Chapter 55: Taiwan Strategy (11)

"Baga, what are you still doing in a daze, counterattack, immediately counterattack, block the offensive of the Chinese army, quickly, counterattack...."The Japanese officer with a bloody face waved the command knife in his hand, scurrying back and forth in the position full of gunsmoke, and roared loudly with a hideous face at his subordinates who were still stunned. www.biquge.info However, on the rampart of the city, which had almost become a ruin, their roars were not only not responded to by their subordinates, but instead attracted deadly bullets.

The New Fifth Army is a new army unit that has been rigorously trained under the protective umbrella, and the units that can be named the new army among the existing armed forces in China are different from the original Chinese armed forces in terms of the number of military branches and the disposition of weapons. Among the two forward regiments of the New Fifth Army, which served as the main force in the assault on the Japanese positions in Taipei, there were more than 400 snipers alone, which already accounted for 10 percent of the existing strength of the two forward regiments, which is probably unique among the armies of other countries.

The officers and men of the Japanese positions were killed one after another under the guns of the 400 snipers of the New Fifth Army. The Japanese position, which was already chaotic because of fear, was accompanied by the death of a large number of commanders, and the entire chain of command immediately collapsed, which completely plunged the Japanese position into chaos, and even worse, they were ready to flee. As for the two forward groups that served as the main attackers outside the city, this great opportunity was not wasted. Amid the rapid gunfire and explosions, the soldiers of the New Fifth Army rushed to the gap in the Japanese position, and completely strangled with the chaotic Japanese troops in the position.

"Okay, Zhou Laohu's regiment has already entered and messed with the little devils, so immediately contact the flight team and ask them to continue to improve air fire support for us, so we can only send the helicopter unit as well." Zhang Lingpu, who saw through the telescope that the forward regiment had already attacked the Japanese position, was overjoyed, and immediately contacted the flight team in the rear that was replenishing fuel and ammunition.

As early as the end of the 30s, some European countries have been secretly developing flying machines such as helicopters, especially the Germans have developed light helicopters that can carry two people, but no country will use helicopters for war. There are already more than 200 helicopter gunships under the umbrella, and the military base in Western Australia, which is tightly controlled by the umbrella, is still producing improved helicopter gunships, and Sir James has also shown the British interest in helicopter gunships.

Thirty helicopter gunships, replenished with fuel and ammunition, flew over the battlefield, and without giving the Japanese troops on the ground time to react, they fired all the bullets loaded in the helicopter cabin at the Japanese reinforcements on the ground. The hot shells kept falling from mid-air, and a dense barrage of bursts of rain followed, and the Japanese reinforcements on the ground had no time to hide, and they had been swept away by the airtight barrage, and the Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to escape the rapid-fire machine gun fire finally failed to escape the rapid-fire machine gun fire.

The sound of gunfire, explosions, and shouts of killing has not stopped since the curtain of battle opened, and the New Fifth Army besieging Taipei did not enter the city to engage in brutal street battles with the Japanese army as Hasegawa Qing expected. Bombers, helicopter gunships, and artillery salvos were fired, but Zhang Lingpu did not waste these means of providing strong fire support for the attacking troops; in just one hour of fighting, Zhang Lingpu had already called the flight team several times in a row to provide air fire support, and the loud noise after the explosion of low-altitude and high-explosive bombs has been enveloping the entire Taipei.

"The fleet worked hard to transport so much ammunition to Taiwan, isn't it just for us to use in battle, as long as we can reduce the casualties of our brothers, we should use more means." Zhang Lingpu changed his former temperament of rushing to the front line, and while paying attention to the progress of the war through the telescope, he taught the combat staff officers on his side. He didn't know that the staff officers who were being taught by him were secretly pouting at the moment, and said in his heart that if we hadn't watched closely and the headquarters had orders, you would have run away with your guns and disappeared without a trace.

"Nani? You said that more than half of the casualties of Hayata United have no strength to fight again? I don't care, I need troops to block the attack of the Chinese army now, once the city defense position is lost, there is no hope for the whole of Taipei. The bloodshot Hasegawa Kiyoshi looked very terrifying at this time, and the strange battle situation had already made Hasegawa Kiyoshi's last trace of luck disappear. He originally thought that Taipei was impregnable, but what Hasegawa Kiyoshi never expected was that under the defense of 40,000 imperial warriors, Taipei's city defense position would become crumbling within an hour.

The phone kept ringing, but Hasegawa Kiyoshi heard one bad news after another, not only did several infantry wings that he had always relied on seek reinforcement one after another, but the Chinese troops attacking Taipei had even broken through several positions of imperial troops. "Boom" An explosion suddenly sounded not far from the Governor's Palace, and through the window of the war room, Hasegawa Kiyoshi could already see the rising column of smoke.

