On the Zhennan Pass, the two regiments of the Guard Brigade were caught in a bitter battle, and the actions of the 211th Division and the Armored Brigade were much easier than those of the Guard Brigade. At eight o'clock in the morning, the artillery fire of the heavy artillery brigade basically destroyed the defensive positions set up by the Japanese. After the artillery fire began to extend, the 877th and 878th regiments of the 211th Division, together with the light tank regiments of the armored brigade, rushed out of their positions and launched an assault on the Japanese positions.

The Type 62 light tank of the light tank regiment also weighed 21 tons in battle, and its frontal armor was not afraid of bombardment by Japanese light artillery. After the Japanese defensive positions were plowed by heavy artillery, the fortifications were basically destroyed, and the soldiers also suffered heavy casualties, even if the surviving soldiers wanted to block the surprise attack of the Chinese army, they were powerless in the face of huge steel chariots.

The twelve tanks of the light tank regiment were arranged in a triangular formation, rushing straight towards the Japanese positions, and behind the body of each tank was a platoon of infantry. The remaining firing points on the Japanese positions kept counterattacking the charging tanks, and the bullets clanged on the tank bodies. There were also unlucky fighters who were shot and fell, but the tanks never stopped.

The remaining machine-gun fire points on the Japanese positions were easily destroyed by the 85 mm smoothbore guns and heavy machine guns on the tanks. Behind them, the main forces of the armored brigade also rushed up with the coordination of the infantry.

After the main force rushed to the Japanese position, some of them chased after the 12 tanks that were fighting in the vanguard, and most of them swept from the breakthrough to both sides of the position, so as to achieve the goal of clearing the Japanese army and completely occupying the position. Behind the armored brigade, other units of the 211th Division also dispatched, and even the fifty self-propelled guns of the self-propelled artillery regiment slowly followed behind the large force.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, the 211th Division completely occupied the Japanese position, and the tanks of the armored brigade fighting the front also met the Japanese troops after the break. This was the first time since the launch of the offensive that the assault troops encountered an organized resistance from a relatively large number of Japanese troops. Several Type 92 infantry guns and more than a dozen mortars appeared on the Japanese blocking positions, and the direct fire of the Type 92 infantry guns at a distance of 200 meters could inflict new damage on light tanks.

The 12 light tanks in front of the breakthrough were bombarded by Japanese artillery fire for a while, and three of them were damaged and lay directly on their stomachs, but the crew in the tanks did not suffer any damage. The light tanks all stopped, and the concentrated tank guns were counterattacking the Japanese blocking positions. When the tanks and heavy armored vehicles that followed behind rushed over and joined the shelling, the huge number of armored groups had already frightened the Japanese troops in the blocking position, and the small artillery on the Japanese position was also destroyed.

The armored brigade that arrived in front of the Japanese blocking position lined up light tanks and heavy armored vehicles, and the Japanese troops on the blocking position were already dumbfounded, if a few or a dozen combat vehicles came, the Japanese troops on the blocking position, with their strength of more than 2,000 men, still dared to block the attack of the Chinese army, but in front of them were dozens of hundreds of combat vehicles, the cold iron armor, the high muzzle, and the heavy machine guns spitting flames, all of which showed its strength.

In the face of such a torrent of steel, anyone can feel shocked and feel their own insignificance. Faced with the scene in front of him, one of the captains in charge of the position also understood that his troops could not stop the attack of the Chinese army at all, and he simply gave the order to retreat. However, this order was given too late, and the pace of the Japanese army's retreat could not compare to the wheels of the chariot.

The armored brigade and the 211th Division pursued closely behind the retreating Japanese troops, and the vehicle-mounted machine guns constantly swept the Japanese soldiers who fell behind to the ground. After a short pursuit, the terrain gradually changed from open land to mountainous land, and the road gradually became a mountain road sandwiched between the two mountains. The tanks of the armored brigade are useless all at once, and on such a mountain road, two tank cars walking side by side is the limit, and if one tank is destroyed by the Japanese, the mountain road will be blocked in half.

The task of the armored brigade was also successfully completed at this time, the Japanese army had been defeated, and the following pursuit would depend on the 211th Division. The armored brigade stopped the attack, and the 877th Regiment of the 211th Division rushed into the mountain pass and continued to pursue the defeated Japanese army along the road. Behind the 877th Regiment was the 878th Regiment, and after that there were several other regiments.

In order to prevent a sneak attack or sudden blockade by the Japanese army, Tang Longzai sent out the divisional reconnaissance regiment after the troops entered the mountain pass, and the divisional reconnaissance regiment was trained by the reconnaissance brigade and was in the same vein as the reconnaissance brigade. Regiment commander Xu Qun sent the first battalion to the front of the team, and after the first battalion commander Liu Yun led the team to catch up with the 877th Regiment, he immediately asked the soldiers to form reconnaissance groups one after another in squads, and took on the task of spearheading soldiers and probing the enemy's situation.

