Although Ma Zhongying is not as good as the legendary Yue Yun, Murong Chui and other ancient generals who have won the three armies as early as twelve or thirteen years old, but his experience of leading an army in the south and north at the age of 16 should be regarded as rare in the Republic of China.

Later, after coming to Xinjiang, whether it was the Sheng Shicai Department supported by the Soviet Union, or the Soviet Red Army, which was more weaponized, its firepower was sharper than Ma Zhongying had ever heard of in the warlord melee in China before. As a result, Ma Zhongying was forced to change the traditional cavalry tactics inherited from Ma Jiajun, and worked hard to find a unique cavalry tactic that could minimize the killing effect of enemy firepower, and he himself no longer easily rushed to the front line, so as not to be killed and injured by the enemy's heavy firepower. After all, the firepower of the domestic warlords is low, even if it is a sharp soldier as an arrow, the casualty rate is generally not too high, and the risk of the main general sitting on the front line is limited, but it can greatly stimulate morale, as long as the generals who are not so afraid of death will generally do this, but under the fierce artillery bombardment and air raids, it is common for the forward troops to lose most of the casualties or even completely annihilated

It is also in the process of changing tactics and combat styles that Ma Zhongying quickly grew into a first-class general in China, and the unpleasant experience of staying in the Soviet Union made him sharp and introverted, and further surpassed himself. If he was still the stunned young man who only knew how to take the lead and fight and rush, with the vision of a great man, how could he attach so much importance to him?

The words are divided into two ends. On the other side, after Du Yang led the armored regiment to pursue for a while, he finally understood why the division commander favored the Type 95 light tank, which was actually very rubbish. First of all, the terrain is adaptable, and most of the natural or artificial terrain that is not very flat can be driven directly without having to bypass. Not only does this save time and mileage, which in turn speeds up advances, saves fuel, reduces the likelihood of mechanical failures, and can be routed by an armored cavalry regiment even if the remnants of the enemy force occupy a corner of the terrain such as a small mound. And if the armored regiment is left to perform the same task. On the contrary, they may be stumped by factors other than their combat effectiveness

The second is good reliability, as it is well known that the failure rate of tanks during World War II was generally quite high, and the terrain was more difficult. The more serious the problem, even the T34 medium tank, which was known for its excellent reliability, often broke down more than the enemy during long-distance missions. Although the Japanese tanks during World War II are recognized as the least reliable, the Type 95 light tank (Xiaodou cannot be regarded as a tank) with the most combat effectiveness has extremely excellent reliability (design is one thing, it is too light is the key, the body is light, the mechanical parts bear much less liliang, and the vibration during the march will be much smaller. Naturally, it is not easy to cause mechanical failures), and the more difficult the terrain to drive, the more obvious this advantage is. The Panzer Regiment, which had been largely in a straight line during the battle until now, had been forced to drop several tanks due to mechanical problems, but only one of the two Panzer Cavalry Divisions, which had traveled several times as long as it had to travel several times as long, had been stopped due to mechanical problems. In contrast, Du Yang had to admit it depressedly. If it were his armored regiment to carry out the task of the armored cavalry regiment, only twenty or thirty tanks would have been rejoicing

The reason why Ma Zhongying now let the armored regiment temporarily replace the two armored cavalry regiments to pursue the devils is because another major advantage of the Type 95 light tank and its two modifications is that ammunition can be replenished from capture. Although the Type 97, Type 97 and Type 99 (Type 1) medium tanks are also Japanese tanks, the 57mm and 47mm caliber shells they use are only equipped with these two tanks in the Japanese Army, and the Japanese infantry and artillery units are not equipped with these two caliber guns, so the shells carried by the armored regiment are one less round, and they cannot be replenished at all, which undoubtedly greatly reduces the continuous combat capability of the armored regiment; In comparison, the shells of the 37mm tank guns used in the Type 95 tank and its modifications can be used with the 37mm anti-aircraft guns equipped with the rapid-fire artillery squadrons under the infantry wing of the Japanese army's horse-pulling divisions (more than eighty percent of the Japanese divisions are horse-saving divisions). The bullets of the 7.7mm machine gun and the 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun (equipped with the Bayi light tank) can be obtained from the devil's infantry unit, which can undoubtedly greatly enhance the continuous combat capability of the armored cavalry regiment. Because these self-propelled guns were originally modified from the chassis of the Type 95 light tank plus these two types of guns captured from the devils

Due to the fact that the Japanese army was defeated on all fronts in this battle, it was natural that their tradition of resolutely destroying weapons and ammunition could not be implemented, and the total number of Japanese troops was huge, and the number of shells carried by both infantry and artillery was much larger than that of tanks (Note 1), so after simply cleaning up the battlefield, he obtained more ammunition than the armored cavalry division carried before the war, and only rushed to several times the amount of ammunition, Ma Zhongying had every reason to use these light tanks as the main force of the attack

With ammunition alone, if there is no fuel, the tank will not be able to drive and it will still be a pile of scrap metal, and the German army in the late stage of World War II will suffer greatly in history. Although the total number of Japanese troops defeated by the armored cavalry division this time was large, the degree of mechanization, or rather, motorization was too low, and all of them were equipped with more than 1,000 vehicles.

And there is a more serious problem, the tanks of the armored cavalry division are all burned diesel (starting from the Type 95 light tank, the devil's tanks are all diesel engines, this design idea is very advanced, but the Japanese diesel engine jishu is not very good. And the car is basically burned gasoline, and the two can't be used at all

Note 1: The ammunition of the 37mm rapid-fire gun belonging to the Japanese infantry wing is 900 rounds per gun, and the ammunition before the war during the Anti-Japanese War is generally equipped according to 0.5 battles, so it is 450 rounds per gun, compared with the 130 rounds of shells of the Type 95 light tank, how can it be a little more (to be continued.) )