Keno Hirono, the captain of the 37th Division of the Japanese Army, listened carefully with his ears sideways, and the orderly came in with sleepy eyes, interrupting his move, "Your Excellency Squadron Leader, are you looking for me?" ”

Captain Haoye squeezed out a sentence from his throat, "Yaga! Sleep like a dead pig and don't have the spirit of an imperial soldier? Kobayashi, did you hear any unusual sounds? ”

Orderly Kobayashi glanced at the squadron leader in a daze, and replied, "Your Excellency the squadron leader, I only feel the ground shaking, and I don't hear any sound?" ”

Captain Haoye was so angry that he slapped the pig-stupid orderly hard, and then, grabbed the phone and went directly to the forward observation post, "I'm Captain Haoye, the squadron leader, what did you find?" ”

The answer of the observation post was the same as that of the orderly soldier Xiaolin, in the direction of Guangzhou opposite, in the dark night, he couldn't see anything, he just felt that the ground was shaking, and besides, mixed with the roar of the engine, he asked several outposts, all of them gave the same answer, put down the phone, and in the head of Captain Haoye, he muttered, "According to the report of the outpost, a similar situation has been found in an area with a front width of more than 20 kilometers, what are the people going to do?" ”

Facing the direction of Hong Kong's New Territories and Guangzhou, Battle wore headphones, sat in the armored command car, and kept asking about the advance of the brigades, which was also one of the tactics he adopted.

And. The Japanese also have little experience in anti-armor assault, which is quite understandable. During World War II, the Japanese Army's operational area was mainly in Southeast Asia and East Asia, and the opponents it faced, let alone formed tank units, ordinary soldiers did not even have the opportunity to see tanks. Therefore, the formation of the Japanese army rarely includes formed armored units. It's just that several tank brigades and wings were formed, and there is no precedent for the massive use of armored forces!

Along with this, there was a lack of anti-armor experience and equipment of the Japanese army. Not even at all. There is a cloud in the art of war, "what kind of opponent you are, what kind of fighting method you will adopt," and the armies of Asian countries, without tanks, there is no need for the armies of the Great Japanese Empire to form armored units like the European armies. Raise to a certain degree dù.

This was a blind spot for the Japanese army, and Battle made full use of it. Sure enough, the four tank brigades advanced more than ten kilometers, and the Japanese defense troops on the opposite side still did not react, Battle pushed open the top cover of the armored command vehicle, leaned out half of his body, held a telescope, and carefully observed the movements of the Japanese position on the opposite side.

The guard staff officer was frightened and hurriedly pulled Battle's shirt, "Commander, hide quickly, it's dangerous!" ”

Battle said without looking back: "What are you afraid of?" In front of me, there are more than a thousand tanks, and the Japanese army has not yet reacted. ”

After observing for a few minutes, Battle retracted his body, looked at the guard staff officer who was sweating with nervousness, Battle grinned and said: "Don't worry, I was fifteen years old, and I fought with the Japanese Kwantung Army in the ice and snow and primeval forests of the northeast with the division commander, and I fought for more than two years. ”

Calculating the time, Battle picked up the microphone, "Order, the first brigade and the third brigade of the first assault wave, adopt a wedge assault formation, break through the first line of Japanese positions at the fastest speed, and continue to advance to the depth attack according to the predetermined plan, cover the infantry, and attack the second line of Japanese positions!" ”

At the same time, more than 1,300 tanks turned on their headlights at the same time, and the snow-bright lights, like sharp swords, split the night sky, illuminating the Japanese positions as bright as day, and dazzling the eyes of the Japanese soldiers.

The tank accelerated suddenly, the tracks "rolled" up the dust, the roar of the engine, in the night, suddenly became larger, and steel monsters appeared in front of the Japanese soldiers in an instant.

In the dark night when I couldn't see my fingers, countless lights suddenly turned on, and I listened to the dull roar of the engine suspiciously, and felt the Japanese soldiers trembling in the ground below.

In Captain Haoye's shelter department, the phone rang urgently, and Captain Haoye grabbed the phone, "Squadron leader, it's not good, tanks, countless tanks, the Chinese army launched a surprise attack on our front-line position!" ”

Captain Haoye was full of excitement, and he understood that the reason for the trembling of the earth was that the tanks of the Chinese army, taking advantage of the night, touched it, and the war broke out, and it was no longer beyond the control of a small captain squadron leader, Captain Haono called the joint commander Takeshita Daisa.

