Chapter 793 Living Target (two chapters in one)
"Boom..." A light tank rushed into the county town with black smoke.
The Japanese and puppet troops, who were advancing and retreating in the ruins, caught a life-saving straw in despair, rushed all around the chariots, and the morale of the troops became high again.
Aircraft, artillery, tanks... These three weapons have always been the three magic weapons that the Japanese army has competed on the battlefield.
Practical combat has proved that the role of aircraft and heavy artillery in street fighting is very limited. At the moment of despair, the chariots have arrived. Therefore, everyone put the hope of defeating the national rescue army on the chariots in front of them.
At the same time, the National Salvation Army hiding in the ruins also discovered this light tank.
On the battlefield in North China, the Japanese army rarely dispatched chariot troops, so only a few soldiers of the National Salvation Army had seen the chariot and understood their power. Facing the light tanks that suddenly appeared in front of them, most of the soldiers showed a look of at a loss and panic on their faces.
Fortunately, the deputy company commander led the team to stand up at this time.
Before joining the National Salvation Army, he served as a platoon leader in the Jinsui Army.
On the front battlefield, he had almost encountered any weapons equipped by the Japanese army in North China, and he was also a veteran who crawled out of the pile of dead people. He had seen the power of these heavy weapons on the battlefield with his own eyes and had a lot of combat experience, otherwise he would not have been so reused by the National Rescue Army.
In his eyes, the light tank equipped by the Japanese was just an iron coffin.
The Jinsui Army was very well equipped at that time, and many troops were equipped with war defense artillery. In the face of such weapons, the Japanese light tanks would be blown into scrap iron as soon as they appeared, which would be vulnerable.
Now I join the National Salvation Army. Although the equipment of the National Salvation Army is also very good, it needs guns and cannons. The equipment level in some aspects is even better than that of the Jinsui Army, but it lacks anti-tank weapons.
In addition, they fought in street fighting this time, and they could die in Jinzhong City at any time. The only few war defense artillery of the National Salvation Army was even more unlikely to equip them, so the troops involved in street fighting in the city were almost not equipped with anti-tank weapons.
In this way, this light tank became a killer weapon in the hands of the Japanese and puppet troops, and could rush around the city and kill and kill and rescue the troops everywhere...
At this time, the best way for the National Salvation Army to deal with the tank is to avoid it, concentrate its troops and firepower to raid the Japanese infantry hiding behind the tank, and run away after fighting, without giving the tank a chance to show its power.
Of course, when it is absolutely necessary to fight against the tank, the National Salvation Army can also use grenades and explosive packs to destroy the tank, but the cost of doing so is very high. Grenades and explosive packs require soldiers to rely on their own flesh and blood to send them to the tank chassis to detonate them. In this process, a large number of soldiers will definitely be killed by tanks and Japanese soldiers who protect tanks!
So in the next street battle, you won’t be able to fight with the tank head-on.
The deputy company commander raised his eyebrows and shouted out the word "retreat" from him.
Of course, not all warriors know the power of tanks.
"Da da da da...b...b...b..."
The familiar sound of firefighting quickly rang out on another position more than 300 meters away from the deputy company commander. A squad of the National Salvation Army soldiers did not choose to retreat in the face of the tanks, and planned to continue raiding the Japanese. They fought and ran away, and did not take the tanks rushing to the front of the team seriously.
Three Japanese soldiers running behind the tank fell to the ground, and the eight national-savior soldiers who participated in the raid immediately stood up and moved, trying to avoid the Japanese and puppet troops' counterattack.
But the tanks reacted too quickly. As soon as their gunshots sounded, the tank turrets turned, and the black-hole gun barrels pointed directly at the hiding place of the National Savior Army.
"Boom..." Because the two sides were very close, the cannon was bored, and the violent explosion sounded at the position where the gun was just now. Three soldiers who were about to retreat were blown up on the spot, and the other living soldiers subconsciously fell to the ground. With this delay, they had no chance to evacuate the battlefield immediately.
As soon as the cannon stopped, he quickly got up from the ground and prepared to move again. But the tank gun fired too fast. As soon as he got up from the ground, the second shell shot from the tank gun hit them just right.
At the same time, nearly twenty Japanese soldiers were carrying guns and surrounded them under the cover of tanks.
"Boom... da da da da da... bab..." A dense sound of fire exchange was soon heard on the battlefield, but the initiative of this fire exchange was in the hands of the Japanese.
