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Text Chapter 151 Yang Zhen¡¯s Strongest Rival

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    As a very strategic visionary, but not as arrogant as the Japanese generals, Okamura Neiji has always attached great importance to his opponents no matter who they are. He is also used to fighting in battles.  Make more preparations, instead of being like other Japanese generals who not only ignore their opponents, but also often go all the way to the end.

    The reason why he did this was not only to be fully prepared according to his judgment, but also to conceal many things if he didn't want to. In fact, in his heart, he also hoped that the Anti-Japanese Alliance could change the direction of the main attack after detecting these situations.  , the original target of Suidong was changed to enter the Pingjin area via Chanan.

    In this way, he can completely use the stacked mountains of Damaqun Mountain, Yanshan Mountain and Jundu Mountain between Chanan and Pingjin to the north of the Great Wall to consume the effective forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the endless attack one after another.  In mountain warfare, it would be much easier for the North China Front than resisting the impact of the Anti-Union armored clusters on the grasslands and Gobi landscapes of Chadong.

    Although the mountains in Chanan have been called the gateway to Pingjin since ancient times and are crucial to the North China Front, Okamura Neiji believes that if the opponent's firepower and equipment are very strong, if the Anti-Japanese Alliance can be dragged into  Among the mountains in Chanan, it is the most beneficial to the North China Front.

    In addition to tactical considerations, the strategic risks of placing the main force on the Chadong front line are also something Okamura Neiji must consider. Although he thinks his judgment is not wrong, for him, the commander of the North China Front,  That said, it is necessary to make more preparations.

    In addition to two divisions and an independent mixed brigade, he did not dare to put too many troops in Chadong. His defense focus, to a certain extent, was actually Chanan, which is the gateway to the North China Plain and the Pingjin area.  , he is the commander of the North China Front Army, not the commander of the Mongolian garrison.

    He placed an entire field division on the front line of Zhangjiakou just to use it as a mobile force. Once the main attack direction of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was Suidong according to his judgment, this division could compete with the troops deployed in northern Shanxi, as well as the original  The defenders cooperated with the anti-alliance attacking troops.

    If your judgment is wrong and the Anti-Japanese Alliance's westward direction is just a false shot, and its real main attack direction is ultimately Chanan, then the divisions deployed on the front line of Zhangjiakou can be combined with the independent second brigade deployed to the north to coordinate with each other.  Use mountains and terrain to block attacks to buy time for the front army to mobilize reinforcements.

    So as long as the defenders in the Zhangjiakou area can buy a certain amount of time for the front army to mobilize troops, the front army can use the Pingzhang Railway and the large number of concentrated cars to transfer the second-line troops deployed in the Pingjin area and even along the Jinpu Road as quickly as possible.  Fight on the front lines.

    Okamura Neiji believed that his deployment actually killed two birds with one stone, and could adapt to changes in the war situation. If the main target of the Anti-Japanese Alliance was not Suidong, he would have a contingency measure in his hands, and if his judgment was accurate, the deployment  The troops on the front line in Zhangjiakou can also be used as mobile forces.

    If your own deterrence strategy works and can attract the main force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance from Suidong to Chanan, then such a deployment can form a three-sided encirclement and annihilate the main offensive force of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in the Chanan Mountains. Of course, the premise is  It can attract the main force and real target of the Anti-Japanese Alliance to the Chanan front line.

    Although this is for Okamura Neiji, the commander of the North China Front, he is very clear about the risks involved, and he is even more aware of what will happen if Chanan, which is the gateway to Pingjin and North China, is lost and the opponent is allowed to enter the North China Plain.  as a result of.

    This is not just that the Communist Army in North China will rely on the equipment provided by the Anti-Japanese Alliance to recover in a short period of time, and North China, which has become stable after many brutal raids, will fall back into the situation last year. More importantly, it may  Throw away the Japanese troops in the North China Plain, the most important grain and cotton production base in China.

    The Anti-Japanese Alliance is not a communist army with poor equipment. They have aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery. Beyond the line between Beijing and Tianjin is the endless and undefeable North China Plain. This terrain is very conducive to the rapid breakthrough of their armored groups, but it is extremely unsafe.  Good for defense.

    At that time, the Imperial Army did not take advantage of mechanization to rampage across the North China Plain and capture most of Hebei in a short period of time. Judging from this battle, the Anti-Japanese Army was obviously better than the Japanese army in fighting against tank groups.  Research deeper.

    Once it enters the North China Plain, as long as there is sufficient fuel, their tank cluster can rush to the edge of the Yellow River in one go, or even cross the Yellow River into the Huanghuai Plain. The North China Plain is the main base for grain and other agricultural products, especially cotton and oil, for the Japanese invaders.  , is what Japan urgently needs to maintain the war. Once the Anti-Japanese Alliance breaks into it, it will be a heavy blow to Japan's overall strategy.

      Although the risk of doing so is very high, the layers of mountains north of Pingjin have become the best barrier for the Japanese army at this moment. The mountainous terrain is also the best battlefield to block the anti-alliance tank clusters, Okamura Neiji  His purpose was not just to defend his own territory. If he could gather and annihilate the anti-alliance attack forces in the Chanan Mountains, it would be a great achievement for him.

