afterglow

Chapter 49 Situation Reversal

After traveling for so many days, I have suffered a lot of cynicism and blank stares before, and I have suffered several air raids along the way from Lingzhi to here. It can be said that the mixed third brigade has a stomachache, and now I finally found it. There is an object to vent.

With Height Zero as the core, the Wilson task force arranged a seemingly solid circular defensive position, and planned to defend it on the spot until dawn.

However, there are omissions and imperfections in many places in the hastily arranged defense line, such as not clearing the field of vision and range of fire, unreasonable firepower planning, too late to lay mines and barbed wire, and so on.

In the night sky, the lighting tubes hanging under the small parachutes emitted dazzling pale light, illuminating the ground like a full moon night.

Looking around, there are dense figures moving in the whole field and the distant woods. The British and Indian soldiers leaning on the foxholes and bunkers were stunned.

The Ming army, which attacked Height Zero with multiple echelons, was immediately attacked by the firepower of the British and Indian troops. At least [-] Vickers heavy machine guns and Lewis light machine guns were shooting wildly!
"Da da da da da——" the shooter of the British Indian army's machine gun team looked almost crazy, holding the trigger with his index finger and pouring bullets into the hazy night, as if he was afraid that if he let go of the trigger, he would be captured by the devil of.

The minds of the other riflemen were almost blank, only their hands were mechanically repeating the action of "pulling the bolt - aiming - pulling the trigger", and the SMLE rifle, which is famous for its fast firing rate, never stopped shooting.

Under the cover of the rumbling mortars, the positions of the British and Indian troops were constantly shrouded in explosions, and the firepower of more than [-] machine guns was intermittent.

Amidst the sharp whistle of "beep beep beep", the soldiers of the Ming army who initiated the attack were alternately covering the leap forward.When the environment is illuminated by flares, they lie down in unison; when a round of flares is about to burn out, they get up again and rush forward.

When it is bright and dark, the Chinese will teleport for a certain distance?
Such a scene looked like a thriller to the soldiers of the British and Indian Army. It was as if countless monsters moved a little closer as soon as they closed their eyes and opened them.

The most difficult thing now is those tanks. The A9 cruiser tanks and Carden-Lloyd ultralight tanks parked on the front line of the ring position are equivalent to the solid firepower of fearless mortars.The tank soldiers inside were also red-eyed, and the yellow shell casings piled up in a pile at their feet.

"Listen, listen--" The Ming army attacked the two wings of the starting position, and more than a dozen heavy machine guns were also firing continuously, and the empty shell casings and magazines also fell all over the ground.

In fact, when the heavy machine guns perform the task of covering the assault of their own infantry, they will be arranged on both sides of the starting position-if the infantry attack area is an isosceles trapezoid, then the heavy machine guns will be arranged at the lower two corners.

At the same time, it is necessary to calculate the safe shooting range according to the shooting table, and insert the shooting limit rod next to the barrel to prevent the left and right deflection from being too large and accidentally injuring friendly troops.

In film and television dramas, the scenes of "infantry charging in the front and machine guns shooting in the back" almost never appear.As for the mythical "beyond shooting", it is a special shooting method that is only used in rare cases, such as when the infantry assault route passes through a low-lying land.

[Schematic diagram of the usual heavy machine gun cover attack]

Occasionally, tracer bullets hit the armor of the tank and were bounced off. The flying tracer bullets pierced the black curtain like a knife.

The 80th British and Indian Artillery Battalion was seized by the Ming army due to their slow movement. The [-]mm mortars fired continuously at the artillery positions where they were located. .

The 4.5-inch howitzer was suppressed by the 80mm mortar and could not move?This is really a joke, and it will become an indelible shame to the British-Indian Fourth Artillery Battalion.

The 80mm mortars of the battalion of the Ming army focused their fire on suppressing the enemy artillery positions, while the 64mm mortars of the battalion dispersed to support their own troops, constantly attacking the exposed firepower points of the enemy.

But now, it seems that the precarious British and Indian troops can only rely on those tanks, because the light and heavy machine guns in the civil bunkers are suppressed intermittently by the mortars of the Ming army.

However, this situation will not last long, and the two platoons of the brigade's anti-aircraft artillery team are about to join the battle.

The four 300-type tank defense guns were dragged by the artillery to a position about 15 meters in front of the starting position of the attack, and then lined up at intervals of [-] meters.

"Lay out the columns!"

"Three gunners, tracer bullets!"

"Tracer rounds, reload!"

"put!"

A platoon of No. [-] guns was ordered to lead the attack, and the artillerymen loaded armor-piercing tracers to mark and designate the target.

"Boom!" A dazzling flame flashed from the muzzle, and a 25.6mm armor-piercing tracer shot out of the chamber, flying out with a bright trail, but passed by an enemy tank that was firing in the distance.

At this distance of more than 700 meters from the enemy's position, it is not easy to get the first hit, let alone the weather is not clear now.

The artillerymen quickly corrected according to the drop point of the tracer bullets, and immediately, the four anti-aircraft guns fired at the same time.

A cruiser tank that was hit by two armor-piercing bullets was still firing its machine gun frantically one second, and then fell silent the next second. The blood-soaked tank soldier opened the hatch and crawled out.

The Type 7934 anti-tank gun was designed and finalized by the Shenyang Arsenal. It is a greatly improved version of the Hotchkiss Mle-25 25.6mm anti-tank gun. In addition to changing the caliber to eight points, that is, 455mm, the structure has also been modified. Many adjustments have fully reduced the original weight of 305kg to [-]kg, and a few people can push it around.

Its shape is very low, with wavy lines on the top of the gun mantlet, a horn-shaped flame arrester on the muzzle, semi-automatic bolt opening, a theoretical rate of fire of up to 20 rounds per minute, and a muzzle velocity of 900m/s; it can penetrate at a distance of 500 meters A vertically placed rolled nickel-manganese steel plate with a thickness of 36mm can rise to 42mm if a tungsten core armor-piercing projectile is fired.

[French studies have found that it is easier for the naked eye to find horizontal, vertical, and regular-shaped objects on the distant horizon, and destroying silhouettes through waves or broken-line shapes can increase concealment. 】

The reason why I chose such a small-caliber thing instead of the better-looking 37mm anti-tank gun is because the Ministry of War thinks it is unnecessary-it can’t penetrate the heavy armored tanks, and it’s enough to replace the 37mm gun, so why not choose it? Lighter and cheaper?
At this moment, the soldiers of the British and Indian Army on the circular position saw the artillery shells constantly coming through the air, and the armor-piercing tracer bullets were like shining silk threads, but these silk threads could easily penetrate the thin-skinned cruisers. tanks and ultralight tanks.

The tanks whose ammunition exploded were bursting with flames from various gaps, and the miserable howls could be vaguely heard from them.

In this case, the Fifth Royal Tank Battalion has almost no means of countermeasures, and is purely passively beaten.Originally, the tanks were scattered and deployed as firepower points, and the communication between them was poor, so most of the tanks did not find out where the anti-tank firepower of the Ming army came from until they were hit.

Besides, even if you find it, you are helpless, attacking a low anti-tank gun 700 meters away under low visibility conditions with only flares?The poor kill range of the 2-pound tank gun HE shell is tantamount to a joke.

(End of this chapter)