In fact, there was no need to retreat in a hurry, because the Japanese army was attacking frantically outside Tanzhou City, and there were no extra troops to protect the baggage troops, but the ammunition and food could not be delivered for a long time, and the morale was suddenly seriously affected, and the intensity of the attack weakened a lot.

After Han Lin returned to Black Elk Peak, he chose a dirt slope nearby, buried the sacrificed officers and soldiers simply, registered a detailed list, and set up a monument to commemorate it in the future.

"Today, with the information we received, we set up an ambush with 2,000 people, completely annihilating more than 1,000 Japanese baggage troops, and losing more than 240 people ourselves.

"The Japanese army responded to the battle in a hurry, and their quick reaction, rich experience, high shooting accuracy, skillful use of close-range curved firepower such as grenadiers, and very clever coordination of rifles and grenadiers, still caused us great casualties, which shows that their psychological quality is very stable."

"Let's look at us again, the command level of officers at all levels is low, the soldiers do not have enough experience in actual combat, the attack action is rigid and inflexible, and they cannot give full play to the power of semi-automatic weapons and automatic weapons.

"This time it is just a heavy force of the Japanese army, at most it is a second-rate or even third-rate combat effectiveness, its performance makes me feel impressive, no wonder in the battlefield of Southeast Asia, our garrison will be defeated and retreated, unable to withstand the attack of the Japanese army. When the situation improves, I will ask my superiors to give you more ammunition and mortars, and send professional instructors to train the troops. ”

"I admire the bravery and fearlessness of the officers and men in battle, but is there a problem with their understanding of suppressive firepower? The high ammunition consumption of automatic weapons is fundamental to ensuring maximum fire suppression, so that the infantry can quickly get close to the enemy, and you have too little ammunition in reserve. Smith said.

He took the binoculars and watched a real battle between the Shancheng government army and the Japanese army, and summed up several problems, the Japanese army is indeed a difficult enemy, and the backward Shancheng government army is almost dragging the enemy with their lives.

Secondly, Han Lin's American-style equipment brigade had serious shortcomings, they did not know how to give full play to the power of the weapons in their hands, and they needed to strengthen training.

Then there is the lack of ammunition, the Browning large-caliber machine gun cannot achieve continuous fire suppression, and the bunker chosen by the Japanese army, whether it is a car or a wooden frame car, cannot withstand the strafing of heavy machine guns at all, and one bullet chain is not enough, then two bullet chains!

"It's not terrible to have problems, you have experience after practicing on the battlefield a few times, in fact, you have been on the battlefield once, and you feel the threat of death up close, and your psychological state is very different from that of a recruit. As for the shooting problem you mentioned, this has something to do with the general environment of the Yamashiro government, and ammunition cannot be used openly like the United States! Han Lin shook his head and said.

On January 3, the Japanese Sixth Division was all put into battle, and the third division stormed Tanzhou, but the firepower of the defending troops suddenly became stronger, and several attacks were met with intensive artillery bombardment, and the Japanese had to retreat in defeat.

After launching their last attack on the 4th, the Japanese troops began to retreat at night, and were immediately surrounded and intercepted by various units of the Ninth Theater, resulting in heavy casualties among the three divisions, and they retreated while fighting, and did not return to their original starting points until the 16th.

The result of the Third Battle of Tanzhou was a complete victory for the Ninth War Zone.

"The theater command really dares to open its eyes and tell nonsense, the total strength of the Japanese army in this attack is more than 120,000 people, and more than 56,000 people were annihilated in one battle, which is almost half of the number, according to this calculation, isn't it a devastating blow?" Han Lin looked at the documents of the Theater Command and immediately smiled.

The Ninth War Zone has not yet submitted data to the Military Commission, and the reason why Xue Boling sent someone to show him the draft first was also to unify the caliber, and he needed to turn a blind eye to such a thing.

"You mean to say that the results reported by the Ninth War Zone are heavily mixed?" Peng Jiacui asked curiously.

"The actual casualties of the Japanese army, I estimate that they are at most half of the reported figures, and the fact that more than 20,000 Japanese troops can be annihilated in one battle is already very amazing. But it doesn't matter, the current mountain city government needs such achievements to prove its worth, and it is in our own interests to boast about it. ”

"In all parts of Southeast Asia, the American, British, and Dutch garrisons were defeated and retreated under the attack of the Japanese army, and only we achieved a great victory in the war against Japan, which was a great improvement to the image and status of the Yamashiro government in the world. Do you think the bigwigs of the Military Commission don't know that the number of good news in the Ninth Theater is watery? They know it in their hearts! Han Lin said.

Existence is reasonable, and the Ninth Theater's report to the Central Military Commission this time is more about taking into account the needs of reality, anyway, the great victory in the campaign is a fact, and exaggerating a little is a trivial matter, so there is no need to worry too much about it.

Nearly 60,000 Japanese troops were annihilated, and only more than 1,000 guns were captured, 11 mountain guns, more than a dozen heavy machine guns, and more than 100 light machine guns.

"Boss, can we withdraw to the station?" Fang Zhaoan said.

"Yes, we can transport all the food, weapons and ammunition and other materials we have captured back to the base, although the commandos will not use these Japanese weapons, but the guerrillas can use them, and the captured mortars and mountain artillery are also the firepower we need. As for the captured cars and mule carts, they naturally had to be taken away, and this means of transport was a drop in the bucket for the Ninth Theater of Operations, but it could play a great role in our guerrilla command. ”

"The brothers who died in this battle should hire local people to take care of their graves, and do not erect a monument for the time being until the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, and write a document on the situation to me after returning home, and give them a pension according to the regulations, and as long as the secret service is still in the service for one day, they must ensure that their families can have a lot of food and tea." Han Lin said.

The firepower of the Japanese baggage troops was weak, and this time the two sides combined, more than 900 rifles, six heavy machine guns, and 16 light machine guns were captured, and what was surprising was that 90 mm mortars and 75 mm mountain guns were found on the Japanese cars, which belonged to disassembled parts, probably to support the battlefield, and the number of shells was very considerable.

This Type 94 75-mm mountain gun belongs to the artillery wing of the Japanese divisions and regiments, except for the permanent Horse Pulling Division and the Thomas Division, some new divisions and regiments in the follow-up are not even equipped with 105 mm howitzers, and the mountain artillery is the main artillery.

As for the 90-millimeter mortar, the Japanese army called the mortars below this standard as curved guns, and the number of equipment at present is relatively small, and only the troops fighting in the Jiangnan area will be equipped with them, this is because the accuracy is low, and the rate of fire is too fast, and the pressure on the baggage troops is too great.

However, in the later stages of the Pacific War, the number of mortars increased, especially in the theater of Southeast Asia, and mortars had many advantages, far more practical than the Type 92 infantry guns and 75-mm mountain guns.

(End of chapter)