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Text Chapter 150 Gifts from the British Army in the Hands of the Japanese Army

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    The battlefield launched by the Japanese North China Front lasted throughout the winter of 1941. The Japanese army's large-scale sweeps in the spring of 1942 did not finally stop until the Anti-Japanese War was launched. Continuous brutal sweeps and large-scale use of poison gas caused heavy losses to the people.  The major strategic areas in North China have basically lost their ability to cooperate with the Anti-Japanese War.

    After the entire Anti-Japanese War was launched, except for the troops of the Shanxi-Suiyuan Military Region, which were transferred to the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region in time and the main force was preserved, the remaining departments could only be responsible for rescuing pilots of downed aircraft of the Anti-Japanese Alliance and conducting railway transportation of the Japanese army.  Harassing diversionary tasks.

    Without the cooperation of the major strategic areas in North China, the Anti-Japanese Alliance almost alone bore the pressure of the two strategic groups of the North China Front Army and the Kwantung Army in this battle. Especially after the launch of the campaign, the North China Front Army continued to reinforce its troops, which gave the Anti-Japanese Army  The alliance's operations brought heavy pressure.

    Although Lieutenant General Harem Jun who attended the meeting did not give Okamura Neiji too many promises, he did not agree with Okamura Neiji's judgment. As the chief of staff of the China Expeditionary Force, he came to Peiping this time.  It seems that it was just out of respect for the Kwantung Army, but in terms of actions, it gave the North China Front the greatest support.

    After returning to Nanjing, the Type 94 anti-tank rapid-fire guns, two independent field artillery regiments, an independent field heavy artillery brigade, and four mountain artillery squadrons were mobilized from various divisions and directly affiliated units of the Thirteenth Army in East China.  , after the Eleventh Army concluded the Changsha Battle, another field heavy artillery regiment was allocated to the North China Front Army.

    At the Japanese base camp, Harem Chun's classmate, who was already serving as Prime Minister and Prime Minister, also at the request of Lieutenant General Harem Chun, would capture the Japanese in the Malayan Peninsula after the Malayan Campaign.  More than 70 British two-pound anti-tank guns and thirty-four British 25-pound field guns were also allocated to the North China Front.

    After the Battle of Singapore, the more than 100,000 surrendered British troops were equipped with all the two-pound cannons, dozens of 25-pound and 18-pound field guns, plus hundreds of Vickers heavy machine guns, and all  Ammunition was also sent to Tianjin as soon as possible, and all equipment was provided to the North China Front Army.

    After the start of the Southeast Asian Campaign, the British Far East Army, composed of the British, Indian, Australian, and New Zealand troops, retreated from the Malayan Peninsula to Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. There was basically no organized resistance. For more than fifty days,  , the whole of Malaya and Singapore were lost.

    By the end of the Battle of Singapore, excluding the ongoing but already defeated Battle of the Dutch East Indies, the British troops deployed in the Far East and the troops that subsequently came for reinforcements, plus the Australian and other Commonwealth troops, were completely destroyed, and only the captured  More than 100,000 people and a large amount of equipment were lost.

    In addition, the British army has never been in the habit of destroying equipment when they are defeated, and they were in a panic all the way to the rout. Almost all the equipment equipped by the British army in the Far East was thrown to the Japanese intact. The British gave it generously, and the Japanese  Naturally, there will be no shame in accepting it.

    The situation in North China is not good. The performance of the Type 94 anti-tank rapid-fire guns standard by the Japanese army is out of date, and the number is seriously insufficient. The Japanese, who have always been stingy, will naturally not let such a large number go.  Although it had lagged behind on the North African battlefield, the anti-tank artillery that it thought was sufficient to deal with the thin-skinned Soviet-made tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was left to rust in Southeast Asia.

