Yamada Oji couldn't help but secretly rejoiced when he saw the artillery fire in the city:
The Eighth Route Army has finally taken action. Now we just need to wait for the artillery detection radar to calculate the results to eliminate them!
The Eighth Route Army certainly didn't expect that the Imperial Army would also have artillery detection radars that could fire back artillery shells to them immediately...
As soon as I had this thought, I heard the staff officer in charge of commanding the artillery detection radar shout: "Your Majesty, Major General, the 'Wild Bat' is malfunctioning and cannot work!"
The staff officer replied: "A few artillery shells hit the vicinity of the artillery detection radar, causing it to malfunction!"
Yamada Oji cursed angrily: "Bring up the backup artillery detection radar immediately!"
"yes!"
However, the artillery detection radar sent this time could not be turned on.
The Eighth Route Army's electronic tube artillery detection radar requires constant testing and maintenance, not to mention that the Japanese radar is based on relay computers.
Just when Yamada Oji was about to order the last radar to be brought up, he hesitated: What if it malfunctions again after it is brought up? Then there will be no artillery detection radar available!
But if the remaining radar doesn't even dare to be adjusted...what use is it?
After thinking for a while, Yamada Oji gave the order: "Order the 'Wild Bat' troops to turn on the machine ten kilometers away!"
This method is indeed feasible according to common sense.
It's safe ten kilometers away. The Eighth Route Army's howitzers have a range of only ten kilometers, and they can't hit the artillery detection radar no matter what.
At the same time, ten kilometers is also within the detection range of the Japanese artillery detection radar... Yingjiang's radar can detect thirty kilometers, while the Japanese's own radar can only detect more than ten kilometers.
Therefore, this time the Japanese artillery detection radar was successfully turned on.
However, Yamada Oji soon discovered that this time he still couldn't do what he wanted... The sky was filled with a bunch of artillery shells coming and going, and the artillery detection radar could not distinguish whose shells belonged to whom, so he gave a group of
Messy data.
In fact, the Eighth Route Army's artillery detection radar also has this problem.
This is also the reason why the Eighth Route Army usually equips artillery detection radars with not many artillery pieces... One battalion has 12 howitzers and one artillery detection radar, and two battalions can have 24 guns at most.
In this way, the artillery reconnaissance radar can effectively cooperate with the artillery: the artillery reconnaissance radar reports data and sends it to the artillery to fire. After the artillery fires, it immediately closes the artillery and moves its position. Taking advantage of this gap, the artillery reconnaissance radar searches for enemy artillery shells again...and so on. The artillery reconnaissance radar
What is always detected is that enemy shells do not mix with your own.
Firstly, the Japanese did not understand the working principle of artillery detection radar, and in addition, artillery detection radar was a "secret weapon" to them. The experiment they did before the war was just to use it to test it on twice before the Niangzi Pass, and found that there was no
After the problem, I felt confident that there would be no problem in Taiyuan.
But the reality is cruel. The situation in Taiyuan is completely different from what they imagined...
The Japanese surrounded Taiyuan from four directions, and as soon as they started firing artillery shells, they hit Taiyuan from all directions.
It would be better if the artillery detection radar was closer to the city wall, then its reconnaissance range would just cover the sky above Taiyuan City, and the artillery shells detected would also be the Eighth Route Army artillery shells.
But if the distance is far, the radar waves will reflect various signals in all directions and they will pass by in a flash. Even a computer can't calculate it... Modern computers may be able to do it, but the Japanese ones are relay computers.
Yamada Oji couldn't help but became angry when he heard this situation. He yelled "bastard", fiercely pulled out the command knife from his waist and pointed in the direction of Taiyuan, roaring an order: "Attack with all strength, we can take Taiyuan without using the 'wild bat'
Down!"
"yes!"
Yamada Oji gritted his teeth and thought: If we can capture Taiyuan City this time, we must kill for three days and three nights!
But this is just a good wish.
The Japanese's siege war once again returned to the old tactics: use artillery to suppress the Eighth Route Army's artillery fire, while the tanks spread out to cover the engineers and went out to load explosives on the city wall...
This is the role of tanks in siege warfare.
For city walls like Taiyuan that cannot be broken open, tanks can be used as shields to block bullets. At the same time, tank guns can also fire at the city wall to create several holes in it for engineers to load explosives.
Therefore, it is only a relative term that a tank does not have the ability to fight at night. It means that it is difficult for a tank to aim at the target without the ability to identify ourselves and the enemy at night, even if the target can see the firelight when firing...the firelight seen through the observation window is flat.
, the gunner cannot determine the distance of the target.
But it is obviously wrong to say that tanks cannot function at night... Tanks are just more dangerous and difficult to operate at night. For example, the tank commander still needs to stick his head out to observe and command.
When the tank successfully enters a favorable position under the guidance of the infantry, the tank is actually a bunker confronting the city wall. Soldiers can also use tank guns and machine guns to suppress the enemies on the city wall.
However, it is obvious that the Japanese would not be happy with such a beating.
The Eighth Route Army was well prepared for this kind of Japanese offensive. They just hid in the city wall and ignored the Japanese when they implemented fire suppression. When the Japanese engineers came up with explosive bags on their backs, they threw out the Molotov cocktails...
The Molotov cocktail is the best defensive weapon. It is cheap and easy to use. More importantly, it cannot be defended against the enemy. It is thrown and can be regarded as a direct fire weapon. The firepower of tanks under the city cannot do anything to it.
I saw streaks of fire igniting at the foot of the city wall. The Japanese engineers who had just rushed up were ignited one by one. In an instant, there were shouts and cries, and the smell of burning was everywhere inside and outside the city wall.
But that's not the point.
Just as the Japanese were attacking the city, the Eighth Route Army's artillery moved and fired under the command of artillery detection radar, slowly consuming the Japanese's artillery.
Soon the Japanese artillery fired less and less, and the sound of the artillery became weaker and weaker, until finally the Japanese artillery did not dare to fire.
Yamada Oji angrily shouted at the artillery: "Fire, why don't you fire?"
The Japanese artillerymen were so scared...firing almost meant being covered by enemy artillery fire, so who could let go?
But in the end, the artillery was forced to open fire by Yamada Oji.
The result was what Yamada Oji saw. The artillery positions were bombed into the sky one after another. The imperial army, which had been in order just now, was torn to pieces less than an hour after the battle started.
But at this moment, harsh Japanese words sounded from the city wall:
"Japanese and puppet soldiers, we are surrounded by you!"
"Enter the city and surrender, we will give preferential treatment to the prisoners!"
"This is the last chance. When we leave the city, you'll be welcome!"
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Yamada Oji was so angry that he yelled at the top of his lungs: "When we attack, we must capture Taiyuan!"
The Japanese infantry rushed towards Taiyuan City again.
However, facing Taiyuan's several-meter-high city wall, they didn't even know how to attack...