After the tactics are decided, the outcome of the next battle is a foregone conclusion.
To be precise, this matter cannot be regarded as Li Yunlong's mistake, but because Li Yunlong did not know the information about the enemy. He was not even sure of the enemy's strength, so it made sense for him to take a defensive stance.
It was not until Wang Xuexin provided him with enough information that the situation became clear.
Li Yunlong believed that it was too late. If the attack was not launched earlier, it would be too late when the Japanese were ready for the next round of incendiary bombing.
So three red signal flares were fired into the air, and the artillery was the first to unleash its power.
It is necessary for the artillery to fire first.
The other mechanized troops are not afraid of artillery.
If the Japanese artillery responds quickly enough, it will immediately fire a barrage to the west of the Eighth Route Army's breakout. Let alone half-track vehicles, even if the "Sherman" tank is directly hit by the Japanese heavy artillery, it will not be affected.
No... although the artillery shells are not armor-piercing and cannot penetrate the tank armor, the violent explosion can break the tank parts and kill the tank soldiers inside.
Fortunately, Li Yunlong had arranged the artillery from the beginning and even had the artillery observers ready to calculate the coordinates of the enemy's artillery positions.
As soon as they opened fire, the artillery shells hit the Japanese artillery positions in pieces, silencing the Japanese artillery fire in just a moment.
At this time, the mechanized troops of the Independent Regiment rushed out of the West City like a tide under the cover of "Sherman" tanks.
There were only more than a thousand Japs blocking the city, but the Independent Regiment had three thousand men, and they were equipped with tanks and armored vehicles. Coupled with the firepower of repeating rifles, they almost beat the Japs to pieces as soon as they left the city.
It collapsed immediately upon contact...
This is also due to Lin Fangtaro being too confident in his tactics. When he knew that the Eighth Route Army had tanks and half-tracks, he should at least dig an anti-tank trench outside the city... The anti-tank trench had no effect on the infantry, but it
It can perfectly block tanks and half-track vehicles from breaking through.
However, Lin Fangtaro felt that it was not necessary.
This is partly because the imperial army is surrounding a city, a walled city.
A walled city means there are few exits, and few exits mean that the enemy's mechanized troops can only break out from a few exits.
In this way, not to mention that the imperial army has two field artillery regiments, even mortars or even grenade launchers can seal these gaps...Tanks may not be afraid of mortars, but half-track cars are not
in this way.
But what Lin Fangtaro didn't expect was that as the war progressed, more and more city walls were blown up by Japanese artillery, so more and more exits were opened. Some locations were even blown up by the Eighth Route Army in order to make the troops more capable.
Easy to drive out of the city.
The result is a regiment of more than 3,000 people, a total of more than 200 half-track vehicles and 25 tanks (the original 30 tanks, five of which broke down during the battle and were repaired in Datong), these vehicles are in an orderly manner
Under the assignment, it only took ten minutes for them all to rush out of the West City and join the battle.
How could the more than a thousand Japs outside the city withstand the charge of the Eighth Route Army? They hurriedly dispersed to both sides and allowed the Eighth Route Army to break out of the encirclement.
After hearing this report, Fangtaro Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the Eighth Route Army's "breakout" almost meant admitting defeat, there would be no difficulty in taking Datong.
At the same time, he did not want too many Eighth Route Army troops to break through and escape, so he immediately ordered the troops to pursue them.
Lin Fangtaro had no idea that these Eighth Route Army troops were not breaking out at all, but were actually going to counter-encircle them: inside the city, Ning Jie led 2,000 troops and 7,000 militiamen to temporarily block the Japs, while 3,000 mechanized troops outside the city used their maneuverability.
The speed impacted the Japs just like the ancient cavalry impacted the infantry, and the impact was from their weakly defended rear, which of course was not something the Japs could withstand.
Even Lin Fangtaro's headquarters was not spared from this... Who is Li Yunlong? Knowing the location of the Japanese headquarters, how could he let it go so easily?
When the first battalion returned from a detour, the troops immediately pointed directly at the headquarters of Lin Fangtaro.
When Lin Fangtaro realized something was wrong, he immediately sent the reserve cavalry brigade to resist.
However, how can a cavalry brigade stop a half-track armored vehicle?
What they could do was to make the sound of horse hooves on both sides of the armored vehicle and then fire a few shots. After a few shots, they were crippled by the Eighth Route Army's machine guns and repeating rifles and fled in all directions.
This is the effect of equipment generation difference.
It is true that equipment is not omnipotent, but if the equipment gap is too large, it will cause a dimensionality reduction blow to the enemy... Originally, a few cavalrymen could win a city in China, but now a cavalry brigade with thousands of people has been annihilated without even a ripple.
They were not provoked, and they could not even slow down the Eighth Route Army. The forwards of the first battalion inserted into the Japanese headquarters like a sharp knife and started killing.
After Wang Xuexin learned that the Independent Group had successfully "broken out", he was relieved of the heavy stone hanging in his heart.
He knew that the most important thing for a mechanized force is to be able to "move around", and the most taboo thing is to be blocked by the enemy and have no space in the city.
As soon as they leave the city... not to mention being equipped with repeating rifles, even Springfield rifles and 38-type rifles can make the Japanese unable to eat and carry them around.
Wang Xuexin didn't care much about the next war. Anyway, the Japs' jammer was still working and he couldn't direct it, so he left the matter to Chen Songyong, rubbed his dry and sore eyes and dragged his tired steps.
Go back to the dormitory and take a nap.
However, at this moment, the guard came up and reported: "Comrade Commander, Comrade Sun Erwei is here!"
"Sun Erwei?" Wang Xuexin was confused for a while. During this period, he had been participating in the research and development of anti-tank missiles in Yuncheng. Why did he come at this time?
Wang Xuexin took out his pocket watch and looked at it. It was two o'clock in the morning.
It would be quite a risk to fly at this time, so I thought there must be something urgent!
Wang Xuexin nodded and ordered: "Let him come in!"
In fact, it's not "him", but "them", because Sun Erwei also brought several people.
Wang Xuexin initially thought that these people were Yingjiang people like Sun Erwei, but he didn't expect that when Sun Erwei introduced them, he discovered that they were people on whom the sun never sets.
"That's it!" Sun Erwei introduced to Wang Xuexin as soon as he came up: "This is Colonel Yin En, who never sets, and Dr. Ross. They came here specifically to see you!"
"See me?" Wang Xuexin was a little puzzled. The Eighth Route Army and the Sun Never Set seemed to have nothing to do with each other.
"Yes!" Sun Erwei explained: "Wang, before the sun sets, we were bombed by Hans missiles. This missile is very similar to your 'High Fire'. They want to know some data and information about this equipment!"