Under the front and back attack of the Japanese encirclement troops and tanks, all the soldiers of the National Salvation Army who were still alive were killed...
In the front command of the National Salvation Army in the city, a phone call broke the tense and exciting atmosphere here.
The offensive and defensive battle has been fighting for more than an hour, and the results of the battle are remarkable. Everyone in the command center was very excited in the face of the good news coming back from the front line.
If the command center hadn't needed people, many people would have wanted to go to the battlefield to fight the Japanese with weapons.
"Captain, there is something happening in the west of the city!" A telephone soldier put down the microphone and his face became serious. He looked at Zhou Cheng very anxious to report.
"The Japanese dispatched tanks and armored vehicles and cooperated with the infantry to attack forward. The troops we participated in street fighting were only equipped with light weapons and were no match for holding chariots."
"So far, the Second Battalion has been killed by the Japanese tanks, and our results are less than one infantry team. If we cannot find a way to destroy those tanks as soon as possible, the troops will definitely suffer a lot, and street fighting will end early, resulting in the scheduled combat mission."
"There is nothing wrong with Battalion Commander Fang and others?" Li Honghui asked with a worried look on his face.
The telephone soldiers quickly reported: "They thought of using grenades and explosive packs to deal with the Japanese tanks, but the cost is too high. In order to destroy a tank, two infantry squad soldiers were sacrificed!"
"If we continue to use explosives to blow up according to this casualty ratio, the remaining troops of the Second Battalion may not be able to kill all the chariots entering the city!"
Zhou Cheng suddenly spoke: "Contact Fang Shanlin immediately. If you encounter Japanese chariots again, you must not fight against them!"
"In addition, this order will be passed to the city guards in the other three directions."
"Although there are no war defense guns in the city, I have left two anti-aircraft machine gun platoons. Even if the Japanese deploy light tanks, the anti-aircraft machine gun can penetrate armor from the side, kill the Japanese inside the chariot, and knock the chariot down!"
"The Japanese in the other three directions have not entered the city yet, so they will not use air defense machine guns for a short period of time. Immediately notify the air defense company to reinforce the west of the city and use the fastest speed to knock down all tanks and armored vehicles entering the city."
On the battlefield in the west of the city, with the support of chariots, the Japanese army was like a god's help. Each commando attacked forward for 500 meters in just half an hour, and made rapid progress.
Stimulated by one victory after another, all the Japanese army felt that they could easily reach the center of the city.
"We will win if we go a thousand meters ahead. Let's continue to assault forward and kill!" The Japanese squadron leader hid behind the chariot, waving his command knife while ordering.
"Boom..." The observer inside the tank seemed to find a suspicious target and shot it without hesitation.
In the splashing flames, a broken wall thirty meters away was instantly blown to pieces.
What made the Japanese regret was that there was not a soldier from the National Savior Army behind the broken wall.
This kind of fighting style was invented by the Japanese army itself. Instead of being passively beaten in street battles and waiting for the National Salvation Army to come and attack it, it is better to take the initiative to attack. Even if you only have two ten attacks to kill the National Salvation Army, it will be profitable.
The counterattack effect was very good at the beginning.
Broken walls and ruins are the best cover for the National Salvation Army to fight street battles. The Japanese took the initiative to attack and saw the Broken walls and ruins that might have hidden the National Salvation Army, and they bombarded them with tanks. They really killed many National Salvation Army ambushed, but this was only limited to the first few artillery.
As they fought, the National Salvation Army also understood the Japanese tricks and took the initiative to withdraw the ambushers hiding behind the broken walls and the castle.
"Boom..." The tank gun did not stop the shelling because of the accident just now, and roared again at a ruin not far away.
The bricks and stones piled together were instantly blown away, and they flew everywhere like the scattered flowers of the goddess.
As a result, the Japanese army was disappointed again, and there was not a single national rescue army behind the ruins.
In the next assault, the tank gun fired six shells in a row, but all of them returned in vain.
If you observe carefully, you will find a rule that the broken walls and ruins targeted by tank guns are within a range of fifty meters and fifty meters around the assault forces.
At this time, the experience summarized by the Chinese and Japanese troops before the assault.
The city is full of ruins and ruins. If it is too far apart, there will definitely be broken walls and ruins blocking the view of both sides. Therefore, when the National Salvation Army raids the Japanese, the hiding position will basically not exceed 30 meters away from the Japanese.
In this case, the Japanese army will definitely not bombard the broken walls and ruins further away if they take the initiative.
But the Japanese ignored a problem.
