Chapter 298: The Japanese Fight Tanks
The full name of the long knife behind him is the katana behind him, which is the nickname he gave to Zhang Xuewu after gritting his teeth, Zhang Xuewu didn't care, he ate well and slept well! It's hard to be nicknamed, and I can't sleep at night! Because the 10th War Zone is really strong, I have never taken advantage of the previous confrontations with the 10th War Zone!
After Ishihara, the special envoy of the General Staff Headquarters, left, the Kwantung Army held a special military meeting the next day, because in order to attack the 10th Theater, whether it was an aviation unit or a heavy artillery unit, it was in urgent need of reinforcement, and the complete destruction of the industrial base in Baotou and the capture of the Dingyuan Battalion, the receiving place of Soviet aid, was actually the core planned goal of the operation in the 10th Theater, so that Zhang Xuewu would lose the possibility of continuous development.
The heavy artillery brigade is the greatest support given by the base camp to the Kwantung Army, because the heavy artillery unit of the 10th theater has given me too many fond memories that are still fresh in my memory, but the new heavy tank that Ueda Kenkichi is most concerned about because of the high nickel content of the new armor, and a 35-ton tank needs a meal of nickel, so only ten vehicles were manufactured for evaluation, and the evaluation results were also very average, so the "brave" was stillborn.
In fact, this is also the main topic of today's meeting, because if there is no tactics that can effectively contain the armored forces of the 10th Theater, attacking Baotou in Chahar and the Dingyuan Battalion in Suiyuan is simply an unattainable tactical goal, and Ueda Kenkichi does not think that the Army Aviation guys can defeat the Flying Tigers of the 10th Theater in the air, and if he can, he will not have to hold meetings in the basement all day.
Ueda Kenkichi has always thought that he is very whimsical, but in the face of these plans for fighting tanks sent by various divisions, Ueda Kenkichi is also dumbfounded, the air force uses planes to fight tanks, artillery uses artillery to fight tanks, and engineers use their professional equipment to fight tanks, such as laying mines and digging traps.
These classes are good tanks, they have the corresponding weapons in their hands. However, it is not a large army country, but it has a large number of army infantry, and if they do not devote themselves to the battle against tanks, it will not be a waste? Therefore, the infantry fighting tanks is the highlight of the magic weapon that the military department gave to the Kwantung Army this time.
In the eyes of the military headquarters and the general staff headquarters, the chariot is fragile, a Molotov cocktail and a bundle of grenades can be easily solved, and it is a waste of limited precious resources to fight with the artillery fire of the artillery group, and one can be reimbursed by sending a soldier to rush forward, how many chariots are there in the 10th theater? A thousand? Definitely not, even if ten people blow up one, ten thousand people will be! It is estimated that the high-ranking officials of the Army Ministry and the General Staff Headquarters have regarded the tanks of the 10th Theater as their own thin-skinned cans.
So the base camp did not give the Kwantung Army the heavy tanks that were urgently needed, but gave them a high move, the infantry to fight tanks?
How do infantry fight tanks? If this problem is placed on Zhang Xuewu, it is to use tank-to-tank, or tank defense guns plus long-range large-caliber howitzers to block and shoot, and the air force destroys, and the infantry of the 10th Theater also has several weapons that can be used for anti-tank, anti-tank rifles, 37 mm and 50 mm tank defense guns, and so on.
The army had a small number of 37-mm tank defensive guns and a large number of 75-mm and 90-mm mountain artillery, but these things proved to be completely ineffective against enemy tanks in previous battles, and only when they hit in excellent firing positions.
Since the existing equipment could not solve this problem, Ueda Kenkichi mobilized the grassroots officers and soldiers below, in addition to these things, all the generals worked together and brainstormed to invent many advanced weapons in one day? For example, automatic explosive packs to hit tanks.
In fact, the so-called automatic explosive package is to tie a pair of hooks on one side of the explosive package, and the other side is tied to the bracket, the fuse is connected to the bracket, and the person rushes to the side of the tank with the explosive bag, hangs the explosive bag on the handrail on the tank turret, and then pulls down the bracket to automatically ignite the fuse! The man ran away, the explosive pack exploded, and it could not destroy the tank, and perhaps at least stun the enemy driver in the tank.
If this doesn't work, use the upgraded version of the automatic explosive pack 2.0, make the bracket into a fork shape, connect the fuse at the fork, rush to the side of the tank, insert the bracket into the guard plate on the tank track, when inserted, the guard plate pulls the fuse, the person runs away, the explosives explode, and the track can be blown up.
However, when encountering a fast, fully sealed tracked tank like a Jackal light tank, you can only use the automatic explosive pack 3.0 upgrade, tie some nails to the wooden shelf on one side of the explosive pack, connect the fuse to the bracket, rush to the back of the tank, insert the nail into the tank hood, pull away the bracket to ignite the explosives, and blow up the engine.
