Chapter 637: Retreat
Fujita Jin was stunned when he heard the news, although he already knew that the Chinese people would call, but he expected the Chinese people to arrive in the suburbs of Shanghai tomorrow at the earliest, but now they arrived a day earlier. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
The voice on the other end of the phone was full of anxious taste: "Your Excellency Commander, now the outer positions of Hongqiao Airport have been blown flat by the artillery fire of the Zhina people, the Zhina people have used heavy artillery of more than two hundred millimeters caliber, and the fortifications we built cannot stop the attack of this kind of artillery shells at all, the captain of the Jintian Wing of the garrison wing has sent a telegram requesting urgent guidance, and the Zhina people have not only used heavy artillery to attack the outer positions of the airport, but they have also found the shadow of the Chinese chariot, if there are no reinforcements, It was hard for him to hold up until dark! ”
"Yaga, you tell Kaneda Yiyi that he has more than 4,000 troops in his hands, if he can't even support it in the dark, let him be disemboweled, the empire doesn't need waste that can only eat! What the? Airplanes, if I have airplanes, do I need you to remind me? You tell those bastards, no! There are no planes! ”
"Smack!"
Kaneda Yiyi, who slapped the phone heavily on the table, turned pale, and his boss just now ...... The commander of the 16th Division, Lieutenant General Takeda Shou, had just called him, and Commander Fujita refused his request for help and asked him to hold out until dark, and if he couldn't hold out, let him be disemboweled! To tell the truth, if it was an ordinary Chinese army, let alone holding on until the night, he even dared to lead his troops to counterattack and beat those Huaxia people out, but after seeing the legendary hell-level artillery bombardment of the Third Army on the opposite side, he really had no confidence, the heavy artillery of the other side that could almost tear the airfield to pieces had blown all the fortifications he had worked hard to build for more than half a month into pieces, and his soldiers were hiding in the remaining fortifications like rats shivering.
Ignoring the danger of the shelling, Kaneda Yiyi found the second captain in the fortifications and said loudly to him, "Shan Xiejun, your second brigade must fight back, only by counterattacking can you live, staying here can only wait for death!" ”
"Your Excellency, Wing Commander, it's too late!" The second brigade leader, Shan Xie, smiled miserably and pointed at the soldiers around him and said: "The soldiers I can command now are not even a small team, and the others are either killed or lost contact, isn't it a joke to fight back with this little force?" ”
"Yaga!" Jin Tian Yiyi scolded angrily, I don't know if he is scolding the mountain association or the Chinese people on the other side, and now he is not in the mood to go to the first brigade and the third brigade, presumably their situation is not much different from that of the mountain association here, just a round of shelling made his wing lose contact. Although nominally he still has a squadron of artillery in his hands, in this case letting the artillery fight back is no different from committing suicide, so he also died of this heart.
Thirty-six B-4 203-mm howitzers and sixty-two M40 155-caliber self-propelled howitzers shelled them at the same time, and in just half an hour they rained at least 4,700 shells, which amounted to dozens of tons of steel and explosives falling on the Japanese positions.
"Boom ......"
Successive shells fell into the position built by the Japanese army in half a month, the violent explosion shock wave blew up the originally seemingly solid trench into a pile of ruins, mud and smoke accompanied by steel fragments raged in the trenches, the deadly steel fragments could not help but harvest the lives of the Japanese soldiers in the trenches, the shock wave shattered the internal organs of the Japanese soldiers at close range, the air was filled with the pungent smell of gunpowder and thick smoke, and the Japanese soldiers hiding in the trenches were choked by the thick gunpowder smoke and coughed loudly.
Although the Japanese soldiers claimed to be the toughest soldiers in the world, they were also frightened by the heavy shelling they had never suffered before, and the soldiers huddled in the trenches with their heads in their hands, trembling, coughing, crying, and screaming with all their strength, as if this would make them throw away their fear and let courage return to them. But it was still useless, as the cannonballs kept falling, the whole earth trembled violently, the flying dust and the stumps flying everywhere made even the strongest soldiers begin to panic, and at this moment they could no longer find the courage of the past when they sang the bloodthirsty light in the eyes of Jun Zhidai and fought against the Huaxia army, fear had taken over all their bodies and minds.
