Lieutenant General He Zhiying, who was already prepared for the worst, did not expect that the anti-alliance tank troops that came out from behind him quickly passed through and formed the eighth brigade, which was independently mixed and had shrunk to the front line of Sanjiadian.
Only some infantrymen were left behind the line between Nankou and Changping, but they ignored him at all.
He just detached a force and cooperated with the frontal troops to defeat the independent mixed eighth brigade of Sanjiadian. After completely opening the south passage, he fought southward at maximum speed. Even when he passed through Fangshan, where his division headquarters was located,
He didn't even look at his 110th Division.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance did not care about themselves. They only beat their own baggage troops to pieces and quickly headed south. It was like a person who was drowned in water and was about to die, and was very happy to be back in the world again.
Not daring to stay in Fangshan any longer, Lieutenant General Zhi Ying 2 quickly moved his division headquarters back to Beiping City as soon as possible.
On the other hand, He Zhiyinger was overjoyed. On the outer city wall of Peiping, he watched the powerful tank column of the Anti-Japanese Alliance moving south quickly under his nose. It was not until all the Anti-Union troops had moved south that he put down the high-powered telescope in his hand.
Okamura Neiji, the chief of staff Lieutenant General Oshirodo Sanji, and a group of senior combat staff officers of the North China Front were relatively speechless.
Looking at the swarm of anti-Japanese tanks swaggering from the direction of the Summer Palace and Old Summer Palace outside the west wall of Beiping for most of the day. At the same time, Okamura Neji, who received the same report from the northeast of Beiping, finally understood the vague uneasiness in his heart.
Source. When the roundabout cluster between the east and west fronts was officially launched, he also understood the true strategic intention of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
Although he still had a division and several tank regiment reserves in his hands, Okamura Neiji still felt that the situation in front of him was beyond his control. Such a large anti-alliance tank group, regardless of the real target,
Even there, I am afraid that the North China Front Army alone cannot handle it.
Okamura Neiji sighed with emotion at the endless sight of the anti-alliance tank troops in front of him, while the cool breeze kept blowing behind him. He knew very well the consequences of these tanks once they broke into the Jizhong Plain south of Peiping.
All the troops of the entire North China Front on the Beiping-Tianjin front line will probably be sacked. Once these tanks are allowed to break into the Jizhong Plain, then for the North China Front, the entire war situation will collapse.
Returning to the North China Front Army Headquarters, the first thing Okamura Neiji did was to ask for help from the base camp and Nanjing. In the telegram, Okamura Neiji clearly told the base camp that at least three divisions would be provided to the North China Front Army within a short period of time.
Reinforcements above the regiment level are required, otherwise the entire war situation in Hebei and Shanxi will completely collapse.
After requesting reinforcements from the Jiden base camp, Okamura Neiji issued an order to the 110th Division. Let him immediately get rid of the entanglement of his opponents, shrink all the troops in his hands, stick to the line from Wanping to Fangshan, and cut off the resistance of the Western Alliance Cluster.
Back road, while ensuring the safety of the southwest direction of Beiping City.
The main force of the 27th Division was ordered to block the gap created by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the east at all costs. The 59th Division was ordered to leave one unit to cooperate with the two tank regiments and attack Tongzhou with no less than one unit.
The troops of the regiment moved in the direction of Wuqing with all their strength to reinforce the Wuqing battlefield.
No matter where the anti-alliance tank group attacks from the direction of Miyun, their target is, as long as it is not Peking City, Wuqing is the choke point. As long as Wuqing is defended, no matter which direction they attack, at least it will not be so smooth.
.At least find reinforcements for yourself and buy some time.
But Okamura Neji's order to the 59th Division had not yet been issued. The 59th Division in Tongzhou had already called to report. The 59th Division failed to reinforce Tongzhou, and the main force of the division had been defeated by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.
A reinforced division was entangled. The two attached tank regiments were all destroyed in fierce battles with enemy tanks.
After receiving the report from the 59th Division, Okamura Neji couldn't help but be stunned. Two tank regiments and more than a hundred tanks were all destroyed, which made him almost unable to believe his eyes. Except for some of these tanks
Except for the Type 97 tank, all the others were the latest models of Imperial Army tanks, and yet they were all destroyed in such a short period of time.
Although Okamura Neiji is different from other senior Japanese army officers, he does not regard equipment as more important than the lives of soldiers. For him, once the equipment is developed, it must be used on the battlefield. But for such a short period of time,
Within a short period of time, he lost more than a hundred vehicles, which left him unable to deal with the battle situation. At the same time, it was quite painful.
Compared with Okamura Neiji's physical pain, Wang Minggui, the front-line commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance opposite him, was also suffering from physical pain. In a tank melee in Tongzhou North, almost all of the two independent tank regiments assigned to him were disabled. 1
One hundred and eighty tanks were destroyed and one hundred and ten were damaged.
In this tank battle, the Anti-Japanese Alliance invested two T 34 tank regiments. Because the British infantry tanks had poor cross-country capabilities and the movement speed of 20 kilometers was too slow. In this battle south, all British tanks were left behind.
In the battle in Northeast China, basically all German-made tanks and American-made light tanks were used.
These two independent tank regiments mixed with T 34 tanks were the only two regiments of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Guanci Civil War. Except for one company of BT tanks each for reconnaissance, they were all composed of T 34 tanks as the main force.
regiment. These two regiments were also the first regiments to be equipped with T-34 tanks after the mass production of anti-union tanks in the second half of 2003.
