Chapter 117: Bloody Battle (7)
However, Zhang Xuewu does not have such a thick family background, and China may be able to afford to fight with the consumption of personnel, but at present, the consumption of industry and munitions, even the pointed bullets used in Mauser's standard rifles still need to be imported and cannot be fully localized.
In fact, there are about 15,000 Type 24 German-made handle grenades, but these grenades are transported in boxes, and their fuse devices are previously separated and must be inserted before the battle, and each explosive is painted with yellow German words that remind them, and the Chinese translation of these yellow German words means inserting the detonator before use.
In such a fierce battle, where is the time to arrange for someone to put a grenade with a detonator? It's basically what it's for! The setbacks of the attack on both flanks and the heavy casualties of the attacking Lao Cai troops made Itamoto Masaemon fall into a rage, how could Itamoto Masaemon not believe that in just over an hour of attack, his 45th Infantry Wing was completely disabled?
The Kawashima Brigade, which was interspersed and infiltrated on the left flank, was still surrounded by the middle [***]? For this reason, the commander of the 3rd Brigade of Matsuda could only send a fully equipped brigade from the already stretched strength of the 47th Infantry Wing to reinforce the Kawashima Brigade, because at this time if a brigade-level unit was completely annihilated by the Chinese defenders, it would be an extremely fatal blow to the morale of the entire brigade, division, and all the troops participating in the battle.
As the captain of the chariot brigade attached to the Sixth Division, Fujimitsu Shigeji Nakasa is now wearing a charioteer's characteristic fur hat with big ears and a telescope to observe the situation in Lao Cai, with his own unique Danren beard, and his figure like an unopened carrot, Fujiguang Shigeji has extremely serious myopia and speech, but his experience of studying in Germany and his uncle who served in the Ministry of War did not prevent him from becoming Nakasa.
Although the army only regards the chariot as an accessory to the infantry, this does not hinder Fujimitsu Shigeji's ambitions, it can be said that the current German tanks are still a bunch of drawings, Fujimitsu Shigeji studied in Germany to learn armored technology, but the Germans themselves do not seem to pay attention to it, and the principal of the armored forces school, Lieutenant Colonel Guderian, can command more than his own chariots! For a while, Fujimitsu Shigeji became a little proud again.
However, the terrain and environment in front of him gave him a little headache, hundreds of meters long old street densely piled up with more than 2,000 corpses of imperial officers and soldiers, obviously the plan to advance from the old street is considered to be stranded, not that Fujimitsu Shigeji can't bear to crush the corpses of his comrades, but once the narrow track of the ** type chariot rolls the arms or feet of the corpse into it, it is easy to cause its front guide wheel to derail or the track to break, and the end of the broken track in front of the enemy line will undoubtedly become the target of the opponent's artillery fire, This is something that Fujimitsu Shigeji doesn't want to see anyway.
Moreover, Fujimitsu Shigeji, a brigade with twelve tanks, can only dispatch eight vehicles at the moment, which is the same as the trouble Tang Ziqiang encountered, that is, the low equipment integrity rate! In this regard, no one should laugh at anyone between the Chinese armored corps and the Armoured Corps, and it is not easy to use the 80 percent optimal intact rate of an armored regiment in later generations, and it is not easy to use the Chariot of the 12 units that can be dispatched under the conditions of cold weather and freezing conditions.
When Fujimitsu Shigeji gave the order, the driver hesitated for a while, and then rushed to the bluestone wall of the house according to the captain's order, and there was a posture of not hitting the south wall and not looking back.
However, after the more than ten tons of ** type chariot commanded by Fujimitsu Shigeji crashed into the extremely strong wall, there was a bang, and the wall was still that strong, and the violent impact made Fujimitsu Shigeji be thrown out of the command position of the turret! The gunner of the combat vehicle was hit by the falling shell and his head was bleeding, and the driver fainted directly!
