This batch of Soviet-made tanks, totaling 120, was captured by the Germans during the Kharkov battles in 1941 and 1942, and then transported to North Africa and handed over to the Italians who lacked high-performance tanks. However, Because the Italians were seriously short of diesel, they didn't use it at all. Later, they were captured intact by the British army.
On the premise that the number of tanks delivered to the Anti-Japanese Alliance was always insufficient to meet their own needs and to mainly assist the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom, the Americans sent these Soviet-made tanks captured by the British in North Africa, thousands of miles away from the Soviet Union, together with those in North Africa. All German artillery and tanks captured on the battlefield were handed over to the Anti-Alliance.
Yang Zhen proposed using these T 34 tanks temporarily hoarded in Iran to exchange for the German tanks captured by the Soviet army on the Stalingrad battlefield. Among the tanks aided by the United States and Britain, except for the M 4 tanks, the rest of the tanks For the Soviet army, which was not satisfied with its performance, this was a quite tempting offer.
In particular, this kind of tank is designed and produced by the Soviet Union itself. Regardless of accessories and maintenance, it is far more reliable than American and British tanks. It is also the main medium-sized tank of the Soviet Army. These tanks can be directly handed over to combat troops for use, even if they are converted. No training required.
In order to prevent the Soviets from repeating their old tricks during transportation after refusing to accept this condition, they forcibly put these tanks into the bags without the consent of the Anti-Japanese Alliance. During the negotiations, Yang Zhen directly told the Soviets that he would let the tanks in Iran The Anti-Japanese War reception personnel installed high explosives on all these tanks.
If the Soviets did not agree to the exchange, but wanted to secretly attack these tanks while they were being transported through the Soviet Union, they would ask the Anti-Alliance receiving personnel to directly blow up all these tanks, or exchange these tanks for the Soviets under Stalinger's orders. The second-hand goods seized will either be destroyed or destroyed, and no one will be able to get them.
After some intrigues and negotiations, and under pressure from the battlefield, the Soviets finally agreed to the exchange. The Soviets transferred hundreds of German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks captured in Stalingrad, as well as a large number of half-track armored vehicles, to Armored reconnaissance vehicles, a large number of 150 and 105 howitzers, and helmets were all transferred from the Soviet-German battlefield to the Anti-Alliance.
During the Battle of Stalingrad, the surrounding battles, and the Soviet offensive, the German army and the slave-state armies successively invested thousands of tanks. At the end of the battle, only the German standard Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks, along with certain battle tanks, were left. Six to seven hundred vehicles were seized that were damaged but could be repaired.
Under Yang Zhen's secret interference, the scale was much larger than in the original history, and the number of armored clusters invested by the German army was also much larger. It can even be said that the German armored forces on the Eastern Front were reduced to 100%. Seventy, fifty percent of the tactical aviation force was involved.
Bloody, like a meat grinder, the casualties caused to the Soviet and German sides participating in the war were unprecedented. The German army lost millions of people in the battle. In addition, there were a large number of half-tracks and armored reconnaissance vehicles, and self-propelled assaults. guns and a large number of artillery were captured by the Soviet army.
In addition to the three armored divisions of the Sixth Army that were previously invested, there was also the main force of the Fourth Armored Army that the Germans later invested. An armored corps of the First Armored Army was completely wiped out in Stalingrad, and in Stalingrad and surrounding areas The three German armored corps, plus five armored divisions and panzergrenadier divisions, were completely wiped out. A total of eleven armored divisions participated in the war, bringing a large amount of loot to the Soviet Union.
