Although this battle was only in the middle of this battle, a small battle that broke out in a local area did not affect the final trend of the entire battle. But this battle also taught the troops of the 1st Panzer Division a vivid lesson. Let them also clearly understand that they are still short of a fully qualified steel lion in the end.

In fact, this is no longer the armored force of the Anti-United Nations, and for the first time, the shooting accuracy is not as good as that of the Japanese army. In the tank battle on the Linxi battlefield, the shooting accuracy of the anti-United tank guns at long distances was obviously inferior to that of the Japanese army. It's just that the modified anti-union tank has an absolute advantage in terms of protection. The Soviet-made 45-mm tank guns were also more powerful than the Japanese army, and only then did a one-sided battle situation appear.

If everyone had the same equipment performance and roughly the same artillery power, that tank battle might not have been the result at that time. The observation and sighting system of the Soviet-made tank in the middle was backward, the poor shock absorption function of the tank affected the shooting accuracy, and the lack of a special loader also affected the rate of fire, which was a certain reason.

The most fundamental reason is that there is a certain or even not small gap between the tank troops of the Anti-United Nations and the Japanese army in terms of training level. Whether it was in the Linxi battlefield or in this battle, the reaction speed and shooting accuracy of the Japanese artillery generally exceeded that of the armored troops of the Anti-United Nations. Especially at a distance of 500 meters, it surpasses the vast majority of anti-United Nations armored troops.

Although the scale of this local battle was not large, because it really showed the gap between the training level of the anti-United Nations armored forces and the Japanese army, it was personally listed by Chen Hanzhang as a compulsory textbook for the training of the anti-United Nations armored forces after the war. After the war, Chen Hanzhang personally brought in the tank company commander who participated in the battle and summed up the experience of the battle.

In any case, however, this armored train did not become the magic weapon that Lieutenant General Inoue Sadae was hoping for to stabilize the battle situation. But after the division of troops, the number of tanks in the Eastern Front cluster was only three companies after all. Although the suddenness of the battle achieved a fairly perfect course, it brought a lot of casualties to the main force of the 69th Division of the Japanese Army.

On the Jining battlefield, two of the four infantry brigades of the 69th Division were crippled in this encounter. Even when Yi Liangpin called, the headquarters of the 60th Brigade and Regiment, as well as the 118th Independent Infantry Brigade, which was getting off at Jining Station, were directly blocked in the carriage by Yi Liangpin's armored cluster.

After a single shell, the headquarters of the 60th Brigade was crippled on the spot. Although Major General Ota Totaro, commander of the 60th Brigade, escaped the disaster, the passenger car attached to the tail of the car was too obvious compared to other stuffy tank trucks, and was hit by three 45-mm shells at the same time and seriously wounded.

The 118th Infantry Brigade, which was in traffic with his brigade headquarters, had two infantry squadrons stuck in the carriages and were crushed before they could even get off the car. The carriage was littered with stumps and severed arms, and the corpses of Japanese soldiers. It's just that although the raid has achieved a lot of results, after all, when facing a division of Japanese troops, the number is still very insufficient.

In fact, after finding out the actual situation of the Japanese army in front of him, Yi Liangpin did not intend to directly defeat the 69th Division in one go. His lack of strength is one of his greatest weaknesses. The only thing he could do was to use this encounter to divide the Japanese army, the 69th Division, and kill as many Japanese troops as possible. For the main force to finally encircle and annihilate this 69th Division, creating a best fighter.

After half a day of melee, relying on the impact of the armored 1st Division mechanized infantry regiment and the 5th division and 14th regiment under the cover of two tank companies, Yi Liangpin still achieved his original goal, dividing the main force of the 69th Division and the four infantry squadrons of the independent 3rd Mixed Brigade in Jining into three unconnected parts: Sanchakou, Jining City, and Hongsha Spit.

