But this was just the wishful thinking of Regiment Commander Li, and before he could finish the order, a frightened voice sounded in his eardrums: "Tuanzao, no, we found a tank right in front of us" The tone was very frightened, as if the sky was about to fall.
"Ah, how can it be that the tank comes from in the buns" Regiment Commander Li still didn't believe it, in his opinion, the New Fourth Army can be equipped with machine guns and small artillery just like the Chinese New Year, even if the tank is given to them, they will not be able to tinker, how can there be such a talent who can tinker with tanks in the mud legs Commander Li didn't know that the predecessor of Zhou Wu's New Fourth Army was the famous 79th Army, and Lao Cheng was originally in the Nanjing Teaching Corps, the first batch of tank soldiers trained by German advisers.
Before Commander Li could react, a "Sherman" tank in his team was immediately pierced by an armor-piercing bullet from Lao Cheng, and a raging fire ignited, and the five tank soldiers inside screamed and climbed out of the tank, and their bodies were already on fire, and they kept rolling on the mud floor, trying to extinguish the flames burning on their bodies, but to no avail, they quickly fell to the ground and struggled not to move.
Immediately afterwards, an armor-piercing bullet roared, brushed past the tank that Commander Li was riding, and smashed on the armored car behind, the huge kinetic energy of the armor-piercing bullet overturned the armored car at once, and the fire light mixed with fragments and smoke rose up, straight into the sky, and the explosion wave directly lifted the tank soldiers in those armored vehicles, tearing them into pieces in mid-air, scattering them on the ground in twos and threes, and dying with a whimper.
Regiment Commander Li hurriedly ordered the tanks to retreat, and the tank guns immediately fired shells, but due to panic, most of the shells fired could not hit the tanks driven by Lao Cheng and them The tanks and armored vehicles under Regiment Commander Li were huddled together, all colliding with each other, and no one was willing to take the lead in giving way to get out of the way, Lao Cheng saw that a great opportunity to destroy the enemy's tanks had come, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates: "No. 1 and No. 2 to the left, No. 3 and No. 4 to the right, outflank them, and bombard the enemy tanks with armor-piercing shells."
Looking at Lao Cheng's four tanks surrounding him, Commander Li gritted his teeth and dragged away the driver in front of him, personally put up gear and slammed the accelerator, only to hear a strange cry of the tank, and suddenly crashed into the armored car behind, 33 tons of weight plus the kinetic energy of the rapid impact, the momentum was not small, and directly knocked over the armored car that was blocked on the way back due to panic, accompanied by the exclamations of the Kuomintang soldiers on the car, the armored car was knocked off the road by Commander Li's tank, and rolled over, The soldiers inside were like beans in a bamboo tube, all of them were poured out by "hulala", moaning and screaming.
Commander Li's tank quickly ran to the back, and the other Kuomintang tanks saw that the regiment commander had run away, and they were still, so they rushed to the back and fled, and there was a strange scene in front of the position, the armored troops of the 18th Division, which had a superior number, were chased by the four captured tanks led by Lao Cheng behind and fled in a hurry, and they didn't even care about the tank artillery around them, including Commander Li at this moment, Those tank soldiers had only one thought in their hearts: that is, how to give full play to the maximum cross-country mobility of the tank, and they had to outrun their companions if they could not outrun the tanks of the New Fourth Army that were catching up behind Lao Cheng saw that the enemy's armored troops were fleeing, and shouted to his brothers with excitement in his throat: "Shoot quickly, use armor-piercing projectiles to penetrate the armor of their tanks" Lao Cheng looked at the battlefield situation and felt that it was completely possible to annihilate the armored team of the 18th Division this time, and now the enemy is in a favorable opportunity to break and flee, and he must seize the fighter plane and destroy the enemy with firepower But the report of his brothers made Lao Cheng feel very helpless: "Battalion commander, the armor-piercing shells are gone, only the blasting bombs are gone" "Ahh Damn, why did you fire a few shots, and you didn't have armor-piercing bullets, how did you do it" Lao Cheng was very angry, and he dropped the chain at a critical moment, which was really annoying.
In fact, Lao Cheng didn't know that before this battle, Commander Li of the 18th Division arrogantly believed that the New Fourth Army had no tanks and weapons that could attack tanks, and it was purely redundant to equip armor-piercing shells, or to equip more high-explosive shells to bombard the fortified positions of the New Fourth Army.
