And the two sides have paid more than just casualties in this battle for the city. It is also related to Xinjing, which was once painstakingly run by the Eastern Army and is known as the most modern city in Asia, but it has also been completely flattened. After the battle for the city was over, the whole city was full of Japanese casualties, and the corpses that had not been collected in time were scattered all over the streets.

A large number of destroyed equipment and buildings turned into piles of rubble filled almost all the roads in the city. In the main streets of the new capital, Datong Street, Shuntian Street, and Datong Square, there are shell craters one after another. The forests in the city have been cut down and all the timber has been made into fortifications.

After the entire huge Xinjing was completely recaptured by the Anti-Japanese Federation, the entire Xinjing was completely in ruins, and there was no complete building. A series of buildings such as the original magnificent Puppet Manchurian State Council, the Eighth Division, the Kwantung Army Headquarters, the Puppet Manchurian Central Bank, the Japanese Temple, and the Puppet Manchurian Telephone Co., Ltd. have all been razed to the ground at this time.

In particular, the most tragic battle in Xinjing took place, and it was also the puppet Manchurian central bank of the Japanese army headquarters in Xinjing. This building, which is known as the strongest building in the Far East, was subjected to more than 10 rounds of 280-millimeter howitzer shells, plus countless artillery shells of more than 75 millimeters on both sides, as well as large and small aerial bombs. The entire complex had been completely reduced to a pile of rubble, and not even an intact wall remained.

In the words of Pearson and Ross, who visited the battlefield in Xinjing, the most modern city in Asia, which the Japanese painstakingly built, is no longer a city at the moment. The entire city, which had been completely shattered into ruins, was no longer able to recover.

Although the Anti-Japanese Federation took the Xinjing District and controlled the Gongzhuling line of the southern line. The defensive space of the new capital to the south was expanded by dozens of kilometers, but the momentum of the Japanese counterattack was extremely fierce. The Japanese army constantly drew the strength of the division from the rear and launched a continuous counterattack to the area south of Xinjing. Trying to recapture Xinjing, the capital of their puppet regime and a symbol of the Kwantung Army's rule over China.

In the fierce battle on the east and west flanks of the Xinjing battlefield, in order to stop the tank cluster offensive of the Anti-Union. Ensure that the entire Xinjing battlefield will not be cut off by the armored offensive of the Anti-United Nations. The three divisions of the Japanese army on the Xinjing battlefield were not divided and encircled by the armored cluster offensive of the Anti-Japanese Union, and the Kwantung Army did much more effectively than the North China Front, which used captured British second-hand goods as the main anti-tank means.

The Kwantung Army not only mobilized a large number of rapid-fire guns, but also strengthened a large number of field guns for use as anti-tank artillery. It was also under the condition that the 37 rapid-fire guns and the 1-type rapid-fire guns were not powerful enough to deal with the German tanks of the United Nations. Learning from the combat experience of his allies, the German army, he transferred almost all the Type 88 anti-aircraft guns to the front line and used them as large-caliber anti-tank guns for flat fire.

And in the middle of the battle, a large number of meat bullets were concentrated, which were used as the last anti-tank means. Although the Japanese army's meat bomb offensive did not cause much damage to the anti-United tank units participating in the attack. However, the Japanese army's large number of flat-firing mountain artillery and Type 88 75-mm anti-aircraft guns posed a considerable threat to the tanks of the Anti-United Nations.

In particular, the Type 88 75-mm anti-aircraft gun, which is equipped with armor-piercing shells, is not as powerful as the German 88-mm anti-aircraft guns when fired horizontally, and it also lacks corresponding special armor-piercing shells. However, relying on the excellent ballistic performance of this anti-aircraft gun, as well as the armor-piercing projectile for anti-aircraft use that was temporarily reused as an anti-tank gun, the power of anti-tank combat is still amazing.

