Chapter 695 Battle of Augusta 6

"Emy!"

"12 o'clock direction, fire!"

"Boom."

In an instant, as many as 40 Saint-Simon assault tanks opened fire at the same time, as if they were naval guns fired at a volley, spectacular and amazing.

This change made Li Dong open his mouth wide, blink his eyes, and immediately became angry!

I haven't opened fire yet. You fart. It's still 3,000 meters away!

Not to mention Li Dong, other gunners are also stunned. They fire at a distance of 3,000 meters. Can they hit it? You should know that although the Siberian Tiger's 76mm gun can also hit 3,000 meters away, the best distance when firing armor-piercing shells is only about 1,300 meters. No matter how far it is, the hit rate and armor-piercing effect will be greatly reduced, so everyone is surprised that American tanks fire so far away.

Is it possible that they are equipped with 75mm guns that are more advanced than their own?

As the idea rose, the shells suddenly fell around, and a ball of sand splashed by the explosion on the steel shell, which really made everyone dumbfounded.

In fact, Li Dong was wrong. Although Xinhua dares not say that it is more advanced than Europe in the cannon, at least it will not lag behind. What's more, how could Emperor Li suffer losses on the vital tank cannon? If it is not for the material and technical problems, it is estimated that he will directly use the cannon with a high muzzle velocity long tube, plus the tail stable tungsten alloy tock. Armor-piercing bullets!

The reason why the U.S. tanks on the opposite side open fire at 3,000 meters is that in addition to nervousness, the main reason is that they still don't know what tank fighting is, so firing is more similar to a naval gun duel. What's more, to be honest, the empire is the first to conduct actual tank training these days. Other countries are in a hurry to fight, and more The tank is regarded as a tool to support the infantry and a temporary turret, and the design is also based on this purpose.

For example, the Saint-Shamon assault tank, which was developed by France based on the earliest A7V tank sent to Germany by Xinhua. It weighs 22 tons and is also equipped with 4 machine guns, especially the 75mm gun in front, which was simply moved from the army's "Miss 75" without changing. The main use is to support steps. Soldiers provide firepower, so the elevation angle is very large. All they use are to trigger fuse high-explosive bombs, so they can shoot from a long distance, and borrow the wide space inside, enough to prepare 106 shells.

Miss 75 is a good gun, there is no doubt about this, but it is only on the land battlefield, but it looks out of place in place in the tank. Not to mention that it has not been equipped with special armor-piercing bombs, even if it is equipped with rifling pressure, it is seriously insufficient. What's more, the San Monza tank is not equipped with a shooting scope at all, and it is completely focused on the human eye. Accurate.

Sure enough, 40 Saint-Simon tanks fired with 10 Ford tanks in a row. Except for one of them, which was slightly shocked by a close-range explosion in front of the Siberian tiger, the rest had no accuracy at all.

"Fry your grandma!"

Li Dong spit and shouted excitedly at the driver in front of him, "Old Ma, drive quickly. It's not Grandpa's style to be beaten like this!"

"Grench your cannon!"

The tank driver waved his hand to Li Dong and stepped on the accelerator with his left foot. The engine suddenly burst into a violent hiss. Suddenly, the relatively stable Siberian tiger tank suddenly bumped violently. It was not in a straight line, but rushed left and right to avoid shells.

"Mother!"

Li Dong scolded secretly. In this case, the difficulty of hitting the other party more than doubled, so he also calmed down and pointed the muzzle at one of the St. Salmon, who was firing.

"1400 meters!"

"Fire!"

As soon as the captain shouted, Li Dong suddenly shouted. He only heard a bang. The fast-moving Siberian tiger suddenly paused as if it had hit an iron wall. If he looked from the outside, the dust covering the body of the car seemed to be suddenly rolled up by something, and a bright yellow cannon immediately burst in front of his eyes.

The shell cut through the void like a flame meteor and rushed to the enemy with Li Dong's hope. In the smoke of the cannon, a flame suddenly exploded in the distance.

Hit it!?

"Li Dongzi, what the hell are you doing? Is there no division between the primary and secondary!"

After seeing the hit target, the company commander was not only not happy, but also complained. He only made Li Dong flatten his mouth and shouted, "I didn't know that there were incidental casualties!"