However, the lack of troops allowed Yi Liangpin to complete the encirclement of Jining County, and he had lost his ability to continue attacking. Faced with the current battle situation, Yi Liangpin immediately sent a telegram to his immediate boss Chen Hanzhang, reporting the real situation he was currently in, and urging Chen Hanzhang, who was leading a cavalry brigade, to speed up the march.

And the Japanese army was also in a panic, and gradually stabilized. On the one hand, they used the telephone lines that had not yet been cut off and the intermittent radio to report the battle situation to the North China Front Headquarters and the Mengjiang Garrison Army Headquarters in Shangdu and ask for reinforcements. On the one hand, they put up desperate resistance on the spot, trying to reunite the divisions that had been divided into three parts.

In fact, it is the latest batch of Japanese troops to be formed, specially used to deal with anti-Japanese forces behind enemy lines. As a special garrison, the C Division was later called the Security Division. The 69th Division, which could not be compared with the field division in terms of troop strength or heavy weaponry, was very unlucky to be sent to reinforce the Chadong battlefield this time.

The entire establishment of the 69th Division, which had just been completed, was completely organized in accordance with the garrison of the Japanese-occupied areas until the time of departure. It has two brigades and eight independent infantry brigades. There is no divisional cavalry wing or search wing, and artillery, engineers, and baggage are only the establishment of a brigade.

Originally, the 69th Division, which was intended to be used for the garrison mission of the northern section of the Tongpu Railway, was not incorporated into the battle sequence by Okamura Ninji. In Okamura Ninji's plan, this type C garrison division was to undertake the task of garrisoning the northern section of the Tongpu Road during the entire battle period and ensuring the smooth operation of the Tongpu Railway during the war.

The reason why it is said to be unlucky is because of the hand of the six generals of Shun Hata. The 110th Division was mobilized ahead of schedule, which made the first line of defense and the second line of defense in Huade and Shangdu empty. And because the 69th Division was stationed along the Tongpu Railway near northern Shanxi, and because it had not had time to disperse and station, the division was still in the process of being assembled, so it was temporarily arrested.

However, the entire division and regiment have just been reorganized, and their troops and equipment are in a state of public order, and they have not yet been transferred to the establishment of field divisions and regiments. Although the number of troops is relatively sufficient, the number of heavy equipment is lacking. The divisional artillery brigade has only four field artillery pieces and eight mountain artillery pieces. As for the rest of the artillery, there were only brigade artillery squads equipped with various infantry brigades.

Although the North China Front Army took into account the current situation of the division's establishment while issuing the order. Instead, it was decided that after the division was concentrated in Jining, it would receive part of the artillery and other units of the independent mixed 3rd Brigade. In order to change this division from a garrison establishment to a field formation.

But the battle broke out too suddenly, not to mention that the equipment had not yet had time to be received. Even the main force of the division had not yet had time to arrive in Jining, and was given a stick by Yi Liangpin. At this time, because the train had to give priority to the most urgently needed reinforcements on the battlefield in Chadong. The 3rd Mixed Brigade has already been assembled, and the troops and equipment to be reinforced to the 69th Division are still far away in Datong.

As soon as it was done, the two aspects on the battlefield in Jining were one and a half catties against eight taels. Coupled with the garrison of the independent mixed 3rd Brigade in Jining City, even though it suffered a lot of casualties in the melee, the 69th Division had an advantage in strength, but suffered from a lack of heavy firepower. There are only twelve mountain field guns, and they are scattered on two sides.

And Yi Liangpin wanted to attack, but suffered from insufficient troops. He only has the strength of two infantry regiments in his hands, plus an infantry battalion of the Daqingshan guerrilla detachment, and wants to eat the 69th Division plus part of the garrison of the independent mixed 3rd Brigade in one bite, where is there such a big appetite?

