Almost at the same time when Yang Zhen finally put down the telescope in his hand, the last sound of gunfire fell on the front-line battlefield of Twelve Tu. The last ten tanks led by Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi launched a desperate attack, even though they were all the latest 97 tanks.
tanks, but they were not able to survive for too long under attack from both sides.
At this time, he had lost all the tanks in his organization and was fighting alone, with almost no coordination or support. This desperate struggle was destined to achieve little results. Under the attack from both sides of the Anti-Japanese Alliance,
, the last ten tanks were all destroyed in just a few minutes.
However, during the last blow of Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi's desperate struggle, a Type 97 tank equipped with a modified rapid-fire cannon suddenly turned around and rushed towards the anti-alliance tank troops rushing toward him from behind.
At a distance of 470 meters, a modified T-26 tank of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was destroyed.
Although this guy was immediately destroyed by four 45mm tank shells, the bite he took before his death was the only achievement of the Japanese army in the tank battle on the Twelve Tank Front. And the other two
The same type of tank also posed a considerable threat to the anti-alliance tanks in front of it before it was destroyed.
Its 47mm tank gun posed a considerable threat to the anti-alliance tanks facing them. Although there were only three tanks in total, these three tanks brought more threats and troubles to the anti-alliance forces facing them than those on the front.
The twenty-odd Type 95 light tanks were even larger. In the final desperate struggle, the Japanese army achieved the only result in this battle. Of course, these things were already done by Lieutenant Colonel Ikoma Hayashi who had ascended to heaven at this time.
Unclear.
The lieutenant colonel, who wanted to fight a tank battle with the Anti-Japanese Alliance, never figured out why he suffered such a disastrous defeat even though his troops were evenly matched and his subordinates were better trained. Why did he suffer such a disastrous defeat in the first place?
During the Battle of Nomonhan, the tactics that were extremely useful against the Soviet tank troops had no effect on the resistance forces who also used Soviet tanks.
When the Anti-Japanese Alliance was cleaning up the battlefield and pulling this guy's body out of his battle-damaged tank, an armor-piercing bullet penetrated the tank he was riding in and cut off most of his head. The remaining half of his head had a
His eyes were still wide open, staring at the sky speechlessly.
This Colonel Ikoma Hayashi, who died in silence because he did not understand where he lost until his death, could be said to have died miserably. But the other crew members on the Japanese tanks did not die in any better condition than him.
Go. Except for the Japanese soldiers in the tanks that were killed in the explosion, which were burnt to charcoal, the bodies of the crew members in the other destroyed tanks were not intact.
It's no wonder that this guy and his only remaining subordinates died miserably. It was because Wang Ziyang thought that this was a rare opportunity to hit moving targets in actual combat, so he ordered that during the fierce battle just now, all cannons fired without hitting a target
All the target vehicles were given the last ten tanks of the third tank regiment of the Japanese army to conduct additional actual combat training.
It was under the command of Wang Ziyang's thinking that almost every tank of the last ten tanks of the Japanese Third Tank Regiment was hit by at least three rounds. Some were even hit by five or six rounds.
The body of the car and the turret were beaten into honeycomb, and all the crew members inside were shot dead.
When the war came to an end, Yang Zhen, who had already sat back in the jeep, pondered for a moment and turned to Wang Ziyang and asked: "How do you feel about your performance in this battle? In terms of basic training, tactical use and equipment
Are there any shortcomings in using it?”
After hearing Yang Zhen's question, Wang Ziyang pondered for a moment and said: "No. 1, our mobilization for this battle is not sufficient. Except for the two companies in the reserve team and one company in the 12th battle line, we have not mobilized enough."
All the tanks mobilized at the Ojing base carried only half of the standard ammunition on average. Moreover, during the attack, a considerable number of tanks had not completed emergency repairs, and they could be said to have participated in the battle with injuries."
"These tanks whose battle wounds have not yet been fully repaired fell behind when Xiang Twelve forced their way through. At the same time, at the rear maintenance base in Ojing, there were six tanks that were delayed due to lack of spare engines.
It has been unable to complete the repair for a long time. This has also affected the strength of our troops participating in the war to a considerable extent."
"Although our mobilization and response capabilities from receiving the order to completing the assembly met the requirements of our superiors. However, our field repair capabilities still need to be strengthened, especially the number of spare parts carried in roundabout operations cannot meet the requirements, resulting in some completely repairable
The battle-damaged tanks have been unable to be repaired for a long time.”
"What we lack is not only spare parts, but also necessary maintenance vehicles. The two companies of our brigade repair camp in Dajing only have two tank repair vehicles that we modified ourselves. And the lifting equipment on the tractors,
The power is still somewhat insufficient, and the quality of the Soviet-made starter it is equipped with is also very poor.”
"Even in a non-battlefield environment, it is extremely easy to be damaged if it is operated continuously for more than half an hour. As for the tractor that tows the battle-damaged tank, there is not even one, and most of the time it can only be replaced by other tanks. This is very difficult in many cases.
It has greatly affected the use of our troops and equipment, as well as necessary maintenance support."
"In addition, there is still a certain gap between us and the Japanese tank crews in some basic skills training. Especially in terms of long-distance shooting accuracy and artillery firing speed, the gap with the Japanese tank crews is still quite obvious. The Japanese army is
In this battle, not only did we fire before us, but the hit rate in the first two rounds was about 30%."