Just as the Japanese soldiers were despairing, the sound of artillery that had been sounding a moment ago suddenly stopped, and all positions suddenly returned to quiet, and time seemed to return to the state before the shelling. However, the original dense fortifications were now all in ruins, and although the sound of artillery had stopped, the low howls and panicked moans of the wounded soldiers were heard in the trenches.
"Yaga Yalu, you cowards, you shout so loudly when you are injured, where are you still like the warriors of the empire, I think even the women of China are braver than you! The people of China are about to fight, so hurry up and grab your rifles, use your bayonets to drive the people back of China, and let the people of China see the power of the warriors of the Great Japanese Empire! ”
The Japanese officers who were still alive in the trenches either brandished pistols or carried command knives to punch and kick the surviving soldiers, and the officers carried the soldiers' collars and forcibly pushed them to the bombed trenches, and forcibly ordered them to raise their rifles and prepare to shoot at the attacking Chinese army!
It's just that although the officers tried their best to restore the fighting spirit of the soldiers, their positions had been blown up and destroyed, and the trenches and fortresses that could have protected them had become a bloody hell, and the neat trenches that the Japanese army had spent more than half a month constructing had become craters as big as fish ponds, and the mud that had been knocked over by shells, the collapsed trenches, the burning logs, the broken weapons, the scattered ammunition boxes, the barbed wire, etc., the Chinese people used heavy artillery to turn this place into a hellish existence.
Although the officers desperately punched and kicked the soldiers to make them defend, and even the lightly wounded were not allowed to withdraw from the position, but the corpses and blood that could be seen everywhere on the position, the stumps and broken arms of the soldiers who were killed were everywhere, and there were almost no complete corpses in the entire position, and most of the dead soldiers only left charred stumps or bloody severed arms, and more left nothing, their bodies had completely disappeared under the terrifying artillery fire that lasted for half an hour, Only a few pieces of cloth or a few stumps could prove that they had been in this hell of iron and fire, and even the bravest soldiers felt chills in the face of such a horrific scene.
None of the soldiers wanted to stay in such a place, and if it weren't for the officers staring at them, there might have been deserters. One by one, these officers drew their command knives, and the blades flashing with cold light were not aimed at the enemy, but pointed at the Japanese soldiers in front of them, who had been trained and educated to understand that in the face of such a harsh situation, once these officers failed to supervise the battle, the fear in the hearts of the soldiers would erupt like a flood, and once the phenomenon of rout and escape began, it would be irreparable.
Wing Commander Kaneda Oiichi, who was observing the movement in front of the airport, looked at the position that had been blown up and was speechless for a long time, and the second squadron leader Yamakyo Motoha, who was standing behind him, couldn't help but say: "Your Excellency, Wing Commander, I have observed, the shelling of the people of China is only bombarding our outer positions, and our airfield has not even dropped a single shell, in this case, we might as well withdraw the warriors to the airfield to resist, what do you think?" ”
Kaneda Yiyi didn't look back, and said coldly: "Shan Xiejun, the airport is so big and there are no fortifications, what if we withdraw all the troops to the airport and the people of China come over?" Besides, how can you be sure that the people of China will not shell the airfield? Have you ever thought that once the rest of us are all crowded in the airport, once the people of China desperately shell the airport, won't we be sent to death in vain? ”
Shan Xie said loudly at the beginning: "Wing Commander, the people of China don't dare to bombard the airport, they obviously want to seize the airport intact, and then let their planes take off and land here!" ”
"Yaga, shut up!" Yamakyū's original words made Kaneda Otoichi feel that his majesty was being questioned, and he immediately shouted: "I am the supreme commander here, do you want to question my orders?" ”
"Hai, don't dare!" Seeing that Kaneda Yiyi was angry, the mountain association could only give in obediently.
"Your Excellency, the Wing Commander, the people of China are attacking!" At this time, a staff officer on the side shouted loudly.
