"That's just a recruit corps, and that Zhang Lingfu is a newcomer, I'm afraid that they will have a bigger loss if they deal with the 119 Wing!" Fan Chong reminded tactfully.

"It's okay, I've already investigated Zhang Lingfu, and he's a general! If he can't even deal with this situation, then he won't be Zhang Lingfu. Meng Xiang took a puff of his cigarette and said with a smile, and the smoke ring he spit out casually shook in the air for a while, and was blown away by the breeze that passed through the half-open window.

"Besides, there is also the third battalion of tanks with the team."

"These are the tanks of the Vanguard Army?" Zhang Lingfu looked at the 30 Renault R-35 light tanks in front of him and exclaimed. He looked behind him, and there were still about fifty BT-7 tanks that Zhang Lingfu didn't recognize.

Tiger 10 nodded, the Vanguard Army has a lot of tanks, this is not a secret, but the total number of tanks in the Vanguard Army, not many people know about it yet. Meng Xiang had already instructed him to use Renault tanks to fight with Zhang Lingfu's infantry. As for the rapid lightning operation, Zhang Lingfu has never been in contact with it at all, and it is not good to know how to command. On the contrary, the coordinated operation of tanks and infantry, Zhang Lingfu, who has received relevant training, understands it.

This time, Meng Xiang prepared the Renault tank in advance, not to test the infantry tank to cooperate in combat, but to use this method to slowly and steadily. You don't need speed, you just need to use that pressure to slowly press the devil to the south or west. Moreover, this batch of tanks was produced for trading, and someone came to receive it when it was driven to the edge of the canal. And at the request of the recipient, first test the power of the tank on the battlefield. Only then did the 3rd Tank Battalion follow behind the 246th Regiment.

When the 200th Division of the Central Army was newly built in January, it aroused the hearts of other forces in the country, who did not get tanks from the Russians like the Central Army, but they could buy them through Jian Yi, and the price was not very high. Meng Xiang was also happy to let them drive away the tanks in exchange for a lot of cash. Now on the battlefield, tanks alone are not enough. If you want to deal with them later, only with tanks, they are not opponents yet.

In addition to the introduction of some tanks from the loan of Soviet Russia, the 200th Division also obtained a lot of tanks from the hands of the Ichi. Many of them were T-26S tanks that had been retired from the Vanguard Army, and they were repaired by the repair shop as new. Even these are better than those old surnames provided by Soviet Russia.

The Russians have been silent about this, and compared to the grand strategy of supporting the Central Army to hold back the footsteps of the people, everything else can be ignored for the time being. It is only to intensify the pursuit of this mysterious force. But when some clues have been found, the upper side suddenly withdrew the tracking on the surface.

Because, at this time, that mysterious organization also had an arms deal with them.

When the power of the T-34A tank was displayed in front of the Russians, the Russians immediately made their own rational choice. For forces that can provide such advanced weapons, it is not something that can be threatened casually. So, on the edge of a remote desert in Iran, they struck a deal with what appeared to be an American.24

Anyway, the Germans already knew that this weapon was originally from Soviet Russia, and they would be even more suspicious when they couldn't find it. Selling the soon-to-be-appeared Type A to the Russians is even more profitable.

In this transaction, Meng Xiang directly shouted for five million rubles of gold and silver. But Mao Zi didn't seem to care at all, and he didn't bargain, so he agreed directly. They like this kind of high-power weapon that is simple to do and seems to be able to be assembled in large quantities by simple production. After consulting the drawings and materials, there was no big problem, and he directly took out a large amount of gold without blinking his eyelids.

"Am I asking for less?" Meng Xiang was still suspicious of this, but compared with the international market he knew, this price was not low, and it could only be attributed to the fact that the Russians were rich.

"No, the Russians are stupid and have a lot of money, and they need to sell something in the future!" Meng Xiang said in his heart, unexpectedly, this is exactly what the Russians imagined, and there are good goods behind this mysterious organization.

The 30 tanks that Zhang Lingfu was facing at this time were also a little confused about how to arrange them for a while. He had learned how to work with tanks and infantry, but he had never practiced it.

