Rise from eight hundred.

"Great victory!"

"North China Air Battle Victory!"

In the early morning of September 9, a newsboy with a big bag slung over his shoulder shouted loudly on the streets of Jiangcheng.

The streets of Jiangcheng, located in the center of the Central China Defense War, were originally a little cold, even if someone walked by, their faces were full of worry!

The cloud of war had enveloped the largest city in the six provinces of Central China as early as the end of May.

In Jiangcheng now, the crowds and hustle and bustle of a few months ago have long since disappeared.

The countless refugees who fled from the south of the Yangtze River fled further south or southwest as long as they had some mobility. The main military and political departments also moved to the southwestern important town of Shancheng two months ago.

Those who remained were basically the aborigines who were unwilling to abandon their homes.

But under the shouting of the newsboys, many people still gathered around, took out the few coins they had on them, bought a freshly baked newspaper, and watched the so-called great victory in the air battle!

Although people need food, they also need spiritual comfort!Otherwise, where is the hope?
"North China air battle, 48 to 17! Our Chinese Air Force attacked with 60 fighter planes from five aviation brigades. At the cost of 17 of our battle losses, we shot down and damaged 48 Japanese planes and defeated the Japanese invaders! Haha, well played Ah! Our Chinese Air Force, well done." A middle-aged man in a suit who took the newspaper stood on the street and roared in a voice that almost lost his composure.

With more and more people applauding loudly, the cold street gradually boiled up!

The victory in the air battle in North China seems to have little to do with the battle in Central China, where nearly a million troops were gathered by China and Japan, but this is for China, which is constantly losing wars at this time, especially for the people in the important towns in Central China that are deeply involved in the war. , but it was like being given a shot in the arm!

That means that China has not completely lost its air supremacy, and the hundreds of thousands of troops on the ground may not be able to get much help from the air, at least they don't have to worry about threats from the air every day, and the Japanese army can no longer come to Jiangcheng from time to time like in the past Throw bombs and make the people living in it feel precarious!

That's what the news of victory does!

"Okay! Brother, take me to Dadongmen, I will pay double the fare today!" The middle-aged man in a suit folded the newspaper and put it in his pocket, and got into a rickshaw excitedly.

"Hey! Master, do you think this is true? Could it be that the fake news from above fooled us little people."

Maybe it was because of the news of the victory, or because one trip was worth two trips, the rickshaw driver also excitedly pulled up the rickshaw and started trotting, but after enduring it again and again, he still couldn't help the doubts in his heart.

The news of this victory is really too shocking. When China has so many fighters, let’s not talk about it. The key is that one guy killed 48 small Japanese fighters. This is probably the amount in the past six months!

Even if the rickshaw driver doesn't have much knowledge, he always finds this a bit too scary.

"Hey, brother, who are those people here! They like to report good news and not bad news, and they like to make false achievements to deceive people, but have you ever heard of anyone who dared to report such a big false record? Two days ago, General Xue led an army in the In the bloody battle at Wanjialing, the Japanese invaders severely damaged the Japanese 106th Division, but the newspapers did not dare to say that the division was completely wiped out, but only said that more than [-] enemies were wiped out!" The middle-aged man in a good mood explained with a smile.

"My lord, what you said made me feel more at ease. Eight or nine members of my family are in Jiangcheng, and there is nowhere to run. I can only hope that the national army will win this battle." The smile on the rickshaw driver's face It was brighter, and my steps felt much lighter.

"Don't worry, China will definitely win!" The middle-aged man, who turned his eyes to the sky, nodded with certainty.

His nephew is the eagle soaring in the sky, and he should come back triumphantly with his comrades at this moment!

As an employee of the Imperial Bank on which the sun never sets, he didn't even go to work at this time, but rushed to announce the good news to his brother and sister-in-law. His intuition told him that his nephew who had disappeared for two months must be responsible for it.

The middle-aged man with keen intuition may not have expected that by tonight, there would be an even more exciting piece of news hitting Jiangcheng, which was at the center of the battle, causing the entire Jiangcheng to boil.

Victory belongs to China, but sorrow is left to his family!
华北晋东之战，第二战区击退18师团和20师团及第5师团一部，击溃21师团并全歼20师团所属第39步兵旅团！

Yes, Tang Dao did not break his promise and did not let the nearly 39 people of the 7000th Infantry Brigade in the encirclement see the sun on the 16th!

