As soon as he fought with Chen Hanzhang's troops, Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai discovered very keenly that at least a considerable part of the performance of his opponent's tanks was absolutely superior to his own, and the rest was not inferior to his own latest tanks. In this case
Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai believed that engaging in long-distance shooting with the enemy was inconsistent with the overall situation he faced.
Therefore, he believed that if he wanted to defeat the enemy's tank troops first, he should not be afraid of battle damage and stick up to fight the enemy in a hand-to-hand tank battle. Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai, although he had never seen what the main German tanks looked like,
It looks like that, but after all, I have been a supervisor of research and development of army weapons and equipment, so my sense of taste is still very sensitive.
Although half of the troops invested in the first wave of charges were lost on the charge route, Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai did not hesitate at all and took advantage of the sacrifices of his comrades with the help of the remaining 30 or so Japanese tanks in the first wave.
They had already desperately reached the optimal firing distance. They had some chance of disrupting the anti-Union tank formation, and immediately launched a second wave of tank charges.
In order to buy time for the tank offensive and completely disrupt the formation of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Sakai Yasu concentrated his artillery, regardless of the more intense artillery fire suppression by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. He even stopped all artillery with calibers above infantry guns to support the infantry. He mobilized all
He could mobilize the firepower and shoot at the group of anti-alliance tanks desperately.
He did not expect those 75mm field guns to use grenades to destroy enemy tanks at a distance of tens of thousands of meters. But he wanted to use artillery fire to disrupt the anti-alliance tank tactics and create opportunities for his own tanks to rush forward.
.To guard Baoding, one of the largest logistics supply bases for the Japanese army in the North China battlefield, he had quite sufficient artillery shells.
As for facing the two heavy artillery battalions of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, plus a large number of rocket launchers, the team's artillery had a range and performance that was no worse than his field artillery, and the number of the opponent's artillery exceeded the number of artillery in his hands.
He didn't care what kind of price this might cost.
Because Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai clearly realized at this moment that if the tank offensive of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was not contained and faced with the opponent's armored pincer offensive, the only thing that awaited the fate of his attacking troops was the complete destruction of the entire army. In this Great Plains of Central Hebei
In terms of terrain, he was not so arrogant as to think that the infantry could really compete with the resistance tank group.
In order to defeat the Anti-Union armored forces in front of you, even if it is to weaken their strength as much as possible. Try to block the Anti-Union armored forces in front of you on the front line of Baoding before the reinforcements arrive. In order to completely solve this audacious force, penetrate into your own
Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai also risked his life to ensure the safety of the Jizhong Plain due to the deep enemy forces.
On the one hand, he kept calling and urging the First Brigade of Tanks to speed up, and on the other hand, he sent out all the tanks in his hands. Of course, he did not expect to completely defeat the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in one fell swoop. This was a battle
If you kill a thousand enemies, you may lose a thousand in battle.
Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai's move has two purposes. One is to firmly attract all the anti-alliance armored forces, reduce the pressure on the infantry, and ensure that the infantry can hold on until the reinforcements that are already mobilizing from the base camp arrive. This ensures that they can defeat the follow-up forces.
, and even prepare to encircle and annihilate this resistance alliance.
The second point, and the most important, is that he wants to weaken the armor strength of the Anti-Union as much as possible. Even if all the more than 200 tanks in his hands are destroyed here, he will not hesitate. But as long as he can destroy the Anti-Union in front of him,
With two-thirds of the number of tanks, the next battle situation will definitely develop in a direction favorable to the Japanese army.
Break their spears, and the rest will be easy to handle. As a senior general of the Japanese army, Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai is no stranger to Chinese military tactics. The principle of failure again and again, and failure three times, he Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai
He still understood it very well. The disadvantages of troops and equipment made him understand that it was good enough for the 17th Division alone to hold the current territory.
What he could do was to slow down the enemy's offensive spirit and stop the enemy's rapid penetration at the foot of Baoding City. After the arrival of the second chariot brigade and subsequent reinforcements, they completely defeated the Anti-Japanese Alliance on the Ping-Han Line.
Invest in armor and be prepared in advance.
He is still very clear about the equipment of the First Tank Brigade. They are mainly based on the older Type 97 tanks, and the number of cutting-edge Type 1 tanks is only three tank squadrons. These old tanks alone are only
Judging from the results of today's tank battle, they are no match at all.
If we do not destroy as many tanks as possible today, even if we wait until the first tank brigade arrives, not only will we not be able to completely destroy the tank force of the Anti-Union, but we will easily get ourselves involved.
If the first brigade's counterattack fails, then no matter what plan the front army has, it has lost its sharpest spearhead.
It is precisely because of these thoughts that Lieutenant General Yasu Sakai, who has always prided himself as the dragon of contemporary Echigo, constantly urged the tank troops in front to launch continuous counterattacks at the risk of huge losses. Faced with two rounds of
The offensive losses were definitely not light, and he didn't even frown.
Compared with Sakai Yasu's life-threatening attack, Chen Hanzhang in front of him adopted a steady and steady attack tactics. Taking advantage of his own advantage in the range of the tank gun, he fought with the Japanese tanks bit by bit. However, the Japanese army's life-threatening attack, the 50mm tank gun was in 500
The power of Minai also caused considerable battle losses to the anti-alliance tank troops.
In particular, the battalion, which was exclusively composed of Panzer III tanks and served as the flank of the frontal battlefield, suffered particularly heavy losses under the fire interception of the Type 97 tanks and Type 1 tanks that the Japanese army counterattacked from the flank, especially the Type 1 self-propelled artillery that was the greatest threat to the Allied tanks.
heavy.
