Chapter 793: Armor Breakthrough

Gao Yuan said that to break through the defense line of the little devils, it is necessary not to wait for the opportunity, not to save artillery shells, to use tanks when there is one, and to rush when there is a gap.

After receiving the report that Wang Laohu was in control of Niushan Town, Gao Yuan Daxi, the commander of the 1st Jiao Brigade, who was in command of the assault troops, reported to Liu Yimin and urged the baggage troops to speed up, and on the other hand, strictly ordered the armored regiment and the 1st Regiment that crossed the Dasha River to storm the Japanese defense line on the Longhai Road between Hongzhuang and Niushan, and at the same time ordered the artillery regiment of the 1st Brigade to concentrate artillery fire and bombard the defense line of the devils for 10 minutes.

In the battle of sweeping through the Suzhou-Anhui region, the armored regiment basically belonged to the division and cooperation of various units. This time, the whole regiment went north with the main force, and the regiment commander Zhao Dahe and political commissar Wang Ping had long planned to take on the main attack task when breaking through the defense line of Longhai Road to reduce the casualties of the infantry. What they didn't expect was that the Japanese army would set a trap here in an attempt to flank our southbound troops. After Zhao Dahe received the order, he said to the political commissar Wang Ping: "The little devil actually wants to rely on the defense line formed by the trenches and the Ming Diaobao to block the main force of the instructor, he simply doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!" This time, Lao Tzu wants to teach them a lesson, let them know that this kind of defense against light infantry is simply vulnerable in front of the armored group! ”

After the establishment of the armored regiment, it served as an assault mission in the Battle of Taixi, and with the cooperation of the artillery group, it was majestic and unstoppable. Not to mention the regiment commander Zhao Dahe, almost all the cadres and soldiers are eager to find an opportunity to fight another battle and call the name of the armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army in front of the whole army.

Although Wang Ping is an old Red Army cadre who has fought and fought old, he is accustomed to seeing life and death, fighting and killing, and his heart is already undisturbed. However, he is a soldier after all, and a soldier is to win. commanding the most advanced armored regiment in the whole army, at this time, it was the Japanese army setting up, and in front of him was the muzzle of a black hole, so he was naturally bleeding and eager to try.

Looking at the sky, Wang Ping said: "The nearest airport for the little devil is Xuzhou Airport, which is very close from here. We must hurry up our actions to completely destroy the Japanese defense line before the Japanese planes arrive, and then we can maneuver to avoid the bombing of the Japanese planes. ”

The location of the armored regiment is in Ahu Town, south of Shihu, about 10 kilometers away from Longhai Road, and after crossing the Dasha River, there will be no major river blocking, and with the cross-country ability of the tank, it can completely wade across the river. These circumstances had already been investigated, and the first time they went south to implement the Morning Glory tactic, the instructors were well aware of the terrain in this area.

Zhao Dahe and Wang Ping directly deployed the first-line maps of Hongzhuang, Shihu, and Niushan drawn by the reconnaissance company of the brigade headquarters. This time, Zhao Dahe adopted the method of breaking through in the middle and outflanking the two wings, and wanted to wipe out the little devils who were blocking the front of the Eighth Route Army's northward return in one fell swoop.

Zhao Dahe and Wang Ping's operational plan was simple and practical, and in fact it was to take advantage of the characteristics of the armored units that were fast, had strong firepower, and were not afraid of conventional infantry weapons and positional warfare to bully the weak with the strong.

Gao Yuan quickly approved the battle plan of Zhao Dahe and Wang Ping, and unified the armored vehicles of the 1st and 2nd Regiments and the cars equipped with guard plates under the command of the armored regiment, forming a powerful armored force with tanks as arrows, armored vehicles as auxiliary firepower, and automobiles carrying infantry firepower to concentrate on assault. This kind of deployment, in the current world military circles, is absolutely ahead of its time.

Soon, all the tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the armored regiment, the first regiment, and the second regiment removed their camouflage nets, formed a battle formation, divided into three roads, and ran over to Longhai Road with a roar. By the time Wang Laohu took control of Niushan Town, the armored group of the 1st Brigade had already approached the Longhai line.

After the artillery regiment of the 1st Brigade crossed the Dasha River, the soldiers beat the pack horses as fast as possible, and the artillery wagons galloped on the country road. They knew that the brigade commander had them shell only ten minutes, and that they were going to destroy the Japanese line in ten minutes. Then he quickly shifted his position, quickly passed through the Longhai Road, established a position in the north of the road, and prepared to deal with the large forces of the Japanese army rushing from Xuzhou and Pixian.

After calculating the location of the preset position, the artillery regiment immediately set up the position. At this time, Wang Laohu had already taken control of Niushan Town, and Hu Laohu led the 1st Cavalry Regiment and the Cavalry Brigade Artillery Regiment to Niushan Town. As soon as he arrived in Niushan Town, Hu Laohu ordered the artillery regiment to quickly establish a position and immediately start shelling.

