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Chapter 1524 Xinkou Victory (II)

"All units maintain an attack formation and are approaching the Hutuo River!"

Yang Jiuxiao and Qu Muchen saw that the devils who were cut into small pieces by the torrent of tanks, surrounded and suppressed by the *** officers and soldiers led by Wei Lihuang, Fu Zuoyi, Shang Zhen and others who came up on the southern front, like an isolated island surrounded by a surging flood, quickly disappeared, and the resistance became weaker and weaker, and decided not to waste their energy on these devil soldiers who had lost their souls, and immediately commanded the troops to kill the Hutuo River where the Japanese army had fled. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The Hutuo River in this section of the Jinzhong Plain north of Xinkou is more than 300 meters wide, due to the melting of the snow, the river surface is turbulent, and the wooden boats and rafts made of rows of wood do not care about the threat of the torrent and the coldness of the river, and constantly shuttle back and forth between the east and west banks.

The artillery of the Anjia Army turned its guns and aimed at the river to carry out fierce shelling, and from time to time wooden boats and rafts were hit by shells and were torn apart in the splashes of skyrocketing.

Faced with the approaching danger, a large number of devils' cavalry could no longer wait, frantically whipping the war horses under their crotches and rushing towards the center of the river. Some gifted war horses did swim over like this, but more war horses were swept away by the turbulent river, and with the knights on horseback, they went to destruction.

The commander of the 34th Division, Lieutenant General Seki Kameji, and the commander of the 39th Division, Lieutenant General Murakami, were pale, and while commanding the military police, organizing the rout on the bank of the river, and forming a defensive formation, they also instructed the men to collect the boats, so that the divisional headquarters of the two divisions could escape across the river first.

But at this time, everyone's lives are equal, and no one is willing to give up the opportunity to escape to others, especially those officers and soldiers of mixed brigades and independent mixed brigades who are eager to cross the river, their treatment on weekdays is not as good as that of the main division, and they have long been angry, and now seeing that it has reached this point, the main division is still so strong and domineering, and immediately commotion.

I don't know who fired the first shot, in short, the riverside suddenly became chaotic, as the captain of Guan Kamezhi's guard was shot in the eyebrows and died, some of the devil soldiers who lost their minds because of the defeat were crazy, and even picked up the machine gun and fired wildly, driving more people into a state of turmoil.

The gendarmes sent by Sekiki and Murakami Kaisaku to suppress were routed by the rebels, and then a wider commotion occurred, and the gunfire continued throughout the Hutuo River, which made Li Jun, who led the troops to carry out the assault, startled, thinking that the devil had suddenly cheered up, and hurriedly ordered the troops to stop advancing.

The scouts quickly reported that there was infighting among the Japanese troops, and the entire Hutuo River was in chaos, and the wooden boats and rafts used to cross the river were sunk by the Japanese soldiers who were competing with each other.

Li Jun was amused when he heard it: "The little devil of the dog day also has today?" I thought that in the hierarchical Japanese army, there would be no chaos and rout, let alone cannibalism! It's good now, we've got everything to do, and little Japan won't want to use this to fool people again in the future! ”

Li Jun groaned for a while, and said: "Taking advantage of his illness to kill him, let's not break through the center, and order the troops, along the enemy's defense line, slowly unfold, and eat the enemy from the outside in, so that you don't have to worry about being accidentally injured by stray bullets!" Moreover, the enemy is killing each other, and the center is blooming, isn't it more conducive to our breakthrough? This time, it also gave little Japan a taste of being squeezed into living space. ”

After Yang Jiuxiao received Li Jun's urgent report, he and Qu Muchen decided to adopt Li Jun's approach, and then, the assault force composed of tanks and air defense combat vehicles changed its role and once again turned into a "nanny" covering the infantry for assault, slowly overloading the Japanese army's position from west to east.

Guan Kameji and Murakami Kesaku are like ants on a hot pot, at this time, they have already regretted giving up the opportunity to cross the river first to others, and now, Lieutenant General Ishii Weiryu, the commander of the 105th Division, who originally promised to organize troops to meet after crossing the river, has already fled without a trace with the generals of his division and regiment headquarters, and the officers and soldiers of the other mixed brigades and independent mixed brigades who crossed the river first have also released pigeons at this moment, only caring about their own lives, and now the boats crossing the river have been destroyed, and the departments under his command have fallen into serious civil strife. The gendarmerie and guard forces were able to defend only a small area, and the rest of the area was met with heavy gunfire.

