On the Erlongshan front, the defensive positions built by the Japanese army with the help of the mountains were very dangerous. Regardless of the level of command, Lieutenant General Hattori Kotaro's personality is a little similar to Yamada Otozo. This person is extremely cautious, but at the same time not arrogant, and has his own overall consideration and clear understanding of the battle situation.

Although the war did not go well in the eyes of the other officers, they only thought that the Empire's holy war had suffered a setback, and that defeat was still far from defeat. However, Lieutenant General Hattori Shotaro believed that if the Kwantung Army could not survive this difficulty, then the holy war of the Great Japanese Empire would stop there, and what would follow would be an unprecedented catastrophe.

Now that the Kwantung Army is embattled, and the erosion of the war situation in the North Manchurian region is a foregone conclusion, he only hopes that the First Chariot Division can play a certain role in blocking the Soviet Chariot Group north of Yichun, and then the Kwantung Army in the North Manchurian Region can block the Soviet troops in the areas north of Qiqihar, Suihua, and Jiamusi. Don't think about the counteroffensive for the time being, as long as the war situation does not continue to erode, the empire is still very promising.

Hattori Shotaro was very satisfied with the various fortifications of the Erlongshan position, and he knew very well the significance of this unit he led to the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchukuo. If even his more than 100,000 people fail, then the only way out for the puppet Manchurian government is to move the capital. Originally, Tonghua was the back road of the Kwantung Army and the puppet Manchu government, but now this back road has also been manipulated by Li Dingguo's department, Hattori Shotaro really doesn't know if even his 100,000 troops can't stop the attack of the Chinese army, then the Kwantung Army headquarters and the puppet Manchurian government have any way back.

"Report to Your Excellency the division commander, the division search team has discovered that the front troops of the branch are coming towards our army's defensive position in the mountain spring area ten kilometers from Erlong Mountain." An officer with the rank of captain on his shoulders trotted in and reported.

"Let's be more careful, how many people are in the front of the Chinese people, whether they have heavy weapons, and how many armored troops there are." Hattori Kotaro asked calmly.

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Division: The front unit of the Chinese is composed of 200 to 300 tanks, and there are more than 100 large vehicles in the back, which are full of infantry, and the back of the cars are all towing artillery. However, it was too dark, so our search team couldn't see it very clearly. The lieutenant continued.

"Baga, order the search team to find out the specific strength of the front troops of the Zhina people at all costs, the number of 200 to 300 is too vague, and there is not much reference value, what I want is the exact number, the error must not exceed 10 numbers, this is very important, do you understand?" Hattori said loudly.

"Hay! Humble duty understands! ”

After the captain finished speaking, he turned around and went out, and the expression on Hattori's face was very excited. Although the information sent by the divisional search team just now was very vague, it was not as worthless as he said. It doesn't matter if the Shina chariot unit came with 200 tanks or 300 tanks, it was good news for Hattori Kotaro.

It is simply stupid that the stupid Shina people should not act together, but all the troops separately, and they don't know that this can easily be broken by each one. 2. Although 300 tanks seem to be powerful, you must know that in the eyes of a real tank group, this number cannot be scaled up at all.

"Order: The 1st Brigade of Independent Tanks, the Tank Wing directly under the division, and the rapid-fire artillery wing of the division and regiment set off immediately to meet the vanguard of China overnight, so that His Excellency Yamada can let go of his hands and feet, and there is no need to completely annihilate the front troops of this China within two hours, and give the people of China a head-on blow." Hattori Kotaro ordered loudly.

Although the T34 Tank Brigade of the Inner Mongolia Military Region is a brigade-level military unit, in fact, this tank brigade only has 155 tanks, which is still forcibly transferred by the Soviets from their own troops to Han Yunhua, after all, the T34 is the most advanced tank in service in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union itself is not equipped enough, so it can still provide too much assistance to the Inner Mongolia Military Region. …,

"Lao Zhang, there is Erlong Mountain in front, and the mountain pass is an open field, which is very suitable for the tank troops to charge, I think the chariot troops of the little devils should be arranged there, should we rush there now?" It was none other than Liu Da Fat in Wan Guoquan's mouth.

