Chapter Seventy-Six: The Battle of Tokyo 4
The huge roar of engines from tanks and armored fighting vehicles, accompanied by the deafening sound of gunfire, sounded on the battlefield, and more than 150 tanks and armored fighting vehicles, which were arranged in the shape of arrows, rushed towards the Japanese positions that were still shrouded in artillery fire. At the same time www.biquge.info a battalion of infantry soldiers, holding their weapons tightly behind the armored battle bodies of tanks, launched a very cautious attack on the Japanese position.
"Yaga, it's a tank, where did the people of China get so many tanks and armored vehicles?" The appearance of a large group of steel monsters directly caused a riot in the Japanese army on the position. Seeing that the opposing tanks and armored vehicles were getting closer and closer to the position, with only the light and heavy machine guns in the position, at most they could leave a white dot on the opponent's armor, and the Japanese officers in the position roared directly. "Baga, what are you still doing in a daze, use tank guns immediately, use infantry guns if you don't have tank guns, quick..."
In response to the officers' orders, the slightly frightened Japanese soldiers in the position did not act, but replied with a panicked face. "Big... Your Excellency, Captain... The tank guns were all destroyed in the shelling just now ... Infantry artillery was also blown up ... In the whole position, except for light and heavy machine guns, only the grenadier can be counted as a long-range weapon..."
The reminder of his subordinates made the face of the Japanese captain in the position suddenly turn pale, but when he thought of the content of the military order of the wing commander before departure, a thick murderous aura directly appeared on his face. "Baga, in that case, what are you still doing in a daze... Gather all the grenades together ... Assemble death squads and blow up enemy tanks with grenades. Hurry, even if all of them die here, we can't let the tanks of the Chinese people rush to our position and start moving immediately..."The Japanese captain ordered with a murderous face.
A minute later, more than a dozen Japanese daredevils with grenades around their waists were lying in the craters of shells at the front of the position. Dozens of light and heavy machine guns in the Japanese position opened fire at the same time under the command of the officer, and more than a dozen Japanese daredevils who had been looking at the front seized the opportunity to jump up from the crater and quickly rush towards the tank group of the expeditionary force more than 100 meters away.
The fire of light and heavy machine guns in the Japanese positions, albeit to a certain extent, attracted a lot of attention from the armored forces. But even so, the armored fighting vehicles on both flanks of the entire armored assault group were constantly alerting the movements of the Japanese positions in front of them. The pre-battle death squad is not a unique tactic of the Japanese army, as early as the beginning of the Anti-Japanese War on the Songhu battlefield, the ** troops have used the death tactics to severely damage the Japanese army's armored troops.
More than a dozen Japanese daredevils, who had just rushed out of the crater where they were hiding, had already attracted the attention of machine gun shooters on armored combat vehicles. Before the Japanese daredevils armed with grenades and explosives approached, the machine gun shooters on the armored combat vehicles had already turned their guns, and a burst of rapid gunfire rang out, and at the same time they were strafed by more than a dozen vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, and the dozen or so daredevils who were pinned on by the Japanese army disappeared in front of the Japanese position in an instant.
Looking at the daredevils who disappeared from his sight in a blink of an eye, the face of the Japanese captain immediately turned blue, and he gritted his teeth and continued to order: "The second round of daredevils, continue to go..." Of course, even if any of them were lucky enough to escape the heavy machine gun fire on board, the infantry commandos who followed closely behind the battlecar were not vegetarians.
In the face of the semi-automatic rifle salvo of the infantry, that is, no matter how strong the individual combat effectiveness of the Japanese daredevils is, it is impossible to avoid the dense barrage like raindrops. In the end, the entire tank assault group, in close cooperation with infantry and armored fighting vehicles, managed to break through to a position less than twenty meters in front of the Japanese positions without any losses. "Boom" and "boom" ......, continuous explosions sounded on the Japanese position, and with the help of the cover of tanks and armored vehicles in front of them, the infantry immediately behind used rocket launchers to carry out directional fire point removal tactics on the Japanese position.
As the explosion continued, the sound of machine gun fire on the Japanese position gradually changed from dense to sparse, and in just a few minutes, the number of light and heavy machine guns on the Japanese position was reduced by more than half. With the subsequent influx of infantry, the positions on the east and west sides outside Tokyo were successively broken by the armored attack groups of the expeditionary force.
"It was reported that the commandos of the Eastern Front had broken through the second line of defense of the Japanese army, and the troops had not suffered much losses at the moment. The Western Front assault group had broken through the Japanese lines into the city of Tokyo, but had so far lost two tanks and three armored fighting vehicles in the exchange of fire with the Japanese street fighting forces. The assault group on the Western Front asked for instructions, should it suspend the offensive and, after stabilizing the occupied areas, advance step by step? An operational staff officer reported to Zhuo Fei.
