"Your Excellency Commander, opposite is the Jinzhou section of the Chinese Ningjin Defense Line."

Opposite Jinzhou, in the fortifications of the Yue Army, a group of senior generals of the Yue Army were accompanying a man in the uniform of a general of the Yue Army, pointing at the other side that could be seen without a telescope.

Matsui Ishine, the newly promoted army general, was originally the commander of Taiwan. Due to the difficult war in China, the navy suffered heavy losses under the sudden air raid of the Chinese, and the army was defeated in the Jinjing battlefield, so he was transferred to northeast China as commander-in-chief of the Kwantung Army.

Looking at Jinzhou opposite, the outline of the city can no longer be seen from a distance, it is all ruins, all of which have been blown up. However, it was such a Jinzhou that blocked the empire's southward footsteps.

Chinese, when did it become so powerful, Matsui Ishine couldn't help frowning. The war in Jinzhou did not go well, and it was already a defeat for the empire, and the defeat on the battlefield of Jinjing completely ruined the empire's ability to attack southern China.

The big defeat, the absolute defeat, nearly five divisions before and after, three of which were the main divisions, 100,000 elite troops, lost China overnight. In addition to those who died directly in battle and had no place to be buried, the wounded prisoners of war were directly killed by the Chinese, and the number of captured imperial soldiers reached nearly 50,000.

To this day, the empire still cannot afford to pay the huge prisoner of war money, and the cunning Chinese do not even mention the war reparations, and as for the prisoners of war, they have not been negotiated at all, and directly informed that they could have paid for ransom. However, this price is unacceptable, an ordinary soldier, according to the weight accurate to the kilogram, it takes 100 grams to convert a kilogram into gold, and tens of thousands of prisoners of war together cost more than 200 tons of gold.

The issue of prisoners of war was put aside, and the Chinese announced at the same time that since the Yue army did not accept the conditions for the redemption of prisoners of war, if the Yue army massacres Chinese civilians in Taiwan or northeast China, China would immediately shoot the same number of Yue Ben prisoners of war, as well as the hundreds of thousands of Yue Ben expatriates who were detained to work as laborers.

This move was so ruthless that the whole of China, especially Shanghai, Tianjin, Qingdao and other places, had a large number of expatriates, and the whole was almost 400,000 detained during the war. In this way, China will hold nearly 500,000 people's surnames.

Therefore, whether in Taiwan or Northeast China, the Chinese army received a secret telegram issued by the military department, strictly prohibiting all units from deliberately massacring Chinese civilians. The war finally returned to its original position and became a confrontation between soldiers and soldiers.

"Ordered all units to pay attention to reinforcing the defensive line, adding more night searchlights and night sentry posts in the positions, and deploying more heavy machine guns on the front line. The firepower of the air defense forces should also be strengthened, and I have already applied to the country for a batch of new anti-aircraft guns. Matsui Shigen spat out a brief and powerful order, strengthening the defensive line, blocking the Chinese's northward march, and holding on opposite Jinzhou would be the most correct thing for the empire, "The Chinese can build Jinzhou into a fortress, and the empire can also create a miracle and build a quasi-fortress-level fortification group on the plain to block them." ”

It's a pity that Amaterasu is not destined to take care of Matsui Ishine, this wishful thinking of strengthening the defense line takes time to implement, and now, in the face of New China's grand strategy to liberate the whole of China, as a roadblock, they are destined to be crushed.

The pouring rain that lasted for four days finally stopped, and what filled the battlefield in Jinzhou was a thick rain. At this time, in the northeast war room in Jinzhou, a high-level combat meeting was underway. In fact, according to the latest Central Military Commission resolution, Zhang Xueliang, commander-in-chief of the Northeast Front Army of the People's Army, who will be appointed vice minister of national defense after the Northeast War; Huo Weiguo, political commissar of the Northeast Front Army, and Chen Jun, commander of the Beishang Group Army, and Gao Feng, chief of staff, who had just arrived in the northeast. The others are some division commanders, staff officers of the Northeast Front, staff officers of the Army General Staff Headquarters, and so on.

Although Chen Jun and Gao Feng are now only temporarily serving as commanders of the Beishang Group Army, the three of them, including Huo Weiguo, will definitely take up important responsibilities in the reorganization of the entire [***] army because of their outstanding military achievements.

