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Lieutenant Colonel Pei nodded: "The scale of the enemy army is not large, let the regimental artillery battalion cooperate, and let the three battalions take it in one go as soon as possible!" ”

The size of the army fortress in front is about two or three hundred people at most, and it has been hit by the fire of the division headquarters before, so it will not be too much of a problem to take it down in a short time, you must know that the strength of this motorized infantry regiment led by Lieutenant Colonel Pei is as high as nearly 4,000 people, and the firepower of heavy weapons is much stronger than that of ordinary infantry units, even if a regimental artillery battalion alone is equipped with six 75-mm mountain guns.

In the early days, the motorized infantry division in the Chinese army was only a motorized infantry division, but as time passed, the motorized infantry division also began to be reloaded. It is actually a heavily armed mechanized infantry division, with three motorized infantry regiments, a tank battalion and an artillery regiment, generally with 36 tanks and 36 105 howitzers and 18 75mm mountain guns. The divisional artillery battalion was armed with a full thirty-six 1925-mm howitzers, while the regimental artillery battalion was armed with six 75-mm mountain guns.

In the theory of rapid assault operations in the Chinese Army, the motorized infantry division is used to cooperate with the armored division, not only to be able to follow the rapid maneuver of the armored division in terms of speed, but also to be equipped with a large amount of heavy firepower to provide cover for the armored division and to take up the task of attacking fortified positions.

Generally speaking, an armored group is an armored corps, and the armored corps has one armored division and two motorized infantry divisions. When the armored division is carrying out a rapid mobile combat mission, if it encounters the enemy's strong fortresses, it will generally not force the attack, but will use the mobile surname to bypass them, leaving these forts to the motorized infantry division that cooperates with the support operation behind.

Even so, the senior generals in the armored forces still feel that the heavy firepower of the armored group is insufficient, because the armored forces move quickly, and they can often maneuver dozens or even hundreds of kilometers in a few days, and in this case, it is difficult to get the support of the heavy firepower of friendly forces, for example, a large number of military heavy howitzer regiments cannot provide 155 mm howitzer support for the armored troops in time. For this reason, the armored forces are even ready to equip the armored divisions and motorized infantry divisions with 155-mm howitzers, but because the weight of the 155-mm howitzers is as high as more than three tons, even if they are towed by heavy trucks, they cannot be fast, and the deployment speed in wartime is extremely slow, so they cannot keep up with the speed of the armored forces.

In order to solve this difficulty, the armament department has launched the development of self-propelled guns, which are intended to be equipped with 155-mm howitzers on tracked grounds, which will fundamentally accompany the armored forces in combat. However, the development and equipment of new equipment cannot be solved in a short period of time, so it has not been officially equipped until 1930.

Relatively speaking, although the traditional infantry division has average firepower, it can be supported by heavy artillery in the actual combat process.

This motorized infantry regiment under the command of Lieutenant Pei belonged to the 5th Division, officially known as the 52nd Infantry Regiment, along with the other units of the 5th Division. As part of the 1st Panzer Army, an attack was launched against the Japanese army from about 20 kilometers north of Anju.

The large-scale battle was launched yesterday, and the First Panzer Corps, with the cooperation of the two infantry divisions of the 17th Army, concentrated superior firepower and strength to break the defense line of the Yue Army, and forcibly tore a gap about five kilometers wide between the two divisions of the Yue Army.

As for the First Armored Army, as always, it gave full play to the tradition of rapid mobility of the Chinese armored forces, and within two days it broke through the depth of about 30 kilometers. Although this speed is not as fast as in ordinary exercises, it should be noted that Anzhou has become a heavy combat area between the two sides at this moment, and the Chinese army has deployed as many as a dozen divisions and regiments on the front line of Anzhou, with a total strength of nearly 300,000 troops.

After breaking through the first line of defense of the Japanese army, the troops of the First Panzer Army continued to make rapid assaults, and as long as they could continuously break through the defensive depth of the Japanese army in a short period of time, they would be able to completely disrupt the defensive deployment of the Japanese army and create an opportunity for the infantry group in the rear to break through.

Looking up at the sky, there were many clouds in the sky at three o'clock in the afternoon, and there was no trace of the winter sun.

Lieutenant Colonel Pei, who was wearing an officer's coat and black leather gloves, got back into the car, and then the driver started the four-wheeled jeep and continued to blend into the advancing convoy, his 52nd Regiment did not stop because of the fortress in front of him, although the fortress was strong, but it had actually been attacked by part of the artillery fire of the 1st Panzer Division before, but because of the 1st Panzer Division, it did not carry out a forced attack.

