Chapter 745: How can such an army resist?

"I thought for a long time that the people of China would attack!" When Hideki Tojo heard the news from the puppet Manchurian, his face twitched for a moment, and then he said in a low voice, "It's just that I didn't expect it to be so early." In just half a year, our war in the south will subside a little, and with the help of the resources of the south, we will now have more than 4 million troops enough to confront the vanguard army and hold Manchuria. What a pity! ”

Kenji Dohihara, who was kneeling beside him, did not speak, he longed for a big fight with the Vanguard Army in order to avenge his loss of glory and third leg from the Pioneers, but the current situation did not allow the Japanese to fight against a behemoth again.

The vanguard army was not the United States, and there was no need to fight across the ocean, and once their army went south, they could take half of the gains of the Japanese along the Indochina Peninsula.

"I said I shouldn't have gone south in the first place. Now we have offended the United States and China at the same time, especially at that time, the hatred of the China people against us has not been eliminated, and it is easy to attack Manchuria. Now it's good, not to mention Manchuria, I'm afraid that the Korean Peninsula is in danger. Shunroku Hata on the side snorted coldly, pointing the finger at Hideki Tojo.

With Japan's expansion in Southeast Asia, there was an urgent need for all kinds of senior command personnel, and these high-ranking officers who had been defeated by the vanguard army and had been idle for a long time had already left the mountains.

It was precisely because of the defeat by the vanguard army that Shunroku Hahata and others were always wary of the vanguard army. At the beginning, he advocated speeding up immigration and sticking to the puppet Manchurians.

"The vanguard army has been premeditated. They launched such a big attack, and we didn't even have any preparation in advance? In the defense line against the vanguard army, a perfect defense system was not established, and a large number of elite troops had to be dispatched south. "Although we claim that we still have a million garrisons, most of them are recruits, and we are about to turn it into a boot camp. As for the 400,000 Imperial Army, it is even useless, and they even have to be dike to make trouble. Can such an army fight? ”

He glanced at Hideki Tojo and continued: "Not only is there a shortage of personnel on the Manchurian side, but weapons and equipment are mainly supplied to the southbound troops. I heard that there are less than 4,000 artillery pieces and less than 1,000 fighters, so how can such a force resist the attack of the vanguard army? Isn't this a clear intention to give up Manchuria, which the empire has run for many years? ”

Although the battle had just begun two or three hours before they got the news, the news of the cries for help and the retreat from the front rained down like a torrential rain.

According to Japan's preliminary estimates, the vanguard army dispatched at least a million men.

Personnel lead to secondly, just look at the sky in the early morning only the fighter planes of the vanguard army that cover the sky and the sun are soaring to know where the gap is.

With the opening up of the battlefields in Australia and India, the Japanese sent a large number of fighters to the south to fight against the British and American air forces, so that even if there were more than 1,000 fighters left in the puppet Manchukuo, most of them were old-fashioned fighters, and they were scattered on the airfield by the bombers of the vanguard army in one go.

It is rare for a few planes to fly on the runways of various airfields that have been bombed to the ground, but as long as the Japanese fighters dare to fly, the fighters of the vanguard army will immediately pounce on them, eagerly hunting for new feats.

At the very beginning of the war, the vanguard army had air supremacy in its hands.

"We have only now formed four chariot divisions, and except for two that have been transferred to the south, the remaining two chariot divisions have only more than 700 chariot divisions. Among them, because a large amount of steel has been appropriated by the navy, there are less than 300 new heavy combat vehicles. Could it be that with the rifles and bayonets in the hands of the soldiers, they could withstand the chariot units of the vanguard? ”

The armored forces of the vanguard army, which directly swept through all the Japanese douding tanks, made a deep impression on the Japanese. It was precisely because of this stimulus that the Japanese began to pay attention to the development of tank units. However, the amount of steel in the Japanese had to cope with the needs of the navy's ships, as well as the manufacture of various types of weapons such as steel defense and artillery, which made steel scarce.

If it weren't for the fact that a lot of arms could be purchased from umbrella or copycat companies to relieve the pressure on steel, I am afraid that the Japanese would not even be able to scrape together the nearly 1,500 tanks they already have. Even if the light tanks that were mainly needed for the south, the heavy tanks produced in Japan were all left in the puppet Manchurian, but the number was only more than 270.

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"This is the devil's heavy tank?" Xu Mancang held the binoculars again, looked at the distance surrounded by hundreds of infantry, and slowly pressed up more than a dozen tanks with plaster flags, and couldn't help but ask Chen Hua, the staff officer next to him, in surprise.

"Well, that's it, the little devil's Type 95 heavy tank!" Chen Hua put down the same 830 gray aluminum telescope and nodded in affirmation.

