Chapter 1857: The Great Victory Ends

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During the four consecutive days of fighting, the high ground in the middle of the city of Azasor, which was more than 100 meters above sea level, became the focus of the tug-of-war between the two sides. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

This highland covers an area of about one square kilometer, and in the early years it was a high-end residential area built by the British, with villas and high-rise buildings, and Indians with money on both sides of the river have purchased properties here, resulting in an unusually prosperous neighborhood, which can be described as an inch of land, and the buildings are extremely crowded.

Such crowding caused a certain amount of trouble to the attacking An Jia army.

In order to concentrate all efforts on destroying the Japanese forces invading north of the Berlager River and at the same time reducing the consumption of ammunition, the Seventh and Ninth Armies had slowed down their offensive on the city of Asansol from the night before, and the Japanese army had taken the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive, and the two sides had repeatedly fought for the high ground in the central district of the city.

In just over 30 hours, the mountainous terrain in Shizhong District has changed hands several times, and the two sides have repeatedly attacked here, and any street is no longer measured in meters, but in corpses.

In a sense, this is a "rat war", in the vast plains, the air force and mechanized units of the Anjia Army have an absolute advantage, even if the troops are at a disadvantage, they are confident of defeating the opponent, but here, everything is not guaranteed.

Although fighter planes were needed to prepare a place, the 10th Air Division still dispatched two flying regiments to launch indiscriminate bombardment of the Japanese troops in the city of Asansol.

However, in the face of arduous urban warfare, the pilots of the air force discovered that it was impossible to accurately bomb targets when the ground troops were engaged in a melee in the land of projectiles. Yes, aerial bombs could blow up the entire building, but small units of the Japanese army went into the basement and attacked from all sides through the net-like underground passages.

When the tanks and armored vehicles of the An Jiajun attacked, once they fell into the narrow, rubble-ridden streets, their weakly protected rear cockpits became the targets of the Japanese army's artillery, anti-aircraft guns, and even grenades and explosives thrown from those collapsed high-rise buildings.

Brutal battles continued to unfold between the floors and houses of dilapidated buildings, and as there were times when supplies from the rear could not keep up for a while, the fighting eventually evolved into the most primitive forms of combat, such as bayonets, sapper shovels, clubs, and even stones.

In the case of a collapsed five-story building in front of the heights, both sides used pursuit guns, grenades, machine guns and bayonets in successive battles for control. The battle lasted until midnight yesterday, and the basements, corridors, platforms, and rooms were littered with corpses from both sides, and the corridors between the burning houses were reduced to a thin ceiling wrench between the two floors.

In order to avoid unnecessary casualties, Zhang Chengzhu, in the name of the commander of the group army, ordered the entire army to abandon the high ground and launch a counterattack after accumulating strength. Only a few people knew that after consultations, the General Staff had decided to launch a cloudburst bomb attack on this area, so that the rampant devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers could enjoy the taste of barbecue and suffocation.

At half past ten in the morning, the clear sky was clear, the cumulonimbus clouds that are common in the rainy season had long since disappeared, and the earth was shrouded in a golden light.

Just when the devils were rushing to repair the fortifications, a huge group of planes flew over from the sky, bombarding the high ground in the city indiscriminately, and when the devils on the ground and the Japanese and Indian soldiers hid in the depths of the building, three large bombers of Bo dropped three parachutes in the north, south and east of the high ground, and there were black things hanging under the parachutes.

When the air force was carrying out intensive bombardment, our artillery in the west of the city also used thousands of artillery pieces to cover the high ground, and its main purpose was to prevent the Japanese army from taking advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack, so that our forward troops could retreat to a safe area.

At 10:45 a.m., three dull explosions were heard.

Such an explosion was mixed with the overwhelming sound of shelling, almost inaudible, and after a few seconds, there were suddenly three earth-shattering sounds between heaven and earth, only to see three flames, suddenly jumped up from the ground, straight into the sky, strong arc light, the earth was dazzling, strong firelight, under the huge shock wave fueling, swept through the ground of the highlands, everywhere it went, the oxygen was consumed, and all the buildings that blocked the shock wave collapsed in the flying sand and rocks.

The surface seemed to be burning, and many masonry began to dissolve under the high temperature, a terrifying flame gas. The waves continued to frantically absorb all oxygen, and those devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers who were hiding underground suddenly felt difficult to breathe, and their whole bodies were like being roasted by fire, and the pain was abnormal.

