Rise From Eight Hundred

It turned out that Boss Cao, who was stationed on this high ground, had an idea. Isn't the TKS tank small in size?

They even dug an air defense tunnel that could hide more than a dozen people, and they didn't care about digging three more large pits. They hid the three tanks in this large pit, and covered the outside with steel plates, soil and bushes. Even if people with good eyesight could find some clues from dozens or hundreds of meters away, their imagination was definitely not so rich that they could think that the poor Chinese could hide tanks in the soil.

When the three charge horns sounded, the three TKS tanks hidden in the cave rushed into the battlefield along the paved slope and knocked open the steel door used for hiding, hitting the Japanese army by surprise.

This was Boss Cao's idea from the ancient cavalry who came out of the valley and finally defeated the opponent's infantry phalanx. Otherwise, Li Jiujin would not have deployed three precious TKS tanks on the No. 13 high ground in one go.

You know, the entire 3rd Battalion currently has only one tank platoon with a total of 9 TKSs, but the 3rd Battalion has a defense line of more than 3 kilometers and 15 high grounds, which means that one-third of the extremely important armored forces of the 3rd Battalion are placed here.

This is considered a risky move by Li Jiujin, and it is also one of the reasons why Tang Dao said that there are too few troops on the 13th high ground and he is still full of confidence.

The other reason is naturally that this small high ground has the strongest infantry squad in the entire 4th regiment.

In the infantry-tank cooperative training, the 4th squad is also the 1st infantry squad in the rotation training of the entire regiment.

The 15 infantrymen seemed to be turning out of the trenches in a disorderly manner, but in fact they should have done drills before the war, with a group of five people following the rear of the Xiaoqiang brand tank about five or six meters away.

They can use the steel body of the tank to block the bullets fired, and use rifles and submachine guns to shoot any infantry who attempt to approach the tank within 40 meters.

Of course, the main force of fire output to the Japanese army is naturally the 20mm machine gun equipped by the Xiaoqiang tank itself.

The huge roar of the tank engine is simply the chant of the god of death. All the Japanese infantry in front of the tank, watching the tank rolling over like this, will turn around and flee in panic.

And this is exactly what the tank soldiers need most. Their 20mm machine guns have been thirsty for a long time.

Perhaps the maximum firing rate of 32 rounds per minute of the 20mm machine gun is far from comparable to the MG42 machine gun, and it cannot produce the kind of momentum that shocks the whole audience and is the king, but the power of the bullets of the two is also very different.

Even if the 92mm caliber bullet of the MG42 machine gun hits the human body many times, it can only make the human body into a horrible hole. However, the 3820mm machine gun equipped by TKS can penetrate 40mm armor at 200 meters, and can still penetrate 10mm steel plate at a distance of 1500 meters. In the Battle of Poland, even the main battle tanks of the German Empire were destroyed by this small-caliber machine gun.

You can imagine what the human body looks like after being hit by such a shell. It is probably okay to hit the torso, but it is just a little less. If it hits the head, it doesn’t matter whether you wear a helmet or not. It is likely to explode on the spot like a watermelon hit by a hammer, achieving a real headshot effect.

Such a terrifying scene for the Japanese army appeared on the battlefield of Hill 13 now.

Even if there are two machine guns that are constantly screaming and spewing death metal bullets to suppress the firepower, more than two-thirds of the Japanese army still choose to stand up and turn around and flee in the roar of the steel beast engine dozens of meters away.

Then, the commander of the TKS tank with a 360-degree periscope system stepped hard on the firing pedal.

According to the drills at the Zishan training ground, the TKS tank can reach a maximum firing rate of 280 per minute when it is moving at a speed of 5 kilometers per hour, and the tank has 600 rounds of ammunition, which can be used for the tank to output at a firing rate of 200 rounds per minute for a full 3 minutes.

The predecessor of the tank company was based on the two captured Japanese Type 89 tanks as teaching aids. The 200 officers and soldiers trained hard for more than a year before they welcomed this kind of Xiaoqiang tank that seemed a little ridiculous to outsiders, but the officers and soldiers of the tank company regarded it as a treasure.

