Chapter 1198: Anti-Tank Trenches
Huizhou, the headquarters of the 104th Division of the Japanese Army, the commander of the Lieutenant General Division, Kizaburo Hamamoto, was standing in front of the map at this time, he looked at the map with a solemn expression on his face.
Not far away, the sound of artillery kept coming, and Kizaburo Hamamoto's brow furrowed tightly, and he realized that he was beginning to encounter the main Chinese army.
At present, there are only two infantry wings of the brigade in Huizhou, but these infantry have to defend a large area, if it is the Chinese infantry who comes to attack, Hamamoto Kizaburo will not have any nervousness, but according to the report of the front-line troops, the Chinese troops have begun to assemble armored troops, which makes him the most nervous.
He knew very well that only Sun Weiguo's troops had armored troops in the Chinese army, and Sun Weiguo relied on armored troops to win several battles.
Even though he still has auxiliary troops such as baggage soldiers and engineers in his division headquarters, he is still very worried about facing Sun Weiguo's armored troops.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, we have already contacted the headquarters, and the army headquarters has begun to dispatch artillery units to support us."
At this time, Chief of Staff Osa began to come to Kizaburo Hamamoto, and he saluted and reported to Kizaburo Hamamoto.
"Boom, boom." A huge explosion began to sound, this explosion was louder than before, and after hearing the explosion, Kizaburo Hamamoto's brows furrowed tightly.
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, this is the sound of our 150MM howitzer exploding, and the Chinese troops have used heavy artillery."
After the chief of staff of Osa, hearing the explosion, he said with a panicked expression on his face.
As the artillery brigade began to participate in the war, under the command of Liang Zerui and Chen Haojie, two artillery regiments of the artillery brigade began to participate in the battle.
At present, Sun Weiguo has incorporated all his family resources into the army, and these two artillery regiments are heavy artillery regiments, the first regiment has 36 150MM Japanese howitzers, and the second regiment has 36 German-made 155MM German-made howitzers.
As the artillery brigade began to enter the battle, seventy-two howitzers began to carry out a full-scale shelling of the Japanese positions, and the barbed wire was blown up in an instant, and mines and anti-tank mines were also detonated.
The artillery units of the little devils did not counterattack for a long time, and the shelling of the Chinese troops lasted for more than half an hour, and at 8:15 in the morning, the troops of the 201st Division began to attack the Japanese positions.
The two armored battalions of the 5th Armored Regiment opened a long queue, the Armored Infantry Regiment and the Mechanized Infantry Regiment followed, the Honorary 8th Regiment and the Honorary 9th Regiment of the Honorable 4th Division were all engaged in the battle, and tens of thousands of troops began to charge towards the Japanese position.
There were still many bunker and bunker firepower points at the front of the main Japanese position, but at this time, these firepower points did not play any role at all for tanks.
"Da-da-da-da." The Japanese heavy machine guns began to fire, but the bullets of the heavy machine guns clanged on the tank, and there was no damage at all.
With a "boom", a No. 4 tank began to fire armor-piercing shells, which hit the Devil's Bunker directly, and the Devil's Bunker was destroyed on the spot.
The tanks drove forward, followed by armored infantry regiments in armored vehicles and mechanized infantry regiments in trucks and motorcycles.
"Squadron leader, our light and heavy machine guns simply cannot pose a threat to tanks, what should we do now."
The devil soldiers in the forward position of the Japanese army were completely panicked, their light and heavy machine guns did not do any damage to the tanks at all, and seeing the tanks approaching, the devil soldiers were very panicked.
The Japanese officers were also limited in what they could do, and they could only order their troops to start preparing explosives packs and anti-tank guns.
As the No. 4 tanks began to approach the Japanese bunkers, a ghost soldier began to rush towards the tank with an explosive bag, and the anti-tank guns began to shoot.
"Da-da-da-da." The tank's machine guns began to strafe, and the Devil soldiers were completely killed by the tank as soon as they jumped out of the trenches.
Tank No. 4 began to easily cross the Japanese forward positions, and they quickly advanced towards the main Japanese positions.
An infantry battalion of the 104th Wing of the Japanese 104th Division did not hold out for an hour before they were completely annihilated.
The tanks are rapidly advancing towards the main position of the Japanese army, and as long as the tank troops capture the main position of the Japanese army, then Huizhou will be under the muzzle of the tank guns.
The operation went very smoothly, and the division commander Fang Chaoqun and the deputy division commander Jiang Quan, who commanded the troops to fight, were all on the front line to command the troops to fight.
Within a dozen kilometers, tanks, armored vehicles, trucks, motorcycles quickly moved to the front.
The main position of the Japanese army is only 108 Wing, but they have to defend a large area, facing an armored regiment, an armored infantry regiment, a mechanized infantry regiment, and two infantry regiments attacking, the pressure of the Japanese 108 Wing can be imagined.
"Contact Your Excellency the division commander immediately, whether you can immediately put the 170th Wing into the battlefield, now the situation is too critical, relying on the 108th Wing alone, it is simply impossible to resist the attack of the Chinese troops." Ken Matsumoto, the commander of the 107th Brigade Major General, looked at the tank troops charging ahead, and he said with a solemn expression.
"Your Excellency the brigade commander, the division commander ordered the immediate activation of anti-tank trenches." At this time, a staff officer immediately came to Ken Matsumoto and said.
"Immediately order the troops, start the anti-tank trenches." Ken Matsumoto immediately began to give orders and said.
The Japanese infantry began to move, they quickly abandoned the main position, and they abandoned the main position.
"Boom, boom." Immediately afterwards, a huge explosion began to sound, and the main position of the Japanese army began to sink into a cloud of gunsmoke.
The Japanese troops dug anti-tank trenches in front of the main position, which were covered with planks and soil, and could not be reconnoitred even when they reached the front, and here in the main position, the Japanese buried the explosive packs, and as the explosive packs were detonated, anti-tank trenches began to appear.
A trench four meters deep and five meters wide appeared in front of the tank, which intercepted the tank's path.
The Japanese units began to withdraw, tank after tank armored vehicles began to stop, and they simply could not cross this trench.
The order that Ando Toshikichi got was to contain Sun Weiguo's troops, and Ando Toshikichi also knew that the most powerful thing about Sun Weiguo's troops was the armored force, so he was ready for this.
Here in the main position, Ando Toshiyoshi dug an anti-tank trench, and he was ready to immediately detonate the explosive pack when the main position was lost, so as to use the anti-tank trench to block Sun Weiguo's tank troops, even if they did not encounter tank troops, the Japanese army could use this trench to give their troops a chance to re-defend.
"Division commander, there are anti-tank trenches ahead, and the tanks are ......," a communications soldier immediately came to the division commander Fang Chaoqun to report.
"Ordered the tank units to disperse and begin to detour to the sides, and the troops immediately became hidden." Fang Chaoqun didn't wait for the communication soldier to finish reporting, he immediately began to give orders.