Anti-Japanese War, weapons designer at Fengtian Arsenal

"Ah! Amaterasu! They have chariots! They actually have chariots!"

The appearance of tanks gave the Japanese assault team a huge shock, and the Japanese running in the front even slowed down their pace. As the most powerful army weapon of this era, tanks have a natural suppression on infantry.

There were 8 tanks, 4 on each side, and the 37mm artillery roared continuously, blasting balls of fire in the Japs' charging team.

The 37mm shells fired by the 37mm small water tube have a small amount of powder, and the explosive power is actually not much greater than that of a grenade. Fortunately, its range is longer than that of a grenade, and its rate of fire is very fast, reaching an astonishing 25 rounds per minute.

Of course, this rate of fire is only theoretical. It will be much slower in actual use. There are only two people inside the Renault FT tank, a driver and a gunner and loader.

The turret of the Renault FT tank is not large, and it is quite difficult for the loader to take the shells from the ammunition rack and put them into the barrel. Moreover, after loading the shells, the gunner also needs to aim and shoot, so the firing rate is reduced.

The tank crew of the Punishment Army can only fire the 37mm gun at a speed of 14 to 16 rounds per minute. If they fire faster, they will just fire randomly without even aiming.

The eight 8mm guns on the eight tanks fired rapidly, and the shells exploded continuously, taking the lives of one or two Japanese soldiers in the charging column. Some unlucky Japanese soldiers were even hit directly by the 8mm guns, with their bodies pierced and turned into a mass of broken meat.

But to be honest, this small cannon is not as efficient as a Liao-made Maxim in killing enemies. A single sweep from a Liao-made Maxim would cause the Japanese to fall down in large numbers. A single shot from a 37mm cannon could kill at most 2 to 3 people, and its DPS is too poor.

Li Qinwu, who had been checking the operation of the tank, shook his head. He thought about dismantling the tank gun and replacing it with a heavy machine gun.

Although Li Qinwu felt that the tank gun was not very efficient in killing the enemy, the Japanese did not think so.

Every time the tank gun fired and the shells exploded next to the Japanese, it would cause a huge psychological burden on the Japanese. At that time, the infantry's anti-armor weapons were very backward, and tanks were simply a waste of infantry. The appearance of tanks directly gave the enemy infantry an aura of morale-depleting.

The Japanese regiment was also equipped with artillery. When the commander of the Japanese regiment learned that the Punishment Army had tanks, his eyes almost popped out and he immediately ordered the regiment's artillery to be deployed.

But how could the snipers who had been watching the battlefield give the Japanese a chance to destroy the tanks? As soon as the artillery was pushed out by the Japanese, before it was set up, the snipers passed the coordinates to the artillery bunker on the high ground.

Twelve artillery pieces began to fire in unison. With each round of firing, one of the Japanese artillery pieces was blown into pieces. After the artillery pieces on the mountain fired seven or eight rounds, the Japanese had no more artillery pieces left to use.

At this time, the morale of the Japanese was almost at its lowest. The excessive firepower and the appearance of tanks made this team, which was famous for enduring death, feel timid. They actually began to retreat without receiving any orders.

Seeing that the Japanese began to retreat, Li Qinwu immediately ordered the machine gun positions to push forward. More than ten heavy machine guns were set up and pushed forward. The tanks on both sides also moved forward quickly, hoping to encircle and annihilate the Japanese troops who had interrupted their charge and suffered heavy losses!

As for the charging troops on both sides of the Japanese, they had already exposed their buttocks and started to move around. Li Qinwu ordered to ignore them and surround the Japanese in the middle and kill them all first!

The eight tanks were running very fast. They rushed towards the Nenjiang River from both sides in order to encircle the group of Japanese devils. Following behind the tanks were 8 punitive soldiers who were moving a little slower. These soldiers using light weapons would complete the encirclement.

The interrupted Japanese soldiers only knew to run backwards. In fact, the correct direction to break out was to run left or right, because behind them was the Nenjiang River. Wouldn't running backwards be seeking death?

But these frightened Japanese soldiers were in a mess and only knew to get away from the firepower of the Punishment Army as soon as possible. When the two Renault tanks of the Punishment Army ran to the riverside, it announced that the semi-arc encirclement was completed. This encirclement was like a bowl, and the Nenjiang River was the table. This bowl covered the Japanese soldiers on the table.

After the encirclement was completed, Li Qinwu ordered the troops to close in and squeeze the living space of the encircled Japanese troops.

The two wings were mainly composed of 8 tanks and 500 punitive soldiers. The 8 tanks were parked every 50 meters and advanced slowly and resolutely.

On the front, machine guns and mortars advanced alternately. The machine guns stopped to fire and the mortars moved forward, and the mortars fired and the machine guns moved forward. Under this staggered firepower attack, the Japanese did not even have the ability to organize a breakout and were driven to the river in a panic.

Less than 40 minutes after the battle started, the Japanese 29th Regiment ran away or died, and the remaining nearly 300 Japanese were forced to the banks of the Nenjiang River where there was no cover, while the punitive army soldiers watched them hungrily in the darkness 400 meters away.

The surrounded Japanese soldiers were extremely terrified. They had all been running back from the machine gun positions of the Punishment Army. The heavy machine guns smashed their teammates' bodies, leaving them with considerable psychological trauma. Some of them even lost their weapons because they ran too fast.

You have to know that this is a regiment with a high number, the elite among the elites, how could they make such a mistake? But before our eyes, this group of Japanese devils were beaten to a pulp by the Punishment Army.

The highest-ranking officer among the besieged Japanese was the battalion captain. He looked at the punitive army soldiers looming in the darkness ahead, then turned back to glance at the frozen Nenjiang River.

They had investigated the Nenjiang River before. The river flows very fast. Although the river surface appears to be frozen, it is not frozen very tightly. If they run over, they may break the ice and fall into the water. What's more, the enemy has cannons and a few shells can shatter the ice.

The situation was desperate, and the Japanese captain was filled with grief and anger, and even had the idea of ​​surrendering. However, the death education of the imperial soldiers made him dare not put this idea into practice, not to mention that he still had a family. As a Japanese imperial soldier, if he ordered the troops to surrender, his family in his homeland would suffer unimaginable persecution.

When the Japanese captain didn't know what to do, the punitive troops who were tightening the encirclement stopped.

Li Qinwu ordered the troops to stop at a safe distance of 300 meters. If they moved forward any further, the Japanese would be forced into a desperate counterattack, which might cause casualties to the Punishment Army. Moreover, this distance was also enough for heavy machine gun fire. With just one order from him, the heavy machine guns and tank guns would be able to strangle these Japanese.

But when Li Qinwu looked at the Northeast Army's positions on the other side of the Nenjiang River, he suddenly had a new idea.

He intended to test Ma Zhanshan's attitude towards the Japanese army to see whether he was determined to resist Japan.

Li Qinwu ordered: "Drive the devils to the other side of the river!"