973 Fool around
The captain of the Japanese Special Anti-Tank Brigade of the Japanese Army, Hanada Xun Shaosa, who commanded the operation, suddenly figured out one thing - in front of the tank, the unarmored * car could not get a firing / control window of up to 5 to 8 seconds, and when the tactics were formulated, it was only considered that the armor-piercing ability of the "dragon" style was sufficient, so it was thought that the frontal bar was the best way (considering that the target movement rate was too large to attack from the side, which increased the difficulty of control). Obviously, this optimal choice only exists at the level of thought, and is actually just something on paper. However, it was too late to know, and he ordered a retreat, hoping to retreat the participating forces to a farther place, and after opening up the distance, he could use the range of up to 2.5 kilometers to counterattack.
Huang Tianyang ordered his Stewart tank to chase after him until the enemy started from the position. He didn't think too much about it, he just felt that he couldn't let the enemy gain a foothold. This is the experience he summed up when he was a child with his family uncles and brothers to fight Malay indigenous children, as long as he maintains his momentum and chases to the death, sometimes he can defeat several times his opponents. Of course, this part of the experience is actually biased, and what the native child is really afraid of is not him, but the power of the Huang family. Whatever, this part of the grudge did not erupt until the Japanese occupied Singapore and supported the Malay natives.
Hanada Shaoza found that his tricycle could not get up and could not shake off the pursuers, and as soon as these broken cars encountered the uphill slope, the engine made a loud noise. In fact, these vehicles were able to run at speeds of more than 65 kilometers per hour during the Manchurian exercises, but in the hot South Vietnam, the output was reduced by at least 20%, and the speed never exceeded 55.
Another problem lies in the combination of this car and *, does not have the ability to launch from the moving hull, although the * launcher can do 360 degrees rotation, but the optical equipment to track the target, rigidly connected with the launcher, the body vibration will be completely transmitted to the 6 times the narrow field of view sight, making it impossible to track the target.
Huang Tianyang's tank, bypassing the burning enemy tank, outflanked from the two. The fact that a 12-ton tank was as light as a flight on such undulating terrain was, of course, thanks to a reliable 400-horsepower engine. Their target, a triplicate, uses a tropical unreliable 45-horsepower engine that weighs up to 0.8 tonnes, almost at the same level in terms of unit weight and power, while Stewart's suspension is much better, making it easier to play out its speed on undulating terrain.
The Japanese continued to fire the "Dragon" type as they fled. Huang Tianyang's tankmen had lost their awe of this novelty, because it always fell to the ground on its own, so the pursuing troops did not slow down and dodge.
Sure enough, this time, the "dragon" style*, which was pinned on by Itagaki and Shibata, once again appeared in the foreign world. They are unable to fly steadily in the air, and their tracks are chaotic and twisted. This is because the launcher lacks a stable tracking platform, and every time the hull rises and falls, the shooter may lose the target in the narrow field of view. And once these excessively large correction instructions exceed the fault tolerance limit of the autopilot, the original vitality and rudder effect are insufficient*, and they will lose control and crash.
All guided weapons developed by the Japanese Navy and Army are derived from the German V1*, but they have not fully mastered the aerodynamic design, once they want to modify the center of gravity or scale the size proportionally, they will encounter some new problems, usually these proportionally scaled weapons are still stable in flight, but the control rate is difficult to grasp, the experience of people in the loop is extremely important, slightly larger or slightly smaller movements, will be unpredictable out of control. Therefore, the hit rate of hitting a fixed target at the shooting range is inflated, but the situation on the battlefield is always different.
The tankers began to suspect that the Japanese had launched something funny, and although it fell to the ground and exploded, it was almost inaccurate.
Tanks began to try to fire from machine guns in the rear of 1 km. The Stuart tank was not armed with a 12.7mm machine gun, making the chase even longer, but the M3 half-track that followed gradually caught up, and after the Japanese had been able to hold off the forces for a long time, the infantry carrier gradually drove to the front. The half-track is superior to its rivals in both off-road and on-road speeds.
Shibata received a report that the situation on Hanada's side was not good, and he immediately set about mobilizing his forces. He did not have enough * to set minefields on the flanks, so he could only order the reserves to hurry up and dig trenches, and he predicted that the enemy would search and attack all the way and not advance too quickly. Before nightfall, there may be a small force touching his side, he only needs to pretend to be suspicious, usually the enemy will stop and wait for dawn, and on this night, he can dig anti-tank trenches and deploy anti-aircraft guns. Tomorrow we will have a decisive battle. Of course, when making the above deployments, Hua Tian actually had some fears, because according to his research, Huang Tianyang was not a cautious commander, would he rush all the way to him?
His fears were justified. Huang Tianyang's chief of staff, Sun Guofu, kept calling Huang Tianyang to beware of the enemy's ambush, but Huang Tianyang had already run out of effective communication distance. Division Commander Huang's command vehicle was chasing the tanks in front, and the formation was no longer needed.
If it weren't for Hanada's defeat all the way, he really wouldn't have approached the enemy so quickly, and he would have to grope his way closer step by step, but now that he was a little underestimated by the enemy, the performance of the Japanese army greatly encouraged his recklessness.
