Although the reinforcement of the Japanese air force posed a certain threat to the troops on the front line in Manchuria to a certain extent, the offensive of Chen Feng's department still did not stop at all, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, the first line of defense and the second line of defense at the north gate were destroyed one after another, forcing Tom Kou Jiichiro to transfer half of the reserve of the only infantry wing in his hand to reinforce the North Gate, and at the same time Tom Kou Ji Ichiro continued to send a report to the Hailar defense line, requesting more troops.

After reading the detailed telegram sent by Tom Kou Jiichiro, Lieutenant General Otozaburo Yano was also quite surprised, although the combat effectiveness of Chen Feng's department was not bad, but he did not expect it to be so strong.

It is important to know that there are as many as 28,000 Japanese puppet troops on the Manchurian front, and there are four infantry wings alone, plus an artillery brigade and a chariot brigade, and their strength should not be underestimated.

Yano's Otozaburo thought about it again and again and decided to mobilize another 2,000 reinforcements in the direction of Manchuria. In Yano's opinion, although the situation on the front line in Manchuria is not very good, it is not impossible to hold on, after all, the combat effectiveness of the 30,000 imperial army should not be underestimated, even if it is 30,000 pigs, it will have to be killed for a few days.

On March 26, the battle on the front line in Manchuria continued, compared with yesterday, the attack of Chen Feng's department today was more violent, in addition to the north gate and the west gate, today the east gate and the south gate were also attacked by Chen Feng's department, Lieutenant General Tom Kou Jiichiro knew that it was not a way to be passive like this.

After some discussion with the staff officers, Lieutenant General Kiichiro Tomguchi decided to combine the two tank wings into a single tank brigade. Together with the cavalry division of the Imperial Army, a major counterattack was carried out against the Chinese army outside the east gate. If all goes well, the chariot unit will return to the city immediately after the battle, while the cavalry unit will be roaming outside the city, ready to be dispatched by the command.

The reason why Tom Kou Jiichiro used the East Gate as a breakthrough point was entirely because the intelligence just sent from the front said that although there were many Chinese troops at the East Gate, no chariot troops were found, and there were not many artillery units, and the chances of winning a counterattack from the East Gate were higher.

Nine a.m. Lieutenant General Tom Kiichiro personally went to the east gate to watch the battle. Seeing that the first attack of the Shina army was defeated by the Great Japanese Imperial Army, Lieutenant General Tomguchi Kiichiro nodded with satisfaction and secretly said that this was the real Imperial Army.

However, the performance of Chen Feng's department also surprised this old devil, who had just been defeated. Chen Feng's troops withdrew and organized an attack again in less than ten minutes. The speed and efficiency is astonishing.

Let's see it's almost time. Tomguchi Kiichiro ordered the Japanese chariot units in the city to immediately go out of the city to meet the battle.

With the order of Tom Jiichiro, the east gate of Manchuria suddenly opened, and hundreds of tanks quickly rushed out. Followed by a large number of cavalry, this "rapid reaction force" was like a tiger coming down the mountain as soon as it left the city, rushing towards Chen Feng's department.

However, to Tom's surprise, the opposite Shina army did not withdraw the infantry at the first time, but continued to send hundreds of infantry reinforcements, and the most important thing was that the newly reinforced Shina infantry, each carrying a weapon similar to a mortar on their shoulders, seemed to plan to use these more than 1,000 infantry to deal with the more than 140 chariots and more than 5,000 cavalry of the imperial army.

Lieutenant General Tom Jiichiro was secretly happy, the people of China were too stupid, the infantry faced the chariot troops and the cavalry moving at high speed, it was no different from sending them to death, although the mortar was convenient, but the power was very limited, even if it hit the Type 97 chariot head-on, it would not cause any irreparable damage to the chariot. It seems that the commanders of China are not all as good as Chen Feng, and there are also fools.

But what happened next made Lieutenant General Tom Jiichiro almost vomit blood, only to see Chen Feng's infantry launch a counterattack on the spot, hundreds of soldiers with that strange weapon on their shoulders half-crouched on the ground, and did not see how those soldiers moved, but saw one after another cannonballs dragging a long tail flame towards the imperial army's chariot.

"Boom" "Boom" "Boom"

Lieutenant General Tomguchi Jiichiro saw with his own eyes that an Imperial Type 97 chariot was blown into scrap metal by a single cannon, and even the turret was blown away, even if it was taken back after the war, there was no repair value, that is to say, that Shina soldier destroyed an Imperial chariot with one shot.

Similar phenomena continued on the battlefield, and in just a few minutes, most of the 151 chariots of the Imperial Japanese Army were destroyed, and the rest hurriedly retreated with their tails between their legs, and the cavalry units of the Imperial Allied Army also withdrew to the city with the large force, and the first counterattack was declared a failure.

In fact, Tom Jiichiro did not lose unjustly at all, and the soldiers under Chen Feng's department were not mortars at all, but bazookas of the newly equipped troops of the Eighth Theater in the near future.

