After the Kawaguchi detachment entered the town of Meizhen, it did not live in the town's private houses, but built tents around the Mei family ancestral hall in the surrounding open space.

In fact, Xu Rui does have such a plan.

Xu Rui even imagined that the independent regiment might exhaust the living force of the Kawaguchi detachment little by little through ubiquitous and endless tunnel warfare, and wait for the strength of the Kawaguchi detachment to be reduced to a certain number, and then dispatch the main force of the independent regiment to launch a final general attack on the Kawaguchi detachment and solve the Kawaguchi detachment in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, the Kawaguchi detachment did not stay in the town's houses at all.

In this way, Xu Rui's tunnel battle plan came to naught.

In the past few days after the Kawaguchi detachment was stationed in Meizhen, it has not been idle, especially the engineering wing to which the Kawaguchi detachment belongs, and it has been building fortifications day and night, which will, the devils have built a simple fortress in the open space southeast of Meizhen, and there are military camps, command posts, field hospitals and other buildings in the fortress, in addition to trenches on the periphery, and even a layer of barbed wire has been pulled up, and the gate of the barracks has not only erected a drawbridge, but also machine gun bunkers on both sides.

If Xu Rui didn't drive out the captured Type 95 light tank, it would be really difficult to break through the devil's defenses.

However, even if there are armored troops participating in the battle, it does not mean that there will be no suspense in this battle, although the more than 2,000 devils who stayed behind in the headquarters are not combat troops, they are also the same devils, the same brainwashed by militarist ideas, they are really in a hurry, and these little devils also dare to blow up tanks with explosive bags.

Therefore, it is necessary to pay attention to the safety of the tank.

When there were still eight hundred meters away from the gate of the devil's barracks, Xu Rui asked Mo Zichen to stop the tank.

Mo Zichen was born as a swordsman and had driven a car before, so Xu Rui simply taught him twice, and he learned to drive a tank.

Driving a tank is actually not much different from driving a truck, and even in a sense, driving a tank is easier than driving a truck, because you have to have some scruples about driving a truck, at least you can't drive the card into the ditch, but driving a tank can be rampage and have no scruples, so Mo Zichen just drove it once, and he liked it.

After Mo Zichen stopped the tank, Xu Rui opened the flap and leaned out from the top of the turret.

"Keep your word, Jiuling, you two come here." Xu Rui beckoned Huang Shouxin and Mei Jiuling to come forward.

Huang Shouxin and Mei Jiuling hurriedly ran over and stood next to the tank to listen to Xu Rui's teachings.

Xu Rui really wants to give these two proud protégés online classes, mainly to talk about the course of step-tan collaboration.

Speaking of combat effectiveness alone, for the time being, the combat effectiveness of the 2nd Battalion is still stronger, but the officers and men of the 2nd Battalion are all veterans who have been recruited from the provisional 79th Army, the Northeast Army, and the Northwest Army.

On the contrary, most of the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion are new recruits, and their operational concepts and tactical habits have not yet been finalized, so they are highly malleable, and it will be relatively easier to accept the concept of infantry and tan coordination.

For example, when the armored and infantry coordinated to penetrate the defense and were fired by the enemy, the veterans who were accustomed to fighting without the protection of the armored troops would evacuate as soon as possible, each looking for cover, so that the armored troops were directly exposed to the enemy demomen.

In the second phase of the Battle of Songhu, the 9th Army invested the only tank regiment in China at that time, and launched a strong attack on the Japanese-controlled Huishan Wharf along the Jisfeier Road.

However, at this time, the tank group was shelled by the Japanese naval guns on the river, and after the shelling, the infantry accompanying the protection immediately evacuated on their own, and the Japanese army, which had been suppressed, immediately sent engineers with explosives to blast, and as a result, dozens of tanks that broke into the Huishan pier were all blown up, and the attack ended in failure.

At that time, it was a main regiment of the 36th Division that was responsible for the infantry and tank regiment to cooperate with the tank, and the 36th Division was one of the first ten elite divisions to accept German weapons, and the 87th Division and the 88th Division were known as the three major royal forest divisions.

But it is such an elite force, but it will not be a simple step and tan coordination.

At the end of the battle, the officers and men of the 36th Division, who were lucky enough to escape back, said something like this, you tank soldiers are hiding in tanks with such thick armor, and you still need our infantry to protect them? Let's talk nonsense!

Therefore, Xu Rui would never dare to let these veterans of the 2nd Battalion come to cooperate with him, because the tactical concepts and combat habits of these veterans have been integrated into the bone marrow like the officers and soldiers of the 36th Division, and it is difficult for you to change their tactical concepts and combat habits with a sentence or two.

Therefore, Xu Rui chose the 3rd battalion to engage in Butan coordination.

"Captain!" Huang Shouxin and Mei Jiuling came to stand in front of the tank and saluted.

