Chapter 228: The Battle of Huangcun (4)
After Kazuki Kiyoji roared in shock, the 54th Army adjusted the angle slightly after a test firing of an artillery shell, and immediately a continuous stream of shells flew over! A large pit immediately appeared above the Japanese position, followed by the stumps and broken arms of the Japanese soldiers flying in the sky, as well as the fragments of some tanks and armored vehicles!
After all, that's a 105 mm heavy artillery shell! In a battlefield without aircraft, this heavy artillery can already decide the victory or defeat of a battle! It can be said that it is a well-deserved battlefield death! Whether it is the tanks of the Japanese army that have thickened the steel plates, or those armored vehicles, cars, and artillery positions of 75 mm caliber, all of them are turning on their backs at this moment! Occasionally, after a few Japanese 75 mm caliber mountain guns and field guns that were able to be erected fired shells, they would immediately suffer a devastating blow from the artillery fire of the heavy artillery regiment of the 54th Army!
In order to determine the absolute superiority of this battle at the beginning, Tian Zheng did not hesitate to spend his blood, in addition to the originally full heavy artillery regiment, but also concentrated the heavy artillery battalions of the 162nd Division and the 127th Division to form an absolutely powerful long-range artillery strike force!
The stakes of this are enormous! As soon as the Japanese discovered their artillery positions, then the Japanese bombers would soon arrive on the battlefield! The heavy artillery positions without the slightest air defense will then become the prey of the Japanese aviation units! And if the position of the 54th Army, which has lost its heavy artillery firepower, wants to resist the attack of the Japanese armored forces, it will undoubtedly become very difficult to rely on a bazooka equipped with only a high-explosive warhead and lacks armor-piercing ability!
However, risks always coexist with benefits! Although the risk of using heavy artillery in such a concentrated manner is very high, the effect caused at this moment is indeed very obvious and very exciting!
Just after three volleys. The Japanese army's crowded formation was immediately reduced by a full third! What's more, a large number of tanks were destroyed, and although the wreckage of the tanks formed a protection for the Japanese soldiers, it also blocked the movement of the surviving tanks! Suddenly put the Japanese army in an extremely difficult situation!
"If you want to reduce casualties as much as possible, then the Japanese army will inevitably abandon the car and retreat! If they wanted to save the chariots, they would have to let the infantry move the damaged chariots, and that was the case. The Japanese infantry will continue to be exposed to the range of our artillery! It will only cause them more casualties! Song Zheyuan looked at this scene in the telescope from the ambush position in the mountains and forests on the east side, and said excitedly in his heart!
"The strength of this 54th Group Bureau is really terrifying! Imagine that in China, even Chiang Kai-shek's Central Army may not be able to form such a powerful artillery strike force! It's ridiculous that I was so self-righteous before, thinking that the Ryukyu barbarians, how could they break through the defense line of nearly 100,000 people of our 29th Army! Now it seems that even if I have an extra 100,000 troops, I won't be able to stop a fire attack like this! That's not giving people the advantage of having more troops at all! It's just a non-stop strike from long-range artillery. can bring down such a powerful force as the Japanese army! This Tian Zheng really taught me a deep lesson! If our army has a chance to make a comeback after this battle, I will definitely learn more from him! Song Zheyuan said to Zhang Zizhong beside him with some bitterness and loneliness.
Zhang Zizhong, commander of the 38th Division, is also a military commander with considerable command ability, and he also nodded in admiration at this moment. "At a time when the Huaxia country can be in this dilemma, it is really my luck for Huaxia to have such a team come forward! I just don't know. Where did this 54th Army come from with so many large-caliber heavy artillery? It has been rumored that this 54th Army is the spokesperson of a Western country and represents the interests of a Western power! I don't know if it's true or not! ”
Song Zheyuan looked at Zhang Zizhong's eyes. He smiled slightly, "General Zhang, your military command talent is very good, but this political wisdom is a little lacking!" Can't you see now that the 54th Army is an independent force? If you think about it, if they represent the interests of a certain Western power, then they are in a certain purpose, and they may form a deterrent and threat to the Japanese army, but they will definitely not directly use all their forces to block this gap in the southward movement of the Japanese army! You must know that this time the Japanese army has gathered more than 30,000 soldiers who have undergone rigorous training. And the assistance of armored vehicles, artillery, aircraft and other weapons! Can't the 54th Army see the huge risks involved! And you can recall. Since the formation of its predecessor, the 54th Army, the Wolf Tooth Independent Regiment, every battle it has experienced, isn't the goal all the Japanese army? There was even a battle that did not hesitate to travel thousands of miles to look for the main force of the Japanese army outside the Northeast Pass! Although Chiang Kai-shek tried his best to block the news, that battle still let a lot of people know! And for the conflict of domestic troops, the 54th Army is basically free of the lives of soldiers! Just let them retreat! And there are also rumors that all of these weapons and equipment are produced by the 54th Army's own arsenal! There are even many troops in the country who have purchased a lot of weapons and equipment from their arsenals to a greater or lesser extent! Do you know why Yan Laoxi in Shanxi is so stiff now? That's not because he bought a lot of advanced weapons from the 54th Group Army, Yan Laoxi's troops were basically all reequipped with formal rifles, and there were a lot of light machine guns, which could basically reach two per squad! With such an equipment lineup, I'm afraid it can catch up with the Central Army! If it weren't for these, how could Yan Laoxi dare to speak so impulsively, and even give Chiang Kai-shek face? ”
