[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 384: Conquer Chengde City (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The siege of Chengde continued, and from 8 a.m. on 9 March, the number of troops attacking Chengde increased from more than 20,000 to 50,000 now. Chen Xudong's department, which returned to Chengde, and Liu Fengchi's department, who returned to Chengde, also joined the battle, but Liu Fengchi's department was only in the back as a reserve most of the time, and did not directly participate in the battle.

Although the number of troops was more than doubled, the effect was not obvious for the fortified city of Chengde. Ma Zheng's troops fought fiercely, but the Japanese puppet army was also very tenacious, and the two sides fought to the death around the three lines of defense outside Chengde.

In the horse camp twenty miles away from the battlefield, Ma Zheng was training with four or five hundred people. Hundreds of people sat on the floor in the clearing, and a wooden blackboard stood on the spot.

Standing in front of the blackboard, Ma Zheng pointed to the tank graphics drawn on it and said, "This is the tank track, this is the turret"

After explaining the structure, Ma Zheng personally took these carefully selected soldiers to practice, how to drive, how to load ammunition, how to aim, how to fire artillery, all of which were taught by hand.

Fortunately, tanks in this era are not complicated, there are not so many buttons, and they do not require a high level of knowledge to operate. After most of the day's training, these guys were finally able to move these iron bumps and fire their guns.

However, I don't dare to compliment the aim of the head, what points to where to hit, the error is at least tens of meters, but it doesn't matter. After all, these soldiers have only been trained in armor for less than a day, and it is already very good to be able to move this big guy, so why do you ask so much?

Besides, Ma Zheng didn't plan to rely on the artillery of these tanks to defeat the Japanese army, what he needed was the impact of the tank, which could quickly cross the Japanese position. It didn't matter if the turret tubes didn't work, as long as these tanks could send the infantry behind them into the Japanese positions.

In addition, don't these tanks still have machine guns on them, presumably the effect of hundreds of tanks charging should not be too bad!

In March in the north, the weather is changing, the morning is fine, just after this afternoon, there is a strong wind, and suddenly the dust is flying, and the sky is full of yellow sand. The line of sight was suddenly shortened to a limited distance of a few tens of meters, and if it was far away, it would be impossible to see anything clearly. Seeing such weather, Ma Zheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, he thought that the sandstorm in the capital was the result of the uncontrolled development of industry in later generations, but he didn't expect that it was actually a tradition.

In an open field five kilometers away from the main battlefield on the southern front, more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles were lined up, and all the tankmen and gunners were concentrated in front of the open field.

Ma Zheng stood at the front of the team, and then said loudly: "Comrades, the front is the main battlefield of this battle of the city, the Japanese army has built three strong defense lines outside Chengde City, and so far our army has not even taken one, so the next thing is to rely on you." As the first armored unit of our Suicha Military Region, your name will surely go down in history. In the same way, I am sure that you will also achieve great results! ”

"Comrades, the Japanese army is divided into two echelons on the first line of defense, and the first echelon is all Japanese troops, stationed on the first line of the line of defense and in all the pillboxes. Except for a small number of Japanese troops, the second echelon was almost all puppet troops, all of which were used to coordinate defense, and also to transport ammunition for the Japanese army. After waiting for the troops to move, the armored units will all rush to the Japanese positions, and by taking advantage of this strong wind, they should soon be able to break through to the Japanese positions. After breaking into the Japanese position, you should continue to rush forward regardless of it, and you must cooperate with the infantry behind you to fight and cover for the infantry, understand? ”

"Understood!"

"It's good to understand, okay, I won't say anything superfluous, let's act!"

"Yes!"

Under Ma Zheng's order, more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles were all assembled, and then marched towards the main battlefield.

At this time, the battle on the front line has entered the white heat, and the Eighth Route Army wants to take advantage of the weather to rush into the position, after all, this kind of huge sandstorm is not common even in the north, and such low visibility is definitely a huge test for the defenders.

