Regarding the speculation of Major General Ono Fengshi, Lieutenant General Akiyama Yoshigu has not doubted it, but everything must be based on evidence. Even if the 18th Division is almost wiped out now, as long as the division commander Shinnosuke Kikuchi is still alive and the flag of the 18th Division is still there, then the 18th Division will not be considered extinct, and it can be rebuilt in the future. In some ways, Lieutenant General Shinnosuke Kikuchi, who brought back the divisional flag safely, was a hero of the Empire of Japan, as he avoided the fate of the total annihilation of the Japanese army at the Battle of Mass 2. The battle of the No. 2 assembly area was a division-scale battle, if the battle flag of a division and regiment was not kept, even if a small group of troops escaped, it would be a total annihilation for the entire Japanese army, and even if the Morino brigade successfully broke through, it would not be able to change the shame of the total annihilation of the Japanese army. But Lieutenant General Shinnosuke Kikuchi brought back the divisional battle flag and avoided the birth of great disgrace in the Great Japanese Empire. Compared to the existence of the battle flag, the military department will not escape on the spot whether Lieutenant General Shinnosuke Kakuchi is on the spot, plus many things are evidence-oriented. Lieutenant General Iguchi and the staff officers of the headquarters of the 3rd and 18th Divisions, who were with him, were martyred en masse. It's harder to find a witness than to climb to the sky. The military department may not want to see such a situation occur. For the military department, the prestige of the Imperial Japanese Army is much more important than a person's life and death.

"Ohno-kun, don't talk about such unfounded things in the future. No matter what happened, the current Lieutenant General Shinnosuke Kikuchi was a hero to the Imperial Japanese Army. Lieutenant General Akiyama Yoshiko said in a deep voice.

"Hay!"

"Let's go! Go to the mountain brigade to see, the big war is imminent, such a mental outlook is not good! ”

Command of the Northeast Army.

"Tanks?" Liu Hei said with a face full of surprise. Cao Zheng was not surprised, after all, he had already heard Li Yang say the news of the tank on the battlefield in Changchun. I didn't meet each other, but I always knew that there was such a thing. Liu Hei didn't know, after all, the tank, as a secret weapon, had not been sent to the southeast battlefield for a long time, and it was always in the process of debugging and training, and several experts had been inspecting and recording data. Lin Hu also received a telegram from the tank battalion last night, and the tank experts had agreed to let the tank go to the battlefield to test the tank's performance in actual combat.

The tanks of the Northeast are completely different from the Japanese tanks, and the Japanese boxy ones can only be called iron boxes. The Northeast tank has already taken on the prototype of the later tank, which is loaded with a 60 mm rapid-fire gun and an air-cooled heavy machine gun. The prototype of this heavy machine gun was the Type 38 heavy machine gun produced in large quantities in Japan. Compared with the first-generation imitation Type 38 heavy machine gun used in large quantities by the Northeast military, the performance of the new generation of imitation heavy machine gun has been improved. Of course, with the current level of military industry in Northeast China, it is very unrealistic to make a breakthrough in the field of heavy machine guns, after all, Feng Yong is not an expert in military industry, and most of his suggestions for military production are superficial. The specific exploration still needs to be decided by experts.

Of course, Feng Yong will not completely make the imitation guns the same as the existing guns in foreign countries. For the transformation beyond recognition, that is, piracy, the Chinese people have an extraordinary talent. Therefore, although the weapons in the Northeast are born out of advanced foreign weapons, they are a combination of several weapons of the same model, and it is difficult to say that they are completely imitated.

"It's the Japanese tin box? I don't have any special combat power! Liu Hei thought of the Japanese tanks he saw on the battlefield, and under the bazooka in the northeast, the slow-moving Japanese first-generation tanks were the live targets. Under this understanding, Liu Hei naturally lost a lot of expectations for his own tanks in the Northeast.

"Our tanks are different, but what kind of battle these tanks can play will have to wait until they are on the battlefield to explain." Lin Hu said with a smile.

The Northeast Army rested in front of the snow valley and launched an attack. Mountain artillery and mortars fired at all speeds, and the forward positions of the Japanese army immediately turned into a sea of fire.

Because the snow valley was long, in order to lengthen the battle line of the Japanese army, the strength of the resistance to the Japanese army was weak. The Northeast Army was still divided into three attack points. Lin Hu, Liu Hei, and Cao Zheng each led their own troops and horses to fight.

After all, the troops of the Southeast Military Region are currently the most abundant, with 60,000 troops, which is more than the Japanese army on the opposite side.

The gap in the official road was the only defensive weakness in Snow Valley, and it was also the focus of the Japanese defense, and the Northeast Army set up a temporary position on the edge of Snow Valley, and fired at the Japanese army who occupied the advantageous terrain.

Thundered! There was a slight tremor on the ground.

With the roar of diesel engines, a full seven steel monsters slowly drove out of the Northeast Army position.

Roar!

