T34 rampaged into the Japanese artillery position.
The Japanese artillerymen hurriedly turned their artillery towards the tanks. Although they knew that the 92 infantry cannon could not penetrate the armor of the enemy tanks, they still habitually loaded their ammunition in an attempt to make a last ditch effort, even if they could blow up the tank's tracks.
But before they could fire, the artillery was ruthlessly knocked over by the tank. Then with a burst of metal crunching, the artillery and a dozen Japanese gunners who had no time to escape were crushed together.
The Japanese blasters were holding a bundle of grenades, hoping to catch up with the tank. However, before they could run a few steps, they found several smoking grenades falling beside them, and then a "boom" explosion blew them down.
Next to the tank.
These grenades were thrown by the infantrymen led by Chen Fujun. They may not be accurate when shooting, but they have no problem throwing grenades... The grenades do not need to be thrown too accurately, they only need to be thrown at roughly the right position, and they will explode after they are fired.
Kills targets within a dozen range, unless the enemy gets down in time.
Several Japanese soldiers hurriedly climbed into the car and started it to escape... To be precise, this was not an escape. The artillery regiment's cars were usually equipped with many artillery shells. When the artillery position was attacked, the first reaction of the car soldiers was
These cars should be driven to a safe area.
But it was too late to do this.
Androvich's No. 0 tank stopped for a moment and got off... Perhaps only Androvich's crew in the entire tank battalion cooperated so tacitly. The crew members did not even need orders. The gunner directly loaded the grenade, and then the driver stopped the car.
The gunner adjusted the angle, and then blew an ammunition truck into the sky with a "bang".
The explosion of the ammunition truck instantly detonated the artillery shells piled nearby. The artillery shells flew to other places and exploded, detonating other cars, and then triggered a series of chain explosions. For a time, explosions were heard one after another in the artillery position, including Japanese soldiers, cars and artillery pieces.
They were all blown up to the sky.
T34 ignored this. They still increased their power and rushed through the area as fast as possible. They did not open fire on the way. Whenever they saw artillery and cars, they rammed them forward and crushed them with their tracks. For a while, the Japanese were beaten until they howled like ghosts.
It’s called Liantian.
In less than ten minutes, the tank passed through the Japanese artillery position.
Gangzi did not order to turn back, but continued forward for 500 meters before turning around.
The tank stopped to take aim, and the infantrymen also got out of the car and hid behind the tank to coordinate.
This is the advantage of tanks. When they park and line up in a row, they can instantly build a line of defense with fierce firepower and strong defense.
Watching this scene, Nagatake Taro was so surprised that his jaw almost dropped. He found that not only did his artillery regiment fail to defend against the enemy's tanks, but it was actually surrounded by the enemy at this moment... The enemy tanks were building up in the rear.
There is a line of defense, but the main division on the other side is advancing forward. When the enemy's main force arrives, it means that the artillery regiment will be surrounded and annihilated by the enemy.
Nagatake Taro has been fighting with the Eighth Route Army for more than a year or two, but he has never encountered a situation like today.
But he knew that now was not the time to think about this. If he continued like this, he might not even be able to save his own life.
So, he got up from the ground in embarrassment and shouted loudly to the staff officer who was lying on the ground: "Contact the tank troops immediately and cooperate with our army to defeat the enemy tanks!"
Nagatake Taro finally made a wise decision.
Although T34 built a steel defense line behind them, this scary-looking steel defense line had a fatal flaw: there were not enough infantry to follow.
The infantry following Chen Fujun suffered heavy casualties in the attack just now, especially at the moment when they rushed through the artillery position and the shells exploded in a chain... Although this explosion could kill the Japanese, it would also kill the unprotected followers of Chen Fujun.
The infantry posed a threat, and several of them were unable to keep up with the tanks because their shoulder straps were blown out, so they remained in the enemy's artillery positions.
This is the cruelty of war. Although sometimes we know that we will accidentally hurt our own people, we still have to do it.
However, Chen Fujun's soldiers were all hard-nosed. They used the weapons in their hands to fight the enemy until the last moment. This also prevented the Japanese from recovering from the chaos for a long time.
At this time, Chen Fujun's entire company only had about fifty people left, and on average there were only five people covering each tank.
Although the Japanese artillery regiment only suffered heavy casualties in the chain explosion, there were at least thousands of people.
If such a large number of troops are combined with the Japanese tank squadron to launch an attack on the defense line formed by the T34... even if the T34 has superior performance, it will be difficult to resist it.
This is the enemy's only chance to break out.
T34 has the advantage of speed. The Japanese artillery regiment car was bombed again. If you want to escape, you can only rely on two legs.
But how can two legs outrun T34?
If you retreat desperately at this time, you will only be chased around like mice by T34 and eventually be wiped out.
Therefore, Nagatake Taro's thinking was very clear. If he wanted to survive, he must defeat these new tank troops in front of him.
But Yutomijiro of the Tank Regiment didn't think so.
When he saw the artillery regiment's position being breached and exploded into flames, he sighed: "The artillery regiment is finished!"
Then, Aritomijiro ordered: "We should break out with the artillery regiment, so turn to the east!"
More than ten kilometers away to the east is a line of defense built by the Japanese to fight against the Jinsui Army. Although there are not many troops stationed at this time, there are complete fortifications such as barbed wire and bunkers. As long as you escape there, no matter how powerful the enemy's new tanks are, you will be able to defeat them.
I'm afraid it's hard to accomplish anything.
So, when the artillery regiment was blown into a mass, Yutomijiro took the opportunity to change direction and flee east with the remaining eight tanks.
When Nagatakejiro tried to contact the chariot regiment using semaphores, he found that the chariot regiment was no longer there.
This cannot be said that Tomijiro was wrong.
It makes sense to escape in two directions. The Eighth Route Army has only one T34 unit and only ten tanks. They can only choose one of the enemy forces to pursue.
Gangzi once again faced a choice: which army to pursue.
Some commanders hoped to chase the enemy tanks, and Androvich thought so too. He shouted on the radio: "Comrade company commander, the enemy tanks have changed direction, let us catch up with them!"
But Gangzi ordered: "We are here, comrade captain! I choose the Japanese artillery regiment!"
Wang Xuexin felt that Gangzi's choice was correct.
The most important thing on the battlefield is actually people, experienced warriors.
Before this, it can be said that the enemy's tanks are more important, because any enemy tank squadron can capture a Chinese city and cause thousands of casualties to the Chinese army.
But now...
After the Eighth Route Army had the T34, the Japanese tanks became less important.