Five days.

Both sides are on the move.

It was determined from various channels that the independent regiment had indeed secretly transported and hoarded grain from three villages, including Laohugou, Banan Village, and Sanhe Village, in the vicinity of Dafengzhuang.

Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the devils, finally stopped hesitating, sent a surprise attack armored force, and gave a surprise attack order.

In the wee hours of the morning, it was about dawn.

A fairly large Japanese armored and cavalry force, which was quite rare for the battlefield behind enemy lines, secretly advanced to Dafengzhuang, the transportation granary on the outskirts of the independent regiment and the center line of the base area.

This force consists of two parts.

One part was a cavalry squadron of 134 cavalrymen.

The other part is a temporary tank squadron formed by the Japanese First Army stationed in Shanxi composed of six Japanese Type 92 cavalry tanks, two Type 89 medium tanks, six Type 94 ultralight tanks, and eight armored vehicles.

They were jointly led by the leader of the Japanese cavalry squadron Nishimasa Okazaki and the squadron leader of the tank squadron Kazuo Uehara.

Among them, Kazuo Uehara is an officer of a special branch of the armed forces, with the rank of Shaozuo, and commanded the combat mission of the raid on Dafengzhuang.

"Uehara-kun, if this raid on the Eighth Route Dafengzhuang can be successful, it will definitely cause heavy damage to the independent regiment and play a considerable role in the food shortage of our army, the importance of this battle does not need me to say more."

"I'll leave it all to you!"

When he secretly left the headquarters of the First Army in Taiyuan City, Yoshio Shinozuka, the commander of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi, told Kazuo Uehara in a serious manner.

Kazuo Uehara, who is quite confident, replied with an oath.

"Hey, please rest assured, the raid mission will be completed this time."

In the early hours of the morning, when Kazuo Uehara gave the order to break through, he took more than 20 tanks and armored vehicles with the cavalry squadron to break through.

This young devil officer's face was full of spirit, and his smile was so bright.

In the opinion of Kazuo Uehara.

"It's just a dirt road that only dares to hide in the mountains as a turtle in the occupied area."

"It is really overkill to ask us to send out tank troops and cavalry units to carry out a surprise attack."

"This time, I plan to arrive at Dafengzhuang within two hours, and within twenty minutes, the cavalry and armored troops will advance together to take Dafengzhuang in one fell swoop, and bring back the food that His Excellency the commander is looking forward to."

The leader of the devil cavalry squadron, Nishimasa Okazaki, wanted to remind Uehara that this independent regiment was not easy to deal with.

But thinking of the use of tanks and cavalry raids this time, plus the eight roads, there should be no guard.

Winning Dafengzhuang, in the eyes of the two, there is no difficulty at all, and he didn't remind him much.

The roaring chariots gave these Japanese soldiers great confidence.

In fact, the domestic industrial level of the Japanese army was relatively advanced compared to China, which was backward during this period.

Compared with some Western countries with advanced industrial levels, Japan's industrial level is completely unattainable.

At this time, the professional level is backward, and it is difficult for China to produce a tank independently with the industrial strength of the whole country.

Any tank, even some ultra-light tanks, is actually rare and valuable to the devil troops.

In the Japanese army A, B, C, D and reserve divisions.

Except for some independent tank formations, such as tank brigades and tank divisions, which have a relatively large number of tanks and armored vehicles, most of the remaining divisions and regiments do not have a large number of tanks and armored vehicles.

For example, the First Army stationed in Shanxi led by Yoshio Shinozuka had fewer tanks and armored vehicles in each division because most of the divisions under its jurisdiction were B divisions and not elite A divisions.

A division can be equipped with a tank squadron with a dozen tanks, which is already quite good.

Some divisions and regiments did not even have a single tank.

Most of the tanks of the First Army were used in the confrontation with the National Army on the frontal battlefield, and were used to sweep the Eighth Route Army in the occupied area, but there were not many.

In addition, the tanks and armored vehicles owned by his First Army over the years have suffered a lot of losses on the frontal battlefield, and in the process of sweeping the Eighth Route Army behind enemy lines, the losses of one or two vehicles were superimposed, which also made the First Army feel painful.