This Liu Da Fat Man is also a celebrity, and his uncle is Liu Wenhua, the originator of the artillery group of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. But he didn't join the Eighth Route Army for a long time, he had been serving in Pang Bingxun's 40th Army before, and later heard that his uncle was in the Inner Mongolia Military Region, so he took his own artillery battalion and ran over to join the Eighth Route Army.

Liu Da Fatzi is an artillery soldier in the Kuomintang troops, and in terms of technology, he is far more powerful than his uncle with two knives. Therefore, he was promoted to the head of the artillery regiment in less than 2 years after joining the Eighth Route Army, which has to be said to be a miracle even in such a rapidly promoted unit as the Inner Mongolia Military Region.

However, Liu Da Fatzi's appointment was issued from the Inner Mongolia Military Region Headquarters, and at present, no one has been able to get through the door of Han Yunhua and Han Da Commander, not even his wife, so no one dares to doubt the gold content of this appointment.

"Liu Da Fatty, it is your automobile regiment that sings the leading role this time, my tank brigade is just a bait used by your regiment for fishing, I should listen to your command, besides, you are still a capable person in the eyes of the commander, but you asked about me." Zhang Baode, commander of the tank brigade, said with a smile.

"Go, go, isn't Lao Tzu's position not as high as you, although your kid is now just a tank brigade commander, and it is also a small brigade with a two-unit system, but Lao Tzu is just an infantry commander, not as good as you, Lao Tzu asked you to talk about Lao Tzu, no, hurry up and give an order, if you let the commander know that Lao Tzu crossed your private order and did not slaughter Lao Tzu as a fat pig." Liu Da Fat scolded loudly.

Zhang Baode and Liu Da Fat are a pair of enemies, and they quarrel endlessly as soon as they meet, but the two guys cooperate well, otherwise Wan Guoquan would not have handed over such an important task to them.

"Okay, you fucking don't say a word, Lao Tzu heard that there is a complete tank brigade on the little devil's side, plus miscellaneous and patchwork tanks, I'm afraid the number will not be small, although Lao Tzu's T34 far exceeds the performance of Little Japan's ninety-seven type, but the hungry tiger can't stand the wolves, Lao Tzu and the names of these one hundred and fifty tanks will all be handed over to you boy, if Lao Tzu takes the first step, then Lao Tzu will talk to you underground every day." Zhang Baode said loudly.

"Okay, you kid don't know the power of the bazooka, don't talk about the ninety-seven style of the little devil, even the T34 you are sitting in can't stop that thing. Lao Tzu brought 500 bazookas and 3,000 shells this time, and the little devil is no more than 500 chariots, as long as you don't get lucky, you won't be able to die. Hurry up and give the order, this place is less than five kilometers away from the Erlong Pass, and I'm afraid it's too late. Liu Da Fat said.

"Pass my order, all the tanks of the front troops spread out in battle formation, slowly approaching the Erlong Pass, and the automobile regiment followed behind the tank troops with rocket launchers, and as soon as the Japanese tank troops appeared, they immediately leaned up to destroy them." Zhang Baode ordered loudly.

Lieutenant General Hattori Shotaro was a person who had prepared for a rainy day, and after receiving the telegram from the headquarters, he began to prepare on the Erryuzan front, so at this time, he knew every move of the front team of the Wan Kokuen Division.

"Nani, the people of China are starting to approach Erlong Mountain in battle formation?" Hattori Kotaro asked in surprise.

"Hai, Your Excellency the Division Commander, the Chinese people suddenly changed formation less than five kilometers away from our army's tank group, and all the tanks are slowly advancing in battle formation, it seems that they already know about our existence, please instruct Your Excellency the Division Commander, what should we do now, are we waiting?" Major General Akechi Yamada, commander of the 1st Brigade of the Independent Combat Vehicle, said. …,

"Wait, no, no, we can't wait, because the people of China will not have much time left for us, and if we wait for their large army to arrive, then it will not be your chariot group that will encircle and annihilate them, but the chariot troops of the China people will swallow your chariot brigade in one bite, so we can't wait. Qingyuanjun, where did the large army of the people go? Hattori asked.

