Matsui Ishine got up early today, and after the heavy rain stopped, he finally saw the clear sky northeast of Shina again, but as the commander of the Kwantung Army, his mood became anxious. Although the Jinzhou front command was only a few kilometers away from the fortification group, he was still not at ease. After hastily eating something, he took his adjutant and staff officer and prepared to take a ride to the front line.

"Boom Boom ......"

Before the car started, Matsui, who had just gotten into the cabin, heard a dull loud sound like thunder on a dry day, as if the whole world was enveloped by a suffocating air pressure. As an excellent battlefield commander, he suddenly realized that this was not an ordinary explosion, but a dense explosion after a massive artillery bombardment. The empire had never conducted such a large-scale artillery group live-fire exercise, and in the entire Jinzhou battlefield, the empire did not have so many heavy artillery.

"Shelling by the Chinese!!"

Matsui Ishine knew without thinking that it was an artillery attack by the Chinese, and in the entire northeast area, except for Soviet Russia in the north, which was artillery, only the Shinshina political axe in the mouth was an artillery army.

With a kick at the car door, he quickly rushed out of the car, ignoring the staff officers and adjutants around him, and rushed into the bunker of the front command in embarrassment.

"Your Excellency Commander-in-Chief, the Chinese have just launched a super-large-scale artillery attack on us."

As soon as Matsui Ishine rushed in, he met the staff officer on duty, and it turned out that a call had just come from the front to report the shelling. "Give me Deputy Commander Kenkichi Ueda who will pick up the front line immediately."

Due to the great importance attached to the defensive battle in the Jinshu direction, the military department not only transferred Matsui Ishine to the northeast as the commander of the Kwantung Army, but also made Ueda Kenkichi permanent at the forefront. Originally, the front command headquarters was his station, but since Matsui Ishine came to the front line headquarters, Ueda went directly to the front line.

Fortunately, the telephone line buried in the ground had not been blown up, and the phone was quickly connected.

"Hey, hey, Ueda-kun......"

When Matsui picked up the microphone and wanted to ask how the situation was at the front, he suddenly stopped, and unlike the explosions coming from several kilometers away, through the microphone, he heard dense and terrifying explosions. The artillery bombardment, the unprecedented shelling, the dense shells like rain, the power of the explosion can be imagined.

Even though Kenkichi Ueda's forward headquarters was several meters underground, he could still hear the deafening explosions outside, and the sound of artillery on the other end of the phone was extremely quiet, and Kenkichi Ueda was almost talking to himself in a roaring voice.

"Hey...... Feed...... Hey, Your Excellency Commander, we have just been subjected to heavy shelling by Chinese artillery groups, and the losses of personnel and the damage to fortifications are very heavy. Your Excellency, Commander, please order the artillery to return fire......"

Having understood the situation on the front line, Matsui Ishine handed the microphone to the combat staff officer next to him with some weakness and motioned for him to record the situation. Without Ueda's report, he already knew everything from the sound of an explosion coming from the microphone.

Unprecedented artillery bombardment, he had never heard such a fierce artillery sound in his memory in the decades since he had been in the army. Isn't this China? Is this Europe?

"Chinese, why are there so many cannons......"

Europe is relatively flat, with many countries and narrow strategic depth, so each country is equipped with a large number of artillery to ensure that in the event of an invasion of another country or an invasion of another country, it can inflict maximum damage on the attacking enemy regardless of the cost. However, in other countries, with the exception of Soviet Russia, there were no cases of such super-sized armament of artillery. In addition to transportation and cost considerations, the lack of industrial strength to keep up is also a reason.

The empire can't do it, but the people of China can.

The Reich had never shelled on such a scale, but he experienced it in the West.

During World War I, he traveled to Europe as an observer, and had the privilege of witnessing a local battle between the Germans and the French for Verdun, just for an inconspicuous advance/exit from the heights, in which the Germans used more than 400 guns of various calibers to bombard the French fortifications, while the French stayed in the strong trenches and resolutely returned fire with more than 300 cannons. The scene of hundreds of cannons coming and going was unforgettable for many years later, and it directly led him to suggest strengthening the construction of artillery units after returning to China. Unfortunately, he was slightly unlucky and did not catch up with the war of aggression against Chinese mainland. When he was the commander of Taiwan, although he also demanded that the artillery units be used in a centralized manner, the only enemies that could be seen in the whole of Taiwan were those who resisted, not to mention the artillery, they did not even have rifles.

