Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Battle of Xifengkou (End)
Naoto Hattori didn't expect the Suzuki Brigade plus a Type 97 Chariot Wing to be killed by Zhang Shixin's troops so easily. His main forces are now fending off the enemy from the front of the Xifeng Pass.
He also thought that the original telegrams asking for help were more of a Suzuki brigade commander who was about to be unable to support it, so he urgently asked for support.
However, the commander of the Suzuki brigade cursed at him before seppuku: "I'm waiting for you in hell!" ”
Maybe it was the Suzuki Brigade Commander's curse on Naoto Hattori that worked, or maybe it was because Naoto Hattori didn't expect Zhang Shixin's troops to be so powerful at all, and ignored the defense of the rear.
In short, Zhang Shixin appeared in the north-northwest direction of the Hattori Brigade, and the resistance he encountered was not worth mentioning at all.
Zhang Shixin was even so easy that he just used the III/IV experimental tank to open the way, and with the cooperation of the wild bee self-propelled artillery formation, he directly crushed the direction that the infantry of the Yue Army, which had only one brigade, temporarily relied on some small obstacles.
Although a large group of the army also had a considerable number of grenadiers and some 70mm mountain guns, the problem was that it was obviously impossible to succeed in attacking the relatively strong mobile III/IV experimental tanks with such firepower.
The grenadier is actually a relatively small mortar type of weapon, however, mortar shells may not necessarily be used as grenades, but the small shells of the grenadier can be thrown directly as a grenade to kill the enemy.
It's just that, compared to mortars, grenadiers are on the lower side.
The III/IV experimental tanks continued to light up one by one the army's firepower points, and then, following Zhang Shixin's No. 4 tank destroyer formation, the Wild Bee self-propelled guns that accompanied the army continued to trap the landing points on the 75mm mountain artillery positions.
Although the grenadier is also a threat to the III/IV experimental tanks, for those 70mm mountain guns, the grenadier canister with poor hit accuracy is simply not worth mentioning.
As a result, the eight 70mm mountain guns of this brigade were greeted by more than two 150mm grenades.
After just two rounds of shelling, these 8 70mm mountain guns suffered a catastrophe.
After all, the infantry artillery has almost no defensive power at all, especially the infantry artillery of the Yue Army, and the artillery shield can block the strafing of the M2 heavy machine gun is quite reluctant, not to mention the impact and fragmentation damage generated by the explosion of large-caliber shells?
Zhang Shixin is not unaware that this is a bit overkill, but in terms of the cost of building a tank or maintenance costs, the cost of these shells can be described as insignificant.
Therefore, Zhang Shixin's operational instruction to the artillery is not to be afraid of missing shots, and not to be too stingy with ammunition, and the most important thing is to destroy the enemy.
The accuracy of the gunner's shelling with an eagle's eye is not at all comparable to that of an artillery that only relies on experience to adjust the firing coordinates.
No matter how far the former hits, at least the shells will not fly out of the landing circle.
But the latter, the odds of a direct hit are pitiful, it's all a matter of luck.
It can be said that there are times when a self-propelled artillery gunner with an Hawkeye is able to achieve a support effect that even three to four times more than three or four times the number of guns can achieve.
This is also one of Zhang Shixin's biggest dependences.
After all, artillery, as the god of war, if it can effectively increase the probability of hitting, is often enough to turn around a battle where the gap is not too big.
As a matter of fact, a considerable number of officers and men who were killed and wounded were more due to artillery.
A 150mm grenade can clean up enemy troops with a radius of 10~15 meters or even a larger distance, the problem is not very big, although it cannot guarantee a certain killing rate, but three meters near the landing point of the 155mm shell, it is good to leave a whole corpse.
Therefore, once a shell falls on the defense line of the Yue army that is not too far off, it can easily take away a few or even more lives of officers and men in many cases.
The power of the Wild Bee self-propelled artillery is much less powerful than the shells of the Panther self-propelled artillery because the ammunition type is relatively old-fashioned, but Zhang Shixin values this thing as a mobile surname for the army's support artillery.
Because Zhang Shixin knows very well that in the absence of air supremacy, the mobile surname of the tank can relatively effectively improve the survival rate of a tank fighting vehicle.
Unless it's really unlucky, the better the mobile tank and artillery, the less likely it is to be hit.
Zhang Shixin is not without other better options, and the combination of T-34/76 and Su-85 (ZIS-6GUN/107MM) is also quite good.
It's just that even if the T-34/76 is a complete body, it is a little lower than the No. 4 H type, except for the mobile surname, and the other overall failures are inferior to the No. 4 H type.
Even with the 107mm gun, the Su-85 was inferior to the No. 4 tank destroyer in many aspects.
What's more, the S-series guns allowed to be used in the system are actually Su-122A and Su-8, two problematic things. The front-mounted range is short and the power is too small, and the latter is extremely maneuverable.
