-- Beiping

Shouichi Terauchi slapped the map vigorously and shouted, "Isn't this Kazuki Seiji still unwilling to give up?" Now what is the point of opening the seal? The main force of the Nationalist Army still exists, and what we should do now is to concentrate our efforts on preparing for the Battle of Wuhan, instead of dwelling on Kaifeng. ”

Okabe Naosaburo said anxiously, "Now that the Nationalist Army has concentrated a large number of troops in the direction of the 14th Division, if we don't give support, I am afraid that the 14th Division will repeat the Taierzhuang incident." ”

Terauchi Shouichi sighed and said, "Xia Keshang, damn Xia Keshang again, order the aviation to fully support the 14th Division, and send the 14th Division again, so that they will immediately retreat from Chenliukou and not continue the attack." ”

-- Outside the city

Kazuki Kiyoji looked at the quiet Lan Feng City and asked, "Is the artillery position arranged?" ”

The chief of staff of the First Army, Shojiro Iida, replied, "The arrangement has been completed, and the Beiping Command has sent two more telegrams for us to retreat, commander, you see?" ”

Kazuki Kiyoji shook his head and said, "That's just the ploy of that old guy at Shouichi Terauchi, once our side fails, he can take those telegrams to Tokyo and say that it was because we didn't listen to the command that led to the defeat, if he really didn't want to fight, he wouldn't have sent logistics troops to transport supplies to us, and let the second mixed brigade of the air force come to support us." ”

Iida Shojiro looked at Kazuki Kiyoji worriedly, from the perspective of the front-line commander, he felt that there was nothing wrong with Kazuki Kiyoji's command strategy, and the 14th Division, as a mechanized unit, was indeed too dangerous to fight without logistical supplies.

Kazuki Kiyoji looked at the sun, it was about one o'clock in the afternoon, Kazuki Kiyoji waved his hand and shouted, "Order the artillery troops, start the attack in fifteen minutes." Contact the aviation and order them to take off immediately and prepare to cover our attack. ”

Hu Lian, who was in Lanfeng City, took a telescope and looked at the dense chariot troops under the city. I was bitter in my heart, such a comparison of combat power. It really made him not optimistic about the result.

-- Kaifeng

Jiang Jingguo walked into Jiang Agent's office with his head down, and Jiang Intermediary said without looking back, "Do you know you're back?" ”

Jiang Jingguo said in a low voice, "Father, I did such a thing because I was in a hurry, please punish my father." ”

Jiang Zhong sighed in his heart, turned his head and said with a straight face, "I don't know who instigated you to do such a thing, don't think that you guess the tactics of the Japanese army correctly and think that you are amazing, let me tell you, you have only been exposed to war in the military academy, you are still too naïve and too taken for granted." Let's take a look here, the 14th Division has already returned to attack Lanfeng, if you are still in it now, I am afraid you will not be able to get out. ”

Chiang Ching-kuo immediately replied: "I'm not afraid of death. ”

Jiang Intermediary shouted loudly in his heart: "I'm afraid of you dying!" But he said, "I'm afraid that you will be used, something like waste, you can take a good look at it in the past few days, what is really going on with the deployment of troops to fight, and also give me the style of learning from a general." ”

After speaking, Jiang Zhong shook his head and continued, "I have ordered Xue Yue and Hu Zongnan to attack from the east and west respectively. Now we just have to sit back and wait for the good news. Being a temple for the handsome is counted thousands of miles away instead of going to the front line, hum!! ”

Jiang Jingguo's heart couldn't help but be full of doubts, if this is really the case, then the garden mouth should be as stable as Mount Tai. How could something happen? Is the prophecy false?

- Lan closed the city

A telegram was circulating in the city, and it was completely different from ten minutes ago that Hu Lian was in high spirits at this time, and the soldiers around him were also gearing up. Get ready to do a blast.

"Brother Hu, what a big gesture, Hu Zongnan's first army and Xue Yue's 5 armies. That's 200,000 people, and with other troops, I'm afraid there will be 250,000. The little devil is miserable now. Li Liangrong said with a smile.

Hu Lian nodded and said, "Especially the 200th Division, I've always heard of it, but I've never seen it, I don't know if it's really as powerful as the legend." ”

The predecessor of the division was the chariot battalion directly under the Military Commission of the Nationalist Government, and it has been continuously expanded, and has just been expanded to five regiments with a total of 20,000 people, including a large number of tanks, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns, motorcycles, trucks and other advanced weapons, which can be said to be the most elite troops.

At this time, Qiu Qingquan, deputy division commander, led a special column of about 7,000 people consisting of tank battalions, engineer battalions, armored car battalions, antiaircraft artillery squadrons, motorcycle search squadrons, anti-aircraft artillery battalions, and infantry battalions.