Outside the range of the tank guns of the Anti-United Nations, it penetrated a large number of tanks, and even once curbed the speed of the armored advance of the Anti-United Nations on the battlefields on both flanks of Xinjing. The great encirclement south of Xinjing has not been completely completed for a long time. The Anti-Japanese Federation invested a large number of troops, and only completed the closure of the Xinjing battlefield. These anti-aircraft guns, which were used for flat fire, can be described as a great achievement.

This kind of antiaircraft artillery and the 105-millimeter heavy antiaircraft gun of the Taisho 14 years have posed a considerable threat to the anti-United Nations armored forces in the northeast battlefield. Fortunately, the Japanese army could only use fixed positions for this kind of anti-aircraft artillery, and the erection work was extremely cumbersome. Moreover, the firing range of flat fire is far less than that of the Soviet-made field artillery and cannon of the Anti-United Nations.

In addition, after the anti-aircraft gun was erected and used as a flat-fire gun, the target was very large. Although its original observation and sighting system for air defense is highly accurate, its scale is too large, and it can easily become a live target on the battlefield. As long as you observe carefully, it is not a difficult thing to find the position of such anti-aircraft artillery first.

After suffering a big loss at the beginning, Wang Guangyu immediately discussed with the commander of the Second Armored Division to adjust his tactics. As soon as the Soviet-made field artillery positions were reinforced, the 2nd Panzer Division immediately mobilized 76-millimeter cannons and fired long-range high-precision fire, first knocking out the positions of such antiaircraft guns, which re-accelerated the advance of the tank clusters.

However, the entire encirclement has never been completed. So that the Japanese reinforcements can enter the Xinjing battlefield through the gap. In order to reinforce the Xinjing battlefield, the Anti-Japanese Union reduced the number of troops invested on the Eastern Front. Two divisions were transferred and turned around to join the Xinjing battlefield. And a division that served as a reserve in his hand was also thrown into the Xinjing battlefield.

The entire Xinjing City is surrounded by battlefields everywhere, and it has become a veritable meat grinder. Even if the Anti-Japanese Union invested two-thirds of its armored forces, more than half of its large-caliber artillery, and nearly one-third of its aviation in the Xinjing battlefield. However, under the counterattack of the Kwantung Army with all its might, the entire battlefield is still deadlocked.

In this meat grinder, the daily casualty figures on both sides remain high. The average daily casualty figure of the Anti-Japanese Union was two regiments, and as for the Japanese army, which was inferior in equipment, the casualty figure could only be higher. On the Xinjing battlefield, at least 50,000 rounds of artillery shells of various calibers were fired by both sides every day.

The aerial bombs dropped by each air raid were not measured in kilograms, but in tonnage. The entire Xinjing battlefield is full of large and small craters. The originally fertile and fertile fields have become a battlefield of blood and fire. Tons of steel fell on these lands, so that for more than a decade, the land that should have been a granary was almost devoid of grass.

The huge consumption has caused both the Kwantung Army's arms depots in the rear and the ammunition depots of the Anti-Japanese Federation to decline rapidly every day. The arsenals of both sides, desperately producing almost every day, tried to meet the huge demands on the battlefield. The shells produced by the arsenals of both sides were pulled to the front line as soon as they got off the line.

In order to replenish the ammunition depots of the Kwantung Army, the Japanese base camp transferred part of the artillery shell reserves of the Korean Army and even the mainland, as well as all the artillery that could be mobilized, to the Kwantung Army. On the railway from Andong to Mukden in the whole of Korea, a large number of arms trains braved the constant bombardment of the Anti-Japanese Union to transfuse blood to the Kwantung Army every day.

At the same time, all the output of the Mukden Arsenal was also allocated to the Kwantung Army. It can be described as a base camp for smashing pots and selling iron, and there is only one requirement for the Kwantung Army. At any cost, Xinjing must be recaptured and the absolute security of the grain-producing areas around Xinjing and the South Manchurian industrial zone must be guaranteed, especially the absolute security of the Fushun petroleum smelting industry, which is necessary for the war against Japan.

