Chapter 365, The War of Closing the Net,

"Don't be afraid, the more generals Han Xin, the better! The more people there are, the more I like it! Jiang Qiang smiled, then glanced down at his watch. Ahem, Commander Jiang, your words are chic! Li Zongren was thundered again, coughed twice in embarrassment, and said secretly in his heart: I remember that "Han Xin's generals have more soldiers, the better" means that the more soldiers he brings, the better, okay? But Jiang Qiang has become as many enemies as possible, is it possible that you can still surround a group of enemies one by one?

Although there is a short circuit full of questions, he has long been accustomed to being played by Jiang Qiang's whimsical and unconventional cards, Li Zongren really "didn't dare to ask more", but turned his head to look at Li Shuchun and others who were holding back a smile, and the meaning of the inquiry was beyond words. Li Shuchun smiled and said: "Haha, Chief Li, don't worry, the show will be staged soon!" If we can succeed in the experiment today, we will definitely be able to create a new art of war in the future! ”

"Oh?" Li Zongren raised his eyebrows, and said with great interest: "I want to hear about it!" "Hey, hey! Let's be honest, I did have a bold idea to test it today! Jiang Qiang didn't have a specific explanation, and after looking at his watch again, he said to Liao Youtian beside him: "Pass the order, and immediately launch a blitzkrieg according to the original plan!" ”

"Howler!" Liao Youtian nodded excitedly, then picked up the walkie-talkie and dialed it out. After a while, I heard bursts of deafening cannon sounds echoing in my ears one after another, and when I looked up, I saw countless fires rising into the sky, and then turning into extremely beautiful arcs of death. "Wow, Commander Jiang Qiang, you used so many heavy artillery today? That's a lot of money! Looking at the fires in the sky, Li Zongren sighed very much, this kind of local tyrant style of play is really outrageous!

In the past few days, Li Zongren has just looked at the tons and tons of ammunition consumed by the Jiaodong Group Army, and every battle is hundreds or thousands of shells and bombs of various calibers, and the total number of shells and bombs of various calibers consumed in large and small battles must be 20,000 or 30,000! If you change it to an ocean calculation, a rough estimate will show that there must be more than 10 million oceans! And that's not even plus a lot of consumption of fuel, bullets, etc.! At present, the annual fiscal revenue of the national government is only about 1 billion legal currency, and one ocean can be exchanged for 1-2 yuan of legal currency! In other words, in just over a month, Jiang Qiang has spent the equivalent of about 3% of the national fiscal revenue!

"It's so tyrant! I just don't know where Jiang Qiang got so many weapons and ammunition? "Li Zongren stayed in the Jiaodong area for more than a month, except for a few absolute military forbidden areas, he traveled almost everywhere, but he did not see large-scale military enterprises!

The defense area of the Jiaodong Group Army was surrounded by Japanese regiments and was completely cut off from sea and land contacts, and it was impossible for a large number of arms to be transported in! "Could it be that they have a huge dungeon? Or is it in the mountains? In this case, how much work is required? It's incredible! ”

Thinking about it carefully, many key details could not be figured out, but the more this was the case, the more Li Zongren felt a sense of fear! "Nani? Who's setting off fireworks, it's so beautiful! "In the Yujiayao fortress of the Japanese army, a Japanese sentry suddenly felt a light in his eyes, and quickly looked up to see a brilliant beam of light appear in the sky." Yaga! You idiot, this is the Chinese army firing! Immediately fire a warning gun and quickly hide in the anti-artillery hole! Don't stand stupid! "A devil veteran was so angry that he pulled the bolt and shot into the sky!" Yaga! Hide! "Hurry up and drop!" Soon, the ghost soldiers stationed in the fortress turned over and got out of bed one after another, and hid very skillfully. "Yaga! Sure enough, the offensive is about to start again! "Order the heavy artillery units to adjust their firing Zhu Yuan, and wait until the Huaxia tanks advance to the effective firing range, and immediately carry out artillery coverage!" "All combat units are in combat readiness!" "Hello!"

