However, the tense situation made Zhang Xuewu's enthusiasm for the automatic loader not maintain for a while, and Zhang Xuewu did not have much interest in things that could not immediately form combat effectiveness.

The main reconnaissance means of the 10 th Theater are concentrated on aerial reconnaissance, but the results of aerial reconnaissance are not very good, and the large-scale aerial reconnaissance of the Japanese army during the day often does not have any special effect, so the special operations command began to airdrop special operations detachments to questionable areas to carry out close reconnaissance, and close reconnaissance is a fatal operation, but due to the urgency of the enemy situation, Zhang Xuewu had no choice but to acquiesce to Qin Buji's forced reconnaissance with a very high risk.

On January 27, 1938, in the early hours of the morning, more than 300 tanks and armor of the 1st Armored Division of Tang Ziqiang, which was attacking and advancing from the direction of Chengde, formed a three-kilometer trapezoidal attack formation.

It can be said that the counterattack of the defenders of Chengde came very suddenly, and two days before the news that Lieutenant General Haseichiro, commander of the 38th Division, had on hand about the counterattack of the Chinese [***] troops, the two armored divisions of the 10th Theater mentioned in the intelligence were assembled in the Dingyuan Battalion in Suiyuan and the other near Chifeng.

According to his usual thinking, and then referring to the 23rd Mechanized Division of the Kwantung Army, Hasei Ichiro did not think that the armored forces in China would have such rapid mobility, and the previous intelligence said that the railways between Rehe and Suiyuan were all destroyed by the blizzard and were difficult to open to traffic, so Hasei Ichiro dared to put on a big swing outside the Chengde Fortress, with the Ono Brigade and the Sakamoto Brigade as the left and right wings, taking advantage of the Chengde defenders' strength to reinforce Chaoyang and trapped Lingyuan. Outside the Chengde fortress, civil fortifications and Z-shaped roundabout trenches were constantly used to advance to Chengde City.

When the thousands of rockets fired by the first salvo of the 3rd Brigade of the Mobile Rocket Artillery covered the heads of the officers and men of the Sakamoto Brigade on the left flank of the 38th Division, Ichiro Hase, who had a hangover with the art of coming to condole, had not yet figured out what the situation was.

Of course, Ichiro Hasei didn't know that Chengde was actually the location of the former enemy's general headquarters in the middle of the country, and the blizzard made the middle [***] team lose the intelligence on the movements of the army, but it also affected the normal operation of the intelligence system of the army, and when both warring sides could not grasp the source of effective intelligence in time and make correct strategic and tactical deployments, such a large-scale campaign was carried out, which was extremely rare in the history of world wars, and the war was fought as intelligence! The transparency of the battlefield and the timeliness and accuracy of intelligence can affect the outcome of a battle, a campaign, and even a war.

At this moment, it can be said that Zhang Xuewu is making a conservative attack plan in the most prudent way with his eyes closed, and he himself can be regarded as a way to plan first and then decide, and both sides are fighting a chaotic battle. Amid the dense explosions that fluctuated with each other, the officers and men of the Sakamoto Brigade of the 38th Division of the Chinese Army suddenly discovered that their previous anti-artillery tactics had all failed?

It is very difficult for the officers and men who have not experienced the offensive and defensive battles of Nanjing to imagine the panic and anxiety that those reserve officers and men who have polished their helmets, water bottles, and bayonets to shine brightly, and the 38th Division of the Kwantung Army is a division of the B type formed by the mainland, and before going to the battlefield, the experienced army commanders, army commanders, and Cao commanders have repeatedly told their soldiers that when they hear the whistling sound of artillery shells, they must immediately lie down on the spot, and after the shells explode, they quickly enter the latest crater to conceal themselves, and wait for the enemy's artillery fire to be sparse. In the crater where the last batch of shells fell was hidden, the non-commissioned officers of the army faithfully fulfilled their duties.

However, this time, the tactics that were regarded as the magic weapon of the army failed to work, and the effective killing radius of the 24-tube 1005 mm rocket of the 1937 Hail was about eight meters, and the explosion of the dense rockets made the whole earth tremble, in addition to the dense whistling and piercing screams, the huge explosion was connected into pieces of fire in a large number of devouring lives, war is an incomparably cruel monster, he devoured human life and blood.

After three rounds of salvo fire in just 20 minutes, on the arc-shaped position of the 38th Division of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army, the Ono Brigade and the Hase-Brigade each defended a core position of about 5 kilometers, and at this moment, the front of the Ono Brigade was smashed open by the salvo of the 3rd Brigade of the Mobile Artillery of the 10th Theater of Operations. In order to achieve the ultimate goal of attacking a little and shaking the whole line.

