It's just that there are other types of tanks that can replace this American-made light tank, which has caused a lot of chaos. But there was no other tank at hand to replace it, especially the Kwantung Army, which had no armor and firepower, and was comparable to this American-made light tank. But he knew the reason for this chaotic situation, but he could only bite the bullet and continue to leave this tank on the battlefield.

Although the M-3 light tank was armed with a 37mm gun, the armor-piercing ability of the M-3 light tank was only comparable to that of the Matilda II and the Crusader tank. It was the weakest of the 50mm guns on German tanks and the 45mm guns on Soviet-made tanks, and it was far less powerful than the 76mm guns of the T34 tanks.

However, the power of this type of gun is the best armor-piercing performance among all the tank guns currently equipped by the Japanese army. Even the 57-mm guns equipped with Type 97 tanks, as well as the latest 97-mm modified tanks equipped by the Japanese army, are equipped with 47-mm rapid-fire guns, which are slightly inferior in armor-piercing performance.

Most of the tanks lost by the Anti-Union in this battle were destroyed by such tanks that were also equipped with them. Only a dozen or so were destroyed by the Japanese 97 modified tanks, while the 97 tanks only destroyed five Czech-made 38T tanks and two No. 3 tanks.

Moreover, most of the tanks lost by the Anti-United Nations were lost in the melee at the beginning of the battle. Because of the lack of effective means of identifying friend or foe, the Japanese army also regarded this tank as its own friendly army. After being approached by the Japanese tank, it was destroyed within 300 meters with a 37-mm gun.

Of course, this type of tank of the Anti-Japanese Federation also caused serious losses to the Japanese Type 95 tanks and Type 97 tanks in the melee stage. In addition to this American-made tank, most of the 97 modified tanks, which were the most threatening against the United Nations and were the key targets, were destroyed on the first day. The confusion in identification is not only the anti-union family.

The tanks of this era did not have friend or foe identifiers, and the identification of enemy tanks by both sides completely depended on the difference in the appearance of the tanks themselves. As for the difference in liveries, in a chaotic battlefield, who has time to distinguish whether the paint on the tank with the same equipment as their own is their own man or the enemy.

When two sides on the battlefield are equipped with the same tank, the consequences are nothing less than a disaster for both sides. Especially after this tank was captured by the Japanese army, it was put into the battlefield without even having time to change the paint on the body, and the body still maintained the original American standard paint.

And because of the urgent needs of the battlefield, after these American-made tanks were in place, they did not take time to change the livery. The paint on the body of both is the most basic American paint. The markings of the respective units, in order to avoid exposing the target, were painted very small, which undoubtedly exacerbated the confusion. And this disaster did not end until the Anti-Japanese Federation withdrew its own tank of this type from the battlefield.

The Anti-Japanese Federation could selectively evacuate its tanks of the same model, but the Japanese army withdrew these dozens of tanks because the number of tanks was insufficient, and the tank strength participating in the war was at an absolute disadvantage. As well as in the case of an absolute disadvantage in the performance of tank guns. Although he knew that his opponent was also equipped with tanks of the same model, he could only leave these tanks equipped with the most powerful 37 tank guns among all his tanks on the battlefield.

In order to make it easier to identify friend and foe, after the first day of melee, he used his own tanks to fish in troubled waters and destroyed many anti-United Nations tanks. But it was also destroyed by the anti-union tanks that also fished in troubled waters and destroyed many of their own tanks. Knowing that this situation killed a thousand enemies, and his own battle losses were also 1,000, the Kwantung Army changed when he knew his mistakes.

When it was too late to change the livery, Lieutenant General Hoshino Toshimoto, who was in charge of commanding these armored units on the front line, simply made a decision that surprised everyone. On a battlefield littered with shrapnel, all units equipped with the M-3 light tank had to be exposed to the turret.

The Japanese army's standard tank corps uniform on the tank commander is used as a mark to identify friend and foe of the same type of tank equipped by the two armies on the battlefield. Although he knew what kind of result his decision would bring to these tank commanders, Hoshino Toshimoto felt that he had no choice.

The tank uniforms of the Anti-Japanese Federation are all Soviet-style black jacket-style uniforms, and the tank caps worn are also made of sponge in the Soviet army's standard. It corresponds sharply to the Japanese army's khaki uniform, which wears a leather tank cap. In the absence of a means to distinguish friend from foe, the difference between the color and standard of the tank soldier's uniform became the best means for the Japanese army to distinguish friend from foe.

At this time, it was not known that after the end of the first day of fighting, because of the difficulty in distinguishing friend and foe, the Anti-Japanese Federation would be equipped with tanks of the same model and all evacuated from the front-line battlefield. Lieutenant General Toshimoto Hoshino, the front-line field commander of the Kwantung Army, who was assigned to infantry and attacked the Japanese infantry position, was also a reluctant decision. There is no way, this tactic of fishing in troubled waters has allowed the Japanese army to take a lot of advantage and suffer more losses.

After the end of the first day of fighting, a group of Japanese tanks followed the retreating Japanese tank group in a daze, and the anti-union tanks that withdrew to the Japanese positions found that they had run in the wrong place. The commander who led the team was able to calm down and take advantage of the opportunity of the Japanese armored troops to evacuate the tank and go to dinner.