In the previous street battles, they had only infantry and their targets were very small. In order not to prevent the broken walls and ruins from blocking their view, the National Salvation Army had to choose to raid at close range.
Now it's different. The Japanese came with tanks and armored vehicles, and their targets were much larger than those of infantry. Even if there were broken walls and ruins in the middle, the National Salvation Army could easily hit the target fifty meters away.
So the air defense company that rushed to the battlefield did not lie near the tank, but lurked in the ruins fifty meters away from the tank.
The tank guns were fired very hard, but no shells fell near the anti-aircraft machine gun.
The side is the weakest position of the tank, and the protective armor is very thin. In some places, even bullets fired from heavy machine guns can be penetrated, not to mention more powerful air-resistant machine guns.
The machine gunner quickly puts the target into the sight, and after the opponent enters the best shooting position, pull the trigger without hesitation.
The powerful recoil of the anti-aircraft machine gun almost shook the gunman's shoulders apart, and he still gritted his teeth and fired at the target until the tank was beaten into a hornet's nest.
The tank that had been hit by more than a dozen anti-aircraft machine gun bullets did not stop on the spot, and continued to rush forward in a daze, as if it had not been destroyed.
But the tank handles and gunners inside were killed, and many instrument parts were destroyed, and the possibility of continuing to operate was lost. They just did not turn off the engine immediately and continued to assault in the direction just now.
The Japanese hiding behind the tank did not know these situations.
Still counterattack according to the previous combat plan.
More than 20 Japanese soldiers immediately left the team, holding rifles and machine guns, surrounded the air defense machine guns.
Judging from previous counterattack experience, the faster they encircle, the smaller the chances of the national rescue army escaping.
So these Japanese didn't even see the movements of the tanks.
The squadron leader has been hiding behind the tank, and the tank has recently been around. Seeing that the tank had no intention of stopping to fight back, he immediately realized something was wrong. He felt that the gunner inside the tank had an accident and had not reacted yet, so he quickly found a way to remind the gunner to fight back.
But the gunner in the chariot was like not hearing it, and had no chance to counterattack at all. He continued to assault forward, without even the intention of reducing his speed, and he rushed towards a pile of sandbags in front of him.
The squadron leader realized that something was wrong with the tank and quickly ordered the subordinates on the side: "Baga, there is something wrong with the tank. Let the encirclement troops withdraw immediately, hurry up!"
"Dongdongdongdong...dakdada..."
The moment the retreat order was exited, gunfire also sounded.
In addition to the familiar machine gun strafing sounds, there is also a series of dull anti-aircraft machine gun shooting sounds.
Then I saw the surrounding troops being beaten to death in pieces.
The squadron leader was confused because the raid in front of him was completely different from the previous one.
After the troops were attacked, they died in front of the soldiers, and the soldiers behind still had a chance to lie down.
But in the raid in front of him, the soldiers rushing behind the team were also beaten to death.
The bullets fired by the National Salvation Army were like candied haws. One bullet could take away several soldiers, and its power was greater than that of machine gun bullets.
Thinking of the sandbag that had already hit the sandbag and stopped, the squadron leader suddenly woke up: "Baga, the National Salvation Army is equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns. The weapon used to shoot the tank just now was anti-aircraft machine guns, which can easily penetrate the side armor of the tank!"
"The surrounding troops retreat immediately, the troops stop advancing, and report the situation to the wing captain immediately!"
"The National Salvation Army can use anti-aircraft machine guns to destroy the tanks in front of us, and it will definitely destroy other combat vehicles!"
The Japanese squadron leader reacted quickly, but Zhou Cheng sent four anti-aircraft machine guns to reinforce the west of the city.
When the tanks that covered them were attacked, the other three anti-aircraft machine guns were also ready for combat.
The report of the squadron leader had not reached Colonel Hamano's ears, and another tank and two armored vehicles were destroyed on other battlefields in the west of the city.
"Sir, something happened to the chariot troops!" The messenger sent by the Japanese squadron leader finally found Colonel Hamano and was very anxious to report.
"When we attacked, we were ambushed by the National Salvation Army. They not only equipped with light and heavy machine guns and mortars, but also equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns, which could easily penetrate the side armor of the tanks. The tanks that covered our assault were hit, the gunners and tankers were all killed, and the tanks were destroyed."
"The squadron leader asked Bei Zhi to remind the commander that the National Salvation Army is likely to use anti-aircraft machine guns on other battlefields, so please be prepared for the chariot troops!"
Chapter completed!