"Your Excellency, Commander, several of our main artillery positions are covered by fire from the squadron [***]."

"Since it's exposed, why not transfer?"

Matsui Shigen said slightly angrily.

"Your Excellency, the artillery positions were transferred only yesterday morning. In the sky, the Chinese air force is everywhere, and within the range of artillery, it cannot evade their detection. Jinzhou Airport alone has nearly three squadrons of fighters, and their newly built Shanhaiguan Airport is even more stationed in the new fighters of the Zhina, we ......"

The tone of the staff officer has inadvertently revealed some helplessness and sadness, who would have thought that the emperor [***] team, which entered China with great momentum and roared "boarding" to continuously capture one Chinese city after another, has now come to this point, and almost all the army, navy and air force have been beaten.

Matsui Ishine was slightly stunned, and waved his hand to show that he knew, the air force, the empire's air force in the northeast had shrunk, and it would not be involved in this kind of air refueling war until the most critical moment of the battle. In addition to Zhang Xueliang's original dozens of old-fashioned planes, before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Jinzhou accepted dozens of advanced planes from the southwest, not to mention that after Zhang Shusheng won the title of Heshan, the air force unit went north strongly.

It cannot be said that the pilots of the empire are not excellent, it can only be said that the pilots of the other side are better and the aircraft are more advanced, but the fighters of the empire for the improvement of the surname are still in the research institute in Nagoya, and it is estimated that the war is over and it will not be able to equip the troops.

Although the series of bad news made him full of anger, he always remained calm, and he needed to be responsible for the entire Kwantung Army and the entire northeastern China.

He was wondering how many artillery pieces the Chinese had used and how many shells they had consumed, and he was afraid that with seven or eight hundred cannons, they could destroy both front-line positions and exposed artillery positions, which was not something that ordinary artillery groups could do.

Although they did not participate in the Battle of Tianjin, from what the military department learned, the Chinese had the habit of using artillery groups in a concentrated manner, and they used hundreds of heavy artillery to bombard the defense of Tianjin on the battlefield of Tianjin.

"Order, closely monitor the section of fortifications that were attacked and the movements of the [***] squadron on the opposite side, and order the 49th Infantry Wing and the 59th Infantry Wing of the reserve to prepare for battle, and as soon as the shelling stops, immediately support it. The counteroffensive of the Chinese will begin here. ”

The Chinese will not use such a huge artillery group to play a game of counter-shooting, since it is a counteroffensive, of course, they will destroy a large section of fortifications and then break through. Otherwise, in the face of the strong fortifications that had been repaired by the two armies for more than a year, no matter how elite the Chinese army was, they would have to fall under the crossfire of machine guns and rifles in the fortifications.

However, if the Chinese want to rely on simple artillery bombardment and infantry raids to break through this section of the position, they underestimate the combat effectiveness of the emperor [***] team, and Matsui Shigen couldn't help but secretly say.

"Weiguo, what do you think of the results of this shelling?"

Zhang Xueliang raised the binoculars and looked at the position of the Yue army on the opposite side, and the cannonballs above his head were still screaming and flying, as if the entire sky was raining bullets. After looking at it, the opposite position was shrouded in smoke after the explosion, and he turned around and asked Huo Weiguo next to him.

As the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Front Army, he eagerly hoped for the success of the First World War; after all, the Northeast was the place where his Zhang family started, and it was long occupied by himself, and he was ashamed of the nation and the country, as well as the fathers and villagers who had placed their hopes on the Northeast Army. Tens of millions of people from Guanwai father and old folks, but they are looking forward to the troops of New China fighting back day and night.

"I don't know, the specific situation will not be known until the reconnaissance plane returns, but the attack will definitely be launched on time." Huo Weiguo put down the binoculars, turned to look at Zhang Xueliang, took out a cigarette and handed it to him, and said, "Commander, if I say, I hope we don't fight for the time being, do you believe it?" ”

"Huh? Weiguo, why do you have such thoughts? Zhang Xueliang asked puzzledly, he didn't think that Huo Weiguo's determination to resist was not enough, you know, in the early days of the resistance, the volunteers in the southwest and north, but than the old Northeast officers and soldiers, are more afraid of death, the entire Jinzhou battlefield, although there are not many veterans in the southwest, but almost all of them are famous combat heroes, among which there have even appeared legendary heroes who put their intestines in their pockets and continue to fight hand-to-hand with the devils who raided the battlefield. Of course, the most legendary thing is not his battle, but after the battle, he treated his wounds himself, used a hemostatic medicine with a miraculous effect, and finally survived.

