Bright Sword: Leading the Special Operations Squadron to Fight the Japs

Chapter 467: The Great Battle on the Grassland

Ding Wei had just hung up the intercom when Li Yunlong's voice was heard.

"Old Ding, according to the intelligence from the reconnaissance plane, the Japanese have an ambush in the valley. It's an armored group. Retreat immediately!"

"It's too late! The fire has already broken out!"

Although Li Yunlong had just heard a burst of artillery fire, he still had a glimmer of hope, but now he had to face reality!

"Orders, the Tiger Tank Battalion and the 1st Panzer Battalion of the 5th Tank will bypass the hillside from the right to support the 4th Armored Division, and the 2nd Panzer Battalion of the 5th Tank will launch an attack on the hillside!"

Suddenly, the land on the Mongolian steppe became lively, with hundreds of tanks and more than ten thousand soldiers mixed together.

In order to avoid the Japanese suicide attack, Li Yunlong ordered Ding Wei and Zhang Dabiao to stay away from the Japanese infantry. As long as they don't get close to the brainwashed lunatics, the machine guns and rifles in their hands can't do anything to them!

As soon as Shangyue Liangfu's tank fought with the Tiger tank, he understood what the gap was and what a slap in the face was.

The Type 98 light tank has a Type 37 7.7mm gun as its main weapon, a 6mm coaxial machine gun as its secondary weapon, and armor protection of 12~mm.

The Type 97 medium tank has a Type 57 97mm short-barreled gun as its main weapon and two Type 7.7 25mm heavy machine guns as its secondary weapons. The thickest part of its armor is only mm.

The Tiger tank's main gun is 88 mm and its armor thickness is 80-100 mm.

Even the "Panzer V" of the Independent Column Armored Division, although the main gun is 75 mm, but because of the use of a 70x scope, the armor penetration ability is stronger than that of the Tiger tank! The armor thickness is 20 to 120 mm.

The Japanese Type 1000 medium tank's gun had a small caliber, poor power, and severely insufficient armor penetration. It could only penetrate 51mm of armor at a distance of meters. It was simply not a vehicle capable of fighting in tank battles.

What's more, the Type 95 light tank is like a tickle, which can only make people laugh.

The Tiger tank attacking the Type 97 medium tank and the Type 95 light tank was like Tyson jumping into a kindergarten, circling left and right, beating the kids to the ground.

The Tiger tank could withstand more than a dozen rounds even if it stood still and let the Japanese tanks hit it. Unless the Japanese had advanced artillery skills, several armor-piercing shells could hit the same spot on the Tiger tank at the same time.

But for an artillery bombardment where both sides are on the move, the probability of hitting five million is even lower than that of hitting five million.

Although the armor of the Type 5 tank is not as good as that of the Tiger tank, it can still easily defeat the Japanese tanks.

"Keep some distance! Keep some distance!"

Ding Wei kept reminding the soldiers not to rush too far forward, otherwise what if there were a few Japanese soldiers hiding behind the Japanese tanks who were willing to commit suicide? Wouldn’t that be a huge loss?

Moreover, if the Japanese suddenly have an idea and build a "self-destructing tank", it would be even more disastrous!

In less than ten minutes, countless burning cans were ignited across the entire Mongolian grassland. Ding Wei made a rough count and found that more than thirty tanks were destroyed.

Ding Wei's tank regiment had two unlucky Tiger tanks whose tracks were broken, and one Type 5 tank was penetrated by field artillery.

"Damn it! Lao Li, the Japanese tanks are just thin-skinned cans, nothing to be afraid of. Those infantry and artillery are the tough guys!"

"Got it, let me show you how I deal with them!"

As he was speaking, Li Yunlong's 2nd Battalion of Type 5 Tanks had already climbed up the small hill of Saeki Fumio from the side.

At this moment, Fumio Saeki was squinting his eyes and slowly experiencing the surprise that General Okamura Yasuji had prepared for him.

"Yoshi, although our tank division is at a disadvantage for the time being, the tanks of the independent column don't have many shells left! The Empire must win! Attack immediately! Kill them!"

The five remaining infantry guns and mortars under Fumio Saeki began to fire indiscriminately at the tank cluster of the independent column.

After all, for a tank traveling at high speed, it makes no difference whether you aim or not, and whether you can hit the target depends entirely on luck.

This random smash actually broke the tracks of two Type 5 tanks.

So, the two Type 5 tanks simply stopped and turned into fixed gun positions, firing at Fumio Saeki on the hillside.

The Type 5 tank that rushed up from the other side, at a distance of more than 100 meters, used high-explosive bombs and machine guns to pour ammunition at Fumio Saeki.

The Japanese soldiers on the ridge had nowhere to hide and had no fortifications. They were really like fat sheep on the Mongolian steppes. They were driven down the ridge by the Type 5 tanks, leaving behind a large amount of supplies.

Fumio Saeki sat in the truck and ran to the position of Yoshio Kamitsuki diagonally behind him.

"Kamitsuki-kun, you guys are finally here!"

Shangyue Liangfu's personal tank drove up the hillside. He was very sad when he saw the tanks scattered all over the ground like small bonfires.

"Sir Fumio Saeki, leave this to our tank division. This is the decisive battle for our armored forces!"

"Then I'll have to trouble you, Lord Kamitsuki. My soldiers will help you stabilize the battle line!"

Shangyue Liangfu looked at the remaining one thousand or so Japanese soldiers, and it seemed that many of them were logistics troops. He waved his hand helplessly and pointed to a huge pile of explosives behind the position.

"I suggest that your soldiers wrap these explosives around their bodies. If the enemy tanks come rushing over, it might be helpful!"

Although Fumio Saeki was somewhat unhappy with Kamitsuki Yoshio's ridicule, he was now living under someone else's roof and could not stand up straight.

"Hayi, I'll go set it up right away!"

Fumio Saeki ordered the trembling car soldiers, even the military doctors and nurses, to wrap bombs around their bodies and wait for the tanks of the independent column to rush up and then pounce on them and detonate them.

When you really face death, all that damn Bushido spirit is like bullshit!

These logistics soldiers hugged each other and said goodbye, which made Shangyue Liangfu feel disgusted.

However, he seemed to have no time to deal with them, because the two tank regiments of the independent column had already merged together.

The tank regiment of the independent column was afraid of the Japanese suicide attacks and stayed away from their positions.

The Japanese Third Tank Division was worried that the closer they got, the faster they would die, so they stayed away from the tanks of the independent column.

Both sides were actually advancing eastward in parallel at a distance of 800 to 1,000 meters, firing at each other with their turrets horizontally.

The tanks of both sides were constantly falling behind, catching fire, and exploding.

But overall, the Japanese side suffered greater losses, with the casualty ratio reaching almost one to seven.

Ryofu Uetsuki felt something was wrong. Were the tanks of this independent column really as powerful as the legend said?

Because Operation Plan No. 1 was kept confidential and was not notified to him, he had no idea about the parameters of the Tiger tank and the Panzer V tank!

Educating people through words is far inferior to educating people through actions.

"Order the tank group to move closer to our position, and the infantry to prepare to charge and attack the enemy tanks!"