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Chapter 239 The tank battalion attacks!
Night falls.

Outside Guobao Village.

The Japanese logistics troops had worked hard to dig three trenches several hundred meters long.

The terrain on this side of Guobao Village is an open flat land covered with neat rows of wheat seedlings. The water in the nearby ditches has dried up, and the land is soft, making it easy to dig trenches.

After occupying this deserted village, the Japanese moved into the houses of the common people without any hesitation and dug several temporary trenches outside the village.

Although the Japanese soldier Takamori Takashi was a little arrogant at the beginning, he was not stupid, and he still meticulously ensured the necessary defenses and related facilities.

The 11th Division's Quartermaster Corps and Engineer Corps together formed a huge team of more than 4000 people. In the heavy attacks, they lost nearly a thousand people, and now there are still more than 3000 people. They are the bottom of the division and naturally have no chance of living in houses.

The few rooms in the village are now vacated to be occupied by the bigwigs of the command center and those guys from the tank brigade.

The elk from the engineering and supply regiments were digging trenches in a hurry while taking care of the large livestock and building their own tents. So they were busy for most of the day, and after dinner at night they all retreated into their tents to sleep.

No matter how loud the gunfire is outside, it is not their turn to fight now.

As for the division's search team, they had already dispersed and gone out for reconnaissance.

In this way, among the Japanese devils in Guobao Village, the main ones were the Engineering Corps and the Quartermaster Corps, plus auxiliary units such as the Tank Battalion, the Medical Team and the Sick Horse Factory.

The cavalry regiment was stationed in Jiaojiazhuang, 2 kilometers north of Guobao Village, to guard the flank of the division headquarters and serve as a reserve for the Nanguanzhuang attack team.

In addition, there were two Japanese regiments attacking Nanguanzhuang, so Takashi Yingsen and Sumita were not worried about the safety of their headquarters at all.

They had no idea that they were about to face a catastrophe.

The commander of the tank battalion of the Chen Brigade was named Chen Jie. He was originally one of the instructors recruited from the border area. However, there was a severe shortage of tank command talents. When Li Yunlong and his colleagues graduated and returned, Li Yunlong begged Ren Zhong to recruit Chen Jie to be the seed captain of the tank battalion of the independent regiment.

Considering that the brigade commander and his men did not have any tank commanders, Ren Zhong reluctantly agreed and gave Chen Jie a bunch of books on tank combat.

When Taiyue organized a tank unit, Chen Jie naturally took over the position of tank battalion commander. However, who would have thought that the brigade commander would reap the benefits in the end. The tank battalion was upgraded to a military district tank battalion, and Chen Jie became the tank battalion commander, and also took away the first batch of tank talents trained by Li Yunlong.

Li Yunlong was so angry that he jumped up and down for a long time before he calmed down.

At this moment, Chen Jie was commanding seven platoons of the tank battalion, forming a formation of five tanks in a row, and moving slowly towards Guobao Village.

Behind them, soldiers from the 771st and 772nd Regiments were trotting along.

They came out of their hiding place, Zhuozigou, and were only about 6 kilometers away from their target location, Guobao Village. The tanks were marching at a speed of about 771 kilometers, allowing the 772st and nd Regiments to barely keep up.

Behind the main force was a transport team consisting mainly of more than 200 mules and horses, and a 107 artillery company and a machine gun company pulled by dozens of horses.

More than half an hour later, the marching team approached Guobao Village. The noise of the 30-plus tanks marching naturally could not be hidden from the Japanese outer sentries.

"Mr. Nakamura, listen, what's that sound?" Taro Kimura, the Japanese army sergeant in charge of the eastern checkpoint, said to his companion Nakamura Xiaozhi.

The rumbling sound of the M3 tank can be heard one or two kilometers away.

"Kimura-kun, it sounds like the sound of a large truck. It's strange, there is no road here, how could there be the sound of a large truck?" Nakamura Xiaozhi said curiously.

As for the tanks, they all knew that the tank brigade was in the village and it was impossible to deploy them now.

"Kimura-kun, should we report this?" Nakamura asked.

"Let's wait a little longer. If we can't handle the situation, the commander will get angry." Kimura listened carefully for a while and found that the voice was getting closer, so he answered uncertainly.

The sound was like a truck, or like the huge noise made by a moving tank.

However, how could the Eighth Route Army have such a powerful weapon as a tank? In the impressions of Nakamura and Kimura, the Eighth Route Army was still a rustic army that only had rifles and machine guns.

