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Chapter 293 Sherman is here!

"Quick, quick!"

"Dig the position."

"quick!"

South of Ze County.

Old Japanese Yamazaki was hurriedly commanding the troops to dig into positions.

Although the Imperial tank was destroyed.

Yamazaki still has lingering fears in his heart - the anti-tank artillery on Tubal Road is so terrifying. It can actually penetrate 60mm armor steel plates or alloy steel plates at a distance of one thousand meters.

No wonder so many strongholds were not held.

What stronghold can block this artillery?
What kind of machine gun fortress can block such artillery?
Fortunately, this kind of artillery is heavy, has poor maneuverability, and has limited pitch, making it very demanding on terrain.

and,

He finally captured the position south of Ze County.

Take this position that blocked him for a whole month.

With this commanding height, he would be invincible. Unless Tubalu mobilized a force several times his own and attacked by force, he would be able to win.

As for the terrifying anti-tank artillery, he is not afraid of it because he uses the terrain to dominate.

of course.

There is also the terrible 120 mortar on Tubal Road, which is more powerful than the 105 howitzer. Once the artillery fire is concentrated, it can easily destroy ordinary civil positions, so a sufficiently strong fortification group must be built.

As long as he builds enough fortifications, Tubal Road will be unable to do anything to him.

Even if you can win it.

The price must be paid more than ten times.

"Report to the captain."

Not long after, several squadron leaders reported:
"The position is constructed."

Thanks to the Eighth Route Army's original garrison position, the position south of Ze County itself was very strong. Yamazaki had nearly a thousand Japs under his command at this time, so he naturally completed the position quickly.

"Yoshi."

"Continue to strengthen the position."

"Just take a look at Tubal Road and you will see that the locust army has lost its tenacity and willpower after acquiring advanced weapons. It is not worthy of being called an army. It is just a group of stragglers."

Yamazaki sounded disdainful.

Although the tank was destroyed, Yamazaki became even more arrogant after occupying the position.

Although the empire dispatched tanks this time.

But tanks are not invincible.

Tubalu clearly had a chance to hold its position.

Thinking about it from his perspective, if he were to hold on to this defensive position, he would definitely order the troops to hold on with the help of the position, and when the tanks approached, he would organize death squads to blow up the tanks.

Then call for reinforcements to the rear.

As long as the reinforcements arrive quickly enough, as long as there are enough supporting troops, and with the help of complex positions, his troops of more than a thousand people and a mere three tanks will definitely not be able to take the position south of Ze County.

Rather than being easily captured by him like now.

The position that Tubal Road worked so hard to dig became the strength of his Yamazaki Brigade, which in turn blocked Tubal Road's attack.

"The captain is right."

The brigade deputy on the side repeatedly agreed:
"Since acquiring a large number of advanced weapons, Tubal Road has become less and less courageous."

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at the same time.

In Ze County.

"good."

"The retreat was timely, with very few casualties. No soldiers were left behind. All weapons and supplies were withdrawn. Very good."

The leader of the 1046th Regiment received an award from the brigade headquarters.

Although it is a newly formed basic regiment that has not experienced the hardships of hard battles and has been responsible for garrisoning the base area and maintaining law and order in the base area, in this battle, after receiving orders from superiors, the retreat was very timely.

The brigade headquarters of Jinan Base Area, commanding on the front line of Ze County, was very satisfied. It shows that the 1046th Regiment's orders and prohibitions indicate that the retreat is orderly and the organization is highly efficient.

The regiments in Ze County and surrounding areas were placed under the command of the brigade headquarters stationed in Ze County.

"Yes."

Although he received praise, the leader of 1046 was a little unhappy

"Brigadier, why don't you let me destroy the position?"

he asked.

He understood that the superior ordered the 1046th Regiment to retreat, not to hold its position, and not to fight against the Japanese tanks. This was to avoid a large number of casualties. He understood this.

It’s not that the 1046th Regiment is bloodless, but there is no need to add meaningless casualties.

But why not destroy the position?

Leave it to the Japanese defense forces to attack in the future?

It’s impossible. You don’t plan to capture the positions south of Ze County in the future, right?
With the positions they left behind, the 120 mortars were powerless. In the condescending terrain, even with 75mm anti-tank artillery, it was very difficult to capture the position.

Although destroying the position will slow down the retreat, it does not take much time to blow up the position, only ten minutes.

Even without effective anti-tank means, they can hold off the Japanese attack for more than ten minutes, which is not difficult. As for casualties, in the future, if they capture the southern front positions with solid positions, the casualties will only be a lot more.