Huo Weiguo took a deep breath on the filter, and when the smoke flowed through his lungs and stimulated it comfortably, he pointed ahead and said, "Assuming that I don't continue to slaughter my compatriots, but simply occupy the Northeast, then, if I am the decision-maker, I am likely to choose to slow down the liberation of the entire Northeast." Judging from the map, there are only four countries in the whole of East Asia: China and Japan, Korea and Soviet Russia. Now that Ben occupies North Korea, it is equivalent to the three powers.

Today's international situation is somewhat delicate, and the contradictions in various countries have a tendency to rise, and it is very likely that a world war similar to the First World War will break out in the next few years. Against this background, how the situation in East Asia develops will be determined by the three countries of China and the Soviet Union. ”

"You mean you want to drive me to fight the Soviets?" Zhang Xueliang understood after thinking about it slightly, isn't that the dispute between the Three Kingdoms? If China does not continue to fight, then with the northeast as an advance base and resource base, it will be able to fight with the Soviets.

"Yes, the Soviet Union was strong, but the Far East was too far away. In the face of the crazy people, if their military and political commanders can learn from the experience of fighting with us, upgrade their weapons and equipment, and sum up and improve the tactics of the three services, once the time is right, the Soviet and Russian Red Army in the Far East, which lacks strength, will not necessarily be the opponent of these madmen. Huo Weiguo didn't continue, in the deepest part of his heart, he was thinking about the nation. The island country's original surname is full of aggression, and it has an almost crazy yearning for the mainland. If they had turned the spearhead to the Far East of the Soviets, then Ben would have entered into a fierce rivalry with the Soviet Union in the Far East if the world situation possible.

At this time, China, which sits and watches the tiger fight, will gain the greatest benefits.

Of course, the interests of the nation cannot be lost, so in Huo Weiguo's boring assumptions, if he is finally driven out of the northeast, he should give up chasing into North Korea, and even open up a free passage for them to go north to the Soviet Far East in the future.

"It's time." Zhang Xueliang raised his wrist and looked at it, and found that the time had reached 7 o'clock in the general attack, and the 30-minute artillery bombardment had already fired out most of the shells stored in Jinzhou, and completely destroyed the fortifications built by himself for a long time without considering the supply at all.

Zhang Xueliang nodded, and beckoned to the combat staff officer not far away, "Let all troops be sure to launch a diversion attack on time and according to plan." ”

After launching an offensive in the direction of the main attack, the former Northeast Army also launched a diversionary attack in various positions.

The sound of artillery has not stopped, and the general offensive has been launched.

"Heavy armored brigade, attack!!"

Chen Jun stood at the starting position of the heavily armored brigade, and as soon as the time for the general attack came, he personally ordered the armored brigade to attack, and behind them, the most elite third division of the northbound group army, was also the old unit he once commanded.

Peng Zhonghuai, commander of the Heavy Armored Brigade, was the commander of the armored regiment of the original First Division, which was the most elite main division of the People's Army after the Guards Division.

Looking from the position of Zhang Xueliang and the two people's bunkers, they saw that the section of fortifications cleared out in the distance drove out of a steel monster, that is, the Chinese Tiger No. 3 tank of the People's Army, more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles drove together, and even the soldiers who were lying in the trenches far away to watch the artillery attack on the opposite military fortifications could feel it.

Feeling the vibration coming from under him, Huo Weiguo tore off the military hat on his head with some excitement, and leaned forward a little, eager to drill out of the observation hole for the whole person.

I saw a number of Chinese Tiger No. 3 tanks, holding 88mm tank guns high, although they were bumpy, they still drove out of their positions quickly, crossed the middle line of the battlefield with potholes, and even occasionally fell into the gun pit and then climbed out again by relying on their strong climbing ability.

