Chapter 110 3 Elegy for the 1st Division of the Tank

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Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, automobiles, and infantry gathered in front of the anti-tank trenches in the core position of Chaigou, this kind of opportunity was carefully calculated by Liu Yimin, how could he let it go?

The artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, hidden in the villages south of Chaigou and behind the sorghum fields, finally appeared, and all the trees and sorghum in front of the guns were cut down cleanly, and the firing boundary was cleared.

Three air defense regiments of the air defense brigade also appeared, and anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were all pointed in the direction where the Japanese planes were flying.

By six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had become incredibly soft after a hot day. A group of Japanese planes came out of the clouds and descended to the height of the Weihe River, 5,000 meters, 4,000 meters, 3,000 meters, 2,000 meters, and 1,000 meters, until they descended to 500 meters, and then roared straight to Chaigou. From a distance, the Japanese planes were like silver swallows flying freely in the sky.

Closer, closer, the Japanese machine lowered the height again, brushing the treetops and the roofs of the house. This time, the Japanese planes, which had not been counterattacked by ground fire from the Eighth Route Army for a day, became emboldened, and they wanted to engage in low-altitude bombing and strafing to improve the effect of air raids and directly use aerial firepower to destroy the Eighth Route Army that was holding its position.

One after another Japanese planes roared and pounced, and the aerial bombs kept falling down like donkey dung eggs, rolling up puffs of smoke and dust, and the airborne machine guns spewed tongues of fire, tearing apart the cannons made of wood and the straw men made of sorghum poles on the positions of the Eighth Route Army.

Han Qianjian, the commander of the air defense brigade, and Zhou Huan, the political commissar, held the binoculars, looked at the hideous faces of the devil pilots in the lenses, and silently recited 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 in their hearts. Fire! Fire! ”

Suddenly, the sound of antiaircraft guns and antiaircraft machine guns firing fiercely broke out on the position of the first air defense regiment facing the direction of the Japanese planes. Antiaircraft artillery shells and antiaircraft machine gun bullets fired at the enemy planes, forming a barrage in the ground and air, enveloping the Japanese planes that were doing low-altitude strafing maneuvers into the barrage.

At such a high speed, the Japanese pilots had no time to pull up, so they could only collide with the Eighth Route Army's fire net in a group of two planes in a neat line like moths to a fire.

Yan Yaohui, commander of the First Air Defense Regiment, looked at the flying Japanese planes, and was as happy as a child, shouting in his heart, "Finally, it is Lao Tzu's turn to make a profit in the air defense regiment." The small flag in his hand kept waving, directing the cluster fire of the First Air Defense Regiment to fire, fire, and fire again.

As soon as the anti-aircraft fire of the Eighth Route Army was fired, Lieutenant General Toshimoto Hoshino, commander of the 1st Division of the Japanese Tank Division, discovered it. He immediately understood that the strange anti-tank trenches and the powerful anti-aircraft fire that had been hidden for a whole day were definitely a trap carefully designed by the Eighth Route Army. And the wild wolf who is going to trap is none other than him, his 1st Chariot Division!

Watching the fighter planes crash into the Eighth Route Army's anti-aircraft fire network like moths to the fire, Lieutenant General Toshimoto Hoshino burst into tears, took off his military hat, and mourned like brave air pride. Then he ordered a signal to be sent for the aviation to stop this suicidal action, and to quickly pull up, away from the ground anti-aircraft fire of the Eighth Route Army.

Seeing that the signal did not work, and the group crashed into the Eighth Route Army's air defense fire network by inertia, Lieutenant General Hoshino Toshimoto no longer dared to hesitate and ordered the whole division to immediately turn around, evacuate and retreat, and return to the high-density defense line. He also ordered to report to the North China Front Army Headquarters that the Chaigou line was concentrated with large-scale ground anti-aircraft firepower of the Eighth Route Army.

He's fast, the Eighth Route Army is faster!

Li Chang, commander of the artillery headquarters of the Shandong Military Region of the Eighth Route Army and commander of the artillery column, had already completed his set of godly chatter at this time, and with the aftermath of "Division commander, division commander, I love you", he jumped up and shouted loudly: "Open the cannon!" Fire! Fire! ”

The artillery group of the Eighth Route Army has spoken!

The first to fire the artillery was the newly established rocket artillery regiment, a 12-barreled 107 rocket artillery roared, and countless meteors suddenly flew up in the sky, and the light stimulated the soldiers on both sides of the battlefield to stop their movements in surprise, staring at the dazzling meteors across the sky with astonished eyes, smashing into the Japanese tank tank group and infantry group in front of the anti-tank trench in Chaigou, making an earth-shattering explosion.