Less than two hours after the curtain opened, the east and west assault teams successfully broke through the fragile defense line deployed by the Japanese army outside the city and entered the city under the cover of tank armored fighting vehicles. After carefully analyzing the latest battle reports sent by various troops, Xue Yue, who had rushed from Chongqing, opened his mouth and suggested to Zhuo Fei, "General Zhuo, the street fighting is very unfavorable to our armored troops, you see, do you want to listen to the opinions of the front-line commanders and let the armored troops entering the city suspend the attack first?" ”
"No... Not only can we not stop now, but we must also speed up the pace of the offensive. It is necessary to take advantage of the favorable time when the Japanese army in the city is in chaos, and use the armored forces that we have already attacked the city to directly cut the entire city of Tokyo into multiple areas. The troops that entered the city later only needed to clear the remnants of the Japanese army and the resistance forces according to the area. Zhuo Fei replied with a firm face.
Seeing Xue Yue in front of him, Zhuo Fei opened his mouth to explain, "As for the unfavorable situation of street fighting against our armored forces, it depends on how we use these tanks and armored fighting vehicles. If we use our armored forces to engage in street battles with the Japanese army, it will naturally lead to a disadvantageous situation of being passively beaten, but if we only use tanks and armored vehicles as an area cutting force, relying on the strong defense and destructive power of tanks and armored vehicles, I think that the Japanese army's street fighting units will not take the initiative to jump out to find trouble with tanks and armored vehicles. ”
Regarding Zhuo Fei's explanation, the thoughtful Xue Yue did not react immediately, and after following Zhuo Fei's line of sight to look at the combat sand table, Xue Yue suddenly realized and asked directly. "General Zhuo, do you mean to ask our armored troops to use artillery shells to open the way and forcibly disconnect the various units of the Japanese army in the city?"
Zhuo Fei nodded with a noncommittal smile, "That's right, the shelling in the half hour before the start of the battle has already caused huge casualties to the Japanese civilians in Tokyo. Since we want to do it, then we have to do it to the end. Don't forget, this is Japan, and at this moment, we will always be aggressors to the Japanese, and we will never be able to win the hearts and minds of the Japanese. That being the case, why can't our armored forces rampage inside the car with the help of armor? Why do you have to fight the Japanese street fighting troops in close quarters for those buildings in the city? ”
Having said this, a thick murderous aura directly appeared on Zhuo Fei's face. Without the slightest hesitation, Zhuo Fei ordered with a firm face, "Order all the troops participating in the battle, once they attack the city of Tokyo, allow the use of heavy fire weapons to destroy all the buildings along the way that may hide the Japanese troops." If there are not enough tank guns, field guns are drawn from the rear, in a word, I don't want to see unnecessary casualties and losses in the troops entering the city. ”
Zhuo Fei was already in full swing to deploy troops for the final attack, and the headquarters of Muto Zhang in the city had been transferred many times in a row, looking at the thick smoke covering the sky over the city, Muto Zhang's heart was full of guilt and unwillingness. At this time when the war was going on, Muto Akira had already lost any hope, and originally wanted to fight to the death with the invading squadron in Tokyo City, even if he lost Tokyo City, he would make the squadron shed more blood.
But the strangeness of the battle made Muto Zhang never expect that the squadron that attacked Tokyo City was so strong that many of the deployments he had made in advance did not come in handy. "Your Excellency Commander, let's retreat, as long as we withdraw from Tokyo first to retain our strength, we still have a chance to fight the Chinese army." Among the staff officers under Akira Muto, some finally couldn't help but put forward the idea of withdrawing troops, and this idea was also approved by most of the staff officers.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is no longer a question of whether we retreat, but whether the Empire will survive." Muto Akira, who moved the headquarters to the Green Island Imperial Palace, has long since lost the vigor that he had when he succeeded Hideki Tojo in charge of the Tokyo City Defense, and his pale face was full of exhaustion. "We are fighting now in order to win time and opportunity for the people going north to leave the mainland, if we withdraw, the Chinese army may go directly north, once we lose the northern port, the local people will also lose the opportunity to move east to the American continent, so we can't withdraw."
The government's organization of a large number of people to move to the American continent was no longer a secret in Muto Akira's command, because they chose to stay and fight against the Shina army in order to win a ticket for their family to leave the mainland. Muto Akira made it very clear that the staff officers present had to dismiss the idea of withdrawing the army, for the sake of their families and the continuation of the empire, their only mission was to delay the Shina army in Tokyo as much as possible.