Qiu Qingquan's tanks are mainly T-26 and Vickers tanks, although they are both light tanks, but they are already the sharpest weapons of the National Army at this time.

Qiu Qingquan looked ahead and asked, "Where is the front?" How far is it from Lanfeng? ”

The communication soldier replied, "In front is Sanyi Village, there is about a squadron of Japanese guards, and it is only thirty miles away from Lanfeng, as long as you break through Sanyi Village, you can see Lanfeng." ”

Qiu Qingquan put on his tank hat and said, "Then what are you waiting for, accelerate forward." ”

Fifteen minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and the Japanese offensive began.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! The huge roar has always been clearly heard in Lanfeng City, which is seven or eight miles away from the Japanese artillery position, but what is faster than the sound is the terrifying shell.

Hu Lian only felt as if the whole earth had been opened, and he fell to the ground, followed by a deafening explosion.

Dust and gravel continued to fall from the ceiling, dim electric lights swayed like crazy, and countless papers were scattered all over the floor.

"This, this is heavy artillery!!" Hu Lian has been in Luodian and is extremely familiar with this feeling.

Hu Lian immediately lay on the ground, listened to the points of the explosion, and said something in his mouth, and only got up for a long time and said to Li Liangrong, who was holding on to the wall, "This 14th Division is so generous, there are at least 50 or more 150 caliber heavy guns, and I also feel that there are about 40 100 mm guns, and I can't hear it at all, but I estimate that there are more than 200 guns in total, and I Hu Lian has a lot of face." ”

HU LIAN WAS SECRETLY BITTER IN HIS HEART, THERE WERE LESS THAN 40 GUNS ABOVE 75MM IN HIS ENTIRE DIVISION, AND THEY WERE BASICALLY MORTARS.

Dozens of kilograms of cannonballs hit the walls of Lanfeng City fiercely, and the soil and stones on the city walls were constantly blown down, and the smoke and dust kicked up made the entire Lanfeng seem to be about to be covered.

"Huh~~" There was a whistling sound, and Kazuki Kiyoji looked at it, but dozens of black dots appeared in the sky, which were the air force units of the Japanese army. These planes waved their wings and dropped bombs at low altitudes at places where the Nationalist flags were planted, and some Japanese planes even rushed to residential areas to drop bombs, blowing countless houses into rubble.

Qiu Qingquan looked at the neat Japanese cavalry in front of him, and then looked at the steel chariot under him, and couldn't help laughing, he never thought that the cavalry troops of the Japanese army stationed in Sanyi Village would actually be, and this modern and medieval knight duel had not yet begun. The winner is already clear.

The purpose of arranging cavalry to defend the periphery was to report to the main force as quickly as possible once the Nationalist Army attacked, and it was not Kenji Dohihara's mistake.

The squadron leader of the Japanese cavalry squadron looked at the Nationalist tanks on the opposite side adjusting their formations, drew his sword angrily and said, "Gentlemen, please remember your identity, the enemy is outnumbered, the only thing we can do is to kill more enemies, let them remember the terrible emperor samurai, everyone is holding grenades." Rush into the enemy line and detonate it, listen to my orders!! Charge! As he spoke, he took the lead and rushed forward brandishing his sword.

I have to say that under the rendering of the spirit of bushido, the Japanese army's will to fight is extremely high, although it knows that there is more than one bad luck. However, none of the Japanese cavalry retreated, but followed the commander and fought forward.

Qiu Qingquan waved his hand and shouted, "Comrades, for the sake of Nanjing's unjust souls, kill it!" ”

More than thirty tanks slammed into action. With the black smoke billowing out, trying to run forward, the "da-da-da" sound of the machine gun easily overshadowed the shouting of the Japanese army. The Japanese squadron leader was extremely clever in horsemanship, and although he was shot in the shoulder, he insisted on rushing into the tank formation.

"Long live the Emperor!!" The Japanese squadron leader slammed the fuse with his teeth, and the grenade smoked from the grenade, only to see him pounce on a tank.

There was an explosion with a "boom", and the tank was silent for a while before starting again.

"I'm scared to death, but fortunately, it's the frontal armor that was blown up, but if it's a territory, it's not necessarily." Qiu Qingquan patted his chest and said worriedly.

Behind the back of the 200th Division, there was the corpse of the Japanese cavalry in one place, and the 200th Division captured Sanyi Village.

After Hu Lian's troops were shelled for half an hour, they finally raised their heads slowly, and many people's ears were bleeding blood, and many Nationalist soldiers were bleeding from their internal organs from the shock wave of the explosion in the battle just now.

