The confrontation between the Nanzhi Tank Brigade of the Japanese Army and the armored units of the Eighth Route Army was unexpected.

The little devil is very cautious and strict on his body.

At the beginning, the so-called armored corps rose rapidly under the noses of the devils, and then in the surprise attack on Datong and the operation of penetrating Luxi Luzhong, this armored unit of the Eighth Route Army was also completely exposed to the vision of the Japanese army.

The devil also made a very detailed intelligence reconnaissance of this armored unit of the Eighth Route Army.

And judged the approximate number of mechanized combat vehicles possessed by this so-called mobile unit of the Eighth Route Army, as well as the types of vehicles, the strength of the artillery attached to them, and so on.

It's just that since the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, the Eighth Route Army has shown poor performance in terms of equipment level.

The devil preconceived that the armored combat vehicles of the so-called mobile unit of the Eighth Route Army were limited, and they only dared to carry out some petty attacks and harassments.

Datong was attacked by surprise because this unit took the 26th Division by surprise and launched a surprise attack when the main force of the 26th Division was heading south.

As for Luzhong Luxi being penetrated, it is also because there is no Japanese army's elite armor in the Luzhong Luxi area.

This made this mobile unit of the Eighth Route Army rampant all the way.

Many Japanese officers arrogantly believed that once the so-called mobile unit of the Eighth Route Army, the so-called armored combat unit, collided with the tank unit of the Great Japanese Empire, it would be destroyed in an instant.

There can never be a second outcome.

After all, the Japanese army underestimated the rapid development of the Eighth Route Army in terms of equipment level in the past two years.

It underestimated the rapid reaction force directly under the Taihang Eighth Route Army, especially the rapid accumulation of combat effectiveness of the elite armored units.

How would the devil know that the Eighth Route Army has been focusing on building elite armored units for most of the past six months, especially the first team, as well as the new second regiment led by Li Yunlong.

For this reason, the training of armored troops in the base areas is in full swing.

All the members of the armored corps are elite veterans drawn from the first team, from the new second regiment, from the new first regiment and even from the entire Taihang Eighth Route Army.

Basically, they are all culturally rich.

Quite a few veterans have graduated from some cultural classes run by the detachment.

In the subsequent training, everyone also grasped the theory of armored combat quite quickly.

As for the actual training of armored troops, Kong Jie has invested a lot of money, and he doesn't play any bells and whistles at all.

The training environment is much better than when the Central Army was training armored troops.

The fighters can directly take the training tank for practical operation training.

In order to master the solid combat experience of the armored corps as soon as possible, the officers and men did not even leave the tank near the tank for food, drink, and Lazar.

Everyone raced against time to enhance their experience in driving tanks, and at the same time trained various cooperative tactics, such as infantry and tank coordination tactics, artillery tank coordination tactics, and various cooperative tactics between tanks and tanks, and tanks and mobile units.

From this point of view, it can even be said that the soldiers have been waiting for the opportunity to fight the elite armored forces of the devils at the moment, and they don't know how long they have been waiting.

After the decisive battle between the two sides broke out, the soldiers were full of strength.

I have been bullied by the devil's tank for so many years.

Now it's finally time for feng shui to take turns.

Modified vehicles, enhanced artillery, skilled piloting, superb coordination tactics.

The soldiers drove all kinds of chariots and armored vehicles belonging to the Eighth Route Army and galloped on the flat and open plateau terrain of the Mengxi area.

……

"The fifth squadron is in a hurry, request for reinforcements quickly!"

"6th Light Tank Squadron Requests Tactical Guidance!"

"The 1st Tank Search Brigade was attacked by the main armored force of the Eighth Route Army, and it has suffered heavy casualties."

"Sir!"

"Sir......

Bad news came one after another, and the old devil Nan Nanzhi was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.

A chariot brigade of the Imperial Japan!

On the day of the confrontation with such an armored force as the Eighth Route Army, which was once called a Hanako-like team, it was about to collapse at the first touch.

Defeat is like a mountain!

Everything that came caught the old devil Nanzhi off guard.

At this time, the strength of the entire Nanzhi chariot cluster was not concentrated in one place, and it was pushed forward for a full six days, in the process of pursuing the small armored troops of the Eighth Route Army that were harassing all the way.

The tanks of the Japanese army have been unknowingly scattered by the nose.

By the time Nanji found out, it was too late.

