Chapter Seventy-Six: Chengde Sudden Division (3)

Theoretically, the best way to deal with enemy tanks is to dispatch tanks or artillery group fighters to destroy their assault clusters and hold them hostage, and finally to destroy the opponent with combat defense artillery. Or it is just a fallacy that is not close at all in later film and television dramas.

Zhang Xuewu knew that at this moment, the 95-type light tank of the army, which was called the bean chariot, had not yet been equipped with the army, and the only one that could be equipped with the actual combat was the **-type Qiluo medium tank, which was designed and manufactured since 1927 and began to be installed in the Kwantung Army at the end of 1931, with a total combat weight of 11 tons, and was equipped with a 37-mm gun with an L30 caliber barrel and two machine guns. It can only withstand the penetration of a 37-millimeter shell from a distance of 200 meters.

But even such a so-called medium tank that is unbearable to the extreme, only 11 tons, I am afraid that it has caused a huge threat to the Laohugou position at this moment, and the two light tanks in Zhang Xuewu's hands are not the best opponents at all, and the deified battle defense artillery may play a greater role under specific conditions, such as narrow blocks and sufficient cover, but it is undoubtedly a very stupid act to invest anti-tank guns on the wide frontal front to deal with the infantry tank of the enemy tank.

In the real war, the man-machine function of the anti-aircraft gun and the main gun of the tank is almost equal to the time, one side has protection, one has no protection, once the first shot can not penetrate the front of the enemy tank, then the unlucky will definitely be the anti-aircraft gun instead of the tank, when the anti-aircraft gun is fired, the flame of the muzzle and the smoke scattered by the bolt of the breech are excellent targets, and it is easy to summon the enemy's artillery fire.

Sure enough, what Zhang Xuewu was most worried about happened, the Gem 37mm battle defense gun could not effectively penetrate the front armor of the first type of medium tank of the Yue army, and two battle defense guns were destroyed in the artillery fire, and the other four were destroyed by the field artillery fire of the Yue army, and the result it achieved was only to damage two ** medium tanks of the first type of the army.

In the face of Zhang Xuewu's anger, Xu Guohui also self-examined that the battle defense artillery company should not be transferred from the urban fortifications to the front-line position, fortunately, the army tank slipped on the ice slope and could not move forward, Zhang Xuewu told Xu Guohui that he would provide five minutes of divisional artillery support, and asked Xu Guohui to send a powerful force to set off from the flank position, first use machine guns to strafe the infantry around the tank of the army, force it to gather behind the tank for protection, and then use accurate mortar to kill and accompany the infantry, cut off the infantry and tank connection, and isolate the tank of the army. Finally, the death squad blasted the lower part of the tank hull with explosives packs to destroy it.

Soon, the 16 field guns of the 1st Artillery Regiment of the newly formed 1st Division began to shell at the predetermined coordinates, and the roaring shells that exploded intensively swept the Japanese army engineers who tried to blast through the ice, and even a 75-millimeter grenade directly hit the turret of the ** tank of the Japanese army.

The Chinese soldiers in the forward position saw it very clearly, the rivets on the turret of the command vehicle painted with the word "Courageous" on the turret were blown away, and the two machine guns that had been firing frantically also stopped, the short-barreled 37 mm tank gun was twisted and crooked to the side, black smoke came out from the rear of the tank, and more than a dozen soldiers on the side tried to get close to the tank to rescue the crew inside, but under the fire of the defenders' Maxine heavy machine guns, five soldiers who climbed onto the tank were shot and fell. Yue Jun stopped the rescue and obediently lay on the side in the snow and did not dare to move.

The infantry who were suddenly bombarded by the artillery immediately retreated behind the chariot after the initial panic, intending to use the chariot as a cover to continue to resist stubbornly, although the engineer squad responsible for the demolition had been completely wiped out, but the soldiers who had not yet received the order to retreat could only look for cover on the spot to resist stubbornly, and the chariot was a good choice for them.

Shinichi Yanano, who was in charge of directing the attack, saw that the vehicle of the tank brigade Yukio Honda Nakasa was hit, and when the rescue failed, he had to shrink the forces that had just been deployed, and rely on the tanks to fire at the defenders, and request artillery support through the flag.

With the accurate shelling of the heavy mortar company, the infantry brigade of the Yue Army hiding behind the chariot suddenly suffered heavy casualties, and Yanagino Jin tried his best to keep the troops from collapsing, while desperately requesting artillery support from the brigade, the hero of Pingsong frowned slightly when he looked at the counterattack of the defenders' mortars, because mortars are different from infantry artillery or howitzer positions, and it is easy to calculate the location of the artillery position through ballistics, air breaking sounds, and calibers.

Hero Pingsong hesitated for a moment and said: "Order the 54th Wing to launch a general attack after the artillery fire is covered, and be sure to break through the outer defense line of Chengde before dark, and have the conditions to attack Shilinglingling, the main peak of Laohugou, and my military boots will step into the headquarters of the newly formed first division tomorrow!"

Hi! More than a dozen adjutants standing behind the Pingsong hero replied that the smooth flow of the Rehe Battle had made the ambitious officers and soldiers forget that they were fighting, and a wing defeated a division and a brigade to sweep away the current enemy, and now that the two divisions have been approaching the city of Chengde, is it still a problem to capture Chengde, which is only defended by a Chinese division?

After receiving the request of Hiramatsu Hero, the commander of the 27th Infantry Brigade, Naoliang Matsuki immediately granted the command of the 14th Field Artillery Wing to which the division was attached.

With the counterattack artillery fire of the 14th Field Artillery Wing, the Chinese defenders' positions at the front of Laohugou fell into a sea of fire, and in the undulating sound of artillery, the forward defenders held their positions regardless of casualties.

Li Guofeng, a native of Beiping, is a cadet who graduated from the eighth infantry section of the Nanjing Military Academy, and feels very lucky that he can be assigned to Li Guofeng, the first division of the new division, not only because the first division of the new division is one of the three existing German armament divisions in China, but more importantly, Zhang Xuewu, the commander of the first division of the new formation, is an extremely young and energetic young general, and being able to be a general at the age of 23 is really out of reach for Li Guofeng, who served as a second lieutenant at the age of 25. What Li Guofeng admired was Zhang Xuewu's feat of daring to disobey military orders and risk the world's condemnation to lead a lone army to fight with Yue Kou in Shenyang for several days.

Li Guofeng, who was squatting in the anti-artillery hole and covering the muzzle of his rifle with his hand, felt the constant shock, although he knew that the army's 50-millimeter, 75-millimeter, and 90-millimeter field artillery could not destroy the anti-artillery hole under the frozen soil as long as it did not hit directly, but he was still uneasy in his heart, and the blood and passion of the swearing-in meeting had been baptized by the brutal battle.

Just now, the company's signal soldiers ran to inform all the officers of the company that all the binoculars on their chests should be tucked into their arms when they are not in use, and all the tweed uniforms of the officers above the company must be taken off, and all the officers have a rifle.