readx; After entering the urban area, the armored division was divided into more than 10 small detachments according to the company, and carried out interspersed operations along the streets and roads to the areas controlled by the army, striving to sever the links between the various units of the army in the shortest possible time, and then the heavy artillery covered the infantry assault and annihilated them separately. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In order to eliminate the threat of tanks from the infantry in street fighting, each tank company was equipped with a firepower group composed of rifles and grenades except for the first few tanks, and at the same time, the infantry of the brigade followed behind the tank troops, ready to consolidate the results of the battle.

Chen Qing's No. 008 car dragged a long line of smoke behind its butt and rushed forward along a street five or six meters wide, with the remaining 20 tanks of the tank company following closely behind, and at the other end of the street, more than 100 soldiers hid behind the barricades made of sandbags and fired wildly with light and heavy machine guns.

Every minute, hundreds of bullets hit the steel plates of the tank, sending sparks flying everywhere, but they could not stop the tank's advance. When they were less than 200 meters away from the barricades, dozens of soldiers holding Molotov cocktails suddenly rushed out of the houses and alleys on both sides of the street, roaring wildly and rushing towards the tanks advancing at high speed.

"Leave them alone and go full speed ahead!" Chen Qing shouted an order to the tankman beside him.

The tanker slammed on the accelerator, the body shook violently, and then rushed out like a wild horse, and a Molotov cocktail slammed into the ground with a 'ping' sound, and then ignited flames more than a meter high. The second tank was not so lucky, it was hit by three Molotov cocktails in a row, and the top of the tank was immediately shrouded in fire, and the tanker did not hesitate to turn the body and rushed towards an alley rushed out of the army, crushing several people who could not dodge the army into meat sauce, and then, the tank ran all the way in the alley, driving the army that had just come out of the hidden place back, and then, at the end of the alley, the tank exploded violently, the heavy turret was blown out more than ten meters away, and several nearby houses were all destroyed.

The sacrifice of the second tank bought time for the other tanks to react, and the machine guns fired heavily at the sides and front of the tanks, sending the troops back again and again with a dense rain of bullets, because the Molotov cocktail exploded imminently, and had to be hurriedly thrown in the middle of the road. The tank carriers quickly dispersed on both sides of the street, clearing the obstacles to their advance with grenades, while the tanks behind them started again and advanced along the street, attacking suspicious targets on both sides with tank guns and machine guns.

After car No. 008 crossed the death trap carefully set by the Yue army, it quickly approached the barricade, at this time, Chen Qing saw through the periscope that several Yue soldiers were running quickly towards the barricade carrying a 37 mm anti-tank gun from behind the barricade, and he hurriedly ordered: "Kill the anti-tank gun!" ”

The heavy body shook, and a cannonball flew straight towards the barricade, smashing down amid the exclamations of the soldiers, and the human stumps and broken sandbags scattered in all directions with the sand in the sky. However, the shells did not hit the anti-tank guns, and several soldiers in the smoke were scrambling to put the cannons on the barricades.

Chen Qing decisively said to the tanker: "Full speed ahead!" Then he personally picked up the front-loading machine gun and fired at the Japanese army in the smoke of gunfire.

The pressure caused by the machine-gun bullets that continued to hit the sandbags around them was far less intense than that of the roaring steel behemoth, and the anti-tank guns rolled off the sandbags, and the rest of the army saw that their last hope had vanished, so they had to hurriedly pick up the Molotov cocktails and prepare to launch a final attack.

The ten-ton tank slammed into the barricade, the heavy sandbags were knocked out more than ten meters away, and the soldiers behind the bunker rolled out with a wail, and the Molotov cocktail, which had not had time to ignite, flew far away.

The tank kept spinning its bulky body, and the three machine guns inside sprayed flames in all directions at the same time, happily slaughtering the recalcitrant soldiers, and behind the 008, the rest of the tanks were approaching at high speed.

After Chen Qing cleared the army behind the barricades, he immediately commanded the tanks to break through in depth, and the tanks advanced at high speed again, turned a street and ran away.

