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

Next, due to Hu Weidong's order, the various units of the 15th Red Army gave up frontal interception, which made the Japanese armored group feel like they were in an uninhabited land. After forcibly breaking through the second line of defense, it only took less than 5 minutes to defeat them.

Having broken through the third "line of defense" again, Major General Yoshio Shinozuka, commander of the 1st independent mixed brigade of the Japanese army, couldn't help but be so excited that his expression looked a little distorted. This was certainly because of the good results.

It was even more because at first he was just worried about the Red Army escaping and was anxious, but now he finally realized the true value of the armored force in practice. Thinking that he would make a sensation in the country and even the whole world with it, Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't help but feel excited, and

The Red Army's "get out of the way" tactical change was also seen by him as a precursor to collapse, and he became increasingly bold because of it. He even got into a Type 89 B tank and followed his tank troops forward without paying attention.

The number of tanks and armored vehicles is decreasing, and the enemy's casualties have dropped significantly compared with before. Since the fourth line of defense, the commanders and fighters of the 15th Red Army have had time to urgently dig out some hiding holes, which not only further reduced casualties

, and therefore can attack the Japanese tanks more unexpectedly.

Their own casualties were reduced, and they could effectively kill the enemy. The commanders and fighters of the 15th Red Army who were a little panicked when they were attacked by a Japanese tank group quickly regained their confidence, and their minds became more flexible. In addition to Hu Weidong's instructions,

Everyone also began to actively exert their subjective initiative, making combat effectiveness higher and higher. The sharpshooters of each regiment stared at the periscope of the Japanese tank and fired. Although it was not easy to hit, as long as they hit, the Japanese tank soldiers in the car who could not see anything would

They had to open the cover and get out to see the direction clearly, and they died one by one under the sniper fire of the sharpshooters. Even though the ordinary soldiers could not hit the tank because of the insufficient distance, they all realized that the Japanese car convoy behind them was

It had no armor protection and found a better target to attack. The casualties of the Japanese army began to increase rapidly...

When Major General Yoshio Shinozuka personally led two tank regiments to reach the sixth line of defense of the 15th Red Army (Note 1) within 30 minutes, a Type 89 medium-sized vehicle broke down due to a sudden mechanical failure.

Tanks, the Japanese army has lost 12 tanks, 8 tanks due to too many crew casualties (killed by steel core bullets inside the vehicle or outside the vehicle by sharpshooters), 2 tanks fell behind due to mechanical failures, and the entire brigade

The regiment's casualties exceeded three hundred.

"Your Excellency, General, can you stop first? There are two tanks that need repairs, and there are more than a dozen tanks that need to be supplemented with crews, and nearly ten of them have fallen behind...", a tank regiment said

The captain asked Yoshio Shinozuka for instructions.

However, Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and said, "No need. Now we have to pursue the victory and defeat the Chinese army in one breath. We cannot stop and give the enemy a chance to build a position. As long as this battle is won, those tanks will be

You can rejoin the team."

"Hi!". The commander of the regiment bowed and immediately ran back to his command vehicle. The Japanese armored group, which had stopped for a while, roared forward again. But the Japanese encountered new trouble this time.

It turned out that some Red Army soldiers improvised improvised anti-tank mines using artillery shells on the sixth line of defense (the principle is similar to that of nail mines, except that the bullets were replaced by artillery shells.). Although there were no armor-piercing shells available for a while, even though they were mainly used

Anti-personnel grenades against unprotected infantry cannot effectively destroy the tank body, and are enough to blow up the fragile Japanese tanks (the track design of Japanese tanks in World War II was very problematic, with high cost and poor reliability. The problem was especially obvious for medium-sized tanks with large load-bearing capacity.

.There are even "failures" in which the tracks of the tank come loose while the tank is driving...). But this made Yoshio Shinozuka even more determined to order his men to move forward at full speed. He believed that

There are still few landmines deployed by the enemy now. If there is too much delay, more mines will definitely appear in front...

Maybe Shinozuka Yoshio's idea was right, but when he led his army to break through the seventh line of defense, he saw an anti-tank trench that should have been just completed...

Due to time constraints, the depth of this anti-tank trench was only two or three meters, and even the Japanese's small tanks could not stop it. However, its structure was designed by Hu Weidong based on the Golan trench that became famous in World War I. All the excavated soil was

Stacked on its side, when the Japanese tank rushed through the anti-tank ditch, its weak armored bottom naturally lifted up, exposing 18 grenade launchers, 6 combat anti-tank guns and more than 1,000 tanks of the 12th Regiment of the Advancing Division.

In front of a rifle machine gun loaded with steel core bullets...

Although the Japanese tank group finally broke through the eighth line of defense of the 15th Red Army, in less than ten minutes the Japanese army paid a huge price that exceeded the combined losses of the previous seven lines of defense. So far, the Japanese army has accumulated

More than 40 tanks were lost (including those tanks whose bodies were basically intact but could not be driven due to various reasons). The total casualties of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade also exceeded the one thousand mark. On the other hand, the 15th Red Army's

However, because the commanders and fighters had a position to rely on, their casualties were greatly reduced compared to before. If they had not been ordered by their superiors not to block it, the Japanese tank group might not have been able to rush through.

But Yoshio Shinozuka, who was immersed in fanaticism, did not see this. Although he admired the unique design of the anti-tank trench, he regarded the Red Army soldiers' approach of avoiding its edge as a sign of cowardice, and even more so.

Due to the sudden increase in enemy firepower, he believed that the enemy headquarters was in front, and urged his subordinates to accelerate the advance. However, his tank group suffered heavy losses in the process of breaking through the next line of defense of the increasingly well-prepared 15th Red Army.

After suffering greater losses, Yoshio Shinozuka was shocked to find that he had only more than 150 tanks left. His fevered mind finally regained his composure, and unconsciously recalled the previous battles, and obtained

He came to a conclusion that he did not want to believe, "It turns out that the enemy deliberately did not confront the imperial army head-on..."

Note 1: The 15th Red Army, plus the troops directly under the legion headquarters, had no less than forty regiments, including more than thirty infantry regiments. In this battle, the Japanese came from behind during the march, and the whole army was in a straight line.

In the shape of a snake, in a state of emergency, regiment-level units naturally fought independently, forming dozens of simple defense lines. As long as the Red Army's own morale did not collapse, the Japanese army had to force its way through, with only five lines of defense,

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