Time flies, more than a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the 42nd Group Army, which had long been stationed in Jiexiu and Fenyang, finally received an operational order issued by the General Headquarters of the 10th Theater to recover Linfen.

After more than a month of intensive training and suppression of bandits, these recruits have already looked like some veterans, at least they have made great progress in discipline and coordination, and there has been some tacit understanding between comrades-in-arms.

This battle is a battle that is basically no suspense, a group army attacked the Japanese army of a brigade in Linfen, 60,000 people fought 14,000 people, and the absolute overwhelming strength advantage.

The terrain of Linfen is gentle, which is conducive to the operation of armored troops, but the Qingshui Brigade has only a few poor Type 94 light tanks, and the Type 94 is completely vulnerable to the X-1 main battle tank.

The X-1 didn't even need to open fire, relying only on armored resistance to rush in front of the Type 94 tank, and directly use its huge weight to crush the Type 94 into a discus.

What's more, Xie Tian also ordered the theater flight brigade to work together, and the commander of the Qingshui Brigade in Linfen, Qingshui Guanmu, even if he has three heads and six arms, may not be able to support it for three days, unless he is as shameless as Miyamoto Hisashigi, kidnaps civilians, and uses the lives of ordinary people to stop the PLA attack.

However, even if he has an absolute overwhelming advantage, he cannot be careless, Xie Tian personally presided over the meeting to discuss the battle plan jointly formulated by the General Staff and the 42nd Group Army, from the material reserves to the strategy and tactics used in the front-line combat preparations, everything was sorted out in detail, including the response to emergencies, and even the possibility of Yang Aiyuan's troops in the second theater taking advantage of the fire to loot and plunder the results of the battle was assumed.

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As a result, the 52nd Army and the 53rd Army of the 42nd Group Army had just been drawn from Jiexiu and Fenyang to Xingtang Temple outside Huozhou City when they encountered an accident.

Ge Dazhuang led the tank division, as the vanguard of the 42nd Group Army, to set off four hours ahead of schedule, and when he marched to Xingtang Temple, he had already opened a distance of more than 30 kilometers from the headquarters of the group army and the 52nd Army following behind him.

Ge Dazhuang is much more cautious than Li Changshun, if it is Li Changshun who leads this tank division and sets off four hours in advance, he is afraid that he has already arrived at Linfen City, and he has already rampaged into Linfen City.

I'm afraid of a ball, the tank division of the 42nd Group Army is equipped with all X-1 main battle tanks, there are as many as 72 vehicles, not counting those armored personnel carriers and armored anti-aircraft artillery vehicles, such a powerful firepower How can other troops need to help, only this one tank division is enough to level Linfen City.

If Li Changshun really led this tank division, then he would definitely not encounter the Japanese Sixth Tank Brigade at Xingtang Temple, the two armies would pass by, and the tank division would definitely not encounter much problem when attacking Linfen, but the General Headquarters of the 42nd Group Army and the 52nd Army following the tank division would have to encounter the Japanese Sixth Tank Brigade.

Without the escort of heavy armored forces, Fu Zuoyi's general headquarters and the 52nd Army suddenly encountered two tank wings, a mechanized infantry wing, a mechanized artillery wing, and a rapid-fire artillery team of the Japanese Sixth Tank Brigade, and they were bound to suffer heavy losses.

The 6th Tank Brigade of the Japanese Army has 161 Type 97 medium tanks, 57 Type 94 Azuki fighting vehicles, 48 field infantry guns, 52 mountain artillery, 62 armored infantry fighting vehicles, 603 trucks, and a total strength of about 7,200 people, including search teams, air defense teams, baggage teams, engineering teams, equipment teams, and non-combat units directly under the brigade.

With such a powerful firepower configuration of the Japanese Sixth Tank Brigade, if it faced the unsuspecting 52nd Army, the 52nd Army, a new army that had just been established, was very likely to be defeated in the first battle.

It's a pity that luck is still biased in favor of the PLA.

The Japanese Sixth Tank Brigade set out from Changzhi and passed through Xingtang Temple, and they received an order to attack Hejin and Seng Tower, which were heavily defended by Yang Aiyuan's Sixth Army in the Second Theater, in order to drive the Sixth Army across the Yellow River in one fell swoop.

Persimmon picks up soft pinch, Gangcun Ningci does not dare to touch Xie Tian's tenth theater now, his conspiracy against Xie Baoqing in the tenth theater is already underway, but he now urgently needs a victory that is enough to make the Chongqing government tremble to prompt the Chongqing government to sit at the negotiating table, so he selected Yang Aiyuan's Sixth Army, and even did not hesitate to temporarily give up attacking Luoyang, and transferred the main force of the Sixth Tank Brigade preparing to attack Luoyang from Changzhi to the front line of Hejin Monk Tower.

As a result, the 6th Tank Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was preparing to attack Yang Aiyuan, encountered Ge Dazhuang Tank Division, which was preparing to attack Linfen, on the march.

The tank units of the two armies appeared from the two main roads in the northeast respectively, and almost at the same time they spotted each other, and both were taken aback by the other side.

The commander of the 6th Tank Brigade, Kitahara Ce, saw the Ge Dazhuang Tank Division on the march for a second, and gave the attack order to the tank without hesitation.

Ge Dazhuang spotted the Japanese tanks on another road almost at the same time, and he grabbed the on-board radio and shouted: "At ten o'clock, the devil tank unit was discovered, and each regiment immediately changed its formation and prepared for battle." ”

As the tank stopped and turned its turret, the infantry on board jumped out of the tank to find the nearest terrain to hide.

The X-1 tank was equipped with fences and handrails on the hull and turret to facilitate the carrying of infantry, which was a trivial design, but solved the problem of some infantry marching, which could save a lot of physical strength for the infantry, and at the same time could carry out infantry and combat at any time.

At this time, an explosion sounded, and the devil tank had already taken the lead in firing, and the shells fell not far from the tank that Ge Dazhuang was riding, like a big fart with smoke.

The explosive power of the 57 mm caliber shells of the Type 97 tank is actually not too bad, but it depends on who it compares with, compared to the 75 mm main gun of the X-1 main battle tank, it is simply a weak chicken.

With the sound of the little devil's cannon, the tank that Ge Dazhuang was riding on had also rotated the turret, Ge Dazhuang retracted from outside the turret and personally manipulated the sight, fine-tuned and fired back without hesitation.

The 75mm armor-piercing high-explosive shell rushed out of the barrel and flew towards the devil tank that fired first, the distance between the two sides was only more than 300 meters, and the muzzle velocity of the shell of the X-1 main battle tank 75mm main gun of 481 m/s was just a blink of an eye, and the armor-piercing high-explosive shell had accurately and directly hit the tank.

A violent explosion sounded, and the armor-piercing high-explosive shell directly penetrated the thin side armor of the Type 97 tank and exploded inside the tank, causing the Type 97 tank ammunition compartment to explode without accident, but in an instant, the tank had been blown to pieces, and the turret rolled in the air and flew out more than ten meters away.

The power of this cannon frightened the other tanks of the Japanese Sixth Tank Brigade.