Hidden in the mountains for more than half a month, Dong Wenbin's tanks were like tigers descending from the mountains, and when the 62nd Army was in a bitter battle, they suddenly came out.

The sudden appearance of the tank truck startled the officers and men of the 62nd Army in attack, and everyone thought that it was the devil's reinforcements coming, but they never expected that it would be their own reinforcements.

It wasn't until the tank truck rushed to the devil's position and the blue sky and white sun emblem on the body was revealed in front of everyone that the officers and men of the 62nd Army reacted that this was their own tank.

"Our tanks are our tanks!"

I don't know who took the lead in shouting, and then the whole battlefield resounded with the cheers of the soldiers of the national army, although they had not learned the infantry and tank troops to fight together, but who did not know, following behind this steel monster, it would be the safest.

Dong Wenbin personally drove a tank car, banged the accelerator, and rushed to the front. He was ordered to support the 62nd Army, and only brought a few tanks over, and the infantry regiment under his command did not follow, and he was originally worried that the infantry of the 62nd Army would not know how to attack with the tanks, but now it seems that this worry is superfluous. Even though he was sitting in the tank, wearing headphones, and enduring the loud noise of the tank engine, he could still faintly hear the cheers and shouts of the soldiers of the national army.

"You don't have to save ammo, and the cars will give me a hard beating of the bitch's devil." Through the on-board radio, Dong Wenbin gave the order to open fire.

Guarding the first line of positions from Ertang to Yumu Mountain is the 234th Wing of the 40th Division of the Japanese Army, they faced the attack of the 62nd Army of the National Army alone with the strength of a wing, although it was difficult, but did not lose half an inch of defense line, after repelling the 62nd Army's more than ten waves of attacks in turns, they gradually adapted to their attack rhythm, and felt that the pressure was getting smaller and smaller, and suddenly found that there were tank troops on the side of the National Army, which frightened the captain of the 234th Wing.

In this Hunan war, the 40th Division has been entangled with the 12th Army, from Yiyang to Ningxiang and Xiangxiang, they were pursued all the way by Dai Cunxiang and Dong Wenbin, so when they saw these familiar tanks, they immediately understood that it was the troops of the 12th Army.

As for the combat effectiveness of the 12th Army, I am afraid that the various divisions and regiments around Hengyang will not have such a profound understanding of the 40th Regiment, so as soon as the tank was discovered, the commander of the 234th Wing immediately used a walkie-talkie to report to the division commander Aoki Seiichi and asked for tactical guidance.

To say that it is tactical guidance is to ask Aoki Seiichi to retreat, which is a long-standing tradition within the Japanese army, and the term tactical guidance appears every time it is in trouble.

Aoki Chengyi had suffered a great loss from the 12th Army on the battlefield in Jiangxi, and this time the battle in Hunan was severely damaged by Sun Yumin's troops twice, and he was stunned when he heard that the tanks of the 12th Army appeared in front of the position of the 234th Wing.

Only two days ago, I received a report on the war situation, and learned that Sun Yumin's troops would hide in the Tianguang Mountain Mountains or the Yuanshengfeng Mountain Mountains, and Commander Yokoyama Yong specially mobilized the 13th Division and the 27th Division to deal with him.

Aoki Seiichi immediately replied, asking the 234th Wing to abandon the first-line position and retreat to the second-line position, and then immediately telegraphed to Yokoyama Yong in Changsha that Sun Yumin's unit appeared in the west of Hengyang City and was attacking the defense line of the 40th Division.

"How could Sun Yumin's troops attack the Aoki Division? Didn't Xue Yue order him to attack the 68th Division of Lieutenant General Di San in the east of the city? Isamu Yokoyama also had an incredulous expression, his brow furrowed deeply, the telegram in his hand, but his eyes were fixed on the point of Ertang on the map remarked by the staff officers.

"Your Excellency, Sun Yumin and his people often do some unbelievable things. His appearance in the west of Hengyang City was not surprising to his subordinates. Kinoshita was not overly surprised, but seemed to have foreseen it.

"Lieutenant General Aoki's western front is unable to resist Sun Yumin's attack, and once the reinforcements of the Chinese army enter Hengyang City, then the siege attack of nearly a month will be meaningless in vain." Of course, Isamu Yokoyama didn't want to see this situation, and he was thinking about how to solve it.

