Anti-Japanese War: Li Yunlong dared to attack Taiyuan

At the same time, the Soviet tank in the front also discovered them and turned its gun to aim at them.

"boom!"

With a loud bang, a tank shell landed on the Japanese observation post.

But at this time the red flare had already exploded in the air.

The Russian bear's winter offensive plan has begun.

Chapter 499: The Collision of Tank Floods

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Explosions continued to sound above the Japanese front-line positions.

The corpses of the Japanese soldiers mixed with the red snow "bloomed" in the air.

In the Japanese trenches, the Japanese soldiers picked up their rifles and tried their best to pull the bolt, but in the temperature of more than 30 degrees below zero, they could not pull the bolt at all.

"Where's the heavy artillery? Where's the heavy artillery? The Russian armored forces have already rushed to the front of our trenches. Where's our heavy artillery?"

On the front line of the Japanese army, the commander looked at the rushing Soviet tanks and called the heavy artillery unit.

"Still adjusting the muzzle, artillery support will be coming soon!"

After the Japanese commander put down the phone, he redialed and started calling for air support.

At the same time, the Japanese armored forces in the rear also began to move.

After struggling to start a fire, the Japanese Type 97 tanks began to rush towards the front battlefield.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Another series of explosions sounded, but this time the explosions did not occur in the Japanese positions, but in the Soviet tank forces.

The Japanese artillery began to fight back, and shells kept falling around the Soviet tanks. Occasionally, a shell would hit the tank, directly turning the Soviet tank into scrap metal, as well as the Soviet soldiers following the tank.

However, at this time, the vanguard of the Soviet tanks had already crushed the Japanese trenches and began to rush deep into the position.

The Soviet infantry who followed the tanks also entered the Japanese positions at this time.

"Onboard!"

A Japanese soldier who was unable to pull the bolt of his gun roared and rushed towards a Russian soldier with his bayonet.

But before he got close, the Russian soldier pulled the trigger.

The Japanese soldier was killed with one shot. Having been stationed in Siberia for many years, these Russian soldiers knew very well how to ensure that their rifles could be used normally in the severe cold.

The Japanese soldiers were still in the stage of gaining experience when they were suddenly attacked, and many of their rifles became firewood sticks.

The Japanese front-line position was unable to stop the Soviet offensive forces. After only about twenty minutes of resistance, the Japanese front-line position was occupied by the Soviets.

The Soviet vanguard did not stop, but continued to move forward according to the predetermined plan, preparing to quickly break through the Japanese defense line.

But at this time, three Japanese tank regiments also rushed over from the distant snowfield.

One by one, the Japanese Type 26 modified tanks encountered the Soviet T-34 tanks and a certain number of Ts head-on.

"The Japanese armored forces have been spotted!"

"The tank is confirmed to be the Japanese Type 97 modified tank!"

"Ready to fight!"

"Each of you will find your target, annihilate it, and then move on!"

On the Soviet command tank, the flag bearer kept waving the flag to convey the commander's orders to each crew.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer. When the distance was less than one thousand meters, the Soviet T34 tank opened fire first.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

After several T34s locked onto their targets, they immediately began calling out names.

A Japanese Type 97 modified tank instantly turned into a torch.

After reloading the ammunition, the crew began to look for the next target.

At this time, inside the Japanese tank, the driver and the commander were communicating loudly.

"Speed ​​up, speed up, charge into their ranks!"

"Don't engage the Russian tanks in direct confrontation. They have an artillery advantage. Charge into their formation and fire from the side!"

"Close the distance, don't shoot from a distance!"

In Chita and the Far East, the Japanese tank units and the Soviet armored units had experience in direct confrontations.

So the Japanese knew very well that if it was just a head-on firefight, their tank guns would find it difficult to penetrate the Soviet tank armor.

After summarizing their experience, the Japanese concluded that when encountering T34 tanks, they either had to equip themselves with more advanced tanks, or they could only rush into the Soviet armored forces and then attack from the side, as the side armor of the Soviet tanks was not thick.

The 34mm main gun equipped on the Type 34 modified tank can penetrate the armor of the T34 tanks from the side. At close range, if you are lucky, you can also penetrate the armor of the T tanks from the front. Therefore, when the commander of the Japanese tank regiment saw that it was the Soviet T tank, he immediately ordered to speed up.

If you encounter a T-26 tank, this is not necessary. The Japanese Type 26 modified tank can penetrate the armor of the T-26. Similarly, the T- tank can easily penetrate the Japanese Type modified tank. When these two types of tanks meet, basically whoever is hit first will explode first.

"charge!"

"Onboard!"

A Japanese officer with a saber in his hand stuck his head out of the tank and commanded the Japanese tanks to charge towards the Soviet tanks.

