8.27 Battle of the Iron Battle

After seeing the appearance of the T-26 tank through the smoke of gunpowder on the battlefield, the commander of the Japanese tank unit in the Type 89 medium tank, Kimura Nakasa, shouted in horror!

"When did the people of China have such a big guy? What exactly are these combat vehicles? And also... Can anyone tell me where they came from? ”

The gunner, the machine gunner, and the driver sitting next to Kimura Nakasa were unable to answer the string of questions asked by Kimura. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info their reaction at the moment is not much better than that of Kimura Nakasarai, except for shock or shock!

Oh, yes... When did the Chinese army have medium tanks? How come the intelligence services never said that?

Long before the "77 Incident" occurred, the Japanese military's intelligence department had done a very detailed intelligence collection on the Chinese tank troops. The document issued by the Tokyo Military Headquarters to the commanders of the Japanese tank units clearly reads:

"As of June 1937, the Chinese army had a total of 96 combat vehicles of various types. These included 10 German-made L-type light combat vehicles; 20 British-made Vickers 6T E vehicles; 29 British-made Vickskaden-Lloyd; 20 Italian-made CV-33 ultralight combat vehicles and a number of old armored vehicles. ”

The officers and men of the Japanese tank unit have always thought that these are all the belongings of the Chinese tank unit! So they have never taken the Chinese tank troops into account!

Whether it is the German L-shaped tank, the British Vickers, Skaden-Lloyd, or the Italian-made CV-33, they are all light vehicles without exception. If there is anything that these tanks have in common, it can only be said that the tonnage is small and the firepower is weak.

What's more, the offensive weapons on these light combat vehicles equipped by the Chinese army are all machine guns, which can only deal with infantry and not combat vehicles! So the Japanese charioteers were not at all afraid to meet the Chinese charioteers! Anyway, only they have the share of fighting the Chinese tank troops, and the Chinese tank troops have absolutely no ability to fight back!

This scene that happened in front of me suddenly subverted the inherent thinking of the officers and men of the Japanese tank unit!

Since these Chinese tanks that are attacking the Japanese tank units are all equipped with tank guns! Then from today onwards, Japanese tanks will no longer be invincible!

Kimura Nakasa knew very well that even the smallest caliber tank gun could penetrate the thin armor of Japanese-made tanks! Now in the face of menacing Chinese tanks, Kimura Nakasa can only order all the Japanese tanks to respond carefully!

The battle that takes place between the tanks is actually a clash of the technical content of the tank! Facing an opponent who knows everything and facing an opponent who knows nothing will be two completely different situations! Kimura Nakasa was annoyed to find that at the moment, the Japanese tank troops could be said to know nothing about the tanks used by the Chinese tank troops! And the key values of firepower, armor thickness, and movement speed can all affect the outcome of this "tank battle" that will take place later!

"Nakasa! Car No. 3 on the right was hit! And car number six on the left! ”

"Kondo-kun's chariot was also hit! It seems that the target of the first round of attacks by the Shina was our Type 89 medium tank! ”

Bad news kept coming, intelligence mistakes and being ambushed, and this series of blows made Kimura Nakasa's mood fall to the bottom!

Kimura Nakasa has never encountered a battle in which the Japanese tank unit is completely inferior as soon as the battle begins!

After a long time of inner struggle, Kimura Nakasa finally made his decision

"Order all the tanks and leave those CV-33s alone! We must first get rid of the chariot of the China!"

Kimura Nakasa didn't know that he had made another mistake, but in fact, the T-26 tank used by the 200th Division Tank Battalion was still a light tank. However, according to the standards of the Japanese army, the inclusion of the T-26 with a dead weight of 10.5 tons in the ranks of medium combat vehicles cannot be counted as a mistake.

After receiving the order from Kimura Nakasa, the Japanese tank with its back to the Chinese tank began to turn around again, and the screeching sound of the chariot's tracks on the battlefield suddenly resounded.

After inexplicably receiving two rounds of shelling by the Chinese army, the remaining tanks of the Japanese army finally returned to normal!

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Before the start of this operation, Qiu Qingquan, deputy commander of the 200th Division, had already divided the chariots used by the Japanese into three, six, nine and so on in his heart. The intensity of the first round of artillery fire by the Chinese army was limited, so Qiu Qingquan had to attack high-value targets first!

