Li Yuhang's second regiment advanced almost at a speed of 30 kilometers per hour.

This speed... If we think now, it is indeed not fast. You can drive more than 100 yards on the highway, which means you have a speed of more than 100 kilometers per hour. What is the speed of 30 kilometers per hour?

But the problem is that this is the speed of combat advancement, and it is also promoted under the highway conditions in the 1940s... Due to road conditions in this era, cars can run 5 or 60 yards, and the maximum speed of the "Sheerman" tank is only 38 kilometers per hour.

In other words, the tanks were almost constantly advancing forward.

The reason for the rapid advancement is that the tank troops will place a reconnaissance unit in front of the tank troops. This reconnaissance unit is equipped with m3 Stuart tanks and m3 semi-tracked armored vehicles... Compared with the Sherman tank, although the Stuart tank is slightly insufficient in firepower and defense, it is fast and light in weight... The speed reaches 58 kilometers per hour, and its weight is less than half that of the Sherman tank.

Obviously, such speed and weight are very suitable for reconnaissance. Fast speed means it can run ahead and clear obstacles for the main force behind. Light weight means it can pass through more bridges and can get off the car to maintain it when it is discovered that the main force behind it is easy to pass through.

Not to mention the speed of the m3 half-track truck, its maximum speed reaches 64 kilometers per hour, and each half-track truck can carry a squad of infantry and equipment. Even the half-track truck has modifications of mortars and howitzers. Needless to say, these things can play a role, just provide follow-up infantry and necessary artillery cover for the "Stuart" tank.

In fact, with such firepower, it is more than enough to use the checkpoints along the road or the Japanese bunkers... The Chinese team advanced towards Shenyang along the road and railway, and the Japanese army had checkpoints and bunkers along the way, especially railways, which were several miles apart or at the commanding heights.

If these bunkers or artillery towers are built more solidly, to be honest, it will be quite difficult for the * team to continue to advance. After all, the area is necessary and the dangerous area is under the control of the Japanese army, and it will take time to break through.

but……

These bunkers and artillery towers of the Japanese army... were not built to defend against tanks or artillery, but to defend against guerrillas.

As mentioned before, the Japanese army's troops in the Northeast were extremely empty, and often there were only a dozen or even a few Japanese garrisons in a village.

It is undoubtedly very dangerous to use such a small amount of troops to station a village... It is okay in the daytime, but it is difficult for the people or the guerrillas to get close to the Japanese army in broad daylight. Although the number of people is dozens or even hundreds of times that of the Japanese army. But it is different at night. The moon is dark and the wind is high, and you sneak into the Japanese army's garrison... Not to mention a few, there are more than a dozen Japanese troops, and dozens of Japanese troops are probably drowned in the sea of ​​people.

So the Japanese army thought of a solution, which was to build artillery towers and bunkers in various villages.

In fact, this method is also very effective. The people and guerrillas basically have no cannons in their hands. If they have cannons, they are also local cannons. They can't penetrate artillery towers and bunkers at all. So the Japanese army can act out in the daytime and return to artillery towers or bunkers at night to defend, and their lives are still enjoyable.

However, it is precisely because the people and the guerrillas only have earthen artillery, so the Japanese artillery towers and bunkers have no quality... Most of them are brick and wood structures, and some are even civil structures, which are similar to the people's earthen houses, built with clay walls and logs and beams.

These artillery towers and bunkers are OK to deal with the people and guerrillas, but when they deal with the tanks and artillery in the hands of the expeditionary army... they will become a pile of ready-made graves.

The "Stuart" tank "rumbled" and could collapse a large piece of the Japanese bunker and artillery tower in a few "boom"... Although the "Stuart"'s 37mm artillery is not very powerful, it is still okay to use brick walls and earthen walls, and it is really not possible... The Japanese army basically has no anti-tank equipment in their hands, and it is no problem to drive the Japanese bullets to the bunkers and shoot.

Not to mention, there was really such a fight. A tank drove to a position only one meter away from the Japanese bunker, then adjusted the muzzle to aim at the fort hole and fired a fierce shot...

Later, someone asked what these tankers thought. It was only one meter away. How dangerous it was. If the Japanese rushed out of the bunker with grenades or explosive bags at all costs, the tank would not have time to react? What's more, does it take to shoot the shells so close to the hole? There would be no big problem with shooting the shells into the holes more than ten meters away!

The tank crew answered this: "Don't worry, our machine guns are ready for a long time. If the Japanese dare to rush out of the bunker, one of them will be killed and the other will not be close! As for why the tanks are driven so close to the fire... We just want to hear the Japanese's desperate screams before they die. They were sealed in the bunker and could not run away. We just waited for us to slowly adjust the guns to aim at them, and then with a "boom", the shell exploded inside, blowing up the inside a mess, not to mention how happy it was!"

Zhang Chi is a person who came from the battlefield, but when he heard this, he still felt a little embarrassed.

This is not just a war, but a "cat plays with mice". If the Americans hear it, they are afraid they will say something like "inhumanity". But Zhang Chi can understand the soldiers' actions... There is only one reason for them to do this, that is, they hate the Japanese, especially the Japanese on Chinese land.

Of course, this is just some more extreme exceptions. Most of the time, the soldiers remain calm and use the safest method to solve these bunkers and artillery towers.

There are many solutions, such as using tanks to fight or using the m3 crawler car to modify the m21 self-propelled mortar and m17 multi-purpose gun car... The so-called self-propelled mortar and multi-purpose gun car are to install mortars and howitzers on the chassis of the m3 crawler car. This is actually the more primitive self-propelled artillery. They are obviously not as good as "Stuart" in defense, but their firepower is much stronger than "Stuart". For example, the mortar is 81mm caliber.

This kind of firepower makes it easy to attack the Japanese bunkers and artillery towers, especially the artillery towers... aiming at the first floor and firing a few more guns, and then the artillery tower collapsed and buried all the Japanese troops inside.

(To be continued.)
Chapter completed!