Act 112: Laziness
The sudden but lack of powerful executors of the Japanese army made the Japanese in a very awkward situation. Most of the battles in the entire Naoka City area did not make any major progress, but fortunately the Japanese still have another hope.
The monster chariot "Dayi" was magical and did not experience any irreparable faults before arriving at the outer area of the Qiong Army Command. And while on the way, they gathered a considerable number of Japanese troops and two Type 95 light tanks, forming a team that could be called threatening.
Just as the city primary school teaching building was far away in the observation window of the "Dayi" monster chariot, a team of Qiong Army tanks that suddenly appeared blocked their way, which was completely different from the Qiong Army tanks that immediately reversed and evacuated as soon as they met them.
"What is this?" The captain of the "Dayi" looked at several Qiong Army tanks appearing on the street corner in the distance. Although he was blocked by the buildings, he could only see a small part, even so, he was very sure that this tank was something he had never seen before.
At this time, he could only see the front half of the body exposed by the other party. The front part of the body of this tank looked like the Qiong Army's Type 3 medium tank. It can be said that it was almost an enlarged version of Type 3 medium tank, but it seemed that the inclination angle of the front armor was larger. Of course, the similarity between this tank and Type 3 medium tank was only the chassis. If you continue to look at the turret, you can find the uniqueness of this tank.
Unlike the round and drum-shaped shape of the tank turret before, the turret of this tank looks more like a ship-shaped shape. Coupled with the weird pig's nose turret shield and thick and long gun barrel, this is the first time he has seen such a unique weird tank.
The tanks seen by the crew of the "Dayi" were the four-type heavy tanks equipped by the Qiong Army's largest heavy tank brigade. The purpose of the Qiong Army's initial development of this heavy tank was not to deal with the Japanese. With the conditions of the Japanese small tank, it was not worthy of specializing in the development of such heavy weapons. Moreover, the mountainous terrain of Japan's island countries also made it difficult for this tank to play a role.
Since its development, the Type 4 heavy tank has positioned its combat target as the future big guy from the Soviet Union. This time it was transported to Japan for combat only to conduct a practical test of its performance. The Qiong Army was not prepared to invest a large-scale large-scale big guy weighing 53 tons on the Japanese battlefield.
In order to develop this heavy tank, Roger has provided information for his designers, whether it is the German transitional product "Tiger" type, the late Tiger King, the E series, or the Soviet KV series.IS series, and the "Penshing", which was later confirmed as a medium tank by the Americans, in addition to some miscellaneous things sandwiched into these materials.
The reason why I gave my designers so much information is because Roger was not very satisfied with the tanks in the information. I won’t say anything about the Germans. Although the “Tiger” style is powerful, it is an emergency transition work after all, and the “Tiger King” is even more unsuccessful. Roger doesn’t want a kind of toy that needs to be replaced with parts and tracks if he can’t drive far. There are ten, eight armored repair cars and big toys that can’t walk behind. Besides, the weight of nearly 70 tons is simply a nightmare for offensive warfare and logistics systems. The e-series have learned a lot of experience and lessons and look beautiful, but a drawing car must be used as a reference. To put it bluntly, the American “Penxing” is only a medium tank, which is insufficient in combat power against the Soviets, and the Soviet I3 is indeed quite good. But it still doesn’t fit the soil and soil of Qiongya.
Therefore, Roger still hopes that his designer can design a work that learns from the strengths of many families. Naturally, you have to take risks to do so. These designs in Roger are things proven in history. A new design of a heavy tank must take risks.
However, in Roger's opinion, this risk is indeed not a big problem. It's not that he is so confident in his designers, but that Roger has never been interested in heavy tanks. The reason why he has launched a heavy tank is that he just doesn't want to find a model to deal with in front of the big Soviet guys.
Roger, who knew the future, understood very well that the heavy tank weapon only lasted for a while in the middle and late stages of World War II, and then quickly disappeared. The reason was the rapid development of artillery technology.
Due to the improvement of tank gun technology and the large-scale application of sub-caliber armor-piercing shells, the heavy armor that heavy tanks rely on for survival is no longer powerful. Although they have a huge body of 60 or 70 tons and are expensive to build, they are wearing the thickest armor on the ground, but even the enemy's medium tanks can penetrate head-on. What should such heavy armor do? Since the main gun of the medium tank can already penetrate the main armor of the heavy tank, then why do you still need to use heavy tanks that are dead heavy? Changing a small-caliber can not only load more ammunition, but also save space and weight.
Suddenly, heavy tanks changed from the darling of various countries to the ground-based phoenix. Large-caliber artillery was no longer necessary, and heavy armor was also no longer necessary. So is the heavy tank with thick armor and heavy artillery the life of the heavy cannon still have the meaning of existence? The answer is naturally no.
