It is estimated that you would never have imagined that in the Korean War, there were tank battles between the two sides, and the scale of the largest tank battles was so large that it made people laugh! Why? Let's look down.
When the Volunteer Army officially started working with the U.S. Army and started the first battle, the North Korean Army, which played a supporting role, also entered the combat role.
Since the family has been exhausted, they can only cooperate with our army according to their ability, and they will seize a chance that looks good!
North Korean Army. In the middle of the night in early November 1950, the U.S. military and the vanguard of South Korea had been hit hard by our army, but MacArthur was arrogant and let the U.S. army still advance north!
When the 1st Battalion of the 21st Regiment of the 24th Division of the US Army arrived at the parking hole 30 kilometers away from Sinuiju (this place is very close to our country), the T34 tank group of the North Korean army quietly showed its head from the mountains and forests, ready to do a big job!
So they fired neatly at a distance of 300 meters, and the fireballs spewed out by the tanks flew one by one towards the American ones whose silhouettes could still be seen in the moonlight"Pershing"Tank!
Since this is the case, the US military will definitely not accept it! Come on! Hurt each other! Well, the most "largest" tank battle of the Korean War has begun!
Soviet-made T34 tanks in the Volunteer Army.
American "Pershing" tank.
A string of sharp shells, a piercing ** sound, looks like a tank battle that can be remembered in history!
Those who don't know still think that this tank battle can be compared to the tank battle between the Soviet Union and Germany in World War II!
In fact, the largest tank battle in the Korean War was only 7 tanks of the North Korean army against more than 10 tanks of the US army!
As a result, five tanks of the North Korean army were completely destroyed, and the American tanks suffered minor losses. In fact, there has always been a problem in the way the North Korean army plays, that is, it is overloaded with heavy tanks and artillery.
For example, at about the same time as this tank battle, on the Eastern Front, when two divisions of our army went to support the DPRK army, the DPRK military top brass and their Soviet advisers heard that we were coming without a tank and very few artillery, and they were still contemptuous!
To tell the truth, before the U.S. military intervened, there was really no problem for you to fight your younger brother South Korea, but you fought directly with the stubborn old United States!
Heavy tank units of the US army.
Although the comprehensive capabilities of the T34 tank are not too weak compared to the American "Pershing" tanks, no matter the experience and the number of tanks, you will suffer a big loss!
It can be said that this small tank battle made the US Eighth Army reach it in the entire Korean War"Victory"The highest peak!
In addition, during the first battle of the Korean War, what kind of "monsters" did the volunteers capture, which later became a nightmare for US tanks?
In the first battle, the 39th Army, the ace army of the Volunteer Army, became the big winner! Ate a big piece of fat! That is, in the Battle of Unsan, not only the South Korean troops were disabled, but also the 1st Cavalry Division, the American ace troops, was severely damaged!
But our army has never only one flower blooming in battle, and the 40th Army also launched a fierce attack and ate a piece of fat!
Among them, they captured the major intelligence chief of the 24th Infantry Division of the United States, and also seized two foreign gadgets!
These two foreign goods are very strangely long: a round, short, thick iron pipe and a strange cannon with a butt like a horn and many eyes on the cannonball.
These two things completely stunned our army! I just know that it should be a good thing. But I don't know the regiment in the group, and I don't know the division in the division, the key is that no one even knows the military department, or even Mr. Peng and his party at the Volunteer Army headquarters!
No way! The 39th Army had no choice but to send these two "monsters" to an arsenal in Mianyang, Sichuan, China. Knowledgeable experts recognized that these were the bazooka bazookas and recoilless guns of the US army, two powerful anti-tank weapons!
The Bazooka and the recoilless gun look quite similar, but in fact there is an essential difference.
To put it simply, a bazooka fires a rocket, which is essentially a small rocket; Recoilless guns, on the other hand, fire shells, which, like all shells, fly only by inertia once discharged.
Then if there are them, the American tanks will be hunted by our army!
So the experts began to disassemble and study, with the powerful imitation ability of our army since ancient times, soon these two monsters were copied in large numbers and quickly equipped to the volunteer army.
Volunteer soldiers carry the "big guys".
Soon after, the new Chinese-made 89mm rocket launcher and recoilless gun showed their might on the Korean battlefield, destroying many American tanks!
Among them, our soldiers destroyed four US tanks with eight rounds, which made a great contribution to the "tank splitting battle" of the US army in Wendenli a year later.