At 3:53 in the morning, all the imperial mechanized troops numbering more than 2,000 were defeated.
To be precise, it should have been annihilated, because there were not many survivors, and a large amount of equipment fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army, especially the Hatta Brigade... A considerable number of soldiers in the Hatta Brigade abandoned their side motorcycles because they had no time to turn around and organize defenses.
Infantry battle
, after the battle failed and the troops collapsed, hundreds of intact sidecar motorcycles and more than a dozen armored vehicles were left on the battlefield, and even two Type 95 tanks were abandoned. Of course, they all fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army and became the Eighth Route Army's mechanized vehicles.
New equipment for the troops.
At 4:12, Laoyangcun's defense line was breached.
The defense line of Laoyangcun was originally impregnable. It was surrounded by mountains on three sides and faced the outside. Under the management of Yata, a triple defense line and two barbed wire fences were deployed on the outside side, separated by dense minefields.
Coupled with the firepower of the Bata mechanized troops, it can be said that no Eighth Route Army has the ability to open the gate of Laoyang Village.
However, under the Eighth Route Army's strategy of "leading the snake out of its hole", Hatta's mechanized troops were all out, leaving only a logistics squadron stationed in Laoyang Village.
When a mechanized battalion of the Eighth Route Army arrived at Laoyang Village, the garrison even thought for a time that it was the imperial army returning from victory... If it weren't for the sight of the half-track vehicle, they would probably have opened barriers and shouted "Long live" to greet the Eighth Route Army.
Entered the village.
But this doesn't seem to make any difference.
Because the defense of Laoyang Village is based on the presence of a garrison in the city, that is, tanks, armored vehicles, and at least a thousand elites.
There is nothing now, only defense lines, bunkers, barbed wire, trenches, minefields and the strength of a squadron...
This is nothing to the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army.
The bunker is a matter of tanks facing each other and firing the muzzles at the perforations.
Minefields exploded with artillery shells and grenades.
The barbed wire fence was cut by the infantry, then tied with steel ropes, and hung on two teams of half-track vehicles and pulled apart on both sides...
These are normal training subjects for mechanized troops.
The combat goal of the mechanized troops is to quickly tear apart the enemy's defense line. These are trivial to them. They rushed into Laoyang Village and turned all the Japanese in the squadron into corpses.
The results are abundant.
Laoyang Village was the base of the Japs’ mechanized troops. There were so many bags, armored vehicles, spare parts, fuel, ammunition, etc. that even the Eighth Route Army could not take them away.
The Eighth Route Army directly turned Laoyangcun into its own supply base. Whenever any unit was short of fuel or ammunition, it would ship goods from Laoyangcun.
At five past five, the Eighth Route Army captured the train station.
There were countless supplies at the train station, and there were not only supplies but also a large number of cars... These cars were used by the Japanese to transport supplies to the battlefield. There were more than two hundred vehicles in total. They were captured by the Eighth Route Army before they could be evacuated.
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Needless to say, the Eighth Route Army used these cars to transport supplies to Yuncheng, including compressed biscuits, rifles, ammunition, etc.
Although it is said that the Eighth Route Army was no longer scarce about Japanese rifles and ammunition at this time... Actually, this is not accurate. The most scarce thing during the war was guns and ammunition, even though the Eighth Route Army was able to produce Eagle-style Springfield rifles and ammunition.
However, the production of Springfield rifles was far from enough to equip the entire army, and the ammunition was not enough.
Even if it is enough for the Eighth Route Army, aren't there still a large number of guerrillas waiting to be equipped?
At 6:30, when the sky was getting brighter, the Eighth Route Army, after running back and forth several times for transportation, burned down the train station and the supplies that had not been taken away in time.
Kono Shinta almost went crazy looking at these battle reports.
Although Kono Shinta grew up in Hans' house and his way of thinking is more like Hans's habits without the Empire's so-called "shame" and "apology", the Eighth Route Army's approach was undoubtedly a slap in the face.
: He helped the imperial army form mechanized troops and guided and even commanded the imperial army to conduct mechanized operations. However, in front of Okamura Neji, he claimed to be a blitzkrieg expert, but he was defeated by the Eighth Route Army again and again!
It was understandable that we were defeated last time. It was because the imperial army had problems with its own coordination.
But this time, the imperial army fought completely under his arrangement and with the participation of Hans's military adviser. In particular, the Eighth Route Army used "blitzkrieg" to defeat his mechanized troops that had not yet formed combat effectiveness. This is "
"Treat others with their own medicine" turned him, an expert, into an expert.
Okamura Neji's expression was quite calm, he was a little bit used to it.
This is not to say that he is indifferent to this loss. In fact, he is quite heartbroken. For Neji Okamura, this is not only a matter of failure or loss of materials, but also a matter of how to explain it to Tokyo.
But Okamura Neiji thinks this is normal, and this is the state that the Eighth Route Army should be in... Okamura Neiji is used to being beaten out of breath by the Eighth Route Army.
"Your Excellency, General!" Shinta Kono felt a little guilty looking at Okamura Neji's expression. Shouldn't he be furious?
Shinta Kono wanted to explain something, but Neji Okamura raised his hand to stop him.
"Kono-kun!" Okamura Neiji said: "Now you understand what kind of enemy you are facing, and you will get used to it in the future!"
"Get used to...get used to it?" Shinta Kono answered with difficulty. Is this normal?
What Kono Shinta didn't know was that this was indeed the norm, even in North China.
The next second, Okamura Neji's words came true.
While Shinta Kono was in a daze, a staff officer came in and reported: "Your Excellency, General, the 'Zero War' squadron we sent has been defeated by the enemy, and only three survived!"
Okamura Neiji said "hmm".
This was what he had expected, because he guessed that the Eighth Route Army would not reveal such a big flaw, and its mechanized troops would actually have to wait until dawn before retreating... Wasn't this an obvious way to allow the Imperial Army's fighter planes to bomb?
Therefore, Okamura Neiji only sent out a squadron of "zero combat" to test, and gave strict orders to retreat immediately if he found that the situation was not right.
But the words sounded different to Kono Shinta's ears.
This is the "zero battle" of the imperial army!
As Hans's advisor, he had of course heard of fighter aircraft such as the "Zero Fighter" and knew that this was something that could overlook the Eagle Fighter.
If in the past, the Eighth Route Army had something like x1, it would not be surprising to win. After all, it used another air combat mode and caught the Imperial Air Force by surprise.
But now that he had new tactics to deal with x1 under his guidance, he was defeated by the Eighth Route Army again?!