"This shooting accuracy at a distance of 700 meters is currently unreachable by our army. If it were not for the Japanese tank fire, it would not be able to penetrate the improved front armor of our tanks. According to the shooting accuracy of the Japanese army, in the first two rounds of the Japanese army,
In the shooting, our army will lose 30% of its tanks. If this loss really becomes real, then it will be us who lose this battle."
"As for our tank crews, the general hit rate when firing within 500 meters is only a little over 20%. It is not even as accurate as the Japanese army's shooting accuracy from 700 meters away. This is an obvious fact.
The gap also shows that the Japanese tank crews are better than our army in terms of solid basic skills."
"If this situation does not change in time, once the Japanese army launches a new type of tank, we may be the ones who suffer in the next battle. You said that Japan's national power is far greater than ours. As long as they think it is necessary, they can do it.
New tanks can be developed at any time."
"Today's battle, I think, is also a warning to the Japanese army. If they think it is necessary, maybe we will encounter their new tanks next time. If our shooting level cannot be improved quickly, then in the next battle we will
Will be the loser."
"I think the new tanks developed by the Japanese based on their industrial base, no matter how inferior they are compared to other countries, should be better than the types of tanks that appear on the battlefield today. In fact, the Japanese tanks are similar to the Type 97 tanks.
The tanks are basically the same, but the artillery is a different tank, which posed a great threat to us today."
"The few tanks that were equipped with additional armor but still had their turrets damaged were basically injured by this type of tank. In the final stage, they were even bitten back and a tank was lost in vain.
This shows that it’s not that the Japanese army can’t design and manufacture better tanks, it’s just that they don’t have them in production now.”
"If the tanks dispatched by the Japanese army today were all tanks of this type, and coupled with the extremely high quality of the Japanese army in actual combat, then we would not be able to achieve such a result today, and the losses would be much greater. No. 1,
The armor of a tank cannot be thickened indefinitely."
"In order to improve the survivability of our tank units on the battlefield and reduce our battle losses, in addition to the mobility of the tanks, I feel that in addition to increasing the caliber of the artillery, the farther away we fire, the better, and the shooting accuracy
The higher the better. Although it is simply impossible to kill with one hit."
"But there is no doubt that whoever can fire first in a battle, whose shells can hit far and accurately, will have the upper hand on the battlefield. We not only need strong shields, but also sharp spears. Especially the Japanese army
The ability to replace tanks is far beyond our current situation. Improving the troops' long-range precision strike capabilities should be the first choice for our army to improve its training plan."
At this point, looking at the wreckage of Japanese tanks on the battlefield in the distance, Wang Ziyang hesitated for a moment and then said: "No. 1, not only the shooting level, there are still many things that need to be improved in our daily training. Although
We have organized today's duel battles between tanks before, but due to restrictions, most of the confrontations we organized were at the battalion and company level. Large-scale confrontations still lacked training. And even for battalion and company level confrontations
, we don’t take it many times.”
"In today's battle, each of our tanks has radio communication equipment. Inside the tank, we have also installed a radio throat microphone that can communicate in a noisy environment. The communication conditions of our tank troops are far better
better than the Japanese army."
"However, during the frontal assault, there was still a lack of tacit cooperation between the two companies of different organizations, the attack was out of sync, and there were even accidental injuries that should not have occurred. These are things we should pay attention to in future training.
There are a lot of areas for improvement. Only if the training level keeps up, will our combined warfare capabilities improve and we will suffer less losses on the battlefield."
"Also because we had almost no chance of direct contact with Japanese tanks before, the artillery shells carried by each vehicle on the Twelve-Turt Front this time still followed the previous equipment. Armor-piercing shells only accounted for one-third, and most of the equipment was still
Ordinary high-explosive grenade."
"As for the tank troops starting from Dajing, because they are all in a state of maintenance, they do not even have the ammunition base. Each vehicle is equipped with only 60% of the standard ammunition. And the number of armor-piercing bullets included is even less. Each vehicle has only 60% of the standard ammunition.
The vehicle has less than twenty rounds. It can only be used among the reserve tank units, and ten rounds are allocated to each vehicle evenly."
"If it weren't for the Japanese army's own tactical problems, and the actual number of troops being less than our army, there would still be a gap in equipment performance. According to today's battle, according to the rate of fire of our army's tank guns, as well as the firing rate of our army and
Judging from the hit rate, our army will consume all the armor-piercing bullets in more than ten minutes of fighting."
"If the fighting is still going on by then, our army will only be able to use ordinary grenades to fight the Japanese army. This problem shows that our army's commanders did not consider the issue thoroughly during the battle. They knew that the target of this battle was
The Japanese tank regiment, but still failed to adjust the ammunition before it appeared."
"This problem is our command adaptability and our ability to understand and execute orders. Of course, the number of armor-piercing bombs in our army has always been insufficient, and everyone has the idea of sparing them, which is also an important reason. In addition, our army does not rule out
The troops are a little proud because of their previous victory. In their hearts, they don’t actually take this third tank regiment seriously, but this is mainly a problem in the minds of commanders at all levels.”