With the completion of the Baotou Heavy Industrial Zone and the commissioning of various arsenals, a large number of new weapons and equipment have been produced in a steady stream, and so far, one main regiment of each of the seven main infantry divisions in the Eighth Station Area has completed the rearmament, and one infantry regiment of each of the seven special brigades has also completed the rearmament.

After the rearmament, the main weapon of each regiment was an assault rifle, then equipped with light and heavy machine gun mortars, and then changed into camouflage combat uniforms, cowhide combat boots, camouflage steel helmets and other equipment in the eighth station area, and the combat effectiveness was greatly improved.

Originally, according to Chen Feng's idea, he wanted to replace all the more than 300,000 regular troops under his command with new weapons and equipment in a short period of time, and then sell all those old things. Yang Yi told Chen Feng that although the production capacity of Baotou Heavy Industry Zone is good, it can only produce less than 20,000 assault rifles per month, and it will take at least more than a year for more than 300,000 troops to complete the reloading.

This is second, a year is actually not a long time, plus the previous inventory, in fact, it can be completed in ten months at most. But assault rifles are gold-eaters, consuming about 20 times more ammo than regular rifles. On average, the Mauser rifle consumes up to 200 rounds of ammunition a day, but the AK assault rifle is not good at all if it can be made vigorously in a day.

Such a large consumption is not something that the Eighth War Zone can afford, even if the Eighth War Zone now has four ammunition factories working overtime to produce ammunition, but it can meet the consumption of up to 30,000 assault rifles, and no more. Therefore, Chen Feng's plan for the whole army to change equipment can only be regarded as a luxury, and this plan can only be stranded before the ammunition problem is solved.

In order to solve the ammunition problem, it is necessary to build a large number of ammunition factories, and now the Eighth Theater not only lacks production equipment, but also lacks the necessary raw materials, especially metal copper, so each division and brigade can only be equipped with a new infantry regiment, and other units can only use old weapons.

Despite this, the combat effectiveness of a new infantry regiment was still shocking, and the sudden appearance on the battlefield caused no small losses to the Japanese army.

Half an hour after the battle began. Suddenly, the sound of warplanes whistling in the sky was heard. It turned out that the aviation brigade of the 8th theater of operations had arrived.

At this time, the Japanese artillery wing had just rearranged its position, and the air defense equipment had not yet been installed, when dozens of fighter planes of the steppe wolf on the fuselage roared towards them, followed by a large number of aerial bombs pouring down into the air.

"Boom Boom"

Bombs are exploding. The Japanese army was groaning. For a time, explosions in Japanese artillery positions rumbled. Severed limbs and stumps fly. The bombing lasted a full twenty minutes, and then the group of planes came towards the main battlefield, and dozens of fighters wreaked havoc on the Japanese positions for another half an hour before swaggering away.

The smoke cleared. I saw that the Japanese army position was full of bloody corpses, severed arms and stumps everywhere, and blown up weapons and equipment were scattered everywhere, as if the end of the world.

Putting down the binoculars, Li Yifeng, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, shook his head disdainfully, and secretly said This is the elite of the Japanese army? It's too rubbish, it's not as good as the Japanese army in North China, it seems that the commander is really right, this 12th Division is really a group of recruits who have never been on the battlefield.

Major General Suzuki was completely stunned, and his headquarters had just been bombed, and although only one bomb landed on the headquarters, half of the staff officers of the 24th Brigade were killed, and even his chief of staff, Musashi Daisa, was also killed.

"Yaga, immediately send a telegram to His Excellency Commander Uemura and ask for operational guidance! The 3rd Cavalry Division of the Imperial Allied Army was ordered to come to reinforcements immediately. "Major General Suzuki may be hanging today, and it seems that it is a stupid decision to come out and fight a positional battle with the Shina people.

However, although the losses are not small now, he still has more than 8,000 troops under his command and the strength to fight. Moreover, he had just observed the Chinese army under the mountain, and found a large number of cars, according to the strength of the Chinese people, this Chinese army has basically achieved mechanization, no wonder the Chinese army still has such physical strength after a long journey. In this case, his troops cannot be withdrawn at all, and once they withdraw, the person will definitely be pressed up, and then it will really be over, and the only way now is to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

After receiving the telegram from Major General Suzuki, Kiyotaro Uemura of Tongliao Nakae was shocked, and the stupid Suzuki actually set up a position with the Shina people to fight a field battle when the enemy was outnumbered, and what he did not expect was that the combat effectiveness of the Shina people was so strong, and in less than three hours, Major General Suzuki asked the division headquarters for operational guidance.

He himself has been working with Major General Suzuki for five or six years, and the two have known each other for no less than 15 years, so Uemura Kiyotaro knows Major General Suzuki very well, and if it were not for the time of life and death, he would not have asked the division headquarters for help.