"Oh my god, it's a lot...... Lots of ......."

Almost all the officers and men of the old northeast on the front line were stunned, and when the military fortifications on the opposite side were still full of gunsmoke and explosions, many of them gathered to the edge of the trenches, showing a little bit, looking at their tank troops.

"Squad leader, you, you hit me and tell me it's not a dream."

Seeing this dense behemoth drive out of the position and rush towards the military fortifications that were exploding continuously, a small soldier shook the squad leader who was also in a daze.

"Dog, I want you to shake me. Tsk, it's a lot, compared to Xiao Yuben's bean chariot, it's ours in the sky, and the devil is underground. ”

"These are all tanks of our People's Army?"

"If I had come earlier, I would have been thrown into the sea long ago."

"Damn, I want to see what the little devil uses to blow up the tank, look at the barrel and machine gun, look at the speed, you can't blow up the explosives bag."

"The dog said, let the devil be chased by the tank."

…… For these front-line officers and soldiers, the chariot is not unfamiliar, and they were even extremely hated before. At the beginning, there were only one or two machine guns on the bean chariots, and it was good if there were anti-tank guns in the position, but if there were no anti-tank guns in that section of the fortifications, it would be unlucky, and the heavy machine guns were useless to hit them, and they had to be blown up by people holding explosive bags.

But now, the army of New China, but its own people have come with so many tanks to fight themselves, how can they be unhappy.

You must know that a tank of several tens of tons is very large, with a body nearly five meters long, plus the barrel is already more than six meters long and more than two meters wide, and the entire tank looks like a huge steel monster.

The scene of more than 100 tanks and armored vehicles charging forward is like a continuous torrent of steel rushing in front of you. That's not a hundred, but more than a hundred huge tanks five or six meters long.

The hideous tank group and the armored vehicles that followed it, followed by the main 3rd Division, which was moving vigorously and following quickly.

Today's main 3rd Division has completed the overall refitting when it went north. In the southwest period, only the Guards Division was fully equipped with Huaxia-style automatic rifles or submachine guns, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhang Shusheng ordered the opening of the strategic reserve warehouse, and the first, second, and third divisions of the Republic were fully reequipped. As one of the first three divisions to be reequipped, the third division was also equipped with a 26-year-old Huaxia automatic rifle. The full length of this rifle: 1.1 m (with the spur open), the full weight: 3.9 kg, the rate of fire: 40 rounds / min (single shot), 90-100 rounds / min (bursts), the effective range: 400 meters, magazine capacity: 35 rounds. The 7.62mm new bullet is very powerful, and the comprehensive killing effect has reached a very satisfactory level after the 22-year Huaxia semi-automatic and fully automatic gun series have been perfected.

According to the plan of the military department, after the completion of the overall operation, there will be no particularly large-scale battles in China for a long time to come, and a guards army that will gradually expand to the size of an army and three main divisions will be the most elite troops in China. And this Northeast Campaign will be a real battle to test the re-equipped troops. It provides a reference basis for larger-scale outfitting in the future situation. After all, China is too big to be defended by a few divisions or dozens of divisions, and there are many challenges and crises it faces, so it is very necessary to maintain a few particularly elite troops to deal with sudden and major situations.

I saw that the officers and men of the 3rd Division were marching very fast, and the troops were in a straggling formation, following the heavy armored brigade and advancing rapidly. The tactical movements are also very standard, because several main divisions, including the 3rd Division, are the only ones in the southwest that have actually carried out multiple infantry and tank coordinated training.

"Poof... Burst...... Yaga! ”

Koga Komi was a squad leader in the front line of the Japanese army, and he was in charge of a nearly 300-meter-long position, which was relatively flat, and he was also given the most important care during the shelling just now.

He was lucky not to die in the shelling just now, and was pushed into the individual artillery hole next to him by a military officer, and the dense trench artillery hole was still learned from the Chinese people. In the previous artillery bombardment of Jinzhou, no matter how fierce it was, the attacking troops would always find the soldiers of China who came out to fight back after rushing to the position of the Chinese people, and only after breaking through the trench did they find that the other side had dug many anti-artillery holes in the trench wall, and the defensive effect was very good. The empire is a country that is good at learning, and soon carried forward this kind of individual defense hole.

