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

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As a result, Yoshio Shinozuka decisively decided to abandon most of his subordinates and escape with only the remaining tanks. This also meant that he would become the first general in Japan to abandon his troops and escape since the Meiji Restoration.

If he can escape the pursuit of the Red Army, he will still have to go to a military court when he returns to Japan. However, if Yoshio Shinozuka dies here with a full harvest, he will be even more unwilling. Even if he knows that doing so may harm his family, he will not care.

So many...

However, even though Japanese tanks have excellent off-road performance, they are also pursued by Japanese tanks and armored vehicles. The greatest threat is not the two tanks, but the 32 Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles of the Red Eighth Army Armored Brigade, which were originally positioned as infantry killers.

This kind of armored vehicle is equipped with a 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun. Not to mention the thinly armored Type 95 light tank, even the Type 89 medium tank is unable to withstand the attack because its relatively weak armored back is exposed during the escape process.

, at the same time, due to the rate of fire and higher accuracy, the hit rate of this machine gun is much greater than that of the 37mm main guns of the two tanks, and the machine gun can still fire accurately while traveling. Not to mention the excellent machine gunners in the Eighth Red Army.

Much more than artillery. In addition, compared with tanks, the Type 92 cavalry armored vehicle is also more flexible. Its originally extremely weak armor protection (only 6mm thick, can be penetrated by 79 steel core bullets within 200 meters).

) is a huge weakness, but this is not a problem at all when chasing, so it naturally became the main force in hunting down Japanese tanks. Among them, the tank with the best record even achieved a record of destroying 5 tanks.

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In addition to the tanks damaged or paralyzed by the Red Army, there were also quite a few tanks that malfunctioned and broke down due to operating errors by panicked Japanese soldiers. In the end, among the more than 200 tanks under Yoshio Shinozuka, he was the only one who successfully broke through the encirclement with him.

There were less than thirty tanks, and if they had not encountered the leading troops of the 12th Division on the road, they would have had to walk back to Manchuria because the tanks ran out of fuel...

Seeing that their brigade commander actually abandoned everyone and fled for their lives, the tank troops that everyone had always regarded as their psychological support were beaten to a pulp. The morale of the remaining Japanese independent mixed 1st brigade quickly dropped to the bottom. Besides, the Red Fifteenth Five-Year Plan

The army had ten times the strength of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, and with the advantage of aircraft and artillery fire, the remnants of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade, which had lost its tank troops, were no match in the first place, and it only took less than 2 hours.

, the Red Fifteenth Army eliminated the remnants of the enemy, and captured a total of 8,941 Japanese soldiers, including 5,487 prisoners of war, setting a new record for the Red Army and even China. It is worth mentioning that perhaps because the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade is a mechanized force

Because of the Japanese occupation, more than one-third of the Japanese prisoners of war were in technical arms, and many of them were former skilled craftsmen. Hu Weidong was overjoyed when he learned about this.

Although the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade is only a brigade, it is the only fully mechanized force of the Japanese army. Before the war, it was specially strengthened with special formations such as tank regiments. The weapons and equipment are naturally quite good, so this unit was eliminated.

Later, the 15th Red Army also obtained satisfactory captures. Although it was still a level lower than what was obtained from Fengtai Warehouse, there were also some surprising highlights...

The first is the air defense force of the brigade. Not only did it basically fail to play a role in this battle, but most of the anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns after the war were captured by the 15th Red Army. Hu Weidong, who was worried about the reconstruction of the air defense force, was overjoyed. As for the capture

There are twenty or thirty artillery pieces of various types (not counting tank guns and anti-aircraft guns). Now that there are many heavy artillery pieces, Hu Weidong no longer has the original surprise. On the contrary, more than 500 intact cars are more valuable, and there are another hundred

Many cars with minor damage are expected to be repaired, and even those with serious damage can usually be disassembled to some extent and have some spare parts as spare parts...

But the biggest gain is the no less than 200 Japanese tanks. Although only a few were received intact, there were also not many that were completely destroyed. Twenty or thirty of them were due to mechanical failures caused by improper operation and other reasons.

, as long as the cause is found, most of them are not difficult to solve. There are another sixty or seventy vehicles that are paralyzed with all their crew members dead. The body of the vehicle is still basically intact. Even if the appearance is riddled with holes, there is no difficulty in repairing it. And the fifty or sixty vehicles

Although it is more difficult to repair a vehicle whose tracks were blown off, most of them can be repaired as long as there is enough time. As for those tanks that were directly destroyed by grenades and artillery shells, like cars in similar situations, they can at least be repaired.

Waste recycling?

After obtaining these tanks, the total number of tanks and armored vehicles owned by the Eighth Red Army Armored Brigade exceeded 200, and it finally became a real armored force. The "armored vehicles" that were used to make up for the numbers can finally be dismantled.

Get rid of cumbersome steel plates and return them to positions more suitable for them...

However, the 15th Red Army also paid a high price for this victory. The entire army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, including 4,000 to 5,000 permanent casualties. The two main regiments that bore the brunt were severely damaged. Among them, the original

The 29th Regiment of more than 2,000 people now has less than 300 people left, and most of the victims are elite soldiers and veterans...

The strength of the 15th Red Army was ten times greater than that of the enemy, and the equipment was already quite good, but they paid such a price to eliminate this mere independent mixed brigade with less than 10,000 people. No matter how you look at it, it is a victory but a defeat. But from the positive side

It seems that the Red Fifteenth Army was caught off guard by a surprise attack by the Japanese armored group, but was not overwhelmed by the enemy, and successfully turned the tide of the battle and turned defeat into victory. This is undoubtedly very commendable. After this battle, the Red Fifteenth Army

The army will definitely have more confidence in anti-tank operations. Combined with various classic infantry anti-tank tactics that Hu Weidong has no chance to use this time, even if Japan wants to use pure infantry to deal with a larger armored cluster than this time, Hu Weidong

I also have confidence.

Of course, there is a premise for this, which must be prepared, because on the open plains, if there is no fortification cover, even if you adopt a "get out of the way" strategy like this time, the losses will definitely be considerable, and tanks

Armored vehicles are very fast. If there is not enough warning time, there will be no time to dig trenches.

Hu Weidong also realized that his original reconnaissance tactics had hidden dangers when facing large-scale armored forces. For this reason, Hu Weidong decided that after leading his army into the plains, he must mobilize the air force to conduct large-scale reconnaissance. Although the armored forces

The advancement speed is extremely fast, but it is much more difficult to hide than infantry. Even high-altitude reconnaissance, which is safe but has relatively poor resolution, is enough to ensure that large-scale armored units cannot hide. As for small units, it is still difficult to deal with them.

Is it necessary to dig trenches? It was from this point on that Hu Weidong paid more and more attention to the role of aerial reconnaissance, which was of great help to subsequent large-scale army operations... (To be continued. If you like this

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