When the tank brigade appeared in front of the main position of the Japanese 9th Division, the commander of the 9th Division, Matsuura Kanwei, performed much better than Nishino, the wing commander. He didn't stupidly ask what it was? He made a surprised voice from the direction of the enemy: "What about the thirty-second wing?" ”

The 32nd Wing no longer existed, and the wing flag representing their honor also fell into the hands of Zhang Zizhong, the commander of the 1st Division, and the little Japanese medics who were ordered to protect the wing flag were kicked to the ground and punched and kicked by several tall 1st Division soldiers before they could burn it. There are still people among the officers who know the goods, and this wing flag was immediately sent to the division headquarters, but unfortunately Zhang Zizhong did not study at the Japanese military academy and didn't know what the meaning of the wing flag represented, so he easily threw this thing to the ground, and stepped on it and spit on it. As a result, when this wing flag was sent to the staff headquarters of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Jiang Fangzhen, the deputy chief of staff who had always been gentle, actually pointed to the wing flag with a blue face and said: "Which bastard is this bastard who left footprints on it and spitted?" How do I present this to the commission? ”

Zhang Zizhong, who was usually full of tiger spirit, did not dare to make a sound on the spot, and immediately ordered from the general staff that all captured Japanese military flags and sabers should not be damaged, and they would be handed over to the division headquarters for a heavy reward. If there is any damage, once found, twenty military sticks.

As a result, there was a very peculiar scene in the subsequent battle, as soon as a flag or a saber was found, the soldiers of the youth army would rush to the front, and even fight for it......

Returning to the position of the 9th Division of the Japanese Army, the tank brigade easily broke through the Japanese defense line, and the officers and men of the 1st and 30th Divisions following behind the tank brigade unceremoniously rushed into the Japanese position and fought with the disrupted Japanese army. The breakthrough continued to expand, and Lieutenant General Matsuura Kanwei once planned to organize troops to beat the Chinese out, but his efforts quickly failed, and the combination of tanks and submachine guns was not at all something that the Japanese could resist with the little bravery of the Japanese army. The tragedy of the Japanese army in the Pacific theater during World War II was repeated again, and the Japanese army was knocked down in front of the tanks of the Chinese army.

However, tanks and assault vehicles have also encountered a problem now, that is, the problem of combat discipline of the Japanese army, although the defense line has been broken, but the Japanese army has not collapsed. Their strong faith made them stick to their positions, even if there were no reinforcements, they would never give up their positions, and they used all means to continuously kill and injure the infantry that followed. And some Japanese soldiers who lost the hope of victory were even more crazy to pull out the grenades and stick them into the pile of Chinese soldiers, even if they were not shot a few times, they were like zombies in later science fiction movies, and it was not too late to die. For a while, the officers and men of the 1st and 30th Divisions were furious, and no matter how urged by the officers, they were unwilling to rush forward, who was willing to fight with the madman. In addition, the Japanese artillery also began to exert its might, cutting off the possibility of infantry follow-up, and the attacking forces with a little heavy losses began to appear disjointed.

As a result, there was a strange scene on the battlefield, although the tank brigade easily broke in, but the lack of follow-up troops led to a very dangerous situation, because there was no one to deal with the small Japanese soldiers who rushed over with cluster grenades for the tanks and armored vehicles. As a result, several armored assault vehicles caught fire and exploded on the spot after being blown up several times in a row. When Gu Zhutong, commander of the tank brigade, saw this situation, he immediately ordered the tanks and assault vehicles to swing sideways on the spot, using the tank's 57-millimeter run and the machine guns of the assault vehicles to continuously bombard and strafe the Japanese troops, and then relied on his own 1,000 commandos with submachine guns to form a defensive line, constantly knocking down and overturning the Japanese troops who were pouring in from all directions. But this is also extremely dangerous, because once the Japanese rush into the range of 60 meters, they will not hesitate to throw grenades, in addition, submachine guns are very expensive, although the assault vehicle carries ammunition, but once it is empty, the consequences are unimaginable. After a brief argument, the three German advisers Guderian, Maninstein, and Rommel, who followed Gu Zhutong's actions, unanimously decided to adopt Maninstein's method and not to stay where they were and be beaten. Gu Zhutong is really good: "Pass my order, immediately organize the entire attack group to assault forward, and strive to break through the Japanese defense line, if the Japanese army can still hold on and not retreat, then it doesn't matter if it penetrates back again, I don't believe that their little Japan can still not be chaotic, as for how much the first and 30th divisions of the stupid people lose is their own business, who let them follow so resolutely." almost pitted Lao Tzu. ”

The tank brigade immediately began to start the assault with its engines, and the armored assault vehicles were placed on the two sides of the entire assault group as ordered, relying on the machine guns on the vehicles to continuously strafe the Japanese soldiers trying to approach the convoy. Still, there will always be a break, and there will always be Japanese soldiers with grenades loaded and exploded with a bang.

