The destruction of the Akita Brigade made the commander of the Devil 213 Wing, who was retreating, heartbroken.

The 213th Wing was only one step ahead of the Akita Brigade, and the distance was only more than a mile, and the naked eye could see the Akita Brigade dancing on the fire net woven by tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the Eighth Route Army without a telescope. In particular, the scene of the 2nd Regiment setting up a position and chasing and crushing the little devils with tanks, armored vehicles, and car tires all fell into the eyes of the commander of the 213th Wing.

Not only did the captain of the 213th Wing see it, but so do the soldiers under him.

The tank was born during the First World War. At that time, there was a man in the British army named Ernest? Winston's colonel came up with a way to break through the strong German line of trenches, barbed wire, and machine-gun fire points, which was to create a self-propelled vehicle with armor to protect against both the trenches and the penetration of machine-gun bullets. The British Admiralty at the time, Winston? Intrigued by Colonel Swant's ideas, Churchill organized a "Land Boat Committee" to conduct experiments, and then appointed Triton and Walter Anderton? Lieutenant Wilson went to design the first locomotive.

In 1916, Britain produced the "Mark" 1 tank, with a diamond-shaped silhouette and a rigid surname, with protruding gun mounts on both sides of the hull, two tracks around the hull from the top, and a pair of steering wheels sticking out from the rear of the car. This tank has a crew of 8 people, and there are two types of "male surname" and "female surname". The "male" was armed with 2 57-mm guns and 4 machine guns, and the "female" was armed with only 5 machine guns. On September 15, 1916, 32 Mark-1 tanks were put into action for the first time in the Battle of the Somme. At that time, for the sake of secrecy, the British described the new weapon as a "tank" ("tank" in English) to deliver water to the front line. As a result, the name is still used today, and "tank" is a transliteration of the word.

Although tanks have already emerged in the First World War, and major powers have been developing tanks after World War I, there is debate in the international military theory community about the role of tanks and how to apply them. Britain and France, for example, took completely different approaches in terms of mechanics and tactics. The British considered tanks to be mobile combat vehicles whose role was to repel enemy resistance and break the barbed wire fence across the trenches in order to reduce the likelihood of enemy infantry attacks. The French believed that the role of the tank was that of an armored personnel carrier, capable of transporting infantry behind enemy lines without casualties, over barbed wire and trenches, and then unloading them. This, of course, was an early disagreement about tanks. By this time, the level of tank manufacturing and the theory of application in all countries of the world had greatly developed, and the Germans, in particular, had theoretically raised tank warfare to the height of armored group operations, not only produced various types of new tanks and organized powerful armored units, but also sharpened their knives and prepared for actual combat tests.

He said that he has a relatively short history of developing tanks.

Although they are the most developed country in Asia and one of the world's great powers, their economic level is still much lower than that of the European and American powers. In 1937, the United States, Britain, Germany, France, and Ben accounted for 38%, 10%, 11%, 5%, and 4% of the world's industrial production respectively, ranking last. Moreover, the foundation of its heavy industry is relatively weak, and its proportion in the industrial structure is relatively small, only 49.6% in 1936, less than half. Not to mention, the most important thing is the scarcity of mineral resources and heavy dependence on imports, resulting in steel production equivalent to one-tenth of that of the United States, unable to meet the needs of its military industry and machine manufacturing industry. In particular, Xiao Yue himself is a big ghost, and he has always tried to build a huge navy that can compete with the United States, and just manufacturing ships and ships has seriously tightened Xiao Yueben's steel production.

In addition to heavy industry and steel production not as good as those of European and American powers, another factor affecting the development of tanks is the automobile manufacturing industry. Tanks are the steel of movement, and in order for steel to be installed on wheels, it must be closely dependent on the entire technical team and personnel of the automobile industry. At this time, European and American countries have generally used cars as a means of transportation, and the United States reached the level of one car for every five people in 1930, and now it produces several million cars a year. On the other hand, its automobile industry is mainly dependent on foreign-funded enterprises, and automobiles and engines are mainly dependent on imports. The national automobile manufacturing industry is developing slowly, and the annual output of automobiles is less than 50,000.

