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Chapter 1333 The Battle of Eastern Hebei (1)

Fighters as dense as a swarm flew over the defense line of the An Jia Army on the line of Bang Kyun and Xun and frantically poured dense bombs on the position. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Under the cover of the fighters, the bombers, painted with piercing plaster flags, one after another, let out a terrible scream, swooped down on the ground, and one after another bombs carried the breath of death and fell all over the position.

The Anjia army relied on the foothills of the mountain to repair the three positions overnight, and deafening explosions sounded one after another.

Sharp shrapnel, swept by the flying flames and the waves of air that shot in all directions, flew in all directions, mercilessly killing and injuring all targets on the position. However, at this time, most of the officers and men of the two regiments of the New 1st Brigade and the 49th Brigade, which were deployed on the eastern and western fronts, hid in the hidden artillery holes dug in advance, silently touched the steel guns in their hands, and waited for the end of the bombing by the Japanese fighters. Many of the holes in the Tibetan artillery caves were blown up by aerial bombs, and the officers and men in the caves quickly picked up the sapper shovels and dug them quickly, and soon dug a way out of their lives, greedily breathing oxygen.

The concave and convex defensive line built by the An Jiajun army from west to east was shrouded in a thick smoke of gunpowder.

The Japanese fighters bombed for a long time, and when they saw that all the more than 10 kilometers of defense line had been blown up, they proudly circled in the air, and when they found that there was no moving target, they flew towards the county seat of Jixian County.

A small half of the people in Jixian County were worried about the retaliation of the Japanese army, and they evacuated the county town with Liu Zhi's Second Army and joined the army fleeing south, but there were still many indifferent people who were indifferent and thought that whoever ruled was the same.

Therefore, when the Japanese fighters came to the sky over Jixian County, the crowd that gradually increased on the street did not realize to dodge, and at this time, the Japanese fighter group had already swooped down from the sky.

The bombs with a strange whistling sound fell densely on the street, and the people who felt the fear began to run around, but how could they hide from the speed at which the bombs landed in such a short time? Quite a few people were quickly hit by violent explosions and bursts of shrapnel and were mutilated.

The houses in the county town, like toy models, collapsed in bursts of explosions, and the flying dust soared into the sky.

The pilots of the Japanese attack planes who followed the bomber escort were already itching, and at this time they could not wait to start the show, diving all the way down from the sky, aiming at all the people who were fleeing from the collapsed buildings or desperately avoiding the bomb attack as far as they could see, and carried out unscrupulous strafing.

A Japanese attack plane swept over the low altitude like a locust, and the aviation machine gun bullets in the nose of the aircraft sprayed a dense bullet like a storm, leaving clear bullet marks on the streets. Countless bullets swept towards the running crowd like hailstones, taking away human lives one by one, and the spilled blood instantly stained the ground red.

Proudly cleaning up all their bombs and aviation machine gun bullets, the Japanese fighter group jumped into the air, slightly sorted out the formation, still used reconnaissance planes to fight in the front, and left Jixian County triumphantly with a group of attack planes and bombers.

In the county town, which was filled with raging flames and billowing smoke, wails and screams could be heard everywhere, and everywhere you could see patches of bloody dead people and survivors desperately struggling in the dead piles, and many people were directly hit by aerial bombs and blown to pieces, dense blood and flesh sprayed all over the streets, houses, and city walls, and the air was filled with a bloody gas.

In the north of Jixian County, Yang Jiuxiao, commander of the 40th Division, saw the tragic situation of the people in Jixian County from the telescope and shook his head:

"It's terrible! Last night, our soldiers came to the door overnight, and mobilized the people from house to house to temporarily move to the mountains north of the county to take refuge, but no one believed that *** people would bomb them, and scolded us for crying rats and fake mercy, these people who are used to obeying the people, finally know that the Japanese army is not as merciful as they imagined! ”

"How similar is this scene to when our Northeast fell?"

Wang Yulin, the deputy division commander, sighed and said: "Back then, the *** people were forced under their noses, but no one believed that the *** people really dared to do it, and as a result, the Northeast Army, which had 300,000 troops, lost the three eastern provinces in a daze. I think that after this lesson, the people of Jixian County will wake up suddenly, and the hearts of non-my race will be different! ”

At this time, Tong Zhiqiang, chief of staff of the division, walked quickly behind Yang Jiuxiao and Wang Yulin:

"The Japanese troops who wore the front line of Fangyu slowly pressed towards our Caofangyu front line. According to the reconnaissance results of the special operation team assigned to our division, the Japanese army we faced was not a regular division, and it was estimated that it was a newly formed infantry brigade in the northeast, with about the size of two wings. ”

Yang Jiuxiao was slightly surprised: "Dog's day, didn't Liu Zhi say that this line is facing the main division of the Japanese army?" What the hell? ”

Tong Zhiqiang shook his head: "I don't understand either, I have already sent out all the divisional special service groups to closely monitor the line of Yulong Mountain and Tielingzi, and beware of the Japanese army from attacking us from the path." ”

Wang Yulin pondered for a moment and suggested: "Report this special situation to the military department and see what the commander commands." ”

"Good!"

