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When Wu Peifu saw the crunching of the ironclad car, he drove hard to the Japanese trench, flattened the barbed wire, withstood the machine gun, and then rode up the high slope in front of the Japanese trench and began to shoot at the Japanese soldiers in the Japanese trench, and the Chinese soldiers who followed the tank rushed up also kept shooting.

The Japanese abandoned the first line of trenches and ran to the second line of trenches a hundred meters later, continuing to block.

There was no phone in the ironclad car, Wu Peifu couldn't stop it for the time being, he didn't expect to tear through the opponent's defense line so easily, at this time he hesitated slightly, should he take advantage of the ironclad car to tear through the opponent's position?

Wu Peifu had just begun to think about it, but suddenly saw one hundred and twenty tanks, except for three that broke down in front of the Japanese position, the others directly rushed through the Japanese position, pressed through the trench, and rushed towards the second line of Japanese trenches.

Seeing this, Wu Peifu had no chance to think about it at all, and had no other choice than to send troops up.

So tens of thousands of troops immediately rushed out of the position, along the gap opened up by the tanks, poured into the Japanese trenches, and the Japanese in the trenches in close contact, a large area of hand-to-hand combat broke out, the final result was that 50,000 soldiers on the Japanese forward positions fled and ran to the second trench behind.

The Japanese defensive position, digging five trenches, each stretching for 5 kilometers, into a complex curved shape, also with heavy machine guns as the center of fire, Japanese officers at all levels were very confident in this defensive position of deep collusion, but they did not expect Yang Chao to even get tanks out.

The kind of 3 meters tall, squeaks when it starts, not to mention rifles and machine guns, even mortars have no effect at all, they don't know, 500 horsepower tanks can only run 10 kilometers per hour, the reason is that it is too heavy, with 10 tons of frontal armor, the thickness reaches 30 mm, but it is not a mortar kind of weapon that can be broken, even if it is heavy artillery, if it is not armor-piercing, it may not be able to penetrate the frontal armor.

That kind of squeaky sound sounds unsteady to Wu Peifu, but to the Japanese, it is extremely terrifying.

Because only a few of these tanks broke down, hundreds of tanks still rushed to the second line of trenches, and the Chinese soldiers followed closely to rush forward.

"Retreat, retreat!"

Seeing this, the Japanese commander immediately ordered that all the soldiers in the front-line positions be withdrawn to the second line, and even that they were ready to withdraw to the other side of the river, where there were permanent fortifications made of reinforced concrete.

In one day, the Japanese were driven out of their old position where they had been entrenched for several years, this is an old camp, the ancient military strategists had a headache for this kind of camp, but they did not expect that this ironclad car would make everything meaningless in one day, what machine guns, what trenches, what barbed wire fences have lost their meaning.

Wu Peifu felt that his worldview seemed to have collapsed, and the defense and offensive system here in the Northeast was built by him, and he began to conceive of this trench position-type fortification system from the Russo-Japanese War, but he didn't want to make sense for a moment.

"My lord, do you want to continue the attack, the front line is flag-proclaiming."

Wu Peifu recovered from the shock, the flags on the ironclad cars on the front line were still waving, and the heralds next to him were urging him.

Looking at the sky: "It's not early." Let them withdraw and come. Let the infantry hurry up and fix it, hey, keep it. Let the infantry also withdraw. ”

He felt that the trenches that the Japanese had built that made him admire were ridiculous, and if the Japanese wanted to take them back, let them take them back, and he had to sum up now how to make good use of the thousands of ironclad cars.

Wu Peifu didn't know how to use tanks, and this time he sent more than a hundred of them, just to give them a try, but he didn't want to get such a big effect, because he didn't know that the British were about to put tanks into battle at the Somme, and they only used eighteen tanks to break through the German positions, which was even more shocking than what Wu Peifu saw.

"Okay, well, occupy the first line of positions, well, tell Wu Peifu to make persistent efforts and strive to drive the Japanese out of the northeast in a week."

After receiving the report from the front, Yang Chao was about to go to bed and replied immediately.

The things in my mind are outside the battlefield, the Chinese defense forces have achieved results, the Russians have not yet taken Chita, will they hurry up the time to attack.

For the Russians to attack Chita, Yang Chao had several preparations, at the beginning he sent all the tanks to Manchuria, the first is where to conduct secret training, can hide from the Japanese in Jiamusi, and the second is to plan that if the Russians do not really want to fight the Japanese army, Yang Chao really intends to take Chita in one go.

After taking Chita, if the Japanese wanted to take it back, they had to transfer troops from the Heilongjiang Valley, so that Yang Chao would take advantage of the situation to capture the Heilongjiang Valley.

If the Russians are determined to go to war with Japan, then the Russians will have to continue to build up their troops, the pressure at home will be greater, the resentment will be deeper, and the time for collapse will be accelerated.