Not to mention the 6 infantry companies and 2 fire support companies of the two major infantry battalions of the Four Elements Regiment, all went into battle. The third battalion in charge of defending Niangziguan also transferred Li Jiujin's seventh company to join the battle overnight. The two companies, the engineer company and the supply battalion, also entered the battlefield around 10 pm!
The Artillery Battalion's Mountain Artillery Company and Heavy Force Company continued to support the frontline army with heavy firepower. The Air Defense Company withdrew from the air defense position to accompany the infantry forward. The 20mm machine guns and 12.7mm heavy machine guns fired flat fire to cover the Japanese fortifications. .

The 20mm machine gun can fire flat, and can penetrate 500mm armor plate at a distance of 17 meters. In just one day, no matter how good the civil engineering work is, how can the Japanese army build an artificial bunker that can defend against this kind of artillery?
Moreover, there are nearly 30 such machine guns in the Four-row Regiment, not to mention nearly 60 12.7mm heavy machine guns, two of which form a cross-fire team, let alone Japanese infantry, even 2 tanks. Get beaten and cry!
This is all the strength that the Four Elements Regiment did not show when facing the aggressive offensive of the 21st Division, and it was used all this night.

Lei Xiong personally led Zhao Daqiang's company to go deep into the 39th Infantry Brigade's position for nearly 1000 meters and then established a forward position. Pang Hai for single-line contact!

That should also be the first typical example of the infantry company level directly calling for artillery support on the Asian battlefield. The Japanese army, which was completely divided and surrounded, could not form a complete command system at all, and could only watch one after another position being called by mountain artillery and large-caliber heavy forces. Shelling, and then a large number of Chinese soldiers swarmed up, smashing the infantry who had been bombed in the trench into blood gourds all over the ground with bullets!

The tactics of the 17th Division were slightly different from those of the right-wing Sixing Regiment. They sent a total of 3 infantry regiments of nearly 5000 people to counterattack the Japanese invaders, and each regiment was responsible for three highlands defended by the Japanese army.

That is also the key defense direction of the 39th Infantry Brigade. There are a total of 9 infantry squadrons with nearly 1400 troops, and they are at an absolute disadvantage in terms of strength.

No, it should be said that it is also in terms of firepower!
17师集中了自己所有火炮对三个步兵团进行炮火支援，四行团那边也分出4个博福斯山炮班以及4个150重迫班对其进行火力支援，而39步兵旅团在一下午的炮战中就损失了自己炮兵联队中的70.00%火炮！
The military order received by the three infantry regiments of the 17th Division was to attack at all costs. From dusk to 11 o'clock in the evening, the three infantry regiments launched more than six rounds of infantry attacks, firmly locking the main force of the Japanese army approaching the two infantry brigades Not to mention the battlefield on the left wing, Li Dengxing knew that this was drinking poison to quench his thirst, but under the desperate call of his subordinates, he dispatched nearly 6 second-line troops such as logistics soldiers, engineers, and medical soldiers to support the left wing.

This also led to the reduction of its reserve team to less than 1500 people, and it was simply unable to cope with the interception of the small and flexible troops of the Four Elements Regiment interspersed with the battlefield at the platoon level. The entire right-wing defense line was completely fragmented by 9 o'clock in the evening!
In the end, I could only watch in despair as the Four Elements Regiment dispatched three infantry companies with nearly a thousand people to swallow up the defenders in the divided hills and valleys one by one under the support of artillery fire.

And what is Tang Tuanzuo, who came to the front line in person, doing?
Since he led a platoon of guards into the gap and ambushed three Japanese squads marching in the mountains to reinforce his own position, Tang Dao did not go deep alone, but appointed Yang Xiaoshan, who had been following him, to lead the platoon of guards to meet and find Gu Xishui's team, whose own air force remains, returned to the main position with Xia Dayu and five guards.

Pulling Deng Guihai, who was a little confused, the two got into the 89-type tank that had been parked there!
"Tonight, I will be your driver. You just fire the cannon and let me see the strength of an elite gunner!" Tang Dao patted the Army Sergeant on the shoulder roughly.