The remnants of the Japanese anti-tank brigade fled back to their positions with their front feet, and the tanks behind followed closely, and at this time, the anti-tank trenches on Shibata's flanks were only dug a foot deep.
The tanks then stopped, fired at surface positional targets, organized the enemy to build fortifications, and waited for the infantry.
Huang Tianyang arrived with Ji Buqun, he glanced at the enemy's defense line on the high slope, and couldn't help but feel how confused Itagaki was, and even sent a waste to fight against him, and he had crossed the river for 8 hours, and he had not even been able to establish a basic defense. Originally, he expected that the enemy would take the initiative to block at least a few times and establish two defenses in a certain depth, but as far as the eye could see, the flanks were wide open. The trenches could not hide a pig, and the firepower allocation was basically not completed.
"It seems that I just used a little trick, and they won't be able to adapt to it." He said triumphantly.
"Division commander, under Commander Chu's account, if you talk about wise generals, who else will you be?" Immediately there was a sycophant who chimed in.
"Don't talk nonsense, people have self-knowledge, and they must know their own shortcomings in order to improve. Zhou Youfu Tao Mingzhang and the two, although there are flaws in the use of soldiers, but after all, the qualifications are there. Why should Zhao Xiaoli win, he is the same generation as me, but there are also some excellent strengths to learn. ”
"The teacher is really cautious and modest, and he is humble and humble, which is worth learning from us."
"Hehehe, coax me again, I can hear it. It's better to think about how to knock out the 79th Division the day before. Tell the brethren that this battle is fought and that I have a great reward. ”
Huang Tianyang's various vehicles on the ridgeline gradually gathered, and seeing that it was getting late, he immediately launched an attack without waiting for the rest of the troops to arrive. His heavy artillery on the other side of the river could directly hit any part of the Japanese position in front of him, and at this time, the feint troops crossing the river gradually intensified the offensive, forming a two-sided attack on Shibata, and it was only a matter of time before the 79th Division's defensive line southwest of Saigon collapsed.
However, at this time, Chu Tingchang's command headquarters has smelled a hint of ominousness, and recently, the spies bribed by Japan have followed the headquarters like a shadow, shooting an average of several suspicious elements every day, but there are still people who keep trying to get closer. The information obtained from the torture of the spies showed that the re-established southern organs had been tracking down the whereabouts of every division-level headquarters of the Chu Jiajun. Of course, Chu Tingchang suspected that this might be a prelude to a nuclear attack, Zhou Youfu's headquarters had just been attacked by enemy tanks once, although the enemy did not throw nuclear bombs, but maybe it was not a technical problem, but he was reluctant to throw it.
But the problem that Lin Xiuxuan must face is that he can't completely rely on radio command, which makes it easier to expose the location, but relying on the phone is also traceable, as long as the other party has a heart. He decided to speed up the transfer and at the same time retreat in the direction of Thailand, so that it would be difficult for Japanese aircraft to break through the air defense network.
The special attack force on Hainan Island has already postponed several sorties, and in order to wait for the Yugoslav authorities to receive accurate information, it is always difficult to make up their minds to take off because it will be difficult to return with bombs once they take off. The technical problem involved in this is that the Japanese did not dare to use the radio to inform Chu Tingchang of his location, for fear of startling the snake, and the information on Chu Tingchang's headquarters would be delayed for at least 48 hours. Another problem is that it is difficult to grasp the best time, how not to alarm the early warning network newly built by Chu Tingchang is a difficult problem, and the radio voice heard shows that the Allied radar network has increased the interrogation link, and it is not so confusing.
Waiting is valuable, the spies of the southern agency gradually felt the characteristics of the transfer of Chu Tingchang's headquarters, Chu's communication troops, will go in several directions in advance, check the reliability of the telephone line, this effort, they can send the location of several places, to the Itagaki headquarters, once determined, by the local agents through the briefest, does not involve coordinates and specific place names of the code telegram, so that it is not easy to be detected by the enemy.
Just as Huang Tianyang's troops swept through the 79th Division and approached Saigon. While Iida's troops were secretly assembled at sea, Itagaki finally waited for all the time to be right. The southern organs confirmed the location of Chu Tingchang's latest headquarters, and the Allied bombardment of the 11th Army in Guangxi had been continuous for several nights, and it was judged that there would be another bombing tonight. It is very conducive to the take-off bomber from Hainan Island to follow and blend into Thailand, and this time there will be a random English-speaking communications soldier to answer inquiries from ground radar stations. Through a period of surveillance, the Japanese army has mastered the simple question and answer format of the Allies, which is not too complicated.
At 9 o'clock in the evening, the suicide B17 at the Hainan Island base took off slowly with a nuclear bomb, and because the magazine could not be completely closed, the altitude and speed of the aircraft were greatly affected. The planes turned to Guangxi first, and at this time, Allied planes were bombing Japanese positions in eastern Guangxi. The U.S. bombers returned home, and the lone Japanese planes followed the U.S. aircraft group in front of them 50 kilometers apart. Because the speed was too slow, it was quickly distanced by the US plane. But it doesn't matter anymore, the bomber has already heard the code name of this bombing operation, and overheard that a US bomber is missing, possibly hitting a mountain, this information is very useful for fooling around.