"Damn it, give me a poor mouth, come again!"

Li Dongzi looked at the destroyed Ford light tank aggrievedly. He really didn't expect that at the beginning of the long-awaited tank battle, his first gun actually hit an oolong. He didn't hit the most threatening Saint-Shamon, but overturned a less important Ford, 3-ton gadget. No wonder the company commander couldn't lift his strength.

The machine gun and the loader also shook his head and pulled off the bolt. The yellow, orange and orange hot shell was immediately withdrawn, fell into the sound of the steel car, and then rolled down the slope into the grid-like collection box below.

Li Mo did not think about installing an automatic repulse device, but he had never made a breakthrough, so the cartridge case had to stay in the car, instead of being thrown out of the tank directly through the repulse port like later generations.

"Two orders are on standby."

In the shouting of the loading hand, Li Dong quickly hit the second armor-piercing bullet, and his eyes resisted the target. Even the same vibration as just now did not make him blink half his eyes.

"Boom."

An orange flame burst from the front end of the targeted Saint-Shamon assault tank. Before he could look carefully hit there, he only heard a more violent explosion. The Saint-Shamont tank was like an egg squeezed from the inside, the steel plate suddenly burst open, and then was completely swallowed up by the flame.

Looking at an American tanker who luckily rushed out of the sea of fire and swayed twice and fell down again, Li Dong also swallowed and hit the ammunition depot!

Compared with the Siberian Tigers, there are too many shells inside the Saint-Shamon tank. Although there is a layer of steel plate barrier, there is no specially designed ammunition compartment, and the armor thickness on the front is less than 17 mm. In addition, the bulletproof partition is only 30 mm in total, which is still an ordinary homogeneous steel plate, not to mention 7 The 6mm gun, I'm afraid even the 37mm gun can be penetrated if you are lucky.

"3 is on standby."

"3 o'clock, Saint-Simon, fire!"

The shouting made Lidong wake up from the shock and quickly pointed the muzzle at another Saint-Simon assault tank. Compared with the opponent who can only shoot forward, the rotating turret of the Northeast Tiger tank has too much advantage. What's more, as a new generation and future tank ruler, the Northeast Tiger also installed a gyroscope for the first time. And the simple optical gun aiming equipment is close to 1200 meters at this moment, and the distance accuracy is completely ahead of this era.

"Boom Boom."

Each shell rushed out of the mouth of 10 Northeast Tiger guns. At this time, the distance between the two sides was less than 1,300 meters. This 76mm imped gun could already penetrate any part of the other side. Several of them even penetrated the frontal armor and continuously penetrated the central engine compartment and exploded in the tail.

In an instant, this U.S. tank unit suffered the heaviest blow. Although it has an advantage in quantity, it is subject to people everywhere in other aspects, especially shells, armor and speed. The trigger fuse can only deal with exposed targets. It can't penetrate the frontal armor of the Siberian tiger at all. Even if it is hit, it can only break through. There is a hole, and there is an engine behind it.

The armor is even weaker, and the most important thing is that the speed of the Saint-Simon tank is too slow, 8 kilometers per hour, which is slower than a bicycle. How can it be the opponent of the Siberian Tigers who can reach 25 kilometers per hour on this road, and they can't even escape!

In just 15 minutes, 25 Saint-Shamon and Ford tanks were destroyed. Now the U.S. military commander no longer dared to fight, but he could not escape, so he had to order the disbandment and one by one.

But his order is so confused that he can't escape from it. How can he escape if he is scattered?

Soon, the Siberian tiger was strangled with the other party. At this time, because the muzzle of the Saint-Shamon tank pointed incorrectly, the tank body had to be adjusted every time it opened fire, while the Siberian tiger could easily rotate the turret and kill.

"13 pieces on standby!"

As soon as the loader finished shouting, Li Dong, who was extremely excited, fired. After a burst of gunpowder smoke, the fifth Saint-Shamon was opened on the side. The diffuse smoke and fire scared the U.S. tank soldiers to drill out of the tank one after another regardless of danger, but they forgot to raise their hands when they came out.

In fact, even if he raised his hand, Li Dong didn't want to move forward with the prisoners. It must be sudden. This was good, and there was no need for ideological struggle. It was directly swept into a sieve by him with a synchronous machine gun.

