Chapter 656: Armored Assault (continued)

The main wing of the 35th Division of the Japanese Army has always played the role of emergency vanguard. But at the end of the day, the 219th Wing had already suffered more than half of the casualties. After replenishment, the combat effectiveness was basically restored, but as a result, it was hit by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and the troops suffered heavy casualties, and they had long ceased to be an organization. The reason why Maeda Osamu chose the 219th Wing to serve as the rear of the palace to block and cover the task was because they suffered too many casualties, and they wanted to use the method of breaking the wrist of a strong man to exchange a broken wing for a broken and incomplete wing for the successful retreat of the main force of the division.

After receiving the order to take up the task of blocking the rear of the palace, the 219th Wing was not ambiguous, and immediately turned around and organized resistance on the spot. However, all this seemed so pale and powerless in the face of the group assault of the armored forces of the Eighth Route Army, not to mention the dead, the living little devils watched the roaring chariots, armored vehicles, and automobiles of the Eighth Route Army run over the retreating main force of the 35th Division.

Yuan Guoguang was a native of Tai'an and originally served as a low-ranking officer in the Han Fuqu Department. After Han Fuqu gave up Shandong and retreated, Yuan Guoguang led dozens of his brothers to stay in Shandong to fight guerrillas. After the main force of the Eighth Route Army advanced eastward, Yuan Guoguang led the guerrillas to join the Eighth Route Army.

This Yuan Guoguang is also a genius, what weapon will be disassembled and assembled in his hands three times or twice. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army had motorcycles, automobiles, armored vehicles, and tanks, he wanted to be a tank soldier. After he arrived at the Second Regiment, he was able to drive a tank to fight with a simple training, which made the cadres and soldiers of the Second Regiment regard him as a monster. He participated in the Luzhong Campaign, the 10th Division of the Japanese Army in the Jilu Border, and the Jiaoji Road Campaign, and was also awarded for his skillful skills, brave attacks, and many enemy annihilations. Now, he has become the platoon commander of the first armored battalion and one company of the armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army, commanding three tanks.

After breaking through the little devil's blocking line, Yuan Guoguang led his tank platoon to increase his horsepower and chased after the retreat of the 35th Division.

The 35th Division was now in chaos, and those who rode cars, rode horses, and ran away rushed along the main roads and paths towards the position of the 14th Division in the Feizhong Mountain Valley.

Yuan Guoguang stretched his body out of the turret in the gap of stopping strafing and shelling, and glanced at the battlefield, only to see that the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army was still shelling, and the shells were divided into several groups and smashed in different directions. Yuan Guoguang knew that this was the result of the guidance of artillery observers who had long been hidden in tunnels and villages. No matter where the little devils flee, they will be targeted by the artillery group, blowing them apart, and they will not form a group force.

Yuan Guoguang had a whim, this little devil is really a fucking transportation captain, look at the equipment of the instructor of the Eighth Route Army, the little devil has what the Eighth Route Army has. Moreover, the equipment of the devil is in the hands of the Eighth Route Army, and it can exert its combat effectiveness better than in the hands of the Japanese army, as if the instructors and cadres of the Eighth Route Army are more familiar with the equipment of the little devils. Like its own tank, the Japanese army called it a chariot, and the Eighth Route Army called a tank. Originally, the tanks of the Japanese army did not have communication equipment, and the communication between the tanks relied on the flag, agreement, and tacit understanding. In the hands of the Eighth Route Army, a vehicle-mounted radio station was installed, which not only could communicate with each other in real time, but also the tanks could communicate with the artillery units and infantry units, and the entire unit was connected as a whole and commanded as desired. From this point of view, I am afraid that military theorists all over the world could not have imagined that the Eighth Route Army would be so advanced. It's ridiculous that the little devil still called such an advanced army Tubalu a few times, and he didn't know how to die when he was fucking dead

Looking at the formation of the devils running away from a distance, Yuan Guoguang was amused in his heart, the little devils of the dog day also had the 100,000 troops they scared Han Fuqu into fleeing in a hurry back then, feng shui took turns, and now it was their turn to run away. Who would have thought that a division, with nearly 20,000 horses, would attack for a day, and the cannon would be so unbearable. This is a bit like street gangsters, playing singles, dancing with their teeth and claws, jumping their feet and scolding, and the earth-shaking sound of cowhide blowing, once they meet someone who can clean them up, they will immediately smear oil on the soles of their feet, drill out of the cracks of people, and run away with their heads.

The division commanders, brigade commanders, and wing commanders of the Japanese army should not have been Japanese gangsters who did not study hard since childhood and only went to military school in desperation, right?