    As for ammunition, the weapons and equipment discarded by the British Commonwealth Army are piling up. In the Battle of Singapore alone, the 77 bullets captured by the Japanese were enough to keep these machine guns from being fired for a year. Of course, if these machine guns were used up before the bullets were used up,  , without being scrapped.

    The great defeat of the British army in Southeast Asia left the Japanese army with abundant supplies. Except for the lack of tanks, the rest of the artillery was of all sizes and calibers, and most of the ammunition was quite sufficient. The Japanese used the heavy weapons in these equipment  , and then transferred to North China and handed over to the North China Front Army, which asked the Japanese base camp for anti-tank weapons all day long.

    The most important thing is that the number of artillery shells captured by the Japanese army on the battlefield in Southeast Asia is extremely sufficient. The British themselves are short of high-explosive grenades, so naturally they do not capture many, but tens of thousands of armor-piercing shells are enough for the Japanese to use these artillery pieces.  It was scrapped, and the twenty-five-pounder field gun, which used high-explosive grenades, could also be used as a large-caliber anti-tank gun.

    As for whether the use of field guns as anti-tank guns would increase the wear of the barrel rifling and speed up the scrapping of the barrels, the Japanese army did not care too much. Anyway, these guns were captured. Although the overall number was not small,  The overall number is not large for an army.

    It is not cost-effective for the Japanese to open an additional shell production line for this batch of artillery. Therefore, even if all these artillery pieces are scrapped after this battle, it does not matter to the Japanese. This batch of artillery is very important to the Japanese.  ??, it¡¯s just waste utilization.

    In fact, the Japanese during World War II, until they were at the end of their rope, had always dismissed the captured equipment for most of the time, and did not use it quite extensively like their European allies, the Germans. This fact made the national strength even more important.  The weak Japanese's approach was very different from that of their allies in Europe.

    Of course, this has a lot to do with their special combat environment and logistics, and also has a lot to do with the fact that except for the early days of World War II, they spent the rest of their time conducting a series of defensive operations, but this is not necessarily true.  It has something to do with the unique Eastern thinking of the Japanese. It was not until the end of World War II that the rear supply was beyond its capabilities, and the Japanese army began to use captured equipment on a large scale.

    If it hadn't been for the North China Front's repeated requests and Lieutenant General Chun Gong's use of his special relationship with the Prime Minister, this batch of equipment would have been rusting in the warehouse until the defeat and surrender. But this batch of equipment, especially the large number of two  The pounder artillery and the twenty-five-pound field artillery brought considerable trouble to the Anti-Japanese Alliance's breakthrough.

    The Japanese North China Front used these batches of Type 94 anti-tank guns, as well as the British two-pounder guns that were subsequently transferred from the base camp, plus the Type 94 anti-tank guns it transferred, to gather a total of more than 300 anti-tank guns.  In addition to the Taisho 11-year-old infantry flat-fire cannon, the Type 97 20mm automatic cannon was built along the Bayanshutu, Sunit Right Banner, Xianghuang Banner, Zhengxiangbai Banner, and up to Taipusi Banner, Zhenglan Banner, and Duolun.  A long network of anti-tank firepower.

    In some areas that may become the key points of the Anti-Alliance offensive, such as the line between the Yellow Banner and the White Banner, the anti-tank firepower density has even reached more than 30 guns per kilometer, plus the British-made 18th-gun that is used to temporarily serve as an anti-tank gun.  pound and twenty-five-pound field guns, their anti-tank firepower density even exceeded that of the Soviet-German battlefields of the same period.

    These large numbers of anti-tank guns were temporarily produced by the Manchurian arsenal controlled by the Kwantung Army using the North China Front Army's armory before the war, and more than 50,000 Type 99 and Type 93 anti-tank mines were allocated locally.  , coupled with the three anti-tank trenches dug from Zhengxiangbaiqi to the Huade line, formed an insurmountable anti-tank firewall in Neji Okamura's heart.