When Fujimitsu Shigeji was rescued, the first thing he did was to look at the stalled chariot in a daze with a surprised face? It wasn't a wall, it hit a steel plate! Shigeji Fujimitsu, who suffered multiple fractures in his arms and ribs, became a victim of the chariot industry.
Compared to it, the deputy captain Kobayashi is much smarter, and it is obvious that the short-sighted captain Fuji Mitsuji didn't see how thick the wall was?
Kobayashi asked the artillery who accompanied the infantry attack to know that the black marks on the walls and the large pits in the basin were the masterpieces of the 38-type 75-mm field artillery, which were at least half a meter thick, and there were a large number of earth and stones piled up behind them, and the entire residential area was like a labyrinth.
The infantry is timid, but the charioteers are brave and fearless! The time has come to dedicate oneself to His Majesty the Emperor! Eager to perform, Kobayashi led the remaining seven chariots to attack along the narrow and curvy alleys under the cover of a squadron of infantry, and at first Kobayashi was still standing in the turret command position in high spirits, but a stray bullet that almost killed him made Kobayashi shrank back like a frightened turtle.
The explosion of bullets and grenades constantly fired from all directions made Kobayashi Luster, who was in the chariot, no longer afraid of the cold, but still sweated, because the infantry of a squadron following the chariot was getting fewer and fewer, and the alleys were also dead more and more, and it was clear that the fierce exchange of fire between the trapped Kawashima Brigade and the middle [***] was nearby, but the chariot couldn't get around it anyway? Kobayashi now hates these alleys in Chengde City, and like Fujimitsu Shigeji, who is lying on a stretcher and humming at the moment, waiting for a doctor, they are bored and can't figure it out, what are the Chinese doing to repair the house so well?
For the fact that he actually drove the chariot into the alley? Du Kefeng would never be polite to him, he was worried that he didn't have a chance to pack up Xiao Yueben's chariot, but Xiao Yueben sent it to the door by himself.
According to the comparison before the division, the gasoline bottles made of sugar water or soapy water and gasoline made the seven army chariots equipped with gasoline engines in a line become small lighters!
After the overheated engine was ignited by gasoline, the gasoline gushed out after the rubber head melted, and the fuel tank exploded and detonated the ammunition! The riveted turret of the ** tank was blown up.
While realizing his previous rhetoric, Kobayashi took all the chariots belonging to the Sixth Division! The Yamamoto Brigade, which reinforced the Kawashima Brigade, was blocked in its attack and requested tactical guidance, and the Kobayashi Shine Shaosa Combat Convoy was completely wiped out, and the 47th Infantry Wing took over from the 45th Wing in the attack on Lao Cai and failed, requesting heavy artillery and aviation bombing fire support.
For a time, the division headquarters of Itamoto Masaemon became a hard-hit area, and the Kwantung Army Air Force stationed in Jinzhou was dispatched three times in just one day, which seemed to be unique! Moreover, it has reached the limit of the Kwantung Army flight team, and the fighters and pilots that the Kwantung Army flight team can fly at night are quite limited, and there is still an air force much stronger than them in Beiping that is watching their every move.
Itamoto Masaemon paced back and forth around the sand table, and finally weakly put his hands on the sand table and said: "Answer the call of Deputy Chief of Staff Okamura, my Sixth Division requests to suspend the attack on Chengde, adjust the offensive sequence of the troops, and prepare for another battle!"
After Okamura Ninji learned that the 6th Division's attack on Lao Cai had been frustrated, he immediately led two combat staff officers to the location of the 6th Division's headquarters located in the back mountain pass, so that people like Itamoto Masaemon who were extremely proud proposed to suspend the attack on the front enemy headquarters, which showed that the 6th Division was not just a setback.
When Okamura Ninji experienced the gloom and gloom of the headquarters of the Sixth Division, after summing up the losses of the Eighth Division, the Tenth Division, and the Fourteenth Division in attacking Chengde, Okamura Ninji gasped, his right hand trembled slightly, and the chapter fell to the ground like a report of a thousand pounds.