"Nani? The Chinese army is going to attack Shijiazhuang? Okamura Ninji's eyes widened, and he seemed to be in disbelief at the news sent by the special high school. With nearly 200,000 troops in 8 divisions of the North China Front, plus the Imperial Allied Army and Suzuki's mixed brigade, Okamura Ninji couldn't believe why the Chinese army would attack Shijiazhuang. The information obtained by the Special High School with great effort did not receive the attention of Okamura Ninji, who was busy carrying out a purge operation against the guerrilla forces in North China.

The guerrilla forces active in North China gave Okamura a headache, and the presence of guerrilla troops caused the Japanese puppet army in North China to ask for supplies nearly forty percent more frequently than in previous years, and the part of the supplies that exceeded the quota was either snatched away by the guerrillas or burned by the guerrillas. Japan had already suffered a lot from the high cost of war, and it thought that it would soon be able to occupy the entire territory of China, but now it would have to spend a lot of war consumption to stabilize the situation.

If it had not been for the timely adjustment of tactics by the military department, which focused on South Asia and seized all kinds of resources needed for the war from South Asia, perhaps the imperial army that entered China would have had to retreat north to the northeast due to lack of supplies. Stability, this is the latest order of the military department, and when the military department mobilizes heavy troops to attack South Asia and the United States, the latest order of the military department is stability. Stabilize everything on the Chinese battlefield, avoid fighting head-on with the Chinese army, and avoid excessive consumption of war materials.

The encirclement and suppression of guerrilla forces is the latest measure taken by Okamura Ninji in response to the order of the military headquarters, and only by thoroughly eliminating the guerrilla forces active in North China can the North China Front's operation of sending resources to the mainland continue smoothly. Okamura regarded the guerrilla forces as a great enemy, and actively carried out the merger of townships and villages in North China, wantonly arranged blockade ditches, and organized secret agencies and plainclothes units, but he did not know that in Shanxi, which is next to Hebei, a force of more than 30,000 people was marching toward the base areas controlled by the Eighth Route Army.

Since the troops of the Eighth Route Army entered the territory of Hebei half a year ago, they have fought dozens of times with the Japanese puppet army in North China, and while the two sides have won and lost each other, the Eighth Route Army has successively set up a number of base areas at the junction of Hebei and Shanxi. "Well, this guy is amazing, he looks magnificent." The black-painted tanks and armored vehicles of the New Army were the envy of the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army, and the armored units that entered the base areas of the Eighth Route Army in batches basically marched in concealment; at present, except for the units of the Eighth Route Army in the base areas, only the joint command headquarters in Chongqing knew about the entry of the armored units of the New Army into Hebei.

Yangquan was the first step of the New Army's attack, and Yangquan, which has abundant coal resources, has the convenience of the Zhengtai Railway, and has always been an important control area of the Japanese army in North China. The troops of the Eighth Route Army advancing into Hebei attacked Yangquan many times, but they were all repelled by the Japanese army, and the new army set Yangquan as the first target this time, on the one hand, in order to give the Eighth Route Army troops a shame, and on the other hand, in order to quickly approach Shijiazhuang with the help of the Zhengtai Railway, and force the Japanese puppet army in North China to transfer troops back to Shijiazhuang.

"Let's start" For most people, it was a very ordinary morning, and Dai Anlan, who commanded the armored units of the New Army, gave an order, and the armored troops with roaring motors swarmed out and went straight to the Japanese defense line five miles away. The number of tanks in the armored forces of the new army is not very large, relying on Zhuo Fei's communication ability and Vivian's looting ability, the umbrella company has only 300 tanks of all kinds from Europe, and relying on the strong repair ability of Jewish engineers, there are only more than 240 tanks that can still be in service.

240 tanks is already pitiful for an armored force, but fortunately, Zhuo Fei has a way, in line with the principle that the staple food is not enough non-staple food to make up, the Jewish workers and technicians who used their imagination and creativity spent a lot of time and energy to convert the thousands of tracked tractors ordered by the umbrella company from the United States into mobile fire combat vehicles. This kind of shabby-looking firepower combat vehicle without artillery, with strong protective armor and four heavy machine guns in the front and rear, left and right, once fired at full firepower, a firepower combat vehicle with the same ability to move as a tank will be a nightmare for the Japanese puppet army.

The armored forces commanded by Dai Anlan are equipped with 120 European-style tanks and as many as 200 firepower combat vehicles. "Quack~Squeak~Squeak~" The strange sound of the metal track crushing the ground made all the Japanese soldiers on the defense line panic, after suffering two rounds of shelling, hundreds of steel monsters appeared in front of their position, and the Japanese soldiers on the defense line knew that those with barrels were tanks, but they had never seen a larger and more hideous firepower tank than a tank.