Major General Yoneyama Mikulu, commander of the 22nd Brigade of the Japanese Army, also discovered the cavalry and armored aircraft of the Eighth Route Army, and hoarsely ordered Yokokawa Shitochi Shaosa's mountain artillery team to open fire and open fire in an attempt to stop the powerful assault of the Eighth Route Army.

In a short period of time, the artillery units of Yokogawa Zhizhi Shaozo had good training and good tactical quality, and in a short period of time, the artillery all withdrew their artillery jackets and pushed them to the position, and the muzzles of the guns were raised high, pointing directly at the direction of the Eighth Route Army's attack. With a series of observation data reported by the Japanese artillery observers, Yokokawa Shizuchi Shaozo waved a small flag and issued a series of passwords, and the four mountain guns of the Japanese army opened fire.

At the same time as the Japanese mountain artillery team opened fire, the infantry guns of the 71st Independent Infantry Brigade and the 125th Independent Infantry Brigade also opened fire, including four infantry guns of the 66th Independent Infantry Brigade deployed on the side of Niushan Town and had not yet been captured by the Eighth Route Army, which had died under Wang Laohu's gun. In an instant, the four mountain guns and 12 infantry guns on the Japanese defense line between Hongzhuang, Shihu and Niushan all opened fire, and the shells exploded in front of the Eighth Route Army's armored group marching and in the queue, and the dust and smoke made by the Eighth Route Army filled the sky together, showing the cruelty of the battlefield.

The quality of the Japanese artillery was indeed high, and the shots were very accurate. A car carrying 15 soldiers and equipped with steel guards was hit by Japanese artillery, and 15 soldiers were killed and wounded.

After all, the Japanese artillery was too small to pose much of a threat to the armored group of the Eighth Route Army. After the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army taught the 1st Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade began to roar, the end of the Japanese artillery came.

In artillery combat, the first thing to strike at is the opponent's artillery position.

Major General Miyama Milu, commander of the 22nd Independent Mixed Brigade, originally planned to hide his strength, and when the infantry and cavalry of the Eighth Route Army launched a large-scale attack and attacked the front of the position, he would order artillery and machine gun fire to open fire, so that the corpses of the Eighth Route Army would cover the front of his position. There was nothing wrong with that idea. If the Eighth Route Army only had light firepower as it did in history, he would indeed be able to make the Eighth Route Army run into a bloody mess with an independent mixed brigade. However, the current instructor of the Eighth Route Army does not know how many times more powerful than the heavy firepower of the Eighth Route Army in history, and he still thinks that he is a little naïve to rely on the defense line composed of four mountain guns, 12 infantry guns, three trenches, and clear and hidden forts to intercept the instructor's first brigade, cavalry brigade and new first brigade of the Eighth Route Army.

No, when Major General Mishan Milu saw that Niushan Town had been lost and Hongzhuang and Shihu were in an emergency, and that the armored group of the Eighth Route Army was rumbling towards the defense line of Longhai Road, he decisively ordered the artillery to open fire in a hurry, intending to intercept the Eighth Route Army attack group. This can be regarded as exposing the artillery position and indicating the target to the artillery of the Eighth Route Army. No, the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army, one east and one west, first covered the artillery positions of the Japanese army. The Japanese artillery positions were speechless under the first round of blows by the Eighth Route Army, and then there was a shell explosion. Fortunately, the artillery of the 22nd Brigade Regiment of the Japanese Army was limited and there were not many shells, and the shrapnel flying in the air only harvested the lives of those artillerymen who flaunted their might, and did not cause much damage to the infantry positions.

Major General Miyama Milu saw several artillery positions destroyed, the corpses of the artillerymen flying in the air, and the stumps scattered all over the ground, and then saw the artillerymen who were lucky enough to be alive scurrying in the dust, and his eyes were about to turn out, and he couldn't stop muttering, "So so, so so!" ”

What Major General Yoneyama Milu said was that he finally understood how the 8th Division, the old 10th Division, the 14th Division, and other Japanese division-level troops were broken as a whole. Unfortunately, he woke up too late. If he had understood earlier, he would never have taken three independent infantry brigades to block the attack, at least he should have pulled up the entire brigade and the puppet Manchurian Defense Army under his command, and asked Yamashita to add a wing of artillery.

Major General Yoneyama Milu was destined to spend this evening in surprise, because the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army, which had cleaned up the Japanese artillery positions, began to cover the Japanese defense line for 10 minutes. A salvo of one regiment is forty or fifty rounds of field artillery shells and mountain artillery shells, and two regiments are one hundred and ten shells, so how impressive is the density of firepower, and how can the little devils who are independently mixed into the 22nd Brigade be able to withstand it!

