Jilin City, Northeast New Army Headquarters.

Zhang Xinghanzheng and Jiang Baili were conducting war games on the sand table with the cooperation of a group of staff members.

At this time, Li Guocai, director of the Communications Department of the General Headquarters, walked in quickly with a message in his hand.

"Commander, please take your seats, the 2nd Division of the ** has sent the latest battle report from the Tieling front line." Li Guocai reported with a snap salute.

"How is the battle going?" Jiang Baili asked.

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"The Japanese army built a large number of permanent bunker firepower groups made of cement and steel bars, and also dug anti-tank trenches. The engineers and other follow-up troops of the ** 2nd Division have not yet arrived, and the attack has been stopped at present." Li Guocai replied.

"Anti-tank trenches?" Jiang Baili frowned when he heard this, turned to Zhang Xinghan and said: "Commander, this little trouble encountered by the 2nd Division reminds me that the Japanese have been preparing for this kind of counterattack for a long time.

Tanks, trenches, and all kinds of obstacle fortifications are popping up in endlessly. We still have to think of a better way to ensure that the troops can pass through these enemy obstacles as quickly as possible and reduce unnecessary casualties."

A staff officer next to him nodded and said: "The counselor is right. Ordinary geotechnical filling operations will cost extremely heavy casualties. For the trenches dug by the Japanese, we should still think of a way to quickly pass through them."

That’s good. In my opinion, we can ask the frontline troops to prepare more planks and the like to pave bridges and roads.”

Paving a bridge and building a road? Zhang Xinghan's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he thought carefully and said: "Chief of Staff, you are responsible for staying in Jilin. I will lead the armored group army to the front line and personally command the troops to attack."

"Commander, be careful." Jiang Baili and others quickly stood up and saluted.

Zhang Xinghan immediately left the headquarters with Guo Zhong and ran straight to the strategic warehouse of the Northeast New Army in Jilin.

This strategic warehouse is located in the north of Jilin City, close to the mountains and the Songhua River, and is heavily guarded.

A large amount of strategic materials, various weapons and ammunition are stored inside.

The weapons and ammunition produced in the rebuilt arsenal are stored here.

In fact, these are all pretense. The purpose of Zhang Xinghan's establishment of this large warehouse is to deceive others so that he can produce various necessary weapons and equipment from watches.

The attack of the frontline troops was frustrated, so he started to use another auxiliary tank of the Panzer IV family, which was the bridge tank modified from the Panzer IV.

This kind of bridge tank does not have a turret on the top. Instead of the turret, it is a flat, telescopic steel bridge. When the bridge tank drives to the river, it can lift one end of the folded steel bridge, and then lift the folded steel bridge.

Let go step by step, and the other end of the bridge will be lifted into the water.

A pontoon bridge more than 10 meters long was erected on the river. After one bridge-building tank completed the bridge, another tank could connect to the previous section of the pontoon bridge. One after another, a battlefield pontoon bridge was built in this way. Infantry, tanks,

Artillery and vehicles can pass on the pontoon bridge and cross the river smoothly.

With this kind of bridging tank, troops of all types of arms can quickly pass through various rivers and lakes smoothly, and the anti-tank trenches dug and built by the little devils are naturally not a problem.

However, what Zhang Xinghan didn't know was whether his watch had been unblocked at this time. This engineer performance tank was only produced, developed and modified in the 1940s.

After leaving Guo Zhong and others waiting outside, Zhang Xinghan walked into a secret room in the warehouse alone.

Taking out his watch, Zhang Xinghan entered the game with an anxious mood, and switched the screen menu to the armored tank page.

Pulling it down, several auxiliary tanks appeared in front of him.

As Zhang Xinghan expected, the No. 4 bridge tank is a more advanced tank after the Tiger tank and the Panther tank.

It has not been unlocked yet. After clicking on the Panzer IV unlocking function, a prompt pops up on the page. Unlocking requires 250,000 enemy kills.

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Zhang Xinghan checked his kill points. Fortunately, after fighting with Lao Maozi, he accumulated a batch of kill points. Now his total kill points remain at around 300,000.

Without any hesitation, he immediately chose to unlock it and quickly produced one hundred bridge tanks, which were delivered to the First Division of the Armored Group Army that afternoon.

Zhang Xinghan knew that with the emergence of this kind of bridge-building tank, no rivers or lakes in the Northeast could stop his offensive troops.

Even more tank steel bridges can be laid to speed up the transportation of troops.

A bridge-building tank can usually complete the bridge-building operation in less than ten minutes, and can pass up to thirty or forty tons of armored vehicles. This is more than a thousand times better than artificially built pontoon bridges in terms of speed and load-bearing capacity.

Times?

After being tested in actual combat, Zhang Xinghan will equip all engineering units in all divisions of the army with such bridging tanks to enhance the ability of each unit to pass through obstacles.

After allocating all one hundred bridging tanks to the First Division of the Armored Group Army, Zhang Xinghan personally led his troops to the Tieling front line.

In the evening of that day, follow-up troops such as the engineer battalion of the 2nd Independent Division, the anti-aircraft regiment, and the third infantry regiment arrived one after another.

Zhao Zhenfan was about to order the engineer battalion to prepare for the trench filling operation, when Chief of Staff Chen Feng received a message from the communications corps.