However, these methods still need to be rushed up by people to drop explosives packs, so there are also people who design a much more cutting-edge method, automatic explosives pack 4.0 upgrade, that is, bury the explosive bag in the ground and install a spring, the tank presses up, touches the mechanism, and the two explosive packets bounce up and wrap around the tank barrel, blowing up the tank gun?
Due to the difficulty of making a spring device, this method was changed to a rope between the two explosive packs, and a soldier picked it up and threw it out, wrapped around the opponent's tank turret or tank gun! It's like a tool for the Indians to throw stones more than a hundred years ago...... However, these are too wasteful compared with the methods proposed by the Sixth Division Gu Shoufu, when these methods do not work, especially when there is no explosive package, there is a more cutting-edge move in the super 5.0 version of the tank fight, this trick is convenient and practical, and it is not limited by conditions according to local conditions, as long as there is a shovel and a little water, the usage is to use water and a little mud, shovel it up, rush to the tank, throw the mud into the periscope of the tank, and make the enemy blind.
Ueda Kenkichi was dumbfounded, and Lian Hu still has infinite wisdom among the majority of officers and soldiers! For example, the 10th Division of Ryosuke Isoya invented the method of hitting tanks with bows and arrows and slingshots, but this method is very technically difficult and requires professional skills, and ordinary soldiers should not master it, so Ueda Kenkichi decided to take the above five rounds method as the outline of troop training after leading the generals of the whole army, Long live His Majesty the Emperor Sanhu, and each division and regiment will draw out at least two specialized fighting chariot brigades, equipped with automatic explosive packs, Molotov cocktails and other weapons, and specialize in fighting chariots.
If Zhang Xuewu saw this training plan of the Kwantung Army, he would definitely be even more shocked than Ueda Kenkichi, because this so-called plan is the lesson plan of the infantry fighting tanks that the people's army trained from the fifties to the end of the Cultural Revolution! Feelings: Back then, these things were all done by people themselves? It seems that people really have potential! The dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, and he actually played a set of theories about infantry fighting chariots?
If Zhang Xuewu knew that he was studying tank fighting in this way, he would definitely be thundered to the point of being scorched on the outside and on the inside, and in the absence of air supremacy, the infantry field troops that failed to occupy absolute superiority with artillery fire and lacked permanent fortifications would have fought a decisive battle with the armored forces on the plains? In Zhang Xuewu's eyes, it's not called fighting, it's called slaughter!
However, Zhang Xuewu obviously underestimated his own madness, because the specific battle plan of the commander of the Kwantung Army, Kenkichi Ueda, was formulated by Hideki Tojo, who was known by Ishihara as only commanding two machine guns. And Hideki Tojo, who has always looked down on the [***] team, has always believed that it is not that Zhang Xuewu is too strong, but that some generals are too incompetent.
Hideki Tojo's battle plan was to concentrate the 1st Front Army under the command of the Kanto Prefecture Army, and the 2nd, 8th, and 12th Divisions under its jurisdiction to attack and advance from Fuxin to Chaoyang as the main force on the left, and to outflank the defenders of the 10th Theater of Operations, the 22nd Division, the 35th Division, and the 36th Division under the jurisdiction of the Second Front Army of Isoya Ryosuke, to outflank the defenders of the 10th Theater of Operations in Chaoyang, and to accompany the newly imported Type 97 150-mm cannon, which is said to be invincible. Ten field artillery wings and four field heavy artillery brigades were concentrated, the first and second wings of road-blocking combat vehicles were assigned to the operation, and the 27th and 28th divisions were used as campaign reserves.
Strive to launch an attack before the [***] team has not launched an attack, and the overall deployment of the [***] 10th theater in the chaos will be able to smash a hole in the defense of the [***] team as long as it conquers Chaoyang.
Hideki Tojo has always believed that the middle [***] team has a weakness, that is, breaking through a little bit can achieve the purpose of shocking the whole line, so Hideki Tojo is ready to smash this gap on the Chaoyang Fortress!
However, under the entire overall plan of Tojo Hideki, there is also a huge killing opportunity, that is, the 6th Division, the 14th Division, the 35th Brigade and the 36th Brigade under the jurisdiction of the 3rd Front Army under the jurisdiction of Yamashita Fengfumi, and after the Chaoyang overcome, immediately attack Zhangjiakou at all costs to attract the attention of the 10th Theater of Operations! The 38th Division and the 39th Division feinted to attack Chengde and Chifeng respectively.
Once the fighter planes appeared, Hideki Tojo personally commanded a chariot division and the 23rd Mechanized Division of Ohara Lijiang to make a surprise attack on Datong, directly attacking the enemy's industrial base in Baotou, destroying the enemy's industrial base and destroying the enemy's railways and oil reserves, so that Zhang Xuewu's headquarters in the 10th Theater lost its greatest reliance.
(To be continued)