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The devils had reason to "panic". They never thought that the Eighth Route Army would attack their encirclement from the rear.

This is also one of the characteristics of mechanized army operations.

If it is an ordinary army, because its breakthrough speed and marching speed are not fast...

The two actually affect each other:

If the breakthrough speed is not fast, more and more reinforcements from the enemy will arrive, which will make the breakthrough more and more difficult, which in turn will affect the marching speed.

If the marching speed is not fast, the enemy's rear will have more time to prepare, which will affect the speed of the troops' penetration of the enemy's depth.

In the end, the mutual influence of the two will enter a vicious circle and easily make the interspersed troops fall into a quagmire.

The mechanized troops, because of their strong firepower, sufficient ammunition and fast speed, avoid these shortcomings and enter a virtuous circle: strong firepower can quickly break through the enemy's defense line, save time and increase the marching speed, and the fast marching speed in turn makes the enemy have no reaction time. , so it will reduce the difficulty for the troops to continue to break through in depth, and even seize a lot of materials and ammunition to supplement the troops.

For example, at this time, it was impossible for Hong Chengjun's fourth battalion to appear behind Hatta Shibu without Hatta Shibu noticing it. At least the troops attacked by the devils would report the information to Hatta Shibu.

But the mechanized troops did just that, and Hong Chengjun's fast penetration made it too late for the devil's intelligence agency to respond... Part of the reason for the slow response of the devil's intelligence agency was that it was difficult to find out when it was dark, and another Part of the reason is that most of the troops deployed in the hinterland were puppet troops, whose reaction speed was already slow, and they surrendered in large numbers. Which are true and which are false.

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As a result, an extremely rare scene in the history of the Anti-Japanese War occurred: the troops of the Eighth Route Army ran into the devils who were ambushing in the opposite direction from behind.

The battle commanded by Hong Chengjun went even more smoothly than the battle of the first battalion.

The reason is that the Fourth Battalion hit the devils from the rear, and the front of the devils' defense was to the north, and the firepower of heavy equipment such as tanks and armored vehicles was directed to the back, and the rear was full of fragile shoulders.

However, Hong Chengjun's fourth battalion drove tanks and half-track vehicles at the front, and a small number of backpacks were placed at the rear for mobile operations.

If you stick this end up, the devil will be in a mess immediately.

Although the well-trained devils organized a counterattack in a second... At this time, the decision to counterattack was correct, because the devils were formed in an anti-fan shape with their guns facing north. Incapable of fighting or even deploying troops, only by launching a counter-offensive can it be possible to buy some preparation time for other troops.

Therefore, the devils immediately gave up their shoulders and launched an attack on the mechanized units of the Eighth Route Army with pure infantry.

However, how can the attack of pure infantry withstand the impact of mechanized troops?

Although Hong Chengjun didn't know much about the situation in front of him, he also knew that this was not the time to hesitate. Regardless of whether there were wolves or tigers ahead, he should go in and take a look, otherwise he might miss the opportunity.

Therefore, when the enemy launched a counterattack, Hong Chengjun also ordered without hesitation: "Attack, beat the devil back!"... "Yes!"

"Yes!"

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Thus, the Eighth Route Army launched an attack on the devils amidst the roar of tanks and half-track motors.

On the plain, the two armies flocked towards each other like a tide.

But the devil's army is truly indomitable...

The mechanized units of the Eighth Route Army continued to shoot in the direction of the enemy while advancing.

Mortars, anti-personnel bazookas, machine guns, and even directional mines.

The use of directional mines to fight is a characteristic of the Fourth Battalion, which is what Hong Chengjun found out in training.

Hong Chengjun thought of this tactic when the infantry and tanks cooperated.

Wang Xuexin said during the training: "One of the key points of infantry-tank coordination is that infantry cannot allow enemy infantry to approach our tanks. Once close to our tanks, due to its many blind spots in firepower and easy accidental injuries, the tanks are basically in a state of being unable to fight back. You can only wait for death. Pay special attention to this when fighting in the dark!"

Hong Chengjun could understand what Wang Xuexin said, but after thinking about it, he still felt uncomfortable.

This is easy to say but very difficult to implement in practice.

What if the devil infantry pretended to be dead?

What if hiding in a pit or under a dead body?

They just need to wait for the Eighth Route Army tanks or half-track vehicles to drive up and ignite the fuse!

Hong Chengjun had no doubts that the devils would do this. They had played this way a lot on the battlefield, and sometimes even rushed into the trenches of the Eighth Route Army with explosives in their arms.

If we fight like this, does it mean that the mechanized troops need to worry most, not the devil's shoulders, not the devil's armored vehicles, or the devil's tanks, but the devil's infantry?

To solve this problem, is it necessary to slow down the mechanized troops and let the infantry check whether the enemy is dead one by one? !

Finally, Hong Chengjun came up with a solution: directional mine.

Our troops are all on halftracks anyway, aren't they?Half-track vehicles are armored on the front, rear, left, and right sides, and even if the front tires blow out, it will not have much impact on combat... Half-track vehicles mainly rely on track drives, and they can still fight when the tires are blown out, but at a slower speed.

Then why don't you hit his mother with steel balls?

So Hong Chengjun used directional mines in training.

This tactic is mainly to shoot enemy infantry in batches to prevent them from approaching our tanks and half-track armored vehicles, and it just comes in handy at this time.

I saw that the soldiers of the fourth battalion were shooting the devils with machine guns and mortars, and at the same time they were constantly throwing directional mines forward.

Once the directional mine exploded in front of it, thousands of steel balls would immediately pop up to perform an indiscriminate "baptism" on the living and dead around.

Under such an attack, the devil's infantry could hardly even effectively "block". When Hong Chengjun rushed to the hinterland of the devil's defense line, he found that the devil's tanks and armored vehicles were making a difficult U-turn.

At that moment, Hong Chengjun understood that he had rushed into the devil's ambush circle from behind by mistake.

How could Hong Chengjun be polite to devils, and immediately ordered: "Everyone! Keep going forward, and no one is allowed to stop until the end!"

Hong Chengjun knew that if he broke through the enemy's ambush from the other side, it meant that there were enemies in other directions.

At this time, most of the enemies from other directions have already sent reinforcements here.

With the usual fighting method of devils, most of their reinforcements are outflanked by two wings.

In other words, once the mechanized troops stop, they will easily fall into the encirclement of devils. .

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