Suddenly, a cannonball flew out from the window on the second floor of a building on the right side of the street, hitting the left side of the turret, fortunately, the angle of entry was too small, and it was bounced away, Chen Qing was frightened into a cold sweat, and quickly turned the turret, the gunner did not have time to aim at all, but just fired a 37mm shell with his own feelings, and in an instant, a violent explosion was emitted from behind the window of the building, and then a fire broke out.

Thinking that the dangerous tank had been cleared, it continued to advance, but when it passed under the building, a soldier suddenly jumped out of the middle of the fire on the second floor, and suddenly jumped out of the middle of the fire, holding a burning gasoline bottle in his hand, and smashed it heavily on the turret of the tank, and then burst into flames.

The tank slammed on the brakes, throwing the corpse of the soldier far away, Chen Qing lifted the roof with force, drilled out of the tank, and then took off his military uniform and threw out the flames on the turret with all his might.

At this moment, the sound of the crooked machine gun sounded in the house, Chen Qing's body shook suddenly, and he hurriedly grabbed the hot barrel with his hand, and a puff of green smoke suddenly came out of his palm, and red blood gushed out of his chest. Before he could stabilize his body, Yue Jun fired a few more bullets, leaving several bloody holes between his chest and abdomen. Chen Qing tried his best to control his body, and slowly threw himself down on the blazing turret, the blood gushing out spread downward little by little, and the flames gradually weakened, and finally extinguished.

Three shells erupted with vengeful fury, shattering the hiding place of the Japanese army, and then the frenzied 008 sprang at full speed, the forward-loading machine guns and the course machine guns fired fiercely at the buildings on both sides, and the gunners ignored the violent turbulence and fired a series of guns in the speeding tank, completely enveloping the barricades in front of them. The artillery shells continued to explode on both sides and in the middle of the street, but none of them hit the tanks, and as the distance gradually decreased, the machine gun bullets on the tanks began to wreak havoc among the defenders, leaving huge black holes in the human body.

When this invulnerable steel monster rushed to a distance of more than ten meters in front of the barricade, the soldiers behind finally couldn't hold on, and jumped out from behind the bunkers, some holding Molotov cocktails high and charging at the tanks, while others simply turned around and ran into the middle of the alleys on both sides.

The co-pilot simply lifted the lid and stood up, flattened the anti-aircraft machine gun, and fiercely strafed the soldiers who were scurrying around. The huge impact of the anti-aircraft machine gun bullets knocked the troops off the ground, and the Molotov cocktails that did not shoot were burning behind the position, and in order to avoid the fire that broke out in the sky, the troops fell into an even more panicked state, and some people even ran towards the tanks with their empty hands.

At this time, the follow-up tanks had already followed, and the machine-gun fire suddenly increased several times, except for a few Japanese soldiers who fled into the alleys, all the rest were killed in the streets.

Immediately afterwards, the roar of a motor sounded at the other end of the street, and a Chinese tank appeared at the end of the street, so that the army in the residential area on the left was completely cut off from the middle of the enemy's defense system and fell into the encirclement of the [***] team!

The assault units of the motorized rifle brigade and infantry division then built improvised fortifications on the passage cleared by the tanks, and then called in the heavy artillery brigade to carry out a covering bombardment.

In the violent explosion, the houses collapsed one by one, and the soldiers hidden in the middle did not even have a chance to scream, they were blown to pieces, and the originally dense blocks soon became empty, and only a few reinforced concrete buildings survived. The tanks, which had been watching from the sidelines, then concentrated their artillery fire on the fortified structures until they were completely destroyed.

After the artillery fire subsided, the infantry, wearing gas masks, searched the ruins for fish that had slipped through the net, and the empty rubble was punctuated with death-defying screams.

The result can be imagined that after a night of fighting, most of the area of Nanchang City has been under the control of the squadron, and the remnants of thousands of troops have been compressed in a narrow area of less than two hundred meters in length and width around the division headquarters in the northwest corner of the city, relying entirely on continuous suicide attacks to survive, but, as time goes by, The army has run out of ammunition, and there are no more explosive packs for *.

