Chapter 341: Anti-Tank Warfare
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Although during the day, due to the suppression of the aviation forces, the enemy's artillery, which had inflicted huge casualties and losses on the Sixth Division in the early morning, was silent most of the time, but the large number of anti-tank weapons of the opponent was extremely unexpected to him. 【. netbsp; Moreover, the opponent's table in the daytime battle clearly shows that he has received professional anti-tank warfare training, and for the opponent's table xiàn, Machijiri Liangji is very surprised.
He really couldn't imagine that the opponent had gotten so many anti-tank guns from there, and even if the Kwantung Army lost a lot of Type 94 guns last year, this kind of anti-tank guns, which were also of 37 caliber but far more powerful than Type 94 guns, were definitely not captured by the Japanese army.
Because Japan had never produced this kind of artillery at all, all the anti-tank guns used by the Japanese army, including the Kwantung Army, which were called shooting guns, were all Type 94 guns that imitated the German K1 36 anti-tank guns, and according to the number of troops lost by the Kwantung Army last year, there were not so many anti-tank guns captured by it.
And for Machijiri Liangji, who served as a military attache in France in his early years, he could see at a glance that these obvious anti-tank guns obviously had European origin, and they were not at all the German-made or Soviet-made anti-tank guns that he had come into contact with on the battlefield in Kannai.
In addition to a large number of anti-tank guns, the other side is also equipped with a kind of light and small artillery that can be used by individual soldiers, and it is very convenient to shoot with a flame from the tail, which he can bet, has never seen in any country, let alone heard that country is equipped with this kind of weapon.
This small, extremely lightweight, can be easily used by one person, without even having to construct any positions in advance, but the power of the artillery is not small at all, and the threat to the tank is even greater than that of the elite anti-tank guns, and at least a third of the vehicles lost are destroyed by this artillery.
In the morning battle, Machijiri Shiki, who only used the vehicles as mobile fire support for infantry counterattacks, had not yet seen the situation, and it was not until the afternoon battle that all the tanks were thrown directly into the front line of the attack, and he realized how sharp the anti-tank firepower of the opponent was.
Machijiri saw his chariot unit cover the infantry attack, and in the narrow mountain kilometers, the opponent was in a mobile ambush and coordinated operations, and a large number of cross-fire anti-tank guns and the kind of light guns that breathed fire behind the butt suffered heavy losses.
The anti-tank tactics of the opponent's echelon equipment brought great danger to the tank wing, especially in the afternoon, under the cover of long-range fire provided by medium tanks, which directly led the infantry to attack, and the light tanks and armored vehicles that acted as the infantry in the lead were almost all destroyed.
This result was tantamount to an embarrassing and distressing result for the senior generals of the Japanese army, who had always valued equipment more than people, but after half a day of fierce fighting, the Machijiri Gyoki, who had basically exhausted the living force at hand, did not dare at all, and now it seemed that it had become the only choice for the Machijiri Gyoki to continue fighting.
In fact, after a day of fierce fighting, Machijiri Liangji was miserable, and his opponent opposite, the commander of the first brigade, Mu Changqiu, also frowned, the sixth division under the cover of the chariot, a crazy counter-assault, causing a lot of casualties to the first brigade, after a hard fight for a morning, when the two sharp knife battalions of the first brigade that took the lead in the attack withdrew, there were less than two companies.
However, the main force of the Fifth Brigade, which was responsible for the detour of the left flank of the Sixth Division, was unable to contact for a long time, and all the forces of the Sixth Division, plus the troops of the 14th Division, almost all the pressure overwhelmed the First Brigade, which made the First Brigade fight quite hard, although the Japanese army, which had run out of shells, had lost the artillery support it could rely on, but the pressure on dozens of combat vehicles was really not small.
Fortunately, although the stock of artillery shells in Yeshan has dropped to a dangerous point, and there is a certain shortage of ammunition for evacuation due to the delay in the arrival of Japanese air raids, the small-caliber mortars and infantry shells of each regiment are quite sufficient, while the Sanqi anti-tank shells are not used much because they only carry out fixed-point elimination of the Japanese army's forward fire points during the shelling.
The anti-tank guns had sufficient ammunition, coupled with the terrain restrictions, the Japanese used these tanks as mobile fire points for most of the time, so that the Japanese counterattacks large and small were not successful, and when the attack started last night, the captured Japanese positions were basically preserved.
However, although the Japanese tanks were very backward in tactics, they only used the tactics of attacking in small groups of no more than ten vehicles for each attack, and most of the time these tanks were simply used to guide the infantry charge, and the mountainous terrain in this area was very unsuitable for tank combat.
Although the 1st Column and 1st Brigade, which repeatedly fought with the 6th Division head-on, fought very hard with the 43rd Wing and the infantry attached to it, it also took advantage of the favorable terrain to destroy more than 30 Japanese tanks, large and small.
