Jilin City, the General Headquarters of the Northeast New Army.

Zhang Xinghan and Jiang Baili were conducting war games on the sand table with the cooperation of a group of staff officers.

At this time, Li Guocai, director of the Communications Division of the General Headquarters, walked in with a message in his hand.

"Commander, Counselor, the 2nd Division of Reading Force has sent the latest battle report from the Tieling front." Li Guocai saluted and reported.

"How's the battle going?" Jiang Baili asked.

"The army has built a large number of permanent pillbox firepower groups made of cement and steel bars, and has also dug anti-tank trenches, and the follow-up troops such as the engineers of the 2nd Reading Division have not yet arrived, and the attack has been stopped." Li Guocai replied.

"Anti-tank trenches?" Jiang Baili frowned when he heard this, turned his head to Zhang Xinghan and said: "Commander, this little trouble encountered by the 2nd Division reminds me that I have been preparing for a long time in this southward operation, such anti-tank trenches, all kinds of obstacles and fortifications are endless, and we still have to think of a better way to ensure that the troops can pass through these obstacles of the enemy as soon as possible and reduce unnecessary casualties." ”

A staff officer next to him nodded and said: "Senza is right, ordinary earthwork filling operations, that is to pay an extremely heavy price of casualties, for the trench I dug myself, we should still think of a way to pass quickly, in my opinion, we can let the front-line troops prepare more planks and the like, pave the bridge into a road." ”

Paving the way? Zhang Xinghan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he thought about it and said: "Chief of Staff, you are responsible for staying in Jilin, and I will lead the armored group army to the front line and personally command the troops to attack." ”

"Commander, be careful." Jiang Baili and the others hurriedly stepped forward and saluted.

Zhang Xinghan immediately left the headquarters with Guo Zhong and ran straight to the strategic warehouse set up by the Northeast New Army in Jilin.

This strategic warehouse is located in the north of Jilin City, next to the mountains and the Songhua River, and is heavily guarded.

A large number of strategic materials, various weapons and ammunition are stored in it.

The weapons and ammunition produced by the rebuilt arsenal were stockpiled here.

In fact, these are all disguises, and the purpose of Zhang Xinghan's establishment of this large warehouse is to hide people's eyes and ears, so that he can produce all kinds of weapons and equipment from watches.

The frustration of the offensive of the front-line troops made him sound another auxiliary surname tank of the No. 4 Tank family, that is, the bridge-building tank converted from the No. 4 tank.

This bridge-building tank did not have a turret on top, and instead of a turret was a flat, retractable steel bridge. When the bridge erection tank drove to the river, it could lift one end of the folded steel bridge, and then, let go of the folded steel bridge section by section, and the other end of the bridge was erected into the water, and the pontoon bridge more than 10 meters long was erected on the river. After one bridge tank has finished building the bridge, the other can be connected to the previous section of the pontoon bridge. One after the other, a battlefield pontoon bridge was erected. Infantry, tanks, artillery, and vehicles can pass through the pontoon bridge and cross the river smoothly.

With this kind of bridge-building tank, troops of all arms can quickly pass smoothly through all kinds of rivers and lakes, and the anti-tank trenches dug and built by the little devils are naturally not a problem.

However, what Zhang Xinghan didn't know was that such a sapper surnamed Neng tank, which was only produced, developed and modified in the 40s, was his watch unsealed at this time.

After leaving Guo Zhong and the others to wait outside, Zhang Xinghan walked into a secret secret room in the warehouse alone.

Taking out his watch, Zhang Xinghan entered the game with apprehension, and adjusted the screen menu to the back of the armored tank car page.

Pulling down, several auxiliary tanks appeared in front of him.

As Zhang Xinghan expected, the No. 4 bridge tank is a more advanced tank after the Tiger tank and the Leopard tank.

It has not been unlocked yet, but after clicking on the unlock function of tank four, a prompt pops up on the page that it takes 250,000 kills to unlock.

Zhang Xinghan checked his kill value, fortunately, after fighting with Lao Maozi, he accumulated another batch of kill value, and now his total kill value remains at about 300,000.

Without the slightest hesitation, he immediately chose to unlock it, and quickly produced a hundred bridge-building tanks, which were delivered to the 1st Division of the Panzer Army in the afternoon of the same day.

Zhang Xinghan knew that with the appearance of this kind of bridge-building tank, there would be no rivers and lakes in the northeast that could stop the pace of his attacking troops.

It is even possible to lay more steel bridges for tanks to speed up the transportation and passage of troops.

A bridge-building tank can usually complete the bridge-building operation in less than ten minutes, and can pass through up to thirty or forty tons of armored vehicles, which is a thousand times stronger than a thousand times for manually built pontoon bridges, regardless of speed and load-bearing capacity?

After being tested in actual combat, Zhang Xinghan will equip all engineering units of all divisions of the army with such bridge-building tanks in order to strengthen the ability of all units to pass through obstacles.

After allocating all 100 bridge-building tanks to the 1st Division of the Armored Group Army, Zhang Xinghan personally led his troops to the Tieling front.

In the evening of the same day, the engineer battalion, the air defense regiment, the 3rd infantry regiment and other follow-up units of the 2nd Readpower Division arrived one after another.

Zhao Zhenfan was about to order the engineer battalion to prepare for the trench filling operation, when the chief of staff, Chen Feng, received a telegram from the signal soldier.

