My client Li Yunlong

“Can you… tell the difference?”

South of Ze County.

Underground team position.

The regiment commander, Colonel Jingxia, said to several Japanese devils.

Not long ago, the Eighth Route Army suddenly dispatched dozens of tanks and launched a large-scale attack on the position south of Ze County. More than 100 officers of the Officer Observation Group, the Yamazaki Battalion stationed at the position, and the battalion responsible for escorting the observation group were all wiped out, and almost all of them died.

The combat effectiveness of the tanks once again shocked the locust army.

But after the battle, the Eighth Route Army abandoned their positions and retreated to Ze County.

The positions south of Ze County are still in the hands of the locust army.

It is currently manned by the underground wing.

After asking the question, the colonel was silent for a while as he looked at the soldiers squatting on the ground digging. Without waiting for the Japanese soldiers to answer, he waved his hand and sighed:

"never mind."

"Just find something to make do with."

General Hattori's family requested that some of his ashes be placed in a shrine in the country. The order was issued from the General Staff Headquarters in the motherland and eventually reached him after being conveyed by the General Staff of the North China Front Army.

After all, he was a major general, and after his death he would be promoted to lieutenant general. Not only would he be eligible to enter the shrine, but he would also have a separate tablet.

But at that time, only fifteen people from the Yamazaki Battalion survived, and they woke up in the rear and fled the battlefield, not on the front line. No one from the escort battalion survived, and no one from the observation group survived either.

More than 2,000 people died.

Does anyone know where General Hattori's body is?

How to find it?
Although the officers' uniforms, personal belongings and accessories were different, they were all mixed together after being run over by a tank. In addition, it had been so long that there was no way to find them!
So, just make do with whatever you have.

"Hi!"

The Japanese soldiers in charge of digging and searching immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

When he first received this job, he seemed to be on the verge of collapse. What was the difference between this mission and asking him to carry a lightning rod and die? There was still a difference. The latter at least could leave him with a reputation of being loyal to the empire, while the former, he guessed, would be committing suicide by disembowelment.

"tank···"

After dealing with a small matter, Colonel Jingxia looked at the position in front of him.

Colonel Jingxia is also an experienced colonel.

three years ago,
During the Battle of Shanghai, he was a lieutenant colonel and served as a battalion commander in the regiment. He was the third person to lead his troops to charge into the first city of the Republic of China.

He was quite helpless about this.

The first and second were both commended and made great contributions within the division. Now one has been promoted to major general, and the other has returned to the country for further studies and has the potential to become major general, but he... is still a colonel.

And there is no hope of promotion.

only··
Looking at the position in front of him, Colonel Jingxia looked solemn.

This is the battle front in North China, known as the Verdun meat grinder of the empire. Every month, 20,000 to 30,000 imperial soldiers were killed and nearly 70,000 soldiers were injured or killed.

The top priority now is to hold the position and survive, not to be promoted to major general.

Otherwise, let alone being promoted to major general, he might even end up in a shrine.

What he envied about Hattori was not that he died in glory and entered the shrine, but that he was promoted to major general.

"Anti-tank trenches, the deeper the better."

"Strengthen the position. The stronger the better."

"..."

Colonel Jingxia personally took charge and directed the construction of the position.

Without anti-tank artillery and unable to abandon the defense line, the only thing we can do is to strengthen our position.

With the help of positions, layer upon layer of positions, positions linked together, anti-artillery holes one after another, and anti-tank bunkers one after another, they blocked the endless stream of tanks from the Eighth Route Army.

"How on earth did Yamazaki do it?"

Looking at the position in front of him, Colonel Jingxia's tone was solemn.

Yesterday, the Eighth Route Army launched another attack on the position of his battalion. A total of three tanks, cooperating with more than one hundred Eighth Route Army infantrymen, attacked the position of one of his squadrons.

Although a squadron had more troops than the attacking Eighth Route Army, and the Eighth Route Army had no artillery fire support, he had to quickly dispatch a battalion to provide support.

One squadron cannot stop three tanks.

Of course, he wasn't too worried.

Although he had been stationed in the position south of Ze County for only a week, he had already ordered his troops to build a solid anti-tank position. Although anti-tank piles could not be built due to the lack of materials such as cement, wide trenches and other structures were still available.

There are also enough thorny death squads.

A certain number of anti-tank mines were also laid along the front line.

But the outcome of the battle was far beyond Colonel Jingxia's expectations.

He had a battalion of more than a thousand locust soldiers defending against the attack of just three Sherman tanks and a hundred Eighth Route Army troops, despite having complete fortifications, anti-tank mines, and anti-tank weapons such as stinger mines.

Although the enemy's attack was finally repelled, only one tank was destroyed, and the price paid was more than 180 deaths.

One hundred and eighty people.

Compared to last month, the Imperial Locust Army suffered an average of 150 casualties against enemy tanks, which is 30 more.

The regiment he commanded was the elite infantry regiment of the Sixth Division! It was the elite battalion of the Type A Division.

I was aware of the situation at the time and witnessed the entire battle process with my own eyes underground.

