Alien Arms Empire

 Chapter 555 555 Qi Army Tanks

This time, Qin Xiong finally saw this strange aircraft with inverted gull wings, a dive bomber named Stuka.

 In fact, few people within the Tang Army understand this name. Generally speaking, everyone thinks it is just a bad taste of the designers of Datang Aviation Group.

 In fact, these designers just continued the naming of Tang Mo’s chief designer. When Tang Mo came up with the design idea for this aircraft, he left the strange word Stuka in a corner of the drawing.

After the project was established, Datang Group engineers called this aircraft Stuka, just like they would call the FW-190 fighter Butcher.

Tang Mo was unlikely to name his fighter FW-190, and he was unwilling to continue the name Butcher Bird—so he simply dropped one word and changed the name to Butcher Bird.

The Stuka dive bomber soared into the sky with much greater momentum than the Butcher. Looking at the Stuka that turned sharply from a distance, Qin Xiong felt that the muscles in his body were tense.

That desperate sound really left a deep impression on him. He somewhat understood why the Western Front troops hated this kind of enemy aircraft so much.

"Can't we shoot that **** plane out of the sky?" asked the depressed Qin Xiong, hiding in the trench and watching the Stuka dropping the bomb.

There are no officers specifically responsible for air defense in the Qi army. The part-time officer wiped the sweat from his forehead and explained in the same depressed way: "General... we don't have suitable weapons..."

There is no other way. Counting on the Maxim machine gun to raise the air defense is actually not very effective. Not to mention that the Stuka itself has steel plate protection. When it dives and pulls up, it has machine guns to suppress anti-aircraft firepower. It is simply not enough to rely on unprofessional machine guns for air defense.

As for the anti-balloon cannons purchased from Cyric, their rotation speed cannot keep up with the Stuka, and they are no more than decorations.

“…” Qin Xiong was silent. He just stared at the enemy plane climbing again in the distance, his eyes full of envy.

If he had such a weapon in his hand, wouldn't it be more certain to break through the defense line in front of him? Of course he didn't know that the Tang Army's second-line position actually had four Bofors 40mm anti-aircraft guns in a battery...

 After preparing all morning and being harassed by planes all morning, the Qi tank troops that followed the Qi 1st Army to the front line of Luozhen were finally ready for the attack and appeared in front of the two armies.

Finally, after waiting for several days, the grenadiers of the Tang Army who were hiding in the trenches and drowsily welcomed some new tricks.

 A soldier on guard rubbed his eyes, looked at the enemy positions in the distance again, then retracted his neck and shouted with joy in his voice: "Here he comes! The enemy is here again!"

“It’s coming, why are you so happy?” A veteran who could still sleep soundly despite the rumble of artillery complained disdainfully with his eyes closed.

“Tanks! Their tanks are coming!” The sentry was still excited and quickly explained. After hearing his explanation, the surrounding Tang Army soldiers immediately became energetic.

 No joke at all, they just lay on the edge of the position full of expectation and looked at the enemy in the distance.

Sure enough, they saw the enemy tank, which was as tall as a ship, slowly moving its huge body and getting closer to the Tang Army's defensive position.

“What the **** is this?” The soldiers of the Tang Army, who were used to seeing their own tanks, frowned involuntarily. For them, Qi's tanks are... too ugly.

"Wash and sleep." After being excited for a while, the Tang Army soldiers stationed on the ground retreated back to the trenches, looking listless.

 Because they knew that this time it seemed that it was not their turn to take action - the commanders could not let these tanks come over to harm their infantry without anti-tank weapons, and the tank troops would definitely take action.

As soon as the tank troops on the flanks take action, it is almost not their turn for the grenadiers to go up and fight the enemy tanks.

As expected, after seeing the Qi Army tanks, the Tang Army commander immediately informed the 1st Armored Division of the news.

Following the tanks of the 1st Armored Division, the tanks were ordered to launch. The 1st Armored Battalion with rich combat experience once again served as the main force of this counterattack.

Liu Guozhu was ordered to launch the tank, and then moved with the troops again to the depression behind the reverse **** where they set out last time.

"Test! Test!" The radio operator was testing the radio that had just been repaired, and then heard an annoying current interference sound.

 As troops are equipped with more and more radios, this interference becomes more and more obvious. When they participated in the war before, they were not noticed because they dispersed quickly. Now that Tang Army tanks are gathering on a large scale, such current interference is becoming more and more common.

"I...can...hear...hear..." Liu Guozhu could barely distinguish the echo of his company commander, and Liu Guozhu was still a little nervous.

