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Chapter 1536 The general is out of harmony

When An Yi was in Nanjing, consulting with Chiang Kai-shek on a series of issues, the Great War in Northern Jin, which was mainly based on encirclement, pursuit, interception, and annihilation of the enemy's living forces, had entered a white-hot stage. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Heng Mountain stretches along the northern border of Dai County, the inner Great Wall that winds on the top of the mountain, is like a jade belt with beads, connects Yanmen Mountain, Mantou Mountain, Caoduo Mountain, etc., its north depends on the Yanbei Plateau, the south Ping Xinding Basin, Yanmen Pass is built on the steep Yanmen Mountain Ridge, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

In order to open up the passage to the north, the enemy's 110th Division had been fighting here for three days and nights, but the road in front of the pass was narrow, and the three wings could not be used at all, so they could only adopt the tactics of refueling one squadron at a time, but each time they returned with a feather, at noon on 2 April, after receiving the news of the loss of the Qili River, the division commander Lieutenant General Kuwaki Chongming, was shocked and hurriedly asked Hideki Tojo for instructions, and Hideki Tojo instructed the troops to quickly retreat to Daixian and resist the attack of the squadron together with the 43rd and 57th brigades and regiments of the independent mixed brigade.

Hideki Tojo gave Kuwaki Takaaki a death order, no matter what, he must hold Daixian to buy enough time for the whole army to escape.

In the town of Xiguan, west of Dai County, the battle was extremely fierce.

The enemy's resistance was unexpectedly strong, and after a round of artillery fire, the enemy was often nowhere to be seen, but when the infantry launched a surprise attack, the enemy suddenly appeared again, making full use of the trenches to shoot at the attacking Anjia infantry. The enemy's accurate marksmanship, constantly moving crooked machine guns, mortars and grenadiers inflicted heavy casualties on our troops.

Because the enemy dug three anti-tank trenches five meters wide and five meters deep four hundred meters in front of the town, our tanks could not break forward to cover the attack of the troops, and at the same time, these three trenches also brought trouble to the attack of our infantry.

Lu Yixuan stood on an earthen rampart on the bank of the Qili River, holding a telescope to observe the situation on the front line, frowning slightly: "The enemy army is very well prepared, with fortifications and anti-artillery holes. And until now, I haven't seen their artillery fire, and I don't know if it was blown up by our air force or hidden for use at a critical time. ”

Yang Jiuxiao, who was also holding a telescope next to him, looked extremely optimistic: "Most of it was destroyed by our artillery!" Our reconnaissance planes have been hovering over the heads of the little devils, and their little tricks can't be hidden from people at all. Wait for the sapper bridge to come up, build the steel bridge, our tanks cross the enemy anti-tank trench, and the victory will be ours! ”

Chief of Staff Qu Muchen squatted on the ground and looked at the map: "The headquarters is calling to ask us about our next combat arrangement." Lao Lu, Lao Yang, the headquarters is forcing us to make a statement! ”

Lu Yixuan put down the binoculars and said calmly: "The rice has to be eaten in one bite, the battle must be fought step by step, the enemy army is not a soft persimmon, you can pinch it as much as you want, I still have that opinion, solve the enemy in front of you first, and wait until the end of the day, what you should do, if you set an unattainable goal, you will tie your hands and feet, and the gains outweigh the losses!" ”

Yang Jiuxiao stuffed the binoculars into the hands of the guards behind him and retorted: "Lao Lu, you are too negative like this. At present, the situation is very good, so we should take precautions, think of ways in various ways, and have a big goal and direction, so that we can strive for it.

"The headquarters is also not sure about the real situation of the current enemy and us, so it has not made a hard rule on behalf of the enemy, but the tradition of our army is that even if there is only one percent of the possibility, we must do our best to fight for it, and besides, our current opportunities are basically more than fifty percent, and if we don't make up our minds at this time, when will we wait?"

Lu Yixuan was greatly displeased, and pointed to the enemy's position: "Jiuxiao, have you seen it?" The enemy forces are far fewer than us, but what? We attacked for an afternoon, but we still didn't take Xiguan! In the end, you have to wait for the bridge cars that fall behind to come up and build a steel bridge and let the tanks cross to win! War is not just a game of numbers, it is to the death! ”

"What's so terrible about the dead? As long as you die well, what's the point of making a sacrifice? As long as Tojo Hideki is left in northern Shanxi, we can take advantage of the situation to recover the counties south of Datong and seek a foothold for our 30th Group Army, and the overall situation of the entire War of Resistance will improve. Yang Jiuxiao was quite unimpressed.

"Foothold!? Do you think that we alone can keep the great harmony? You have also seen the war briefing at the headquarters, the war is in full swing in Central Asia, and how many troops do you have to occupy in four million square kilometers of land? To put it bluntly, we are alone in North China, we can only rely on ourselves, be cautious, and it will be beneficial to ourselves and others. ”

Lu Yixuan glanced at Yang Jiuxiao coldly.

Yang Jiuxiao only felt a burst of anger in his heart, and said loudly: "Forget it, forget it, it's up to you to decide this matter, I just obey." I'll go to the front to direct the operation, and now the bridge car directly under the engineer regiment should come up, I'll go and see. With that, he strode away.

