-- Gaoyang Town

Gaoyang Town is a small town located in the west of Xiaoyi, behind him is the Luliang Mountains, which has become the last killer hiding place of the Eighth Route Army, because of the protection of Xiaoyi City in front, so that this place is not disturbed by the war, only the faint sound of explosions from time to time in the distance let people know that this is not far from the battlefield.

Here are the more than 2,000 cavalry that the 120th Division had painstakingly recruited in Suiyuan and the first armored unit of the Eighth Route Army that had returned from Germany.

Due to the lack of trucks, the infantry who were supposed to take trucks or armored vehicles became dragoons, and the soul of this unit was the tank regiment directly under the Eighth Route Army led by 31-year-old Xu Guangda with 70 LT-38 tanks, which was all the tanks brought by Jiang Cheng from later generations, 70 tanks were divided into two battalions and a direct company, each company was composed of three rows of ten tanks.

The deputy of this unit, who also led the commander of those cavalry, was Xu Shiyou, who came down from the Shaolin Temple.

Xu Shiyou loves to drink, and he once boasted of telling others that he drank at the age of eight, which can't help but make people a little curious about what he went to Shaolin Temple in the first place.

Xu Guangda was once again patrolling his precious tanks, which were covered with camouflage tents for secrecy, but Xu Guangda ordered them to be inspected once a day to ensure that they were ready to go to the battlefield.

"Lao Xu, Mr. Zhu's telegram is here!" Xu Guangda turned around when he heard the shouting, but it was Xu Shiyou who rode his horse and said, "It's time for us to play, Mr. Zhu ordered us to arrive at Qiaojiazhuang in Fenyang within two hours, and from there we will turn around with other brother troops, first go to defeat the Japanese army that has been driven out of Fenyang, and then march towards Dujiazhuang with all our might, the order says, don't care about other things, just attack, attack." Just attack again, the infantry will follow on their own, and they will send aircraft units to support us. ”

Xu Guangda clapped his hands and shouted, "Great, order the troops to set off in twenty minutes, no, set off in fifteen minutes, now the earth is being frozen hard, it is very easy to walk, and it is suitable for our armored troops to fight." ”

Xu Shiyou also nodded and said, "Xiaoyi's cavalry is also converging in Qiaojiazhuang, and this time Zhu Lao has really made a lot of money." ”

One by one, tanks that had long been filled with fuel and ammunition were torn off their camouflage. Revealing a hideous appearance, black smoke emitted, and roared southward. And the first step ahead of them was Xu Shiyou's cavalry troops and the baggage pulled by the carriage.

The LT-38 tank could reach a maximum speed of 42km / h and a maximum range of 250km. It is only a dozen kilometers from Gaoyang Town to Qiaojiazhuang, and it only takes an hour for Xu Guangda and others to arrive.

At this time, Qiaojiazhuang already had a lot of gathered troops, and everyone looked at this group of monster troops emitting black smoke in surprise, there were a few soldiers with big nerves, and when they saw the chariot from afar, they looked for grenades everywhere, but fortunately they were stopped by the people next to them. Otherwise, maybe someone would come to Xu Guangda with a bag of explosives and die together.

"Yes, there is a decent one, I think it is much stronger than the devil's chariot." Mr. Peng patted the chariot and said with a smile.

Xu Guangda smiled and said, "That's right, our iron bull is a black whirlwind. It's very strong, but we haven't trained in this way, so I'm afraid there will be some problems at that time. ”

Mr. Peng waved his hand and said, "It's the first time, don't be afraid if you have a problem." I've just spoken to the battalion officers below and tell them to go down and convey the points of coordinated operations, and not to be behind your tanks. And on both sides, we must resolutely eliminate all the Japanese troops who want to bomb tanks, you can rest assured, our fighters will blow up tanks than the Japanese army, they can think of anything, we will. Okay, let's have a simple meeting, and in half an hour, the planes supporting Yan'an will take off, and in 45 minutes, we will start attacking! ”

After three days of fighting, the number of Japanese troops had been reduced to less than 60,000, of which three brigades were relatively fully formed and broke through to the north in a triangular formation, another complete wing was held at Jiexiu City, and the other disabled troops were sent to the west and east to block the attack of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese army in front of Xu Guangda was the 31st Infantry Brigade with only half of the people left, and his brigade commander was Major General Tanito Nagaei.

The cold weather not only made Pingyao's Helong Department unable to dig fortifications, the Japanese army could only rely on shallow fortifications to resist the attack of the Eighth Route Army, the only thing that could make them feel at ease was that the Eighth Route Army's marksmanship and tactical literacy and their gap was still very large, the Japanese army could often rely on the advantage of individual soldiers to win more with less, but the gap between artillery and air force made it difficult for the Japanese army to give full play to the strength of their individual capabilities.

"The cavalry of the people of China is the cavalry of the people of China." The shouts from outside the headquarters made Tanito Nagaei feel a little upset, and he walked out of the headquarters, which was a place called Shenjiabao, with a large lake next to it, and his troops set up positions with the lake and several nearby villages relying on each other.