So the idea of ​​the chariot flashed through their minds, and they didn't even think about what they had missed.

It was not until the dark and vague shadow of the M3 tank emerged in the east that Nakamura and Kimura were startled and fired warning shots!

However, there was no need for them to fire warning shots. Among the Japanese soldiers in Guobao Village, Captain Sasaki of the tank battalion had already stood up and anxiously commanded his tank battalion to get on the tanks and prepare for battle!

Sasaki was an old Japanese who had seen the M3 tank, and the sound of the engine was very familiar to him, so he didn't understand why he heard the sound of the M3 tank here.

But obviously, these were definitely not friendly troops, but enemy tanks launching an attack!

Sasaki knew that the locust army in North China and Northeast China would never have M3 tanks. Outside the village, Chen Jie stuck his head out, holding a walkie-talkie, and reorganized the team's formation a little, commanding the tanks to stagger their marching columns, and at the same time waiting for the infantry troops behind to approach the tanks before Chen Jie closed the door.

"Brothers, charge and kill the Japanese!" Chen Jie shouted loudly into the intercom and rushed towards the village that was vaguely visible.

The common people here had already been relocated, so Chen Jie and his men could fight without restraint. After all, with all the chaos and war, the common people had long been accustomed to the reconstruction work.

Most of the valuable things in the room were taken away or hidden in the cellar.

Behind the tanks, the panting 771st and 772nd Regiments watched the tank battalion accelerating its charge. The two spearhead companies in the vanguard had no time to rest and followed suit, shouting.

Although there is not much training on infantry-tank coordination, the information provided by Ren Zhong at least gives everyone an idea that there must be infantry behind the tanks to clean up the debris.

Behind them, the two fully equipped Type A regiments 771 and 772 were following like two torrents.

The tank battalion was like two sharp knives, easily flattening the Japanese defense lines and machine gun fire points encountered along the way, and directly opened a gap of more than 100 meters in the Japanese outer defense line.

After the 76mm main gun was lowered to the ground, it aimed directly at the Japanese soldiers who were suspected to be in a group of fire and fired a single shot, quickly flattening them. The machine gunner aimed at the flashing black shadows in front and pulled the trigger to shoot continuously.

The ten tanks in front were advancing with unstoppable force, and nothing could stop them at all.

The subsequent tanks did not need to fire their guns, but could just crush and fill the gaps along the way, using their tracks to press the remaining Japanese soldiers into the soil and use them to fertilize the fields.

By the time the tanks passed, there were only a few Japanese soldiers left. They were like dumbfounded chickens and allowed the 56th Assault Company following behind to call them off at a half-roll call. The large group that rushed up afterwards kept expanding to both sides to consolidate their advantage.

Soon, the tank battalion collided with the Japanese Type 95 tanks that rushed out.

At a distance of three or four hundred meters, both sides discovered their opponents almost at the same time. Chen Jie ordered the tanks to stop and start aiming. Chen Jie had no pressure at all against the Japanese Type 95 tanks.

现在他驾驶的M3斯图亚特虽然说是轻型坦克，但是装甲相比95式强太多了，前面的炮盾厚度51毫米、前部上方厚度38毫米、下方44毫米、炮塔38毫米、车体侧面与背面25毫米，正面防御力足以在500米距离抵御37毫米级别的反坦克炮。

In contrast, the Japanese Type 95 tank is equipped with a Type 1 94mm tank gun, which needs a distance of 37 meters to penetrate 300mm thick armor. Its front armor thickness is only 45mm, which can only defend against machine gun bullets, while other parts are only 12mm, which is extremely shoddy, and has the protection capability of ordinary rifle bullets.

Such armor can be blown up by not only 76mm armor-piercing bullets but even 12.7mm heavy machine gun bullets!
So there was almost no suspense in the first round of competition. The 10 tanks of the tank battalion hit three Japanese tanks and blew them up with one shot.

Although the Japanese's hit rate increased a lot, the five M3 tanks in front of the tank battalion were all hit, but only a ball of fire appeared and a black shadow was left on the gun shield. The tank shook slightly and then it was fine.

Chen Jie took a break from his busy schedule and saw that the enemy had only destroyed three tanks. He ordered the subsequent tanks to continue moving up and aiming closer. The first five tanks continued to stay where they were and aim at the remaining Japanese Type 3 tanks. He could see clearly that in this position, the Japanese's 5mm water pipes could not do anything to him.

