Chapter 357: The Devil's Golan Trench
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In order to "facilitate the Japanese army's flanking attack," Hu Weidong even deliberately led his army to the north, away from Bengbu, an important transportation hub that was once in sight across the river, so as to give the Huainan Japanese army space to cross the Huai River and deploy its troops. But this time he lured the enemy a little too much, because Hu Weidong is now famous, and especially known for his treachery and boldness in the use of soldiers, so all his moves will be carefully observed by the enemy with a magnifying glass, in case he falls for his tricks again, so even if the movements of the 15th Army are completely reasonable, they may make the overly nervous enemy suspicious, not to mention that the current actions are very unreasonable?
As a result, Shunroku Hatata, who was puzzled by the abnormal movements of the 15th Army, became more and more cautious, and even strictly ordered that the spacing between the camps of each division and regiment should not exceed 3 kilometers, and the distance between the marches should not exceed 10 kilometers, and required that the troops going south or north must be before 4 p.m. every day (air supremacy does not suffer, and there is no need for the devils to use the cover of night to march, after all, night marches are prone to accidents, and the soldiers are also harder. All stopped marching and built fortifications on the spot to prevent the enemy from attacking, where is this still like the style of the arrogant Japanese army in the past, it is simply the Zeng Guofan "hardened the village and fought in a daze." "A copy of tactics
It is certainly a very honorable thing for the enemy to be so afraid of himself, but the devil is so cautious that Hu Weidong, who is bent on destroying more with less, can't help but have a headache, and he has to ask the telegraph to send a report to Ma Zhongying, the commander of the armored cavalry division, asking him what his opinion is. The armored cavalry division is the biggest trump card in Hu Weidong's hand now, and Ma Zhongying is an outstanding general who can create miracles. After receiving the telegram from Hu Weidong, Ma Zhongying's reply was very simple. "The enemy is able to deal with conventional armored swarm tactics step by step, but as long as they don't hold on to one place completely. Armored cavalry tactics will not be affected much"
Although Hu Weidong has some understanding of Ma Zhongying's armored cavalry tactics, because Ma Zhongying said too obscure and vague in many places in the report, he actually can't fully understand the subtleties of this tactic, but thinking of Ma Zhongying's legendary experience in the past and the great man's special importance to it. Hu Weidong felt that he should still believe in Taizu's wisdom of knowing people, besides, more than 300 tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled guns. Even with the usual cluster assault tactics, the power is already quite amazing.
The reason why Ma Zhongying can't explain Hu Weidong clearly is not because he can't express himself, but because his tactics are flexible and changeable, which is difficult to speak. It must be known that since ancient times, the famous generals who have been good at using cavalry are all talented people, and their skills are not so much learned as they are due to their talents, among which there are not a few people like Huo Quzhi who have made a splash when they first entered the battlefield. The same is true of armored cavalry tactics, which are derived from cavalry tactics. Strictly speaking, even among Ma Zhongying's subordinates, none of them can fully understand this unique tactic at the moment, but this is not a problem at all in Ma Zhongying's eyes, as long as they each complete their own orders. This tactic can be played naturally, just like when he used a few thousand cavalry (infantry, it is much less difficult, the cavalry has a large target and no fortifications to cover, and it is completely a live target in the face of heavy firepower. Defeat the Soviets with planes, tanks, and artillery
For the Japanese army's north-south flanking attack, Hu Weidong put forward the operation of "first the north and then the south", intending to concentrate his forces and cooperate with the armored cavalry division to eliminate the 200,000 Japanese troops going south, and then return to the division to the south to meet the northbound Japanese army crossing the Huai River, but the course of this battle was very different from Hu Weidong's estimate, but being good at adapting to the situation was originally a necessary quality of a famous general, not to mention that this unexpected surprise was still a surprise
At about 9 o'clock in the morning of one day, less than an hour after the huge contingent of Japanese troops heading south had left their new campsite, they heard a constant noise in the distance, and experienced Japanese officers and soldiers immediately shouted, "Attention! Note! The chariot of the people of China is coming! Don't panic, the anti-tank team is in place, and the rest of the people will build anti-tank trenches on the spot."
I have to admit that the Japanese are also good at learning, and after the "Golan Trench" that came out in advance because of Hu Weidong made the devil's tank and armored vehicles suffer a big loss, the Japanese army quickly learned how to dig and arrange this simple and effective anti-tank field fortification, and quickly popularized it in the army, and now it has become a sharp weapon used by the devil to deal with the armored torrent of the 15 th Group Army. ”。
However, Hu Weidong had long expected this, and the officers and men of the armored cavalry division had also received corresponding education, were familiar with the characteristics of this kind of anti-tank trench, and understood how to deal with it; no matter how exquisitely designed the "Golan trench" was, it would be just a dead thing after all, and talent was the key to determining the outcome of the war.
And at the speed of the tank, the anti-tank trenches began to be dug only after hearing the sound of the tank, at least the perimeter of the Japanese army was too late in any case, and it could not be ignored that the Japanese tanks were small and lightweight, so the noise from the tracks running over the ground was much smaller. In addition, although the fucking track design of the Japanese tank during World War II seriously affected the reliability and load-bearing weight, it unexpectedly reduced the noise, which undoubtedly made the advantage of the Japanese tank concealed and convenient more and more obvious.
Under the influence of these two factors, when the devil found that a large number of chariots were approaching, they were actually quite close. Ma Zhongying also took this into account, and it was not until the Japanese artillery roared that he ordered the seventy or eighty 75mm self-propelled guns dragged behind to suppress the enemy's shelling, although these self-propelled guns were equipped with 75mm field guns captured from the Japanese army, and even the models with the closest range could hit 10 kilometers away
Even if it is only a 75mm caliber field howitzer, the firepower of seventy or eighty guns is quite fierce, almost the same as a special division of the devil, not to mention that these artillery guns are all powerful anti-personnel grenades designed with air burst shells, and the lethality of the devil's infantry and artillery is difficult to describe in words, and the more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles that charge in front are not vegetarians, and the tank guns of various calibers and all kinds of machine guns directly plow the enemy in front of them over and over again (to be continued. )