At the moment when the first batch of shells exploded, he thought he was going to die, hiding in the anti-artillery hole, and he could even feel his whole body jumping up and down with the anti-artillery hole.

The loud explosion, the near-exploding heavy artillery shell, made his ears, mouth and nose bleed. His intuition told him that under such a high-intensity shelling that he had never been subjected to before, the anti-artillery holes were no longer safe.

Gradually, he felt the anti-artillery hole collapse, and the mud and stones pressed on him, and before he knew it, the whole world seemed to be quiet.

However, just as he was numbly clenched into a ball, thinking of his old mother who was far away in Kyoto, groggy and waiting to die, the shelling slowly slowed down.

At this time, he could no longer care about the flying shells, but instead crawled out of the half-collapsed anti-artillery hole and crawled out of the mud.

Spit out the mud in his mouth, and the whole world became silent, but he could see the flames of explosions rising in the distance, and the aftermath of explosions that could blow him staggered from a distance of tens or hundreds of meters.

Gradually, he realized that he couldn't hear it, and he still scolded fiercely, and then looked in the direction of Jinzhou of the Zhina.

"Yaga...... Amaterasu ......"

As soon as Koga Komihara turned around, he saw an incomprehensible scene that shocked him.

Originally, he had lost his hearing, and he didn't feel anything abnormal, but when he turned around, he saw that behind him was a chariot that was at least half a body taller than him, much more powerful than the imperial chariot, and he was like a grasshopper in front of it.

However, just before it had time to shout, the huge steel monster continued to move, and the machine gun on it did not fire, but directly crushed towards Koga Komihara with the most primitive crush.

With a soft sound of "poof......", Koga Komihara's entire body was run under the car by the tracks, and the tank easily crossed the trench, leaving behind a place of stumps and flesh.

"Push it, press it! It's cool!! ”

In the tank, the sergeant commander Cao Hengxing finally saw that after the tank ran over the soldier, he slammed his fist on the wall of the car, and his whole hand was numb, but he really couldn't control it, the crazy pleasure of crushing the devil with his own hands was more cool than love for this newlywed tank commander.

After graduating from the former Kunming Armored Forces Academy (now the China Armored Forces Command University in Chengdu), he worked in the armored force for three years, and he was much luckier than other seniors who graduated in the early years, and he did not wait so many years to catch up with the formation of the heavy armored brigade. However, this is the first time that the killing pleasure has been the same as today. Xiao Chen, the tank driver next to him, also drove the tank fast excitedly, ready to find the next crushing target, and the fierce shelling destroyed most of the fortifications, even if he was not killed, he was stunned and killed a lot. The army, which had not been subjected to super-large-scale artillery bombardment, was completely unprepared, and several fortifications in the forward positions were destroyed by cluster artillery fire.

Someone who can crawl out like Koga Komihara will have to face a guy who is even more powerless than the shelling - the tank.

"Da Da Da ......"

Coincidentally, the No. 3 tank, painted A33, had just crossed a trench when he saw a soldier get up from the trench with a light machine gun in his hand, and fire at the tank with a click. Although they had seen the tanks rushing from the direction of Jinzhou, the army did not retreat and began to subconsciously counterattack.

"!"

The commander of the vehicle did not give the order to the mechanical and electrical personnel to shoot at the longitudinal navigation machine gun, but pushed open the bottom hatch of the tank, and raised the Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun at the man who was still shooting with blood on his face.

A shuttle of machine gun bullets swept over, and although it only hit the soldier one or two rounds, it broke him into several pieces, and the large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets coincidentally tore him apart.

"Commander, platoon commander, let's hurry up and break through the defensive line."

"Got it."

Cao Heng shouted below, "Chinese Tiger, full speed ahead!" ”

The whole battle went very smoothly, and when the troops of the other positions launched a feint attack on the opposite position, the 3rd Division, which had thought that it would be attacked by a storm, kept running, and the two-legged soldiers, following the bumpy tanks in front, chased frantically.

"Division commander, we have broken through the three lines of defense of the army in a row, and the resistance is very slight, and they have all been killed by the Chinese tigers." The communications staff officer ran to the commander's command car of the 3rd Division and jumped on it to report. The division-level armored command vehicle that had just stopped was also running wildly.