However, the Japanese troops outside the city received a death order, and all the Japanese puppet troops had only one way to withdraw their positions, and that was to die on the battlefield or be seriously wounded, even if they were lightly wounded. Therefore, the fighting between the two sides was extremely fierce, and the front of the Japanese position was covered with wounded soldiers and corpses of the Eighth Route Army.

After arriving at the main battlefield, Ma Zheng immediately transferred a fully armored infantry regiment to the rear of the armored forces and ordered them to act in coordination with the armored forces.

Subsequently, under Ma Zheng's order, this armored force made up of spirit stones finally began to attack. Tank armored vehicles rumbled in front, while tanks were followed by a large number of infantry armed with steel guns.

After several days and nights of fierce fighting, both the Eighth Route Army and the Japanese puppet army soldiers were exhausted to the extreme, taking advantage of the fact that they had just repelled the attack of the Eighth Route Army, the Japanese puppet army was finishing eating at this time, because they knew that if they didn't fill up alone at this time, they might not even have time to eat after a while.

But at this moment, the rumbling sound woke everyone up, and such a loud sound made all the Japanese puppet soldiers stretch their necks to look.

Unfortunately, the sandstorm was so big that you couldn't see what was going on behind it.

Not knowing what was happening, the Japanese forward commander hurriedly blew the whistle and ordered all the soldiers to immediately prepare for battle.

The sound came from far and near, and finally a behemoth passed through the sandstorm and appeared in the sight of the Japanese puppet army.

Through the flying dust that swept the land, the Japanese puppet army not only saw the familiar 94-style chariot, but also saw the symbol of the rising sun on the body.

"Chariots! The chariot of the Great Japanese Empire! ”

"There is help, our reinforcements are coming"

"Emperor bless, it's really a chariot"

Seeing the chariot with the symbol of the rising sun suddenly appear on the battlefield, all the Japanese soldiers jumped up excitedly, and some even cried and laughed, revealing their ugliness. Thinking about the three-day battle, it was really not easy, many times they thought that they were about to run out of hand, if it weren't for the division headquarters insisting that reinforcements would arrive soon, maybe they would have been defeated by now.

The Japanese front-line commander was also very excited, and immediately asked the newspaper soldiers to call the division headquarters in the city and tell them that reinforcements had arrived.

After receiving the call, Toji Yasui in the city immediately ordered the Japanese troops on the southern front to attack immediately, cooperate with reinforcements to defeat the Shina army in front of him, and relieve the danger of Chengde.

At the same time, Yasui Fujiji did not forget to send a report to the headquarters of the North China Front, telling General Sugiyama that reinforcements had arrived, and that the so-called total annihilation of the Fourth Division was just a boast of the Shina people.

Such a reaction was cascading, and just as Ma Zheng's tank unit was about to enter the Japanese position, the tankers suddenly found that a large number of Japanese puppet troops had rushed out of the trenches.

Naturally, these tankers were not polite, and the shells and machine guns suddenly opened fire and opened fire on the Japanese troops who rushed out frantically.

The Japanese troops were stunned by the sudden blow, and many soldiers shouted "Don't charge" and don't gesture to the tank, as if they were identifying themselves, but in response to them were bright bullets.

Tanks were overwhelming, and the tracks of the tanks mercilessly crushed the spirit and will of the Japanese soldiers, burying the arrogant ambitions of the Japanese Empire under the wind-blown and sandy city of Chengde, the capital of Rehe Province.

The first line of defense of the Japanese army was broken down after only less than ten minutes, and in front of the armored troops, the only thing the Japanese soldiers could do was to retreat, while the puppet army was quite knowledgeable, and simply all nested in the position and surrendered to the Eighth Route Army, and some of the more clever ones simply took off their clothes and dropped their guns and slipped away.

The capture of the first line of defense was only the beginning, and then under the charge of the armored troops, the second and third lines of defense set up by the Japanese army outside the city of Chengde were also broken, and the battle lasted until nine o'clock on the night of the 9th, Ma Zheng's division finally entered the city of Chengde, and the tragic street fighting began. (To be continued.) )