At midnight, due to the trunk moon, the earth was shrouded in darkness. The First Mechanized Division, the Second Motorized Infantry Division, and the Mountain Infantry Brigade were three troops advancing together, and the Third Infantry Division followed.

When the troops marched less than 30 kilometers away from Longling, suddenly, there was a fierce exchange of fire coming from the front. The military headquarters where Song Yuhang was located immediately stopped, and an m4 tank company that had been following the military headquarters immediately surrounded it and formed a defensive position with the vehicle body.

Soon, the fire exchange in front showed an escalation, and even the whistling of mortar shells sounded in the air. Two tank companies of the First Mechanized Division equipped with M4 tanks quickly surpassed the military headquarters and rushed to a village less than 500 meters away from the road in diameter.

When the mechanized infantry approached the village, dozens of flames ejected from the village, killing tanks and armored vehicles!

Under the pale light of the flares fired by the subsequent troops using mortars, three Japanese Type 97 medium-sized combat vehicles also rushed out of the Zhuangkou. One of the 75mm tanks of a Japanese chariot actually hit the tracks of an m4 chariot. The flames emitted by the explosion were mixed with metal debris flying across the sky like fireworks.

Then three Japanese chariots were knocked into three bonfires, and the wreckage of Japanese chariots blocked the road at Zhuangkou. With the flames burning by the Japanese chariots, Chang Tianfang carefully observed the terrain of Huangzhuang.

Huangzhuang is located on a highland a few miles away from Tuantian Town, surrounded by large areas of shrubs and depressions.

This is a typical encounter. Both sides of the battle were very surprised. According to the information provided by the Japanese aviation reconnaissance, the Chongqing Army's First Mechanized Army should have arrived at the earliest tomorrow morning. The Japanese army did not expect that Song Yuhang would abandon artillery and logistics supplies and advance lightly. At this moment, the main force of the Japanese 29th Infantry Regiment was building fortifications in Tuantian, while the Yokota Rapid War Tank Detachment was hiding in a depression behind Huangzhuang on the flank of Tuantian Town. The Japanese army only deployed a squadron of the 29th Infantry Regiment in Huangzhuang. The task of this squadron was to lay mines. The Japanese army stationed in Huangzhuang did not wait for the mines they urgently needed, but waited for the tanks of the First Mechanized Division.

Song Yuhang, Cui Zhijun and others squatted behind the butt of the tank and spread out the map to compare the marching speed. Song Yuhang pressed his finger on the Tuantian less than 30 kilometers away from Longling. With the explosions and flashes in the distance, Song Yuhang found that there seemed to be towns in some places far away.

In Tuantian Town, the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army, Colonel Kawaaka Hiratani, was now connected with the phone call with Yokota Kanichi, the captain of Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment. The Yokota Rapid Tank Detachment was at best an unexpected encounter with the First Mechanized Division. However, the 29th Infantry Regiment was not so lucky.

Due to the frontal relationship of the march, Zhang Tiansheng's mountain infantry brigade bypassed Tuantian Town directly from the side, and a main combat regiment from Qi Baiming's Second Motorized Infantry Division broke into Tuantian Town. Both sides caught the other side off guard. After the battle broke out, a regiment that broke into the town was besieged by the Japanese army and suffered heavy casualties. In order to meet the troops that broke into the town, Qi Baiming threw the other three regiments into battle from the south of the town. After contacting the radio station, the mountain infantry brigade in the north of the town immediately attacked the town.

Then, the Third Infantry Division arrived at Liangchao and entered the battle in Tuantian Town. The 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army surrounded a regiment of the Second Motorized Infantry Division. The Second Motorized Infantry Division, the Third Infantry Division, and the Mountain Infantry Brigade surrounded the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army. Tuantian Town was like a group of several layers of glutinous rice dumplings.

The unexpected melee between the Chinese and Japanese armies confused both sides. Song Yuhang quickly analyzed the local war situation report from the divisions and determined that the Japanese troops here were only about one corps and were equipped with unclear combat chariots. His intention was to block himself from the Tuantian line.