After dawn, the bombers and transport planes of the Yue Army were dispatched at the same time to engage in a fierce battle with the air defense units of the Ninth Army Corps over Nanchang, and the armored units that entered the city also concealed their tanks in the fortifications and used anti-aircraft machine guns to block the enemy planes.

Because the area controlled by the army was too narrow, all the supplies airdropped were all collected by the [***] team, and none of them fell into the hands of the defenders, and the remnants of the 17th Division, which had been exhausted, knew that the end was coming, and began to destroy documents and code books to prepare for the final battle.

Okamura Ninji faced the predicament and had no choice but to force all the troops to reinforce at the same time, he asked the Chinese Dispatch Army Headquarters to send more bombers to Nanchang, hoping to use the overwhelming air power to block the advance of the [***] team and buy a little more time for the Nanchang defenders.

Nearly 200 bombers took turns to attack, and each sortie was more than 50 planes, covering almost all the airspace over Nanchang, and the dense black crows braved the dense anti-aircraft shells and anti-aircraft machine gun bullets on the ground, and constantly threw down heavy bombs and incendiary bombs, turning Nanchang into a purgatory between sincerity and benevolence -- Nanchang City was bombed indiscriminately three times in a row by both sides in a short period of one year, and the entire city could no longer find a single intact building and turned into a huge pile of rubble! Fortunately, the interval between several battles was relatively short, and the vast majority of the inhabitants fled without causing huge civilian casualties.

The attacking troops of the Ninth Army Corps braved the unprecedented fierce bombardment of the Japanese army, advanced to the area defended by the Japanese army by means of civil engineering blasting, and destroyed all the strong fortifications around the headquarters with explosives and artillery shells in one day, and finally, the remaining more than 2,000 Japanese troops launched a final charge with bayonets!

The tanks and motorized infantry, which were ready to fight, helped the samurai of the Yamato nation fulfill their wish with a dense barrage of bullets and shells, and sent them all back to their hometowns.

At eight o'clock in the evening of February 10, 1940, the gunfire in Nanchang finally subsided, at this time, the reinforcements of the Yue Army from Jiujiang were still nearly 100 kilometers away from Nanchang City, and the 15th Division only advanced less than 10 kilometers in five days!

For the 12th Army and the 21st Army, Xinyi has no military value, and the only purpose of the [***] squadron's deployment of troops here is to buy time for the retreat of the main force, while the purpose of the [***] army is even more simple - the [***] squadron is on the defensive!

Immersed in the spirit of bushido, the army has never been able to resist the temptation of geographical targets, and let the living forces of the other side calmly escape from under their noses, if the army passes around the city as soon as it arrives in Xinyi, pursues the main force of the 151st and 156th divisions, and leaves only a small number of troops to contain the defenders in the city, it will be difficult for the Lin Kunfeng department in charge of the broken to deal with it, however, the short-sightedness of strategic thinking makes the army miss the opportunity to encircle and annihilate the [***] team, Because Lin Kunfeng's troops had already laid layers of defense in the mountains north of Xinyi, patiently waiting for the arrival of the army.

In the early morning of February 27, the main force of the 18th Division of the Yue Army set out from Xinyi County and rushed north along the gradually rugged mountain road, and at the end of the line of sight, countless peaks with an altitude of more than 1,000 meters stood quietly, as if to remind these invaders that they had entered the hinterland of the Yunkai Mountains.

At eight o'clock in the morning, the army appeared in the field of vision of the blocking troops: dozens of motorcycles in the front, eight tanks followed, then trucks full of soldiers, and in the back were soldiers on foot and convoys carrying baggage and artillery.

Seeing the troops, cars, tanks, and artillery of the Yue Army, Liang Chaoyang, the commander of the third company, suddenly became excited, and said without looking back: "Brothers, prepare to fight!" ”

Then they watched the movement of the Yue army through the dense branches and leaves on the hillside, and the soldiers who had been waiting for a long time raised their weapons one after another, aiming at the Yue army at the foot of the mountain.

