The battle is still going on. The 42nd Regiment does not accept its fate and is still stubbornly resisting.
After the reorganization in 1940, the Fifth Division abolished the brigade establishment and was reorganized into a three-unit mechanized division, with a total strength of 3,800 troops in the 42nd Regiment.
Before launching the attack on Johor, Matsui Tairo added a tank brigade and an artillery brigade to the 42nd Regiment, with a total strength of nearly 6,000 troops.
The artillery fire in Southern Africa was fierce. The Japanese artillery had been completely destroyed by the artillery fire in Southern Africa. The tank brigade was also seriously damaged. The weak armor of the Type 97 tank and the severely underpowered 47mm tank gun faced the "Leopard"
"type tanks pose no threat at all.
Kong Xin drove his No. 8527 tank and rushed into the Japanese army's position like a tiger among sheep, as if entering an uninhabited land.
After destroying three Japanese machine gun positions in a row, Kong Xin finally found a Japanese Type 97 tank, which made Kong Xin very happy.
"Japanese tanks and armor-piercing shells were found at 11 o'clock, prepare to shoot." Kong Xin was so excited that his voice was trembling...
The gunner and loader move very fast, so they need to be tight, otherwise the few remaining Type 97 tanks will become trophies of brother units.
The Type 97 tank on the opposite side also noticed the parked 8527, which was a precursor to 8527 preparing to fire. Today's tanks do not yet have the ability to maintain accurate shooting while in motion.
Bang
The Type 97 tank took the initiative to fire at 8527.
It's a pity that the 47mm gun cannot penetrate the front armor of 8527.
clang
Kong Xin clearly heard the sound of artillery shells hitting the tank body.
Then it disappeared. Not to mention the front armor, even the reactive armor was too lazy to react.
"Hurry up. Are you not even as fast as those little guys?" Kong Xin was dissatisfied with the crew members and actually let the little guys fire first. It was simply unforgivable.
The 88mm tank gun is still very powerful. The first shot from a distance of about 400 meters penetrated the soul. The armor-piercing bullet easily tore open the front armor of the Type 97 tank. It exploded inside the turret and caused a fatal explosion. The rivet structure of the Type 97 was like an exploding firework.
It was also torn apart and miserable.
"If you don't fight, you won't fight." Kong Xinluo regretted that this was not enough, but there was no opponent, and all the Japanese tanks had been destroyed.
But the battle is not over yet.
After all, there are thousands of Japs, and when they are completely defeated, they are also everywhere in the mountains and plains.
How could two legs run over the tank tracks? Many Japanese soldiers resisted on the spot, hoping to have a backrest before they died.
Several Japanese soldiers occupied a private house next to the road, and when 8527 passed by, they actually dared to shoot at 8527.
The driver adjusted his direction and crashed directly into a house.
The thatched adobe house was extremely fragile. 8527 passed through the wall as easily as cutting tofu with a hemp rope. Kong Xin's ears echoed with wailing and screaming, and he felt no pity in his heart.
Two Japanese soldiers rushed out of the house that had been turned into ruins. Before they could raise their rifles, they were shot to death by Chen Kai and a dozen other soldiers.
There was no time to clean the battlefield, so Chen Kai ran while loading bullets into the gun. Compared with the American Garand rifle, the biggest advantage of the Nyasaland rifle is that it can replenish bullets.
The Garand was developed later than the Nyasaland rifle, but its performance is still far from that of the Nyasaland rifle, not only in the way of ammunition supply, but also in accuracy and power.
Not far ahead is a small river. There are Japanese soldiers in the bridge hole. I don't know how many there are.
Kong Xin tried it and found that the design angle was not ideal.
Chen Kai arrived with the infantry. Three or four people took out grenades and prepared them. They shouted "one, two, three" and threw them in. A soldier carrying a flamethrower came over, pointed it at the bridge hole and started spraying.
tear apart
When the fire pillar is sprayed, it feels like the surrounding air is burning. The flamethrower equipped by the southern African military has an effective range of 200 meters and can be sprayed thirty times. The core temperature is as high as 1,500 degrees, which can melt steel.
The Japanese troops in the bridge cave were in bad luck.
After a flame passed, the air was filled with the smell of BBQ.
Chen Kai covered his nose in disgust and crossed the bridge as quickly as possible. Even veterans were disgusted by the smell. After asking, he would not eat meat for at least a week.
Don't even look at it.
By this time, the battle was basically over, with only sparse gunshots and sporadic explosions of grenades.
8527 didn’t dare to cross the bridge. The bridge probably wouldn’t be able to support the 40-ton weight.
This is the biggest weakness of heavy tanks operating in rainforest areas. The river network here is dense and most bridges are impassable. Light tanks weighing no more than 20 tons are better.
When returning to the defense line, dozens of southern African soldiers were surrounded in a cellar by the road.