Thinking of this, Song Yuhang smiled slightly and said to Cui Zhijun: "If the Japanese army sends a blocking force, it means they are not ready to retreat. It is very likely that they are still biting Song Xilian tightly. Then Longling may be an empty city!"

The Chinese and Japanese armies in Tuantian Town were killed by the sky and the earth. However, the direction of Huangzhuang was silent in an unusual silence. Yokota Kanichi learned from the entrance of the village that his subordinates destroyed an American M4 chariot. However, three Type 97 medium-sized chariots in his own place were destroyed in the first round of volleys of the opponent. He knew that in the Chinese Expeditionary Force, only the First Mechanized Division under the First Mechanized Army, and the only mechanized army could be maneuvered so quickly.

The unexpected outbreak of the encounter at the entrance of the village made Yokota realize that the Chinese chariot troops had no less skills than their own. They could hit and destroy the target in the first round of volleys in the dark night! It seemed that some luck was needed. But more of them were probably still solid in their skills.

Yokota Kanichi is like Chang Tianfang. Both sides are not in a hurry to attack. It is not suitable for a decisive battle of tanks in the dark night. Moreover, Yokota Kanichi discovered from the rumbling sequence of the opponent's marching and the roar of the engine that the number of chariots in the other side was far greater than that of him. If he fought out rashly, he was afraid that the gain would not be worth the loss.

In fact, Yokota Kamiichi mistakenly estimated the number of tanks of the First Mechanized Division. At this moment, the armored troops accompanying the First Mechanized Division actually had only 4 medium-sized tank companies and a light tank company, and only 15 tank companies, including a tank company and a company command vehicle.

Due to the frequent mobilization of the tanks and the battle with the support group Tian Town, Yokota Kamiichi mistakenly estimated the number of tanks his opponents.

If Yokota Kamiichi knew that the command of the First Mechanized Army was on the road outside the village, less than 500 meters away, he would definitely rush out at all costs.

Perhaps it was Song Yuhang's character outbreak, or Yokota Kamiichi had no luck at all. After a night of melee, at dawn, the 2nd Japanese infantry corps, which was beaten by the Chinese army, which had an absolute advantage in numbers and firepower, finally failed to fight. The leader of the regiment, Colonel Kazunaga Hiratani, was so sad that he gritted his teeth for Yokota Kamiichi's death and refused to save Kazunaga Hiratani, and vowed to make Yokota Kamiichi pay the price.

Fierce battles until dawn, the more than 4,700 people in the 29th Infantry Regiment of the Japanese Army were left before the war. It was the first time that the Japanese army of the 29th Infantry Regiment encountered such a fierce Chinese army. These Chinese troops were well-equipped and well-trained compared to the Chinese army they had seen in the past. They infiltrated Tuantian Town with ranking units. Under the cover of fierce firepower, the Chinese soldiers were blasting the houses where the Japanese army was trying to hide, or even ignited them with flamethrowers.

Only after the Japanese soldiers covered in fire escaped from the sea of ​​fire would they torture them to death, and treat the wounded Japanese soldiers simply using bayonets.

Under the fierce and tenacious attack of the Chinese army, the Japanese army gave up the siege of the Chinese army in the town and kept shrinking the defense. When the defense was broken, it continued to shrink its defense.

In the early morning, Colonel Hezhong Pinggu, the experienced corps leader, made full use of the darkness before dawn and successfully implemented tactical deception. He first used suicide squads to attract the attention of the most fierce mountain infantry brigade in the Chinese army. He created the illusion of breaking through and used the junction of Zhang Tiansheng's troops of the Mountain Infantry Brigade and Liang Chao's troops of the Third Infantry Division to break through.

The only place chosen by the Japanese army was to garrison one platoon of the Mountain Infantry Brigade was stationed. Because it was an external guard position and was at the junction of the two troops, Zhang Tiansheng thought that Liang Chao, who had many soldiers and wide generals, would set up defenses, and Liang Chao thought that Zhang Tiansheng, who was experienced, would set up defenses, but the empty defense was discovered by the cunning Japanese army.

