Although it was judged to be a blitzkrieg, Nakajima didn't understand how he could afford such a war with China's poverty and weakness, and they had so many tanks? And how are they trained? How do you use it in actual combat? Why did Zhuang Jihua dare to fight?

"Nakajima-kun, how to deal with this kind of large-scale tank battle?" Kawabe Shozo's face was slightly red, but the responsibility made him have to spit out this question, and he couldn't let the ** send the commander of the army to ask the officer who committed the crime. \\。

"I'm sorry, I haven't studied this mode of combat, we didn't expect ** to adopt this mode of combat before the war, and besides, the empire does not attach much importance to the development of tanks." Nakajima is not shy about it at all, and frankly admits that he has not studied tank combat enough: "However, I remember that the garbage article always mentioned that there are three main ways of anti-tank warfare, infantry anti-tank weapons and tanks and aircraft. ”

Shunroku Hata was bitter in his heart, since the rapid troops of the Japanese army were completely annihilated in Surabaya, it was prevalent in the Japanese army that tanks could not leave the infantry to act alone, and the use of tanks was more cautious, the anti-tank weapons of the squadron were sharp, and a tank cost a lot of steel a year, and it was not cost-effective to form a large-scale tank force in the eyes of the Japanese generals. Based on Japan's understanding of China, China has only a few old tanks, and there is no need to study anti-tank weapons at all, and most of the troops are not equipped with anti-tank guns, and even anti-tank guns are only equipped with a few units. And what about airplanes? The fact that the Chinese Air Force can now freely enter and exit Nanjing already speaks for itself.

Now in the face of the tank group charge and large-scale assault taken by the squadron, the Japanese army can only organize a forward team to stop China's frank attack with flesh and blood, although brave and tragic, but the effect is very poor, sometimes even if a dozen people are sacrificed, they can't blow up a tank.

"Your Excellency, it is recommended to retreat." Nakajima turned back to face Shunroku Habata and said solemnly: "Continue to fight, the three divisions under the command of General Ando Toshiyoshi may be wiped out, once the ** army breaks through Ando Toshiyoshi and turns south, hundreds of thousands of new victories will besiege General Yamashita General, and the upper and lower generals may not be spared." ”

Nakajima stopped talking about this, and there was no need to say anything more about this conclusion, and Shunroku Hata and Shozo Kawabe fully understood what the consequences were.

More than 80 tanks rushed towards Caozhuang in a triangular formation, in the sky, hundreds of fighters were strangling, the smoke-emitting planes fell, a already smoking plane suddenly pulled up the nose, and hit an oncoming P40, the two planes emitted a dazzling red light in the sky, and the other I-16 pressed down the nose with thick black smoke, roaring and pounced on the sun flag on the ground, with a huge explosion, the sun flag shattered into slag and flew into the air.

"Boom!" "Boom!" …

The muzzle of the tank spewed fire, shells sprayed out of the muzzle, smashing blood flowers on the weak defense line of the Japanese army, the Japanese troops on the position were dumbfounded, the first large-scale tank group operation in human history made them in a daze, dozens of tanks roared, the ground trembled under the huge kinetic energy of the steel, the Japanese soldiers in the trenches were pale, the machine gunners shot wildly, and the bullets flew everywhere on the steel.

"Stand up!"

With the shouts of the officers, a group of soldiers shouted Banzai and rushed out of the trenches, and before they had reached half the distance, the machine guns on the tank opened fire, and in the click of the machine guns, most of them fell, and the explosions were heard one after another, and clouds of blood mist fell from the sky.

Finally, two or three people approached the tank, and they pulled the explosives bags on their bodies and threw themselves on the tank, and several violent explosions caused the tank to burst into flames. Without waiting for the soldiers on the position to cheer, the tanks behind bypassed the burning tanks and continued to assault the position, the muzzles continued to spew fire, the machine guns continued to spew out a rain of bullets that harvested lives, and Caozhuang became a sea of fire.

Ando Toshikichi led his command to flee to Dangshan in a hurry, and the Qiuchi brigade that blocked the attack only resisted for two hours, that is, most of the jade was broken, the captain Qiuchi was killed, and the rest were divided into several units and trapped near Caozhuang, the tank did not stop at all, the tracks carried the mud, mixed with flesh and blood rushed to Dangshan, Ando Toshiyoshi didn't even have time to set up the radio before Qiu Qingquan chased him out of Dangshan.

"Order Qiu Qingquan to turn around." Zhuang Jihua's face was a little ugly after receiving the news that Qiu Qingquan had recovered Dangshan, the first time he carried out such a large-scale operation, his heart was by no means as calm as his appearance, he had been tense, and he was worried about the lack of training, which would lead to the failure of the battle; One will worry about the anti-tank weapons of the Japanese army; One will worry about heavy losses in tanks. His heart was always up and down, and now he can finally rest assured that the first large-scale tank battle in the war was finally a great success.

Let Qiu Qingquan come back, Zhuang Jihua also has another consideration, Qiu Qingquan rushed all the way and successfully divided and surrounded the three divisions of the Japanese army, this is the time to concentrate on annihilating it, and the tank is still his killer weapon.

Qiu Qingquan did not leave anyone to defend Dangshan at all, so he led his troops back to Yucheng to participate in the siege and annihilation battle, and after he walked for a long time, a company sent by Zhang Xin came to take over the defense of Dangshan.

In order to fill the gap in the battlefield, Ito gave up Dingtao and retreated to Heze, and Yoshio Shinozuka gave up the attack on Huanggang and used the 21st Division to guard Shanxian to attract the attack of Yang Sen and Xu Yuanquan, and he personally led the two divisions to detour to Zhangji and gallop to aid Dangshan.

