War has its own special laws. It is good to advance by leaps and bounds on the battlefield, but to prevent a lone army from going too deep, it is also important to understand the principle that going too far is not enough.
Zhang Tongqing's troop formation was mainly offensive, but he also defended during the attack, and advanced step by step. No matter what means the Japanese army used, the National Defense Forces had corresponding countermeasures.
In the southwest corner of Yangmiao, the 18 75 mountain guns of the 1st Regiment Mountain Artillery Battalion of the 063 Division just bombarded the designated area in a regular manner according to the deployment, slowly and effectively opening the way for the infantry. The 18 mountain guns of the mountain artillery companies of each battalion also joined in.
This chorus on the morning of the 25th.
The entire 1st Regiment's 72 60-gun guns also reached the forefront of the position, following the rhythm of the mountain artillery, steadily pouring shells into the Japanese position.
At this time, it was the infantrymen who used squads and platoons as units, using squad machine guns as assault firepower, and followed the barrage formed by mountain artillery and mortars to slowly advance, eroding the Japanese fortifications and positions step by step.
As soon as the artillery of the National Defense Forces fired, the commander of the Japanese 3rd Division, Susumu Fujita, heard the sound of the artillery. He was about to order the field artillery regiment on Gushan to fight back, but he immediately gave up the idea because Susumu Fujita heard it.
Only the Chinese army's mountain artillery and small mortars were not dispatched, and its main artillery was not dispatched.
Of course Susumu Fujita wanted to use field artillery to destroy the mountain artillery of the Wehrmacht, but he also understood that the Wehrmacht suffered losses yesterday and would not be easy to deal with today. The Wehrmacht's silent howitzers were obviously waiting for the field artillery unit.
Expose one's position.
However, Susumu Fujita understood better that if the field artillery wing was not used, then the 12 mountain guns and 16 infantry guns of the artillery brigade directly under the 10th wing, even including the reinforced artillery squads of each brigade, would not be a match for the National Defense Forces.
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This choice is really difficult!
In the previous hour, the National Defense Forces advanced very quickly. Firstly, they caught the Japanese army by surprise. Secondly, they were located outside Yangmiao. There were relatively few Japanese military fortifications and strongholds. However, after the 1st Regiment of the 063 Division advanced a distance of about 300 meters, the Japanese army
The resistance suddenly strengthened!
The Japanese army's grenade launchers fired fiercely, and the machine guns of the squadron, the main scorer of the Wehrmacht infantry, were disabled one by one. When the Wehrmacht's 60 mortars came up in pursuit, the Japanese army retreated into permanent fortifications.
At this time, the shelling effect of the 75-meter mountain gun was no longer significant, and the 60-meter gun really became a covering weapon for the infantry. Instead, because the Wehrmacht Army had newly captured some unfamiliar fortifications, it was threatened by the Japanese infantry artillery.
This was Susumu Fujita's only move, and he had to fight even if it was difficult to fight, so he moved the infantry guns and grenade launchers forward in large numbers to block the assault of the Wehrmacht infantry.
"Order the Army's armored brigade to dispatch a tank company to support infantry operations!" Zhang Tongqing saw that the battle situation was deadlocked and decided to add firepower appropriately.
The armored brigade directly under the group army is different from the division tank regiment. Later it was equipped with the "T-12" assault tank, while the former was equipped with the "T-24" medium tank. The weight of 24 tons is naturally incompatible with the 12 tons.
At the same time, the "T-24" is now equipped with a 57mm tank gun instead of a 37mm gun.
The "T-24" can basically withstand the bombardment of the Japanese 75mm mountain artillery. As for the 70mm infantry gun, the threat to the "T-24" is even smaller.
Four "T-24" tanks drove slowly towards the Japanese front positions with a distance of more than 100 meters. The rumbling sound of motors and majestic bodies immediately attracted loud cheers from the National Defense Forces soldiers on the position.
The headquarters has finally dispatched a killer weapon. Now let’s see what tricks the Japanese can use!
"Boom -" About 150 meters away from a permanent fortification of the Japanese army, a "T-24" fired a shot, and with great luck, the shell hit the hole of the fortification.
The infantrymen following the tank immediately made several tiger leaps, rushed into the trench, and competed with the remaining Japanese troops for control of the trench.
Many historical materials talk about the high quality of Japanese soldiers, which is true. Regardless of their fighting will, training level, and soldier cultural level, they are quite high. However, that is compared with the contemporaneous National Army soldiers or the Eighth Route Army soldiers.
Compared with. In front of the soldiers of the National Defense Force, even if the Japanese soldiers still have these advantages, they are no longer obvious. On the contrary, the soldiers of the National Defense Force have advantages that the Japanese army does not have. This is that their tactical accomplishment is much higher than that of Japan, even higher than this era.
Second, the soldiers' equipment is not comparable to that of the Japanese army.
Because the "T-24" tank destroyed the main fortifications of the Japanese army, a platoon of soldiers from the National Defense Force met a small group of soldiers from the Japanese army in the trenches. This staged close-quarters battle between Chinese and Japanese infantry was also of classic significance.
The Marine platoon of the National Defense Force has 51 people, including 1 platoon leader, 2 deputy platoon leaders, and 4 squads of 48 people. It is equipped with 4 squad machine guns, 15 submachine guns, and 24 semi-automatic rifles.
The Japanese infantry squad consists of one machine gun group (historically two and now three light machine guns), one grenade group (three grenades) and two rifle groups. Each light machine gun has four personnel (commander, shooter)
, two assistant shooters carrying ammunition), two people for each grenade. The team size is 70 people.
