Next, due to Hu Weidong's order, the various units of the Red 15th Army gave up the frontal blockade, which made the devil's armored cluster even more like no one, after forcibly breaking through the second line of defense, it took less than 5 minutes to break through the third "line of defense", Major General Yoshio Shinozuka, the brigade commander of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Army, couldn't help but be full of excitement, so that his expression looked a little distorted, of course, because of the good results, It was even more because he was only worried about the Red Army escaping at the beginning, and now he finally realized the true value of the armored forces in practice, thinking that he would make a sensation in the country and even the whole Shijie with it, Shinozuka Yoshio couldn't help but feel excited, and the Red Army's tactical change of "getting out of the way" was also regarded by him as a precursor to collapse, and therefore became more and more bold, he even got into a Type 89 B tank and followed his tank unit all the way forward, not noticing that the number of tank armored vehicles was decreasing, while the enemy's casualties were significantly lower than before. Since the fourth line of defense, the commanders and fighters of the Red 15th Army have had time to urgently dig some hidden pits, which not only further reduced casualties, but also allowed them to attack the devil's tanks more unexpectedly.

The commanders and fighters of the 15th Red Army, who had been a little flustered by the surprise attack of the Japanese tank group, quickly regained their confidence and became more and more flexible in their minds. The sharpshooters of each regiment specially stared at the periscope of the devil tank and fired, although it was not easy to hit, but as long as they hit, the devil tank crews who could not see inside the car had to open the lid and drill out to see the direction, and one by one they died under the sniping of the sharpshooters; And ordinary fighters can't hit tanks even because of the lack of distance. They also realized that the devil car team behind them was not protected by armor, and found a more haode attack target. Japanese casualties began to increase rapidly

When Major General Yoshio Shinozuka personally led two tank wings to the 6th line of defense of the 15th Red Army (Note 1) within 30 minutes, plus a Type 89 medium tank that broke down due to a sudden mechanical failure, the Japanese had already lost 12 tanks, 8 tanks were killed or wounded by crew casualties (killed by steel core bullets or killed by sharpshooters) too many, 2 tanks were left behind due to mechanical failure, and the casualties of the entire brigade exceeded 300.

"Your Excellency General, can you stop first? There are two tanks in need of repairs, and more than a dozen tanks need to be replenished, and nearly ten of them have been left behind," said the captain of a tank wing to Yoshio Shinozuka.

Yoshio Shinozuka waved his hand and said, "No need. Now we're going to take advantage of the victory. Defeat the Chinese army in one go, and not stop, but give the enemy a chance to build a position, as long as the battle is won, those chariots can be reinstated. ”

"Hey!". The wing commander bowed and immediately ran back to his command vehicle, and the Japanese armored cluster, which had stopped for a while, roared forward again. But the devil encountered new trouble this time, it turned out that some improvised anti-tank mines made by Red Army soldiers using artillery shells appeared on the sixth line of defense (the principle is similar to that of nail mines, except that the bullets are replaced with shells. Although there were no armor-piercing shells available for a while, even anti-personnel grenades, which were mainly used against unprotected infantry, could not effectively destroy the tank hull, and were enough to blow up the vulnerability of Japanese tanks (the track design of Japanese tanks in World War II was very problematic, with high cost and poor reliability, especially for medium tanks with large load-bearing loads). There are even "failures" that come loose on their own when the tank is driven and the tracks are opened). But this made Yoshio Shinozuka more and more resolute in ordering his men to move forward at full speed, believing that the enemy had laid fewer mines, and if there was too much delay, there would definitely be more mines ahead. …,

Perhaps Yoshio Shinozuka was right, but when he led his army to break through the seventh line of defense, he saw an anti-tank trench that should have just been completed

Due to the time constraints. The depth of this anti-tank trench is only two or three meters, even if even the devil's small tank can not stop it, but its structure is designed by Hu Weidong borrowed from the Golan trench, which became famous in World War I, and the excavated soil is all piled on his side, and when the devil tank rushes through the anti-tank trench, its weak armor bottom is naturally raised high, exposed in front of 18 gun grenades, 6 anti-aircraft guns and more than 1,000 rifle machine guns loaded with steel core bullets of the 12th Regiment of the Advance Division

Although the Japanese tank group finally broke through the eighth line of defense of the Red 15th Army, in less than ten minutes, the Japanese army paid a huge price that exceeded the sum of the losses suffered by crossing the seven lines of defense before, so far the Japanese army has accumulated more than 40 tanks (including those tanks whose hulls are basically intact but cannot be driven for various reasons), and the total casualties of the 1st Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade have also exceeded the 1,000 mark, while on the other hand, the commanders and fighters of the Red 15th Army have greatly reduced casualties compared with before because they have positions to rely on. If it weren't for the orders from above to stop them, the devil's tank group might not have been able to rush through.

But Yoshio Shinozuka, who was immersed in fanaticism, did not see this, and although he admired the unique design of the anti-tank trench, he regarded the Red Army soldiers' avoidance of the attack as a sign of cowardice, and because of the sudden increase in enemy firepower, he thought that the enemy headquarters was in front of him, and urged his subordinates to speed up their advance. But as a result, his tank group suffered greater losses in the process of breaking through the next line of defense of the increasingly well-prepared Red 15th Army, and Yoshio Shinozuka was shocked to find that his tanks were only more than 150 left, and his feverish mind finally regained his composure, and he unconsciously recalled the previous battles, and came to a conclusion that he did not want to believe, "It turned out that the enemy deliberately did not confront the imperial army head-on"

Note 1: The Red 15th Army plus the direct troops of the corps headquarters, there are no less than 40 regiments, including more than 30 infantry regiments, this battle is the devil on the march from behind the buttocks, the whole army is in the shape of a long snake, in an emergency it is natural to fight with regiment-level units, forming dozens of simple lines of defense, as long as the Red 15th Army does not collapse its own military heart, the Japanese army has to break through all the way, only five lines of defense, is just the beginning (your support is my biggest motivation. )