A day later, the typhoon butterfly swept across the Tainan area and continued to move northwest along Taiwan Island.

The Tang Marine Corps sent several mechanized infantry companies, and with the cooperation of the Marine Corps special forces, they tentatively launched an attack on the Japanese army north and east of Chashan. However, the main force of the Tang army did not dispatch, but seized the time to build fortifications in the Chashan area and turn the Chashan area into a solid bridgehead position for the Tang army to land in Taiwan.

When the typhoon just weakened, the 11th Japanese Brigade hurriedly left Tainan Prefecture at the urging of Shinto Okada and headed towards Chashan, intending to sweep Pingtung counties in the shortest time and drive the Tang army out of Taiwan Island.

More than 10,000 Japanese troops advanced in a mighty manner. Commander Major General Botan, the commander of Hattori, learned that the Japanese aviation army would provide air support. The 33rd Division from Hualien and the 17th Division from Kaohsiung followed. Once they encountered the main force of the Tang army, as long as Hattori could hold on, it would be a great achievement.

"I think they were all scared by the Tang army. Just a different name, they are still Chinese people. How can they be better than the mainland?"

Hattori Futa sat in the truck with a swearing sight of the vast army behind through the rearview mirror, including a reinforced artillery corps. This is his real support.

In terms of the Japanese military brigade level, there are few equipped with a reinforced artillery corps. Hattori Koda Brigade is one of them. The Japanese ace was personally awarded by the Japanese emperor and is also one of the few troops among the Japanese army to achieve motorization.

"Report, I found that the Tang army was driving towards me along the highway, with about a large brigade of troops." A Japanese communications soldier rushed over to report.

"Stop moving forward. Rely on the favorable terrain to defend on the spot. What kind of troops does the Tang army have?" Although Hattori Botan did not take the Tang army seriously, he did not dare to underestimate the enemy too much.

"Thirty chariots and small groups of straitors guarding the way."

“What type of chariot is it?”

"According to the information we have, it should be the T2 amphibious main battle tank and the W2 waterway amphibious infantry fighting vehicle. The main gun of the T2 tank is 88 mm, and the machine gun of the W2 infantry fighting vehicle is two M2 point 50 Browning heavy machine guns."

T2 is a main battle tank equipped by the Tang army specifically for the armored forces of the Marine Corps. Compared with the T1 Tiger King main battle tank equipped by the Tang Army, the main gun caliber of the T2 tank has not changed, but the armor has been greatly weakened, only one-third of the T1 Tiger King tank. The total combat weight has also dropped to about 40 tons, which is a medium tank.

The w2 infantry fighting vehicle was improved based on the W1 crawler infantry fighting vehicle equipped by the Tang Army, and was equipped with ship-type armor to become an amphibious infantry fighting vehicle. Because the Marine Corps is limited by the carrying capacity of the amphibious landing ship, w2 gave up the crawler turf used by w1, and in order to save weight, it was changed to 6x6 wheeled, and the body was lengthened to facilitate transportation of more soldiers. This is extremely important for beach landing operations.

The main force of the Tang Marine Corps is composed of T2 amphibious tanks and W2 amphibious infantry fighting vehicles. The number of tanks equipped by armored troops is relatively large, while the mobile troops are relatively large. However, for the Marine Corps, there is no strict division between the armored troops and the mobile troops, depending on the situation of the landing area.

Taiwan is mountainous, and most of the highways are dirt roads and are very narrow. Therefore, several marines sent by the Tang army are mixed with tanks and chariots, and their strength is relatively balanced.

However, for the Japanese army, they themselves did not equip many tanks. Although the 11th Brigade was the ace force of the Japanese army, they were only equipped with ten tanks and five mobile machine gun bunkers.

The Japanese tanks were mainly medium-sized tanks of Type 97. The total combat weight was only 15 tons, the car was light, the armor was thin, and the firepower was weak, so they basically did not have the ability to fight against tanks. This was mainly because the Japanese army had imagined that the enemy had always been China since the Russo-Japanese War. The backward China didn't even know what the tank was like, and the anti-tank firepower was weak, which allowed the Japanese small tanks to show off their power, thus inhibiting the development of Japanese tanks.

The Japanese mobile machine gun bunker only wrapped the truck in iron sheet, leaving a shooting hole in the middle, like an iron box, which was just a mobile machine gun bunker.

These two invincible weapons in the eyes of the Japanese army seemed very backward and shy compared to the Tang army.

Hattori Fuda frowned, but he didn't expect to meet the Tang army's armored troops as soon as he met. He immediately ordered the Japanese army to step up the construction of positions and at the same time ordered the "armored troops" to fight the enemy.

On the narrow highway, ten Japanese Type 97 tanks launched an attack on the voluntary.

Bang! Bang!

The Japanese Type 97 tank would stop for a while whenever it advanced for dozens of meters, so that the gunner could aim and open fire. The 57mm-caliber short-barrel cannon fired several grenades, which exploded near the Tang army's chariot, and the earth and rocks splashed.

The Tang army was not outdone. The T2 tank took the lead and formed a triangular attack formation. The main gun of the tank with a diameter of 70 times the diameter of the 88 mm was fired, with amazing power.

The tanks on both sides immediately fought fiercely about one thousand meters apart, with artillery fire flying and gunpowder smoke filling.

The Japanese Type 97 tank's main gun was too small, only 57 mm, and it was a short-barrel gun, less than a quarter of the length of the Tang Army's T2 tank, and its caliber was far less than the 88 mm large-caliber main gun of the T2 tank. After more than ten minutes of fire between the two sides, three Japanese tanks were destroyed and the fire was raging.

On the other hand, look at the Tang army. Occasionally, Japanese tank shells hit Tang army tanks, but they could not cause fatal damage. The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the Tang army's tanks still roared forward without any damage.

Hattori looked at the hillside with a telescope. After seeing this situation, he was sweating profusely. The pride that had accumulated for a long time in mainland China was now diluted.

I remember that when the Chinese mainland was fighting against the enemy, several tanks could scare the opponent's courage, and a small team of Japanese troops could chase tens of thousands of them and escape like rabbits, occupying one city after another.

Bang! Bang bang!

The sound of cannons woke Hattori Futa and brought him back from his former glory.

In less than half an hour, all ten Japanese tanks were destroyed. The Tang army did not lose a single tank and continued to advance.

At this time, the Japanese infantry had already built several lines of defense in front of them, and the machine guns opened fire, hitting the Tang army tank armor and bounced and all of them were bounced away.

"Order the artillery corps to prepare to open fire and must stop the Tang army from advancing."

Hattori Fukuda's face looked very bad. The first battle was so difficult. When the opponent's troops were not strong enough, this undoubtedly slap him in the face and mocked his previous crazy words.

The Japanese artillery bombardment began, which still poses a certain threat to the Tang army's tanks. However, it is not so easy for the fixed Japanese artillery corps to hit the moving Tang army tanks.

The Tang army's tanks were on the Z-shaped route, so it was difficult for Japanese artillery soldiers to predict the advance amount, and it was very difficult to directly hit the Tang army tanks with artillery fire.

After several rounds of artillery bombardment, a large crater was left on the road, but no shell hit the Tang army's tanks. Hattori Kota suddenly raised his beard.

At this time, the Tang army's tank group had already broken through the first line of defense of the Japanese army. The parallel machine guns above the T2 tanks opened fire violently, sweeping the nearby Japanese army. Then, the parallel m2 heavy machine guns were connected to the W2 wheeled infantry fighting tanks to cooperate with the fire.

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