Although the Soviet-made tanks currently used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance have increased armor thickness and greatly enhanced defensive capabilities, their mobility has not fundamentally declined and is no worse than the Japanese tanks. Therefore, after discovering the Japanese army's intentions, His opponent did not advance but retreated, moving his gun forward while reversing at a leisurely pace. On the basis of always facing the enemy head-on, he kept the distance between the two armies at about 500 meters.
While adopting the tactics of short-stop fire and precise shooting, they continued to fire at the Japanese tanks that rushed up and tried to engage in hand-to-hand combat with them. At the same time, they continued to adopt large-scale maneuvers to maintain a 500-meter charge formation with the Japanese army. At the same time, they detached a part of their troops to move around the left flank of the Japanese army. As for the artillery shells fired by the Japanese army, they did not care at all about the shells five hundred meters away.
The Japanese tanks could not find the command vehicle of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, but their own command system had problems at this critical time. As a vehicle-mounted communication system originally used by infantry, the Type 4C vehicle-mounted radio of Type 94 was not Specifically designed for tank combat.
This ultra-ultra shortwave radio station, which was temporarily diverted to increase the combat effectiveness of the Type 97 tank and is not suitable for tank combat, has appeared one after another to varying degrees under the influence of the rapid movement of the tank and the shock waves generated in the turret when the artillery fires. damaged.
The rather fragile vacuum tubes used in the manufacture of radio stations could not withstand the huge impact, and problems of one kind or another occurred one after another. Almost all radio stations either had unclear signals, intermittent signals, or no signals at all. The poor ears and unclear eyes seriously affected the use and execution of the Japanese army's overall tactics.
Naturally, these problems are not serious problems in peacetime. As long as they undergo minor maintenance and replacement of parts, they can continue to be used. But during wartime, who gives you the time to repair it? Problems in the Japanese army's own communication system have a huge impact on its entire combat command. , which caused considerable inconvenience.
Under the tactics adopted by the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese army's own attack formations first became disjointed and the formations were chaotic. There were even a large number of tanks that were inexplicably separated from other tanks because of the disjointed command and unable to receive the tasks assigned by their superiors. Attacking the formation, the bicycle rushed towards the resistance formation.
This kind of independent attack without alternating cover seems to be a suicide attack. Although the courage is quite commendable, it is just courage. It cannot cause any confusion to their opponents. On the contrary, because of the loss of cover, they themselves become The solitary living targets were destroyed one after another without reaching very far, which actually increased the Japanese army's battle losses.
Faced with another situation that theoretically shouldn't occur in the vehicle-mounted radio, causing most of the communication to be interrupted, and then causing confusion in the command. In desperation, Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi could only take the risk and let the flagman open the turret cover. Lean out and use semaphores to direct the battle.
However, in response to this command tactic of the Japanese army, the anti-alliance forces seemed to have been prepared for a long time. As soon as his flagman appeared, the tank was equipped with a 12.7mm anti-aircraft machine gun that had been prepared for a long time, allowing the second The flag bearers of the three tank regiments almost died one after another.
The radio station was blocked and one of the semaphore players was knocked out. This caused communication problems, which brought considerable confusion to the command of the Japanese army. In addition, the Anti-Japanese Alliance adopted a policy of never engaging in close combat with you. Instead, they came. A tactic where you advance and I retreat, you retreat and I advance, and we just grind against you little by little five hundred meters away.
Use the armor on your body to minimize the lethality of the Japanese tank guns. At the same time, use the power of your own tank guns and the shooting skills within 500 meters that you have painstakingly trained to give Ikoma Hayashi's Third Tank Regiment He was bleeding constantly.
On the flanks of the entire battlefield, the anti-alliance tank troops adopted mobile tactics to fight against the Japanese troops. On the frontal battlefield, it was a different story. The anti-alliance tanks, which had also been modified, rushed in at high speed without any scruples. In the Japanese tank group, they went on a killing spree against the blocking group composed of the Japanese light Type 95 tank, two Type 95 medium tanks, and eight Type 94 armored vehicles.
Two Type 95 tanks were first destroyed by 45mm tank guns within a distance of 500 meters, and then more than 20 Type 95 light tanks were destroyed within 300 meters, as if they were being targeted. One after another was destroyed one after another. As for the eight Type 94 armored vehicles that were only equipped with 7.7 mm machine guns, they didn't even look at them. Instead, they focused their main attention on the tanks equipped with artillery. .
The tanks dispatched by the Anti-Japanese Alliance this time are far from comparable in terms of firepower and protection to the Type 95 tank with a maximum armor thickness of only 12 mm. The 37 mm tank gun it uses, although it is 300 meters away, The internal armor-piercing capability is at the level of 45 mm thick armor.
But for the Anti-Alliance tanks that have been modified a long time ago, and their protection capabilities are no longer the same as before, their 37mm cannons are almost like scratching an itch even if they are fired with armor-piercing bullets. They cannot penetrate the Anti-Alliance tanks at all, let alone What's more, in terms of quantity, the Japanese army's number of tanks on the front is still at a certain disadvantage.
With the battlefield situation almost one-sided, the frontal battlefield of the Japanese Third Tank Regiment collapsed first. After only half an hour of fierce fighting, nearly thirty tanks and armored vehicles deployed by Ikoma Hayashi on the front were all destroyed. They survived, but their results were pitiful zero.