At this time, all the Russian T34 tanks were lined up in a row and began to aim at the charging Japanese tanks.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

The Japanese tanks were constantly turned into scrap metal during the charge, but the Japanese dispatched three tank regiments, with a total of more than 160 tanks. One kilometer is not a long distance, and after the tanks were running at full speed, they soon collided with each other.

On the Siberian winter plains, a steel-clashing hand-to-hand combat begins.

"Wan Sheng!"

A Japanese tank gunner yelled and pulled the bolt, and a shell accurately hit the side armor of a T34 tank not far away.

"boom!"

An explosion sounded, and the T34 tank, which had just been showing off its power and pointing fingers at the Japanese tanks, instantly had its ammunition rack detonated and turned into a pile of scrap metal.

However, before the crew of this Japanese tank had time to celebrate, it was hit by a shell from the front and turned into a torch in an instant.

Hundreds of tanks collided with each other and started fighting in the snow and ice. After the collision of the tanks, there were sounds of metal collision and explosions mixed with the sound of the whistling Siberian cold wind.

"It's really spectacular!"

On a high ground in the distance, the brigade commander, the division commander and Li Yunlong were observing the battle situation in the distance with binoculars in their hands.

For this winter battle, Li Yunlong specially brought the brigade commander and division commander with him.

"This is the situation we will face on the battlefield in the future. We have never commanded hundreds of tanks in battle before!"

The division commander said with emotion while holding a telescope.

This scene really shocked the division commander and others. Compared with the tank battles between the Russians and the Japanese, the infantry fighting on the Chinese battlefield was more brutal, but it could not keep up with the pace of this era.

"On the Soviet-German battlefield, across a vast plain spanning dozens of kilometers, hundreds of thousands of troops engaged in combat, with tanks and aircraft also involved. Millions of casualties were reported in a single battle. I'd seen war reports before and thought the way we fought was similar, just with more men and more artillery. Now it seems completely different."

The brigade commander couldn't help but sigh.

It was indeed a good decision to come to the front line to observe this time.

Chapter 500: One Armored Combined Brigade Is Enough

The tank battle in the Archamps area continues.

The Soviet Union was at a disadvantage in terms of the number of tanks at the beginning, but it had a lot of advantages in terms of tank quality. The T34 tank was able to continuously kill Japanese tanks.

But as the distance shortened, the tanks of both sides fought each other.

The T34 tanks continued to be destroyed, and the Japanese tank numerical advantage gradually began to emerge.

But soon, the situation began to reverse again. The subsequent armored forces of the Russian Bear had arrived, followed by the Russian Bear infantry.

At this time, the Russians had already begun to equip themselves with some anti-tank guns, individual anti-tank grenades and other weapons.

On the chaotic battlefield, Russian soldiers kept shuttling around, taking the opportunity to launch a sneak attack on the Japanese tanks, blow off the Japanese tank tracks, or directly blow up the Japanese tanks.

However, the Japanese were not pushovers in the past year. They killed or captured 300,000 soldiers of the Soviet Far East Front and seized a large number of weapons and equipment, including a considerable number of tanks. The three tank regiments were not all of the Japanese armored regiments in Siberia.

The Japanese's subsequent armored forces also came to support. This time it was a tank division, one of the three tank divisions formed by the Japanese last year. Two hundred and sixty tanks and self-propelled artillery also joined the battlefield.

What started as a melee involving just over 200 tanks gradually expanded in scale, with more and more tanks deployed by both sides.

Two hours later, two more Japanese tank regiments joined the battlefield. The number of tanks deployed by the Japanese was close to 500. The Soviet Union was not to be outdone and also deployed nearly 500 tanks.

On the plains of the Alshan region, about 60 kilometers from Kurkutsk, the Japanese and the Russians engaged in the largest tank battle since the war began.

The snow on the ground had disappeared, and the destroyed tanks were burning and melting the surrounding snow.

Tanks from both sides charged back and forth on the battlefield, repeatedly crushing the land and leaving behind one axle mark after another.

After the Russian infantry arrived at the battlefield, the Japanese infantry also arrived at the battlefield.

After the battle with the Soviet Union, the Japanese also began to equip their infantry with some anti-tank equipment, the most common of which was the Japanese anti-tank mine.

It consists of a nearly two-meter-long wooden pole with a conical explosive head with three spikes. The warhead can be loaded with approximately 3 to 5.4 kilograms of TNT, and the conical cover has a diameter of 90 mm.

The method of use is also very simple. Pull out the safety pin, rush towards the tank like a bayonet, and use the spikes to hold the armor to prevent slipping. After the safety pin is released, the bamboo pole continues to move forward, hitting the detonator with the firing pin to detonate the explosives.