"Your Excellency Commander, in fact, you don't have to worry too much, when Aoki-kun set up the defense, I told him that one line of defense was not enough to resist the reinforcements of the Chinese army, so I asked him to set up a second line of defense around the West Railway Station." Kinoshita Yong comforted Yokoyama with a sad face: "Moreover, his subordinates also assigned anti-tank guns and piercing mines to Lieutenant General Aoki to deal with Sunbe's chariot troops. ”

In the later stages of the war, the Chinese army, which had received assistance from the Soviet Union and the United States, was gradually equipped with some armored units, including Soviet-made T-26 tanks and American-made M3 tanks, both of which were much superior in performance than the bean-type fighting vehicles used by the Japanese army on the battlefield in China, and the firepower of the vehicle-mounted weapons was also more ferocious.

Unlike the anti-tank artifact rocket launcher equipped by the Allies and the Germans, the main means used by the Japanese army to counter-tank on the battlefield are 47mm anti-tank guns and Type 92 infantry guns, but these two weapons are not very threatening to thickly armored American-made Soviet-made tanks, and in high-speed movement, whether it is a 47mm anti-tank gun or a Type 92 infantry gun, the accuracy is too poor, and it is basically difficult to hit the tank. As a result, a unique "artifact" of the Japanese army in the late stage of World War II: the stabbing mine, appeared on the battlefield, which is the anti-tank weapon that Kinoshita Isamu said.

When it comes to anti-tank weapons, we have to mention the nitrocellulose groove detonation test of the American Mono in 1888, the metal groove explosion experiment of the German Newman, and the conical charge research of the Swiss Mohap in the 1930s. The significance of these studies indicates that anti-tank weapons can finally no longer rely solely on muzzle velocity to obtain armor-piercing ability, which directly contributed to the birth of the main anti-tank weapon PIAT of the British Army in World War II, and it was more important for warring countries to basically end the technical bottleneck of anti-tank grenades staying in the cluster throwing of ordinary grenades in the field of anti-tank grenades, which was not only used on a large scale by the Soviet Union and Germany in the European theater, but also became a gospel for the Japanese Army in Asia that experienced the pain of Nomenkan in 1939. This led to the introduction of the Type 3 anti-tank grenade.

However, unlike the Soviet and German armies, which only used this weapon as an auxiliary anti-tank means, the Japanese army developed it into a major anti-tank special attack weapon in a decisive battle due to lack of resources.

It is said that it is a decisive anti-tank special attack weapon, in fact, the principle is very simple, that is, relying on the three-type anti-tank grenade, increasing its charge and adding a spike and a wooden stick of more than 1.5 meters, to make a weapon called the four-type anti-tank piercing mine, which is the origin of the anti-tank artifact "piercing mine" mentioned by Kinoshita Isamu .

The Type 4 anti-tank piercing mine is about 2.21m long, has a charge of 5.4kg, a cone cover diameter of 90mm, and a designed armor-piercing depth of 150mm. Although it can be carried by death squads and thrown when approaching a tank, in most cases the Japanese army requires soldiers to hide in bunkers and die with the tank when it approaches. (The above data is from the "World War II Japanese Weapons Encyclopedia")

As the commander of the 11th Army, although he knew that the base camp had developed this weapon, and also knew that this weapon was a suicide weapon, he had never heard of it being used on the battlefield, and asked suspiciously: "Can the piercing mine deal with Sun Yumin's tank troops?" Let's equip the troops with more anti-tank guns. ”

"Your Excellency Commander, although my subordinates have not seen the power of the piercing mine with their own eyes, the information from my colleagues in the Ministry of War has fed back that it can deal with the 'Sherman' tanks of the US army, and these light tanks of Sun Yumin's department should be no problem." Kinoshita replied.

"Really?" Yokoyama saw that the Chief of Staff's words were so conclusive, and the sadness on his face gradually dissipated.

"Your Excellency, you can not believe what your subordinates say, but you should no longer doubt the good news ahead. I believe it won't be long before you hear good news from Lieutenant General Aoki. ”

"No, Kinoshita-kun, even if, as you say, Lieutenant General Aoki can deal with Sun Yumin's tank troops, what about his infantry? Also rely on the 40th Division to deal with it? Although the look on Yokoyama's face was much better, his brows did not stretch much.

"Your Excellency Commander, didn't you put Lieutenant General Chiluli's 13th Division behind the 116th Division? Now is the time to use them, and if Sun Yumin appears, then Takeshita-kun's 27th Division can also be used at any time. With these two divisions here, Sun Yumin's department has nothing to worry about. ”

"Kinoshita-kun, did you suspect that Sun Yumin's ministry was in the west for a long time?" Isamu Yokoyama drew a large circle on the military map and asked.

