Chapter 86: The Battle of the Oilfields (3)
Nobuo Ueda has been depressed all this time.
Originally, he thought that his tank wing would be assigned to the 33rd Division to show his skills on the battlefield...... Knowing that the opponent of the 33rd Division was the British, Ueda Nobuo knew that the British had a large number of tanks and armored vehicles.
Although Ueda Nobuo also knew that the performance of the tanks in his hands was quite different from the American tanks in the hands of the British army in all aspects, he believed that with his long-term training and the courage of his soldiers, he would definitely be able to defeat the British armored forces on the battlefield and achieve impressive results.
But what Nobuo Ueda didn't expect was that since the landing of the 14th Tank Wing in Yangon, what has been done has been marching, marching, and marching. The British tanks seen along the way were either blown up by the air force and pushed on the side of the road, or abandoned by the British. This gave Nobuo Ueda a feeling of being powerful and out of nowhere.
You must know that since the 14th Tank Wing was formed in Taiwan in September last year, they have been training for more than three months, and they thought they could go to Burma for a big battle, but they did not expect to follow the infantry's ass as a decoration.
In the past few days in the place of Ringanqiang, Nobuo Ueda's chariot wing has come in handy, but it is used to fight fires...... The tanks of the Imperial Japanese Army were not used to kill the enemy on the battlefield, but were used to knock down houses to prevent the fire from spreading, or to push away obstacles to facilitate the transportation of water by car to fight the fire.
But this day, Nobuo Ueda finally got a mission he had been waiting for for a long time.
"Ueda-kun!" The voice of division commander Sakurai Seizo rang on the phone: "The Binhe crossing in our hands has just been taken by the enemy, and according to Sakuma-kun's report, Chinese troops have appeared there, and they have also used British tanks. ”
"Yes!" Nobuo Ueda vaguely felt that there was a battle to be fought.
Sure enough, I listened to Sakurai Shizo continue: "These Chinese and British obviously want to rescue the British 7th Armored Brigade trapped in Ren'anqiang, and the Sakuma Wing only has a large group of troops and a dozen mountain guns to block them. So, now is the time to use the chariots in Ueda-kun's hands, and your task is to send the chariot troops to cooperate with the 214th Wing to hold the line of the Bin River, and not allow a single British tank or British soldier to pass through the Bin River Bridge before we withdraw from the oil fields! ”
"Yes!" Nobuo Ueda, who put down the phone, only felt a stream of blood rushing up to his head, and it was finally time for the Chariot Wing to show his skills.
After thinking about it, he immediately sent two squadrons of medium tanks and one squadron of light tanks to Binhe, and the remaining squadron of one medium tank and two squadrons of light tanks continued to stay in the area of the Ringanqiang oil field.
Of course, his distribution is reasonable, the Japanese army's light tank, that is, the Type 95 tank, is simply vulnerable in front of the British tanks, and only the medium tank, that is, the Type 97 tank, has the ability to fight a war. And he couldn't send all the medium tanks to Binhe, otherwise by the time the encirclement was contracted and besieged by Ringanqiang, there would be no Type 97 available in the direction of the oil field.
So his distribution was two to one, that is, two squadrons (eighteen vehicles) were allocated to the Binghe area, where there was a fierce battle, and one squadron (nine) was left in the oil field. Of course, this does not include reserves in their own hands.
After everything was arranged, Nobuo Ueda began to dream while sipping tea: the British army was trapped in Ringanqiang was an armored brigade, which was said to have more than 100 tanks, and it was also an American tank that was much more advanced than the Japanese, and if those tanks could be captured by the Imperial Army, then two tank wings could be formed......
Just when Ueda Nobuo was drowsy, he suddenly heard a report from the signal soldier: "Your Excellency! Spot enemy tank troops! ”
Nobuo Ueda immediately jumped up from his chair, walked up to the map like a chicken and asked, "What location?" ”
The signal soldier couldn't help but be a little stunned, and then reported: "Your Excellency, Dazuo, is in ...... Outside the door! ”
"What? Outside the door? Only then did Nobuo Ueda notice that there were more gunshots in the noise of the firefighting outside.
"Is it an enemy squad?" Nobuo Ueda asked.
"No!" The signal man replied: "It's the main force of the enemy, we found at least a few dozen tanks!" ”
"Bastard!" The muscles at the corners of Nobuo Ueda's mouth couldn't help jumping, and he realized that this was the British Seventh Armored Brigade organizing a breakout, and the direction of the breakthrough was still where he was.
"The direction in which they broke through turned out to be here!" Nobuo Ueda gritted his teeth with hatred, he never expected the British to fight back, and he had just sent three squadrons of tanks to the Bin River.
Of course, what Ueda Nobuo didn't know was that if he hadn't sent three squadrons of tanks to the Bin River, then the British army at this time would have already crossed the Bin River and safely retreated to Chokpadang.
However, the Japanese did not feel good at this time, because the tanks they left in the field were only one squadron of nine medium tanks, and the rest were all vulnerable light tanks. Even those nine tanks were almost as good as the British light tanks...... The Japanese Type 97 medium tank has stronger firepower than the M3 light tank, but the armor defense is much weaker than the M3, and the total combat weight is about the same, which means that the Japanese medium tank can only be regarded as a light tank according to the standards of the United States and Britain, while the Japanese light tank is a superlight tank.
"Your Excellency!" At this time, the deputy wing commander hurriedly ran in: "Harada Osa asks for tank support, give an order quickly, otherwise the enemy tank will rush over!" ”
So Ueda Nobuo no longer hesitated, and immediately issued an order that he would regret for the rest of his life: "Send the third and fourth squadrons up immediately, and be sure to block the enemy tanks!" ”
On the surface, there seems to be no problem with this order, the 215th Infantry Wing was tortured and killed by enemy tanks outside, and of course the tank troops had to go to reinforcements, not to mention that this is still an oil field, and the oil field is the lifeblood of the tank troops, and all the tanks can't drive without oil.
But what Ueda didn't expect was that the tanks sent would be caught in the same dilemma that Zhang Chi had expected: to fire or not to fire?
Let's fire, if you don't hit the target, the shells will fly to the oil storage tank or something, isn't that just adding to your own blockage?
Don't fire, isn't that just a beating and not fighting back?!
Just like the two Type 97 tanks that Zhang Chi and others are facing now, the tank guns didn't dare to fire after aiming for a long time, and what is even more tragic is that the tanks have not yet reversed.
As a result, the Japanese army could not fight or retreat, so they could only stare at the same place.
Later, when Nobuo Ueda looked back, he realized that the correct choice at this time should be to withdraw the armored troops from the oil fields first, so that he could fight freely and not fall into a dilemma.