Wang Zhenhua, the son of Wang Longzhong, then commander of the First Tank Regiment of the Tank Brigade and vice chairman of the Nationalist Government, truthfully recorded this tragic scene in his post-war report: "The Japanese soldiers were like crazy madmen, they didn't care about their own lives at all, they didn't know how terrible death was, they just rushed towards us with bundles of grenades without fear of danger, and we tried our best to stop their crazy actions with firepower, but we still couldn't do it completely." From time to time, an armored assault vehicle was hit and caught fire, and then the fighters in the car had to jump out of the car to escape, because this big guy was just too unsturdy. If all our armor were tanks, then it would be useless for little Japan to play self-detonation......"

The actions of the tank brigade immediately caused panic among the Japanese troops, and although there were still Japanese defensive positions in front of them, they were certainly unstoppable. Because all the heavy weapons were supporting the front line, the division commander Matsuura Kanwei saw this situation and immediately shouted to the staff officers around him: "If we let these tanks penetrate our defense line, it will be troublesome, and we will collapse on the whole line, immediately order the artillery wing to ignore the forward positions, turn around and bombard these tanks, I don't believe that they are not afraid of artillery, we must stop them, we must stop them." ”

The artillery level of the Japanese army was really good, and after receiving the order, they immediately went on with their shells bare-chested, and even the test firing was exempted, and they bombarded the area where the tank brigade was located with the fastest and most fierce firepower, and their results were also quite amazing, more than 40 armored assault vehicles were destroyed, five tanks caught fire after being hit, and the drivers of three of them failed to escape from the tanks, and the tears of the brigade commander Gu Zhu came out. The tank brigade was in a panic, and at this time the German advisers came out on the left and right, and they went down to the three regiments to directly help Wang Zhenhua and Jiang Dingwen to command the troops, bypassing the destroyed vehicles and continuing to advance, in addition, Liu Zhi also led the engineer regiment to take in the wounded soldiers and technicians with damaged equipment all the way, and to preserve as much as possible these officers and soldiers who already had actual combat experience. This kind of shelling was not all bad, at least hundreds of Japanese soldiers who were ready to die and the grenades in their arms also disappeared in the shelling. Gu Zhutong clearly wrote in a report after the war that caused an uproar within the Central Military Commission: "Because our army placed too much emphasis on the suddenness of tactics, it blindly ordered the tank brigade to attack without waiting for the artillery of the 1st and 30th Divisions to come up and cover the fire. Therefore, as the commander of the entire tank force, I cannot agree with this command of the White Chief of Staff. ”

The Japanese troops who were attacking the tank brigade immediately let out cheers, and then they could not bother to mourn for their comrades who were accidentally wounded, and what they had to do now was to continue to organize death squads to rush forward with cluster grenades. But that's where their good fortune ends......

......Just as the shelling began, dozens of small black dots suddenly appeared in the sky not far away, but the small black dots quickly turned into big black dots, and the noise emitted became louder and louder, and finally the fierce gunfire on the battlefield was not enough to cover it.

"What is this?" On the front-line position of the Japanese army, a young Japanese soldier was touching the prayer belt around his waist, which his mother and sister had sewn on the street to ask passers-by to sew one by one before he went to the street, and he didn't know if he would be able to survive the battle, return to his hometown, and see his mother and sister again. Originally, I thought that coming to China was just to pack up some bandit troops with very low combat effectiveness. But the battle just now was obviously besieged by his own people, and the middle of the battle line was obviously broken through, and it was completely relied on the samurai of the empire to barely block it with a deadly suicide attack. At this time, there was a loud noise in the sky, and the young soldier looked at the roaring fighter plane and asked the squadron leader beside him.

The squadron leader, who had just commanded everyone to repel an attack by the Chinese army, was resting in the trenches, glanced at the sky and said weakly: "This is an airplane, I saw this thing when I was in Tokyo." Mainly the pretentious guys of the Navy are used for reconnaissance! Nothing too much! ”

"So is this our Japanese plane?" The young soldier asked with a little expectation, in fact, he really wanted to ask the commander a question, can we win? But he was afraid of being reprimanded, so he didn't speak.

The squadron leader nodded: "Of course it's our Japanese plane, how can the backward China make such a good thing." ”

So the Japanese soldiers who were fighting hard immediately let out cheers, but almost at the same moment, the officers and men of the 1st and 30th Divisions of the Youth Army also saw the plane, and they knew that this thing was on their side yesterday in Boshan, because the chief of staff of the White Staff, who was said to be a great man, was in Boshan by this guy. So they also let out a loud cheer, but this time the Japanese soldiers were stunned......

Eventually, the Japanese soldier who longed to return home returned to his hometown after 40 years, and according to the National Assembly Resolution No. 112 of 1960, the remains of all Japanese soldiers who participated in the Battle of Shandong in 1919 were cremated and returned to their hometowns for burial......

These small black spots were actually a battle group of forty bombers and twenty fighters led by General Yang Xianyi himself, and they had only one goal, the Japanese artillery position, to find it and destroy it.

Coincidentally, because the division commander Matsuura Kanwei urgently ordered the muzzle shelling of the tank brigade, the Japanese artillery wing was unable to change the artillery position in time after the last shelling was completed, and the result was naturally a tragedy.