In the Lunar New Year, Ye Feng was the busiest, and he was condolences to the troops in the past few days, and after the Lantern Festival, the new 6th Army began to get busy again.

At present, the newly formed Sixth Army has more than 100,000 people, about one-third of whom are veterans, and about two-thirds of the recruits who have been trained for several months need a large-scale actual combat to further improve it.

Ye Feng was also looking forward to a real battle, in mid-February, seeing that the little devil was still standing still, Ye Feng decided to take the initiative, and the first step was to attack Shaoxing, where the 114th Division of the little devil was stationed.

After the fall of Ningbo, Okamura Ninji adopted the strategy of attacking Hangzhou from both sides, gathering heavy troops in the north of Hangzhou and Suzhou, Jiaxing, and Shanghai in the northeast, and also deploying a large number of troops in Shaoxing and Ningbo in the southeast of Hangzhou.

According to the information Ye Feng obtained, it was the 114th Division of the Japanese Army in Jiaxing, the 18th Division and the newly formed 29th Division in Ningbo. The 29th Division is a newly formed B Division, which landed directly in Ningbo and participated in the Ningbo Campaign after the Japanese formation was formed.

In Suzhou, Jiaxing, and Shanghai, there are not only the 3rd Division, the 101st Division, and the Botian Detachment of Little Japan, but also the 31st Division, which has newly joined the Central China Front, which is also a type B division, which is currently assembled in Shanghai and is on standby. In addition to these, there are several divisions of the puppet army.

In order to strengthen the strength of Central China, at the end of last year, the Japanese base camp transferred two of the recently newly organized divisions, the 29th Division and the 31st Division, to Okamura Ninji.

The pressure on the new 6th Army was great. The Japanese troops around Hangzhou already had the strength of 6 divisions, plus the Potian detachment and the 5th Field Heavy Artillery Brigade. About half of Okamura's troops appeared in the cities around Hangzhou.

Since Okamura Ningji was going to make a move sooner or later, it was better to take the initiative himself, and while the little devil was not fully prepared, Ye Feng ordered to take the initiative to attack.

For the north and northeast of Hangzhou, Ye Feng took a defensive position, and also deployed a large number of defensive troops, for the little devils in Shaoxing and Ningbo. Ye Feng took the offensive and took the initiative to attack.

The first to move were mechanized infantry divisions.

Shaoxing is not far from the Xiaoshan area, early in the morning. The sky was only slightly bright, and the mechanized infantry division began to move out in its entirety, and the three mechanized infantry regiments were divided into three roads, only a few kilometers away from each other. Echo each other. The three regiments took the lead, followed by a large number of armored vehicles of the air defense regiment.

After the mechanized infantry division, the 3rd and 5th infantry divisions were ready and also ready to start the operation and attack Shaoxing.

Each regiment under the mechanized infantry division has more than 100 armored vehicles, mainly M3 half-track combat vehicles, Ye Feng discovered. Against the infantry of the little devils, the M3 half-track is quite enough. And the M3 half-track armored car also showed itself well, reliable and fierce in firepower.

A 360-degree 12.7 mm Browning heavy machine gun on each M3 armoured vehicle, plus two other 7.92 mm light machine guns, is a mobile fortress of firepower.

In addition to a large number of M3 half-track combat vehicles, there are also a small number of M20 armored vehicles, M8 armored vehicles, which can deal with some lightly armored targets and fortifications such as pillboxes.

Northwest of Shaoxing, Liushi Town.

In this ordinary town, a large number of little devils appeared more than a month ago, and there is the headquarters of the 102nd Wing of the 127th Infantry Brigade of the 114th Division in the town, and there are many little devils in and outside the town.

Suddenly there are so many little devils, the people of Liushi Town have been trembling, worried, the people are very afraid of these little devils, the little devils have no humanity, they kill people at every turn, in just over a month, thousands of people have died in the devil's butcher's knife, including many children and women.

A few kilometers outside Liushi Town, there are some temporary fortifications built by little devils, a large number of little devils are stationed outside the town, the sky is slightly bright, many devils are horrified to find that a large number of chariots suddenly appeared in their sight.

This is a mechanized infantry regiment, more than 100 armored vehicles, each armored car is full of soldiers, a straight machine gun, ready to shoot a long time ago.

"Yaga! The tank group of the newly formed 6th Army. ”

At the front line, a devil Shaozuo put down his binoculars and shouted angrily, but he didn't expect that as soon as the sky was bright, the new 6th Army took the initiative to attack.

"Meet the enemy, meet the enemy quickly!!"

The 114th Division was equipped with a small number of anti-aircraft guns, some anti-aircraft machine guns, and an anti-aircraft machine gun.

Every brigade has such an air defense squad, and the 114th Division also has a direct anti-aircraft anti-aircraft artillery squadron, which is equipped with several anti-aircraft guns, but this anti-aircraft artillery squadron is not in Liushi Town.

Hearing the order, a large number of little devils got busy, and those anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft machine guns were also hurriedly erected, with the muzzles flat, obviously preparing to shoot flat at the armored vehicles against the fighters.

