Chapter 60: Type 89 Tank

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Jin Zhao sat down next to Xie Jinyuan, glanced at the map of the situation of the two sides in his hand, and asked with a smile, "Brother Zhongmin, how is it?" Can you see the strategic intent of the army this time? ”

Xie Jinyuan frowned slightly, and said with a serious face, "According to the current intelligence analysis, the strategic intention of the Yue army is very simple, the old devil Ueda Kenkichi ordered the marines to attack the Zhabei line, the 24th Mixed Brigade to attack the Wusong line, and the main force of the Ninth Division to attack the junction of Jiangwan and Miaohang. ”

Jin Zhao nodded slightly, in fact, the little devil's strategic intentions this time are indeed quite obvious, as long as he is not too stupid, he can see it at a glance. The little devil did not intend to conceal his strategic intentions, because Ueda Kenkichi, an old devil, was still quite confident, thinking that with the strong strength of the current army, there was no need to play any conspiracy with the Huaxia army. "Do you think the temple can be accepted?"

"It should work." Xie Jinyuan thought about it and said affirmatively, "Stationed on the front line of the temple is the 88th Division under Chief Zhang Zhizhong, and the 87th Division has also rushed to Shanghai. These two divisions are currently the most elite troops in the country, if these two divisions can't stop the attack of the little devils, then no one can stop the little devils! ”

Jin Zhao shook his head and said, "The Fifth Army is indeed the most elite unit in the country, but the little devil has planes bombing in the sky, warships on the river to help in the battle, and tanks and artillery on the ground. If this battle is defeated, even if Chief Zhang resists the attack of the little devils, the Fifth Army will definitely suffer heavy losses, and if the elite of our army is lost here, then the future battle will be even more difficult. ”

Xie Jinyuan nodded and asked casually, "Then Brother Meng Bo has any good strategy to break the enemy." ”

Jin Zhao smiled bitterly and shook his head, "What can I do, this time the little devil is not playing any conspiracy, but a conspiracy, making it clear that the carriage and horses are running, and we will have a decisive battle." What can we do, the best way is to first crush the enemy's attack from both flanks, and then flank the flank of the 9th Division, so that the little devil's offensive will break itself. ”

Xie Jinyuan frowned and said, "But it's not so easy to defeat the two wings of the little devil." ”

"The situation in Zhabei is unknown, and I can't lock up so much with a small regiment leader. Now we need to think about how to defeat the little devil's attack on the Wusong line, we should defeat the 24th mixed brigade of the Yue Army as soon as possible, so that once the temple is tight, we can also support in time. Jin Zhao pointed to an arrow on the map representing the attack of the 24th mixed brigade of the Yue Army and said.

Xie Jinyuan took a sharp breath of cool air and said, this Jin Zhao is so big! He actually wanted to defeat the 24th mixed brigade of the army from the front. This 24th Mixed Brigade is a temporary brigade as the name sounds, but this 24th Mixed Brigade is definitely not a rabble. Because the 24th Mixed Brigade was composed of troops drawn from the 12th Division of the Japanese Army. The 12th Division, also known as the Kurume Division, was grouped at Kurume. The 12th Division was established in 1898 and consisted of officers and men from Fukuoka, Saga, and Nagasaki (northern Kyushu, including part of Oita Prefecture). The 12th Division participated in the Russo-Japanese War and sent troops to Siberia to intervene in the Russian Revolution. Moreover, the 12th Division, which was established in peacetime, was equipped with a field heavy artillery brigade (one field artillery company, one Yulishan artillery company, and two field heavy artillery companies), three heavy artillery companies (old fortress artillery teams), one anti-aircraft artillery company, and a tank company. It existed as an important division in the invasion and expansion of Chinese mainland. Fortunately, the field heavy artillery brigade of the 12th Division did not follow the troops in Shanghai this time, otherwise the battle would have been even more difficult to fight. However, the 12th Division of the Chinese Army still transferred three infantry brigades and one mountain artillery brigade as the backbone to form the 24th Brigade Regiment. Even so, the 24th Mixed Brigade had more than 4,000 people, and on the Wusong front, there were only two regiments of the 156th Brigade (the fourth and fifth regiments) of Weng Zhaoyuan's 156th Brigade on the Huaxia side, and the sixth regiment remained in Zhabei. In addition, Jin Zhao's newly formed Reading Force Regiment has a total strength of only more than 3,000 people, and with this strength, it would be good to be able to resist the attack of the 24th Mixed Brigade, and it would be tantamount to a fool's dream to defeat the 24th Mixed Brigade head-on.

Looking at Xie Jinyuan, who was full of surprise, Jin Zhao smiled and said, "Brother Zhongmin, I have prepared a big gift for the little devil, even if I can't defeat the little devil's 24 mixed brigade head-on, I can easily repel the little devil's attack." ”

"A big gift? What a gift? As soon as he heard Jin Zhao say that he had prepared a big gift for the little devil, Xie Jinyuan suddenly became interested and hurriedly asked.

Jin Zhao pretended to smile mysteriously, "You'll know later." ”

On the Wusong front, under the cover of six ** tanks, the army was launching a fierce attack on the position of the 19th Route Army. The little devil's tank kept spewing out blazing tongues of fire, so that the soldiers of the 19th Route Army on the position couldn't raise their heads at all, and the six 57mm tank guns also kept roaring, clearing the fire points on the position.

Xia Yuan Xiong Mi held the binoculars, observing the battle ahead, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi saw a heavy machine gun position of the Chinese army, directly hit by the tank gun, in the violent explosion, the machine gun position was directly lifted into the sky, looking at the machine gun parts mixed with broken wood flying in the sky, Xia Yuan Xiong Mi showed a smile at the corner of his mouth, "The power of the latest chariot developed by the empire is really good!" ”

"What Your Excellency the General said is very true, I say that this imperial army is invincible in the world, and we say that the chariot of this empire is naturally the best in the world." The adjutant next to him said flatteringly.

The ** type "Qiluo" medium tank was designed from 1927, completed at the Osaka Arsenal in April 1929, and finalized as the Type 89 medium tank in the same year (the original name is "** type medium tank"). There are two types, A and B, the first type is equipped with a gasoline engine, and the second type is a diesel engine. The Type A has been put into production since 1931, so this Type A tank is the latest equipment of the army. **The total combat weight of the Type A tank is 11.8 tons, the crew is 4, the maximum speed is 25 km/h, and the maximum range is 140 km. The main armament is a Type 90 57mm gun with a firing range of 5,600 meters, a muzzle velocity of 350 m/s, and an ammunition base of 100 rounds. The secondary armament was two 6.5 mm Type 91 machine guns, carrying 2,745 rounds. However, the armor of the ** tank inherited the characteristics of the thin skin and large filling of the Ben Pean Ding tank, which was only 6-17 mm. In Europe, such a tank is like a paper paste, which can be broken as soon as it is poked, but on the battlefield in China, due to the lack of anti-tank weapons in the Chinese army, this tank has the opportunity to show off its might.

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