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Kei Seya, who was holding a command knife, nodded slightly.

Takada Daisho, the commander of the field artillery wing who put down the microphone, took out his command knife and waved it forward: "The attack begins!" ”

The muzzles of the six 75-mm field guns and the forty-five 70-mm Type 92 infantry, which had long been on standby, flashed almost simultaneously, and fifty-one grenades whistled out of their disembowels.

"Chirp-tweet-", grenades rained down inside and outside the anti-tank trenches, and with one "boom" after another, huge fireballs soared into the air, and the freshly repaired anti-tank trenches were once again shrouded in smoke and dust.

For half an hour, Gao Fei had been holding the binoculars, and in the explosion, the bluestone houses were shaking, and the whole room was filled with thick dust.

The high-density shelling continued, and although the anti-tank trenches in the smoke and dust could not be observed, the black and red columns of smoke rolling in the air made every officer and soldier in the rear sweat for their comrades at the front.

"Do you want to run out of shells?" The Lockpost muttered quietly.

The speaker had no intention, but the listener's heart moved, Gao Fei's face changed, and he immediately picked up the phone and connected to all the command posts.

"Each platoon is betting, except for one squad to hold the anti-artillery hole, the rest of the troops immediately retreat! Retreat now! ”

"Yes!" In the midst of the rumbling cannon, a confused but firm answer came from the microphone.

"Attention to the battalions of the 2nd trench, keep one company scattered and concealed in the communication ditch to the anti-tank trench, and the rest of the companies immediately retreat!"

"Yes!"

"I don't believe in these two trenches!"

It was Kei Seya who said this, and Yamato Sakurai on the side couldn't stop laughing.

At the airfield of the Third Flying Division of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, a group of planes was taking off nervously.

The squadron of reconnaissance planes that took off first hovered at a high altitude, and after a fighter group also jumped into the air, each Type 92 reconnaissance plane and two Nakajima-type fighters formed a group and roared away.

The rest of the fighters waited at high altitudes for the bulky transport planes and bombers to rise into the air one after another.

The group of planes that had completed the air marshalling flew in a neat formation and headed south.

When the black shadow in the distance disappeared completely, Kenta Iwasaki, the commander of the 3rd Flying Division in the command tower, looked down at the runway.

The officers and men of each air defense position were vigilantly observing the sky, and the two fighter squadrons on the runway were even more ready to take off at any time.

"Tell the warriors that they must be on standby until the order is lifted!" Kenta Iwasaki, who was beaten badly by the sneak attack of the Chinese Air Force, gave the order fiercely.

"Hello!"

"Quick! Hurry up! In the hasty order, the support forces of the centripetal movement with Taierzhuang as the center were hidden in the valley and jungle.

Countless orange-red bullet marks broke through the thick air and rushed towards Taierzhuang with a heart-wrenching roar. With a series of heart-rending huge explosions, brilliant flames bloomed in front of the entire Taierzhuang.

After requesting approval for airdropping supplies, six 75-mm field guns and 45 70-mm Type 92 infantry guns of the 106th Division of the Chinese Army were shelled incessantly under the order of the commander of the 106th Division, Kei Seya, and dense groups of shells bombarded the two circular trenches outside Taierzhuang back and forth.

Hail of grenades smashed down, the earth was beaten like a drum, and the whole position was ploughed over. During the explosion, large clumps of mud were lifted into the air, leaving only dense craters.

The Chinese officers and soldiers hidden in the anti-artillery holes and communication ditches listened silently to the incessant sound of explosions, and all of them had faces full of fear, even those officers and soldiers who had experienced many major battles had never seen such a strong bombardment, let alone those recruits who had not been on their uniforms for a long time.

From time to time, a grenade plunged into a communication ditch, and the officers and men lying at the center of the explosion were flipped into the air in a brilliant fireball, and the tumbling corpses were cut into pieces by sharp shrapnel and turned into a sky full of flesh and blood.

The officers and men who were still alive lay dead on the bottom of the ditch, letting countless shrapnel scream over their heads, and occasionally a downward burst of shrapnel pinned the soldiers in the direction of flight to the ground.

"Damn, the little devil is still over!" Personally led a company to hide in the traffic ditch 4th Battalion Commander Di Xinghe angrily ripped off the bloodstained military hat. Just now, in his sight, a grenade tore three soldiers to shreds.