"I'll be the observer!" Xia Dayu, who was full of excitement, also got into the tank.

"I'll be the ammunition hand and the machine gunner!" Scout Lianlian Elder Hei's face was dark, full of helplessness.

Originally, the guard company was responsible for the security of Tang Tuanzuo, but Yang Xiaoshan was sent to the battlefield to perform a mission by Tang Tuanzuo's order. Naturally, the task of protecting the security of the regiment chief could only be entrusted to him, the commander of the reconnaissance company. It was stipulated by the regiment headquarters that if there is no one in the reconnaissance company, it is the turn of the cavalry battalion!

But to be honest, in the face of the leader of the regiment who went to the front line without a word of disagreement, whoever took over the job would have a headache. What a tank!
This thing looks very strong with steel plate protection, and it is not easy to use any bullets, but this thing is too bulky, and the outside is so dark that you can’t see anything clearly. It was targeted by infantry. If you are not careful, it will Iron coffin!
Many veterans in the reconnaissance company have experience in fighting this kind of iron turtle. They hide in the dark corner of the trench and stuff a pack of explosives quietly. A heavy machine gun and a short-barreled gun cannot guarantee absolute safety.

"Haha, don't worry, Old Hei, there are still two reconnaissance squads accompanying you outside! Let the little devils taste the power of their tank guns today!" Tang Dao laughed and launched the 89 tank.

The 21 tank captured from the 89st Division did not have a new paint job due to time constraints. It just painted a white five-pointed star on the turret with white dye on the periphery of the original red sun and passed it on to the whole regiment.

This is also to avoid being accidentally injured by our own officers and soldiers, not because we are afraid that infantry will throw explosives and incendiary bottles. Now all the infantry battalions of the Four Elements Regiment are equipped with 20mm machine guns. Tang Tuanzuo's steel and iron bones have to kneel!

The officers and soldiers of the Four Elements Regiment knew that the 89 tank with a red sun inside and white stars on the outside painted on the turret belonged to them, but that didn't mean the Japanese knew it.

The 21st Division didn't even tell the 39th Infantry Brigade about their escape, so they sent a special telegram saying that all the tanks had been seized?
Therefore, when the 89 tank first appeared in front of a Japanese position on a mountain pass and rumbled towards the position, the Japanese infantry were all dumbfounded.

Are the idiots in the chariot squadron stunned by the Chinese?Why are you still rumbling towards your position?Also, what do you mean by lowering the muzzle and leveling it?
It wasn't until the 57mm short-barreled gun blasted a heavy machine gun bunker that was firing desperately to pieces that the Japanese infantry realized that this was a Chinese tank!
The strange machine gun and Sanba Dagai desperately greeted the 89 tank, which was only about a hundred meters away, but obviously, it was useless.

The level of Japanese military industry is average, but it is by no means enough to build a tank that can be pierced by machine gun bullets!

If it was changed to the heyday, the 39th Infantry Brigade was also equipped with 37mm rapid-fire guns to deal with this kind of steel behemoth, but now, there is really no such thing!
Under the crazy shelling of the Chinese, there are not even a few 92 infantry guns left!Even if there is, the infantry squadron-level position in front of us is not equipped.The only bit of heavy firepower was almost all transferred by Li Dengxing to the left-wing battlefield to deal with the fierce attack of the three infantry regiments of the 17th Division.

Therefore, the Japanese army with only light weapons on the battlefield could only use machine guns and rifles in vain to deal with the giant steel monster spewing artillery fire and bullets in front of them, and watched it getting closer and closer in despair, and then the infantry behind it began to throw Grenade, the damage caused by the rain of grenade bombs falling into the trench is even more terrible than 150 heavy pressure!
Although there is no solution to the 150 heavy-pressure large shells that can flatten nearly a thousand square meters with air waves, the probability of falling into the trenches is extremely low after all. As long as you lie down as much as possible and you are lucky, you can still save your life.

But the probability of the grenade falling into the trench can be as high as [-] to [-]%, which is something you can't avoid no matter how you dodge!
To say that the Japanese army is also tenacious enough, some Japanese soldiers quickly picked up the grenades thrown at their feet and threw them out quickly, and some Japanese soldiers saw that they dropped two or three grenades in a row. Gritting his teeth, he threw himself on the grenade, using himself as a meat shield to protect his colleagues.

