Patton shrugged his shoulders and spread his hands, and Clark realized that Patton was not directing the battle, how could he possibly know what method the other party used to annihilate these troops?!

"Let's wait, since the troops on the right flank have failed, then they will soon withdraw." Barton said to Clark, "We'll just have to ask in a moment to find out what's going on." ”

At this time, the troops on the left flank also rose a puff of white smoke. It is clear that the left wing has also failed. Clark's face became very ugly, and the three-way attack did not win all the way.

Instead, they were all defeated, which was unacceptable to Clark. He couldn't understand how the other side defeated these troops, you must know that these troops can be described as the elite troops of the current US army.

The attacking forces had one armored division, and two infantry divisions. The opposing defense was only a Japanese infantry division, and Clark couldn't figure out how he managed to defeat his own troops.

The exercise lasted just over four hours before it ended, and the result was a complete defeat for the US military. With the help of air superiority, ground armored forces, and heavy artillery, the American forces failed.

Clark returned to the command headquarters to learn that the U.S. artillery positions during the exercise had been interspersed with opposing troops. And the command during the exercises was also attacked and suffered heavy losses. This embarrassed Clark even more.

After getting the results of the exercise, all the US generals stopped talking. They smoked cigarettes and watched the battle report without saying a word. The battle report wrote what measures the general on the other side had taken.

"My unit is organized according to the division and regimental level of the Japanese army. Other words. In terms of weapons and personnel, it should not be much different from the current Japanese military establishment. "Master Cannon is very relaxed now, and the generals of the American army who originally had eyes on the top of their heads are now silent.

"According to the establishment of the Japanese army, each division was composed of three wings. At the same time there was a field artillery wing, a reconnaissance wing, an engineer wing, a transport wing and a communications unit. ”

"According to the standard of three thousand eight hundred people for the wing. In other words, there were about 20,000 people in a division of the Japanese army. I used a division, that is, 20,000 men. After a pause, the gun master smiled and said: "Don't think that I used too much artillery, in fact, the Japanese artillery is not less than what I use." ”

"Judging from the captures, analysis and intelligence we fought with the Japanese army, a division of the Japanese army will have an artillery wing. This wing is generally equipped with fifty-four 75mm mountain guns or field guns. In general, each wing is equipped with at least six Type 92 infantry guns of 70mm caliber. ”

"At the same time, there are anti-tank squadrons in each wing. Armed with four 37mm anti-tank guns. After a pause, the gun master smiled and said, "This is roughly the artillery equipment of the Japanese army." ”

"And on the infantry side. Basically every squad had a light machine gun. Arrived at the brigade...... That is, heavy machine guns will appear at the regimental level, and the heavy machine gun squadrons of the Japanese army generally have eight to twelve heavy machine guns. ”

said. Master Pao shrugged his shoulders and said, "So, I didn't particularly increase my troops in this exercise. The weapons I used were almost always equipped according to the equipment of the Japanese army. Of course, you didn't have a Japanese 6.5 caliber machine gun, so I had to use your 7.62 caliber light machine gun. ”

Marshall, who had been silent, looked at the three artillery pieces at this time and suddenly said: "Okay, then what we want to know is that the Japanese army's fortifications are really so strong?!" And also. How did you come up with the idea of shelling tanks with mountain artillery and infantry artillery ?! ”

Master Cannon smiled. He said to Marshall and the others: "This is not a difficult thing, your tank armor thickness of 37mm anti-tank guns cannot be penetrated." Then if I want to penetrate the tank, I must use large-caliber artillery. ”

Everyone now understands that the commander is placing artillery on both sides of the position to ambush the tanks of the American army! That's when Clark spoke.

"General, what I want to know is how there are self-propelled guns in the Japanese army?!"

Hearing Clark's words, the cannon master smiled. Turning to Clark, he said: "As early as 1932, Japan was already developing self-propelled guns. It's just that at that time, they didn't think it was of much use, so they didn't use it thoroughly. ”

1932 in history. At the request of the military department, Mitsubishi Corporation was based on the Type 91 heavy tank. The Type 95 heavy tank was developed, and four prototypes were completed in 1934.

Since there was no essential leap in the performance of the Type 95 heavy tank compared to the Type 89 medium tank, and the cost increased significantly, the Japanese military department lost interest in heavy tanks, so Mitsubishi modified two of the prototypes according to the results of consultations with the military department, which were the original Japanese self-propelled guns.

The two self-propelled artillery prototypes with the Type 95 as the chassis are both equipped with a 100mm cannon, and their firepower is still relatively strong compared with the self-propelled guns of other army powers in the same period.

It is a pity that the Japanese did not pay attention to it at that time. If according to history, these self-propelled guns will not be remembered until the Nomenkan Japan is pumped all over the ground to find teeth.