While the base camp of the Japanese army continued to desperately transfuse blood to the Kwantung Army, in order to reduce the casualties of the troops and enhance the covering firepower of the front-line combat units. Yang Zhen even ignored the shabby ammunition reserves, and pulled the two German-made 150-millimeter howitzer regiments that had just been formed to the Xinjing battlefield to enhance the firepower of the Xinjing battlefield.

The arsenals in the rear have stopped all the production of small arms and ammunition and have devoted all their energies to the production and manufacture of artillery shells and aerial bombs. In particular, the 75-mm mountain artillery, German-made 150-mm howitzer shells, Soviet-style 122-mm howitzer shells, and rocket shells of various calibers are most urgently needed by the troops.

Yang Zhen was trying to find a way to increase the firepower of the front-line combat troops, and the Japanese army was doing the same. In addition to desperately giving blood transfusions to the Kwantung Army from the base camp and the Korean army reserves. The Japanese base camp also transferred all captured American-made tanks and artillery, as well as reserve artillery shells, to the Kwantung Army from the Philippine battlefield, where operations had already been completed.

The Kwantung Army used these American-made tanks, plus its own newly organized tank units, to temporarily organize five tank wings, all of which were strengthened on the battlefields on the west and west flanks of Xinjing. On the battlefield on both flanks of Xinjing, the anti-coalition armored group fought a tank battle on the Chinese battlefield on an unprecedented scale so far.

In September 41, in order to strengthen the defense of the Philippines, the U.S. military sent two tank battalions to the Philippines equipped with M-3 light tanks. As a result, during the Philippine campaign, these tanks were largely abandoned due to the confusion of the American command and the unfavorable operation.

Although these tanks had already suffered some damage before they were abandoned. But the tanks were not completely destroyed, and the Japanese repaired a large part of them. Together with some of the Dutch army tanks captured in the Dutch East Indies, two tank wings were formed, which were quickly transferred to the northeastern Chinese battlefield.

So in this tank battle, there was such a strange scene. Among the five tank wings invested by the Japanese army, in addition to the Type 97 and Type 95 tanks, there were actually more than 70 American-made M3 light tanks. In addition to the German-made tanks equipped by the Second Panzer Division, there is also an independent tank battalion equipped with the newly arrived M3 light tanks.

The tank battalion was formed using the first batch of U.S. aid in March, excluding the remaining tanks held by the Soviets. Among the 45 tanks equipped by the battalion, all of them were American-made M3 light tanks. After this battalion completed the conversion training, it was put into the Xinjing battlefield by Yang Zhen as soon as possible. As a result, I didn't expect that this batch of tanks, which should have been regarded as a new force, caused a certain amount of chaos on the battlefield after they arrived.

In this tank battle, each side invested more than 300 tanks. As a result, out of the total 600 tanks invested by both sides, more than 100 of them were the same type of tanks standing in the hostile camp. A group of brothers from the same family fight each for their own masters on the same battlefield, which cannot but be said to be a kind of irony.

On the same battlefield, both sides put in the same kind of tanks, and inevitably there was a certain amount of confusion on the battlefield. Especially in the melee, everyone thought that the other party's tank was their friend, and there were many misunderstandings. During the battle, both the Kwantung Army and the Anti-Japanese Federation had a lot of tanks, and the opponent's M-3 tank was destroyed by the opponent as their own friendly army.

There were even tank crews of the Anti-Japanese Union and the Japanese Army, who regarded the enemy tanks of the same type as friendly forces. When leaving the battlefield, he retreated with the opponent's formation in a daze. It wasn't until he opened the hatch and saw the so-called friendly troops that he realized that something was wrong, and he made a big fuss in the heavenly palace on the opponent's position.

Fortunately, the commander of the 2nd Armored Division, who commanded the tank battle of the Anti-Japanese Alliance, reacted quickly, and immediately withdrew this independent tank battalion after discovering that the Japanese army had also invested tanks of the same model. And quickly transferred a tank battalion of Matilda II tanks from the Xinjing battlefield to take over. This avoids more losses due to misunderstandings.