The confrontation between the Japanese Nanzhi Chariot Brigade and the Eighth Route Army's armored forces, the final outcome of the battle was beyond the expectations of all parties.
The little devil is very cautious.
At first, it was a so-called armored corps that quickly rose up under the eyes of the Japanese. Later, during the surprise attack on Datong and the battle that penetrated Luxi Luzhong, this armored unit of the Eighth Route Army was also completely exposed to the Japanese army.
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The Japanese also conducted quite detailed intelligence investigations on this armored unit of the Eighth Route Army.
And judged the approximate number of mechanized combat vehicles owned by this so-called mobile force of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the types of vehicles, the strength of the attached artillery, etc.
However, since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army has shown poor equipment levels.
The Japs preconceptionally believed that this so-called Eighth Route Army mobile unit had limited armored combat vehicles and could only carry out petty theft and harassment operations.
Datong was attacked by surprise because this force caught the 26th Division off guard and launched a surprise attack while the main force of the 26th Division was moving south.
As for Luzhong and Luxi being penetrated, it was also because there were no elite armored Japanese troops in the area of Luzhong and Luxi.
This allowed the mobile unit of the Eighth Route Army to become rampant.
Many Japanese officers arrogantly believe that once this so-called mobile force, the so-called armored combat force of the Eighth Route Army collides with the tank force of the Empire of Japan, it will be destroyed in an instant.
There is absolutely no possibility of the second outcome.
After all, the Japanese army underestimated the rapid development of the Eighth Route Army's equipment level in the past two years.
Even more underestimated is the rapid response force directly under the Eighth Route Army Taihang, especially the rapidly accumulated combat effectiveness of the elite armored force.
How would the Japanese know that the Eighth Route Army, especially the first team and the new second regiment led by Li Yunlong, has been focusing on building elite armored forces for more than half a year.
For this reason, armored force training in the base area is in full swing.
All members of the armored force are elite veterans drawn from the first team, the New Second Regiment, the New First Regiment, and even the entire Taihang Eighth Route Army.
Basically, they all have cultural heritage.
Many veterans graduated from some cultural courses offered by a team.
In the subsequent training, everyone mastered the theory of armored combat very quickly.
As for the actual training of armored troops, Kong Jie spent a lot of money and did not play any bells and whistles at all.
The training environment for everyone is much better than when the Central Army trained armored forces.
Soldiers can directly use the training tank for practical training.
In order to gain solid experience in armored combat as soon as possible, the soldiers even eat, drink and have sex without leaving the vicinity of the tanks.
Everyone is racing against time to enhance their experience in driving tanks, and at the same time train various collaborative tactics, such as infantry-tank collaborative tactics, artillery-tank collaborative tactics, as well as various collaborative tactics between tanks and tanks, and between tanks and mobile units.
From this perspective, it can even be said that the soldiers have been waiting for the opportunity to fight against the Japanese's elite armored forces for who knows how long.
After the decisive battle between the two sides broke out, the soldiers exerted all their strength.
I have been bullied by Japanese tanks for so many years.
The soldiers drove various tanks and armored vehicles belonging to the Eighth Route Army, galloping and fighting on the flat and open plateau terrain in western Inner Mongolia.
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"The Fifth Squadron is in urgent need of urgent reinforcements!"
"The Sixth Light Tank Squadron requests tactical guidance!"
"The First Tank Search Brigade was attacked by the main armored force of the Eighth Route Army and suffered heavy casualties."
"Sir!"
"Sir..."
One after another bad news came one after another, and the old devil Nan Nanzhi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
The majestic chariot brigade of the Japanese Empire!
On the day of the confrontation with the Eighth Route Army, an armored force that was once a beggar-like force, it collapsed at the first touch.
Defeat is like a mountain falling!
Everything happened so that the old devil Nan Zhi was caught off guard.
At this time, the strength of the entire Nanzhi tank group was not concentrated in one place. For six days, they were chasing the small groups of armored units of the Eighth Route Army that were harassing them.
The Japanese tanks have been dispersed unconsciously.
By the time Nanzhi noticed it, it was too late.
After the battle broke out, the damn Eighth Route Army immediately cut off the Nanzhi tank cluster's transport team that contacted the tank tanks of each branch.