After about two minutes, the violent shock wave slowly subsided, but the smoke that filled the air after the explosion of the three cloud burst bombs actually converged into a black cloud of smoke, like a large black mushroom, rising from the surface of the land into the sky. An Jiajun's reporters with the army filmed this amazing scene with cameras and camcorders, so that when An Yi saw it afterwards, he almost thought it was a scene produced after the atomic bomb was exploded.

The artillery of the Seventh and Ninth Armies continued to shell for ten minutes before gradually ceased.

Subsequently, one hundred Tiger IV tanks of a heavy independent tank regiment that joined the war group rumbled towards the high ground. Behind the Tiger 4 tanks were two tank divisions' Leopard 44 tanks and armored fighting vehicle groups, and countless infantry were mixed in the middle of the convoy to cover the tanks' advance.

When they came to the high ground, the Japanese position was quiet, and the officers and soldiers looked around, only to see that almost all the buildings were in ruins, and the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers were either scorched or suffocated, and suffered heavy casualties. The bodies of the fallen appeared to be intact on the surface, with no signs of shrapnel wounds, but their mouths wide open.

When the infantry went deep into the various underground bunkers, they were surprised to find that most of the Japanese soldiers inside were also killed, the dead all scratched their throats before dying, and the few survivors were also staring and convulsing all over, obviously not far from death.

One square kilometer of the highland was conquered in the blink of an eye, and the Japanese army in the eastern part of the highland was already in a great panic at this moment.

The previous anomaly had fallen into the eyes of many devils, and the three explosions that could not be concealed made the rumor that the Chinese had mastered a weapon of mass destruction spread rapidly, which was undoubtedly a huge blow to the morale of the Japanese army.

As the ground offensive troops of the Anjia Army crossed the most difficult central highlands without bloodshed, from the commander of the Japanese army to the ordinary soldiers, they all confirmed one thing: the Chinese did master this terrible weapon, and the troops deployed in front must have all been killed, otherwise there was no way to explain what they saw in front of them.

A large number of Japanese soldiers hiding in the buildings were demoralized, and they were either bombarded into the sky by the tanks, or they were suppressed by the tank machine guns and could not return fire with machine guns. Some grenadiers resisted stubbornly, taking advantage of the ballistic curve, hiding in places where tank guns and machine guns could not bombard themselves, and firing at the tanks rushing at high speed.

The armor on the front of the hull of the Tiger tank is millimeters with a blade and a blade angle, and when the grenade falls on the hull and explodes, it is like an itch, and it does not hurt a bit, but the devil grenadiers who exposed the target were quickly covered by the rain of howitzers and mortars, and a large number of devil grenadiers were blown to pieces together with their weapons and people.

When the troops advanced more than 500 meters again, the resistance of the Japanese army became frantic again, and the situation of tough confrontation reappeared.

In order to completely wipe out the Japanese army in the city of Ashansol, according to the predetermined plan, after the 20th Tank Division rushed down the high ground, it would make a detour to the north to attack the Japanese rear, while the 26th Tank Division would advance south to the bank of the Damoder River, and then attack eastward.

The independent heavy tank regiment and two motorized infantry divisions launched an attack from the front, and one by one the battle groups launched attacks on the firing points where the devils and the Japanese and Indian troops were entrenched, and automatic rifles, bazookas, recoilless guns, and flamethrowers were used to destroy the enemy in large numbers! When encountering the strong fortifications of the Japanese army, the Tiger tank, the GNP cannon can basically blow up a fortification into the sky with one or two cannons, and some particularly strong fortifications can not destroy Yingai in the distance, so the Tiger tank simply uses its own skin and thick flesh characteristics to block the bullets fired by the devil and the Japanese and Indian soldiers, the tank slowly advances, the muzzle is close to the fortification, and directly aims at the enemy's firing hole with a tongue of fire to open the artillery bombardment, and the shell is announced to be driven into the firing hole.

Forts are the easiest to destroy from within, and even the hardest fortifications can't withstand such a ferocious blow, often with two or three shells that can flatten a super-large fortress converted from a sturdy structure.

The armoured infantry followed suit, following closely next to the tank, avoiding the Japanese from destroying the tank by throwing gasoline bottles, cluster grenades, and explosives packs from the upper floors.

Infantry strike groups rushed through the gaps that had been blasted by the tanks, climbed from behind the enemy's backs to the upper floors, and launched fierce attacks on the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers hiding in the buildings with grenades, automatic rifles, submachine guns, and box guns.

