In the Eagle Gorge in the Sikhote Mountains of Far Eastern Province, where artillery was rumbling and thick smoke was billowing out, the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army of China, after receiving 85,000 additional troops and two new divisions, the 33rd Division and the 34th Division, stepped up its attack on the passage in the Eagle Gorge and the hills on both sides, and had captured the two fortifications built by the Dingbei Army in the Eagle Gorge Pass and more than a dozen hills on both sides, but the losses of the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army were really not small.

Commander Oyama Iwa explained to Yoshikawa Daisa, who belonged to the guard unit of the headquarters, and personally led the troops to escort the captured prisoners of war of the Dingbei Army back to the Japanese mainland by airship, and asked the division commander of the Sixth Division, Ibaraki Yuaki, who was with him: "How are the casualties of the troops?" ”

Ibaraki replied: "Since the 21st, our northern dispatch army in China began to attack the passage and the hills on both sides of the Eagle Gorge, and as of today on the 29th, nearly 50,000 officers and soldiers of the empire have been killed, and nearly 400 artillery pieces have been lost. ”

Da Shanyan calculated in his heart, now the Japanese northern dispatch army of China has 20 divisions, the strength is still nearly 320,000, he believes that although the Dingbei army is the blocking party, the loss will not be small, almost fill in 6 or 70,000 people, it will definitely be able to break through the Eagle Gorge, and then his northern dispatch army will still have more than 250,000 troops, and it can directly kill Heilongjiang Province.

According to the intelligence of the Japanese intelligence department, Dashanyan concluded that in addition to concentrating the main forces of the Dingbei Army on the line of the Sikhote Mountains, that is, the Eagle Gorge attacked by the army sent from the north of his own country, he also hoarded heavy troops in Yalu River Province and on the border with the Russians, such as Heilongjiang Province, Jilin Province and Fengtian Province, the strength of the Dingbei Army is very empty, and the garrison of these places is the garrison of the Dingbei Army, and the combat effectiveness is not strong, as long as the army sent from the north of China enters Heilongjiang Province......

Thinking about it, the infinite excitement in the heart of the mountain rock opened his mouth and said to Ibaraki Weizhao: "All the losses are worth it, as long as we can break through the Eagle Gorge and attack Heilongjiang Province!" ”

Outside the western mouth of the Eagle Gorge, Ni Fan, the commander of the Third Division of the Dingbei Army, Hu Desheng, the commander of the Seventh Division, and Wang Peng, the commander of the Eighth Division, and a large group of officers of the Dingbei Army looked at the ironclad torrent rolling in the distance with a smile on their faces.

It turned out that Lin Daxin deliberately transferred the armored division in order to launch a war of annihilation against the Japanese troops landing in the Far Eastern Province, after all, the Japanese army in the Far East Province had more troops than the Dingbei Army, and he wanted to win more with less, and it was also a war of annihilation.

After a while, a T1-type heavy tank drove in front of Ni Fan and the three people, the hood on the top of the tank suddenly opened, and the division commander Zhang Daxiong of the armored division turned out of the tank half of his body, and when he saw Ni Fan and the three people, he laughed and said: "Hahaha, old Ni, Desheng, Xiaopengzi, I haven't seen you for a long time, I miss me!" ”

After that, Zhang Daxiong jumped out of the tank, jumped out of the tank and hugged each other with Ni Fan, Hu Desheng, and Wang Peng.

Ni Fan and Hu Desheng are okay, the two of them are slightly weaker than Zhang Daxiong, but they are both more than 1.8 meters tall and have the body shape of a big man, while Wang Peng is only a little more than 1.7 meters, and his body is a little thinner, and he was hugged by Zhang Daxiong.

Wang Peng punched Zhang Daxiong's chest, and scolded with a smile: "Okay, you Zhang Da Hammer, bullying me for being short, aren't you?" ”

Zhang Daxiong said with a smile: "Xiaopengzi, am I called enthusiasm, okay?" ”

Ni Fan glanced at the densely packed tanks and armored vehicles that could not be seen at a glance, and asked Zhang Daxiong: "Sledgehammer, how many tanks and armored vehicles did you bring this time?" ”

Zhang Daxiong replied: "Old Ni, our armored division was originally going to be divided into two, but in time for this big battle, I brought tanks and armored vehicles, a total of 85 T1 heavy tanks, 280 heavy Black Panther tanks, 500 light Black Wolf tanks and 650 Z1 armored vehicles. ”

Hu Desheng said in surprise when he heard this: "Good guy, there are so many tanks and armored vehicles, this time I want to let Little Japan taste the power of our Dingbei Army's steel torrent, their little Japanese small tanks like Little Beanding, not only are they not as good as the armored divisions in terms of quality, but they can also throw them several streets in terms of quantity." ”

Zhang Daxiong said with a smile: "This is almost the size of 2 armored divisions, and it is also the largest armored heavy group in the world so far. I heard that the principal is going to carry out a reorganization of the Dingbei Army and the Northeast Navy, and the number of armored divisions may increase! ”

Hu Desheng nodded and said: "It seems that this reorganization will not start until the war with Japan is over, I heard that this time we are going to set up army-level units in the Northern Army!" ”

Speaking of military-level units, several division commanders couldn't help but feel hot in their hearts, regardless of their qualifications and military exploits, if the Dingbei Army set up military-level units, they were all people who had the hope of becoming army commanders.

