[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 650: Type 97 Medium Chariot (Ask for subscription!) , ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything! ）

Looking at the behemoth full of cabins in front of him, Ma Zheng was stunned. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Although this is not the first time Ma Zheng has seen this kind of tank, he still feels shocked.

The tank in front of me is the famous Type 97 medium tank, also known as the Type 97 "Qiha" medium tank, which is the most successful tank equipped by Japan during World War II. And ninety-seven is the last two digits of the year 2597 of the Japanese emperor, and "qiha" is the Chinese transliteration of Japanese kana.

The tank was made in 1937 by the Japanese company Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, began to be equipped in 1938, and remained in service until 1945, with a total of more than 1,500 units. Among them, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries produced 1,224 vehicles, and Hitachi's Kameari and Sagami factories produced more than 300 vehicles.

Unlike the rudimentary Type 94 and Type 95 vehicles, the Type 97 medium tank weighed 15.3 tons in battle, with a crew of 4, the commander and gunner were located in the turret, the driver was on the right side of the front of the hull, the machine gunner was on the left side of the driver, the turret was located on the right side of the longitudinal center of the hull, and was equipped with a handrail railing for parade and infantry riding, and doubled as a radio antenna.

The main armament of the Type 97 medium tank is a Type 97 57 mm short-barreled gun, which can fire grenades and armor-piercing shells, carry 120 rounds of ammunition, and its armor-piercing shells can penetrate 50 mm thick steel armor at a distance of 1200 meters. The auxiliary armament is two Type 97 7.7 mm machine guns, which carry 4035 rounds, one of which is a front-mounted machine gun, and the other is mounted on the right side of the rear of the turret.

The reason why Ma Zheng knows this tank so well is that the first tank unit of the People's Liberation Army was equipped with this tank. In that year, the People's Liberation Army 94 relied on the captured Type 97 medium tank vehicle to establish the first tank unit of the Chinese People's Army -- the Northeast Tank Brigade, and that Type 97 tank from participating in the Suifenhe suppression of bandits, three times to the south of the Songhua River, attacking Jinzhou, and Tianjin, made great combat achievements, and won the title of "Meritorious Tank", so every Republic tanker will never forget that tank, of course, including Ma Zheng.

"Hurry up, count how many cars there are, grandma's, really rich?" Ma Zheng said excitedly.

Liang Shangren, who was on the side, also said excitedly: "Don't count, there are 128 in total, and the wooden boxes behind are all full of shells." ”

"Okay, Liang Toutou, you immediately transfer 200 literate soldiers from the existing troops, find a few more people who can drive tanks, and train these guys overnight. It's not very demanding, just drive these guys away before we retreat from Tianjin. If there are not enough people, those educated young students can be recruited from among the citizens of Tianjin. Ma Zheng instructed.

"Yes"

"Commander, the rest of the freighters are full of cargo, and if you count the booty we have captured from other parts of the city, I'm afraid we will have captured no less than a million tons of materials this time." Liang Shangren said in admiration.

"One million tons of supplies is indeed a lot, enough for us to consume for several years." Ma Zheng said.

"Commander, the amount of supplies is indeed huge, but it is not difficult to transport all these materials back." Xie Wensheng on the side interjected.

"What do you mean by that?" Ma Zheng asked with a frown.

"Commander, we now only have more than 1,100 vehicles, mostly four-wheeled trucks and six-wheeled trucks with a load of more than two tons, which can transport more than 6,000 tons of materials at one time, from Tianjin to Zhangjiakou for at least one day and one night, and it will take at least twenty days to rush all these materials back to our territory, and it is impossible for the little devil to give us such a long time to rush materials!" Xie Wensheng said in a deep voice.

"yes, the Japanese won't give us that much time, so what should we do?" Liang Shangren was also distracted, and immediately asked.

Ma Zheng nodded and said, "I estimate that we have a week at most to rush to transport supplies, and if it takes a long time, I'm afraid we will be in danger of being wiped out." ”

"How much can be rushed in a week, at most 40,000 tons, commander, can't we stay a few more days?" Liang Shangren said.

"No, you can't put yourself in danger for the sake of these broken metals." Ma Zheng said.