But just quit, Yi Liangpin was also quite unwilling. After the Japanese army stabilized its position, he also immediately adjusted his deployment. With the 14th Regiment as the backbone, four battalions were concentrated, and with the cooperation of two tank companies, the three infantry battalions of the 69th Division of the Japanese Army in Jining City, plus the remaining two and a half of the four infantry squadrons stationed in Jining independently mixed into the Third Brigade and Regiment, and the remnants of the 118th Brigade that were disabled, were encircled in the area south of the railway station in Jining City.

As for the two infantry brigades of the Japanese army at the three forks plus a squadron, they could only be watched with a mechanized battalion plus a tank company. And the two Japanese infantry battalions in the south that had already disembarked at the Hongsha Tsui at this moment, plus a rapid-fire artillery squadron, could only use one infantry battalion to block the front line of Guancun.

Now such a situation has formed on the entire Jining battlefield, and the Anti-Japanese Alliance, with roughly equal forces, bluffed the Japanese troops in Jining City not so much as to encircle them, but to trap them in the city. Outside the city, in the west and south directions, it is actually in a state of semi-encirclement. At this moment, the strength of the enemy army guarding Tao Lin behind Yi Liangpin was only two companies.

What made Yi Liangpin even more troublesome was that the Japanese army also had an independent third mixed brigade around the battlefield. Even in the big-mouthed and thin-skinned encirclement he deployed, there were four squadrons. Of course, he didn't know that these four infantry squadrons had been directly beaten to second-class cripples by his fists at this moment. But after all, the shelf is there, and it has to be counted.

If the main forces of the surrounding independent mixed brigades are also involved, then the forces at hand will definitely be at a disadvantage. Behind him, Tao Lin also had two baggage squadrons and an engineer squadron of the 110th Division of the Japanese Army, as well as two infantry squadrons. Combined, it is also equivalent to a reinforced infantry brigade.

Jining is the closest place with a railway line to the entire Chadong battlefield, and it is also the closest place where the Japanese army in Shanxi can use the railway to reinforce the Chadong battlefield and replenish supplies to the Chadong battlefield. It is also located in the deep area of the Shangdu and Huade lines, and from here to the east, it can directly threaten the back of the Japanese army in Suidong. Attacking Jining by himself can be said to be stabbing the entire Suidong, Suinan, and even the waist and eye of the Japanese army in northern Jin. It can even be said that it is inserted into the seven inches of the entire Japanese army's deployment.

At present, the importance of Jining's position on the entire battlefield has determined that this unit, which is the closest to the battlefield and the only unit that the Japanese army can rush to the battlefield in the shortest possible time, will definitely join in. Judging from the consistent efficiency of the Japanese army, this third mixed brigade is bound to rush to the battlefield in the shortest possible time, and then it will be passive.

Now he is obviously a little bit fed, and he doesn't know the progress of the middle and western fronts. He was more worried that once he failed to complete the encirclement and annihilation of the Japanese army in Jining City first, and the surrounding Japanese troops rushed to surround him first, then he would likely be surrounded by the Japanese army. Therefore, after sending a telegram to Chen Hanzhang, Yi Liangpin took the lead in attacking the Japanese army in Jining City, despite the fact that his strength was slightly less than the Japanese army.

In fact, just as Yi Liangpin expected, the speed of the Japanese reinforcements was quite fast, and the scale of the Japanese army's reinforcements far exceeded his judgment. After receiving a telegram from the 69th Division, Okamura Ninji, who was surprised to know that Jining was surrounded. Immediately mobilize the main force of the 3rd Independent Mixed Brigade at the first time, and quickly set out from Datong to reinforce the front line of Jining.

At the same time, after the end of the winter sweep, he stayed in Shanxi and prepared to be the second echelon of the 41st Division, which was to transfer six infantry brigades, two brigades of the artillery wing, plus four infantry brigades of the 15th Division that had arrived in Taiyuan and were dispatched from East China to form a detachment, which was commanded by Lieutenant General Shimizu Rules, commander of the 41st Division, and immediately took a train to reinforce Suinan.