A sea of fire appeared in Lieutenant General Hoshino's telescope, a raging sea of fire, and this sea of fire was constantly expanding, and it seemed that it was about to swallow up his 1st Chariot Division soon.

Amaterasu, Amaterasu, open your eyes, bless your loyal warriors, save them, save your poor people!

Hoshino Toshimoto was no longer giving orders, but crying, shouting the name of Amaterasu and the numbers of the wings of his First Tank Division, hoping to call out Asumasu and show his spirit to save his elite division from the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army!

Hoshino Toshimoto was purely ill and rushed to the doctor, thinking that Amaterasu Okami could be shouted by mortals? If you want to shout, it has to be Emperor Hirohito to shout, maybe occasionally Han can shout out to scare and scare the Japanese people, and use it to scare the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army and rescue the Japanese army enveloped by the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army artillery group, which is obviously not possible.

At the same time as the rockets were fired, the 105 howitzers and cannons of the Eighth Route Army's Central Artillery Regiment opened fire, and the target was the field artillery positions established by Hoshino Liyuan, which were slightly far away from the core position of the Eighth Route Army's Chaigou and happened to be the target of heavy artillery.

Immediately afterwards, the Eighth Route Army's 1st Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Mountain Artillery Regiment, 2nd Mountain Artillery Regiment, Medium Mortar Regiment, Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment, 1st Column Artillery Regiment, 4th Column Artillery Regiment, and Cavalry Column Artillery Regiment all opened fire.

Rockets are exploding, artillery shells are exploding, explosives packets are exploding again, and the entire front of Chaigou is simply a bloody purgatory!

The Japanese tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles that had been hit by a sudden blow could no longer bother crossing the anti-tank trenches, and they became a mess, reversing the vehicles and honking the horns.

Fortunately, the search teams of the 1st Tank Division of the Japanese Army, which were far away from the anti-tank trenches and served as search alerts. The Eighth Route Army concentrated on attacking the Japanese tank tank clusters that were dense on the front line of the anti-tank trenches, and the Japanese search team had few vehicles, loose formations, and was in a state of maneuvering.

These devils, if they turn around and run away at this time, the Eighth Route Army really can't do anything about them. You must know that the tanks used in the search are all light tanks and armored vehicles of the Japanese army, and in terms of movement speed, they have the fastest number of tanks in the world in this era, and they can escape back to Gaomi City in an hour. It was difficult for the Eighth Route Army to catch up with them. It is a pity that the Japanese army is a group of fascist troops armed with militarist ideology and are not afraid of death, and there is no retreat order, so these little devils will naturally not retreat, but instead increase the throttle and rush up, trying to shorten the distance of tank artillery shelling, attack the artillery positions of the Eighth Route Army, and cover the retreat of the main force of the division and regiment that is caught in the sea of fire.

The little devils are going to die, and the Eighth Route Army has to fulfill them!

Soon the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army discovered this group of arrogant Japanese soldiers, and shells rained down.

At this time, the Japanese army found that the protective armor of their chariots was too thin, and under the blow of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, all the chariots and armored vehicles became iron coffins, which were dismembered, thrown up, and smashed in the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese troops, who were still trying to erect rutted bridges, try to fill in anti-tank trenches, and try to cross anti-tank trenches to pursue the Eighth Route Army, were suddenly beaten stupid: tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles covered in a rocket barrage, needless to say, became a ball of burning fire; Covered by the explosives fired by the flying thunder cannons, the soldiers were bleeding and falling to the ground; Those who were covered by field artillery shells, mountain artillery shells, and mortar shells either took a dirt plane, or had shrapnel stuck in their backs, and even separated their heads from their bodies, and died and became disfigured goods!

It is really impermanent, and the Japanese puppet army, which had just set foot on Chaigou and chased and killed the Eighth Route Army, became the prey of the repeated ravages of the powerful artillery group of the Eighth Route Army in the blink of an eye. Whether it is combat vehicles, armored vehicles, automobiles, howitzers, field artillery, rapid-fire guns, machine guns, 92 infantry guns, including those Japanese puppet army infantry who have been attacking for a day, all have become the ghosts of the Eighth Route Army artillery group!

Hoshino Toshimoto's tears are now rolling down like rain, his retreat order can't be conveyed at all, the troops have been firmly locked by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and his chariots, armored vehicles, and cars are all shrouded in the firepower network, including the remnants of the 212th Wing, the 211th Wing, and those soldiers who are pseudo-Ludong and Pingjian**, all dancing and moaning under the artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army.

The chief of staff reminded Hoshino Toshimoto that he could not be captured by the Eighth Route Army under any circumstances, and the division headquarters should immediately withdraw to Gaomi and hold on.

