Yuncheng's defense collapsed due to Anda 23's retreat.
Later, the Japanese reinforcements did enter the city, but it was meaningless because the sky was gradually getting brighter by then, and the tank's combat effectiveness was improved.
Actually that's not the point.
The reason why tank street fighting has always been an unsolvable problem in modern warfare is because there are sharp weapons like rocket launchers and even individual anti-tank missiles. They can hide in houses and ruins and kill targets at a very small cost.
Tank destroyed.
But this problem did not exist for the tank troops of the Eighth Route Army, because the Japanese at this time basically had no anti-tank equipment.
If it doesn't work, even the "umbrella" anti-tank grenade used by Hans (after being thrown, a small umbrella will open at the tail to keep the warhead fuze in front, and it will explode when it hits the target tank), or the bumper grenade used by Mao Xiong.
Anti-tank grenades with explosive fuzes will also work...
As long as there are anti-tank grenades, they can be thrown from a house or rooftop, which will also cause big trouble for tanks passing by on the street below.
However, the devil had nothing.
In fact, the Japanese also have anti-tank equipment, such as the Type 99 "Turtle" anti-tank mine, and the Sting Mine...
But the former is an explosive surrounded by several magnets, which requires soldiers to get close to stick the explosives to the tank, while the latter requires soldiers to grab and stab the tank and die together with the tank.
Both require close proximity.
Getting up close may be very scary for the Eagle soldiers. Their infantry are timid and always hide in safe areas. Once they are hit by fire, they will lie down and dare not move. This gives the Japanese an opportunity to take advantage of this.
Only two so-called "thunders" could cause considerable losses to Eagle on the Pacific battlefield...and it was the Sherman that exploded, forcing Eagle to put a wooden shell on the Sherman.
(Note: The wooden shell is not magnetic and the Japanese Type 99 anti-tank mine cannot stick to it)
This tactic would not work against the Eighth Route Army.
Because when necessary, Eighth Route Army soldiers will use their lives to protect the safety of tanks... It is difficult for Yingjiang to understand such behavior. For them, their own lives are always more important than other people's lives, so why should they sacrifice themselves to save others?
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As a result, the street fighting in Yuncheng was a crushing battle for the Eighth Route Army tanks. The Japanese reinforcements rushed towards them and were rushed by the tanks. They were defeated again and fled out of the city in a hurry with corpses left on the ground.
Wang Xuexin led his team to continue the attack non-stop. After taking Laobei Street in the center of the city, he turned to North Street and captured the North Gate in more than half an hour.
The 1st and 2nd Tank Companies completed their missions and occupied the west gate and east gate respectively.
Among them, the Second Tank Company missed the target when attacking the Automobile Repair Street and did not encounter the Japanese tanks... The Japanese tank troops were transferred to the center where the Third Tank Company was annihilated.
A company of tanks knocked down a Japanese artillery squadron and knocked them off their feet.
These are not the point.
The point is, when Yuncheng was captured by the Eighth Route Army, the bunkers and gun towers outside the city became "sandwich biscuits" and were attacked from two sides by the Eighth Route Army.
Moreover, fortifications such as bunkers and gun towers are very directional, with strong external firepower but almost no internal firepower. Tanks in particular are the nemesis of bunkers and gun towers.
Therefore, Anda 23 knew very well that if the troops stationed outside the city did not retreat, they would soon face being divided and surrounded by the enemy.
So after giving the order, the Japanese from all directions retreated in a hurry and fled eastward.
They were in such a hurry that they didn't even have time to blow up the bunkers and gun towers... It is said that to blow up the bunkers, they only needed to bury a few explosive packets and light the fuse, which would take less than a few minutes.
But things on the battlefield can often determine life or death in just a few minutes. What if the Eighth Route Army's tank troops counterattacked from the city in just these few minutes to cut off the Japanese's retreat?
As a result, the bunker fortifications outside the city fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army almost intact, including the barbed wire fences and anti-tank trenches carefully built by Anda 23, and there were even several outside the city to provide bunkers and gun towers.
Underground warehouse for supplies.
This was built after the Japanese occupied Yuncheng.
Anda Twenty-Three took one thing into consideration: bunkers and gun towers cannot prepare too much ammunition.
This does not mean that there is not enough space, but that bunkers and gun towers are easily bombarded by enemy tanks. If too much ammunition is accumulated in the bunker, not to mention waste, the explosion will become a multiplier for enemy shells.
Therefore, the ammunition in the bunker turret basically only has two bases of ammunition...an average of more than two hundred rounds per person.
These ammunition were obviously not enough when the battle was fierce, so they needed to be transported frequently from the city.
There are so many bunkers outside the city that all need to be transported from inside the city, which will put a lot of pressure on the army's logistics and cause congestion at the city gate.
Therefore, Anda 23 designed several small ammunition depots outside the city.
This kind of small ammunition depot is located underground, with a two-meter-thick soil layer above it, followed by a depot poured with concrete. Each ammunition depot stores hundreds of thousands of bullets and tens of thousands of grenades for turnover.
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In this way, the bunker can be replenished from the underground ammunition depot in an emergency without the need to transport it back to the city.
All these ammunition fell into the hands of the Eighth Route Army. When Li Yunlong saw these ammunition depots, he jumped for joy: "Damn it, now I'm making a fortune! All these things that the devils created are just to use them against them."
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Li Yunlong is right.
Anda 23 was so "careful and considerate" because he actually had the Eighth Route Army in mind.
When the Japs faced the Eighth Route Army's attack, they did not have such big logistical worries. On the contrary, when the Eighth Route Army was defending Yuncheng...the Japs used artillery fire to block the city gates with firepower. What should they do with the ammunition for the bunkers and gun towers?
But these are just trivial matters.
When counting the results of the battle, the Eighth Route Army discovered five large warehouses in Yuncheng. Three warehouses stored ammunition, firearms, medicines, bandages, etc., and the other two warehouses stored grain.
These supplies came from the Japs and the Jinsui Army... When Yan Laoxi was defeated by the Japs, he had no time to blow up the warehouse. Except for an ammunition depot that was blown up by Japs agents, all the others fell into the hands of the Japs intact.
After the Japanese took over these warehouses and supplies, they not only did not use the supplies, but also piled supplies into the warehouses.
Because they planned to use Yuncheng as a starting point to support the troops of three divisions and cross them westward to the Yellow River, of course they had to prepare more supplies in Yuncheng.
In other words, when the Eighth Route Army captured Yuncheng this time, they seized all the supplies accumulated by the Jinsui Army and the Japanese in one fell swoop.
In addition, there are tanks, artillery, etc. that are surrounded by the Eighth Route Army and cannot get out of the city.
After Li Yunlong heard the reported supplies, he was so happy that he didn't know his own name.