What is particularly bad is that due to the large-scale riots, the two divisions led by Seki Kameji and Murakami Keisaku have been unable to organize troops to resist effectively, and in the telescope, they saw the red flags flying in all directions, and heard the increasingly rapid gunfire, Seki Kameji and Murakami Kaisaku already felt that death was approaching, but in the face of the rain of bullets flying in the sky, they were helpless.

Indeed, the Japanese army, which was blocked on the west bank of the Hutuo River, had reached the last moment of life and death!

Offensive! Offensive! Attack again!

Groups of officers and men of the Anjia Army formed a huge circular line, and they rushed all the way to the enemy on the Hutuo River, with earth-shattering momentum and magnificent mountains and rivers.

Of course, the people in it were not as fierce and magnificent as others imagined, such as Zou Jie, a former sniper, and Tian Wen, who temporarily served as his assistant shooter, saw well-known and unknown comrades-in-arms rushing past them one by one, and one after another fell in front of them.

I don't have time to think about whether this is called going forward and succeeding, Zou Jie and Tian Wen are also like everyone, shooting forward while rushing forward, at this moment, they just want to make more people stop going, it is best to keep rushing up to solve the enemy, so that there will not be so many follow-ups.

Tian Wen is a repairman at the firearms repair station of the Second Regiment of the Teaching Brigade, and he originally had little hope of going to the battlefield, but who knew that the front-line battle was urgent last night, and even the cooking squad was in the line of fire with a gun, so he had to follow the commander of the Second Regiment, Pan Huaan, to urgently rescue Xiaogang Village. And Zou Jie is a sniper who dreams of being a sniper who hides in the shadows and snipes the enemy with high intelligence, but now he has helplessly become a machine gunner who does rough work.

I don't know how many times the barrel has been changed, and I have forgotten how many times the position has been transferred, and the two *** voices remind each other, save each other, and help each other. The attacking devil will quickly stop the infighting, the muzzle of the gun is unanimous to the outside, and the attacking machine gunner will naturally become the "prey" that the opponent's grenadier will focus on.

Zou Jie and Tian Wen didn't want to die here without knowing it, so the two of them became the most cunning "prey", dancing with death in the rain of bullets and bullets, and harmonizing with life in the flames of war. Their positions kept moving forward, and finally they set up their machine guns on the edge of the devil's trenches, recklessly harvesting the lives of the enemy.

With the protection of bunkers and tunnels, the two of them feel much more down-to-earth now.

Trenches and bunkers are something that all fighters, including the Heavy, love, will like, and it is best to occupy the enemy, as this will at least indicate that you are still alive after capturing the enemy position, and that you have a much better chance of surviving in the future than if you had just charged fatally.

The dense gunfire, the deafening sound of cannons, the roar of the engine, and the angry roar of self-emboldening themselves are intertwined, and together they play a symphony of death for the devil. And the strongest note of this large symphony is, of course, the torrent of tanks that guides the anti-aircraft combat vehicles and infantry to constantly advance.

The tanks bathed in the sun's rays and the anti-aircraft artillery trucks that followed behind were in a scattered line, with their terrifying muzzles held high, and they were carried by the billowing red dust that was stirred up everywhere, and they swarmed towards the positions held by the devils amid the sound of cannons like a tsunami.

This magnificent scene of imposing and unstoppable mechanized warfare shook the hearts of everyone in it, especially the devils who were being attacked.

Whether it was the devil soldiers lying in the trenches one by one, or Seki Kameji and Murakami Keisaku who were constantly observing the battle situation through binoculars, they were all stunned by this scene.

The sound of the crawlers crushing over the ground was particularly harsh in the artillery battle.

Most of the devils had never seen a tank attacking on such a scale before, from far and near, with powerful firepower and huge psychological deterrence, pressing the devil's position and psychological defense line.