Therefore, Zhang Shixin also wants to choose a cheaper S series, but the combat effectiveness generated by the same value, the S series is actually a level lower than Zhang Shixin's current match.
In this case, Zhang Shixin can only select the D-series as a list of allowed tanks.
For this historical mission, it is not possible to use a tank chassis model of level 6 or higher in the system.
Therefore, the Whatsminer T-34/85, Whatsminer Su-100, Whatsminer AMX-12T and other things have all become floating clouds.
The Tank Destroyer No. 4 is level 6 in the game, but in the system's perception, the chassis of this thing is Tank 4, so it is still a level 5 vehicle. The Grizzly Bear, derived from the same Tank III, and the Wild Bee, derived from the III/IV Experimental Tank, are all in this category.
However, this cannot be said that the system is a German fan, but according to military common sense, such a division of the system is completely correct.
The chassis determines many details of the model, just like the ISU-152 with the IS chassis, which in the system is a level 7 gadget.
The fifth-tier tanks of the S series are not without good things, and the combination of the KV-1 and the Su-152 is more oppressive......
But the mobile surname of the pit dad is also a problem that cannot be ignored.
In addition to the KV-1S's maneuvering surname, the KV series is a variety of craters, and in this kind of battle without air supremacy, the survival rate is a considerable problem.
Zhang Shixin vetoed the S series tank system to participate in this historical mission, and there is another point, that is, there is no well-known self-propelled anti-aircraft gun in the S series, although KV has a 57mm magazine anti-aircraft gun with a mid-mounted warhead, but the parameters are miserable.
The shell capacity is about the same as that of the No. 4 weapon carrier, with a magazine of 12 rounds, but the reload speed is 35 seconds, which is almost half the slower than the 75mm magazine anti-aircraft gun of the No. 4 tank carrier, and the firing height is 500 meters lower than that of the 75mm anti-aircraft gun.
It can be said that according to Zhang Shixin's vision, this thing is relatively unqualified.
The truck anti-aircraft gun that appeared in Company of Heroes 2 actually became American, because the chassis was an American truck......
Well, under such a premise, it is not unreasonable for the S department to lose in an all-round way.
From before the start of the war to the present, Zhang Shixin is very clear that the limitations of historical tasks are quite reasonable.
"It's a good thing, infantry weapons aren't a cheat." Zhang Shixin glanced at the Chuntian-style, M1918**AR light machine gun and M1919A4 heavy machine gun on hand of his summoner infantry, and breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
After all, at this time, the infantry weapons of Germany and the Soviet Union were not very good, and automatic fire was quite unreliable.
The MG-13 air-cooled machine gun also became one of the squadron's Wanguo brand weapons at this time, but the continuous firepower of this thing is only 75 rounds of drums (and 25 rounds of magazines as a light machine gun), which is undoubtedly not a disadvantage compared to the 100 rounds/250 rounds of ammunition capacity of the M1919A4 chain box.
As for the MP18 submachine gun, because of the range factor, it is not very useful to deal with the almost one-man 38-style army, so Zhang Shixin still chose the M1918**AR as an automatic weapon.
The Soviet Union is still almost dominated by Mosinagan now, and Zhang Shixin is also disdainful of some automated firearms that have not been mass-produced.
As for the weapons of other countries, there are very few that can make Zhang Shixin look at them, and the Czech surname can be good, but it is locked, and Zhang Shixin can only choose all American goods as individual firepower.
If Zhao Dengyu, who was working hard with the army, knew where Zhang Shixin was still picking, he would be so angry that he would immediately turn around and go back to Xifengkou.
It's a pity that Zhao Dengyu didn't know Zhang Shixin's thoughts, but when he saw the chaos in the rear of the Hattori Brigade, his face blackened by gunpowder showed a smile.
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Hattori Naoto knew that his rear line was lost, and he knew that he was now in a situation where he was surrounded on three sides.
He was only able to get the signal corps to send an order to Muto Nobuyoshi to request a tactical transfer.
He was confident that he could resist the enemy forces in the other two directions, but for Zhang Shixin's troops, he had to admit that he had nothing to do with the other party.
It was not without his thoughts that he would lay mines on the roads and make Zhang Shixin's tank troops suffer some.
However, the question is, who would be so stupid as to plant mines in their own retreat?
Therefore, he had to think about whether he should retreat in the direction of Hiraizumi.
It's just that he didn't expect that before Muto Nobuyoshi could reply, he heard the sound of shelling one after another approaching the civilian house where he was the headquarters.
He had to order the anti-tank gun units in the brigade to also be transferred to the rear to resist Zhang Shixin's troops.
The power of the 97-type 20mm anti-tank gun is a little smaller than the Finnish Lati-L39 anti-tank rifle used by Zhang Shixin in another world, because the surname of this thing is not very good.
In the face of Zhang Shixin's subordinates, the average frontal thickness of 80mm tank combat vehicles, this thing is also the life of a weak point.
