After the Anti-Japanese Alliance adopted concentrated armored forces to break through the Japanese forward positions, they never engaged in any fighting on the front line. Instead, they handed over the fragmented front-line positions to the follow-up infantry. The armored forces were assigned to the infantry and aviation units. Under cover, the tactics of rapid penetration into the depth of the Japanese army made it even more difficult for the Japanese army, which lacked anti-tank weapons, to cope with it.
Although the Japanese army reacted to the first wave of attacks and took all necessary measures, and although the Japanese army had built a relatively complete fortification group before, the Japanese army was unable to stop the anti-alliance armored group with air cover despite their efforts, and turned to Develop a large-scale penetration in depth by yourself.
If it can be said that in the Battle of Nomonhan, the Japanese army had gained experience in resisting the impact of tanks and armored groups, but in this battle, the Japanese army was horrified to find that the 23rd Division was on the battlefield of Nomonhan with high-spirited force. The experience gained at a huge price has almost no effect.
They were also fighting under overwhelming artillery fire and strong support from aviation. However, the armor tactics of the Anti-Japanese Alliance were fundamentally different from those of the Soviet army. The armor tactics of the Soviet army were based on individual assaults centered on tanks. It cannot be said that there was no coordinated operation between infantry and tanks. , but the coordination ability is very poor.
The Soviet armored forces were often used alone, with only a small number of infantry attached to them. This gave the Japanese army a certain opportunity to launch a body-munition offensive. The reason why the Soviet army was able to form an absolute opponent of the Japanese army in the Battle of Nomonhan was The main advantage lies in the sufficient number of tanks and the ability to withstand losses.
However, the armored cluster assault launched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance this time is completely different from the tactics adopted by the Soviet army in the Battle of Nomenhan. The infantry, tanks, and artillery cooperated extremely closely. Each tank was surrounded by at least one squad. Infantrymen, all equipped with automatic firearms, were protecting them.
Facing the assault of armored groups under the cover of overwhelming artillery fire and aviation, and wanting to copy the experience of the Battle of Nomonhan, the Japanese army fell into passivity from the beginning of this battle. Before the war, they took great pains to move along the confrontation area between the two armies. The large-depth three-dimensional fortifications built were torn apart as if they were being destroyed under the coordinated operations of multiple arms of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Although the combined training for more than a month before the war seemed a bit rushed, the results of more than a month of hard training were still seen in this battle. Tanks, infantry, and artillery cooperated closely, allowing the Japanese army to build all kinds of equipment before the war. Various fortifications and various response tactics hardly had much effect.
Various machine gun bunkers and artillery bunkers were either destroyed by the 45mm tank gun on the T-26 tank from a long distance, or they were attacked by the tank cover under the cover of the tank, and the recoilless rifles and rocket launchers equipped by the infantry were attacked right under the nose of the Japanese army. They were blown up at a close range and could not stay inside the bunker. The Japanese troops who were driven out suffered heavy losses under the sudden attack of artillery fire, infantry fire and even crushing by tanks.
In particular, recoilless rifles, automatic rifles, and flat-firing 14.5mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns, the three weapons that were put on the battlefield for the first time, have shown their talents and exerted great power. They are lightweight and can be carried by one person. Recoilless rifles and rocket launchers that could be run and fired played a great role in places where tanks could not move or where it was difficult to move, and in destroying Japanese anti-tank artillery fortifications.
The anti-personnel explosive grenades and armor-piercing shells it launched showed their power when dealing with the machine gun fortifications and semi-permanent standby fortifications built by the Japanese army. The large number of machine gun fortifications and semi-permanent standby fortifications built by the Japanese army in front of the two armies' positions almost No one can match such a lightweight one, which can even fire a cannonball under their noses.
We fought against this Soviet T-26 tank in the Battle of Nomonhan. It is still the main anti-tank equipment of the Japanese army. Only at very close range can the Type 94 Type 37 penetrate the side armor of the T-26 tank. The rapid-fire artillery was originally intended to use the close-range ambush tactics that proved extremely effective in the Battle of Nomonhan to destroy these enemy tanks running rampant on their own positions.
But he didn't think about his own bunker, but the infantry covered by it often used recoilless guns and rockets, and were destroyed before they could fire. The offensive made of sandbags simply couldn't withstand the opponent's light weapon, which could almost be fired. An artillery piece that can be operated by two people and used in any terrain, and can be bombarded by a 57mm artillery shell.
However, our own infantry sent out to disperse the opponent's covering infantry in order to create a fighting opportunity for themselves, was suppressed by the firepower of the opponent's automatic weapons and suffered heavy casualties. Not only failed to disperse the anti-alliance covering infantry, but they themselves were During the counterattack, they suffered heavy losses.
In addition to the excellent performance of the recoilless rifles, the new automatic rifles also showed great power on the battlefield. They did not even need to use squad machine guns, let alone the battalion company's 12.7mm large-caliber machine guns, two A cross-firing automatic rifle can suppress a Japanese Type 92 heavy machine gun within four hundred meters. The firepower of a squad is enough to suppress a front.