Tanito Nagaei walked up to the observation tower that had been erected, and since it was a plain, this improvised observation tower of seven or eight meters could also be seen far away.

"What's that?" Tanito Nagaei was not attracted by the cavalry that the soldiers said, but what attracted him was a puff of black smoke in the dust, and the maker of that black smoke was a chariot that he had never seen before.

"Baga, what the hell is Tegaoke doing, the Eighth Route Army has planes, heavy artillery, and now even the chariots are available, we haven't gotten any rumors, they are a naked crime!" Tanito Nagaei cursed the intelligence department, while quickly thinking about how to deal with these tanks that seemed to be difficult to deal with, but after thinking about it, he really couldn't think of anything to deal with these tanks with only mortars and infantry guns, and the only way was to learn from those people to get close to them and blow them up with explosives bags and grenades.

"Boom", "boom", "boom" "boom" has become a customary artillery bombardment came to the position, Tanito Nagaei hurriedly climbed down and hid in the fortifications, while ordering the troops to resist desperately, and at the same time ordering the artillery to open fire to attack the approaching chariots.

More than a dozen planes flew to the battlefield, and began to dive at the Japanese troops who opened fire, and the bombs were dropped as if they didn't want money, and the Japanese troops who had learned to be obedient scattered all the artillery, even if you bombed you, you could only blow up one of my cannons, the Japanese machine guns continued to shoot bullets into the sky, and the planes of the Eighth Route Army danced a waltz in the sky like dancers.

The artillery fire did not mean to stop, but continued to extend backwards, and the Japanese looked at the tanks that were already less than 400 meters away, and the machine guns fired like crazy. The Type 92 heavy machine gun hit the 50 mm armor on the front of the tank and sparks continued to emit sparks, but other than that, the tank stopped from time to time to fire at the firing machine gun, and wherever the 37 mm shells hit, the machine gun was blown to pieces.

"Assault team attack! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!! A **** officer with a white cloth tied to his head, brandishing a saber and shouting, then saw hundreds of Japanese soldiers tied to explosives bags, holding rifles and rushing towards Xu Guangda's tank troops. It doesn't look scary.

"Slowly back away. Machine gun fire, don't panic, behind us are infantry brothers. Xu Guangda said slowly, after all, it was the first time that the tank unit was put into actual combat, Xu Guangda was actually very nervous, but he knew that he had to use words to calm the hearts of the soldiers, he was the commander, if he revealed a trace of nervousness, the pressure on the soldiers would be self-evident.

The tank slowly reversed. Since the tank did not have a rear-view mirror, at this time Mr. Peng's emergency training came into play, and not a single soldier died under his own wheel, knowing that even in the later Russian war on terror. There were also many souls who died under the wheels of their tanks, and they were finally forced to install cameras on the back of the tank.

While reversing, the machine guns on the tanks opened fire, and the 70 tanks were divided into two rows and made a net of fire made with 140 machine guns within a kilometer range, causing the Japanese special attack team to fall to the ground continuously. The infantrymen who rushed up also opened fire to stop the Japanese soldiers.

One by one, the Japanese fell to the ground, and when the last task force fell to the ground motionless, the entire battlefield stopped. Looking at the Japanese soldiers lying in front of them, many soldiers couldn't help but recall that they had seen such a scene when they were fighting with the Japanese army before, but it was their comrades who were lying on the ground at that time, but now they have changed.

"Tank regiment! Charge!! Xu Guangda shouted loudly, and all the tanks let out the exciting sound of motors, and drove forward with black smoke. The infantry next to him also shouted and charged.

At this time, a group of planes were replaced in the sky to continue to provide air cover for Xu Guangda.

"Damn, what about our aviation? Without air cover, we simply can't withstand these tanks!! Tanito Changying looked at the troops of the Eighth Route Army who had already stepped through the first line of defense and the Japanese troops who had turned around and fled, and couldn't help but say anxiously.

At this time, the aviation force that Tanito Nagaei was talking about was in a crisis even bigger than him.

These planes flying from Baoding to Shanxi had just taken off and were monitored by Jiang Cheng's radar, and when these planes arrived in Shouyang, Shanxi, there was a unit two thousand meters above them that had been waiting for them for a long time.

This is Wang Hai's ninth sortie, and during this time, he has shot down five Japanese planes, destroyed four cannons, and killed countless Japanese soldiers as machine guns, becoming an ace pilot.

The five small red five-pointed stars on the plane represent his achievements, and he secretly made up his mind that one day he could paint the whole plane with the five-pointed star, and then show it to Chairman Mao, Chairman Mao will definitely praise himself, and when the time comes, hehehe, I'm embarrassed to think about it.

"The enemy planes have arrived two thousand meters after our army, and they will start attacking in a group, and the first group will start the second group and the third group will begin!"

