Rebirth of the Military Industry Power of the Anti-Japanese War

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The reason why it takes so much trouble is actually that the Japanese military is aware of the terrifying power of the 15th Red Army, and wants to continue to maintain the Japanese psychological advantage of "one brigade can defeat a Chinese division." In addition, it tries to control the scale of the war to avoid premature

An all-out war with China is also an important motive. Otherwise, directly mobilizing superior forces to strangle the 15th Red Army would be much more convenient than the current approach. However, the Japanese army dispatched two divisions and one brigade at the same time without establishing a military-level organization for unification.

The conductor also has the same consideration...

Originally, the Japanese planned to use the 12th Division as the main attack (why not be equipped with so much firepower), and the 4th Division to assist, and after defeating the main force of the 15th Red Army, they would use a highly mobile, fully mechanized force - the independent mixed 1st Brigade.

The regiment pursued and covered up the enemy, thus annihilating the Red Army at the minimum cost. On the open and flat North China Plain, no matter how powerful the Red Army's iron legs were, it would definitely not be able to outrun the wheels of cars and tracks of tanks...

However, the 15th Red Army returned south immediately after destroying Chengde Airport. This was obviously beyond the expectations of the Japanese military. Even Kanji Ishihara, a rare strategist among the Japanese army, did not expect that the Red Army would go so resolutely.

and quickly, all the plans of the Japanese army were disrupted. In order to prevent the 15th Red Army from escaping, the Japanese military headquarters had to temporarily change the battle plan. On the one hand, it brazenly sent troops to capture Shanhaiguan so that the Kwantung Army could enter the customs as soon as possible (

This move will naturally stimulate the 29th Army. However, in order to preserve their strength, Song Zheyuan strictly ordered Zhang Zizhong and other subordinates not to attack without permission unless the Japanese army attacked Pingjin. The Japanese army, who understood Song Zheyuan's bottom line, would not give Zhang Zizhong a chance to take action as the enemy was still alive.

.....), on the other hand, let the most mobile independent mixed 1st Brigade go first and catch up with the Red Army as quickly as possible. If the Red Army chooses not to entangle with them, it will inevitably be chased by the mechanized troops.

If the losses are heavy, then even if the Japanese army cannot completely wipe out the enemy, it can at least get a big victory to save face. And if the Red Army chooses to counterattack, then the independent mixed 1st brigade only needs to hold on for a few days and wait for the two permanent divisions.

Once they arrive, they can attack from inside and outside and defeat the Red Army in one fell swoop, achieving a greater victory.

Out of fear of the attack power of the 15th Red Army, as a precaution, the Japanese military also temporarily transferred the tank regiment of the 12th Division (Note 1) and the Kwantung Army Motor Vehicle Group (a total of more than 1,500

(people, six to seven hundred vehicles.) were all assigned to the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, and its original field artillery brigade was strengthened into a regiment, making the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade a total force of nearly 10,000 people.

The firepower is even superior to the powerful mechanized troops of some permanent divisions, and inadvertently gave the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade the ability to conduct armored group assaults...

In the plains, the speed advantage of the mechanized troops came into full play. Less than a week after setting off from Gongzhuling, the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade caught up with the main force of the 15th Red Army that had just left Fengtai for the second time a day ago. Because

They arrived too quickly. Although the comrades lurking in Tianjin and persisting in their work had promptly sent an alarm to the headquarters of the Eighth Red Army, the Red Army's Fifteenth Army was still caught off guard by the Japanese. It must be noted that Hu Weidong did not actually relax his vigilance, but

He never expected that the Japanese would send so many tanks all at once (the 1st independent mixed brigade in 1936 was originally equipped with a tank unit, and the Japanese military headquarters used the highest standards to combine these two tank units.

With full establishment, there are a total of 240 tanks.), the 20-mile warning distance is enough to defend against infantry, even cavalry and motorized infantry, because the cavalry itself is fragile and lacks firepower, and the motorized infantry will eventually have to attack when attacking.

For vehicles, a distance of 20 miles is enough for the 15th Red Army to respond properly, but for tank clusters it is completely different. Advancement and combat can be completed at the same time, and a distance of 20 miles only takes half an hour...

Because there was no time to build field fortifications, the 29th Regiment of the Independent Division of the 15th Red Army in charge of the rear was attacked by enemy tanks and rear artillery from the beginning and suffered heavy losses. A total of 54 grenade launchers they were equipped with did not wait for the enemy tanks.

After entering the effective range, one-third was lost. The 6 anti-tank guns that had no time to build a cover position were all destroyed early because the Japanese understood the threat from the beginning. Although the remaining rifle grenade shooters of the 29th regiment succeeded after the Japanese tanks approached.

Three tanks were destroyed, but they also attracted the attention of the Japanese and were attacked by concentrated fire. They were all sacrificed soon.

Without anti-tank weapons, the 29th Regiment, which concentrated its forces on blocking the Japanese tanks from the front, was under great pressure. Faced with the relatively thick main armor of the Japanese tanks, even if the rifle machine gun used steel-core bullets, there was nothing they could do. The commanders and fighters of the 29th Regiment

They had to fire the blasting cannon and rush towards the Japanese tanks. Although they succeeded in blowing up two tanks, they still failed to stop the enemy. It only took about 10 minutes for the more than 200 Japanese tanks to completely break through the temporary set-up of the 29th Regiment.

On the defense line, if it weren't for the thousands of mechanized (motorized) infantry who followed behind for fear of being killed by the tank horde and did not get out of their vehicles to deal damage, the 29th Regiment, the main force group that could rank among the top ten in the entire Eighth Red Army, would have been afraid

The entire army is about to be annihilated...

At this time, Hu Weidong felt helpless for the first time. He was pacing back and forth with a livid face, but he never imagined that he could immediately block the hundreds of Japanese vehicles (the commanders and soldiers of the 29th Regiment had no time to count them, and the battle situation was too tragic. Naturally,

Overestimating the number of enemy troops.) Tank method.

In fact, as early as when he raised his troops in Jiangnan, Hu Weidong considered the threat of Japanese tanks and armored vehicles during the Anti-Japanese War, and developed hollow-charge shaped armor-piercing grenades early. Now they have been equipped to the platoon level, and various anti-tank tactics are more advanced.

It is one of the compulsory courses for grassroots commanders. However, since the Japanese army has never used tanks and armored vehicles intensively in history, Hu Weidong mainly focused on the infantry-tank coordination tactics of the Japanese army using tanks and armored vehicles to cover infantry attacks. Although he has also used armored group assault tactics

He had talked about it, but it was used to guide the armored brigade's attack. As for the tactics of defending against armored group assaults, Hu Weidong had never talked about it at all. And even if he had talked about it, it was useless. Although the 15th Red Army was not weak now, it was not weak.

There is no hardware condition to withstand an armored group assault...

Note 1: In addition, the 12th Division is also equipped with a dedicated flying wing, but it was not used in this battle because there was no suitable airport. It is said that the weapons and equipment of the 12th Division in 1936 and 37 were in 17 permanent locations of the Japanese army.

It is indeed unparalleled among the divisions (but after 1938, a large number of heavy equipment was withdrawn, and its strength has plummeted since then.), but historically, the division was responsible for guarding Manchuria in the early stage, and was transferred to Taiwan to guard in the later stage, and did not participate in any major battles. Therefore,

Not famous.

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