The commander of the regiment was riding in his armored command car, and when he saw that a little devil had appeared in front of him, he immediately shouted: "Shoot Lao Tzu, and if you see a little devil, hit me hard!! ”

Far away, one armored car after another, one by one, the soldiers began to shoot with the machine guns on the cars, and the light and heavy machine guns fired in unison, shooting at the devil figures in the distance.

"Da, da, da"

As the fighters began to shoot, casualties inevitably occurred among the imps.

The devil Shaozuo, who had just put down his binoculars and had just given the order to meet the enemy, saw that at such a distance, these armored vehicles of the newly formed 6th Army began to shoot in this direction, and a large number of bullets hit the dirt on his side, and he couldn't help but shout again.

With the shouting of the devil Shaozuo, some of the little devil's machine guns, such as the crooked handle, the 92-type also began to shoot, shooting at the soldiers' armored vehicles, and some devil artillery was also hurriedly preparing, preparing to bombard the soldiers' armored vehicles with small mountain guns and mortars.

The mechanized infantry division launched the attack too suddenly. The devil never expected that Ye Feng would take the initiative to attack, the entire 114th Division, including these little devils in Liushi Town. They never thought about it, and they were not fully prepared for defense.

The devils have always believed that they are the attackers, and they will be able to attack Hangzhou in ten days and half a month, and they will still attack from both sides, from the north and the south.

These little Japanese machine guns were the first to shoot, those anti-aircraft machine guns. Anti-aircraft machine guns are still being prepared, those infantry guns, mountain guns. Mortars, etc., also take time.

Some bullets clanged at the fighters' armored vehicles, and the thickness of the steel plates of the M3 half-track armored car was 7 mm, and the thickness of the frontal steel plates reached 12 mm, and it was impossible for the machine gun of the little devil to penetrate the steel plates of the M3 half-track armored car.

The fighters drove their own armored vehicles. Facing the shooting of the little devils. Quickly approaching. The ferocious firepower on the armored vehicles suppressed the devils.

Several imps were setting up a Type 92 heavy machine gun and were shooting at an armored vehicle that was getting closer and closer, and the M3 half-track tank had apparently spotted the little devils.

The muzzle of the Browning heavy machine gun on the car was quickly aimed at several little devils, and the Type 92 heavy machine gun was a fierce shot, and the thick and dense machine gun bullets beat the little devil to pieces, and one of the little devils even had his head knocked off, and his appearance was miserable.

A small-caliber mortar has been erected. Several little devils were firing this mortar, and a mortar shell whistled out. Exploded several meters next to an armored car, a large amount of dirt splattered.

When the devil artilleryman saw that his shell missed, he shook his head in disappointment, and immediately picked up another shell and fired it again, but this shell still missed.

The devil artillery looked disappointed, the armored vehicles are all moving targets, and the flat-fire guns can be aimed and hit, and the curved mortars really need luck to hit the moving armored vehicles, and these devils are very unlucky, and two shells in a row did not hit the target.

With a few screams, when these little devil artillerymen were about to fire shells again, they were hit by a dense number of machine gun bullets, and they all fell to the ground.

The soldiers of the mechanized infantry division are basically veterans, and everyone's combat experience is very rich, and everyone naturally knows that they hit important targets first, and everyone gives priority to the devil's machine guns, artillery and other targets, as for the riflemen of the little devils, the threat is very small, and it is generally after these targets.

The devil's face changed several times in a row, but he didn't expect that almost all of his machine guns were silent, and some of the artillery soldiers who were preparing were also killed, and it was even more difficult to accept that so many armored vehicles actually rushed over in a blink of an eye.

At this time, many armored vehicles were only one or two hundred meters away from the little devils, and a small number of armored vehicles were about to rush into the little devils' positions and rush into the crowd of the little devils.

Each M3 armored car carried 10 fighters, and in addition to the fighters who operated the machine guns, the rest of the fighters also began to shoot.

These fighters are armed with Garand M1 rifles, or Thomson submachine guns, and shoot at the little devils, no matter what the target, as long as it is the little devils, everyone will fire a few shots.

The distance was close, and some fighters even jumped out of their armored vehicles, followed behind the armor, and used the cover of the armored vehicles to shoot at the little devils with their weapons.

Seeing that several armored vehicles were rushing directly towards him, less than a hundred meters away from him, Devil Shaozo immediately turned around and ran, running to the back, and there were several low-level officers of the devil running back like Devil Shaozuo.

These low-ranking officers of the devil and the devil Shaozuo hurriedly ran to the back, but before they could run far, they were hit by a dense stream of machine gun bullets.

On an M3 half-track armor, a sharp-eyed soldier happened to see these devil officers who turned around and ran backwards, and immediately operated his Browning heavy machine gun is a burst of heavy fire.

The thick heavy machine gun bullets knocked half of the devil Shaozuo's body away, leaving only a piece of flesh and blood to fall to the ground, which was very miserable.

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The first more is sent first, there are a lot of things in the factory today, there is no time to code words, after returning from work, after dinner, I began to write this chapter, and after writing this chapter, I am ready to write another chapter, and the second chapter may be a little later, about ten o'clock. (To be continued......)