As the place where the soul of China and the soul of Yamato collided fiercely, there were as many as 7,000 dead on both sides within two kilometers of the battle line near the entire breach, because at the time of the final vertical breakthrough of the army, Dai Peng organized all the police, gendarmes, militia, and young people in Chaoyang, and more than 4,700 people were thrown into the counterattack of the breach, and the huge casualties only made the control of the position just a few more hours.

After the body was cleaned up, Dai Peng felt that it was necessary to report to the headquarters of the theater commander and expose this piece of steel cemetery as a landscape, so that future generations can remember this bloody battle and the heroic souls of the martyrs! Dai Peng's suggestion was quickly approved by Zhang Xuewu, and the steel cemetery will become a symbol of Chaoyang City, and the park will be permanently maintained, and the destroyed tanks of our army and the enemy army will not be pulled away, and after anti-corrosion treatment, they will be fixed on the spot with a cement foundation, as a landmark scenic spot and patriotic education base. And stipulate that every year to organize students, soldiers to visit here, travelers passing through Chaoyang and all kinds of people who come to Chaoyang to work are also willing to come here to see the tragedy of the war at that time, but the experimental iron cavalry medium main battle tank that participated in the war was completely sealed by a sealed facility of reading force for a full five years, until the iron cavalry medium main battle tank galloped to the Far East and put into the battlefield on a large scale, people knew that the first battle of the iron cavalry medium main battle tank was originally in Chaoyang.

As the central main battlefield of the war, Zhang Xuewu inspected Chaoyang after the war, Zhang Xuewu stood on the Chaoyang fortress in ruins, the comprehensive attack of the Kwantung Army made Chaoyang the center of the battle, this is a battle that decided the fate of the tenth theater, it can be said that Zhang Xuewu fought an unprepared large-scale defensive counterattack, the loss of the tenth theater was huge, so that Zhang Xuewu's previous plan to occupy Jinzhou along the line to coerce Shenyang The overall strategy was all in vain, After more than 50 consecutive days of operations, the 10th Theater was also sleepy and lacking in people.

Especially in terms of logistical support, the ammunition stored in the various ammunition depots on the front line, especially the artillery shells, is basically exhausted, and the situation in terms of oil is not optimistic, because there is a huge gap between the actual consumption of oil base and the theory, after all, the transportation and use of oil are the process of consumption, which Zhang Xuewu did not take into account before.

In addition, the jackal light tanks and iron cavalry medium main battle tanks of the 1st Armored Division, the 2nd Armored Division, and the 3rd Armored Division are in urgent need of necessary maintenance and overhaul, and the intact rate of the 2nd Armored Division, which has suffered the most serious losses in combat vehicles, is only about 40 percent of the normal.

If, without mastering air supremacy and lacking railway transportation, the armored group is put into large-scale operations, it needs very reliable logistical support, and the armored forces of the 10th theater of operations are all modeled after Germany, but in fact, the support detachment of the armored forces of the 10th theater of operations cannot compete with the logistics support detachment of the German army, and if the armored forces of the Germans put aside the railway transportation and only rely on their own mobility to carry out long-distance marches, under the condition of the plain road surface set by the standard, The implementation of an all-terrain march attack conversion can be carried out for 700 kilometers in a row without major repairs.

For the current armored troops of the 10th Theater of Operations, the maximum limit of the transformation of marching operations is 400 kilometers, and if it is a single state of marching, the highest record is only 700 kilometers, but after this 700 kilometers, a fully equipped armored division can only maintain no more than 40% of the combat effectiveness, and logistics support is a problem that Zhang Xuewu has to pay great attention to.

Zhang Xuewu felt that it was necessary for him to set up a special logistics school and an equipment department and a logistics department to study the strength of the armored troops, so that they could have the right to participate in the meetings of the General Staff Headquarters in formulating strategic plans.

Annihilation of the Sixth Division of the Army, only found the body of Gu Shoufu, the commander of the division, whose head is said to have been carried by the adjutant out of the battlefield in advance, for the suicide to motivate his subordinates to fight to the death, the army seems to be often used in the Pacific War, so Zhang Xuewu is not surprised, and the 16th Division of the Army was completely defeated at night, and did not achieve the so-called goal of outflanking and annihilating, in order to pursue the remnants of the army, the first regiment of the first armored division even chased to the vicinity of Beipiao, which is 60 kilometers away from Jinzhou.

Naturally, the wing flag was not able to be captured, and he himself learned to be obedient, and burned himself before the start of the war to show his determination to fight to the death, and said that his desperate resistance also brought great trouble to the pursuing troops in the 10th theater, just as the so-called one man was desperate and invincible, and his suicide counterattack also once caused a lot of losses to the pursuing troops, and the pursuing troops continued to divide their troops to encircle and intercept, and the division commander, regiment commander, and even battalion commander could not control the troops, which was a very dangerous thing in the command of the campaign. Moreover, Zhang Xuewu is also facing huge logistical supply pressure, and only when this batch of Soviet aid plus OEM weapons, ammunition and fuel arrives, can he plan a new offensive!