But today, the 3rd Mobile Artillery Brigade of the 10th Theater of Operations taught me a very vivid lesson, that is, how to smash open the shell of a turtle! However, the so-called fortifications that I dug under the cold and freezing ground cannot be called fortifications at all, and most of the anti-artillery holes are just a formality, and many sections say that I have dug a hole in the thick snow to escape the cold.

When Zhang Xuewu was defending against the enemy in Chengde, it took a week to mobilize 200,000 young and strong laborers plus explosives, and only then did he dig out three lines of defense on the frozen ground that was as hard as granite, obviously the 38th Division commanded by Ichiro Hasei did not have so much energy, after all, the tactical task of the 38th Division was to contain the defenders of Chengde and give the Chinese defenders a sense of oppression, and the headquarters of the new 4th Division of the 10th Theater Youth Army stationed in Chengde was trapped in Lingyuan, and the Chengde fortress was only a 10th Theater garrison division to undertake defensive operations, In such a situation, it is simply impossible for the [***] team to carry out a counterattack.

If the Chinese defenders in Chengde gave up the fortified city and the artillery to fight a decisive battle with themselves, this was exactly what Haseighiro wanted, but it was obvious that the Chinese defenders did not give up the intention of attacking with a strong defensive line, so Haseichiro quietly slackened off, after all, it was just a feint, and there was no need for Haseighiro to be so desperate.

However, when the whistling rocket artillery turned the earth upside down, the stumps and broken arms of the soldiers who lacked effective cover flew high into the sky with the columns of smoke rising from the air in the explosion, and finally fell down with a crackling, and in the wanton flying shrapnel, the officers and soldiers let out a miserable howl in the thick smoke of gunpowder, and the wounded were abandoned everywhere.

When Ichiro Hasei discovered this scene in front of him from the artillery mirror, he knew that his 38th Division was finished, and he didn't have to wait for the enemy to rush over, and the 38th Division under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung Army of this empire collapsed like this? This is probably the most unacceptable fact for Ichiro Hase, for Ichiro Hase, a guy who took the Lu Da exam five times in a row and finally got his wish, he was able to survive to the position of commander of the lieutenant general's division, and he really had to thank the Kwantung Army for the fiasco in Rehe in the winter of 1933.

History can be a point or a line, and I am afraid that Ichiro Hase, who was promoted to Hasei Ichiro through the Chengde fiasco, never expected that history would have such an amazing similarity?

It's the same cold winter, and it's the same large army gathered, but the difference is that the imperial side is very well prepared this time, from strategic deployment to campaign material integration? Where the hell did this [***] come from? Are all the intelligence agencies vegetarian at the table?

What made Haseighiro even more stunned was that the tank armored column attacking in the middle [***] cleared a kilometer-wide breakthrough in a very short time on the frontal defensive position of the 76th Brigade of the Left Wing Infantry, which was under the jurisdiction of the 38th Division, which was more than five kilometers wide. Looking back and forth in numb search for your blown off right hand?

It was not until a jackal light tank was crushed out of the officer's body that the Ono Brigade under the jurisdiction of the 38th Division of the Japanese Army was forced to shrink its strength, and the brigade commander of Major General Ono Shino showed the determination to break his wrist heroically, deployed the strength of the three infantry brigades under his command at intervals behind the main force, and began to command the main force of the brigade to retreat to the nearby mountains, because the invading enemy was a mechanized unit with a large number of armored vehicles and tanks, and it was obviously an extremely irrational act to race with tank armored vehicles.

The Sakamoto Brigade has been destroyed by the enemy's intensive artillery fire, so his Ono Brigade will naturally become the target of the enemy's main attack.

The main force of the 38th Division of the Annihilation Army? Both Zhang Xuewu and Tang Zhiqiang, who were in command, did not think that it was a feasible tactic, and the armored troops could easily defeat the main force of the Yue army, but for the remnants of the Yue army running all over the mountains, coupled with the mountainous and hilly complex terrain near Chengde, once the tank armored troops fell into the terrain that was unfavorable to their own side, they were likely to suffer undue losses under the frenzied counterattack of the Yue army.

Moreover, the battle line of the 38th Division of the Yue Army was extremely long, and it was necessary to mobilize at least five divisions of troops to encircle and annihilate this unit before it could deal a blow to its annihilation, and saving troops was like fighting a fire, because the annihilation of a division in the Yue Military Region delayed the reinforcement of Zhanyang, the newly formed Fourth Division of the Lingyuan Youth Army, and once something went wrong, it would be beyond regret.

For Tang Ziqiang, this is not a matter of killing chickens with a knife, but killing chickens with heavy artillery! For the army that did not even have much anti-artillery for the war, especially the remnants that were stunned by a stormy artillery bombardment, he was swept by an armored division and the newly formed first division of the Youth Army.

(To be continued)