After the war, Zhang Wei quickly got rid of the joy brought by the medal and victory, and it was good to get the third-class Baoding Medal, but now after all, it is still in the stage of applying for the medal, and the request for the medal is to apply to the rear, and it is necessary to check and examine the school before finally deciding whether to award the medal to Zhang Wei.
Zhang Wei's third-class Baoding Medal is still a high-level medal in the hierarchy system of the Baoding Medal, and it is the highest level of the Baoding Medal that a school officer can get.
This medal is not a certainty, if the card is strict, whether Zhang Wei can take it or not, so Zhang Wei was happy for a while when he learned that Commander Du asked for a medal for him, and he was not too excited after that.
What's more, after killing the forward of the Japanese 112th Wing, the follow-up Japanese attack main force is also coming up, and the hard confrontation between the main forces cannot be like the outpost war, but the real main force collision, and now, this large-scale bloody battle will not be far away.
Zhang Wei deduced that in a week at the latest, in a day or two at the earliest, the main force of the 55th Division of the Japanese Army would arrive at the periphery of Tonggu.
The soldiers of the 2nd Supplementary Regiment handed over the briefcases of an adjutant and several lieutenants while cleaning up the battlefield, and pulled out a lot of documents and telegrams from them, which showed that the main force of the 55th Division of the Japanese Army was advancing rapidly, and a part of the troops of the 56th Division was also on the way to encircle Tonggu, and the main force was attacking frontally, and another part was attacking in the direction of Tonggu from the flank, and which part of the Japanese army was attacking the flank.
However, the news of the flank assault appeared in the documents and telegrams of the vanguard elite, but it aroused Zhang Wei's vigilance, and it appeared in the documents and telegrams of the forward troops, indicating that the flank raid was a tactic that the Japanese army was already implementing, and there was a supplementary second regiment in front of Tonggu in front of it, which was not a big problem, and Zhang Wei, the 200th division of the Tonggu flank and the main city, was a little worried, after all, the Japanese army's surprise attack on the flank in history was successful.
Zhang Wei suspected that the breakthrough of the Japanese army attacking Tonggu on the flank was still the front line of Nanyang Station and Keronggang Airport that he had emphasized with Division Commander Dai before the war, after all, this place was a key traffic pass, and it was most likely to be targeted by the Japanese army.
Zhang Wei, who couldn't rest assured, finally reminded Division Commander Dai again, hoping that he would focus on strengthening the vigilance on the front line of Keronggang, and Division Commander Dai accepted Zhang Wei's suggestion and ordered Liu Shaofeng, the commander of the 600th Regiment of the 200th Division, to strengthen the patrol and strengthen some equipment, which slightly alleviated Zhang Wei's worries.
At the same time, the combat readiness of all the defenders of Tonggu was further strengthened, and all units were encouraged by the morale of the victory in the outpost battle, preparing ammunition and making final preparations for battle.
Ekechun, to supplement the rear of the positions of the 2nd Regiment.
Two British tanks were moving slowly in the open field, and all around, some soldiers of the Second Supplementary Regiment were pointing around, looking curiously at the two Iron King Eight in the open space, and the two Crusader cruiser tanks that were originally part of the British Armored Seventh Brigade were advancing in the open field, retreating, turning left and right, and driving tentatively.
The original owner of the tanks was a tank company of the British Seventh Armored Brigade, which was routed by the Japanese and scattered all the way to Tonggu, leaving less than half a company, which was extremely miserable when it was intercepted by the Second Supplementary Regiment.
Zhang Wei didn't make it too difficult for them, only asked them to hand over two tanks and two trucks loaded with tank shells, gave them a truckload of mistakes, and took care of a hot meal by the way.
The two Crusader tanks were not small guys, with a total weight of twenty tons, and were the second model of the Crusader tank, officially known to the British army: the Crusader K2 medium cruiser.
This type of tank is equipped with a 40 mm tank gun and two 7.7 mm tank machine guns, after Zhang Wei got these two tanks, he originally planned to use them as a fixed battery, and the second regiment was an infantry unit, not a tank unit, so he really couldn't play with tanks, but now that the big war was imminent, Zhang Wei had a new idea.
Although these two tanks supplemented the perfection of the Second Regiment, it was still possible to use them, and if they were simply used as fixed batteries, they would be knocked out by the Japanese sooner or later.
Zhang Wei still wants these two tanks to have a certain amount of mobility, and they can be used as counterattack forces when necessary to impact the Japanese army, and even if they are not good at making mobile batteries, at least the survivability is much higher than that of fixed batteries.
So, Zhang Wei looked for the commander of the division, and found two two-knife drivers from the 200th Division, and asked these two drivers to drive tanks temporarily, the current 200th Division is a simple infantry division, but a few years ago, under this number was a serious mechanized infantry division, although the majesty is not there, but it is still a bit of the past.
Zhang Wei opened his mouth to ask Commander Dai for a driver with an attitude of trying, and he really found it, Commander Dai found two sergeants who had learned to drive tanks before for Zhang Wei, these two people were not skilled enough, failed to complete the training, failed to pass the examination of the Fifth Army charioteer, and were sent to the infantry unit to live a mess, but the technology in hand was still there, at least it was no problem to drive the tank away.
Zhang Wei asked the two of them to temporarily serve as temporary tankers, and transferred a few gunners from the artillery company to practice operating tank guns, and then, the commander in charge of the command was a veteran temporarily transferred from the special service platoon, and the conditions were limited, so he could only drive ducks to the shelves, and it was not an exaggeration to say that it was a garbage tank group.
Zhang Wei is not very demanding, and everything is fine if the two tanks can be started.
Zhang Wei assigned these two tanks to the command of Xue Rong's special service platoon, and listened to Zhang Wei's dispatch during the war, anyway, the special service platoon is now equipped with a British-style Bren tracked personnel carrier, and it doesn't matter if two tanks are added to it, it just so happens that the commander is also a veteran of the special service platoon, and it can be easier to be under the command of the special service platoon.
In the open space, the engines of the two tanks emitted black smoke, trembling and maneuvering, looking very clumsy, revealing that the temporary commander outside the turret had a pale face, and the tank driver was no better, and he stepped on the accelerator and manipulated the tank with fear.
The soldiers of the second regiment who looked around at the excitement were not stupid, they knew that it was two knives that drove the tank, and the tank moved suddenly, and the boys who saw the excitement retreated, for fear that the two tanks would collide in time and space.
In all kinds of scenes, Zhang Wei laughed again and again, and the unqualified driver was paired with the crew members who made up the number temporarily, and the picture was simply amazing.
If there are real tank crews here, they will definitely pull out the crews and beat them up, however, making up two crews that can move the tanks is already the limit of what the 2nd Regiment and the 200th Division can do.
Zhang Wei and Xue Rong watched the drill of the garbage tank crew, both helpless and wanted to laugh.
Zhang Wei: "Xue Rong, you have to bring these two tanks, this thing can be of great use at a critical moment, your platoon is a tracked vehicle and a tank, and you are definitely the best platoon commander in the field troops of the national army now." ” "Understand, I will listen to what you say, thank you for the regiment commander's careful cultivation of me, when the battle is over, our old Xue can go to the chariot unit to mix," Xue Rong said helplessly.
"Hahaha," Zhang Wei couldn't help but laugh. rumble Suddenly, a loud noise came, Zhang Wei and Xue Rong's faces changed, and when they looked forward, they saw black smoke coming out of a tank, and they were speechless on the spot.
For a while, the atmosphere was very awkward ：。
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