Chapter fifty-six surprise attack
Although the tank's artillery and machine guns were aimless and flew around the jungle, the penetration power of the tank guns and anti-aircraft machine guns was extraordinary. In addition, the bullets were very dense, which instantly suppressed the fierce firepower of the Japanese army.
The artillery equipped by the Japanese army was mountain cannons. This cannon was mainly used to deal with infantry targets, and it seemed to be willing to fight against Chinese tanks but lacked strength. Among them, especially those Sherman tanks, which allowed the Japanese mountain cannons to bombard it. It only cared about pushing down big trees and rushing forward. As a result, it rushed to the Japanese defense line and crushed the Japanese artillery.
...This is also the reason why Zhang Chi ordered an attack instead of ordering a retreat.
Zhang Chi, who had fought with the Japanese army, heard the sound of cannons and the radiation when the shells exploded, he knew that it was the Japanese mountain cannon rather than the war defense cannon... The war defense cannon fired tungsten armor-piercing shells, and it would not explode like a grenade when it hit the ground and release so many shrapnel and smoke.
From this, Zhang Chi made a judgment. Although the Japanese troops in front of him were prepared, their preparations obviously did not include tanks... But then again, who could have thought that tanks could still be used in such terrain?!
Because of Zhang Chi's quick decision, the tank troops easily entered the Japanese army group that wanted to ambush the Chindite troops with the help of Zhang Chindite's troops. The scene at this time could be described as massacre... Chinese soldiers had tanks as cover, while the Japanese army could only rely on jungles and trees. These covers were often pushed down by tanks or smashed by various machine guns before they even played a role.
In the domestic battle, Bai Chongxi's most painful thing was that he had originally arranged pocket formations one by one for the Japanese army to drill in according to the established strategy, but because the troops' combat effectiveness was too poor, each pocket formation was drilled to the bottom of the pocket by the Japanese army without exception.
This time, Shinichi Tanaka, the commander of the 18th Division of the Japanese Army, finally realized Bai Chongxi's pain.
Of course, Tanaka Shinichi didn't even know the battle situation here at this time, and he was confident that his two squadrons would definitely be able to remove the enemy.
But in fact, the commander of this Japanese army, Okada Kozusa, had already been killed in chaos, and the rest of the Japanese army retreated under the impact of Chinese army tanks. The Chinese soldiers following the tank kept coming out to pull the trigger and shoot the Japanese army fleeing in front... At this time, even Pete held a Thomson charge plane and fought forward with great enthusiasm. He felt quite ashamed. It was obviously a big victory, but he almost missed it because of his wrong judgment.
What Pete didn't know was that there were actually greater victories waiting for them.
Since I didn't expect the two squadrons to be wiped out in such a short time, the command of the 18th Division was completely exposed to the tanks of the Chinese army, and there was no soldiers to defend at all.
Then, the tanks broke into Panmai without any defense. With the sound of tank guns, Panmai fell into a sea of fire. Then one tank after another rushed around Panmai. The driver excitedly increased the accelerator and passed through the fragile thatched hut and bamboo houses, rushing the Japanese troops hiding in the house to death or drive out, and then knocked them down one by one with a machine gun.
It was because it was dark that I didn't see which one was the Japanese command center. When I cleaned the battlefield after the war, I found a bunch of corpses of Japanese officers in an inconspicuous anti-cannon hole... From the military rank, it can be seen that there were two colonels, one Zhongsou, and a bunch of combat documents.
Shinichi Tanaka obviously ran away in the chaos. When he ran away, he couldn't even take his mount and the seal of defense away.
Later, there was some dispute over the seal of the guard guard. The reason was that it had never happened before that the seal of the guard guard guard guard guard, which had been seized by the Japanese division commander, had never happened before. Xiao Zhejiang, who seized this thing, couldn't help but danced happily. After returning, he waved and showed off all the way to go to his superior to report his merits, but Walker stopped him. He ordered Xiao Zhejiang to hand over the trophy to him. Xiao Zhejiang was dissatisfied with Walker, but his superior was his superior after all, so Xiao Zhejiang finally gave the seal of the guard guard helplessly.
Before handing in, Xiao Zhejiang found a pile of white paper and stamped dozens of seals as a souvenir.
Of course, these are all later stories.
The success of this attack was completely beyond the expectations of the soldiers, and even Zhang Chi did not expect it.
Peter couldn't help but laugh and hugged Zhang Chi and said, "Zhang... You are such a lucky star. I thought everyone was going to die here, but I didn't expect that the enemy would die!"
Of course, the war did not stop there.
Because the command center was captured, the Japanese army, which was already poor in morale, became even worse. Shinichi Tanaka did not dare to show off. He hurriedly ordered the entire army to retreat.
But it was not so easy to withdraw at this time. The Chinese army chased the Japanese army and attacked fiercely, so the jungle was filled with the light of flares and artillery shell explosions, and gunfires were heard one after another.
Zhang Chi and the soldiers didn't know where to fight because the tanks hit this place... the terrain in other places had never been reconnaissed. So the tanks were really hard to move forward, so they could only rely on the tanks to garrison on site.
Originally, Zhang Chi thought there was no war to fight next, but soon they knew they were wrong... Due to the lack of communication, many Japanese devils did not know that Panmai had been occupied, so they still retreated to Panmai. They even did not find the American tanks deployed by the soldiers on the defense line because of the darkness and rush.
So this made a big advantage for Zhang Chi and others. Their bullets were almost all fired on the backs of the Japanese army.
But Zhang Chi was not very interested in such a battle... The strategic goal has been achieved, and the rest is just to kill a few more people. Although killing a few more Japanese is indeed very relieved, Zhang Chi has an indescribable fatigue until now.
Zhang Chi wanted to find a place to be quiet, even if he could have a moment to stay away from the gunshots and cannons, away from the smoke and blood.
But this was a luxury for him, because there was almost no place where there was no blood flowing, and no place where there was no explosion.
After thinking about it, Zhang Chi asked Pete to command the subsequent battle, and he hid in the anti-cannon hole of Shinichi Tanaka as the command center. Although there were several corpses of Japanese officers next to him, he didn't mind... He silently lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, breathed a sigh of relief and lay down behind him.
Chapter completed!