Dai Anlan has rich experience in actual combat, so he knows very well that the fundamental reason why the armored force he led was able to achieve the current situation is that it grasped the weaknesses of the Japanese army in front of them. What are the weaknesses of the Southern Front Army? No, it is not just the Southern Front Army. , but a problem that exists in all national independence armies, that is, because the cultural quality of the soldiers is too low, their organization and discipline are far worse than those of the regular troops of China and Japan. This is actually the reason why Koizumi Minichiro The reason why a "new weapon" like stimulants must be developed at all costs is that it is true that stimulants can bring about bone-wrecking changes in the National Independence Army. However, the disadvantages brought about by this are also very obvious. With over-reliance on stimulants, the National Independence Army's daily training becomes even more lax. As a result, once the opportunity to inject stimulants is lost, the National Independence Army will fail more than succeed.
Now for Hyakutake Haruyoshi, isn't this the role played by the National Independence Army? Originally, the Southern Front Army had a little more than one division of the so-called imperial army. These elite Japanese troops in Southeast Asia had experienced the previous Australian War. In the Battle of Denver, in terms of combat power alone, they could actually contain Dai Anlan's offensive. However, one was that they were dispersed into various ethnic independent army divisions and could not regroup at all; the other was that they were affected by ethnic groups. Suffering from the defeat of the National Independence Army, they wanted to fulfill their duty of supervising the army, but instead they were broken up by the defeat of the National Independence Army, and then they had no choice but to follow the general trend and run away.
Hyakutake Harukichi is quite capable. Even so, he immediately organized a certain number of troops to the east of the anti-tank trench to prepare for the assault of the Chinese armored forces. Among these troops, there were independent brigades directly under his headquarters. He was the main force, and in addition to this independent brigade, he also adopted a two-pronged approach of coercion and inducement, and forcibly pulled nearly two divisions of the National Independence Army over and forcibly injected them with stimulants, preparing to use them as cannon fodder.
The distance between the two lines of defense of the Japanese army was only about two kilometers, so Dai Anlan was able to keep an eye on every move of the Japanese army. The Japanese military doctor in a white coat was injecting stimulants into the Nanyang indigenous soldiers as if no one was around. He had seen the injection of stimulants. Due to the madness of the Nanyang Japs, Dai Anlan could not be blocked by an anti-tank trench. At this time, the Japanese army dispatched heavy artillery troops. Dai Anlan was frightened and suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity to borrow strength, so he ordered A group of Mandrill tanks forced their way across the anti-tank ditch.
The sound of artillery rumbled, followed by deafening explosions. From time to time, the track of a Mandrill tank was blown off or the turret was directly cut off and paralyzed in place. However, even if such a scene happened in front of us, there was no Mandrill tank. There was no hesitation at all because of the fierce enemy artillery fire. Amidst the "buzzing" sound of the tank engines, mandrills one after another completed the forced crossing, and then faced the red light in their eyes, and the Japanese holding all kinds of explosives returned. The Nanyang Japs rushed over.
Wada Naruzawa's heart tightened from the moment his heavy artillery fired the first shell. Wada would have such a reaction because he was too afraid of the retaliatory artillery fire from the Third Expeditionary Army. In Wada's impression, no matter how deeply they hid, No matter how well they were hidden, within ten minutes at most, the Chinese artillery troops would be able to find their location and launch a retaliatory bombardment. Therefore, almost subconsciously, after the first artillery shell was fired, he would look at the electronic watch on his left hand from time to time. , Involuntarily, his breathing became heavier, "It would be great if the problem could be solved within five minutes." After three minutes passed, I received the shelling feedback information from the frontline observation post and learned that the heavy artillery wing's first round The attack had a good effect, and Wada couldn't help but start to daydream, and only a few minutes later, when he received feedback from the front line again, he learned that China's heavy tank group had broken through the only anti-tank trench. , and began to have direct contact with the third-line defenders. He was startled at first, and then he couldn't help but became ecstatic, "Get ready to move positions, prepare to move positions immediately." He shouted to his men, and after a moment he added: "Don't stop yet. , waiting for the commander’s order.”
Under normal circumstances, when our own ground troops are engaged in firefights with the enemy, in order to prevent accidental bombing of our own people, the artillery will naturally temporarily withdraw from the battlefield. However, Wada Naranzawa obviously overestimated the capabilities of his own infantry.
If it had been when Koizumi Minichiro first developed the special attack tactics, the Chinese side would have been unprepared, and it would have been easy for the Japanese to succeed. But now, with the Chinese side already familiar with the special attack tactics, Hyakutake Haruyoshi still wants to rely on This approach obviously insults the intelligence of the Chinese staff.
Dai Anlan saw hundreds of Japs rushing toward them, screaming and carrying various explosives. He smiled coldly and shouted on the microphone: "Pull away, line up, increase the speed, fire off smoke grenades and machine guns." There are also tank guns, firing with full force."
The Japanese anti-tank trenches were not dug very wide, so they were no obstacle to the mandrills at full power. In fact, the anti-tank trenches should have had infantry to cooperate with them, but the Japanese frontline commanders obviously did not expect that. The Chinese armored forces would advance so fast that by the time they reacted and wanted to fill the anti-tank trenches with people, it was already too late.
The mandrills that rushed through the anti-tank ditch lined up and released smoke after covering the turret roof. As the four smoke generators equipped by the mandrills all took effect, a thick smoke suddenly appeared on the battlefield with mandrills. It spread out in the center, and soon covered all the mandrills in the smoke. Then, as the smoke surged forward, the sound of "tacking" and "empty" sounded, and the mandrills at the front opened fire at the same time, In an instant, the Japanese array on the opposite side seemed to have set off fireworks, and explosions rang out one after another.
The Chinese armored forces used smoke grenades and indiscriminate fire to easily turn the Japanese army's special attack tactics into self-destruction tactics. In this case, how could Hyakutake Haruyoshi make Hotan's heavy artillery regiment stop shelling? So, in Hotan's In anticipation, instead of giving the heavy artillery regiment an order to stop shelling and move immediately, he instead asked them to speed up the frequency of artillery fire and make sure to "block the Chinese armored forces outside the four lines of defense."
After receiving the latest instructions from Haruyoshi Hyakutake, Wada Naruzawa's heart suddenly went cold. After faithfully conveying Commander Hyakutake's orders, he looked at his watch and found that nearly ten minutes had passed since the cannon was fired. He looked up and looked at In the mid-air in the northwest direction, two words repeatedly appeared in my mind: "It's over, it's over."