Chapter 200: The Dragon King Tank of the Yanhuang Army
The data of light tanks were also submitted to Wei Chendong, and he compared them with the current foreign tanks, and found that they have their own advantages, and their surnames are no worse than those industrial powers, but due to the low level of China's industry, the output may be a little different, but this problem can be improved slowly, and the most important research and development work has been done, as long as mass production can be.
It is 2.3 meters high, 4.9 meters long, 3.3 meters wide, weighs 17.5 tons, the thickness of the armor is up to 30 mm, the crew is 4 people, the 450 horsepower engine, the fastest speed is 40 km/h, the maximum travel is more than 300 kilometers, the climbing ability is up to 35 degrees, the wading depth is 1.1 meters, the obstacle crossing height is 0.73 meters, the width of the trench is 3 meters, the main weapons are equipped with 45mm tank guns, 185 rounds of ammunition, and two 7.92mm Yanhuang Army self-made machine guns, 4500 rounds of ammunition...... Wei Chendong named it the Dragon King C tank, which is a light tank, and the data of the Dragon King tank now shows that it is obviously a grade higher than Xiao Yueben's Type 89 tank, but Wei Chendong issued a strict order: secret mass production, it is strictly forbidden to leak out.
Wei Chendong's move is also helpless, after all, the Yan and Huang Army have just developed these things, and the equipment is not enough, if this matter is leaked out, I am afraid that the national political axe will not be able to stand it first, and when the time comes, maybe they will unite with him to deal with the Yan and Huang Army, then everything will be in vain, and the current Yan and Huang Army must be patient, as long as they have a certain threat, they can attack strongly.
So, Wei Chendong continued to buy a large number of Soviet weapons, while secretly producing his own high-end weapons in large quantities, he decided that these weapons should be used in a full-scale invasion of China, when the time comes, the national political axe will definitely not have time to take into account the strong development of the Yan and Huang Army, even if he does not want to resist, he does not dare to take the initiative to attack the Yan and Huang Army, as long as the Yan and Huang Army will firmly resist and not fight for hegemony in the country, I believe that Chiang Kai-shek will not be so blind and take the initiative to attack Gansu, even if he has the courage at that time, also let him not have this strength, at that time, it was the time for the Yan and Huang Army to attack the Yue army with all their might, and now, one word, endure.
Of course, with regard to these core secrets of the Yan and Huang Army, except for a few of the core high-level officials, it is very difficult for outsiders to probe them, and the Kuomintang does not know about them, and they themselves do not know either, even if they hear that the Yan and Huang Army have these powerful weapons, I am afraid they will not believe it, who believes that a unit that has only been developed for such a short time has such a capability? You think you're an army of angels...... The war of Dalaidong Sumu is still continuing, the defenders of the Yan and Huang army have suffered considerable losses, and some of the army are tired, although they have captured nearly half of the positions of the Yan and Huang army, but they still suffered heavy losses, and the army has been deeply affected by the increase in troops, and the country has also begun to expand the army in full swing, regardless of male and female soldiers, all those who meet certain conditions will be collected, and the number of troops will be great, and the army will be more determined to "nourish the war with war". However, because of the agreement with the Yan and Huang Army not to slaughter civilians, they did not dare to massacre Chinese civilians in large quantities, but they did not rob less, how could ordinary people stop these invaders, except for revenge and hatred, there was no other way, the army was like locusts crossing the border, and it could always create a lot of refugees, so a large number of refugees began to pour into the Yan and Huang Army station.
The Yan and Huang Army had to allocate a part of its forces to arrange for these refugees to go to Hudong or go deep into Heilongjiang, and the local garrison settled down in northern Qianbei, and distributed arable land and grain seeds, etc., fortunately, the Northeast is vast and sparsely populated, and the Yan and Huang Army can basically arrange it, but in order for these refugees not to starve, they have to allocate a batch of materials from the military supplies to support them, although this situation seems to drag the Yan and Huang Army back, but on the other hand, it has inevitable benefits for the long-term development of the Yan and Huang Army. The status of the Yan Huang Army in the minds of the local people is quite high, received the Yan Huang Army funded refugees, some people howled and cried, after receiving the grain, all the hard work and hard work all night, just to pay off the debts of the soldiers as soon as possible, everyone independently kept the debts they owed in their hearts, and calculated the interest, just wait for the next year's harvest year, the first time to repay, if there is any surplus, all donated to the troops, so that they can rest assured to fight the blood-sucking devils, can also defend their hometown.
A large number of Chinese refugees went north, so that the army could not be inhabited for a while, but it also saved them some trouble, and the base camp immediately decided to emigrate to the northeast in large numbers, cultivate here, and distribute guns, which can not only supplement logistics while farming, but also support the army in fighting and defending.
A large number of immigrants from the Yue army showed their aggressive ambitions, but they ignored the opposition of the Chinese people, and still went their own way, and a large area of Northeast China and North China was divided among the peasants of Yueben, and obtained some stolen grain seeds from the Yueben army for planting, hoping to increase production in large quantities, to see whether China's seeds were better than those of Dayueben, or whether China's land was indeed several times better than that of Dayueben.
