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However, Liang Xing had accurately judged the location of the landing point from the sound of the cannonballs flying, and he quickly passed through the tombs, dodging the attack of the cannonballs. Then, after every two rounds of bullets, he actively changed positions, constantly jumping between the crater and the tomb.

The attacking force of the army suddenly lost the support of artillery fire, was met by the defenders, and retreated in a hurry, and the commander immediately discovered the clue of the problem, and immediately ordered a squadron of soldiers to run and rush towards the artillery position.

Liang Xing was extremely tired at this time, and his ammunition was exhausted, and when he saw the brigade of soldiers swarming in, he hurriedly threw out a grenade to cover the enemy's vision, and then ran towards the woods with his waist bent.

As soon as he ran a few dozen meters away, the smoke from the explosion disappeared into the air, and rifle and light machine gun bullets began to beat back and forth in front of him, but until Liang Xing ran into the woods, he was not hit by a single bullet!

After discerning the direction a little, Liang Xing ran towards the hill guarded by [***], and before he had run far, a deafening explosion sounded in front of him - the army resumed shelling!

After the shelling subsided, Liang Xing ran up to the top of the hill from behind in three steps and two steps, but in despair he found that the position was empty - the troops had retreated!

As soon as he was about to turn away, he heard a strange cry coming from the hillside, and when he looked around, hundreds of soldiers were rushing up with bayonets.

Liang Xing hurriedly lay down, facing the army is two shuttles, and then a few rolled out of their original positions, rummaging through the dead man's pile for magazines and grenades. On the top of the hill, there will be grenades, and then machine gun fire, which makes the army puzzled: if the defenders retreated, why were there still people on it? If there is no retreat, how can you ignite fire like this?

When the army rushed to the top of the mountain, they found that a young man dressed as a civilian was retreating with a machine gun and retreating to the woods behind the hillside.

After running out of bullets, Liang Xing did not hesitate to throw away the machine gun, burrow into the woods, take advantage of his familiarity with the terrain, go around the left and turn right to throw off the Yue army, and then ran in the direction of Foshan, ready to chase the large army.

Liang Xing hadn't even eaten a mouthful of food since the morning, his physical strength had been exhausted, and he fell to the ground as soon as his feet were weak, and just when he was about to lose consciousness, he suddenly heard a shout and asked, "Who are you?" ”

Liang Xing's tears immediately rolled out, and he shouted with all his might: "The little ghost of the joint defense team! ”

It turned out that after receiving Tang Shuchen's report, Li Wuzi hurriedly sent a battalion to seize positions on the highway to block the Yue army, and then urgently transferred his troops. If it weren't for the precious time that the joint defense team members had bought for their own lives, the fifth column would have been encircled by the army.

The platoon commander surnamed Mai of the blocking force who went up the mountain to look for Liang Xing heard intermittent machine gun fire on the mountain after leading the troops to retreat down the mountain, so he sent the platoon commander Mai up the mountain to confirm whether there were any brothers who had not withdrawn. Unexpectedly, he actually found the little ghost in the joint defense team, Liang Xing lay on the shoulder of the wheat platoon leader and cried with tears and snot, the wheat platoon leader shook the child, and said kindly: "Okay, don't cry, brother, you have grown up, and you are no longer a ghost." You come with tears and snot like this, if you are seen by the brothers, you will be ugly, I will go with you to the head of the regiment. ”

In order to vent the anger in their hearts, the brutal Yue army slaughtered all the small villages along the way, and set fire to destroy the evidence, but the [***] troops of the fourth theater did not let these beasts go unsafe for too long, because the armored units of the Nanyang Army had successfully detoured to the position west of Sanshui, ready to deal a fatal blow to the Yue army.

Sanshui County is located in the central part of Guangdong Province, the northwest end of the Pearl River Delta, because the Xijiang, Beijiang and Suijiang rivers converge in the territory, so the name Sanshui, in history was once a starting point of China's maritime Silk Road, but also Guangzhou to the west of Guangdong and the southwest of the throat of the important place, has a very important strategic position.

