The train, which was full of passengers and people, under the command of the dispatcher, drove out of the platform, and the carriage was still carrying blood and black smoke, and slowly drove into the distance.

The vicinity of the platform was cleaned up by the preparatory battalion, all the idlers and the thugs who boarded the train were concentrated in the cement open space in the platform, the light machine guns with black holes were pointed at them, no one dared to make a mistake, the two corpses that were killed were not yet cold, who dared to stand on the gun?

The train carrying passengers drove away, and more than a dozen train dispatchers hurriedly arranged for the military trains behind them to enter the station, and the preparatory battalion had arranged special military trains for this retreat, and compared with the passenger trains in front, the trains carrying the retreating troops were really simple.

The outer walls of the carriage were all speckled and painted with gray-black paint, but the number was enough to carry all the men and equipment of the preparatory battalion, the anti-aircraft artillery battalion, and the anti-aircraft machine gun platoon.

The station shift leader who had just talked to Zhang Wei personally led Zhang Wei to inspect the train, inspecting each carriage by carriage.

"Sir, you see, the carriages are complete, and they are all troop carriers." The shift leader said very politely, Zhang Wei helped him solve the big trouble just now, and of course he was extremely respectful at this time.

"Open the carriage! Tell the chief to see. The shift leader asked his subordinates to open the carriage, and several subordinates opened the lock of the carriage door and pushed the carriage open, Zhang Wei stretched his head to take a look, and sure enough, it was a standard troop carrier, which was covered with hay and sealed everywhere, with almost no other facilities.

The favorite thing for the army to transport troops is this stuffy board car, why? The transportation volume is large, because in normal times, this thing is to pull goods or even transform coal trucks, and the production and transportation costs are low, as for the soldier's riding experience, it is not something that the superiors consider.

"The hay inside is all new, it was newly laid yesterday, you can see how it goes." Zhang Wei nodded, the shift leader said well, although the carriage is simple, but the tidying is good, the hay is thick, all new grass, and there are no other sundries in the carriage.

The vast majority of troop carriers are filled with all kinds of peculiar smells, pads with grass that is about to rot, and extremely humid environment, and these troop carriers in front of Zhang Wei are very well cleaned up.

"Excuse me, let our brethren hurry up and board the bus." After Zhang Wei inspected them one by one, he saw that the time was almost up, and submitted an application to the shift leader to board the bus and set off.

Zhang Wei had to command the troops to board the car, not only men, ammunition, food, artillery, ammunition, and horses of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion had to be loaded on the car, Zhang Wei ordered to get on the anti-aircraft artillery and horses first, and then get on the people after the horses and heavy equipment were loaded.

After discussing with the commander of the anti-artillery battalion, Zhang Wei asked the shift commander for a lot of hemp rope and large buckets, which were used to fix the artillery and ammunition boxes, and emergency braking was prone to occur during transportation, so in order to protect the ammunition and artillery, they must be fixed with hemp rope.

The bucket is used to hold the water source, people can not drink water in the car for a short time, the water of the horse can not be broken, the horse is this thing, the gold is very expensive, the forage and water source can not keep up, two or three days to lose fat, a long time, from death is not far away.

The horses of the national army, like artillery, are more expensive than people, and this preparatory measure must be done in advance, and the horses that pull ammunition and anti-artillery are dead, and there is not much difference between losing artillery.

The equipment of the anti-aircraft artillery battalion was on first, the men were on last, and then the anti-aircraft machine gun platoon, and the infantry platoon of the preparatory battalion was at the end, and it took several hours for all the troops to board the trains, and each compartment was stationed with infantry ranging from one platoon to two platoons, and the combat anti-aircraft artillery probably took two wagons to fit the next platoon.

Zhang Wei and a company commander Qiu Wei together, stationed in the first carriage, all the personnel boarded the train, closed the carriage door, closed the lock, leaving only a small part of the vents, the carriage entered a gloomy state, the traction locomotive slowly started the steam engine, driving the crankshaft, after the huge whistle, the whole train of military vehicles drove out of the platform, towards the predetermined goal......

The train first traveled along the Pinghan line, and then turned around one by one, heading to Hunan, Zhang Wei's department had more heavy equipment, so this time the military train did not change the road, nor did it change people, that is to say, the soldiers under Zhang Wei did not have to change to other trains in a big way, they needed supplies, and they could buy it at the station where they stopped when they stopped, and most of the time in the entire long-distance journey, the soldiers of the preparation battalion stayed in the carriages.

Most of the troops of the assault column withdrew, and in southern Henan, only Qiu Maniac led the chariot battalion and the column headquarters to cooperate with the friendly forces, and the fight was very difficult, and not long after Zhang Wei led the troops to withdraw, the Japanese army launched a large-scale attack on the defense line around the First Army, Xinyang and Luoshan, and heavy artillery and aircraft took turns to attack the positions of the First Army.

When Zhang Wei fought in Xinzhuang, the main force of the Japanese army had not yet arrived and completed, so he launched a surprise attack with fewer troops.

On the front line of Xinyang, it was a pot of porridge, and Qiu Maniac led the chariot battalion, cooperated with the First Army, and launched a confrontation with the Japanese army in the artillery fire.

The units of the First Army lacked experience in infantry coordination, and were far less skilled than the preparation battalions that had cooperated with the chariots many times.

The fighting qualities, anti-tank weapons and tactics of the Japanese army were much stronger than those of the Chinese army, and in this case, the tank battalion of the assault column achieved many results while losing one after another.

On the battlefield, as soon as the tank battalion of the assault column launched an attack or counterattack, it was difficult for the Japanese troops who were directly attacked to support the first round of tank onslaught, because there were usually no anti-tank weapons deployed on the front-line positions.

However, due to the poor awareness of infantry to cooperate with combat vehicles, after the first round of rapid offensive of combat vehicles, the Japanese army found that there was a lack of infantry near the Chinese army's combat vehicles, and immediately transferred anti-tank guns and even organized infantry blasting.

After the victory of the first offensive of the chariot troops, they were counterattacked by the Japanese army, accompanied by the loss of chariots.

From Lanfeng to southern Henan, the chariot battalion of the assault column was constantly assigned to the infantry units to fight, except for the time when it cooperated with the preparatory battalion due to Zhang Wei's attention and cooperated better, the rest of the infantry and tank coordinated battles were almost the same results and mistakes.

Some infantry commanders subjectively thought that the tank guns were thick and the armor was thick, and felt that the Japanese infantry could not deal with the tanks with their flesh and blood and infantry weapons, and they were unwilling and unwilling to send people to cooperate.

The final result can only be a failure, a waste of fighters, and the destruction of tanks and vehicles.

Moreover, due to the poor quality of the grassroots soldiers, during the siege stage of the Battle of Lanfeng, when the tank battalion cooperated with friendly forces, there was even a situation where the infantry units regarded the national army tanks as Japanese tanks, which almost caused the collapse and confusion of the troops!

In the entire battle of Lanfeng, in addition to cooperating with the preparation battalion, the use of combat vehicles of the assault column was relatively unsuccessful.