Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 1459 Breakthrough

The first battalion delayed the progress of the "Tiger Type" at the cost of heavy casualties, but they only barely delayed, and the "Tiger Type" was still approaching the city gate step by step under the cover of the devils.

At this time, whether the "Tiger Style" can leave the city has become the key to the victory of this battle.

Because once the "Tiger" is out of the city, it can open fire on the back of the Eighth Route Army that is breaking through without any scruples, and they will immediately choose the "Sherman". The remaining tanks and armored vehicles have no chance of breaking out!
Therefore, even though the houses were knocked down one after another and the soldiers were buried in the ruins, Zhang Dabiao still yelled in a hoarse voice and directed the soldiers to enter the house to fight, even though his heart was bleeding...

This is a no-brainer. Once the devil knows that the Eighth Route Army has abandoned its defense, it will be able to advance without any scruples. At that time, it will be impossible to even delay it.

On the other side, the breakout troops led by Li Yunlong also fell into a hard fight.

The devil's troops were arranged very cleverly. Two squadrons of 95 light tanks were placed one kilometer in front of them, and a tank squadron was placed on the left and right sides.

When Li Yunlong saw the situation, he secretly thought something was wrong!
The devil's encirclement seems to have not been encircled to death, but in fact it is encircled to death again.

The Type 95 tanks on the front look vulnerable, but these are light tanks that are more mobile than the "Sherman". They can swim in front without attacking and harassing the "Sherman". In the state of being unable to fight and chasing, and at the same time, the weak side armor of the tank will be exposed to the muzzles of the devil tanks on both sides.

If you send half-track vehicles forward to break through, they will be attacked by the devils from three sides and suffer heavy casualties.

If the "Sherman" is divided into two teams to attack the main force of the devils on the left and right sides, the few remaining "Sherman" will be divided again, and the troops will also increase the difficulty of breaking out because of the wrong direction of retreat.

Li Yunlong did not hesitate, and there was no room for hesitation at this time... The battlefield is often like this, and it is much better to make the worst choice at a critical moment than to make no choice.

Li Yunlong ordered loudly: "The artillerymen set up artillery to stop the devils on the left wing, and the whole army attacks the right wing!"

"Yes!" The soldiers responded, and immediately passed on the orders one by one.

Soon the soldiers made corresponding adjustments and preparations: the troops were concentrated on the right side and the artillery was deployed on the spot. The artillery included M30 howitzers and mortars, and even the artillery detection radar was turned on... The artillery needed to get rid of the devil's guns immediately. The artillery suppressed.

Following Li Yunlong's order, dozens of artillery concentrated their fire on the Devil's 1st Tank Regiment on the left. The M30 howitzers fired accurately and ruthlessly. Two Type 97s and an armored vehicle fired a lot of smoke bombs from mortars, instantly covering the Devils' armored forces in smoke.

As soon as the Devil Artillery opened fire and returned fire, it was immediately blown to pieces by the second round of M30 shells.

Just when the devil thought that the Eighth Route Army was going to attack the 1st Tank Regiment, Li Yunlong yelled again, and more than a dozen "Sherman" tanks rushed towards the 5th Regiment with half-track vehicles at full speed amidst the roar of motors... …

As a result, the Devil's 5th Wing was a little helpless, and they did not accept the challenge or not.

Let's take on the challenge, that is to single out the Eighth Route Army Independent Regiment with the strength of a unit, which doesn't seem to be much advantage.

Don't fight, just let go of a hole and let the Eighth Route Army break through.

In the end, the 5th Battle Wing still chose to fight. After all, it is not difficult to accept letting the Eighth Route Army break through. The lesser of two evils can only fight.

The distance between the two armies was less than one kilometer, and they were moving toward each other at full speed. They met each other in less than a minute. The enemy and our armies collided fiercely like a wave of steel. together.

The loser in this battle is obviously the Devils 5th Tank Regiment.

The 5th Tank Wing has four tank squadrons with a total of 52 tanks, of which two medium tank squadrons are equipped with Type 97 tanks and Type 95 tanks, and two light tank squadrons are equipped with Type [-] tanks.

The number of Devil tanks is much larger than the 13 "Shermans" of the Eighth Route Army.

However, the "Sherman" is equipped with a stabilizer and can shoot while advancing, while the Devils can only stop and aim without exception.

On the other hand, when the "Sherman" tank is traveling at high speed and the distance is close, the turret rotation speed cannot keep up when the Devil tank stops to aim because the angular velocity is too high.

Therefore, although all the devil tank soldiers are well-trained, the tanks are quite clumsy on the battlefield... Most of the shells they fired in a hurry failed to hit the target, and even if they hit, most of them failed to penetrate. After a long time of melee, there was only one tank "Sherman" was destroyed. A "Sherman" track was blown off.

On the other hand, one of the devil's tanks caught fire and the other exploded, and several Type 95 tanks were violently hit by "Sherman" into the crater.

This surprised Masaomi Yasuoka's brigade commander who was watching the battle with binoculars on the second line. He thought it was safe to set up this formation, no matter which side the Eighth Route Army attacked, they would be besieged, and then they only had to wait for the "tiger style" to go out of the city and the battle would be over.

Unexpectedly, the Eighth Route Army used artillery fire to contain, suppress, and confuse the 1st Tank Regiment, and then attacked the 5th Tank Regiment with all its strength, thus opening up the situation.

Yasuoka Masaomi couldn't help but praised when he put away the binoculars: "As expected of the mechanized troops that defeated the North China Front Army, they are not chaotic in the face of danger, and they can come up with excellent breakout tactics in such a short period of time!"

"Your Excellency, Lieutenant General!" The staff officer at the side asked, "Do you want to order the 1st Wing to attack its flank?"

Although Masao Yasuoka is only a brigade commander, his military rank is already a lieutenant general... This rank is enough to be a division commander.

The First Tank Brigade is different. Those who can enter this unit are the elite of the devil elite. They are preparing to deal with Mao Xiong's armored unit, so their rank is generally higher than other units.

Masao Yasuoka thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "If you forcibly attack its flanks, the 1st Regiment will suffer heavy casualties under the bombardment of enemy artillery, and there will be no result in the end!"

Speaking of this, Yasuoka Masaomi did not explain more to the staff, and ordered: "Order the 1st tank regiment to attack the enemy artillery with all its strength, eliminate the enemy artillery and then surround the enemy's main force!"

"Yes!"

So the 1st Regiment braved the artillery fire and rushed towards the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army...

Masao Yasuoka's command is obviously correct. Artillery is the most vulnerable unit in close-range combat. Once the devil tank troops are allowed to approach, it will be a massacre. It will not take long for the entire army to be wiped out. Follow the independent regiment The breakout troops will be surrounded again.

(End of this chapter)