Chapter 1716: Retreat
In this small plain of 60 square kilometers, to be exact, it should be a small valley, I am afraid that anyone who sees such a large valley will not feel that there is any ambush, because there is no geographical advantage at all, a few kilometers back, or a few kilometers to the left and right, you can find a high mountain that can be defended, but on this plain, there is no danger to defend. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The combination of trenches and barbed wire created by China has made it possible to defend through operations on the plains, which is to dig out a large number of trenches, and it is almost clear that if there is a premise of blocking, at most it is to dig a few individual trenches, tunnels and the like, which are also easy to find, and if you counterattack, it is very difficult for these trenches to be defended.
Whether it is infantry, or tanks, it is easy to break through these trenches, there is no barbed wire barrier, simple trenches and machine-gun positions, can not become a strong defense, any infantry can easily defeat him, bare outside, unprotected machine-gun positions, and not too deep trenches, earthworks arranged on the plain, more just expediency.
Both China and Japan know very well that their purpose is not to fight in the trenches, but only to connect the trenches with the tank trenches.
The Japanese tank trench is very wide, in the layout of the Japanese army, this trench is to figure out with a few trenches, the Japanese army hiding in it, has been hiding in a specific position of the hidden hole, at least dig down 12 meters deep, in the construction of the hidden hole, such a hidden hole, not to mention the tentative attack of the US artillery, even if you know the location, with heavy artillery strike, it may not be able to penetrate it in a short time.
In order to dig this, the effort spent is greater than that of the tank trench, and when excavating, the wires were buried in advance, not the telephone, the telephone is too troublesome, and it is too easy to have problems, only use the wire to contact a signal light, when the signal is sent here, close the switch, the light in the cave will flash red, this is the signal of the rear, the Japanese army in the cave of the Tibetan soldier after getting the signal from the rear, this is the rapid march.
At this time, those tanks had just fallen into the tank trench, and when they were a little at a loss, they encountered a sudden attack by these infantry, and the tank trench formed two parts that were relatively isolated from the outside world, 4 meters wide and more than 3 meters deep. At this time, those who were trapped in the tank trenches, some at a loss, and fled in a hurry The American armored troops became the targets of these infantry attacks.
Tankmen don't carry many weapons, in this era, the weight of the tank is limited, after being equipped with 4 machine guns, enough bullets for machine gun shooting, a lot of power and armor, it is impossible to carry a lot of weapons in the tank, besides, caught in the tank trench, the machine gun in front of the tank, rarely plays a role, they can only hold self-defense fire at most, but have to face at least 10 times, or even 100 times the enemy, Japan around the tank trench, at least 32 hiding holes, A total of 18,000 people, but the tank soldiers who fell into the tank trench were only 5,000 people, and they still had differences in weapons, combat effectiveness and even will, when they fell into the tank trench, many tank soldiers were injured, and in the end, nearly 1,000 tanks that fell into the tank trench, except for about 1,000 people who were killed or killed, the rest were all captured.
The will of the US military to fight, in this era, and even in the future, is debatable, when faced with a desperate situation, unable to think of other ways, or do not want to think of other methods, the US military will choose to surrender, Japan and China, to a certain extent, will choose to fight to the death, this is the difference between the two.
At the beginning of the battle with the US military, Japan was also worried that there would be a war to the death, but after the war continued, they found that as long as the US military was forced to a certain extent, the US military would surrender.
A tank trench, a few hidden holes, hidden arrangements, plus a little psychological misunderstanding, these constitute a huge trap, so that the US army suffered heavy losses, after suffering such a sudden attack, the follow-up of less than 7,000 tanks, began to retreat, in front of the tank trench, at least now is unable to cross the past, if they want to advance, they can only be like other tanks, fall into the tank trench, but in the process of advancing, to turn, particularly difficult, Fortunately, under the concentrated artillery attack, they successfully turned, and luck befell them, and in the 15 minutes of turning and backwards, the American troops finally lost more than 400 vehicles.