In another field fortress more than ten kilometers behind the Yujiayao Fortress, the Japanese 23rd Division also discovered the situation almost immediately, and the artillery and infantry of the little devils quickly moved! Boom! After more than two minutes of flight, one after another large-caliber heavy artillery shells hit the ground and exploded, splashing in the darkness one after another, and the earth-shattering sound of martyrdom broke the silence of the night, even within a radius of ten miles! "Armored demolition troops are dispatched immediately!" "Tank armored regiment assault at full speed!"

After only two rounds of artillery bombardment, and no cameo bombing of fighter jets, the five armored vehicles that had long been ready to attack advanced at full speed towards the Japanese Yujiayao fortress at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour! This was followed by a total of 130 Tiger tanks! Crunch, rumble, I saw a torrent of steel rushing forward like a wild horse in the hazy night, Rao is hundreds of meters away, Yang Fan and the others can still feel the incomparable fierce atmosphere! "Huh? Commander Jiang, how many tanks do you have? ”

Due to the dim light, Li Zongren couldn't see how many tanks rushed out, but just listening to the endless sound of chains rolling, he knew that there would definitely be no fewer of them! "That's not much, there are only 130 tanks in the whole army, and now all of them are here!" The corners of Jiang Qiang's mouth curled slightly, and he said very modestly!

"Ahem, ahem! This, that's amazing! Li Zongren was choked again! 130 vehicles are not a lot on the surface, but the 4 tank battalions transferred from the 200th Division during the Battle of Xuzhou have as many as 148 tanks! But Li Zongren knows very well that the tank group under Jiang Qiang's command is not an ordinary cargo, even the worst medium tank is a real heavy tank in front of the Japanese devils!

Not to mention those tanks in the national army that can penetrate armor even with heavy machine guns, and 100 of them add up to not even try to beat a Tiger tank or a Tiger tank! After looking at it for a while, Li Zongren asked curiously: "Commander Jiang, why are they all tanks, and they are advancing at full speed, why haven't they kept up with the infantry behind?" Is that okay? ”

Born in the First World War, the tank gradually evolved into the main assault weapon and the basic equipment of armored troops in ground combat! It is mainly used to break through the enemy's defense line, destroy enemy pillboxes and field fortifications, crush the resistance of enemy infantry, destroy enemy artillery, vehicles, materiel, ammunition and bridges, destroy all living forces, cover your own infantry, and fight enemy tanks and other armored vehicles!

Due to the lack of tank protection, there has always been a great emphasis on tanbu coordinated operations, and so far there has been no large-scale use of tank assaults alone! Therefore, Li Zongren will not understand why Jiang Qiang uses tanks like this, because without the coordinated operation of the infantry, it is not only easy to be attacked by the opponent's infantry, but also unable to clear the enemy army and effectively occupy the enemy's position!

"It's called a blitzkrieg! It's also today that I want to verify a new tactic, Sir Li, let's watch from the wall for the time being, and let's see if this tactic works! Jiang Qiang smiled and didn't give a specific explanation, because this was also the first time he had used a tank cluster charge!

Although he has studied German blitzkrieg theories and cases a lot these days, and has done many military flag deductions, Jiang Qiang is actually very worried in his heart, for fear that he will not be forced to be grassed! Blitzkrieg, also known as blitzkrieg, was a tactic used by Nazi Germany in World War II. It makes full use of the advantages of aircraft, tanks and mechanized troops to defeat the enemy by surprise attacks, and uses mechanized troops to quickly cut the enemy's main force to achieve the desired effect.

The core elements of Blitz are: speed, surprise attack, and concentration. In military operations, these three elements are both strategic and tactical. The blitzkrieg theory was coined by the German military strategist Guderian and was originally used in Poland. At 4:45 a.m. on September 1, 1939, the German army, with its 6 armored divisions, 4 light armored divisions and 4 motorized divisions as the main assault force, tore through the defense line of about 800,000 people of the six Polish armies in western Poland. By 5 October, the Polish campaign was over. The Polish army suffered 66,000 killed, 210,000 wounded, and 694,000 captured, while the Germans suffered only more than 30,000 casualties.