But the weakness of a tank, at long distances, even with guns of the fifties and sixties, is difficult to hit accurately.
So not to mention the army's Type 97 anti-tank rifle.
At the same time, a 20mm high-explosive warhead, even if it hits the spare track of the Type IV H tank, will not necessarily be effective.
Another point is that the Type 97 anti-tank rifles are rarely equipped with scopes, at least, Hattori's troops do not have this thing.
Suffice it to say, at a distance of four hundred meters, it is undoubtedly a problem to expect this thing to be able to target weaknesses well.
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Zhang Shixin naturally didn't know that he wanted to retreat, but the resistance of the Yue army became more and more fierce, and he couldn't help frowning.
It is clear that the other side will attack itself as the main target.
From the Type 97 tanks that kept appearing on the battlefield, Zhang Shixin felt this.
It's just that Zhang Shixin found that the symbol of the anti-tank gunner appeared on the tactical map, and couldn't help but be slightly stunned: "These ninety-seven styles of yours almost have no problem with me, and you want to resist me with such gadgets?" Are you kidding. ”
Of course, Zhang Shixin didn't know that Naoto Hattori was a strong man with a broken wrist. But even if you know, isn't Zhang Shixin the same?
These anti-tank riflemen, as well as the Type 97 tank unit that was sent over, did not know that they had been sold.
In front of them is an enemy they cannot face head-on.
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After Muto Nobuyoshi received Naoto's request for permission to retreat, Muto Nobuyoshi was also quite entangled in his heart.
Of course, he didn't want Hattori's troops to retreat, but according to the other party, if they missed the opportunity to retreat, then the remaining troops would only be completely annihilated.
Muto didn't know if he should take a gamble, because the troops of the two brigades had already passed half the way. He really wanted to seize this opportunity to encircle and annihilate Zhang Shixin, at least he couldn't let the other party turn with the defenders of Xifengkou.
However, two brigades and three tank wings could not withstand such an enemy force, and Muto Nobuyoshi had to refocus on that telegram.
In the end, he had to give up his original plan, directly changed the original plan, and then let the two brigades stand by, and finally replied to Naoto Hattori and asked him to act on camera.
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After Naoto Hattori received Muto Nobuyoshi's reply, he immediately asked the front team to change from the rear team to the front team, and the back team to the front team, and quickly moved in the northeast direction.
As for those subordinates who were fighting, Naoto Hattori could only say sorry in his heart.
So, a force quickly left the small village by the river.
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Zhang Shixin naturally didn't know that almost half of the remaining enemy troops had fled, because the position that the other party had left was a little far from where he was.
But Zhang Shixin also sensed a situation, that is, the other party's resistance was getting weaker and weaker.
Zhang Shixin didn't bother to think about what the reason was, after all, for him, there was still a distance of three kilometers to be able to meet the troops at Xifengkou.
It is time for his historical mission to come to an end.
"I wonder what's going on over there?" Zhang Shixin muttered this sentence in the commander's position.
After all, in his position, no matter how these things turn out, he is just a passerby.
That's all.
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Zhao Dengyu looked at the tanks that kept stopping in front of him, and there was a trace of doubt in his eyes, but it was more of a look of relief.
It's just that he didn't expect that this unit would quickly leave in the northwest direction after a soldier handed him a note.
He was a little stunned, because he had no idea that the commander of this unit had no intention of talking to him.
Finally, Zhao Dengyu glanced at the note on hand after not seeing any cars.
It reads: "I'm sorry, almost all of the army's heavy weapons were destroyed in battle, and if necessary, this general can find something that can be repaired and repaired when cleaning the battlefield." ”
Zhao Dengyu didn't expect the other party to say these words, and he didn't even expect that the arrogant and well-equipped Yue army would be beaten into a field by this unit.
In the end, he had to give a military salute to the northwest......
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On the wall of the Great Wall at Xifengkou, a young girl grabbed a piece of wall brick that was blown by a cannonball, looked at the northwest direction silently, and shook her head for a long time: "Perhaps, this is your love for this country." ”
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And Zhang Shixin grabbed the side of the transport ship again at this time and vomited fiercely.
Hinia handed over a handkerchief angrily, and then said, "It's the fourth time you've experienced something like this, why do you still have the same reaction?" ”
Zhang Shixin's face turned pale and said, "I'm just a normal person, okay...... ...... vomit"
Well, in the eyes of Sinya, Zhang Shixin has become a fool who can't afford to play with spatial turbulence.
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At dinner time that day, Fei Lei and the other officers looked at Zhang Shixin, who had a bad face, and looked at each other a little, because as far as they knew, their boss did not look like a person who would get seasick.
But why is it such a half-dead look, they never thought that in such a short period of time, Zhang Shixin fought another battle.
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Zhang Shixin didn't expect that he did something that he didn't think was reliable, but he had to do, which would cause a more far-reaching impact than destroying the Osville Empire in another world.
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