The shells exploded in the Japanese convoy, instantly blowing up the unstable shoulder bags one by one. Some bags were even lifted into the air by the shells, including people and vehicles, and then fell heavily back to the ground.
After a few rolls, the Japanese convoy was in a bit of chaos, and its traveling speed also stagnated.
But it was just a "stagnation". After just a few seconds, the Japanese convoy attacked the Eighth Route Army convoy as if possessed. It was so densely packed that even the car lights were turned on... They didn't seem to expect it.
This will reveal your position, and just wanting to see the enemy clearly will allow the machine gun on the sidecar to shoot as it advances.
However, the Japanese machine gun fire actually had no effect at all.
Because the Eighth Route Army uses half-track armored vehicles, the steel plate in front of the windshield has been lowered in combat mode... This is Wang Xuexin's design based on the Yingjiang half-track armored vehicle. During normal marches, the steel plate can be propped up as a rain shield.
It is used as a sunshade cover. During combat, the steel plate is put down in front of the glass, leaving only two round holes in front of the driver's seat for observation.
As soon as the enemy's machine gun bullets came over, they either hit the wedge-shaped armor in front of the car, or hit the steel plate in front of the windshield. There was a "clang, clang, clang, clang" sound, and the bullets ricocheted everywhere around.
It was unbelievable to the Eighth Route Army soldiers that the Japanese would use such tactics.
Because it is obvious that the armored defense of the Eighth Route Army is better than that of the Japanese. In this case, the Japanese should turn off the car lights and stay as concealed as possible, because bullets cannot hurt the opponent anyway, so why expose themselves to the enemy's firepower?
This is common sense, and anyone with a little bit of combat thinking knows what to do.
However……
This is not how the Japs usually train.
From the Japs' point of view, this is their mechanized force, and it is also a mechanized force equipped with 95 light combat vehicles and armored vehicles.
Their opponent, the Eighth Route Army, does not have mechanized troops... When they were training, they did not know that the Eighth Route Army had mechanized troops.
Therefore, its imaginary opponent is the Eighth Route Army in the trenches or in the field.
More often than not, the Eighth Route Army encounters in the wild... Because the mechanized troops are engaged in penetration and deep into the Eighth Route Army's hinterland, it is common for them to encounter the Eighth Route Army's logistics troops or guerrillas head-on.
What should you do at this time?
Of course, turn on the car lights and launch a fierce attack on the enemy.
Since this was what they did during training, the Japanese actually did it on the battlefield, even though they were facing mechanized troops that were more powerful than them...
It goes without saying what the result was.
The Japs' machine guns could not harm the Eighth Route Army at all, but the machine guns on the Eighth Route Army's half-tracks fired rows of bullets, knocking over the Japs' tricycles one after another.
The soldiers of the Hundred Battle Regiment and One Battalion are very experienced in this regard.
To be precise, it was not that the soldiers of the first battalion were experienced, but that the battalion commander Feng Hailiang had been prepared before the war.
One day, after Feng Hailiang thought about it for a while, he called together the cadres in the battalion and asked: "Comrades, we all know that our Hundred Battle Group has replaced shotguns with cannons and mechanized them, but have you ever considered that if we encounter the Japanese mechanized troops?
, how to fight?"
The cadres became excited when they heard this and expressed their opinions one after another:
"That goes without saying, let's just rush forward. Anyway, the Japanese are using shoulder straps, and we are using half-tracks. Let's hit him!"
"If you ask me, hitting with a car is too inefficient. You should shoot with a gun. The car-mounted machine gun is accurate, and the devil's shoulder is a target!"
"Yes, just use a gun..."
Feng Hailiang interrupted the cadres: "Isn't this nonsense? Of course you use a gun to fight the Japanese, but you also use your teeth to gnaw them!"
The cadres burst into laughter.
Feng Hailiang then said: "I'm asking about how to use a gun. Please tell me!"
Everyone was stunned at this, and after a long while they asked back: "Batalion Commander, this is a machine gun... just shoot, how can you tell me something?"
"Alas!" Feng Hailiang saw that he couldn't explain clearly, so he stopped talking. He said: "Comrades, think about it, the Japanese use a shoulder bag. The shoulder bag is not like a car. Cars have four wheels.
If the driver dies or is injured, it can still stand firm; if the driver is dead or injured, it will lose direction or even overturn..."
When the cadres heard this, they all understood:
"The battalion commander is right, we will target the driver!"
"Yes, there is a saying that 'shoot the man first, shoot the horse'!"
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So during training, the First Battalion developed a set of tactics that they understood and applied them in training.
Its vehicle-mounted machine gun basically fires bursts rather than strafing.
But these shots were all aimed at the driver's seat of the Japanese's shoulder bag.
Moreover, the driver's seat of the Devil's Bag is particularly easy to recognize, which is the position of the headlights... "Click, click, click" a few rounds of bullets passed by. Although I couldn't see the result clearly, as long as the headlights were messed up, I immediately turned around and aimed at the other side.
A shoulder bag.
So the battlefield became almost one-sided like a massacre. One after another, the Japanese soldiers were beaten by the Eighth Route Army until they lost control and flipped over. Then the Eighth Route Army's half-track armored vehicles rumbled up again, "
With a bang, the wedge-shaped armor on the front of the car hit hard.
The sharp point on the front of this wedge-shaped armor is like a knife. Coupled with the horsepower of the Mao Xiong half-track vehicle and the grip of the tracks, a hard forward collision almost breaks the fragile shoulder.
That’s two.
This isn't the worst.
What's worse is that the fuel tank of the shoulder strap is very fragile... Anyone who has ridden a motorcycle knows this. The fuel tank is not tightly sealed, and there is a cap screwed on it. If the motorcycle loses its balance and falls to the ground, it will
Oil may leak from the cap.
At this time, these shoulder straps were knocked down by the half-track vehicle and were broken into pieces. A lot of gasoline leaked out along the way. Many sparks were shot out during the exchange of fire between the enemy and us. Then suddenly, they "jumped" and a raging fire erupted on the battlefield.
Fire.
The fire not only made the fleeing Japanese howl like ghosts, but also exposed the Japanese low on the ground to the flames and became targets for the Eighth Route Army.
The Eighth Route Army's advantage became even more obvious at this time. The soldiers in the back cabin of the half-track vehicle raised their rifles on the speeding vehicle and quickly fired bullets at the Japanese soldiers below.
The Japanese also fought back, but most of their bullets were blocked by the armor of the half-track vehicle.
Even the Japanese's armored vehicles can't do well in front of half-track vehicles, because the Eighth Route Army soldiers can transform the half-track vehicle into an anti-tank and anti-armor tank at any time as long as they pick up a rocket launcher.