"Damn, just rush forward anyway!" Zhang Lingfu calmed down and began to arrange according to the relevant knowledge he mastered.

The 119th Wing didn't seem to expect the vanguard to come so quickly. The vanguard army, which had advanced all the way by trucks, rushed directly to the defensive position hastily constructed by the devils outside the county seat.

Of course, Meng Xiang wouldn't tell Zhang Lingfu to let him slowly drive the devil to the other side of the canal. When Zhang Lingfu saw those tanks, he immediately set his target on the 119th Wing of the Quanjian Army.

This time is different from the past, this time the devil is defending, he is attacking.

"This is the vanguard army, and it is really strong!" Ishida Kinzo, who was constantly watching the team across the opposite side with a telescope, muttered how he would feel if he knew that this was just a new regiment.

The 109th Division was newly reorganized on the basis of the reserve forces of the 9th Division. While in Nanjing, Ishida Kanzo heard about the Vanguard Army's blockade of the 9th Division. And in Jinan, the 109th Brigade of the 31st Division had suffered heavy losses, which couldn't help but make him doubly careful.

Yesterday, an order was received from the headquarters of the First Army to station the entire wing of the 119th Wing in the Dongping area. The Dongping area is connected to Liaocheng in the northwest and Heze in the southwest. After seeing that the vanguard army had conquered Tai'an, Kiyoshi Kazuki was worried that one of the brigades there was too thin, so he sent a wing to defend it.

"It was reported that the reconnaissance company had detected the surrounding situation and had not found any mines laid. For the time being, the enemy found only 18 machine-gun fire points, four machine-gun pillboxes, one mountain artillery position, and two mortar positions. Only one brigade of troops was found in the forward position. There are two squadrons in the city that are deployed, and another enemy brigade has been found in the west of the city, and the specific deployment of troops is being investigated. The company commander of the reconnaissance company of the 246th Regiment, Monkey 98, hurriedly ran to Zhang Lingfu's side and handed over a schematic map of the devil's defense.

The devils who attacked with light soldiers did not carry mines, so naturally they did not lay them.

Ishida Jinzo didn't expect the vanguard troops to come so quickly, and the manpower was too late to be mobilized, so he just used the defensive positions of the previous brigade to delay the time.

Zhang Lingfu looked at the defense diagram drawn by the reconnaissance squadron and nodded slightly. Although many of these people were new recruits, their technical and tactical skills were good, and the short two or three days at the training ground made him remember it deeply. At this time, the reconnaissance situation of this reconnaissance company was even more satisfactory to him.

Each regiment of the vanguard army had a reconnaissance company of more than 180 people, and each battalion also had a reconnaissance platoon of about 50 people. At this time, there are still very few investigators who meet the requirements, and the establishment will be constantly adjusted in the future.

"According to reliable information, there is also a squadron of the 119th Wing operating in Liangshan County, and it has not yet rushed back!" Rat 32 added next to him.

"Then let's wait for a while, and wait for the devils to get together to fight our army, otherwise it will be very troublesome to clean up the city at that time!" After Zhang Lingfu had the support of the tank, he chose to fight to the death with the devil in the open field. So as not to get caught up in the chaos in the county town at the right time. Recruits are the most likely to make mistakes in this type of melee, and tanks won't be of much help when the time comes. It was best to be able to solve it in an open area outside the city at once.

Both sides are tentatively observing.

"They were only three or four thousand men at most, and they were so tired from afar that they hadn't even built a defensive position. Then let's leave an unforgettable memory for the vanguard here! Hearing the investigator's report, Ishida Kanzo couldn't help but grit the handle of the command knife wrapped around the yellow tassel and smiled softly.

"Order the Oda Brigade in the west of the city to hurry up and outflank it. The Changnan Brigade in the city has also come out, and the victory or defeat is here! ”

Ishida Jinzo turned the handle of the knife and said to the staff officer Ishima Jiro with a smile: "They would never have thought that we still have a secret weapon!" ”

There was a barbed wire fence in front of the position. In previous battles with the Central Army, the barbed wire fence was a barrier that the Central Army could only climb through after the corpses were piled up. But this one could not stop the steel tracks of the tank.