These tanks, plus the trophies captured by the Soviet offensive on various fronts before the Battle of Kursk, by April 1943, the Soviet Union had provided a total of more than 700 German-made tanks to the Anti-Japanese Alliance, as well as the above Thousands of half-tracks and armored reconnaissance vehicles.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance replaced the 50mm gun on the Panzer III tank with a Soviet-style 47mm tank gun or a Soviet-made 76mm tank gun, which lacked shells, was too powerful, and had poor performance. After the 75mm short-barreled gun on the Panzer IV.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance used the modified models of Panzer III and Panzer IV of these tanks, together with the more than 200 Panzer III tanks and dozens of Panzer IV tanks transferred by the Soviet Union in early 1942 after the Battle of Moscow, as well as the entire 1942 and In the first half of 2003, Yang Zhen established three armored divisions with all German tanks, plus five independent tank brigades.
However, the long-barreled 75mm tank gun on the later-produced Panzer IV tanks was retained by Yang Zhen because of its excellent performance. It was separately organized into several independent tank regiments with the same type of tanks delivered by the Soviet Union in the later period. Used to deal with new Japanese tanks.
These Panzer IV tanks equipped with astonishingly powerful long-barreled tank guns also became the new Type 1 and Type 3 tanks used against the Japanese at the end of the War of Resistance Against Japan. They once destroyed hundreds of the latest Type 1 and Type 3 tanks of the Japanese army in a tank battle. The Type 3 tanks, for the Type 1 tanks which were merely improvements of the Type 97 tanks, were simply massacres.
The largest number of Panzer III tanks was the same as that of the American tanks. Starting from the second half of 1943, the Soviet army subsequently provided a larger number of German-made Panzer IV tanks with their own replacement tank guns, as well as self-produced and manufactured T-3 tanks. The four-tank Type 76 became the standard equipment of various armored divisions of the Anti-Japanese War.
If we look at the period from the end of the Battle of Moscow to the end of the Battle of Stalingrad, the Soviets transferred more Panzer III tanks, and the United States and Britain even transferred a considerable number of tanks from Panzer 2, Panzer 4 to 43 tanks. If there were only more than 300 tanks at the end of the year, then from the beginning of 2004 to 2005, the bulk of those transferred would be Panzer IV tanks.
By the end of the war, together with the German-made tanks captured and transferred by the United States and Britain, the total number of anti-Union armored forces had reached tens of thousands of tanks. Except for one-quarter of them were self-produced Soviet T-34 tanks, the remaining two-half A total of about 5,000 tanks were provided for American and British aid.
Coupled with the German tanks of the same type that were successively delivered by the United States and Britain and captured in North Africa, the Western Front and the Italian battlefield, one-third of the anti-alliance tank troops, or even more, were equipped with German Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks. , the total adds up to more than 3,000 vehicles.
Among them, the number of Panzer IV tanks with excellent performance reached nearly 2,000, almost becoming the medium tank with the most anti-alliance equipment after the US M4 medium tank. The rest except for the more than 200 Panzer II tanks and 38 Except for the T tanks, all are Panzer III tanks.
As for half-track vehicles and armored reconnaissance vehicles, American-made and German-made vehicles account for half of the number. In other words, the German-made Panzer III and IV tanks captured by the Soviet Union and the United States and Britain throughout World War II, as well as half-tracks Almost all armored vehicles and armored reconnaissance vehicles eventually fell into the hands of the Anti-League.
As for the 150mm heavy artillery, in addition to the more than a hundred Soviet-made D-152 howitzers produced before the end of the Anti-Japanese War, as well as the 155 howitzers received aid from the Americans, there were also French 155 howitzers transferred from the Soviet Union before the war.
In addition to those who can still use it, the main heavy artillery of the anti-alliance equipment was gradually replaced by the previous miscellaneous artillery to the German-made 150 howitzer transferred from the Soviet Union.
By the end of the war, 15 of the 23 independent heavy artillery regiments directly under the Anti-Japanese Alliance used German-made 150 howitzers, and the remaining eight regiments used the Soviet-style D Type 1 imitated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
There are four 52 howitzers and three 155 howitzers supplied by the United States.