The assault of the 1st and 3rd brigades of the tanks of the independent division was so rapid, the Japanese troops on the first defensive position had just entered the position, and the rolling torrent of steel, mixed with dust and smoke, with an earth-shattering roar, had already pounced in front of them, and the Japanese army's counterattack was extremely weak and even more futile, and the bullets hit the armor, which could not add a few sparks to the night!

The tracks, mercilessly crushed the bodies of the Japanese soldiers, the beast-like descendants of the Yamato nation, under the steel tracks, turned into a puddle of meat and mud, crushing the bones of the "click" sound, the screams of the Japanese soldiers before they died, mixed with the faint and messy gunshots, intertwined in the night.

Of course, the tank soldiers sitting inside the tank couldn't hear this, but the soldiers of the 1st and 4th Brigades of the directly subordinate corps and the 2nd, 10th, and 11th brigades of the Sulu Mobile Corps who followed behind could hear it clearly, and couldn't help but feel sour at the root of their teeth, and secretly exclaimed in their hearts, "My God, these guys who drive tanks are black enough, and they use tanks as road rollers!" ”

Under the rapid attack, in less than 30 minutes, the first defensive position of the Japanese army was declared to have been broken through, and two breaches about three kilometers wide appeared in front of the attacking infantry troops.

Liu Hongzhang, the commander of the first brigade of the directly subordinate corps, under the protection of more than a dozen guards, jumped over the trenches of the Japanese army in a few steps, looked left and right, and scolded in his mouth, and the chief of staff said: "What a damn, this battle is fought, but it's not fun, the tanks have crushed the little devils into pulp, and we, more than 16,000 people, are not idle!" ”

Then, he ordered: "Chief of Staff, order the troops, keep up with the tanks, with these big guys as cover, our casualties can be reduced a lot, tell the four regiment commanders, that regiment commander is a hero, he doesn't cooperate with the tank, the casualties are too large, after the battle, Lao Tzu knocks off his skull, the first position, we take advantage of the surprise, and then, we have to see the real chapter under our hands!" ”

The troops of the two tank brigades and the five infantry brigades, like a torrent, had already caught up with the first line of Japanese positions, the two tank brigades of the second assault wave, and the troops of the five brigades of the Guangzhou garrison area.

It was the follow-up troops, and in accordance with the predetermined plan, the remaining Japanese troops, from the initial panic and chaos, the Japanese soldiers who had woken up, began a desperate counterattack, because the troops of the first attack wave of the independent division did not carry out the attack, and the Japanese troops on the first line of positions suffered little losses.

The Japanese soldiers came out of the secret passage and the shelter and launched a counterattack against the infantry units of the 1st and 3rd tank brigades and the two brigades of the Guangzhou garrison area.

On the contrary, the Japanese soldiers who exposed the position of the firing point, but were blown to pieces by a low-trajectory tank shell, and the Japanese began to play with their lives, under the orders of the officers, the Japanese soldiers who were constantly hesitating and covered with grenades, jumped out from the hiding place, howled, and rushed to the tank.

Although the infantry of the Guangzhou Garrison Area accompanied by the tank, although they had not experienced a major battle, a platoon of more than 40 people, with a tank, was prepared for the tank of the independent division, and the Japanese soldiers who died together were not even rushed to the tank, but they were beaten into a sieve by a dense rain of bullets, and the grenade on their bodies exploded, turning a Japanese soldier who was not afraid of death into a rain of blood!

Battle parked his armored command vehicle on a slightly higher hillside, where the first line of positions could be observed, and the entire battle process could be observed, and his command vehicle was guarded by a company of tanks to the left and right.

Battle leaned out and observed the situation on the battlefield, stray bullets swept over his head from time to time, making a "chirping" scream, for this qiē, he has long been accustomed to it, in the European battlefield, the intensity of firepower dù, more than several times more than now, "clang", a stray bullet, hit the armor baffle in front of him, the deformed warhead, rolled a few times, fell in front of his eyes.

Battle didn't move the corner of his eyes, but his guard staff officer was scared into a cold sweat, regardless of blocking in front of him, Battle frowned, tilted his head, and continued to observe the battlefield situation, looking at it, he found a problem.

(To be continued) (To be continued.) )