No one would have imagined that on this battlefield of fire and blood, a small platoon commander of an armored vehicle of the Eighth Route Army would have such a whimsical idea

Retracting his body and closing the turret, Yuan Guoguang ordered his three tanks to change formation through the radio and form a column to intersperse in the middle of the devil's retreat, dividing the enemy so that the troops that followed up could encircle and annihilate the devil.

From the attack of the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army to the assault group of the Eighth Route Army, to the retreat of Osamu Maeda, to the crushing of the main force of the 2nd and 35th Divisions of the Eighth Route Army Assault Group, they actually did not run far at all, not to mention that they were intercepted by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army, and they couldn't run away if they wanted to.

The commander of the 35th Division, Osamu Maeda, did not even sit in his car, and sat in an armored car with the chief of staff and the commander of the 13th Independent Mixed Brigade, Morita Masafumi, with a radio, and retreated westward behind the two tanks. In the beginning, it was going well. Later, it didn't work, and the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army discovered the remnants of the retreating 35th Division and began to carry out interception and artillery bombardment. This fight broke up Osamu Maeda's retreating team, one in the east and one in the west. Seeing that if he continued to run like this, the whole division might be scattered, and the scene of the rout on the Jilu border would be repeated, Maeda didn't dare to run like this anymore. He knew that as soon as the troops were dispersed, the soldiers would become sheep and be slaughtered by the Eighth Route Army. Even if he could run to the 14th Division and not be captured or killed by the Eighth Route Army, he would not be able to escape the military justice of the Japanese army. You must know that he has offended a major general like Shanshanyuan, and if he sits back and watches the army rout, not to mention others, Shanshanyuan and Iida Sadagu will not let him go.

Maeda simply stopped running, and asked the chief of staff and Morita Masahomi to continue to retreat in armored vehicles with military flags, and went to the 14th Division to urge Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii to quickly send a convoy to meet the 35th Division, and asked the heavy artillery brigade to quickly open fire to destroy the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army and the assault group of the Eighth Route Army, and cover the retreat of the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Army. He also asked Lieutenant General Takamasa Sekii to attach importance to the attack strength of the Eighth Route Army, and quickly ordered the troops to build strong fortifications and prepare for a protracted battle. He himself got out of the car and asked the signal corps to send orders to all troops, gather the troops, hold on to the spot, and take advantage of the night to resolutely repel the assault of the Eighth Route Army.

Looking at Maeda Osamu with a resolute look, Morita Masahomi knew that he had made up his mind to the death, the Eighth Route Army had such a powerful firepower and such a powerful force, if it could hold on, would it be necessary to order a retreat just now?

Morita Masaho was a little ashamed, so he didn't run anymore and got out of the car with Maeda. The two men crawled on the ground, muttered for a long time, and decided to order the troops to seize the surrounding villages and hold on to the villages. As long as they wait for the heavy artillery brigade to launch an artillery bombardment, they can temporarily disrupt the offensive of the pursuing troops of the Eighth Route Army and give them time to organize their troops.

The two old devils Maeda Osamu and Morita Masaho are dizzy, they haven't thought it through until now, if the heavy artillery brigade could still fight, they would have opened fire a long time ago, and they still need to urge again and again? If the 14th Division could still be deployed calmly, it would have come to support them a long time ago, so where would he need to send a chief of staff to supervise?

In fact, the 14th Division is now also roasting on the fire.

Sekii Takamasa commanded the 14th Division to launch an all-out attack on the positions of the Eighth Route Army in the Feizhong Mountains, preparing to break through the defense line of the Eighth Route Army in one fell swoop, so that it could go north to Jinan along the road. As soon as the troops attacked, they were heavily shelled by the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army.

Considering that the 14th Division was already mechanized and had many artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, and automobiles, the artillery group of the 14th Division organized by Li Chang was a field artillery regiment, and the Flying Thunder Artillery Regiment of the Artillery Brigade was strengthened to Zhao Shan's Eighth Brigade, which was under Zhao Shan's command. Six field artillery regiments, each regiment has 48 field guns, a total of 288 field guns, and five salvos means that the 14th Division has been mechanized, and its combat effectiveness is strong, once they break through the defense line of the blocking group, the consequences are unimaginable, that is, they turn around and go south, and the consequences are also very terrible. Li Chang's strict order to all artillery regiments was that there was no need to worry about running out of shells for continuous artillery bombardment, and anyway, the Eighth Route Army Arsenal could continuously reload artillery shells and replenish as many shells as they wanted, without saving artillery shells for the division commander. Beat hard until the 14th Division was knocked to its stomach.

As a result, the 14th Division, which was on the offensive on all fronts, also fell into a nightmare. Not only Maeda Osamu and Morita Masahomi hoped that the heavy artillery brigade would open fire soon, but Sekii Takamasa was also constantly urging the heavy artillery group to open fire

Maeda Osamu and Morita Masafumi's attempts were doomed to fail, because not only the artillery group of the Eighth Route Army was aiming at him, but also the assault group of the Eighth Route Army was aiming at him.

