At eight o'clock in the evening, the third offensive and defensive battle of Zhalainor launched by the Kuomintang and the direct coalition forces officially began.

At the moment when the attack order was given, eighteen 150mm howitzers, thirty-six 105mm howitzers, and 72 75mm mountain guns, which had already been prepared, roared at the same time! For a while, the cannon roared and resounded in the sky. The construction of heavy industry in South China, which began four years ago, has finally exerted a little power at this moment. In the smoke of gunpowder, the artillery doctrine that originally belonged to the Soviet Red Army also occasionally showed its grandeur in the National Revolutionary Army. More than 100 light and heavy artillery pieces opened fire in a concentrated manner, and the fire was clear in the sky. Thousands of shells dragged orange-red ballistics across the night sky, and swarms whizzed towards the Soviet line between Hulun Lake and Hailar River.

The cannonball smashed to the ground like Thor's hammer, exploding countless pillars of fire that soared into the sky, and the violent wave of air swept the high-speed rotating shrapnel and flew in the air, and soon turned into a torrential rain, spilling on the ground.

The 20-kilometer-long defensive line lined up by the Soviet troops was soon shrouded in smoke and dust. Due to time constraints and excessive self-confidence, these self-righteous invaders did not dig the long trenches, but only hastily dug some shallow foxholes. The shells that fell from the sky exploded in the middle of these foxholes, one on top of the other, as if a hammer was smashing down on the Soviets who were crawling in the foxholes!

The Soviet troops, who were caught off guard by the sudden bombardment, whether they were officers or ordinary soldiers, were now lying dead in the foxholes, their mouths wide open, and they couldn't help but feel trembling! An atmosphere of despair quickly permeated the entire line of defense. If it weren't for the fact that the Political Commissar and the Commissar of Internal Affairs were now behind the defensive line, with machine guns mounted and the muzzles of the black holes facing their backs, I am afraid that the division would have collapsed without the need for the armored brigade commanded by Guderian to assault?

The whole earth trembled, and artillery shells fell in rows on the Soviet lines. The huge fireballs formed by the explosion of large-caliber grenades can often twist entire rows of Soviet soldiers into pieces, and then lift them into the sky like pieces of paper, and finally turn into a sky of flesh and blood scattered in all corners of the vast grassland.

As soon as the ten minutes passed, the shelling stopped abruptly.

As a rule of thumb, after the shelling, there will be an infantry charge. The surviving Soviet Red Army, under the organization of officers and under the supervision of political cadres, took up arms one after another, loaded ammunition, and crawled in craters or foxholes, ready to meet the infantry attack of the Chinese White Army.

…… Guderian was now standing on top of an armored command car in high spirits, and he looked back at the formation behind him. This is the full armor that this ancient oriental country has! Five companies of combat vehicles, five companies of armored vehicles, and an elite infantry regiment. Whether his theory can be implemented depends on tonight's battle.

At this time, Huang Guyu, who was the chief of staff of this temporary armored brigade, ran to his side and reported to him in fluent German: "Sir, all the troops are ready. Command! ”

"Good!" Guderian nodded in satisfaction, then slowly raised his right hand and waved it down again: "Attention everyone!" Start the vehicle! ”

"Start the vehicle!" Seeing Guderian's gestures, tank drivers and commanders of the Kuomintang or Feng Army, who did not understand German, began to use their joysticks to start their vehicles. After about five minutes, all the vehicles of the entire army were activated, and the roar of the chariots enveloped the entire grassland for a moment.

Guderian sighed softly and pointed his right hand forward: "All attention, all attention!" The goal is right ahead! Panzers! Suddenly! Hit!! ”

With Guderian's order, the motors of the tanks and armored vehicles that had already been started roared, spewed out pungent smoke, and began to slowly move into battle formation. Sixty Renault FT-17 tanks drove to the front to form an equilateral triangular offensive formation, and then slowly moved forward, heading towards the Soviet positions a few kilometers away.

