The chariot division suffered an unprecedented heavy blow in the first battle, although the auxiliary units were hardly hit, but the main units of the chariot division were almost devastated, which made the top brass of the North China Front angry and extremely shocked, how could the Chinese army be so strong. Two years ago, not to mention the tanks, there were not even many mortars, and the Northwest Army was equipped with the most weapons not guns but large blades.

It has only been less than three years, and the people of China not only have a large number of artillery, but also a large number of tank troops, not to mention the whole of more than 1,000 tanks in the central Hebei region, it is said that the people of the Changping front line have dispatched nearly 400 tanks this time, how can this not shock the top level of the Japanese army.

Compared with the strength of the Chinese armored forces, the performance of the new combat vehicles displayed by the Eighth Theater of Operations, according to the report of the troops withdrawn from the Third Tank Division, the Chinese used a total of three types of combat vehicles in this war, one is the Imperial Type 95 light tank, the other is the Type 97 medium tank, and there is also an extremely advanced heavy tank.

According to the commanders of the chariot units who participated in the battle, the new heavy chariots of the Chinese were extremely superior in performance, far surpassing any tank in the empire in terms of armor thickness and artillery power. Take the Empire's most advanced Type 97 medium chariot as an example, the 37mm chariot cannon it is equipped with can only make it pause a little when it hits the new chariot of the Chinese people, not to mention destroying the new chariot of the Chinese people, and even the injury is an extravagant hope.

So this is often the case on the battlefield, where the Imperial chariot hits the chariot of the Chinese people head-on, and before the charioteers can cheer. The Shina chariot burst through the smoke and fired, and then completely destroyed the Imperial chariot with a single shot. The only thing that made the top brass of the North China Front feel gratified is that although they suffered a lot of losses in this battle, the people of China were not undamaged, and the more than 360 tanks dispatched by China also lost nearly 200 vehicles.

The strength of China's new combat vehicles has brought a great shock to the top of the Japanese army. But what the Japanese are most concerned about is where these high-performance tanks come from? The United States or the Soviet Union. If it was the United States, it would be good to say, if it was the Red Soviet Union from the north, the consequences would be serious, and the BT5 and BT7 fast tanks used by the Soviets in the Battle of Nomenkan made the Japanese army cry bitterly, but these two tanks were not invincible.

According to the dismantling of captured Soviet tanks after the war. Japanese researchers came to a conclusion. Compared with the Soviet BT5, 7 two tanks. The Empire's Type 94 and Type 95 tanks were significantly backward, and the ratio of losses in the two battles was about 3:1, which means that Japan's loss of three old tanks could only be exchanged for the loss of one tank of the Soviet Red Army.

But if the Empire sent out the Type 97 chariots, it would be different. The two types of tanks in the Soviet Union can only be regarded as light tanks, but the Empire's Type 97 tank is a medium tank, except for the armor thickness is slightly inferior, the other two are not the same grade at all, and the Empire's Type 97 tank can easily kill the Soviet Union's BT5 and BT7 in seconds.

However, if the new tanks dispatched by the Eighth Theater of Operations in China this time came from the Soviet Union, then the Reich has been far behind the Soviets in terms of tanks, and with the strong industrial production capacity of the Soviet Union, it will not take three or two years to produce tens of thousands of new tanks. At that time, even if the empire can develop a new tank with the same combat power, with the industrial production capacity of the empire, it will not be able to quickly install this new tank into the troops in a short time, which is a huge hidden danger for the empire, and it has to be guarded against!

It's a pity that despite many inquiries, we still can't get any useful information, but it is certain that there must be an extremely large force behind the Eighth War Zone of China, otherwise that hateful China people would not have developed so strong in such a short period of time. And all of a sudden, there are so many new weapons, especially those new warplanes and new vehicles, which are powerful forces that the empire covets.

Although the 3rd Division of the Japanese tank was severely damaged, the battle situation in Changping was still not very clear, as the last line of defense in Beiping, the Japanese army in Changping received a death order from the headquarters of the North China Front, and defended Changping at all costs. Therefore, tens of thousands of Japanese troops knew that they could not defeat the road, but still no one retreated.

Since the Japanese army is so stubborn, then Chen Feng does not need to pity them, the poor people must have something to hate. As a result, the 3rd Army Aviation Brigade made frequent sorties, and large and small fighters took turns to fight, and the Japanese troops who fought were bitter.

Although the combat effectiveness of the 32nd Division of the Japanese Army was also good, after all, it was a newly formed unit, and there were too many recruits in it, and the fighting will and combat effectiveness were not up to standard at all. And they fought against the elite of the Eighth Theater, and they far surpassed the Japanese army in terms of troops.