After the battle broke out, the damned Eighth Route immediately cut off the transport team of the Nanzhi chariot cluster to contact the chariots of various branches.

The fuel supply to the Japanese tanks was completely cut off.

When the modified chariots and ferocious artillery strength of the Eighth Route Army were completely deployed, the little devils who were beaten and could barely raise their heads realized the reversal of the situation and began to retreat honestly.

What was originally an invincible pursuer soon became a confused, panicked escaper.

However, the situation that followed was not the same as that of the Japanese army's pursuit of the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army.

When the devils pursued the fleeing armored troops of the Eighth Route Army, the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army ran fast, and they could also set traps and pits along the way from time to time.

Now, after the roles of the two sides are reversed.

In the rapid pursuit of the armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army, the tanks on the Japanese side, which were almost running out of fuel, soon bottomed out in the continuous retreat, and the last fuel consumption bottomed out.

"Your Excellency Squadron Leader, our tanks are running out of fuel!!"

While still on the run, this terrible news came.

The devil squadron leader of the Japanese medium tank squadron who led the team stood on the top of a 97 medium command tank, and when he looked back, he could see the chariot of the Eighth Route Army that was still pursuing not far away.

He realized something was wrong.

Pushing forward for a full six days, the Imperial chariots pursued the fleeing armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army all the way, and the pursuit was too deep.

The front was pulled even hundreds of kilometers in one go.

The entire Mengxi area is mostly flat and open plain terrain, which is especially suitable for combat of tank troops.

If they want to resist the pursuit of the Eighth Route Army and withdraw to the base camp, it will take at least a day or two to drive.

But this fuel oil, which is already about to bottom, is simply not going to last for so long.

The transport troops sent by His Excellency the Brigade Commander for reinforcements also did not appear in time.

I'm afraid I can't wait for this fuel.

"Bastard!"

The leader of the devil squadron scolded, and the adjutant on the side was also a little anxious: "Sir, what are we going to do?" If you continue to escape like this, sooner or later you will be caught up by these Eighth Route Army because of the exhaustion of fuel.

At some point, our tanks run out of fuel, they will completely lose their mobility, and I'm afraid there will be no chance to counterattack! ”

In the end, the two old devils are combined, what else can they do?

Fight!

While there is still the last fuel to ensure the mobility of the vehicle.

Otherwise, once the fuel runs out, a combat vehicle that has lost its mobility and a pile of immovable, bulky scrap metal will make no difference and will only become a lamb to the slaughter.

Soon, one by one, the devil's chariots turned around and set up a battle, preparing to fight with the armored vehicles on the side of the Eighth Route Army.

On the other side, the commander of the third company of the First Armored Corps of the leading team saw the little devil looking back on the battle, and the excitement on his face became even stronger.

"Haha, comrades, this little devil is obviously in a hurry, don't run away, our chance has come!"

In the ensuing armored battle between the two sides, the commander of the third company did not have any bells and whistles.

It's a bit of a repetition of history.

Seeing that the Japanese tanks were concentrated in an area, it seemed that they were ready to fight to the death, considering that an attack from the front might cause unnecessary casualties.

The commander of the third company directly ordered to take advantage of the more superior mobility of his tanks to attack in three ways, one to attract the attention of the Japanese army from the frontal general attack, and the other two to detour from the flanks, with the help of the relatively raised terrain on both sides, to cover the field of vision, and strangled the chariot troops of the devils on three sides.

What a pity!

This is completely different from the situation when the two tank squadrons of the devil strangled a company of armored soldiers.

The commander of the first company of the family deliberately laid a trap at that time, deliberately waiting for the devils to divide their troops and strangle them, and then took the opportunity to destroy the devils' chariot troops with their backhands.

And the squadron of devil medium-sized tanks in front of him was just chased to the end of the road, and could only be forced to start the final decisive battle.

There is basically no suspense in the fight to this point.

According to the deployment of the commander of the third company, the soldiers on both flanks used self-propelled guns to carry out several rounds of artillery bombardment in advance towards the area where the devil's chariots were concentrated before attacking the devil's chariot from the flank.

The devil was bombarded unilaterally.

The smoke of gunpowder that permeated the Japanese area had not yet dissipated.

The commander of the third company gave an order, and the chariots and armored vehicles of the Eighth Route Army, which were strangled on three sides, descended the mountain like fierce tigers and rushed towards the chariot squadron of the devils.

So sober, seeing that the general trend was gone, the devil squadron leader shouted Long live the emperor, and then, in despair, led the rest of the little devils to resist to the death.