    The configuration of its anti-tank positions and anti-tank firepower was also adjusted to a certain extent with the participation of officers transferred from the Kwantung Army who participated in the Tongliao and Linxi battles. It adopted the combination of light and dark forts, and the anti-tank firepower points and anti-tank  Large-depth anti-tank firepower points distributed by mine nets to each other.

    The most powerful, although it did not have armor-piercing shells, it used high-explosive grenades, the British-made field guns, which were also a great threat to the Soviet-made light tanks used by the Anti-Alliance, and the two-pounder guns for frontal anti-tank firepower, using the Type 94 rapid-fire cannon and the Taisho 11  The 2012 infantry flat-firing artillery is equipped as firepower on both wings.

    The lightest Type 97 20mm automatic cannon and the Taisho Type 11 infantry flat-fire cannon are used to set up mobile ambush, specifically used to deal with the weakest side and rear armor of the tank. The combination of multiple firepower forms a multi-layered anti-tank that combines both long and near distances.  With firepower points, coupled with anti-tank trenches, dense anti-tank mines, and various anti-tank obstacles, General Okamura Neiji created a quite sumptuous banquet for the armored group offensive prepared by the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    At the same time, in order to deal with the covering infantry, Okamura Neiji also used the British Vickers heavy machine guns allocated from the base camp to build a large number of light and dark machine gun fire points in a cross-fire zone around the anti-tank fire points. This kind of machine gun is very suitable for mechanization.  It was a bit too bulky for the poor Japanese army, but there was no problem when used for defense.

    In fact, the total weight of this kind of machine gun is ten kilograms lighter than the Type 92 heavy machine gun used by the Japanese army. It has a higher rate of fire and its firepower is far more sustained than the Type 92 heavy machine gun. However, the Japanese army does not know that it is.  What I think is, maybe because this kind of machine gun needs a condensation barrel to ensure a high rate of fire, or because a high rate of fire consumes too much ammunition, this kind of machine gun is considered bulky.

    The rich gifts from the British on the battlefield in Southeast Asia, to a certain extent, made up for the weakness of the Japanese army's traditional anti-tank capabilities and mobile air defense capabilities. In the battle that started a few months later, it emerged that both sides of the enemy also used third-party products.  The weapons were fighting each other, and there was a strange scene where the British anti-tank guns fired at the tanks made by the British.

    It's a pity that these two-pound artillery pieces produced by the British were unable to fight against German tanks on the North African battlefield. On the Chinese battlefield, they were also unable to fight against their own infantry tanks that were slow-moving but thick-skinned.  , and even more unable to deal with the medium tanks that have become the mainstream of tank development.

    However, these outdated anti-tank guns posed a great threat to the T-26 light tanks used by the Anti-Japanese Alliance. Two-thirds of the T-26 tanks lost by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in this battle were lost in  They also have this one, even in quantityEven more than the Japanese anti-tank guns, as for the Japanese Type 94 rapid-fire guns, they hardly had much effect.

    In addition to preparing for firepower, he did everything he could to mobilize available equipment and go all out. This time Okamura Neji adjusted his deployment and made quite a big move in the direction of Chadong.  It was very open and aboveboard. Except for the bunker fortifications and the deployment of anti-tank firepower, which were carried out secretly and mostly at night, the construction of other fortifications was never covered up, even when there were anti-union reconnaissance aircraft in the air.  , and he didn't hide it at all.

    Okamura Neji is very stubborn, and there is nothing wrong with insisting on his own judgment, but this does not mean that he is rigid and dogmatic. As a senior commander of the army, having confidence in his own judgment is a prerequisite for becoming a senior commander.  , if you don¡¯t have confidence in your own judgment, how can you command thousands of troops to fight.

    But self-confidence does not mean dogma and rigidity, nor does it mean blind arrogance. He thinks that I am the best in the world and ignores all opponents. In battle, he always considers as comprehensively as possible.  At this point, Okamura Neiji is quite different from other senior Japanese military officers.
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