Chapter 1743: The Power of New Tactics
Seeing the US military approaching with different tactics than before, the front commanders were still a little happy. They had fought with the US military for enough times and knew that the greatest power of the tank was in terms of degree. When a high-operating tank, whether it was a rocket launcher or a single-soldier cluster bomb, there was no good way for such a high-level tank. However, once the tank was tripped by a tank trench or other things and lost its maximum guarantee, it would become a target and be much easier to deal with.
However, the 6th Army following behind was a huge threat. Even if they hid behind the tank, after entering the range of the rocket launcher, they would inevitably move forward to ensure the safety of the tanks, because tanks are also their amulets. If they lose the tanks, they will no longer have a barrier and will be exposed to the machine guns on their positions.
18 kilometers away from Juno, Japan faced the forefront of the US military. In fact, they have suffered three attacks from the US military in the past week of combat. With the help of a unique geographical advantage and part of luck, this sudden position successfully resisted the attack of the US military.
However, during this attack by the US military, these sudden positions became the focus of the US military's attack. There were US troops in three directions in this position. There were 4 companies in front, 3 on both sides. There were a total of 10 companies of US troops, more than 1,000 people and only 20 tanks. However, this time, it put huge pressure on Japan.
In fact, when the US military was preparing for artillery fire, the Japanese front-line already knew that the target of the US military's attack must be these sudden areas. These sudden areas were highlighted by the war relationship. If these areas were defended, even if they only defended half of them, the US military's offensive could be delayed for another 3 days. Even after 3 days, even if one of them is defended, the US military will not be able to advance significantly even if it is progressing smoothly in other areas. They must consider the issue of the rear path.
In order to defend this place, Japan not only added another squadron to the original two squadrons, but also concentrated high-density rocket launchers to these places, at least 5 times the density of the previous ones. Even if the opponent uses dense tank camps, they can resist and even kill the enemy on a large scale. However, the Americans used other methods to carry infantry with tanks.
The relationship between tanks taking care of infantry did not accelerate, and they did not run to the highest level of US tanks, maintaining a degree of about 15 kilometers. In this way, the infantry can keep up with it when they run a little, and there is no disconnection. Therefore, from a distance, the tanks and infantry are very closely integrated. This closeness not only increases the protection level of the tank, but also makes it very difficult to defend, because the tank trench is almost useless.
No matter how many individual tank trenches are hidden, the fast tanks cannot be visible, because the tanks are made of periscopes, and the angles cannot be without dead corners. It is also optical imaging when viewing things. There is a certain deviation. In the tank, only the general target can be seen.
But the infantry is different. Their sight is unblocked. Those tank trenches are definitely not as they were the previous trap. The tank trenches built over seven days were even supported by bamboo and wood, and covered up on them. But even so, they cannot be completely covered. After all, things can be seen from the naked eye. Such a long tank trenches are impossible to block, even if they are carefully set up.
Even the carefully constructed tank trenches cannot block the traces. Not to mention these hastily excavated individual tank trenches, attacks every three days and the volley of tens of thousands of heavy artillery can basically destroy most of the tank trenches. These individual tank trenches are temporarily built by the Japanese army at night, and at most a layer of straw is laid on them, which doesn't look so obvious. This may be able to block the observation of high-profile tanks, but can be easily seen by infantry with the naked eye.
There are at least 20 tanks on the front of this sudden position in Japan, but there are at least 70 tank trenches in individual tanks. However, these tanks easily bypassed these tank trenches. Even if they had spared a little, they did not reduce at all. When the artillery fire attacked, the tanks and infantry were still 80 meters away. In just a few minutes, they gradually approached the position and soon entered the 50 meters area.
The 5oo-meter area is already considered a threat area. The main weapon of the tank is machine guns, and their range is above 1oo-meter. However, they have not many targets on the front, so they have never fired. As for the infantry, they just cover the tanks and see if there are any tank trenches in front of them, so they can remind the tanks that the rocket launcher that really threatens the tanks is in the 2oo-meter area, which is less than this time.
In the area of about 50 meters, the front line commander could no longer help and ordered the machine gun position to start firing. At the first time of ordering, the machine gun fired. Although the machine gun did not have much shooting range, it was impossible to not shoot at this time, so that the tank could easily pass through the front position and enter the attack area.