"Throw out the gun and surrender, or throw a grenade." A southern African soldier held a grenade and demanded that the Japanese troops in the cellar surrender.
"If you can let us survive, we can surrender." The Japanese soldiers in the cellar negotiated terms, and the voice sounded like a guy who was proficient in Chinese.
There are many people in Japan who are proficient in Chinese, especially members of the upper-class aristocracy, and Chinese is a compulsory course.
It's a pity that when Han culture spread, it taught these white-eyed wolves. The Japanese only learned a superficial knowledge, and the essence of Han culture was completely incomprehensible to the Japanese.
"What are you talking to them about? Just blow them up." Chen Kai didn't want prisoners. The soldiers holding grenades obviously had no intention of treating the prisoners well. If the people in the cellar surrendered, they would die miserably after being brutally tortured.
This is normal. Soldiers holding grenades may have family members who were massacred by the Japanese army in the Far East. Retaliation for retaliation, the reincarnation of heaven.:.
"Don't throw it away, I thought of a more fun one." A southern African officer raised his hand and called over a bulldozer.
Why are there bulldozers on the battlefield?
There really is.
This was prepared for burying corpses after the war.
Johor is a tropical state, and if corpses are not disposed of in time, plague will occur. People in southern Africa tend to care about the environment.
When the bulldozers came over, the ground around them was shaking.
The Japanese in the cellar were panicked and their voices changed their tone: "We surrender, surrender immediately."
Unfortunately it was too late, the bulldozer engine was too loud for the driver to hear.
The cellar was soon buried. No one cared about how many people were in the cellar. The 42nd Regiment participated in the Nanjing Massacre. When they buried the women and children alive in Nanjing, those women and children must have begged.
Compared with the soldiers of the 5th Division, the 19th Division did far less.
When Gu/span> returned to the position, Kong Xin found that there was still more than half of the fuel in the tank.
It doesn't matter, there will be more battles to come, and 8527 will eventually become a meritorious tank.
The annihilation of the 42nd Regiment did not satisfy Ford. The Australian 8th Division was still facing the attack of the 5th Division. After the 19th Division annihilated the 42nd Regiment, Ford ordered the troops to continue to advance towards the rear of the 5th Division.
The troops were interspersed and surrounded the fifth division.
After Matsui Tataro learned that the 42nd Regiment had been completely wiped out, he immediately ordered the 5th Division to retreat.
But the retreat was not that easy. The Australian 8th Division led by Henry Kelson was not weak and held the 5th Division back tightly, not giving the 5th Division a chance to break away from the battle.
Matsui Tairo survived with a broken arm and ordered the 21st Regiment to withstand the attack of the 8th Division and cover the retreat of other troops.
Ford did not give Matsui Taitaro a chance to retreat. The 19th Division and the 6th East India Division launched a full-scale attack. Especially the 6th East India Division advanced very quickly. This force was a rainforest force specially formed for combat in rainforest areas, equipped with "
The Clouded Leopard tank is more suitable for advancing in rainforest areas than the Leopard. After a 12-hour emergency march, the Second Battalion of the 1st Regiment of the 6th Division seized the Golden Horse, the only way for the 5th Division to retreat, before the 5th Division, cutting off the 5th Division's retreat.
The fifth division's retreat.
The establishment of the East India Force is similar to that of the Southern African Defense Force, with a battalion of approximately 900 men.
During the rapid march, dozens of people of the Second Battalion fell behind, but this did not affect its combat effectiveness. In order to increase speed, the Second Battalion abandoned most of its heavy weapons. When they occupied Jinma, the troops only carried general-purpose machine guns and grenade launchers.
This was enough to deal with the Japanese army, which was even worse equipped.
The only thing that can pose a threat to the Second Battalion is the Type 97 medium tank equipped by the Fifth Division.
Don't look at it. When facing the "Leopard", the Type 97 tank is vulnerable.
When facing light infantry, the Type 97 tank is a killer weapon.
Dai Zhixin, the commander of the 2nd Battalion, knew the weaknesses of the Type 97 tank, and began to build positions after the troops arrived in Jinma.
The speed of the Japanese army was also very fast. Before the position was completed, the Japanese forwards had already arrived at Jinma.
Matsui Tataro had already had a premonition that something was not going to happen, and without delay, ordered the Japanese army to attack Kinma immediately.
There is a small river in front of the Second Battalion's position, which is very beneficial to the Second Battalion's defense. The Type 97 tank does not have the ability to wade through water and cannot directly attack the Second Battalion's position.
Even so, the Type 97 firing across the river still made Dai Zhixin very angry.
At this time, there is no need for anti-tank guns. Even an anti-tank rifle can cause fatal damage to the Type 97 tank.
It's a pity that the 2nd Battalion doesn't even have anti-tank rifles.