"Your Excellency, Commander of the Division, the large army of the Shina people has just set off from Songyuan, and it will take two and a half hours to reach here at the earliest. And the number of tanks in their vanguard is less than 160, which is the latest information that our intelligence officers have just sent back. Kiyogen Nakasa, who was in charge of intelligence on the side, hurriedly replied.

"Yo Xi, 2 and a half hours is enough, Yamada-kun, it's up to you, if your chariot troops can wipe out the front troops of the Shina people, then the attack of the Shina people will end here, if you fail, then it will be difficult for our first division to stop the attack of the Shina people, and you have a heavy responsibility." Hattori said loudly.

"Hai, the lowly position understands that 400 ninety-seven types against the 160 chariots of China, the lowly position has the certainty of victory. Please rest assured that if the humiliation fails, then the humiliation will return to Yamato with the 1st Tank Brigade, and your Excellency the division commander will take care, long live the Japanese Empire and His Majesty the Emperor. Major General Akechi Yamada said loudly.

This was the largest tank battle between the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Japanese aggressors, and it was a battle in which each other was full of confidence. In terms of strength, it is not difficult to see that the Japanese are well prepared, with more than 400 temporary Type 97 vehicles looking very formidable, and the rapid-fire artillery wing has established a solid artillery position behind the tank group. On the other hand, the vanguard of the Inner Mongolia Military Region had only more than 150 tanks, and its strength was obviously inferior to that of the Japanese.

It was not the Japanese who attacked first, but the artillery units of Wan Guoquan, and this time there was also a cannon regiment that acted with the tank brigade, and the artillery regiment stopped at a distance of 5 kilometers from the Japanese tank unit, and soon established its own artillery position. The distance of five kilometers was only a few minutes away for a tank, and when the dazzling lights of the opposite tank shone on, the commander of the artillery regiment, Li Jianming, decisively gave the order for shelling.

This cannon regiment has only 12 105mm caliber cannons, which is also the only cannon regiment in the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Whether you are Han Yunhua or Wan Guoquan, you are very concerned about this artillery regiment. This time this artillery regiment can be sent out to act together, it can be seen that Han Yunhua is really preparing to break the kettle this time.

The sudden shelling made Major General Yamada extremely angry. He scolded the captain of the rapid-fire artillery wing behind him, and at the same time ordered the rapid-fire artillery wing to open fire immediately.

With the counterattack of the Japanese artillery, the battlefield became lively in an instant. Taking advantage of the gap between the artillery firing each other, Zhang Baode and Major General Yamada gave the order to charge at the same time.

The collision of two tank units at the Erlongshan Pass was a confrontation between steel and steel, and Japan was planning to use its quantitative superiority against the qualitative superiority of the Inner Mongolia Military Region. Han Yunhua has his own principles in the use of armored forces, the best tank troops are always the first, the pursuit always only uses BT7 tanks, and the infantry usually uses captured Japanese tanks, although the guy has a thin skin and big stuffing, but he moves fast, and the requirements for the road are not high, and even the dirt roads in the mountains of northern China can meet the requirements of that guy.

After the Soviet Red Army gathered and annihilated the Second Tank Division of the Japanese Army, the Japanese had a completely new understanding of Soviet tanks. Therefore, when the strange T34 tank appeared on the battlefield, Major General Yamada's psychology was obviously "groaning" for a while, and the commander of the second tank division, Okada, retreated to Yichun and sent a report to the Kwantung Army Headquarters to explain the situation as soon as possible, in Okada's original words, the Imperial Type 97 and the Soviet T34 tank are not a product at the technical level at all, and the wolf pack tactics must be used to fight the T34 with the Type 97, and the number of combat vehicles must be more than 3 times that of the enemy, otherwise the result will be extremely tragic. …,

Major General Yamada did not expect that the vanguard of the Chinese army was all composed of T34 tanks, but considering that he had 434 Type 97 tanks and a rapid-fire artillery wing to assist him, while the Shina only had 160 tanks, it was the best opportunity to encircle and annihilate this T34 tank unit.