Hu Lian shouted loudly, "Quick, go count the number of people." ”

Li Liangrong asked worriedly, "Brother Hu, should we withdraw?" ”

Hu Lian shook his hand and said, "Don't worry, brother, my fortifications are dug very deep, just killed up to five or six hundred of my people, besides, tanks and artillery can't occupy positions, it's always the infantry who really occupy the position, our bullets can't hit his artillery, can't hit his tank, but his infantry still fights dead, wait, when his infantry is on, I will tell him that in the war, the Chinese are the ancestors." ”

But after a long time, the Japanese infantry did not come to attack, Hu Lianzheng felt strange, a late telegram made him suddenly smile and said, "Great, our 200th Division of the First Support Army has arrived." ”

At this time, Qiu Qingquan was leading the 200th Division and the right flank of the Japanese army to carry out the first chariot attack and defense battle between China and Japan.

Kazuki Kiyoji looked at the chaotic Lan Feng City in front of him, which had been bombed, and snorted and said, "The national army is coming so quickly, Tufeiyuan-kun, please lead a wing and all the artillery to continue the attack here, I will leave you fifty chariots." ”

Kenji Dohihara nodded and said, "Obey, I don't know what His Excellency the Commander is going to do?" ”

Kazuki Kiyoji pointed to the chariot behind him and said, "I will lead the main force of the chariot force and a wing to meet the enemy, it is said that the national army that came this time has a large number of chariots, it is certain that this is the main force of the national army, we must completely defeat them." ”

About 200 chariots moved in the direction of Sanyi Village, and the principle of soil and fertilizer rearranged the troops and prepared for the attack.

Kazuki Kiyoji quickly came to Sanyi Village with the chariot, looking at the 200th division chariot troops that had been prepared, Kazuki Kiyoji nodded, drew his command knife and pointed forward and shouted, "The whole army is attacking!" ”

Qiu Qingquan looked at the smoke and dust whose eyes were seven or eight times larger than his own chariot troops, swallowed his saliva, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Fight and retreat, all anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft guns are ready to meet the enemy." ”

The main chariots of the Japanese army at this time have changed from Xiaodouding to Type 89 and Type 95, Xiaodouding is more used for patrolling in the occupied area, most of the chariots in front of Qiu Qingquan are 95 light tanks and 89 medium tanks, which makes Qiu Qingquan's Italian Vickers tank double the pressure, but the defense of the Soviet T-24 is slightly stronger, but in the face of the 57MM short gun of the Japanese tank, it is also extremely dangerous.

Because Qiu Qingquan occupied the high ground, he made a preemptive strike, and more than 30 tanks fired one after another, and then reversed to lure the Japanese army forward to attack.

Kazuki Kiyoji looked at the Nationalist Army tanks that were fighting and retreating, and said with a smile: "Do the people of China still think it is the period of Mongolian cavalry shooting?" What's more, our speed is even faster than theirs, forward!! Offensive!! ”

The weight of the Type 95 tank is only 6.7 tons, which is about the same as that of the Vickers tank, but it is worth mentioning that the Type 95 tank uses a diesel engine, which makes it extremely mobile, and he quickly broke away from the protection of the Type 89 and prepared to surround it from both wings.

Due to the lack of training, it was difficult for Qiu Qingquan's tank unit to hit the high-speed Type 95, but because the speed slowed down every time the gun was fired, the Type 95 finally began to counterattack.

THE TYPE 95 TANK CARRIED 37 GUNS, WHICH WAS ENOUGH TO TEAR THROUGH THE 15MM ARMOR OF THE VICKERS TANK AT A DISTANCE OF 800 METERS.

Kiyoshi Kazuki looked at the five or six chariots that had been destroyed with smoke, and exclaimed excitedly, "Speed up, speed up, kill them all!" ”

There was a crunch "bang", and a retreating Vickers tank stopped, and a hole the size of a bottle mouth appeared in its front. But it was hit by a Japanese tank.

Qiu Qingquan's eyes widened, these tanks were all imported from abroad with great difficulty, and there was one less tank.

As if to challenge Qiu Qingquan's limit, in just a few minutes, seven or eight tanks had already been hit and destroyed, and even more were injured, Qiu Qingquan finally couldn't bear it anymore, took out a red flag and threw it out.

"Fire!!" "Fire!!" "Fire!!"

The roar of the artillery was heard one after another, and a battalion of twelve anti-aircraft guns opened fire at the same time, and in an instant, six fire clusters appeared.

Half the shooting percentage, which is already good for them with a lack of training.

The anti-aircraft guns also fired, and although the 20-mm anti-aircraft guns of Surothong were a little less powerful, they fired with a high frequency, which greatly alarmed the Japanese troops who could not figure out the situation.

Seiji Kazuki looked at the chariot in front of him that was constantly being hit, and shouted, "Quick, let the eight or nine style rush up, don't retreat, rush !! ”

The Type 95 tank in front of the attack also reacted and began to counterattack, and for a while you came and went, explosions rang out, and a tank offensive and defensive battle reached its climax. (To be continued.) )