Just when Yuan Guoguang ordered his three tanks to form a column to quickly assault and divide the Japanese participating troops, Zhao Dahe, the commander of the armored regiment, also ordered the whole regiment to use one battalion and one company as arrows to form a sharp triangle, fiercely wedge into the little devils, and break the devils' retreating formation in half.

At this time, it no longer makes much sense for the artillery group to shell the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade from a distance. The thunder of the Plateau of the assault group, Li Qing and the East group invariably demanded that Li Chang stop the shelling, and the artillery group quickly followed up and prepared to cooperate in the battle to destroy the 14th Division.

As for the 35th Division and the 13th Brigade of the Independent Mixed Brigade, in the eyes of Gao Yuan, Li Qing, Hu Laohu, and Lei Ming, they no longer exist.

This is not the arrogance of Gao Yuan and Li Qing, the fact is there, the powerful assault group pounced, so many machine guns, tank guns, vehicle-mounted infantry guns, and small steel guns, the 35th Division should also be defeated, if they can still escape, the world will really be chaotic.

Osamu Maeda and Masahomi Morita had just discussed and were about to give an order to the soldiers crawling beside them, when the tanks of the Eighth Route Army armored regiment rushed up. The tank formation was like an iron plow, ploughing from north to south through the broken formation of the little devils, and the tongues of fire from the machine guns on the cars beat the little devils into dirt that turned to both sides. There were little devil soldiers who were not convinced, turned around and threw grenades or picked up machine guns to sweep, but the grenades could not be blown up on the tracks and had no effect at all, and the machine gun bullets hit the protective armor of the tank with a clanging sound, and dropped the warhead. Some tanks and armored vehicles that were wrapped in the rout of the devils stopped fleeing and turned their heads to fight with the tanks of the Eighth Route Army, in an attempt to destroy the tanks of the Eighth Route Army and stop the momentum of the armored assault of the Eighth Route Army.

The armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army almost turned a blind eye to these useless resistances, and only when they encountered the remnants of the Japanese tanks and armored vehicles would they rush up. The rest of the little devil infantry were not in the eyes of the armored regiment at all, and what was dealt with was the machine guns on the tanks and the machine guns on the armored vehicles and cars that came later.

The three tanks led by Yuan Guoguang were the arrows of the entire Eighth Route Army assault group. Right now. The orders of the regiment commander, the battalion commander, and the company commander all reached his ears through the on-board radio: "Forward, forward, forward, speed first, breakthrough first." ”

Yuan Guoguang carried out the orders of the regiment commander, battalion commander, and company commander to the fullest, letting the machine gunner control the front-mounted heavy machine gun to shoot non-stop, and control the tank gun himself, and ordered the driver to drive at full speed and crush the little devil under the track.

When the combat has developed to such an extent, the technical content is relatively low. Because the little devils were blown up by the artillery group and turned into a rout, the remnants of the troops were defeated and lost their formation, and they fled and coaxed, and the Eighth Route Army assault group was like a sheep, pressing behind, chasing the little devils to flee to the southwest. Now, the armored regiment has changed its tactics, and sharp attack arrows are shooting in from the middle of the devil's rout, and the little devils who are fleeing for their lives naturally run to both sides in order to avoid the fire of the armored regiment. On both sides, the firepower net of the follow-up troops of the Eighth Route Army was waiting for the net, and the entire battlefield became a slaughterhouse, bloody.

Seeing this scene, Maeda couldn't help but stand up, pulled out his command knife, and shouted loudly in Japanese: "Go to the village, go to the village and occupy the village, the dirt road will not destroy the village"

Seeing Osamu Maeda standing and shouting hoarsely, Morita Masaho hurriedly stood up and pulled him, and the two of them rolled into a trench that had been abandoned in the past.

Unwilling, Maeda stood up again, brandished his command knife, intercepted a small group of retreating soldiers, and ordered them to organize a shooting immediately.

The dignified lieutenant general of the Japanese Army, turned into a squad leader, waved his command knife, pointed at the tanks of the armored regiment of the Eighth Route Army, and kept shouting in Japanese: "Shoot, shoot"

Osamu Maeda: This is looking for death

The tank commanded by Yuan Guoguang rolled all the way, and the tank tracks were stained with blood, I don't know how many souls were added to the ****. Through the commander's periscope, he saw that there was still a little devil position in front of him, and machine guns and rifles were constantly firing, so Yuan Guoguang loudly ordered the driver to adjust the direction, rush up, and crush the little devil to death

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