Although the army has no intention of touching the southwest for the time being, considering that Sanshui is only a few tens of kilometers away from the city of Guangzhou, if you start from here, you can arrive at the beginning and evening and arrive at the city of Guangzhou within one day, so it has become a chicken rib that has no use in the hands of the army and falls into the hands of the [***] team, and Ando Toshiyoshi has no choice but to deploy an infantry brigade and two squadrons of puppet troops here to guard, as the first barrier in the southwest of Guangzhou.

The commander of the army knew that his troops were weak, and with the ferocious firepower of the 19th Route Army, it was easy to break through the defensive line, so after entering Sanshui, he immediately captured thousands of people from the surrounding villages, and built fortifications day and night under the supervision of the puppet army. The blood and sweat of thousands of people and hundreds of lives were exchanged for a strong fortification for the army: three trenches were built in succession around the city wall, separated by two hundred meters from each other, in front of which were crisscrossed by barbed wire and obstacles made of wood, and every five hundred meters on the defense line stood a bunker made of stone and cement, which could easily support each other.

The defenders put three squadrons of the Yue army outside the city, and the other two squadrons stayed in the city with the puppet army to defend the second line of defense with the city wall as the main body, and finally at the headquarters in the center of Sanshui City, the army surrounded it with sandbags and barricades as the last line of defense.

In order to enable the reinforcements from Guangzhou to reach Sanshui in the shortest possible time, the Yue army dispatched sappers to repair the bridges and roads connecting the two places while constructing fortifications, so that the Guangzhou army could arrive three hours after the attack on the Sanshui garrison.

On February 28, at the same time as the army attacked the fifth column, the armored troops of the Nanyang Corps, the 26th Division and the New Second Division moved together to the northwest of Sanshui City!

At nine o'clock in the morning, the artillery regiment of the new 2nd Division and the artillery battalion of the Nanyang Regiment began to prepare for artillery fire, dozens of heavy artillery and more than 100 light artillery pieces opened fire at the same time, the thunderous sound of artillery instantly shattered the tranquility of the early morning, the unprecedented fierce artillery fire suddenly plunged the position of the army into a sea of gunsmoke and fire, the bunkers and obstacles of the army flew into the sky from time to time, and the seemingly impregnable pillboxes fell to the ground under the continuous bombardment of heavy artillery, and all the soldiers inside were buried under the rubble.

The barbed wire, which the army thought was a barrier, was blown to pieces, scattered, and flew into the sky in sections; Some of the trenches and firing points were flattened by direct shells, while others were buried by the earth kicked up by the explosion, and the originally interconnected fortifications became isolated defense points, and the complete defense system only lasted ten minutes in the face of the artillery fire of the [***] team.

Xiao Hanliang stood at the top of the armored command vehicle, carefully observing the situation on the position of the army with a telescope, looking for a suitable breakthrough site, behind him, nearly 100 tanks were quietly hidden in the bushes, and the tankers were also standing on the top of the tanks, leisurely watching the constantly shining firelight and billowing smoke columns in front.

Ten minutes after the shelling, Xiao Hanliang's right arm swung down slowly but forcefully, and the tankers immediately jumped into the tank, and the roar of motors resounded in the jungle with the continuous sound of the roof closing.

Xiao Hanliang's command vehicle always rushed to the front, coordinating the team's actions through radio, and the tank group perfectly changed formation as it marched, forming a sharp triangle.

Before the smoke from the explosion of the last shell had dissipated, Xiao Hanliang's tank rushed to the front of the first trench of the Japanese army, and dozens of soldiers stunned by the sound of artillery had just drilled out of the shelter when they were beaten into a hornet's nest by the machine gunners on the tank. The torrent of steel galloped through the Japanese positions with an unstoppable momentum, the machine gunners kept an eye out for their teammates' flanks while firing fiercely, clearing out any enemy who tried to get closer, and behind the tank group, the motorized rifle brigade was following quickly.

Xiao Hanliang immediately broke through the first line of trenches of the Yue army, and immediately broke through in depth, using the high-speed maneuver of the tank to shorten the reaction time of the defenders.

