As night fell, the Panzer Regiment of the 119th Division of the Third Army had been in its predetermined position for some time, and they were lying dormant here, waiting for the order to attack.

Colonel Lu Dashan raised his hand to look at his watch, it was already more than nine o'clock in the evening, and at this time, most of the officers and soldiers who had worked hard all day had already fallen asleep, but the officers and men under his command still widened their eyes and maintained the highest vigilance.

There is no doubt that this is an elite army, they have been elite since the founding of the army, and they are also the only regiment of the Third Army that is fully equipped with tank armored vehicles, there are more than a dozen medium tanks alone, and a lot of armored vehicles have been added to this offensive, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a torrent of steel.

On weekdays, they also have the largest tilt in military spending, but when they fight, they naturally have to rush to the front.

From the beginning of the Shandong War to the present, the armored regiment has always been the main force against the Japanese army. They also suffered a lot of casualties among their officers and men, but they were able to quickly replenish their equipment and personnel, and their combat effectiveness became stronger and stronger.

However, when Han Xiangfang was there, his combat method was very conservative, and he only used the armored troops as the support firepower of the infantry, which made the advantages of Lu Dashan and his troops not be effectively played, but Liu Jian's arrival began to change.

He first concentrated his armored regiments on important defensive lines to defend against Japanese attacks. However, the defense could not give full play to the advantages of the armored forces, Lu Dashan was naturally eager to attack, and he really said something, and he received an order in the afternoon of the same day to prepare for a night attack on the headquarters of the Japanese Fifth Division.

When he got this order, Lu Dashan was first excited, then calmly analyzed the feasibility, and formulated a specific battle plan, he planned to launch an attack at ten o'clock, and the target of the attack was the southern front, which was the most heavily defended and most abundant troops of the Japanese army.

The Japanese army on the southern front was stationed with more than a wing, and the troops were abundant and fierce, and the tank brigade of the fifth division was stationed, and the combat effectiveness was strong.

However, Lu Dashan said in a word, he said categorically: "I said that our armored regiment is a heroic regiment that existed during the Northern Expedition, and it is a fist army!" Gnawing bones naturally has to gnaw the hardest, if you pick soft persimmons and pinch them, then what does it mean? There's no need to discuss it, that's it. ”

Although the people were not happy in their hearts, they did not dare to say anything more. They knew that this plan would definitely be rejected if it was submitted, and Lu Dashan would naturally reformulate the plan at that time.

Unexpectedly, half an hour later, Shandong's front command gave feedback on the order - agreeing to the combat plan.

The officers looked at each other, and only a few understood that this was the plan for the attack. Lu Dashan is not a fool, in fact, he has a lot of experience in commanding operations, and the reason why he was able to make such a combat plan deployment was because he understood the strategic intent of the previous commander.

When the front commander was deployed, the reserve team took over their defensive line, and at the same time they were replaced with the flag of the 45th Army, all of which showed that the front command was intended to create a false impression for the Japanese that reinforcements from the 45th Army had arrived.

It is logical that since the reinforcements of the 45th Army have arrived, there is no need to hide any more, and the attack on the Japanese army must be a frontal attack, so Lu Dashan chose the southern line of the Japanese army, which is the most firmly defended. At the same time, a surprise attack on the southern front could also create an illusion for the Japanese army and disturb the hearing and hearing of the Japanese command.

Lu Dashan fully understood, so his battle plan was approved.

Lu Dashan continued to raise his hand to look at his watch, the hour hand pointed to ten o'clock, Lu Dashan gasped in the turbid air on the battlefield and gave the order to attack.

Dozens of armored vehicles and tanks were launched one after another, and the roar of machines broke the silence of the night! The tanks at the front were the first to rush towards the Japanese positions, followed by a dozen tanks, followed by dozens of armored vehicles.

Each tank was covered with canvas and branches, and a number of armed soldiers* sat on it, who followed the tanks through the jolting and roaring.

At a distance of more than 3,000 meters from the Japanese position, the officers and men of the Japanese sentry spotted a cluster of tanks rushing towards them.

The sentry with the gun first sensed something unusual on the ground, then he heard the roar of the machine, and when he fixed his eyes to observe, he realized that countless black shadows were coming towards him.

"Enemy troops! Enemy! The soldier running inside in a panic shook the hand-cranked alarm in his hand as he ran.

Squeak——! Sharp sirens sounded in the silent night sky, and the Japanese military camp immediately sounded the battle alarm, and the Japanese officers and soldiers who had just fallen asleep rolled down from the marching bed in a panic, and then went to get their guns in a mess. The searchlights of the defense strafed back and forth, and after a while they spotted a cluster of tanks and armored vehicles attacking in a zigzag formation on the opposite side.