Only when the composite armor was released, the potential of traditional tank guns was almost at its limit, and the engine performance was enough to allow monsters of 60 to 70 tons to sprint like flying in the third generation of main battle tanks. It was the time for heavy tanks to revive. Look at the tanks of that period, whether in the United States, Germany or Britain, their tanks were modified, the thicker the armor, and the more the gun caliber they changed, the larger the artillery barrel, the longer the barrel. Although the name of heavy tanks was not proposed again, it was actually taking the route of heavy tanks in World War II.
After boldly handing over the design of the heavy tank to his own people, the answer they gave to Roger was indeed quite surprised - this type of four-type heavy tank looks familiar, but it is not any actual or drawing tank that has appeared in history, but it is more like a delusion tank e79 that has not been seen in real history.
Roger has always liked the frontal shape of the e79, and was deceived by this guy for a while. He thought it was real, so he just had nothing to do and put the photos and settings of the e79 into the information. Unexpectedly, his designers actually made a four-type heavy tank with a very different shape from the frontal shape of the e79.
However, the four-type heavy tank is quite different from the e79. Unlike the e79's painful vertical side, the four-type heavy tank's body is completely alive and the side of the body is a "tiger king", and even the "millipede"-like interlaced load-bearing wheels have not been modified.
The so-called e79 has been published by many professional military magazines in China. In fact, if e79 can be put into production, it and its weapons will be more than 510 years ahead of other countries. But unfortunately, the author of that article and the editors of the reprinted and published magazines made a mistake. e79 is simply the yy work of the Japanese in the late 1990s "Steel Front". The designer is Nagano Go of "Five Stars".
The relationship between the four-type heavy tank and the e79, which was handed down by Qiongya designers, is also blocked in appearance. The armor thickness of the four-type heavy tank is basically at the same level as the "tiger" type, but due to its excellent bulletproof appearance, the protective performance is far beyond that.
The main gun of the heavy tank uses a 71-caliber 88mm tank gun commissioned by the Germans to help design and develop and introduce a full set of technologies and production lines, which is the same as the "Tiger King". The maneuverability is slightly higher than that of the "Tiger" type, but it uses a diesel engine.
This time, the heavy tank brigade of five initially produced four-type heavy tanks appeared in Zhifang City. The heavy tank brigade, which specializes in serving as firefighters on various fronts, came here to put out the fire.
He was shocked by the four-type heavy tank that suddenly blocked his route. The captain of the "Dayi" quickly came back to his senses. He knew that it was not the time to care about what kind of tank it was. Only the destroyed Qiong Army tanks were the unthreatening tanks.
"Did you see the big guy hiding behind the house? Go to the location of the house and give me some advice! Be careful not to miss it!" The head of the "Dayi" said to the cannon leader loudly.
The gunman was stunned for a moment, then nodded excitedly. He understood that except for a few buildings, all the buildings in Zhifang City were made of wooden structures. Just a few wooden boards were just a few wooden boards. It doesn’t matter whether they have or not. The front of the Qiong Army tank exposed by the tanks was definitely difficult to penetrate, but it would be different if it passed through the house and hit the side.
Sure enough, after the "Dayi" shot down, the Qiong Army's fourth-type heavy tank that had just tried to transfer its position immediately stopped and moved. It could only turn the turret in vain, but was completely unable to aim at the "Dayi" on the uphill due to the shooting range. The unlucky Qiongya tank soldiers could only curse themselves in the tank and were interrupted by their tracks.
However, the Japanese's good days ended here. After adjusting their positions, the other four heavy tanks immediately counterattacked the "Dayi". The first round of shooting knocked off the left secondary turret of the "Dayi" and destroyed several load-bearing wheels. Then, the second round of shooting hit the four guns and three guns, breaking the tracks of the "Dayi" respectively. The hits the body and the front of the turret. One bullet on the front of the turret failed to penetrate due to angle problems, while the front of the turret penetrates the armor and directly killed the driver and mechanic.
When the Qiong Army's Type 4 heavy tank was preparing for the fourth round of shooting, the second shell of the main gun "Dayi" had just been loaded. As soon as there was a shell in the barrel, the Japanese fired it out urgently. This time the Japanese were lucky and also hit a Qiong Army tank. Unfortunately, the 105mm armor-piercing projectile failed to penetrate the front armor of the Qiong Army's Type 4 heavy tank.
In the following battle, the four four heavy tanks of the Qiong Army fired a total of 42 shells at the Dayi Army. They were not considered a sieve until they were cut into sieve. Without the cover of monster chariots, the Japanese army following the Dayi Army was immediately annihilated by the Qiong Army that flocked to him. There were no more troops in the entire Zhifang City that could pose a threat to the Qiong Army.