"The General Staff's requirements for this battle plan are simply one word, fast. The core of the campaign will be our hands heavy armored brigades and concentrated heavy artillery clusters, as well as air force units. "After issuing the operational plan of the General Staff to the commanders of each division, Gao Feng, as the chief of staff of the Northbound Group Army, spoke on behalf of the General Staff about the operational intentions and essence." As for our heavy armored brigade, let Commander Chen introduce it to you. This unit was specially requested by him from the military headquarters. ”

"Hehe, I didn't play a role, good equipment must be used to fight devils to make people angry. Compared with the previous situation in which the armored forces were used by the main division, this special heavy armored brigade has a clearer combat mission, a more unified equipment model, and more advanced tanks, and many of its auxiliary combat equipment are even the first hunting equipment in China. This heavy armored brigade is mainly composed of two heavy armored battalions, each battalion has four armored companies, each company has 12 Chinese Tiger III tanks, and the battalion headquarters has four vehicles under its direct jurisdiction. Two battalions totaled 104 Type III tanks.

Others include armored reconnaissance companies, armored maintenance companies, armored engineer companies and other affiliated combat units. It can be said that this heavy armored brigade was completely formed in a division-level structure, and it was an experiment in building more division-level armored units in the future. ”

Chen Jun cleared his throat, compared to the former Northeast Army generals here, his age is very scary, and now he is in his thirties, in the previous [***] system, not to mention the general commander, I am afraid that he has not even become the regiment commander.

But this is different in New China, no one will look down on him, let alone question his ability, the most important thing in New China is ability, the capable are in a high position, the previous kind of being scolded by countless people, but by countless people acquiesced to the law of seniority promotion has been broken. You must know that the current supreme leader of the republic is no more than two years older than the Commander Chen in front of him.

As for the heavy armored brigade, it was formed under the personal order of Zhang Shusheng, and World War II is not far off, and after coming out of the water network in the south, the people's army no longer needs to disperse the armored forces for the use of various units as before, but needs to form special armored units on a large scale, practice tactics, and train armored group attacks, so as to lay the foundation for future World War II.

According to the data of a German main battle tank codenamed "No. 4" sent back by agents, the data of China's Tiger III is overwhelming it. Although Zhang Shusheng provided the Germans with the initial tank drawings in the early days, the Germans were ahead of Western countries in terms of armor strength, and compared with the German tanks of the same period in later generations, the surname Neng was also much stronger, but compared with the Chinese Tiger III, it was still much worse.

The low tank body, beveled armor design, thick and hideous barrel, and a weight of up to 32 tons gave it a strong defensive capability. Due to the use of new alloy steel produced by Pangang, the frontal armor has reached a thickness of 55 mm of homogeneous steel, which is enough to make it proud of the global armor community, even if it stays there, the 35mm or even larger caliber tank guns commonly equipped in the West today cannot penetrate it. On the other hand, the Chinese Tiger No. 3 tank, with a thick and long barrel of 88mm, not to mention the main tanks of today's countries, is the tank armor level in the next three to four years.

The No. 1 and No. 2 tanks, which were more backward, were equipped with some main divisions as armored assault forces.

Gao Feng took the words, walked to the battle diagram, and drew a big offensive arrow on it with a thick pen.

"At the same time as the Air Force launches air strikes, artillery clusters will launch fire coverage on the strong artillery positions, front-line fortifications, minefields of the Japanese army. After ensuring the maximum destruction of the fortifications of a position of offensive width, the fire is ready, and the armored units will break through the Japanese defense line in a straight line in the shape of a sharp knife. At this time, the infantry unit, which is coordinated with the infantry and tank, will cooperate with the heavy armored brigade to cut into the defense line of the Yue army, and then divide and outflank it in a roundabout way, so as to achieve rapid encirclement and annihilation of the three divisions and regiments of the Yue army. ”

"Butan Synergy?"

At this time, there was a huge difference between the officers of the Northeast Army and the officers from the Southwest. The southwestern officers present here, whether at the division commander level or as staff officers, are very familiar with this combat method of infantry and tank coordination, and they have carried out both exercises and drills more than once. The officers of the Northeast Army, although they may be just as good, have not had the opportunity to learn new military theories, and some are not very accustomed to the new means of warfare.

"Your armored forces go first, and we promise to follow."

"Yes, my troops promise not to be afraid of death, and after more than a year of fighting, the brothers are too angry with me, and they should be allowed to join the first wave of counteroffensive."

Hearing the discussion of his generals, Zhang Xueliang wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say it, but because he had worked with Huo Weiguo for a long time and had a clear understanding of the differences between the two parts of the army, he knew that his subordinates were the same as himself, and they were still outdated, and perhaps, it was a good choice to go to the military academy for a year or two. Thinking so, I made up my mind to ask the military department for instructions after the war in the northeast.

The generals from the southwest appeared to be more disciplined, did not speak blindly, sat upright, and waited for orders.

