Chapter 596: Fragile Heavy Soldiers
The armored battalion was hidden next to the road, and as Sun Weiguo's order began to be issued, the armored battalion troops immediately began to move.
The first company, under the leadership of company commander Dai Yuxuan, advanced in a wedge-shaped formation, the three Type 95 tanks in the first platoon advanced in a triangle, the second and third platoons followed in a column, and the three tanks in Dai Yuxuan's company were in the center of the three platoons.
THE TANK MACHINE GUNS WERE CONSTANTLY ROTATING FOR STRAFING, AND THE FIRST COMPANY WAS ARMED WITH TWO TYPE 89 TANKS AND 10 TYPE 95 TANKS, THE TYPE 89 TANKS WERE EQUIPPED WITH ONE 57MM SHORT-BARRELED TANK GUN AND TWO 6.5MM MACHINE GUNS, AND THE TYPE 95 TANKS WERE EQUIPPED WITH ONE 37MM GUN AND TWO 7.7MM MACHINE GUNS.
Tank machine guns fired bullets one after another, and the Japanese baggage and cavalry fell to the ground.
At the same time as the 1st Panzer Company was operational, the 2nd Panzer Company and the 3rd Panzer Company also began to act.
Two companies of twenty-four tanks advanced in two columns, and as soon as the Japanese cavalry second lieutenant shouted the order to evacuate, the Vickers tanks and T-26 tanks began to fire.
THE VICKERS TANK IS ARMED WITH A 47MM HOWITZER AND TWO 7.7MM MACHINE GUNS, AND THE T-26 TANK IS ARMED WITH A 45MM TANK GUN AND TWO 7.62MM MACHINE GUNS.
Thirty-six tanks of the armored battalion went into action, and the tank machine guns quickly moved forward, while the tank machine guns were constantly firing.
The two Japanese cavalry brigades lost a cavalry squadron in an instant, and the remaining three cavalry squadrons immediately began to assemble behind the transport troops.
Looking at the thirty-six tanks that were constantly advancing towards the back, Goto Koshiro and Yamazaki Shozo turned solemn.
"The machine gun squad immediately set up machine gun positions and immediately replaced armor-piercing shells." Goto Koshiro reacted a little faster, and he immediately gave the order loudly.
The machine gun squads directly under the headquarters of the two cavalry brigades immediately began to set up machine gun positions, and eight Type 92 heavy machine guns were immediately erected.
After replacing the armor-piercing shells, the machine-gun shooters looked at the approaching tanks, and a nervous expression appeared on their faces.
After replacing the armor-piercing bullet with a heavy machine gun, it is theoretically possible to penetrate the armor of a light tank at close range, but in practice, this practice is very dangerous.
Tanks can be different from infantry, tanks have tank guns, and generally before the tank gets close to the heavy machine gun, the tank gun will fire shells to destroy the heavy machine gun.
"Target Japanese machine-gun position, direction at nine o'clock, at a distance of six hundred meters, reload grenades."
In the Type 89 tank of the first company, the company commander Dai Yuxuan quickly discovered the Japanese machine gun position, and he immediately gave an order.
The Type 89 tank began to stop, the gunner immediately reloaded the grenade, and then the gunner began to fire the grenade.
The tank shuddered, and a shell was fired down the barrel of the tank, and the grenade landed accurately on the Japanese machine-gun position.
As the grenade exploded, the Japanese machine-gun shooters began to scream in pain.
After seeing the company commander's car stop, another Type 89 tank and a Type 95 tank in the company headquarters also stopped, and the two tanks began to fire grenades at the Japanese machine-gun position, and the two grenades quickly hit the Japanese machine-gun position.
The twelve tanks of the 1st Company began to come to a halt, and the twelve tanks launched fire strikes on the Japanese machine-gun positions.
Twenty-four tanks of the 2nd and 3rd companies quickly crossed over from both sides of the 1st Company, and they quickly launched a surprise attack towards the rear of the Japanese transport unit.
The machine-gun positions set up by the Japanese were attacked by the first company of tank guns, seven of the eight heavy machine guns were destroyed, and dozens of devil soldiers were killed.
The tanks began to move behind the Japanese transport troops, and Sun Weiguo had a great appetite, and he wanted to get rid of all these Japanese baggage troops.
Goto Koshiro and Masazo Yamazaki couldn't help but glance at each other, and their faces became heavy.
The two machine gun squads were easily dealt with, and now although they still have more than 400 cavalry, it is absolutely self-defeating to let the cavalry take sabers and rifles to fight the tanks.
"Immediately organize heavy soldiers to blow up the tank!" Goto Koshiro immediately found a young man from the Japanese Army's Heavy Infantry Brigade, and he said in a stern tone.
The Japanese soldier nodded, and he gathered more than 300 baggage soldiers, who were divided into grenades, explosives, and other weapons.
Seeing that the baggage soldiers were preparing to blow up the tank, Goto Koshiro and Yamazaki Shozo immediately retreated with their cavalry.
The front had been blocked by Chinese troops, but there were no Chinese troops at the back, and Goto was ready to cover the transport troops behind to withdraw to Mengxian.
The tanks continued to move forward, and the Japanese baggage soldiers, at the urging of their respective commanders, rushed towards the tanks with grenades and explosives bags.
More than 200 heavy soldiers rushed towards the tank, trying to blast it with explosives packs.
But at this time, "pop pop", the sound of crisp rifle shooting sounded, and a famous devil soldier was shot accurately.
"Da Da Da!" The light and heavy machine guns mounted on the trucks also began to strafe, and many of the devil soldiers were beaten into a sieve on the spot.
Under the command of the battalion commander Ye Zimin, the soldiers of the two companies immediately followed the tank troops in trucks and cross-bucket motorcycles.
Tanks are not invincible, the relationship between tanks and infantry is complementary, tanks without infantry are easy to be attacked by the enemy, and infantry can provide protection for tanks.
The Jibu battalion arrived by truck and straddle motorcycle, and more than half of the more than 200 devil soldiers were solved in an instant.
The rest of the devil soldiers began to hesitate, especially after seeing the tank tracks run over the corpses of their comrades.
The baggage soldiers were not those infantry who were determined to fight, and one baggage soldier began to quickly withdraw to the rear, and with this baggage soldier evacuating, the rest of the baggage soldiers also began to withdraw.
But even though they tried to escape, the soldiers of the Infantry Battalion were still shooting.
This is also that there are too many recruits in the new second brigade, and if it is the previous new second brigade troops, the first round of shooting can solve all the devil soldiers.
"Boom, boom!" The three infantry guns belonging to the machine gun company of the machine gun battalion began to fire, and one after another anti-personnel grenades accurately fired at the light and heavy machine guns erected by the Japanese troops, and in just 10 minutes, the three infantry guns knocked out six light machine guns and two heavy machine guns of the Japanese army.
The number of casualties among the Japanese baggage soldiers began to increase, and some of the baggage soldiers began to have the idea of evacuating.
In the back, the Japanese baggage soldiers had begun to turn around, and a large number of mules and horses began to prepare to withdraw to Mengxian.
However, the thirty-six tanks of the armored battalion were in rapid pursuit, and Sun Weiguo's order to the armored battalion was to let them cut off the rear route of the Japanese army.