"Yes, Your Excellency Commander, but I didn't hide it from you, what I suspect the most is that he may be hiding in the mountains of Yuanshan Peak, followed by this side, as for Tianguang Mountain, his subordinates will not think that Sun Yumin will bring the troops over there at all." Kinoshita was a little smug.

"Then why don't you just remind me and let Takeshita-kun's troops block this area?" Yokoyama Yong was a little unhappy, because Tianguang Mountain was the place where he thought Sun Yumin would hide, and it was also the place where he wanted to put the 27th Division transferred from the Kwantung Army there.

"Your Excellency Commander, my subordinates don't think that their judgment is 100% correct, and judging from the intercepted intelligence of the Chinese army, it is very likely that Sun Yumin's department is in that area." Kinoshita replied respectfully.

Isamu Yokoyama knew that his chief of staff would not fail to remind himself because of the reason he said, and there must be other considerations, so he did not express the doubts in his heart. And from his words, it can be heard that using the 13th Division to deal with Sun Yumin's department has been planned for a long time, and maybe he has other arrangements that he has not told himself.

It is true that as Yokoyama Yong thought, Kinoshita Yong had long considered that Sun Yumin would launch a surprise attack from the Western Front, and the reason why he didn't remind him was because the Tianguang Mountain Mountain was pointed out by Yokoyama Yong, and as a subordinate, he couldn't refute it in person. There is also the fact that after Yokoyama Yong transferred the 13th Division to the side of the 116th Division, if Sun Yumin really came out of the Western Front, he would definitely attack from west to east, at this time the 13th Division just came in handy, although the purpose of the Chilu Division was sent to prevent Sun Yumin's troops from escaping out of the mountainous area of Shengfeng, but when notifying him, Kinoshita Yong specially reminded that it was necessary to prevent Sun Yumin's troops from attacking from the Western Front, and most importantly, Kinoshita Yong also equipped the 13th Division with a large number of stabbing mines and 47mm anti-tank guns, The target was none other than Dong Wenbin's tank troops.

"Kinoshita-kun, you're doing a great job!" Yokoyama praised him: "If this battle can annihilate Sun Yumin's troops and capture Hengyang City, I will suggest to Commander Shunliu Hata and the base camp that it is more than enough to be the commander of a division with your ability." ”

"Thank you, Commander." As a staff officer, Isamu Kinoshita has been looking forward to this day for a long, long time.

While Yokoyama and Kinoshita were discussing how to deal with the 12th Army that suddenly attacked in Changsha City, the battle in the west of Hengyang City was also raging.

It only took one wave of attacks, Dong Wenbin and several of his tanks led the officers and men of the 62nd Army to capture the Japanese position.

The commander of the attack unit of the 62nd Army was grateful, and invited Dong Wenbin to sit with the division headquarters and the army commander, but he refused with a smile, not to mention that Dai Cunxiang's department was attacking from west to east and needed the assistance of his own armored troops. Instead, there was an organized retreat, which showed that behind this position, there was a Japanese defensive line, and although he was willing to assist in the attack, it was impossible for him to help the 62nd Army to attack because of the above reasons.

Li Tianxi's regiment braved the scorching sun and rushed towards the Japanese alert position that had long been discovered, and the previous reconnaissance had already proved that the devil alert force here was at most a squadron, and to attack this small alert position with the strength of a regiment, naturally there was no need for tanks to come to help in the battle, and in Li Tianxi's cognition, with the attack power of his own troops, I am afraid that it would not take much time for this alert position to be destroyed by himself.

Hengyang is located in a hilly area, there are small slopes everywhere, and it can be built as a defensive position everywhere, just like the devil alert position in front of him, it belongs to the 116th Division of Yan Yongwang, and is fortunate to be assigned to the side of the division and regiment to take on the guard task. Compared with other troops in the bloody siege of the city, it is undoubtedly much more comfortable and safe to serve as a guard mission, the Chinese army has been defeated all the way, and there are many main forces of the imperial army around, so the devil soldiers stationed here regard the vigilance as a formality, although the captain has repeatedly reminded them that there may be the ace main force of the Chinese army around, but no one will think that with so many main forces of the imperial army, the so-called ace of the Chinese army will dare to take the lead.

In the hot noon, the scorching sun was shining high, there was no trace of wind flowing, the air was hot, and the people who usually kept chirping seemed to be unable to endure the heat, hiding in the depths of the branches, under the shade of several big camphor trees, full of devil soldiers with their chests exposed, where could they endure the scorching sun, they all ran out of the position and hid under these big trees.