Sasaki saw that his side's artillery shells had almost no effect on the enemy tanks, and his eyes turned red, "Get on board! Get closer and shoot!" The remaining Japanese soldiers finally started their tanks and charged forward again, and in a blink of an eye they were more than a hundred meters closer.

However, during the charge, Chen Jie's five tanks had already aimed at the second round. This time, after getting closer, the hit rate increased a lot, and four of the five tanks hit them at once!
In just a few minutes, most of the Japanese Type 12 tanks were destroyed.

There were still 5 tanks left. When they wanted to stop and fire, the tanks behind and in front of Chen Jie had already opened fire. After more than ten shells, these crappy tanks were turned into scrap metal without any surprise!
The bean tanks had poor armor, poor artillery, and poor speed, and were wiped out without causing any waves.

Chen Jie was not surprised by this result. When he was in the Expeditionary Force, he had destroyed several similar Japanese tanks and had no pressure at all against this kind of thin-skinned tank.

He continued to charge forward. His mission was not to destroy this group of little guys, but to completely destroy Guobao Village and wipe out the Japanese command post in one fell swoop!
After getting rid of the Japanese tanks, the village ahead was vaguely visible. Chen Jie led the tank battalion to speed up and rushed forward, directly crushing the low houses. These walls made of earthen bricks could not stop the tanks' charge at all.

(Local courtyard, civil engineering structure)
The Japanese soldiers hiding inside had no time to escape and were buried under the collapsed walls or tank tracks.

In less than ten minutes, the entire village was crushed by tanks and then rushed towards the Japanese's outer camp!

The Japanese soldiers from the Engineering Regiment and the Quartermaster Regiment who had just been awakened began to flee in all directions like a nest of bombs. Faced with such a monster, these auxiliary soldiers who didn't have much combat power to begin with, didn't have the courage to fight at all. They just fled everywhere and even began to trample on each other!

The tank battalion's first attack almost broke through a rear base of tens of thousands of Japanese troops in one fell swoop. With the cooperation of the 771st and 772nd Regiments that swept in afterwards, it took no effort at all to wipe out this rear base of the Japanese troops.

For the whole night, the 771st and 772nd Regiments were busy collecting the spoils and cleaning up the Japanese who had escaped the net. Due to lack of manpower, the 771st and 772nd Regiments had no time to capture prisoners. When they encountered them, they would just shoot them to death, reducing the workload of managing prisoners.

Because the tank battalion's charge was too violent, no one noticed whether the Japanese commander was killed or not until the end of the battle. However, for the brigade commander, it didn't matter. After the 771st and 772nd Regiments captured the Japanese logistics base in one fell swoop and gained control of their supply materials, the brigade commander immediately issued an order for a full-scale counterattack.

Li Yunlong was already impatient. After hearing the order from the brigade commander, he immediately ordered the 107th Rocket Artillery Regiment, which had been hidden for a long time, to begin comprehensive coverage of the Japanese positions!
For a moment, on the positions occupied by the Japanese in Nanguanzhuang and Kongjiazhuang, flames shot up into the sky and explosions continued one after another, extending all the way to the rear-end regiment station of the Japanese 39th Division. After fighting for half an hour, on the frontline positions, in addition to the New rd and th Regiments and the Independent Regiment that rushed out to help, several guerrilla brigades that had been lying in ambush for a long time launched a full-scale attack almost at the same time!
The soldiers were like tigers descending from the mountains. Relying on the powerful firepower of the Type 56 semi-automatic rifles in their hands, they entered the trenches on the battlefield and fought with the Japanese soldiers who were dizzy from the explosion but not yet dead. They fired one shot after another and hardly missed.

The Japanese soldiers on the position were sent away in an orderly manner so that they would not feel that they were being treated differently.

After all, the family must go together intact.

That night, after several hours of bloody fighting, the Japanese were too tenacious and in the end the number of prisoners alive did not exceed three digits!

The two Japanese divisions were almost wiped out overnight. The brigade commander estimated that hundreds of people (cavalry) had fled into the mountains and were still fleeing. At the same time, the brigade commander issued an order to cut off the Japanese's retreat. Kong Jiexin's Second Regiment, together with several brother regiments, penetrated into the south of Yanqu County with all their strength and directly blocked the remaining Japanese's retreat!
After a night of fierce fighting, the main force is busy resting and replenishing!
Next, starting from the afternoon of the next day, the New 771st Regiment, the Independent Regiment, the 772st Regiment and the nd Regiment would attack southward with all their might under the charge of the tank battalion and crush the remaining Japanese brigades in the mountains dozens of kilometers from Yuanqu to Jiangxian!
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