Completely cutting off the fuel supply to Japanese tanks.
When the Eighth Route Army's modified tanks and ferocious artillery were fully deployed, the little devils who were beaten so hard that they could hardly lift their heads realized the reversal of the situation, and began to retreat honestly.
The originally arrogant pursuer soon became a desperate and desperate escapee.
It's just that the immediate situation was different from the situation when the Japanese army pursued the Eighth Route Army's armored forces.
When the Japs chased the fleeing armored troops of the Eighth Route Army, the armored troops on one side of the Eighth Route Army ran very fast, and from time to time they set traps along the way to trap the Japs.
Now, the roles of both parties have been reversed.
Amid the rapid pursuit by the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army, the tanks on the Japanese side that were almost running out of fuel soon began to retreat and their final fuel consumption was exhausted.
"Your Excellency, Squadron Leader, our tank is almost out of fuel!!!"
While still on the run, this bad news came.
The Jaap squadron leader of the Japanese medium tank squadron was standing on top of a 1997-modified medium command tank. Looking back, he could see the tanks of the Eighth Route Army that were still pursuing them not far away.
He realized something was wrong.
Pushing forward for a full six days, the imperial tanks pursued the fleeing armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army, and the pursuit was too deep.
The front line stretched even hundreds of kilometers in one breath.
The entire western Inner Mongolia region is mostly flat and open plain terrain, which is particularly suitable for tank troops to fight.
If they want to withstand the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army and retreat to the base camp, it will take at least one or two days' drive.
But the fuel, which is about to bottom out, cannot sustain it for such a long time.
The transportation troops sent by the brigade commander for reinforcements did not appear in time.
I’m afraid we won’t be able to wait for this fuel.
"Asshole!"
The Japanese squadron leader cursed, and the adjutant beside him was also worried: "Sir, what are we going to do? If we continue to escape like this, sooner or later we will be overtaken by these Eighth Route Army troops because they run out of fuel.
At some point, our tanks will run out of fuel and completely lose their mobility, and we may not even have a chance to counterattack!"
In the end, what else can the two old devils do together?
Let’s fight!
Take advantage of the last fuel to ensure the mobility of the tank.
Otherwise, once the fuel is exhausted, there is no difference between a tank that has lost its mobility and a pile of immovable, heavy scrap metal. It can only become a lamb to be slaughtered.
Soon, the Japanese tanks turned around one by one, got into formation, and prepared to fight against the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army.
On the other side, the commander of the third company of the First Armored Corps, who was leading the team, saw the little Japanese looking back at the battle, and his face became more excited.
"Haha, comrades, this little devil is obviously impatient and won't run away. Here's our chance!"
In the ensuing armored battle between the two sides, the third company commander did not have any fancy tactics.
It's rather like history repeating itself.
Seeing that the Japanese tanks were concentrated in an area, they seemed to be preparing for a desperate fight, considering that a frontal attack might cause unnecessary casualties.
The third company commander directly ordered to use the superior mobility of his own tanks to divide the attack into three lines. One line was to attack from the front to attract the attention of the Japanese army. The other two lines were detoured from the flanks, using the relatively bulging terrain on both sides to obscure the view, and strangled them on three sides.
The Japanese chariot troops.
What a pity!
This is completely different from the situation when two squadrons of Japanese tanks strangled a company of armored soldiers.
The first company commander deliberately laid a trap and waited for the Japanese to split up his troops and strangle them, and then took the opportunity to kill the Japanese chariot troops.
As for the Japanese medium tank squadron in front of them, they were chased to the end of the road and could only be forced to launch a final decisive battle.
There is basically no suspense at this point in the battle.
According to the deployment of the third company commander, before attacking the Japanese tanks from the flanks, the soldiers on both sides used coordinated self-propelled artillery to conduct several rounds of artillery bombardment in advance towards the area where the Japanese tanks were concentrated.
The Japanese suffered a unilateral bombardment.
The smoke that filled the Japanese military area has not cleared yet.
The third company commander gave an order, and the tanks and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army, which were strangled on three sides, descended from the mountain like tigers and pounced on the Japanese tank squadron.
So awake and seeing that the situation was over, the Japanese squadron leader shouted "Long Live the Emperor" and then, with a look of despair, led the rest of the Japanese soldiers to resist desperately.