Just kidding, you are already equipped with an anti-tank gun, why do you need an anti-tank rifle?
Facts have proved that its existence is reasonable, and the anti-tank rifles widely used by European troops are indeed necessary for light infantry.
boom
A shell fired by a Type 97 tank exploded not far from Dai Zhixin's command post.
The power of the artillery shells is not great. The tank gun is a direct-fire gun, which does little damage to the trenches. It is not easy for the 47mm caliber to penetrate the sandbags around the machine gun position. The Johor people also hate the Japanese army. After the second battalion arrived in Kinma, some locals in Kinma
Many residents came over to help the Second Battalion dig trenches, including many gray-haired old men.
At this time, the Japanese infantry began to cross the river.
The river is actually not very deep, and people from southern Africa can walk directly across it.
But the Japanese can't do that. Even though the height difference between the dwarfs is only ten centimeters, the southern African soldiers can show their heads when crossing the river, but the dwarfs just have their heads down. From a distance, a large piece of 38-meter-sized caps are floating over the river.
The scene is very strange.
However, this also brought some trouble to the defenders. After all, targets in the water were difficult to aim at.
The river is not wide, and the little dwarfs will eventually surface.
Ta-ta-ta
General machine gun shooters are facing a gluttonous feast. They can finally enjoy shooting. However, they do not carry many magazines. Each magazine only has 75 bullets. They still have to use them sparingly. Long burst shooting combined with short burst shooting. This set
The machine gunners are all very skilled.
Skilled machine gunners need a lot of bullets to feed them. East India is backed by southern Africa, so there will definitely be no shortage of bullets. There will be as many as you need, as long as they are enough.
The Japanese troops crossing the river were in bad luck. The terrain on the river bank was complicated, and the bottom of the river was full of silt, making it impossible to flush even if they wanted to.
If you stay in the river, you can only be used as a target. When you rush ashore, you will face heavy fire from machine gunners. Some Japanese soldiers began to throw grenades. Unfortunately, the distance was too far and they were still not within the Second Battalion's position.
The first wave of attacks was quickly repulsed, and there were hundreds of Japanese corpses strewn across the river bank.
More Japanese soldiers didn't even have a chance to go ashore, and were killed directly in the river. Their bodies floated downstream, and the river water was dyed red with blood. The tropical fish, who are not picky about their food, were very happy because they could finally eat to their heart's content.
The Japanese army was not discouraged and quickly organized a second attack. This time the Japanese army conducted a five-minute fire attack.
Compared with the European battlefield, which can take a week to carry out firepower strikes, the intensity of the Japanese army's strikes is just scratching the itch.
However, this was already very difficult for the resource-poor Japanese army. When the Japanese army dispatched, they could not even carry a few shells. It was not that they did not want to carry them, but that they did not have them.
The 92 infantry gun is indeed an excellent artillery. This gun has a very low height and can be placed very close to the front line, making it difficult to be discovered.
However, the caliber of the 92 infantry gun is only 70 mm, which is seriously insufficient in power, and the number is small, so it cannot change the situation of the battle.
Just because the Second Battalion did not carry heavy weapons did not mean that it had no counterattack capabilities.
Before Dai Zhixin had time to worry, the roar of aircraft engines could be heard in the air.
Yes, the most powerful force in southern Africa is not the navy or the army, but the air force.
Under the cover of six Cheetahs, 12 Vulture close support aircraft equipped by the army began to dive. Their target was not the 92 infantry gun, but the Type 97 tank still showing off its power on the river bank.
The close support aircraft is a dive bomber. The performance of the Vulture is extremely outstanding. It can dive at an angle of nearly 90 degrees. It can hang a 50kg aerial bomb under each wing and a 500kg aerial bomb under the belly.
, can easily penetrate permanent fortifications with strong defenses.
There are many types of aerial bombs in southern Africa. High-explosive bombs and incendiary bombs are traditional skills. The best ones in the rainforest area are obviously incendiary bombs. Throwing a dozen of them can form a wall of fire that lasts for several hours. If the flames spread
Come on, humans have nowhere to hide.
In the rainforest area, the speed of human running cannot keep up with the speed of fire spread.
The biggest tragedy of the Fifth Division is that it is not equipped with sufficient anti-aircraft weapons.
So when the vultures began to swoop, the Fifth Division was almost unprepared.
A Vulture broke away from the aircraft group during a dive and flew towards the temporary command post where Matsui Tataro was located.
The staff of the command post tried to run away by carrying Matsui Tairo, but they could not run faster than the speed of the aerial bomb falling.
After the violent explosion, Matsui Tataro's temporary headquarters disappeared directly, and the power of the 500 kilogram aerial bomb completely destroyed the entire headquarters. Provide you with the fastest updates and free reading.:.