Hoshino Toshimoto immediately realized that if he delayed for a while, as soon as the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army stopped, the legendary Eighth Route Army armored group, cavalry group, and infantry would be killed, and he would not be able to run if he wanted to. However, the main force of the 1st Chariot Division is gone, so what can you do if you run back to Gaomi? Wouldn't there be no need to go to court-martial?

Hoshino Toshimoto's mind was racing, he pulled out his saber and stabbed it directly into the abdomen.

Hoshino Toshimoto was not able to apologize for his guilt, not because he didn't want to die, but because the officers around him didn't let him die. This thought, say it and laugh to death, those officers are afraid that after Hoshino Toshimoto apologizes, they will have to apologize by disembowelment. It was no longer time to start the war, and at that time, Seishiro Itagaki lost a 21 Brigade and was forced to apologize. Now the Japanese army is thicker than the city wall, and the main force of the 10th Division has been annihilated twice by the Eighth Route Army, and no one has apologized for their crimes. After the main force of the 27th Division was annihilated, in order to whitewash, the Japanese army simply refused to admit it, and the commander of the division, Lieutenant General Honma Masan, an old playboy, went to the press conference in Beiping like a dog and swore that the Eighth Route Army had lied and that his 27th Division was safe and sound. Because of these many precedents, the chief of staff of the 1st Tank Division and the wing commanders who remained in the headquarters did not want His Excellency the division commander to apologize for his crimes, so they naturally wanted to take his saber.

The most typical are the two wing commanders of the 32nd Division, Shiro Keito, and Nobuo Tanaka, who hugged Lieutenant General Toshimoto Hoshino's arm one on the left and one on the right, and pleaded bitterly that now is the time of crisis, and His Excellency the division commander must not abandon the troops that are in urgent need of rescue to apologize. Your Excellency, the commander of the division, is a small matter, and it is a big matter to bring shame to His Majesty the Emperor. There is an old saying in China, called the green mountains that stay are not afraid of no firewood! As long as His Excellency the division commander is safe and sound, the 1st Tank Division will not be wiped out, the Japanese Empire will rebuild the 1st Tank Division, and even build the 4th, 5th, and 6th Tank Divisions!

Hoshino Toshimoto's face was full of tears, and he ordered all the signal soldiers around him to convey the order, and the troops scattered and quickly retreated, returning to the high density.

After the order was issued, Lieutenant General Hoshino Toshimoto ordered to report to the North China Front that the remnants of the 211th Wing of the 1st Tank Division, the 212th Wing of the 32nd Division of the Infantry Ground, and the Ludong Pingjian** participating troops were attacked by the powerful artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and they were in danger, and they had ordered to disperse and retreat quickly.

As soon as the telegram was sent, Lieutenant General Hoshino Toshimoto did not dare to stay any longer, and ordered the logistics department and headquarters of the division and regiment, which were far away from the battlefield, to immediately retreat and return to Gaomi City to hold on and wait for reinforcements.

Hoshino Ligen ran away, the rocket artillery of the Eighth Route Army continued to fire, the heavy artillery continued to fire, the field artillery, mountain artillery, mortar, and flying thunder artillery continued to fire, and the whole battle lasted for 20 minutes, until he saw through the telescope that the Japanese puppet army was already in a mess and could no longer see the formed troops, and Li Chang ordered the artillery group to stop the shelling.

As soon as the artillery group stopped shelling, three red signal flares took off into the air, and the first and fourth columns of the Eighth Route Army launched a pursuit and annihilation operation.

Several tanks of the armored regiment, converted into forklifts, took the lead and roared up from behind the villages and sorghum fields behind the chaigou, and directly pushed the two-meter-thick soil piled on the side of the chaigou into the anti-tank trench. After a few convergences, a section of the anti-tank trench was filled, and the forklift tank rumbled and ran over it, crossed the anti-tank trench, put away the forklift, and threw itself at the little devil.

Tanks, armored vehicles, and cars roared through the anti-tank trenches and rushed towards the remnants of the Japanese army.

The infantry fighters were simpler, carrying wooden planks to the anti-tank trenches, stepping on the planks to rush through the anti-tank trenches and rushing towards the remnants of the Japanese puppet army.

The trumpet of the charge was sounding, the soldiers were shouting, and the motors of the armored cluster of the Eighth Route Army roared to the sky. Forward, forward, forward, rushed towards the remnants of the 1st Division of the Japanese Tank Regiment and the remnants of the infantry of the Japanese puppet army, which began to flee separately!

Alack! The 1st Division of Japanese Tanks!

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