Southeast of Selenginsk, the headquarters of the First Armored Army of the Chinese Army.

"What the hell is that? Haven't found out yet? Army Commander Yintian stared unhappily at Lieutenant Colonel Jiang Tieshan, the military intelligence department in front of him.

Jiang Tieshan was sweating on his head, bowed his head and said, "This...... It was learned from the prisoners that his code name was 'Mendeleev'. According to the accounts of eyewitnesses to the battle of Aktobe, it is estimated to be more than 4 meters in height and 10 to 14 meters long, with a rectangular box on all sides, a large-caliber main gun in front of the hull, and a small turret on the roof. But strangely, no one saw its tracks, and no traces of rails were found around it - the possibility of an armored train was ruled out. ”

"No tracks? And no rails? Could it be that you flew there? Yintian's brows furrowed deeply, and his keen gaze turned to Yuan Xu, the commander of the 1st Armored Brigade, who was the most capable cadre under him, known as the "Armored Little Zhuge ".

"Yuan Zhuge , what do you think?"

Yuan Xu twisted the goatee under his chin and sighed: "It's not easy to do, why didn't you report it before?" It would be nice to be able to use aviation to reconnoitre. But now, I can only try to drag one back, take it apart and study it. “

"It's easy to say, how can something so big be dragged back?" Colonel Luton, the commander of the 2nd Brigade opposite Yuan Xu, shook his head with a teacup.

"Also, what's the deal with without tracks? Is the track buried in the snow, or are our people mistaken? Colonel Jiang Yishen, the commander of the 3rd Brigade with a shiny mustache, carefully pinched the tip of his beard.

"Seeing is believing, so be sure to capture one anyway, preferably intact and able to open and test." Yuan Xu rubbed his hands together and was eager to try it - in fact, dissecting and debugging machinery was the greatest pleasure of the life of this armored brigade commander who was born as an automobile soldier.

"Maybe it's just an immovable iron house, I think it's probably Maozi's new fortifications—" Luton subconsciously nodded to the scar on his chin, an eternal memorial to the Battle of Vladivostok Fortress, which was famous for its mountains of corpses and blood.

"It would have been nice to have a fixed fort, but according to eyewitnesses, the thing did change its position before and after the battle, and the scouts who later infiltrated it were not able to find it in the village. However, it is worth noting that after our troops retreated on their own initiative, the thing did not catch up, or rather, because of its clumsiness, it could not catch up at all. ”

"Clumsy in action? That's what the parties say? With his arms folded around his chest, he pressed his fingers against a silver medallion embossed with a lion and a cross, and around the medallion was engraved a circle of gold letters: "Abyssinian Aid Commemoration."

Yuan Xu sneered: "Not only what the parties say, in my opinion, such a big thing, with the domestic engine and transmission technology as a reference, can move is a blessing, it is absolutely impossible to run faster than our Feiting and Cedian." Moreover, the reliability and practicality of such a design beyond the realm of reason are questionable, and the Russians will never be able to mass-produce such a strange thing unless all their brains are flooded.

"You're an expert, and whatever you say is what you say. Whether it's unreliable or impractical, we can't do anything about him for the time being. Yuan Zhuge , it was your troops who discovered this thing, no matter what, give me an idea, we don't want to be like your subordinates, make a 180-degree U-turn in front of the enemy, and let the enemy's shells chase after the ass and beat. Lutonpi said with a smile on his face, taking a sip of his tea.

Yuan Xu pressed his hands to his knees and said with some sadness: "Although I really want to get a good one, but for the upcoming thunder and lightning operation, we must remove all obstacles." The commander of the army was requested to immediately propose to Commander Xu that each armored brigade engaged in the offensive should be strengthened by a mechanized 105 heavy field artillery company. ”

Jiang Yishen, who was born in artillery, shook his Wilhelm II Hu slightly: "Plan to use the 105 cannon to solve the problem?" However, the gunners should not have been trained to shoot at moving targets, and the main task of the 105 Plus is counter-battery and sabotage fortifications, and the task of attacking the opponent's armored targets was originally shared by their own armored troops, 37 infantry guns, and 75 field artillery......"

"I think that thing is a mobile fortress, and if you can climb 3 or 4 kilometers in an hour on the snow, it's time to reach the sky. I don't believe that the Russians have surpassed us by a generation in chariot skills, if they are really so powerful, why haven't they drowned the Germans with a sea of chariots? Yuan Xu was unhurried, said slowly, tapped his fingers on the table, and only hated that there was a goose feather fan missing in his hand. Moreover, the 37 short guns of the Flying Thunder and the 75 short guns of the Lightning are all aimed at dealing with the enemy's vital forces and civil fortifications as their main tasks, and by the way, they will hit armored vehicles or something, and it is normal that they can't defeat this kind of iron fortress, otherwise why don't we use armored troops to storm the Ulan-Ude fortress? Do you have to wait for the heavy artillery to come up and open the cans? ”

"Of course, it is really less than 105 plus, and it should be effective to arrange the 75 fields and 105 grenades of the brigade and set up an ambush circle. No more, there are special smoke bombs, and if the wind is on the opposite side, a large area will be shot with mortars, which will knock people down and confiscate the car. ”

"The use of special smoke bombs requires the approval of the commander of the front army...... Jiang Tieshan reminded.

"Then apply." Yuan Xu shook the non-existent goose feather fan.

"Do you have any other ideas?" Yintian looked around left and right, Lu Dun and Jiang Yishen both looked away and closed their mouths, while Jiang Tieshan hesitated.

"According to Yuan Zhuge meaning, I will apply for 105 plus and special smoke bombs, and each brigade will use its own brains and think carefully about how to use brigade artillery to fight this kind of monster."

Before the words could be finished, there was a knock on the door.

"Report, Commander Xu has arrived!"

The generals hurriedly got up and left their seats, and stood there like telephone poles, greeting their famous commander of the "Thousand Heads Beheaded".

"Salute!"

After returning the salute, Commander Xu Soul took off his cloak and nodded to them kindly: "It's just here, so I don't have to find someone else - see who I brought over?" ”

The generals looked behind the commander, and the generals of Yishui were at the level of generals: He Siqi, chief of staff of the 1st Army of the Praetorian Guards with a big face and a large beard, Major General Hou Chang, commander of the 1st Division of the Praetorian Guards with a round face and big ears, and a rich and noble face, and his hair and beard were black and shiny, as if he was Brigadier General Yi Feng, chief of staff of the Praetorian Cavalry Corps, who came to the battlefield to attend the aristocratic banquet......

"Welcome...... Welcome ......"

"If you don't welcome it, you have to welcome it."

Xu Soul smiled, took out his pocket watch and glanced at it: "The thunder and lightning operation will start tomorrow morning in advance, and your electric cluster still has 1 hour to coordinate and 12 hours to prepare." ”

"Then let's get started......" Yintian suddenly felt that the sky was much darker.