Until the explosion was completely over, the smoke of gunpowder was still hanging over the minefield.

Indestructible in terms of flesh and blood, compared to the short Japanese soldiers, the Type 97 Medium Tank, which was like a behemoth, was reduced to pieces in an instant under the eyes of the devil Shaozuo.

After being stunned for a few seconds, the devil Shaozuo, who came back to his senses in shock and horror, swallowed his saliva fiercely, and then roared angrily.

He vowed to break the gang to pieces.

The entire minefield is an anti-tank minegroup specially laid by the Eighth Route Army, and once detonated, it will instantly cause a series of explosions in the entire minefield.

In the explosion, all the mines had been detonated.

The devil Shaozo immediately ordered to continue the desperate pursuit, and his anger almost made him lose his rational judgment.

It's just that the subsequent pursuit was not smooth, and along the way, I encountered some large and small fortifications of the Eighth Route Army, as well as minefields, some of which were true and some were false.

The minefields laid to block the enemy were also true or false, making it impossible for the Japanese army to judge.

In this way, the speed of the pursuing devil's armored vehicles was greatly delayed, and soon there was no trace of the enemy's armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army.

After the devil's fighter plane arrived on order, it also completely lost the trace of the armored unit of the Eighth Route Army.

In the end, the devil Shaozuo, who led the team to pursue, returned in vain, and honestly reported the situation to the old devil Nanzhi.

As for the result, due to the ineffective operation, it is not surprising that he suffered two big pockets.

The devil Shaozo has a deeper resentment towards these damn eight-way people.

The Japanese thought that this was the end, but who thought that this was just the beginning.

The attack at dawn had just ended, and the pursuing Japanese finally fell into the minefield trap laid by the Eighth Route Army, and lost several Type 97 medium tanks.

Then, at 9 o'clock in the morning, at 12 o'clock in the afternoon, when the Japanese troops were camping and resting, and in the evening when they were preparing to camp for defense, the Japanese troops were constantly attacked by small armored units on the side of the Eighth Route Army.

In fact, the accurate definition of such an attack should be an assault.

The Eighth Route Army would often bombard the Japanese camp at a certain distance, and then choose to withdraw without hesitation.

The casualties caused by this series of attacks on the Japanese were limited, but they were annoying.

It's not very hurtful, and it's extremely insulting.

Coupled with the fact that this chain of attacks did not come from one direction, but from several directions, in the opinion of the Japanese army:

These cunning eight-way are like insidious poisonous snakes, you can never guess where they will be, and at one point, suddenly burst out and bite out.

Then he swooped into the shelter and vanished.

The angry old devil Nanzhi also divided his troops to pursue him many times, but he was always blocked by some real and false fortifications and real and false minefields of the Eighth Route Army along the way.

Can't chase it at all.

So, the Japanese army continued to push forward, thinking to themselves that no matter how cunning you are, you can't run the monk and can't run the temple!

When our forces finally converge and completely squeeze your space for movement, there will always be a time when you will be forced to fight a decisive battle.

As a result, when the devil's forward armored troops crossed the river, they were ambushed by the Eighth Route with bazookas and armored troops.

After some fighting, the vanguard of the devils crossed the river with many casualties.

This completely angered the little devil, and the old devil Nanzhi personally ordered the pursuit, and it was necessary to eliminate the sneak attack of the small armored force of the Eighth Route in one fell swoop.

At the same time, it continued to maintain the advance formation of the entire armored brigade and tried to converge with the troops of the 26th Division in the Datong direction to form a two-sided flank attack.

However, the Eighth Route Army did not necessarily retreat in a straight line.

Sometimes they will retreat in circles and circles.

Anyway, the entire Mengxi region is vast, the terrain is flat, and there is almost no end in sight, although the armored brigade led by the old devil Nanzhi has a lot of troops, it is basically wishful thinking to encircle and suppress the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army fighting in this weak plain area.

It is impossible for the devils to pull out a front that is several hundred kilometers long and encircle a large area in a dragnet-style way.

And that's not all.

In the next few consecutive days, the Eighth Route Army maintained this style of play, that is, constantly harassing the Japanese army, waiting until the devils divided their troops to pursue, and then quickly retreated, and then used the traps set in the middle to make the little devils lose their troops.

Of course, once the Japanese army was annoyed and pursued desperately, the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army decisively chose to retreat and never entangled with it.

In addition, all the combat vehicles that attacked and harassed the Japanese army were some highly mobile combat vehicles, and when they hit a single blow, they immediately fled thousands of miles away.

