Jinzhou, Daling River. October 1 at noon.

The sound of gunfire had gradually thinned out, and after nine hours of fierce fighting, the Japanese army's Daling River defense line seemed to have been broken through by the officers and men of the Central G and Northeast Army

In the central area of the Daling River front, thousands of engineers of the Northeast Army were working like crazy, and after several hours of non-stop labor, several pontoon bridges had gradually taken shape. Sixty Renault FT-1 tanks and the same number of armored vehicles were lined up on the west bank of the Daling River, waiting to cross the river. Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling also came to the river and personally mobilized these precious armored soldiers of the Northeast Army before the war.

The Northeast Army of the Brigade had crossed the Daling River with wooden platoons and boats, and had seized several Japanese trenches and established a consolidated starting position. Although the Japanese were repulsed, they did not retreat far. Now they were stationed in the second line of defense, three thousand meters away from the river bank, and fired at the positions of the Northeast Army from a distance. There is no doubt that so far, the Northeast Army has seized the initiative on the battlefield, and as long as it waits for the armored corps to cross the river, it can deal a fatal blow to the Japanese army

stayed awake all night, and Zhang Xueliang and Guo Songling's eyes were red. The two sat on top of a pile of ammunition boxes and listened to the staff officer's report on the situation on the various fronts.

"Commander-in-chief, at present the northern and southern flanks have also completed the breakthrough and established a consolidated starting position, and the Japanese army has retreated about three kilometers on the entire front"

Zhang Xueliang nodded with satisfaction, the nine-hour bloody battle was finally not in vain. And such a record is not bad even in Europe. Both the Northeast Army and the G Army have done their best in today's offensive

Guo Songling frowned, the Japanese didn't look like they were defeated......"

Zhang Xueliang looked at him in surprise, Guo Songling said lightly that the Japanese were only forced to retreat at the moment, and their defense line was still intact, and there was no loss except for giving up a few trenches at the front. According to the reconnaissance of the Air Force, the Japanese defense zone east of the Daling River was very deep and did not seem to be able to break through in a short period of time. Ours, on the other hand, are very nervous, and their reinforcements will arrive in five days, if we can't defeat them then......"

"What should I do? We and GCD have done our best."

Guo Songling blinked tiredly, and then looked at the performance of the armored cavalry brigade, if they could break through the Japanese defense zone and cut them off from the middle, the next battle would be easy to fight. If not, we'll have to go on the defensive. Relying on the Daling River and Jinzhou to defend stubbornly, and at the same time asking the Kuomintang for help. ”

"Will they help us not to skip words. Zhang Xueliang lowered his voice, and his tone was a little heavy.

"Yes, they need us to contain the main force of the Japanese army in Jinzhou, so that the anti-Japanese alliance they support can grow stronger in North Manchuria."

"Anti-Union? They are also playing the idea of the Northeast? ”

"It should be like this," Guo Songling replied lightly. Looking at Zhang Xueliang's pale face, he quietly explained that the Kuomintang had long had the ambitions of the Japanese in the Northeast, in fact, we were not prepared, but they had already laid it out, and that Wang Zhongyi should be the secret son laid by the Kuomintang...... It's just that he was a member of the Kuomintang from the beginning, and he was later co-opted by the Kuomintang. Over the years, they have also been sending weapons and ammunition to Wang Zhongyi, originally we thought it was to defend against the Soviet Union's attack on Mongolia, but now it seems that they are all to cope with the current situation. These Kuomintang scheming can be deep, so the current Anti-Japanese Union does not lack weapons and ammunition, and even does not lack food and soldiers, what is lacking is ...... The expansion and training of troops, the cultivation of local forces, and the transfer of equipment and materials are all needed, and for this reason, they must come to our aid and let us hold back the main force of the Japanese."

Guo Songling's voice fell, Zhang Xueliang's face had turned pale, his hands were shaking, and he muttered Is it possible that we are being used by the Kuomintang like this? Are we being used by the Kuomintang like this......"

"Han Qing, it's not a three-point world now" Guo Songling remained silent.

"You want me to join the Kuomintang, teacher, isn't it true that the Kuomintang has treated miscellaneous generals all these years? Can our brothers in the Northeast Army have a good end? A reserve at most...... Now that some of the Anti-Japanese Federation is also our people, China G is also fighting, we might as well take a look again, maybe China G will have a better way out. ”

Guo Songling lightly retorted to the G? They don't have enough to eat in this little land, and our brothers are used to it...... And when he speaks, he doesn't have a door, so if he really wants it, won't he all be cleared? Besides, it is precisely because there are still our people in the Anti-Japanese Federation that the Kuomintang will reuse us, and I think that the open and secret struggle around the Northeast cannot be ended in a short period of time, and their Kuomintang will have to use people if they want to get the Northeast. And our people are familiar with the situation in the northeast and have a certain military foundation, so with a little training, we can send them to the northeast to lead troops. This is more cost-effective than using people from the Whampoa Military Academy, anyway, there are not many good weapons in the Anti-Japanese Federation, and there is no need to receive too formal military education, so we will definitely be reused. ”

Zhang Xueliang looked up at the mighty and majestic armored cavalry brigade in front of him, the elite troops of the Northeast Army have now made all the pre-war preparations and have begun to cross the river one after another. With such capital, there should be a place wherever you go, right? No small number of words

"Teacher, we'll talk about it later, the most important thing for us now is to fight this battle well, as long as we fight it well...... It's all gone."