Seeing the steel monster that appeared in their troops, the soldiers of the Northeast Army cheered loudly in surprise, after all, this terrifying thing belonged to their own side, which made the soldiers feel a lot more relieved.

The Japanese troops on the opposite side were a little dumbfounded, although the tanks that appeared in the Northeast Army looked strange, but it was undeniable that the muzzles of rapid-fire guns and heavy machine guns on them were indeed very shocking. Especially the huge roar and the smoke rising from behind, like a steel behemoth, full of power.

"The tanks of the Chinese people! It's a tank for the people of China! On the gap in the official road, the Japanese soldiers shouted in horror.

Bang bang bang da!

Rifles, heavy machine guns all concentrated fire on the tanks in the northeast. But after all, the Northeast tank is not like the Japanese tank with iron sheets to make up the Xibei goods, the northeast tank frontal armor thickness reached 30mm, the armor on both sides used 20mm steel plates, the base used 10mm steel plates. Such an armor thickness is of course nothing in the tanks of later generations, and even very weak, but it is already considered good among the tanks that already exist in this era, and it can be called a very good tank.

Bang Bang Bang!

Bullets flew around the tank, and such bullets could hardly pose a threat to the tank. The tanks in the northeast suddenly increased their advance speed and frantically advanced along the official road.

"Counterattack, counterattack......" The Japanese army panicked. Their tanks did not make a difference on the battlefield, and that was because the Northeast was equipped with bazookas specifically for tanks. The Japanese army's large, slow-moving tanks were just a live target for bazookas. However, Japan does not have a bazooka, although the Japanese military is very interested in this secret weapon equipped by the Northeast Bureau, and has also collected some information. But it is not easy to produce it and equip the troops in a short time. In addition, they lost too suddenly, and it was not easy to hold on to their existing territory, and they didn't have the energy to focus on other things.

Boom Boom!

The 60-mm rapid-fire guns inflicted huge casualties on the Japanese. Moreover, the Japanese resistance did not have the slightest impact on the tanks in the northeast. The tank was charging, and the soldiers of the Northeast Army who followed the tank were not idle, and with the help of the path opened by the tank, they followed the tank to attack the Japanese position. The pressure of a collective charge of seven tanks was enormous, especially when the Japanese lacked useful weapons against the tanks.

Before the start of the war, in order to prevent the heavy artillery of the Northeast Army, the few remaining artillery pieces of the Japanese army were basically placed on the rear defense line, because if they were placed on the front line, they would definitely be bombarded by the Northeast heavy artillery. Now in terms of heavy firepower, the Japanese army is far inferior to the Northeast Army.

"Yaga! This is the tank of the Chinese people, and our weapons have no effect on them. Organize death squads and blow them up with grenades! A Japanese soldier shouted loudly. I have to say that his vision is very good. The decision was also very timely.

"Hay!" With his words, a second lieutenant next to him, a military officer, rushed out of the trench with a large bundle of grenades.

Da-da-da-da!

The heavy machine gun on the top of the tank, a strafing shot, made the Japanese death squad useless.

"Damn it!" Shao Zuo's face turned pale, and he turned to the people around him and shouted: "If you go up again, even if our squadron is completely annihilated, we will stop the enemy here." These tanks must all be blown up. ”

The Japanese soldiers began to launch a decisive assault, knowing that if they did not blow up the tank before it reached its position, the entire first line of defense would collapse completely because of this gap. The Japanese army now has few ways to retreat. With each step back, the greater the risk.

Seven tanks, seven rapid-fire guns, and seven heavy machine guns made it difficult for Japanese soldiers to get close.

Scold!

The Japanese Shaozo drew his command knife and looked at the empty trench, the decisive charge just now killed their entire squadron of soldiers, and the backup had not yet come up. The Japanese Shaozo stared at the tanks of the Northeast Army roaring forward. A look of determination appeared on his face. He suddenly thrust his command knife into his stomach, and then fell straight down.

With no enemy on the battlefield, the tanks stop firing and concentrate on crushing forward. Limited to the number of tanks, it is impossible to form a large-scale attack arrow, but just attacking this gap, when the Japanese army lacks powerful weapons, still has a very terrifying attack power.

Boom!

There was a loud bang from the position, and the first northeastern tank that rushed to the Japanese position suddenly exploded, and fire erupted throughout the tank.

"What's going on?" At the rear observation post, Lin Hu, who originally looked overjoyed, changed his face. I don't understand what the hell is happening on the enemy's positions, such an explosion can happen.

"It's the sound of Japanese-made grenades exploding, and there are quite a few of them. Judging from the current situation, there were Japanese people on the position who pretended to be dead, and after the tanks went up, they pulled a large number of grenades, and they died together with our tanks. The chief of staff said distractedly.

"Damn it!" Lin Hu said with some distress. Seeing the terrifying impact of the tank, Lin Hu's attention to the tank skyrocketed. You know, this time I got a total of eight tanks. One of them was destroyed during training, and the remaining seven are all treasures! The loss of one will affect the combat effectiveness.

(To be continued)