There were many shells in the sky, whistling towards the positions behind the defenders, and at this time, the Japanese soldiers in the positions were very much nostalgic for the days when they had Imperial planes to help them in battle, even if it was an old aircraft with wings. More than 200 steel beasts arranged in a neat formation crushed the ground through the forward guard posts, directly through the minefields covered by dense artillery bombardment, and pounced on the defenders' positions. When the sound of crane gun fire rang out from the defenders' positions, the commanders of the many tank crews retracted into the turrets and closed the roof hatches.

"Stop!" At the shouts of the tank commander, the tank driver slammed on the brakes, and after a tooth-aching sound of steel grinding, the angled turret paused, and a scorching flame burst out from the muzzle. The shells burst out at a very high speed, knocking over a heavy machine-gun fortification more than 200 meters away. Scattered machine gun parts flew along with the stumps and severed arms of Japanese machine gunners.

"Forward!" The commander gave the order satisfied, and as the driver stepped on the accelerator, the tank moved forward again. This was just a small splash in the whole battle, and the heavily trained marching armoured men used accurate fire to destroy a fire point on a Japanese position that had escaped the brutal shelling before, clearing the threat for the infantry following behind the armored troops.

The Japanese defensive positions, which had been cleared by three rounds of shelling, were already in tatters, with heavy casualties, and when a large number of tanks poured in, the Japanese resistance was weak. After the artillery fire was extended, the Japanese soldiers who were forced by the officers to come out of the anti-artillery holes and enter the position were the first time they encountered an armored cluster attack of this scale. All the survivors had an unprecedented fear on their faces. They don't know how much longer they can last. I don't know if I'll die today. An armored cluster assault offensive of this strategic scale, they had never encountered.

Finally, the sky sounded with the terrifying sound of a huge engine, and the Japanese soldiers in the position looked up, and then a jubilant shout rang out. More than a dozen fighters appeared in the sky, and the wings of the fighters were painted with this red pill logo, and everyone knew that it was a Japanese fighter. "Buzz~~~" Japanese bombers with the sound of whistling through the sky swooped down from mid-air at a wide angle, ready to drop bombs into the tank cluster of armored troops.

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!" In a halted fire vehicle, a Forces nouvelles officer wielding an assault rifle shouted at his soldiers to quickly adjust the angle of their heavy machine guns and reload armor-piercing rounds. Anti-aircraft shooting is another hidden ability of the fire tank, the four heavy machine guns installed in the cabin of the combat vehicle can adjust the firing angle, as long as the adjustment handle on the heavy machine gun fixed bracket is pulled, the heavy machine gun that can rotate 180 degrees horizontally can be turned into an anti-aircraft fire machine gun that shoots at the air.

The Japanese fighters roaring down were so close that they could barely see the pilots of the planes without binoculars, and the tanks of the armored forces continued to attack regardless of them, but the fire tanks were ready to fire at the air. "Ready, fire." Seeing that the Japanese fighters had already entered the range of the heavy machine guns, the commander of one of the fire combat vehicles immediately gave the order to open fire. The Browning large-caliber heavy machine gun facing the Japanese fighter opened fire first, and the thick chain of bullets was like a long whip, twisting and pumping towards the Japanese fighter that was diving down.

The sound of gunfire was the signal, and the heavy machine guns mounted on hundreds of firepower tanks opened fire one after another, and the simultaneous firing of hundreds of heavy machine guns was a spectacular sight, but such a spectacular scene was a nightmare for those Japanese fighter pilots. Accompanied by the dense gunfire like fried beans, hundreds of twisted chains of fire rushed into the sky and formed a fire net, and the dozen or so Japanese fighters that swooped down would eventually become the prey of this fire cage.

"Yaga, where did the damn Shina get so many heavy machine guns?" The Japanese officers and soldiers in the position were stunned, they were stunned by the large hand of the new army, the salvo of hundreds of heavy machine guns, how many bullets would be consumed. "Boom" and "Boom" In the face of the firepower cage built by the New Army, the pilots of the Japanese fighters evaded one after another, but it took time for the fighters to make evasive actions, but the bullets fired by the heavy machine guns of the New Army did not leave them much time.

"How is this possible?" The Japanese officers and soldiers in the position were stunned by the scene they saw, and the impression in the Chinese army was that they lacked guns and ammunition, had no clothing, and no food. But as soon as the new army appeared, it subverted the memory of the Japanese army, as many as hundreds of heavy machine guns to the air salvo, hundreds of tanks to attack in groups, the intensity is not weaker than the artillery wing of the imperial army, all of which made the Japanese officers and soldiers in the position extremely unfamiliar, but all this is true, real to the point that they are unbelievable.