The machine gun bullets passed through a few hundred meters of area, making the tank crackle, but they could not break through the tank's defense. After the tank was attacked, it was like a dream. The four machine guns above began to turn and swept towards the position. When the tank suppressed the machine gun, the infantry seemed to be well-trained. They lay down almost at the same time as the machine gun sounded, and waited for the tank to block the front of the tank, and then continued to advance under the obstruction of the tank. The huge tanks could block a large area of shooting on the front of the position, which was enough to ensure the safety of the infantry behind them.
The steel protection of the tank is enough to block the machine gun's bullets. When the four machine guns on the tank are condescending, the frontal positions can be suppressed. One side has strong protection, all wrapped in steel, while the other side is the Japanese army hiding in the position. Due to this line of defense, the two sides have been fighting for too long, and most of the bunkers have been killed by long-range artillery fire. Even if there are wreckage, it is not suitable for protection. Therefore, the machine gun position is in the trench, and at most sandbag protection is added. Such protection does not have a good protective effect on the attacking infantry, let alone the machine gun of the tank.
Such protection cannot stop the suppression of the tanks at all. Some of them cannot raise their heads to attack. Some of them attack forcibly, facing the dense attacks of the tanks, they soon lost a lot. Some machine gunners were killed, and even some machine guns were attacked by bullets, some were destroyed, and a large number of machine gun positions were forced to remain silent.
The machine gun fire did not do anything. It may be that at the beginning, the sudden attack caused several soldiers who had no time to dodge to the ground. However, when the US soldiers in front of the tank were all lying down and there was no shooting range, the machine guns had little damage to the infantry, but instead they were hit by the tank's counterattack.
What to do? This is the thought of the frontline officers. The confrontation between Japan and the United States has been going on for several months. They have a relatively good understanding of the strength of both sides. They also knew before that machine guns could not deal with tanks. His machine gun attack was also to deal with the infantry following the tank. In his opinion, this attack by the US military seemed to have played a huge role in tanks. Tanks cover infantry and infantry cover tanks. If these infantry are not removed, it will be difficult to pose a direct threat to tanks.
Now it seems that the US military has already done targeted training. The infantry are very smart and have been blocked by tanks. Even if the machine guns are not suppressed, it is unlikely that they will significantly kill the US military. Not to mention that now, machine guns are suppressed. In addition to some machine guns on the edge, they can also play a role, and there is basically nothing left.
The guards on the position were a deputy brigade leader. He carried two infantry squadrons of the brigade and another infantry squadron that had just been added. There were more than 70 people in total. The guards were guarding such a small hill that was only 100 meters high. It was with the help of the strong mountain that they blocked the US military's repeated attacks, but at this moment, he was a little at a loss.
On his position, there are at least 8o bazooka, but the range of the bazooka is between 15o meters and 2o meters. To ensure a hit, it needs to be around 1o meters. 1o meters is definitely within the range of the opponent's rifle. From aiming to shooting, it cannot be achieved overnight. It must be a few seconds, or even more than ten seconds. This time is enough for infantry to shoot. In other words, if the bazooka is forced to shoot, the bazooka hands will be in extreme danger.
The same scene also appeared on other positions. Without exception, everyone was stumped by the new tactics of the US military. Under the obstruction of the tank, this group of mixed troops successfully crossed the most dangerous area of 60 to 200 meters and gradually approached the position. Whether it was more than 200 individual tank trenches or 150 machine guns densely spread on the position, it did not produce any effect. Instead, because of the tank's counterattack, the loss was lost. It can be said that the first initial contact was heavy and no great damage was caused.
"Go up, anti-tank operation immediately!" When the tank approached the 200m area, the officers on the front line could no longer bear it. If the tanks approached the position, there would be no way. They could only fight to the death. There were only 7 tanks on the front, and he didn't care about the other two tanks. He was going to put in a rocket launcher at one time. There were only 7 tanks in the threat. He killed these 7 tanks. There were nearly a thousand people on the front battlefield, and he was sure to keep them. (To be continued.) 8
Chapter completed!