Don't tell me, it's quite touching. Seeing my colleagues being riddled with grenades, the whole body flew up by one meter. The Japanese infantry roared wildly, opened the bayonets on the muzzles, and jumped out of the trenches to fight. The last heroic fight!

But this time, what greeted them was not the same sharp bayonet!

Instead, a nearly 20-ton steel behemoth!

"Fight the bayonet with me? Good!" Tang Dao's brows and eyes are all ferocious!

With a hard step on the accelerator, the engine of the 89 tank exploded with a huge roar. The tank was accelerated to 40 yards on the mountain, and it slammed into the Japanese infantry who were about to fight to the death.

Thus, the most brutal scene on the battlefield was born.

Even though most of the elites of the reconnaissance company have experienced the meat grinder-like battlefield in Songhu, they have seen many bloody scenes, and even felt the fear of flying broken limbs hitting their bodies during the battle, but more than 15 soldiers After the war, I still couldn't eat for two consecutive days, especially if I couldn't see meat.

In the original words of a corporal of a reconnaissance company: "Don't say I'm not strong enough, it's because you didn't see the scene at that time. Everyone is a farmer. Everyone has seen the stone roller in the rice field! Just think about it, Shi If the roller is ten times bigger and one person is crushed, what will happen in the end?"

"Then it can't be made into a piece of paper?" Someone thought carefully and said with certainty.

"Paper?" The corporal curled his lips in disdain.

"So you can't figure it out just by thinking about it. Let me tell you this! A person has become a piece of skin, like a piece of paper, but the internal organs in a person's stomach will be squeezed out, sprayed out. It must be seven or eight meters away!" The corporal recalled, squinting his eyes. "It was only then that I realized what a human kidney looks like, like a big soybean, and the liver! It's not the same as a pig's liver."

"The point is, there is still the sound of someone being crushed, Peng! It's similar to the cannon we fired during the Chinese New Year! It's still a continuous cannon! Really, the little devil is not afraid of death, but if you want to die, don't play with the group tanks Fight the bayonet!
The old man in class three knows it!It was the Ming Yueye who had chopped off the heads of three little devils with a machete and charged with the head of a Japanese captain hanging from his waist. Was he fierce or not?
He was the closest to the tank at the time. That guy, with blood all over his head and face, and several lumps of flesh hanging from his body, vomited on the spot, all the gall water!
That smelly, I dare not get close to him most of the night!Even when celebrating the victory, I didn't dare to hug him, and Lao Ming still doesn't talk to me when he sees him now. "

"Why is it so stinky?" Some soldiers asked blankly.

"Where do you think human shit goes?" asked the corporal, squinting. "By the way, do you want to know how long it took to wash the tanks of the group before it became stale? That thing smells even worse, and there are big fat meat in those seams!"

"Ouch~~~Brother, stop talking, I'm going to vomit too!" There was a retching sound all around.

"Small man, dare to laugh at me for not being able to eat, I will drag you into the water no matter what I say! Vomit~~~" The corporal mocked, but his throat couldn't help retching!
As a person who experienced it personally, it was hard for him not to return to the battlefield that night was called the Flesh Mill.

The giant steel beast driven by Tang Tuanzuo ruthlessly crushed the rushing Japanese infantry, creating a trail of blood!
The infantry who followed closely behind used automatic firearms to harvest the remaining Japanese infantry who were trying to make the last fight with bayonets, and shot all of them to death in the mountains.

A small mountain position garrisoned by nearly 150 Japanese troops was conquered in just 5 minutes, and all the defenders were wiped out, while the casualties of our own infantry were in single digits!
And this is just a small test of Tang Tuanzuo who turned into a tank driver in the mountain attack battle!

What really made Tang Tuanzuo famous in the first battle with Second Lieutenant Deng Guihai, who was promoted to the first tank platoon leader of the Four Elements after the war, was the battle with 5 Japanese Type 94 tanks and 3 89 tanks. Beast fighting encounters.

That was also the first tank battle on the Taihang Mountain battlefield!
The 001 tank named 89 Taihang after the war, with 1 vs 8!