The Chinese army advanced until the line of defense before the American army stopped. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

This line of defense is called the first target line by the U.S. military, which means the first target position to be reached, but this goal is ultimately completed by China.

There are two reasons why we stopped here.

First, on the first target line, there are many tanks staying...... These tanks were captured by the Japanese from the Americans a few hours ago, and some Japanese soldiers are already studying how to operate them.

In fact, the Japanese army only needs to use a little brain to know that they can't use these tanks, mainly because the US military holds the air supremacy of Kwajalein Island, and Kwajalein Island has not many places to hide tanks, so as long as the sky is bright, these tanks will become the target of US fighters and be blown up.

But the Japanese are reluctant!

You must know that the Japanese tanks weigh only a few tons, and the 15-ton Type 97 tanks can be regarded as medium tanks, and the armor thickness, firepower, maneuver speed and other aspects are not powerful.

Therefore, the Japanese Army dreamed of having the kind of "harvester" of the American army, which could not penetrate even tank guns from the front at close range.

Now, suddenly, this dream came true: the 61st Garrison received almost complete thirty Sherman tanks...... The U.S. Army has a tank battalion of 76 light and medium tanks, but many of the tanks were damaged by grenades when the U.S. troops abandoned and retreated. There were still more than 30 tanks left to explode in a hurry...... In fact, it is false to say that there is no time to bomb it, and if you want to blow up the tank or make it unusable, you only need to throw a grenade into the tank compartment, and it will only take a few seconds in total.

The reason why these more than 30 tanks were left behind was that the US military only knew how to flee for their lives in a hurry, and in a hurry, they did not care whether they wanted to blow up the tanks or not. The other is that the U.S. military also has a desire to slow down the pursuit of the Japanese because they are busy receiving tanks.

The Japanese army received these more than 30 tanks as if they had obtained a treasure, and the overjoyed Nakatani Kawakami urgently transferred dozens of tank crews, hoping to use these tanks and make use of them.

Nakatani Kawakami even said to the staff officer: "If we can drive these tanks, we can drive these tanks to attack the 'wolf horns', then the end of the Chinese and Americans has come!" ”

From this sentence, it can also be seen that Nakatani Kawakami got a little carried away after winning a battle...... This is also a common problem of Japanese generals, before the war always attaches great importance to the opponent, will carefully formulate a battle plan, after a victory, will soon empty everything and feel that the enemy is nothing more than that, and then become contemptuous and arrogant.

Yamamoto Isoroku is a typical example of this, and he did not dare to make the slightest omission or mistake in formulating the plan for a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, but immediately after the victory at Pearl Harbor, he turned to the other extreme, and during the exercise, there were even situations in which warships were sunk but floated up to re-enter the battle, and it is no wonder that there were disastrous defeats in several naval battles that followed.

This may be a characteristic of the Japanese character, just like the chrysanthemum and the sword, the two extremes switch quickly.

Nakatani Kawakami was Japanese, and his situation was going to the other extreme, so he didn't even think about whether his troops could keep these tanks, or whether they would have the time and ability to use them. He only thought in his mind that capturing these tanks was the glory of the 61st Garrison, and if he could defeat the enemy with these tanks, then the 61st Garrison would become a legend of the Great Japanese Empire......

However, the wish is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

At this time, the weapon system of the Japanese army was too different from that of the US army...... The Japanese army used the kind of tanks weighing several tons, and the Type 97 tanks weighing more than a dozen tons can be called medium tanks. And because of the low degree of industrialization, the system in the tank can be said to be extremely rudimentary, where can it be compared with the "Sherman" tank, which weighs dozens of tons and is equipped with a rather advanced suspension system of this era.

So the Japanese tank crews studied and tossed for several hours, but they only knew how to move it and how to fire.

Nakatani Kawakami was excited when he heard this...... He thinks that if a tank knows how to start and how to fire, then it can almost go to the battlefield?!

But it didn't take long for an accident to dispel this idea like a basin of cold water poured on Nakatani......

The Japanese tank crew was familiar with the "Sherman" under the order of Nakatani River, one of the tank drivers was practicing to open the tank, and the gunner was practicing firing the gun, and the "Sherman" tank could aim and fire on the move because of the more advanced suspension system, but the Japanese army was not familiar with this use, and at the moment when the gunner was about to open the gun, the driver turned around, so the shell "boomed" and hit the tail of another "Sherman" tank in front of it impartially, and the tank ignited a fire in an instant...... Although "Sherman" was invincible in the eyes of the Japanese army, it also had another nickname in the European theater, called "Langsen Lighter", because of the gasoline it used, so "every dozen will be hit, every hit must be hit".

This may not be applicable to Japan's anti-tank equipment, but it was the same "Sherman" tank that fired the artillery, so it really "hit at once".

The Japanese tank crews in the tank moved quickly, although they were full of fire, but they immediately screamed and crawled out, but before they could climb out, there was a loud "boom", the shells inside the tank were detonated, and the entire tank was blown up into the sky.

This made Nakatani Kawakami realize that it was one thing to be able to drive tanks, and quite another to actually drive them into battle.

Finally, after thinking about it, what can be done is to let the tank crews hurry up and train for future emergencies......

This decision by Nakatani inadvertently saved his troops.

Because after the Chinese troops defeated the Japanese army, they followed the Japanese army all the way forward under the cover of tanks, and the Japanese army basically had no strength to stop the advance of the Chinese army until it met the tank "legion" that the Japanese had just "formed......

Of course, at this time, the Japanese army had not yet had time to become familiar with the use of "Sherman", and even if they were familiar with the operation quickly, they could not cooperate...... The Japanese Type 95 tank has a crew of 3 people, the Type 97 tank has a crew of 4 people, and the "Sherman" tank generally requires 5 people to operate.

As a result, the Japanese "tank corps" was hit by the Chinese tank troops almost in a single face, and caught fire and exploded everywhere. (To be continued.) )