Guo Songling only frowned slightly, always feeling very uneasy in his heart, it stands to reason that this battle is going well...... But he unconsciously thought of the defeat, and he was unconsciously looking for a way out for the Northeast Army after the defeat.

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Wang Yizhe spread his legs and stood on the body of a Renault FT-17 light tank. As far as the eye could see in front of him, there were Japanese positions.

The second line of defense of the Japanese army seems to be more complete and solid than the first. In front of the position was a wide trench that looked like a trench designed to deal with tanks, behind which were layers of deer, horses, barbed wire, and behind it were trench defenses. The entire trench area was also dotted with civil fortifications, which were supposed to be points of machine-gun fire, which could block the entire front. The Japanese seemed to have prepared for an attack on this armored cavalry brigade

What made him feel depressed was that their Northeast Army didn't seem to have any secrets in front of the Japanese, and there weren't many traitor spies hiding around Zhang Xueliang? The expected surprise blow came to naught, and in the end, the armored cavalry brigade could only rely on the Japanese to break through a bloody path through the fortified positions of the Japanese, but could only do so with only sixty light tanks?

In the immediate vicinity of the staging area of tank armored vehicles were thousands of infantrymen holding their breath and preparing for the assault, which also belonged to the 1st Armored Cavalry Brigade. However, Wang Yizhe should not have used these infantry all along, is he going to use infantry to cover the tank? Or let the tanks cover the infantry? This Baoding Military Academy has not been taught......

Boom Boom Boom ......

The heavy artillery group of the Northeast Army began to roar again, and when the artillery preparation before the attack began, Wang Yizhe also trembled. With a light leap, he jumped from the tank to the ground and strode towards the command vehicle.

At this moment, the Japanese defense line rose up with a large column of smoke and flames, and the fragments of the shells swept through the entire Japanese position like a storm. Fragments of obstacles such as deer and horses flew in all directions, and the cover of civil fortifications and weapons were lifted into the air, and the smoke enveloped the entire battle line in an instant.

"All pay attention to start the vehicle," Wang Yizhe raised his right hand and shouted loudly. In fact, it was impossible for the commanders of all tanks and armored vehicles to hear any other sounds in this deafening sound of artillery, and they saw Wang Yizhe's gesture before they started to start their vehicles one after another. Sixty tanks and sixty armored cars were all up and running ten minutes later, and the roar of the motors almost drowned out the rumbling of the cannon for a moment.

"Whew," Wang Yizhe exhaled heavily, and all paid attention to the Japanese position, and the armored troops assaulted the target in front of him, and waved his arm down heavily. The tracks and wheels of more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles that had been started began to turn slowly, and suddenly the acrid smoke from the exhaust pipes covered the entire field, and all the vehicles started to move, and they formed three horizontal columns and slowly drove towards the Japanese positions in front

Behind the armored convoy were several yellow promenades formed by several thousand infantrymen...... These infantry are also carefully selected from the entire Northeast Army, whether it is appearance or height, they are first-class, and the training on weekdays is also strict, whether it is target shooting or stabbing, they are all the leaders in the Northeast Army, but with tanks, no one has come to teach them. At the moment, they discharged the most standard skirmish line of infantry attack, trailing behind more than a hundred tanks and armored vehicles, and advanced at the speed of the Japanese position

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At this time, in a shelter on the high ground behind the Japanese defense line, the commander of the Kwantung Army, Takashi Hishikari, the chief of staff Miyake Mitsuji, who had just arrived from Lushun, and a group of staff officers were observing every move of the armored forces of the Northeast Army with high-powered telescopes, and even a few staff officers were holding pen and paper to make records, which is unbelievable, in fact, they were learning the combat methods of the armored forces of the Northeast Army, which was different from the Japanese devils who superstitiously believed that "the advance of the bayonet determines the victory or defeat of the war" in history. After attributing the defeat in the Battle of Shandong to the might of the Kuomintang planes and tanks, the Japanese finally began to pay unprecedented attention to the huge potential of tanks

It's just a tank to be used? Large-scale tank assault to be organized? Tank and artillery infantry aviation should work together? There are a lot of questions like this, and the Japanese are also blinded. But fortunately, the Yamato nation is very good at learning, and the best tank warfare in the world today is ...... It seems to be China, so the elites of the Imperial Japanese War Ministry and the General Staff came to the scene today to "learn" the methods of using tanks in the Northeast Army.

"Tanks should be in full formation at the time of heavy artillery bombardment...... And then after the end of the shelling, sorties. ”

"Oh, the tanks have to be lined up in three horizontal columns, and the distance between each tank should be about five meters."

