Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Flesh Mill (1)

Thirty chariots of the Tang Army broke through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army in a row, causing hundreds of Japanese casualties, and Hattori Susukita was so angry that he scolded his mother.

A T2 tank crossed a trench and opened fire with its muzzle aimed at a Japanese machine-gun position five or six hundred meters away.

Rumble!

The machine-gun position suddenly splashed earth and rocks, a ball of flames rose, and five or six Japanese soldiers were blown out, and the 88 mm 70 times diameter tank gun was amazingly powerful.

Click! Click!

The vehicle-mounted M2 heavy machine gun opened heavy fire, and tongues of fire swept across the Japanese positions, splashing flesh and blood, and the Japanese suffered heavy casualties.

With a loud bang, a Tang Army tank not far away exploded, which immediately attracted the attention of the entire battlefield.

Undoubtedly, this was the first tank lost by the Tang army since the battle between the Tang and Japanese armies.

The Tang soldiers in the other tanks and combat vehicles couldn't help but show puzzlement, and soon the stragglers covering the nearby Tang Army gave an answer, which turned out to be a Japanese soldier who hid in a foxhole with dozens of grenades tied to his body, and launched a suicide attack when the Tang army's tank drove by, causing the Tang army tank to be blown up.

"Damn little devils!"

There were four crew members in a T2 tank, but the explosion was so tragic that all four Tang soldiers were killed, and the other Tang officers and soldiers lost their comrades and brothers, and immediately vented their anger on other Japanese soldiers.

Bang! Bang!

The snipers of the Tang Army, who had been four or five hundred meters away, kept locking on the Japanese soldiers and firing, although not every shot was a headshot, but it was a missed shot, and the guns could hit the vital points of the Japanese soldiers and kill them on the spot.

"It's the sniper of the Tang Army, everyone be careful!"

A Japanese officer spotted the threat and hurriedly alerted the people around him. However, he was locked without shouting a few words, and the next moment he was shot in the head, and his body was shot more than three meters away. You can see the great power of the sniper rifle.

The Japanese soldiers, who had been beaten by the tank artillery and tank machine guns of the Tang Army, did not dare to show their heads, and when they heard the presence of snipers, they were even more frightened and huddled behind trenches and bunkers and did not dare to come out.

Hattori Susukita, who was watching the battle from the hillside in the distance, immediately cursed, ordered his guard team to immediately go up to supervise the battle, and forced the Japanese army to continue to resist.

"Organize a death squad for me!"

Hattori Sukuta's eyes were already blood-red, and he looked at the twenty-nine Tang Army chariots as if they were in a no-man's land. Seeing the Japanese soldiers being wantonly slaughtered by the Tang Army like brutes, he could only choose to use extreme combat methods.

Japanese death squads were quickly formed, and the battlefield was no longer a one-sided massacre of the Japanese army by the Tang Army. With a few loud bangs, several more Don tanks were blown up by Japanese suicide attacks.

The commander of the Tang Army soon discovered the madness of the Japanese army, and immediately ordered all chariots to advance carefully, and hurriedly ordered the surrounding stragglers to strictly guard against the suicide attacks of the Japanese army.

The firepower of the stragglers of the Tang Army was also very fierce. The fire of the assault rifles, combined with the heavy machine gun fire of the tanks and the tanks themselves, formed a dense blockade. The Japanese who rushed up to the suicide attack were quickly beaten into a hornet's nest, and the Tang snipers also focused on attacking the Japanese troops close to the Tang tanks, making it difficult for them to get close to the grenades on their bodies, and detonating them at a long distance did not work at all.

The Japanese suicidal attack soon failed again, and all the Japanese troops who rushed forward were wiped out, and hundreds more were killed and wounded, and Hattori Susukita gritted his teeth when the Don army once again broke through the fifth line of defense of the Japanese army. He ruthlessly ordered his artillery wing to be covered with indiscriminate fire.

Boom Boom!