If the two sides were to attack in an open area, the Japanese army would have an advantage because of the grenade launchers; but in a narrow trench, the Japanese army's advantage would immediately turn into a disadvantage.
The most obvious combat groups of the Japanese army are the light machine gun group and the grenade group. The Wehrmacht also has machine gun groups and combat groups.
However, the Wehrmacht's machine gun team only had three people, and the Japanese army had one more than the Wehrmacht. In addition, each submachine gun in the Wehrmacht was equipped with two semi-automatic rifles and automatically formed a combat team. The submachine gun was always called a "flower machine" by people at the time. This is enough to illustrate the effectiveness of submachine guns.
The power is very close to that of a light machine gun. Of course, this is under the premise of close combat.
The first one of the Wehrmacht to jump into the trench was a submachine gun fighting group. As soon as they jumped out, they encountered four enemies. One of the enemies raised his gun and fired, injuring one Wehrmacht soldier. However, a single shot from the submachine gun killed the four.
The enemy knocked down three of them, one of whom was killed by a semi-automatic rifle.
The sound of gunfire alerted the Japanese troops who were more than 20 meters away. Some Japanese troops immediately rushed up with Type 38 rifles. The submachine guns had already fired all the bullets, and a semi-automatic was responsible for guarding the other side of the trench. At this time, in fact, there was only one
A semi-automatic rifle was used to fight against a dozen Japanese soldiers who were rushing towards him.
But at this moment, the second group of submachine gun teams also jumped into the trench, took over the guard of the first group, and at the same time knocked down the Japs at the front with a "click, click, click" of a shuttle.
In less than half a minute, one of the Japanese machine guns was set up and was about to fire. Suddenly, another group of submachine gunners jumped into the trench. As soon as a shuttle passed by, the Japanese machine gunners were gone.
Just when the Japanese machine guns were gone, the few Japanese soldiers who were still alive finally took the opportunity to fire. Due to the chaos and the large number of people, four soldiers of the National Defense Force were injured.
However, the Japanese army only fired one shot. The Wehrmacht soldiers with wide vision finally fired their semi-automatic rifles, and then gradually expanded the occupation area, allowing more soldiers to jump into the trenches.
Seeing that they were unable to do anything, the Japanese stopped charging. Instead, they used their familiarity with the trenches to set up temporary positions to block the Wehrmacht. Although they caused some casualties to the Wehrmacht, the Wehrmacht only spent a total of 20 minutes, and three soldiers died.
At the cost of 10 injuries, the entire Japs squad was wiped out.
The National Defense Force dispatched the "T-24" medium tank, which suddenly broke the stalemate on the front, shattered Susumu Fujita's luck, and forced Susumu Fujita into a dead end.
Dispatching a tank regiment? Obviously, the Chinese army has more tank troops, and looking at the size of the Chinese tanks, it is not something that the Japanese tanks can deal with.
Susumu Fujita didn't know that Zhang Tongqing was not planning to use his tanks to compete with the Japanese tanks. To deal with the Japanese's thin-skinned tanks, the 20mm anti-aircraft gun was the most appropriate weapon.
Some people may ask, why not use tanks to PK tanks? Zhang Tongqing's answer is: There is a group of artillery waiting on Gushan. Artillery with a diameter of 100mm or above can just restrain the "T-24" tanks of the armored brigade.
Here, the most brilliant thing about Zhang Tongqing is that he only used 4 "T-24", which made Fujita uncomfortable and made him lose his footing.
Fujita should use field artillery. The four tanks are not only small in number, but also very scattered. The effect of the artillery attack must be very small. On the contrary, it also exposes the position of the field artillery unit.
Susumu Fujita should not use field artillery. There is no way to control these four tanks. Should he let them continue to run rampant in his own position?
"Baga, order the cavalry regiment to send a brigade to quickly reinforce the position in the southwest corner of Yangmiao and annihilate the Chinese tanks!" Susumu Fujita, who had no other choice, finally remembered that the 3rd Division had another group besides the chariot regiment.
A mobile force.
During the Sino-Japanese War, and even before the middle of World War II, the Japanese cavalry regiment was always fully maintained. Although in Chahar, the 9th Cavalry Division of the National Defense Forces used one company to annihilate a Japanese cavalry regiment, the Japanese did not
I didn’t realize that cavalry is already the last branch of this era.
In the next few years, the Soviet Red Army cavalry units will stage a cavalry-versus-armor drama with German armored groups. Tens of thousands of Soviet cavalry will fight against thousands of German tanks. The result will be that the Soviet cavalry is completely annihilated, and the cavalry officially disappears from the battlefield.
Exit the stage of history.
If not for chance, Wu Aihua would never form a cavalry. Instead of cavalry, he would rather use three-wheeled motorcycles or off-road motorcycles instead of cavalry. On the vast grassland, Wu Aihua believes that the combat effectiveness of thousands of armed motorcycles is definitely stronger than the same.
Compared with the fuel consumption of large-scale cavalry and motorcycles and the feed of war horses, the latter may be more expensive.
The success of one "T-24" greatly encouraged the other three tanks, and also greatly reduced the morale of the Japanese army. In the next half hour, several more permanent Japanese fortifications on the front were breached. The infantry remained the same as before.
, jumped into the trenches and fought hand to hand with the Japanese.
By 7 o'clock in the morning, if counted from the Japanese army's initial defense line, the National Defense Forces had broken through 600 meters forward, and the Japanese army had lost nearly a thousand soldiers alone, which was almost the strength of a brigade.