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In a sense, the loss of these old guys may have made room for promotion for the buried powerful generals in the middle and lower ranks of the Japanese army, such as Awabayashi Tadamichi, who performed well during the Battle of Iwo Jima in history, did not lead troops to the front line to become a brigade commander until the outbreak of the Pacific War, and there are many similar examples. War, only war, can make the real famous generals fully grow and stand out, just by writing some articles or performing well in exercises that do not need to withstand the test of life and death, may not be able to become a truly good general, not to mention that promotion in peacetime is far less fair than in wartime, and the Japanese army has always been a > with seniority > backgroundtalent, where is it so easy for young people with no background and no background to get ahead?

Because these new generation of Japanese generals grew up in the flames of war, they will never be inferior to their predecessors in terms of ability, and because most of them are relatively younger than those old-school Japanese military officers, their minds and tactics will definitely be more flexible, and even their combat styles and tactical ideas will be quite different from the original Japanese army, and the Chinese army will have to adapt again. However, because the new officers of the Japanese army grew up in the war of aggression against China, they must be very familiar with the characteristics of the Chinese army, and we will suffer a loss in comparison. Instead of this, Hu Weidong felt that except for a few capable Japanese generals such as Okamura Ninji and Hata Shunroku, other high-ranking old men of the Japanese army might be more beneficial to China to continue to rely on their positions for the time being. Of course, he just thinks about this, if he really wants to encounter it on the battlefield, where will there be a reason for his subordinates to show mercy? Moreover, in order to leave the enemy leaderless on the battlefield, the officers of the Japanese army, especially the supreme commander, were the primary target of the attack, and at most the credit for capturing the enemy generals was lowered, so that the commanders and fighters would not lose more than they gained in order to capture the so-called important prisoners.

On the other hand, after receiving good news from the armored cavalry division. Hu Weidong was immediately excited, you must know that although the armored forces had a very good record before, it was because it was the first time that the Japanese army encountered a large-scale armored force with a cluster assault. Psychologically unprepared and did not know how to organize the anti-tank liliang, largely defeated on their own panic. This time, however, Ma Zhongying's armored cavalry division defeated the Japanese army on the premise that they had mastered the anti-tank means of the Golan trench, which was ahead of their time, and were more psychologically mature and more experienced, which was obviously even more commendable.

This was even clearer when the results of the post-war survey were collected. When the 15th Army first used a large number of armored vehicles, more than eighty percent of the Japanese soldiers died from wounds in the back, that is, they began to flee without many casualties (another reason was that many of them died from aircraft bombing). Because of the avoidance of lying down, most of the injured parts are also on the back. And this time, more than seventy percent of the deaths of the devils were caused by injuries in the front, which shows the tenacity of the Japanese resistance.

And just in terms of the results, this time it is much better, first of all, the number of enemies destroyed is larger, even if 200,000 people cannot be wiped out. More than 150,000 prisoners will definitely not be able to escape, which has set a new record in the history of China's armored forces; Secondly, the battle was basically completed by the armored cavalry division alone, and the role of the air force was only to protect them from the large-scale bombing of the Japanese group, and not to take advantage of the opportunity of the devil's army aviation aircraft to provide strong ground fire support as at the beginning; What made Hu Weidong even more pleased was that the losses of the armored cavalry division in this battle were so small that he couldn't believe it. The division suffered only more than 200 casualties, 27 tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed (including irreparable serious injuries), and 15 tanks, armored vehicles and self-propelled guns needed to be repaired for a long time due to breakdowns.

Even during the German invasion of Poland, the Germans lost 674 tanks, of which a Polish cavalry brigade (Note 1) killed 30 German tanks when they dismounted. When the "Desert Fox" Rommel fought in North Africa, one-third or even more than half of the tanks were in an unusable state all year round, which can certainly be attributed to poor logistics maintenance, but it also fully shows that although the armored cluster assault is hugely powerful, there is also a high loss rate of weakness

Although the armored cavalry division successfully defeated the entire 200,000 elite Japanese troops, the armored corps personnel were too small, and they could only try to drive the scattered devils to the south as much as possible, and it was very difficult to catch up with all the enemies by themselves and kill or capture them, Hu Weidong naturally knew this, and he was also worried that the devils would be relieved in the process of escaping, so he immediately decided to let the army rush north, and at the same time sent a motorized unit as the vanguard to the north to meet the armored cavalry division that had made great contributions to this battle. By the way, teach a lesson to the devils you encounter along the way, so as to further amplify their panic.

This time, in order to ensure tactical flexibility, the 15 th Army did not bring trucks with it, but it still brought a lot of jeeps (Note 2) with strong cross-country ability, so Hu Weidong resolutely concentrated thousands of jeeps to carry the guard regiment directly under the military headquarters of the 15 th Army and some artillery, and he himself led them as the vanguard of the north. Although the total size of this army is a few thousand people, it is at least more than enough to deal with the devil rout encountered on the road and help the armored cavalry division in an emergency.

As for why Hu Weidong personally led the team, he was not in a hurry to fight in person like many generals, but mainly because if the 15th Army was allowed to send someone to lead the team, because the 15th Army and the armored cavalry division were not under the same control, the distribution of combat merits could easily cause disputes, especially the armored cavalry division was the first meritorious service after its formation, and the army-level guard regiment could not participate in the battle There are not many opportunities, plus Ma Zhongying's temper has never been very good, if he didn't go over, it would not be able to fight. But it is possible that there will be rifts that affect unity

Note 1: The story of the Polish cavalry stabbing a German tank with a spear was actually a rumor, but at that time, Poland acquiesced to it in order to advertise how brave its soldiers were, and Germany to boast about how powerful its armored forces were

Note 2: It is mainly used to tow the lighter 105 Mountain and 12-barreled 107 rocket launchers, and also bears some of the transportation of ammunition, fuel and engine oil. (To be continued.) )