Ye Feng is the busiest in the Chinese New Year. He has been visiting various troops these days. After the Lantern Festival, the newly formed 6th Army began to get busy again.

After several months of training, the combat effectiveness of each unit has basically been formed. What everyone lacks is only actual combat. The newly formed 6th Army currently has more than 100,000 people, about one-third of the veterans, and about two-thirds of the new recruits who have been training for several months. A large-scale actual combat is needed to further improve.

Ye Feng was also looking forward to a practical battle. In mid-February, seeing that the Japanese still remained unmoved, Ye Feng decided to take the initiative. The first step was to attack Shaoxing, where the Japanese 114th Division was stationed.

After Ningbo fell, Okamura Yasuji adopted the strategy of attacking Hangzhou on both sides, gathering heavy troops in the north of Hangzhou, Suzhou, Jiaxing and Shanghai in the northeast, and deploying a large number of troops in Shaoxing and Ningbo in the southeastern region.

The information Ye Feng obtained was the 114th Division of the Japanese Army in Jiaxing, the 18th Division and the 29th Division, which was newly formed. The 29th Division was a newly formed Division of the B. After being organized in Japan, it landed directly in Ningbo and participated in the Ningbo Battle.

There are not only the 3rd Division of the Little Japan, the 101st Division, the Hatan Detachment, and the 31st Division that has newly joined the Central China Front Army. This is also a B Division, currently gathering in Shanghai. In addition to these, there are several puppet troops.

In order to enhance the strength of central China, at the end of last year, the Japanese Base Camp allocated two of the recently newly newly-organized divisions, the 29th Division and the 31st Division, to Okamura Yasuji.

The pressure on the newly formed 6th Army was very high. The Japanese troops around Hangzhou already had 6 divisions of troops, plus the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade, Okamura Yanji's troops appeared in various cities around Hangzhou.

Since Okamura Yasuji would take action sooner or later, it would be better to take the initiative by himself. While the Japanese were not fully prepared, Ye Feng ordered to launch an attack on his own initiative.

Ye Feng took a defensive position against the north and northeastern areas of Hangzhou and also deployed a large number of defensive troops. Ye Feng took an offensive against the Japanese devils in Shaoxing and Ningbo areas and took the initiative to attack.

The first to start the operation was the Mechanized Infantry Division.

Shaoxing is not far from Xiaoshan area. Early in the morning, the sky was getting dark, and the mechanized infantry division began to dispatch all. The three mechanized infantry regiments were divided into three routes, with a distance of only a few kilometers from each other. Echoing each other, these three regiments took the lead, followed by a large number of armored vehicles from the air defense regiment.

After the mechanized infantry division, the 3rd and 5th Divisions of the Infantry Division were ready and were ready to start attacking Shaoxing.

Each regiment under the Mechanized Infantry Division has more than 100 armored vehicles, mainly m3 half-tracked combat vehicles. Ye Feng found that the m3 half-tracked infantry against Japanese soldiers was completely sufficient. And the m3 half-tracked armored vehicles also performed well, reliable, and fierce firepower.

Each m3 armored vehicle has a 360-degree all-round 12.7 mm Browning heavy machine gun, plus two other 7.92 mm light machine guns, which is simply a moving fire fortress.

In addition to a large number of m3 semi-tracked combat vehicles, there are also a small number of m20 armored vehicles and m8 armored vehicles, which can deal with some light armored targets and bunkers and other fortifications.

Northwest of Shaoxing, Liushi Town.

This ordinary town has seen a large number of Japanese devils more than a month ago. There is the command of the 102nd Regiment of the 127th Infantry Brigade of the 114th Division. There are many Japanese devils in the town and outside the town.

Suddenly there were so many Japanese devils. The people of Liushi Town were always trembling and worried. The people were very afraid of these Japanese devils. The Japanese devils were inhumane and killed people at any time. In just over a month, there were thousands of people who died in the Japanese devils’ butcher knife, including many children and women.

A few kilometers outside Liushi Town, there were some temporary fortifications built by the Japanese. A large number of Japanese were stationed outside the town. It was lightly dawn, and many Japanese were frightened to find that a large number of chariots suddenly appeared in their sight.

This is a mechanized infantry regiment, with more than 100 armored vehicles. Each armored vehicle is loaded with soldiers and a straight machine gun, and has been ready to shoot.

"Baga! The newly formed 6th Army's chariot group."

At the forefront, a Japanese magistrate put down his telescope and screamed in anger. Unexpectedly, just as the sky was dawn, the newly-edition 6th Army took the initiative to attack.

"Welcome to the enemy, hurry up!!!"

Among many Japanese, low-level officers shouted and ordered the Japanese to meet the enemy. The 114th Division was equipped with a small number of anti-aircraft anti-aircraft guns, some anti-aircraft anti-aircraft machine guns, and an anti-aircraft machine gun.

Each brigade has such an air defense squadron. The 114th Division also has a direct anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery squadron, equipped with several anti-aircraft artillery guns. However, this anti-aircraft artillery squadron is not in Liushi Town.

