Bright Sword Military System

Chapter 600 Countermeasures
This battle really took a lot of effort from the devil just as Chimi Konno had imagined.

To put it simply, the devils hope that their opponents will fight according to conventional routines, or confront the devils head-on, but the Jinsui army used the trenches to fight guerrilla warfare with them, which gave the devils a soft nail.

When the devil tanks rushed up majesticly, they were greeted only by mines and barbed wire, and from time to time a few grenades or mortar shells were fired from the trenches.

The devil infantry is crazy: You bastards from the Jinsui army, dare to play tricks with our imperial army?
So the commander gave an order, and the infantry broke away from the tank and cleared the enemy along the trench.

This is not Chimi Konno's idea, but the idea of ​​the infantry commander Sekiguchi Tari... The devil's concept of tanks is actually somewhat similar to Mao Kuma's. They also use tanks more as an auxiliary tool for infantry rather than the main force Arms, so command is often in the hands of infantry.

In short, it is to use tanks to cooperate with infantry more than infantry to cooperate with tanks in battle.

But not quite.

The reason is that although the devils are stubborn, they have a strong learning ability. Influenced by Hans' great victory in Europe, they will consciously improve the status and independence of tanks on the battlefield. " tactics.

At this time, Konno Chimi is in principle the supreme commander... Konno Chimi is the lieutenant commander, and the captain of Sekiguchi is the major. It is natural for Konno to have the command.

Konno also always ordered the infantry to follow the tanks to break through the line of defense.

Konno's thinking is very simple and clear. As long as he breaks through the line of defense and goes around to the back of the line of defense, the line of defense of the Jinsui Army will exist in name only.

Because the imperial army didn't have to rely on this line of defense to encircle the main force of the 358th regiment. They had tanks, more than fifty tanks, and no matter where they were on the plain, once the tanks stopped, they were a line of defense.

Therefore, it is not important whether to destroy the enemy army in front of us. What is important is to maintain the speed of the 25th tank regiment and continue to insert into the enemy's rear...

From this point of view, Chimi Konno can be said to have learned the essence of "blitzkrieg" from Hans.

"Blitzkrieg" has never only required "quickness", but also to know one's own goals, know "to bully the few with the more", know "to bully the small with the big"... use tanks to penetrate the enemy's rear and attack the enemy's Warehouses, artillery, and supply convoys are units that have no close combat or anti-tank capabilities in field combat. Isn't that easy to capture?

It's simple and easy, it can inflict heavy damage on the enemy, and at the same time surround the enemy, why not do it?
But Sekiguchi Tianli didn't think so. The infantry's inherent thinking made him see the line of defense in front of him like a beggar seeing a pile of treasures:
As long as this line of defense is captured, the main force of the enemy can be blocked within the line of defense, victory can be achieved, and great achievements can be made. It is a fool not to seize this line of defense!
In fact, there is another reason. Sekiguchi Tianli thought that the reason why Chimi Konno restrained his behavior from letting the infantry disperse the attack was because he was worried that the infantry would steal the credit of the chariot soldiers. After the war, the commander Konno would be judged by him This subordinate compares.

Coupled with Guankou's disdain for the Jinsui Army, the infantry "hula" and held their rifles "Wow" and started a chase battle with the Jinsui Army in the trenches.

This is what Wang Binghua is most happy to see.

Originally, a battalion might not be able to destroy a few tanks and a few devils, but now it is a one-on-one hand-to-hand fight. Who is afraid of whom?
Even if our 800 people can't fight one by one, two or even three in exchange for one devil, it can be regarded as tearing a piece of meat from you!
So the two armies fought in the trenches.

This made Chimi Konno at a loss...

While the Imperial Army had always had the upper hand, it was completely out of control for him.

At this time, Chimi Konno is not advancing, nor is he not advancing.

Going forward means that the tank will completely lose the cover of the infantry, which is likely to go wrong.

If you don't move forward, the chariot can only watch the enemy and our infantry fight together here.

And because the enemy and our infantry were in a group, the firepower of the tank could hardly be used.

There were even a few enemy soldiers who rushed to the tank holding explosive packs in the melee...

"Your Excellency, Zhongzuo!" The engineer reported to Chimi Konno, "Two of our tanks were blown up. It's the 97th battle!"

"These bastards!" Chimi Konno, who stood up to observe, slapped the hatch cover hard: "Order them to concentrate their forces and follow behind the tank!"

The electromechanical officer sent the report over and over again, but no one knew that the infantrymen who had gone crazy and were on the verge of victory would never be able to get it back.

Sekiguchi Tianli even received the order, but he pretended not to see it.

All he had in mind was to wait and call back, just wait a little longer...we could win, win without needing tanks, then call back and see what the lieutenant commander would look like.

At this moment, Chimi Konno suddenly saw a 98 light bomb passing in front of him, and circled an "8" in the air.

"An enemy is coming!" Chimi Konno's face changed slightly.

That is a method of communication between the reconnaissance plane and the ground troops, and it is a communication method in an emergency... If it is not urgent, the reconnaissance plane can drop information from the sky through the "communication bottle".

But sometimes the enemy is close at hand, and it is too late to use the communication bottle, so the flight route can only be used to warn.

Chimi Konno was not nervous at the beginning, he thought that even if an enemy came, the 25th Tank Regiment could easily deal with it.

After all, this is the most advanced "one" tank in the empire, and what enemy can stand against it?
unless……

Then Konno Chimi's face changed, because he saw the smoke and dust billowing in front of him, and he could still hear the "rumbling" sound of the engine faintly, which was probably the enemy's tank troops.

Could it be the T34 unit of the Eighth Route Army?

No, not possible!
Chimi Konno said that they should have been destroyed by the flying brigade on the way!
However, at this moment, the electromechanical officer shouted: "Your Excellency, Commander, the headquarters has called, and the flight team has failed to intercept them. They have already wiped out the entire army, and the enemy tank troops are likely to rush towards us!"

Konno Chimi opened her mouth for a long time but did not close it.

The flying brigade was actually... completely annihilated by the Eighth Route Army?
How did they do that?
In fact, not only Konno Chimi couldn't believe it, Okamura Neiji couldn't believe what he heard either.

Neiji Okamura only heard the news 10 minutes after the war.

The reconnaissance plane belonging to Komura saw the battle situation and sent this disastrous defeat that the empire had never suffered on the Chinese battlefield back to the aviation command.

The aviation command was shocked by this news from top to bottom.

And because they were afraid of being punished by Neiji Okamura, they did not report the result immediately, but held a meeting to study countermeasures...

That is, these two 10 minutes put Konno's 25th Tank Regiment in trouble.

(End of this chapter)