To tell the truth, the U.S. military has shown the mobility of the tank to the fullest, Japan's long-range artillery fire, can not be said to be powerful, whether it is 155, or more than 100 mm artillery, both quantity and quality, are far above the U.S. artillery, and the U.S. military is still in the turn, not only the density of the tank is far beyond the normal level, even so, in the end, it is only 400 destroyed, and most of the rest are just wounded and successfully accelerated to escape.
Nearly 8,000 tanks, rushed to the plain, encountered tank trenches, and finally turned successfully, less than 6,500 tanks, they successfully completed the turn and withdrew from the battlefield, and reached the highest speed, some even exceeded the maximum speed, under the thick smoke, out of the combat state, a small number of vehicles, even exceeded the maximum speed of the US tank 25 kilometers per hour, at least 278 kilometers.
Fast tanks, they can leave with speed. The infantry who followed behind were not so lucky, they were disconnected from the tanks, they were about a kilometer away from the tanks, and it stands to reason that they could leave quickly, but unfortunately the Japanese preparations were not concentrated near the tank trenches, on both sides of them, on the plains, there were many arrangements. Unable to defend the plain, they were attacked by at least 1,000 machine guns and 20,000 guns, and the infantry, deprived of tanks as a barrier, were almost devastated.
The U.S. military has never been in such a bad situation, as if there are machine guns in all directions, there are bullets shooting at them frantically, almost no effective resistance, the U.S. army finally fell into a desperate situation and retreated, 320,000 people finally fled back only a little more than 140,000, and at least 60,000 were wounded, basically, the strength of 20 divisions has been cleared up more than half, and the rest cannot form a formation, and most of the divisions have been disabled.
The U.S. military suffered more than 200,000 casualties, and the entire elite unit was devastated, relatively speaking, the loss of armored forces was even greater, not to mention the 1,000 tanks trapped in the tank trenches, their crews were almost completely wiped out, and the tanks that were destroyed on the front were almost the same, lost power, and were either captured or killed, the losses of the tankers were as high as more than 10,000, and the most important thing is that not every tank that escaped back was unharmed.
Fierce fighting, under the strafing of artillery and machine guns, the tanks suffered from tremendous pressure, under the concentrated attack of all the Japanese artillery fire, they were only destroyed 400 vehicles, it seems very lucky, such a density of artillery, in the front and back 15 minutes, the number of shells falling into this area exceeded 600,000, even if only one percent hit, there were 6,000, how could it be only 400, the rest, just did not hit the vital point, or the power system, Let them successfully escape from the front.
The most important thing is not the direct hit of the shell, the direct hit will make a few hundred vehicles at most, one or two thousand injured, but the bigger nightmare is actually in the power system, not to mention the charge for the time being, because it is a uniform speed and is advancing forward to a line of defense, the armored soldiers are quite relaxed, they are also operating in accordance with the regulations, and the damage to the machinery is not great. But then, in the face of the tank trench and the desperate situation, everyone knows that there will be problems if they stay any longer, turning and escaping back, almost in a state of full strength, many drivers directly forget about safe driving, for fear that under the premise that their father and mother are missing two legs, some wrong operations will come out, and even at the extreme, there are 16 tanks that are not destroyed by artillery, but in a panic, there was a collision and lost power.
In this era, the whole world's machine production is not very reliable, in many cases, the operation must be in accordance with certain procedures, that is, the Chinese machine is better, because it is in accordance with the technical standards of the 21st century, coupled with the ultra-high processing strength of the machine tool, the loss rate is very high, and the failure rate of the tank is greatly reduced.
The United States is different, the engine used is imported from China, although China did not pit the Americans, after all, it has obtained more than ten times the cost of the premise of profits, China will also rules, China and the United States, on land, is unlikely to clash head-on, in this era, tanks such a big guy, it is also difficult to cross the ocean, log in operations, they are also happy to give the United States.
But even so, civilian is civilian, in no more than a certain tonnage, not overweight, not over the premise of speed, the service life will be very long, but in the battlefield environment, in the destruction, high temperature, explosion and many other extreme environments, civilian reliability is not guaranteed at all, so down, there is a lot of damage, at least more than 7 percent are injured when returning to the US military camp. (To be continued.) )