The Japanese army commanded by Colonel Pingyao, Kakazhong, flocked to it, and a platoon of Chinese troops on the warning position fired a few shots and was involved in hand-to-hand combat.

With the support of his subordinates, Pinggu, Hezhong, commanded his troops to break through quickly and prepare to move into the mountains and forests to get rid of the pursuit of the Chinese army.

On the edge of a jungle 300 meters away from the joint, there was a machine gun position in the 1st Company of the 3rd Battalion, the 7th Regiment of the Third Infantry Division. The Japanese army's breakthrough alarmed the machine gun position. The deputy platoon leader of the machine gun platoon commanded the position here decisively ordered the transfer of two Type 24 heavy machine guns and fired from the flank of the Japanese army's breakthrough team.

As we all know, the main casualties brought to infantry by the fan strafing of heavy machine guns did not come from the frontal positions, but from the flanks in the direction of the attack.

Although the Japanese military and local operations could not be seen clearly at the 300-meter-long machine gun position, this time was a great test of the machine gun shooter's battlefield experience. Almost most of the infantry units of the Song Yuhangdi First Mechanized Army were composed of veterans over three years of military experience. Faced with this situation, the characteristics of veterans having rich battlefield experience were prominent and became extremely important. After the second heavy machine gun made a simple correction, the ruler fire strafing block was started to be implemented for the distance extending from 100 to 150 meters to the Japanese breakout direction.

As soon as the Kawakagaku entered the jungle, several staff officers behind him fell into a dense rain of bullets. At this time, there were about a thousand Japanese troops blocked by machine gun fire.

At this time, the Japanese army, which was already full of plants and trees, were still in a panic and could not help but pull out the firepower points of the other party. They only regretted that their parents had fewer legs. The Japanese officers and soldiers who were walking through the rain of bullets were shot and fell from time to time. The screams and moans were ignored by the panicked people. Everyone had only one thought in their minds, that was to escape, escape into the woods, and the farther they ran, the better.

The flag guard team of the 29th Infantry Regiment carried the Hezhong Pinggu to rush forward regardless of everything. In order to be able to run faster, some Japanese soldiers began to discard their weapons even in disregard of strict military regulations.

The Japanese soldiers all knew that it was not about how fast you could run. All you had to do was to run faster than your companions.

The Japanese army's breakthrough was beyond the expectations of Liang Chao and Zhang Tiansheng. The Japanese army was looking for a breakthrough in the north, so naturally it was nothing to do with Qi Baiming, so Qi Baiming looked at Liang Chao and Zhang Tiansheng leisurely and complained to each other.

The Mountain Infantry Brigade sent a battalion to pursue the Japanese army without contact. Zhang Tiansheng was very depressed about the fact that he used a pocket to put the surface with a leaking bottom. From last night's battle, he knew that the Japanese army surrounded in Tuantian Town was at least one unit. Annihilation of a Japanese army and seized the unit flag. This has always been Zhang Tiansheng's long-cherished wish. Today, such a great opportunity was actually lost due to his mistakes. Zhang Tiansheng was so upset that he almost hit the wall with his head.

Looking at Liang Chao with a normal look on his face, Zhang Tiansheng was so angry that he secretly slandered Liang Chao and was also very jealous of Liang Chao, because after the battle against Kunming, the two Japanese gang flags seized were recorded on the current First Mechanized Division and on the third Infantry Division of Liang Chao. After fighting for so many years, millions of Chinese troops have captured these two sides!

Zhang Tiansheng was very jealous of the honor of seizing the Japanese wing flag. Since the Battle of Kunming, he often said to his subordinates viciously: "Everyone is good at it, and I can also make a small flag for me! What's the point of making me so glorious!"

Today's great opportunity actually slipped away from his eyes, and Zhang Tiansheng was almost in tears.
Chapter completed!