"A tank like this deserves to be called a heavy tank?" Xu Mancang smiled and said, "No wonder Commander Meng said that the little devil's tanks are all peans, such a tank is not as good as our medium tank, so dare to call it heavy?" ”

"This is a tank designed by the little devil in 34, weighing about 29.8 tons and having a crew of five. Twin turrets, the main gun is a Type 94 70 mm tank gun, and the secondary gun is a Type 94 37 mm tank gun,...... "In view of the base as a backing, almost all the main data of weapons in the world at this time have been sorted out by the weapons research institute, and some of the main weapon materials are even more familiar to the army, so Chen Hua, who is known as Xu Mancang's notebook, opened his mouth to say the data of this tank, and even recited the name of the new national unit of measurement of millimeters in the data, without saying anything more.

"The thickest armor is only 35 centimeters, isn't it a thin skin and big stuffing. When you say beanie, you are bean. The 70mm cannon can only tickle us! Xu Mancang put his mind at ease and couldn't help snorting coldly.

"Let the little devils see what a heavy tank is!" However, as the commander of the armored regiment, he still didn't dare to be sloppy, while directing the T-34s around him to outflank from both sides, and at the same time directing the King Tiger tanks that were still destroying those devil bunkers in the back to press up.

"For the sake of the Empire, rush!" The roar of the Type 94 diesel engine made it impossible for Okabe to even hear the cries of his companions beside him, but the frenzy on the young faces of the many Japanese soldiers outside the tank who charged forward with bayonets in their hands infected his tense nerves, and he couldn't help but scream wildly.

When he was observing through the telescope just now, he had already seen the tank troops rushing in front of the vanguard army on the opposite side. The vanguard's tanks were different from those of the Japanese, with no foot infantry at the front, only thick armored tanks. He also believed that the more than 30-ton T-34 tanks rushing ahead were enough to defeat the 12 Type 95 heavy tanks under his command.

Perhaps the 70mm tank gun of the Type 95 could pose a certain threat to the T-34 when it approached, but even from a distance, the 75mm tank gun on the T-34 tank could easily penetrate the thin skin armor of the Type 95. Not to mention, there were more than thirty T-34 tanks on the opposite side.

The shadow of death made him tremble, but he immediately fell into a state of excitement again, and even leaned out of the car, personally waving the command flag, and gave the order to charge.

He was pleased to see the 95 tanks trailing behind him dragging black smoke, one did not retreat, and couldn't help howling, and commanded the small flag to point forward again.

But the expression on his face suddenly froze as he was facing forward.

Looking at the eight huge tanks that were a lot larger than the several T-34 tanks next to him, they were arranged in a line in front of them at this time, and the muzzles of the black holes were faintly visible, but a cold air had already rushed straight to the head of Okabe Naoka.

"Tiger ...... Tiger King? The small flag in his hand almost fell off in his surprise.

The King Tiger tank, which had once been famous in Siberia, had long been on the radar of the Japanese, and as a commander of the armored forces, the information on the King Tiger tank collected and transferred through the Russians was even more in mind in fanatical anticipation. At this time, the unique shape of the tank on the opposite side was recognized by him at a glance.

Although the Japanese were stimulated to produce heavy tanks, for a time the resources and technology could not meet the requirements, in addition to developing new tanks, in order to contingency, they could only vigorously develop the Type 95 first.

Although Okabe served as a second lieutenant commander of the Type 95 tank as he wished, after seeing the relevant information and pictures of the King of Tigers, he was deeply fascinated by this real heavy tank. How many times have he imagined that the tank troops under his command could all be armed into the appearance of the Tiger King, but when he saw it with his own eyes, it was the cannon port of the Tiger King group towards his black hole.

If it is said that in the face of the T-34 tanks that have been divided on both sides at this time, there is still a possibility of fighting, but in the face of the King Tiger tank, the courage that Okabe Naoto mustered was suddenly shattered.

According to the information he knew, unless he was in front of the Tiger King, whose side armor might exceed 80 mm, the 70 main gun of the 95 Type would not break the defense at all.

"Boom, boom!" Continuous shelling sounded.

"It's a grenade!" This was the last thought of Naokabe, who was still half exposed outside.

A huge explosion of a grenade sounded directly around him.

Half of the 8 King Tigers in the first round did not switch to armor-piercing shells, but continued to use grenades. It was these 4 grenades that stopped the two Type 95 tanks from advancing. The armor in the thinnest part is only 13 mm, and even the shrapnel of the grenade is easy to penetrate. Not to mention the precise close-range explosions.

The effect of armor-piercing bullets is the same as tearing paper, and the Tiger King's shooting accuracy of about a kilometer is incomparable. In just three rounds of firing, all 12 Japanese Type 95 tanks were wiped out, and only 2 King Tiger tanks were painlessly hit with two 70mm light hammers.

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