The armor of the two wings collided with the scattered U.S. tank troops at the same time overnight, using almost the same way, the killer's opponent with no power to fight back.

20 minutes later, when dozens of cheetahs rushed over to pick up, nothing could be seen on the whole battlefield except the scattered scrap iron and corpses. The angry regimental commander did not say hello and directly stamped his feet to the Yangta more than 30 kilometers away.

====== "Colo, Colonel!"

"It's not good, they, they." The staff officer rushed to the temporary headquarters out of breath, pointing to the outside but couldn't speak. The anxious partner hurriedly brought water to let him breathe, but he immediately pushed him away and took a deep breath and shouted, "They're coming. They defeated the tank troops. When they came, they were outside."

"Chinese?"

"Yes, it's right, boom!"

Before he finished speaking, the staff officer was interrupted by a violent explosion. MacArthur, who had just arrived at Yanta, quickly grabbed the telescope and looked out, but when he went to the window, he knew that he didn't need a telescope anymore.

Two-engine planes that had been seen before had appeared in the distance. The Kunpeng bombers that arrived in time began to drop horrible bombs. Before more than a dozen double-winged camels deployed in Yangta took off, they were swept into pieces by escorted wild horses. Even a few that barely took off were hit when they were just pulled up. It became a fire.

The bomb ravaged the town of Yangta, with a total population of less than 2,000. By the time the bombers left, the artillery a few kilometers away was ready.

36 war hammers 152mm heavy guns, 48 105mm light towed howitzers, roared at the same time, and the dense rain swept through the whole town like a whirlwind.

"Damn it, Jackson, guard the road to the west!"

"William, leave the house and let everyone leave the house."

Boom.

In the screams, a house hit by 152 millimeters burst like a broken egg, and the splashed mud tiles were merciless reaper's life. The whole 30 British soldiers hiding around the house were blown up into blood without even shouting.

The shells were still falling, and at this time, six large airships had appeared overhead. When several soldiers were still trying to shoot with rifles, they saw that the hatch of the leading airship had slowly opened, and several huge black spots suddenly appeared in the field of vision.

"Little Fatty" 1800kg extra heavy-duty high-explosive bomb!

MacArthur and everyone saw that four black dots fell rapidly from a height of kilometers. As soon as they touched the ground, four bright fireballs almost appeared in front of them. The power of the 550 kg standard TNT explosion was unparalleled, and the strong explosion shock wave was like the most violent tornado. After sweeping past, dozens of houses were directly destroyed by the cyclone.

The power of a "little fat man" is enough to sweep away anything with a radius of 1,000 meters, and the black mushroom cloud with a height of 100 meters makes the scalp of all the coalition soldiers numb. What kind of bomb is this?

The little fat man hit a trench north of Yangta, and the bursting shock wave swept over the side of the trench. Countless silt directly filled the nearly 100-meter-long trench. The soldiers who thought that they could avoid shells in the trenches were not even shouting, and were torn over by the air waves, and the sand and stones it rolled up became the biggest killer. At least 300 soldiers died directly under the bomb.

Especially when the two airships flew to the railway station in the distance, MacArthur's face suddenly changed.

On the railway track, a piece of burning carriage is currently wrong, and two of them were even directly overturned by air waves. The dense Australian soldiers who had just arrived from Adelaide to support looked at the small town of Yangta with rain shells in the distance. They had just escaped from the bombing and were hesitating whether they should rush to support immediately. It was found that two airships had arrived overhead.

Eight little fat men scattered everywhere. Looking at these bombs that were obviously bigger than before, the soldiers immediately lay on the ground and prayed that they could dodge again, but this time they were wrong!

One fire ball after another, the air waves swept away against the ground fiercely. A soldier even saw that a complete truck was directly rolled up by the air waves, and then enlarged in the pupil until it hit him.

More soldiers were directly shocked to death by the explosion of the shock wave without even shouting. Even if they did not die on the spot, they were injured in the mud and sand and " gravel rain" that followed.

MacArthur and the officers hiding in the bunker have been sweating coldly. They don't need to see that under such a violent explosion, thousands of soldiers may have been finished.

