The soldiers were also at fault, because the Japanese army had long been mentally prepared for the defeat of their armored forces.

The Japanese are not fools, they also know the gap between their own tanks and American tanks, and they know that only relying on the Type 95 and Type 97 and the M3 and M4 tanks in the hands of the British can be said to be vulnerable.

So, in order to block the tanks of the British army, the Japanese army made another preparation, and this preparation was to bomb the tanks by the infantry. (Note: The Japanese did not know by this time that it was actually Chinese who fought against them)

This idea may be a bit crazy, but it is a matter of course for the Japanese army, and it can even be said to be another clever tactic of Tian Ji horse racing: if the Japanese tanks are not beaten, then the main force fighting the enemy tanks should not be tanks, but should use their own infantry to blow up the enemy tanks, and then use their own tanks against the enemy infantry.

Therefore, a saying that is widely circulated in the Japanese army is: "Quantity can be fought with training, and steel can be resisted with meat bullets!" ”。

The meaning of this is that the number of enemies does not matter, and the Japanese army can fight with high-intensity training and military qualities; It doesn't matter if the enemy's tanks are advanced, they can be blocked with meat bullets.

To some extent, it does have some truth, and it is true that the Japanese army has always fought against most enemies, including China, with a small and well-trained army, so that the Japanese army increasingly feels that this statement is true.

But this is also dangerous, especially in modern warfare. It is somewhat similar to China's "spiritual atomic bomb" in the 70s and 80s, and its fundamental reason is that it overemphasizes the will and spirit of the people and ignores the importance of weaponry.

War has always been a combination of man and equipment, and both man and equipment are equally important, and we should not overemphasize people or equipment. Just as the British army in front of them has advanced equipment in their hands but is vulnerable.

The reason why the theory of the Japanese army can stand only is that most of the countries it deals with are industrially weak, and they themselves do not have much advanced equipment but only people.

Against industrial powers, such as the Battle of Nomenkan between Japan and the Soviet Union two years ago, Japan lost badly, but this fiasco did not make Japan realize that his defeat was due to overemphasizing people and ignoring equipment, and still pursued the theory that the spirit of bushido can defeat everything.

This spirit did play a considerable role on the battlefield, but Bushido ultimately failed to defeat the ultimate weapon of World War II...... Atomic bomb.

Of course, the Japanese army in front of them did not know that the theory and spirit they had been pursuing would be defeated in the end, and they would be defeated very badly and completely. So they planned to rely on infantry with cluster grenades, explosive packs, magnetic anti-tank mines, etc., to block the attack of British tanks.

The idea was feasible, partly because it was dark and it was difficult for the tanks of the Engineer Corps to spot any soldier hiding in a crater, behind the wreckage of a tank, or in the ruins of a house.

Among them, it is worth mentioning the magnetic anti-tank mines used by the Japanese army.

As we all know, it is difficult to place explosives packs or cluster grenades because tanks are in motion and the tanks are full of inclinations, so to use cluster grenades or explosives packs to blow up tanks, people often need to rush to the tank with these things and keep close or even stick to the tank to cause damage to the tank.

Needless to say, this is a difficult one, but you must first have the determination to die, and then break through the enemy's heavy firepower and finally die with the enemy tanks...... There is no turning back regardless of success or failure, which means that when assigned to this task, it can almost be said to be dead.

Although the Japanese army is not short of such dead soldiers stimulated by the spirit of bushido, it will still put a lot of pressure on the Japanese soldiers on the mission.

So there is a kind of "magnetic anti-tank mine" thing...... As mentioned before, the Japanese army has never been heavy on the formation of armored forces, and at the same time, because the opponents are all industrially weak countries and do not have many tanks, there is a serious shortage of anti-tank weapons, until they are preparing to fight a war with the Soviet Union at Nomenkan, they urgently develop a batch of anti-tank weapons.

The "Magnetic Anti-Tank Mine" is one of them, but it is not as long as you think, it can be thrown over a long distance to attach to the armor of the tank and blow it up...... This method was too advanced to be developed with the industrial capacity of small Japan at that time.

This so-called magnetic anti-tank mine is actually a flat round thing equipped with **, with four magnets evenly distributed around it, and a fuse in the middle. Because it is shaped like a king eight, it is called a king eight thunder, and the US military calls it a turtle mine.

Its operation required the Japanese to manually attach it to the armor of enemy tanks...... This also shows how rudimentary the anti-tank equipment of the Japanese army was. Compared with explosives packs and cluster grenades, it has only one benefit, that is, people can leave quickly after installation, which means that there is still a glimmer of hope for survival.

But don't look at it as just a glimmer of hope for survival, it is this glimmer of hope for survival that can give the Japanese army a little psychological comfort, so this magnetic anti-tank mine caused great trouble to the US military in the Pacific theater, and finally the US army had to put a layer of wooden shell on the tank jacket to make it unable to adsorb.

At this time, the 33rd Division of the Japanese Army was also equipped with a large number of this kind of magnetic anti-tank mines, which were originally prepared to deal with British tanks, but I didn't expect that because of the British army's cowardice, it has been useless.

It is conceivable that if the engineer regiment still carried the infantry forward slowly and covered each other as before, the tank had to wait for the infantry to advance slowly, and the soldiers behind the tank would not be able to detect every Japanese soldier hiding in the crater or disguised as a corpse, so it was inevitable that the Sherman tank would be blown up by the Japanese.

Once the Sherman tanks are withdrawn from the battle one after another, then the six Type 97 tanks of the Japanese army as a reserve will become a great threat to the engineer regiment.

But now, the engineer regiment did not fight like this, more than a dozen M3 tanks rushed forward with a single increase in the throttle over Sherman, and rushed out of order, their speed even made the Japanese army lurking on the road have no time to react, many Japanese troops were run over by M3 tanks before they had time to trigger the anti-tank, and the M3 tanks rushed into the Japanese defense line and rushed indiscriminately, which immediately plunged the Japanese army into chaos, and it was impossible to effectively organize any "meat bullet against steel" tactics.

(Note: The Japanese Type 99 magnetic anti-tank mine needs to be knocked on a hard object to be triggered after pulling out the safety pin, and the delay time is 8 to 10 seconds before it explodes.) ）