In order to delay the advance of the Yue army to the greatest extent, Liang Chaoyang built three lines of defense on the side of the road directly opposite the hillside, and distributed his troops in echelons according to the principle of light in the front and heavy in the rear, and only one squad of troops was deployed at the forefront of the road, which was only more than 20 meters away from the road, and the only three 50-mm mortars in the company were arranged at the entrance of a cave in the middle of the mountainside. Because the mountain here is hard granite, it is very difficult to excavate, so the fortifications of Sanlian are basically made of boulders, caves, cracks, tall tree stumps and other things after repairing, although the connection between each other is not very good, but it is very strong, and has a considerable ability to resist artillery bombardment.

It didn't take long for the vanguard of the Japanese army to appear below the first line of defense, and through the gaps between the branches and leaves, even the eyebrows and mustaches under the enemy's steel helmets could be seen very clearly.

Liang Chaoyang waved his hand and gave the order to open fire, and the whole company immediately opened fire at the same time, and the dense bullets flew out of the middle of the trees and fell into the enemy group, and then the grenades and artillery shells fell one after another, and several puffs of smoke rose in the middle of the road.

The motorcycle in front was hit by the crossfire of two light machine guns, and the three soldiers on the car were shot and fell to the ground, and the motorcycle immediately burst into flames, and then mortar shells, grenades, and grenades hit several motorcycles behind one after another, and a large fire broke out on the mountain road, and billowing smoke came out.

When the army passed through the first few peaks, it did not encounter an attack, and the reconnaissance plane did not find the squadron hidden in the middle of the dense forest, so it relaxed its vigilance, and under the sudden attack of the blocking troops, it suddenly became panicked and chaotic, and the motorcycle behind it looked bad, turned around and ran, and as a result, in a hurry, it panicked and hit the car that was already on fire, blocking the road. In this way, the army in front could not retreat, and the army in the back could not come up. / How could Liang Chaoyang let go of this opportunity, and immediately ordered the whole company to concentrate fire on the dozen or so motorcycles in front, and it only took ten minutes to kill all these dozens of soldiers, and all the motorcycles were destroyed, and the smell of gasoline and burnt things suddenly rose into the air, enveloping the entire mountain.

Half an hour later, the army organized a squadron of troops, and under the cover of a dozen artillery pieces, launched the first attack. However, the defenders' positions were all tall woods, with dense branches and leaves that were so thick that it was impossible to see anything clearly from the outside, but the Third Company had already cleared the branches and leaves between the two lines of defense behind and the first line of defense, and the firing points were also arranged in open positions in the firing range, putting the troops in a very disadvantageous position.

The first attempt of the Yue army only lasted for a few dozen minutes: a dense rain of bullets sprayed out from the dense woods, knocking the front Yue army to the ground, although the Yue army in the back tried their best to counterattack, but because they could not see the other party's figure, they could only grasp the direction by feeling, how good was the effect of the attack!

After losing more than a dozen soldiers, the army decisively withdrew the attacking force, and then mobilized heavy artillery and tanks from the rear to help, and at the same time called for air support.

At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the army first dispatched four bombers to bomb and strafe the defenders' positions, and the heavy bombs and incendiary bombs suddenly turned the hillside into a sea of fire, and the machine-gun bullets kept jumping on the rocks.

Ten minutes later, the two squadrons, under the cover of three tanks, began to crowd the defenders' positions.

Although the army fired hundreds of shells, it only left shallow craters on the surface of the hard granite, which did not cause much damage to the defenders, and the bombs and incendiary bombs dropped by the planes also exploded and burned on the treetops first, so that the soldiers hiding in the cracks of the rocks, behind the stumps, and at the mouth of the cave had more reaction time, and there was not much effect, so the army was still facing the defenders who were waiting for the battle!

(To be continued)