Chapter 62: Joining the Battle (2)

  The enemy is approaching, and Yang Wei is quite worried about this battle. In front of him are more than 20 Type 97 Chi-ha tanks lined up in a row, each with a 75mm cannon and a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun.

  The soldiers were waiting in the rear with their rifles for the enemy to come over.

  "Squad leader, I have a question," "Go ahead." "What's the point of putting those tanks there?" "As cover, what else can they do? You're not saying you know how to drive a tank too, are you?"

  "It's not that it can't be opened, if there's time, maybe we can figure out how to open it, after all, it's just a variant of a car. What I'm asking is, what about the cannon and machine gun on top of the tank, are they just idle?"

  "Hey, I really forgot about this. What do you think we should do?" "Get the people over here, those who were learning to drive up front, all of them." As he spoke, Yang Wei began to give orders in place of the team leader, "Each of you bring three soldiers and follow me."

  At this time, the enemy army was still more than a thousand meters away from our position. Due to the previous ambush, this position had been exposed in front of the Southern Army, and naturally, there was no secret to speak of. At this time, it was necessary for the Southern Army to pass through here, so they had to open up this passage.

  The volunteer army needs to defend here, and suppress the first division of the southern army in this place, not allowing them to pass.

  "Report?" The soldier shouted out a report, but suddenly didn't know how to continue it. "Just call them the leaders, after all, according to regulations, these kids are all officers."

  It was natural that the captain had found out from the shoulder badges of his little companions. Those who had seen the performance knew that the two big men with different shoulder badges were soldiers, while the others, including the two wolves, were officers' shoulder badges. However, there was no way to say it, and at this time, Captain Xu had already treated his little companions as equal officers, so he naturally let these soldiers call him chief.

  "Report to the superior, all 80 soldiers have arrived." "Alright, each of you two drivers will lead six people and follow the younger ones." Yang Wei gave them a simple order. These young fellows had a quick learning ability, they had learned a lot from following those artillerymen in front, and could even operate anti-aircraft machine guns. Naturally, Yang Wei still let them be instructors.

  Each little partner led eight soldiers to the front of the tank, and then arranged three people in the turret, one outside for command, one responsible for the anti-aircraft machine gun, and the other four on the side learning.

  "Boom, boom, boom," the tank guns fired first, but the angle was not adjusted well, and they hit a bit far away. The soldiers in front were more than 1,000 meters away from here, while those behind were hit. The soldiers behind retreated, while those in front accelerated their speed, thinking that moving forward quickly might be safer. Didn't they see that all the soldiers waiting for the second and third lines of attack were blown up by the cannons?

  "Boom, boom, boom," the tank cannon continued to fire, but these shells were getting closer and closer, which means that the soldiers were testing the range and capability of this artillery.

  "Let's start, notify the front line, use machine guns to drive back the enemy." At this time, Xia Xue took out two small flags from somewhere, one red and one yellow, made a few gestures towards the tank's direction, and saw that the little friends on the side were guiding the soldiers on how to operate the machine gun. However, it didn't take much effort for the little friends, as most soldiers knew how to play with machine guns, but whether they could operate them well was another matter. After fiddling with them for a while, all ten machine guns started roaring, and at this time, the Southern Army, who were charging forward, had a hard time. Once hit by bullets, it was almost impossible to survive, as these large-caliber machine guns could easily blow a person in half if they hit them.

  "'Withdraw, withdraw, withdraw,' maybe that's what it means," anyway Yang Wei and most of the soldiers couldn't understand, they just saw the Southern Army surge forward like a tide and then retreat.

  "Squad leader, hurry up and arrange for personnel to go pick up the guns and ammunition. Xia Xue, notify the front line to let the soldiers continue firing with machine guns on the tanks nearby, and remind them not to harm our own people. Let's get our buddies to aim all the machine guns at the sky, preparing for anti-aircraft defense."

  The high-angle machine gun on the tank is exactly the same Browning high-angle machine gun as theirs, and the air defense effect is naturally the same.

  "Hurry, everyone has everything, go to sweep the battlefield, pick up weapons and ammunition, as well as food." Without any hesitation, Commander Xu gave the order to depart, and the volunteers all jumped out and ran forward.

  When the soldiers were running forward, a tank suddenly appeared on the road with a weird movement. It turned out that a little buddy commanded a soldier to jump into the driver's cabin and start the tank.

  At first, the soldiers had to hide behind the tanks, fearing that they would accidentally knock themselves down. From time to time, some soldiers who knew this soldier would start scolding him, which affected their life safety. Naturally, someone scolded, but most of them were just joking. To be honest, they envied this tank-driving soldier. Although it started with a bit of swaying, it slowly became stable and soon arrived at the middle of the battlefield.

  At this time, the Southern Army, whether in the rear or front, was retreating in large strides. You know that within six kilometers ahead, there wasn't a single safe place. In just a short while, over 300 corpses were left on the battlefield, and nearly 200 wounded soldiers remained, as well as a large quantity of weapons and ammunition. Once the Southern Army started to flee, they couldn't wait to strip off their clothes in order to run faster.

  "Hum..." "The plane is coming, retreat quickly, retreat quickly." At this time, Captain Xu was shouting hoarsely, even sweating profusely. To think that there were nearly a thousand soldiers in front of them picking up their weapons.

  "Give orders to the tanks in front, defend in place, start anti-aircraft." Then Yang Wei gave another order, and Xia Xue immediately followed up with flag signals.

  With a creak, the tank came to a stop, and at this time, the little partner also pointed the machine gun towards the sky, and even shook it a bit, which was to verify the flexibility of the machine gun.

  "You're in charge of supplying ammunition, you two come help me hold the gun handle, listen to my command and don't move randomly."