Chapter 3077 Warm Greetings From the Red Navy

The Japanese army treasured heavy artillery so much that they were reluctant to use it even when the battlefield situation was extremely unfavorable in order to prevent these important technical weapons from being destroyed too early and not being effective.

Until now, when the roaring leader army heavy tanks have already driven into their faces.

These Japanese heavy artillery, which were hiding in concrete fortification bunkers, finally aimed at the targets within the effective range and began to show their power.

The Type 91 105mm field howitzer is a copy of the French Schneider 105mm howitzer.

In the Japanese artillery system, it is a relatively new and relatively good heavy field artillery. Of course, it is also an elite equipment. Only the brigade, division and independent heavy artillery regiments with relatively good combat effectiveness in the Japanese army will be equipped with this kind of relatively good howitzer.

Now, these artillery deployed in the heavy tortoise shells are lowering their barrels to shoot at the oncoming Red Army heavy tanks.

Earlier, in order to deal with the "Pacific Tiger" - the American medium tank Xie Mantou, the Japanese army developed and equipped a full-caliber 105mm wind cap armor-piercing grenade specifically for this howitzer, which was originally used for long-range indirect fire strikes.

Just like the full-caliber armor-piercing projectiles used by Western powers in the early days, the projectile itself adopts a capless design with built-in warhead charge, and only has a wind cap to reduce drag and increase the projectile's speed.

Therefore, the performance of this emergency armor-piercing projectile is not outstanding. If the angle of impact is slightly bad when hitting the American Xie Mantou, it may not even penetrate the upper front and will be directly bounced off, which is almost unacceptable for its large caliber of up to 105mm.

But there is no way. The Army's Ma Deer's attainments in large-caliber artillery are just like that. He is not satisfied with the artillery rubbing technology, and it is even more unrealistic to expect to rub out a good armor-piercing projectile.

Now, the Japanese army is using this armor-piercing shell that may not be effective against Sherman to deal with the IS7 heavy tanks of the Leader Army. The result is almost predictable.

"Load the armor-piercing shell! Prepare to shoot! Aim at the Russian tanks!"

"Loaded!"

"Fire!"

Boom--

The 105mm howitzer mounted in the bunker in a fixed gun mount opened fire, and the huge muzzle fire even rushed out of the shooting hole and sprayed directly outside the bunker, which was particularly conspicuous.

The high-speed whistling shells passed directly over the heads of the advancing infantry of the Leader Army, and the IS7 heavy tanks that were advancing were hit directly.

An armor-piercing shell that hit the upper part of the vehicle body instantly burst into a series of lightning and fire, and was directly bounced off with a metal scream that made people's teeth sore and ears ache.

It was not enough to be deflected by the upper armor plate. The blunt-headed armor-piercing projectile, which flew upward obliquely and had its wind cap shattered, then hit the huge oval turret of the IS7 with a clanging sound.

Two consecutive kinetic impacts directly consumed all the kinetic energy of the armor-piercing projectile.

The armor-piercing projectile, which was severely deformed and shattered to the point that the delayed fuse had failed and completely lost its ability to detonate independently, rolled down from the huge turret of the IS7 like a piece of hot scrap metal.

The track, which continued to move forward without any obstruction, followed and was crushed into the soil.

"500 meters at 11 o'clock, Japanese bunker artillery! Semi-armor-piercing shells are loaded, and the gunners are ready!"

The huge noise when the Japanese bunker howitzer opened fire did not escape the eyes of the commander, and the order to counterattack was immediately issued.

During the earlier aerial reconnaissance of the Japanese positions, it was confirmed that the Japanese semi-permanent fortifications that could not be hidden in any way were already confirmed, which led to the heavy firepower air strikes of the Red Army Air Force tactical bomber unit.

At the same time, the attacking force of the leader army who learned of this intelligence was also prepared for anti-fortifications.

The 130mm cannon of the IS7 was directly taken from the Red Navy destroyer naval gun. One of the benefits brought by this is that the shells unique to the naval guns can also be used by the IS7, such as the semi-armor-piercing grenades with naval characteristics.

This bullet itself is designed to penetrate the protective armor of destroyers and light cruisers, which are not thick, so a steel armor-piercing warhead with a thick bullet wall is used.

At the same time, in order to explode inside the warship and cause as much damage to the cabins, compartments, equipment, etc. as possible, a warhead charge is inserted, which is not as much as the high-explosive grenade of the same caliber, but the charge coefficient is still much higher than the full-caliber armor-piercing shells of the army.

The final strike effect is that the armor-piercing ability of this kind of semi-armor-piercing grenade is not strong. The 130mm full-caliber bullet cannot even penetrate hundreds of millimeters, but the explosive equivalent is more than half of the same caliber grenade.

Needless to say, it is perfect to use this thing to attack the Japanese concrete bunker.

The protection factor is far less than that of solid homogeneous steel armor. The concrete wall of the Japanese bunker with a thickness of more than half a meter looks thick, but it is still not enough in front of the 130mm semi-armor-piercing grenade.

The powerful blow from the IS7 main gun directly smashed the concrete outer wall into pieces and broke the steel bars, instantly opening a hole big enough to put a child's head in.

Continuing to move forward along this huge penetration hole, the semi-armor-piercing grenade, whose kinetic energy has not yet been consumed, continues to drill in.

The steel projectile directly penetrated the inner wall of the Japanese concrete bunker, and with very little kinetic energy left, it crashed into the inside of another concrete wall.

It was directly embedded into the wall with the last trace of kinetic energy. It was stuck in it and could not move and did not fall to the ground. It was like a hand-thrown dart stuck on a target.

"What is that!? What's coming in???"

"Baga! It's an artillery shell! Russian artillery shells are coming in!!!"

"Get out of here, run! Get out quickly——",

Boom——

Before the sergeant and gunner who led the team could finish his words, a huge explosion directly swallowed up everything in the bunker.

Flesh and blood wrapped in steel fragments rose from the ground and shot straight into the sky. The bunker, which could not withstand the huge internal pressure, was like an exploding pressure cooker. It started performing a "volcanic eruption" on the spot and blew off the roof.

From the periscope, we could clearly see the scene of a large number of Japanese army debris being thrown into the sky together with concrete debris.

I estimated that the time from breakdown to detonation is almost five seconds. I feel that the delay fuse of this Navy semi-armor-piercing grenade is set a bit long. This type of bomb is not often used, and it is somewhat unfamiliar to Comrade Commander. Then an additional order was issued.

"Reset the fuse and shorten the time. The bunker doesn't have as much penetration space as a warship, so you don't need a long delay fuse. Let's fire another semi-armor-piercing projectile!"

"receive!"

Semi-armor-piercing bullets, which are not commonly used types of ammunition, are not placed on the ready ammunition rack of the semi-automatic loader. Instead, it needs to be taken out from the reserve ammunition rack on the floor of the vehicle body, and manually loaded by two loaders.

He took out the warhead of a semi-armor-piercing bullet and stood it up on the floor. He used a handy file to readjust the fuse to shorten the detonation time.

When he was done, he hugged the projectile with both hands, straightened his waist and put it on the ammunition belt. The deputy loader on the other side, who was bending down to retrieve the ammunition, was already carrying the cartridge and was ready.

The two loaders shouted in unison, almost at the same time as the dull impact of the breech closing.

"Accept cordial greetings from the Red Navy! Sukabule!"

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