"It's still convenient to have a tank!" Zhang Lingfu estimated the passage through which the tank passed, and was about to give an order, but saw the rat 32 next to him pointing ahead and said, "The enemy has dispatched tanks!" ”

He raised his eyes and saw eight devils' ** tanks lined up one after another from the passage of the barbed wire, and in the roar of the engines, they were arrogant and marched straight towards the position of the vanguard army with their guns cocked. He was followed closely by two squadrons of soldiers.

"This peew tank is also here to offer ugliness!" Zhang Lingfu had already heard the name of the devil tank in the vanguard army, and couldn't help but smile and waved his hand at Rat 32, "Let them see what a tank is!" ”

The Douding tank was only mighty for a few minutes, and some of the tanks did not even fire a single shell, when they heard more than a dozen flames coming out from the opposite side. On the position of the vanguard army, after a layer of grass net was uncovered, more than 20 tanks suddenly appeared and bombarded the devil's Peeping tank together.

The Renault R-35 light tank had a somewhat weaker firepower, with only one 37mm tank gun. But in the midst of the constant rumbling sound, after one round, six of the eight Peanding tanks were still dismembered.

The army hiding behind the tank immediately ran out of place to hide, and with the sound of the MG-42 tearing the curtain, the position of the vanguard army suddenly burst into a layer of golden storm, clinging to the ground and spinning towards the somewhat panicked devils. After the storm, all the devils standing on the battlefield were torn into incomplete pieces of flesh. A pee-ding tank that was turning around didn't know if it was hit by a machine-gun bullet, and it collapsed there after a bang. Immediately after, in the resounding roar of the Renault 37 gun, it turned into a fireball and exploded. At the same time, he was scattered in the sky with another Peeween tank that was about to be withdrawn. At this point, the devil's eight beans were all wiped out.

The sound of the heavy machine gun tearing cloth sounded like the sound of tearing the human body to Junmichi Oda, the captain of the 1st Brigade in charge of the attack.

"Artillery! Artillery! He got up from the trench hysterically and shouted behind him, but the adjutant next to him reached out and didn't hold him. Adjutant Komatsu Harano couldn't help but sigh in his heart: "There are not many artillery pieces in the empire!" ”

Almost at the same time as the tanks of the vanguard army attacked, the roar of 8 75-mm mountain guns also sounded on the artillery positions of the vanguard army, which overwhelmed the groans of 6 70 infantry guns on the devil artillery positions at once. Coupled with the beating of dozens of 80 mortars, it didn't take long for only a bunch of parts to be left on the artillery positions of the devils at this time.

The slaughter on the battlefield continues, only one-sidedly.

Even if the army dispersed, it could not stop the barrage of MG42 machine guns that enveloped the entire position.

The recruits did not control the rhythm of the machine guns well, and the MG-42 had an extremely fast rate of fire, so the rain of bullets on the battlefield was always falling.

"Ahh He didn't take two steps before he was swept away by a machine-gun bullet fired from a distance, and the two fist-sized holes in his chest had already determined that he was lying on the ground and rolling his eyes.

Komatsu didn't hold Oda again, and the body that followed him was only half exposed outside the trench, and was interrupted by three machine-gun bullets. The half-bloody body that fell in the trench still had a little sigh on his face.

"Stop shooting, rush!" In the end, Zhang Lingfu couldn't see such a waste of bullets, stopped the machine gun firing, and beckoned the tank to start charging forward.

The tank rushed forward, advancing step by step. Zhang Lingfu was executing according to the tactics in the textbook, although he really wanted to make a quick impact, but after all, he had just taken over this new regiment and needed to stabilize his position.

The interception of the Shaolin abbot after the thunder 80s rushed towards the rear position of the devil.

"Why, so many tanks came from the Vanguard?" Ishida Kanzo almost cried when he saw this, and the secret weapon he thought was so vulnerable.

"Now, the little devil should know what a real tank is, right?" The corners of Zhang Lingfu's mouth curled easily, and the battle situation seemed to have decided the ownership of victory from the beginning.

Poor Zhang Lingfu has never seen the T-34, let alone the Tiger King, otherwise he would never confidently call the Renault R-35 light tank a real tank.