According to the battle plan, after recovering Huailai City, the First Chariot Division left a chariot battalion to block the position of Huailai City together with more than 5,000 people from the two infantry regiments of the Northern Theater and more than 10,000 local militiamen who rushed to Huailai City to block and intercept the main force of the retreating Hubei army.

He Pingxiong was a careful person, he asked the commander of an infantry division who rushed to command, and learned that there was still a steady stream of reinforcements coming, so he was relieved to hand over the defensive position of Huailai to the infantry.

After replenishing ammunition and fuel, the main force of the 1st Tank Division, under the command of aerial reconnaissance airships, swept through the defensive positions of the Hubei army at the fastest speed and quickly moved north to the Zhangjiakou area.

At this time, Zhangjiakou City was in a fierce battle.

Lieutenant Colonel Xie Tian'an, who originally commanded only one company of the Huaxia Army and more than 5,000 Zhuangding militia in Zhangjiakou City, sent two infantry regiments of more than 6,000 people into the city last night, and the defense force was strengthened.

The Hubei army successfully took more than a dozen towns from Zhangbei County to the capital, leaving only one Zhangjiakou city not taken, and Xie Tianan also commanded artillery artillery from time to time to bombard the Hubei army, which angered the Hubei army generals, in view of the Zhangjiakou stuck in an important position on the rear road of the Hubei army, so they concentrated 120,000 infantry and besieged Zhangjiakou with 20 times the strength advantage.

In the morning, when the Huaxia army was in the capital and the Hubei army in a decisive battle, the Hubei army concentrated more than 200 artillery pieces to bombard, and in less than two hours, Xie Tianan ordered to abandon the city wall fortifications that were difficult to avoid the enemy's artillery fire, and the Hubei army rushed into the city to start a street battle with the Huaxia army.

Xie Tianan mixed the Huaxia Army with the militia who were familiar with the terrain in Zhangjiakou City, divided the area for defense, and fought with the Hubei army that rushed into the city, trying to delay and buy time for the arrival of reinforcements.

In the afternoon, a large number of reinforcements finally came out of two ways, and now around Zhangjiakou City, there are mainly one road is five infantry divisions and three cavalry divisions of 130,000 troops under the command of Cui Jinfeng, commander-in-chief of the Northern Theater of Operations, and there is also the first chariot division that arrived first.

Cui Jinfeng said to the generals around him: "The decisive battle in the capital is a big victory for our army, the main force of the Hubei army has been beaten to the ground, and it will soon flee here, we must immediately launch a general attack and leave all the hundreds of thousands of Hubei troops in Zhangjiakou!" ”

But some people have different opinions on this way of fighting, he is Zhan Wenjia, the commander of the Fourth Cavalry Division, he said: "Commander-in-Chief Cui, from the perspective of the situation, the hundreds of thousands of Hubei troops in Zhangjiakou will be defeated, so there is no need for our army to put all its forces here, it is recommended that the infantry and chariot divisions fight a war of annihilation here, and the cavalry will go north to the area of Zhangbei County, annihilate more than 10,000 enemies there, and maneuver near the Great Wall to intercept and defeat the enemy, and completely block the road to escape into the grassland!" ”

Cui Jinfeng is hot on the surface, but he is very thoughtful, when he heard it, he felt that it made sense, and immediately said quickly:

"Okay, your cavalry can't be used in the narrow space here, and it's even more unsuitable for you to fight a tough battle, so you leave a cavalry regiment here as a maneuver, and the rest of the main forces of the 4th Cavalry Division, the 6th Cavalry Division, and the 7th Cavalry Division will give you command, all of them will enter the Zhangbei area, and send an infantry division to cooperate with you to annihilate the enemy in the place as quickly as possible, hold the key points with the infantry division, and the cavalry division will be fully mobile, where the enemy flees, you will maneuver to intercept and kill, and don't let a Cossack cavalry of the Hubei army escape back!"

"Yes! Let's do it now! Zhan Wenjia immediately happily accepted the task.

