Chapter 717 Ambush (2)
Sixty meters. . The fastest update
German soldiers used glow sticks to guide the tanks to move forward slowly. Those glow sticks were specially made because there was no light seen from the direction of TCM.
Zhang Chi thought that its principle should be similar to the fact that Africans ignite turrets in oil barrels. Although this is just a small change, it works very well on the battlefield.
I don’t know whether it was the light of the glow stick or the moonlight, but Zhang Chi found the “tiger” type in the tank group.
This is the first time Zhang Chi has seen the "tiger" style, to be precise, the first time he has actually seen the "tiger" style.
It has a huge gun barrel, which seems to spray out deadly shells at any time. The turret is connected behind the gun barrel... Although its thickness is more than 100 millimeters, this design should be said to be a failure.
The reason is that its turret is too square, which causes the thickness of the armor to be disproportionate to the protection. If there is an inclination like the Soviet T34, then the protection of the same material and the same weight can be increased exponentially.
However, the Germans soon discovered this because the subsequent "Tiger King" was changed to angled armor.
Therefore, when people on modern Internet boast about how advanced the Japanese Type 90 tank is, Zhang Chi will only sneer at it... The Type 90 tank just looks at its vertical armor, revealing Japan's level in tank design.
Sure enough, all aspects of the Type 90 tank were exposed soon. The most funny thing was that most Japanese bridges could not bear the weight of the Type 90, which means that the thing used to defend their own territory was hard to move forward in China.
Fifty meters.
Zhang Chi counted and found that there were three "tiger"-type cars in the tank group.
Then Zhang Chi was considering the method of destroying the "Tiger" type... Objectively speaking, this battle was a bit risky, because the Expeditionary Force had almost no effective equipment to deal with the "Tiger" type tanks.
At this time, Zhang Chi realized the pain of the Japanese army facing the Sherman tank. If the Expeditionary Force wanted to destroy the "Tiger" type, it also had to use anti-tank guns to attack its side armor at close range. In theory, it was also possible to wear a 100mm Zoka bazooka launcher... But this is usually impossible on the battlefield, especially in this wide desert, the Germans who were familiar with the tank group's combat used two No. 4 tanks, one left and one right to protect the "Tiger" type flank.
In other words, even if the Expeditionary Force soldiers pushed anti-tank guns and carried the bazooka closer to their flanks, the No. 4 tank in sight is not the "Tiger" type.
Forty meters.
This is the closest moment when the German army was hiding with Zhang Chi on its route. Zhang Chi could even feel the vibration from the tank tracks. A breeze blew, and the air was filled with an unpleasant smell of gasoline.
Suddenly, a Bian Sanhuang, who was responsible for the surrounding reconnaissance, rushed to the small hill where Zhang Chi was hiding with the sound of a motor. Zhang Chi was so scared that he quickly lowered his head and pressed the telescope.
The side three-wheeled team stopped at a distance of only one meter from Zhang Chi. Then they got off the car, looked around with a telescope, and talked in a low voice for a few words, then used a glow stick to send a "safety" signal to the tank group.
These two German scouts may not know that the danger is at their feet, or it can be said to be an opportunity... If they were not just looking at the distance and paying a little attention to their feet, they might find and capture the Chinese commander half buried in the sand.
Fortunately, they did not do this. They just stayed on the hill and whistled over the side tricycle again. When they left, the exhaust gas from the side tricycle and the sand raised by the wheels even hit Zhang Chi's face.
Then Zhang Chi heard Zhang Qinghu breathing a sigh of relief.
This is the closest and most dangerous time to the German army so far.
Later, Zhang Chi learned that at this time, Zhang Qinghu, the correspondent and others actually had plans.
At that moment, they made up their minds that if the enemy was discovered, Zhang Qingyu and other guards would jump up and kill the two German soldiers at the first time, and then escape to attract the German attention.
At the same time, the correspondent issued an order to fight each unit... This would make the German army ignore Zhang Chi because they were busy dealing with the sudden emergence of the main force of the Chinese team.
These are all later stories.
At that time, what Zhang Chi thought was that the same situation would be likely to occur at the No. 1 ambush point. After all, the German army advanced in an offensive formation, and the scouts also controlled large-scale activities.
After thinking about it, Zhang Chi whispered to the walkie-talkie: "No. 2, No. 3... Action!"
“Received on the 2nd!”
“Received on the 3rd!”
...
Soon, the roar of the motor came from two directions a few miles away.
This surprised Heinz Landao, and then he cursed fiercely: "Damn Italian!"
Heinz Landao took it for granted that it was the Italians who leaked the intelligence, otherwise the Chinese team would not have known about their raids or even the march route and lie here in advance.
Heinz Landao is worthy of being a veteran of the battlefield. He immediately ordered loudly: "Enemy attack, prepare for battle!"
The German army was much higher in training level and courage than the Italian army. As soon as they received the order, they began to set up defensive formations in two directions of the sound of the motor.
"Flame!" Heinz blue shouted.
"Tutu..." Several flares hit the air, and the scene of appearing in the light scared the German army. Hundreds of "Sheerman" tanks covered the infantry and advanced towards the German army in a black manner.
"It's Chinese, Chinese tank!" A German soldier screamed.
The 21st Armored Division fought with the Chinese team. They judged it from the "Sheerman" tank that it was Chinese troops.
Heinz Landao just sneered: "These Chinese people still want to get a bargain in the dark like last time! This time they were wrong!"
The reason why Heinz Landao thought so was because after returning to the Battle of Maherama, he learned from his mistakes, organized troops to conduct an exercise and thought he had found a way to prevent the enemy's "tank infiltration war".
His method is very simple, which is to use a large number of flares to illuminate the entire battlefield, especially the enemy. In this way, night battles cannot be called night battles.
But Heinz Landao was wrong again this time.
This time, the Chinese team did not think about fighting a "tank infiltration war". Even these two tank groups were actually attracting the attention of the German army. The real danger was that they were close to the German army and were another unit behind them.
Just as the Germans were busy preparing anti-tank guns and carrying shells for preparation for shooting, Zhang Chi ordered: "Operation No. 1!"
“Received on the 1st!”
Several flares hit the sky above the German tank group. Heinz Bluedao saw the direction of the flares and knew that things were not good.
Chapter completed!