Hasegawa Kiyoshi is the governor of Taiwan, but he is still a soldier, as a soldier, he is naturally no stranger to the explosion just now, according to the sound of the explosion and the size of the smoke column, Hasegawa Kiyoshi can already roughly judge that the explosion just now was not a bomb but a cannonball. "It's over, I'm afraid the empire is going to lose Taiwan." Hasegawa Kiyoshi suddenly took out a cigarette and lit it, since the Chinese army attacking Taipei had been able to shoot cannonballs into the city close to the governor's palace, this also indicated that they were likely to have broken through the city defense positions and began to attack the city.

At this moment, Hasegawa Kiyoshi, who was desolate in his heart, guessed correctly, the two regiments of the New Fifth Army, which had been serving as the vanguard of the attack, had already entered the city of Taipei, and at this time they were engaged in an exchange of fire with the chaotic Japanese troops in the city and looking for an opportunity to expand the scope of the exchange. In order to keep Taipei, the Japanese army built a large number of fortifications and fortresses in the city in accordance with the orders issued by Hasegawa Kiyoshi, in a vain attempt to use street fighting to inflict a large number of casualties on the Chinese army, in order to turn the tide of the war.

But the Japanese army forgot that they were no longer facing the old Chinese army, but the New Fifth Army was a Chinese new army unit equipped with sophisticated weapons and equipment. "Come over with a bazooka, blast the street fort in front of me for Lao Tzu." Company commander Wang Erleng pointed to the masonry fortress that appeared in front of the street and shouted, a bazooka hand immediately leaned over, and after a while, only a bang was heard, and the street fort that was still spitting out bullets just now had been bombarded into a pile of ruins by the bazooka.

Wang Erleng stretched out his hand and pointed to the pile of ruins, turned around and laughed at the soldiers under him, "Rabbit cubs, give Lao Tzu a good look, don't always think about fighting bayonets with little devils." The above has issued us such a good weapon, not to ask us to exchange our lives with the little devils, the military seat has long said that our lives are expensive, we can't just go to exchange lives with the little devils, we must make reasonable use of our weapons and equipment. ”

Relying on the well-armed soldiers of the New Fifth Army to become more and more courageous in battle, under the guidance and cooperation of the helicopter unit, the Japanese positions on both sides southwest of Taipei City were first conquered by the New Fifth Army on all fronts, and a large number of soldiers of the New Fifth Army poured into Taipei City like a tide. The Japanese army, which was defeated by the attack of the New Fifth Army, could only shrink its position step by step, and under the strong order of Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the retreating Japanese troops began to slowly gather around Hasegawa Kiyoshi's governor's palace, waiting for the final battle with the Chinese army that entered the city.

"Little devil, this is to learn from the turtle, damn, don't even think about it, Lao Tzu is not a fool, and he will never fight you to the death." Zhou Chong, the commander of the 615th Regiment, who has always been called Zhou Laohu by Zhang Lingpu, looked at the opponent's Japanese position in the telescope, and saw that the Japanese soldiers were still reinforcing the position, but Zhou Chong suddenly tilted the corners of his mouth and showed a sneer. "You want to learn from turtles, but Lao Tzu won't give you this opportunity." Zhou Chong gave an order and transferred all the snipers under him to his side.

"You can see it, the little devils are constantly reinforcing their positions, and this posture is preparing to fight our group to the death. I can't take the lives of my brothers seriously, but now it's up to you, give me a snack and put all these little devils here. More than 100 snipers then went into battle, and other New Fifth Army units that came into Taipei also learned from Zhou Chong and began to use snipers to deal with the remnants of the Japanese army who planned to fight to the death.

Snipers with a firing distance of more than 600 meters do not have to fight face-to-face with the Japanese army, they only need to shoot out the bullets in the chamber one by one, as the battle continues and changes, the gunfire in Taipei City gradually turns from dense to sparse, but the number of Japanese casualties continues to increase, until the Japanese army in the city can no longer bear it. "Boom", "boom"..., the explosion sounded again, and the Japanese troops within the strike range of the white phosphorus bomb could not escape at all, and could only keep rolling and crying until they were silent.

As night fell, some Japanese officers who did not accept their orders led the assembled troops to break through to the city several times, but each time they would be pushed back by the New Fifth Army, which was waiting for them. After a night, Hasegawa Kiyoshi suddenly found that the imperial army outside the Governor's Palace was only less than one wing of strength, and he didn't know where the other imperial troops went, even if he knew, I am afraid that Hasegawa Kiyoshi at this moment had no idea, because he knew that Taipei was already gone.

The battle, which lasted for a day and a night, finally came to an end, and with the collective surrender of the Taiwanese Japanese command led by the Taiwanese governor Hasegawa Kiyoshi, the city of Taipei was finally recovered by the New Fifth Army, and the news was soon transmitted back to Chongqing. After the Chongqing high-level leaders, who had been waiting for a long time, learned the news that the New Fifth Army had taken Taipei, they immediately announced to the outside world through newspapers and radio that for a time, the whole of China became lively because of the news that the New Fifth Army had recovered Taipei.