Chapter 76 Chengde Profounding (III)

The commanders of the Chinese army have no experience in joint offensive operations at all, and there is no response to defend against enemy tanks and chariots and troops quickly breaking into division. Theoretically, the best way to deal with enemy tanks is to dispatch tanks or artillery groups to destroy their assault clusters and control their offensives, and finally use war defense artillery to destroy the opponent. The last method is to use suicide squads to destroy them by burning and blasting, but those are just theoretical things, or fallacies that are not close to later film and television dramas.

Zhang Xuewu knew that the Japanese Type 95 light tank, known as the Dou Tank, had not yet been equipped with Japanese troops. The only Japanese army can install and make actual combat investments is the Type 89 Qiluo medium tank. This type of medium tank that began to be designed and manufactured since 1927 and started to be equipped with the Kwantung Army at the end of 1931. The combat weight is 11 tons, equipped with a 37-mm cannon with an 130 caliber tube and two machine guns, has actually been very unbearable. The maximum limit of armor on the front is only to resist the hits of 37-mm shells from 200 meters away.

However, even such a so-called medium-sized tank that was extremely unbearable was only eleven tons, which may have posed a huge threat to the Tiger Gully position at this moment. The two light tanks in Zhang Xuewu's hands are not opponents of Type 89 at all. The deified war defense guns may play a major role under specific conditions, such as narrow blocks, under sufficient cover. However, it is undoubtedly very stupid to invest anti-tank guns on the wide-scale front line to deal with the joint attack of enemy tanks in the intra-tank attack.

In real war, the human-machine functions of the war defense artillery and the main tank gun are almost equal. One side has protection, and the other is unprotected. Once the first launch cannot penetrate the front of the enemy tank, the unlucky one will definitely be the war defense artillery rather than the tank. When the war defense artillery is fired, the flames at the muzzle and the smoke dispersed from the bore of the gun bore are excellent targets, and it is very easy to call the enemy's artillery fire to strike.

Sure enough, what Zhang Xuewu was most worried about happened. Gem's 37mm war defense cannon could not effectively penetrate the front armor of the Japanese Type 89 medium tank. Two war defense cannons were destroyed during artillery fire, and the other four were destroyed by the Japanese field artillery fire. The results he achieved were only to injure two Japanese Type 89 medium tanks.

Faced with Zhang Xuewu's anger, Xu Guohui also self-examination that the war defense artillery company should not be transferred from the urban fortifications to deploy to the front line positions. Fortunately, the Japanese tanks slipped on the ice slope and could not move forward. Zhang Xuewu told Xu Guohui that he would provide five minutes of division artillery support and asked Xu Guohui to send a powerful unit to set off from the flank position, first use machine guns to fire the infantry around the Japanese tanks, forcing them to gather behind the tanks for protection, and then use accurate artillery to kill and injure the accompanying infantry, cut off the infantry and tank connections, isolate the Japanese tanks, and finally use suicide squads to blast and destroy them from the bottom of the tank body with explosives.

Soon, sixteen field guns from the first cluster of the newly formed First Division Artillery Regiment began to launch artillery bombardment at the predetermined coordinates. The densely exploded shells swept the Japanese engineers trying to explode the ice, and even a 75-mm grenade hit the turret of the Japanese Type 89 tank.

The Chinese soldiers on the front line saw it very clearly. The rivets on the turret painted with the word "Strive" were shaken away. Two machine guns that had been firing frantically stopped. The short-barrel 37mm tank gun twisted and deformed and tilted to the side. Black smoke emerged from the rear of the chariot. More than a dozen Japanese soldiers on the side tried to approach the chariot to rescue the crew inside. However, under the firepower of the Maxin heavy machine gun of the defender, five Japanese soldiers who climbed onto the chariot were shot and fell, the Japanese stopped their rescue actions and lay obediently in the snow beside the side and did not dare to move.

After the initial panic, the Japanese infantry immediately retreated to the back of the chariot, intending to use the chariot as a bunker to continue to resist tenaciously. Although the engineer squad responsible for blasting has been completely destroyed, the Japanese soldiers who have not received the order to retreat can only look for cover to resist on the spot. The chariot is a good choice for them.

Major Jinichi Yano, who was in charge of the attack, saw that the "Fengyong" of the chariot brigade, was hit by the "Fengyong" in the chariot brigade, and failed to rescue, he had to shrink the troops that had just been deployed and relied on the chariot to fire with the defenders, and requested artillery support through the flag language.

Xu Guohui, who was so angry that the Japanese were gritting his teeth, immediately transferred the regiment heavy mortar company to the front line. With the precise artillery bombardment of the heavy mortar company, the Japanese infantry brigade hiding behind the chariots suddenly suffered heavy casualties. Liu Yejin tried hard to keep the troops from disintegrating, and while desperately requesting artillery support from the brigade, Heimatsu looked at the counterattack of the defending mortars and frowned slightly, because the mortars were different from infantry artillery or howitzer positions, and the caliber was calculated to calculate the location of the artillery position through ballistics and sounds of breaking through air.

Heimatsu hesitated and said, "I ordered the 54th Regiment to launch a general attack after artillery fire. Before dark, it is necessary to break through the outer defense line of Chengde and have the conditions to attack Shilingling, the main peak of Tiger Valley. My military boots will step into the command center of the newly formed First Division tomorrow!

Hi, more than a dozen assistants standing behind Heimatsu stood attentively, the success of the Rekhe Battle made the ambitions and Japanese officers and soldiers forget that they were fighting. One corps defeated a division of the Chinese army and a brigade swept the current enemy. Now the two divisions are at the city of Chengde. Is it still a problem to capture Chengde, which has only one Chinese division defended?

After receiving the request from Heimatsu Hiramatsu, the commander of the 27th Infantry Brigade, Naoki Matsuki immediately granted Heimatsu Hiramatsu Hiramatsu command of the 14th Field Artillery Regiment to Heimatsu.

With the counterattack of the 14th Field Artillery Fleet, the Chinese defenders in front of the Tiger Gower were trapped in a sea of ​​fire. Amid the rising and falling artillery sounds, the frontier defenders were holding their positions regardless of casualties.

Li Guofeng, a native of Peking, is a student who graduated from the eighth infantry department of Nanjing Military Academy. He feels very lucky to be assigned to the new First Division. Not only because the new First Division is one of the three existing German and equipment divisions in China, but more importantly, Zhang Xuewu, the commander of the new First Division, is a very young and energetic young general. Being able to be appointed as a general at the age of 23 is really out of reach for Li Guofeng, who was appointed as a second lieutenant at the age of 25. Although Zhang Xuewu has his background and experience, what Li Guofeng admires is the feat of Zhang Xuewu's courage to violate military orders and lead the alone army to fight the Japanese invaders in Shenyang for several days.

Li Guofeng, who was squatting in the anti-cannon hole, covered the muzzle of the rifle with his hands, felt constant shock. Although he knew that the Japanese army's fifty-mm, seventy-five-mm, and ninety-mm field cannons could not destroy the anti-cannon hole under the frozen soil without hitting directly, he was still uneasy in his heart. The passion and passion of the oath that time had been baptized by the cruel battle.
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