Ni Fan said at this time: "Now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, just wait for the 5 divisions on the flanks to arrive at the attack position, we can start an attack on the Japanese army east of Eagle Gorge!" ”

The 25th, 36th, 37th, 39th, and 40th Divisions, which bypassed the Sikhote Mountains and prepared to launch an attack on the Japanese from the flank, did not let Ni Fan and them wait long, and on the evening of October 31, without the Japanese dispatch army in northern China unaware, they secretly arrived to the north of the Japanese dispatch army in northern China, and then contacted Ni Fan and them by radio.

At 7:30 a.m. on November 1, the Japanese army's attack on the passage in the Eagle Gorge and the hills on both sides had not yet been launched today, according to the arrangement of the commander Da Shanyan, only two divisions launched attacks every day, and today it was the turn of the 33rd Division and the 34th Division, which had just arrived here, but the two divisions had not yet shown their strength, and the counterattack of the Dingbei Army began.

First of all, the artillery of the 3rd, 7th, and 8th Divisions of the Dingbei Army began to launch a fierce artillery bombardment of the two fortifications in the Laoying Gorge passage occupied by the Japanese army and more than a dozen hills on both sides.

As soon as the 15-minute artillery bombardment ended, the tanks of the armored division rumbled towards the two fortifications occupied by the Japanese in the passage, and the Japanese army in order to prevent the Dingbei Army from launching a counterattack on the fortifications they occupied, placed a full wing on the two fortifications that were not too long, but unfortunately in the face of the assault of hundreds of tanks, one infantry wing was like a mantis arm blocking the car, which did not pose much threat to the charging armored division at all.

The Japanese army had a limited number of battle defense guns on the position, and they were destroyed by the tank guns just after firing a few shots at the heavy tanks that took the lead, and the shells hit by the battle defense guns on the heavy tanks had not yet penetrated the thick front armor of the heavy tanks, and then the Japanese troops on the position could only use their flesh and blood to resist one steel giant beast after another, as for what the result, it was naturally self-evident.

Outside the mouth of the gorge on the east side of Eagle Gorge, there were two Japanese infantry wings as support units, but before they could come up to support, the armored division broke through the two fortifications and rushed directly towards the two supporting Japanese infantry wings.

The 3rd, 7th, and 8th Divisions drew a large number of troops to participate in the counteroffensive, and some of the officers and men of Dingbei quickly regained more than a dozen occupied hills on both sides of the Eagle Gorge under the cover of strong firepower, and most of the remaining officers and soldiers followed behind the tanks and armored vehicles, directly running over the Japanese army.

When the commander of the Japanese Northern Dispatch Army heard that the Dingbei Army suddenly began to bombard on a large scale in the morning, he had a bad premonition in his heart, and sure enough, he soon received the news that the Dingbei Army had begun to launch a counterattack, and the Dingbei Army had a large number of tanks and armored vehicles involved in the counterattack.

Dashanyan knew that the Dingbei Army had armored troops, and in the last war, his Southern Route Army suffered a big loss from the tanks of the Dingbei Army, although the Dingbei Army only had 100 tanks at that time. Knowing that the tanks of the Dingbei Army had joined the counterattack, Dashanyan immediately ordered the 33rd Division and the 34th Division, which had already arrived outside the mouth of the gorge to the east of the Eagle Gorge and prepare to attack, to use the three fortifications of the Dingbei Army outside the gorge to defend on the spot to resist the attack of the tanks of the Dingbei Army, and ordered the other three divisions to immediately support outside the gorge to the east of the Eagle Gorge.

And Dashanyan ordered each division to organize a large number of death squads to use explosives packs to deal with the tanks of the Dingbei Army, which was also the best way for Dashanyan to think of dealing with the tanks of the Dingbei Army, after all, the Japanese army was not equipped with many anti-aircraft guns, so at the beginning of the war, Dashanyan equipped each division with a large number of explosives packs.

It's a pity that Dashan Yan didn't know that when hundreds or thousands of tanks launched a group charge, especially accompanied by a large number of infantry, the death squad he carefully prepared was not of much use.

The tanks and armored vehicles of the armored division, with a large number of infantry of the Dingbei Army, broke through the two fortifications occupied by the Japanese in the passage, and then routed the two Japanese infantry wings that rushed towards them, and continued to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese troops outside the gorge.

The 33rd Division and the 34th Division took advantage of the original three fortifications of the Dingbei Army outside the gorge and did not last long before they were broken through by countless tanks and armored vehicles, and the remaining officers and men of the two divisions fled in a rout in a chaotic manner.

The Japanese troops who fled were frightened and stupid, and the torrent of steel rushing was not something they could resist at all, and the small number of anti-aircraft guns had just opened fire, and they were blown up by the tank's shells, and the death squads prepared by the Japanese army, holding explosives bags, could not get close to the tanks in front at all, and were killed by the machine guns on the tanks or the infantry following behind the tanks. R1152