Chapter 1073 The Hammer and the Anvil (continued)

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The 17th Brigade of the Japanese Army, which was formed in Shanghai as an independent mixed brigade, was subordinate to the 13th Army, participated in several major battles, and had very strong combat effectiveness. Now, due to the appearance of Liu Yimin, this Japanese army unit that was supposed to appear in Shanghai has been guarding Zhangqiu on Jiaoji Road since the day it was formed, and it has been repeatedly attacked by the Eighth Route Army.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the main force of the 17th Brigade of the Japanese independent mixed group arrived one after another.

When the brigade commander, Major General Tanigawa Masanori, saw that his captain had actually set up camp thousands of meters away from Beidengzhuang, and put on a posture of not moving the enemy, he was angry, and pulled the captain over and crackled and incited, and kept cursing cowards and cowards in his mouth.

After the battle, Major General Tanigawa Masanori launched a deployment on the spot, ordering a brigade to capture East Dengzhuang, a brigade to capture West Dengzhuang, and a brigade to capture North Dengzhuang from the east and west, and a brigade to storm North Dengzhuang head-on, leaving a brigade as a reserve.

Major General Tanigawa Masaken only had five independent infantry brigades in his hands, one was stationed in Zhangqiu, and the remaining four independent infantry brigades, whether they were full or not, were drawn from all directions anyway, and all of them were gathered.

The Japanese attack was carried out in strict accordance with the requirements of the infantry drill code, and Tanigawa Masanoshi set up the infantry guns of the brigade artillery team and the infantry guns of the fourth brother brigade.

After 20 minutes of shelling, feeling that the walls of the three villages had been blown up and the houses collapsed, Major General Tanigawa Masaki pointed his sword at him and ordered to attack.

The size of the Japanese army's brigade attack was very impressive, and three brigades attacked at once, and the attack power can be imagined.

The battle of Deng Zhuang has entered a white-hot state!

The 17th Brigade was not beaten in vain on the battlefield, and it made rapid progress, and the stormtrooper formation had the posture of a permanent division of the Japanese army. With the squad as a unit, drag light and heavy machine guns, carry grenadiers and cats to move forward quickly. When there were still 400 meters from the village, the heavy machine gun team began to establish a position, and the sound of the mountain was beating, covering the infantry attack. By the time they reached 250 meters, light machine gun crews and grenadiers had also set up positions and fired fiercely at the entrance of the village to cover the infantry attack.

Seeing that the entrance of the village was only 60 meters away, the Japanese soldiers who rushed to the forefront suddenly fell to the ground with a command, threw their grenades together, and then set up their rifles to search for suspicious targets. The Japanese soldiers in the back followed the cover of the dust and fog stirred up by the grenade explosion, and shouted and rushed to the village.

At this time, the Eighth Route Army opened fire.

Bai Dagui was also experienced in a hundred battles, and as soon as he saw the Japanese army launch such a large-scale attack, he knew that the opportunity to kill and injure the enemy with firepower had come, and immediately ordered a resolute blockade.

A row of shooting holes was exposed at the root of the wall of North Dengzhuang, machine guns, Bayi automatic rifles, flower machine machine guns, semi-automatic rifles, and 38 large covers, all of which were fired, and the bullets were whizzing and searching, flying towards the Japanese troops, and at once the Japanese squad that rushed to the forefront was beaten to a squad.

If it had been left a year ago, encountering such fierce firepower of the Eighth Route Army, the soldiers of the 17th Brigade who had formed the 17th Brigade would have immediately turned their butts backwards. Not now, after battlefield training, the original recruits have become veterans, and the combat effectiveness of the 17th Brigade has also come up. No, as soon as he saw the Eighth Route Army fighting back, the little devil did not retreat, but quickly fell to the ground, set up a gun and shot at the Eighth Route Army.

As soon as the devil lay down, the hit rate of the fighters decreased, and Bai Dagui immediately ordered to stop shooting and save bullets.

As soon as the Eighth Route Army stopped shooting, the Japanese army immediately began to attack again. This time, the little devil no longer just attacked the entrance of the village along the main road, and began to spread out the formation, forming a straggler formation, and rushed to the north of Dengzhuang.

The Eighth Route Army planted anti-tank mines and electric explosives on the main road, which were waiting to deal with Japanese tanks and armored vehicles. The Japanese army's tanks and armored vehicles have not appeared now, so Bai Dagui is reluctant to detonate the explosives!

The artillery positions of the devils opened fire again, and the shells whined and fell towards the village. This time, Major General Tanigawa Masanori ordered concentrated artillery fire to bombard the walls of the village, open the gaps, and open several more offensive passages to facilitate the troops' attack. He had already seen clearly at this time that the light weapons of the Eighth Route Army were very fierce, and if they attacked along the main road, the casualties would be too great.