Thus the blitzkrieg was engraved in the military history of the world with a completely new tactic of success. One of the most important prerequisites for blitzkrieg is air supremacy, otherwise ground combat vehicles will become live targets. This is also the part that Jiang Qiang is most worried about, although he has the most advanced Mustang fighters, but the number is only 70 in total, if the little devil air force is anxious to fight with himself, it is really hard to say!

The shells from the first round of shelling were still halfway through, and the five armored vehicles rushed forward at full speed, and it took only more than 9 minutes to rush to the edge of the long tank trench in just over 8 kilometers! At this time, the second round of shelling had just ended for more than 2 minutes, and all the little devils were hiding in the pillboxes and anti-artillery holes shivering!

Large swaths of trenches and fortifications were blown up, and many devils were directly shattered, shocked to death and buried alive under heavy artillery bombardment! The god of war is by no means in vain, even if the little devils are hiding before the heavy artillery hits the ground, but it is a fool's dream to want to be intact! "Move fast, get out of the car and place the explosives bag immediately!" As soon as the armored car door opened, dozens of sappers quickly jumped out of the car with explosives and carrying sapper pickaxes and other tools, and then turned over and jumped into the tank trench to place the explosives bag! In less than three minutes, more than thirty high-explosive packets were placed, and all the sappers quickly crawled out of the tank trenches!

Boom, boom, and then an earth-shattering explosion exploded one after another like fried beans, and the violent explosion power and shock wave set off a terrifying wave! The earth was shaking violently, comparable to an earthquake of magnitude seven or eight, and the huge sound waves rippled out in waves, breaking the dead silence of the night, and it could be heard clearly even ten miles away! The powerful explosion power instantly blew up the tank trench several meters high, turning it into a gentle slope pit more than 50 meters long! "Nani? What's the situation? "Something doesn't sound right!" "Yaga! Get out there now and see what's going on! ”

After a week of continuous attacks, the little devils have formed an inertial thinking, thinking that this time the Jiaodong Group Army will still follow the usual routine of first shelling and then aircraft bombing, and then the infantry will start a formal attack under the cover of tank guidance! However, this time Jiang Qiang launched a lightning general attack, which is no longer the previous war of attrition! Hearing that this movement was not quite right, many little devils had the audacity to get out of cover to check the situation! Boom, the tank that followed at full speed rushed to the front of the tank trench where the devil had been blown up, and rushed down the gentle slope of the explosion without the slightest delay.

The powerful inertia and kinetic energy rushed more than ten meters away at once, and easily rushed straight from the collapsed tank trench to the opposite gentle slope, and then quickly climbed to the ground! "Nani? This is a tank of the Chinese army? "Ah, what's going on?" More than a dozen devil soldiers who drilled out of the anti-artillery holes were shocked to find that huge steel monsters appeared in the retina as soon as they appeared!

"Yaga! The Huaxia tank is coming! "Tao Ci change!" The frightened devil soldier babbled, picked up his gun, pulled the trigger at the tank, and shot at the station. Bang bang "Little devil, die!" "Death to those who stand in my way!" The few tanks that rushed to the front did not hesitate at all, and the heavy machine guns rang out, and after a string of tongues of fire, the more than ten devil soldiers were beaten into a sieve! Immediately afterwards, a heavy tank weighing more than 40 tons ran over and crushed the corpse of the devil into a pulp!

"Assault at full speed, rush!" "The armored demolition team keeps up!" "Kill!" Without any stagnation, the tank armored group continued to advance towards the Japanese trenches in front, booming, the mighty torrent of steel was full of domineering and invincible atmosphere, and the rumbling motor and creaking tracks performed the death march! "Nani? Tanks have already rushed in? "Amaterasu! What's wrong with this? "Ah, run!" "Help!" The devil defenders who found that something was wrong all came out of their hiding places, and at this time, the tanks lined up and ran over directly from the front. At this time, it was the height of summer, and it was already a little numb and bright at four o'clock in the morning, and the huge black shadow with a width of 3.5 meters and a height of 2.8 meters was like the soul envoy of the evil dog Hades from hell, which instantly scared the little devil dumbfounded!

Especially the devil recruits who had just been added in were directly frightened, turned around and started running, everyone knows that such a behemoth is not something that infantry can fight against at all!