Although the Type 89 medium tank used by the Japanese tank unit is a relatively early model, it is better than the armor and artillery, with the largest tonnage and the most fierce firepower, which is much more powerful than the Type 95 "bean tank" that left the factory a few years later! Therefore, in the first round of shelling, the Type 89 medium tank became the priority target of the T-26 and the combat defense artillery. Qiu Qingquan made such an arrangement because he wanted to pull out the sharpest teeth of the Japanese tank troops first!

By the time the second round of shelling was carried out, there was a division of labor between the artillery and tank units of the Chinese army. The target of the 61st division's anti-aircraft artillery fire was still the Type 89 medium tank in the Japanese tank unit, and the T-26 of the tank unit began to shoot at the Japanese "bean tank"!

As for the remaining few "bean chariots" that did not have artillery installed, they did not participate in this chariot battle by themselves at all, and Qiu Qingquan took the initiative to ignore these opponents who could not threaten the T-26! And these Japanese armored vehicles are also very interesting, and they, like the CV-33 of the Chinese army, retreated early to watch the battle. So in fact, the T-2 tank 6 equipped with the 200 division tank battalion has only two opponents, that is, the Type 89 medium tank and the Type 95 "bean tank" equipped by the Japanese tank unit.

9 T-26s destroyed 2 Japanese "bean chariots" in the second round of fire that broke out of the trenches, but the anti-aircraft artillery units all failed! In this confrontation of steel, the tank battalion of the 200th division temporarily led 7:0! But that's the end of the "surprise" effect of the ambush battle! The Japanese tank unit had initially recovered from the panic of the ambush, and the remaining 14 tanks turned around and fought the T-26 in one place! It's going to be an uphill battle next!

The Type 89 medium tank that Ishiguro was riding in was very lucky, and did not hit the two rounds of artillery fire, but the two Type 89 medium tanks on their left and right were not so lucky, one of them was directly blown into scrap metal, and the other was shot in the track, incapacitated and collapsed in place. Soon it will attract a major attack from the Chinese artillery, and it will be difficult to survive.

Facing the shells fired by the Chinese army, the lieutenant commander stepped on the accelerator to the bottom at once, and shouted loudly: "We are accelerating now!" Rush up! I'll use the wrecked tank as cover, gunner! Get ready to fight back! ”

The performance of the combat vehicles of this era was far less advanced than that of later generations, and if the combat vehicles without a fire control system fired in motion, they could only shoot in the air! So the driver, commander, and gunner must work together to have a chance to hit their target! Now the commander is driving this Type 89 medium tank, dodging incoming shells while looking for an opportunity to stop and fire back.

"Okay, I'll catch the chariot of the Chinas soon! It doesn't take half a minute! ”

Although it will stop when firing a gun, a vehicle running at high speed will not actually stop jolting as soon as it stops. It is also impossible for the engine to stall.

Shakes, shuddering, and the light and smoke of the battlefield, all of which can affect the gunner's work! In such harsh conditions, it takes half a minute to complete a series of actions from aiming to shooting, which is definitely very fast! The results of the Japanese charioteers' usual hard training finally showed their value at this moment!

"Get ready.... Fire! ”

The commander began to shout preparations from the moment he stepped on the brakes, and when the chariot was a little calmer, the command to fire the cannon blurted out! The Japanese gunner in the turret fulfilled his promise, and half a minute later, a tank shell whistled out of the chamber of the Type 89 medium tank!

The smoke emitted from the barrel had not yet dissipated, and the commander stepped on the accelerator and drove the Type 89 medium tank to start a new round of evasive actions! Not long after the Type 89 medium tank left, a shell fired from the 37 battle anti-aircraft gun fell on the place where the commander had just stopped and ordered the gunner to open fire.

The four people in the Type 89 chariot passed by death!

Sitting in the captain's seat, Ishiguro Sadazo Osa has now become a pure ornament. At first, Ishiguro wanted to ask the gunner, but when he saw the gunner and the machine gunner sweating profusely to retreat the shell casings in the barrel, Ishiguro Sadazo closed his mouth in interest.

The first round of return fire from the Japanese tank unit hit the 200 T-1 of the 26 tank battalion of the division. The 37 mm caliber tank shell easily tore through the steel plate of the tank that was only 15 mm thick, the upper part of the T-26 tank was blown up beyond recognition, the rear half of the turret opened a large opening, the commander and gunner died on the spot, and the lucky surviving driver drove the incapacitated T-26 silently out of the battlefield.