According to the pre-battle tactical arrangement, Major General Yamada placed all the tanks in three units in a combat group, and each combat group dealt with one Shina tank. This tactic worked at the beginning of the battle, and the armor of the T34 tank was indeed very strong, and the shells of the Type 97 were almost useless. But what people have is quantity, if one cannon doesn't work, I will have two cannons, and if two can't do it, three cannons.

Soon the T34 tank was destroyed by the Japanese tank, but the price paid by the Japanese army was also extremely high, every time the T34 tank fired a shot, as long as it hit the target, then the Japanese tank would be completely paralyzed, and at the moment when the two tank units quickly approached, more than a dozen Japanese Type 97 were beaten into fireballs.

There were constant explosions on the battlefield, but the most excited was Liu Da Fatzi, who knew very well that it was not the 150 T34 tanks that sang the leading role today, but the 500 rocket launchers that their regiment was equipped with. 150vs400, only the brain-dead will do this, of course Wan Guoquan will not be stupid enough to dare to risk the entire tank brigade if he thinks that the tank defense is good, after all, the entire military region only has such a small number of T34 tanks, and the loss of any one is enough to be distressing.

This time, Zhang Baode's tank brigade, as he himself said, is just a decoy, and the real fisherman is Liu Da Fatzi's automobile regiment, this automobile regiment is not a car, but an automobile infantry regiment, with more than 3,000 people in the regiment, equipped with a total of 112 military heavy trucks, is one of the only few rapid reaction forces in the military region, and is also the distressed meat of Commander Han Yunhua.

"Comrades, our prey is ahead, just rush up and destroy them according to our usual training, 400 Japanese combat vehicles, each of us has less than one, hurry up, otherwise you can only drink soup when people eat meat, let's go!" With Liu Da Fatzi's order, the entire automobile regiment rushed towards the fighting tank group with all their strength in groups of three soldiers, one operator, one bazooka on his shoulder, and the remaining two ammunition hands.

"Aim" "Launch"

A Japanese Type 97 tank was torn to pieces in an instant, and several Japanese tankers in the vehicle survived.

The Inner Mongolia Military Region equipped the troops with this red quiver, named Shengli 1942, which was imitated by Han Yunhua according to the post-1969 40mm rocket launcher, in fact, Han Yunhua can also imitate a more advanced and advanced red quiver, but in terms of current military technology, it is impossible to produce more advanced red quivers.

However, although this red quiver is backward, its power is not small, and the most important thing is that it is extremely low in cost. The body of the bomb adopts the 241 type single nozzle tail stabilized rocket, which absorbs the advantages of the captured American-made 88.9 mm rocket, the structure is simpler, the flight is stable, and the accuracy is also improved accordingly, due to the use of tail stabilization, the armor-piercing jet divergence caused by the high-speed rotation of the rocket launcher rotating rocket is overcome, and the vertical armor-piercing can reach 120 mm.

For the Japanese army's current combat vehicles with armor thickness of 12mm to 25mm, the bazooka is simply a nightmare. Under the cover of the tank troops, Liu Dapang's more than 500 red quivers exerted great power.

I saw the explosions of "boom" and "boom" on the battlefield one after another, and many Japanese tankers were blown to pieces without even knowing what was happening. Because it was so dark, even Major General Yamada, who was hiding in a concealed bunker, didn't figure out what was going on, only to see his chariot troops being wiped out one after another, and the speed was staggering.

"Baga, retreat, retreat quickly, this is a naked slaughter!" Less than thirty minutes into the battle, Major General Yamada reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

But the battle has already reached this point, and it is not so easy to retreat. Zhang Baode's tank brigade pursued the Japanese tanks that were preparing to retreat, and did their best to entangle and create opportunities for Liu Da Fatzi's bazooka troops