Because the Four-Line Regiment had encountered Japanese tanks in all the battles before arriving in North China, even the thin-skinned Type 94 small bean tanks had to cost several lives to blow them up with cluster grenades, and the Type 89 tanks were even more finished. The iron lump weighing 15 tons even required a whole squad of soldiers to rush over and blow it up with explosive packs.

Countless comrades who fell in front of the tanks and were killed were crushed by the tank tracks, and the blood splashed, which still caused great psychological trauma to the officers and soldiers who survived those purgatory battlefields.

As soon as they closed their eyes, they saw the tattered bodies of their comrades.

These tank soldiers who came from infantry finally had their own vehicles, so they would not complain about the thin armor and small caliber of the TKS. They just wanted to drive their own tanks to let the Japanese taste the taste of being crushed.

The weight of 6 tons is not heavy, but it will also produce a muffled "bang" sound when it presses on a person's head!

Moreover, from the beginning, the key training project of the tank company with TKS was battlefield assault, and firepower strikes on enemy solid targets and infantry, but armored combat was placed in the tactical training that was more secondary.

To put it bluntly, the 28 tanks of the tank company of the Fourth Regiment Special Service Battalion relied on their 10mm armor protection to prevent them from being penetrated by heavy machine guns and rifles, and they were also flexible in their movements, aiming to kill the infantry.

Facing the futile counterattacks of the Japanese army with light machine guns and rifle bullets, the three 20mm machine guns fired continuously.

The muffled sound of "Boom! Boom! Boom!" resounded throughout the battlefield.

A Japanese soldier felt himself lunging forward while running. Just as he was about to turn over and hide behind a rock, he found that he could not complete this simple tactical action.

He looked at his body instinctively and opened his mouth in horror and screamed miserably!

Because a shell just hit his waist, and the thick bullet that rolled instantly created a hole the size of a bowl in his chest and abdomen. Perhaps a large number of internal organs were shattered and would not kill him in a short time, but the completely shattered spine could no longer command the lower part of the waist, and the entire lower body could not exert force, so naturally he could not turn over.

For a normal person, what kind of feeling is it to be able to see the ground through your abdomen? Probably only the Japanese infantry who screamed miserably can know.

Don't say, this sturdy Japanese infantryman is really tenacious. With such a large amount of blood loss and great pain, he actually screamed on the battlefield for nearly a minute and did not die.

But perhaps for this Japanese infantryman himself, he may have never hated his good physical fitness and tenacious will so much in his life.

Because, a bigger nightmare is coming!

A TKS that was chasing the Japanese infantryman ran over the upper body of the Japanese soldier who was not able to move at all. The wound that was originally blocked by the hands and military uniform of the Japanese infantryman who was destined to die was squeezed open under the huge pressure.

Various organs in the chest and abdominal cavity were directly sprayed out at least five meters!

That extremely horrifying scene completely broke the defense of other Japanese infantrymen who witnessed it!

At least a dozen Japanese soldiers lying down 60 meters away were holding rifles and charging madly at the Chinese small tanks!

Perhaps because of the distance, the 20mm machine gun barrel had no time to turn the muzzle to deal with these crazy infantrymen, but there were 5 Chinese infantrymen behind each tank, and they were waiting for this kind of Japanese who were not afraid of death.

Two submachine guns and three semi-automatic rifles fired at the same time, directly sending the Japanese whose eyes were reddened by the blood to drink tea with Amaterasu.

In front of three flexible small tanks firmly protected by infantry, more than 200 Japanese troops were defeated and could not form a decent counterattack at all.

So much so that one minute later, seeing that the situation was completely out of control, Major Sano Yoshizo actually ordered two infantry guns and two mortars to aim at the advancing tanks and fire, no longer caring about the fact that many of his own soldiers were still alive on the battlefield.