"Why not destroy the position?"

The brigade commander smiled:
"Because it's not necessary."

"no need?"

The leader of the 1046th Regiment was stunned.

"Yes, there is no need. This position cannot stop our attack."

The frontline brigade commander smiled more and more happily.

"What?"

The leader of the 1046th regiment was even more confused.

Although the strength of the army has increased greatly recently, with many advanced weapons and the training level of soldiers has also improved rapidly, it is not easy to capture such a commanding position with a solid and complete position, even a small dirt bag.

After all, the enemy this time is not a large group. There are dozens of large groups of Japanese soldiers nearby to support and cover each other.

"Could it be that the superiors are planning to use giant bombs?"

The leader of the 1046th regiment speculated.

It would be very simple to dispatch bombers and drop the kind of bombs that killed the three Japanese chiefs of staff and completely blew up the Japanese North China Front Army headquarters.

It only takes one to completely destroy the position south of Ze County.

It even severely damaged the Japanese troops stationed above.

"This dirtbag needs to deploy a heavy bomb?"

The brigade commander sounded disdainful, then he laughed and said:

"We will also dispatch tanks this time."

"tank."

The 1046th Group's tone condensed, and it suddenly dawned on them.

tank!

They actually have tanks!

No wonder his superiors were not nervous, no wonder they were unwilling to let him spend more than ten minutes to destroy the position.

It turns out that I have a tank at home.

The commander of the 1046 regiment is also an old Red Army veteran. He has been trained in the Taiyue officer training class for half a year, and he knows the positions south of Ze County.

If there are tanks attacking from the direction of Zexian, it doesn't need to be too many. As long as there are three or five tanks, unless the battlefield is restructured on a large scale and unless the Japanese also have enough anti-tank artillery, they will definitely not be able to stop them.

But he had never seen the Japanese anti-tank artillery before.

···
"Although not very advanced."

"But I can make do with it."

Taiyue base area.

In the weapons training range.

Li Yunlong pointed at several very tall tanks and said with a smile.

"Not very advanced." The brigade commander suddenly became speechless.

According to the information, the tanks that appeared in the training ground at this time were American tanks. They were the latest models of tanks that the Americans had just begun to develop and had not even had time to enter service.

M4 Sherman tank.

And according to the data, compared to the American models, they have slightly improved reliability and increased armor thickness.

Equivalent to models from a few years later.

Compared with the J-1 fighter, the Sherman tank, the Y-6 transport aircraft, the Y-7 transport aircraft, and the Taihang heavy truck, it is indeed not very advanced, and can even be said to be very backward.

But.

In the world, these two tanks are still very advanced tanks.

With 75mm of armor on the front, all the Japanese anti-tank artillery have no way to deal with it. Together with the infantry, they can easily capture any position in the flat southern Hebei area.

The little devil was not ready to fight a tank.

And now.

They obtained fifty Sherman tanks.

Since the arsenal began to produce guns and bullets, the independent regiments underwent large-scale reorganization, significantly reducing the number of infantry and increasing the number of artillery, flying troops, and technical arms.

And freed up 2,000 people, a total of two battalions of mobile troops, and later this month received fifty Sherman tanks, along with some foreign military trucks and tank auxiliary vehicles.

Although the technical level is backward, the off-road ability is poor, and the control is poor, it is relatively small in size and has much greater transport capacity than mules and horse-drawn carriages. It is also very suitable as a supplement to transportation power.

Although the tanks and trucks of these foreign troops are not very advanced in technology, they can train excellent technical arms for the troops.

And explore and practice tank tactics.

Although!

The military textbooks obtained by the troops include complete tank tactics, but as those military textbooks say, any army should develop tactics that are consistent with its own equipment system and the personality of the troops, rather than copying other tactics mechanically.

No matter how advanced the tactics are.

"It's really not very advanced."

The brigade chief of staff stepped out of the tank:

"But it's enough to deal with the devils."

"This is an American tank. If the little devils and Americans get involved in the future, wouldn't it be..."

Ding Weiruo was thoughtful.

According to Li Yunlong, every month from now on, they will immediately receive active weapons and equipment from various countries. Doesn't this allow the Japanese to adapt to the weapons and equipment of various countries?

However, this has nothing to do with him.

At this time, there were only five tanks in the training ground, and the remaining 45 tanks had already passed the road and arrived in the southern Hebei area, ready to test the actual combat effect.