Quite a bit of plain terrain - the meaning of armored forces to harass guerrilla warfare.

The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase!

On the whole, the Japanese army was still on the overwhelming superior side, and the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army did not dare to meet the enemy head-on.

The Japanese chariot pursuing unit in the course of pursuit.

Sometimes the Eighth Route Army withdrew in a hurry, and was even forced to abandon some materials and equipment.

Sometimes the fortifications and minefields are still being built, and they are discovered by the devils, and the eight roads can only flee in a hurry.

This made the little devil somewhat comforted in the annoying attacks and repeated pursuits of the Eighth Route Army.

However, this also invisibly consumed a lot of fuel for the devils, and caused more losses to the various mechanical vehicles of the Japanese army.

After a few days of such a battle of wits and courage, the Japanese army completely crippled 3 95 light battle squads, 2 97 medium battle squads, and 4 92 armored car squads.

Even the motorized search squadron was heavily damaged by 3, and as a result, it was not even seen in the face of the Eighth Road.

A large number of damaged vehicles need to be overhauled, otherwise they simply cannot be put into combat again.

The pursuit line of the Japanese army was also getting longer and longer, and the armored cluster troops composed of various arms that were originally relatively concentrated were gradually divided into multiple pieces in the pursuit.

The soldiers did not give the little devils any respite, and when the devils rested at noon, especially when they camped and defended at night, the soldiers would even harass them all night.

The old devil Nanzhi didn't dare to be careless, who knows if these eight roads would suddenly launch a fierce attack when he thought it was just an attack?

So much so that the Japanese soldiers could not get enough rest at all during the attack of the Eighth Route Army all night long.

After several days of pursuit, the soldiers were exhausted, even with the help of mechanized vehicles.

Time flashed to the sixth day.

The devil's armored vehicles and tanks were constantly being harassed by the small armored forces of the Eighth Route Army because they were constantly advancing, and they had no time to do adequate repairs.

In addition, the consumption of fuel is large.

Originally, all this was not fatal, the Japanese army was specially equipped with maintenance troops, and the fuel they brought was quite sufficient.

It only needs to be well and firmly rested for the whole day, the worn mechanical vehicles can be repaired, and the fuel required by each team can also be replenished by the transport tanker in time.

In fact, the Japanese army did exactly that.

At this time, according to the reconnaissance of the Japanese army, the armored troops on the side of the Eighth Route Army were temporarily missing.

When Nanzhi ordered the troops to rest, carry out large-scale unified maintenance of machinery, and replenish fuel, after reporting on the situation of the combat vehicles commanded at all levels, the pursuing troops were unaware that they were far away.

The farthest two tank brigades were even separated by almost a hundred kilometers.

This situation actually made Nanzhi muttered a little in his heart.

However, at present, the vehicle is seriously depleted, and the fuel is also seriously insufficient, and it must be stationed on the spot to rest before it can be used again.

Nanzhi ordered the maintenance troops and transport convoys to move immediately, and sent additional chariot troops along the way to escort them.

It was around 4 p.m.

The old devil of Nanzhi is waiting in the temporary camp for the scattered chariot brigades to be regrouped and concentrated to prevent being driven out by the Eighth Route Army!

One after another communication messages came in a hurry:

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander, the maintenance unit of the 1st Tank Brigade was ambushed by the armored troops of the 8th Route on the way, and is currently in a bitter battle, asking for tactical guidance!"

"Sir, the temporary camp of the Third Tank Brigade was suddenly attacked by the troops of the Eighth Route Army, the enemy has a considerable number of armored and tank vehicles, and the firepower configuration is extremely fierce, and the outer line fortifications built by our department have been forcibly breached!"

"Sir, the transport unit was attacked, and two tanker trucks were detonated by the Eighth Road......"

"Sir......

"Your Excellency, Brigade Commander...... The Eighth Route seems to have launched a counteroffensive on all fronts!! ”

One after another terrible news followed, and Nanzhi, the old devil in the temporary camp headquarters, looked at the military map in front of him with a little blankness, and each appeared on behalf of the nodes of the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army.

It seems that his chief of staff is right.

Judging from the appearance of the various armored units of the Eighth Road, the enemy seems to want to completely divide his entire tank brigade.

"These damn eight roads, are they really going to have a decisive battle with my tank brigade?"

The chief of staff of the devil on the side said Nanzhi's heart:

"This is absolutely impossible, brigade commander, according to our exploration, although the number of armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army in this area is quite large, if you want to confront our department head-on, I am afraid it is far from enough.