Seeing this scene, the soldier who shook the searchlight suddenly turned into an O-shaped mouth in surprise, but his expression did not last long, because in the next second, a tank aimed at his position and opened fire, and he and the newly built lookout point suddenly disappeared.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Knock knock! …… A dozen tanks slowed down and stopped when they were still more than a thousand meters away, and fired in a zigzag formation. The 85-mm guns on the tanks roared, and shells rained down on the Japanese positions, and the Japanese camp burst into flames and howled wolves.

The Japanese support artillery began to counterattack, and 6 anti-tank guns, 4 75-mm mountain guns, and a number of * infantry guns opened fire one after another in the groping.

All kinds of light bombs swept through the night sky, and the sound of artillery fire resounded everywhere, and although there was no proofreading at night, the Japanese artillery still showed a high level of shooting, and several tanks were hit and lost their combat effectiveness.

The artillery fire of the armored regiment immediately counterattacked, the artillery fire of more than a dozen tanks quickly suppressed the artillery fire of the opposing side, the 85-mm artillery fire completely suppressed the enemy's fire attack, and with the fire of a row of artillery, the Japanese anti-tank gun positions had been destroyed, and only a few * infantry guns were still moving around, looking for opportunities to open fire.

Having pacified this sharp enemy, the panzer regiment immediately began to charge. Immediately after that, the tank units of the Japanese army appeared.

This was the chariot wing of the 5th Division of the Japanese army stationed nearby, and after hearing the battle alarm, this chariot wing moved quickly, and the chariots in the front line immediately formed a formation and drove to the combat position.

Despite their numerical superiority, their tanks were dominated by Type 94 and Type 96 tanks, the two tanks were pitifully small and had pitiful firepower, and there was really no way to compete with the Benniu-2 tanks of the armored regiment. In less than a round, the Japanese bean tanks had lost a lot, and the rare Type 96 tanks had also begun to retreat, and in half an hour, the arrogant tank wing of the Fifth Division had almost lost its ability to resist.

"Rush forward! Knock over these dog things! "The commander of a tank company sitting in the front row saw the Japanese tanks trying to escape, and he didn't know whether it was to save ammunition or to vent gas, so he rushed over with several tanks in the company with full horsepower.

The Benniu-2 was full of horsepower and fearless on the open ground, and after a while they caught up with several Japanese Type 94 tanks. At this time, these tanks did not fire, and after they rushed up, they increased their horsepower and hit them head-on.

The Japanese Type 94 tanks were so small that they were knocked over several times. The tank crews in the Japanese tank cars were also beaten into a sieve by the infantry behind. At the end of the battle, in order to show his victory, the tank company commander also hung the Japanese Type 94 tank on his own tank and "carried" the Japanese tank back to the barracks. The commander of this tank company was also commended for this, and later this Japanese "Bean" tank was displayed in the "War Memorial of the Anti-Japanese War" in Jinan.

Of course, this is a later story, the battlefield at this time is still tense and intense, followed by the tank is the armored car platoon, the 12.7 mm caliber machine gun on the armored car is constantly spitting tongues of fire, like the scythe of death to harvest the lives of those Japanese officers and soldiers who have not yet taken up arms, and the barracks are filled with the smell of blood and artillery fire.

The infantry on the armored vehicles also quickly got out of the car to clear the field, and they used * and Hanyang-style hand-held machine guns to continuously suppress the opponent's firepower, and the first to kill and injure the Japanese army's living forces. The Japanese army soon lost resistance, and a brigade stationed in front quickly lost its most basic combat effectiveness.

After the victory, the armored regiment did not like to fight, and they immediately retracted their forces and began to attack inward. Without the obstruction of those small tanks, the armored regiment proceeded smoothly and quickly, and the circular machine gun positions constructed by the Japanese army were like chickens and dogs in front of them.

The armored regiment acted quickly and had strong firepower, constantly impacting the Japanese army's position, and then constantly being surrounded, and then they continued to break through and attack, turning the Japanese army's position upside down like Nezha's troubled sea, and the most infuriating thing was that the Japanese army was beaten so far and still could not figure out the number of the other party, but only saw the words of the armored unit of the 45th Army on the military flag......

This process was repeated until about 4 o'clock in the morning, when the Japanese positions were in disarray, and they could not tell how many enemies and how many tanks. The Panzer Regiment, which had already fallen out in the Japanese position, was only then killed at the headquarters of the Japanese Fifth Division, their final target......

(Correction: In the previous chapter, the 6th Division should be the 5th Division)