Chaoyang was besieged by the heavy troops of the Yue army, and Dai Peng, the commander of the Chaoyang garrison, repeatedly said that he asked Zhang Xuewu to rest assured, and the Chaoyang garrison should swear to live and die with the fortress with a solid fortress system, Dai Peng's oath made Zhang Xuewu even more unassured, he wanted the Chaoyang fortress, not the first garrison division that was wiped out by the whole army, and even the experimental convoy that encountered a blizzard near Chaoyang was put into battle, and Zhang Xuewu could still sit firmly in Diaoyutai?

The Zhanyang Division of the New Fourth Division of the Youth Army, which was attacked by Chengde, was trapped on the front line of Lingyuan, and the New Seventh Division of the Youth Army, reinforced by Chen Kebin, who was reinforced from Chifeng, also encountered the stubborn resistance of the Yue Army.

Zhang Xuewu has realized that the offensive and defensive battle of Chaoyang Fortress is like a gamble that cannot be stopped at the beginning, and the bet between the two sides is the chips in the hands of both sides and who can hold out for the last five minutes.

It is urgent to reinforce the new Fourth Division of the Youth Army, and it is imperative to strengthen the attack in the direction of Chifeng, but as of today's war report, Zhangjiakou has also been attacked by a large-scale attack by the Yue Army. What am I doing?

Now that the main attack has been carried out in the direction of the rising sun? If Zhangjiakou is the secondary direction of attack, then it can be understood one or two! But why did I carry out a feint attack in Chengde and Chifeng to contain it? Is this a little inexplicable?

The reason why a feint attack is called a feint is to cover the direction and strategic intentions of the main forces? Now that the direction and strategic intentions of the army have been made clear, like lice on the top of a bald man's head? Is there any need to cover it up? If I am so stupid, it will not take three or five years for the [***] team to counterattack and recover Korea!

Zhang Xuewu stood in front of the map and was puzzled? Is this a strategic deployment that has no basis at all? The strategic intention of the army is to conquer Chaoyang and open a breakthrough? And then in a detour to Chifeng? Score these two points in the army deep? If this is the case, Zhang Xuewu dared to give up Chaoyang and Chifeng, and then gather two armored divisions to give him a painful lesson in the vast Mongolian steppe.

However, Zhang Xuewu believes that he will not be stupid to this extent, and it is true that the decisive battle of the large corps is fought with weapons and equipment, but more importantly, the overall strategy and the precise tactics of a local fatal blow.

What is the war fought? In fact, the most critical thing to fight a war is intelligence, if there is accurate and timely intelligence, even if the side with relatively weak weapons and equipment and troops can also use the weakness of the enemy army to carry out key attacks, so as to win, Zhang Xuewu is facing the opaque surname of the battlefield, different from the sky satellites of later generations, ground reconnaissance aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles, 24-hour battlefield thermal infrared detection, due to the snowstorm in the previous period, all of Zhang Xuewu's reconnaissance intelligence relied on Qin Buer's special operations forces and the reconnaissance units under various armies and divisions, In this way, the effect of reconnaissance is quite limited.

Zhang Xuewu also knows the importance of intelligence, but this blizzard has grounded the entire 10th Theater Air Force for five days, for the battlefield situation that is changing every hour or even every minute, five days is too long, as a senior commander who controls the overall situation, on the basis of lack of intelligence, even if the US soldiers in the late World War II are several times the number of the army, and the firepower is dozens of times, it still makes the Yue himself burn out, which shows the importance of intelligence.

However, Zhang Xuewu was not idle, he ordered the aircraft factory in Baotou to fully cooperate with various flight units, for all the active BF-109F and BF-109K fighter landing gear to carry out large-scale replacement again, in the Nanjing Campaign, Zhang Xuewu found this very pitiful problem, the take-off and landing loss of the BF-109F far more than the battle damage, and a large number of maintenance work although the training of aircraft maintenance personnel, but for the fighter attendance guarantee rate is a fatal problem.

For this reason, Zhang Xuewu once instructed the modification of the landing gear of the BF-109F series fighters, in addition, Zhang Xuewu recalled the famous World War II fighter Mustang P-51, not to mention the WF-190 Saker, in fact, the Mustang P-51 is very similar to the design of the BF-109K, the BF-109K can not be said to be the pinnacle of the German fighter, but it is the most reasonable design, the fighter with the highest surname price ratio, Suffice it to say that the Mustang P-51 is almost an enlarged version of the BF-109K fighter?

For the Mustang P-51 fighter, the surname and range have indeed reached the theoretical limit of the piston fighter, but Zhang Xuewu's understanding is that the production of the Mustang battle and the sophisticated technology of the US Air Force pilots have created the myth of the Mustang!

Therefore, for Gao Zhihang's air force, Zhang Xuewu has always trained pilots and fighters with the requirement that 200 hours of flight training can be lifted into the air for combat! Pilot! Zhang Xuewu could not afford to lose any of them, and the loss of fighters and pilots was a great blow to the morale of the whole army, and air supremacy was very important to Zhang Xuewu, who used heavy artillery and tanks as sharp blades.

