Chapter 50: The Purpose of the Japanese Army

Of course, Shimoto Zhenzhi understood the next operational goal of the Third Division, they did not necessarily have to defeat the Second Army, nor did they necessarily have to occupy Miyang, their only goal now was to rush to Zaoyang. As for whether the attack on Zaoyang should be completed by the Third Division or some other division, these are the things that will be considered after arriving in Zaoyang. Anyway, after arriving in Zaoyang, it won't be just a third division anymore, will it?

The Japanese army was pressing forward day by day, and our army retreated step by step. Originally, the battlefield was not far from the position of the 30th Army, and when the attack was made, there were still reserves left on the position, and as soon as the attacking troops retreated, they did not run far, and the large forces of the 30th Army returned to their positions.

The chariots of the devils rumbled after them, and the fighters had mortars, grenades, and explosives packs ready for a long time! Even in order to deal with the devil chariots, even the traps were dug in front of the position, waiting for the troops to retreat once the position could not be held, so that these devil chariots would fall into the coffin!

Our soldiers are ready for everything and are waiting for the devil chariot to come up! The devil's chariot was indeed emitting black smoke, and it drove over "suddenly", and the soldiers stared wide-eyed, holding the grenade hand, and the palms of their hands were full of sweat. Further, ten meters further, there is a mine buried there!

However, the devils seem to have a clairvoyant eye, they seem to have seen through the ambush of our army, just ten meters in front of the mines, these chariots actually stopped!

"Tom! Tong! "Devil Tank**. These iron tortoises stopped just about ten meters in front of the mines and fired artillery at our positions! Tank shells kicked up puffs of dust, and our fighters couldn't even lift their heads when they climbed into the trenches.

Are the devils going to use their tanks as fixed turrets on the front line? Chi Feng Cheng clearly saw the movements of the devil tank from the binoculars. "Artillery regiment, hit me! Knock out the devil's tank! ”

The 30th Army also has an artillery regiment, and the establishment of his unit is not small, and there are many guns in it, but there are very few anti-aircraft guns and howitzers that can really pose a deadly threat to tanks. Most of the artillery in the artillery regiment were mortars, and compared with the artillery regiment of the 500 Army, the heavy artillery of his artillery regiment was not as heavy as the heavy artillery in the hands of Fan Berlin when he was the commander of the artillery battalion.

No matter how little heavy artillery the artillery regiment has, it can still hit tanks! Knock out one, and the devil will have one less! But the strange thing is that the devil seems to have really become a master, and the heavy artillery of our army is also aimed at the devil's tank, and the devil's tank is also opened! It's not going forward, there's a mine ahead, it's a death to go forward! The devil's tank turned around and went around to the side!

"Boom! Bang! A cannonball fell, but it only knocked down the slow U-turn Iron King Ba, and the other dozens of turtle shells swayed and swayed, and he drove away!

The devil retired? So it's back? The fighters looked at each other. However, no matter what, it is a good thing to be able to repel the attack of the devils! The soldiers in the trenches didn't care so much, seeing that the devil's tank was withdrawn, the soldiers leaned into the trenches, smoked, drank water, told jokes, and seized the time to rest.

The soldiers on the main position were resting, but Chi Fengcheng, as the front-line commander, did not dare to relax for a moment. As soon as the Japanese tank wing turned around from the front of the main position, it turned directly to the junction of the 30th Army and the 68th Army.

Commander Chi hurriedly reported to Chief Sun, and then called Deputy Commander-in-Chief Liu to inform Liu Ruming to strengthen the joint defense, and he must not let the devil run over!

The 500 Army was responsible for the defense of the right flank in the three-way army. In the first wave of fighting, the 3rd Division was defeated and retreated for ten miles, Chi Fengcheng and Liu Ruming both pressed their troops forward, and Gao Quan, of course, also moved his defensive position forward. However, the 500th Army, like the other two armies, regarded the original position as the second line of defense, leaving the corresponding forces on the second line of defense as a rear hand.

After returning to the military headquarters and seeing Commander-in-Chief Sun's order, Gao Quan dispersed the three main brigades of the 500 Army and slowly approached the Japanese army from the right flank. In the face of the oppressive attack of our army's three brigades, the Third Division did not show the same strong combat effectiveness as a Japanese army's Class A standing division.

Our troops pressed forward, and the Japanese troops retreated. Retreat and retreat, the devils can't retreat, behind them is the main force of the division, where are the devils retreating?

Attacking outward, the Japanese army did not have that fighting spirit, and they could not retreat if they retreated. So, just after the 500 Corps had advanced 500 meters to the Japanese position, the two armies were frozen there again. The devils don't retreat, they don't fight back, they just stand up there. Wang Dazhu and they attacked several times, but they were all blocked by the superior firepower of the Japanese army. It seems that this attack can only end here.

No matter how much the morale of the Japanese army dropped, their division headquarters were still there, the wings were still there, and the machine gun grenadiers were still there, and they could not disperse in a hurry. When the devil is oppressed to a certain density, its advantages in individual soldiers and weapons will be brought into play. With the current people of the 500 army, it is impossible to squeeze tens of thousands of devils to death at once.

Seeing that the devil had a tendency to develop like an iron bucket array, Gao Quan immediately transferred Liu Qi's supplementary second brigade up, and Zhang Erxiao's independent brigade one left and one right, attacking the devil's waist and eye position from the side! If a wide area plane attack has no effect, then change it to a sharp knife assault. Two sharp knives pierced the part that the devil didn't seem to be very important! Avoiding the real and making up for the false has always been a common strategy in the art of war.

Although Chi Fengcheng and Liu Ruming were the most elite troops of the Third Division in front of them, the two wings could not be taken lightly. As a high-ranking officer at the level of commander of a Japanese division, there is no doubt about Yamawaki Masataka's command ability, and it is impossible for this old devil to let the two wings go alone. Gao Quanyuan was not prepared for how easy this battle would be.

However, the truth is surprising, the devil is like a sudden change of troops, Liu Qi and Zhang Erxiao joined forces and easily tore apart the Japanese flank defense line! The two troops echoed left and right, and within an hour, they went nearly five miles deep into the devil's position!

Seeing the scene in front of him, Gao Quan immediately knew that the embattled strategy laid out last night really worked! Also, the peerless fierce generals of Chu two thousand years ago were defeated under this strategy, how could the little devil be more fierce than the overlord?

Gao Quan was about to order the special service group of the military headquarters to also enter the battle and expand the results of the battle, when a scout came to report that the devil chariot unit had already beaten the 30th Army back to the front-line position, and was now charging at the junction of the 30th Army and the 68th Army!

What are the devils going to do?