Chapter 310: Rising Sun Crisis
Tang Ziqiang thinks that he is victorious? As the final counterattack of the 38th Division, Hasei Ichiro ordered the Ono Brigade to use more than one brigade to organize a death squad assault before retreating, and it was necessary to contain the offensive momentum of the [***] tank unit.
Ichiro Hase's tactics of breaking his wrist also brought some trouble to Tang Ziqiang's assault cluster, the soldiers were lying in the snow with explosives bags and cluster grenades, waiting for tanks or armored vehicles to pass by them, and they were struggling to pounce on tanks or armored vehicles. The modified Jackal light tanks were all equipped with track guards, and the previous tactics of trying to stuff explosives into the tracks failed, and as a result, groups of soldiers howled and rushed towards the Jackals were helpless.
However, the Kwantung Army headquarters of the Great Empire have undergone two months of special training in fighting tanks and airplanes, and how to fight tanks seems to have become a very simple sports activity for the soldiers of the Imperial Army. While striking the enemy army, the physique is enhanced, and the skill of fighting the plane is even higher, which helps to improve the IQ of the imperial army.
However, the Jackal light tanks installed in the 10th Theater of Operations are known for their mobility, so the opportunities for soldiers are often very short, and they want to throw explosives bags on the tank? It also depends on whether the tanks behind and the Chinese soldiers who are shooting frantically in the armored vehicles disagree, but the crazy counterattack of the Yue army still caused some trouble to Tang Ziqiang, that is, about 20 jackal light tanks were damaged to varying degrees, and the casualties of the people surnamed Suo were not large.
As long as the soldiers are successfully thrown, there is an eighty percent chance that the surname will be hung on the barrel or turret of the tank, and if it falls on the engine cover, it will win the jackpot.
It should be really wrapped around the barrel, once the explosion will cause varying degrees of damage to the tank gun, and the explosion on the turret, one is that the anti-aircraft machine gun on it is easy to be blown up, and the other is that the crew inside the tank will be shocked to pieces, and it is normal to break the head and forehead, and if it falls on the engine cover, then I'm sorry, and it will basically be towed away for overhaul.
What made Tang Ziqiang even more stunned was the endless explosive bag carriers that he had emerged one after another? There are actually seven or eight types of pylons? What stunned Tang Ziqiang the most was that he was able to lay anti-tank mines in the snow, and he also managed to blow up the tracks of seven hapless jackal light tanks?
The crew members whose tracks were blown off by anti-tank mines are even more inexplicable? How did such a thick snow cover be laid by the army? It was only after the engineer unit cleared the mines that he discovered his secret, and he actually poured water on the ice and snow to make an inclined groove, and then embedded the anti-tank mine into it, so that as long as the tracks of the tank were pressed, 100% of the mines would be induced! Tang Ziqiang and the smoky man himself learned another trick.
How did Tang Ziqiang know that it was this trick that saved his life, this was a battle without suspense, the 38th Division of the Army, which lacked anti-tank fire and artillery support, encountered a frontal forced breakthrough attack by the 1st Armored Division, but what made Tang Ziqiang depressed was that after the 38th Division of the Army was cut through the defense line, it did not give full play to the bravery of the Imperial Army to break through with him, but scattered and broke through?
This is the situation that Tang Ziqiang is most unwilling to see, because he has no time to pursue the remnants of the enemy, most of the logistics supply troops of the first armored division are still in the Dingyuan camp and have not yet been loaded, and the main force of the division came to Chengde through the railway rush, and it is precisely because of this that he was caught off guard, but the biggest limelight of the whole battle was forced away by the third mobile artillery brigade, and Wang Renfu, the commander of the third mobile artillery brigade, was so happy that he couldn't get along, because he didn't expect the army to set up such a wide defense line. As a result, the final deployment of troops was so concentrated?
Among the three planned areas for shelling, Wang Renfu chose Area B, and as a result, two salvos crippled a brigade and regiment of the army.
Tang Ziqiang still has a lot of dissatisfaction with this battle, such as the use of mobile artillery is a waste, how expensive the cost of rockets and so on have become his excuses and reasons, but some people don't see it that way, Zhang Xuewu gave Tang Ziqiang a hard lesson, if the individual arms of the reading power lack cooperation, even if they deal with the infantry on the plain, they will pay a considerable price, and the first armored division still has more than 20 tanks towed away by field rescue vehicles under the conditions of absolute superiority. Armored forces are not omnipotent, they just win at a small cost.
After the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division cooperated with the new 1st Division of the Youth Army to defeat the 38th Division of the Yue Army, it immediately launched a surprise attack on Lingyuan with the main force to reinforce the Zhanyang Division of the 4th Division of the Youth Army.