At this time, the army in the second trench had restored order and began to block it with heavy machine-gun fire, and at the same time, several bunkers also fired wildly with heavy machine guns in an attempt to stop the advance of the tank group.

Dense bullets hit the steel plate of the turret one after another, splashing sparks, and in the face of mortal danger, Xiao Hanliang's body did not shake, but commanded the tank to clear the exposed fire points. The tank slammed, and the shells flew forward with fire, exploding in the trenches, and the shattered machine guns and human limbs scattered in all directions with the blast of air. Immediately afterwards, the rest of the tanks opened fire, and after the intensive shelling, all the machine guns of the army became mute.

Suddenly, more than a dozen ** upper body soldiers jumped out of the trench with a howl, and rushed towards the front few tanks without a life, and as the distance gradually decreased, the explosive bags tied to the body were already clearly visible.

Xiao Hanliang looked at these fearless "warriors" with incredible eyes, watching them be twisted into pieces and exploded into dazzling balls of light in the roar of tank machine guns. * The failure of the attack did not completely deprive the defenders of the will to resist, and the commander ordered the troops to spread out on both flanks, avoiding the front of the tanks, and then attacking the flanks of the tanks with grenadiers, while at the same time, two 70-mm infantry guns and a dozen mortars arranged in the city also began to attack the armored units.

After occupying the second trench, Xiao Hanliang ordered the tank group to advance forward at high speed, assaulting the last line of defense of the Yue army outside the city, and another ten tanks were divided to pursue the Yue army on the left and right flanks.

Thick black smoke dragged behind the butt of the tank, and it was crushed over the trench in the terrifying roar of the army, and the army, who had nowhere to hide, waved their bayonets in vain, and was immediately crushed into meatloaf!

Seeing their living companions turn into flat blood clots beneath the steel monsters, the fiercest soldiers also lost their courage and ran out of their hiding places towards the city gates, and more and more soldiers joined the rout, converging into a dense stream of people at the city gates, pushing each other, shouting and pouring into the city gates.

A few shells landed precisely in the middle of the city gate, and it turned into a hell of humanity: broken limbs with fragments of military uniforms flew all over the sky, the walls were stained with blood, brains, and human internal organs, the wounded soldiers screamed miserably among the blood and corpses on the ground, and the bodies on the verge of death twisted and convulsed helplessly on the ground before they stopped!

Immediately afterwards, the [***] artillery still extended the fire, quickly submerged the city wall in the sea of fire, Xiao Hanliang's tank group left and right, from the edge of the city wall to the east, the motorized infantry brigade followed behind, clearing the remnants of the army, behind them, the infantry units of the new second division rushed towards the city gate like a tide.

It took only twenty minutes for the tank group to converge at the east gate of Sanshui City, and then, under the command of Xiao Hanliang, they lined up in a column to advance in the direction of Guangzhou, and more than a dozen motorcycles full of soldiers opened the way in front of the tanks as spearheads. According to the battle plan drawn up by the headquarters, after sweeping the defense line of the Yue Army outside the city, the armored troops immediately went east to meet the reinforcements coming from Guangzhou and routed them, and then attacked the urban area of Guangzhou with the cooperation of the 78th Division.

At the same time as the Nanyang Army was rapidly advancing, thousands of Japanese soldiers drove towards Sanshui in trucks, and it was very coincidental that the forward of the Yue Army was also riding on motorcycles. However, in order to deal with the threat of tank groups, Ando Toshikichi specially equipped the reinforcements with two squadrons of 37-mm anti-tank guns and a squadron of heavy artillery.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, the two teams met on the five-hole bridge, and for the first few seconds, the motorcyclists on both sides were invariably stunned, and then opened fire at the same time. Because the motorcycles equipped with the Nanyang Corps were reinforced with steel plates, and the submachine guns and semi-automatic rifles had an overwhelming advantage over the Type 38 rifles and crooked machine guns in hand-to-hand combat, the encounter of the vanguard ended in a crushing defeat for the Yue army.