At present, the three battalions under the 52nd Regiment, with the cooperation of the regiment's subordinate firepower, soon relied on the superiority in strength and firepower to break through this stubbornly defended fortress, and after killing and wounding more than 100 people, the remaining soldiers just broke away. Then the main forces of the 52nd Regiment continued to advance, and then, at about six o'clock in the evening, finally caught up with the troops of the 1st Panzer Division in front.

However, after asking, it was discovered that the tank company in front of it, which belonged to the 1st Armored Division, had been ambushed by enemy anti-tank fire, so it was now trapped in a small village.

"They asked our troops to attack due east and strike at an enemy anti-tank position in the east!" In the rapid maneuvering operations of the armored units in the past two days, although the whole remained intact, some problems also arose in actual operations, such as the fact that it was logically impossible for this tank company to fight without the cover of the infantry, otherwise it would not have been ambushed by the anti-tank fire of the Chinese army.

"They were going to support the 3rd Motorized Infantry Regiment before, but because the fuel didn't keep up, they stopped for a few hours, and then they broke away from the main force!"

A tank company is generally equipped with 12 tanks, and this strength is basically not too much of a problem even if it encounters the attack of an infantry battalion of the enemy, but it is the attack of an enemy brigade with anti-tank firepower, and after being destroyed by three tanks in the battle, it is forced to defend, and then asks for support.

And the closest to them is the 52nd regiment.

"Now the first battalion should be less than three kilometers away from them!" Lieutenant Colonel Pei looked at the map carefully, and then quickly gave an order: "Let the first battalion go to support and rescue this friendly army!" ”

With the order issued, the troops of the first battalion soon approached the small village, the leader of the team was a middle-aged major, named Lu Jian'an, speaking of which he was much older than Lieutenant Colonel Pei, and was already an old officer of nearly fifty years old, he had been in the army in the Qing Dynasty before, graduated from the Beiyang Military Academy, and served in the Beiyang Army for many years. Lu Jian'an is one of them.

Although Lu Jian'an's military qualifications are sufficient, his path to promotion is average, otherwise he would not be just a major at the age of fifty. However, he is not a special case, but the vast majority of them are, among the many officers in China today, except for extremely outstanding people, they are generally rarely promoted to major before the age of 30, and often they can only be promoted to major in their 30s or even 40s.

Lu Jian'an was a captain when he served in the Beiyang Army, but after entering the National Army, his rank only became lieutenant, and he always served in the Ninth Division, and then the Ninth Division was reorganized into the Motorized Infantry Division, and he was also an old qualified person in the Chinese armored forces, so after seven or eight years, he was finally promoted to major and transferred to the Fifth Division as the commander of the 521st Battalion.

Having fought all his life, he was a little cautious, and after carefully observing the terrain in front of him, he let his subordinates' three companies carry out a tentative attack.

"I'm afraid the enemy army has a lot of troops, estimated to be seven or eight hundred!" Soon the tentative attack was to obtain the corresponding military intelligence.

"And in the east and south, there is a lot of anti-tank fire, and the tanks in the village say that the enemy forces have at least five anti-tank guns combined!" The deputy battalion commander quickly reported the information from the front to Lu Jian'an.

Lu Jian'an hesitated for a moment before he said, "How can there be so much anti-tank firepower here?" He frowned and said, "It seems that we have to let the regiment headquarters give fire support!" ”

According to the general situation, whether it is said that "the anti-tank firepower of the infantry itself or China's own infantry is generally directly attached to the division headquarters, and then the anti-tank combat is carried out according to the wartime situation, and basically there will be no anti-tank artillery support in the infantry battalion, let alone as many as five guns at once."

You must know that these anti-tank guns are not a bargain, even if it is the most in service in China and the two countries, the PAK 37 mm series of anti-tank guns is limited to the cost is limited to the cost of it is impossible to equip the infantry units in large quantities, the Chinese Army is now in the 1922 establishment, only one division belongs to the anti-tank gun battalion, under the jurisdiction of twelve 37 mm anti-tank guns, the number of anti-tank guns in the army is more, but there are only sixteen. However, there are still quite a few anti-tank artillery brigades in the army, which are used to deal with Chinese armored clusters.

In this case, ordinary infantry units are actually not supported by anti-tank guns, and generally speaking, the anti-tank gun firepower of brigade-level and wing-level anti-tank guns is large-caliber anti-tank guns.

Therefore, the force of seven or eight hundred people in front of him actually had five anti-tank guns, which made Lu Jian'an feel a little puzzled.

Lu Jian'an's doubts were actually very simple, the reason why the army still deployed anti-tank firepower here was purely because the speed of the armored troops' assault was too fast, and the army's anti-tank guns did not have time to evacuate with the main force of the division, and then they could only evacuate under the cover of an infantry brigade. When evacuating, they happened to meet the Chinese tank company, and they didn't want to fight, but they did, so after a fierce battle, the anti-tank guns of the Japanese army took the opportunity to destroy three tanks, but they couldn't go.