In mid-February, the reinforcements of the Yue army arrived again, but there were no reinforcements on the side of the Yan and Huang armies, so that the Yue army had a greater advantage, and Komatsuba attacked decisively, and the Yan and Huang armies were forced to abandon Dalai Dong Sumu.
During this period, General Li Guofeng, who was stationed in Mongolia, applied for support to General Xia Qidong more than once, but Wei Chendong did not agree, let him continue to be stationed in the same place and not move, without the order of the headquarters, do not move without authorization, and said that the Kwantung Army Command was also worried that this Yan and Huang Army would come to support at first, so it has been paying attention to its actions, and even prepared to send several divisions to reinforce immediately, and finally gave up after making sure that these troops did not come to reinforce.
As soon as Dalaidong Sumu fell, the only place controlled by the Yan and Huang Army was Manchuria, and the supply line was almost directly exposed to the firepower of the Yue Army.
Since the fall of Dalaidong Sumu, the Yan and Huang armies have never resupplied supplies through this route. At this time, the Yanhuang Army and the military even began to negotiate with the Soviet Union, hoping that in the future, the supply troops of the Yanhuang Army could come from the territory of the Soviet Union to Heilongjiang, the Soviet Union pretended to be reserved, and then opened its mouth to ask for a price, and the Yanhuang Army was forced to agree to buy a batch of old Soviet weapons and give some other benefits before the Soviet Union relented, and agreed to the request of the Yanhuang Army, and the Soviet Union set aside a prescribed route for the Yanhuang Army as a supply line.
At the end of February, the army transferred two divisions from the Left Banner of Xinbalhu to rush to Hailar in an attempt to capture the Hailar area in order to threaten the rear of the Yanhuang Army in the Manzhouli area.
General Xia Qidong frowned, he didn't understand why the headquarters didn't let General Li Guofeng come to support, if he could make a surprise attack from Hung Yen Province, I am afraid that he could directly threaten the rear of the Yue army, so that the Yue army could not attack, and it was even possible to be forced to return to the defense.
At the beginning of March, Li Guofeng received another urgent order: The Soviet Union has negotiated the supply route issue, Manzhouli can give up, and ordered your troops not to fight a decisive battle with the Yue army, but to find a suitable time to quickly withdraw and transfer to Hudong.
General Xia Qidong was uncertain in his heart, he didn't know what the intention of the headquarters was, whether they were ready to give up here early on, so why did they let themselves lead more than 100,000 troops to guard this place for more than eight months? Is it to show the determination of the Yan and Huang Army to resist, or is it ...... The two divisions of the army attacked heavily, and finally occupied Hailar, forming a pincer offensive on Manzhou, Xiao Matsubara was full of confidence, in mid-March, decisively ordered an attack on Manzhouli, at the same time, Hailar also pulled out a division to reinforce, but it was held back by a Yanhuang Army and Mongolian cavalry, and failed to achieve the strategic goal, but Xiao Songyuan didn't care, after all, the Yanhuang Army also spent a part of its troops to contain it, and he can now attack three divisions in his hands, which is not much worse than the 80,000 troops in Manchuria, And there are also a large number of aircraft, tanks and artillery, and it is believed that there is enough to take this place.
The two sides fought a bloody battle for 10 days in this small area, and the positions changed hands repeatedly, and the fighting made the army terrified.
In the early morning of March 21, the army was enough to prepare for an hour's artillery fire, followed by the frantic charge of the four wings, a few hundred meters away, the army's various guns began to suppress the position of the Yan and Huang army, but the opposite side did not return the control, the commander knew that this was the Yan and Huang army and waited for them to rush close before fighting, so he urgently ordered the troops to charge violently, and when they charged to within 100 meters and finally found the problem, there was no one inside.
"The Yan and Huang Army withdrew?" When Komatsubara learned the news, he was also confused, and he hadn't completely decided the winner yet, so why didn't he fight? After the army occupied Manchuria, they found that the garrison of the Yan and Huang army had already been burned to ashes by them, and the people inside had also been evacuated.
"Is this what we got it for so much?" Komatsubara's heart was full of bitterness as he looked at the devastated place.
With the fall of Manchuria, the retreat of the Yan and Huang armies to Hudong, the battle of the army to cut off the supply line of the Yan and Huang armies finally came to an end, the two sides fought for nine months, the two sides invested nearly 300,000 troops, and finally the Yan and Huang army suffered more than half of the casualties, a total of more than 90,000 people, the losses of the army were also heavy, each division and regiment had uncertain damage, and finally counted, there were nearly 70,000 casualties, and the victory was also a disastrous victory.
After this battle, the army included all the occupied areas under the jurisdiction of Manchuria.
After the army cut off the supply route of the Yan and Huang Army, it did not rush to increase the offensive, but temporarily stopped, preparing to besiege for a period of time.
(To be continued)