When Wang Hai heard the order, he lowered the plane and flew down, and the air superiority of the MiG-3 was once again reflected, and this time the main force of the Japanese aircraft was the Type 97 fighter and the Type 96 fighter, and there were even a lot of double-winged Type 95 fighters, which was also the fact that the Japanese army really had no troops to adjust, and the remaining planes in the entire North China were here. If you want to increase the number of aircraft, you can only transfer them from the Kwantung Army and South China and Central China.

"Damn it? Why is there a plane from China here, we have just entered Shanxi!! The Japanese air force shouted in confusion, and more than 50 fighters continued to fall from the sky, and more than 30 Japanese fighters fell down with black smoke in just one round trip.

This is already a small half of the number of Japanese fighters this time.

Once again, the nightmare of the Japanese aviation was staged.

The other side

After Xu Guangda's tank troops opened the gap, they immediately began to expand the results of the battle, and Xu Shiyou, who had been waiting behind him for a long time, finally ran out of peace, and led the cavalry to charge with a loud roar.

The piercing trumpet began to sound, Tanito Nagaei was horrified to see countless cavalry rushing into the position, hitting with rifles and pistols at a distance, blowing up with grenades, and slashing with sabers when approaching.

In just half an hour, the position garrisoned by a wing was already in disarray.

Tanito Nagaei looked at the troops that were gradually unable to command, and could only sigh and order the troops to retreat.

"Tank troops don't care about the remnants of the enemy, continue to attack, cavalry cover, half of the infantry units are left to destroy the remnants of the enemy, and the others are even higher, contact the air force to follow up!!" Xu Guangda saw that it only took an hour and a half to rush through the blockade of a wing, and immediately increased his confidence, and did not stop, but followed the footsteps of the Japanese retreat and continued to attack the next position, Xiaojiazhuang, where the Japanese army of the same wing was defending.

Command of the Third Army

At this time, the headquarters of the Third Army had been transferred from Jiexiu City to Xiangle Township due to the pincer attack of the Shanxi New Army and the 129th Division, which was located in the middle of various Japanese units.

The three-day battle had turned Tada's hair gray, and when he saw the pale Yoshimoto Sadaichi and the gloomy Takeda Yoshio, he knew that there was bad news again.

"Tell me, what's going on again?"

The two glanced at each other, and Takeda Yixiong said, "Two bad news, the aviation troops coming from Baoding to support were ambushed by the air force of the Eighth Route Army halfway, and suffered heavy losses, and less than one-sixth of them fled back. ”

"What? How is it possible, we don't even know the aviation support route this time, how did the Eighth Route Army know about it? Because Tada Jun suspected that there were ghosts in the army, he asked Terauchi Shouichi not to tell him the specific route in advance, but he didn't expect to be ambushed.

Takeda Yixiong couldn't help but feel happy when he heard it, and said in his mouth, "Then there is only one possibility, the inner ghost is in the Beiping Headquarters." ”

A layer of cold sweat broke out on Tada's head and said, "Don't talk nonsense without evidence, what about the other bad news?" ”

Takeda Yoshio continued, "The news from the 31st Brigade that a large number of chariots suddenly appeared in the Eighth Route Army, they used chariots as the vanguard, equipped with a large number of cavalry and infantry cover, plus aircraft bombing, and soon broke through the defense line of our army, and the defense line of a wing of the 31st Brigade Regiment only took an hour from the discovery of the Eighth Route Army to the collapse, and now the Eighth Route Army has rushed into the Xiaojiazhuang position, which is only one Yanwu town away from us, Your Excellency Commander, I think we should retreat immediately. ”

Tada Jun was shocked and said, "How is this possible? Why did the Chinese troops advance so fast? ”

Yoshimoto shook his head and said, "Our army does not have any weapons that can deal with the chariots of China, and in front of the chariots of steel, the bayonets of our warriors do not work at all, and our intelligence is really too wrong. ”

After speaking, Yoshimoto Sadachi pointed to the map and said, "The purpose of the Eighth Route Army is obvious, they want to cut through our army and completely split our army. ”

At this time, a communications soldier hurriedly rushed in and said, "Report that the position of Xiaojiazhuang has been lost, and the troops are retreating to Yanwu Town." ”

Tada stomped his feet and scolded, "Damn, what's going on?" Why did they lose their positions so quickly? ”

The signal soldier said, "The intelligence says that the Chinese used that mysterious heavy artillery again, and then there was a joint attack of tanks, aircraft, and cavalry, and they lost their positions within an hour. ”

Tada Jun looked at the map and asked, "How long will it take for us to break through Xiaqu Town?" ”

Yoshimoto thought for a moment and said, "It will take two days at the earliest." ”

Tada Jun shook his head and said, "No, tell Kuribayashi Tadamichi that in 12 hours, he will break a gap for me even if he fights all the troops, and tell Guan Yuanliu in Yanwu Town that I am behind him, he is dead, and he will stop the chariot of the Eighth Route Army for me!" (To be continued.) )

PS: Regarding the question of calling tanks and tanks in the text, the main reason is that Japan is used to calling tanks and China, and it changes according to the change of the situation.