Behind the tank convoy is a small square of forty armored personnel carriers, on which officers and men of about a battalion will enter the battlefield. Behind the armored personnel carrier was a convoy of dozens of improvised trucks, also full of heavily armed officers and soldiers, and behind the trucks were towing more than a dozen 37mm rapid-fire guns. Since now the Renault FT-17 is loaded with only one machine gun and no artillery. So these 37mm rapid-fire guns provide fire cover.

Behind this improvised and unreliable armored force was the infantry of the 18th Division of the Kuomintang commanded by An Sihua. This force will follow the Panzers and use them to extend their gains after they have successfully broken through...... Of course, in the unlikely event that the armored forces really can't do it, these infantry will be responsible for launching a charge and crushing the defenses of the Soviet Red Army.

…… The officers and men of the 1st Division of the Soviet Red Army, who had just experienced a purgatory-like bombardment, heard the loud roar of the engines of the tanks and armored vehicles, and saw the attack formation of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, accompanied by thousands of infantrymen, pressing towards their positions. The first thought that came to their mind was not fear, but surprise!

"Oh my God! This is a tank! Is it the enemy's? Or ours? ”

I don't know which open-mouthed Soviet soldier said what was on his mind. yes, whose are these tanks? Is it the squadron that is said to be poor and backward, without a little heavy industry? That's funny, isn't it? The army of the Soviet Union, which is known as the world's number one industrial power soon, was actually attacked by an armored unit that had been weak for hundreds of years! And what is even more intolerable is that the officers and soldiers of the industrial country of the Soviet Union now do not know what to use to fight against the torrent of steel rumbling from the opposite side!

The Soviet Red Army has now equipped its troops with 37mm anti-tank guns, but this time it is going to war with poor China...... So it didn't brought. Even if they brought it, most of them were damaged by the fierce bombardment just now. It seems that the anti-tank rocket launcher has not yet been invented, and the anti-tank gun is not now in the USSR...... Is all that's left is to fight grenades?

"Attention! Note! Get ready for battle! Get ready for battle! ”

The commanders of the Soviet Red Army, who had come to their senses, began to yell and urge their soldiers to fight, and only God knows what to take to fight. But before they could figure out how to fight, the machine guns on the tanks on the opposite side began to strafe. The scene of dozens of machine guns spewing out tongues of fire at the same time was quite spectacular, and the Kuomintang infantry, who was providing cover on the left and right of the tanks, also raised their rifles or Czech machine guns and began to fire at the Soviet front. In this time and space, the armored units of the Kuomintang were trained by German instructors from the beginning, so naturally there would be no mistake of disjointed steps. After all, these little Renault tanks are not very strong...... It is said that in history, the tanks of the Feng army were once defeated by the soldiers of Feng Yuxiang's troops with shotguns! How can this Feng Jun also mean a little stupid?

It was terrible to face a cluster assault with so many tanks and armored vehicles, especially when it was the first time to see such a scene, even the Soviet Red Army, armed with Marxist-Leninist ideas, was just as afraid! Not only am I afraid today, but I am still afraid more than ten years later! By the time the armored group struck to a distance of less than two hundred meters from the Soviet infantry line, most of the soldiers had already begun to waver. Because they already knew that the weapon in their hand was completely useless against the steel monsters, unless they rushed to the tank and fired directly at the tank driver's observation port...... Just like those cattle under Feng Yuxiang in history! However, the officers and men of the 18th Division of the Kuomintang who accompanied the tank on this battlefield would not allow such a joke to happen.

