"You mean we should form a tank army to deal with the 318th Regiment?”Matsui Shigen said in a deep voice.
"Yes! Our regular divisions will not be able to catch up to their speed. They come and go like the wind, unless they are surrounded by us or they want to attack us.”Nakajima nodded.
Matsui Shigen fell silent after hearing that.
A division from Japan had more than 25000 people, divided into two exploration teams and eight regiments. It was mainly divided into four infantry regiments, artillery regiments, engineer regiments, transport regiments, and cavalry regiments. Other than these eight regiments, there were also some independent units, such as the chariot squadron, reconnaissance squadron, and so on.
This squadron only had 14 tanks, usually 8 tanks and 6 armored vehicles. A division only had so few tanks? This was the real situation back then. Although the firepower of the Japanese pirates was one of the best in Asia, from a global perspective, they were clearly lagging behind. The mechanized level of the Japanese army was seriously lacking, and they had a large number of horses and mules. During the Second World War, only a portion of the main divisions were equipped with tanks. The rest of the divisions did not even have tanks!
Currently, there were 6 divisions, 1 brigade, 2 independent field heavy artillery brigades, 3 field heavy artillery, siege heavy artillery regiments, 7 siege heavy artillery battalions, 1 heavy mortar battalion, 1 heavy artillery squadron, 16 anti-aircraft artillery teams, 3 reserve mountain artillery teams, 21 independent vehicle teams, and other support units.
Even if all the tanks of the division were to be transferred out, they would probably have more than 50 tanks, more than 40 tanks, and enough trucks.
Although the number of tanks was a little less than the enemy's 318th Regiment, he felt that it was not important. What was important was that they had a large number of infantry.
When the time came, as long as these 50 plus tanks could hold off the 318th Regiment, the endless supply of trucks behind would transport the infantry over to form a siege. He believed that they would be able to annihilate this hateful 318th Regiment!
However, they had to mobilize so many chariot squadrons at once, and the divisions were not in the same place. It would take at least a few hours to gather them together. At the same time, they also needed to push out a temporary chariot regiment commander!
In other words, there was not enough time!
He even needed to discuss it with King Jiuyan!
"There's no time! Moreover, it was almost dark. However, this 318th Regiment must be annihilated! Therefore, I will temporarily form a chariot regiment! As for the Sixteenth Regiment, they were on their own! " Even if you sent a division over, they would have escaped long ago…" Matsui sighed.
"Commander…you, are you giving up on the 16th Regiment? Although they were crippled, there were still more than 2,000 people!”Nakajima Kinsaka said with bloodshot eyes.
"If you don't give up, what other good ideas do you have? Only by giving up can there be gains! From tomorrow onwards, the 318th Regiment could no longer be so arrogant!”Shi Gen said coldly.
"Ha Yi!" Nakajima nodded and bowed.
He knew that this was the only way!
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Tang Camp.
Akasaka Taro looked at the yellow sand in front of him, and those tanks that appeared in front of him!
"Hiss…why is the Chinese tank a heavy tank?”Taro Akasaka was stunned when he saw those T34 tanks and Tiger tanks!
These tanks were at least 30 tons, right?
He knew about the tanks in Japan, such as the Type 89 and Type 94 tanks. For example, the Type 89 tank had a total combat weight of 12.7 tons. Weapons:2 Type 91 6.5mm machine guns, 2745 rounds. The main cannon was a 37mm tank cannon. As for the Type 94 tank, the Type 94 ultra-light tank was 3.08 meters long, 1.62 meters wide, and 1.62 meters tall. It weighed 3.2 tons, and a few of the vehicles were equipped with 37mm cannons or machine guns...
As for the Type 95 tank, it was also a light tank.
As for the Type 97 and other types of tanks, they hadn't even been invented in 1937!
"The enemy's tank cannon is at least 70mm and above, right? Baka! How can we resist?" Akasaka Taro was in despair!
"Mortars, blow them up!"
Although he was helpless, he still had to fight.
Seeing that Sun Feng's troops had yet to get close, they began to bombard the advancing tanks with a large number of cannons.
The 60-meter mortar exploded continuously in the midst of the tanks.
However, since these were not specialized anti-tank cannons and the tanks were moving at high speed, most of the tanks were not hit.
Only one or two tanks were hit by the 60 mm or 80 mm mortars!
This was almost the result of the Japanese artillery!
According to the ideal data, in terms of the thickness of the top armor of the tank during World War II, even if the tank was not killed by the mortar, it would be blown up. One to two kilograms of high explosives were enough to destroy the top cover of the T-34 or the engine vent. The heaviest shell of the Type 60 Mortar could reach 1.5 kilograms, and the shell of the Type 82 Mortar could reach nearly 3 kilograms. It was not a problem to smash through the top cover of the T-34.
It seemed that the numbers on paper were wonderful, but the truth was: Not to mention during World War II, even in modern warfare, there were few such cases. There were two reasons for this. One was probability, and the other was waste.
Since it was difficult for mortars to hit a single target directly and accurately, it was rare to use mortars to take down a fixed bunker, let alone a mobile tank with such a large range.
Then, there was the problem of waste. Based on the problem of accuracy, we can imagine that during World War II, if infantry wanted to rely on mortars to fight against tanks, the achievable conditions were exactly the opposite of the iron fist, anti-tank guns, and other weapons that we discussed before. A single cannon against a single vehicle was tantamount to courting death. Only when a large number of mortars were fired at the same time could they possibly achieve results. However, this was equivalent to using mortars as rocket launchers. Which commander would be so stupid as to do so? Instead of using the real rocket launchers, they organized hundreds of mortars for anti-tank operations?
Therefore, out of Sun Feng's 60 tanks, only one or two were unlucky enough to be blown up!
The others were still charging towards the Japanese's camp!
At the same time, the main force behind Sun Feng also stopped. The artillery company quickly pulled up the heavy mortars and began to fire back at the Japanese!
The armored personnel carriers followed the tanks!
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