After training for more than half a month, the independent regiment mobile battalion composed of elites from the base area has mastered the skills of using tanks and is relatively proficient.

The training ground is very quiet,

Apparently, this question has occurred to almost everyone.

···
"Destroyed?"

Shimen.

Inside the underground headquarters.

Okamura Ningji was not much surprised when he heard the news that the tanks of the frontline troops had been destroyed.

This time, the Empire's Type 1 medium tank was dispatched. Although it was a medium tank, it only weighed 17 tons. It only had enhanced frontal defense capabilities, but weak side and rear defense capabilities, and the power system was also very poor. Mobility is poor.

It is still much worse than advanced foreign tanks.

It is normal for advanced empires to destroy the technology of decades. Not to mention anything else, the German anti-tank artillery equipped on Tubal Road alone can definitely destroy the Empire's Type 1 medium tanks.

This time, Type 1 was sent to the front line just to provide technical data for subsequent tank research.

The empire needs actual data to explain how powerful the armor will be for the next tank to be developed, what power system it will need, and what problems it will need to solve.

Only the battlefield can tell the empire these things.

but.

Although Okamura Neji was prepared, he was still frustrated.

Twenty tanks suddenly appeared.

It actually only helped the front line occupy some unimportant positions.

"strangeness."

Ishihara smiled and frowned.

"what happened?"

"Ishihara-kun?"

Okamura Neji asked.

"Although the sudden appearance of the imperial tank troops caught the Eighth Route Army off guard and lost some positions, they had a large number of anti-tank artillery with advanced performance. They reacted in just half a day and destroyed all the imperial tanks."

"After that, although the imperial locust army's offensive was repelled, the occupied positions were not lost."

"Okamura-kun, don't you think it's strange?"

Hearing Ishihara Wanji's words, Okamura Neji suddenly felt something wrong.

Yes.

Since the offensive was blocked and the tanks were destroyed, Tubal Road should take advantage of the situation to capture the lost positions, because half a day was not enough for the Locust Army to build sufficient defenses.

This is the time when the locust army's control over the newly occupied territory is at its weakest.

According to the frontline battle report, when the tank troops appeared, in order to prevent the tank troops from going deep into the road, Tubal Road used a large number of 120 mortars to provide fire coverage and block the attack of the locust army.

You only need to destroy the Imperial tank attack and use artillery fire to cover the Locust army's unsteady position to block subsequent reinforcements, and you can easily win.

But Tubalu didn't do that.

why?
Could it be that they don't have enough artillery shells?
Or something went wrong?

Okamura Neji thought subconsciously.

Thinking of this, Okamura Neji and Ishihara smiled at each other.

"They're low on ammunition."

Ishihara Wanji also concluded the same thing.

It's very simple.

If the Locust Army is allowed to gain a foothold in those positions, it will have to pay a very huge price if they want to capture these positions in the future. It is impossible for the senior officials of Tubal Road to not understand these principles.

Those people are masters.

After such a long period of fighting, Okamura Neiji was well versed in the capabilities of the senior officers of the Eighth Route Army, and his command level was not inferior to him or to the senior officers of the empire.

In the past, it was just that there was not a sufficient level of troops to display their command capabilities.

If this is really the case, then the Locust Army should take advantage of this moment to quickly launch a large-scale attack, capture Zexian County in one fell swoop, the entrance to the highway, and tear a hole in the Tuba Road defense line.

A deep attack is impossible.

The supply lines of the Locust Army cannot be sustained, nor can the supply transportation capacity.

However, in order to gain a huge advantage and greatly reduce casualties in the subsequent stalemate, the mission of the base camp is to allow the North China Front Army to continue to suppress the Tubal Road base area and provide an environment for the Economics Department and the Business Department to seize profits.

"We must launch an attack immediately, now..."

"Correct!"

Just when Okamura Neji and Ishihara Wanji were excited and mobilized their troops overnight.

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Ze County.

That evening.

"Continue to build your position."

"Dig more bomb-proof holes."

"The enemy's artillery fire is very fierce, and we need a lot of bomb-proof holes."

Southern position.

Yamazaki was leading his men to reinforce the position, and bomb-proof holes were dug one after another under his command.

And at the same time.

Under the personal leadership of Cheng Shifa, forty-five Sherman tanks slowly drove into the rear of Ze County and hid in a nearby camp.

Also coming along were more than a hundred trucks of various types, rescue trucks, fuel trucks, etc., as well as tank troop support and auxiliary trucks. (End of chapter)

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