Hearing the order, a large number of Japanese soldiers became busy, and those anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were also hurriedly set up, with muzzles flat, obviously being prepared to shoot flat against the soldiers' armored vehicles.

The first regiment commander was riding in his armored command vehicle. When he saw the Japanese appearing in front of him, he immediately shouted: "Shoot me, and when you see the Japanese, you will beat me hard!!!"

A long distance between them, a soldier began to shoot with the machine guns on the vehicle. The light and heavy machine guns were fired, shooting at the Japanese people in the distance.

"Ka, da, da..."

As the soldiers began shooting, the little ghost inevitably suffered casualties.

The Japanese master who had just put down his telescope and had just issued the order to welcome the enemy, saw that the armored vehicles of the newly formed 6th Army began to shoot at this side at such a long distance. A large number of bullets made his mud fly over him and couldn't help but shout again.

With the yelling of the Japanese Major, some Japanese machine guns, like crooked hands, also began to shoot at the soldiers' armored vehicles. Some Japanese artillery soldiers were also hurriedly preparing to bombard the soldiers' armored vehicles with hill cannons and mortars.

The Mechanized Infantry Division launched an attack too suddenly. The Japanese never expected Ye Feng to take the initiative to attack. The entire 114th Division, including these Japanese devils in Liushi Town, never expected and did not make sufficient defense preparations.

The Japanese always believed that they were the attacking side and could attack Hangzhou in ten days and half a month, and they would attack on both sides, attacking from north to south.

These Japanese machine guns were the first to shoot, and those anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were still preparing, and those infantry cannons, mountain cannons, mortars, etc. also take time.

Some bullets hit the soldiers' armored vehicles and jingled. The thickness of the side steel plate of the m3 half-crawler armored vehicle was 7 mm, and the thickness of the front steel plate reached 12 mm. The Japanese machine gun could not penetrate the steel plate of the m3 half-crawler armored vehicle.

The soldiers drove their own armored vehicles and quickly approached against the Japanese. The fierce firepower on the armored vehicles formed firepower suppression on the Japanese.

Several Japanese were carrying a Type 92 heavy machine gun and shooting at an armored vehicle that was getting closer and closer. The m3 half-tracked tank obviously discovered these Japanese.

The muzzle of the Browning heavy machine gun in the car was quickly pointed at several Japanese devils, and they fired violently at the Type 92 heavy machine gun. The large and dense machine gun bullets knocked the Japanese devils to pieces, and one of them was even knocked away, looking terrible.

A small-caliber mortar has been set up, and several Japanese were shooting the mortar. A mortar shell whistled out. Exploded several meters away from an armored vehicle, and a large amount of soil splashed.

When the Japanese artillery saw that his shell was off, they shook their heads in disappointment, immediately picked up another shell and fired it out again, but the shell was off.

The Japanese artillery looked disappointed. Armored vehicles were all moving targets, and only flat-fired cannons could aim at them. It would take luck to hit the marching armored vehicles if the curved mortars were really needed. These Japanese were very lucky and did not hit the target with two consecutive shells.

With a few screams, when these Japanese artillery soldiers were about to fire the shells again, they were hit by dense machine gun bullets and fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the Mechanized Infantry Division are basically veterans, and everyone has a rich combat experience. Naturally, everyone knows to fight important targets first, and give priority to attacking Japanese machine guns, artillery and other targets. As for Japanese rifle soldiers, the threat is very small, usually after these targets.

The Japanese master's face changed several times in a row. Unexpectedly, almost all of his machine guns were silent, and some artillery soldiers who were preparing were killed, which made it even more difficult to accept that so many armored vehicles rushed over in a blink of an eye.

At this time, many armored vehicles were only one or two hundred meters away from the Japanese, and a few armored vehicles were about to rush into the Japanese's position and into the Japanese's crowd.

Each m3 armored vehicle was equipped with 10 soldiers. In addition to those soldiers operating machine guns, the rest of the soldiers also began to shoot.

These soldiers took Garland M1 rifle or Thomson submachine gun and fired at the Japanese. No matter what the target it was, as long as it was the Japanese, everyone would fire several shots.

As the distance was closer, some soldiers even jumped off their armored vehicles, followed behind the armor, used the cover of the armored vehicles to aim at the Japanese with weapons and shot.

The Japanese Grandmaster saw several armored vehicles rushing towards him directly, less than a hundred meters away from him, immediately turned around and ran back. Like the Japanese Grandmaster, there were several low-level Japanese officers running back.

These low-level Japanese officers and the Japanese Grandmaster rushed to the back, but before they could run far, they were hit by dense machine gun bullets.

On an m3 half-tracked armor, a sharp-eyed soldier happened to see the Japanese officers who turned around and ran back, and immediately fucked his Browning heavy machine gun and fired violently.

The thick heavy machine gun bullet knocked half of the Japanese Grandpa's body away, leaving only a piece of bloody fall to the ground, which was very miserable.

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