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As an island country with scarce resources, it is really not easy for Japan to build some chariots, but now it has lost so many in the blink of an eye, Yoshio Shinozuka can't help but bleed in his heart, but he finally broke through here, how can he fall short? At this time, Yoshio Shinozuka finally returned to the usual paranoid style of the Japanese, roaring and ordering his troops to advance at full speed, vowing in his heart to break through the enemy lines and bring victory to the empire. And he dared to give such an order, and he also had his own confidence, unlike the last fiasco, this time the new 38th Division because of its relatively small number of people, and basically deployed troops along the defense line so as not to expose the weak flanks, which made the depth of the front much thinner, and the commander of the Japanese First Mecha Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, also discovered this, so he was still full of confidence in victory. But he didn't know that the anti-armor firepower of the new 38th Division was far from being comparable to that of the Red Army at the beginning

Although Yoshio Shinozuka did not fully realize the strength of the enemy, he still ordered more than 100 75 assault guns to cover the enemy's positions with fire first, in order to clear the obstacles blocking the advance of the tanks. This is also a helpless thing, although Yoshio Shinozuka also called on the army aviation to provide air support, but because the Xuzhou airport has just been controlled at this time, the Japanese planes have just begun to enter one after another, and the other airports of the Japanese army are much farther away from here, it is impossible to come to the battlefield so quickly, where can Yoshio Shinozuka, who knows the heaviest speed of the armored forces, wait? Although the power of the 75 self-propelled guns is a little worse, there are enough of them, and Yoshio Shinozuka thinks that at least they should have no problem dealing with the enemy's obviously improvised positions, right?

However, after only two or three rounds of shelling, the Devil's assault guns were immediately hit by the artillery fire of the new 38th Division, and these small guns could only be beaten and could not return fire because of their insufficient range, which naturally caused the morale of the Japanese First Mecha Army to continue to decline. It should be noted that in addition to the relatively short range of the 107 rocket artillery and the 105 mountain artillery of the new 38th Division, the nearest 122 plus howitzer with the ultimate range of other artillery has also reached 21 kilometers, and all of them are vehicle-mounted, extremely mobile, and can quickly retreat after a round. And because they are relatively backward and the road traffic is relatively smooth, the speed of the cars in this case must be faster than that of armored vehicles, so the Japanese artillery fire will not be able to reach them at all, and even if the Japanese army has the ability to capture the position of the new 38th Division, they can still retreat with their whole body. And the devil's artillery can only follow behind and eat ashes. Yoshio Shinozuka doesn't have much to do about it. On the one hand, he had to send telegrams urging the planes of the army aviation to hurry up and help the battle, and on the other hand, he ordered his subordinates to attack the enemy positions with all their might, so as not to lose morale early

As a battle-hardened veteran, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka knows it very well in his heart. As long as the officers and men have the enemy to kill, even if it is only a part of it, there will always be no despair that will lead to demoralization, for example, the fire support of battleships (within effective range) is much more effective than that of aircraft carriers. But when the mecha army really rushed to a distance long enough to see the enemy's position, Yoshio Shinozuka's face became even more difficult to look at. The power of the 75 caliber shells is still too small, and it may be okay to deal with ordinary trenches and mounds, but it is difficult to cause substantial damage to the gasoline barrel fortifications made by the new 38th Division. For the sake of safety, the three "mechanized artillery wings" belonging to the 1st Mecha Army were all lagging far behind (Note 1) and could not reach here for a while, so Yoshio Shinozuka had to risk having the assault guns carry out a direct artillery attack on the enemy's gasoline barrel fortifications. At this time, the countless infantry anti-tank groups of the new 38th Division, which were hiding in more than 100 improvised fortifications, had already disarmed the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles with 40RPG rocket launchers that the Japanese army had not yet seen on the battlefield

Although considering that the armor of Japanese tanks is too thin, the anti-tank rocket standard with the "Changying-1" 40-mm rocket launcher "designed" by Hu Weidong has never been mass-produced, and the rockets used by the soldiers now are only a "monkey version" that costs less than one-third of the prototype. However, its vertical penetration depth is still more than 200 mm (tested with Japanese armor), which is enough to destroy the main armor of any medium tank in history during World War II, let alone the relatively thin-skinned devil tank

In a few moments, dozens of tanks were lost, which made Yoshio Shinozuka almost crush his teeth, but no matter how powerful the infantry anti-tank weapons were. The disadvantage of being too close is still there, which means that only a small fraction of them can attack at any one time, and in many cases they can only fight on their own, while tanks are used as offensive weapons. can effectively concentrate firepower. In addition, as the distance between the two sides closes. The Japanese assault guns were also getting more and more powerful, and were finally able to effectively destroy those damn gasoline barrel fortifications, albeit often with several shots in a row

Therefore, after paying a lot of price, the Japanese First Mecha Army finally tore a hole in the enemy position with difficulty. However, the more the Japanese army advanced, the stronger the resistance encountered, and probably because of the relative abundance of time, the further back the enemy's position became, the more perfect it became, especially after the "Golan trench" that had made the Japanese army suffer in the first place appeared in front of him again, Shinozuka Yoshio's face was so gloomy that he was almost like a dead man

As the saying goes, "eat a trench and grow wisdom", the Japanese armored soldiers have long had a way to deal with this, and without waiting for Yoshio Shinozuka to give the order, the infantry carried on the armored vehicles got off the car to shovel soil, and as long as a passage was opened, the problem was solved. But the Japanese army's armored torrent was finally forced to temporarily stop, Shinozuka Yoshio naturally knew how dangerous this was, and Sun Liren came up with his killer weapon at this time

At this time, the 54 105 mountain guns of the new 38th Division had all been changed to low-rifled anti-tank guns under the skillful operation of the artillerymen, and in this state, the rate of fire of the guns was twice as fast as that of howitzers, reaching 6-8 rounds per minute, and because the trajectory changed from curved fire to direct aiming at flat fire, the accuracy was greatly improved. And compared with the bazooka, its range is relatively much longer, so it can participate in the battle almost at the same time, and the firepower density is more than ten times greater. In addition, now that the devil's chariots have been blocked in front of the anti-tank trenches, where can I find such a good opportunity?

Note 1: The range of the Devil's towed 105 howitzer is only a little more than 10 kilometers, and it is not as good as an assault gun, and it is almost the same as looking for death if it is forced to fight against the long-range artillery of the new 38th Division, so Yoshio Shinozuka cannot use the artillery suppression that should normally be the first choice, so he can only let them hide behind.

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