Yang Jiuxiao raised the telescope again and looked at the south of Jixian County, only to see that the smoke and dust there covered the sky, although the distance was too far to hear the sound of gunfire, but he could feel the intensity of the battle, and said with some concern: "The less pressure we face here, the heavier the pressure on the *** division and the seventeenth division, I hope they can withstand it." ”

Wang Yulin also raised his binoculars, and after taking a closer look, he said: "It should be no problem, our 118th Brigade and three regiments are arranged in Balipu and Fenghuang Mountain respectively, and they can respond to the two divisions at any time. Wait and see, the Japanese army will suffer! ”

Yang Jiuxiao nodded: "I hope so!" ”

......

The first line of blocking positions in the south of Bangjun Town.

After the air raid, the Japanese army carried out another half an hour of artillery bombardment, the entire front dug a wide and deep trench with a depth of two meters, under the Japanese bombs and heavy artillery successively, it was already dilapidated, and the trees near and far were scorched by the air flow under the continuous bombardment, like a large torch, burning fiercely.

The smoke that hung over the position had not yet been extinguished, and the sound of shelling by the Japanese heavy artillery was still "rumbling", and the Japanese army had already launched a fierce attack on the position of the new regiment with overwhelming momentum.

"The devil is coming! Brothers, strike! ”

Li Jun, the temporary acting commander of the regiment, noticed the movement of the Japanese army from the periscope that went deep inside the anti-artillery shell, and immediately shouted loudly into the walkie-talkie.

Soon, the officers and men of the 1st battalion, which was responsible for the front-line defense, quickly entered the position.

At this time, the entire front was in shambles, and the trenches that the soldiers had dug all night were blown down by the Japanese by half a meter, and the trenches, which originally needed to be filled with wooden supports urgently built by the engineer troops, were now standing on the ground.

The position defended by the Anjia Army Division is built on the gentle slope of the southern foot of the mountain, the terrain is high in the north and low in the south, which is very conducive to the defense of the defenders, and the three trenches in front and back are distributed in a ladder shape, and it is easy to form continuous and dense firepower, and the Japanese army that needs to attack on the back is not easy to encounter this time.

Seeing the black pressure of the Japanese troops rushing up, the company platoon commanders on the front line were calm and calm, and put the Japanese troops into a distance of 200 meters before shouting "hit".

Soon, orange tongues of fire were spat out everywhere on the entire front, and the rain of bullets that cut through the heavy smoke curtain made bursts of sharp whistling in the air, like a combine harvester, overturning the devil soldiers who were holding the plaster flag high one by one on the ground that still emitted gunsmoke.

The Japanese soldiers, well-trained, fell on their stomachs, dodging the dense rain of bullets that swept over their heads, and raised their guns to fire.

The bullets hit the ground and flew in bursts of sand and rocks.

The attack of the Anjia Army was quickly counterattacked by the Japanese army, and the Type 92 infantry guns, grenadiers, Type 38 rifles, Type 92 heavy machine guns, and crooked light machine guns were intertwined into a tight network of firepower, which swept over the position of the Anjia Army like a raging storm. However, the enemy's exposed firepower immediately became the key target of a mortar battalion, and amid the dense shelling sound that sounded on the hill behind the Anjia army's position, the Japanese army's firepower points were dumb one after another, and they were quickly suppressed by the Anjia army.

On the position of the first company, a sniper raised a 12.7 caliber sniper rifle named "Zhongzheng III" in his hand, and the crosshairs of the scope were aimed at a Japanese grenadier who jumped into the crater and was ready to attack.

The sniper smiled slightly, his fingers gently hooked the trigger of the sniper rifle, the butt of the rifle shook slightly, and a bullet with hatred left the muzzle like lightning and headed towards the head of the ghost soldier.

"Poof—"

The 12.7mmm armor-piercing bullet pierced a hole in the Japanese steel helmet, and the steel helmet was quickly knocked away by the huge momentum, and the white brains and dirty blood of the devil's grenadier quickly squirted out from the heavenly spirit cover that was lifted open by the bullet. The Japanese grenadier hand was pushed by gravity, his body flew back two meters away, and fell to the ground, and the grenadier fell to the ground with a "clang", and the melon grenade that had just been loaded into the grenadier was triggered, and the crater was shot out in a strange parabola, and soon fell on the top of the nearby Japanese army, bursting into a ball of flames, and two or three devil soldiers who were shooting, with the grenade shrapnel sputtered everywhere, killed instantly.

After the sniper killed a Japanese grenadier, he quickly retracted into the trench, bowed down and ran in the trench for more than ten meters, and then quietly poked his head out from the other side.

The Zhongzheng III sniper rifle adopts a semi-automatic drive bullet, which does not need to pull the bolt once with a shot like the current ordinary rifle, this drive mainly uses part of the gunpowder gas, recoil to unload the cartridge case, and the bullet is automatically loaded and loaded, but every time the trigger is pressed, it can still only fire one bullet.

