After traveling for so many days, I was met with a lot of cynicism and supercilious looks, and I suffered several air raids on the way from Lingzhi to here. It can be said that everyone in the Hunsan Brigade was holding back their anger, and now they finally found it. Someone to vent to.
With Highland Zero as the core, Task Force Wilson deployed a relatively solid-looking circular defensive position and planned to defend on the spot until dawn.
However, the hastily deployed defense line had omissions and imperfections in many places, such as the sight and firing range were not cleared, firepower planning was unreasonable, there was no time to lay mines and barbed wire, etc.
In the night sky, lighting tubes hanging under small parachutes emitted dazzling pale light, illuminating the ground like a full moon night.
Looking around, there were dense figures moving in the entire field and in the distant woods. The British and Indian soldiers leaning in foxholes and bunkers were stunned when they saw this.
The Ming army, which attacked Highland Zero in multiple steps, was immediately attacked by the firepower of the British and Indian troops. At least twenty Vickers heavy machine guns and Lewis light machine guns were firing wildly!
"Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta--" The shooter of the British-Indian Army's machine gun team was almost crazy. His index finger was holding the trigger tightly 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 "pull the bolt - aim - pull the trigger". The SMLE rifle, which is known for its fast rate of fire, never stopped shooting.
Under the cover of the roar of mortars, the British and Indian army positions were constantly shrouded in explosions, and more than twenty machine gun fire points were also intermittently fired.
Amidst the sharp whistles of "beep beep beep", the Ming army soldiers who launched the attack alternately covered the leap forward. When the environment was illuminated by flares, they all fell down in unison; when the round of flares was about to burn out, they got up again and rushed forward.
As soon as it lights up and then goes dark, the Chinese teleport a certain distance?
Such a scene looked like a thriller to the British and Indian soldiers. It was as if countless monsters moved closer as soon as they closed and opened their eyes.
The most troublesome thing now is those tanks. The A9 cruise tanks and Carden-Lloyd ultra-light tanks parked on the front line of the circular position are equivalent to solid firepower points that are not afraid of mortars. The tank soldiers inside were also furious, and yellow bullet casings piled up in a pile at their feet.
"Listen, listen -" On both wings of the Ming army's attack starting position, more than a dozen heavy machine guns were also firing continuously, and empty shell casings and bullet plates also fell all over the ground.
In fact, when heavy machine guns perform the task of covering the impact of one's 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 two corners below.
At the same time, the safe firing range must be calculated based on the firing table, and a firing limit rod should be inserted next to the barrel to prevent excessive left and right deflection and accidental damage to friendly forces.
In movies and TV dramas, the scene of "infantry charging in front and machine gun fire covering behind" almost never appears. As for the mythical "transcendence shooting", it is a special shooting method that is only used in rare circumstances, such as when the infantry assault route passes through a low-lying land.
[Usual heavy machine gun cover attack diagram]
Occasionally, tracer bullets hit the tank armor and bounced off. The ricocheting tracer bullets cut through the dark curtain like a knife.
The British and Indian 4th Artillery Battalion was given the upper hand by the Ming army due to its slow movement. The 80mm mortars fired continuously at the artillery position where they were located. The shells fired one after another caused them to be suppressed and unable to raise their heads. .
The 4.5-inch howitzer was suppressed by the 80mm mortar and was unable to move? This is really a joke and will become an indelible shame for the British-Indian Fourth Artillery Battalion.
The Ming army's battalion-affiliated 80mm mortars concentrated fire to suppress the enemy's artillery positions, while the team-affiliated 64mm mortars dispersed to support our own troops and continuously attacked the enemy's exposed fire points.
Now, it seems that the endangered British and Indian troops can only rely on those tanks, because the light and heavy machine guns in the civil bunkers have been suppressed intermittently by the Ming army's mortars.
However, this situation cannot last long. Two platoons from the brigade's combat artillery team are about to join the battle.
The four Type 35 tank defense guns were dragged by the artillerymen to a position about 300 meters in front of the attack starting position, and then lined up at intervals of 15 meters.
"Put it out and spread it out!"
"Third gunner, tracer bullets!"
"Tracer bullets, load!"
"put!"
A platoon of No. 1 guns was ordered to lead the attack, so the artillerymen loaded armor-piercing tracer rounds to mark and indicate the target.
"Boom!" A dazzling light flashed from the muzzle, and a 25.6mm armor-piercing tracer shot ejected from the chamber, flying out with a bright trail, but it missed the enemy tank that was firing in the distance.
At a distance of more than 700 meters from the enemy's position, it was not easy to get the first hit, not to mention that it was still dark.
The artillerymen quickly corrected themselves according to the impact point of the tracer bullets, and immediately, the four anti-tank guns opened fire at the same time.
A cruise tank that was hit by two armor-piercing bullets was still firing its machine guns wildly one second, and then there was no movement the next second. The tank crew, covered in blood, opened the hatch and crawled out.
The Type 35 anti-tank gun was designed and finalized by Shenyang Arsenal. It is a greatly improved version of the Hotchkiss Mle-1934 25mm anti-tank gun. In addition to changing the caliber to eight points, that is, 25.6mm, it has also been structurally modified. Many adjustments have reduced the original weight from 455kg to 305kg, so a few people can push it around.
Its appearance is very low, with a wavy line on the mantlet. The muzzle is equipped with a trumpet-shaped flame suppressor and a semi-automatic bolt opening. The theoretical rate of fire is as high as 20 rounds per minute and the muzzle velocity is 900m/s; it can fire at a distance of 500 meters. It can penetrate a vertically placed rolled nickel-manganese steel plate with a thickness of 36mm. If a tungsten core armor-piercing projectile is fired, it can rise to 42mm.
[French research has found that the naked eye is more likely to detect horizontal, vertical, and regular-shaped objects on the distant horizon, and destroying the silhouette through waves or polyline shapes can increase concealment. 】
The reason why we 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 replacing it with a 37mm gun is not enough, so why not choose it? Lighter and cheaper?
At this moment, the British and Indian soldiers on the circular position saw the artillery shells that were constantly coming through the air. Armor-piercing tracer bullets were like shining silk threads. However, these silk threads could easily penetrate the thin-skinned cruisers. Tanks and ultralight tanks.
The tanks with their ammunition exploding were bursting with flames from every crack, and a faint wail could be heard coming from them.
In this case, the 5th Royal Tank Battalion had almost no countermeasures and was purely passively beaten. Originally, the tanks were dispersed and deployed as firepower points, and the communication between them was not smooth, so most of the tanks did not discover where the Ming army's anti-tank firepower came from until they were hit.
Besides, even if it is discovered, there is nothing you can do. Attack a low anti-tank gun 700 meters away in low visibility conditions with only flares? The pitiful killing range of the 2-pound tank gun's high-explosive shell is nothing short of a joke.