"The infantry was supposed to follow behind the tank formations in a marching line...... It looks like it was supposed to be a tank covering infantry sortie. ”

"Well, this method does not work for the Imperial Army, the infantry of the Imperial Army should cover the tanks and not allow expensive tanks to be easily destroyed by the enemy"

"It is the most correct tank combat method to launch a few charges with infantry first, and after the weakness of the enemy position is clearly determined, the tank formation should be thrown into a decisive blow."

"No, the tank should make a detour, it should detour from the enemy's flank like a cavalry, attacking the enemy's belly...... It was used just like the Kuomintang army of the Southern Branch in the Battle of Jinan. ”

Takashi Hishikari and Miyake Mitsuji glanced at each other, their eyebrows furrowed tightly. This group of gossiping elites don't see if it's famous? The tanks of the Northeast Army were about to crash into the Japanese position, and if they did not organize an artillery bombardment, it would probably be too late. In the end, Miyake Koji coughed lightly, Zhujun, let's experiment with the tactics of using artillery groups to hit tanks" As he spoke, he didn't wait for the group of elites to nod in agreement, and waved his hand at the artillery staff officers who were already waiting there, and gave the order for the shelling

Since they had long been informed of the Northeast Army's battle plan, the Japanese artillery also made meticulous preparations for this shelling, and more than 100 artillery pieces of the Eighth and Ninth Divisions and the three artillery wings of the Second Division, which had just arrived, were concentrated and deployed to the rear of the center of the Japanese defensive line. All the muzzles of the guns were raised high, pointing to the advancing armored cavalry brigade of the Northeast Army With the order of the commander-in-chief of the Japanese artillery, the Japanese artillery position suddenly seemed to be blowing a strong wind, and clouds of white smoke rose above the position, and then the sound of continuous artillery discharge

The sound of artillery is like the thunder of winter, and the encounter of the armored cavalry brigade of the Northeast Army on the east bank of the Daling River is of course disastrous, Wang Yizhe sat in the armored car, and suddenly felt the earth tremble, and then there was a loud sound of the shells exploding, and the entire tank armored car formation, and the infantry walking line behind, were suddenly drowned in a jungle of smoke columns. Fragments of artillery shells flew in all directions, and there was a crisp clatter that swept across the steel plates of the tank armored vehicle. With the exception of a few tanks and armored vehicles that were directly hit by shells or overturned by a huge wave of air from the explosion of 150-mm shells, most of the tanks remained intact during this shelling. However, the fate of the infantry following behind the tank and armored car formation was somewhat miserable, and the dense shells exploded in the infantry ranks, shrapnel whistled and flew in all directions, and each explosion made a gap in the promenade of the charge

There was no doubt that the Japanese artillery fire was fierce, but the Northeast Army showed no signs of stagnation, and at this point, they had no way to retreat, only gritted their teeth and accelerated the pace of the charge, and all the vehicles and people unconsciously rushed forward at the fastest speed, and in a blink of an eye, they had rushed to the edge of the anti-tank trench dug by the Japanese army. At this time, some soldiers got out of the armored vehicle, unloaded the bundles of firewood that had been prepared in advance and were tied to the tank armored vehicle, and threw them into the trench in front of them, filling in several passages in a short time. Dozens of spitting flaming tanks pressed through these passages, and in the blink of an eye, they broke through obstacles such as barbed wire and rushed into the Japanese defensive positions

What is just waiting for these armored troops of the Northeast Army is not to expect the collapse of the Chinese and Japanese forces, but a dense rain of grenades and Molotov cocktails, which is no longer 1928, and although the Japanese have all kinds of shortcomings, they are undoubtedly a nation that is good at learning lessons and finding solutions. In the past two years, the Japanese Army's specialists have developed a variety of bizarre anti-tank tactics. These include large anti-tank grenades, incendiary bottles filled with gasoline, and of course 37mm anti-tank guns in development, and even the Banzai Attack, which carries bombs on its back and dies with tanks

Just after the armored units of the Northeast Army were attacked by a burst of grenades and Molotov cocktails, the infantry of the Northeast Army finally rushed forward with rifles with bayonets. An armored assault finally turned into hand-to-hand combat, and both sides were the same Type 38 rifles, both were the same rigorous training, and even the training methods were the same. The difference is that the Japanese army is not afraid of death, while the Northeast Army is long and strong, and the fighting between the two sides soon entered a white-hot state.

At this time, the remaining tanks and armored vehicles of the Northeast Army did not continue to assault the Japanese army, but remained on this defensive line that had been broken through, serving as a fixed fire point. The machine gun mounted on the Renault FT-17 spewed tongues of fire frantically, strafing any Japanese who tried to get closer, and after a while, the front of each tank was stacked with corpses, and the ferocity of the Japanese army was also rare, these almost crazy Japanese soldiers were desperate to get close to the tanks of the Northeast Army, and then threw the heavy anti-tank grenades in their hands, and even more crazy guys were covered with bombs, Screaming, rushing to the tank, pulling grenades, and dying with the tank, such a battle was just a hand-to-hand combat with tanks participating. In this hand-to-hand combat, the exchange ratio between the Japanese army and the soldiers of the Northeast Army rarely reached more than 2:1, and the final victory was also won by the Northeast Army. At the cost of the loss of sixty Renault FT-1 tanks of the Northeast Army's armored cavalry brigade

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