Major General Miyama Milu sadly found that under the bombardment of the powerful artillery fire of the Eighth Route Army, the defensive line he had spent a long time building had become fragmented, and the corpses of the soldiers curled up in the trenches, cowering in pillboxes and bunkers kept flying into the sky, smearing a trace of dirty red on the sky that was originally full of sunset.

If the artillery bombardment of the Eighth Route Army ends here, maybe Major General Miyama Milu will be able to organize troops to resist desperately after dodging the shelling. However, the Eighth Route Army Instructor is a legendary army, and the legend is legendary, always attacking in unexpected places for little devils, and killing with one hit. Just when the two artillery regiments of the Eighth Route Army were wantonly attacking the Japanese defense line from the south of Longhai Road, which was divided into east and west directions, an artillery unit joined the chorus of artillery from the north of the road. The Fifth Brigade of the Eighth Route Army commanded by Hong Chaoyuan arrived, and the artillery regiment of the Fifth Brigade began to launch an artillery bombardment on the Japanese troops on the Longhai Road a few kilometers away. The cannonball made a sharp whistle, slashed through the sky, smashed into the Japanese line, and stuck a knife in the back of the Japanese soldier.

By this time, Major General Yoneyama Mitsuka, who no longer believed in Yamashita Fumi's plan, knew that even if the main forces of the Japanese army from the east and west arrived within an hour, they would not be able to save him from becoming an independent mixed brigade. Hiding in the shelter, his eyes began to roll around and ponder the question of where to go.

The artillery fire coverage of the Eighth Route Army lasted ten minutes and finally stopped. The Japanese officers on the position, who were lucky enough to survive, ran in the trenches, shouting hoarsely, trying to wake up the soldiers who had been stunned by the artillery and prepare for battle.

At this time, the armored group of the Eighth Route Army roared and crushed over.

The one who served as the middle assault arrow of the armored group of the Eighth Route Army was still Yuan Guoguang's platoon. Since the last time he established the honor in the Battle of Taixi, Yuan Guoguang felt that he was so lucky, he was lucky to be in the Eighth Route Army, he was lucky to be transferred to the newly established armored regiment, and he was lucky to be a top platoon, and he was lucky to guide the armored forces into the enemy line in the Battle of Taixi.

Yuan Guoguang did not expect luck to befall him again, and the regiment commander Zhao Dahe ordered him to continue to serve as the middle assault knife platoon of the armored group. This made Yuan Guoguang's excited eyes shine, and even the voice when he gave the order seemed to have a kind of deliberately pretended majesty, which made his comrades-in-arms laugh in their hearts, laughing at the platoon commander for treating himself as a company commander, battalion commander or even a regiment commander.

When Yuan Guoguang commanded the three tanks of his sharp knife platoon to rush into the front-line position of the Japanese army, the little devil may have suffered too heavy casualties, or he may have not been confused from the artillery shelling, and the gunfire of the counterattack was very weak. Three-eight large covers, crooked machine gun bullets hit the tank, fluttering and falling down.

Yuan Guoguang didn't pay attention to these little devils who blocked the tank with rifles and light machine guns, and ordered loudly through the on-board radio: "Run over, run over, maintain speed, insert into the devil's next line of defense, and talk to the devil with machine guns and tracks!" Use artillery to kill the devil's bunkers and bunkers, and clear the obstacles for the cavalry and infantry to clean up the remnants of the enemy. ”

Major General Miyama Milu, who was pondering where to go in the cover department, saw the hordes of tanks of the Eighth Route Army breaking through his first line of defense and killing the second line of defense, and he didn't think about it anymore, so he immediately ordered the little devils of the second and third lines of defense to blow up the tanks of the Eighth Route Army with grenades and explosives bags.

This order is a bit cruel, purely risking the lives of soldiers to block the tracks of the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army. But Major General Miyama Milu had no choice, his independent mixed 22nd Brigade and Standing Division could not be compared, there were no tanks to attack the Eighth Route Army Armored Group, nor did he have anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns, let alone training in subjects such as making Molotov cocktails, and the only trick to deal with the Eighth Route Army Armored Group was a meat bullet attack.

Major General Miyama Milu regretted it until his death that the artillery of the Eighth Route Army had severely damaged his three infantry brigades, and the fierce artillery fire had taken away the martial spirit and spirit of the soldiers. Only a few officers and soldiers still had the slightest determination to die for His Majesty the Emperor, holding explosives bags and grenades, howling, fearlessly rushing at the tanks of the Eighth Route Army that had broken into the position. The ending can be imagined, either by the machine guns on the tank into a hornet's nest, or by the machine guns on the armored vehicles and cars that follow behind the tank into a bloody gourd.

Major General Miyama Milu has completely opened his eyes and knows what an armored assault is. He closed his eyes, dictated a farewell message to Lieutenant General Yamashita Fumi, chief of staff of the North China Front, and Lieutenant General Iida Sadagu, commander of the 12th Army, and then ordered the radio station to be blown up, the military flag and code book to be burned, to evacuate the position, and to disperse and break through.

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