Chapter 126
This combat plan was quickly approved by Commander Chen Shanguo.
Perhaps at this moment, Chen Shanguo realized that the current mission of the Japanese army is to block the Chinese team. If they cannot do this, then the Japanese army will have failed strategically.
Therefore, there is no need for the Chinese team to continue to fight Tai Chi with the Japanese army here.
Then Chen Shanguo formulated a more detailed plan: to leave the New Third Regiment and the 149th Regiment of the 50th Army to continue fighting with the Japanese army in Bogu, while the New First Regiment and the New Second Regiment broke through the Japanese defense line under the cover of artillery and continued to penetrate Yangon along the road.
The first thing to do is to implement martial law.
The engineers were doing this job. Several bulldozers were more effective than anything else. When the Burmese people saw such a giant coming, they followed a group of Chinese teams who could not help but fired guns and warned them, so they quickly left the main road. Then the bulldozer shoveled some collapsed bricks and rubble, and blocked the streets connected to the main road in a few strokes. Some engineers even did even harder. The shovel pushed the shovel to the house at the corner of the street, and "boomed", and the house was completed when it collapsed.
As the saying goes, soldiers are very fast. Before the Burmese people or the Japanese troops hidden among the people understood what the Chinese people were going to do, the soldiers of the New Regiment quickly advanced along the main road under the cover of several Sherman tanks.
This time the soldiers were much more relieved to advance. At least they didn't have to worry about any "people" suddenly jumping out to cause trouble. If some people really broke in, I'm sorry... I can only treat it as the Japanese army.
As a result, there were really a few unwilling "people" who wanted to make trouble. They hid in the dark corner of the wall waiting for the tank to pass by, and then suddenly broke out with explosive bags... But because there was no "cover" of other people, the result of this practice could only make him become a honeycomb.
The tanks rumbled forward and soon drove out of the city. The artillery troops fired a lot of shells to the Japanese positions at the right time, which was providing fire cover for the new regiment that was moving in. At the same time, it was also interfering with the Japanese army's sight, so that they would not concentrate on blocking the new regiment that was moving along the highway in a short time.
As for the Japanese troops hiding in foxgloves with explosive bags or magnetic anti-tankres ready to explode tanks... this is indeed a problem, because the tanks must be driven in front to cover the infantry. In this dark night, it is difficult for the tanks to find whether people are hiding in the foxgloves in front of them, and the infantry following behind the tanks are even more undetectable because they are blocked by the tanks.
But this problem was quickly solved by Zhang Chi.
The method is actually very simple. Zhang Chi asked the soldiers to bring enough grenades, and they threw grenades all the way forward to the tank... The tank is not afraid of grenade explosion, but people cannot withstand such explosions. So the result of the explosion along the way was that the tank was fine, but the Japanese army that wanted to get close to the tank would be blown away.
Sure enough, along the way, I saw a Japanese corpse appearing from time to time in Xu Sanjiankeng. There was often an explosive pack or magnetic anti-tankrei next to their bloody corpses that had not been detonated.
The New Second Regiment followed behind to cover the two wings of the New First Regiment, so the New First Regiment's tanks and armored vehicles quickly broke through the Japanese defense line as expected and drove into the highway.
But at this time something happened that surprised everyone, including the Japanese army. A unit suddenly appeared on the front of the new regiment that had just walked into the highway. Under the light of the headlights of the tank car, Zhang Chi vaguely saw the black and Japanese army on the road, with at least a few thousand people, including tanks and armored vehicles.
It turned out that this was the tank brigade and the 105th mixed brigade left behind by Kimura Hitaro... Kimura Hitaro was worried that the troops would not rush to reinforce Uro, so he divided the troops into two parts, one was the faster automobile and artillery units, and the other was the slower tank and infantry.
The Japanese army fighting the New First Division rushed to Bogu's 73rd brigade and artillery units, and the tanks and infantry followed had just arrived. It was a coincidence that they collided with the New First Regiment, which broke through the defense line.
The Japanese army, who were walking in front of the road, also found that something was wrong and immediately became nervous. The correct choice for the Japanese army should be to disperse and notify the Japanese army in the rear that there was an enemy situation and be prepared, but they did not do so. They chose to organize defense on the spot... This can be said to be courage or stupid. In such a terrain, it is not different from suicide by organizing defense against the Sherman tanks of the Chinese team.
Since the Japanese army came to the door, Zhang Chi was not polite to them. He immediately issued an order to attack and ordered the artillery liaison officer to contact the artillery to bomb the Japanese army in depth.
This was a lively thing. The first thing that sounded was the machine guns on the tank. As rows of bullets passed, the Japanese army in dense formations on the road immediately screamed and fell down in pieces. Some of them were clever, so they hid behind the tank to avoid bullets. But this could not save their lives... The Japanese Type 97 and Type 95 tanks were also transferred to the direction of Impal by Mudaguchi Ryokan. All the ones left were super light tanks, such as Type 92 and Type 94. The total weight of these tanks was only 3.5 tons, and their weapons were either two machine guns or mortars. This kind of tank was simply toy for Sherman tanks with a total weight of 34 tons.
So the Sherman tank did not fire at all. Even machine gun bullets were saved. The "Gala" was launched and it was very easy to flatten the "iron coffins" of the Japanese army. Needless to say, the Japanese tank crew inside the tank became "sandwich flesh". Many Japanese troops had no time to escape and were crushed under Sherman's tracks.
Some Japanese soldiers wanted to take advantage of this time, carrying explosives to blow up Sherman, but before they could come up, they found that Sherman tanks were thrown into a bunch of things... The Chinese soldiers behind the tank used the tactics of breaking through the Japanese defense line just now. Anyway, the Japanese army did not have long-range equipment to deal with Sherman. If they wanted to blow up Sherman, they could only hold explosives and attack with "****" close-up. The grenades were a good weapon to stop "****" from approaching. The soldiers didn't even have to poke their heads out to observe, they just needed to constantly throw grenades in front of the tank.
So, just a "boom" explosion sounded, and the Japanese army blocked the front were so terrible. Then the tracks of the Sherman tank rolled up again...
This is not the worst for the Japanese army. What's worse is that the Japanese army behind had no idea what was going on in front, especially the Japanese army behind the corner of the road... They thought the troops in front were unfolding, and the gunshots and cannons on the battlefield covered the screams and shouts of the Japanese army in front when they were dying, so they were all waiting calmly behind...
Chapter completed!