"Master's seat, the Commander-in-Chief has an urgent message."

"Oh? What did the commander say?" Zhao Zhenfan asked.

"The commander ordered us to suspend the attack and wait until he arrives before making plans," Chen Feng said.

"Okay, order the troops to stay where they are, but the artillery regiment can't rest. They will bombard them every half an hour. I will never let the little devil feel comfortable." Zhao Zhenfan said.

"Yeah." Chen Feng nodded and responded.

In the early hours of the morning, Zhang Xinghan finally led the armored division to the Tieling front line along the railway line.

Zhao Zhenfan and Chen Feng hurriedly came out to greet them. Zhang Xinghan waved his hand and said, "Don't be polite. Let's talk about the current situation of the enemy."

After Zhao Zhenfan saluted, he lowered his hand and said: "My humble duty requires the artillery regiment to fire every half hour. The little devil has basically been idle since the afternoon. I guess he didn't even have a chance to have dinner."

"Very good, you immediately organize a battalion of troops, supplemented by two tank companies, to prepare for the attack." Zhang Xinghan said, already taking the lead to the headquarters.

"Yes!" Zhao Zhenfan and Chen Feng stood up and agreed, and Chen Feng immediately turned around and accepted the order.

"Commander, should you first let the tank regiment cover the engineer battalion and fill in the Japanese anti-tank trenches before attacking?" Zhao Zhenfan asked cautiously after Chen Feng left.

"There is no need to risk the engineering battalion. The casualties will be too high. I have brought a new type of bridge-building tank. We will just wait and see the show." Zhang Xinghan said with great anticipation.

"Bridge-building tank?" Zhao Zhenfan looked surprised.

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"You'll understand later." Zhang Xinghan said, already raising the telescope.

"Guoping, look quickly, that's our bridge-building tank." Zhang Xinghan pointed ahead.

At this time, in order to prevent the Northeast New Army from attacking at night, the Japanese would launch some illumination bombs into the sky every once in a while, so Zhang Xinghan could clearly see the advance of his own bridge-building tanks.

Zhao Zhenfan also quickly raised his binoculars and saw about a dozen tracked iron vehicles on his attack position that he had never seen before. They looked like tanks but didn't look like tanks, roaring forward.

More than a dozen Panzer IV tanks also took the opportunity to open fire and cover. What happened next was a scene that shocked Zhao Zhenfan.

I saw those dozen iron guys stopped in front of the Japanese anti-tank trench, and the steel frame on the roof suddenly rose.

Then the steel frame slowly stretched out like a scissor, about ten meters long and two to three meters wide.

Under the stunned eyes of the officers and soldiers on both sides, the steel frame slowly fell down, and the steel frame in front landed smoothly.

The bridge-building tank immediately retreated, and a simple steel bridge nearly three meters wide and more than ten meters long was completed.

Not only was Zhao Zhenfan so surprised that a duck egg could fit into his mouth, but a Japanese major commander in one of the Japanese bunker groups was even more shocked.

Seeing that the first steel bridge was just built, the anti-tank trench they had worked so hard to build completely failed, and even the barbed wire fence set up on the edge of the trench was overwhelmed by the extra steel bridge head.

The Japanese Major was shocked and frightened. He hurriedly took the phone and shouted: "Shoot, shoot!"

Suddenly, dozens of Japanese bunkers and bunkers opened fire one after another, and dense bullets poured down like rain.

However, apart from the lack of turrets and other weapons, the bridging tank has all the defensive armor that a Panzer IV tank should have.

Although the enemy's machine gun firepower was fierce, it was useless except to scratch the itch of other bridging tanks.

Almost covered by the enemy's dense rain of bullets, more than a dozen bridge-building tanks completed the laying task one after another and retreated carelessly.

In the headquarters of the 2nd Independent Division, Zhao Zhenfan couldn't hold back his excitement after watching this scene and said: "Commander, this bridge tank is amazing. With this thing, the Japanese can't even dig an anti-tank trench.

Even if they defend the Liao River, there will be no difficulty for us."

"Okay, order the troops to attack." Zhang Xinghan put down his binoculars, took out a cigarette and lit it.

Zhao Zhenfan personally picked up the microphone, suppressed his excitement, and ordered loudly: "I order to attack immediately."

Almost as soon as Zhao Zhenfan put down the phone, hundreds of Panzer IV tanks opened fire one after another, and some tanks even drove directly onto the steel bridge.

More than 700 officers and soldiers from an infantry battalion followed the tanks and rushed up the steel bridge in more than a dozen groups.

"Come on! Kill!" the officers and soldiers shouted with loud killing sounds.

Although the Japanese soldiers fired desperately to block the attack, the tanks of the Northeastern New Army successfully passed through the anti-tank trenches.

With the cover of tanks and vehicles, the infantry's attack became much smoother.

As violent explosions rang out from the bunkers one after another, and after the flash of fire, the Japanese bunkers were quickly declared to have fallen.

Zhang Xinghan commanded the main force of the Independent 2nd Division to follow up, using the tank regiment as the front to guide the Japanese defense line deeply. By daybreak, they had basically wiped out all the Japanese troops outside the city and surrounded Tieling County. (To be continued.)
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