"Yaga! A bunch of cowards! Hold it! "Bang bang bang!" The devil commander and the veterans raised their guns without the slightest hesitation and killed the recruits who fled in a hurry around them, and after killing more than ten or twenty of them, they finally stabilized the troops, and no one fled from the battle! "Baga Ya Road! Organize a demolition team now! "Prepare the explosives pack!" "The time has come to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor!" "Imperial warriors, go back and carry the explosives! Hurry up and drop! "Tell the Wing Commander and let the Pyro squadron attack!"

The devil soldiers knew that the light and heavy machine guns and rifles in their hands were no different from burning sticks at this time, so they simply threw them all to the ground and collected explosives such as explosives bags and grenades everywhere! Boom, the tank group advancing at full speed only took one minute to break through to the first trench of the devils 200 meters away! The width and depth of the trench were far inferior to the tank trench, and it could not stop the advance of the tank troops at all, and the tank only slowed down and plunged into the trench!

"Ah, help!" "Ahh The devils in the trenches couldn't dodge and were directly crushed into pulp. There is simply no time to make any effective resistance! "His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!" A few little devils pulled the grenades on their bodies before they died, but these grenades can be lethal to the infantry, and they are useless against the heavy tanks that rush to the front!

"Haha, the feeling of assault at full speed is cool! Brothers, you must have a good time today! Break through with all your strength and kill all the devils who dare to stand in the way! Rush to the Japanese 23rd Division garrison as fast as possible! "Today is the first pure tank assault blitzkrieg, Zhou Hao is extremely excited, in the past, due to taking care of the infantry, the speed could only be reduced to five or six kilometers per hour, but this time the speed was maintained more than 30 kilometers along the way!

Although this speed is very slow and low speed in a motor vehicle, the speed of propulsion on the battlefield can be described as the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves! As the supreme leader of the armored tank regiment, Zhou Hao's reinforcements were not allowed to participate in the battle in person, but he sat on the No. 06 Tiger heavy tank by verifying and practicing the blitzkrieg! Although this Tiger heavy tank did not rush to the front line as a command vehicle, Zhou Hao was still so excited that he didn't want to!

"Haha! That's a must! "That's right, you're going to have to fire all the power today!" "Kill it!" "Fire!" The surging power, the rumbling motor, and the sound of guns and cannons like fried beans are like modern rock music, and all the tank soldiers are screaming with excitement. The tank group rumbled forward, crushing all the stubborn devil infantry, destroying all the flaming bunkers and improvised fortifications, and killing gods and Buddhas along the way! In just five or six minutes, the tank group advanced to the last core position of the devil!

"Shoot! Tao times change! "Fire!" There are three pillboxes, 6 battle defense guns, and several machine guns, which can be regarded as the last barrier outside Yujiayao Village! "Haha! Get to work! "Hit hard!" "Get out of the way, let me have a few shots too!" The devil's dense guns attacked, and the Pershing tank and Tiger tank that rushed to the front did not panic at all, and adjusted the barrel as soon as they left, and soon locked on to new targets! In an instant, the sound of kung fu guns exploded like fried beans, and the fierce battle was staged again!

"Yaga! First Demolition Team! "His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!" "Great Japanese Empire onboard!" It didn't take long for hundreds of devil death squads to run out of Yujiayao with explosives bags and flamethrowers on their backs, and entered the final core position one after another! Knowing that the tanks of the Jiaodong Group Army are very powerful, explosives bags and flamethrowers are naturally prepared!

But due to the suddenness of the incident, the explosive bags were stored in the ammunition depot in the rear, not in the trenches, so after the devils got these explosives bags and flamethrowers, the tank group had broken through several trenches in a row and reached the last line of defense! Seeing this, these devil soldier death squads all went crazy and rushed forward with explosives bags!