Wakasa Gosuke Juncho, who had just finished a shootout with a friendly unit, was lying in the trench, staring at the situation in front of the position with frightened eyes, and his whole body trembled. At this moment, he could no longer tell whether his body was trembling with fear or the earth below him was trembling.

"Isn't this the Type 97 medium tank that the empire just equipped the troops with last year?"

Wakasa Gosuke Jun Cao kept muttering in his heart: "No, it doesn't look like it!" It's much bigger, the barrel is much longer, look at that caliber, it's about the same as a 75mm mountain gun, my god, it's too scary to put such a large-caliber cannon on a tank, can we resist? ”

Wakasa Gosuke Juncao's teeth were striking each other, and the shaking of his whole body became more and more violent, and he refueled himself in his heart, and shot at the steel monster in the distance. This shot is not so much that Wakasa Gosuke wants to destroy these monsters, but that it is more appropriate to be brave for himself.

Faced with the threat of death, Wakasa Gosuke felt that he had to do something, and shooting seemed to be the only way to dispel his fear.

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"This Japanese is really fucking perverted, look, it's only the weather in February (lunar calendar), looking at the sun is quite big, in fact, the cold wind is biting, these little devils are shirtless and show their figures, indicating that you are not afraid of the cold?"

In a "booming" Leopard tank that was constantly advancing, Second Lieutenant Zhang Qien, the artillery commander, looked at the shirtless shoulders, the head was wrapped in a strip of white cloth, and there was a devil soldier with a flaming sun in the middle of the strip of cloth, and kept cursing in his mouth: "Turtle grandchildren, if you fucking wear linen and filial piety for your emperor Lao Tzu, you should be dressed neatly, invite filial sons and grandsons to sing a big opera, and put the whole strip of white cloth on your head all day long, you are not fucking disgusting, Lao Tzu is still tired and crooked!" ”

Although the mouth was constantly busy, but the second lieutenant Zhang Qien's hands did not stop for a moment, the vehicle-mounted machine gun swept towards this group of filial sons, and immediately killed six devil daredevils who wanted to die with the tank with explosives wrapped around their waists, because the explosives were detonated, six earth-shattering sounds came from the front of the tank one after another.

"***Amaterasu, let's go to the side and cool off!" Subsequently, Zhang Qien took out another heavy machine gun fire point with one shot.

"I said Dazhang, can you grandson shut up your stinky mouth?" Commander Zheng Kai saw that the two grenadiers were quickly swept to the ground by the vehicle-mounted machine guns, his eyebrows fluttered, and he scolded with a smile: "Don't be killed by the devil, but be nagged to death by your grandson!" Do I lose anything? Note! Three o'clock direction, four hundred meters away, put! ”

"Boom-"

A 37 battle anti-aircraft cannon was killed by Zhang Qien with one shot, "These grandsons are just underdrawn!" He was obviously extremely satisfied with his artillery skills, and continued to nag: "If you don't scold these turtle grandsons who came to China to spread wild, you just don't feel happy in your heart, Lao Zheng, you don't want me to suffocate to death!" ”

"You-"

Zheng Kai smiled bitterly and shook his head helplessly.

Tanks constantly searched for targets of interest, stopped, fired, and advanced, like an impregnable barrier, protecting the anti-aircraft artillery trucks and infantry, all the way to the Hutuo River.

The more they reached the river, the denser the Japanese army became, and the fiercer the battle became, but no matter what, the tanks rushed to the front, destroying all the Japanese who dared to resist.

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It's close, it's finally close!

Finally saw the true face of the opponent clearly, this elite division that continued to advance under the guidance of the Flying Fox battle flag was engraved with the Flying Fox logo in the conspicuous position of the tank and anti-aircraft artillery vehicle, which is a unique symbol of the An Family Army!

An Jiajun! It was An Jiajun who defeated himself! No wonder they fought so bravely, their equipment was so advanced, their firepower was so powerful, and their tactics were so advanced, and they were defeated in the hands of An Jiajun, who had defeated many of their predecessors, and defeat did not seem to be as difficult to accept as imagined!

However, the bravery of the enemy is only an external factor, and what makes people feel the most painful is the imperial warriors who have always been brave, fearless, and tenacious, why do they look so ...... in front of An Jiajun today Shame on you! From rout to infighting, and then ruthlessly wiped out! I've seen all the ugliness today! Do you really want to be here today to pledge your allegiance to the emperor?