Now the Soviet Red Army, which was holding on to this stretch of line, was completely panicked, and everyone turned their heads to look behind. Looking at the political commissar behind him, he hoped that his old man would show kindness and let the internal affairs staff remove their machine guns. Then let's run for our lives together, and never return to this terrible battlefield again. But what they saw was the muzzle of the Overseer's black hole...... The muzzles of the Soviet Red Army's warlords could prevent the Soviet soldiers from escaping, but there was no way to prevent them from being killed one by one by the fire of the surging steel monsters from the opposite side. Defending this section of the position was an infantry regiment of the 1st Division of the Soviet Red Army, which turned out to be 1,500 men. After the first battle of Zalainor, there were 200 casualties, and more than 300 were killed in the 10 minutes of shelling, and now there are less than 1,000 people who are still living on the ground. These men were now hit by 100 tanks and armored vehicles and nearly 3,000 infantry, more than 100 machine guns of various types, more than 2,000 rifles and submachine guns, and dozens of artillery mortars of various kinds were hit in the face together. In less time, the Soviet troops on the entire position were almost wiped out, and in the end only some political workers were left with their hands raised and demanding surrender!

The whole breakthrough took less than ten minutes, and in fact, these tanks and armored vehicles did not stop their wheels at all, and did not even slow down much, so they directly pressed over. An infantry regiment of the Soviet Red Army, completely routed in just ten minutes! Seeing the corpses of the Soviet soldiers lying on both sides, and the groups of Soviet prisoners with dull eyes and at a loss, Guderian let out a long sigh. He knows...... The war had been won, and his vision had been fully proven. Seeing the footage of this battle, I believe that even the most stubborn generals will immediately change their views on tanks. Tanks are supposed to be concentrated as the blades of the attacking forces! As it is now, tear apart the enemy's lines of defense and crush their will to resist.

With a wave of his hand, Guderian summoned Second Lieutenant [***], the communications officer in charge of liaison between the tank and armored vehicle companies. After graduating from the fourth phase of Huangpu, this famous anti-Japanese general in history was specially arranged by Luo Yaoguo to enter the Tank Brigade of the Central Military Academy Teaching Corps to learn armored soldiers.

"Order the companies to maintain speed and distance! Pay attention to the formation! Leave the routs alone! Leave them to the infantry behind to deal with, our aim is to charge! Charge! Keep charging! ”

As soon as Guderian ordered, all the tanks and armored vehicles left the fleeing soldiers, and they gathered their troops and immediately rushed forward at full speed to the town of Zalainor!

At 8:30 p.m., less than half an hour before the shelling was launched. The armored forces under Guderian's command managed to tear a three-kilometer-wide hole in the defense line of the 1st Division of the Soviet Red Army. And the entire armored force did not stay for a few minutes, and drove at full speed to the town of Zalainuoer, ten kilometers away. In an hour at most, this new-concept armored force will be under the nose of General Blyukher!

And at this time, Blyukhel didn't even know that his defensive line in the east had completely collapsed! In this famous general's previous cognition, it would take several days to break through the defense line of one division with two divisions, and even the most elite troops would have to spend a whole day, repeated artillery charges, artillery bombardments, and charges...... Until the opponent is completely consumed! There is absolutely no reason why it will be done in dozens of minutes, even if it is the tofu army that fights the Chinese White Army, it is not so trouble-free! Not to mention its own Soviet Red Army.

So when he saw the flames on the Soviet positions in the east, he didn't think that there would be any problems, besides...... He didn't have the energy to think about it now. April 17 is only a few hours away! Even in Moscow time, it is less than ten hours...... If he hadn't defeated Zalainorr by then, then the political commissar of the group army, who usually looked kind, would come to arrest him!

Thankfully, after a long day of pondering, General Blyukhel has now figured out a way to attack these damn fortified structures...... That is, direct fire at close range with a howitzer of 152mm caliber! The 152mm caliber grenade hits these buildings directly and then explodes, and the huge shock wave can cause great damage to the structure of the entire building. Although it may not be able to kill the Chinese White Army hiding in the basement, it can completely destroy the entire above-ground building and bury these guys! In this way, they will not be able to get out of the ground, and sooner or later they will die! It is impossible for Stalin to come and check whether there are any living Chinese White Army generals under the town of Zalainoer?