In the past few days, he has not been idle - he wrote two reports, one is a summary of the experience of armored forces assaulting the enemy's hinterland, and the other is an analysis of combat cases encountered by enemy anti-tank guns. .

To be honest, the weight of these two reports is not light. It may be a bit more important than the fact that he killed a third prince. The superiors also attached great importance to his two reports and ordered the entire army to promote them and compile a tactical manual for distribution as soon as possible.

"Continue to adjust! If there is another problem, our crew will become a negative example for the entire army!" Liu Guozhu complained to his radio operator in dissatisfaction.

"I'm working hard! These **** workers, every batch of equipment is so different!" The wired communication in the car was very smooth, and the depressed voice of the electromechanical man was very clear.

Radios are also equipment that is constantly being improved during mass production, and many different functions have been added according to actual combat needs.

 After learning from experience and lessons, the first thing Datang Group improved was the communication antenna that was complained about the most by soldiers.

 The antennas on the tanks are often broken due to running into the woods, and sometimes they may be broken off by stray bullets, seriously affecting communications.

Therefore, subsequent communication antennas can be tilted down, and the roots are equipped with spring buffers. These improvements have also affected part of the communication quality at a time when the technology is immature.

"Check the ammunition! The enemy tanks are approaching our frontal defense position! We enter the battlefield from the side! Cut off their retreat and sweep across..." The company commander's voice was clearer this time, and it seemed that the debugging was effective.

"Check the ammunition!" Liu Guozhu reminded the loader, and then heard the attack order: "Go forward! Follow the No. 1 car! Pay attention to keep the communication open!"

 “Accelerate! Accelerate!” On the radio, there was an excited shout from the commander. With such an order, the tanks of the Tang Army entered the battlefield, and the formal collision between the armored forces of both sides began.

"Stop!" After driving for less than two minutes, Liu Guozhu shouted in shock when he rushed to the small high ground in front of him and saw the densely packed Qi tank troops in front of him.

He really didn’t expect that the enemy had so many tanks, and these tanks... were too ugly...

After seeing these tanks, he ordered to stop, and then continued to order to his gunner: "Fire when you find the target! Don't ask me for instructions!"

As his order was issued, the gunner stepped on the pedal without hesitation, and the No. 4 tank's short-barreled 75mm caliber gun fired out. The shells flew directly towards a Cyric 1 tank, destroying the tank. The tank exploded into a ball of flames.

With a gasoline engine, thousands of rounds of ammunition, dozens of artillery shells, more than a dozen people crowded together, and a huge fuel tank under their feet, the probability of a Cyric tank exploding is really exaggerated.

 “Ha!” After a gun blasted away a tank, Liu Guozhu had no intention of ordering his tank to move forward.

In this case, it seems easier to achieve victory by occupying the commanding heights and firing an attack than by rushing over.

Beside Liu Guozhu's tank, his platoon leader's car seemed to think so too. Neither of their tanks had any intention of continuing to move forward, but just stopped there and kept firing.

 The loader was sweating profusely. He once again pulled out a shell from the ammunition rack, pushed it into the barrel, and closed the breech.

Almost in the next second, the artillery in the turret recoiled violently, and then the shell of a shell was ejected.

An unpleasant burning smell once again made the air in the tank more turbid, and Liu Guozhu had the urge to cough with every breath he took.

 He opened the hatch above his head to allow more air to flow into the car. At this time, his gunner had fired his third shell.

"Missed!" the gunner complained gloomily and said. There is no way, with the current technical level, no matter how powerful the gunner is, it is already very good to guarantee a hit rate of 1/2.

 “Get closer!” Liu Guozhu felt that the hit rate should be improved, otherwise it would be embarrassing if he ran out of ammunition in a while.

“Let’s fire grenades first! It doesn’t matter! I think grenades can also kill them.” As he advanced, inside the bumpy tank, Liu Guozhu gave his gunner and loader advice.

At this time, in front of them, the Qi tank commanders who were attacking the Tang Army's positions seemed to have discovered the Tang Army tanks coming from the flanks.

After a moment of panic, the small turrets on many Qi Army tanks began to rotate, and countless machine guns on the sides of the vehicles began to fire at the Tang Army tanks that were rushing over.

 And Liu Guozhu and the others have narrowed the distance between the two parties to the extreme! Just now, the No. 4 tank driving in front of them had passed through the burning wreckage of a Cyric Type 1 tank!

Soon, Liu Guozhu's car also passed through the billowing smoke and drove past the red iron coffin that was burned by the fire.

 (End of this chapter)