Chapter 221: The Siege of Tianjin (3)
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Then, I saw Japanese soldiers surrounded by flames, like rats on fire, jumping around, and many of them rushed down from the upper floors, for them now, death is a relief.
The Chinese soldiers who were attacking were also frightened, and when they practiced in the past, they only felt that this weapon was very sharp, but they had never practiced it. This time, it was the first time it was used in actual combat, and the miserable howl of the Japanese army, even if they were used to seeing death, couldn't help but tighten their hearts, it was really a little terrifying.
"Bang bang bang bang...... some soft-hearted soldiers shot directly, although they hated the Japanese, but they also seemed to be a little unbearable to kill them like this, so they directly used bullets to kill them.
With the participation of the flamethrower, as long as you are approached by the flamethrower, you can basically end up in a very miserable end.
The Chinese army had a wide variety of weapons and flexible tactics, so that the street fighting that Nishio Shouzo originally intended did not have much effect, and the strongholds occupied by the Japanese army were uprooted one by one.
The Japanese had to shrink their defensive line and withdraw eastward, and the three squadrons under the command of a Japanese brigade were blocked in an alley due to the untimely retreat, while the Chinese army intercepted it in time and blocked the alley at both ends with two tanks.
The "da-da-da-da......" vehicle-mounted machine gun is a wild sweep.
And the Chinese soldiers behind the tanks were also slaughtering frantically with submachine guns and machine guns.
"Kill to ......" These Japanese soldiers also knew that if they didn't want to rush out, they would only have a dead end, so they desperately rushed in the direction of the two tanks, facing the fierce fire.
However, the alley was a little narrow, and the fire of the Chinese army was too fierce, not to mention the two tanks flanking it, and there were hundreds of soldiers with ferocious fire hiding behind the tanks and shooting, they gathered together, how could they avoid it.
The three squadrons, four or five hundred Japanese troops, did not exert their combat strength at all, and they were slaughtered by the Chinese army at both ends, many corpses were broken, the wreckage and broken arms were scattered everywhere, and blood flowed all over the alley.
The tank withdrew, and immediately after the step, it rushed in to check if there was a live opening, and then mended the knives one by one.
Nishio Shouzo had been paying attention to the battle situation, but when he heard that the Chinese army was rapidly devouring patches of area, his face changed. But then, the news that the Chinese army had broken through Beicheng came again, and the Chinese army was going to attack in two directions.
"Your Excellency Commander, Tianjin, is about to be overwhelmed. The firepower of the Chinese army was too fierce, and they used armor, artillery, fire-jet throwers and other weapons to cooperate with each other, and our Imperial Japanese army's flesh and blood could not stop it at all. Tianjin is being eaten away little by little. If there is no suitable rescue method, we will wait, only for His Majesty the Emperor to break the jade. Nishio Shouzo reported the battle situation in Tianjin to Sugiyama Moto, with a sad heart.
"Our armored forces have rushed to your aid, and the forces of the Beiping side will also move in the direction of Tianjin, ready to flank the Chinese army on both sides......" Sugiyama Motomoto excitedly conveyed to Nishio Shouzo, as if he also wanted to arouse Nishio Shouzo's fighting spirit.
"How many tanks and armored vehicles do we have?" Nishio Shouzo asked with some unease, after all, the Chinese army has two armored divisions and more than five hundred armored vehicles.
"More than 380 tanks and 420 armored vehicles...... Sugiyama still reported the situation to Nishio Shouzo.
The need for this data is still not comparable to the armored forces of the Chinese army, but in terms of numbers, it is already almost the same. Never before in the history of human warfare has there been such a large-scale frontal collision of armor, and Nishio Shouzo does not know what the result will be.
It should be noted that their Japanese army must have armored forces before the Chinese army, but from a tactical point of view, it is obvious that the Chinese army used armored cluster combat before their Japanese army. It's just fortunate that the Chinese army didn't have so much armor a few months ago, so naturally it couldn't practice this tactic, that is, this kind of group combat method was only born in China for a few months.
In fact, Sugiyama Moto's heart has no score, and neither does the Japanese base camp, after all, there has never been such a large-scale armored frontal confrontation before, and there is no reference, how to fight this battle depends on the on-the-spot performance.
In order to avoid the bombing of the Chinese Air Force, the Japanese armored units tried to go out day and night, so they did not appear in time when the Chinese army attacked Tianjin.
Finally, shortly after 8 p.m. on April 10, the Japanese armored forces gathered appeared on the western periphery of Tianjin, preparing to attack the Chinese flank at night.
Naturally, such a large-scale operation of the Japanese army could not be concealed from the eyes and ears of the Chinese army, and an armored division had already been transferred from the city of Tianjin, and was preparing to deal with the imminent attack of the Japanese army. The Japanese army also knew that a sneak attack was unlikely, so they no longer concealed their actions, and were ready to fight with the armored forces of the Chinese army with real swords and guns to see who killed the deer.
......Both sides began to fire flares, illuminating the sky of one side.
The Japanese tanks were mainly Type 94 and Type 95 light tanks, then Type 89 medium tanks, and a small number of Type 97 tanks. The tanks of the Chinese army are mainly German tanks No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3.
Let's start with the approximate performance of the tanks on both sides.
The Japanese Type 94 tank weighed 3.4 tons, which was the lightest tank in the world since the thirties, the general armor was 6-12 mm, the vehicle-mounted weapon was a 6.5 mm caliber machine gun or a 7.7 mm machine gun, and very few were equipped with 37 mm guns.
The total combat weight of the Japanese Type 95 tank is 7.7 tons, the thickest armor is 16 mm, the general armor is 6-12 mm, the vehicle-mounted armament is a 37-mm caliber artillery, two 7.7 mm vehicle-mounted machine guns, and the maximum speed is 50 kilometers per hour.
The Japanese Type 89 medium tank, said to be a medium tank, has a total combat weight of only 12.7 tons, the thickest armor is 17 mm, the general armor is 5-15 mm, the vehicle-mounted weapon is a 57 mm caliber artillery, two 6.5 mm vehicle-mounted machine guns, and the maximum speed is only 25 kilometers per hour.
In terms of overall performance, the Type 89 has lagged behind, so the Japanese army began to develop the Type 97, which was finalized in 37, and the Type 97 was the most successful tank of the Japanese Army in World War II, but it began to be slowly mass-produced in 38, and the number is now very small. Therefore, there are only a few Type 97 vehicles that appear on the outskirts of Tianjin, and in this large-scale armored cluster operation, nothing can be changed.
In addition, the German No. 1 tank of the Chinese army is mainly of the B type, with a total combat weight of 5.8 tons, an armor thickness of only 7-13 mm, and two 7.92 mm machine guns, some of which are equipped with 20 mm Italian-made cannons, with a speed of 37 kilometers per hour.
It can be seen that the performance of the No. 1 tank is worse than that of several other tanks of the Japanese army, except that it is stronger than the Type 94, mainly because the Germans were limited by the "Treaty of Versailles" at that time, and only used this tank as a transitional period.
Wei Qidong also knew that this tank was outdated, so he also asked the Germans to provide a small number of No. 1 tanks, less than a hundred.
The main force of the Chinese army's tanks is the German No. 2 tank, which has only about 123 mm armor thickness, and is armed with a 20 mm gun and two 7.92 mm machine guns, and can reach a speed of 60 kilometers per hour. It can also be seen from here that even the performance of the No. 2 tank is not as good as the other tanks of the current little devil except for the Type 94, or because this type of tank is also an experimental type.