Dai Anlan jumped out of the armored car, picked up the binoculars and saw that the smoke from the artillery bombing had not completely dissipated all around, and the officers and soldiers of the Third Division were constantly running around him.

"Contact Brigadier Peng Zhonghuai and say that we will do our best to keep up. The regiments advanced at full speed, increased their speed, and if they slowed down, the other divisions behind would follow. ”

After speaking, Dai Anlan jumped into the car, and the new commander of the Third Division was full of excitement, waiting for this day, the infantry and armored troops fought together. Relying on the strong penetration ability of the armored forces, they quickly broke through the defensive line, and then outflanked the Japanese army in other directions.

The whole plan was as he expected, with a heavily armored brigade and a total of four infantry divisions on the ground. This will be a large-scale battlefield raid, using the powerful penetration capability of the armored brigade to penetrate four divisions through the breach in an almost impossible situation, and then outflank the Japanese army in a roundabout way.

Easier said than done, so none of the four divisions was a unit of the former Northeast Army, not because they couldn't fight, but because of any improper coordination, even if the roundabout outflanking was successful, it would be difficult to quickly annihilate all parts of the army in batches.

The core of the battle lies in fast, that is, fast in one word. Rapid destruction, rapid breakthrough, rapid detour, rapid annihilation, before they completely reacted, using armored lightning assault tactics that they were completely unfamiliar with, or even had not experienced at all, to divide and encircle, and quickly annihilate one by one.

It has been more than half an hour since the battle began, and the Third Division, as the vanguard, has already followed the armored troops for several kilometers frantically, and after breaking through the fourth line of defense of the Japanese army, it can carry out a roundabout outflanking and blocking battle.

The rapid breakthrough, the slight unimaginable resistance, and the nearby Yue army were again pinned down by the feint attack of the [***] team, and the two infantry wings as reserves had just walked two kilometers before they received an urgent order to speed up the march.

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the third line of defense has been broken through by the [***] squadron, and according to the report from the front, the squadron [***] used a large number of tanks!"

The communications staff officer quickly handed over the latest battle report to Matsui Ishone, and only this famous general could handle the chaotic battle situation.

"Tanks?"

Matsui Shigen grabbed the battle report sharply, but saw that there was no more detailed record on it, "What model is the Chinese's tank?" How many? What can the last name be? ”

"Report to Your Excellency Commander, the defending forces have been wiped out before they have time to send back a more detailed battle report."

Listening to the answer of the communications staff officer, Matsui Ishine had a feeling of madness, and turned around to ask the intelligence staff officer sent by the military department, but he was also just as ignorant.

"Bang!"

Matsui was so angry that he threw the telegram he had been holding in his hand on the intelligence staff officer's face, and then slapped it over, and the intelligence staff officer who hit him fell under the table one by one, "Baga, it's all waste, waste, the empire has raised you intelligence officers for nothing." What do you know? You don't know anything! Rubbish. ”

He could only roar angrily, "Order the 49th and 59th Infantry Wings to block it for me, launch a jade shatter charge, and also block the Zhinaman!! ”

Soon, the news that the Chinese had entered the fourth line of defense finally came, and this worst news suddenly made Matsui Ishine confused, and he had a premonition of failure.

Obviously, there is only this gap in the entire defense line, but after being destroyed by the Chinese relying on artillery, and then completely torn apart with tanks, the three defense lines are not completely empty, especially the third line of defense, the defensive force is complete, and the position responsible for a whole brigade has not even been held for ten minutes by the Chinese's unscrupulous tanks.

Completely unstoppable, whether it is a heavy machine gun or a grenadier canister, whether it is the only flat-fire gun or two ironclad cars, in front of the Chinese, it is all furnishings.

In the report, the two ironclad vehicles were even directly disintegrated into parts by the other party's tanks, and rivets flew around. And some soldiers who tried to blow up tanks with explosives bags like the squadron were rarely successful, and occasionally one or two succeeded in blowing up the tracks of Chinese tanks.

Matsui only felt as if the whole world had been turned upside down, and only three months ago, the Emperor [***] people joked with him, saying that it was a ridiculous Shina pig, lacking flat-fire guns/anti-tank guns, and could only use people with explosive packs or cluster grenades to blow up the Empire's ironclad vehicles. Although the Empire's ironclad armor was weakly armoured, it was able to hold off their heavy machine guns.