Even if some buildings have been destroyed to the point of crumbling, but for the troops attacking on the ground, the ruins are still too high, and the elevation angle of the tank guns is not enough to bombard the fire on the upper floors.

Armored vehicles with knives ~~~~ caliber high-level dual-purpose machine guns to suppress the enemy's firepower, the infantry guns hanging behind the car were unloaded by the soldiers, and soon someone turned the muzzle, taking advantage of the high elevation angle of this gun, directly bombarded the target at close range, and eliminated the fire points that spit out tongues of fire one by one.

If they encounter an alley that the Tiger tank's huge body cannot enter, one strike team after another will be powerful, general-purpose machine guns will suppress the enemy, recoilless guns will destroy distant fire points, mortars will bombard the enemy's grenadiers, and rocket launchers will hit nearby fire points, eating the devils and Japanese seals little by little. The firing point of the corps then detoured and launched an attack from the back and flank of the enemy. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the good news came, and the 20th and 26th Tank Divisions met smoothly at the railway station east of the city of Azansol, completely closing the retreat of the Japanese army to the east.

At this time, the Japanese commander realized that the situation was not good, and on the one hand, he continued to frantically block the frontal advance of the Anjia army, and on the other hand, he sent a large number of devils, Japanese and Indian troops and indigenous forces to try to recapture the Chengdong Railway Station.

But on the plains, the infantry assault on the mechanized troops, undoubtedly an act of seeking death, tank shells, mortar shells, self-propelled artillery, armored vehicle machine guns and armored infantry general-purpose machine guns, woven into dense firepower, knocking the enemy down on the way to the charge.

The Japanese army also went completely crazy, and completely ignored the reality, launched a death charge on the 1st, and finally drove the unarmed indigenous civilians to attack, but greeted them. The first day was a dense rain of bullets.

The few devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers who were caught in the crowd and assaulted in front of the Anjia army thought they had a plan, but in the blink of an eye, they were hit by the flames sprayed by the flamethrowers, and they were burned with salted meat skewers in a terrible howl.

The battle was fierce, and because it was a field battle, bombers and helicopters also came to help, beating the enemy on the plains to the point of howling wolves.

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the tank unit launched a counter-charge, and the Leopard 44 tank was like a tiger out of the cage, persistently and decisively breaking into the Japanese army, relying on a good communication and command system, coordinating actions with each other, pursuing, blocking, dividing, and annihilating, a series of tactical movements, such as the clouds and rivers of the same country, countless devils and indigenous militants died.

And on the frontal battlefield, our army and the Japanese army continued to fight fiercely in every building, every street, and even every room in the east of the city of Azansol. The Japanese and Indian troops began to raise white flags and surrender, and those civilians who were coerced also tried their best to escape, and these actions were bloodily suppressed by the devils, but there were still many natives who were able to save their lives.

At a quarter past seven o'clock in the evening, Liao Minlin and Zhou Dingcheng learned from the prisoners that it turned out that the city of Ashsol not only encircled the 31st and 33rd divisions of the main force of the Japanese army in the East Indies, but also included the 29th division of the Japanese army that came from Durgapur. The enemy in the encirclement, which also included eight separate infantry brigades and ten divisions of the Japanese and Indian armies, really caught a big fish.

Liao Minlin and Zhou Dingcheng were both shocked into a cold sweat, the two group armies of our army plus the troops directly under them add up to less than 200,000 people, while the opponent is about 350,000, if you add more than 200,000 natives, the comparison of numbers is even more incredible. This battle was fought in a daze, but the current situation is that the An Jia army on the besieging side has a full advantage, and I have to say that this is a miracle.

Of course, all of this was obtained under the advanced weaponry and technical and tactical level of the An Jiajun, not to mention anything else, just three cloud burst bombs are estimated to have destroyed at least more than 10,000 enemies, not to mention the casualties brought to the enemy by continuous shelling and bombing by fighter planes!

However, it is precisely because of the large number of enemies in the encirclement that the progress of the battle will be slower the later in the battle.

The Japanese troops at various points in the east of the city, arranged a large number of light and heavy machine guns, each window. There are sharpshooters in ambush, and in the gates and windows of many buildings, there are hidden jumping ~~ field cannons "g. ~~Blade. ~~ Cannon & 10,000. ~~Gill~~~~...... ~~ Anti-aircraft guns, due to the number reached a certain density, the more they approached the command center of the Japanese army in the east of the city, the more fierce the resistance, and the 19th and 27th motorized infantry divisions had to pay the price of blood for every step forward.