From the scope of the sniper rifle, the sniper clearly saw a series of melon grenades flying out of one place, one after another, throwing them into the trenches of the An Jiajun with great precision, stirring up clouds of flames and smoke.

In a violent explosion, vaguely mixed with a few muffled snorts, in a short period of time, several officers and soldiers of the An family have been killed and injured by the grenadiers of this devil.

The grenadiers that the Japanese army equipped with squads and even detachments are a very wonderful thing, there is no mortar sight at all, and the accuracy is extremely poor, and it is completely done by consciousness. It is a grenadier with devils, and some veterans with great shooting experience are selected to serve as them.

This unscrupulous grenadier was obviously one of the aces of the Japanese grenadiers, and he actually hid in a huge crater that had been blown up by a large-caliber aerial bomb bomb before, and methodically used the grenadier to carry out continuous attacks on the battle line of the An Jiajun army according to the memory in his mind.

The sniper of the An Jiajun who did not waver when he saw the target, his eyes were resolute, and he aimed the sniper rifle in his hand at the crater that continuously flew out of the melon grenade, held his breath, and calmly waited for the moment when the grenadier of the Japanese army appeared. It's a pity that this grenadier soldier is really patient, he was stunned to shoot for five or six minutes with a simple grenadier, throwing melon grenades on the position of the Anjia army, from the point to the line, forming a continuous and powerful strike fire, and a ball of flames continued to rise from the position of the Anjia army.

An Jiajun's mortars finally couldn't bear it, and a series of bombs whizzed towards the crater, but unfortunately due to the angle problem, every time it missed, the crater was still unscathed.

On the contrary, the mortars of the Anjia Army were quickly hit by the mortar group that the Japanese army had endured for a long time, and the defense line of the Anjia Army was once again enveloped by a series of explosions and thick gunsmoke.

It is estimated that it was the continuous shelling of the Japanese mortars, which made the elite grenadiers of the Japanese army feel that they should make good use of this opportunity and move to other places to carry out the next wave of strikes on the exposed firepower points of the An Jiajun, and the little devil jumped out of the crater at once. Unfortunately, just as he rushed out of the crater, a black armor-piercing bullet hit him directly in the face, shooting accurately through his left eye, blasting a head into a rotten watermelon, and the uncontrollable body was plunged back into the crater, and there was no movement.

“ok！”

The sniper fired his shot, without even looking at it, quickly retracted, and ran wildly through the canine trenches, turning several times in a row. Behind him, the shells from the Japanese mortars had already landed on the position where he was standing just now, and the orange fireballs suddenly exploded, mixed with the thick smoke of dirt and gravel, and went straight into the sky, and then "crackled" like rain, making the trench lose half a meter.

However, the continuous shelling caused the Japanese army to expose the location of its mortars, and immediately suffered a fierce blow from the mortars of the Anjia Army, and the artillery fire, which was an important support for the Japanese attack, fell silent again.

Seeing that the attack was weak, the Japanese retreated one after another, and soon calm was restored to the position.

Knowing that the Japanese army was going to play artillery fire to cover this hand, the Anjia Army blew the whistle of "immediate concealment" on the position, and soon the troops retreated, and those who escaped into the anti-artillery hole immediately drilled into the dark and damp cave five or six meters underground.

"Well done, little ghost, what's your name?"

An old squad leader in his early thirties saw the young man sitting next to him, whose face was still a little green, and it was the sniper who had shown great courage just now, and handed over a cigarette familiarly.

"An Ruoqi!"

The young man said that he would not smoke, shook his head and refused the platoon commander's kindness, then put down the sniper rifle in his hand, took out the water bottle and took a sip, and put it back on his waist.

"Listening to your accent, doesn't you look like a northerner? Where did it come from? The squad leader smiled and lit a cigarette for himself, inhaled deeply into the lobes of his lungs, and slowly exhaled.

"Xinyang, Henan, during the Central Plains War, there was a drought in my hometown and the whole family fled south, and the family starved to death, and when I was about to starve to death, I was taken in by the An Jiajun, and later entered the Syrian Boy Scout Academy, and was admitted to the special major of the non-commissioned officer school, I just graduated last year, and was assigned to the regimental special service company, this time in order to enrich the front-line team, so I was temporarily assigned to your platoon." An Ruoqi replied.

"Huh!?"

The squad leader didn't know that his cigarette butt fell to the ground, so he suddenly stood up and saluted the young man: "Report to the chief, Sergeant Lu Daniu greets you!" ”

An Ruoqi was startled, and when she saw that all the soldiers around her looked over, she hurriedly pulled Lu Daniu and sat down: "What are you doing?" Although I have the rank of lieutenant, I am now assigned to your company, and I am under the command of you grassroots commanders and fighters, and I should salute you. Squad Leader Lu, how big was the loss of your squad in that round of battle just now? ”

Lu Daniu's face darkened: "Of the fifteen people in our class, four of them were sacrificed, and it is expected that the next battle will be even more tragic, I don't know how many ...... will be left when we retreat."

At this time, the scream of shells outside sounded again, and then the explosion that shook the ground and the mountains was heard, and a new round of Japanese attacks began.