Rumble...... There was a loud roar, the whole town seemed to tremble, and another sturdy building was completely destroyed by a 152mm cannon. The Chinese White Army inside was buried in the rubble, whether they lived or died!

Looking at the last reinforced concrete building that collapsed with a bang, a relaxed expression appeared on Blyukhel's face. He waved his hand and ordered to the staff officer beside him: "Send a telegram to Moscow, and say that the town of Zalainuor has now been completely captured by my hero's Red Banner Special Far Eastern Army!" Now there is not a single living Chinese White Army here! ”

…… Blyukhel did not know that the situation on the battlefield had been reversed, and Zhang Xueliang, the major marshal of the Feng Army, resolutely did not believe in the Soviet Red Army...... It's almost over! Now that the Feng army has been assembled, they will be able to flee the desperate city immediately.

Inside and outside the headquarters of the city of Manchuria. Staff officers at all levels were in and out of the country, their steps were flustered, and a bonfire was lit in the middle of the courtyard of the headquarters, and the staff officers were throwing telegrams into the fire. Although the guards standing guard were still standing motionless and upright, their eyes unconsciously revealed deep fear.

Zhang Xueliang put on the clothes of a soldier and stood in the courtyard, watching his staff officers burn things. The little face was pale and miserable, and his heart was full of remorse. I should not have provoked the Soviet Union, and I should not have followed the advice of those military advisers to touch Stalin's tiger buttocks.

A young Fengjun staff officer strode up to Zhang Xueliang, made a military salute after standing up, and reported in a somewhat strange voice: "Young Marshal, Chief Luo Yaoguo is in a hurry, the Westward Advance Corps has ...... Break through the Russian defense line on all fronts! Right now...... The Russians have collapsed! The Westward Advance Corps is ...... Full pursuit! Please...... Please lead the young marshal to the east immediately, and annihilate the Russians from the east and west! ”

Zhang Xueliang looked blank and said softly: "It turns out that Luo Fuwen was also defeated!" Finished! It's all over!! ”

The staff officer was stunned: "Young marshal...... The telegram said that the battle had been won......"

Zhang Xueliang sneered: "How is it possible! It's only half past eight! Defeated the Russians in half an hour? He wants us to attack and drag the Russians so that they can escape. Hmph, these Kuomintang are really unreliable! It's just that this Luo Yaoguo doesn't use his brains to brag...... It's fucking blind! ”

The staff officer sighed, with a look of sudden realization. With a slight sigh, Gray walked away with his tail between his legs.

Is that it...... Zhang Xueliang's analysis is still very reasonable. Luo Yaoguo commanded two divisions, one of which was the third division of the direct line that had been defeated repeatedly. How could it be possible to crush such a powerful Soviet Red Army in just half an hour? Don't say that Zhang Xueliang doesn't believe this kind of thing! Even in the whole of China, I'm afraid no one will believe it. At this time, Luo Yaoguo must have been defeated, and he wants to sacrifice friendly troops to protect himself, this kind of trick is commonplace among all kinds of warlords in China, and it is not surprising at all, isn't Feng Jun doing this now?

It's just that this situation can only be described as rotten!

Now that Zha Lai Nuoer is lost, Luo Yaoguo is also defeated. The initiative has completely fallen into the hands of the Soviets. Outside the city, a unit of Soviet cavalry was watching its every move. If you want to run yourself, they will definitely find out. When the time comes, will you destroy yourself first or Luo Yaoguo first...... I'm afraid it depends on Stalin's mood, right? And...... Destroy Luo Yaoguo first, and after the elimination is completed, directly take Hailar, where he is waiting for his 70,000 tired army to be sent to the door. Now it seems that it is impossible to go! Finished! It's all over!!

"Teacher Xiqia! Mr. Xicha! Zhang Xueliang suddenly thought of something and shouted......

(To be continued)