Immediately afterwards, the main forces of both sides arrived one after another, and Xiao Hanliang did not hesitate to order the tanks to rush across the Wukong Bridge as fast as possible, and the artillery units occupied favorable terrain for artillery support.

In order to deal with the tanks, the army simply parked four or five trucks on the road, and then spread the troops along both sides of the road to seize the favorable terrain and block the opponent. At the same time, squadrons of anti-tank guns and heavy artillery quickly took up positions, and the black holes of their guns were aimed straight at the galloping tanks on the road.

The fierce gunfire suddenly rang out, tens of thousands of bullets kept flying in the air, rushing towards their targets, the shells dragged a long trajectory through the air, and after landing, they raised dust and gunpowder smoke in the sky, and the two sides launched an attack across a river more than 100 meters wide.

With a "boom", a shell fell on the left side of the command vehicle, Xiao Hanliang felt a sharp pain in his left arm, turned his head to look, and saw a finger-thick shrapnel inserted in his arm, he pulled out the shrapnel vigorously, ordered the tank to rush down the road, and in the low bushes beside the road, it was advancing in a roundabout way, rushing towards the fortifications that the army hastily constructed.

Watching the tanks rush across the bridge, the army immediately changed the target of the attack, more than a dozen cannons bombarded the five-hole bridge at the same time, and the centuries-old stone bridge collapsed after withstanding more than a dozen shells, breaking into two pieces from the middle, and the gap was as wide as five meters, blocking all the follow-up troops of the Nanyang Army on the other side of the river!

In this way, the twenty-three tanks, including Xiao Hanliang's command vehicle, became a lone army, facing the attack of a wing of the army alone!

As the commander of the armored forces that Guderian most admired, Xiao Hanliang not only had a thorough understanding of tank tactics, but also had a very high military quality - when he looked back at the bridge that had been blown up, he immediately found that his situation was very dangerous. Without the slightest hesitation, Xiao Hanliang immediately ordered the follow-up troops to find a suitable place to cross the river in the upper and lower reaches of the river, and he led the leading troops to rush to the position of the Yue army without hesitation.

In the tactical training of the German armored forces, jungle interspersing was the top priority, because Germany's imaginary enemy, northern France, was full of hills, low bushes and dense jungles, and Xiao Hanliang's troops were also very familiar with this tactic. The shells of the army continued to fall in the bushes, and the explosions ignited the dry weeds, and the figures of the tanks loomed like the phantom of the night in the smoke, and quickly approached the hastily constructed fortifications.

With the dull roar of the motors, the mound where the army was stationed shook violently, the silhouette of the steel behemoth, symbolizing death, suddenly appeared at the front of the position, the machine guns fiercely sprayed a dense range of bullets, and the tanks relentlessly chased the scattered enemy, and the defense line collapsed in an instant. At this time, the anti-tank guns in the rear, fearing accidental damage to friendly troops, temporarily stopped the attack and gave up the opportunity to the opponent, and the tanks of the Nanyang Corps stopped from time to time and opened fire at the anti-tank positions and heavy artillery positions to eliminate the greatest threat.

When the commander of the army saw that one of his infantry wings could not stop the enemy's more than 20 tanks, he was so angry that he slashed two squadron leaders who had retreated, and then pointed his bloody sabers at the tanks of the Nanyang Legion, and ordered the troops to attack to the death, and at the same time, he demanded that the anti-tank guns and all the heavy artillery carry out indiscriminate attacks on the front, even if they killed their own soldiers!

The frenzied artillery attack quickly paid off, as two tanks were hit by anti-tank shells and blown to pieces in smoke and fire. At the same time, the retreating infantry rushed to the tank group with explosive packs, artillery shells, grenades, howling, and behind them, grenadiers and mortars fired incessantly.

Under the fierce machine-gun fire of the tank group, the Yue army fell down in pieces, but the Yue army behind rushed up even more frantically, surging like a wave in the sea, as if preparing to use the life of the entire wing to stop the advance of the tank group!

(To be continued)