Nogi Noshinori smiled: "Of course it's true, we have been preparing to develop this kind of thing since we first saw the Raided Artillery Tank, and then we captured a Raided Artillery Tank and studied it as a sample, and soon made a breakthrough." ”

"Of course, in the process of development, we can't help but thank our American friends for their help, American friends provided us with engines, all kinds of materials, and we came up with our own plundering artillery combat vehicles, but unfortunately, our own production of predatory artillery combat vehicles is still too small, and it is still being tested and cannot be used, but with the help of American friends, everything will be fine."

At this time, it was already 1901, in the era of Lin Fei, the tank was developed in 1915, and it was used for the first time in 1916, in fact, the reason why the tank did not appear in the early twentieth century was not that the technical level could not be reached, the level of the machinery industry in 1901 was not much different from that in 1915, and the reason why the tank did not appear was entirely because of the conservative thinking of military strategists, or in other words, from 1901 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914, there was no large-scale war in the world, The Western powers had no need for tanks, and their weapons development focused on naval dreadnoughts.

It was not until the outbreak of World War I, when the defense line of machine gun forts, barbed wire, and trenches became popular, and the infantry was completely killed in front of these fortifications, that the British thought of developing a new type of weapon against machine guns, barbed wire, and trenches.

In this era, due to the birth of Lin Fei, the whole world was thrown into chaos, and various countries have accelerated the development of weapons and equipment, and the demand for tanks has naturally come into being.

However, the Japanese and the Americans, as well as the Western powers, did not know that the artillery chariot they captured was deliberately given to them by Lin Fei, and there were many "pit daddy" designs in it.

The Japanese officers asked Nogi Noshinori one after another: "What is the name of our plundering artillery chariots and what weapons are they equipped with?" Is there any stronger artillery chariot in China? ”

Nogi Noshinori waved his hand lightly, "These are the top secrets of top secrets, and it is inconvenient for me to disclose them for the time being." ”

The celebratory banquet held by Nogi Noshinori came to an end in excitement and joy, while on the opposite side, the Huaxia army was in a state of depression and disappointment.

The time soon came to March 12, and there was no ice on the surface of the Liaohe River, and the blue water was slowly flowing downstream, and it was quiet and quiet.

At 8 o'clock in the morning of March 12, Lin Fei suddenly sent a message to Division Commander Lei Guang, telling Division Commander Lei Guang to immediately modify the river crossing of the plundering artillery chariot and drive across the river in a floating way.

Division Commander Lei Guang was shocked when he saw this news, as the commander of the First Armored Division, he didn't know that the artillery chariots of the invasion could float across the river.

Lin Fei not only sent a message to Division Commander Lei Guang, but also sent an expert to guide the modification to Division Commander Lei Guang, and Division Commander Lei Guang hurriedly asked the expert: "How can we modify the artillery combat vehicle of the invasion?" ”

"It's not hard to modify, our bridge-building vehicle has airbags, which are fixed to the Marauding Artillery Chariot, which can make it float on the water; If the river rushes to the engine exhaust port, it will flow down the exhaust port into the engine and cause the engine to stall, so we have to block the exhaust port with a wooden plank. ”

When the division commander Lei Guang heard the expert say this, he was relieved to let the expert modify the plundering artillery combat vehicle, and the reason why the plundering artillery combat vehicle could be modified on the floating ferry was entirely because Lin Fei made special requirements for the performance of the floating ferry when formulating the design indicators, in fact, it was not difficult for the armored vehicle to be able to float, as long as the engine, a component that is afraid of water, was protected.

Lin Fei's awareness is also world-leading, and none of the world's experts who are developing armored vehicles have ever thought that such a thing as an armored vehicle could float on the water and cross a river like a boat.

The experts sent by Lin Fei began to modify the invading artillery chariots, and at the same time as the modification, the division commander Lei Guang began to deploy an attack strategy, only more than a hundred invading artillery chariots crossed the river, and they could not kill the Japanese, and if they wanted to completely defeat the Japanese, the infantry had to keep up.

At this time, the troops commanded by Lei Guang, in addition to the First Armored Division, also included five divisions of the Northeast Army, the Ninth Division and the Tenth Division mobilized from Beijing, both of which were the main divisions, and had been in the Northeast for a period of time, and to a certain extent adapted to the severe cold climate of the Northeast, and the total strength of the seven divisions reached 150,000.

On the opposite side of the Fengtian garrison, including three divisions of the Japanese army, ten divisions of the South Korean army, with a total strength of 200,000 people, the commander-in-chief of the Japanese army, Nogi Noshinori ordered the troops to defend along the Liaohe River, so these 200,000 people are distributed on the Liaohe defense line, Nogi Noshinori also knows that it is impossible to defend against the invading artillery and chariots by fixed fortifications, so he simply put all the troops on the Liaohe defense line.