Suddenly started his tank, reversed at high speed and drove back to his position, and at the same time, with accurate tank fire, using the extremely high rate of fire of this Sanqi tank gun, within a distance that almost did not need to be aimed, he continuously destroyed seven Japanese tanks like a target. Then he broke away from the Japanese line at maximum speed and quickly withdrew to his position.

This loss was unforgettable for Hoshino Toshimoto and his subordinates. There are a large number of tanks in the anti-union, and you can not care about this loss. But the Kwantung Army, which had put together more than 300 tanks with all its might, could definitely not afford too many losses. The change in the shape of shì forced Lieutenant General Hoshino Toshimoto to treat his subordinates as living targets, serving as this identification mark of friend or foe.

One such loss is enough to make yourself unforgettable. If it comes once, or even a few times, then these tanks made up by the Kwantung Army will not be enough to become the trophies of the enemy's sneak attack. However, this hand made by this anti-union tank made Hoshino Toshimoto feel distressed, but also came up with a solution for him.

He decided that in the next day's battle, he also learned the same way. Destroy as many tanks as possible to create more results for your own armored forces. Anyway, in the chaos, who can tell for the first time whether this tank is his own or the enemy's.

When it was discovered the next day that the tank of the Anti-Union did not fight, not only the Japanese commanders of these M3 light tanks became the ones with the most casualties. Compared to the crew members who have a chance of surviving other tanks after they are destroyed. These brave commanders, who exposed their bodies outside the turret as a mark to distinguish friend from foe, were almost 100 percent killed in battle.

Hoshino Toshimoto's plan to fish in troubled waters was also shattered because the Anti-Japanese Federation transferred all the M-3 light tanks on the battlefield in the first night. Not only did his plan not materialize, but in the more intense tank battle the next day, almost all of his participating units were wiped out.

Although Hoshino Toshimoto, as the tank commander of the Kwantung Army, and all his subordinates, had done their best on the battlefield. However, among all the tank guns equipped by the Japanese army, the 37-mm tank gun, which has the strongest armor-piercing ability, is still powerless to deal with the heavy armor of the Matilda II tank newly invested by the Anti-Japanese Union.

In terms of range and power, this tank gun was inferior to the 50mm gun equipped with the German-made No. 3 tank. When the tank battle ended the next day, Hoshino Toshimoto, who tried to defeat his opponent in front of him, threw in dozens of M3 light tanks and more than 100 Type 97 and 95 tanks in one go.

During the whole day of tank fighting, all the remaining 200 tanks were destroyed, except for the first day's damage. Together with the three motorized infantry wings that participated in the battle, the two field artillery wings were also wiped out. In just two days of tank fighting, the Kwantung Army and the Japanese base camp did their best to put together more than 300 tanks, plus the attached motorized infantry wing, all of which were wiped out. The sharpest part of the Kwantung Army's counterattack on the Shinkyo battlefield was completely smashed.

However, although the Anti-United relied on the excellent armor-piercing ability of the 50mm guns of the German-made No. 3 tank, the Matilda II tank almost seemed to be a perverted defensive ability, and completely defeated the five tank wings invested by the Japanese on the battlefield. However, the elite training of Japanese tank crews still surpassed that of the anti-United Nations armored forces.

Despite these Japanese armored units, the reception of American-made tanks did not last long. However, the shooting accuracy of the Japanese tankers and the reaction speed on the battlefield surpassed the tank units of the Anti-United Nations. In this battle, the Japanese army lost in tactics and equipment, not in the tank units themselves.

After this battle, the Japanese army completely stopped the production of Type 95 light tanks and the so-called Type 97 medium tanks. It will go all out to produce medium tanks of the 97 modification, and speed up the development of new tanks. And by all means, the technology for the production of fifty-mm anti-tank guns and tank guns was obtained from the Germans.

The Anti-Japanese Federation went all out into training, focusing on the accuracy of shooting on the battlefield and the battlefield command and reaction ability of the front-line armored commanders. And according to the performance of their own equipment, a lot of research on new tactics. After this battle, the tank units of the Anti-United Nations really embarked on the track of rapid development.

And it was not only the Kwantung Army and the Anti-Japanese Union that learned a lesson from this war, but also another cold-eyed bystander, the Americans, who also gained a lot of experience and lessons. After receiving a report from Pearson that the M III light tank was not at all a match for the German tanks III and IV.

The U.S. military, which reacted extremely quickly, immediately removed all of these tanks from the front-line troops that were scheduled to be put into operations in North Africa and converted them into M 3 medium tanks and the latest M 4 tanks. The M-3 light tank was no longer used as the main battle equipment, but was converted to reconnaissance use. And on the basis of the M-3 light tank, the development of new light tanks will be accelerated.

However, because both the enemy and the enemy were equipped with the same type of tanks, there was considerable confusion on the battlefield, and there were many losses that could have been avoided. But this is arguably the largest tank battle on the Chinese battlefield so far. With the absolute superiority of its own tanks in performance, the Anti-Union Federation was destroyed and more than 100 tanks were damaged.

More than 300 tanks and more than 200 trucks of the five tank wings invested by the Japanese army were all destroyed. and completely annihilated three motorized infantry wings of the Japanese army, and finally achieved an almost one-sided victory. The battlefield was littered with the wreckage of destroyed tanks on both sides, as well as the corpses of fallen Japanese soldiers.