12dz Chapter 466: You Deserve a Punishment
Chapter 466: You Deserve a Punishment
Li Yunlong quickly took the walkie-talkie and asked anxiously:
"What's going on? Zhuzi, explain it to me!"
"Commander, the Chief of Staff said that there was no response to the telegram he sent you, so he asked me to inform you immediately and ask you to stop the attack! A large number of Japanese tanks appeared in the north, so you must stop the attack immediately and wait for the main force to join us!"
"sure?"
"Sure!"
"Roger that!"
After hanging up the walkie-talkie, Li Yunlong immediately ordered Ding Wei, who was making a detour, to stop the attack. However, the 4th Armored Division, which had taken a five-kilometer detour, had already moved to the other side of the hillside and did not respond.
At this time, two armored groups were lurking in two valleys 2 kilometers away from the two hillsides occupied by Fumio Saeki. They were the rd Tank Division!
The 3rd Tank Division was under the command of the Mongolian Army, with Lieutenant General Yoshio Kamitsuki as commander and Major General Masao Chino as chief of staff.
The 3rd Tank Division was exactly the trump card arranged by General Okamura Yasuji. It was secretly transferred from Baotou to Ulanqab and was lurking on the road, ready to launch an attack at any time and annihilate the isolated troops that had penetrated deep into the independent column.
The hastily fleeing northward was the piece of fat meat that lured the independent column deeper. In order to make the performance more realistic, the order to mobilize the 3rd Division was not told to Fumio Saeki.
However, the play was performed realistically enough, and Li Yunlong really took the bait.
小鬼子第三战车师团下辖两个战车旅团,分别是第5旅团（第13、17联队）和战车第6旅团（第8、12联队）。一个机动步兵第3联队,一个机动炮兵第3联队和师团搜索队。
According to the organization of the Japanese tank division, one of its tank regiments had 14 Type 57 light tanks and 56 Type 228 modified medium tanks, and the entire division had Type light tanks and Type medium tanks.
The ideal total number of tanks is 284.
Its tank brigade also has 28 artillery tanks, 108 wheeled vehicles, and 304 trucks;
The motorized infantry regiment also has 222 tracked vehicles (light tanks, armored personnel carriers, etc.), 87 wheeled vehicles and other combat vehicles.
The Japanese were equipped with Type 90 light tanks and Type 97 medium tanks, which were "stars" that often appeared on the battlefields of the War of Resistance.
However, this was the first time I saw the Japanese artillery tanks.
The artillery tank equipped by the Japanese Third Tank Brigade was the "Type 1937 Artillery Tank", which was first designed in .
After the Manchurian Incident, the Japanese discovered that they needed larger caliber artillery than the standard 47 mm (1.85 in) and 57 mm (2.24 in) guns to deal with Chinese fortifications and bunkers.
1939年，小鬼子首先在97式“九七式”战车底盘上研制了一种新炮塔，装备有41式75毫米（2.95英寸）山炮。
After a series of improvements and trade-offs, the final "Type 16 Gun Carriage" weighs about 100 tons, is equipped with a Mitsubishi Type 12 air-cooled V-240 diesel engine with a power of 179 horsepower ( kilowatts), and is equipped with a boom suspension system.
As a result, the Type 100 had a range of about 80 km (44 mi) and a top speed of 27 km/h ( mph) on a flat road.
The two-person turret of the Type 75 tank vehicle can rotate in all directions and is equipped with an improved Type mm gun.
The turret was armed with high-explosive shells, and from late 1942 armor-piercing shells were added.
To deal with infantry targets, the turret was also equipped with a coaxial 7.7 mm (0.31 in) Type machine gun, which fired tracer bullets to help the gunner determine the target's distance.
The welded hull sections feature a sloped design, providing protection thickness ranging from 12 mm (floor, deck, roof) to 50 mm (front, nose) (0.47-1.97 inches).
After the Japanese went to war with Country M, their home island was blockaded and all kinds of resources were cut off.
Therefore, the number of Type 2 tank gun vehicles produced was extremely limited, and basically all of them were supplied to the 3rd Tank Division.
The 3rd Tank Division was famous for its strong men and horses in the Japanese army, but it did not have any outstanding combat records.
The three divisions were originally set up in North China and Northeast China to guard against polar bears, but due to a series of reasons, no fierce fighting occurred between the armored forces of both sides.
The commander of the 3rd Tank Division, Yoshio Uetsuki, had always been upset that he had not been given the opportunity to show his skills. Finally, when the Kwantung Army was mobilized, he got the opportunity he had been dreaming about.
Shangyue Liangfu received an order from General Okamura to transfer from Zhangjiakou to Ulanqab, and then hide during the day and move out at night on the only way from Datong to Ulanqab.
Maintain absolute silence and use the grass for camouflage.
The Japanese were really ruthless. They hid in the valleys or inside armored vehicles during the day. The high temperature of 50 or 60 degrees inside the vehicles almost killed dozens of them, but they managed to survive for a whole day and a night.
If they had not prepared to launch an attack and removed their camouflage, the reconnaissance planes of the Independent Column Aviation Division might not have been able to spot them.
"Hard work pays off", and finally the advance team of the independent column, which was alone and deep in the territory, attacked Datong.
What surprised Shangyue Liangfu even more was that the pursuit force of the independent column actually only had two tank regiments, with only more than 160 tanks.
Moreover, according to his analysis, they were running low on shells.
The 284rd Tank Division has 28 tanks, artillery vehicles, a large number of wheeled armored vehicles, infantry, etc.!
He had absolute confidence in defeating the tank regiment of the independent column.
Yoshio Uetsuki took command personally and picked up the intercom.
"Warriors of the Empire, let us, the Third Tank Division, create history today, defeat the Independent Column Armored Forces, and break their myth of invincibility! Kill them!"
All the Japanese tanks in the valley came out, and the artillery vehicles climbed up to the high ground, aiming at Ding Wei's Fourth Armored Division that had appeared on the side of the hillside.
The 3rd Mobile Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Mobile Artillery Regiment had already set up mountain artillery, infantry artillery and anti-tank guns on the hillside.
There was a "boom".
The Japanese mobile artillery's mountain artillery opened fire first, and a shell landed in front of Ding Wei's tank.
"Which direction did the shell come from!"
"Report to the division commander, is it 10 o'clock in the left front?"
"Damn it, are there any Japanese positions there?"
Before Ding Wei could finish cursing, a large number of Japanese tanks rushed out from the valley, like a group of yellow dung beetles, crushing the grass into pieces.
Ding Wei picked up the intercom on the tank, but found that there was no response. He was so angry that he slapped it twice before it returned to normal. "It really deserves a beating!"
"At ten o'clock, the Japanese armored forces appeared on the defense line. Everyone disperse. The 1st Battalion of the No. 5 Tanks will go around the hillside and kill the Japanese artillery. The Tiger tanks will go up to attack the tanks!"