"Division, commander-in-chief urgent."

"Oh? What the commander said. Zhao Zhenfan asked.

"The commander ordered us to suspend the attack and wait for him to arrive." Chen Feng said.

"Okay, order the troops to stand by, but the artillery regiment can't rest, and give me a call every half an hour, and you must not let the little devil feel comfortable." Zhao Zhen Fan Road.

"Hmm." Chen Feng nodded in response.

In the early hours of the morning, Zhang Xinghan finally rushed to the Tieling front line with the armored division along the railway line.

Zhao Zhenfan and Chen Feng hurriedly came out to greet them, and Zhang Xinghan waved his hand and said, "Don't be polite, let's talk first, what is the enemy situation now." ”

Zhao Zhenfan lowered his hand after saluting and said: "The humble duty lets the artillery regiment shell every half an hour, and the little devil has basically stopped from the afternoon to now, and it is estimated that he has not even had a chance to eat dinner." ”

"Very well, you immediately organize a battalion of troops, supplemented by two tank companies, and prepare for the attack." Zhang Xinghan said that he had taken the lead in entering the headquarters.

"Yes!" Zhao Zhenfan and Chen Feng suddenly stepped forward to agree, and then Chen Feng turned around and took the order.

"Commander, do you want the tank regiment to cover the engineer battalion before attacking after the engineer battalion fills up the devil's anti-tank trench?" After Chen Feng left, Zhao Zhenfan asked cautiously.

"I didn't risk it with the sapper barracks, the casualties were too great, I brought a new type of bridge-building tank, and we just waited to see a good show." Zhang Xinghan said very much in anticipation.

"Bridging tanks?" Zhao Zhenfan looked surprised.

"You'll understand later." Saying that, Zhang Xinghan had already raised the telescope.

"Guoping, look, that's our bridge-building tank." Zhang Xinghan pointed ahead.

At this time, in order to prevent the night attack of the Northeast New Army, the devils would launch some flares into the air every once in a while, so Zhang Xinghan could clearly see the advance of his bridge-building tanks.

Zhao Zhenfan also hurriedly raised his binoculars, and saw that on his own attack position, there were about a dozen tracked iron guys that he had never seen that looked like tanks and didn't look like tanks, and they were rumbling forward.

More than a dozen No. 4 tanks also took the opportunity to open fire for cover, and the next scene that made Zhao Zhenfan fall through his glasses happened.

I saw that the dozen or so iron guys stopped in front of the devil's anti-tank trench, and the steel frame on the roof of the car suddenly rose.

Immediately, the steel frame slowly stretched out in a scissor-like shape, about ten meters long and about two or three meters wide.

Under the stunned gazes of the officers and soldiers on both sides, the steel frame slowly fell, and the steel frame in front of it landed smoothly.

The bridge-building tank immediately retreated, and a simple steel bridge nearly three meters wide and more than ten meters long was completed.

Not only could Zhao Zhenfan's surprised mouth stuff a duck egg, but in one of the bunkers in the bunker group of the Yue Army, a young commander of the devil was even more surprised.

Seeing that the first steel bridge was thus built, the anti-tank trench they had painstakingly built was completely ineffective, and even the barbed wire fence set on the edge of the trench was overwhelmed by the extra steel bridgehead.

The devil Shaozuo was shocked and frightened, and hurriedly took the phone and shouted: "Shoot, shoot!" ”

Suddenly, dozens of bunkers and bunkers opened fire one after another, and dense bullets suddenly poured down like rain.

However, in addition to the lack of turrets and other weapons, the bridge tank has all the defensive armor that the fourth tank should have.

The Devil's machine-gun fire, although fierce, was useless except to tickle the other bridge-building tanks.

Almost under the dense rain of bullets from the devils, more than a dozen bridge-building tanks completed the laying task one after another and retreated on their own.

In the headquarters of the 2nd Division of Reading Power, Zhao Zhenfan couldn't help but laugh excitedly after watching this scene: "Commander, this bridge tank is simply amazing, with this thing, let alone digging an anti-tank trench, even if they defend the Liao River, there is no difficulty for us." ”

"Alright, order the troops to attack." Zhang Xinghan put down the binoculars, took out a cigarette and lit it.

Zhao Zhenfan personally picked up the microphone, suppressed his excitement, and ordered loudly: "I order, attack immediately." ”

Almost as soon as Zhao Zhenfan put down the phone, hundreds of No. 4 tanks opened fire one after another, and some tanks drove directly onto the steel bridge.

More than 700 officers and men of an infantry battalion followed the tank car along the steel bridge in more than a dozen ways.

"Rush! Kill! The officers and soldiers shouted and killed.

Despite the desperate efforts of the devil soldiers to fire and block the attack, the tanks of the Northeast New Army successfully passed through the anti-tank trenches.

With the cover of tanks, the infantry attack went much more smoothly.

With a violent explosion sounding from the bunkers, after the fire flashed, the devil's bunker group was quickly declared lost.

Zhang Xinghan commanded the main force of the 2nd Division of Reading to follow up, taking the tank regiment as the front guide and penetrating the defense line of the Yue Army, until dawn, basically annihilating the Yue Army outside the city, and surrounding the Tieling County Regiment.

(To be continued)