Seki Kameji and Murakami Keisaku put down their binoculars with mixed feelings, glanced at each other, and sat down on the ground with pale faces.

At this moment, the two lieutenant generals of the Imperial Army knew very well in their hearts: with the confirmation that the opponent was the invincible An Jia Army, it was already a sure thing that the troops led by themselves would be completely annihilated. The rest is the so-called fight for the so-called honor of the military.

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The positions held by the Japanese troops on the entire Hutuo River disappeared little by little.

Heavy artillery has been constantly bombarding the positions of the Japanese army, and simple fortifications, where can they withstand the *** of 120mm and 150mm grenades? The speed of the collapse of the Japanese army is getting faster and faster, more and more people are dying, and many devil soldiers who have stopped internal strife and stubbornly resisted have just established fire points, and they have been uprooted and swept away by tanks and anti-aircraft artillery vehicles one by one.

All the guns and ammunition were all gone, and the Japanese army was also divided and surrounded by the tank troops near the river, Zou Jie threw away the general-purpose machine gun in his hand and lay weakly in the devil's trench, panting for breath like Tian Wen, the deputy shooter who was leaning against the wall of the trench.

"This battle is over here!"

Zou Jie squinted slightly, using the captured devil telescope to observe the troops that had broken into the various encirclements of the Japanese army one after another, and in the tone of a strategist and philosopher, he chattered to Tian Wen, who was lying in the trench panting.

"Poof—"

Zou Jie was a little angry, he heard this snoring sound as "no", and said in his heart, how can he question my professional vision? He turned his head, and was about to teach this new old brother, but he saw a scene that made him sad - Tian Wen fell asleep deeply, his eyes were closed tightly, his mouth was wide open, and the sound of "poof" was constantly squeezed out of his throat.

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Seki Kameji and Murakami Keisaku are both dead, these two lieutenant generals of the Japanese Army, at least, they died with dignity - according to the wishes of the two, they committed suicide by disembowelment like a real samurai!

The two of them had calm smiles on their faces, obviously they did not leave any regrets before they died, and the truth that the soldiers inevitably died before the battle was known from the day they joined the army. Conquering foreign frontiers and bringing great honor to themselves and their families, isn't the horse leather shroud the best destination for samurai?

Finally, it's time to go home.

Li Jun saw Seki Kameji and Murakami Keisaku wearing kimonos printed with the family logo, and their faces were so calm and very angry.

"Little devil of dog day, why do you just think about death, you are a little afraid of death, don't you let me make a merit of capturing the lieutenant general alive? Hey, it's all in vain, and it's just dead, what kind of thing? ”

While scolding, Li Jun instructed the guards to convey the news of the complete annihilation of Guan Guzhi and the remnants of Murakami's Kaizuo on the Hutuo River to the military headquarters and the group army headquarters.

Yang Jiuxiao and Qu Muchen were very surprised by the suicides of Guan Guizhi and Murakami, but they felt extremely reasonable when they thought about it, suffering such a big fiasco, even if they fled back, they would inevitably become scapegoats and be guillotined, it was better to die like this, and they could bring honor to themselves and their families.

The battle on the Hutuo River is basically over, but the battle in the north of Xinkou is not over, a group of Japanese troops, with brigades and squadrons as the core, relying on sections of not wide fortifications, continue to resist stubbornly, but the main force of the Japanese army was raped, and even the division commander died two, the overall situation has been decided, Yang Jiuxiao no longer intends to waste time on these small shrimps.

After an hour of cleaning the battlefield, all the trucks that drove into the battlefield were fully loaded, and the soldiers were full of long guns and short guns, and then under the guidance and leadership of armored vehicles, they regrouped, slowly went north, and entered Yuanping County before dark.

You must know that the high-intensity fighting for two days and one night in a row has greatly consumed the physical strength of the soldiers, and fuel and ammunition are also urgently needed.