Xu Rui returned the military salute, and then said, "Do you remember the step-tan coordination I told you in the tactics class?" ”

"Yes." Mei Jiuling immediately replied, "The infantry has three taboos, one is to rush to the front of the tank, which will expose itself to the enemy's guns, not to mention, and it is easy to be injured by the shock wave generated when the tank fires; Second, avoid tailing the rear of the tank, so that the tank is easy to cause a crushing accident when reversing; San's taboo is too far away from the tank, which can easily give the enemy's anti-tank troops an opportunity to destroy our tank. ”

"Very good, it's you, you lead the 9th company to follow behind the tank, responsible for blocking the demoman who destroys the devil." After Xu Rui finished speaking, he retracted back into the tank, and a moment later, the Type 95 light tank parked in place roared again, and then rumbled towards the gate of the devil headquarters eight hundred meters away.

When there were still 500 meters away from the gate of the headquarters, the two Type 92 heavy machine guns erected on the ring barricades on the left and right sides of the gate took the lead in firing, and the dense bullets instantly rained down on the front armored vehicle of the tank, and in an instant, there was a ring, but the front armor of the Type 95 light tank was 12mm thick, and it was not afraid of the fire of the 7.7mm caliber heavy machine gun at all.

But he has been fired wantonly by the devil's heavy machine gun, and he is unhappy after all, so Xu Rui decisively fired.

The result made Xu Rui blush a little, this cannon actually hit the watchtower on the right side of the headquarters gate, although the watchtower was knocked down with one shot, but it was more than ten meters away from the target that Xu Rui was aiming at, but Xu Rui can't be blamed for this, because at the moment when Xu Rui opened the gun, the Type 95 tank just climbed one step up, not only the muzzle was raised, but the direction of the hull under the drive of the track was also crooked, and the result was missed.

Speaking of which, the tanks of this era are still more primitive, and the guns are not equipped with two-way stabilizers.

If you want to change to the Jiujiu that Xu Rui often drove before the crossing, as long as the aim is locked, no matter how bumpy the ground the tank is, and no matter whether the tank suddenly climbs or goes downhill, the muzzle of the main gun will always be constantly pointed at the target, which is like now, a small step will make the shell deviate more than ten meters away.

So Xu Rui asked Mo Zichen to stop the tank.

The attack was inaccurate during the march, so Lao Tzu stopped and aimed to hit.

This trick really worked, after the tank stopped, Xu Rui only fired two shots, and only used two 37mm caliber high-explosive shells, and the two heavy machine guns on the left and right sides of the gate of the devil's headquarters were bombarded into slag.

As soon as the little devil saw that the situation was wrong, he immediately sent sappers to blow it up with explosives bags.

If you think that sending sappers to blow up tanks with explosives is the patent of the National Army or the Eighth Route Army, then you are wrong, in the Battle of Songhu, the little devil used this trick to blow up dozens of tanks of the National Army, but unfortunately, the Dameishan Independent Regiment was not the National Army in the Battle of Songhu.

Mei Jiuling roared, and the officers and soldiers of the 9th Company, who followed the left and right sides of the tank, opened fire one after another.

Under the cover of the dense infantry fire of the officers and men of the 9th Company, the devil sappers were quickly stacked to the ground, and the devil commander on the opposite side sent another devil sapper, but still let the 9th company fall down, the devil commander saw that this trick did not work, so he quickly ordered the machine gunners to enter the ring barricade on both sides of the gate, trying to use machine gun fire to eliminate the follow-up infantry first, and then send the sappers to blast after the tank lost protection.

But how could Xu Rui let the devil get his wish?

Two more bombardments, and the two light machine guns of the devils were again bombarded into slag.

Sure that the devil would not dare to send a machine gun out to find death, Xu Rui shifted his attention to the front machine gun of the vehicle, and used the 7.7mm caliber heavy machine gun to suppress the fire of the devil infantry on both sides of the gate of the headquarters.

With the help of the strong protection of the tank, Mei Jiuling's 9th Company quickly broke into the gate.

As soon as the gate of the headquarters was broken, the entire defense system of the devils was immediately shattered.

The 7th and 8th companies of the 3rd Battalion also followed behind the 9th Company, broke into the headquarters from the gap, and then quickly tore the little devil's defense line towards the two wings, and then the 1st and 2nd battalions broke through from the 7th and 8th companies' torn defense line, and when the outer defense line of the devil's headquarters was completely broken, the cavalry battalion also brandished a snowy saber and rushed in.

At this point, the battlefield of recovering Meizhen has basically ended, although there are still many devils still resisting stubbornly, but they can't change the ending of destruction.

Listening to the gunshots outside the tent that were getting closer and closer, Yamaguchi Shaosa of the communications office directly under the headquarters of the Kawaguchi detachment sat down in front of the radio station, sent the last farewell telegram to the Nanjing headquarters, then blew up the radio station with a grenade, and then killed six or seven female signal soldiers in the communication office with a pistol, and finally pointed a pistol at his temple and pulled the trigger.