Chariots roared across the plain.
The roar of artillery fire is non-stop!
Even immersed in the final despair and madness, the Japanese squadron leader who led the team was not only a little confused, but these fierce enemy troops and the desperate modified tanks were really familiar to him.
Those so-called Eighth Route Army troops?
The two sides fought for more than 20 minutes, and most of the Japanese tank squadron had suffered casualties.
In despair, the roar of the plane's engine came from the sky.
A kid shouted ecstatically: "Sir, it's our air reinforcements that have arrived!"
"They are the flying troops of our Empire of Japan!"
"吆西!"
The Japanese squadron leader was also overjoyed. The group of young Japanese seemed to have grasped the last hope in a desperate situation, as if they had found the only straw floating on the water in the midst of drowning.
"Kill the chicken and give it to——"
The little devils roared.
The third company commander looked at the Japanese fighter jets and bombers that were roaring rapidly in the air, his brows furrowed.
"Damn it, it's the kid's plane again. Grandma's. Isn't it just to bully us that we don't have a plane? Comrades, get ready and shoot down the kid's plane for me. I have to let the kid know that we have no plane.
People on the ground are not easy to bully!"
"Hit——"
The militia training manual jointly authored by generals at all levels of the Eighth Route Army headed by Kong Jie contains detailed theoretical experience on how to use various weapons for air combat and fight Japanese aircraft.
Later, Kong Jie convened a team of generals to write a book on systematic military theory guidance on how to conduct air-to-air combat with anti-aircraft weapons.
A team of elite armored troops is also equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and many anti-aircraft guns for anti-air combat.
If these anti-aircraft weapons are used to deal with the latest fighter jets of the Japanese Navy, they may not be able to cope with them. Even if they can cause some damage to the Japanese aircraft, they themselves may also suffer a lot of casualties.
But if we just deal with these Japanese and puppet fighter jets from the Wuchagou Japanese and Puppet Airfield in Inner Mongolia as we do now, even most of them are old-fashioned Japanese fighter jets.
That seems more than enough.
"Anti-air formation, fire!"
Every elite armored company in a team has extremely rich experience in air combat.
Facing the reinforcements from the Japanese flying squadron, the soldiers quickly drove their chariots and dispersed their formations to avoid being bombarded by concentrated firepower from the Japanese bombers.
Then they responded with anti-aircraft machine guns and rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns.
The soldiers did not fight blindly, they even fought with some ease.
According to the theoretical guidance of anti-air combat, the soldiers waited for the Japanese bombers to dive to a lower point and when the speed dropped to the minimum, then they used firepower and artillery fire to cover the mid-air area.
To increase the probability of hitting the aircraft.
The combat performance of these old Japanese aircraft is very average, especially those old bombers that are about to be eliminated and must use dive bombing.
The plane climbs very slowly.
This is like putting your face in front of the firepower of the soldiers' anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns.
So...
While the little Japs on the ground were cheering with expectation, a Japs flying force with more than a dozen planes roared over. After only two rounds of bombings, they left behind the wreckage of several fallen planes and dragged a few
Chang Yan flew away in a rather embarrassed manner.
..."Sir, sir, the air reinforcements have left again!"
Japanese squadron leader: "..."
In fact, this is no wonder the Japanese flying troops.
In fact, after the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched an armored duel, the vast area in western Inner Mongolia was almost filled with armored units from both sides fighting.
As for the Japanese air force reinforcements, these classic aircraft flying out from Wuchagou Airport are limited, and they can only hover over the western Inner Mongolia region, bombing one round in the east and strafing one round in the west.
From time to time, troops from the Nanzhi Chariot Brigade were reinforced for ground operations, but they could not actually reverse the war situation between the two sides.
Occasionally, we encounter tough situations like the Third Company of Armored Corps.
Maybe a few planes will be destroyed.
The leader of the Japs flying squadron is not stupid.
Pick the soft ones first, and just retreat as soon as you encounter the tough ones. It is obviously impossible for the Imperial tank troops on the ground to escape, so there is no need to waste air reinforcements here.
At this point, the little Japanese soldiers in the Japanese tank squadron, who were at the end of their strength, were completely desperate.
The third company commander led the soldiers to launch the final tank annihilation battle...