While the Japanese were thinking about how to deal with the Eighth Route Army's fighter planes and mechanized troops, Wang Xuexin was overjoyed at the "windfall" he had captured.
It was the Fourth and Fifth Battalions who stormed the train station.
After the Hatta Shibu Brigade was defeated by the Fourth Battalion, the Fifth Battalion, which was used as a bait, arrived later, and then the two armies merged and went straight to the train station...
The fourth battalion's goal was originally to attack Laoyangcun, but now that the main force of the Japanese mechanized troops had been wiped out, Laoyangcun did not need to be outflanked by two battalions. The fourth battalion acted accordingly and changed its attack target to the train station.
Breaking into the train station can be said to be effortless.
Because the Japanese never expected that the Eighth Route Army would be able to break into the train station.
To be precise, the Japanese considered the issue of the Eighth Route Army coming over, but they only considered the bombing by the Eighth Route Army's rocket fighters, which was a threat from the sky.
As for the threat on the ground...it has always been the imperial army's attack. No matter how fast the Eighth Route Army grows, it will never be able to break through the imperial army's defense line from the ground.
Based on this idea, the Japanese basically did not have any troops stationed at the train station. They handed over the place to the Japanese military police brigade to take care of it.
Although the Gendarmerie Brigade has more real power, after all, it is an irregular army used to deal with guerrillas and manage cities. Its combat effectiveness and equipment are much worse than that of the regular army. Even if it faces the ordinary Eighth Route Army, it is probably too weak to defeat it, let alone collide with it.
The one on board was the mechanized unit of the Eighth Route Army.
However, the Japanese gendarmerie brigade was also considered tough. This unit defended the train station until the last moment, with few surrendering.
This battle developed into a unilateral massacre of the Japanese by the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army. Tanks and half-tracks rushed into the train station and beat the Japanese hiding on the tracks and inside and outside the carriages...
In the past, it would still be difficult to deal with enemies in terrain like a train station.
The reason is that the rails usually have a raised base made of gravel. This base can be used by the Japanese as a natural trench. The rails are stable and flat for mounting guns, making them a good base for the Japanese.
Shooting platform.
The advantages of carriages are even greater. The Japanese usually pile a few sandbags in the carriages, and it only takes a few minutes to transform a carriage into a bunker, and it is also a condescending bunker.
Usually, it would be difficult for a regiment of the Eighth Route Army to attack a train station where a Japanese squadron was stationed, even if the squadron was a military police force.
But today is different from the past.
At this time, it was the mechanized troops of the Eighth Route Army that attacked the train station. What appeared in front of the Japanese were tanks and half-track armored vehicles. The Japanese military police brigade, because their usual operations were mainly against guerrillas, basically only had light weapons, including mortars and anti-tank grenades.
rare.
Hong Chengjun didn't talk nonsense to the Japanese and sent the half-track armored vehicle to the front with a wave of his hand.
There's nothing wrong with Hong Chengjun's command. It's still dark at this time, and half-track armored vehicles are actually more useful than tanks... Tanks are used to deal with enemies with heavy equipment, such as regular troops with ghost cannons, so they need to be blocked by tanks.
First block.
But for a military police brigade with only light equipment, the armor of a half-track car is completely sufficient.
The only thing a half-track car has to worry about is the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun... As Alexei said, the Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun can penetrate a 10mm steel plate at a distance of 200 meters.
But in actual combat, this distance is usually shortened to 100 meters.
The reason is that Alexei made the front steel plates of the half-track armored vehicle tilted at an angle. For example, the front of the vehicle was made into a wedge shape, and the front of the windshield also naturally tilted forward. Although its physical thickness is only 10mm, it is equivalent to
The thickness is above 13mm.
If there is any weak point, it is the side rear compartment. The armor here is vertical and the Type 92 heavy machine gun can penetrate directly.
But no one would expose the weak side to the enemy's heavy machine gun fire.
On the contrary, when the Japanese are within a hundred meters, the machine gun firepower is very obvious even in the dark.
What the Eighth Route Army had to do was to hit the enemy with heavy machine gun fire, including mortars and vehicle-mounted machine guns, and then quickly advance forward with the infantry, while advancing while attacking those who tried to rush up along the way.
The Japanese launched a massacre...
This is one of the advantages of mechanized troops. When the mechanized troops advance, the Japanese have to rush.
If you don't launch a countercharge, when the opponent's mechanized troops rush up, you will have to face the crazy shooting of the vehicle-mounted machine guns and the impact of the enemy's infantry... No one can allow the enemy to put the machine guns and 10mm thick steel shield in front of them.
This almost means failure and death.
Retreating is also impossible, because no matter how fast it is, it can't be faster than the wheels of the mechanized troops.
The only way to hold the line of defense is to send out a demolition team to rush forward under cover of firepower and blow up the enemy's half-track vehicle.
However, a half-track is not a tank.
The tank's ability to sense situations is extremely limited, so it can be very useful at night.
The half-track car has almost no problem with external perception. The machine gunner hides behind the front of the car and fires crazy output at the Japanese soldiers who are rushing up. The soldiers responsible for covering on both sides also throw grenades one after another and use their rifles to point them.
kill.
The Japs are hiding behind the railroad tracks?
It's completely useless, not to mention that the vehicle-mounted machine gun can hit these Japs from a high position, and there are also mortars that can blow them away.
But that's not how the soldiers fought.
Hong Chengjun deployed two half-track armored vehicles to rely on their speed advantage to make a turn and suddenly appear on the flanks of the Japanese railway defense line... The railway defense line has a shortcoming as a trench, that is, it is too straight. Once a point on the flank is blocked,
Break through and the machine gun can eliminate the Japanese behind the entire line of defense.
Did the Japanese use the carriages as bunker defense?
Of course it won't work.
The half-track car used its strong front armor to rush directly towards the Japanese firepower, and then fired a rocket... This rocket was usually an incendiary bomb.
The reason why I chose the incendiary bomb is because the accuracy of the rocket launcher is poor, but the incendiary bomb hits a flat surface. Even if it fails to hit the target, it will ignite a raging fire near the target.
The fire will illuminate the carriage, and the rest will be left to the sharpshooters of the Eighth Route Army.
It took a total of twenty minutes. The steel defense line composed of half-track armored vehicles pushed forward the Japanese defense line very smoothly. The Japanese were instantly beaten in a hail of bullets and screamed, looking for hiding places everywhere.
However, only hell is their best hiding place.
Amid a burst of shouts, the Eighth Route Army soldiers rushed forward with bayonets in hand and ended the Japanese's sinful life one by one.