Deng Zhuang is located in the northeast foot of Mount Tai, there are many stones, the villagers build houses with stone walls, not to mention the walls used to prevent bandits from robbing, it is made of stone of one color, quite strong, infantry guns are not heavy artillery, unless direct fire, under normal circumstances, it is impossible to blow up the wall made of stones.

The principle of direct fire from infantry artillery was only understood by the Eighth Route Army, not by the Japanese army.

As soon as the devil infantry formed a straggler formation, they rushed towards Beidengzhuang in the farmland, detonating the iron watermelons and land mines that had been buried there for a long time, and in an instant, the fields outside Beidengzhuang Village were full of rumbling mine explosions, which made the little devils cry and call their mothers, and their farts and urine.

The devil's shells are exploding, the mines in the fields are exploding, and the surrounding area of Beidengzhuang is full of explosions one after another.

This is the case with the North Dengzhuang battlefield, and the same is true with the East Dengzhuang and West Dengzhuang connected to it.

Major General Tanigawa Masaken learned all the way from the Army Infant School, the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, and the Army University, and he was not a reckless general, and he was unwilling to use the soldiers' bodies to block the bullets of the Eighth Route Army. After a burst of artillery bombardment, seeing that the effect was not great, and the troops were again blocked by the minefield of the Eighth Route Army, Major General Tanigawa Masanogen ordered the attack to be stopped, and the troops retreated, and began to urgently call for aviation support.

The Japanese air force actually sent reconnaissance planes over in the morning, but because they did not receive a signal from the ground forces, they did not carry out the bombing. Jinan is very close to this area, and it arrives soon after the plane takes off.

After a while, eight Japanese planes flew over Dengzhuang and, under the signal and instruction of the Japanese ground troops, began to bomb the northern, eastern, and western Dengzhuang.

After the bombing of the first slope was completed, the Japanese planes did not detect the anti-aircraft fire on the ground, and they became emboldened and began to attack at low altitudes.

The power of aerial bombs is much more powerful than that of the shells of the 92 infantry artillery. When a bomb hits the ground, it's a big crater. If it hits the roof, it will blow up the house.

After the eight Japanese planes dropped bombs and strafed, they pulled up and flew away. Immediately afterward, eight more Japanese planes arrived and bombed the three villages indiscriminately again.

After three waves of indiscriminate bombardment by Japanese planes, there was basically not a single complete house in North Dengzhuang, East Dengzhuang, and West Dengzhuang. Fortunately, the Eighth Route Army demolished the thatched roof of the thatched house in advance, otherwise it would have caused a fire!

The plane bombing ended, and the Japanese attacked again. This time, instead of attacking in all directions to be bombed by mines, the Japanese concentrated artillery fire on several exits of Zhuangzi, covering the troops and forcing them into Zhuangzi along the main road.

With such a high-intensity air strike, the Eighth Route Army is almost dead, and Major General Tanigawa Masaken is full of confidence, and this time he must take down the three villages in front of him in one fell swoop.

Major General Tanigawa Masaki's command knife was raised high again, and the Japanese flag soldiers kept waving their arms, signaling the troops to attack.

The Japanese artillery bombardment and aircraft bombardment just now were indeed fierce enough, and Zhuangzi was basically blown into ruins and rubble, and Bai Dagui and Lin Xiang could see clearly from the company command post that the Japanese army was about to launch a large-scale attack, and this time they had to let the fire support be discharged, otherwise they would not be able to stop the little devils.

The two mortars and two grenadiers of the fire support platoon were erected, the muzzles of the guns were all pointed at the north gate, and the two heavy machine guns of the heavy machine gun squad also entered the two bunkers near the wall and the entrance of the village, preparing to block the main road at the entrance of the village with crossfire, one left and one right.

The little devil rushed up, and all the heavy machine guns and light machine guns of the Eighth Route Army fired, and the muzzles of the guns sprayed flames, splashing rows of bullets at the devils like splashing water.

At this time, Major General Tanigawa Masanori discovered that the Eighth Route Army was using bunker fire to block the imperial army. However, he had no tanks, no direct artillery fire, and could only watch his soldiers be staggered by the machine-gun fire and rifle fire of the Eighth Route Army within 100 meters of approaching the village.

Immediately after that, the terrible thing happened again, with the screams of "day" and "day", two mortars and two grenadiers of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, and the shells and grenades fell 150 meters away from the entrance of the village, and exploded above the heads of the lying Japanese soldiers, nailing shrapnel to the backs of the Japanese soldiers.

Major General Tanigawa Masaken's eyes turned red, howling, and the command knife kept pointing at Bei Dengzhuang, ordering the artillery to open fire and eliminate the small artillery of the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese Army's Type 92 infantry guns were not good enough to deal with the stone walls, but they were more than enough to deal with the two mortars and two grenadiers of the Eighth Route Army. No, the mortars and grenadiers of the first company in Beidengzhuang only fired three rounds, and the Japanese shells fell. Had to be transferred in a hurry.