Although the chaos in Naoka City did not cause serious losses to the Qiong Army, it attracted a lot of their energy and created an opportunity for attack for the Japanese ambush troops that came soon. Moreover, as the ambush operation was exposed, the news of the early outbreak of the battle was sent back to other Japanese troops. Knowing that the plan had failed, the Japanese troops that were already dead ends began to rush towards the Hiroshima area frantically, and Naoka City turned into a black hole, constantly attracting troops from both sides to join in.
Relying on the continuous anti-tank trenches in the Zhifang area, Zhu Qingyue's armored troops, who were entangled by many Japanese troops, had to fight with the Japanese army under the most troublesome terrain. The power of the Qiong Army tanks was difficult to exert, and the Japanese army could not conquer the defensive positions defended by the Qiong Army tanks. The two sides fought in the Zhifang area, which was infiltrated and stalemate.
The battle between the two sides in the Hinayana lasted for more than three months, and it was not until the end of 38 that the winner was decided. During this period, the number of battles of all sizes was uncountable. Finally, with the influx of more and more infantry units of the Qiong Army, and more and more nearby front-line airports were established, and the isolated Japanese army had no support and had no power to defeat the battle.
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"What? Are you still angry about me getting you back from the front line?" He smiled and brought a cup of tea to Zhu Qingyue who was sitting on the sofa. Roger sat opposite Zhu Qingyue.
"How dare you? I'm so angry that no one dares to anger you! I just think that it's really cowardly that Japanese have been beating for three months. If you don't let me go for the past three months, I can guarantee that I can solve the problem in half a month!" Although I said I didn't dare. Zhu Qingyue's dissatisfied expression could not be erased, and the meaning between words was quite clear.
"Okay, okay, don't pout, let me tell you the truth. It was actually my intention to fight with the Japanese, and I ordered the front-line troops to passively slacken in work." Roger said with a smile.
Hearing Roger's words, Zhu Qingyue immediately looked at Roger with an incredible look on his face and said strangely: "Why do you do this? Haven't we always hope to fight quickly?"
"This was the case before, but now some people are more anxious than us. We are not going to compete for the first place. We should give it to the Soviets." As he said, Roger walked to the wall with a map, "The Soviets caught the Japanese off guard in North Korea and completely took down North Korea within a month. However, now they are facing various harassment and attacks from the Japanese Kwantung Army. One side attacking Siberia northward cut off the Siberian railway, and the other side went south to try to retake North Korea, which was lively.
On the other hand, with the help of our navy, the Soviets have now taken down Sakhalin Island and Hokkaido and successfully landed in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan two days ago. They are hoarding troops to conquer Tokyo and force Japan to sign a city alliance.
Think about it, if the Soviets launched an attack on Tokyo, would we still have to work so much to fight with the Japanese? So, it would be better to be slow on Kyushu Island. If the Soviets go to eat hard bones, we just need to eat meat and drink soup."
Zhu Qingyue had been depressed before and had no idea about this. Now, after hearing what Roger said, he understood his intention. Roger wanted to use the Soviet attack on Tokyo to attract the Japanese troops. Compared with Tokyo's defense, the defense in other regions is naturally incomparable.
Seeing that the Qiong Army and the Japanese army in the Hiroshima area were entangled for a long time, the battle would not end for a while, and the current situation in Tokyo became more and more sinister, the Japanese army would naturally draw troops in large quantities to strengthen their defenses in Tokyo. When the Soviets really launched an attack on Tokyo, this draw action would become more and more serious. It would be easier to seize those areas with empty defenses at that time.
"I understand what you mean, so what do you need me to do now?" Zhu Qingyue asked. He didn't think that the subsequent errands that could still be used by him. In his opinion, it seemed that it should be time to take back the Northeast?
Sure enough, Zhu Qingyue then saw Roger pointing his finger to the northeast, but what he heard next was different from what he expected.
"Qingyue, your next task is very urgent. I think the Japanese can't hold on for long. Maybe two months, maybe three months, maybe a month can't be used, so you have to hurry up!" As he said that, Roger drew twice on the map, "You need to control the railway traffic across the country in the shortest time! In the name of preparing to attack the Northeast!"
"Railway!" Zhu Qingyue's eyelids twitched. That thing was the lifeblood of various powerful warlords. Everyone knew what the result would be if this thing was in the hands of the enemy. It was impossible to let them cooperate obediently.
"Yes, it's the railway!" Roger said seriously, "We must take back Mongolia, so we may have a conflict with the Soviets in the future. For a smooth logistics supply, the railway must be held in our hands!"
"What if someone doesn't cooperate?" Zhu Qingyue asked, this was almost inevitable.
"Then declare treason directly. Several troops were formed two months ago. You bring an armored division, a light armored division and two mechanized infantry divisions. If someone is unhappy, just block the muzzle and ask again."
"Haha, I like this! Ensure the task is completed!" Zhu Qingyue had long disliked those warlords. He naturally didn't want to let go of such an opportunity this time. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!