Those Japanese soldiers who were holding grenades, Molotov cocktails, and Type 99 anti-tank magnetic mines like tortoises, and trying to adopt meat-munition tactics, were struck by these fast-firing, but far less lethal speed machines and submachine guns equipped with pistol bullets. Comparable rifles caused heavy casualties and were unable to get close to the tanks that were closely protected by the infantry.
These automatic rifles and squad machine guns are only responsible for infantry fire suppression within 400 meters. As for the fire suppression task beyond 400 meters, the company's general-purpose machine gun, the battalion's 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun, and even temporarily strengthened The regiment's 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine gun is in charge.
General-purpose machine guns and 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns are fine, but those regiment-affiliated 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns have fierce firepower, fast rate of fire, long range, and especially great power. They have become the new weapon of the Japanese army. Nightmares, let alone people, are those reinforced concrete fortifications. Even from a distance of a thousand meters, they are like paper under the impact of this weapon.
A tank squadron assigned to the 28th Division, faced with a full-scale attack by the Anti-Alliance, tried to cover the counterattack of an infantry brigade of the Third Regiment, and spent a lot of effort to avoid the air attack of the Anti-Alliance aviation as it advanced. , but they didn’t expect that before they had time to fire a shell, they would be sieved by these powerful machine guns two thousand meters away.
A whole tank squadron of more than a dozen Type 95 tanks, not a single one was able to escape. They also lost a third of their cooperating infantry, and what faced them was just three flat-firing twin tanks. 14.5mm anti-aircraft machine guns and six 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine guns, plus one company of infantry.
Although the Japanese army also built long anti-tank trenches and a large number of anti-tank cones in front of the positions of the two armies, under the effective infantry-tank collaborative combat tactics, these anti-tank trenches played an extremely limited role. In order to specifically deal with these
As for the anti-tank trenches, Yang Zhen assigned an engineer battalion to each armored brigade to deal with these anti-tank trenches and anti-tank cones made of cement under the cover of infantry.
Whenever a tank group encounters the obstruction of an anti-tank trench, these attached engineers will use explosives to blow up the anti-tank trench in the shortest possible time under the cover of infantry firepower or use self-propelled weapons tied behind the tank.
Bring logs to fill the anti-tank trenches in the shortest time, and those anti-tank cones made of cement can be destroyed directly with recoilless rifles or rocket launchers at close range.
This kind of multi-arm cooperation and rapid attack tactics made it difficult for the Japanese army to find a suitable way to deal with it in a short period of time. Even if they wanted to adopt a lose-lose tactic of fire coverage, it was suppressed by the anti-alliance artillery firepower.
, as well as the aviation focus and cannot be deployed.
Facing the multi-arms combat mode of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese army was almost helpless and helpless. Although it could not be said that it was defeated at the first touch, it was retreating steadily. In one morning, the Anti-Japanese Alliance advanced more than ten kilometers in depth to its position. This was still a matter of care.
Infantry, otherwise it is difficult to guarantee how long the front line position can be sustained, let alone the collapse of the front line.
Yang Zhen was not a wealthy Soviet soldier. Tanks dared to charge alone without infantry cover. During the Battle of Nomonhan, the Soviet tanks and armored vehicles were not destroyed by the Japanese's clumsy anti-tank weapons, but they were held by the Japanese.
Explosive packs and Molotov cocktails, and soldiers launching body bomb tactics, blew up hundreds of vehicles.
Yang Zhen, who had long been prepared for the Japanese army's meat bomb tactics, assigned a large number of infantry to the armored brigade when the tank force was established last year. When he first participated in the war, he repeatedly requested tanks to launch attacks.
When fighting, there must be close infantry cover. This year's comprehensive drill at the Fujin base focused on practicing the tactics of coordinated infantry and tank attacks.
Infantry without tank cover will of course have to pay a high price when attacking an enemy position covered by complete field fortifications or solid fortifications, but without the infantry cover, there will be no infantry to clean up the enemy's anti-tank fighters and
Anti-tank guns and tanks also have to pay a high price.
The tank manufacturing plant on hand is still under construction, and there is no trace of self-produced tanks. Yang Zhen naturally will not take the Japanese army that takes the lives of his own soldiers seriously, and is so crazy that he decided to use armor in this battle.
After the force was the vanguard to break through the Japanese defense line and implement the plan of large-scale deep operations, Yang Zhen repeatedly asked the troops to conduct drills for coordinated infantry and tank operations.
What happened to the Soviet army during the Battle of Nomonhan must not be allowed to happen again to the Anti-Japanese Alliance. The Anti-Japanese Alliance did not have the strong capital of the Soviet Army. Hundreds of tanks were destroyed as if nothing was wrong. If the Soviet Army were to
The number of tanks lost in the Battle of Nomenhan cannot be described as a loss of strength and bones when placed on the Resistance Alliance. It can be directly evaluated as a complete annihilation of the entire army.
In order to ensure that the precious tanks would not suffer too much losses due to the crazy tactics of the Japanese infantry, Yang Zhen had already thought about the application of various tactics on the first day of the formation of the armored force. To this day, the effects of these tactics are, Let Yang Zhen's original painstaking efforts not be in vain.