On the southern front, Gu Shoufu stopped the attack on Haozhou, leaving the Ogishu soldiers to lead the 9th Division to feint on Haozhou, and he personally led the 10th, 18th, 13th, and 11th divisions to reinforce Yamashita Fengwen in Yongcheng.

Gu Shoufu's action deceived Deng Xihou, he found out a day later that Gu Shoufu had left, Deng Xihou immediately launched **, Lu Han on the left, Tian Zhennan Liu Ruming on the right, the three-way army killed out of the continent, the Dizhou soldiers could not resist, and fought and retreated to the vortex sun.

The fiercest battle was still under the city of Yucheng.

The Fifth Division was divided and surrounded, and Tang Enbo and Lan Yundong commanded the troops to attack separately and destroy them one by one. However, the 28th Division and the 39th Division were different, the two divisions and regiments always maintained a complete command system, and fought extremely tenaciously in the attacks of the 74th Army and the 46th Army. When Sugiyama Moto's retreat order was received, the two divisions began to break through separately, and the squadron began to intercept separately.

In order to open a way out, the Japanese army launched wave after wave of attacks, the bare-chested Japanese army with a cold and glittering 38 guns, howling and rushing to the defense line of the squadron, the Chinese soldiers who were in sight of victory bravely resisted, and the battle became unprecedentedly tragic and bloody.

The Japanese offensive continued, as if they were not thinking about anything else, and they didn't care about the future, they just wanted to break out of a bloody road. The 39th Division's desperate attack finally came into play before evening, and the Japanese reopened a narrow gap in the Huangguoliang defensive line of the 92nd Division in the southeast.

Fan Songfu was furious when he heard the report, and ordered Huang Guoliang to make meritorious service for his crimes, and at the same time transfer the 40th Army that was resting in Xiayi City out of the city, and immediately launched ** with the 92nd Division, be sure to plug the gap, and completely annihilate the 39th Division.

Pang Bingxun was still stunned by the sudden and drastic change in the battle situation, and after receiving the order, his desire to make meritorious contributions suddenly rose, and he immediately led more than 4,000 people of the whole army out of the city to participate in the counterattack.

It is pitiful enough, when the Jinpu Road was warned, Pang Bingxun's 40th Army had only 12,000 people, and the last time he fought hard in Linyi, he made great contributions, Zhuang Jihua expanded him to more than 15,000 people, and after two months of bloody battles, now there are only more than 4,000 people left, and now the army commander is used as a brigade commander, and the division commander is used as a regiment commander.

After the 40th Army left the city, it rushed to the position of the 92nd Division with a forced march, and then launched a ** to the Japanese army, Pang Bingxun took out the old tradition of the Northwest Army, opened the way with a broadsword, and the two sides started a white-knuckle fight near the breakthrough.

Dong Zhao and Zhou Shimian Rao Guohua launched a fierce attack from the north and south fronts, especially Rao Guohua on the northern front, relying on good equipment, bullying the lack of heavy artillery of the 39th Division, rampage all the way, unscrupulously erecting the cannon in a place where the Japanese army could see, aiming at the Japanese army's firepower point, the Japanese soldiers gritted their teeth and insisted in the bullet fire, dragging Rao Guohua at a heavy price.

The 28th Division was not so lucky, the 74th Army and the 102nd Army that surrounded him were both units with a few combat effectiveness in the 5th Theater, and the command post of Ishiguro Sadazo rushed to kill for a day and a night, but failed to break through a gap.

By dawn, Tang Enbo and the 101st Army, who had eliminated the 5th Division, had free up their hands to attack the 28th Division, and in the afternoon, Qiu Qingquan's tank troops had also returned to the battlefield, and the fate of the 28th Division and the rest of the 39th Division was decided.

“… For more than a month, the citizens of Wuhan wandered in tragicomedy, and their mood changed with the battle situation on the front line, with the Yellow River annihilating the enemy, Xuzhou being lost, and Yucheng counterattacking; From great joy to great sorrow to great joy, Shakespeare's plays cannot interpret the joys and sorrows in them. But the commander of the Fifth Theater, General Zhuang Jihua, successfully directed this tragicomedy, no, it should be a comedy.

When Xuzhou was abandoned, all the foreign affairs experts in Wuhan were worried, or doubtful, whether the squadron could hold Wuhan.

In my conversations with them, the dominant view was that the Japanese army would move south along the Pinghan Road, all the way to Xinyang Wusheng Pass, and all the way to the city of Wuhan.

But this is only judgment, and the Chinese prove that the wheel of fate is in their hands; The Chinese have once again proved that the West's view of them is wrong, and that the West's view of the world is not suitable for China.

Two thousand years ago, Moses led his people out of Egypt to redeem himself and save the Jewish people; Moses, who today led the Chinese to salvation and came out of defeat, is their commander, the youngest general in the world, the young commander of the army anxiously waiting for him on the Yangtze River.

Yes, it's him; He defeated almost all the Japanese generals in China, from Matsui Ishine and Terauchi Shouichi to Shunroku Hata, Sugiyama Moto, Itagaki Seishiro, all the famous generals in Japan before the war, and all the halos of the Japanese army, were shattered under his blade, exposing their pale and dying bodies.

The smoke gradually cleared, and there were bombed tanks, armored vehicles, cars, and lying corpses everywhere, and the samurai who were still raging in Xuzhou a few days ago now proved that they were only worthy of being strong warriors in front of unarmed women and children, and the ** people proved to be more worthy of the title of samurai than them.

From Xuzhou to Yucheng, I have walked, and the road is not long; But for the Japanese soldiers, it was a road from heaven to hell.

The winter sun shines on me, warm, this is an ancient land, is the birthplace of oriental civilization, after the baptism of blood and fire, this civilization has become more brilliant, I believe in this.

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