The Chinese are the most particular about coming and not being rude, which is equivalent to Zhang Xuewu, who was attacked by someone and beaten violently, just found the direction and prepared to return the color, but the other party actually fled? For the villain and the shameless guy, only beat him hard, let him remember you firmly, don't dare to easily try his edge and tiger might, Zhang Xuewu has been secretly accumulating strength, always afraid that he will know all his hole cards, as a result, he regarded him as a soft persimmon with a huge threat, it doesn't matter if he pinched it, pinched to death a commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army, a chief of staff is missing, and the three division commanders are bloody on the battlefield, which is undoubtedly another Kansai earthquake for the country!

Moreover, Zhang Xuewu learned through the intelligence department that the commander of the Kwantung Army trusted by the Yue Army was Umezu Mijiro, and that Umezu Mijiro, who had always been known for his good manners and prudence, was a rare calm person among the senior generals of the Yue Army, and it was not easy to find out his flaws, and Umezu Mijiro was more suspicious, and strategic and tactical deception had little effect on him, and the new defeat of the Yue Army would definitely be stationed in Jinzhou to resist stubbornly, and besides, the six divisions and two mixed brigades of the Yue Army under Okamura Ninji also retreated into Jinzhou, and it was obviously unwise to storm it.

Zhang Xuewu very much wanted to chase after the poor Kou, but the cruel reality made his battle plan unable to be implemented, and at the same time the troops also needed to rest and replenish, so Zhang Xuewu went all out to prepare for the war, and the losses of the army this time were huge, so the Kwantung Army would definitely not be able to launch a decent offensive in the next six months, and the main force of the North China Front Army followed Okamura Ningji to retreat into Jinzhou, Zhang Xuewu decided to take advantage of this rare opportunity to sweep the North China Army.

Stuck in the mountain customs, beat the North China army! Zhang Xuewu began to prepare for a rainy day for his new combat plan, and placed the Yue army retreating to Jinzhou, Zhang Xuewu naturally would not let Yue himself idle, and the air force combat aircraft group of the 10th Theater had long regarded the flight division of the Kwantung Army as the object of sparring, but he was now deliberately avoiding the war.

The air force units of the 10th Theater let Yue himself practice several air defense drills every day, even when this kind of fuel was extremely tight, the aviation fuel supported by the Soviets was only barely enough, and most of the fuel for the aircraft group to take off into the air was imported by Zhang Xuewu from the Soviet Union and the United States and transported to the Dingyuan battalion through the Far East Railway, and a good experienced pilot needed flight time to accumulate The scene appeared.

Umezu Mijiro, who was sitting in Jinzhou, also looked very uncalm in the face of the army of the 10th Theater of Operations at Chen Bingshan Customs, and the troops of the thirteen divisions were crowded on such a narrow battlefield? Umezu Mijiro is not a pig's head, which is equivalent to giving the enemy a rare opportunity to encircle and annihilate, especially in this situation of losing air supremacy and the enemy army has a large number of tanks, and the morale of the newly defeated Imperial Army is low.

Umezu Mijiro thought of a lot of ways to motivate the morale of the officers and soldiers, but it didn't work much, and the officers and soldiers who went to the comfort station often had their surnames in the city, brawls, and even two officers who used guns between them to cause several deaths, which was probably unimaginable before, the powerful Kwantung Army, the flower of the imperial army was beaten to morale? It seems that the imperial officers and soldiers of this empire only vent their strength on women, and they only have the courage to fight.

However, the staff officers of the Army Staff Headquarters did not think much about it, and the revived Ishihara Waner and others believed that the specific reason why the empire failed in the key battle of attacking the 10th theater was because during the campaign, the Soviets continued to receive supplies and weapons and ammunition from Zhang Xuewu's department, and if Zhang Xuewu's Soviet aid was not cut off, the attack on Xuzhou was also a huge problem for the emperor's [***] team.

Ishihara submitted an imperial strategy to the wartime base camp, in which countries that could be allies of the empire and countries that threatened the empire's survival space were listed, with Germany and Italy on the list of allies, and Britain and France, which controlled the Indochina oil fields in the Strait of Malacca, were considered enemies.

Strategically, Ishihara advocated going north rather than south, because the Caucasus Plain and Siberia have a large amount of oil resources, and if they can form an alliance with Germany to jointly deal with Soviet Russia, then Soviet Russia will inevitably fight on two fronts, and in international politics, because of the relationship between the political system, Soviet Russia is isolated by the United States, Britain, France, and other countries, and it will not touch the interests of the United States, Britain, France, and other countries in Southeast Asia.

(To be continued)