Chen Jun: "Everyone, everyone's eagerness to fight is understandable. However, in the operational plan of the General Staff, the corresponding combat units have already been designated. According to the plan, as long as the divisions and brigades led by you can keep up with the second batch after the general counteroffensive is launched, the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army will be the completion of the combat mission. Resistance is said in no particular order, not to mention that everyone has been fighting in Jinzhou for more than a year, and they are already very tired. ”

Looking at the performance of the generals of the Northeast Army below, Chen Jun didn't feel very good in his heart. Obviously, it can't be said that they are bad, on the contrary, they are all anti-Japanese generals, and they do fight bravely, but there are many problems with the soldiers of the old system, and even the taboos of the people's army, such as mountaineering, abound, and these things have not been dispersed in them because of the founding of New China. It's just that, forced by the situation, Chen Jun can guess what they will usher in. If you change it, maybe you will have the opportunity to fight side by side with them in the future, but if you can't get rid of these old problems, an easy second-line military position may be the destination for most people.

"Commander Chen, my ......"

"Bang!!"

A division commander wanted to say something, but Zhang Xueliang slapped it on the table and scolded the division commander angrily: "What kind of system, the military department has the orders of the military department, the battle plan has been decided, and the order is executed. ”

Suddenly, the division-level generals below all stood up and stood solemnly, after all, Zhang Xueliang was the honorary deputy commander of the three armies.

"Deputy Commander Zhang is serious, since this is the case, then everything should be carried out according to the orders of the military department." Chen Jun came out to play a round, and said in his heart that these people are still not convinced in their hearts, but they are not in a hurry, and when they see the real chapter on the battlefield, they will be convinced.

Huo Weiguo also stood up at this time and said a few words briefly, but the effect was very good, "Deputy Commander Zhang doesn't need to be angry, everyone may not know much about this way of infantry and tan coordinated operations, so they have some ideas." The people's army is not a hall of words, and of course everyone is allowed to express their opinions freely.

This new infantry offensive method was practiced many times in the southwest period, mainly relying on the high degree of coordination of infantry and tanks to quickly break through the enemy's position. After breaking through the position, rely on infantry forces to hold the gap in the position, while encircling more enemies in a roundabout way.

To put it simply, it is to rely on armored forces to divide the enemy, and then use infantry to follow up, occupy and hold, and divide and encircle ......"

In this way, the battle plan was drawn up, and several generals who had been reprimanded at the meeting also reviewed their own battles.

After nearly ten days of campaign preparations, the preparations for the entire counteroffensive were finally completed, mainly due to the fact that Jinzhou originally had a lot of southwest support and its own artillery, after the end of the Jinjing battlefield, a large number of heavy artillery was also sent to Jinzhou, at this time, Jinzhou had a total of no less than hundreds of 105mm field guns in the southwest period, and stored a large number of shells, enough to support the consumption of a counteroffensive annihilation war. And the military columns going north sent more artillery and shells.

In the face of the frequent transportation of China's railways, he himself, who has penetrated deeply into China's intelligence, finally realized that in addition to finding out that a large number of Chinese [***] teams were heading north, he also found out that the Chinese [***] team would have a large-scale offensive operation in the near future.

The Chinese are finally going to launch a counteroffensive!

Under Matsui Ishone's orders, all three front-line divisions were put into combat readiness and distributed in a gradient, ready to resist the Chinese counteroffensive. At the same time, two divisions in the northeastern hinterland were ordered to move closer in the direction of Jinzhou.

Matsui realized that if the Chinese counterattacked the northeast and then implemented resistance one place and one city, the empire's military power in the northeast would be eaten away one by one. Only the decisive battle of the large corps, the repulsion of the Chinese counteroffensive, the maintenance of the situation in the Jinzhou area, and the organization of more troops to land in the northeast are the most correct methods.

On August 13, 1937, the long-prepared Jinzhou counteroffensive finally began.

At dawn on 13 August, the silence of the Daxing Airport in Beiping was broken by an emergency operational siren, and many bombers had already stopped on the runway, each bomber had already been filled with fuel and loaded with heavy aerial bombs, and the bomber crew that had been waiting for a long time next to it also began to board the plane.

In this major counteroffensive annihilation war, Beiping Airport will be used as a bomber airfield to provide bombing support to Jinzhou, which is more than 400 kilometers away. As an escort force, the small Shanhaiguan airfield has stationed more than one squadron of J-2 and J-3 fighters, which will escort the bomber force.

At 6:30 a.m. on August 13, when the minute hand finally pointed to 6, the artillery group of the Chinese People's Army on the Jinzhou battlefield finally let out the most earth-shattering roar since the beginning of the war. There was no cannon sound like in the past, but the whole world seemed to be covered with a thunderous fury.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

(To be continued)