738 Tanks and Cavalry on the Day of the Slaughter (2) (Ask for a monthly pass)
The two sides are getting closer.
Looking through the binoculars, he looked at Dafengzhuang, which looked calm.
Kazuo Uehara faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he didn't think much about it.
The command command's order was to arrive at Dafengzhuang quickly, and then take Dafengzhuang as quickly as possible, and quickly evacuate after seizing the grain of the Eighth Road.
500 m ......
400 m ......
300 m ......
Since the entire area outside the village in front of Dafengzhuang is relatively flat, even if you don't need to sweep it through with a telescope, you can see the outline of the entire Dafengzhuang at this time.
200 m ......
At this time, Uehara also noticed that his party was discovered by the militia of Dafengzhuang, and those militiamen emerged from the entrance of the village, and in his binoculars, with a slightly panicked expression, turned around and entered the village again.
It seems that the tank forces of the Great Japanese Empire had a considerable psychological impact on these ill-informed Tsuchihachi.
Having made up his mind, Uehara no longer hesitated and ordered to speed forward.
He needed to start the battle in advance from the front to attract the attention of the Eighth Route Army in Dafengzhuang, so as to indirectly cover the surprise attack of the cavalry led by Okazaki from both flanks.
Despite looking down on the cavalry troops.
But Uehara had to admit that in such a village, which was obstructed by scattered houses, cavalry had to be more agile and mobile than tanks.
He had even imagined in his mind the scene of Okazaki's tyrannical guy raising a butcher's knife to slaughter these Chinese people after storming into Dafengzhuang.
Poor Chinese Na......
Uehara sighed coldly, but there was no pity in his heart.
"It's been a long time since I've experienced such an exciting battle!"
"Attack!" Uehara drew his command knife and gave the military order.
Boom –
Two Type 89 medium tanks, equipped with Type 90 57mm tank guns, took the lead in firing two shots at the house area at the entrance of Dafengzhuang Village.
In the midst of the loud roar, the arrogant little devil seemed to be trying to show the arrival of the armored troops.
The distance between the two sides quickly narrowed to 150 meters.
Hit –
Lei Dasheng, the commander of the first battalion, did not hesitate anymore and directly issued a combat order.
Of course, at this moment, in order not to arouse the vigilance of the devils, the commander of the first battalion of the current counterattack only sent half a company of troops.
Dafengzhuang is an important place for the independent regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and it is reasonable to have half a company of soldiers stationed here.
At this moment, the fighters of the first company showed a fairly powerful fire blow at hand.
Five light machine guns set up at different locations in the area of the village entrance fired at the advancing devil infantry.
Six grenadiers, in groups of two, divided into three grenadier positions, bombarded the advancing devil infantry.
According to the instructions of the battalion commander, the soldiers sent the infantry who fought together with the devils, especially the infantry who stood in front of the devil's tank.
The area in front of the village in Dafengzhuang is relatively open, and there are many houses, in order to guard against the counterattack of the devil's tank artillery, which causes concentrated casualties.
Lei Dasheng made a special confession and asked half of the company's soldiers to open a relatively loose skirmish line for defense.
Although the people are scattered, the firepower is strong.
The two sides are just a face-to-face encounter.
Uehara, who was commanding operations in the rear, realized that this was definitely the main combat force of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army.
Except for the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army, other troops, even the Central Army, may not have such fierce firepower.
People are afraid of death, and devils are no exception.
As the fighters of the first company focused on greeting the devil infantry who coordinated tanks and armored vehicles.
The devil infantry, who had been blocking the advance in front of the tanks and armored vehicles, hurriedly hid behind the armored vehicles and tanks one by one, and used tanks and armored vehicles as cover to return fire.
Uehara can't say anything about this.
It is indeed not wise to let the flesh and blood of the soldiers stand in the way.
"Order the first and second squads of the combat vehicles to quickly rush forward, forcibly break through the enemy's fortifications, and the infantry will coordinate to keep up, and after the tanks have successfully broken through, the infantry will quickly expand the breakthrough results and seize the enemy's fortifications."
"The third tank squad immediately opened the tank battle line and supported the attack of the first and second squads with firepower!"
"Hey!"
Uehara quickly issued an order for the battle.
Before the battle, Uehara divided his tank squadron into three tank combat squads.
The 3rd Tank Squadron consisted of two Type 89 medium tanks, plus three Type 94 ultralight tanks equipped with 37mm tank guns.
Provide mobile artillery support to your side on the battlefield.
This is the most terrifying thing about a tank equipped with a tank gun on the battlefield.