But the three Chinese mortars were not vegetarians either, and they immediately retaliated, and the three most important 80mm howitzers of the 3rd Battalion Artillery Company also immediately carried out saturation bombardment of the area under the order of Li Jiujin.

With 6 to 4, the power of the shells was far greater than that of the Japanese infantry guns and 90 mortars. The heavy firepower of the brigade that Sano Yoshizo could rely on was completely suppressed, and he could only watch the three Chinese light tanks and infantry plundering the battlefield.

It was like three big wild boars catching a group of chicks and trampling them in the mountains. The chicks had no chance to resist.

Moreover, the 20mm machine gun was too brutal. When it hit the human body, it would directly break the person into pieces. At the beginning of the battle, many Japanese soldiers used rocks and tanks to shoot at each other, trying to kill the infantry following closely behind the tanks first, and then approach the tanks to kill them with grenades.

That was a trick the Japanese learned from Chinese soldiers. Chinese soldiers often fought one after another to kill a tank that was attacking a trench, and finally some infantry approached the tank and used grenades to blow up the tank's tracks and paralyze it.

The Japanese infantry, who had to use their flesh and blood for the first time, obviously wanted to use the same trick to deal with the three light tanks.

However, the Japanese infantry, who had never had any practice, failed to achieve the desired result. The TKS tank was not a small tank with only a heavy machine gun, nor was it a Type 89 tank with a 57mm short-barreled gun. It had a 20mm machine gun with a firing rate of more than 200 rounds per minute.

The biggest feature of this gun was that its firing rate was high enough, and the type of ammunition it was equipped with was also armor-piercing. The half-man-high mountain rocks where the Japanese hid could not withstand the continuous firing of this kind of artillery.

Many brave Japanese soldiers were often smashed into pieces by the crazy bombardment of the 20mm machine guns along with their bunkers.

What was it like for a human body to be shot and exploded?

In fact, it was not clear under the smoke that human tissues were flying around. Most people saw a red color rising from the black smoke. It was a special phenomenon that could only be formed when a large amount of blood was splashed and then rolled up by the air wave caused by the explosion of the high-kinetic energy warhead.

On the battlefield, almost all the brave men who dared to stay behind temporary bunkers and fight against tanks were blown up like this.

That's not all. When encountering someone still alive at close range, the TKS tank accelerated without hesitation and crushed him. The Japanese melon grenade, which only had a few dozen grams of explosives, had no destructive power and could not cause any significant damage to the tank chassis and tracks.

The more miserable the pigs screamed when they were slaughtered, the louder the Japanese soldiers screamed under the tracks. The long howls really resounded throughout the battlefield.

Not to mention that the Japanese infantry who witnessed this scene were so scared that they peed their pants, even the experienced officers and soldiers of the 4th squad were all hairy, and they were far less happy than their comrades who were 200 meters away.

After all, the officers and soldiers in the trenches only watched the Japanese being killed, but they did not experience the feeling of being sprayed with blood and meat sauce.

Of course, don’t underestimate the TKS tanks and the murderers. But in fact, it was not the 20mm machine guns, but the MG42 machine guns in the two machine gun bunkers that caused the most casualties to the Japanese army.

This may be the most enjoyable time for the two machine gunners to shoot the Japanese army in their lives, no one else.

Because all the Japanese soldiers who stood up and ran away were facing them, without any counterattack, they could hold the machine gun grip and shoot at all the "shit yellow" in their field of vision as they wished.

"Awesome!" Old Zhang in the No. 1 machine gun bunker was so excited that his whole face turned red. He completely ignored his shoulders that were numb from the recoil of the machine gun and kept shouting "Awesome" and pulling the trigger.

The two 250-round belts were all shot out in less than 30 seconds, but in the weather of two or three degrees, the barrels made of high-strength steel turned dark red.

Logically speaking, in such cold winter weather, one barrel of the MG42 machine gun is enough to support the firing of 600 rounds of bullets, but now there are only 500 rounds, and the barrel feels like it is about to catch fire. It is clearly caused by the long burst of 20 rounds of bullets fired at one time.