It has to be said that the tank and infantry coordination tactics of the Eighth Route Army were very skilled and tacit. The tanks suppressed and destroyed anti-infantry firepower, and the infantry protected the tanks from the influence of the suicide squads.

The suicide squad of the underground regiment found it difficult to advance into the attack range even under the cover of mountain artillery fire.

Most of them were beaten to death.

Even if they hid in underground attack tunnels, they would be shot dead by the Eighth Route Army submachine gunners the moment they emerged.

But as far as he knew,
The ratio of casualties among Yamazaki's troops and the Eighth Route Army tanks was eighty to one.

Only a fraction of his.

Colonel Jingxia was puzzled. How did Colonel Yamazaki do it?

No wonder the superiors did not punish Yamazaki even after the observation group and the Yamazaki Battalion were all killed. Instead, they promoted Yamazaki to colonel and appointed him as the commander of the newly formed Yamazaki Regiment, responsible for developing and summarizing anti-tank tactics and providing research and development ideas for subsequent anti-tank weapons.

Fortunately...
"It's not a big problem."

Colonel Jingxia breathed a sigh of relief.

Although he does not have Yamazaki's elite anti-tank tactics, he will have a better life than Yamazaki because his resources are much better than Yamazaki's.

A large number of new anti-tank mines arrived at the troops. Compared with anti-tank artillery which was difficult to produce, mines had low technical content and were very suitable for production. His underground regiment was allocated one thousand mines, which were enough to lay mines at every important intersection on the front line.

More than that.

This time, the underground corps was also allocated three of the latest Type 92 cannons.

as well as,

Lots of cement.

Enough cement to build anti-tank piles in front of the position.

Otherwise, why would the superiors let the main division garrison south of Ze County?
Before, the equipment had not arrived in time and Yamazaki's Battalion was defeated too quickly, forcing him to rush to the battlefield. This time, he wanted to let the Eighth Route Army's tanks know that the Locust Army was not so easy to deal with.

"Reinforcement, not enough, continue to reinforce."

Colonel Jingxia continued to instruct.

According to reports from survivors of the Yamazaki Battalion, the Eighth Route Army had a type of tank that was estimated to have used a 150-caliber artillery.

One hundred and fifty caliber!
Heavy artillery can actually be mounted on tanks?
Even if it is a short barrel, how to overcome the recoil?

Although it was shocking and difficult to understand, Colonel Jingxia knew that he needed to reinforce his position so that it would not suffer structural damage even if it was hit by the 150mm main gun of the Eighth Route Army.

···
“Landmines are a problem!”

Ze County.

The front line of the southern Hebei base area.

Ding Wei looked at the battle map in front of him with a serious look.

Recently, the troops have continued to attack according to the predetermined plan.

Refining tank tactics, attracting the main force of the devils, creating opportunities for the attack of other bases, and containing them. Guerrillas across the country flourished in all directions and recaptured one county after another.

And connected into a whole.

Unknowingly, the total population of the area controlled by the base centered on the headquarters Taihang base has reached nine digits, and the number of militia has reached three million.

The militia here refers to those who have more than 80 hours of military training and more than 50 hours of cultural knowledge training each month, and who receive 100 Ji'nan currency and 60 kilograms of food each month.

After more than three months of training, they can directly join the army as supplementary soldiers.

After more than half a year of training, if the results are excellent, there is a certain chance that one can enter the military teaching training camp in the Taihang base for further training and become a professional soldier.

A large amount of resources ensures that the base has enough strength to train new recruits and truly mobilize the troops.

Thanks to Li Yunlong's relationship, Ding Wei is now responsible for the combat command of Ze County, and his command level is that of a deputy brigade commander.

At this time, Ding Wei discovered subtle changes on the battlefield through statistical reports.

Although the troops still have an absolute advantage.

With the loss of less than ten tanks per day and less than two million casualties, more than five hundred Japanese were killed and more than two thousand were wounded, reaching a casualty ratio of more than twelve to one.

But recently, tank losses have been rising.

However, the data shows that very few tanks were destroyed by the Japanese mine-destroying suicide squads, and the real cause of the huge tank losses were anti-tank mines.

The Japanese's new anti-tank weapons began to enter service in the army on a large scale, and the fuse system had also been improved. It obviously made use of the mine fuse structure equipped by the troops. Compared with the first generation, its reliability was greatly improved and its explosive power was greater. It not only destroyed many tanks, but also caused many casualties among tank soldiers.

Although there are mine-clearing tanks in the army.

But the quantity is relatively small.

Out of five hundred, there were only thirty.

It is impossible to equip every attacking force with a mine-clearing tank.

"Is there any way to deal with the tank problem?"

Ding Wei fell into thought.

If it were in the past, he would definitely try to find a tactical solution first, such as bypassing the minefield, sending engineers to detect mines, and so on.

But now, although these will be carried out simultaneously, Ding Wei's first thought is whether the problem can be solved technically, for example, to equip ordinary tanks with mine-clearing kits? (End of this chapter)