The headquarters of Li Anguo's 2nd Armored Division, which attacked from the direction of Chifeng, cooperated with the headquarters of Zhao Xinyu, the new 2nd Division of the Youth Army, to carry out a counter-assault on the 39th Division of the Yue Army attacking Chifeng, and after defeating the enemy in front of them, the main force outflanked and reinforced Chen Kebin's division of the 7th Division of the Youth Army on the flank of Chaoyang.
It can be said that Chen Kebin also tried his best to do his best, but the defense line of the army's blocking position has been constructed, and he can only gnaw it one bite at a time, although the 240 mm train guns purchased from Germany are amazingly powerful, but the rate of fire is really slow, Chen Kebin's new Seventh Division of the Youth Army is along the "Chiyang" line to reinforce Chaoyang, and the 36th Division under the command of the division commander Yoshinogawa Jiro is also deployed along the railway line.
Yoshinogawa Jiro is different from the general commanders of the divisions and regiments, Yoshinogawa Jiro has a very unique view of tactics, and the use of tactics is also very distinctive.
Yoshinogawa Jiro did not put all the troops into the passes along the railway line to block, but echelons equipped troops, forming three blocking lines, Yoshino Kawajiro gave the three wing commanders the order is that each line of defense should hold on for at least three days, and at most no more than one brigade of troops will be deployed on the defense line at a time, while blocking the front, Yoshinogawa Jiro accompanied the reserve into two parts, one of which flanked back to Chen Kebin's new 7th Division of the Youth Army to blow up the bridges along the way and destroy the railway, In this way, Chen Kebin's attention was distracted, and although the new units of the Youth Army had strong firepower, they also relied heavily on logistics, and once the railway was destroyed, it meant that the artillery shells that were vital to Chen Kebin could not be delivered.
Chen Kebin reluctantly put down the binoculars, this is less than 100 meters away from the railway and does not even have a name, the new Seventh Division has been filled in with no less than 1,000 lives, there are more than 500 wounded waiting to be evacuated, more than 5,000 shells of various calibers will blow up the snow on the hills, Chen Kebin believes that the army has at least filled in no less than 2,000 people, but at this moment the position is still in the hands of Yue himself.
The rumbling sound of 240 mm train cannons, and the dozens of meters high columns of smoke rising into the air with the shock wave of the explosion, how much effect does such an artillery bombardment have? With the loud sound of the offensive army, a new round of offensive re-battle began, and more than a dozen BF-109F fighters also swooped down from the sky, dropping bombs on the positions of the Yue army and repeatedly strafing them.
With the strength of the newly formed division of the Youth Army, attacking a division of the Japanese Army that is on the defense in the freezing weather? Chen Kebin is also ready to gnaw on the bone, but how hard is this bone? Chen Kebin didn't count at all in his heart.
There is another person who has the same experience as Chen Kebin, that is, the commander of the Second Front Army of the army, Ryosuke Isoya, who is difficult and malnourished in his family, and he doesn't know what it feels like to be fat in his life? Ryosuke Isoya, who was originally as thin as a skeleton, has lost five pounds of weight in a row since the start of the war, and he has basically described himself as a mummy, and he can't wear a thick leather coat, so he can only sit when he puts on the coat, otherwise he will be panting.
Ryosuke Isoya and Chen Kebin are facing the same problem, but he attacked a division of the 10th Theater with three divisions, and only now has Ryosuke Isoya figured out that the number on the opposite side is the newly formed Fourth Division of the Youth Army, and the original elite of the Rehe Army is an elite unit adapted from the old foundation of the Rehe Army, and the tactical quality of the soldiers and weapons and equipment are all first-class in the 10th Theater, and the artillery unit to which Ryosuke Isoya belongs does not dare to concentrate on firing during the day, otherwise it will be attacked by the air force units of the 10th Theater circling nearby. And the opponent's artillery can be suppressed without any scruples.
In Isoya Ryosuke's view, this was an unequal battle at all, under the enemy's superior firepower, the infantry lacking strong firepower to carry out a forced attack was undoubtedly a suicide, but the Kwantung Army sent reports one after another urging it to resolve the battle as soon as possible, because the Hase's division on the outskirts of Chengde had already been counterattacked by Zhong [***], and Zhong [***] dispatched at least one armored division, and the enemy's next strategic deployment was likely to turn to Ling Yuan to reinforce the new 4th Division of the trapped Youth Army.
The battle has not yet been resolved, and enemy reinforcements are on the way again? At that time, he is likely to fall into the situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back, is there still any significance to Ling Yuan's encirclement? Ryosuke Isoya was a little nervous at the moment.
Compared with Zhanyang's situation, Dai Peng, who was guarding Chaoyang, was a little anxious at the moment, no matter how Zhang Xuewu questioned it, Dai Peng swore that he could hold on for at least two months!
(To be continued)