Changzhu's artillery regiment is obviously experienced warriors. They can even be said to be mountain troops... They have rich combat experience in fighting the Eighth Route Army in the mountains for many years, and Changzhu's command is also quite good.
The better the troops, the less likely they are to escape from the encirclement.
So Gangzi chose to surround the artillery regiment.
Nagatake Taro almost lost his temper after learning that the tank regiment had escaped... These guys in the tank regiment usually enjoy the best food and the highest treatment in the army, but at critical moments they will just run away.
But complaining at this time was of no use. Nagatake Taro could only grit his teeth, wave his command knife towards the tank defense line formed by the Eighth Route Army, and order an attack.
This is a battle between flesh and steel. Teams of Japanese soldiers charge towards the tank defense line, and team after team are blasted back by machine guns and artillery shells. Corpses are piled up in front of the position. There are soldiers everywhere.
Corpses and blood...
Normally this situation would only happen when the Chinese army attacks the Japanese tanks, but now the situation has changed and it has become the Japanese attacking the Eighth Route Army tanks.
Perhaps because they had been too angry with enemy tanks before, the soldiers had no sympathy for the Japanese casualties...
This is not a woman's person. Anyone who has been on the battlefield knows that it is impossible for a person to live without compassion.
Even if they knew clearly that they were facing Japs who killed without blinking an eye, they could not even be considered human beings, but if they had killed more people, the bullets would have knocked them down in pieces. Seeing the Japs crawling and struggling on the ground, how could they still be killed?
With the blood and wailings splattering everywhere, it is inevitable that you will feel chills and even feel terrified, even if you fired the gun yourself.
Therefore, the battlefield requires you to control your emotions and hide your humanity deep in your heart.
At this moment, the soldiers were more like machines, numbly changing magazines and pulling the trigger to knock down groups of enemies rushing up.
Nagatake Taro actually did not charge blindly. He knew very well that the shortcoming of the Eighth Route Army's tank defense line was the lack of personnel.
So his idea was very clear, which was to concentrate the three remaining artillery pieces and all the mortars and grenade launchers to bomb the infantry who were hiding behind the tanks, and then organize a demolition team to approach the tanks from the blind spot.
But Nagatake Taro's thinking was clear, and so was Goko's.
He even thought that the Japanese would use such tactics, so he ordered before the war: "All tanks, use tank guns to suppress the enemy's artillery fire, and machine gunners to cooperate with the infantry to block the enemy's charge!"
It seems like a simple order, but it actually divides the functions of the tank into two layers to closely coordinate with the infantry: the tank gun covers the infantry, the machine gun counterattacks the enemy infantry, and the infantry covers the target indicated by the tank...
In addition, the terrain of the Yuncheng Plain is very flat. No matter where the Japanese set up a mortar or 92 infantry gun, they would soon be discovered and targeted.
In fact, it was the infantry who discovered these mortars and the 92 Infantry Artillery. They had a wide observation range and strong perception. After discovering the target, they told the tank the location of the target through the phone.
As a result, the Japanese artillery was often blasted into the sky by tanks before it could even fire a few shots.
This directly caused the Japanese infantry to rush forward in batches, all of them destined to die.
But in the end there were still two tanks. The situation:
A tank's track was broken by a cluster grenade. It was a Japanese soldier who had been knocked to the ground. Although his intestines were bleeding from the bullet in his abdomen, he still slowly crawled towards the tank holding the grenade.
Because he was moving very slowly and there were corpses and blood everywhere on the ground, no one noticed him.
It wasn't until he ignited the grenade and smoke emitted that he was discovered by Chen Fujun.
Chen Fujun only had time to shout: "Grenade..."
Before he finished speaking, a guard swooped forward and blocked the gap in front of the track before the Japs were about to throw the cluster grenade into the tank chassis.
So the cluster grenade rolled next to the track, and the "bang" only broke the track, and of course took away the soldier's life.
This is what Chen Fujun calls "people are in tanks"... If this cluster grenade is thrown into the chassis, it will blast through the weak bottom armor from the bottom and completely scrap the tank, and it may even cause firepower.
Gaps allow the enemy to turn the tide of battle.
Another tank was directly hit by an 81mm direct-fire infantry gun.
The so-called "direct-fire infantry cannon" is actually a mortar, but the Japanese stipulate that mortars with a caliber of less than 90mm are artillery used by infantry, so they are called direct-fire infantry guns, and mortars with a caliber of 90mm and above are designated for artillery.
The artillery is called a mortar.
This also shows the paranoia of the Japs. In fact, the two are the same thing but have different calibers, but the Japs insist on subdividing them in the hope of being "refined to the extreme."
But this division has no meaning in actual combat.
For example, the mountain artillery regiment is more willing to equip the direct-fire infantry artillery with a caliber of less than 90mm... When fighting in mountainous areas, it is not important to have large caliber and high power. What is important is that it is light in weight, small in size and easy to carry. Otherwise, it will run around in the mountainous area with a few large-caliber artillery shells.
It's obviously not cost-effective to go there and be exhausted and finish it off in two shots.
This is also the reason why the 37th Mountain Artillery Regiment is equipped with direct-fire infantry artillery.
Mortar shells cannot penetrate the armor of the T34 tank, even the weak armor on the top.
But this mortar shell happened to land where the commander was, and a loud explosion stunned the commander on the spot. The commander of the T34 tank was also the gunner, so the tank's parallel machine gun and artillery could not function normally.
Fire.
When a tank was unable to fire, it lost one-tenth of its firepower. Suddenly, the tank defense line was in danger. The Japs tried to rush up through this gap several times, but they were blown back by grenades.
At the critical moment, Chen Fujun opened the tank hatch, squeezed in, took the commander's position, and fired the machine gun again...
Chen Fujun usually felt that this tank was rare, so he would go to the tank and touch this and that when he had nothing to do. After a while, although he was not able to cooperate with others to drive a tank in combat, controlling the machine gun was still not a problem.
But these are not problems.
What's more serious is that as the enemy charges one after another, the ammunition carried by the tank is almost exhausted.
Androvich nervously shouted to Gangzi: "Comrade company commander, retreat! It's not worth sacrificing these tanks for the enemy!"
But Gangzi replied: "Hold on until the last moment, the main force will be here soon!"
There was actually another reason why Gangzi was unwilling to retreat... At this time, two tanks could not be driven, and he was unwilling to leave these two tanks to the enemy.
Fortunately, the main force finally arrived at the last moment and launched a charge against the Japanese in time.