readx; After comprehending this almost crazy attack, Xiao Hanliang understood why the carefully trained troops could not resist, he looked around the battlefield and found that almost all the troops of the Yue Army came to attack him, but forgot all the follow-up troops that were blocked by the broken bridge on the other side!

Xiao Hanliang suppressed the excitement in his heart and ordered the tank group to attack to the left to avoid the edge of the army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 The remaining twenty-one tanks suddenly turned around in high-speed motion, rushed towards a valley on the left, and left the frantically screaming army far behind the ass, and soon ran out of range of the anti-tank guns.

At this time, the commander of the army noticed that most of the troops on the other side of the river had disappeared, and only a group of several hundred men had built fortifications on a hill on the side of the road, and there was no doubt that the enemy must have been looking for another suitable place to cross the river nearby!

Thinking of this, the commander of the army remembered that his task was to reinforce Sanshui, but he blew up the bridge in order to block the enemy's tank troops. In desperation, the army had no choice but to divide into three routes: one way to stay in place to monitor the [***] squadron on the other side; Search along the river beach all the way to find the crossing location of the [***] team; The last road went back along the road with anti-tank guns and heavy artillery, preparing to counterattack the tanks that would come out of nowhere, and at the same time sending troops to search the valleys and jungles on both sides of the road for traces of tank troops.

This is a deep canyon, shrouded in dense fog all year round, even the most blazing sun in the middle of the summer can not penetrate the century-old vines to grow among the tall trees, the intertwined roots and dead trunks make the ground rugged, the chaotic trees and dry branches and leaves fill the canyon, giving people a breathless feeling.

Although Xiao Hanliang had seen this canyon on the map and knew the general direction, he did not expect the terrain here to be so complicated, so when he confirmed that he had got rid of the Yue army, he ordered the troops to stop advancing, then jumped out of the tank and walked towards the canyon with several officers. The winter in Guangdong belongs to the dry season, so the stream in the canyon is only a dozen centimeters deep, and the widest place is only five or six meters wide, and there is a thick layer of leaves piled up on the roots of dozens of meters, which is obviously the traces left when the stream swells in summer, and at a few meters above the stream, the dense branches and green vines are tightly intertwined, forming a huge net.

After walking a few hundred meters, Xiao Hanliang and several officers briefly discussed, and they all thought that it was possible to cross the canyon, so the tank started again and advanced along the stream. From time to time, the tracks of the tank became entangled in the branches and leaves of the trees, and the loader and co-pilot had to walk outside, ready to clean up at any time; Unfathomable pools of water continued to appear in the creek, and the troops stopped and cut a passage through the trees on the bank. After more than three hours of arduous marching, the nets overhead began to become thin, and a little bit of sunset began to appear on the branches and leaves, and the officers and soldiers, including Xiao Hanliang, were ecstatic, thinking that they had crossed the canyon.

However, what appeared in front of them was a basin surrounded by mountains, and in front of them was a cliff with a wall, although the slope on the right side was not large, but it was overgrown with thick trees, and the gap between the trees did not allow tanks to cross, Xiao Hanliang naturally turned his gaze to the left: the slope was full of charred tree remains, the ground was charred black, and there were large open spaces everywhere, which was very suitable for tanks to pass, but when approaching the basin, the slope rose sharply, Finally, it becomes a steep slope of 90 degrees at a height of five or six meters above the ground.

Xiao Hanliang simply visually measured the distance between the steep slope and the ground, and then sent a few soldiers to climb the hill to see the terrain on the other side. Ten minutes later, the reconnaissance personnel came back to report that the other side of the hillside was very gentle, and there was a road a few kilometers away from the hillside, but it was not certain that it was not the one leading from Sanshui to Guangzhou.

Xiao Hanliang waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to return to the tank, then lined up in three rows two hundred meters away from the steep slope, and then ordered to fire in turns, violently bombarding the opposite rock.