Seeing this, He Pingxiong also had an idea: "Our chariot division is suitable for attacking fortifications, and it is also suitable for chasing and killing the enemy in a vast space, after destroying the enemy in Zhangjiakou, we will also rush to the edge of the Great Wall to intercept and defeat the enemy!" ”

"Of course, you are the first formed chariot unit, and the emperor said that this is the future of my army, and I am embarrassed if I don't give full play to your advantages! After destroying the enemy in Zhangjiakou, all of you will enter the operation of intercepting and chasing the enemy, and the detailed task arrangement, Chief of Staff Zhao will make specific assignments! But now the task is to defeat the enemy in Zhangjiakou. ”

The troops of the Huaxia Army were approaching the periphery of Zhangjiakou, and the Hubei army was aware of it, and the generals under its command hurriedly arranged troops to block the approach of the Huaxia Army on the periphery.

Cui Jinfeng said to He Pingxiong on the radio: "It's up to your chariot division this time, break through a few gaps and let the infantry kill in!" ”

"Of course, this is what our tank division does, let the infantry follow a little closer!" After He Pingxiong finished answering, he put down the walkie-talkie, picked up another talkiephone and ordered: "Order all the people to attack, smash Lao Maozi's blocking position, and open the way for the infantry to charge!" ”

Hundreds of tanks and armored combat vehicles, with a low rumbling sound, rushed towards the positions of the Hubei army.

The Hubei army had heard a little about the chariots of the Huaxia Army, but they still didn't know how to deal with it, so they could only use bullets and shells to shoot fiercely, hoping to break through the chariots.

However, the Hubei army is not trained to shell large moving targets, and it is difficult to hit tank combat vehicles, and their light small-caliber field guns and ordinary 7.62 bullets, even if they hit tanks, are like tickling tanks, and they cannot pose any major threat at all.

In fact, the tanks of the Huaxia Army are not without weaknesses, such as tracks, chassis, and top covers are weak parts, and the use of explosives or 75 mm caliber guns is not without a chance to penetrate the armor of the tank, but the Hubei army saw this powerful steel chariot for the first time, and was already frightened and dizzy, where did they think of finding out what weaknesses to attack?

However, the tank guns and vehicle-mounted machine guns of the Huaxia Army would not be the slightest bit polite to the Hubei army; in accordance with the requirements of the tank drill code, priority was given to striking at the most threatening enemy artillery positions; a fierce burst of artillery shells and heavy machine gun fire caused the soldiers on the artillery positions of the Hubei army to run around, while the vehicle-mounted machine guns took the opportunity to chase after them and fire fiercely, and the tanks rushed up and crushed back and forth.

Having settled the artillery positions, the tanks shifted the focus to the enemy's heavy machine-gun positions, which in turn hit the enemy's infantry.

In less than half an hour, the Hubei army's position was torn to pieces by hundreds of tanks, and the infantry of the Huaxia Army took the opportunity to swarm in and smash the Hubei army's position to pieces.

When the Huaxia army in Zhangjiakou City heard the earth-shattering gunfire and shouts of killing outside the city, they all knew that their reinforcements had arrived on a large scale without radio contact, and under the command of Xie Tianan, they immediately launched a large-scale counterattack against the Hubei army in the city.

The Hubei army also knew that it was impossible to continue the attack on Zhangjiakou, so they held the positions they had captured and transferred the main force out of the city to meet the swarming Huaxia army.

But the Hubei army, which had just left the city, happened to encounter the tank group of the tank division of the chariot division.

Infantry group against tank group, this is a result that can be thought of with a knee.

He Pingxiong, the commander of the chariot division, shouted on the radio: "Rush over, knock them down and crush them!" ”

And the Hubei army, from the generals to the soldiers, did not know how to deal with this large group of steel monsters, the tanks rushed to the front with bullets, and the Hubei army did not know what to do, and watched the colleagues around them being killed and crushed, and finally let out a roar and ran away.

The tank group chased the Hubei army along the way, and pressed out shocking flesh and blood roads with tracks, stretching zigzag and pointing into the distance. (To be continued.) )