Bright Sword: Rebirth of Kong Jie

"Emergency, emergency!!!"

The baggage and artillery units that were separated from the main force of the Japanese army and fell into the rear area all sent out emergencies and were attacked by the tank units of the Eighth Route Army, suffering heavy casualties.

All the artillery pieces they carried were completely destroyed or seized by the Eighth Route Army.

When the news reached the Japanese First Army Headquarters in Shanxi, the Japanese commander Yoshio Shinozuka was horrified.

"Impossible, this is absolutely impossible. How could the Eighth Route Army have a tank unit?"

China's industrial production during this period was backward and its military equipment was even worse. In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japan, the National Army spent a lot of money to purchase tanks from abroad and formed an armored corps, but in reality there were only forty or fifty tanks. Later, in the initial Battle of Shanghai, they were basically all destroyed.

Since then, the Chinese military’s tank units have completely become history, and it was not until the founding of New China that the country regained its tank units.

Therefore, throughout the Sino-Japanese War, the tank forces possessed by the Chinese and Japanese armies had absolute combat advantages.

Because the National Army did not have any armored forces that could compete with the Japanese tank forces.

Not to mention the Eighth Route Army, which was once called the beggars' army, the local Eighth Route Army, with backward equipment and scarce ammunition.

Therefore, when this modified tank unit built by Kong Jie himself was unveiled, it can be said that it directly shocked the Japanese troops in the entire Shanxi Province and even in North China.

The Japanese were stunned.

In such a poorly equipped team of the Eighth Route Army.

How could there be a tank unit in this poor mountain valley?

However, the facts are before us. The Eighth Route Army not only had tank units, but also coordinated with the infantry tactics to bypass the rear of the two major divisions of the Japanese army that attacked the independent field detachment, and completely destroyed the Japanese baggage and artillery units that had separated from the main force and were stranded in the rear.

Wherever they appeared, it was as if they were in an empty space, and they killed the Japanese without leaving a single trace.

Here we have to talk about the Japanese army's anti-tank combat capabilities. In fact, according to the Japanese army's military background and industrial base, they are fully capable of equipping their troops with some anti-tank combat weapons.

For example, during the outbreak of the Pacific War, the Japanese field army was equipped with a considerable number of anti-tank equipment, such as anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns.

However, on the Chinese battlefield, the Japanese combat troops were basically rarely equipped with anti-tank combat equipment.

why?

Because according to the intelligence collected by the Japanese army.

The Chinese military has no armored forces, tanks, armored vehicles, self-propelled artillery, etc. It can be said that they do not have any of them.

Since the enemy has no armored forces at all, what is the use of anti-tank combat equipment?

Isn't it a waste of effort?

Therefore, when the Japanese army's regular field army was fighting against the Chinese army, especially the poorly equipped Eighth Route Army, they basically would not be equipped with those useless anti-tank equipment.

The Japs shot themselves in the foot.

Due to the lack of anti-tank equipment, there was not even an anti-tank gun.

Faced with the attack of the Eighth Route Army's modified tank units, they were temporarily unable to resist.

The battle plan of Kong Jie, Li Yunlong and Ding Wei was successful. In less than a day, the modified tank troops that bypassed the Japanese army's rear area relied on their absolute mobility, protection and firepower advantages to completely defeat the Japanese army's baggage troops and artillery troops in the rear area, and completely destroyed the logistics of two major divisions of the Japanese army.