Chapter 96 Counterattack
Although this was a completely asymmetrical battle, the Japanese army was not completely unable to fight back.
The characteristic of the Chinese army is that it is equipped with good equipment and strong firepower. Under this characteristic, the Chinese army can easily ignore one point, that is, the accuracy of shooting... This is actually a sequelae of American equipment, American tactics and logistics. There are a large number of bullets and shells, and the Chinese army fights at will. Then there seems to be no need to pay attention to accuracy when fighting. First, fire a piece of shells.
This habit will also affect infantry. After following the tank, they often just stick out their bodies and see the target or not. They just pull the trigger and "bang bang bang..." and then finish the eight bullets in the magazine in one breath.
This is not to say that Zhang Chi is reluctant to let go of these ammunition. In fact, the Americans have ammunition, and the Americans also advocate this kind of fighting style, but Zhang Chi knows one thing... No matter what tactics or fighting styles are on the battlefield, as long as the rules are formed, it is not a good thing.
The law is formed unknowingly. Sometimes it is formed and you don’t know it, but the enemy analyzes you, studies you, and immediately fights against this law after grasping it.
Therefore, there is a saying: "The one who knows you best will always be your enemy."
This rule of the Expeditionary Army soldiers was soon mastered by the Japanese army, so the Japanese army divided into groups holding rifles and stared at the gaps in the middle of the tanks. When the Expeditionary Army soldiers poked out and pulled the trigger, they fired a bullet.
Because the soldiers were used to shooting two or three or even eight bullets before retracting, the Japanese army had enough time to aim. In addition, the Japanese army's shooting skills were extremely accurate, so the soldiers who leaned out fell one by one in pool of blood, and most of them were even killed by the head.
The Japanese army's tactics were very effective. The soldiers even didn't dare to come forward to shoot for a while. As a result, the tanks appeared in a vacuum on the cover of infantry, and the Japanese rushed up with grenades and explosives bags at this time...
But the Japanese did not succeed in the end because the sniper rifle in Zhang Chi's hand played a role.
With a "bang", a Japanese army holding a pack of explosives was knocked down in front of the tank.
Zhang Chi did not poke out from behind the tank like other soldiers to shoot. He knew that the Japanese army had locked in those positions. With the Japanese quality, it would be dangerous even if he pokes out and only fires one bullet and then retracts his head in the shortest time.
So Zhang Chi was lying on the ground and aimed at the Japanese army in front through the gap between the tank chassis and the ground.
Of course. Because there are only a few dozen centimeters in this gap, Zhang Chi can only hit the target's foot for the first bullet, but this does not affect Zhang Chi's killing him. All he has to do is wait until the Japanese army's foot is hit and then shoot him in the head.
"Bang!" A Japanese army holding a magnetic anti-tankre was knocked to the ground by Zhang Chi.
The Japanese army was almost going to succeed. The angle he approached the tank was exactly the position of the tank tracks... This should be a coincidence. Because the Japanese army could not have imagined that Zhang Chi would use the gap under the tank chassis to snipe.
This coincidence made Zhang Chi unable to aim at him, but Zhang Chi clearly found the legs approaching the tank in the gaps of the tracks, and they were already very close.
In desperation, Zhang Chi jumped up from the ground, grabbed the back of the tank with one hand and leaped to the back of the tank with one support, and then stood up suddenly, fired a bullet and then shrank back as fast as possible.
It was this bullet that killed the Japanese army, and all the Japanese troops on the cover mission did not expect that... someone would suddenly stand on the top of the tank and shoot.
"Bang!" When the third bullet was shot out, a Japanese army holding an anti-tankrei was killed again.
This time, Zhang Chi took a risk... He leaned out and shot like other soldiers.
But Zhang Chi leaned out and was different from other soldiers. Other soldiers leaned out and fired a few bullets before retracting them. If Zhang Chi did the same, I'm afraid he would be a corpse on the ground at this time.
Zhang Chi ran from one tank to another quickly because he kept running and did not stop at the edge of the tank, which made all the Japanese troops targeting the sight of the tank lose the opportunity to snipe Zhang Chi... Or it could be said that those Japanese troops were one step slower than Zhang Chi because Zhang Chi could only hear the "swoosh" sound of bullets flying by in his ears, and these bullets were obviously targeted by him.
Just as Zhang Chi was running, he raised his rifle and fired a bullet in front, which again freed the tank in front.
Then the Japanese army had no chance to launch such similar attacks again, because the tanks had passed the ruins hidden in the Japanese army, and with the sound of "da da da da" machine guns, the Japanese army fell into a pool of blood in a scream.
This is just a sudden or insignificant crisis that can occur at any time in battle.
This crisis does not mean that the difference in military strength or firepower between the enemy and us does not exist or will not happen. For example, it is easy for the New First Division and the 36th British and Indian Division to take down this Xibu, but the dangers on the battlefield often happen unexpectedly.
What Zhang Chi didn't know was that there was another bigger crisis in Xibu's battlefield at this time...
The Japanese colonel Nobuka Yamazaki knew that Xibu could not defend it, so he decided to take a gamble. He planned to use Xibu's only ten Type 97 tanks to cover the infantry to launch a counterattack against the enemy.
This choice is correct. First of all, most of the things tanks should be placed in the offensive position. Secondly, Xibu has no danger to defend. Instead of waiting for being defeated by the enemy, it is better to carry forward the advantages of the Japanese army's hand-to-hand combat against the attack.
I don’t know whether the Japanese army intentionally or unintentionally. The breakthrough they chose was the 36th Division of the British Army.
At this time, the 36th Division of the British Army was lying in a single-army fortification... The order they received was to wait until the Chinese soldiers beat the Japanese almost to achieve the final victory.
Of course they knew what this "final victory" refers to, and to put it bluntly, they were going to receive the results of the war. Of course, both British officers and Indian soldiers in the British and Indian divisions were willing to obey this order.
Chapter completed!