Chapter 104 Heavy artillery? Tanks! Zhangye looked at the green hills in the open space and immediately thought of the howitzers in the Qinghe County arsenal that were also covered with green tarpaulins. Thinking of this, Zhangye excitedly said to Qin Yangming: "Captain, have you discovered another arsenal?" “Where is the armory? Don't worry, I will hide these howitzers well this time and make sure the brigade commander won't know about it." Zhangye still thinks that he failed to hide the howitzer properly and the brigade commander took it away. At the beginning, the brigade commander asked Zhangye to come to the vanguard camp in order to control Qin Yangming and prevent him from making any mistakes. As a result, Zhangye not only did not care about Qin Yangming, but also helped Qin Yangming conceal many of his minor mistakes. For example, he would drink whenever he wanted, take people out to hunt game in the name of training soldiers in marksmanship, or mobilize troops to make extra money without authorization. In short, the brigade commander originally wanted Zhangye to keep Qin Yangming in check to prevent Qin Yangming from becoming arrogant and causing trouble because he was too young and had made too many contributions. However, after Zhangye discovered that Qin Yangming's faith was extremely firm, he basically listened to Qin Yangming in everything, including the report about Qin Yangming that he wrote to the brigade commander, which was first shown to Qin Yangming and then handed over to the brigade commander. In general, because of Zhangye’s report, in the minds of the brigade commander and others, Qin Yangming was just a good boy who followed Li Yunlong and occasionally made some small mistakes.
Qin Yangming learned all those things about sending troops without authorization that could not be concealed from Li Yunlong. Qin Yangming, this good boy, has not been corrupted by Li Yunlong. This is the effect Qin Yangming wanted. What if the brigade commander knew that his actions were entirely out of his heart? Then he mistakenly thought that Li Yunlong had led him astray. If he transferred himself to another unit, he would be a Muggle. Among the Eighth Route Army, apart from Li Yunlong, which regiment commander could allow himself to mobilize troops at will and take the blame? He couldn't move troops around without permission, or even leave at will. How could he kill the Japanese and get points? Matters concerning the system cannot be reported to the higher-ups, and there is no way to explain this system. "What arsenal? Do you think I'm the God of Wealth?" "These are the only things you see. I found them when I led the assault platoon to attack the Tongshi Town stronghold. This thing is more useful than a howitzer." Looking at Zhangye's puzzled expression, Qin Yangming gave him a look, indicating that Zhangye should go and see what was under the oilcloth himself. "Better than a howitzer?" Zhangye walked forward with some confusion. He couldn't think of anything that could be more useful than a 105mm howitzer. Zhangye walked to the front of the hill and called on several soldiers to pull the tarpaulin away. As the oilcloth slowly faded away, the objects underneath it were revealed. Looking at what was below, Zhangye opened his mouth in shock. "Holy crap, tank!" "Now you know why I chose this place to snipe the Japanese. Six tanks are enough to give the Japanese a hard time." Qin Yangming walked up to Zhangye and pointed at the three tanks in front of him that had been modified by the system and said to Zhangye confidently. In order to avoid some troubles, Qin Yangming spent 100,000 points and asked the system to transform the twelve tanks he left in the system warehouse.
It is guaranteed that no one can recognize the model of their tank. Coupled with the rivets used as decorations on the tank's exterior, one would only think that this was a new tank made by the Japanese themselves, and that Qin Yangming was just lucky enough to have captured these tanks. In order to destroy the Korean regiment of the Japanese devils as much as possible, Qin Yangming directly took out six tanks, including three Hans's Type 34 tanks and three Russian T85- tanks. It's not that Qin Yangming didn't want to take out all the tanks, but there were not enough people who could operate the tanks. The system only gave him two tank crews, which added up to only eight people. Even if these eight people are all top tank crew members, each of them can drive a tank, and the total number is only eight. But tanks need more than just drivers. They also need gunners, machine gunners, observers and other personnel. In order to maximize combat effectiveness, except for the gunner, driver and commander of a T34-85 tank, all of them used the crew members provided by the system. The rest were assigned to other tanks to serve as gunners or drivers. As for roles such as machine gunners, they are played by several soldiers with the best marksmanship selected from the vanguard battalion. As for the other two T34-85 tanks that required soldiers from the Vanguard Battalion to be drivers, several soldiers with good driving skills were selected from the assault platoon. Anyway, the area around Tongshi Town is flat, so there is no need to worry about the soldiers driving the tanks into the ditch. Plus, since each tank has an experienced tank crew member, there won't be too many problems. "boom!" While Zhangye was still in shock, the sound of a shell explosion woke Zhangye up. "Bombardment? Where?" "Don't worry, they're not the Japs. I sent a big tank out to test the defense." Zhangye looked at Qin Yangming's nonchalant expression, then glanced at the tank next to him: "No, Captain, this is a tank!" "You're just going to let them be taken out and shot at?" "What if it breaks?" Unlike Zhangye's worries, Qin Yangming, who learned from the system the defensive capabilities of this modified tank, didn't care at all. According to the system, the frontal armor of the T34-85 tank can withstand direct fire from mm cannon armor-piercing shells. The frontal armor of the Type 2 tank can also withstand direct fire from anti-tank armor-piercing shells of less than 40 mm, and can withstand the frontal explosion of explosive shells from 75 mm artillery. In other words, unless the Japanese get a 34mm caliber howitzer to shoot directly at the T85-34 tank, or use an aerial bomb, there is no way they can destroy the T85- tank. Even a light tank like the Type 2 tank, after being modified by the system, can directly block the attack of the Japanese Type 92 infantry gun. As for the Japanese Type 91 or Type 41 mountain cannon, they can only be said to be cannons, and there is no problem in using them to attack infantry and light tanks. But if you want to use it as an anti-tank gun, forget it. Moreover, it is even questionable whether the Japanese troops in Shanxi have 75mm armor-piercing bullets. After all, the Eighth Route Army in Shanxi does not have heavy equipment such as tanks, so they have no need for armor-piercing shells.
In other words, the Korean Regiment probably did not have artillery capable of destroying the T34 tank. The main purpose of Qin Yangming pulling the tank out for the experiment was to tell the soldiers how sturdy the tank was and to let everyone not be timid when driving the tank. (End of this chapter)