si-mexico Chapter 347 Changing Tactics
Chapter 347 Changing Tactics
"Old Wu, we can't keep fighting like this. The Japs are still pretty strong. I don't know what's going on over there, but these Japs on my side are really desperate. When they saw the armored vehicles appear, they desperately ran up, no matter how strong our firepower was. They fell one by one, and the remaining ones still rushed up desperately. We have lost more than 40 armored vehicles."
Zheng Gongpei complained on the phone, and he was really in pain inside. If the southern army knew that a small-scale battle had directly resulted in the loss of more than 40 armored vehicles, those officers would probably be heartbroken.
"My situation is similar to yours. I think we can attack them from a distance. After all, the armored vehicles are equipped with heavy machine guns and artillery. When fighting them, we should keep as much distance as possible, at least more than 300 meters. At this distance, we can hit them, but it will be difficult for them to hit us. Even if the Type 92 infantry gun is lowered to fire horizontally, as long as our armored vehicles are fast enough, the accuracy will definitely not be high. We will attack them parallel to them."
After learning from the painful experience, when Wu Tongguo's side lost more than 30 vehicles, he began to formulate a new combat strategy.
"That's a good idea. We're still dozens of kilometers away from Aohan. There are many places suitable for attack along the way. My people have already moved closer to your side. I'll be in charge of the south, and you the north."
While Zheng Gongpei was speaking, he asked his men to bring a map. From here to Aohan, most of the area is relatively flat, which is very suitable for armored vehicles to attack from a distance. We also have a lot of mortars in our hands. When we see the Japanese, we can just pile ammunition into them.
"That's it."
Wu Tongguo also hung up the phone and immediately summoned his core officers to begin formulating a new strategy. At the same time, more than a dozen trucks drove towards Aohan, loaded with seriously injured soldiers and some lightly injured soldiers who had lost their combat capability.
We originally thought that this battle would be very easy, but now it seems that it is far from being the case. In the two battles we just experienced, although we killed thousands of Japanese soldiers, the total number of casualties on our side has also risen sharply. So far, more than 200 people have been killed in battle, and more than 90 people have been injured and lost their combat effectiveness. All of them have to be transported back to the rear.
According to their thoughts right after they came out of the training camp, with our current weapons and equipment, plus the brothers' hard training, although we cannot say that there are zero casualties in the battle against the Japanese, it will not be that serious. Now it seems that we have underestimated the Japanese.
Relying on the rubbish weapons in their hands, they were able to cause such heavy casualties to us. This was something we had never imagined before. However, after we change our tactics, the casualty figure will drop rapidly.
Anton Maobei led the 15th Division in a retreat while fighting, and Zheng Gong and his companions followed from a distance. By the time the 15th Division and the 1st Division met up, there were only a few people left in the 11th Infantry Battalion, which was responsible for the rearguard.
According to Zheng Gongpei's order, all armored vehicles and jeeps must be at least two hundred meters away. At this distance, our heavy machine guns and artillery can also attack the Japanese army. Although the Japanese infantry artillery's flat fire will also cause us some losses, it can get rid of their suicidal soldiers.
In this situation, we wiped out an entire battalion of theirs, and our loss was only three armored vehicles, two of which were damaged. They should be able to be towed back for a little repair, and there should be no problem. Among the more than ten Type 92 infantry guns, only one shell hit the armored vehicle.
If the devils had not suffered a crushing defeat and those Japanese soldiers had not panicked, perhaps their battle results could have been improved. But in that situation, looking at the many corpses around them, all of which were their colleagues, how could these people not panic?
So in this situation, although the Japanese pulled out a lot of infantry artillery, their accuracy was pitifully low.
Masao Tanimoto and Shigekita Andong never thought that if you change your tactics, others will also change. The road from here to Aohan is almost difficult. With every step, several Japanese soldiers died here.
According to this ratio, by the time we reach Aohan, the two divisions will probably have been wiped out. After just over a day of fighting, the losses of the two divisions are close to 3,000 people. If we continue to fight like this, who will still have the confidence?
Although we caused a lot of losses to the enemy today, for example, our suicide soldiers overturned sixty or seventy of the enemy's armored vehicles, but when we woke up the next morning, we found that the number of the enemy's armored vehicles seemed to be greater, and they were also adopting guerrilla tactics.
Two or three armored vehicles, along with two or three jeeps, formed a team and attacked the Japanese army everywhere. They did not get close and started attacking when they were two or three hundred meters away. If you chased them too closely, they would just retreat.
If you didn't chase them closely enough, those people would stop their cars and start a blanket attack on the Japanese military camp. I don't know where they got so many artillery shells and machine guns, but they just kept shooting.
When the war first broke out, Japanese soldiers were still thinking about how to resist. Now many Japanese soldiers have realized that if you don't resist, you can live longer, but if you resist, you won't live long at all.
When the 72nd Division attacked, everyone found a place to hide. Anyway, they didn't dare to get close, so the number of deaths was limited.
After all, they can't find you, but if you wait for an opportunity to shoot, your position will be exposed as soon as you shoot. No matter where you hide, their 20mm rapid-fire cannon will fire more than a dozen shells at you. Can you still hold on?
There are some things you shouldn’t hide behind a rock, but when this little cannon is finished attacking, even the rock will be almost gone, let alone your flesh and blood.
In addition to the fighting on the ground, the fighting in the sky also began to intensify. When the fighter group of the 1st Flying Division arrived, the 72nd Division's Aviation Brigade was like a chicken with its blood injected. They had been attacking ground troops in the past few days. Now that your Air Force has finally arrived, who wouldn't want to verify the results of their training?
The air battle on the third day was the largest in scale. The First Air Division dispatched 110 aircraft, and Li Qiankun also sent out 70 aircraft.
The final result was forty-five to seven...
The First Air Division lost forty-five fighters, and Li Qiankun lost seven fighters...