But the appearance of the Tiger Tu completely changed history, and Japan took out self-propelled artillery earlier to do special research. At the same time as the 97 reform, the new Type 97 self-propelled artillery was also released.

The self-propelled artillery of the Japanese army is based on the chassis of the Type 97 tank, and the "artillery fighting vehicle" that can be loaded with 75mm or larger caliber guns is developed, which is responsible for providing fire support for armored units and dealing with some targets on the battlefield that cannot be destroyed by tanks.

"After their tanks were routed by us, they began to think about how to restrain our Tiger tanks. The Type 97 75mm cannon chariot was born under such circumstances. Saying that, the gun master shrugged his shoulders and said to Clark: "In fact, some of your M3 tanks in the Philippines were destroyed by the Japanese army's 'Type 97 Artillery Fighting Vehicle'. ”

As he spoke, the gun master smiled and said to Clark: "Fortunately, the Japanese army does not have many such artillery fighting vehicles now, and according to the number of them in Southeast Asia, they should have built less than eighty." On the one hand, there are not many because they have too few resources. On the other hand, these are experimental equipment. ”

Marshall's face was ugly, and he heard the voice of the gunner: Now that the Japanese army has taken Southeast Asia, resources are not a problem. That is, in the future, the US military is likely to encounter quite a few such artillery combat vehicles.

The Japanese are not stupid, and when they suffer losses on the battlefield, they will naturally consider changing their way of thinking. Of course, the process is slow. For example, in history, the Japanese army was defeated by the Soviet army in 1939 at Nomenkan with a sea of tanks.

Although a few months later they asked for the development of an artillery combat vehicle, but it was not until 1941 that it was actually made. Two more years of testing, which were not put into service until 1943.

However, only four of these new weapons appeared in the Philippines, which was an important resource for Japan at that time. Four one-gun combat vehicles, of course, could not meet the requirements of defense.

When the Japanese reacted and sent more one-gun chariots over, they were sunk by American transport ships on the way. As a result, these artillery and combat vehicles worked hard to make, but they were not able to inflict damage on the battlefield.

The last artillery fighting vehicles were left behind in Japan in an attempt to be used in the event of a U.S. landing operation. Of course, the American troops did not land. They surrendered themselves.

One of these artillery vehicles was sent to the Tank Museum in Aberdeen, Maryland, for display.

"These self-propelled guns will be equipped with armored units, right?! So what I want to know is, why did they appear in your infantry division ?! ”

Tu Sancang shrugged his shoulders in an American style, and said to Marshall: "The Japanese are not stupid, they have already dispatched the 'Type 97 Artillery Chariot' during the Philippine Campaign, so there is no reason to hide this kind of chariot in the snow when fighting you next time." ”

"I'm just equipping these self-propelled guns according to the number of artillery pieces in the Japanese divisions, which is already very polite." Saying that, the gun master shrugged: "As for its speed, you don't have to doubt it." Its speed is thirty-eight kilometers per hour. Enough for me to move on to the right flank after I have destroyed your forward troops. ”

With a calm face, Clark slowly walked to the map behind Tu Sanpao, drew an arc with his fingers, and said in a deep voice: "Then what's going on with this encirclement?!" ”

"There is no doubt that the Japanese army is very good at interspersing encirclement operations." The third artillery was already a little impatient, and looked at Clark coldly and said: "Britain's Bai Sihua has already suffered this loss, and Yamashita Fengwen only used 50,000 people to ride bicycles to intersperse and encircle and annihilate Bai Sihua's 140,000 people. ”

"Although I think Bai Sihua should change his name to idiot, I have to admit that Yamashita Fengwen is indeed very capable. And Yamashita Fengfumi's combat method is also a typical Japanese combat mode of breakthrough, interspersing, encirclement, and annihilation. ”

Tu Sanpao looked at Clark coldly, and gave Clark goosebumps. Only then did he realize that this General Tu was not an ordinary person! In his hands, more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers were contaminated!

Like the general's son, he is also an out-and-out killer! Barton looked at Clark's appearance, sighed helplessly, and said, "General, what about the fortifications?!" I took a look at the fortifications you built, and it was really difficult to break through ......"

"Not to mention the question of fortifications." After explaining for a long time, Pao Ye was already very impatient.

"We tried to attack the fortifications built by the Japanese in Korea, but it was difficult for the Tiger tanks to break through. Our heavy artillery bombardment had little effect on their fortifications. If you hit it hard, you can only fill it with human life. The cannon master paused, and said to Barton: "Although I would like to break these fortifications directly, I always feel that there is a better way. (To be continued.) )

ps: Chapter 1 ~ Continue to code words......