I had to use high-explosive shells to deal with the enemy tanks and armored vehicles that fled backwards in a hurry, but high-explosive shells are ammunition based on fragmentation killing, and it is useless to deal with tanks with thick armor protection, and even those thin-skinned armored vehicles under Commander Li can't deal with them, just like that, although Lao Cheng and they desperately used tank guns to block the enemy tanks that Queen Cang retreated, they still let these enemy armored units escape the firing range, watching the enemy's tanks and armored vehicles fly away, Lao Cheng scolded angrily and ordered the tanks to quickly catch up, The infantry in the rear immediately followed, and this time they had to wipe out the armored regiment of the 18th Division and extinguish the prestige of the arrogant and arrogant 18th Division The tank battle in front of the blocking position, Zhou Wu, who was watched with a telescope, had a panoramic view, he saw that the enemy's tanks were fleeing, and Lao Cheng's four captured tanks showed their might, coming and going freely in the enemy formation, invincible, and said to Commissar Niu and Chief of Staff Lao Xu with a big smile: "Haha, our New Fourth Army also has an armored corps, Lao Cheng is good, this time we can give us a bad breath, we have to give them a good credit, but we have no fuel, we can't afford to raise tanks, and we can only use it this time, and we can only use it this time, and we can do it with prestige." ” Lao Niu and Lao Xu also saw the scene of Lao Cheng and their pursuit of the enemy's tank in the telescope just now, nodded and said to Zhou Wu: "Lao Zhou, don't worry, although we are poor now, we believe that this day will come soon, the enemy is our best transport captain, what we need, they will send it to us, which is much more convenient than our own self-reliance." ” "That being said, but relying on the captured enemy's materials and equipment to develop and strengthen oneself is only an expedient measure after all, and if we want to fight a decisive battle with the Kuomintang army armed to the teeth, we must have our own military industry, so that we will have more confidence in our hearts."
Zhou Wu said.
At this time, Zhou Wu suddenly saw that Lao Cheng in front of him was chasing after the defeated enemy with tanks and infantry, and he "sighed" in his heart, Lao Cheng wanted to play with his life, the main force of the 18th Division was in front, tens of thousands of horses, and Lao Cheng's two battalions chased after him, wouldn't he be looking for death He hurriedly ordered the communication soldiers around him: "Quick, order the battalion commander Cheng in front not to retreat immediately after exhaustive pursuit, and block the attack on the position."
After Lao Cheng in front received Zhou Wu's order to stop the pursuit and retreat to the blocking position, he complained: "Now is a good time to take advantage of the victory to pursue and annihilate the enemy's armored forces, but he wants us to retreat and block the position.
Lao Cheng ignored Zhou Wu's evacuation order, and ordered his brothers to continue the pursuit and wipe out all the enemy tanks that escaped, just like that, four tanks with two battalions of more than 1,000 people desperately chased after the retreating enemy forward team, the fleeing Li Regiment Commander saw that the New Fourth Army team behind him did not relentlessly catch up, and he was even more frightened, and ran towards the back like a smoke at full speed, he knew that the 18th Division led by Commander Qian was not far from the front, Although the New Fourth Army teams that caught up behind were fierce, they would not be able to bear it if they ran into a large army.
Division Commander Qian had already received the news from the scouts in front of him, saying that a team of thousands of people of the New Fourth Army was chasing after Commander Li of the armored regiment, and he was so angry that he scolded Commander Li for having a rice bucket, and the chief of staff under his command hurriedly made an idea for him: "Division, our opportunity has come, this team chasing over is lonely, only about 1,000 people, we have tens of thousands of troops here, isn't that a mantis arm blocking the car, and the egg touches the stone?"
"Yes, haha, I never thought that Zhou Wu would make such a stupid move, and ordered the artillery regiment to bombard the chasing New Fourth Army team, and the first and second brigades were all dispatched to outflank it and encircle and annihilate this team that didn't know whether to live or die" Lao Qian thought that he had seized a rare fighter, and decided to attack on all fronts, and first eliminate the old Cheng who was chasing him The artillery regiment of the 18th Division is really powerful, they not only have large-caliber howitzers, but also flat-fire guns that are not equipped by ordinary troops, a "boom" of artillery shelling sounded from behind, and the shells were like a group of crows that were suddenly startled, and they cut through the air above the heads of Division Commander Qian, and smashed towards Lao Cheng and their team who were chasing after them, and smashed on the ground one after another and exploded, and Lao Cheng found that the enemy had fired artillery through the lookout in the tank.
Hurriedly ordered his infantry brothers to immediately disperse on the spot and hide, his own tank rushed ahead, and the three tanks behind were guarding left and right, driving at full speed in a triangular shock formation, rushing towards the enemy under artillery fire The shells of the flat-fire guns "swished" and flew towards the tank, Lao Cheng and their tanks were like drunken drunks, dodging and dodging, and rushing up with a twist and turn, of course, the 76mm tank guns on the turret were not idle, since the armor-piercing shells were gone, let's hit high-explosive shells, and the shells smashed over, smashing in the middle of the enemy infantry team that blocked them from coming, and the Kuomintang soldiers who were blown up turned on their backs, crying bitterly, and could not support it for a while, and retreated to the rear one after another t1706231537: