Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1027 The Encirclement

The devils had reason to "panic". They never thought that the Eighth Route Army would attack their encirclement from the rear.

This is also one of the characteristics of mechanized army operations.

If it is an ordinary army, because its breakthrough speed and marching speed are not fast...

The two actually affect each other:
If the breakthrough speed is not fast, more and more reinforcements from the enemy will arrive, which will make the breakthrough more and more difficult, which in turn will affect the marching speed.

If the marching speed is not fast, the enemy's rear will have more time to prepare, which will affect the speed of the troops' penetration of the enemy's depth.

In the end, the mutual influence of the two will enter a vicious circle and easily make the interspersed troops fall into a quagmire.

The mechanized troops, because of their strong firepower, sufficient ammunition and fast speed, avoid these shortcomings and enter a virtuous circle: strong firepower can quickly break through the enemy's defense line, save time and increase the marching speed, and the fast marching speed in turn makes the enemy have no reaction time. , so it will reduce the difficulty for the troops to continue to break through in depth, and even seize a lot of materials and ammunition to supplement the troops.

For example, at this time, it was impossible for Hong Chengjun's fourth battalion to appear behind Hatta Shibu without Hatta Shibu noticing it. At least the troops attacked by the devils would report the information to Hatta Shibu.

But the mechanized troops did just that, and Hong Chengjun's fast penetration made it too late for the devil's intelligence agency to respond... Part of the reason for the slow response of the devil's intelligence agency was that it was difficult to find out when it was dark, and another Part of the reason is that the little ones deployed in the hinterland were puppet troops, whose reaction speed was already fast, and a small number of them surrendered, and those who survived unintentionally exaggerated the Fourth Route Army in order to shirk responsibility. Distinguish which is true and which is false.

As a result, an extremely rare scene in the history of the Anti-Japanese War occurred: the troops of the Fourth Route Army knocked down the devils who were ambushing in the opposite direction from the front.

The battle commanded by Hong Chengjun went even more smoothly than the battle of the first battalion.

The reason is that the Seventh Battalion hit the devils from the front, and the devils' defense was facing north, and the firepower of heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles was directed at the back, and the front was full of strong shoulders.

However, Hong Chengjun's Seventh Battalion drove tanks and half-track vehicles at the back, and a large number of backpacks were placed in front for mobile operations.

If the other end is stuck, the devil will be in chaos immediately.

Although the poorly trained devils organized a counterattack in a second...the decision to counterattack was correct at that time, because the devils formed an anti-fan-shaped formation with their guns facing north. It is basically capable of responding to the battle and even deploying its troops. Only by launching a counterattack can it be possible to buy some preparation time for other troops.

Therefore, the devils immediately gave up their shoulders and launched a retreat towards the mechanized units of the Fourth Route Army with pure infantry.

However, how can the retreat of pure infantry withstand the impact of mechanized troops?
Although Hong Chengjun is very familiar with the situation behind his eyes, I also know that this is the time to be firm, no matter whether there are wolves or tigers behind, he should retreat and take a look, otherwise he will miss the opportunity.

Therefore, when the enemy launched a counterattack, Pan Lingling never gave the order firmly: "Retreat, beat the devil back!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

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Thus, the Fourth Route Army launched a retreat towards the devils amidst the roar of tanks and half-track car motors.

Under the plain, the two troops flocked towards each other like a tide.

But the devil's army is worthy of the name...

The mechanized units of the Fourth Route Army kept shooting in the direction of the enemy while retreating.

Mortars, anti-personnel bazookas, machine guns, and even directional mines.

The use of directional mines to fight is a characteristic of the Seventh Battalion, which is what Hong Chengjun found out in training.

Pan Lingling was the tactic that Pan Lingling thought of when he was working with Bu Tan.

Wang Xuexin said during the training: "One of the key points of infantry-tank coordination is that infantry can allow enemy infantry to approach your tank. Once close to your tank, the tank is basically in a position to fight back forcefully due to its few blind spots of firepower and difficulty in accidentally injuring it. The state can only wait for death. Pay special attention to that when fighting in the white night!"

Hong Chengjun can understand what Wang Xuexin said, but after thinking about it, I also feel that it is a taste.

That sounds difficult to implement in actual combat, but it is very effective.

What if the devil infantry pretended to be dead?
What if hiding outside the pit or on the dead body?

We just have to wait for the tanks or half-track vehicles of the Fourth Route Army to drive down and ignite the fuse!
Hong Chengjun believed that the devils would do that at all. We had played so many times off the battlefield, and sometimes even rushed back to the trenches of the Fourth Route Army with explosives.

If we fight like that, does it mean that the most worrying thing for the mechanized troops is the devil's shoulders, the devil's armored vehicles, the devil's tanks, or the devil's infantry?
To solve that problem, is it necessary to let the mechanized troops come up quickly, and let the infantry check whether the enemy is dead one by one? !
Finally, Hong Chengjun came up with a solution: directional mine.

Anyway, our troops are all under halftracks, right?Half-track vehicles have no armor on the rear, front, right, left, and left. Even if the rear tires blow out, it will have little impact on combat... Half-track vehicles mainly rely on track drives. If the tires blow out, they can still fight, but the speed is faster.

Why did you hit my mother with steel balls?
So Hong Chengjun used directional mines in the training.

That tactic is mostly for mass shooting enemy infantry before they get too close to your tanks and halftracks, and that's where it comes in handy.

I saw that the soldiers of the Seventh Battalion were shooting the devils with machine guns and mortars, and at the same time they kept throwing directional mines towards the rear.

Once the directional mine explodes in the rear, it immediately jumps up thousands of steel balls to give a differentiated "baptism" to the living and dead around.

The devil's infantry could almost even do ineffective "blocking" in such a retreat. When Hong Chengjun rushed to the hinterland of the devil's defense line, he found that the devil's tanks and armored vehicles were making a difficult U-turn.

At this moment, Hong Chengjun understood that he had rushed back from the devil's ambush circle from the front by mistake.

How could this Hong Chengjun be polite to the devils, and immediately issued an order: "No one! Keep fighting back, and whoever hits the end is allowed to stop!"

Hong Chengjun knew that if he broke through the enemy's ambush from the other side, it meant that there were no enemies in other directions.

At this time, most of the enemies in other directions have already sent reinforcements there.

With the usual fighting method of devils, less than half of our reinforcements are outflanked by two wings.

In other words, once the mechanized troops stop, it will be very difficult to fall into the encirclement of devils.

(End of this chapter)