In the telescope, Wang Xuexin could only vaguely see the figures of the tank soldiers maneuvering.
However, Wang Xuexin was still relieved, because the tanks were still slowly advancing forward in the smoke, which seemed to tell everyone that the tank company had the upper hand in this battle.
At this time, the following infantrymen had already moved forward to fight against the Japanese in front of the tanks.
What the Japanese demolition team hit was not a tank, but the muzzles, grenades and bayonets of a company of soldiers.
Amidst the billowing of smoke and dust, there were explosions one after another, and the desperate roars of the Japanese before their death.
Wang Xuexin knew that it was a suicide charge launched by the Japanese who could not break through the fire defense line organized by the infantry and set off explosive packs...
Wang Xuexin said this to the soldiers when training to follow the infantry: "Do you know what a tank is? Do you use it as a shield and care about its machine guns and artillery? Let me tell you, it should be your life! Don't look at it.
It has thick skin and thick flesh
, this thing is also fragile. If the devil gets close, isn't it just a matter of a pack of explosives? If it is blown up by the devil, you can still come back alive from the devil's gun! So, you all know what to do.
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"Understood!" the soldiers responded loudly.
This is not Wang Xuexin’s alarmist statement, but the Japanese’s firepower is much stronger than that of the Eighth Route Army, and their marksmanship and military quality are much better than that of the Eighth Route Army. If the Japanese have a strength advantage in local battles...then what else can the Eighth Route Army rely on besides tanks?
The soldiers also know this very well, so they will not hesitate to use their lives to protect the safety of the tank.
Therefore, when the Japanese explosion team rushed towards the tank with explosives in the smoke, it was like being blocked by invisible walls.
The first wall is the soldiers' rifle bullets.
With the introduction of the bullet production line and the increase in bullet supply, the training of soldiers will inevitably be strengthened.
The first supply was to follow the infantry... Wang Xuexin required them to have at least two sharpshooters in each squad, and of course they were sharpshooters fed with bullets.
All Springfield rifles are used, because the Springfield rifle has a large caliber, high damage, and strong rejection ability. It can effectively knock down the target holding explosives to the ground instead of shooting twice.
Most of them practice shooting in the smoke... Long-distance targets can be achieved by tanks, but the most dangerous situation for tanks is precisely when the enemy's demolition team uses the smoke to get close.
As the saying goes, adapt measures to local conditions, which means making the most beneficial and appropriate arrangement based on the actual battlefield conditions.
Therefore, sharpshooters do not necessarily have to hit long-range targets.
Wang Xuexin required them to be able to look at the smoke to determine wind strength and direction, analyze the enemy's position in the smoke, and judge the enemy's tactical actions and movement direction based on abnormal smoke disturbances.
So bullets flew by, and many Japanese were knocked down in a pool of blood before they even understood what was going on.
The second barrier is the close-range firepower network.
The squad leader and deputy squad leader of each squad following the infantry are equipped with a Jinsui submachine gun. When the tank is in danger, the squad leader and squad deputy will line up on both sides of the tank and use their submachine guns to form a blind-angle crossfire at the front. Once an enemy is found,
Rushing out of the smoke, they will immediately suppress it with a dense barrage of bullets and grenades.
The third barrier is the soldiers' bayonets.
To be precise, it is not the bayonet, but the lives of the soldiers.
The reason is that if the Japanese blasters rush to a state where they can fight with bayonets, the bayonets will no longer work... Many Japanese bombers have already set off the fuses of explosive packs or cluster grenades when they rush forward.
All the soldiers could do was to block them with their bodies, and they even had to roll aside with the Japs to avoid the explosives from damaging the tanks.
This is also one of the subjects that Wang Xuexin trains on.
This sounds cruel, but Wang Xuexin believes that he must face it.
Because war is a cruel reality, it will not change just because you don't train.
Wang Xuexin's purpose in training this subject has never been to worry about no one rushing forward, but to worry about too many people rushing toward him at the same time and causing unnecessary casualties.
Later, Wang Xuexin learned that in this battle alone, five soldiers used their flesh and blood to protect the safety of the tank.
It only took seven minutes for the tank to pass through the smoke. To outsiders, this journey seemed very short and ordinary. Only the soldiers who were involved in it knew how much danger and sacrifice it contained.
After the tank broke through the smoke area, the battlefield immediately became one-sided again.
This is not only because the tank crew regained their sight and the machine gun roared again, but also because they entered the enemy's relatively open position and had room to perform.
Then the sound of gunfire and artillery immediately became intense again. The Japanese had more troops, but they were completely unable to function under this situation. The defense line was immediately torn open by the tank troops.
Of course, Wang Xuexin would not give the Japanese a chance to breathe a sigh of relief. With a wave of his hand, the following tanks immediately entered the position and pushed towards the enemy's position in a steady stream.
The Japanese defense finally collapsed at this moment.
It was quite difficult for the Japs to resist until this point... A force with no tanks, no anti-tank equipment, and no artillery reinforcements still had the courage to resist when it saw a large number of tanks coming. Not only did it have the courage to resist, it could also form a certain defense.
, this cannot be achieved without certain qualities.
But this is only from Wang Xuexin's perspective, it is another matter from the Japs' perspective.
The Eighth Route Army not only had tanks, but also used a tank company to defeat an imperial brigade... Strictly speaking, the Eighth Route Army was not a tank company. There were many subsequent units that were unable to deploy at the passes, but there was indeed only one tank company that went into battle.
This is simply a great shame...
Once upon a time, the Eighth Route Army had several regiments surrounding the Japs and could do nothing to fight them in one large group, but now a tank company can do it.
This made Kenkichi Ikegami, who escaped in a sidecar, not knowing how to report it to his superiors.
Ikegami Kenkichi wanted to commit suicide several times on the way to apologize, but he thought that he should at least warn his superiors, otherwise the superiors would not know about it at all... This also shows how panicked Ikegami Kenkichi was when he escaped. He didn't even have a radio station.
There was time to bring it out.
However, this does not seem surprising. The speed at which the tanks are pushed forward does not seem to be very fast, but in actual combat, wherever they are pushed, the forces can reach them. Coupled with the extended firepower of machine guns and artillery, the headquarters of the Ikegami brigade did not have time to evacuate.
Was destroyed in the earthen house.
Kenji Ikegami fled ten miles before finding a phone at a post. He reported the situation via the phone: "I am Kenji Ikegami, captain of the third brigade of the 226th Regiment. The Eighth Route Army has broken through our defense line and may raid Yuncheng! They
There are many tanks, they are Mao Xiong’s T26 type, and they have very mature infantry-tank coordination tactics! Please take Colonel Nagatake (Captain of the 226th Regiment) to pay attention to them!"
After reporting this, Ikegami seemed to have finished a task on his mind. Then he touched the grenade on his waist and walked into the woods beside the road alone in dejection...