The Japanese actually had this tactic in history, which was to bury tanks underground and use them as forts.
It's just that this was done in the Pacific battlefield, but now it is used in the Chinese battlefield.
This cannot be said to be completely wrong, it is a helpless choice.
For example, when the Japanese faced Eagle's "Sherman" on the Pacific battlefield, its Type 97 and Type 95 were no match at all. What could they do if they didn't bury them and use them as forts?
Still fighting on the move like conventional tactics?
It was an island with complex terrain. It was difficult to maneuver, and it was faced with a "Sherman" that could not be penetrated. Mobile combat was no different than seeking death. It would be better to bury the tank underground and still have some effect.
Burying underground has at least a few advantages:
First, it is difficult to be discovered by the enemy. The bottom of its turret is buried in the soil. If it is camouflaged outside, it is almost impossible for enemy tanks to detect it from a distance.
Then, this tank may approach the enemy tank at close range and may even target the side armor of the "Sherman".
Even if you can only fire one shot, it is still a chance to fight the enemy desperately, which is better than dying, right?
Secondly, the defense is higher if it is buried like this... The weak gun body is buried in the soil and only the turret is exposed. The only thing the enemy can hit is the turret.
The turret has thick armor and a small target area, so it can still block a Sherman.
Third, these tanks buried underground are equivalent to a firepower point for infantry, and enemy infantry will be deeply disturbed if they want to attack.
At this time, the situation in Chifeng was similar. There was a vast area outside Chifeng City, and the Japanese chariot regiment had only two options: either go out of the city to fight or stay in the city and fight on the streets.
Fighting out of the city means death, and the Eighth Route Army fighting in the city still has rocket launchers in their hands... which means they will die without knowing how.
Simply bury it in the ground and use it as a bunker or fort!
So Li Yunlong felt a little strange when he was fighting. The information he got was that the Japanese still had dozens of tanks. He originally thought that the Japanese would come out to practice, but after beating them, there was no movement.
After a while, Li Yunlong knew that the Japanese would not leave the city, so with a wave of his hand, the soldiers slowly advanced towards Chifeng under the cover of tanks.
Li Yunlong also ordered to the correspondent: "Order all units to pay attention to the enemy's tanks, especially the Type 97!"
Urban street fighting is different from field fighting.
The T44 and "Sherman" have almost no need to worry about enemy tanks in field operations, but urban street fighting is close-range, and the side armor is likely to be attacked by the enemy, so the T44 and "Sherman" must also be careful.
The tracks of the tank "clacked" and the engine made a low roar. The tank body swayed slightly with the ups and downs of the terrain and pushed towards the target, getting closer and closer...
Just as the Eighth Route Army's attacking line pushed past the collapsed city wall, gunfire suddenly broke out, and the Japanese counterattack began.
Later, Li Yunlong learned that it was only the first line of defense for the Japanese. Kishimoto Muraki only deployed a small number of troops to block the Eighth Route Army on this line of defense.
The purpose is not to stop the Eighth Route Army's progress, but to hope that the Eighth Route Army's tanks will be more concentrated and closer to the front.
Muraki Kishimoto has thought about this: a tank buried in the ground only has one chance, because it will be discovered by the Eighth Route Army as soon as it fires, regardless of whether it destroys the target or not.
By then the Eighth Route Army will be on guard, and it will be difficult to use this tactic to destroy the Eighth Route Army tanks.
Therefore, Kishimoto Muraki hoped that the Eighth Route Army's offensive would be faster and have more tanks, and that tanks would be at the front rather than infantry.
In this regard, Kishimoto Muraki succeeded.
After discovering the enemy's defense line, the soldiers responsible for reconnaissance and cover in the front immediately stopped moving forward to find cover, waited for the tanks to drive up from the rear, and then used the cover of the tanks to launch an attack on the enemy's defense line.
With the skilled infantry and tank coordination of the Eighth Route Army, the first line of defense of the Japanese was soon broken through. The trenches were filled with corpses of Japanese soldiers. Some wounded Japanese soldiers still tried to fight to the death while grabbing grenades, but they were immediately eliminated by the soldiers with additional shots.
The tanks continued to advance with the soldiers.
Muraki Kishimoto, who was hiding in a warehouse and observing the battle situation with a telescope, was quite satisfied with the current situation because he found that six new tanks of the Eighth Route Army were about to step into the tank trap he had set... In front of the new tanks of the Eighth Route Army, there were ten
Five Type 97s are hidden on the street. When the new tanks pass by, they can deliver a fatal blow to their side armor.
Kishimoto Muraki thought to himself that even if he couldn't compete with the Eighth Route Army in this battle, it would be a great achievement if he could defeat the Eighth Route Army's new tank!
What's more, if all the new tanks of the Eighth Route Army are destroyed, the follow-up reinforcements can easily seize the initiative on the battlefield with just a few "Tiger" tanks, and it will not be difficult to recapture Chifeng by then.
Li Yunlong, who was fighting outside the city, had a vague feeling that something was wrong, but he couldn't tell what was wrong. He could only continue to let the tanks move forward and see what the Japanese would do.
If it were not for a tank that "accidentally hit the secondary vehicle", the T44 would probably have been wiped out in this battle.
The "accidentally hitting the passenger car" was also caused by T44.
This is normal for the T44, because the T44 uses a smoothbore gun and its accuracy is inherently low... The smoothbore gun's accuracy is not affected when it fires tail-stabilized discarding sabot armor-piercing rounds, but if it fires grenades against infantry, because it flies in the air
It won't spin and roll easily, so the accuracy depends entirely on luck.
This T44 was the No. 5 tank battalion. It was aimed at a Japanese machine gunner who was hiding more than 200 meters away. The firepower of this machine gun blocked the entire street and prevented the soldiers from advancing.
If the laser rangefinder was useful, it would not deviate too far from the target, but the laser rangefinder malfunctioned due to vibration.
Then the cannonball flew out with a "boom" and hit a pile of rubble on the street.
The gunner sighed, mentally blaming himself for being so careless. The artillery fire must have made his infantry comrades laugh.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he glanced at the gunner, he felt that there was something wrong with the pile of rocks.
"Squad leader!" the gunner shouted: "About sixty meters ahead, is there anything special about that pile of rocks?"
"What's the matter..."
Before the word "Mingtang" could be uttered, I saw the rocks moving with a "clatter", and then a cannon barrel turned around and fired a cannonball in this direction with a "boom".
This shell hit the front armor of the T44, shocking all the Eighth Route Army tank soldiers into dizziness.
Fortunately, this is a Type 97 tank gun. If the "Tiger" tank gun were at this distance, it would definitely be penetrated.
"Enemy tank!"
"Enemy tank!"
…
The tank soldier shouted nervously.
In fact, there was no need to shout at all, because the shock of being hit just now made all the crew members temporarily deaf, and they couldn't hear the sound at all.
While shouting, everyone turned the gun barrel to the target in a tacit understanding, and then with a "bang" the immovable turret exploded into the sky.
The gunner was about to wipe his sweat and breathe a sigh of relief, but then he thought: If there is such an ambush here, does it mean there may be other places?