If you are an ordnance expert who is familiar with German weapons, you may find that there is a clear difference between the sdkfz222 armored vehicle that is coming and the Chinese armored vehicle. The weapon configuration of the German original is that the machine gun is on the left and the gun is on the right. The configuration of vehicles exported to the Chinese government is just the opposite. l. However, these Japanese soldiers obviously do not have this knowledge. They only know that they have encountered such vehicles on the Chinese battlefield, so there is no doubt that the armored vehicle driving now must be the China Army.

Sure enough, the French collaborated with the Chinese government, which is the best evidence in front of them. If this armored vehicle can be captured, it will surely give Japan an advantage in the diplomatic battle with the French Indochina government. This was Captain Kuno's first thought after receiving his report, and he immediately gave orders to implement it.

Captain Hisano was full of approval for Morimoto's solo walk this time, and he regretted that he was kept in the dark in the end for such a major action. Obviously, the captain was wary of himself. Is it because I am afraid that I will go to the higher level to tell the boss? The captain of the team harbors this kind of thinking, which is really too small to look at. Hisao Squadron has been placed in the back as a reserve team. As a squadron leader, his psychology is really unbalanced. Why should he deprive his squadron of his performance? Is it because he has just arrived as a newcomer?

No matter how you say it, the captain came. The habit of paying attention to qualifications in the Imperial Army was too pedantic. You know that he was also a strongman who had worked in the Kanto Gendarmerie for a while. The family biography Murata saber killed a lot. The vicious Chinese bandits. These madmen who rebelled against the imperial army dared to claim in front of themselves what kind of anti-Japanese coalition.

Hisano is a **** believer in Japanese racial superiority, contempt of all non-Japanese Asians from the bottom of his heart. Especially after spending a year in the northeast of the gendarmerie squad, he became more and more convinced of the ugliness of the Puppet Manchurian officials. Only the outstanding Yamato people deserve to become the masters of Asia.

Since the commander of the brigade issued an order, he had to obey. This is the duty of a Japanese army officer, but once there was an opportunity for his squadron to perform. Then the captain of the team should not blame himself for chopping and then playing. The captain of Hisano Squadron secretly watched the captain's walk alone with a cold heart. He was waiting for a chance to make his own debut, letting Morimoto Nakasa know that Toshio Kuno was also a courageous Japanese boy, and his steel-like Yamato soul had long been refined in his chest.

Now the opportunity finally came, and what made him even more overjoyed was that the opponent was still the Chinese army that colluded with France. This is the perfect reason for the conflict given to the Morimoto Brigade by God. When you capture the armored car, the whole team will be so Thank yourself.

The Japanese Army has had a lot of experience with light armored vehicles such as 222. Although this kind of armored vehicle is very good in maneuverability and firepower, the biggest flaw is that it is too weak in armor defense, but even if this layer is only eight millimeters of steel plate, it is still a comparison for Japanese infantry lacking anti-armor means. Difficult role. The 6.5mm armor-piercing projectile of the 38-type rifle can penetrate the 8mm steel plate within 150 meters on the index. In fact, the conditions required are very harsh and difficult to achieve on the battlefield.

This German-made armored vehicle has a well-designed bulletproof shape, and there is no vertical steel plate at all above and below the vehicle. Generally speaking, when dealing with such armored vehicles, the Japanese army will mobilize 92-type heavy machine guns or 97-type automatic guns if possible. The former 92-type armor-piercing projectile can penetrate 12 mm armor within 300 meters, while the latter is in A Japanese version developed on the basis of the Swiss Solothon s18 anti-tank gun. It can penetrate 30 mm thick steel plate within 200 meters. However, this automatic gun, which was highly expected by the Japanese army, did not perform well in the Battle of Nomenkan. On the Chinese battlefield, it is rare to encounter armored targets that need it to deal with. The price is enough to buy eighty and thirty-eight large caps, so only 1,200 pieces were produced and the production was discontinued.

