Chapter 843: The Sound of a Tank

As the sound of the 38-type rifle fire sounded, the devil soldiers immediately lay on the ground, and the light machine guns and grenadiers were quickly set up.

Two Japanese second lieutenant squad leaders were looking ahead with binoculars, and the leaders of the light machine gun team were also looking for targets with binoculars.

"What the hell is going on up ahead?" A second lieutenant asked with a puzzled face.

"It's not good, it's the sound of the tank engine, it's the tank unit of China." Another second lieutenant squad leader heard the sound of the tank engine and shouted in a panic.

But it was too late, and the tanks began to appear in the sight of the devil soldiers, and these tanks quickly moved towards the devil soldiers.

The tank number that appeared in Zhijiagou Village, Xima Town, was the 3rd Armored Battalion of the 4th Honorable Regiment, and the battalion commander was Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Quan.

Jiang Quan and Yin Jinshan are brothers in the German Armored Forces School, Jiang Quan has been serving in the armored corps after returning from Germany, after the expansion of the armored corps to 200 divisions, Jiang Quan followed the troops to participate in the Battle of Lanfeng, after being injured in the Battle of Lanfeng, Jiang Quan has been cultivating in Shanxi, and Yin Jinshan took the opportunity to invite him to the honorary fourth regiment as a lieutenant colonel battalion commander.

The 3rd Armored Battalion was equipped with 45 German No. 3 tanks, and learned that there were four 37mm anti-aircraft guns, and the battalion headquarters had one six-wheeled command armored vehicle, one four-wheeled command armored vehicle, and two No. 4 tanks.

These No. 3 and No. 4 tanks were purchased from Germany by Catherine and Chen Aihua at a great deal of money and connections, and these tanks were the treasures of the Honorary Fourth Regiment.

"The 7th Panzer Company advanced in a line attack, with a distance of 80 meters between the vehicles, the 8th Panzer Company and the 9th Panzer Company attacked and advanced in the left and right echelons, and the battalion headquarters and the anti-tank artillery company followed the actions of the 9th Panzer Company, and the troops quickly broke through."

Jiang Quan, the commander of the 3rd Armored Battalion, immediately began to give orders to the troops by radio, and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles immediately began to move.

The sound of tanks roared, and the tanks quickly pounced on the Japanese troops like tigers descending from the mountains.

The fifteen tanks of the 7th Panzer Company opened a range of more than 1,000 meters, and the fifteen tanks formed a long snake formation, while the platoons of tanks advanced along the skirmish line.

The distance between the tank and the devil soldiers gradually narrowed, and the crooked light machine gun and the Type 89 grenadier began to fire.

The bullets clanged on the tank's armor, and even the miniature grenades fired from the Type 89 grenadier were nothing more than a tiny pothole in the tank's armor.

Tank No. 3 is equipped with a 37MM tank gun and two machine guns, these two machine guns are on the right side of the tank gun, and there is a machine gun mount on the right side of the front viewing window, and the armored corps inside the tank can carry the machine gun into the tank and shoot through this machine gun mount, which means that the No. 3 tank can be increased to three machine guns.

However, considering the situation of his troops, Sun Weiguo did not add machine guns to the No. 3 tank, but issued each No. 3 tank with a Thomson submachine gun, and issued a hundred rounds of drums and five drums, this Thomson submachine gun was only used through the machine gun mount in close combat.

"Da Da Da!" The machine guns of Tank No. 3 began to fire, and rows of bullets came at the devil soldiers as if they didn't want money.

More than 30 people were killed on the spot by the devil soldiers, who were hit by dense bullets, and the rest of the devil soldiers hid one after another, and they did not dare to continue shooting.

The light machine gun shooters and grenadiers immediately left with their weapons in their hands, trying to find a new firing point.

More than 40 tanks began to approach the devil soldiers, and this time the devil soldiers had to deal not only with the frontal attack of the 7th Panzer Company, but also with the 8th Panzer Company and the 9th Panzer Company on both sides.

The tank machine gun formed a network of fire without dead ends, and a ghost soldier exposed to the machine gun was directly beaten into a sieve.

A second lieutenant squad leader had just shown his head, and he wanted to continue giving the battle order, but when his head was exposed, two bullets directly exploded his head.

The two infantry squads were attacked by forty-seven tanks, and more than 100 devil soldiers suffered heavy casualties.

At 10 a.m. on 19 September, the troops of the 3rd Panzer Battalion encountered the 3rd and 4th Separate Infantry Squads of the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Army.

When the tank unit of the 3rd Armored Battalion passed by this group of devil soldiers, only a dozen of the more than 100 devil soldiers survived.

At half past ten o'clock in the morning, the troops of the 3rd Armored Battalion encountered the main force of the 3rd Independent Infantry Brigade and the 4th Independent Infantry Brigade, and the lieutenant colonel battalion commander Jiang Quan made a decisive attack, and 45 No. 3 tanks quickly advanced, and after half an hour of fighting, the troops of the 3rd Armored Battalion defeated the main force of the 3rd Independent Infantry Brigade, and the 4th Independent Infantry Brigade also hurriedly left the battlefield.

The tank units were constantly advancing under the command of their respective commanders, and they kept advancing so that the devil soldiers who encountered the tanks had no power to parry at all.

At 12 o'clock at noon, the first armored battalion, armored artillery battalion, heavy artillery battalion, and the first company of the combat engineer battalion of the armored force of the fourth regiment of honor encountered the troops of the first independent infantry brigade of the Japanese army in Huabeitun Town.

With the capture of Huabeitun Town by the Honor Fourth Regiment, the Japanese army was divided into two independent mixed brigade units.

In the area north of Huabeitun Town, there are the headquarters of the 2nd Independent Mixed Brigade, as well as the artillery team, the engineer team, the communication team, the 1st Independent Infantry Brigade and the 3rd Independent Infantry Brigade directly under the brigade headquarters.

In the area south of Huabeitun Town, there were two independent infantry brigades, the 3rd and 4th Independent Infantry Brigades that were routed by the 3rd Armored Battalion, and at this time, the 2nd Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade had already paid more than 1,000 casualties.

"Your Excellency Brigade Commander, the Chinese tank unit has been found outside the town, and at present, the First Independent Infantry Brigade has lost contact with us, and the Third Independent Infantry Brigade has been pinned down by the Chinese Tank Force, and our brigade and regimental units have been completely disrupted by the Chinese Tank Force, and they cannot be assembled."

In Dongzhai Town, the Japanese army was independently mixed into the second brigade headquarters, and the chief of staff of Nakasa ran to the headquarters of the independent mixed second brigade in a panic, and he hurriedly reported to the brigade commander Toneoka Kanji.

Toneoka's face turned unusually blue at this time, and he was well aware that his troops had been cut into two parts.

Thinking of facing the tank troops of the Eighth Route Army, Toneoka Kanji was extremely worried, even if his troops strengthened some anti-tank weapons, he still did not feel that he had a chance to win.

"Did the troops of the 26th Division send reinforcements?" Kanji Tsuneoka immediately asked.

"Boom, boom!" As soon as Toneoka's words fell, the sound of cannons began to sound outside.