The hard limestone continued to crumble under the saturation of the shells, and large chunks of stone fell, piling up several meters high at the bottom of the hillside, and a huge gap appeared at the upper end of the steep slope.

Forward, backward, forward, backward, backward again, finally succeeded! The first tank screamed and rushed up, and with its assistance, the rest of the tanks climbed up one by one.

When the tanks appeared at the foot of the mountain, the western sun was slowly sinking into the bosom of Mother Earth, and a touch of afterglow stained the sky red.

Xiao Hanliang raised his binoculars and looked at the road, only to see more than a dozen puppet soldiers hurrying towards this side, obviously alarmed by the sound of artillery just now, about a kilometer behind them, a bunker more than ten meters high stood on the edge of a bridge, the dim light shone out of the window, and the figures of several soldiers could be faintly seen.

Xiao Hanliang turned around and looked at his subordinates who were waiting for orders, raised his arms slightly, pointed to the pillboxes on the road, and shouted: "Forward, tank!" ”

Looking at the beast that suddenly came out of the darkness, the puppet soldiers immediately froze, and only reacted after a few seconds, turned around and ran, but after running out of a while, they found that the roar of the motor was getting closer and closer, and then they realized that the other party's target was a bunker on the road, so they ran into the rice field next to them, and ran wildly towards the woods in the distance, and lost all the weapons in their hands.

The soldiers in the bunker hurriedly ran down, set up two light machine guns and two grenadiers on sandbags, and prepared to stop the enemy, and then, with a dozen shells, the armored troops told them what a wild idea: sandbags, people, and weapons disappeared in an instant in a violent explosion, and only a few intermittent moans told people that there was still life here.

Xiao Hanliang confirmed his location through the map inside the bunker: the distance from here to the place of crossing the river was twenty kilometers, which means that it had advanced to the outskirts of Guangzhou!

The German [***] team has always advocated attacking, and Xiao Hanliang, who admires this, is no exception, and after a brief discussion with several officers, he decided to leave two tanks here to block the Yue army behind, and he led the rest of the tanks to continue to advance towards Guangzhou!

At this time, the troops in charge of blocking the tanks were still waiting for the report of the search force more than a dozen roads away from here, because according to the information they had, several nearby valleys could not be crossed by tanks. However, by the time they received the report from the defenders of the bunker and rushed to full speed, Xiao Hanliang had already led nineteen tanks to the front, and only two tanks were meeting them.

The two remaining tanks, one on the left and one on the right, were hidden in the bushes on the side of the road, and the muzzles of the black holes were aimed at the Japanese army on the other side of the river. As it was getting late, the Japanese army could not determine the position of the opponent, so they could only rely on the infantry assault to induce the tanks to open fire, however, the clever tankmen changed positions every time they fired a shot, so that all the attacks of the anti-tank guns were missed, and the infantry who acted as the decoy suffered heavy casualties under the bombardment of the tank guns.

In order to cross the river, the army was unwilling to destroy the bridge, and the tankmen were unwilling to blow up the bridge in order to leave a way back for Xiao Hanliang, and also to ensure that the follow-up troops could pass smoothly, so the two sides fell into a tug-of-war on both sides of the river, and fought until late at night without results. At the same time, Xiao Hanliang's vanguard had already advanced to the edge of Guangzhou after destroying five pillboxes in a row, plunging the defenders into a panic!

The tank troops led by Xiao Hanliang marched all the way, rushed and attacked fiercely under the cover of the night, and when they encountered the strongholds of the army that were weak in vitality and had no anti-tank weapons, they directly destroyed them, and the stronger ones were divided into troops to attack the enemy's flank and attack, and the defenders were repelled with a devastating momentum. Seeing so many tanks, according to the configuration habits of their own army, they took it for granted that there must be a large number of infantry behind, and in order to avoid being outflanked by the opponent, they retreated in the direction of Guangzhou one after another, and at the same time urgently asked Ando Toshiyoshi for help.