It is not the tank's strong mobility and rapid advance ability, but the strong fire support that can be provided on the battlefield at any time, coupled with strong armor, which can ignore the enemy's bullet attack.
For the enemy army, it was a completely one-sided beating.
As for the Type 92 cavalry tanks of the 1st and 2nd squads of the tank and some 940 ultra-light tanks, they were only equipped with some machine guns and no tank guns.
So Uehara decided to use the rapid mobility of other tanks as the main force for a breakthrough.
At this time, looking down from above, under the command of Uehara, the three tank squads of the devil together form a large triangle.
The five tanks with tank guns in the possession of the 3rd tank squad were triangular apexes, placed in the rear.
The 1st and 2nd Tank Squads, each with several tanks and armored vehicles, as the other two vertices of the triangle, almost formed a horizontal line, and advanced at a fairly rapid speed in the open area of the village in front of Dafengzhuang.
As for the third tank squad at the rear apex, it used the fire of tank guns to follow the advance, and constantly fired at the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army who were counterattacking.
According to Uehara's small calculations.
Under such an offensive, even if the Tuba Road in Dafeng Village is fierce, it will never be able to stop it.
I have to admit that Uehara, an old devil, is quite experienced in the application of tank tactics.
Of course, the premise is to ignore the independent regiment that has prepared everything long ago and set up an ambush here in advance.
"It's good to come!"
The commander of the first battalion who led the fighters to counterattack saw that the tank that was rapidly advancing by the devils was about to enter the trap area, and his eyes were round and excited.
…… What is the situation when a tank that is advancing quickly plunges headlong into a deep pit that is five meters wide and more than two meters deep?
Looking at the five or six tanks of the first and second squads of the devils who were advancing in advance, in order to ensure the dislocation of firepower, they fell into the deep pit of the anti-tank trench dug by the fighters in advance.
The faces of the soldiers who relied on the fortifications of the former village to counterattack were about to smile crookedly.
The soldiers in front of them were in the anti-tank trench.
The depth is about two meters, the bottom is about three meters wide, the top is about five meters wide, and the length is fifty or sixty meters in one go.
Not to mention these dozen devil tanks and armored vehicles, it is a few times more, as long as the devil tanks dare to open the battle line and move forward side by side, they can be equipped with all.
Under Uehara's orders, the tanks and armored vehicles of the first and second squads of the devils advanced rapidly.
In the face of the abrupt anti-tank trenches, the devil tank crew had no time to react, and before the emergency braking could start, the entire tank was directly plunged into the deep pit.
Some of them rolled over directly in the pit, and the top of the entire tank hit the bottom of the trench hard.
The crawlers turned over and rumbled and turned, but to no avail.
Or the soldiers would call the devil's tank the Iron King Eight!
Once the devil tank overturns, it is much more difficult to get back up with the tonnage of the tank than it is for Wang Ba to turn over.
The 3rd Japanese tank squad moved forward with five tanks with tank guns.
Because they were in the rear of the first and second squads, when the first and second squads suddenly fell into the trenches, they still had time to react.
The tank crews inside hurriedly applied joint emergency braking to the tank.
Only then did it stop in time.
At this time, I looked over from the perspective of Kazuo Uehara, who was stunned.
Seven or eight tanks of the first and second squads of combat vehicles, plus a few armored vehicles, which had been advancing on the horizon, suddenly fell into the deep pit, as if they had suddenly disappeared from the horizon.
That scene adds a bit of weirdness and funny!
Bastard...... Fooled, it's a trap!
Suddenly, Kazuo Uehara had already guessed everything, such a huge anti-tank trench, the Eighth Route was definitely prepared in advance.
This made Kazuo Uehara's heart more and more frightened.
His Excellency the Commander carefully prepared everything, mobilized the organization and intelligence forces of all parties, and finally created a plan to raid Dafengzhuang.
It turned out that everything was in the calculations of the Eighth Route Army.
How cunning are these damn dirt roads?
"Fire!"
"Immediately cover the towing vehicle and rescue the combat vehicle!"
"Sappers assist in the rescue!"
Realizing that this attack on Dafengzhuang was completely falling into the Eighth Road, he set a trap in advance.
Kazuo Uehara no longer expects to conquer Dafengso.
All he wanted to do now was to rescue all the tanks and armored vehicles that had fallen into the trenches, and then quickly evacuate and report to the commander about the situation in Dafengzhuang.
Seeing that most of the devil's tanks have fallen into the trenches, how can he give the little devil this chance?
He laughed twice and ordered at his artillerymen: "Put smoke bombs and trap the devil's tank for me first!" ”
"By the way, mix in some chili bombs and choke me to death!"
