Chapter 29 New Situation

When they were shelled, the artillery soldier Cao judged that the other party used the Type 94 37mm tank gun equipped on the tank, and this judgment was naturally accurate, but he guessed the gun type, but he didn't know that Zhao Zhi They could use the Type 94 37mm tank gun on the tank to shoot shells, but they couldn't drive those tanks at all, in other words, Zhao Zhi They used those tanks as a fixed battery, if Xiao Benlang attacked the railway station according to the original plan, Zhao Zhi may not be able to stop them, after all, in addition to mortar grenadiers, Zhao Zhi only has submachine guns and rifles left in his hands. As long as Komoto and his people can get close to Zhao Zhi and avoid the mortar hit, Zhao Zhi can't stop them with a submachine gun alone.

After Zhao Zhi took Eugene and them to capture the railway station, he sent someone to send a lot of light and heavy machine guns taken out of the military train to Yu Dazhi, and even sent a lot of bullets. At the same time as sending weapons and ammunition, Zhao Zhi also sent more than 100 mercenaries to Zhangwu County to gather men and carts, he was ready to move the things in the railway station back, there were too many Japanese puppet troops stationed in the direction of Madian, and there was a railway here, and the Japanese army could increase troops here at any time, in contrast, Zhao Zhi still felt that Zhangwu County, which was located in the mountains, was easier to defend.

Zhao Zhi has a lot of masters, but that means that the original foreign mercenaries, those foreign mercenaries who have served in the army, dare not say anything, but they are always better than the mercenaries recruited in China. After purging the Japanese puppet army in the train station, Zhao Zhi arranged for the military doctor to treat the wounded mercenaries, while busy checking the tanks parked on the platform. Zhao Zhi drove all kinds of cars in his previous life, and armored vehicles were also driven, but he really didn't know how to fiddle with this kind of World War II tank, relying on his unremitting exploration, Zhao Zhi was bored in the tank before he was about to suffocate, and he still didn't start the tank.

I have to say that the Japanese-style 95 light tank is too small, and it is only a crew standard of three people, including the commander, but according to the size of foreign mercenaries, I am afraid that two people will fill the tank. Zhao Zhi only brought 400 mercenaries to Madian this time, and removed the machine gun team that Yu Dazhi took away and the mercenaries who went back to Zhangwu County to move people, Zhao Zhi was only left at the railway station with more than 100 submachine gunners and hammer artillery teams commanded by Eugene, and then most of the snipers, the total number was only about 200 people, so he started the idea of tanks.

There is no end to the road, the mercenaries who cleaned the battlefield found two wounded and undead Japanese soldiers in the Japanese barracks, these two boys happened to be the pilots of the battlefield, after Eugene cut the neck of a guy alive with a short knife, another guy who was frightened and incontinent immediately changed his mind and promised Zhao Zhi to help drive the tank on the platform out of the train station. There is only one driver tossing back and forth of the six tanks, and it is impossible for Zhao Zhi to drive the tank out to exchange fire with the Japanese army, and it is already very good to be able to move it out as a fixed battery.

To say that the 37 tank guns are still easy to operate, after the Japanese pilots compared a few times on the spot, Zhao Zhi arranged for a few gunners under Chekov to guard those tanks, only to listen to the Japanese puppet army in the direction of Madian After Yu Dazhi's first ambush, these gunners got into the tank and fired the cannon, it doesn't matter if they are not proficient, as long as they can get the shells out of the barrel.

Zhao Zhi didn't want to drive the tank gun back to the enemy, what really made him value was the two imitation Czech-made Type 97 7.7mm heavy machine guns on the tank, which can fire automatically in bursts, one of which is a front machine gun, and the other is a machine gun behind the turret, carrying a total of 3,000 rounds of ammunition. Zhao Zhi drove the tanks on the platform out of the train station, just to use them as fixed batteries and machine gun fire, plus the mortars and grenadiers taken from the military train, Zhao Zhi did not believe that the Japanese puppet army from the direction of Madian could break into the railway station.

In fact, as Zhao Zhi expected, the observation soldiers sent out by Chekov from the railway station sent back the coordinates of the Japanese puppet army with walkie-talkies, and the mortar grenadiers gathered outside the railway station were beaten hard, and they immediately blinded Xiao Jinlang, and the first round of fire from the chariot gun was also good, although the lethality was not good, but at least it entered the battle line of the Japanese puppet army. The addition of chariot artillery accelerated the retreat of the Japanese puppet army, and the machine gun bullets that Zhao Zhi added to the tank were not used at all, and Xiao Benlang and they fell into Yu Dazhi's ambush again, which led to the demise of the reinforcements in the Madian direction.

After the war, the busiest thing was to clean up the battlefield, and several idle trucks in the railway station were sent to meet Yu Dazhi and them, while the remaining mercenaries were busy carrying supplies from the military train to the platform. There was originally a group of local people in the railway station as porters, but when they attacked the train station last night, they were reimbursed by the mercenaries who didn't know the truth for all the grenades, Zhao Zhi had to burn all the corpses in the train station, and when the provincial Eighth Route Army and the National Army came, he said that he was an executioner.

The abundance of materials in the railway station made Zhao Zhi smack his tongue, just the weapons and ammunition were counted, and a large amount of food and military uniforms and shoes were hoarded in several warehouses. The national army sent to Zhangwu County was an infantry regiment, and the food in the railway station could be used as their military rations, and military shoes could also be given to them, but those weapons and ammunition, Zhao Zhi wanted to take out some of them and hand them over to the Eighth Route Army. It's not that Zhao Zhi is so righteous, he naturally wants to offend no one by doing this, as long as it is an anti-Japanese army, Zhao Zhi has always looked down on him, and Zhao Zhi naturally has his purpose in doing this.

The weapons and ammunition in the military train are the most important thing, before the tank shelling, the mercenaries carried the things on the train to the warehouse on the platform, and these weapons alone are enough to arm a wing of Japanese troops, not to mention dozens of light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, mortars and other heavy fire weapons. In the previous battles, Zhao Zhi and the mercenaries also carried over the Japanese army's arsenal, but it was the first time he had seen such a large amount of weapons and ammunition.

The reason why the Japanese army brought in so much weapons, equipment, food, and military shoes was to prepare for the start of a large-scale clean-up operation in Shanxi, just like the encirclement and suppression that began in North China, and the Japanese army wanted to defeat the hostile forces in Shanxi in one fell swoop with its superior forces, and then drive them out of Shanxi. If this is not the case, then how to explain the large amount of white rice hoarded in the railway station, only the combat soldiers in the Japanese army will eat white rice for three meals a day, and the rice in the railway station is as much as 100 tons, and the soldiers and horses go ahead before moving the grain and grass, which is the best evidence to prove that the Japanese army is preparing for large-scale operations.