Although Gao Fei promptly ordered the large force to withdraw from the position, the intensive artillery fire still caused heavy casualties to the vigilant troops on the position.

The imminent explosion, the struggling companions in a pool of blood put the nerves of all Chinese officers and soldiers on the verge of collapse.

And all this is just the beginning, the huge fleet of military aircraft is rapidly approaching.

"Devil's plane!" The staff officer in charge of observing the air situation screamed nervously.

A Tachikawa-98 reconnaissance aircraft, accompanied by two Nakajima fighters, appeared in the high-flying telescope tube.

It seems that Taierzhuang is the destination of this group of planes, and after hovering at high altitude for a week, they flew south at high speed.

The 4th Battalion, which was distributed in various air defense points in Taierzhuang, quickly set up 40 Czech light machine guns and 20 Maxim heavy machine guns.

These air defense points were determined overnight by the commander of the 4th Battalion, which was temporarily reorganized into an air defense battalion, Di Xinghe, and his officers and men, and the entire Taierzhuang was divided into 10 air defense areas, with four Czech light machine guns and two Maxim heavy machine guns forming an air defense group, blocking an airspace with crossfire.

The appearance of the reconnaissance plane proved that Gao Fei's judgment was not wrong, and it seems that the military wanted to destroy everything in Taierzhuang with combined air-ground firepower. Although Di Xinghe was ready to meet the bombardment of the plane, he did not expect that the army would dispatch such a large-scale group.

The "black cloud" in the line of sight quickly enlarged in Di Xinghe's line of sight, and his hands holding the binoculars trembled uncontrollably.

The commander of the team was Takeda Yamato Osa, the commander of the 2nd Flying Wing of the 3rd Flying Division of the Japanese Army, and he connected with Kei Seya.

"Your Excellency Commander, our department is ordered to support!"

Kei Seya, who was holding the walkie-talkie, said excitedly, "Takeda-kun, the airdrop sign has been set, please destroy the front position of Shina first!" ”

Before Takeda Yamato could reply, Kei Seya shouted in an urging tone again, "The people of Shina don't have anti-aircraft weapons!" Repeat, the people of China do not have anti-aircraft weapons! ”

"Understood!" Takeda Yamato was not as excited as Kei Setani, and as a good air commander, he maintained his usual calm.

After connecting the radio stations of each machine, Takeda Yamato gave instructions in an orderly manner.

First, the two fighter groups broke away from the group and acted as a unit to act as a guard at high altitude, and secondly, the transport planes slowed down in formation, lowered their altitude and flew towards the open area where the white cloth cross sign had been laid.

The last 28 Type 97 heavy bombers of the 3rd Flying Division of the Army were divided into four planes and entered the bombing route in seven waves one after another.

Under the traction of gravity, the raindrops of aerial bombs pounced at a free speed towards the bombardment range marked by the 106th Division with artillery fire.

Countless terrible screams tore through the dull air, and the moment the nearly 100-kilogram bomb came into contact with the ground, the movable firing pin inside the sensitive mechanical fuse would violently impact the detonator under the action of habitual name, and in the flash of fire, the main charge was detonated, and then a huge fireball of smoke and flames rolled in the earth-shattering roar.

In the dense explosion, the skyrocketing fireballs rose one after another, and the terrifying shock wave mixed with countless flying debris swept across the entire battlefield.

The carpet-like bombardment was devastating, and the individual bunkers built on the ground between the two trenches were blown to pieces like toys in the face of powerful aerial bombs. Entire sections of trenches collapsed with violent shaking, and the Chinese officers and soldiers who were still alive struggled to get out of the mud, desperately sucking in the air that was almost set on fire.

From time to time, anti-artillery holes were directly hit by aerial bombs, and the 30-centimeter-thick soil layer was simply unable to resist such powerful explosions. In the powerful explosion, the trench where the entire bomb shelter was located was razed to the ground, and the entire squad of soldiers hidden in the cave was left with only flesh and gun parts that could be seen everywhere in the smoky mud.

The artillery of the army was also shocked by the bombing scene of the fighters, or they may have felt that under this carpet-like bombardment, there was little value in shelling again, and after firing the grenade in the chamber, the ammunition man did not add grenades to the chamber of the gun, which had reached the extreme temperature.

