Although the "tank soldiers" sent there were actually unprofessional, almost none of them had ever driven a tank... all they had driven were fake tanks.
Fortunately, their usual training was based on the Japanese tank data, and the model they built was also based on data obtained from the Japanese tank soldiers.
Therefore, it is still barely manageable to start a 95 light battle at this time.
There is a reason why Wang Xuexin told them to "pay attention to safety."
Because the air control at this time was still in the hands of the Japanese.
To the Japanese fighters and bombers, these thin-skinned Type 95 tanks were almost paper targets, and they could be knocked down by just a dive and a burst of bullets.
On the other hand, Wang Xuexin believes that although the so-called "tank soldiers" of the 208th Regiment may operate tanks, they do not know the tactics of tanks at all, such as infantry-tank coordination.
So, if they drive a tank and rush towards the enemy's position recklessly, they will basically go there without any return.
However, things on the battlefield are sometimes so magical.
The "tank soldiers" performed miraculous feats in this battle precisely because they did not understand this.
Six of the eight tanks were operational. Just like Wang Xuexin thought, the "tank soldiers" did not understand tank tactics, so they drove their tanks and charged directly towards the enemy...
In fact, we can't blame them. If the tank can drive, where else can it charge if it doesn't charge in the direction of the enemy?
Show the weak side armor to the enemy?
Or stop firing and become a target for the enemy?
Or turn in the opposite direction and place the rear armor in front of the enemy?
None of them are suitable!
Therefore, we can only rush forward without hesitation, fight for one to earn enough money, and fight for two to earn one.
Therefore, they didn't care about the theories they usually learned, or whether they could hit accurately or not, they just charged at the enemy and fired at the same time.
Some of this artillery fire was like a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, and several of them hit the Japs crowd... In fact, this was because the Japs had no defense lines and no positions. As soon as they arrived at Wangxing Airport, they immediately launched an attack on the airport.
I didn't think about defense.
Tang Liangjun, who was watching this situation from behind, was angry and anxious. He was still organizing his troops to follow the tanks and launch a counterattack against the Japanese! Unexpectedly, the tanks rushed out like this without paying attention!
At the same time, the Eighth Route Army was unable to use radio to contact these tanks, so these tanks broke away from the command the moment they started to move, and were in a state where they could not be pulled back after being launched.
Tang Liangjun was anxious here, but he didn't want Shino Endo to be anxious too.
Because when he came out with his mechanized troops, he only considered how his own armored troops would attack the enemy's positions, and did not consider the enemy's armored troops at all.
This is actually reasonable.
Because Okamura Neiji has done enough intelligence to confirm that the Eighth Route Army's armored units are in Yuncheng.
The armored forces are in Yuncheng, and the air superiority is in the hands of the Imperial Army, so Endo Shino does not need to consider the Eighth Route Army's armored forces... As soon as the Eighth Route Army's armored forces leave Yuncheng, they will inevitably be attacked by the Imperial Air Force.
t34, I'm afraid it will also be blown up into a mess.
Therefore, Endo Shino's troops did not carry anti-tank equipment at all, not even the simplest anti-tank grenades.
At this time, several 95 light combat vehicles suddenly drove towards them at full speed, which immediately made Endo Shino and his troops panic.
But after just being stunned for a moment, Endo Shima immediately ordered: "All tanks, go out to fight immediately and stop them!"
Then another order was issued: "Notify the air force that some of our tanks have been captured by the enemy, destroy them!"
Endo Shino's order is correct in principle.
Because to deal with tanks, the most effective equipment is definitely the air force.
At this time, there were still several "Zero War" and Type 97 bombers hovering in the sky, ready to provide fire support to his troops at any time.
Only a few of them need to swoop down and shoot at the Eighth Route Army's 95 light battles, and the crisis will be resolved.
But the problem is...
At this time, the Japanese communication equipment was not advanced enough to directly contact the aviation team.
Therefore, the call for air support is first transferred to the air force headquarters and then to the air force in the air.
This time delay caused the pilot to miss the best opportunity to intercept. When the plane dived down from a high altitude, what he saw was a chaotic mixture of Type 95 light combatants. The pilot simply could not distinguish which ones were from the empire and which were from the enemy.
Captured by the Eighth Route Army.
Therefore, the air force can only hover in the sky and do nothing.
At this time, the ground became even more chaotic.
The tanks driven by the Eighth Route Army rushed into the Japanese camp with a "rumbling" sound, and the Japanese Type 95 tanks drove up to fight... But they soon found that it was impossible to shoot because there were scattered and fleeing imperial soldiers everywhere in front, back, and left of the target.
If you open fire, you will inevitably injure your own people.
But the tanks of the Eighth Route Army had no scruples. After rushing into the enemy group, they crushed them randomly. Groups of densely packed Japanese soldiers were crushed into pools of blood amidst the screams. The Japanese soldiers riding three-wheelers were even more
They were doomed, and each one was knocked over by the tank like a toy car or crushed into a discus.
When Tang Liangjun saw this situation, he secretly said: OK! This battle is better fought without a command than with a command! There are two blows!
So he made an immediate decision, waved the box cannon in his hand and shouted: "Comrades, charge!"
Thousands of newly organized troops jumped out of the trenches with a loud shout and rushed towards the Japanese who were already in chaos.
The Japanese still dared to fight, so they quickly turned around and fled, even leaving behind more than ten tanks that had been thrown into the battlefield.
Shino Endo also immediately escaped in an armored command vehicle... In this regard, he was worthy of having studied abroad under Hans, and knew that if it was not helpful to the war, he should not risk his life.
In this battle, the Eighth Route Army unexpectedly won a great victory.
In addition to the eight 95 light tanks captured, seven Japanese tanks were destroyed, and thirty shoulder bags were seized. The number of shoulder bags crushed and blown up was too many to count, and three hundred Japanese soldiers were killed and wounded.
Multiple people.
It can be said that the elite forwards of the two squadrons brought by Endo Shino were almost completely annihilated in just this moment.
But the battle is not over yet.
Because, after these two squadrons, there are three squadrons of Japanese soldiers coming.
After the defeated soldiers led by Shino Endo retreated, they joined them.
By then, the Eighth Route Army will probably be attacked even more fiercely.
At the same time, Endo Shino learned the lesson from the last failure, and I'm afraid it won't be that easy to deal with.