With the voice of the staff officer, a sharp whistle began to sound in the distance, and with the whistle, a sour metal grinding sound began to sound on the position several kilometers away, and black shadows began to appear in the sight of the Japanese army.
"Chariot...... It's the chariot of the Shina people! After seeing those black shadows that suddenly appeared, Kaneda Yiyi's face immediately changed, and he cried out in a lost voice.
"It's a chariot...... The chariot of the people of China is coming! "Louder than Kaneda Oiichi are the voices of the officers on the front line.
"Stand up and prepare!"
Just when the Japanese position was in chaos, more than 80 tanks lined up in a zigzag formation and began to rumble towards the Japanese position, the big head was more than 20 No. 4 tanks, these painted gray tank turrets on the blue and white blue sky and white sun badge shining dazzlingly in the sun, the tank advanced in front of the turret side by side machine guns continued to pour tongues of fire, MG34 thousands of bullets per minute hit the Japanese troops on the position can not raise their heads.
"Quick...... Stand up and get ready to strike! ”
Behind the position, a Japanese lieutenant shouted behind a well-built section of breastwork, and behind him stood six lightly wounded, each carrying a five-kilogram bag of explosives.
The lieutenant looked at the approaching Huaxia tank and said sharply to several Japanese soldiers behind him: "Gentlemen, now is the time for you to serve His Majesty the Emperor, and when you become gods, you will be worshiped by the people every year, what a glory it is, and your parents, wives and children will also be proud of you, so gentlemen, please work hard!" ”
After speaking, the lieutenant also raised a 90-degree bow to several Japanese soldiers, which can be described as full of sincerity, but seeing his own head officer bowing to himself, there was no moving look on the faces of these Japanese soldiers, and a wounded soldier led by him laughed miserably: "Sir, we can't go back, if you can go back, please tell my child, let him study hard in the future, and when he grows up, he will be a company employee or a worker, and don't be a soldier again!" ”
"Baga ......" Lieutenant immediately glared at him, and his arm was habitually raised to give him a slap, but when he saw the wounded soldier's cold eyes and the hand that had been placed on the fuse, he hurriedly retracted his hand, his dignified lieutenant could not deal with a guy who was dying.
In the end, he could only swallow his saliva and said, "Okay, I won't say anything more, you guys should leave immediately!" Hurry up ......"
Under the lieutenant's strict order, the six wounded soldiers jumped out of the trench in turn and rushed forward......
"All units keep in formation, the speed can't be too fast, wait for the infantry behind!" In a No. 4 tank in front, Adele, the commander of the 1st Armored Regiment, was sitting in a No. 4 tank, observing the movement ahead through the lookout, and constantly giving orders to the troops below through the radio.
In the past two years since coming to China, Adele's Chinese has been spoken fluently, and even with a hint of the accent of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it is very glutinous, such a voice appeared in the mouth of an exotic beauty like her, and after giving the order, she said loudly to the gunner next to her.
"High-explosive shells...... Target the Japanese machine-gun position in front of the target, put! ”
"Boom!"
A 75-mm high-explosive shell burst out of the barrel and exploded on the Japanese position, although it did not hit the machine gun position, but it wounded a Japanese second lieutenant who was directing the operation next to him.
"There are Japanese death squads ahead, kill them!"
The infantrymen who followed closely behind the tank stared at the front, and when they saw the shadow of the Japanese soldiers in front of them, they immediately swept over, and almost all of the Japanese soldiers who rushed forward with the intention of death fell under their guns.
Looking at the tanks getting closer and closer, they really had no choice but to shoot desperately at those tanks with the weapons in their hands, but those bullets could only shoot a few sparks at most when they hit the tanks, and they could only watch those tanks slowly but firmly approach themselves. When the battle comes to this, anyone knows that the general trend has gone, and continuing to stay can only be sent to death.
Finally, a Japanese soldier couldn't hold on, and when the first soldier jumped out of the trench and ran back, the officer standing next to him immediately took out his pistol and fired three shots at him without hesitation, knocking the soldier to the ground, but then more and more soldiers began to run towards the airport, the officers could no longer stop, and the rout was already unstoppable...... (To be continued.) )