Instead, those officers of the army dutifully carried out their duties: "Baga, don't cool down yet!" Amid the shouts and rebukes, the munitionmen poured the buckets they had prepared into the barrels of the guns that radiated the scorching heat. Multiply! At the sound of this, a white fog rose from the entire artillery position.

"Clean up!"

Following the commander's order, the artillerymen hurriedly moved piles of shells out of position.

In the distance, an overwhelming array of white parachutes dragged various supplies to the airdrop area, including grenades that the army urgently needed.

"Yo Xi!" Looking at the parachutes in the sky, the chief of staff of the Seya detachment, Mao Morishita, was so excited that he said to Seya: "Your Excellency Commander, with ammunition, even without the support of the Air Force, we can erase Taierzhuang from the map." ”

Shaking his head reservedly, Seya Qi said slowly, "Morishita-kun, don't forget, our target is Xuzhou, and these ammunition still have to be saved!" ”

Mao Morishita bowed slightly: "Your Excellency Commander, I have been taught!" He looked at the group of bombers that were still dropping bombs and exclaimed: "Under such a blow, it would be incredible if those people could survive!" ”

Kei Seya was not as optimistic as Mao Morishita, and he knew that any battle would end with the occupation of the infantry. However, with such strong air fire support, the infantry battle was indeed much easier. He immediately ordered, "When the fighters start bombing Taierzhuang, order Kimura-kun to attack immediately, and be sure to succeed in one blow!" ”

More than 3,000 officers and men of the Seya detachment, which had been deployed, silently looked at the fiery position in the distance.

Most of these officers and soldiers were from the logistics brigade and the engineer wing, and the positions they immediately attacked had already swallowed the lives of thousands of their comrades, but at this time, these officers and soldiers were not the slightest afraid, but their eyes were bloodshot and red because of the upcoming tearing and killing.

The commander of the 10th Infantry Wing at the back of the queue, Tsada, Kuwata Sada, whispered to Kimura Takero, the captain of the Kimura Infantry Brigade, "Kimura-kun, His Excellency the Commander seems to really favor us!" ”

Stunned by what he said, Kimura Takero was about to ask, and Kuwata Sadazo explained with a smile: "The key to the battle of Xuzhou lies in this Taierzhuang, who is the first to capture here, and the first credit belongs to him!" ”

It turned out to be this, and he didn't care about the unknown credit Kimura Takero, but he was grateful to Kei Seya for giving him the opportunity to have a shameful experience!

Kuwata Satsuzo, who didn't care about Kimura Takero's reaction, was still saying: "Those captains are about to go crazy with jealousy when they see that Kimura-kun is taking the lead again!" ”

"Attention bombers, bomb Taierzhuang immediately after a round of bombing, pay attention to maintain altitude!" Takeda's voice echoed through the headphones of the pilots.

"Understood!"

"Order all companies to assemble, enter the communication ditch and stand by, and enter the anti-tank trenches as soon as the devils stop the bombardment!" Gao Fei, who had been silently calculating the amount of bombs dropped by the plane, picked up the phone and gave an order to Lao Hei.

"Yes!" Lao Hei, who was accustomed to commanding front-line operations, answered loudly without hesitation.

After completing the whole team, under Lao Hei's order, more than 200 officers and men rushed into Taierzhuang in company units to wait for the communication ditch in the second trench

Before all the parachutes landed, hundreds of logistics officers and men of the Chinese army rushed up, quickly cut the ropes, and carried the grenades urgently needed by the artillery to the artillery positions in a steady stream.

Just when the armies of the two sides were actively preparing for a battle in Taierzhuang, a formation of reconnaissance planes of the Chinese army also flew to the place where the reinforcements from various Chinese sources stopped yesterday.

The squadron leader of the reconnaissance squadron directly under the 3rd Flying Division of the Chinese Army, who was carefully observing along the way, saw that thousands of Chinese officers and soldiers were forming a formation outside the huge barracks in the distance, so he rushed over with the accelerator.

The chief of the logistics department of the 2nd Group Army, who was responsible for leading these peasants recruited from the ocean yesterday to serve as troops, could not cry or laugh as he looked at the chaotic ranks in front of him, and this was the result of the efforts of hundreds of logistics officers and men for nearly half an hour.