Toshiyoshi Ando was puzzled when he received the distress telegram, even if he was attacked by the [***] team on a large scale, he would not be able to support it for even a day. The reinforcements are not only equipped with two squadrons of anti-tank guns, but also an additional squadron of heavy artillery, which, together with the strength of the defenders along the way, is already close to a brigade!

Ando Toshiyoshi did not immediately send reinforcements, but called the reinforcements of Sanshui's troops to inquire about the situation of the battlefield, and after finding out the situation, he immediately ordered the reinforcements to return to Guangzhou at full speed, attack the armored forces from behind, and destroy all the bridges along the way, because he knew that the defenders of Sanshui had no chance of being spared. At the same time, the tank squadron directly under the command was urgently dispatched to prepare for a tank battle with the squadron [***]! In the face of the rapid offensive of the Central [***] team, Ando Toshikichi realized that without the support of air power, the combat effectiveness of his army was far inferior to that of his opponent, and it was even possible that it was inferior to the German division of the Central Army. Because behind every major victory is the credit of bombers and reconnaissance aircraft!

At this time, the tug-of-war around the small bridge had been going on for two hours, and nearly 100 corpses were lying on the ground at the head of the bridge, and the branches of the trees that had been ignited by the cannonballs were still emitting a little fire, and in the dark night, they flickered like the legendary ghost fire, which made people's hearts palpitate.

Realizing that it was impossible to force a breakthrough, the army sent small units to swim across the river and attack the flanks of the tanks.

Half an hour later, the deliberate operation of the army was declared successful, and the tank on the left side of the road was blown off its tracks and turned into a fixed battery. The four soldiers in the tank jumped out without hesitation, crossed the road and approached the tank on the right, and the tank on the right, which had been warned, fired three shots in succession, blocking the pursuing army on the opposite side of the road. At this time, the troops on the other side of the river took advantage of the short gap to rush across the bridge and set up a firing point at the bridgehead, and the follow-up troops drove over in a steady stream to flank the last tank.

The situation was irreparable, the commander and a few other comrades jumped into the tank, immediately reversed, galloped towards the depths of the jungle, just left the latent position less than ten meters away, a few anti-tank shells fell accurately, scaring several tankers outside into a cold sweat!

With more than a dozen motorcycles as the lead, a squadron of infantry covering behind, galloping away in the direction of the tanks' escape, and the rest of the troops advanced at full speed towards Guangzhou, preparing to outflank Xiao Hanliang's rear road.

Suddenly, the roar of the tank motor disappeared, and only the "rush" sound of the motorcycle echoed in the dense forest, and the tracking army had to fire flares to find the whereabouts of the tank. The blazing brilliance of the flares shone in mid-air, illuminating the vicinity of a few hundred meters as if it were day, but it could not penetrate the dense woods, and it was still dark in the night a few hundred meters away. The soldiers had no choice but to line up the infantry in a straggler formation, keeping a five-meter distance between the two soldiers, like a giant comb combing all the way through the woods.

Ten minutes later, the army came to a low mountain beam, and before they could take a few steps up it, a tongue of fire swept from a distance of tens of meters, and several soldiers leaned back sharply and rolled down the hillside, and the rest of the army did not retreat but advanced, screaming and rushing up, however, the fire of another machine gun crushed their attack, and the soldiers retreated like a tide, leaving a dozen corpses on the hillside in vain.

The roar of the tank motor sounded behind the mountain beam, and at this time, the army was forming its formation, preparing to attack again, but five shells flew in succession, exploding around the team, and more than a dozen soldiers fell to the ground, and the rest of the soldiers scattered in all directions, looking for cover, and the attack ended before it began.

