Chapter 25: Less Wins More (I)

There was a dense burst of gunfire, and countless hot bullets flew from both sides of the street, knocking the squadron's devil cavalry down in pieces.

When the colonel of the national army who retreated from the direction of Suzhou saw this scene, he immediately reacted, raised his gun and took the lead in ordering: "Brothers, follow and fire, and destroy this group of devils first!" ”

As he spoke, he pulled the trigger and raised his pistol to shoot continuously.

The more than 100 soldiers of the national army behind him also followed suit, shooting bullets one after another at the devil cavalry who had already suffered.

A kilometer north of the town, the commander of the 16th Cavalry Wing, Fan Zezaburo Daisa, Furukawa Daisa, who led the main force to follow, and others from the tank and combat vehicle wing, all heard the gunfire coming from the town in front.

Furukawa Osa was taken aback and said: "It's gunshots, it's not good, there really is an army in the town!" ”

Fan Zezaburo was also surprised, but quickly calmed down and said to Furukawa Daisa: "Furukawa-kun, the situation in the town is unknown, I will first bring the cavalry wing over to support the vanguard troops and pick them up."

You lead the tank wing here to take charge, just in case! ”

"Okay!" Furukawa nodded happily, and Fan Zezaburo immediately commanded his cavalry to quickly rush towards the town.

As mentioned before, the independent brigade in Xu Wen's hands, that is, the Qingfeng Village bandit fighters who were brought ashore by him, totaled about ninety people, and the losses from several battles were minimal.

So now, there are still about 90 people, and each of them requires five people to complete the maneuvering, but this is fully manned.

Three or even two people can also operate a No. 4 tank, but the combat efficiency will be reduced.

As for the Humvee military vehicle, one person can drive it, and one person can operate the vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun on it, and the full state is all to carry more soldiers.

In order to prepare for this ambush battle, Xu Wen reduced the number of combatants in each tank to three, and the Humvee military vehicles were equipped with two in each vehicle, so that a total of 45 people were used.

Therefore, there are still more than 50 Qingfeng Village soldiers ambushed in the town.

As for the more than 100 routed troops from the direction of Suzhou, it was unexpected by Xu Wen.

When the more than fifty soldiers on foot in the town opened fire and ambushed the vanguard of the devil cavalry.

Xu Wen, who was sitting in the tank, also immediately commanded five No. 4 tanks and ten Humvee military vehicles to rush out of the woods outside their hidden town.

After making a circle from the northeast of the town, he launched a surprise attack on the Devil tank fighting vehicles that had stopped at the north side of the town.

At that time, large-scale tank armored units were not common in the Japanese Army, and only units such as the 16th Division, which were tasked with special and important combat missions, would be equipped with an additional armored force to enhance their mobility and overall combat capability.

Even so, the tank wing of the 16th Division was far from being comparable to the German tank units that attached importance to the development of armored forces at that time.

The German army was a tank regiment, and at its peak there were hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles of various types.

But the Devil's tank wing only has 36 Type 89 tanks and Type 95 tanks.

Whether it is the so-called Type 89 medium tank or the Type 95 light tank, its weight, armor defense and firepower are far from being comparable to the No. 4 tank equipped on the side of Qingfeng Village.

A No. 4 tank weighs more than 25 tons, while the Devil's Type 89 tank weighs only about 10 tons.

The protective armor is even weaker and terrifying, not to mention the 75-millimeter tank gun of the No. 4 tank, and even the anti-aircraft machine gun bullets equipped with the Humvee military vehicle cannot withstand it.

When Xu Wen led five No. 4 tanks and ten Humvee military vehicles, an assault force composed of five Humvee military vehicles rushed over.

The barrels of the devil's tanks were all facing the town of Zhaojiaqiao, which was fighting fiercely in the south, which was tantamount to exposing his back to Xu Wen and them.

It's not that the devils are careless, but the devils never imagined that there would be a Chinese armored force that had already laid an ambush in advance and launched a surprise attack from behind them.

However, in the final analysis, it was the devil's attack on the Chinese battlefield, and one of them was too smooth.

With less than 10,000 Japanese troops in 918, they drove the Northeast Army, which had hundreds of thousands of army, navy, and air force, out of the three eastern provinces and occupied the three northeastern provinces, whose territory was more than 10 times that of the mainland.

Later, in the Battle of the Great Wall, the Japanese army took Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province at that time, with 128 cavalry.

This was followed by the Lugou Bridge Incident, in which the Japanese army swept through the North China National Army with an absolutely inferior force in the battle to attack Shanxi.

Seishiro Itagaki, the commander of the 5th Division of the Japanese Army, who had the title of Steel Army, swept away hundreds of thousands of troops from the Jin Sui Army and the Central Army with less than one division.

In the recent Battle of Songhu, the Japanese army also relied on its strong naval and air superiority to defeat the Nationalist army with a total strength of less than 300,000 troops.

In the final analysis, the devils are still too smooth, and the smooth progress of the war makes them think that the Chinese army is a vulnerable rabble.

Therefore, it was inevitable that arrogance and contempt for the enemy were born, which was a common problem of all Japanese troops at that time.

Even after the attacks on the Izumo and Fujita Shin, it did not attract the general attention of the Japanese army, and of course, this was also due to the fact that the Japanese army adopted the practice of blocking the news in order not to affect the morale of the army.

To borrow Li Yunlong's classic saying, the little devils have not really understood Xu Wen's power now, and they regard the attack on the Izumo and Fujita Jin as an accidental event under chance.

In this case, whether it is Furukawa Dazuo or Fan Ze Saburo, they still use the mentality and command style of dealing with other national armies to deal with Xu Wen and their opponents, and it is inevitable that they will suffer big losses.

Therefore, when Xu Wen led the tanks and Humvee military vehicles to kill, the devil soldiers of the 16th Tank Wing had no time to react.

It was met with heavy fire from five 75-mm tank guns and ten 12.7-mm anti-aircraft machine guns.

Boom Boom! One by one, the shells accurately hit the ghost tanks in front, easily penetrating the defensive armor of the tanks, and then blowing those tanks apart and scrapping them on the spot.

The dense rain of bullets fired by the ten anti-aircraft machine guns also easily penetrated the rear defensive armor of the Japanese tank, and the armor-piercing bullets rolled violently after penetrating this layer, causing devastating damage to the devil soldiers in the tank.

Dadada! Dadada! Under the deafening roar of dense machine guns, one Japanese tank after another was smashed into a hornet's nest, burning and even exploding.

All the tankmen inside were beaten to death!