The problem now is that even the twelfth squadron has a shortage of personnel, not to mention having this anti-tank equipment that is only assigned to the affiliated machine gun squadron. The machine gun squad of the Morimoto group is now attacking the front, and it is too late to mobilize the heavy machine gun to the rear, so the Kuno squadron can only rely on the will and skills of the soldiers to shake it.

The Nomura Infantry Division, which bears the brunt, was ready for battle. The machine gun unit and the barrel throwing unit of the Xiaomu Army Cao also moved to the front of the position. The soldiers hurriedly replaced the rifle with armor-piercing shells, and then carefully aimed at the high-speed moving Target, wait for the commander of the squad commander Lieutenant Nakamura to fire.

Lieutenant Nakamura estimated the target distance while holding the telescope. The speed of the hurricane armored vehicle reached almost 45 kilometers per hour.

"It's a brash guy." Nakamura put down the telescope and pulled out the saber from his waist to point forward.

"I stay"

Hearing the squad leader’s command to fire, the soldiers of each detachment hurriedly pulled the trigger. The sound of the gun suddenly sounded like a storm, and two eleven-year machine guns and two heavy-throw cartridges were launched. Shooting, a burst of light blue smoke and dust from the muzzle storm suddenly filled the road.

The occupants in the armored car rushing to the road did not expect that they would be suddenly attacked. Before the driver responded, the 6.5mm Sakamoto armor-piercing projectile had knocked the armor plate of the car body like a heavy rain, and there were two rounds. The bullet hit the edge of the open driving observation window. The shattered bullet was mixed with Mars and shot into the car. The driver's forehead was cut immediately, and blood immediately flowed down the face.

"Someone is shooting at us." The gunner in the rear turret screamed loudly.

"Don't stop damn, turn and rush down the highway" The captain behaved so calmly, he quickly judged the situation, and then kicked the driver's seat back to give a turn command.

At this time, staying on the road or moving forward will become the target of the ambush. The most correct response is to leave the road immediately and look for concealment. After the actual situation is found, consider whether to retreat immediately or fight back on the spot.

"God, what the **** happened," the driver yelled angrily. He turned the steering wheel and steered the small 4.8-ton armored vehicle off the road, falling to the shoulder of the road in a burst of grass. On the flat ground.

sdkfz222 snarled and ran forward a distance of almost a dozen meters, and then the driver pressed the brakes hard at the command of the captain. The blue-gray armored car stopped steadily after turning a seventy-degree turn. In the artemisia bush on the side of the road.

"Have any of you been injured?" The captain asked the two men.

"I'm fine."

"Damn, my forehead broke a hole." The driver was rummaging under his seat to find his first aid kit.

"Karl, go help Chuck." The captain confessed to the gunner, and then quickly pushed away the grenade wire shield above his head.

At this time, the attackers still did not stop the attack, but it was obvious that they had lost their target, but they were shooting blindly and indiscriminately. The evidence is that they have never heard the sound of bullets hitting the armor plate since they rushed down the road.

"It's no big problem, just opened a small mouth, the wound is very clean." Crouching down to check the driver's injury, the gunner raised his head to report to the captain.

"Immediately reported to the lieutenant colonel, we were attacked by an unidentified armed force, and one person was injured. We are trying to find out the identity of the enemy."

The commander gave orders to the gunner, and then straightened carefully, looking towards the probe outside the turret. Immediately, the captain discovered that his armored vehicle was surrounded by more than two meters of artemisia annua grass. These tall and lush grasses just covered this small two-meter armored vehicle.

"Let me see who this group of **** are." The captain stood on the seat and looked carefully at the gap between the artemisia bushes with the binoculars toward the place where the gunshot sounded.

"Damn it." The captain put down the telescope and rubbed his eyes vigorously. He felt a little unbelievable what he saw in the telescope.

"Karl, immediately report to the lieutenant colonel that it was the Japanese army that attacked us."

The "what" gunner looked at his superior with an incredible look.

"I know what you are thinking now and send a report immediately."

The commander carrying the telescope commanded loudly that, in the clear eyepieces of his Zeiss telescope, a conspicuous sun maru flag was waving in the wind.

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