In this case, another advantage of the Type 95 light tank and its modification is also highlighted, that is, fuel economy, the fuel consumption per unit mileage of the Type 95 light tank is only less than half of the Type 97 medium tank, and one ton of diesel fuel is enough to fill the fuel tank of 10 Type 95 light tanks (the design road range is 250 km, and the off-road range is 177 km). ), and its two modifications are more fuel-efficient than the prototype. Therefore, Ma Zhongying naturally thought of a solution, that is, to let the North China Air Corps airdrop, although there are only nine captured transport planes at present, but even if it is only calculated at 2 tons each, it is enough for the fuel tanks of the two armored cavalry regiments to be filled. With this convenience, Ma Zhongying's appetite couldn't help but increase greatly, killing the 200,000 Japanese troops in the north could no longer satisfy him, and he also wanted a piece of the 200,000 in the south

However, Ma Zhongying was too optimistic, and he soon found out depressedly that even among the Japanese troops on the northern front, there were still more than 1,000 devils who stubbornly persevered, so that they could not overcome all their efforts, although the solution they came up with was only to turn the immediate execution of the death sentence into a reprieve.

It turned out that the commander of this Japanese army saw that the general situation was gone, but suddenly he was in a hurry, and took advantage of the fact that his own army did not have heavy weapons, so the tanks of the armored cavalry division at that time gave priority to other Japanese troops, and asked the soldiers to desperately dig the anti-tank trench into a ring, and the two ends were connected together. In this way, the Golan trench has no weakness, and Ma Zhongying's armored cavalry tactics can no longer work, and if you want to attack the circle, you can only let the infantry get off the car and fill the earth, even if there is artillery fire cover, this process will inevitably have to pay the price of blood, and the infantry under the jurisdiction of the armored cavalry division is limited, and they are all fast gunners who wear through the Yang at a hundred paces, so they are reluctant to fill their lives, as for letting the tank crews with higher training costs do this kind of work. Obviously not a good idea

However, although these devils were temporarily saved from annihilation, they who did not dare to step out of the position for half a step were tantamount to being confined in it. When the large forces of the 15th Army went north to join the division, and the armored cavalry division had a large number of infantry to cooperate, they were still a dead end. But even so, Ma Zhongying is still a little hot. After all, the complete victory that was supposed to be won was somewhat flawed, and the battle exploits that should have been won by the armored cavalry division were bound to be divided by the 15th Army

In fact, with this group of devils, there are only more than 1,000 troops. Even with the protection of the Golan trenches, as long as the armored cavalry division is not afraid of wasting artillery shells and concentrating all the artillery bombardment, it can still be eliminated, but although the victory in this battle has been achieved, the total number of devils is too much, and most of the tanks, armored vehicles and even self-propelled guns of the armored cavalry division must continue to chase the dead and chase north, so as not to give the devils a chance to relax. Therefore, Ma Zhongying really couldn't pull out such a strong liliang for a while, so he could only leave a tank battalion to watch this Japanese position, and wait until the various departments returned from completing the task and then concentrate on liliang to pull out this nail, as for whether it could be done before the vanguard of the 15th Army came here to join the division, Ma Zhongying was really not too sure. He could only do his best and obey the fate of heaven, after all, he also knew that the commander-in-chief of the group army that he would bring back to China in the future was also a speed supremacist like him.

However, to Ma Zhongying's surprise, according to the confession of a Japanese prisoner, this stubborn devil was actually mainly a gendarme who does not normally undertake combat missions (Note 1), and this method of self-encirclement was also devised by their new commander, Lieutenant General Kitano Kenzo, the supreme commander of the military police headquarters of the Japanese invasion of China. Moreover, because they did not have heavy weapons and were not regarded as a key target by the officers and men of the armored cavalry division, the other Japanese troops were defeated before they could complete the circular Golan trench, otherwise if there were a few more such variants of the Golan trench on the battlefield, or even a dozen of them, the armored cavalry division would have an even greater headache, and it would have to be afraid of the enemy's night attack and dare not monitor it nearby, and the enemy would use the cover of night to escape part of it

When Ma Zhongying first heard the position of "Commander of the Chinese Military Police stationed in Tun", he thought he had caught a big fish, "All the devils in China are under his control?" But he quickly reacted, in the final analysis, he was only a lieutenant general, and he was at the same level as the division commander of the Japanese army's permanent division, and the 15th Group Army had killed many so far, and it was not bad for this one. And what Ma Zhongying has never understood is that Hu Weidong does not seem to be particularly enthusiastic about killing or capturing high-ranking officers who kill or capture devils, and is far less concerned than he is about destroying enemies and capturing figures.

As everyone knows, this is because in Hu Weidong's eyes, the Japanese army does not have a few famous generals who can make him pay attention, and the two main weaknesses of Japan in World War II are lack of resources and insufficient manpower, as long as the Chinese army captures or destroys enough Japanese weapons and equipment, Japan's resources will be exhausted, as long as the Chinese army destroys enough Japanese troops to survive, Japan's manpower will also bottom out, and if any of these two things are exhausted, the Japanese army will no longer have the strength to return to heaven, in contrast, The so-called "famous generals" who caught or killed some devils are far from being realistic, and even in the view of Hu Weidong, who knows Japan well about World War II, it is not necessarily a good thing to kill a large number of high-ranking Japanese military officials too early

Note 1: Due to the large losses of elite veterans, the Japanese army base camp was forced to start the idea of the gendarmerie, although the Japanese military police lacked combat experience because they generally did not take the initiative to participate in battles, but they were still trained according to the almost perverted selection and training standards before the war, and the quality of the soldiers was much stronger than that of the field troops, which had almost expanded by more than 10 times compared with the pre-war period. However, even the new commander of the military police unit of the Japanese army that invaded China also participated in this battle, but it was the proposition of the six people of Toshihi Hata, because this old soldier named Kenzo Kitano was his old friend, and although he became the commander of the gendarmerie on the surface, it was difficult to have a chance to make meritorious contributions in the gendarmerie on the one hand, and on the other hand, it was easy to offend people, so this battle Shunroku Hata deliberately gave his old friend a chance, and at the same time, he also hoped in his heart that this old friend who had not been reused could help the Japanese army on this expedition. But what Shunroku Hata didn't expect was that his old friend had indeed contributed, but he only won a chance to wait for death once (to be continued). )