It's just that although the results of the battle are not small, after an afternoon of anti-tank combat, the Japanese tank wing also brought a lot of losses to the troops with its skillful use, accurate artillery fire, and the characteristics of relying on rough skin and thick flesh, especially the 57-mm short-barreled guns on the more than 20 Japanese Type ** and Type 97 tanks.
After the artillery shells in the mountains were exhausted, the Japanese army adopted the Type ** and Type 97 medium tanks equipped with long-range 57-mm guns as mobile suppression firepower to cover and strike at the defenders from a long distance, and equipped with 37-mm Type 95 light tanks and Type 97 cavalry armored vehicles to guide the infantry to charge and carry out precision strikes on the defenders' firepower points at close range.
The six Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles equipped by the cavalry wing of the Sixth Division and the 13 Type 94 armored vehicles used by the reconnaissance squadrons of the two tank wings coordinated with the Type 95 light tanks and were responsible for suppressing the defending infantry at close range with their 13-mm, 7-, and 7-mm machine guns.
Although the Japanese tank tactics were backward, they were extremely experienced in the use of specific battlefields, and the use of tanks and armored vehicles with three different firepower configurations was coordinated with each other according to the different firepower, and the Japanese tank crews were well-trained, which still caused a lot of casualties to the first brigade.
Although in the fierce battle, the anti-tank guns equipped by the regiments of the 1st Brigade destroyed a large number of Japanese Type 95 and Type 97 light tanks and almost all of the Type 92 and Type 94 armored vehicles, they were always helpless against the Type ** and Type 97 medium tanks that were already outside the effective range of the 37 antitank guns.
These tanks were very cunning, and after suffering some losses at the beginning and being destroyed by three vehicles, they quickly adjusted their tactics, and all of them withdrew from the best effective range of the Bofors 37 anti-tank guns, and no matter how fierce the battle in front was, they only provided fire cover on the periphery.
Moreover, according to the different angles of fire, the ** type tank, which has a higher elevation angle but a relatively thin skin, is used as the main force of covering shooting to deal with the fire points on the high ground, while the Type 97 tank is used to carry out accurate fire strikes at the foot of the mountain and in areas with relatively flat terrain because of the small elevation angle of the artillery.
These two tanks were only supported by fire at a distance of 6 or 700 meters beyond the maximum effective firing range of the 37 anti-tank guns at 500 meters on the periphery, and at this distance, even if the 37 anti-tank guns hit them, even if they had already hit, they would not be able to destroy them, and they could not even stop the itching except for the clanging of the Japanese tanks.
The two 57 mm short howitzers used as the main guns on the two tanks of the Japanese army, although the armor-piercing ability is very poor, but it is still very appropriate to provide suppressive firepower for the infantry as small-caliber howitzers, especially the 90-type main gun used on the ** tank, although there is basically no armor-piercing ability, but the long-distance shooting accuracy is extremely high.
As soon as the anti-tank guns on this side opened fire, they were able to immediately grasp the position of the artillery deployment there, and then the fire coverage immediately came, and the 37 anti-tank guns of the 1st Brigade often destroyed the Japanese light tanks and armored vehicles in front of them, and at the same time, they were also lifted into the sky by the 57-mm grenades that followed.
A large number of light and heavy machine guns of the front-line troops were lost under the fire of these two tanks equipped with 57-mm short howitzers, and the 22 37 anti-tank guns deployed on the front line by the anti-tank artillery batteries of the regiments, which were the key firepower strikes, achieved considerable results, but the losses were even heavier.
By 4 p.m., five of the 22 37 anti-tank guns of the 1st Brigade had been left in front, and all the rest had been lost, and only nine of the 34 heavy machine guns on the front-line positions remained, and most of them were destroyed by these 24 medium tanks equipped with 57-mm short-barreled howitzers, except for a small number that were destroyed by the Japanese 37 flat-fire guns.
I saw from the telescope that another Sanqi anti-tank gun was destroyed, but I was helpless, I was really a little angry, and Mu Changqiu, who was holding his breath and angry, smashed his fist on the wall of the command headquarters, and said angrily to the political commissar and a few staff officers around him: "He *** little devil is too cunning, he specializes in *** wandering outside our effective firing range, just don't come in, in this fight, Lao Tzu's anti-tank guns and heavy machine guns are about to be lost, if there is no heavy machine gun, according to the combat effectiveness of today's little devil, If we are really squeezed out, then our face will really be lost! ”
"This *** is the little devil's plane is too rampant, and our artillery can't use it, otherwise Lao Tzu will have to transfer the field artillery battalion to shoot flat, even if he can't destroy them, it will also shock the bastards in the little devil's car to death!"
"Damn, I don't believe in the flat fire of field artillery with a range of more than 10,000 meters, and I can't overturn your gang of turtle sons, fuck, you sons of bitches raised you, so you bullied Lao Tzu for not having a plane."
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