However, even so, the transportation was still not smooth.
Zhangjiakou is only a hundred kilometers from Shagou Town. We originally planned to arrive in one night, but five of the twenty T44s broke down one after another and were unable to move forward. In the end, we had to temporarily leave the faulty tank behind and other tanks go ahead to get there in time.
Arrive at Shagou Town.
As for the faulty tank, a tent was set up on the spot to block off the road section, and the logistics staff repaired it inside. After repairing it, it was time to go back on the road in the evening. This was the mission completed.
Twenty vehicles only traveled 100 kilometers, and five broke down. This failure rate made Wang Xuexin frown.
But then I thought about it, the Japanese "Tiger" type is not in large numbers, and the failure rate of the other one is probably even higher than this, so who is afraid of whom?
In addition, the T44 has a monthly output of 20 vehicles and has stronger penetration and defense than the "Tiger"... It will be the Japanese who will be brought down in the end!
Thinking of this, Wang Xuexin felt calm.
After the deployment in Shagou Town was completed, Wang Xuexin's heart dropped by half.
Before this, Wang Xuexin had been worried that the Japanese would launch an attack before T44 arrived at Shagou Town.
After all, the Japanese believe that they are sure to win this battle if they have control of the air, and the faster the counterattack, the better.
If the Japs start fighting before T44 arrives, then we can only have a decent fight with the Japs.
But now it seems that the Japanese are not ready either.
In fact, it's not that the Japanese were unprepared, it was the stubborn army that helped a lot in this regard...
The Japanese could imitate air defense systems but not missiles. They obtained the technology and data for producing missiles from Hans but could not produce them quickly. In the end, they had to purchase missiles from the stubborn army.
When the stubborn army saw that the Japanese were in urgent need of missiles and wanted to start a war with the Eighth Route Army, they were greedy and started to "raise the price" with the Japanese.
In fact, this cannot be considered greedy.
Chongqing considers this:
Although the Japanese had anti-aircraft missiles that could not pose a threat to the stubborn army, the stubborn army also sold one missile and lost one, and the stubborn army only received a hundred missiles from the Eighth Route Army... If all of these were given to the Japanese, what would the stubborn army use to defend them?
Japanese bombing?
In order to calm the stubborn army, the Japanese even stopped bombing Chongqing for a while.
But everyone can see that these are crocodile tears. Anti-aircraft missiles are life-saving ones and they must not be handed over all.
But if the Japanese side doesn't have enough missiles to fight the Eighth Route Army... this will also be a big loss for the stubborn army.
So the stubborn army hesitated and hesitated. After several discussions, they were finally willing to dig out twenty missiles and give them to the Japanese.
Naosaburo Okabe was in a panic. How could he shoot with only twenty missiles? Even if the hit rate was 50%, he could only shoot down ten enemy aircraft!
After using it up, won’t the air supremacy still belong to the Eighth Route Army?
After much deliberation, he gave the order: "Let's talk again, and try to get thirty more coins!"
If the total number is fifty, it will be enough. The total number of "La-5" fighters in Zhangjiakou is only more than fifty. With fifty missiles, it is possible for half of the "La-5" to be hit, and the remaining "Feiyan" and "La-5" fighters will be used.
"Zero War" siege!
In the end, after many twists and turns, he sent a lot of property to the stubborn army to open up relations, and finally managed to collect fifty missiles.
Calculating the time before and after, more than a month has passed.
Otherwise, the Japanese troops and "Tiger" missiles have already been deployed outside Jiulian Town, and the anti-aircraft missiles can immediately launch an attack to capture the target.
After gathering the missiles, Naosaburo Okabe stopped delaying and immediately ordered an attack plan.
This was already the sixth day after Wang Xuexin was ready.
After T44 entered Shagou Town, Wang Xuexin was not in a hurry. Except for the troops in Shagou Town trying their best to block the news and secretly transferring troops and resources to Zhangjiakou, the rest was just waiting.
At that time, Wang Xuexin was looking through the improvement plan for the transmission and transmission device sent by Belinnikov...Wang Xuexin didn't understand this at all, so he signed and agreed after a few moments.
This should be the normal development of T44 in history: T44 has many faults in actual combat, and technicians know how to make changes to avoid these faults. After changing T44, it becomes T54, which is our 59.
Wang Xuexin does not need to do anything, he only needs to provide them with funds and support to allow them to develop further.
At this time, Chen Songyong sent a telegram: "Captain, Jiulian Town has received positioning signals, and there are as many as five, two of which are positioning signals from the air defense system, and three are from artillery detection radars!"
Wang Xuexin was stunned. The Japs had spent a lot of money and put on three artillery detection radars at once. It seemed that the Japs had also learned to use quantity to make up for the lack of quality!
Wang Xuexin was right. After learning the painful lesson from his last attack on Taiyuan, Naosaburo Okabe believed that if he wanted artillery detection radars to be effective, he could only mass-produce them and deploy them multiple times at the same time.
In this way, even if one or two artillery detection radars malfunction, as long as one can work normally, the artillery can be directed to accurately suppress enemy artillery fire.
Chen Songyong asked anxiously: "Captain, what should we do now?"
This was something I had never thought of before. Wang Xuexin thought that the Japanese would not consider using artillery detection radar for the time being, or would only use artillery detection radar for defense. He did not expect that they would use this method to bring it out again.
This is indeed a bit of a headache, because the Japanese plus artillery detection radar...means that the Eighth Route Army has to sacrifice not only radar soldiers, but also artillery and many infantry.
After thinking about it, Wang Xuexin said: "If our artillery detection radar has been blown up by the Japanese air force, and we know that the Japanese have artillery detection radar, is it normal for our artillery not to fire?"
Chen Songyong immediately understood what Wang Xuexin meant: "In other words, if our artillery does not fire, it will not arouse the suspicion of the Japanese!"
"Yes!" Wang Xuexin nodded: "The premise is that the artillery detection radar is blown up!"
Chen Songyong immediately conveyed Wang Xuexin's intention to Jiulian Town, and several regiment leaders expressed their agreement.
After hearing Wang Xuexin's order, Li Yunlong's anxious heart was relieved.
Li Yunlong, the radar soldier, was reluctant to sacrifice the radar before. Now when he saw that the Japs were on the artillery detection radar, he immediately complained: "Damn it, the Japs have this thing and they can hit it accurately. Do we still want it?"
Sacrifice the artillery? After the artillery is sacrificed, will all the infantry have to be piled in? We can’t bear to let the children catch the wolf, so we are sending ourselves into the wolf’s den for him to eat!”
There is some truth in what Li Yunlong said. Even if you set a trap, it depends on the cost. If the cost is too high, such as losing all three mechanized regiments including the independent regiment, then it is better to fight a head-on battle.
But now after hearing Wang Xuexin's analysis, Li Yunlong felt it made sense again.
"The key point is that the aviation forces must cooperate well!" Li Yunlong said: "If they can provide sufficient fire cover, our casualties should not be too great!"