The horn of war suddenly sounded, and the smoke coiled in the northern sky. The soldiers were about to embark on a journey. Are you ready?————“Quotations from Kongchen”
The Hainan Army's frequent mobilizations were impossible to hide from the Japanese headquarters, and the Hainan Army made it clear that they had no intention of hiding it. The horn of the general attack had already sounded at the moment the tanks charged.
According to the order of the headquarters, the Hainan Army Tank Brigade began to move southward as soon as it received the order. Compared with the main force of the Second Army that encountered resistance from small groups of Japanese troops along the way, the tank brigade advanced very quickly.
The tank engines were spitting out thick blue smoke. More than a hundred tanks were galloping along the railway line, their tracks rolling up patches of wet mud, and their muzzles raised high, declaring their invincible force.
Compared with the Hainan Army's leisurely offensive, the commander of the Japanese South China Command, Matsushita Iwane, began to be overwhelmed. The line that could barely be maintained at first suddenly collapsed after the Hainan Army began to increase its attack intensity. The entire Nanjing battlefield
The situation was completely messed up.
Originally, he was thinking that before the Hainan Army and the Central Army reached cooperation conditions, he would use the reserve forces just mobilized from China to delay the retreat, and withdraw the main force while retaining most of the effective forces.
As the saying goes, if you make one wrong move, you will lose everything. He never expected that Li Weidong would be so sharp. The main force of the Japanese army had just begun to retreat, and the corresponding troops could not replace the urgent reinforcement of the defense line. The Hainan Army launched a brazen attack
General attack.
This blow not only allowed the Hainan Army to take advantage, but also made the original front more chaotic.
The orders issued by the Japanese military headquarters were inconsistent with each other. Some troops were not allowed to advance or retreat.
"Boom!" The tank gun destroyed a Japanese machine gun emplacement on the roadside. The violent explosion turned the simple bunker into a mess of ruins. Several khaki figures retreated while yelling.
"Ta...ta...ta...!" The roaring machine gun tore a Japanese samurai into pieces.
This situation is often encountered. Facing the tidal offensive of the Hainan Army's tank brigade, the Japanese army lacks the heavy firepower to effectively counter the tanks, and has always been unable to block the advance of the tanks.
The bullets from the Type 92 crooked-handled machine gun hit the armor of the tank, only a "ding-dong" sound was heard, but in fact it did not leave even a white mark.
The threat of grenades to tanks is also minimal, and large-caliber artillery is not equipped by every army. Therefore, "cheap" meat bomb charges have become the first choice method for the Japanese army to fight tanks.
However, even though the Japanese army was once in decline during the Hainan Army's strong attack, it does not mean that the Japanese army has no resistance at all. Some Japanese troops that retain most of their organizational structures still have considerable combat effectiveness.
The Japanese 16th Division, the 9th Division, and the Kunozaki Detachment were stationed in Danjiang. The Japanese 16th Division encountered the Hainan Army Parachute Division and captured the Zhenjiang barrier during the march to Nanjing, and was immediately ordered by the Japanese Commander.
The Ministry of Defense ordered the attack on the Zhenjiang Bridge. However, due to the subsequent support from the Hainan Army Tank Brigade, they were unable to do anything and had to retreat to the vicinity of Danjiang to rest and recuperate.
As for the Japanese Ninth Division and the Kunisaki Detachment, they were elite troops drawn from the North China battlefield. Compared with the unranked Japanese troops that had fought against the Hainan Army in the past, their combat effectiveness was not even the slightest gap.
The most intuitive comparison is the composition of the force. The Japanese Ninth Division is a permanent four-unit draft horse division in the Japanese Army. You must know that the full strength of a four-unit draft horse division is (500 people.
In other words, the total strength of the 9th Division, the Kunisaki Detachment and part of the 16th Division has reached about 50,000. The strength of the Hainan Army's Second Field Army plus the full tank brigade is only over 30,000.
The final outcome of this battle is yet to be determined.
"Where are we now?" Wu Shaoting, commander of the tank brigade, loudly asked the deputy commander beside him. The roar of the tank engine was deafening.
After looking at the map, the deputy commander replied: "Travel seat! Our current location is twenty miles west of Danyang City!"
"Order the troops to stop advancing, and the engineers will quickly check the condition of the vehicles! The road ahead for us will not be so easy!" Wu Shaoting looked at his watch, and there was still half an hour until dark.
Soon, the order was circulated to the entire army with the help of the radio. The rapidly running tank brigade came to a halt in a dusty environment. Except for some tanks on guard, most of the tank soldiers and engineers quickly jumped out of the vehicle or installed additional tanks.
oil, or replace damaged parts.
In this era when bombers are not as developed as later generations, unless encountering large-scale air strikes, the threat to tanks by the air force is not as imagined. In the current South China battlefield, and with the Hainan Army controlling the air
, the possibility that the Japanese army could form a large-scale fighter plane simply did not exist. Therefore, Wu Shaoting, who gathered the tanks in a circle, was not worried about being attacked by the Japanese army.
As we all know, tanks are out-and-out offensive weapons. The larger the number of tank clusters, the more difficult it is to resist when attacking the defense line. This is why tank operations pay attention to "one wave".
Scattered tanks do not pose much of a threat. For example, if a tank encounters a squad of enemy infantry, without the support and cover of friendly forces, the weak flanks and rear engine will be easily attacked. Therefore,
Every time Hainan Army's tanks fought, they pursued a "wave of flow" to directly crush the Japanese defense line into pieces.
Half an hour later, the well-prepared tank brigade of the Hainan Army set off again, and this time they were about to pass through the suburbs of Danjiang City in one go and meet up with the Second Field Army of the Hainan Army coming from the south.
Since the terrain near Danjiang City is relatively flat and the Hainan Army Tank Brigade is advancing along the railway line, the Japanese Ninth Division Headquarters can easily detect the movements of the Hainan Army Tank Brigade, so it is inevitable to send out blocking troops.
However, such terrain also has advantages and disadvantages for the tank brigade. The home ground of tank operations is plain terrain. If the Japanese army sends fewer blocking troops, it will not be able to stop the Hainan Army's tank brigade's assault. If there are more blocking troops,
If the Hainan Army Tank Brigade wants to run, they can only rely on their two legs. Even if they want to catch up, they can't catch up with the tracks of the Hainan Army Tank Brigade.
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Recently I was watching the World Cup in Brazil at home and saw so many national teams! There was Japan! There was Korea! Xiaoyi wanted to ask one more question: "Where is China going in the World Cup?"