Using the captured Japanese-made 150mm cannon, one Canadian 120mm cannon, one German-made K18 170mm cannon, and the German-made 150mm howitzer, to the 44th
It has completely become the main force of large-caliber artillery in the Anti-Japanese War.
The large-caliber howitzer battalion among the howitzer regiments belonging to the sixteen columns is equipped with half French 150 howitzers transferred from the Soviet Union before the war and half Japanese-made Type 96 howitzers. In addition to being used as the main artillery, the Anti-Japanese Alliance in accordance with
At the request of the central government, more than 80 150mm howitzers were gradually handed over to the entire Guan Nei army.
As for the more than 100 105 howitzers aided by the Americans, because of their relatively long range and, most importantly, their light weight, they were captured by the Anti-Japanese Alliance and used by the Germans transferred from the Soviet Union to keep Czech Type 38 tanks for their own use.
, and the chassis of the French tanks used in the Anti-Japanese War were transformed into 105mm self-propelled howitzers.
Each armored division is equipped with a battalion, which is used as the main support firepower of the armored division, with 76mm cannons modified from the T-26 tank sites, and the use of unrepairable Panzer III tanks handed over from the Soviet Union.
A self-propelled cannon battalion was formed using the chassis of the Japanese-made Type 97 tanks and some of the Type 92 cannons imitated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance to form the division's self-propelled artillery regiment.
Each self-propelled artillery regiment is equipped with two 105mm self-propelled howitzers made of twelve vehicles, one self-propelled cannon battalion, one 76mm self-propelled anti-tank battalion, and a self-propelled 23mm twin anti-aircraft gun modified
Anti-aircraft artillery, consisting of an eighteen-vehicle anti-aircraft artillery battalion.
Each regiment is also equipped with an eight-vehicle anti-aircraft machine gun company consisting of the chassis of the No. 2 tank and the subsequently produced quadruple-mounted 14mm anti-aircraft machine guns. In addition to some wheeled transport vehicles and fuel trucks, as well as semi-
In addition to tracked and wheeled armored personnel carriers, all main battle weapons of each armored division of the Anti-Japanese Alliance have been converted to fully tracked.
A large number of German-made artillery and tanks, plus the German helmets that the Anti-Japanese Alliance had all replaced. When the civil war broke out in 46 years after the end of the Anti-Japanese War, the Anti-Japanese Army with a large number of German-made equipment was engaged in a battle with the Nationalist Government troops in the Fourth Anti-Japanese War.
When the Anti-Japanese Alliance, which had entered the country in large numbers at the end of the fourth year, met for the first time, they thought they were not encountering the Communist army, but the authentic German army.
At the same time, as the German army suffered huge losses on the Soviet-German battlefield, by the end of the Battle of Stalingrad in 1943, the number of excellent German-made M35 and 40 helmets transferred from the Soviet Union was enough to provide all the main forces with
After changing their equipment, the Anti-Japanese Federation gradually eliminated the original legal helmets whose performance could only be described as ordinary, and all of them were converted into German-made helmets.
It may take some effort to seize tanks and artillery, but for individual equipment such as steel helmets, the Soviets seized a large number at the end of April 1st. After the Battle of Stalingrad in the first half of April 3rd, the number of German-made steel helmets seized by the Soviet Union , has long exceeded the needs of the Anti-League.
Although a large part of these helmets were peeled off by the Soviets from the corpses of dead German soldiers, and when they were transported, many helmets still had blood stains, wounds, and even some remaining human tissue on them, but for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Finally, we got a steel helmet with excellent performance, which effectively reduced the casualties caused by shrapnel hitting the head during combat.
As for the large number of Tony-style steel helmets that the Americans assisted with the British after the outbreak in the Pacific, they were handed over to the Anti-Japanese War by the Anti-Japanese Federation together with the captured Japanese-made steel helmets and some of the converted French-made steel helmets as early as the arrival. The troops within the customs and the Anti-Japanese Alliance themselves were not equipped, but gradually replaced the legal helmets with German-made helmets.