new type of shell is still in the development period. The research institute called it a broken armor shell. This test only carried twenty rounds to test its broken armor. Now it seems that the effect is pretty good. I checked a destroyed Japanese chariot before, and the holes penetrated were not big, but all the Japanese chariots inside were killed by the broken turret liner fragments, and the radio and other equipment inside the car were also destroyed. The chariots only looked very damaged on the outside. Two Japanese chariots were directly blown up, which was almost restored to parts. The explosion was extremely high at that time. It was probably a fire-breathing tank modified by the Japanese."
Dai Peng looked at the destroyed wreckage of Japanese chariots. During the first Chengde offensive and defensive battle, facing the Japanese steel monsters, the Chinese people could only use their flesh and blood to resist the Japanese attack. If it were not for the use of Chengde's solid fortifications and a small number of chariot defense cannons, the thin iron cans of Japanese troops could also be rampant.
Lu Yu kicked the wreckage of the Japanese chariot with his feet. Half of the cabin door that was tilted to the side had fallen. The dark corpses of the Japanese chariot soldiers inside were twisted and deformed. Due to the problem of using gasoline engines, once the chariot was hit, there was a high chance that the chariot would catch fire, and the ammunition in the car would explode continuously. The losses of the crew crew were almost 100%. The burned and twisted corpses often gave people a strong visual impact, but this was common for tank soldiers.
Lu Yu pointed to the place where the Japanese chariot was hit and said, "The Design Institute said that this kind of shell is very effective against reinforced concrete bunkers, but it is a pity that only the 100 mm rifled gun on our test vehicle can be fired, and the 100 mm smoothbore gun equipped with the medium main battle tank of the Iron Cavalry equipped with standard-shaped troops cannot be fired."
Dai Peng said with a fierce expression of lu flowing lu on the corner of his mouth: "Since the rifled gun is so easy to use, as a military force, just write a report to let the future models be equipped with a 100-mm rifled gun."
Lu Yu spread his hands helplessly and said, "Sir Dai, I am just a small captain. What's the use of writing a report? Even the design institute has debated the choice between smoothbore guns and rifled guns. In fact, the two types of guns have their own advantages and disadvantages. Now the rifled gun has high requirements for forging the barrel material, smoothbore guns have high requirements for shells, and the armor-piercing shells of smoothbore guns are expensive, and the warheads cannot be filled with secondary charges. Therefore, most of the iron cavalry medium-sized main battle tanks equipped with smoothbore guns are mostly ammunition, which is stable and multi-purpose ammunition, and the price is relatively high. In terms of my personal practical experience, a 100-mm rifled gun has a long shooting distance and high shooting accuracy. The test gunner of the equipment department uses fixed conditions of 1,000 meters.
It is impossible to say that the standard target of stabilizing shooting is almost certain. At least the hit rate is more than 80%. The shooting accuracy of the smoothbore gun is only about half of the rifle. I heard from the technicians of the institute that we do not have a fluid power research team, the appearance and wind resistance coefficient of the shell have not been optimized to the best. It is still not a big problem to optimize for 1,500 meters. It is hard to say that it is far away. The choice of smoothbore gun is mainly to consider the initial velocity issue. The potential of the initial velocity of the smoothbore gun is far greater than that of the rifle gun. The iron cavalry's rifle gun is not more than 800 meters per second. The speed of the armor-piercing shell firing far exceeds that of our test rifle gun, but the cost of the rifle gun is indeed very high."
Dai Peng mocked his injured forehead with some dissatisfaction, and said a little dissatisfied: "I'm really surprised, why can I make a bike so short? I still hurt now."
Lu Yu also said helplessly: "Wear the commander, who told you to take off the tank cap when you feel uncomfortable? It is very dangerous to take off the tank helmet during combat and driving. This time, you are lucky and did not hit a protrusion. However, based on actual experience, grassroots troops also recommend increasing the height of the car and extending the body of the car, especially the internal space of the turret is too narrow. One hundred-mm shells are too big and too heavy for a loader. When the Iron Cavalry was designed, the ammunition storage box was designed to load 75 rounds of ammunition. The water cabinet-type ammunition box installed in our test vehicle can only hold a pitiful thirty-eight rounds of artillery shells. If you encounter high-intensity battles, like this kind of battle with fixed fire points providing fire support to strike, the carrying capacity of the thirty-eight rounds of artillery shells is obviously a bit insufficient!"
Under Dai Peng's encouraging gaze, Lu Yu also completely opened up the conversation and continued: "In addition, the tail of the turret of the Iron Cavalry medium-sized main battle tank should be relatively higher, which can increase the dive angle of the tank shooting. Moreover, the appearance of the machine gun tower should be relatively improved, and the protection at the front of the machine gun tower should also be slightly strengthened. A few days ago, the Japanese 70-mm grenade of the 92 Infantry Cannon bombed the machine gun directly. Fortunately, there was no one in the machine gun tower at that time. In fact, in actual combat, the machine gun tower has a very large role in actual combat, and can provide cover for each other and eliminate enemy troops that use terrain and terrain. In combat, no one dared to use the machine gun outside the turret of the jackal light tank."
Dai Peng nodded and said, "The tactical use of the Japanese Kwantung Army is still remarkable. The Japanese attacked with less firepower than our army. They rushed forward without hesitation without hesitation. The people behind stepped on the corpses of the people in front, and the final attack even the core fortress of Langshan was almost lost. If the weather had not become clear, the Air Force severely attacked the Japanese offensive troops with close support and bombed the opponent's heavy large-caliber cannons and supply lines. It is hard to say who wins and loses! The simple battle against casualties of the Japanese are even more crazy than us. As Chief Zhang said, the Japanese are just a group of two tui beasts. The most effective way to treat animals is to let them know what the fear of death is.
As the battle situation subsided, more and more soldiers and surviving citizens came to the breakthrough entrance to visit the Japanese steel graves. Several surviving technicians also appeared near the breakthrough entrance with equipment and tools, wearing masks and ignoring the strange shapes of Japanese charred corpses.
As the guard commander of Chaoyang Fortress, Dai Peng naturally had no time to go to chat too much. He also had to clean up the end of the battlefield. Lu Yu had to cooperate with the surviving technicians to record the real data of our battles with enemy tanks. The significance of his work was very important, because the destroyed tanks would not lie, so each bullet hole had to be measured, photographed, and sampled.
The actual battlefield of such a well-preserved tank war is concentrated in this range of less than two square kilometers, which is unique in the history of world wars. The preciousness of this practical data is naturally unparalleled. However, all the officers, soldiers and technicians involved in the investigation and sampling have not eaten meat for a whole year, and some have not even eaten meat for their entire lives.
The battlefield in the east of Chaoyang City is called a steel cemetery by the surviving people. This is not only a commemoration of the Chaoyang defense battle that reached its peak, but also because the steel chariots of the Japanese Kwantung Army failed to finally break through the flesh and blood Great Wall of the Chinese people...
Chapter completed!