Qu Muchen stood up and asked, "Then how do we reply to the headquarters?" ”

Lu Yixuan paced back and forth for a few steps, stopped and said: "Chairman, General Headquarters: Although the enemy army has suffered heavy losses, the main force still exists, and its fighting will and spirit are impressive, our army is exhausted from a long battle, and the combat strength of the troops is not five out of ten, in this case, I think that we should take the preservation of the living force of our department as the operational principle, and strive to annihilate more enemy troops on this basis, the lowest goal is to drive the enemy army out of the first line of the Great Wall in northern Shanxi, and the highest goal is to recapture Datong." Lu Yixuan, April 2, the 27th year of the Republic of China. ”

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Major An Bohan, the commander of the bridge car battalion, was sweaty, and took advantage of the artillery fire to suppress the enemy again, and ordered six bridge cars to move forward quickly.

The bridge truck was converted from a six-ton heavy-duty truck, and the extendable steel bridge could extend up to 20 meters away.

In front of the trench, the steel bridge of the bridge car quickly stretched out, and when it reached five meters, the sappers stepped forward and stripped the connection between the rail and the body, and a simple bridge was built in a blink of an eye. It took a quarter of an hour for the carriage to continue along the steel bridge that had just been erected, and the three steel bridges standing on the trenches were completed.

The bridge car retreated, the artillery fire gradually weakened, and the tanks drove across the steel bridge and pounced towards Xiguan Town.

The enemy troops defending Xiguan Town independently mixed into the devil soldiers of the 43rd Brigade, and when the artillery fire gradually stopped, they entered the dilapidated position under the order of the commander, and looked up, and a feeling of despair arose.

Tanks arrayed in battle formations to attack in clusters have a far less visual impact than psychological pressure.

The "booming" roar of diesel engines, the crushing sound of crawlers, the black smoke of billowing dust, and the camouflage shell reflecting the brilliance of the slanting sun, slowly but surely rushed towards the enemy troops stationed in Xiguan Town.

The tanks were followed by anti-aircraft artillery trucks, which were the best tank companion weapons to suppress the enemy's death squads, and had exerted unparalleled power in previous battles.

This majestic and shocking scene made many devil soldiers feel their hands trembling and sweating coldly.

After a short silence, shells once again descended on the enemy positions, the masterpiece of the mortars that accompanied the attacking infantry, the tanks accelerated in the rapid cover fire, and for a while, the sound of rolling thunderous exhaust resounded throughout the battlefield, and the tanks in the middle of the march stopped from time to time, turned the turrets, and destroyed the exposed fire points. One after another, the remaining bunkers, bunkers, and pillboxes crumbled as the tank's muzzles turned.

At this time, in the middle of the advancing tank team, rows of bombs suddenly fell.

Worst! The enemy's hidden artillery units have finally opened fire!

The bombardment of 150mm caliber guns could not withstand even the thick-skinned J2 medium tank, let alone the JI light tank. One tank after another shattered, caught fire, and exploded, and the anti-aircraft artillery trucks, which were not protected by armor, became flat boats in the stormy seas, and were instantly crushed into powder by the huge waves.

The tanks that were not hit desperately rushed forward, and the anti-aircraft artillery trucks followed at high speed, trying to get rid of the enemy's deadly artillery fire as soon as possible. Retreating at this time is tantamount to suicide, and there may be a possibility of survival forward.

"Fuck it! The devil actually plays yin! Order the artillerymen, fuck it! ”

Yang Jiuxiao was so angry that he cursed, and immediately ordered to concentrate the artillery fire directly under the army to immediately suppress the enemy's attack. Almost at the same moment, Lu Yixuan had already sensed the seriousness of the problem, and asked the air force for help while letting people record the coordinates of the devil's artillery position.

On the artillery positions of our army, the sound of artillery bombardment was deafening, desperately suppressing the enemy's artillery, but the enemy's artillery positions seemed to be in extremely strong fortifications, and the effect of fire suppression was not very great.

After losing half of the tanks and anti-aircraft artillery vehicles, they finally rushed into the town, quickly clearing the remnants of the enemy on the one hand, and finding suitable places to hide from the artillery fire on the other.

The reconnaissance planes in the sky soon sent a message that the enemy had hidden the artillery in four small artillery towers between Xiguan Town and the county seat of Daixian. In the early years, in order to guard against bandits, he built a small turret in his four manors, and these small turrets were built with reinforced concrete, with a thickness of at least one meter, no wonder our army's 150mm caliber howitzers failed to make them dumb.

Fortunately, at this time, the group of planes appeared from the southwest at the right time, and a bomber squadron that had just entered the Yangmingbao airfield in the morning flew over the small artillery tower.

Since the Yangmingbao airfield was not equipped with 200-kilogram and 500-kilogram aerial bombs, and fearing that it would not be able to achieve the effect of destroying the enemy's artillery in time, the bomber squadron carried napalm this time.

Napalm bombs were thrown down, and in an instant the four turrets were surrounded by flames.

The enemy's artillery quickly muted fire, and the high temperature of the napalm when it burned did not take long to cause the shells inside the turret to detonate, and there were four dull explosions in succession, and the earth trembled vigorously, and most of them stood unsteadily and fell to the ground.

Without the threat of enemy artillery, tanks and anti-aircraft artillery vehicles once again exerted their might to completely suppress the enemy's infantry, and by nightfall, with the cooperation of the infantry, Xiguan Town was finally conquered.

However, the enemy's sudden artillery bombardment resulted in the scrapping of 28 tanks and the destruction of 43 anti-aircraft artillery vehicles, which was the largest loss of the mechanized units of the Anjia Army since the beginning of the war.

At the summary meeting that night, Yang Jiuxiao was ordered by Lu Yixuan to do a profound review, and the relationship between the two suddenly became delicate.