Then Ma Zheng said: "But don't worry, this time we have brought more than 100 large and small freighters, including 100,000-ton large cruise ships, so we can load these materials to Qingdao, and then transport them to various places after landing in Qingdao." ”

Xie Wensheng thought for a while and said: "This is a good way, the Japanese are all attracted to this side by us now, and the Japanese army will not be able to estimate Qingdao for a while and a half, so we have time to rush to transport supplies." ”

"Commander, we have seized too many materials this time, and we can completely distribute some cloth, food and other daily necessities to the citizens of Tianjin on the spot, and win the support of ordinary citizens for us, which is still very beneficial to us." Liang Shangren said.

"But in this way, we will not have enough manpower, this time we have only brought a total of more than 20,000 people, not only to rush to transport supplies but also to guard against the Japanese army, but also to maintain law and order in the city, this little force is stretched." Ma Zheng said with a frown.

"It's simple, we can mobilize the residents of Tianjin to help us load the ship!" Xie Wensheng said.

"Well, that's all there is to it!" Ma Zheng said.

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Because there were too many seized materials, Ma Zheng used the secret radio station of the military department to send a telegram to Xu Yinghui, asking him to secretly contact Yan'an, and asked the person in charge of the CCP in Tianjin to immediately go to the military police headquarters to find him, and he had a batch of materials to be handed over to the comrades of the underground party in Tianjin.

In the middle of the day, Ma Zheng turned around several important places in Tianjin. I found that the type and quantity of materials seized this time were indeed beyond my expectations, from weapons and equipment to daily necessities to medical supplies.

Relying on the current transportation capacity of Ma Zheng's department, let alone a week, even if it is given a month, it may not be able to rush to the end, after all, in addition to these ready-made materials, Ma Zheng also covets the equipment and raw materials in those factories. If all these things are counted, I am afraid that it has far exceeded the estimated figure of 1 million tons of Ma Zheng.

There are so many supplies that if you can't take them away, you have to burn them, but it's really a pity to burn them. So Ma Zheng thought of other units of the Eighth Route Army, and also thought of the underground party of the Communist Party of China.

Although this is an enemy-occupied area, Ma Zheng knows the ability of the underground party, and if it is said that it refers to the military strength alone, no unit of the Eighth Route Army can compete with the Suicha Military Region. But when it comes to penetration, Ma Zheng's department can't catch up with those underground parties.

Anyway, some supplies will definitely not be able to be transported, so it is better to be a favor than to burn them or leave them to the Japanese. And Ma Zheng also thought about it. In addition to the other troops of the Eighth Route Army, the Nationalist Government cannot be left behind. Anyway, so many large warships and cruise freighters were captured this time, and it was better to give them to Lao Jiang to fight devils than to be ruined by the Japanese.

Originally, they thought that the main forces of Ma Zheng's department had all been concentrated in the Pingjin area, and it would be good to have at most a thousand people left behind in Zhangjiakou and other places, but now it seems that they have far underestimated the strength of Ma Zheng's department.

According to the information transmitted by the intelligence department, the Chinese army was divided into nine routes, and more than 20,000 people were dispatched at one time, and there were also formed artillery units, which completed the encirclement and annihilation of the Tianjin defenders within a few hours. If it had not been for the decisive withdrawal of the 7th Brigade from Tianjin, I am afraid that another infantry brigade would have disappeared from the establishment of the empire.

After a little calculation, Tada Jun and others found that the number of Chinese troops in the area from Zhangjiakou to Beiping and Tianjin exceeded 60,000, or even more. In addition, coupled with the troops of Ma Zheng's division on the Xinkou front, Tada Jun and others came to a frightening conclusion that the total strength of Ma Zheng's headquarters in China was at least 100,000, and even exceeded 200,000, reaching a terrifying number.

How long has it been, according to the information collected by the special high-tech department, that Ma Zheng was just an ordinary officer before March of the twelfth year of the Showa era, and he did not even have the qualifications to enter the attention of the special high-tech department, but in less than three years, this ant has grown to be so powerful that it is enough to strategically threaten the holy war of the Great Japanese Empire. (To be continued.) )