"Horn!" The sentry finally noticed something strange in the air and hurriedly fired a warning shot.

Amid the terrible gunfire, the thousands of peasants in military uniforms who were giggling and laughing did not know what was happening, and looked around to see what was happening.

"Enemy planes, disperse!" Unexpectedly, the director of the logistics department, who said that the plane came so openly, roared desperately, and the logistics officers and soldiers in the team also roared loudly.

When they finally found out that something was wrong, the peasants cried and fled in all directions.

Like a hungry wolf, the squadron leader squeezed the nose of the plane like a hungry wolf when he saw a flock of sheep, and the Tachikawa Type 98 reconnaissance plane roared and swooped down, followed by two other Nakajima fighters.

"Da Da Da!" Ten slender tongues of fire rolled towards the panicked crowd.

The 12.7 mm large-caliber bullet easily tore the human body to pieces where the trajectory passed, and the sky was full of bloody arrows and flesh foam scattered everywhere with the sorrow of death.

The peasants, who had never seen such a horrific scene, were even more frightened, and the screams of thousands of people converged into a huge sound wave that even the pilots of the army could still hear.

Stimulated even more frantically, the three military pilots strafed the crowd over and over again.

The director of the logistics department, who was lying on the ground, yelled in despair: "Get down, don't run around!" ”

However, none of the frightened peasants did so, but gathered in piles and became the targets of the planes.

The director of the logistics department looked at the peasants who fell one by one in the rain of bullets, and muttered, "What a sin!" "The director of the logistics department, who had collapsed, pulled his hair with self-blame.

After firing all the bullets, the squadron leader reluctantly turned the plane, leaving hundreds of mutilated corpses on the ground.

And the same scene was played out in the camouflage barracks of the 60th Army.

One telegram after another flew from the reconnaissance aircraft formations to the headquarters of the 11th Army.

After coordinating the time with Yamato Takeda, the commander of the 2nd Flying Wing of the 3rd Flying Division, Kei Seya said softly, "Order Kimura-kun to start!" ”

"Hello!"

Chief of Staff Mao Morishita quickly picked up the phone and connected to the 136 Brigade Headquarters.

The combat staff officer, who had put down the microphone, trotted to the starting position and reported loudly, "Your Excellency the commander orders an immediate attack!" ”

Kuwata Sadazo took a breath and nodded at Takero Kimura, "Kimura-kun, let's start!" ”

"Hello!"

With a respectful jaw, Kimura Takero pulled out his command knife, pointed in the direction of Taierzhuang, and howled with all his strength, "Warriors, kill and cut!" ”

Officers at all levels on standby immediately issued various orders.

"Strip off!"

With the howl of a squadron leader, more than 200 military officers at the front of the army stripped off their shirts and tied a white belt with the word "long live" written on their foreheads.

After doing everything, the squadron leader in the first column roared, "Forward! ”

Without any expression on their faces, the death squad of the Yue army marched forward at a uniform speed with the 38 rifles with good bayonets, and the 12 columns of officers and soldiers who followed immediately followed.

More than 3,000 officers and men poured into the Chinese defenders' positions, which were still undergoing the baptism of aerial bombs.

After the last group of Type 97 heavy bombers finished dropping bombs, they stepped on the accelerator and pursued the group of bombers that had regrouped in the distance with the roar of the engines.

"Full speed, kill and give!"

The slow-moving army column accelerated rapidly the moment the bombing stopped, and opened the straggler line and rushed at full speed to the anti-tank trench, which was only 300 meters away.

"Hurry up!"

The first commander to rise from a traffic ditch that was almost half-covered by dirt roared desperately.

One, two, the officers and men who were still alive came out of the dirt one after another, dug out their weapons and rushed to the anti-tank trenches in front.

In the bombed-up anti-tank trenches, the deputy commander of the 1st Battalion and three soldiers struggled to push away the blocked mud, and the 12 soldiers who were still buzzing in their ears quickly got out.

Seeing that there were no losses in the soldiers of this squad, the deputy battalion commander breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately yelled at the soldiers who were still shaking, "Divide half of the people to dig up the other brothers!" The rest are ready to fight! ”

Under the command of Lao Hei, more troops poured into the communication ditches, effectively covering their movements from the thick smoke and dust that completely covered the entire trench sky.

"Fire!"

(To be continued)