March of the 25th year of the Republic of China (1936).

Su Tong and Jiang Baili, who had just finished the New Year, accompanied by a group of staff officers, went to the station of the 101st Armored Division in Baokang. Today is the day when the two top commanders of the 37th Route Army came to inspect and accept the results, and Sun Liren and several military commanders of the 101st Division came out to greet them.

As soon as Su Tong and Jiang Baili entered the division headquarters and sat down, Jiang Baili said unceremoniously: "Division Commander Sun, the army commander and I are here today to see your training results for more than half a year. In the past six months, the personnel and equipment in the army have been tilted towards your division, and the commander and I hope that you can train a group of elite divisions for our army. And tomorrow is the time to find out. ”

Su Tong smiled bitterly when he heard this, it seems that a group of officers led by Jiang Baili are still dissatisfied with their preference for the 101st Division! But Su Tong doesn't blame them, no one knew the power of the blitzkrieg before 1939, but in later generations, even Su Tong, a pseudo-military fan, knew that Germany was able to conquer Poland in 27 days, Denmark in 1 day, Norway in 23 days, the Netherlands in 5 days, Belgium in 18 days, and France in 39 days.

Blitzkrieg is like what the ancient Chinese art of war says: it is as fast as the wind, as slow as a forest, as fast as a fire, as immobile as a mountain, as difficult as a yin, and as moving as a thunderbolt.

The formation of the 101st Armored Division was a bold attempt by Su Tong, who did not believe that under the wings of his butterfly, he would not be able to fan the lightning storm of Huaxia.

Looking at Su Tong, who was smiling and looking at him with encouraging eyes, Sun Liren knew that in the past half a year, the military seat had been under a lot of pressure and tilted his 101st Division, including personnel, equipment, funds, and many other countless things. The ancients died as a confidant, and since the military seat treats me as a national soldier, then let me repay him as a national soldier.

On the grassland of Tucheng, more than 30 miles away from Duolun, Chen Dazhu and Wang Li, commanders of the 102nd and 103rd Divisions, sat in a makeshift tent and swallowed clouds and smoke, making the tent full of smoke.

After being silent for a long time, Chen Dazhu looked at his mouth and said: "Senior Commander Wang, you give your brother an account first, can your division block the 101st Division's twelve-hour attack tomorrow?" ”

"No problem, his 101st Division is a heavenly soldier and a general, but my 103rd Division is not a vegetarian. With such a dense group of firepower points and bunkers, even if he is an iron man, he Sun Liren has to jump off his teeth. Now the big question is whether your 102nd Division can complete the encirclement within 12 hours. You must know that they are all fully mechanized troops, and the speed is not ordinary, if we give them a little more time to break through, we will not be able to catch up with them. Wang Li threw away the cigarette butt and said affirmatively.

Tomorrow's confrontation exercise with the armored division is related to whether their troops can get more materials and tilt, and more importantly, whether they can get the attention of the military seats, which is the most important thing. In the past half a year, Su Tong has poured almost all of his energy except for civil affairs into Sun Liren's armored division, which made the two division commanders Chen Dazhu and Wang Li have some troubles in their hearts.

Although they are all treated equally in terms of weapons supply and other aspects, the armored division is undoubtedly a priority in the selection and promotion of personnel.

Our Huaxia has always been the first and the second, especially in the army, no one is convinced, always thinking about competing for a high level, Su Tong and Jiang Baili both saw this situation in their eyes, but no one said anything, but held a tacit attitude, because this also helped to improve the morale of the troops, but at the same time, this also exacerbated the psychology of the two infantry divisions to be unconvinced by the armored division.

The morning in Tucheng is especially beautiful, because the fog at night sometimes turns into a bright rainbow, which makes Tucheng extremely enchanting.

But today, the beauty of Tucheng was shattered by the roar of tanks, when more than 260 Somoan S-35 tanks of the 101st Armored Division drove more than two miles away from the 103rd Division. The officers and men of the 103rd Division in the trenches in front felt the ground shaking under their feet.

Holding the binoculars and looking at the tanks pointing in front of him, Su Tong was still a little proud in his heart. When choosing a tank, Su Daguan hesitated for a long time, like those Tiger tanks and T34 tanks, which were not yet available, and finally caught Su Tong's eye was the French Somoan S-35 tank.

The Somoan S-35 tank (Somuas-35) began to equip the French cavalry units in the mid-thirties, which was the most advanced tank of design at the time, the turret and hull were cast of steel with a graceful arc, and the radio intercom was standard equipment, these unique designs influenced later American Sherman and Soviet T-34 tanks. The S-35 tank has a combat weight of almost 20 tons, a crew of 3 people, a thickness of 55 mm of armor on the front of the turret, 40 mm on the body armor, and 20 mm in the weakest rear. The S-35 was armed with a 47mm L/40 cannon, the most powerful tank gun on the Western Front. The powertrain is an eight-cylinder petrol engine with 190 hp and a top speed of 40 km/h on the road. The French army had more than 400 S-35 tanks, but only 243 were equipped with troops, and the rest were parked in warehouses. Compared to the German rival PZ3, the S-35 tank was superior in firepower and protection, only slightly less powerful.

When Su Tong handed over more than 200 tanks to Sun Liren, the entire 37th Army was in a sensation, and one by two came to Su Tong to ask for tanks, especially Wang Dayong's guard regiment was the most fierce.

Wang Dayong has participated in the Battle of the Great Wall and has seen the power of the army's ** tank with his own eyes. Although it was only a light tank of only 12 tons, it still brought huge casualties to the 29th Route Army. The current tank is a medium-sized tank of 20 tons, so you have to get dozens of them to enjoy it, but Su Tong was stunned that all of them were assigned to the 101st Division.

In fact, it is not that our Soviet chief does not want to produce more Somoan S-35 tanks, but he knows that in no more than two years at the latest, the No. 4 tank of the Germans and the T34 of the Soviet Union will be released. At that time, these Somoan S-35 tanks will be eliminated, so why waste them.

Moreover, such a large number of tanks are equipped with the troops, but there is no way to prove their origins, after all, there are only 400 such tanks in the whole of France, and only 243 are equipped with the troops. If it arouses the suspicion of the French, it will be bad, who let us not have a factory that can produce tanks?

However, our senior officer of the Soviet Union had already begun to build a factory in Xuanhua a few months ago, and was ready to launch a tank factory.

At this time, a staff officer came and said something in Su Tong's ear, and Su Tong nodded, "The exercise has begun." ”

Well, today's second update