At 1:7, the Japanese tank unit finally opened and drawn!

Just when the gunners of the Japanese tank unit were busy loading the tank guns with shells, the T-26 of the Chinese tank unit had already loaded the new shells and rushed out of the trenches, Qiu Qingquan issued an order to "fire freely on all tanks", so the 200th division tank battalion did not fire again this time, but the 8 tanks each fired the shells in the chamber of the tank guns one after another.

Since all the Japanese tanks were basically in high-speed motion at this time, the eight T-26s did not achieve any success in this round of shooting.

Immediately after the firing, the Chinese tanks began to move at high speed, and now, it is the turn of the Japanese tanks to fire again!

The entire battlefield was filled with explosions and fire, and huge steel chariots tore through the smoke from time to time, roaring and rushing towards their opponents!

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Seeing that the tank battalion of the 200th Division was entangled in the Japanese tanks, Zhong Song, commander of the 61st Division, immediately ordered his troops to launch an attack on the 2nd Wing of the Japanese Army, which was reinforcing Liuyuankou. The 7 CV-33s that left the battlefield in the early stage have now become the pioneers of the 61st Division. Although the armor and firepower of these Italian-made CV-33s were very weak, they still showed some power in front of the Japanese infantry in motion!

"Inspired" by the Chinese charioteers, the Japanese armored fighting vehicles, which had retreated to watch the battle from a distance, also decided to draw gourds in the same way and took the initiative to attack the positions of the 61st Division. However, the situation on the side of the 61st Division is completely different from that of the Japanese 2nd Wing on the opposite side, and the Japanese tank commander must have had a problem with his head when he uses light tanks to attack a strong defensive position!

Of course, the officers and men of the 61st Division, who relied on the trenches, would not be polite to the devils! They used anti-aircraft artillery to fire head-on Japanese armored fighting vehicles, which were armed only with machine guns. After a chaotic artillery fight, four of the eight armored fighting vehicles of the devils were hit by the officers and soldiers of the 61st Division and caught fire.

Seeing the chariot troops that repelled the Japanese army, Zhong Song's 61st Division was greatly boosted! Zhong Song immediately ordered the two main regiments to launch an all-out attack on the Japanese 2nd Wing! On the vast plains, thousands of officers and soldiers from China and Japan fought frantically!

Zhong Song's 61st Division has the momentum to drive the 2nd Wing back to Sanyi Village with the cooperation of the 200th Division's Chariot Battalion!

However, in the next ten minutes of tug-of-war, the quality gap between the Chinese charioteers and the Japanese charioteers finally appeared.

Due to the late formation of the 200th Division Tank Battalion and the fact that the officers and soldiers did not complete the run-in with the T-26 tank, the 200th Division Tank Battalion was much worse than the Japanese tank unit in terms of control and shooting accuracy!

In the last few counterfires, the T-26 gunners have shot shells into the air again and again! Except for one of the unlucky "Bean Chariots", which was damaged by a shell fired by the T-26, the rest of the Japanese tanks were not damaged in the face of the T-26's fire.

On the contrary, the T-200 of the 200th Division Tank Battalion was destroyed by the Japanese army in succession.

At 3:7, the little devil is obviously starting to exert his strength!

Qiu Qingquan was worried that if the battle continued like this, the 200th Division's tank battalion would also compensate for the gap between the first mover advantage they had taken advantage of the ambush and the Japanese tank units at the beginning, so he issued an order to retreat. The remaining 6 T-26s fought and retreated towards the positions of the 61st Division.

Fortunately, the Japanese tank units, which suffered heavy losses, did not dare to pursue the defensive positions of the 61st Division, but only turned back to reinforce the 2nd Wing. The two regiments sent by Zhong Song to attack the 2nd Wing of the Japanese Army saw that the Japanese tank troops loved to return for reinforcements and did not love the war, and they also took the initiative to withdraw from the battle!

Because the 2nd Wing was anxious to complete the task assigned to them by Lieutenant General Kenji Dohihara to support Yanagienguchi, they did not pursue the retreating 61st Division. Disturbed by the 200th Division's tank battalion and the 61st Division, the 2nd Wing had already lost more than two hours of precious time.

During this time, Song Xilian's 71st Army had captured Liuyuankou. As soon as the remnants of the 14th Division's Heavy Infantry Wing fled to Chenliukou, which was not far from Liuyuankou, it was attacked by Hu Zongnan's corps, and the whole army was finally annihilated.

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