As I said before, the war of this era has become "more offensive than defensive". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At this time, the Chinese troops were on the attacking side, so they took advantage of it...... For example, before the start of the war, the Chinese troops could use reconnaissance planes to reconnoiter the Japanese defense line, and soon obtained photos of the Japanese defense line, so they could carry out targeted attacks based on these photos.

The weakness of the Japanese defense line was in the east.

This may have something to do with Siping's geographical environment...... The eastern part of Siping is the remnant vein of Changbai Mountain, with dense natural forests, while the central and western parts are fertile and flat, especially in the west, which is connected to the endless Kolbi grassland.

Although Lieutenant General Uemura was not a wise commander, even a fool knew that mechanized troops were more suitable for attacking on flat terrain with few trees, so Lieutenant General Uemura naturally threw a large amount of troops and time into the west...... In the west, he built a criss-cross of anti-tank trenches, trenches, and communication trenches, which seemed to be covered with cobwebs on the plains, while in the east there were only a handful of anti-tank trenches built on the high ground.

Uemura's deployment should be said to be no problem, and it can even be said to be smart...... Anti-tank, trenches, and communication trenches don't need to be done by the Japanese army, just let the puppet army pull groups of Chinese people up, and it will be almost completed in more than ten hours...... In fact, it did not meet Uemura's expectations, mainly because Uemura did not expect that the Chinese troops would reach Siping in such a short time.

However, Uemura is not worried, because he thinks: no matter how powerful the artillery and aircraft of the Chinese army are, it is impossible to blow up these dense anti-tank trenches and trenches, so in the next battle, if the enemy uses the cover of tanks to attack, the Japanese army can use the cover of trenches and communication trenches to approach the tanks, and then blow up the tanks with explosives packets, cluster grenades, etc.

This tactic is correct in principle, because the bottom armor of the tank is very weak, even the "Sherman" tank is only a dozen millimeters thick, and it can be completely penetrated with cluster grenades and cause devastating damage to the personnel inside.

In addition, Uemura also organized puppet armies and Chinese laborers...... Let them repair and dig through the bombed trenches at any time.

But "imagination is beautiful, reality is cruel"!

The battle did not develop at all as Uemura had imagined...... The direction of the Chinese army's attack was either the central part or the west, but the east, which Lieutenant General Uemura considered unlikely.

This may be a little overcalculated by Lieutenant General Uemura...... He thought that the tanks of the Chinese army, like the Japanese tanks, could not penetrate the forest.

What Lieutenant General Uemura didn't know was ...... Even the Japanese medium-sized Type 97 tank has an engine of only 170 horsepower and a total combat weight of only 15 tons, while the engine of the "Sherman" tank reaches 500 horsepower and the total combat weight is 33 tons, which is not a heavyweight thing at all.

As a result, the Japanese troops stationed in the two brigades stationed in the east were so frightened that they ran away when they saw the Chinese "Sherman" tanks pushing down thigh-thick trees like building blocks, and ......they were so frightened that they ran away from their positions The eastern defensive line collapsed before the Chinese army could arrive.

It's just that the Japanese troops of these two brigades finally failed to run back to Siping Street (note: Siping at this time was still Siping Market, and it was changed to Siping City after the surrender of the Japanese army in 1945), after the "Sherman" tank tossed a road in the forest, the half-track armored vehicles quickly caught up, and then the "boom" was a row of bullets that swept the Japanese soldiers who were about to flee to the ground.

This is what Zhang Chi specially explained...... The main reason was that the Japanese army would cause casualties if they ran back to the city, so it was necessary to eliminate them outside the city.

Needless to say, as soon as the eastern defense line was breached, the tanks and half-track armored vehicles of the Chinese army poured into the central plain like a flood of broken embankments...... It can only be described in the phrase "the sky is high and the birds fly, and the sea is wide and the fish jumps", armored vehicles and tanks shuttled quickly behind the Japanese defense line, and the Japanese army with almost no protection was hit by machine guns and artillery. At the same time, the Chinese troops pressed from the front also suppressed the Japanese army, and the crossfire from both sides only killed the Japanese troops in the middle and collapsed the army.

At this time, Uemura could be regarded as truly seeing the strength of the Chinese army, and he hurriedly shouted the order of the general staff officer: "Bastard, quickly order a retreat!" Withdraw to the city! ”

The staff officer hurriedly shouted at the phone: "Retreat, retreat!" ”

But by this time the Japanese army had completely lost control...... This is not to say that there is a problem with communications, Uemura had already taken into account the superiority of the Chinese army's artillery fire before the war, so he buried the telephone lines in the ground and buried many roots in different locations and directions in case of emergency.

The point is that the order is communicated, but it cannot be effectively implemented......

The Japanese wing commander received the order and conveyed it to the group leader, who was already half dead.

The group leader then passed the order to the squadron leader...... Wow, there's only one squadron leader left! What's the situation?!

It was not easy for the squadron leader and squad leader to pass the order to the soldiers...... The soldiers all shouted in their hearts: "Your sister, the enemy's guns are all on the door of the head, and they are still carrying out the order of a ghost, let's save my life first!"

So you commanded you, what I should do and still do it!

Therefore, once this battle reaches a tense point, especially when such an unexpected situation occurs that has not been considered in advance, the quality and training of the troops will be particularly important.

If it is a well-trained army, even if it encounters such a situation, it can resolutely obey the order, even if it is known that it is death, because they know that this is the time to sacrifice the ego to save the ego, so they will organize an orderly retreat. Even they don't need orders from their superiors, they spontaneously organize defenses and retreat layer by layer.

But unfortunately, the Japanese 135th Division was not a well-trained unit, so the moment the defensive line collapsed, it fell into a chaotic battle......

As a result, the Chinese troops were like tigers in a flock of sheep slaughtering in the Japanese army, and according to the soldiers who came back, they were softened and surrounded by enemies...... They are holding 38 large covers with a low rate of fire, which cannot be compared with the machine guns and M1 rifles in the hands of the fighters, not to mention the protection of armored vehicles in the fighters.

The only thing the fighters have to worry about is what happens if the bullets run out?! (To be continued.) )