Immediately afterwards, the roar of the motor faded away, and the commander of the army hurriedly ordered the troops to pursue, but the two machine guns on the ridge of the hill stopped them from approaching with heavy fire. The flares were fired one after another, and the machine gunners took the opportunity to concentrate their fire and opened fire fiercely, splashing the branches and turf on the ridges of the hill in all directions, and at the same time, the miniature grenades fired from the grenadiers smashed on the defenders' positions one after another, and after the violent explosion, the two machine guns of the opposing side were suddenly dumb! The ecstatic soldiers emerged from the woods, formed an attack formation as they ran, and rushed towards the ridges, their bayonets shining coldly under the illumination of flares.

The place where the light machine gun had just been erected was empty, and there were only bullet casings and blood stains on the ground, and it was obvious that someone had been wounded, and the army was like a beast that smelled blood, and rushed forward along the blood stains on the grass, and a dozen motorcycles also stumbled through the woods, completely forgetting their real goal.

The sound of gunfire and violent explosions continued to come from the direction of Sanshui and Guangzhou, and the smell of gunpowder smoke in the air became stronger and stronger, indicating that the battlefield was gradually shifting here, and the small team guarding the bridgehead had spent a long night in extremely tense conditions.

In the early morning, before the mist on the river had lifted, more than a dozen trucks appeared on the opposite bank, and behind the trucks, the soldiers of the brigade, under the command of the officer, retreated while returning fire, and less than two kilometers behind them, dozens of tanks were pursuing at full speed, and behind the tanks were motorcycles, trucks full of Chinese soldiers, and hundreds of cavalry.

As soon as the convoy had crossed the river, the guards began to plant explosives on the piers, and at the same time, the retreating soldiers rushed over the bridge deck.

Suddenly, the roar of tanks rang out from the rear of the army, and immediately after, the bushes on the right side of the road fell to the ground, and an M2A4 tank rushed onto the road, and then frantically rushed to the bridge!

Rifles, light and heavy machine guns, grenadiers, mortars, these weapons were used by the army in the shortest possible time to desperately block the tanks, in a vain attempt to force them to get out of the way. At the same time, the tank gunners, regardless of the distance limit, fired a series of guns in the violently bumpy tank, blowing up a truck in front to pieces, and the truck behind could not dodge and hit it, and then it caught fire, and the soldiers on the car jumped off the truck and ran to both sides of the road, at which time the road was completely cut off.

Ignoring the infantry on the side of the road, the tank rushed along the road without hesitation, and after a violent impact, knocked the wreckage of the two trucks off the road, and then the front-loading machine gun suddenly opened fire, and the dense bullets were like a sharp scythe, and in an instant the soldiers who were crowded on the bridge deck were swept down in a flock like cutting wheat, and the corpses kept rolling into the river. At this time, the army in charge of the demolition had not yet loaded the explosives, but when he saw the tank getting closer and closer, he had to hurriedly pull the fuse and run to the river bank, but before he could stand firmly, two machine gun bullets hit his head almost simultaneously, and then exploded like a watermelon, and the body fell straight to the ground.

Immediately after clearing the bridgehead, the tanks turned around and stood majestically in the middle of the road, attacking any Chinese troops who tried to approach with machine guns and artillery.

A few minutes later, the tanks of the follow-up troops quickly rushed across the bridgehead and rushed towards Guangzhou!

At the same time, Xiao Hanliang's vanguard was stubbornly blocked by the Japanese army outside the city of Guangzhou: the enemy knocked down all the trees on both sides of the road, and blew down the houses facing the street, forming a barricade several meters high, and more than a dozen anti-tank guns bombarded it in turn, forcing the other side not to dare to approach.

The anti-tank units that pursued all the way attacked from behind, causing the vanguard of the Nanyang Corps to lose five tanks.

Xiao Hanliang quickly broke away from the battle, led the tank group to move to the side and rear, suddenly changed direction outside the range of the opponent's anti-tank guns, and killed the army behind him.

After destroying the opponent's artillery, the tank group moved at high speed to the top of a bushy hillside, staring at the opposing army!

(To be continued)