There is another factor that affects his development of tanks, that is, his combat opponents are too weak. Although the army was hesitant in the debate between advancing north and south, the goal of its invasion of China was set. And China's economic strength is not good, and the equipment of the army is even worse. In the view of the decision-makers of Xiao Yueben, the existing strength of the Yue army can destroy China within three months, and there is no need to waste precious steel and gasoline to develop a large number of advanced tanks.

Therefore, it was not until 1926 that Ben began to build his own tanks on a trial basis, and before that, he mainly purchased "MK-IV" and "MK-A" tanks from Britain and "Renault-F17" light tanks from France. In February 1927, the No. 1 combat vehicle, which was designed by the vehicle squad of the Army Technical Headquarters in imitation of the Renault tank, was finally developed with the cooperation of the Osaka Arsenal and some private associations, which weighed 12 tons and had a speed of 25 kilometers per hour. The No. 1 vehicle was tested for speed shifting, climbing, trench crossing, and fire at the foot of Mt. Fuji, and basically met the design requirements. In April 1929, the Osaka Arsenal developed the second combat vehicle, weighing 9.8 tons, a 57 mm gun, a 6.5 mm machine gun, armor 5 to 17 mm, a maximum speed of 26 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 120 kilometers. The car performed well in a long-distance trial from Tokyo to Aomori. When it was put into production, it was increased to 11.5 tons at the request of the military and was named the Type 89 medium combat vehicle. The other two main battle tanks, the Type 95 light tank and the Type 97 medium tank, were built in 1935 and 1937 respectively. During this period, the company also developed a number of other auxiliary combat vehicles and armored vehicles. 95% of tank manufacturing enterprises are privately owned, and the remaining 5% are military camps, and their production capacity is generally low.

The usual scale for dividing tanks into classes is that tanks below 10 tons are light, 10 to 20 tons are medium, and more than 20 tons are heavy. However, by European and American standards, less than 20 tons are light tanks. Therefore, the main battle tanks of the Japanese army are actually light. The main technical weaknesses in its comprehensive comparison with European and American tanks are: small caliber of artillery, weak armor, low tonnage, slow speed, short stroke, etc. This directly leads to low firepower, protection and sustainability in actual combat. In addition, there are significant gaps in suspensions, power generation and transmissions, hydropneumatics, fastness, radio communications, optical equipment, etc.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, the army's tank production increased significantly, reaching the level of 700 vehicles per year. This production is far from sufficient to meet the needs of the war. As a matter of fact, in the mid-30s, some people had already predicted the dilemma of tank production in wartime: "The production of tanks could not exceed 500 in the first six months of the war, and no more than 1,300 in the next year, and the army's existing and stored tanks also reached 1,200." However, the number of tanks needed in the first half of the war was 3,300, so it had to import 1,600 tanks from abroad during this period. In the second half of the year, the number of tanks required was 2700 units. Therefore, 1,400 vehicles need to be imported. ”

Due to these reasons, the number of tanks in the army is not only small in quantity and poor in quality, but also backward in tactical thinking, and it is still at the level of scattered distribution and use to cover infantry operations. This is a far cry from the level of armored tactics taught by Liu Yimin at the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University.

Up to now, the army does not even have a tank division, and the only three mechanized divisions and regiments have a big gap in the number of tanks and surnames compared with the mechanized units of the German, American, British, and Soviet armies.

At this time, the Battle of Nomenkan had not yet taken place. Due to the limited scale of the battle at Zhang Gufeng and the limitations of the terrain, apart from teaching the Soviet planes how powerful they are, the devil has never seen the real armored strength of the Soviet army, nor does he know what an armored group assault is, and he has never taught this tactic from the Army Non-commissioned Officer School to the Army University. From officers to soldiers, the army is still arrogant, and they always think that the army is unparalleled in the world.

All this led to the fact that the commander of the 213th Wing of the Chinese Army was terrified when he saw that the Eighth Route Army had launched a pursuit with tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles in an armored group.

This guy is not stupid, he knows that his more than 1,000 remnants of the defeated army will not be able to outrun these steel monsters no matter what, and if he runs, he will die, and if he doesn't run, he will die, so he simply ordered the troops to stop retreating and block them on the spot.