The officer's radiant expression at that time, Matsui Ishone still remembers, and even what he said.

"Matsui-kun, this time the military department has specially mobilized a chariot wing for you, which is a great honor. Chinese In front of armored vehicles, they will accept our slaughter like pigs in a queue......"

Matsui remembered how he felt at the time, a taste of disgust and pleasure, disgusted with the officer's shallowness, but also liked the contempt and trampling on the Shina people in his tone.

However, in just three months, everything turned upside down. The Imperial Army army went from being offensive to outright defensive. The air force went from heroically waging aerial dogfights to shrinking and retreating. After the aircraft carrier of the Imperial Navy was sunk, two or three more transport ships were bombed, and now the newly formed task force is now looking for excuses to stay away from the coastline and play hide and seek with the Chinese land-based air forces.

He picked up the phone indifferently, the powerful tank force is no longer something that two infantry wings can resist, as a senior officer who is more accepting of advanced military ideas in the West, he knows that only tanks and planes can be dispatched at this time, "Order the second tank wing to set off, order all planes to take off from Houshan Airport, support the 49th and 59th infantry wings, and meet the Chinese people." ”

He didn't know if it was useful, but this was already the biggest trump card in his hand, and it was also the biggest background he brought from his home country to the northeast.

The attack of the heavy armored brigade went very smoothly, but it encountered more stubborn resistance in the fourth line of defense, and the army did not care about any casualties, and with the assistance of the two infantry wings that had just arrived, they used artillery of various calibers to try to slow down the attack of the armored brigade.

"Boom!"

The tank No. A05 had just aimed at a flat-fire gun fire point, and the 88mm tank gun was suddenly raised, and a shell suddenly flew out of the muzzle, and the muzzle spewed out a cloud of smoke, while the opposite fire point was immediately covered.

"Keep going."

Tank No. 3 was not yet able to fully fire on the move, and after a short pause in firing, the tank continued to move forward and began to climb.

Peng Zhonghuai was paying close attention to the situation of the tank platoons, but suddenly heard an urgent report from a battlefield observer.

"Report! Discovered a fleet of military aircraft. The two fighter squadrons responsible for air cover were already engaged in a fierce battle with the Japanese army. ”

Peng Zhonghuai walked in front of the periscope of the armored command vehicle, and saw that over the battlefield with gunsmoke billowing out, there were countless planes fighting, and the intensity was incomparable.

"Order the platoons to attack as soon as possible." Peng Zhonghuai understood that at this time, the army was about to react, and even the planes that treasured the moon were all dispatched, which was a good opportunity for a decisive battle between the air and the ground.

But he was also thinking, the air force has been dispatched, is the army's tank unit still far away? Although he has not fought against the miniature tanks of the Yue Army, as the commander of the armored brigade, he is very confident in his family.

The battle was raging, and the army's attempt to hold back the attack of the armored brigade at a heavy cost of casualties was almost ineffective, and the tanks at the front, under the rain of bullets, were about to rush into the trenches.

"Tank, find the army tank! No, it's a chariot, repeat, it's a chariot of the army. ”

Soon, it was discovered that the participation of the tank units of the Chinese army in the war was reflected, and some basic data began to be collected, ready to be quickly applied.

Soon after receiving the combat information issued by the brigade headquarters, Cao Heng Province was able to find the army tank by visual sight, which is a combat vehicle that is somewhat different from the army ironclad vehicle in the photo, and it should be called a tank.

The body that looks a little larger than the Bean Chariot will naturally have thicker armor, and it is estimated that it is designed with the small-caliber anti-tank weapons of the [***] squadron as the defensive target. In addition to the machine gun, the tank also has a 20mm or so 'huge caliber tank gun', according to the knowledge that Cao Heng Province learned in school, and then briefly reviewed the military strength education received before the war, this kind of small steel cannon tank gun of the army, unless it is within 100 meters, it is almost impossible to cause any substantial damage to the No. 3 tiger.

"Lao Wei, give Lao Tzu a good fight."

"Hey, little Doudou, come, let my brother send you to the high tide." The tank gunner, known as Lao Wei, immediately aimed at the small tank of the Yue Army through the observation hole in front of him, and after finding the feeling of shooting, he suddenly fired at the 88mm tank gun.