Although it cannot be said that both sides suffer losses, it still kills one thousand enemies and damages oneself eight hundred.
The armor of the Panzer III tank obviously cannot withstand the blow of its 75mm armor-piercing projectiles. At close range, even grenades and old-fashioned armor-piercing explosive shells will cause inevitable damage to the Panzer III tank. Moreover,
The armor of the Panzer III tank is also difficult to withstand damage from 47mm armor-piercing projectiles.
In particular, the tactics adopted by the two tanks of the Japanese army during the battle have obviously been carefully studied. They generally do not adopt frontal resistance tactics, but mostly adopt flank attack tactics. At the same time, they try to extend the shooting distance as much as possible.
to within 500 meters to unleash the maximum power of their 47mm tank gun.
These tactics of the Japanese army allowed these old-fashioned tanks to exert a certain power on the battlefield. After a tank battle on the flank, a battalion participating in the Anti-Japanese War, despite the two tank squadrons and a self-propelled artillery squadron that the Japanese army participated in,
All were destroyed, but only eleven tanks were left, nearly two-thirds of which were lost in battle.
Seeing some unexpected changes in the battle situation, although Chen Hanzhang was still able to keep his composure, his brows became more and more wrinkled. Although he was mentally prepared, Chen Hanzhang was still a little surprised by the power of the Japanese new tank gun.
.However, although it was the first time for Chen Hanzhang to meet this Japanese tank gun, he was no stranger to it.
Without a doubt, this latest tank gun of the Japanese army is almost identical to the tank gun equipped with the long-barreled Panzer III tank in his army. Although the Japanese tank gun retains the anti-tank muzzle brake
, but as the former commander of the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, Chen Hanzhang still recognized this kind of tank gun at a glance.
Chen Hanzhang was quite clear about the power of this German tank gun. After seeing this kind of tank gun, Chen Hanzhang was also very clear about the performance advantages and disadvantages of T-34 tanks. He finally understood the battle of Tongzhou and the people who participated in the war.
Why did the two tank regiments suffer such heavy losses?
Being careless on the battlefield is indeed a problem that causes heavy losses. However, the Japanese tank gun, which was improved from an anti-tank gun, is quite powerful, and I am afraid it is also a major reason for such heavy losses. And Chen Hanzhang can be sure that the Japanese army will definitely
From their German allies, they gained experience with this artillery against T-34 tanks.
Thinking of this, Chen Hanzhang couldn't help complaining that he was a little careless. The late Type III tanks handed over by the Soviets had been equipped with the same tank gun as the Japanese tank gun, and the German tank gun was an anti-tank gun of the same caliber.
Modified. The Japanese army began to use it on a large scale last year. This is the same anti-tank gun as the German tank gun prototype.
So what the Germans can do, the Japanese can do the same. Moreover, the Japanese and the Germans are allies. They get improved methods from the Germans and transfer them back to the mainland through radio. For the Japanese
It's very relaxing and easy.
At that time, the Germans encountered the crisis of T-34 tanks. Didn't the Japanese army have the same experience in World War I last year? The Germans were able to convert their most powerful anti-tank guns into tank guns. The Japanese were not short-sighted.
Faced with the same threat, why is it impossible to copy the cat and imitate the tiger?
Although from the perspective of the Soviet-German battlefield, this tank gun, together with its prototype anti-tank gun, has now quickly slipped into a second-rate situation, but after all, it is a weapon in the hands of the German army that can be regarded as an anti-tank gun. For a long time
Within a short period of time, apart from the 88-8 anti-aircraft gun, it was the only weapon that could deal with the Soviet T-34 tanks.
And with the technical capabilities of the Japanese, it is not difficult to convert this anti-tank gun into a tank gun. The 47mm tank gun equipped on the Japanese Army's 1997 modified tank is not the same as the one equipped with it.
Is the anti-tank gun modified? With the success of the first time, the second modification will naturally not cost much.
If I could have thought of it in advance and reminded the headquarters earlier to take targeted precautions, I am afraid that the losses in the Tongzhou War would not have been so great. Even though the performance of this new Japanese tank far exceeded the previous ones of 1997 and 9
Seventh modification tank. But compared with the performance of T34 tanks, there is still a big gap.
Although he understood that he had made a mistake in judgment, Chen Hanzhang, who knew very well what he should do at this time, knew that this was not the time to blame himself. Since the fight had already begun, he used the Japanese troops in front of him to escape as quickly as possible.
In a fortified city, defeating the enemy in front of you is your most important choice.
Facing the Japanese tanks rushing over the mountains and plains, Chen Hanzhang did not mobilize the 17th Independent Tank Regiment of his reserve force and directly joined the battlefield. This first unit of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was equipped with all American M-4 medium tanks and was actually responsible for the Anti-Japanese Alliance tanks.
The independent regiment where the troops were refitted with American M-4 tanks and trained as a training force was the strategic reserve in his hands.
Chen Hanzhang believes that facing the remaining Japanese armored forces, the current number of Panzer IV tanks with the best performance and the most powerful tank guns among the anti-tank forces on the frontal battlefield is sufficient. Coupled with some self-propelled anti-tank gun battalions, it is enough to satisfy
The needs of the frontal battlefield.
Chen Hanzhang was very cautious in using this independent tank regiment. Although it was not known that the leading troops of a Japanese tank brigade had crossed Shimen and were rapidly heading towards Baoding, Chen Hanzhang still did not invest this regiment as a reserve force.
Go in. This independent tank regiment will not easily enter the battlefield before it reaches the most critical moment.