Imperial Overlord

The next morning, in the early morning of October 4, the U.S. Army Air Forces, who had been waiting all night, hurriedly took off.

Throughout the night, they received dozens of telegrams requesting support from units at all levels of the frontline army, but they could only watch their comrades in arms being harassed by the Japanese army on the beachhead.

The nighttime shelling of the Japanese battleships continued for several hours, which was also a torment for the U.S. Army Air Forces.

Now that it was dawn, the U.S. Army Air Forces naturally hurried to take off to expel the Japanese naval battleships making waves in the Torres Strait.

Yamamoto fifty-six naturally would not let the Yamato battleship take risks, so before dawn, the Japanese naval battleship decisively left the Torres Strait.

U.S. Army aircraft, armed with torpedoes and bombs, patrolled the strait and failed to find the location of the Japanese fleet.

Minutes after they relayed the news, the U.S. Landing Fleet burst into the Torres Strait with the remaining soldiers of I Corps of the U.S. Army.

Compared with the transportation on the first day, the landing force transported by the US military this morning is dominated by armored forces. Although Patton's 1st Armored Corps did not participate in this landing operation, this does not mean that the United States has no armored forces here.

In order to cover the landing force, the United States placed a full 50 m3lee tanks in the sequence of participating in the landing force.

Because these tanks had no way to land in the first time, they could only go to the landing site as a support force for the next day.

While the American landing force continued to expand the landing field on the plain, the Japanese counterattack also unfolded.

The three divisions stationed on the island of New Guinea were designated the 6th Division, the 29th Division and the 35th Division.

Among these three divisions, the 6th Division is the most elite of all the troops commanded by Yamashita Fengwen, and it is also one of the main divisions standing in Japan.

The remaining 29th and 35th divisions are obviously the numbered troops. Before these two troops were stationed on the island of New Guinea, most of them in Japan were just for the occasion.

Although the 35th Division was established in Tokyo, this division is indeed incomparable to the 6th Division, the core main force of the real Japanese army.

What's more, this time, the 6th Division has also been strengthened by the chariot unit: the Japanese chariot major Satanaka Guiichi, commanding the most elite chariot unit of the Japanese army.

After strengthening, his chariot unit has more than 100 tanks under its jurisdiction, which is almost the establishment of a chariot wing.

Originally, the commanders of the Japanese chariot units had higher rank, but in New Guinea it became the opposite situation.

Because there was no thought of hoarding so many tanks in New Guinea, the Japanese army only arranged for a tank major as the commander.

However, as the scale of the battle continued to expand, the number of chariots commanded by Major Tanaka also increased.

Today, the Japanese army has invested a full 40 tanks on the frontal battlefield. It can be said that since Japan fought for hegemony in the Pacific Ocean, the Japanese army used the most tanks on the same day in a battle.

Type 97 tanks lined up on the battlefield and carried out a large-scale breakthrough operation against the positions of the American landing troops.

Yamashita Fengwen's tactics are very simple. He intends to imitate the tactics used by Germany in Europe. The central breakthrough will blossom on the two wings, and the defensive positions of the US military against the beach will be defeated.

As soon as the battle began, Major General Thompson received a call for help from the front-line troops: the Japanese tank troops were unfolding, and the troops were severely suppressed.

After receiving the news, Major General Thompson did not hesitate at all, and ordered the transport of the American m3lee tanks that had just landed to the Japanese counterattack site for counter-assault operations.

A tank war broke out on the island of New Guinea, which kicked off the U.S. Army invested about 30 tanks, and the Japanese army invested about 40 Type 97 tanks.

The two sides opened fire on each other in the plains, and soon American tanks gained the upper hand. The Japanese chariot units were beaten and retreated, and the U.S. military quickly stabilized their defensive positions.

Here I have to talk about the m3lee tank that the US military has put into combat. Although the performance of this tank is not very good, it has been tempered on the European battlefield.

Through the news from the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, American weapons manufacturers have carried out a large-scale modification of the m3lee tank.

The first point is to install protective armor, so that this tank can somewhat resist the attack of some German weapons.

In the end, the armor thickness on the front of this modified version of the m3lee tank was fixed at a thickness sufficient to resist the German 50mm caliber rapid-fire gun.

Therefore, the poor firepower of the Japanese tanks is difficult to shake the armor of American tanks at normal fighting distances. Because of this, the Japanese chariot counterattack was thwarted by the U.S. military after just an hour of fighting.

This situation is not quite the same as when the Japanese army fought against the Soviet tanks in the battle of Nomenkan~www.wuxiaspot.com~. Because at that time the tanks of both sides were still on the same level.

Because the Soviet Union's t-26 tank armor, which was the main force of the tank force at that time, was very light and thin, the Japanese army did not question the firepower of its own tanks.

Now, as soon as the American tanks appeared, the Japanese army realized that their weapons were really outdated. The Germans equipped the tanks with 75mm caliber long-barreled artillery, not just wasting their firepower boringly!

The heavy armor of American tanks makes Japanese tanks, which are only equipped with 57mm caliber artillery, seem powerless. After all, the artillery of Japanese tanks is not a model with long barrels and high penetration.

Yamashita Fengwen heard about the failure of his first counterattack, and also realized that if he did not fight back with all his strength, he might not be able to drive the US landing troops into the sea.

Therefore, he quickly revised his counterattack plan, replaced the 29th Division, which was not very capable of attacking, and replaced it with the most elite 6th Division of the Japanese army.

Later, in order to target the "heavy tanks" put in by the United States, Yamashita ordered all the tanks under Major Tanaka to join the battle and carry out the most powerful attack.

After receiving the order, Major Tanaka was eager to try, because he really wanted to see if the powerful Panther chariot from Germany had the ability to fight the American tanks on the opposite side.

"Let the Panther tank start! Cut the formation of American tanks from the center!" After giving the attack order, Major Tanaka got into the turret of the second Panther tank on the right and buckled the top of his head. the hatch cover.

With the roar of the engine, the five Panther tanks deployed by the Japanese army on the island of New Guinea began to move forward. The slender 75mm caliber long-barreled artillery pointed majestically in the direction of the American landing force in the distance.