As long as the Russians collapsed, Yang Chao believed that the Germans would fight with Britain and France for a longer time, and old Europe would be weakened even more.

In World War I, Britain and France had an absolute material advantage, and the Germans did have more adequate soldiers, but they were not as good as the two countries combined, and with the late war Britain and France invariably armed a large number of colonial peoples, it can be said that they obtained almost unlimited human resources, and with or without the United States, these two countries were consuming the power of Germany.

As for the United States, Yang Chao really does not want the Americans to participate in the war, the United States has now practiced its internal skills, its economy is already the first in the world, and its economic strength is greater than that of Britain, France, and Germany combined, but its military influence is insignificant, resulting in the lack of voice of the entire country in the international community.

Once they entered the war, the huge industrial resources and more abundant human resources than Britain and France combined, the influence of the Americans also rose in an all-round way, and the First World War can be said to have activated the United States, a terrifying entity, so that they could do their homework as a hegemonic power, and after World War II, they naturally took over the hegemonic rod in the hands of the British.

But if the Americans don't enter the war and let Britain and France grind Germany to death, the Americans will still have the same empty strength as before, but they can't find a chance to show it, and the British will definitely try their best to maintain their position as the world hegemon, their navy and merchant ships still control the world trade network and the world economic exchange system, and no matter how strong the Americans' industry is, they are just workers of the British Empire, the so-called world factory.

This is not Yang Chao's random guessing, but the British in this era think so, this is their definition of the world, they control trade, they control the world, British officers directly call the United States a British factory.

It doesn't matter whether the Americans are factories for the British or not, anyway, the Japanese can't have factories, especially military factories.

The next night, Yang Chao continued his attack, this time targeting a factory in the village of Hachiman in Fukuoka Prefecture.

Yawata Iron Works.

The Japanese iron and steel industry started very late, and the Japanese are very meticulous and shrewd in the layout of economic construction.

Their industrialization has always grasped the characteristics of Japan and promoted it in accordance with Japan's conditions.

For example, focusing on supporting the silk weaving industry and shipbuilding industry, Japan has now surpassed China and become the world's largest silk weaving country, and the shipbuilding industry has also squeezed into the world's top five before the war, second only to the four major industrial powers of Britain, the United States, Germany and France, and the heavily subsidized shipping industry has opened international routes, from Europe to the Americas, Australia, Southeast Asia, and China, there are Japanese merchant ships in transportation, becoming a shipping power second only to Britain, the United States and Germany, and even stronger than France's shipping capacity.

Like the San0 Arsenal, the Yawata Iron Works was camouflaged, but it was much more difficult for the steel plant to disguise, because steelmaking inevitably required a blast furnace with smoke and even flames, and this thing could not be stopped.

It's just that the airship units also had little experience in night bombing, so they were not identified.

"What is this place?"

Ten miles away from the "Yawata Iron Works", Yang Chao pointed to the place on the ground where the two piles of burning fires kept flickering.

"This, maybe it's a fire, isn't it our brother who blew up here."

Gong Mingde guessed that the house was on fire, and the fire was controlled by the Japanese, and the Hachiman Iron Works in his eyes was the brightly lit place ten miles away.

As for the incident in which the 30 Arsenal was blown to the ground, he did not know that he had bombed it himself, but thought that his brother had done it.

"Blow it up, blow it up. Let them fire a little more. ”

Yang Chao said immediately.

"Okay."

Gong Mingde didn't want to argue, he just accompanied Yang Chao to play, although this delayed his work, fortunately, this leader did not Chang Xing, and only occasionally blew up.

When the bomb was dropped, it quickly caught fire, and a thousand degrees of gasoline incendiary bombs could not be extinguished, and there were not many wooden buildings in the Hachiman Iron Works, but even if the steel beams were glued with gasoline and rubber sol, they could burn up, and finally the fire deformed and melted.

The steel beam collapsed, the steelmaking furnace collapsed, and the molten steel burst out, but unfortunately Gong Mingde didn't pay much attention to it and soon returned home.

In recent years, the Japanese have been severely harmed by Yang Chao, the output value of light industry has been greatly reduced, and even fascist, but heavy industry has been stimulated by them, and the shipbuilding industry and machine manufacturing industry have been developed compared with the past.

In the past, Japan's light industry accounted for more than 7 percent of the output value, but now it has dropped to 6 percent, and heavy industry has reached 4 percent.

In particular, the Yawata Iron Works has built a second steel furnace and improved the first steel furnace, and the annual steel output has exceeded 600,000 tons.

The bombing of this factory is tantamount to cutting off most of Japan's steel supply, and Japan's industry will not have enough to eat by relying on British steel imports from the United States alone.

After blowing up this steel mill, a stone fell to the ground in Yang Chao's heart, but he suddenly thought of Zhang Zhidong.

"Zhang Nanpi is still alive, so he will probably be happy."

Yang Chao sighed in his heart. (To be continued.) )