While ordering Major Suzuki to continue to stand by for reinforcements, Kiyotaro Uemura sent a report to Sasaki Osaku of the Aru Banner, ordering the headquarters to immediately dispatch two infantry brigades and two Imperial Legions to the 13th Aobao to reinforce Major General Suzuki with the assistance of the Chariot Wing. In addition, the Japanese troops in Kailu also received a telegram from the division headquarters, ordering them to rush to Aru Banner immediately and be ready to reinforce the Left Banner of Bahrain at any time.

Of course, Lieutenant General Uemura did not forget to inform the commander of the 8th Division, Tsukada, and let the 8th Division go north to meet the enemy together.

Now the happiest thing is the Kwantung Army Headquarters, although the 12th Division has suffered a lot of losses, but they have completed the predetermined combat mission, the Chinese army is no longer advancing to the Nomenkan area, but moving south, which relieves a lot of pressure on the troops in the direction of Nomenkan, as long as Lieutenant General Komatsubara can defeat the Soviet Red Army on the opposite side, then the Chinese army that broke through into the eastern steppe will face the crisis of the Kwantung Army's encirclement from the north and the south, and if this battle is fought well, it can completely inflict heavy damage on the hateful Chinese army.

Therefore, General Ueda ordered the Japanese puppet army on the front line to hold the Chifeng headquarters at all costs, and for this reason, General Ueda sent a telegram to the North China Front, hoping that the 14th Division, the 5th Brigade and the Cavalry Group stationed in eastern Hebei could transfer some troops north to the Chifeng area to support the 8th Division and the 12th Division.

The plan was good, but the reality did not leave so much time for General Ueda, and not long after his order was issued, an urgent report came from the front again, and this time the battle report was even worse, the forward troops that broke through to Sori Boga went to the siege of the Chinese army, and the two infantry brigades and one cavalry brigade were all shattered.

The reinforcements from Aru Banner to Bahrain Left Banner suddenly encountered the Chinese army on the way, and the two sides fought an encounter battle, in which the Imperial Japanese Army was defeated again, and more than 6,000 troops fled back with less than 1,000 people, and the rest were all killed, and more importantly, the chariot wing given high hopes by Lieutenant General Uemura was completely annihilated.

According to the reports of the soldiers who escaped, the Shina people actually had a large armored force, and the tanks equipped with were a kind of behemoth that they had never seen before, and the Imperial Type 95 and Type 97 chariots could not compete with it at all. The armored defense of the Chinese tank is extremely amazing, and it can even confront the main cannon of the Imperial Type 97 Tank head-on, even if it hits head-on, it can only cause the Chinese tank to have a short pause at most, and it cannot be destroyed at all.

However, the two main tanks of the empire were as fragile as paper paste in front of the armored forces of China, and it was a complete one-sided slaughter, and in less than an hour, all 150 tanks of the tank wing were destroyed, and none of them escaped.

Now Lieutenant General Uemura is really anxious, this is not only the danger of Major General Suzuki's side, but also the safety of Liaocheng. While appealing to the Kwantung Army Headquarters for help, Lieutenant General Uemura urgently ordered the troops around Tongliao to immediately withdraw to the city, and the Japanese puppet troops in other places should also rush to the nearby county town to prevent them from being broken by the Chinese people.

At this time, Lieutenant General Uemura could only pray that the Eighth Division of Tsukada Attack could arrive before the Shina people annihilated Suzuki's department, otherwise the 24th Brigade would be wiped out from the battle sequence of the 12th Division, then he would be the commander of the division, he was a general without much military merit, and the background was not hard, once something happened, no one would support him.

However, this year seems to be a bad year, with bad news one after another. The matter here has not yet been resolved, and the Kwantung Army Headquarters urgently sent a telegram that the Shina people had captured Shuangliao City, and the defenders of an infantry brigade were collectively shattered, and a large number of materials hoarded in Shuangliao City were captured by the Shina people. What's more, now the Shina people have cut off the passage of the Kwantung Army to reinforce the 12th Division.

In order to prevent the 12th Division from being surrounded and annihilated by the Chinese army, the Kwantung Army Headquarters urgently ordered Lieutenant General Uemura to immediately withdraw to Kailu and unite with the defenders of Kailu and the 8th Division to flank the Chinese army on the left and right lines of the Left Banner of Bahrain and the Aru Banner.

After receiving the order, Lieutenant General Uemura, who felt deeply in danger, immediately ordered all the troops to assemble, and at the same time opened the arsenal in Tongliao City, first equipped the Japanese army, and then equipped the puppet army, and buried on the spot what could not be taken away. Grain and other materials can be taken away, and those that can't be taken away are burned on the spot.

Knowing that the Japanese army burned Tongliao City, Chen Feng and his anger were that it was a Chinese city, and it was burned by the Japanese army. According to the information collected by the personnel of the plot report, there were still more than 55,000 people in the city when the Japanese army burned the city, so it is conceivable how many ordinary people suffered this time.

Chen Feng had long been surprised by the brutality of the Japanese army, but it was the first time he had heard of such a thing as burning a city. Enraged, Chen Feng immediately ordered Li Yifeng's troops to immediately encircle the 12th Division, and at the same time arrived with a secret order: "No prisoners of war will be left!" ”。 (To be continued......)