Major General Tanigawa Masanori is going to fight hard, this time, he will no longer tolerate the lives of the soldiers, one brigade can't capture a village, it's too embarrassing!

The Japanese attack troops, having received the order, launched a full-scale attack again.

A Japanese soldier who didn't know which nerve went wrong, shouted Long live the emperor, rolled forward in fit, and wanted to use his body to detonate the mine and open the way for his comrades to attack.

Naturally, this soldier died a miserable death, but immediately a dozen soldiers followed his example, shouting and rolling forward one after another, and actually rolled out of the three passages.

Major General Tanigawa Masanori's tears came out of his eyes, and he shouted loudly and ordered the troops to launch a fierce attack.

You can't fight this war, no matter how brave you are, you will still be killed by bullets. One company of the Eighth Route Army, one hundred and fifty men, and the Japanese attacked an infantry brigade. However, if the Japanese army hit the muzzle of the gun, one bullet and one devil, a company of 150 people, could also block the attack of an infantry brigade of the little devil.

After a while, the little devil also rushed into the entrance of the village, but under the heavy fire, he had to withdraw.

Major General Tanigawa Masanori could not imagine that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army was so fierce, so he ordered the troops to retreat and began to fire special smoke.

A poison gas bomb landed in the North, East and West Dengzhuang.

At this time, the 4th Cavalry Brigade and Regiment that cooperated with the 32nd Division and the 36th Division in the sweeping operation arrived. Immediately afterwards, the combat convoy and supplementary team directly under the 12th Army of the Japanese Army from Jinan also arrived by car. Major General Tanigawa Masanori, who was appointed to be in charge of the command of the former enemy, was completely relieved at this time, and immediately reported to the headquarters of the 12th Army that reinforcements were in place and that a general attack was about to be launched.

Then, Major General Tanigawa Masaken adjusted the deployment, let the Fourth Cavalry Brigade guard the battlefield, redeployed the brigade he left as a reserve and the five infantry brigades sent by the Twelfth Army's direct supplementary team, and assigned them to North Dengzhuang, East Dengzhuang, and West Dengzhuang, ensuring that each of the three Zhuangzi had three infantry brigades to attack, and he wanted to use the superiority of troops to drown the stubborn resistance of the Eighth Route Army.

An hour and a half after the gas bomb was fired, Major General Tanigawa Masaki ordered a general attack, and he wanted to end the battle before dark and withdraw to the front line of Cao Fan to prevent the Eighth Route Army from working at night.

This time, the little devil used the twenty-four tanks sent by the combat convoy directly under the Twelfth Army, and guided the infantry to start a fierce attack.

At this time, Bai Dagui no longer dared to have reservations, when the Japanese tank guided a squad of soldiers to attack the village along the road and the passage in the field where the Japanese soldiers were lying down, when the anti-tank mine on the main road exploded, Bai Dagui ordered the detonation point to start the explosives, and there was a loud bang, and the little devils who attacked along the road to the north gate, east gate, and west gate were wrapped in smoke and dust.

The dust and mist carried the Japanese soldiers into the sky, and when they fell, they were piles of stumps and a rain of blood, staining the road red.

Immediately afterwards, the bazooka fighters of the Eighth Route Army opened fire, and the target was the Japanese tank, and when a rocket was fired, it was a fireball, which smashed the Japanese tank into a pile of scrap metal.

The Japanese army was already gambling on the red eye, and they couldn't imagine that the firepower of the Eighth Route Army would be so strong after the special smoke. Major General Tanigawa Masanori was not in a hurry to suffer casualties at all, and waved his command knife and kept giving orders, ordering the artillery to open fire and the tanks to guide the infantry to attack.

The tank guns on the Japanese tanks had a much longer range than the bazookas, and after the tanks in front were scrapped, the tanks in the rear immediately began to return fire, firing fiercely at the positions of the bazooka groups of the Eighth Route Army and at the bunkers of the Eighth Route Army. As a result, the Eighth Route Army had to shift its position in order to reduce casualties, and the Japanese tanks rumbled into Zhuangnai.

In this battle, the disparity in strength was extremely great, the Japanese army was like a hammer, and the Eighth Route Army was an anvil that was beaten by a hammer. It depends on whether this anvil can withstand the beating of the Japanese army's hammer.

As soon as he saw the troops attacking Zhuangzi, Major General Tanigawa Masaken excitedly touched the eight-character Hu and shouted Yo Xi, with a smile on his face.

Major General Tanigawa Masanori immediately ordered a radio message to be sent to the headquarters of the 12th Army to report the good news of the troops' attack on the village.

Major General Tanigawa Masanori was a little too early to rejoice.

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