Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Fierce Battle of Tokyo 5
On both sides of the street leading to the Imperial Palace on the southern line of Tokyo, the assault group of more than 20 tanks and armored fighting vehicles had lost as many as four of them under the attack of the Japanese troops hiding on both sides of the street. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In the face of the Japanese stragglers who were everywhere in the street fighting fortifications and made themselves invincible, the face of the company commander Li Guodong had already turned blue.
"The little devil of the dog day, there was no such big loss in the siege of the city, after entering the city, the loss was even greater, which provoked Lao Tzu, and a cannonball went down, and all these houses were blown up, so that you have nowhere to hide." Looking at the sudden tragic casualties in front of him, Li Guodong scolded angrily.
"Company commander, just sit down and dissipate your anger, without the order of my superiors, if my door is opened rashly, it will definitely cause a large number of Japanese civilian casualties, and this result is not something we can afford." The communication soldier who had been following Li Guodong was startled, and hurriedly spoke out to persuade him.
"If you die, you die, anyway, they are all little devils, and they are not us Chinese." I promise you, even if the chairman were standing here, he would have ordered us to open fire. Regarding the persuasion of his subordinate signal soldiers, Li Guodong replied angrily. Then, he asked anxiously to the signal soldier behind him, "What's the matter, don't you have an order from your superiors..."
"There is...."As soon as Li Guodong's voice fell, the communication soldier excitedly handed the handle of the walkie-talkie to Li Guodong. The short speech lasted less than a minute, and Li Guodong, who put down the handle of the walkie-talkie, had a smile of excitement on his face. "Little devil of dog day, I said that the command will agree to let us open fire....our lives are several times more expensive than the little devil's gold..., you see, the above agreed to our request, you can fire in the city...."
Handing back the walkie-talkie handle in his hand to the signal soldier, Li Guodong ordered several tank commanders waiting for orders in front of him. "The new order from above has arrived, and our task is no longer to fight in the streets with the damn little devils....all of them will get back to their places right now, and we will use cannonballs to open the way, bury all these damn little devils in the rubble, and see how they are arrogant in front of us..."
At this very moment, in a residential house less than 500 meters away from Li Guodong and them, about a squadron of Japanese troops, under the command of a junior officer, was being assigned the explosives that had just been issued by the superiors to blast tanks and armored fighting vehicles. "Warriors, the performance of the first squadron just now, I believe everyone has seen it. The warriors of the 1st Squadron not only succeeded in destroying four tanks of the Chinese army, but also killed and wounded a large number of Chinese infantry. Although the warriors of the first squadron have all been shattered, their achievements have been praised by the staff headquarters. Therefore, I hope that our Second Infantry Squadron will be able to live up to expectations and achieve greater results."
"Now I order, all combat squads, battle groups, to immediately enter the predetermined combat positions. Once the Chinese army penetrates into our ambush circle, it is necessary to attack them with the fiercest of their lives....warriors, please? The young junior officer commanded with a solemn face, and at the same time took off his military cap, took out his last respect, and bowed his waist deeply to all the soldiers in front of him.
"Hay... For His Majesty's sake, we will do our best. In the face of the officer's bow, more than 30 soldiers of the Japanese death squad with grenades and explosives wrapped around their waists replied with solemn expressions, and then disappeared from the sight of the young officer along the wall D that had already been laid. At the same time, Li Guodong, who had just been stagnant, also moved, and more than a dozen tanks and armored fighting vehicles slowly drove along the dilapidated streets towards the Japanese army.
"Yo Xi, the Chinese army has finally begun to move, order everyone, be ready for battle, and be ready to provide fire cover for the death squads at any time...."With the performance of the first squadron, the young officer could be said to be full of expectations for the next actions of his subordinates, and ordered with an expectant face. However, this expectation did not continue, and his face quickly turned pale when he was still full of confidence just now.
"Boom, boom, boom...."The deafening explosion continued to come from the front, and the gun barrels of the three tanks that Li Guodong hit directly spewed out three orange-red flames. The tank shells that flew out of the barrel of the guns also flew directly into the buildings on both sides of the street with a whistling sound under the impetus of huge kinetic energy. With the sound of shell explosions, the house of about one combat group, which was completely hidden, was directly turned into a pile of rubble in the explosion of three shells. As for the soldiers of the Japanese death squad hidden in the houses, without exception, they were buried alive in the rubble without even seeing their opponents.