The Japanese artillery fire immediately covered the fifth line of defense, and the hundreds of Japanese troops who did not have time to evacuate were strafed by the machine guns of the Tang army. On the other side, they were bombarded by their own people's artillery fire, and they all quickly turned into ghosts.

The Tang army did not have a good time, six or seven tanks and combat vehicles were covered and destroyed by the indiscriminate artillery fire of the Japanese army, and more than a dozen tanks were injured to varying degrees. The commander of the Don Army decisively ordered a retreat, ordering the remaining dozen tanks and combat vehicles to withdraw from the Japanese positions.

The Japanese artillery fire extended and bombarded for a while, and it was not until the Tang army withdrew more than ten miles in one breath that the rear did not cease fire. Hattori Susukita did not order the pursuit, firstly, because it could not catch up, and secondly, the Japanese army suffered heavy losses and urgently needed to rest.

Hattori Susuita ordered the 11th Brigade to retreat backwards, resting his troops while retreating, and as soon as he counted them, he was immediately angry, and this encounter caused his 11th Brigade to suffer more than 1,000 casualties, and all tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed. And he knew that the Tang Army had only lost a dozen tanks and combat vehicles, and in comparison, a brigade of the Japanese army had not fought a single armored battalion of the Tang Army, but suffered huge losses.

Shame, shame.

Hattori Sutsuda couldn't wait to find a piece of tofu to kill him, and before he came out, he vowed to directly recover Chashan and drive the Tang army into the sea, but now just a small group of Tang troops made him hit his head and bleed, and he was embarrassed and thrown to Mars.

However, he only rested for an hour before immediately ordering to continue advancing, after all, he was not alone this time, there were still two divisions of Japanese troops advancing in the direction of Chashan, and his 11th Brigade had to be an excellent bait.

Off the coast of Chashan, the sea after the typhoon is not too calm, and there are still high waves.

Li Haichen had already received a report from the Marine Corps that the three Japanese troops were rapidly advancing towards Chashan, and he also knew the situation of the 11th Brigade. Now the three Japanese forces are encircling Chashan, where there is a whole marine division of the Tang Army, but after all, the foothold is not stable, and many weapons, ammunition and military supplies have not yet landed.

For the sake of safety, Li Haichen still decided to dispatch aircraft carrier-based planes, first, to attack the Japanese army from the air, and second, it is very likely that he will encounter the Japanese air force, because after all, intelligence shows that the Japanese army still has more than 500 fighters deployed on the island of Taiwan, and it is very likely that they will participate in the war.

At present, the sea conditions are not very good, the aftermath after the typhoon is still there, and the aircraft carriers of the Tang Army are not too stable, and there is a certain risk for the aircraft carrier to take off fighters at this time.

However, Li Haichen was immediately relieved after talking with Gao Zhihang and other pilots, the Tang Army pilots had already grown into a superb team, and they were fully capable of taking to the air to fight in bad weather, not to mention that the weather in front of them was not as bad as they imagined.

Half an hour later, more than 100 Raptors heavy carrier-based fighters took off, and then more than 100 Hellfire heavy carrier-based bombers took off in the following half hour, which took more than an hour before and after, which was a full half an hour more than the usual windy and sunny weather, and it can be seen that bad weather and sea conditions still have a great impact on the aircraft carrier's carrier-based aircraft.

The target of the first wave of attacks of the Tang army group was the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Army, because this brigade had already been heavily damaged by the Tang Army, and it was also the Japanese army with the smallest number of troops.

The 1st Armored Regiment of the 1st Marine Division of the Tang Army was marching in the direction of the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Army, apparently to cooperate with the actions of naval aviation to destroy the 11th Brigade of the Japanese Army before the Japanese army closed the siege. Once the Japanese 11th Brigade was wiped out or severely damaged, then the Japanese siege of Chashan Jihua would fail, and the Tang Army could bypass the defense line of the 11th Brigade and attack the flanks of the other two Japanese troops, and the siege of Chashan would naturally be lifted.

At the same time, more than 300 Japanese fighters and bombers taking off from Kaohsiung, Tainan and Hualien were also flying in the direction of Chashan. (To be continued......)