After the invasion of artillery and chariots broke through the Liao River, the defense gap was opened on the east bank of the Liao River, and the follow-up troops set up a boat bridge on the Liao River.

Five days later, the invading artillery chariots completed the preparation for the pontoon, and the division commander Lei Guang immediately ordered the invading artillery chariots to assemble in the direction of Tuanmen Village, which is an inconspicuous small village located in the upper reaches of the Liao River, with a population of only a few hundred households, and the width of the river here is about 400 meters, which is one of the most impossible areas to cross the river, so the Japanese army's defense here has been relatively lax.

In order to confuse the Japanese army and prevent the Japanese army from seeing the assembly location of the Huaxia Army, Division Commander Lei Guang specially ordered the 1st Northeast Division and the 2nd Northeast Division to make a river-crossing posture in other areas of the Liaohe River.

On 18 April, the artillery chariots and bridge-building units of the plundering army completed their assembly, and at 10 o'clock in the evening, under the order of Division Commander Lei Guang, 180 artillery chariots of the plundering artillery slowly entered the water and drove towards the opposite bank.

The airbags ensure that the predatory artillery chariot does not sink, the baffle ensures that water does not enter the exhaust port, and the track paddling ensures the forward momentum of the predatory artillery chariot, and in this way, the predatory artillery chariot smoothly drives to the opposite bank.

At a distance of 400 meters, it takes about 20 minutes for the plundering artillery chariot to float over, in fact, this is not surprising, the resistance of the water is already large, and the efficiency of the track paddling is not high, in these twenty minutes, the huge roar of the plundering artillery chariot resounded on both sides.

Although the Japanese army did not have a key defense regiment in Mencun, it also arranged a squadron of troops here, and the Japanese soldiers of this squadron patrolled on both sides of the river bank every day to guard against the sneak attack of the Chinese army.

Every Japanese soldier was stunned, they couldn't believe what they saw, those predatory artillery chariots were floating on the water like boats, rushing towards them.

In order to ensure that the entire Liaohe defense line was not lost, the Japanese army installed telephones in all positions, and the squadron immediately reported the news to the superiors.

The superiors couldn't believe it when they heard the news, how could the artillery chariots of the invasion still rush over like ships? Are you kidding!

However, the superiors still reported the news to the top, and the news was reported to Nogi Noshinori, who immediately sent the nearest South Korean Army's 3rd Division to Tuanmen Village to block the invading artillery chariots.

It took half an hour for the ROK 3rd Division to reach Tuanmen Village, and while they were still on the road, the 1st Armored Division had already landed in Tuanmen Village.

After the landing, the 1st Armored Division immediately built a defensive position with Tuanmen Village as the core, there was a small road outside the village, and there was a high slope on the east side of the path, so the 1st Regiment of the 1st Armored Division was deployed on the high slope, the 2nd Regiment was deployed on the path, and the 3rd Regiment remained in the village as a reserve.

When the 1st Armored Division was constructing a defensive position, the Zhouqiao unit and the infantry regiment of the 1st Armored Division also began to act, the infantry regiment took a rubber boat and entered Tuanmen Village to assist the invading artillery fighting vehicles to build a defensive position, and the Zhouqiao unit began to erect the Zhouqiao bridge, because the river is relatively wide, so the erection of the Zhouqiao took five hours, and the 1st Armored Division must hold on for more than five hours, otherwise the previous efforts will be wasted.

At about 11 o'clock in the evening, the vanguard of the third division of the Korean army approached Tuanmen Village, although the Korean army is a servant army of the Japanese army, but the military uniform is completely different from the Japanese army, this is one of the means of the Korean Empire to show its independence, ironically, the officers of the Korean Imperial Army are Japanese, these Japanese in order to show the superiority of the Imperial Japanese Army, all wear Japanese military uniforms, and are used as targets by Chinese snipers on the battlefield.

The First Armored Division saw that it was the South Korean army, with only one wing, three or four thousand people, and decided not to waste shells and bullets, but to sacrifice the "Rolling Miracle Skill", but this idea was not realized, because the soldiers of the First Armored Division suddenly remembered that the South Korean Army was brainwashed by the Japanese army, and was more fierce than the Japanese army, and was not afraid of death.

So the 1st Armored Division ordered the troops to annihilate the ROK army with ferocious firepower, and the 1st and 2nd regiments of the invading artillery chariots opened fire together, and the high-explosive grenades exploded one after another in the ROK army.

The surviving hundreds of South Korean troops immediately fled to the rear and reported the news to the headquarters of the 3rd Division of the South Korean Army, and the division headquarters immediately forwarded the news to Nogi Noshinori, a decisive battle was about to break out.