This time, in order to deal with the independent regiment, Yoshio Shinozuka attacked Dafengzhuang secretly, and he also made a bloody investment.

This was a total of fourteen tanks and eight armored vehicles, but he had only cobbled them together from several divisions of the First Army.

Taiyuan City, the headquarters of the First Army of the Japanese Army in Shanxi.

Because it is important whether or not Dafengzhuang can be captured this time, even the commander of the devil, Yoshio Shinozuka, is also closely watching the battle situation of this raid on Dafengzhuang with Chief of Staff Kitagawa on the battle map.

"General, Uehara-kun has already taken a tank squadron and a cavalry squadron and secretly set off from Yangquan at the pre-planned time."

Speaking of which, Kitagawa looked at his watch.

"According to the speed of cavalry and tank armored vehicles, it will take less than two hours to break through all the way to the Dafengzhuang area."

"Our army set off in secret, and chose to open the city gate in advance at dawn, and the people near the city gate have been strictly supervised by our army."

"I think when the secret agents of the Eighth Route got the news, our cavalry and armored troops had already raided Dafengzhuang."

"Roar!"

Yoshio Shinozuka nodded, this old devil had lost too many times at Kong Jie's hands, but this time, he didn't think he had any reason to fail.

"The secret advance of Uehara and his entourage preferably needs the cover of our army."

"After an hour and a half, immediately notify the flight squadron to bomb the independent regiment according to the pre-plan!"

"While destroying all kinds of military buildings in the base area of the Independent Regiment in one fell swoop, we will cover the sudden movement of Uehara and his party."

"Hey! General, I'll arrange it. Kitagawa responded.

The other side.

Detachment command.

When the devil commander Yoshio Shinozuka was concerned about the battle situation in Dafengzhuang.

Kong Jie waited closely for the movement from Dafengzhuang.

After all, this is a question of whether Commander Kong's armored troops are located or not.

"Lao Kong, do you think the little devil will come today?"

Chief of Staff Xu Guoan, who was staring at the study of the operational map, asked coldly.

Kong Jie smiled: "Who knows, it stands to reason that if the devil wants to raid Dafengzhuang, early morning is the best time." ”

"We have waited for the day before yesterday, and we have waited for yesterday, not bad today, if we don't come today, sooner or later tomorrow will come the day after tomorrow."

"That's just as well."

"What, you're still worried about the devil's sneak attack?"

"What kind of devil am I thinking about? I'm obviously thinking about our team's tanks! Xu Guoan joked.

"Did our Literature and Art Propaganda Department arrange comrades in the past? This is the first time that our Eighth Route Army has carried out large-scale anti-tank operations. Such a precious scene should be filmed, and it must be filmed. ”

Suddenly remembered that Kong Jie asked at this time.

Li Wenjie, the political commissar on the side, replied: "I have already let the reporter Xiao Song pass, and a few more soldiers have been arranged to protect him." ”

"That's good!"

"Behind our enemy lines, this kind of rare large-scale anti-tank combat is rare, and this time it can be filmed, which can not only be used to publicize and boost the morale of our military and civilians, but also as a precious teaching video for our Eighth Route Army troops to carry out anti-tank operations in the future."

"The camera I bought from John last time, Xiao Song came in handy this time."

"By the way, the simple crane that we repaired has also been delivered, right?"

"After capturing the little devil's tanks and armored vehicles, some tanks and armored vehicles that dropped traps, this thing will definitely come in handy, our speed must be fast, otherwise the devils will definitely send planes to bomb, the speed is slow, then it will be in vain."

Xu Guoan smiled: "Lao Kong, don't worry, do you still need to worry about this little thing?" ”

"Everything has already been sent, and in addition, Shi Dahu has already rushed over with the comrades of the War Call Bureau, pulling camouflage tanks."

"In addition, the armored comrades we have trained during this period have also followed, and each tank is equipped with at least five tank soldiers."

"These comrades were almost overjoyed when they heard that they could open up real guys this time."

"Now everything is ready, just waiting for the little devil to take the bait."

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