Of course, ammunition is relatively easy to say, after all, a lot of good things have just been pulled back from the battlefield, although the weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army do not match the system of the Anjia Army, but it is no problem to use them in a short period of time. The problem now is that the fuel cannot be replenished in time, and these tanks, anti-aircraft artillery trucks and transport trucks are all serious fuel guzzlers, and the rate of fuel consumption is extremely alarming. At present, the fuel reserves of the various departments are basically exhausted, and the ammunition for heavy artillery and tanks is also seriously insufficient, and of course, the loss of personnel is also extremely painful.

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When the Battle of Xinkou began, the battle in the north of Yuanping County was also extremely fierce, and the troops moving south from Dai County and Lao County were blocked by the New Fifth Division on the north side of the railway line. The Japanese commander was severely reprimanded by Hideki Tojo and had to take the county town of Yuanping as quickly as possible and rush to the aid of the Japanese army north of Xinkou, so the 75mm mountain guns and 90mm mortars equipped by the Japanese army competed with each other.

Because the artillery regiment was pulled to destroy the Japanese troops north of Xinkou, and the howitzer battalions of each regiment were transferred at the same time, the officers and men of the New Fifth Division could only use mortars to confront the Japanese army.

The Japanese commander was extremely anxious, heard the rapid gunfire from the south, and without making adequate preparations, the artillery fire began to suppress the position of the New Fifth Division.

Previously, this was the defensive position of Chen Changjie's department guarding Yuanping, but now after overnight repairs, the original position has been fully utilized, and the anti-artillery hole has also been consolidated and deepened, so the small and medium-caliber artillery equipped by the devils has not caused any substantial losses to the soldiers.

As soon as the artillery fire of the devils stopped, the soldiers in the anti-artillery holes immediately entered the trenches, and the devil soldiers encountered fierce fire that they had never encountered before.

Mortars, grenades, and heavy machine guns formed a line of death, and the devils quickly retreated after leaving many corpses. The fighters immediately withdrew from their positions and retreated into the anti-artillery holes to avoid the artillery fire of the devils.

The devils shelled, attacked, and retreated again and again, repeating it several times, but with no effect. At this time, the Japanese commanders were really anxious, they could not afford to delay, and immediately changed their tactics, and even resorted to the group charge that was expressly prohibited by the Japanese regulations, trying to concentrate all their forces and tear through the defense line of the New Fifth Division.

In modern warfare, the human factor alone can no longer form an advantage over the side with a small number of people with strong firepower. The New Fifth Division concentrated all mortars and rocket launchers to inflict devastating damage on the devils.

When a large number of devils rushed to the front of the position, grenades like hail flew all over the sky and fell into the group of devils, and real corpses were scattered all over the field.

Before sunset, the devils stopped attacking. The hustle and bustle of the battlefield was a rare calm.

The devils' increasingly frenzied attacks have put tremendous pressure on the officers and men of the New Fifth Division. This pressure is not only combat pressure, but also psychological. There are a large number of recruits in the New Fifth Division, and they are naturally unstoppable in good times, but in the face of tough battles, there will be a psychological imbalance in a short period of time.

The continuous battles brought great psychological pressure to the fighters.

It seems that the devil soldiers will never be finished, and if you kill one, there will be more devils pressing towards you, and each time it gets closer and closer. Although they are called devils, everyone knows that they are flesh and blood people like themselves.

Facing death at such close range, the person who was alive just now was turned into a corpse or minced flesh in his own hands almost instantly. Blood splashing everywhere, colorful body fluids, strange-shaped organs and tissues, everything is right in front of your eyes, and you can see it when you raise your eyes.

In addition to the smoke and flames of war on the battlefield, there is also a stronger smell of blood.

All this constitutes a great psychological stimulation for the soldiers.

In the gap of the battle, more and more soldiers chose to be silent, without the tension and excitement at the beginning, no one was like the beginning, exaggerating and boasting about the results of yesterday's capture of Yuanping, laughing and scolding and slandering others' achievements, and laughing at the various unbearable performances of the comrades around them in the battle without any scruples.

All of this was gone, except for the "click" of metal, which was the sound of bullets pressing into the magazines, chains, and drums.

At this moment, the "click" sound seems to have become the rhythm of everyone's life, drilling into the body from each pore of oneself, resonating with one's cranial cavity, chest cavity and all cavities, gradually amplifying and enhancing in the body, stirring in everyone's body, as if to devour them cleanly.