As for the anti-alliance tank troops that rushed out from the front of Twelve Tu, the single most serious loss was that during the melee, a 45mm artillery shell was hit by our own troops and one of them was seriously injured. Even this tank was hit by our own troops. The tank that was accidentally damaged was also a T-26B tank that had not yet been modified and was obtained from the Soviet tank warehouse in Outer Mongolia.
As for the infantry squadron that was withdrawn by Ikoma Lin, it was not equipped with any anti-tank weapons in the previous war, not even a Molotov cocktail. The tanks of the Anti-League were rampaging and crushing back and forth, coupled with the sweep of vehicle-mounted machine guns. It didn't have any effect.
Several Japanese soldiers were bundled with grenades and explosives and wanted to die with the tanks that were rolling over, but they were choked by the infantry machine gun fire that followed. Only two tanks were beaten by crazy Japanese soldiers with grenades. The track was blown off, causing some minor damage, but it was far from irreparable.
After half an hour of fierce fighting, the tanks deployed by Ikoma Lin in the center line were completely destroyed. Most of the crew members and their commanders were almost all killed. On the flank battlefield under his personal command, the situation was not optimistic. Under the Allied Forces' millstone tactics, the Japanese tanks are fighting less and less, and the results so far are still embarrassingly zero.
There is no way. If you want to engage in close combat with a car, he will not fight you at all. However, at a distance of 500 meters, his two tank guns cannot bring even any damage to the opponent, but he One shot comes over and a hit is enough to kill you.
Even if the armor of the Type 97 tank has a maximum thickness of 25 mm and the turret armor is specially designed to have a certain slope, it cannot withstand the firing of the 45 mm tank gun at a distance of 500 meters. In this case It's strange that Lieutenant Commander Ikoma Hayashi and his men were able to take advantage.
Looking at the increasingly unfavorable battle situation, Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi, who had been so complacent before, almost bit off his tongue with hatred. He hated himself for what he had done. If he had obeyed Lieutenant General Kanji Nishihara, According to the order, even a dozen tanks were dispatched in the previous counterattack against Linxi Airport to feel out the opponent's base.
At least find out the true performance of the enemy tanks, especially the protective performance, instead of just listening to the reports of the observers you sent in the infantry regiment, being indifferent to the changes in the appearance of the anti-alliance tanks, and using the equipment from the Battle of Nomonhan Looking at the problem from an old perspective, this battle will not be fought so passively.
It's just that for Ikoma Lin Zhongzuo, it's too late to regret it. For a strange opponent, it's not surprising that he still looks at it in the same old way. If he loses, it's a bit strange to win. At this moment, there is no way out for him. Commander Komabayashi, even if he no longer wanted the entire army to be wiped out on the front line of Twelve Tu, he had no way out at this time.
Not only did the anti-alliance tank troops in front of him, after completely wiping out his intercepting forces, pounced behind him to form a real pincer offensive with his opponents in front of him, but the strength at hand had been drastically reduced to insufficient. Ten vehicles have no advantage in terms of firepower, protection, or speed. The current number is even more disadvantageous. Even if they want to break through, there is no way out.
For him now, fighting to the end, that is, dying on the battlefield is the only option, and he knows better that he has lost all the Kwantung Army's only tank regiment in Western Manchuria in this battle. Let's not talk about the previous The Kwantung Army would not forgive him for his repeated disobedience. Rather than being forced to commit seppuku and apologize, it would be better to die on the battlefield.
Ikoma Lin launched the final attack. Over there, on a jeep on the Twelfth Resistance Alliance garrison position, a man was standing on the car, holding a telescope to carefully observe the battle situation, and talking to the two people around him from time to time. They were talking about something, but on the side, Qi Zhibiao, the supreme commander of the garrison with Twelve Thousand Fronts, was sweating profusely. He was constantly observing the surrounding situation nervously. He opened his mouth several times, but in the end he still didn't have the courage to speak out. .
As for what could make Qi Zhibiao so nervous, except for Yang Zhen who personally led the reinforcements to the front line of Twelve Tu, no one could do it. When he led his subordinates and the remnants of two Japanese squadrons, they fought in a melee at Twelve Tu, and even He also held a pistol and personally killed two Qi Zhibiao who rushed into the defense line of the remaining Japanese soldiers. He was not surprised when he saw the tanks appear, but he was shocked when he saw Yang Zhen who appeared with the tank troops.
At this time, the remnants of the Japanese troops on the Twelve Tu front lines have not been completely wiped out, and the Japanese artillery fire deployed deep in the rear does not know when it will fall again. Yang Zhen, the number one, appeared in his defense area at this time, and did not let It was strange that he felt nervous.
Not only the Japanese artillery fire that we don’t know when will cover it again, but also the Japanese stragglers in front of the current position may bring fatal danger to the safety of No. 1, but he does not dare to go over and persuade No. 1 to leave, in order to eliminate them as soon as possible. The remnants of the Japanese army that were still persisting could only change their original principle of never leaving their positions.
Commanding the remaining defenders on the front line of Twelve Tu to launch a full-scale counterattack, hoping to wipe out all the defeated soldiers in front of them in the shortest possible time to ensure the absolute safety of No. 1 who is on the front line, he is just commanding the remaining troops at the same time Launching a counterattack, he kept stealing glances at Yang Zhen's Qi Zhibiao. There was a big question mark in his mind: "When did Lin Xi come on the 1st? How come no one in the whole army knew about it."