Chapter 2508 The Bloody Coast 4
Of course, the quality is far behind. After all, by the end of the war, the German Army's front-line armored forces had generally replaced Wolf tanks and Rhino self-propelled artillery. Together with the Hufeng assault guns left over from the beginning of the war, they formed the basis of the German armored forces. Main force. The American armored forces are Wolf tanks and T1 tanks. Although the latter also has a 75MM howitzer, its defense is really poor! According to German standards, it is similar to the Rhino self-propelled gun, but it does not have the sharp 105MM gun of the Rhino!
According to the standards of the German army, a complete armored attack group should have tanks for frontal breakthrough missions, assault guns or self-propelled cannons in the middle for fire support, and self-propelled howitzers or large-caliber mortars at the rear to serve as direct firepower or to destroy fortified targets. support point. Due to its limited wartime industrial capacity, Germany strengthened the combat effectiveness of its armored forces, which was inferior to its infantry. It lacked armored personnel carriers that could accompany tank assaults.
The Americans are just the opposite. They have strengthened the mobility of the infantry, but the armored spearheads are not forged sharp enough. If it is a mobile war, there is no doubt that the Americans prefer mobility. However, when fighting a tough battle, this allocation method that emphasizes mobility and weakens firepower is very problematic. After all, tank guns can only solve part of the targets. , otherwise, why would the armies on both sides of the Western Front be equipped with so many heavy artillery?
"Boss, do you think our stuff is reliable?" When Patton returned to his tank, the driver asked.
"Of course, we have the best tank, and it has proven its power on the battlefield." Patton answered simply.
"Yes, at least our car is solid and reliable. As for the crispy skin on the back, it's hard to say. I heard that the French 13.4MM Hotchkiss large-caliber machine gun can penetrate the side of a T1 tank?" the driver asked road.
"Ordinary bullets should not be able to penetrate beyond 200 yards, but if there are tungsten core bullets, it is hard to say. To be honest, if possible, I would rather have a full set of German equipment. At least I feel very safe when I stay inside. ." Barton told the truth. (Tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullets existed in World War I. The Germans called this type of bullet K-type bullets. There are even records of equipping machine gunners with a whole tungsten alloy armor-piercing bullet chain!)
The flat-bottomed landing ship sailed very smoothly in the Qianhai area. A few minutes later, a notification sound was heard in the landing cabin that it was ready to rush to the beach. This meant that in up to 5 minutes, the landing ship was about to rush to the beach. Then it opened the hatch and released the tank. During this last period, Patton and his crew once again checked the equipment inside the car and the telegraph device.
Bang! Following a burst of shaking, Patton could clearly feel the collision between the hull and the beach. Then the front hatch suddenly opened, and the first Wolf tank drove directly onto the beach along the pedal, followed by the second and third tanks. vehicle! Patton's tank was the fourth.
"Expand in a wedge formation! Heavy tanks in the middle, light tanks on the wings.
After entering the battle, attack freely and do not move forward. Light tanks cannot surpass the position of heavy tanks! "Before rushing out of the cabin, Patton once again loudly informed his colleagues about battlefield discipline.
"Buzz!" As the diesel engine shifted from idling to full speed, the Wolf tank roared out of the cabin. After a jolt, Patton finally saw the smoke-filled landing site from the commander's command tower on the top of the turret.
"The tank moves forward and crosses the sand wall in front! We need a wide firing range!" Patton directed his tank to charge forward while using the signal light at the rear of the vehicle to signal to follow! The subsequent tanks began to roll out, and the American attack reached its climax after the first tank set foot on the beach. However, at this moment, the roar of artillery coming from a very far distance made all the American troops feel an inexplicable palpitation. ! This sound is too familiar to them, it is the roar of a long-range cannon! Some people can even see dark red fireballs flying from the mountains in the middle of the island from the air! That's the howl of death! And today, the weapons that harvest their lives come from distant France!
boom! As the shells fell, a column of smoke more than ten meters high rose into the sky. The first shell hit the target very accurately, almost falling close to the landing ship. It exploded less than 7 meters in front of the landing ship and hit the ground. A deep crater of nearly 2 meters was blown out of the tank, and a T1 tank happened to be passing by. This near-missile shot directly shattered the tank's fragile side steel plates, and the high-temperature shrapnel ignited the rear of the tank. Ammunition, along with a series of explosions, the T1 tank was blown into pieces all over the sky.
"God, are the Japanese battleships coming?" The sudden heavy artillery attack confused the US troops who had landed. They began to move away from the place where they were bombarded. The entire battlefield was once in chaos, but it was not over yet! One after another, the shells roared down, and the shells seemed to have eyes aimed at the landing ship parked on the beach!
"Okay, the American large landing ship is finished, and the rest is up to you." In a bunker not far away, a former British Army officer put down his telescope and said to the Japanese officer next to him.
The British finally told the Americans with the facts that they were still too young and naive! See those sand bars at the landing site? These sand bars are in the most suitable place for landing ships to beach, and they also block the firing range of some flat-fire artillery. These things were all piled up by the Japanese. Do you really think these sand dams are just to prevent the tide?
Why do the Japanese pile up these things? Naturally, we need to prepare some places suitable for large landing ships to beach for the US military. The locations of these sand bars are all mapped! According to the data collected in advance, the gunners of the GPF 194MM heavy cannon and 220MM Holy King Kong hidden in the rear can hit the target with their eyes closed!
When the artillery group located in the rear fired the third round of shooting, the American landing ship was finally hit. The shells fired from a distance hit the ship with a displacement of only more than 2,000 tons at a huge angle, and the heavy The hundreds of kilograms of shells easily tore through at least three decks and successfully exploded at the bottom of the hull! The fragile single-layer bottom is quite vulnerable to heavy cruiser-level artillery! As the fuse was triggered, a huge fireball rose from the hull. The shock wave generated by the explosives carried flames and shrapnel and swept away everything inside the hull, whether it was personnel, equipment or tanks!
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