After the Japanese troops fled into the mountain pass, they found that the Chinese army's chariots had stopped pursuing, and the captain was relieved, and when he looked at his own team, he lost several hundred more people. The captain could only lead more than 1,000 people who had lost their fighting spirit and morale, and continued to retreat in the direction of Zhennan Pass. Towards noon, they were confronted by an infantry brigade sent by Lieutenant General Maruyama again, which boosted their morale somewhat.

Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao also ordered this captain to join up with the broken troops, choose a favorable position, and block the Chinese army pursuing him together, so as to buy time for the main force of the division to successfully break through. This kind of mountain road was originally easy to set up ambushes and blockades, and the Japanese army quickly found a suitable type of ground to block and rushed to repair the fortifications.

Wei Ye, commander of the 877th Regiment, soon received information that the Japanese army was rushing to repair fortifications two kilometers away from the 877th Regiment, and there was an attempt to block our army's continued pursuit. Wei Ye immediately ordered Wu Zhijun, the commander of the first battalion, to send a company to check on the situation. This task fell on the first battalion and one company, and the first company commander Peng Biao received the order and took the first company to touch it.

When the first company walked forward for more than a kilometer, and just turned a sharp bend, it saw the figure of the Japanese army rushing to repair the fortifications from a distance. Peng Biao chose a position and raised his binoculars to observe the Japanese army. The Japanese army chose this blocking position is quite discerning, there is a 70 or 80 meters road in front of the position, which is a straight uphill slope, the slope is not small, and there is no problem to walk, but the speed will be affected when charging.

In addition, there was no available cover on the 70 or 80 meters of road, and once attacked, the attacking soldiers were completely exposed to the Japanese firepower. Seeing such a situation, Peng Biao ordered the troops to be on standby, and turned around to see the battalion commander Wu Zhijun.

The situation of the Japanese army was reported to Li Changwu, the commander of the 462nd Brigade, who looked at his watch and found that it was already past 12 o'clock in the afternoon. On the one hand, Li Changwu asked the troops to rest and recuperate and eat some dry food, and on the other hand, he asked the three regiment commanders and the three battalion commanders of the 877th Regiment to come over and have a meeting, and the commander of the first battalion of the reconnaissance regiment also participated.

After everyone arrived, Li Changwu said: "Everyone, the division seat has made a guarantee at the military seat that the 211th Division will definitely hold on to the second division." Now that the Japanese army has set up a blocking position at a dangerous point in front, you must come up with a way to deal with it as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to give an account to the division and the military seat if we let the second division go. ”

The people below exchanged views with each other, and Wu Zhijun, commander of the first battalion of the 877th Regiment, gave a detailed account of the terrain of the Japanese army's blocking position. After a while, someone spoke. With the lead, others also spoke, and everyone focused on how to capture the Japanese positions at the lowest cost. However, there are no two of these methods that can really be used.

At this time, Wei Huang, the commander of the 879th Regiment, proposed a method of transferring the tanks of the armored brigade to help in the battle, which also made Wei Ye, the commander of the 877th Regiment, nod secretly, it is not his younger brother, and his thoughts coincide with his own. However, light tanks can come to help, but light tanks can also be destroyed by Japanese artillery fire, and if the tanks are destroyed in the middle of the mountain road, there will be another obstacle.

In order to ensure the safety of the tank, it was necessary to first knock out the artillery on the Japanese position, Wei Ye also put forward his own idea after repeated thinking, and this more practical idea was also supported by the brigade commander Li Changwu, so everyone also expressed their opinions and supplemented Wei Ye's ideas. Soon a battle plan was formed, and the 877th Regiment would be responsible for implementing it. As for requesting the armored brigade to send light tanks to support, Li Changwu personally proposed it to division commander Tang Longzai.

Before the light tanks supported by the armored brigade arrived, all the 877th Regiment had to do was to draw out the Japanese artillery and destroy it. Wei Ye concentrated all the mortars in the regiment, and Yu Mingren, the commander of the heavy firepower battalion, was personally responsible for commanding it, demanding that once the Japanese artillery was discovered, it should be destroyed as soon as possible. After arranging the artillery artillery, Wei Ye ordered a battalion to launch a feint attack on the Japanese position under the cover of light and heavy machine guns.

Although it was a feint, dozens of light and heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, and the Japanese troops on the dense bullet suppressed position could not even raise their heads, and a company of tending to launch a surprise attack on the Japanese position under the leadership of company commander Peng Biao. The Japanese positions also began to return fire, but the most useful machine guns were suppressed by several machine guns as soon as they fired dozens of rounds, and the Japanese machine gunners kept falling on the firing points.

The commander of the Japanese army in charge of the command saw that the situation was not right, and if he did not quickly kill the light and heavy machine guns of the Chinese army, the soldiers on his own position would not be able to return fire with these machine guns alone, and the Chinese army would also rush to his own position. At this time, the captain couldn't care so much, and hurriedly ordered the artillery behind the position to open fire and destroy the light and heavy machine guns of the Chinese army.