In addition, according to the report of the flight team, it has successfully blown up many armored units of the enemy in the target area, and at least nearly 100 tanks and armored vehicles have been blown up.

In this case, what other hole cards can the eight roads have to fight with our army? ”

This is something that these two old devils never figured out.

As the best way to combat land armored forces - air force bombing.

After detecting the appearance of armored units of the Eighth Route Army in the Mengxi area, almost all the planes of the Japanese puppet army airfield in Wuzhaigou were dispatched.

Regardless of whether it was a classic fighter or a new fighter, in short, he put all his family resources into it, and in accordance with Okamura Ninji's absolute order, he continued to reconnoiter back and forth in the target area for six consecutive days, and whenever he found an enemy armored target, he immediately launched a bombardment.

In just five or six days, the devil's bombers dropped no less than 500 bombs in the target area.

According to the feedback of the flying squadron, a total of more than a dozen enemy armored units were blown up, and dozens of fortifications and camps built by the enemy were blown up.

According to this situation, the squadron leader of the devil's flying squadron believed:

The strength of the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army in the target area is no longer three.

This is also the reason why when the old devil Nanzhi and the chief of staff of the devil learned that a large number of enemy armored troops suddenly appeared at various nodes and presented a full-scale counteroffensive, they were stunned.

Kong Jie and Li Yunlong naturally didn't explain much to the little devil.

The devil's judgment is indeed good.

On the sixth day, according to the weekly offensive plan created by Kong Jie and Li Yunlong, it was precisely when the devil's troops were sleepy and lacking, the armored vehicles were also greatly damaged, and the fuel supply was also insufficient, that an all-out counterattack was launched.

After the start of the all-out counterattack:

The first step was to take advantage of the dispersion of the Japanese armored forces during the pursuit, and directly divide the various armored units of the devil in a roundabout way.

The second step is to defeat the maintenance troops and transport troops of the devils in a targeted manner.

The third step is to start the final decisive battle with the Japanese armored forces, and quickly defeat the devil's armored forces, mobile artillery, cavalry and other troops.

Looting all kinds of resources and equipment of the Japanese armored brigades, and then quickly dispersed and hidden.

……

Everything is ready, and the decisive battle between the mobile forces and armored forces of the two sides is about to break out.

What was not bad with Kong Jie and Li Yunlong's expectations was that the devil's armored troops were constantly harassed by the Eighth Route Army and were exhausted.

By the sixth day, the soldiers were already exhausted, and the vehicles had already been worn out to varying degrees.

In addition, after the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army used tanks and armored vehicles and modified combat vehicles to launch fierce attacks on the Japanese army in different directions.

The entire Japanese tank cluster was like a herd of bison.

Comparatively speaking, the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army were beasts with fewer numbers and smaller sizes.

Although there are few beasts, they are better than unity, teamwork, and attack together.

On the other hand, the bison herd, although powerful, was in chaos under the siege of fierce beasts.

In terms of the reaction speed of each maneuver, he was often led by the officers and men of the Eighth Route Army.

If the east is attacked, the east will be hastily defended, and the west will be hastily defended west.

After so many times, the shortcomings of the devil's multi-arm armored cluster force, which is not unified in command and tacit understanding in teamwork, were immediately exposed.

The overall coordination of the operation seems to be more and more chaotic.

What makes the old devil Nanji feel most depressed is.

It was also a constant battle march, his soldiers were exhausted, and the chariots were wearing out to various degrees.

The number of all kinds of armored vehicles and tanks of the Eighth Route Army that could launch a decisive battle far exceeded his estimates, and judging from the mobility of the opponent's attack, artillery fire and other factors, it seems that they have not suffered any losses.

"Yaga, how did Balu do it?"

…… Boom –

A fierce exchange ensued between the elite tank units of both sides.

On the Japanese side, there are two of the most elite tank squadrons in the entire Nanzhi armored brigade, equipped with more than 30 Type 97 medium tanks plus Type 95 light tanks, plus more than 10 armored vehicles.

On the vast plain terrain, the formation was directly opened, and in the form of tank clusters, it crushed all the way to the armored units of the Eighth Route Army that appeared not far away.

On the other hand, on the side of the Eighth Route Army, most of them were armored vehicles, as well as modified combat vehicles, only seven or eight light tanks were mixed in the center of the formation, plus a few medium tanks.

The strength of the two sides does not seem to be on the same level.

Shao Zuo, the devil who commanded the battle, roared angrily, as if he wanted to completely vent all the anger in the past six days in the battle in front of him, and crush and destroy all these Eighth Route Army......

(End of chapter)