Fortunately, the MG42 machine gun is extremely convenient and quick to replace the barrel. The machine gunners who are already extremely skilled in operating the MG42 machine gun can replace a new barrel in only 5 seconds at most. When encountering extreme moments, they can even shorten the time to 4 seconds.

While the TKS tanks and infantry continued to clear the Japanese troops still on the battlefield, the two MG42 machine guns were firing at full power against the fleeing Japanese infantry.

In just two minutes, the two MG42 machine guns with 3 spare barrels actually madly fired 10 250-round belts that had been prepared long ago. The two soldiers who helped to frantically load bullets into the belts only managed to get one belt. You can tell how terrifying this wave of firepower output is.

Less than one-tenth of the 200 Japanese soldiers were able to escape back to the forest 500 meters away, and at least 180 Japanese soldiers fell on the hillside.

Sano Yoshizo's head was really buzzing. Before launching the attack, he had imagined many possibilities, even considering the Chinese laying mines in front of the position. For this reason, the artillery regiment of the division did not hesitate to carry out plow-style artillery bombardment on the front of the position, just to help the infantry clear the minefield.

As a result, the damn Chinese actually used tanks that the empire could not transport here. With this tank that could resist machine rifle bullets, the Chinese completely buried the one and a half infantry squadrons he sent out to fight in this mountain.

And this was the first wave of attack.

In addition to the pain, Sano Yoshizo even had an inexplicable admiration for the Chinese commander opposite.

He now understood that all the previous actions of the Chinese were actually showing weakness, and the purpose of showing weakness was to lure him to send more soldiers so that he could kill them in one fell swoop.

Because the tanks chosen by the other side were born for this battlefield terrain. Although this tank, which has never appeared on the Chinese battlefield, is smaller, its size and engine with sufficient horsepower are really suitable for mountain warfare. A slope of more than 40 degrees is like a flat ground in the eyes of this small tank.

The Japanese Army Major even believed that even on the plains, if there were a lot of these small tanks, the 231st Infantry Regiment alone would definitely not be able to stop the Chinese advance.

Fortunately, the Chinese have limited financial resources, and there are only a few tanks. If there were more, this battle would really be impossible to fight.

The Japanese Army Major was looking for comfort in pain, hoping to limit the opponent's firepower by relying on the poverty of the Chinese government.

But he was very wrong, because the opponent faced by the 231st Infantry Regiment was the most unique army in the entire Chinese army.

Except for part of their military expenses being borne by the Ministry of Military Affairs, all their equipment and rewards were sucked from arms dealers.

Don't say they are poor, calling them "rich" is too underestimated, it should be "rich to the point of oil flowing".

In addition, among the three high grounds where the battle has already started, there is one high ground with two TKS tanks, but each unit uses the Xiaoqiang tank differently.

For example, on the No. 8 high ground, they dug a shallow trench of 1 meter deep, 15 meters wide and more than 50 meters long for the Xiaoqiang tank to maneuver forward, backward, left and right, dozens of meters above their own trenches. The lower half of the Xiaoqiang tank was protected by the trench, and a turret was exposed to bombard the Japanese army below.

And because it can be maneuvered at will, the Japanese infantry artillery is basically no threat to this flexible "turret" unless it can accurately hit the turret that is only 3 meters above the ground.

The Japanese were completely stunned by the armored forces that emerged from the Chinese positions. They never dreamed that the Chinese not only led them in light firepower, but also surpassed them in heavy firepower.

‘Sano Battalion lost 287 people and 85 people were injured; Chida Battalion lost 179 people and 93 people were injured; Moriha Battalion lost 146 people and 76 people were injured; the Chinese deployed at least 5 tanks of unknown models on the high ground, which have 20mm machine guns with extremely high firing rate and strong penetration, posing a great threat to fortifications and infantry! ”

An hour later, Colonel Masayoshi Yamada looked at the casualties and battle reports from his various units, and his head was overwhelmed for a while.()