Due to the staggered combination of the enemy and the enemy, it was not suitable to use the cloud burst bomb at this time, and in the bloody battle, the Japanese army fought to the death and did not retreat, which was a great headache.

In order to strengthen the siege troops, the 41st Tank Division and the 42nd Motorized Infantry Division, which had just achieved brilliant results at the Berlager River, urgently moved south to join the frontal attack before they had time to recuperate.

"Xiu Xiu Yi ...... one by one"

In the ruin-like neighborhoods, high-speed shells flying from time to time, these flat-firing cannons also have great lethality against the Tiger tanks with ultra-thick armor, not to mention the thin-skinned armored vehicles, almost a dozen accurate, the Japanese also flattened the anti-aircraft machine guns used for air defense against the infantry, resulting in a large number of casualties among the attacking Anjia army.

The officers and men of Anjia, who gritted their teeth and attacked, with the cooperation of sappers and tanks, smashed through the back of the block, spared the enemy's back, and launched an attack from the flank and back of the devils. But even so, every time I attacked. Under a building that was half blown up by aerial bombs, there were always devils strapped all over the building with explosives bags jumping down from the building, falling into the middle of the attacking An Jia army and exploding.

This kind of brave suicide attack of the Japanese army, in this unique urban terrain, brought great losses to the attacking Anjia army.

At this time, it is already a contest of fighting will and spiritual power, and it depends on who can grit their teeth to the end.

In view of the enemy's operational characteristics, the snipers and officers and men of the special forces of our various strike groups are constantly looking for positions in order to discover the target in advance.

These elites carefully selected from the whole army, using the anti-materiel weapons of the Kouli ~~ caliber in their hands, killed the devil soldiers who tried to jump off the building to launch suicide attacks again and again, and the enemy's sharpshooter just showed his head, and was immediately shot in the head, and the enemy's gunner was still aiming, and he had already poured blood on the barrel of the cannon with blood surging through the chest and abdomen.

This series of actions dealt a heavy blow to the enemy and effectively supported the advance of our army.

At 4 o'clock in the morning of 17 October, the Japanese troops, who had run out of ammunition and food after five days of hard fighting, began to burn the flag of the wing.

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At dawn, the six divisions of the An Jiajun Army encircled from all sides and suppressed the Japanese army in a zone of less than 500 meters from north to south and 200 meters from east to west.

At 9 a.m., after the persuasion of surrender failed, the final offensive was launched.

Under the cover of tanks and armored vehicles, the officers and men of Anjia broke into the Japanese positions from all directions, expelling the Japanese troops all the way to four adjacent buildings in the eastern part of the city.

Subsequently, dense cannons and rocket artillery shells were fired into the buildings held by the Japanese army like flying locusts, and the officers and men who occupied several surrounding buildings set up high-level dual-purpose machine guns and general-purpose machine guns, and used automatic rifles and sniper rifles to suppress the entrenched enemy.

And the recoilless guns and bazookas of individual soldiers also spat tongues of fire one after another, striving to bury the enemy completely.

Almost instantly, several buildings erupted into raging flames, and the thick black smoke screen reached into the sky, and the devils were indeed tenacious enough to hide in the burning room for the last resistance. The officers and soldiers rushed into the building with loud shouts and fought for every house with the Japanese soldiers, and the fierce battle lasted for two and a half hours, and the Anjia army finally completely eliminated all the enemies in the city of Azazor.

This battle, together with the previous battles of Gidlenkin and the Annihilation of the Berlagher River, is known as the Battle of the Two Rivers. The battle began on 12 October and ended on 17 October, and at the cost of 21,432 casualties, our army completely annihilated 216,000 people in the four main divisions and 11 independent infantry brigades of the Japanese army, and also wiped out 15 divisions of the Japanese and Indian armies totaling 185,000 and nearly 300,000 indigenous militants.

During the battle, more than 1,100 artillery pieces of various kinds were destroyed and captured, more than 500,000 guns were captured, and countless bullets were captured.

Since this is the main mobile force of the Japanese army in the East Indies, its total annihilation means that the door of the entire East Indies has been completely opened to the Anjia Army, and those Japanese garrisons deployed in the local area are no longer enough to block the attack of the main force of the Anjia Army, and it is a matter of time before they are eliminated.