Chapter 705: Armor Extermination

The Japanese troops began to readjust, and the motorized infantry brigade began to set up defensive positions on the spot, with two infantry guns, twelve heavy machine guns, and more than 1,000 devil soldiers began to quickly fortify, and these infantry wanted to block the attack of the 6th Cavalry Regiment.

The 25th Cavalry Wing, the 36th Cavalry Wing, the 72nd Cavalry Wing, and the three cavalry wings began to get orders from Kojima Yoshizo, and more than 2,000 cavalry units quickly broke through in the direction of Xuting Town, and they wanted to quickly meet the artillery units of Xuting Town.

In the eyes of the devil soldiers, as long as the artillery unit is reconciled, the armored troops of the new second brigade will have some concerns, and they will naturally be safe.

Morikawa Nakasa of the armored detachment of the 1st Brigade of the melee marched towards the motorized infantry brigade with the last six tanks in embarrassment, and when Morikawa Nakasa saw through the tank periscope a large number of Japanese cavalry units began to withdraw, his originally pale face turned blue with anger.

The cavalry units of the 4th Cavalry Brigade withdrew, and Morikawa Nakasa naturally knew that they had abandoned themselves.

"Stop the withdrawal of the tank troops and fight the final battle with the armored forces of China!" Morikawa Nakasa's face was gloomy, and he immediately conveyed the order by radio.

Originally, he wanted to withdraw the main force of the 4th Cavalry Brigade here, so as to keep the last bit of personnel and equipment of the armored detachment, but the main force of the 4th Cavalry Brigade had begun to break through, and Morikawa Nakasa knew that even if he withdrew to the motorized infantry brigade, his life would still not be saved.

He would not have believed that a position guarded by an infantry brigade would hold back an attack by a tank unit, not to mention that there was a large number of infantry and artillery behind the tank force.

Rather than die on the path of retreat, Morikawa Nakasa believes that he should die on the path of attack.

Five Type 89 tanks and one Type 95 tank began to stop advancing, and they immediately turned their turrets, but before the Japanese tanks could fire, the twelve anti-tank guns deployed behind were the first to fire.

SIX 37MM ANTI-TANK GUNS AND SIX 47MM ANTI-TANK GUNS FIRED ARMOR-PIERCING SHELLS ONE AFTER ANOTHER, AND ALL THE REMAINING SIX TANKS OF THE ARMORED DETACHMENT OF THE 1ST BRIGADE OF THE MELEE WERE DESTROYED.

Morikawa felt as if his body had been torn apart, his consciousness blurred, and immediately after, he lost all signs of life.

An armor-piercing bullet directly tore Morikawa Nakasa's body, and together with the Type 89 tank he was in, it was also destroyed by the armor-piercing bullet fired by the 37MM anti-tank gun.

At this point, all 36 tanks and eight anti-tank gun wings of the armored detachment of the 1st Brigade were annihilated.

The armored battalion unit paid only four tank losses, which was simply insignificant compared to the losses of the Japanese army.

"Boom!" The two Type 92 infantry guns of the motorized infantry brigade were unwilling to be lonely, and grenades fired at the armored battalion tanks from a long distance.

"Da Da Da!" Twelve heavy machine guns also formed a frantic network of fire, and the bullets rained down on the tanks.

But because of the distance, neither anti-personnel grenades from infantry guns nor armor-piercing bullets fired from heavy machine guns posed any threat to the tank.

At present, the armored battalion still has two Type 89 tanks, seven Type 95 tanks, 10 T-26 tanks, nine Vickers tanks, two Type 97 tanks, and a total of 30 tanks.

In front of the armored battalion was the Japanese motorized infantry brigade, which was obviously deliberately trying to attract the attention of the armored battalion.

However, a large number of Japanese cavalry units began to rapidly advance in the direction of Xuting Town, and it was obvious that the Japanese cavalry units were planning to break through.

Xiao Zhiwei immediately contacted the regimental headquarters of the 6th Cavalry Regiment by radio, and he wanted to learn the instructions of the armored battalion through the regimental headquarters Yin Jinshan.

The regimental headquarters of the Sixth Cavalry Regiment was set up on an artillery position, and the regiment commander Yin Jinshan did not personally command the armored battalion to fight this time, but handed over the command to the deputy battalion commander Xiao Zhiwei, and he himself sat at the regimental headquarters to command the entire regiment to fight.

The 6th Cavalry Regiment used armored battalions and cavalry battalions to form a flank assault force to strike at the Japanese flank, while the Infantry Battalion set up blocking positions on the Japanese road to Xuting Town to prevent the Japanese cavalry from going to Xuting Town, while the 3rd Company of the 1st Artillery Battalion, the 2nd Artillery Battalion, and the Mounted Artillery Battalion set up artillery positions on the four high ground to support the operations of various units.

At present, the flank assault of the 6th Cavalry Regiment has achieved great results, and all the Japanese armored units have been annihilated, and at this time, the remaining Japanese troops are divided into two parts, one part is the motorized infantry brigade that stays in place and sets up positions, and the other part is the three cavalry wings of the Japanese army, and the Japanese cavalry wants to withdraw to Xuting Town.

After Yin Jinshan got Xiao Zhiwei's instructions, he did not hesitate at all, and he immediately gave Xiao Zhiwei an order.

The armored battalion and the cavalry battalion pursued the Japanese cavalry, and the artillery unit carried out artillery shelling on the positions of the Japanese motorized infantry brigade to pin down the Japanese infantry.

Thirty tanks increased their horsepower and began to move, and the tanks quickly pursued the retreating cavalry units of the Japanese army.

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the Chinese tank unit is coming after you." The captain of the 72nd Cavalry Wing came to Kojima Yoshizo in a panic and shouted.

Kojima Yoshizo hurriedly glanced back, and when he saw that the tank unit was indeed behind his cavalry, his face became solemn.

He clamped the war horse with his legs, and the pure white war horse couldn't help but speed up and run.

"Quick, order the troops to speed up the withdrawal!" Kojima Yoshizo shouted.

The Japanese cavalry units began to accelerate their withdrawal, and the 25th Cavalry Wing, which had previously been covered by armored detachments and broke through to Blackstone Village in advance, had approached Blackstone Village at this time.

In Heishi Village, a company of the Jibu Battalion is deployed, and the whole company is equipped with nine light machine guns, one heavy machine gun, nine grenadiers, nine shell guns, one 60MM mortar, and two 20MM machine guns, in addition, they have also strengthened two Type 91 armored vehicles directly under the battalion headquarters, a Type 92 armored car, a Type 92 infantry gun of the machine gun company of the Jibu Battalion, a Type 92 heavy machine gun, a Type 92 infantry gun of the cavalry battalion machine gun company, two 82MM mortars, two Maxim heavy machine guns, and four Czech light machine guns.

In order to effectively prevent the withdrawal of the Japanese cavalry units, the machine gun company of the cavalry battalion was temporarily strengthened to the machine infantry battalion for operation.

All three companies of the infantry battalion were reinforced by the battalion headquarters armored convoy, the battalion machine gun company and the cavalry battalion machine gun company.

In Heishi Village, where the first company of the machine infantry battalion was stationed, there were four heavy machine guns, two Type 92 infantry guns, two 82mm mortars, 13 light machine guns, three armored vehicles, and grenadier mortars to assist in the battle.