In addition, on the night of the 15th, the special combat team of the Eighth War Zone quietly occupied the Jingcheng Pass, and also controlled the Jingcheng Coal Mining Area, Shimen suddenly became a lonely city sandwiched in the middle, fortunately, Kimura Hyotaro saw the opportunity early, hurriedly commanded the troops to break through, and jumped out of the encirclement when Chen Feng's department had not completed the encirclement of Shimen, otherwise the best outcome of the 32nd Division was to surrender to Chen Feng's department.

After capturing Shimen, Chen Feng's minister drove straight in, quickly controlled the Zhengtai Railway, and the army was quickly transferred to the Shanxi Plateau through the railway, and completed the encirclement of the First Army stationed in Shanxi in a very short period of time.

Although the Eighth Theater has not yet besieged the First Army in the encirclement, if there are no reinforcements, it may be difficult to change the outcome of the First Army. You must know that there are more than 500,000 Chinese/troops surrounding the First Army, while the First Army has less than 80,000 remnants, which is too big.

In desperation, the commander of the First Army, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, had no choice but to send a telegram to General Binshan Moto asking for help, in the words of Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, if there was no strong support in a short period of time, the First Army was likely to be completely defeated, or even completely annihilated.

Yoshio Shinozuka's telegram was highly valued by General Binshan Moto, who hurriedly sent a telegram to the headquarters of the Chinese Dispatch Army and the base camp asking for help, and at the same time ordered the intelligence department to speed up the implementation of the "secret plan."

After receiving the telegram from General Binshan Moto, the headquarters and base camp of the Japanese Chinese Dispatch Army were shocked, they all knew that the situation in North China was very difficult, but they did not expect that it had been eroded to such a point. Needless to say, the Chinese Dispatch Army Command immediately ordered the 6th, 101st, and 27th Divisions to immediately go north by boat to fight, and at the same time urgently sent more than 300 combat planes north to reinforce the North China Front.

The base camp was also very powerful, and soon sent a reply telegram to Binshan Yuan, and told him that the fleet had entered the Chinese seas, and that it would take two days at most to land in Tianjin, and the base camp told the Japanese troops in North China to hold out for two days.

The faster and more chaotic, the more chaotic it is, the easier it is to show the horse's feet. Just when Chen Feng was about to order his troops to launch an attack on the Japanese army in Yangquan, Hua Rong sent an urgent telegram saying that the intelligence department had seized six Japanese spy groups in Xinghe and Yanggao, and had seized six mysterious potions from them.

After interrogation, the intelligence department learned that the Japanese army had sent a total of 12 teams to infiltrate Saibei Province, each carrying a drug containing a mysterious virus agent. The ultimate target of the Japanese army was four places, one was Xinghe, the other was Guisui, and the last two were Baotou and Wuhai, both of which were densely populated places in the Eighth Theater and were also the main industrial cities in the Eighth Theater. Of course, Xinghe is excepted, but the small county town of Xinghe is where Chen Feng's hometown is located, and the Daqingshan base is still the most mysterious secret base in the Eighth War Zone, and the impact of detonating the virus agent here is absolutely extraordinary.

Knowing that the Japanese army had sent so many small detachments to infiltrate Saibei Province, Chen Feng was furious and ordered the garrisons to immediately cooperate with the intelligence department to intercept this batch of virus agents, and at the same time ordered the troops on the front line to speed up the attack.

On the 16th, two more spy teams were arrested, and two more virions were seized. On the same day, the Eighth War Zone broke through the defense line of the Japanese puppet army on the periphery of Yangquan, tens of thousands of troops approached the Shanxi Plateau, the only breakthrough passage of the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi was completely blocked, and the Japanese army of less than 80,000 people was surrounded in seven or eight counties and cities around Taiyuan, and the primary army was in danger.

Now the happiest person is Yan Laoxi, Chen Feng has promised him that the goal of the Eighth War Zone is to encircle and annihilate the first army of the Japanese army, not Taiyuan City, so as long as the first army stationed in Shanxi is eliminated, then Taiyuan City is still his Yan Laoxi's, and he Chen will not station a single soldier in the city.

Yan Laoxi still trusts this son-in-law's promise, and the last time he said that he would return Taiyuan City to him, he would return it to him, and he would never drag mud and water, and it must be the same this time.

Also very happy is Jiang Guangtou in Chongqing, who was forced to do nothing by Wang Jingwei and others some time ago, and now he has finally recovered. Now anyone can see that the little devils in North China have become grasshoppers after the autumn, and they can't jump for a few days, and the strong attack of the Eighth War Zone has made the little devils complain, and this time they will vomit out all the results of the hard work of the previous two years, and even if they are fought, they will lose a few divisions and regiments, and they will really hurt their muscles and bones. (To be continued......)