Chapter 626: Infantry Fights Tanks
The troops of the 1st Brigade of the Melee began to march towards Binh Dinh County, but the remaining troops in Binh Dinh County had already prepared.
Sun Weiguo knew the troops of the First Brigade of the Mixed Battle, and he knew that it was not easy for Momoyo Kunomura, so he set up a defensive strategy in advance to deal with the First Brigade of the Mixed Battle.
The sun had risen high, and the golden glow was shining on the ground, and it was already seven o'clock in the morning.
After the troops of the 6th Cavalry Regiment captured Jiedu Township, the troops continued to advance towards the county seat of Xiyang County, and the three armored companies began to advance in a horizontal formation, and the cavalry battalion also began to send cavalry units to conduct reconnaissance activities in the surrounding areas.
The 19th Independent Infantry Brigade of the Japanese Army has already begun to set off, and at this time the reconnaissance unit of the 19th Brigade has already begun to encounter the reconnaissance unit of the cavalry battalion.
During the march, the Japanese troops would send several groups of reconnaissance units to conduct reconnaissance in the front, and under normal circumstances, the reconnaissance troops were only about 400 meters away from the main force.
When the reconnaissance unit encounters the enemy, they quickly disengage from the battle and return to the main force to report.
"Bang bang." The sound of 38-type rifle shooting continued to sound, and more than a dozen devil soldiers quickly retreated towards the back.
Three of the dozen or so cavalrymen of the cavalry battalion were killed, and the commander of the cavalry was a squad leader who looked into the distance with a telescope.
Seeing a large number of devil soldiers quickly assembling towards this side, the cavalry squad leader immediately began to order the troops to withdraw, and now they only have a dozen cavalry, and it is completely an act of death to attack the main force of the Japanese army at this time.
Skirmishes took place between the reconnaissance units of the 6th Cavalry Regiment and the 19th Brigade, in which both sides suffered losses on both sides, and the scouts of both sides simultaneously began to withdraw to the main forces.
The Chinese and Japanese sides, which had received the report from the reconnaissance troops, immediately began to arrange their troops, and the Japanese heavy machine guns and artillery immediately began to be erected on the nearby high ground, and an infantry squadron began to pull out the attack line and advance, and the commander of the Shaozuo Brigade immediately came to the high ground to observe the situation of the Chinese troops.
According to the judgment of Qin Yashang, the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, the number of troops of the New Second Brigade breaking through from the left side of the 18th Brigade will not be very large, and the commander of the 19th Brigade Shaozuo Brigade is also convinced of this, and the officers of the Fifth Brigade of the Mixed Brigade all believe that the main force of the New Second Brigade is assembled in the vicinity of Lijiazhuang Town.
But how would they know that after Sun Weiguo's capture, purchase, and overseas Chinese donations, the current troops of the new Second Brigade can be described as strong and strong, and other Chinese troops may not have an artillery battalion in one army, but Sun Weiguo's new Second Brigade has two artillery battalions, one of which is still a heavy artillery battalion.
In the impression of the Japanese army, the Chinese troops are synonymous with backwardness, and the Chinese troops do not have many heavy weapons.
The judgment of the Japanese army was also correct, and the Ninth Theater, which had the most elite troops in the country and had the most important tasks, was now only in the hands of the Theater Commander's Department as an artillery regiment.
"Captain, it's the tanks of the New Second Brigade, and the cavalry of the New Second Brigade, it's really strange, why don't their tanks attack with the infantry, the people of China are simply too backward, they actually let the tanks gather together, such a group of tanks together, isn't it a live target for our anti-tank guns?"
A captain staff officer of the 19th Brigade stood beside the captain of the Shaozo Brigade, and after he saw the troops of the 6th Cavalry Regiment with a telescope, he said in a contemptuous tone.
Tanks were used intensively, and this idea was not tried at all in this era, except for the Germans.
The tanks of most countries are scattered to cover the infantry, and the Japanese troops saw that the tanks of the new second brigade were gathered together, and the Japanese captain was sarcastic, he felt that the Chinese troops could not even use the tanks, and he even thought that these tanks were a live target for their own anti-tank guns.
The German blitzkrieg was invincible across the European continent, and France, known as the number one army power, was forced to surrender under the blow of the Germans within a week.
The Americans fought as one to dominate the Iran-Iraq war, and Iraq, known as the number one power in the Middle East, quickly collapsed under the blows of the Americans.
Before the battle, neither the French nor the Iraqis expected this to be the result, the war is constantly evolving, from the most primitive cold weapons, to the current tanks and aircraft, new tactics will bring devastating blows to the opponent.
When the Japanese saw that the tanks of the new Second Brigade were used together, they only considered that these tanks would become a live target for anti-tank guns, but they did not consider what kind of threat they would bring to themselves after the tanks were used intensively.
"Order the infantry artillery, mountain artillery, heavy machine guns to strike at the cavalry units on both flanks of the Chinese troops, the 1st squadron, the 2nd squadron, the anti-tank gun squadron to immediately attack, the anti-tank guns quickly destroyed the Chinese tank, and the 3rd squadron to strengthen a machine gun squad and immediately detour from the flanks."
Captain Shao Zuo put down his binoculars, and a confident expression appeared on his face, he felt that it would not be too much of a problem to defeat this new second brigade unit.
Frontal feints and flank attacks were the best of the Japanese troops, and they were the only way to defeat the Chinese troops.
The deployment of Chinese troops is often in a "U" shape, with a small number of heavy weapons deployed at the two tops, but the Japanese will not break through from the middle in peace, most of the time they will first knock out the heavy weapons at both ends, and break through directly from the flank, disrupting the deployment of Chinese troops.
Flank raids are a tactic often used by the Japanese army, and the commander of the 19th Brigade believes that this time it is still possible to use flank raids to crush the troops of the new 2nd Brigade.
The tank was seen by them, but they didn't care, they thought that the tank would become a live target for anti-tank guns.
THE JAPANESE UNITS BEGAN TO MOVE, FOUR 47MM ANTI-TANK GUNS FOLLOWED THE ADVANCE OF TWO INFANTRY SQUADRONS, TWO MOUNTAIN GUNS, TWO INFANTRY GUNS, AND EIGHT HEAVY MACHINE GUNS BEGAN TO FOCUS ON THE CAVALRY BATTALION UNITS.
"Boom, boom." The Japanese artillery began to fire, and one shell after another quickly came towards the cavalry.
A shell fell to the ground, four or five cavalrymen were killed and wounded on the spot, and the 3rd squadron began to carry four heavy machine guns to attack from the left side, and the Japanese attack began.
At this time, Sun Weiguo was acting with the troops of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, and the Japanese troops attacked, which surprised Sun Weiguo a little.
In the face of a mobile force like the Sixth Cavalry Regiment, fighting a defensive battle was obviously the best choice, but the Japanese army launched an attack at this time, which made Sun Weiguo a little speechless.
However, the arrogance of the Japanese is also famous, and their arrogance is also capital, when half of the Fifth Division crisscrossed Shanxi and defeated more than 100,000 Jin Sui troops.
"The little devil is to fight us as the Jin Sui army, the cavalry artillery battalion suppresses the Japanese firepower, the armored battalion assaults frontally, the cavalry battalion concentrates on the flanks and eats the Japanese detour troops, and the machine infantry battalion follows the armored battalion to act, remember one thing, tanks must protect infantry, infantry must protect tanks!" Sun Weiguo decisively gave the order.