"Baga, despicable Chinese people, how can you damage people's houses, how can you shell the houses of civilians, I want to expose their brutality to the international community, Bagaya Road...", the young officer couldn't help but scold loudly. However, regardless of whether his scolding was heard by the other party, just as he roared, another house that hid more than a dozen Japanese death squad soldiers was once again reduced to ruins under the rumbling of artillery.
In just two minutes, more than a dozen tanks and armored combat vehicles in Li Guodong's company were like conducting a daily training exercise, directly firing artillery shells and accurately targeting all the houses on both sides of the street that they felt suspicious. The houses located on both sides of the street, because of their fragile wooden structure, simply could not withstand the continuous fire of shells. With the sound of continuous explosions, one house after another on both sides of the street, like toys, was blown into ruins by the explosion of tank shells.
The death squads, carefully deployed in the buildings on both sides of the street, ready to deal a fatal blow to the armored forces of China, were completely buried in the rubble in the eyes of the Japanese junior officer. Li Guodong was not the only attacking force that received the artillery order, and all the expeditionary force units that attacked the urban area received the order to open artillery at will, so after entering the urban area, the expeditionary force troops began to use tank guns and individual rockets to continuously destroy the houses on both sides of the street.
After losing the cover of buildings in the urban area, the Japanese street fighting units did not have the slightest ability to resist in the face of the bombardment of tank guns and the large-caliber machine guns equipped on armored combat vehicles. The Japanese soldiers, who were directly exposed to the machine gunner's line of sight, were either directly beaten into a pile of pieces, or turned into a corpse with punched holes all over their bodies. The armored units of the expeditionary force, which had invaded the city of Tokyo from the east and west flanks, were like huge bulldozers capable of destroying everything, destroying buildings on both sides of the street and slowly but surely advancing the battle line towards the center of the city.
An hour, two hours, three hours, a full five hours passed, and although the gunfire in Tokyo had turned from dense to sparse, there was no sign of stopping at all. Hundreds of thousands of attacking troops had already narrowed the encirclement, and while receiving a large number of Japanese prisoners of war, more and more expeditionary force troops were attacking the city. Zhuo Fei finally sent the helicopter unit to deliver ammunition and supplies to the expeditionary force troops that invaded the city, and at the same time they had to transport the wounded from the battlefield.
Zhuo Fei, who was pacing back and forth in the headquarters, wanted to participate in this battle in person, but Zhuo Yan took a dozen guards to watch very closely, and did not give Zhuo Fei any chance at all. "Huh" Zhuo Fei, who looked down at his watch, extinguished the cigarette that had not yet been smoked, and ordered loudly to the combat staff officer beside him, "Inform the servant army troops to enter the city immediately to implement the division plan, I want them to ensure 100% safety in the occupied area, and at the same time try to extinguish the fire source as much as possible." ”
Before the combat staff officer could issue the order just now, Zhuo Fei turned around and ordered, "It's not early, in less than three hours, it will be completely dark." If the battle drags on until dark, it may be extremely detrimental to us, so I ask that all the troops involved in the battle use all their energy, if not to occupy the entire castle before dark, at least to surround Chiyoda for me before dark. ”
The reason why Chiyoda District is famous in Japan is because the palace of the Japanese emperor is in Chiyoda District, and the Japanese Imperial Palace is also the only place where Zhuo Fei was forced not to attack directly at the beginning of the war. In fact, Zhuo Fei didn't know how many valuable items the Japanese emperor took from the palace when he left the mainland, but he knew what this palace meant to the Japanese people, and blowing up the palace was far less pleasant than occupying the palace.
Zhuo Fei's order was quickly transmitted to the hands of the commanders of all the participating troops through the radio waves, and the sound of gunfire in the city, which had been much weaker, also became fierce again because of Zhuo Fei's order. Finally, before dark, the emperor's palace was completely displayed in front of the vanguard troops of the Chinese Expeditionary Force. Of course, the various barricades temporarily constructed by the three infantry wings of the Guards Division around the palace also appeared clearly in front of everyone.
"Dog's day, I finally saw the palace of the little devil....immediately report to the command that Li Guodong, the first division of the guard, has approached the Japanese palace." Looking at the position of the Japanese Guards Division in front of him from a distance in the telescope, and seeing the Japanese Imperial Palace behind the last line of defense of these Japanese troops, Li Guodong swept away the fatigue on his body, and shouted at his infantry with an excited face.
When Li Guodong saw the Japanese defense line outside the palace, the soldiers of the Japanese guard division who were sticking to the outside of the palace also found tanks and armored vehicles in the distance, but what was surprising was that when Li Guodong even stopped moving, the Japanese army, which had already set up the infantry guns, did not fire first, but had the intention that the enemy would not move if he did not move.