It is not wrong to say that the order given by the commander of the wing is not wrong, and the soldiers of the army are brave enough, and after receiving the order, they immediately began to spread out and lie down, preparing to form a skirmish line, set up machine guns, grenadiers, and infantry guns. It's a pity that all this is useless, they are pursued by the Eighth Route Army and even the most elite Jiaoyi Brigade and the first regiment in China, and they are chasing them in tanks, armored vehicles and cars, and the machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, and submachine guns on the cars are constantly hitting like spring water, as if they want to completely wash away their group of insects that pollute the earth, and do not give them any chance to resist at all.

The motors are roaring, the machine guns are shouting. At this moment, the life of the little devil does not seem to be fate, but the dead leaves in the cold wind of late autumn and early winter, floating and fluttering in the wind, all the way to the East.

Wang Dahu didn't care whether the ghost of the little devil could float back to the East, there were only two words in his mind at the moment, that is, "assault". Break through the enemy's resistance, cut the enemy, crush the enemy, and continue to pursue in depth until the tank crushes the body of the commander of the 33rd Division, Shigetaro Katsuta. Therefore, he completely ignored the appearance of the little devil being beaten into a sieve by a machine gun, and even more ignored the ugly state of the little devil crawling on the ground to avoid bullets, and just used the car radio to order the troops to advance over and over again.

After the teaching, the little devils are already full of corpses.

When the second regiment came up, the remaining little devils had gone completely crazy. They didn't have time to set up heavy machine guns, infantry guns, and grenadiers, and these heavy weapons were almost lost when they retreated from Kaiyuan to Qingchi and were bombed and strafed by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army, and now they encountered the armored group of the Eighth Route Army, and the soldiers who wanted to set up heavy weapons fell under the vehicle-mounted machine guns.

The crazy little devil no longer crawled on the ground to avoid the firepower of the Eighth Route Army, and began to attack with meat bullets. Some brave little devils made tactical moves, tossing and turning, trying to throw grenades on tanks, armored vehicles, cars. There were also more than a dozen little devils holding explosives bags, screaming in their mouths, ignoring the rain of bullets of the Eighth Route Army, and wanting to die with the chariot. Of course, this is just their wishful thinking. This is the plain, the most suitable for the mobility of armored troops, after the second regiment is equipped with tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles, since the annihilation of the 21st Division, it has always been the main assault force of the instructor.

A group of little devils may feel that they can't go to heaven and enter the ground, so they simply picked up their bright bayonets and launched an attack on the armored formation of the Second Sect Regiment, seeing that Zhao Dahe, the head of the Second Sect, laughed, and without the slightest hesitation, rushed up with the convoy and turned them into ghosts under wheels.

In the end, the little devil's will to resist was completely destroyed. The remnants of the dozens of little devils simply knelt on their legs and raised their hands in surrender.

This can't be blamed on these little devils for not planting, it is the battle that has developed to this form, and the meaning of resistance has been completely lost. The 213th Wing of the little devil was originally a long-distance march to Weicheng to receive a visit, but when the shadow saw the Weicheng city wall, there was an earth-shattering cannon sound, which was frightened and surprised. Then he received an order that Weicheng might fall into the hands of the Eighth Route Army and quickly retreat to Qingchi to join the 214th Wing. As soon as he pulled out his legs and opened the way, he was bombed indiscriminately by the fighters of the Eighth Route Army. Fortunately, there were many villages along the road, and only 1,500 or 600 people survived. Finally rushed to Qingchi with a rolling belt, and joined up with the Akita Brigade left by the 214th Wing to respond, and also began to retreat quickly, and was caught up by the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army. This is a big plain, and the little devils were caught up on the highway again, although they scattered the formation at the first time, but there was not even a foxhole, there was no way to hide, there was no way to hide, under the firepower of the powerful armored troops of the first and second regiments, how could they stand firm and stabilize the formation! Don't say that it was the armored troops that caught up, that is, the cavalry caught up, and what was waiting for them was one word: "death"! Two words: "quick death"! Isn't there a reason for the little devil not to surrender!