    But before the battle started, and before the main attack direction of the Anti-Japanese Alliance could be truly determined, Okamura Neiji did not dare to place all his hopes on his own intuition, so the obvious focus of his troop deployment was  Chadong was actually still in Chanan, but its deployment of troops in Chanan was placed in a very advantageous position. After all, it was Yang Zhen's opponent that valued him very much, and it was also the most important enemy that Yang Zhen encountered during the entire Anti-Japanese War.  A strong opponent, Okamura Neji's intuition is quite accurate and he is quite well prepared. This series of adjustments will bring considerable battle losses to the upcoming offensive of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    The price paid by the Anti-Japanese Alliance in this battle exceeded the price paid by the previous battles with the Kwantung Army, and ultimately led to the heavy losses of the T-26 tanks with the worst protection that the Anti-Japanese Alliance participated in this battle. After this battle, all  It is withdrawn from frontline combat and converted to training use, or modified for other uses.

    Although the battle was finally won, it also paid an extremely heavy price. The entire army had to rest and recuperate for nearly a year before Yang Zhen regained his strength. After the war, Yang Zhen's evaluation of Okamura Neiji was far higher than that of General Yoshijiro Umezu, the commander of the Kwantung Army.  Above, he believed that this was the strongest opponent he had encountered after re-emerging in the Anti-League.

    It is the toughest opponent that the Anti-Japanese Alliance will encounter when the entire army moves south in the future. In addition to the heavy losses for the Anti-Japanese Alliance, this victory also has some luck factors in Yang Zhen's opinion.  If the opponent had not misjudged the number and performance of the anti-alliance tanks, and had used the T-26 tanks that the Japanese army was familiar with as the main equipment of the anti-alliance forces, while ignoring the new tanks that the anti-alliance forces might equip, in this battle, who would win in the end?  I really can¡¯t say for sure.

    Although there were only ninety T-34 tanks equipped by the Anti-Japanese Alliance that participated in the war, the protective power of these ninety tanks far exceeded the expectations of the T-34 tanks of the Japanese Anti-Japanese Alliance main battle tanks. Their protective power was quite good compared to  The maneuverability played a decisive role in tearing apart the Japanese blocking line.

    Coupled with the more than one hundred Matilda II infantry tanks that were eventually invested in the direction of Chadong, relying on their own protective capabilities, the Japanese anti-tank firepower was helpless and broke through the dense Japanese anti-tank defense line from the front. Without this  With two types of tanks, the anti-alliance armored cluster is likely to exhaust its own blood in front of the fire hedgehog-like anti-tank firepower deployed by Neji Okamura.

    The shields made by the British army themselves were ultimately unable to stop the spears and two-pound anti-tank guns they made. It was almost useless against the T-34 tanks at the beginning and the Matilda II infantry tanks that were later put in.  With any effect, although many T-26 tanks were destroyed, they were still unable to penetrate the armor of the two main tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    Although the British and Japanese field guns that lack special armor-piercing ammunition have large calibers, the high-explosive grenades they use are almost useless against these two tanks. Although they also pose some threats, they are nothing more than  It's just a threat. Although the Type 38 field artillery uses Type 95 armor-piercing grenades on the battlefield, the weak armor-piercing ability of this shell and its too rare quantity pose no threat to these two tanks.

    Before the war, Okamura Neiji proposed to the base camp the requirement to produce some armor-piercing bullets for the Japanese-made Seventy-Five Field Gun to meet battlefield needs. In the end, because the use of armor-piercing bullets for ordinary field guns would reduce the service life of the barrel, he was rejected by the Navy.  Army officials competing for steel resources refused.

    For the top brass of the Army who are at a disadvantage in the competition with the Navy for steel resources, this method of reducing the life of artillery is not cost-effective. The Army has only a few steel resources and must be careful in producing armaments. And these artillery are very important to the Army.  It is still quite important.

    At present, the Army's powerful Type 96 150mm howitzers have all been discontinued. They are still willing to take the risk of greatly reducing the life of the artillery barrels to waste these active artillery pieces that are now quite valuable to the Army.  , when the Japanese woke up after this battle, it was already too late.

    If the Japanese base camp was more generous before the war and produced some armor-piercing shells for the most powerful British twenty-five-pound field guns or the 38-type field guns, so that these field guns could truly take on the heavy burden of anti-tank, they would be able to  Destroy the two toughest and thickest tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance.

    Judging from the number of artillery deployed by Okamura Neji and the intensity of anti-tank firepower points, the outcome of this battle may have to be rewritten. At least Yang Zhen's armored assault tactics will cause much greater losses, and even the armor of the Anti-League  It is very likely that the troops will be injured.?

    Even so, the losses of the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in this battle were quite huge compared to the overall number of tanks before the Anti-Japanese War. If the Soviets had not provided a batch of captured German tanks, the Kwantung Army would not have  If the tactics of the North China Front are adopted, then at the end of this battle, judging from the number of losses on the battlefield, the armored forces of the Anti-Union Alliance will be at least half disabled.

    Therefore, during the post-war review, Yang Zhen believed that the victory of the Anti-Japanese Alliance in this battle was somewhat due to luck. If the Japanese army had obtained information about the two new tanks of the Anti-Japanese Alliance before the war and adopted countermeasures, this battle would have been carried out according to Okamura's instructions.  With Neji's deployment, I'm afraid the Resistance Alliance will suffer a big loss.

    Because of the alliance between the Japanese and the Germans, the Japanese are not very unfamiliar with these two main opponents that the Germans encountered in the North African battlefield and the Soviet-German battlefield. And with the industrial strength of the Japanese, once they learn about this resistance  The Alliance is also equipped with these two types of tanks and will be fully prepared.

    Although it is too late to develop new anti-tank weapons, they can produce a batch of armor-piercing projectiles for a large number of field guns, and at the same time speed up the production of new anti-tank guns. In this way, the anti-tank armor can  The threat to the troops was much greater. It can be said that the Japanese lost this battle not on strategy and tactics, but ultimately on their own stinginess.
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