So as soon as the weather turned around, Zhang Xuewu gave Gao Zhihang an order to conduct a comprehensive air raid and reconnaissance of the Yue army at all costs, Zhang Xuewu has always called the Rehe Flying Tigers the Chinese Air Force, and its meaning is also very pointed, what is the Air Force? The Air Force of the Nation! Zhang Xuewu has his own ambitions and prospects for the future.

On January 25, 1938, the air force units of the 10th Theater of Operations poured out of their nests and carried out large-scale air raids on the Yue troops near Chaoyang, Lingyuan, Chifeng, Zhangjiakou, and Chengde, and in the air raids, 89 WF-190 Saker fighters also poured out.

What Zhang Xuewu urgently needs most now is intelligence, information about the troops, movements, and location of the intruding army, and more than 70 percent of the sources of this information rely on aerial reconnaissance.

Before the enemy situation was clear, Zhang Xuewu decided to use the headquarters of Tang Ziqiang of the 1st Armored Division and cooperate with the new 1st Division of Wang Chuangzhi's Youth Army to carry out a counter-assault on the 38th Division of the Yue Army attacking Chengde, and after defeating the 38th Division of the Yue Army, he carried out a surprise attack on Lingyuan with the main force, reinforced the Zhanyang Division of the 4th Division of the Youth Army, and cooperated with the 2nd Division of the Youth Army with the headquarters of the 2nd Division of the Youth Army Zhao Xinyu to carry out a counter-assault on the 39th Division of the Yue Army attacking Chifeng, and defeated the enemy in front of him. Outflank reinforcements with the main force to the flank of Chaoyang.

In addition, Zhang Xuewu dispatched the supplementary regiment of the 1st Armored Division and the supplementary regiment of the 2nd Armored Division to Baotou to form the 3rd Heavy Division with the 3rd Armored Training Base as the backbone, and 190 vehicles were raised to the hull, special alloy armor was used, gap tortoise armor was added, the latest boom amplitude support suspension system was installed, wide tracks, iron-mounted medium main battle tanks equipped with fully enclosed machine gun towers, and 75-mm "bantams" and 105-mm "strike" automatic guns using the chassis of jackal-type light tanks.

In fact, if you look at it from the perspective of its full combat weight, it is probably no different from a medium tank, and the 39-ton Iron Cavalry medium tank is not a light guy, according to the German-made 88-mm gun and the Soviet-made 100-mm gun, the 100-mm caliber "heavy-hit" smoothbore gun tank gun manufactured by German technology, and the tungsten gold shell-out tail armor-piercing projectile can penetrate 35 degrees within 1,105 meters, and the 193-mm Soviet-made Lotmochevsky armor can penetrate 35 degrees within 1,005 metersIn the case of armor-piercing shells, 1,000 meters can penetrate 35 degrees, 120 mm thick German standard homogeneous targets.

Zhang Xuewu is very satisfied with the data of the "heavy hit" tank gun, the only thing he is not satisfied with is the expensive cost, but there are also surprises, that is, the Jewish engineer Brown of the Baotou Tank Armor Research Institute actually developed a self-propelled loader for Zhang Xuewu?

At the beginning, Zhang Xuewu just gave Brown the so-called reward in accordance with the regulations, encouraging him to make persistent efforts, Zhang Xuewu expressed great doubts about the practical surname of the self-propelled loader, because the tanks suitable for self-loading are generally heavy tanks with a weight of more than 55 tons, and the 125 mm large-caliber smoothbore gun equipped with it, if manual loading is used, the rate of fire can be negligible, so the medium tank can only use the disc loading mechanism, and the speed of one round every six seconds can be reloaded.

And the premise of all this is a high-power electric motor, a powerful internal combustion super-compression diesel engine, as well as complex structures, circuits, closed circuits, etc., before the advent of integrated computer boards, these control systems alone would weigh several tons.

However, Zhang Xuewu unexpectedly saw a strange-looking tank in Chengde? The chassis of the Iron Rider plus a long turret? The shape of the turret resembles the American Pershing tank?

Under inquiry, Zhang Xuewu learned that this was an experimental surname tank that tested the automatic loader at the Chengde shooting range before?

Zhang Xuewu was surprised, this thing was really drummed up? How many surnames can and can be trusted? Zhang Xuewu was a little angry at the inconsistency of the Tank and Armor Research Institute, are these guys who play theoretical academics too advanced? The practical surname that they have emphasized many times is regarded by them as the wind in their ears?

Dissatisfied, Zhang Xuewu asked people to send the drawings of the so-called automatic loader, and before criticizing people, he had to find fault first, right? Zhang Xuewu was taken aback at a glance? It turned out to be a semi-automatic bomb feeder with completely mechanical manpower? The principle is like a revolver's ammunition lifting mechanism, and the theoretical data is one shot every five .5 seconds!

Zhang Xuewu suddenly remembered that the automatic loader of the MA1A3 main battle tank of the US military in later generations worked like this, and when the motor stopped working and failed, it could be manually reloaded.

Was this a surprise or a bonus? But press such a large turret on the chassis of an iron cavalry tank? Why does it feel a little awkward to look at?

(To be continued)