Gao Yuan and Cheng Cuilin, who were acting with the Second Regiment in a car, saw that the little devil had not completed the assembly of troops and was in a state of scattered retreat, and knew that the little devil was indeed blown up by Feng Dafei and them, and there was no need for more troops to participate in the pursuit, and one regiment, one regiment and two regiments plus the brigade cavalry battalion were enough. Thinking that the little devil's plane might arrive at the battlefield in a short time, Gao Yuan resolutely ordered the 3rd Regiment, the New 1st Regiment, and the troops directly under the division to stop the pursuit, turn to concealment and rest on the spot, and organize the villagers to make smoke to prevent the devil's air attack.

Gao Yuan even wanted to inform Hu Laohu to ask his cavalry brigade to stop the pursuit and turn to concealment to recuperate, but when he raised his binoculars, he saw that his left and right flanks were far away from the sky. Just looking at the majesty of the dust, I knew that the cavalry soldiers were galloping on their horses, and the speed was extremely fast, so I was embarrassed not to let Hu Laohu and them participate in the battle.

After Lieutenant General Shigetaro Gan, commander of the 33rd Division, ordered the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing to completely lightly equip and retreat to Hancun, he hurriedly urged the soldiers to build fortifications and prepare to hold on.

Gansu Shigetaro now has a certain understanding of the strength of the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, and knows that it is still General Terauchi Shouichi who analyzes it, and the instructor says that it is a division, but in fact, the army is very large. Otherwise, they would not have taken the two divisions of the Imperial Army as soon as they made a move. In particular, this unit is well-equipped and has novel tactics. Not to mention anything else, just the tactics of their capture of Commander Otaka Kamezo, they themselves have neither listened to the teacher nor taught the students. Is this simply a display of the old saying "the head of the general in a million army"! That's not all, they actually have such a powerful aviation force, and they disabled their 33rd Division with a concentrated bombing. Now, their tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and cavalry have caught up with the dilapidated 213th Wing and 214th Wing, and I don't know if these two wings will be able to get rid of them!

Although he knew that the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing were being overtaken by the tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles and cavalry of the Eighth Route Army, he was not sure whether they could get rid of the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army, and he was worried, but Gansu Shigetaro was old and his thinking was aging, and at this time, there was no German armored blitzkrieg, and Gansu Shigetaro did not have the concept of armored assault in his mind. In his mind, as long as the fighters of the Eighth Route Army did not come to bomb, the 213th Wing and the 214th Wing left some troops to block and entangle the pursuing troops of the Eighth Route Army, and the main force could still be withdrawn. As long as they withdraw, as soon as the fighters of the Imperial Army Air Force arrive, they can bomb the pursuit troops of the Eighth Route Army, and it is still possible for them to organize a retreat to the east.

Ganji Shigetaro did not have the extra troops to reinforce the 213th and 214th Wings, so he could only send a telegram to Kobayashi Asaburo over and over again, urging His Excellency the Chief of Staff to order the air force to take off quickly, and it would be too late to do so.

The imperial fighters had not yet arrived, but the pursuing Eighth Route Army had arrived.

After receiving the report that the Eighth Route Army was catching up, Tataro Gan hurriedly went to the roof of a house and raised his binoculars to observe. The sight almost scared him off the roof. I saw that on the highways of Weicheng and Pingdu, there was dust and thick smoke billowing out. Beneath the smoke, a stream of monsters covered in sorghum straw and dead leaves are pouring towards Hancun. Needless to say, the 213th and 214th Wings have been devoured by this monster-like convoy!

Looking around, Amaterasu Okami saw two fast-moving pillars of smoke on both the north and south sides. Underneath the pillar of smoke was the fast-running cavalry of the Eighth Route Army. The strange thing is that those cavalrymen all held torches in their hands in broad daylight, and they did not see the flames on the torches, but only saw the wisps of smoke from the torches drifting into the air, gathering and drifting in the air, forming one after another, one after another, in a round and continuous circle of smoke.

Tataro was not stupid, he immediately thought that this was the Eighth Route Army deliberately creating smoke to hide his body and interfere with the sight of the Imperial Army Air Force.

With a "clang", Tataro Kansu's telescope fell from his hand and fell to the ground in the yard!