Boom –
The fighters had already prepared everything.
At this time, there was no need to hide the troops, the main force of the first battalion poured out, lined up with a large number of grenadiers, and quickly threw smoke bombs towards the area where the Japanese army was located.
"Trumpeter, blow the trumpet for Lao Tzu!"
Toot Toot –
"A company of frontal assaults, two companies and three companies to detour left and right, first focus on cleaning up the devil tank that didn't fall into the pit!"
A large number of smoke grenades were thrown, and as the smoke billowed up, the third squad of the devil tank, which was thirty or forty meters away from the huge anti-tank trench, was soon enveloped in smoke.
Among them, the pepper bomb is the masterpiece of the repair shop.
The choking smell was even a bit like a devil's mustard gas bomb.
A gust of wind blew, and some pungent smell of chili peppers wafted over, even choking the soldiers who launched the charge.
Ahem cough cough –
Coughs rang out from all over the battlefield.
The thick smoke and choking smell that quickly enveloped the poisonous gas bombs, many imps who had seen poison gas bombs covered their mouths and were full of panic.
What made the little devils' hearts tremble violently was the charge that belonged to the Eighth Route Army to launch a general attack, and it came from all directions.
The massive gushing shouts of killing made Uehara despair.
This is indeed a trap set by the Eight Roads in advance.
Judging from the sound of shouting and killing, the strength of the Eighth Route was far greater than the previous observation.
Almost at the same time.
In the area on the left and right flanks of the village in front of Dafengzhuang, there was also a sudden sound of fierce gunfire.
Uehara suddenly woke up to the fact that this was Okazaki's cavalry squadron attacking.
This gave birth to a glimmer of hope in the heart of Kazuo Uehara, who was suddenly attacked and beaten to the point of helplessness.
He hoped that these eight roads had not anticipated the cavalry raid.
If Okazaki can take the cavalry squadron back to the back of the eight-way army in front of him, maybe things will turn around.
And at this moment, on the battlefield in the left and right flank areas of the village in front of Dafengzhuang, the actual situation is:
Okazaki's irascible old devil led the devil cavalry to launch a fierce attack directly on the flank of Dafengzhuang.
When the two sides were less than a hundred meters away, the fighters, who had long been preparing on the left and right flanks, quickly attacked.
The devil's raid force carried cavalry this time, how could such news escape the intelligence network of the independent regiment?
Lei Dasheng and the other three battalion commanders had already prepared everything.
The second battalion commander, Du Aiguo, and the third battalion commander, Zhu Wu, were respectively responsible for the left and right flanks stationed in Dafengzhuang.
How to deal with the cavalry, the two battalion commanders knew it all too well.
A large number of light and heavy machine-gun fire, which was lined up directly on the fortifications, intertwined into a dense network of almost airtight firepower, rushed away.
The flying bullets collided fiercely with the onrushing devil cavalry.
The tragedy and bloodiness of the subsequent transformation can be imagined.
The power of the heavy machine gun was amazing, and the bullets burst out, but all the devils who were hit were broken arms, stumps, and blood splattered, and the horses that were shot also fell down one after another.
Okazaki, the leader of the hapless devil cavalry squadron, experienced first-hand why the cavalry charge tactics gradually withdrew from the stage under the modern machine guns, artillery and other thermal weapons and firearms.
Dense machine-gun fire, mixed with the bombardment of 50 small guns.
The more than 100 cavalrymen who rushed forward only tightened the reins of their horses and prepared to turn their horses' heads to flee for a moment, and then they were halfway down in the sand.
Okazaki, an old devil who was bent on entering the village to kill people, was beaten into a hornet's nest by machine guns and men and horses because he rushed to the front.
In order to eliminate these devil cavalry in one fell swoop, the soldiers of the independent regiment did not have time to feel sorry for the loss of the war horses.
In the words of the second battalion commander Du Aiguo: After this battle, it is just time to have a horse meat banquet in the base!
In the end, the two sides exchanged fire for only about ten minutes.
The elite cavalry squadron of the Japanese army led by Okazaki only escaped more than 20 devil cavalry.
On the flank battlefield, as far as the eye can see, the stumps and severed arms of men and horses are all over the ground, and the sprayed blood has soaked almost the entire land, silently telling the tragedy of the local battlefield here.
Outside the village in front of Dafengzhuang.
Kazuo Uehara, who was counting on Okazaki's cavalry troops, listened to the shouts of killing from all directions, and he didn't care about rescuing the tanks that had fallen into the anti-tank trenches.
Hurriedly ordered the third tank team to quickly break through in the direction of the road from which it came......
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