Chariots roared across the plains.

The roar of artillery fire does not stop!

Even immersed in the last despair and madness, the leader of the devil squadron who led the team was not only a little dazed, these fierce enemy troops, those desperate chariots that were modified, were they really still the so-called Eighth Route Army troops he was familiar with?

The two sides have been fighting for more than 20 minutes, and most of the devil's chariot squadron has suffered casualties.

In desperation, the roar of the engines of airplanes was heard from the sky.

A little devil roared ecstatically: "Sir, it's our air reinforcements that have arrived!" ”

"It's the flying unit of my Imperial Japan!"

"Roar!"

The leader of the devil squadron was also overjoyed, and a group of little devils seemed to have grasped the last hope in a desperate situation, as if they had found the only straw floating on the surface of the water in drowning.

"Kill the chicken and give—"

The little devils roared.

The commander of the third company looked at the fighters and bombers of the devils who were roaring quickly in mid-air, and his brows were furrowed.

"Damn, it's a little devil's plane again, grandma's, isn't it just bullying us that we don't have a plane? Comrades, everyone get ready, shoot down the devil's plane for me, I have to let the little devils know that we are not easy to bully on the ground! ”

"Hit-"

The militia training manual, jointly written by the generals of the Eighth Route Army headed by Kong Jie, contains detailed theoretical experience on how to use all kinds of weapons to fight against the air and fight devil planes.

Later, Kong Jie convened the generals in a detachment to write a special book on systematic military theory guidance on how to use air defense weapons to fight against the air.

A group of elite armored units were equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns and many anti-aircraft guns for anti-aircraft combat.

If these anti-aircraft weapons are to deal with the latest fighters of the Devil Navy, they may not be able to do enough, and even if they can cause some damage to the Japanese aircraft, they may have a lot of casualties.

But if it's just like now, it's just to deal with these devil fighters from the Japanese pseudo-airfield in Wuchagou in Inner Mongolia, and even most of them are classic planes.

That's more than enough.

"Formation against the air, open fire!"

Every elite armored corps of a detachment has extremely rich experience in air combat.

In the face of the reinforcements of the little devil's flying team, the soldiers quickly drove the chariot and scattered the formation to avoid being bombed by the devil's bombers.

This was followed by anti-aircraft machine guns and rapid-fire anti-aircraft guns.

The soldiers were not blind, and some were even at ease.

According to the theoretical guidance of air warfare, the soldiers waited for the devil's bombers to dive to a low point and the speed was at a minimum, and then covered the mid-air area with strafing fire and artillery shells.

to increase the probability of hitting the plane.

The combat performance of these old aircraft of the devil is very average, especially those old-fashioned, or even almost obsolete bombers, must use dive bombing.

The plane also climbs slowly.

This is simply to put your face in front of the fire of the anti-aircraft artillery and anti-aircraft machine guns of the soldiers.

Thereupon......

In the midst of the anticipation and cheers on the faces of the little devils on the ground, a flying unit of the devils, more than a dozen planes roared, and after only two rounds of bombing, they dropped the wreckage of a few fallen planes, dragged a few long smokes, and flew away in a bit of embarrassment.

...... "Chief, sir, air reinforcements are leaving again!" ”

Devil Squadron Leader: "......"

Actually, it's no wonder that the devil's flying troop is not to blame.

In fact, after the Eighth Route Army suddenly launched a duel of armored troops, the vast area of the Mengxi area was almost everywhere with armored troops from both sides fighting.

However, the air force reinforcements of the devils, these old planes flying out of the Wuchagou airfield are limited, and they can only hover over the Mengxi area, bombing one round in the east and strafing one in the west.

From time to time, reinforcements were added to reinforce the troops of the Nanzhi Tank Brigade for ground operations, but they could not actually turn the tide of the war between the two sides.

Occasionally, I encounter such hard stubble as the third company of armored corps.

I wonder how many more planes will be destroyed.

The squadron leader of the devil flying squadron who led the team is not stupid.

The persimmon picks the soft one first, and when it encounters the hard stubble, it is obvious that it is impossible for the imperial chariot troops on the ground to escape, and there is no need to waste air reinforcements here.

At this point, the little devils of the Japanese tank squadron, which was already at the end of the crossbow, were completely desperate.

The commander of the third company led the soldiers to start the final battle of chariot annihilation......

(End of chapter)