As a result, Yoshio Shinozuka categorically decided to leave most of his subordinates behind and escape with only the remaining tanks, which also means that he will become the first general in Japan to leave his troops and flee since the Meiji Restoration, but even if he can get rid of the pursuit of the Red Army and return to Japan, he will have to go to a military court, but if Yoshio Shinozuka dies here with a full stomach, he will be even more unwilling, even if he knows that doing so may affect his family, he can't care so much

However, even though the Japanese tanks have excellent off-road performance, they can also be pursued by Japanese tanks and armored vehicles, among which the biggest threat is not the two tanks, but the 32 Type 92 cavalry armored vehicles of the Red Eighth Army Armored Brigade, which were originally positioned as infantry killers. This armored vehicle is equipped with a 13.2mm anti-aircraft machine gun, not to mention the thinly armored Type 95 light tank, even the Type 89 medium tank, in the process of escaping, because the relatively weak armor of the back is exposed and unable to resist, and at the same time, due to the rate of fire and higher accuracy, the hit rate of this machine gun is much larger than the 37mm main guns of the two tanks, and the machine gun can still shoot accurately on the move, and there are many more excellent machine gunners than artillerymen in the Red Eighth Army. In addition, the Type 92 cavalry armored vehicle is also more flexible than the tank, and its extremely weak armor protection (only 6mm thick, 79 steel core shells within 200 meters can penetrate it). It was a huge weakness, but it was not a problem at all when pursuing, so it naturally became the main force to hunt and kill Japanese tanks, and the most successful one was the one that destroyed 5 tanks

In addition to the Red Army's damaged or paralyzed tanks, there were not a few panicked devils who made mistakes in their operations and caused the tanks to break down and break down, and in the end, less than 30 of the more than 200 tanks under the command of Yoshio Shinozuka successfully broke out of the encirclement with him, and if it were not for the vanguard of the 12th Division on the road. They were afraid that they would have to walk back to Manchuria because the tanks ran out of fuel

Seeing that his brigade commander actually abandoned everyone and fled for his life, and the chariot troops, which everyone had always regarded as psychological support, were even more defeated. The morale of the remnants of the 1st Brigade of the Japanese Independent Mixed Brigade quickly dropped to the bottom, and the strength of the Red 15th Army was ten times that of the 1st Independent Mixed Brigade and Regiment there, and there was the advantage of aircraft and artillery fire, and the remnants of the 1st Brigade and Regiment of the Independent Mixed Brigade, which had lost its tank troops, were not opponents in the first place, and it took less than two hours for the Red 15th Army to clear out the remnants of the enemy, killing and capturing a total of 8,941 Japanese soldiers, including as many as 5,487 prisoners of war, setting a new record for the Red Army and even China. It is worth mentioning that, perhaps because the 1st Brigade is a mechanized unit. More than one-third of the devil prisoners of war were jishu soldiers. Among them, many of them used to be skilled craftsmen, and Hu Weidong was overjoyed when he learned about it.

Although the 1st Brigade is only a brigade, as the only fully mechanized unit of the Japanese army, it was specially strengthened before the war with special formations such as a tank wing, and its weapons and equipment are naturally quite good. Thus, after the elimination of this force, the Red 15th Army also obtained a satisfactory capture. Although it is still a grade lower than the income of Fengtai warehouse, there are many surprising highlights

First of all, the air defense units of the brigade and regiment not only basically failed to play a role in this campaign, but most of the antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns were captured by the Red 15 th Army after the war, which made Hu Weidong, who was worried about the reconstruction of the air defense units, overjoyed. As for the captured twenty or thirty artillery pieces of various types (not counting tank guns and anti-aircraft guns), Hu Weidong, who now has a lot of heavy artillery, no longer has the original surprise, but more than 500 completed Haode cars are worth more, and more than 100 lightly damaged cars are expected to be repaired. Even if the damage is severe, some parts can generally be disassembled for later use. …,

However, the biggest gain is that there are no less than 200 Japanese tanks, although the number of good received is very small, but the number of completely destroyed is also not much, of which twenty or thirty are due to mechanical failure caused by improper operation and other reasons. As long as the cause is found, most of them are not difficult to solve, and another sixty or seventy are just disabled by the death of the occupants, and the hull is still basically complete, even if the appearance is already full of holes, there is no difficulty in repairing, and fifty or sixty cars that have been blown up and the tracks are more difficult to repair, but as long as there is enough time, most of them can also be repaired, as for those tanks that were directly destroyed by grenades and shells, like cars in a similar situation, they can at least be scrapped!

After obtaining these tanks, the armored brigade of the Red Eighth Army has a total of more than 200 tanks and armored vehicles, and finally becomes a real armored force, and the "armored cars" that were used to fill the number can finally remove the cumbersome steel plates and return to more suitable posts for them

However, the Red 15 th Army also paid a high price for this victory, with a total of more than 10,000 casualties in the whole army, of which the permanent attrition reached 4,500 or 5,000, and the two main regiments that bore the brunt of the battle were even more seriously injured, of which the 29th Regiment, which originally had more than 2,000 people, now has less than 300 people left, and most of the sacrifices are elite veterans

The Red 15th Army had ten times more strength than the enemy, and its equipment was already quite good, but it paid such a price in order to destroy an independent mixed brigade of less than 10,000 people. However, on the positive side, the Red 15th Army was caught off guard by a surprise attack by the Japanese armored group, but was not overwhelmed by the enemy, and successfully turned the tide of the battle and turned defeat into victory, which is undoubtedly very commendable. After this battle, the Red 15th Army will definitely have more confidence in anti-tank operations, and combined with the various classic infantry anti-tank tactics that Hu Weidong did not have the opportunity to use this time, even if Japan wants to use pure infantry to deal with a larger armored cluster than this time, Hu Weidong also has confidence.

Of course, there is a premise for this, and it must be in the case of preparation, because on the open plain, if there is no fortification cover, even if a play similar to this "get out of the way" is adopted, the losses will definitely be not small, and the tanks and armored vehicles are very fast, and if there is not enough warning time, the trenches will not have time to dig at all.

Hu Weidong also realized that there were quite a few hidden dangers in the face of large-scale armored forces in the reconnaissance tactics he had originally formulated, so Hu Weidong decided that after leading the army into the plains in the future, he must mobilize the air force to conduct large-scale reconnaissance; although the armored troops advanced extremely fast, it was far more difficult to conceal than the infantry, and even high-altitude reconnaissance, although it was safe but had relatively poor ability to distinguish, was enough to ensure that large-scale armored forces had nothing to hide. It was from this point in that Hu Weidong paid more and more attention to the role of aerial reconnaissance, which played a great role in the later operations of the large corps (your support on this site is my biggest motivation.) )