Zhang Zizhong nodded suddenly in realization, "So, last time Chairman Jiang notified Yan Laoxi to go to Nanjing for a meeting, Yan Laoxi said that he was busy and didn't have time, is this true?" ”
Song Zheyuan nodded, "Yan Laoxi's strength today is inseparable from this 54th Group Army!" At the moment, they are sparing no effort to help us defend our positions, what kind of team do you think this 54th Army is now? ”
Zhang Zizhong looked into the distance with respect and admiration in his eyes, and said in a solemn voice, "This is a team that sincerely resists Japan!" It's a team of heroes! It's the god of war team of my Huaxia Kingdom! ”
Song Zheyuan looked at Zhang Zizhong's expression, and he was also emotional. Then he whispered to Zhang Zizhong, "If you don't see this scene now." I wouldn't say that about them either! It seems that we were still too cautious before! You give notice and let all the troops obey the order! As long as the Japanese army is in a rout, when we flee towards our ambush positions on both sides, let the soldiers fight hard! No one can keep it anymore! Otherwise, if this matter spreads out in the future, what face will you and I have to face the 40,000,000 compatriots in China? What kind of face do you have to face the soldiers of the 54th Army who fought bloodily? ”
Zhang Zizhong's expression was solemn, and he asked with a slight hesitation, "Do we really have to do our best?" Including those elites? ”
Song Zheyuan nodded fiercely. "Give it all your strength! Don't let your allies look down on us! Although our elite is more than a little worse than our allies, it is also the hot-blooded son of our army! ”
Tian Zheng didn't know that Song Zheyuan and Zhang Zizhong were talking at this moment, and he didn't know that at this moment, Song Zheyuan actually decided to take out all the strength he had reserved! But Tian Zheng knew that the vanguard of the Japanese army, with more than 10,000 troops, was afraid that it was about to be defeated!
Sure enough, the Japanese troops, who were not under the equal firepower, experienced a continuous half-hour salvo of heavy artillery equivalent to nearly one hundred and twenty heavy artillery regiments of the 54th Army, and the place where they originally gathered was completely covered by a sea of fire! The soldiers, chariots, and equipment in the sea of fire that had not yet had time to escape were all turned into food for those hideous gunsmoke and flames! Only the periphery and some Japanese soldiers who had already escaped the opportunity slowly gathered their ranks outside the range of artillery strikes!
Kazuki Kiyoji looked at his original army of more than 10,000 horses and a large number of chariots, and at this moment, there were only less than 5,000 soldiers left, and the tank Jiuliang, which was barely able to move. There were two cars, and a 75 mm mountain gun that had been blown off its base but was desperately brought out by Japanese soldiers. Kiyoji Kazuki's face was dark, as if he was about to bleed!
"Yaga! Those bastards of the aviation flight regiment! Why hasn't it come yet? Kiyoji Kazuki roared angrily!
"Report to Your Excellency the Commander! Twenty minutes ago, two fighters of the aviation flight regiment had already risen into the air for reconnaissance and are now searching in enemy areas! The bomber formations have also taken off, and as long as they find the enemy's artillery positions, they will raze the enemy's artillery positions in five minutes! ”
"Ichiro Fujiyama! His commando set off no! After listening to the report of the chief of staff, Kazuki Kiyoji's face softened slightly. Then he asked again!
"Fujiyama-kun has already set off with his assault team fifteen minutes ago! I believe that with the action of the aviation flight regiment and Fujiyama-kun, our army will definitely be able to turn defeat into victory! The chief of staff shouted.
"Yaga!" Kiyoji Kazuki suddenly slapped the chief of staff, "We are the heroic Imperial Army of the Great Japanese Army!" It is a warrior of His Majesty the Emperor! It's the people of Amaterasu! We can only win. And only victory! We never fail! ”
The chief of staff trembled in his heart, he knew that he had said the wrong thing, the troops were seriously damaged and demoralized at the moment, I am afraid that if it were not for this slap and roar of Kazuki Kiyoji, these soldiers who had finally gathered would easily collapse!
"Airplanes! It's our plane! Suddenly, there was a roar of airplanes in the sky, which immediately caused a burst of cheers from the Japanese army! After all, the collective roar of the artillery of the 54th Army just now caused them a huge psychological blow that they will never forget in their lives! At this moment, they suddenly saw the world of artillery, and their own planes were flying, and they were like ships lost in the dark night seeing the excitement of a lighthouse! They all shouted and cheered!
Long before the advent of Japanese aircraft. The radar crews of the 54th Army had already discovered the presence of Japanese aircraft. The heavy artillery units also immediately began to cease fire camouflage! By the time the Japanese planes flew over the Japanese troops, the roar of the artillery had stopped for a while!
"Your Excellency, Commander, the enemy's artillery has stopped!" The chief of staff, who had been slapped by Kiyoji Kazuki, shouted excitedly.
Kazuki Kiyoji also showed a rare soothing look on his face. "The artillery stopped? Ha ha! Ridiculous Shina people! Could it be that they have stopped the shelling of artillery. Will you be able to dodge the shells of our Imperial Air Force? Warriors of the Empire! The enemy's artillery is about to be destroyed by our aircraft! Warriors, take up your weapons, and we will make the people of China bear the wrath of the warriors of our empire! ”
No matter how Kazuki Kiyoji shouted there, Tian Zheng was nervously staring at a radar next to him on the anti-aircraft machine gun position at this moment. Obviously, the arrival of the Japanese air force was also expected by Tian Zheng!