"Block them, you must block these demons!"

"Send a telegram to Major General Jim and Lieutenant General Quinta, ask for immediate support!" MacArthur hysterically shouted that although the six hippo-class airships could only carry 24 little fat men, and the hit accuracy was not high, the extra-heavy bombs were not created for precision in the first place, not to mention that the shock wave they swept was enough to make up for the shortcomings in accuracy, and the mental pressure it brought was real. It's too big. No one knows if these bombs will fall!

When the airship gradually left, 24 mushroom clouds had risen over the town. The nearly ten-meter crater made people shudder and made everyone tremble.

"Tank!"

Suddenly, a rapid shout woke up the stunned soldiers. Tens of thousands of surviving Allied soldiers immediately entered the battle position. Although they looked full of defense, the officers were actually very clear that Yangta could no longer defend it, because the enemy's offensive means were too rich!

M4 Siberian tiger, M3 cheetah, Z3 wildcat, groups, one by one, rolled up the sand and dust, broke through the smoke, like a terrible beast, rushed along the defense line nearly 15 kilometers wide north of the front of Yangta.

Countless fire tongues exploded from the opposite side, and the muzzle was flickering, especially the number of machine guns, which even exceeded all the firepower of the three infantry divisions deployed in Yangta.

The infantry of the brigade followed behind the tank. They were waisted and skillfully used tanks and armored vehicles to avoid bullets. In the gap torn by these steel monsters, it was like a red soldering iron inserted into the cheese.

"Commando, sweep the trenches!"

The soldiers of the armored infantry regiment held guns, used the gap torn by the tank, and rolled into the trench. The first few people were all equipped with submachine guns, so when they took the lead in entering the trench, countless screams sounded from the trench.

After sending the commandos and infantry into the trenches, the wild cat armored vehicles, which were temporarily unable to cross the barrier, began to move along the trenches to provide fire support, and the remaining tanks began to accelerate and continued to rush towards the town of Yangta with the infantry.

"Korov, machine gun, block them!"

Several Australian soldiers launched an undamaged Maxim machine gun and fired fiercely at the cheetah. When they set the cheetah on fire, they did not notice that the two Xinhua soldiers following behind the tank had pointed an iron pipe at them.

"Fire!"

After the loader patted his companion's helmet, he suddenly squatted on the ground. Almost at the same time, the 40mm iron fist rocket drilled out of the launch tube with a red light, and immediately the machine gun position hiding behind the rubble became a fireball.

Several tank soldiers quickly dropped the burning cheetah and joined the sweep with a submachine gun. Their red eyes vented the anger of the tank's loss on the fleeing Australian allied soldiers. The submachine gun was almost better than the Death sickle at close range.

"Machine gun, occupy the height!"

"Mpo po pao, 230 meters, rapid shooting!"

"Quick, fast, pay attention to spread out, don't go near the main road and open land, and use more trees and rubble to cover."

The truck arrived in front of the battle with two infantry divisions. Tens of thousands of infantry began to jump off the truck in the shouts of the officers, and then quickly dispersed into a scattered line and rushed to the town of Yangta. As more and more infantry joined, the Yangta defense line, which had been built in a hurry, was hit by tanks and armored vehicles, and finally lost. They went to centralize command and fell into their own war.

"How long will it take?" Although the attack went smoothly, Wu Peifu still did not dare to be careless, because he knew that there were still hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers in the direction of Flinders Ridge. He not only wanted to take down the Yangta, but also needed to stay here for at least two days!

"It has rushed up, the assault troops have rushed into the town, and the infantry have begun to clear the trenches. The main war can be ended in up to 3 hours!"

Wu Peifu nodded. From the beginning, he knew that Yangta could not stop himself. The key to this battle was to block hundreds of thousands of Allied soldiers who were ready to escape from here to escape back to New South Wales after the failure of Flinders Ridge!

That's at least 100,000 soldiers who want to break through and escape, with red eyes!

Wu Peifu took a deep breath and looked at his watch. The Flinders Ridge general attack had started three hours ago, so at most tomorrow noon, the first batch of soldiers who escaped will begin to attack their defense line!

"Establish a line of defense, we are going to prepare for a sniper battle!"

(to be continued)