"Boom!"

At a distance of less than three hundred meters, almost instantaneous, this side fired, and the strengthened version of the bean chariot of the Yue Army was beaten into the sky, this time it was not directly dismembered like the previous Xiaodou chariots, but it was still bombed into slag, and in the firelight, the tracks and small cannon barrels flew into the sky.

"Panzers, attack!!"

Tanks meet tanks, this is a natural opponent, although, at this time, this opponent, is too unequal.

China's No. 3 tigers, almost all of them are vying for the lead, and they all want to engrave a few more battle stars symbolizing annihilation and victory on the tank, which is the highest honor for tank soldiers.

I saw that the No. 3 Tigers, with all their horsepower, began to close the distance, adjusted the muzzles, and relied on the Stable and Rang Neng, which were much stronger than the tanks, to take the lead in firing, and did not show mercy at all because they were weak, but wantonly slaughtered.

The 88mm tank gun, at least in East Asia, is invincible, within a few hundred meters, a cannon passed, the powerful bean chariots of the Yue army were blown up into the sky, clumsy and indulging, slow maneuverability, coupled with inferior surname Neng, the army was once proud, the bean chariots that flaunted their might on the land of China have now been bombed into slag.

"Circumvent, circumvent!!"

When he saw that a military tank had been aimed at him, Cao Heng Province shouted loudly. In fact, without his order, the driver was already trying to evade the tank, and in the loud sound of the engine, the tank tracks frantically ran to the side.

"Boom!"

However, after all, the distance was too close, less than 200 meters, and the No. 3 Tiger numbered A33 was hit by a shell fired by a tank of the Japanese army.

"Report Battle Damage!!"

After a jolt that was not too violent, Cao Heng Province shouted for the first time.

"Report, no anomalies."

"There is no anomaly in the tank gun."

"No anomalies!"

The other four tank crews quickly reported that the army's tank guns were too powerful after all, and they were actually bounced at an oblique angle by the side armor of the No. 3 Tiger that had changed direction. The A33 tank was actually shelled by two tanks, and the shell fired by another tank that really hit the front main armor exploded, leaving only a shallow crater scar on the equipment.

"Hit, kill it."

Soon, the adjusted A33 tank slammed into the army tank just now, and it hit! Destroy! It's smooth.

This is already the fourth army tank that the A33 tank that rushed to the front position has been eliminated.

…… At noon, Matsui Ishone, who had retreated to more than 20 kilometers away, finally got the exact battle situation, the chariot wing was completely wiped out in more than two hours, the fourth line of defense was also broken through, and about four or five divisions of the middle [***] team rushed over from the gap, while the troops on the other defense lines were being dragged to death by the feint [***] team at this time.

"Your Excellency Commander, several divisions of the Chinese have been outflanked in a roundabout way, and on the frontal position, the Chinese feint has also been changed to the main attack, and every section of the defense line is in a hurry......"

Matsui Ishine stretched out his hand to interrupt the staff officer's words, closed his eyes, and his eyes were full of one and a half divisions that were about to be surrounded by the entire defensive line. Together with the two infantry wings that were routed by the Chinese armored brigades, only one division of his troops came out. It's not that he doesn't want to turn the tide, it's that the Chinese are moving too fast.

After a long time, he finally opened his eyes and gave the order!

In the evening, Hankyung.

"Report! Chairman, Jinzhou War Report. ”

Zhang Shusheng took the battle report, but didn't read it, "Say it." ”

The chief of the operations section saluted and said, "Chairman, as of 6 o'clock in the evening, the Jinzhou battlefield has completed the encirclement of the Yue Army, and the commander of the Kwantung Army of the Yue Army, Matsui Shigen, led a division of troops to flee in the direction of Shenyang. ”

"Hmm." Zhang Shusheng nodded with satisfaction, and the armored forces played the expected role, "Order the troops to pursue immediately, how much can be defeated, and there will be fewer obstacles in the Shenyang offensive battle." ”

"Yes!"

In mid-August 1933, following the completion of the Jinzhou Campaign, the Chinese [***] squadron quickly advanced, led by the main force carried by armored brigades and trucks, and the army entered Shenyang, and the second key battle of the liberation of Dongbie, the Battle of Shenyang, officially began.

(To be continued)