"Da da da", the tank group that has long put this trick will spew out tongues of fire from the heavy machine guns on board at the first time, and more than a dozen little devils will be overturned in an instant by a metal storm! The metal storm woven by dozens of heavy machine guns can not be resisted by flesh and blood, even if thousands of troops and horses charge, they have to turn into a mountain of blood and corpses! "Yaga! Don't continue to rush, wait for the Huaxia tank to rush over! ”

After rushing in two waves in a row, it was impossible to get close to the tank group at all, and the devil commander could only give up the active charge and let a team of devil death squad cats wait for an opportunity in the trenches! In the past, when the Chinese troops encountered Japanese tanks, they used their lives to fill them, and they often had to pay dozens of lives to blow up a tank. Boom, boom

In less than three minutes, the heavy firepower of the devil's last core position was dumbfounded, and the remaining devil soldiers didn't dare to raise their heads at all! "Now it's our turn! Brothers get out of the car and clean the tunnel! "Kill!"

Knowing that there were a large number of Japanese death squads waiting for them in the trenches with explosive bags, the tank group naturally would not be stupid enough to continue to charge towards the crush! More than 100 infantrymen in 5 armored vehicles jumped out of the carriage at the fastest speed, and came to the front of the Japanese trench in three or two steps, and then hundreds of grenades were pulled and ignited! Boom, after a violent explosion, a raging fire burst out of the trench, and this wave of grenades directly cleared all the devil remnants inside, and even a few flamethrowers were blown up!

"Yaga! All retreat to the village and fight in the streets with the Chinese army! "Having lost all the positions outside the village, and there is no way to inflict damage on the armored tank group from the front, the captain of the devil brigade can only give up his illusions and try to rely on the houses and buildings in the village to make a final resistance!" Assault of the whole army! Bypass Yujiayao and hit the next Japanese fortress! Leave the devils in the village to the follow-up troops! Rush! ”

After clearing the hidden danger, Zhou Haodang even ordered the tank armored troops to continue to advance and rush through the last trench! "Nani? These tank armor just rushed straight over? "What the hell does that mean?" The Devil Captain is ready for street fighting, ready for the worst to be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor! However, he soon discovered that after the extremely powerful Huaxia tank group broke through the last line of defense, it did not continue to attack the village not far away, but rushed into the distance without stopping!

Boom, after bypassing Yujiayao, 130 tanks spread out in formation in the open area, crushing all the way, its momentum is like thousands of troops, full of strong visual impact! "Yaga! Do they still want to attack the 23rd Division directly? A tank armored group directly attacks a heavily guarded fortress? It's crazy too! "The captain of the devil is not a stupid person, after thinking about it for a while, he understood, and suddenly his heart was shocked!

This is the first time such a tactic has been encountered, and although it is unknown what the specific effect will be, there is an extremely ominous premonition from the bottom of my heart! "Report to the General Seat! Our army has broken through the fortress of Yujiayao and is currently advancing at full speed towards the fortress where the 23rd Division of the Japanese army is stationed! "Zhou Hao reported the situation to Jiang Qiang as soon as he broke through." Very good! Keep moving! ”

Jiang Qiang nodded after receiving it, and then ordered Liao Youtian: "Inform the Flying Tigers, all bombers and helicopters will attack, and bomb the 23rd Division for me!" The fighter brigade is ready for combat at the first level! Always ready to strike! "For the sake of safety, Jiang Qiang still left the fighter group at the base to stand by, in case the devil bomber group came to make trouble!" What? In less than half an hour, he had already broken through the Yujiayao fortress? So fast? This, how is this possible? ”

Li Zongren was stunned when he heard this, and his eyes were full of shock! A few days ago, it took half an hour for artillery and aircraft bombardment alone, and then it took at least one hour for the tanks and infantry to advance together to reach the front of the Japanese position. Then the devils attacked at the front of the position for an hour or two, and then swaggered back, and the whole process lasted for three or four hours, but they stayed in front of the tank trench!

And today it took less than half an hour to break through the entire four lines of defense of Yujiayao, which is simply a big joke! "Haha! Sir Li, this is just an appetizer, the wonderful is still to come, and there is nothing to see here now, why don't we go to the command post and wait for news! "The attacking forces have retreated 25 kilometers away, and they can no longer be seen with telescopes!" All right! Just by Commander Jiang's orders! Li Zongren nodded, although he really wanted to see the entire process of the blitzkrieg with his own eyes, but this was just an unattainable extravagant hope!