In order to rescue Tongzhou, the 59th Division and its affiliated troops made considerable efforts. From the moment the two armies came into contact, all two tank regiments were deployed to charge against the anti-alliance tank troops. The Japanese army's posture in this battle was very
It was clear that he wanted to use his own tank troops to defeat the anti-alliance tank troops on the front line in Tongzhou.
Faced with more than 100 Japanese tanks attacking with all their strength under the cover of the new Type 1 self-propelled artillery, that is, the self-propelled artillery using the Type 90 field gun as the main gun. Even the number of tanks invested by the Japanese army this time can be said to be
It was quite rare. However, the anti-Union tank troops did not hesitate at all and rushed forward.
The Anti-Japanese Alliance tank troops are already quite familiar with the Type 97 and Type 97 modified tanks originally equipped by the Japanese army. They are no strangers to the weaknesses of these two tanks. They originally thought they were equipped with T-34 tanks.
, dealing with these two tanks is basically a matter of hands.
Unexpectedly, although the two Japanese tank regiments were defeated in this battle, they themselves were also disabled. More than 140 tanks of the two independent tank regiments that entered the battlefield were destroyed and one person was injured.
One hundred and ten vehicles, of which more than eighty were completely destroyed.
This result was not only surprising to Wang Minggui, but also to Yang Zhen. The Japanese army transferred a group of tanks from the mainland to reinforce the North China Front. Yang Zhen knew this information. But these tanks should not be the opponents of the T34 tanks. This
How could these two tank regiments suffer such heavy losses during the battle?
Fortunately, Wang Minggui quickly found out the reason. Most of the tanks equipped by the two tank regiments invested by the Japanese army in Tongzhou were so-called Type 1 modified tanks. These tanks were equipped with tanks purchased by the Japanese from Germany.
The 50mm anti-tank gun is an improved tank gun.
When these tanks were transferred from Japan to the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese kept strict confidentiality. Starting from the landing in Qingdao, all transportation processes were extremely confidential. No stops were made along the railway lines, and canvas was used to cover the tanks.
When arriving in Shijiazhuang and Baoding, all the stations were chosen to be outside the city.
All surrounding security measures were carried out by regular Japanese troops, not any puppet troops. Even in order to confuse the intelligence systems of major base areas in North China, the Japanese army used old Type 97 tanks at the same time as new tanks were being driven in.
The surrounding areas keep showing up, trying to shift the target by concealing the truth.
After arriving at the station in China, all Type 1 tanks are not allowed to leave the station. All combat training is carried out in the station with strict security. All artillery test firings have been completed on the mainland. During the station training,
A training method was adopted in which guns were used instead of cannons.
After painstaking calculations, and the fact that the intelligence personnel in the major base areas in North China were not very familiar with tanks, the Japanese army was quite successful in concealing the truth. It successfully made the intelligence personnel in the major base areas in North China think that the tanks were mobilized by the Japanese army.
, they are all still old 1997 or 1997 modified tanks.
When these tanks first appeared on the battlefield, the commander of the Anti-Japanese Alliance tank force in Tongzhou battlefield did not take it seriously at all. They still looked at the problem according to the old way of dealing with Type 97 tanks. They thought they had the tanks in their hands.
The equipment occupies an absolute advantage, and the two Japanese tank regiments are not regarded as the same thing at all.
In addition, the training quality of the Japanese armored forces is indeed excellent, as well as the 50 mm thick armor of these Japanese tanks, and the relatively accurate sighting system. The most critical thing is the paralysis and carelessness of the anti-alliance armored commanders on the Tongzhou battlefield.
It seems that the suddenness of the battlefield has been successfully achieved.
In the first round of fighting, Japanese tanks opened fire at a distance of 500 meters and destroyed more than ten T-34 tanks. This anti-tank gun once initially curbed the German T-34 nightmare on the Soviet-German battlefield.
, once again let T34 tanks suffer a boring loss on the Chinese battlefield.
The performance of the Japanese new tanks surprised the anti-Japanese tank commanders. According to past experience, the Japanese Type 97 tanks had no chance of penetrating the Type 34 tanks at this distance. Among the Type 97 tanks, even if
It is the latest 97 modified tank, and it is only theoretically possible within 300 meters.
The main armor of this tank has obviously been improved. The 76mm tank gun equipped with the Anti-Japanese Alliance T-34 tank is far more difficult to penetrate this new Japanese tank than the Type 97 tank. The 50mm tank gun
Armor and a 176-horsepower diesel engine make this new Japanese tank more powerful and protective than previous Japanese tanks.
In this battle, the Japanese army had good intentions and made considerable preparations. In order to deal with the T-34 tank tactics of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, the Japanese specifically asked the Germans for the T-34 tanks that the German army had mastered and understood on the Eastern Front.
Weaknesses of the tank. When firing, the first shot is aimed at the most vulnerable front of the T-34 tank, the huge hatch in and out of the tank.
Although at a distance of 500 meters, the 76mm tank gun used by the Anti-League T-34 tanks can indeed destroy the Japanese tanks relatively easily. But at this distance, the new Japanese tank gun cannot defeat the Anti-Union tanks.
It also poses a fatal threat. At the same time, the poor sighting system of T34 tanks obviously suffers some losses in shooting accuracy.
In addition, the Type 90 artillery tank, which had the strongest anti-tank capabilities among the Japanese army, was installed to cooperate with this tank. The tactics of combining long and short distances caused considerable losses to the troops participating in the battle. A considerable number of tanks
, was destroyed in the hands of this kind of artillery tank.