The rocket launcher is arguably the first weapon of infantry anti-tank, used to strike tanks, armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel transporters, military equipment and destroy fortifications at close range. In terms of close-range anti-armor, it is far more powerful than any kind of anti-tank rifle or artillery.

It is no wonder that Tom Jiichiro recognized the bazooka as a mortar, because so far, only Chen Feng's unit is equipped with this new weapon, and no other countries have such a weapon, or this new weapon is still in the minds of two middle-ranking army officers in the United States.

In the spring of 1942, two young officers in the United States, Army Colonel Skner and his assistant Lieutenant Earle, successfully developed the first anti-tank rocket launcher in the world.

There are two types of bazookas, one was equipped by the United States in 1942. The 60mm M1 rocket launcher developed by the University of Washington was called "bazooka" by US soldiers because it resembled a trumpet-like instrument called "bazooka". "Bazooka" uses a steel launcher that opens at both ends, which makes the weapon recoilless.

The other is the "Iron Fist" recoilless gun-type bazooka equipped by Germany in 1943. It fires 150 mm super-caliber armor-piercing projectiles, which rely on the gunpowder gas pressure formed by the combustion of the firing charge in the steel launch canister opened at both ends to promote the movement of the projectile body, and use the reaction force generated by the gunpowder gas ejected from the back of the barrel to eliminate the recoil of the canister.

These two early bazookas, both equipped with mechanical or optical sights, have an effective range of 100~250 meters, a vertical armor-piercing thickness of 120~200 mm, and a weapon system weighing 7~8 kg.

Chen Feng's armament of bazookas dates back to the beginning of last year, and in view of the fact that all countries in the world are now vigorously developing their armored strength, including the Japanese army, the establishment of its armored forces is getting larger and larger, and there is even an armored army in northeast China, equipped with nearly 1,000 tanks of various kinds.

At present, the effectiveness of anti-tank guns in various countries in the world is not very good, and the most important thing is that the anti-tank guns have a relatively short firing range and are not very flexible in movement. Therefore, Chen Feng urgently needed an infantry anti-tank weapon.

As an officer who has received systematic formal military education in later generations, how could Chen Feng forget the weapon of the bazooka, so he exchanged two bazookas and the production line of armor-piercing bombs and incendiary bombs to the system as early as possible, to tell the truth, the structure of the bazooka is not complicated, the technical content is very limited, and the cost is also very low, so the eighth theater quickly installed this kind of infantry anti-tank weapon into the troops, and now each infantry division in the eighth theater has a rocket launcher battalion, equipped with 120 rocket launchers.

The Eighth Theater of Operations was equipped with the second German Iron Fist bazooka, which was light in weight, low in cost, easy to use, easy to produce and equip in large quantities, and very powerful. Tom Kou's Jiichiro's department is also unlucky, because the Japanese army's armored forces have long been almost wiped out by Chen Feng's department, so the bazooka has been almost useless, but I didn't expect it to come in handy here.

Looking at the wreckage of dozens of chariots emitting black smoke on the battlefield, Tom Jiichiro really wanted to cry without tears, so he had to order the chariot troops to hurry into the city.

At the same time that the bazooka unit had made great achievements, the radar unit in Ulaanbaatar also sent a telegram saying that more than 400 Japanese fighters had taken off from the direction of Harbin and Hailar and were flying toward Manchuria, while another Japanese plane, which had only 30 planes, was heading for Dongfang City.

After receiving the telegram, Chen Feng was overjoyed and immediately sent a telegram to the Northern Air Force at Ulaanbaatar Airport, ordering the two fighter groups and the helicopter group of the former Army Aviation Brigade to immediately fly to the battlefield and immediately launch a retaliatory counterattack against the Japanese army, so as to inflict heavy damage on the Japanese air force.

Since the 6.8 air battle last year, the Japanese military top brass has already reached a consensus on the air force, that is, the new fighters of the Great Japanese Empire are not the opponent of the new fighters equipped by the China Air Force at all, so the Kwantung Army is most afraid of Chen Feng's troops is the powerful air force.

However, in the 3.24 air battle, the Imperial Air Force not only defeated the China Air Force, but also played a 1:1 record, which made the Kwantung Army Command ecstatic, thinking that it had a magic weapon to restrain the Northern Air Force of China, so the Air Force was frequently sent to battle in the past two days.

As a matter of fact, Yamada Otozo did not know how the results of the Second Flight Group of the Tsumichi came about, and it was entirely in exchange for the most shameless tactics of the sea of people, and the improved version of more than 300 Zero fighters used shameless tactics such as collision to force the fighter group of the Eighth Theater to run out of fuel. As for the 1:1 is even more nonsense, the Eighth Theater only lost a total of 57 fighters, of which more than 20 were shot down, while the Japanese army was nearly 180 fighters shot down, the ratio of losses between the two sides is far from the 1:1 as advertised by the Japanese army, but 1:3, Chen Feng's losses are 1, and the losses of the Japanese army are 3.

The three major generals of Yamada B, who are inflated with confidence, are even more unclear that Chen Feng, who is bound to take revenge, has already set a trap for him in Manchuria to avenge the blood feud 3 days ago! (To be continued......)