Some things could have been avoided, just like the Japanese army could appear here so smoothly and threaten the back of the Hebei Anti-Japanese Army, as long as Han Fuju's fighting spirit was a little higher, it was enough to strangle the threat brought by the Japanese army.

And some things are unavoidable, such as the battle in front of them, the North China Front gritted its teeth and wanted to leave the main forces of Yang Hucheng and Zhao Tieshu's group army behind and cut off their way back. And Sun Liren once again played the role of the fire team. After several previous collisions, the main forces of both sides came one after another, the Japanese army had to rush for time, and Sun Liren also had to fight.

So after several collisions, after the two sides have been reorganized several times, this duel that finally determines the direction of the entire war has also begun, although the total number of troops on both sides is only about 20,000, but it is related to the life and death of more than 100,000 soldiers of the two group armies.

The bloodstained blue sky and white sun flag cracked in the wind. Heavy tracks press against the relatively soft dirt and roll forward. The roaring engine rang out.

When the two steel torrents converged in their respective camps one after another, at this moment, both the Japanese army and the 2nd Mechanized Brigade were filled with a suppressed and majestic momentum. Looking at one tank after another, when the armored vehicles rolled forward, they all had the confidence that they could attack the enemy in front of them.

"Fire!" Before the two armies entered into substantial contact, the artillery of both sides was the first to come into full force.

Since the beginning of the war, although the Northwest Army has always attached importance to artillery construction, it has always been the losing side in heavy artillery. After all, artillery is the accumulation of a country's industrial strength, and there is no shortage of resources in the northwest, but it lacks the foundation accumulated over decades in Japan. If it weren't for the fact that Jiang Li had taken advantage of the traverser over the years. Continued injection of large amounts of capital into the Northwest. Introduce a large number of talents. Even if there is some weather in the northwest, it will never even show a situation like this, which can match the Japanese army on a frontal battlefield. Although it was still losing ground one after another, it could be regarded as holding back the pace of the Japanese army, and there was not a situation of collapse, but it was resisting according to the terrain and the defensive line.

It's just that the gap in industrial strength is manifested everywhere on the battlefield, including the number of tanks, armored vehicles, the number of aircraft. And the number of heavy artillery and so on. Therefore, even if the Northwest Army presided over the battle situation at this time, it could only use the relatively superior forces to drag the Japanese army forward, and the casualties paid were very heavy.

Transporting heavy artillery and shells to the battlefield was also a very troublesome task. HOWEVER, THIS TIME SUN LIREN DID NOT COMPLETELY RELY ON HIS OWN TOWED ARTILLERY REGIMENT TO FIGHT AGAINST THE JAPANESE ARMY'S HEAVY ARTILLERY, ALTHOUGH THE NUMBER WAS STILL INSUFFICIENT, BUT THE 6 105MM HOWITZERS ALSO GAVE SUN LIREN A LITTLE MORE CONFIDENCE IN HIS HANDS.

The positions of both sides shook like a mountain under artillery fire, and the usually soft soil was all lifted into the air at this time, as well as the corpses of the Northwest Army.

The artillery of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade was naturally not indifferent to the suppressive shelling of the Japanese artillery, although the firepower of the return fire was a little lacking, after all, the sewing strength was only less than two-thirds of that of the Japanese army. But this gap on the battlefield is not fatal. In addition, those who can enter the mechanized brigade are the elite of the Northwest Army, although after the First World War in Langfang. A large number of soldiers were reorganized, but these reconstituted soldiers were all trained in military affairs.

And Sun Liren, who retreated to Anyang, also trained for a few months. After several battles, it gradually began to train, and the Japanese army on the opposite side also replenished a large number of soldiers, after all, the losses of the Japanese combat troops in the Hebei battlefield were not small. In the face of the two warring sides where the gap is not too great, it is always very realistic to kill a thousand enemies and lose 800 yourself. Even if the Japanese army hoped that a few charges would crush the enemy in front of them, the reality was bloody. The artillery fire of the counterattack of the 2nd Mechanized Brigade also set off a bloody storm on the Japanese positions. The shells plowed through the same mottled blood and craters.

But the corresponding problem is that the Japanese army cannot withstand such attrition, and they must maintain a certain strength to block the counterattack of the opponent's southbound army while defeating the enemy army, so as to win time for the main force to annihilate the enemy army.

Therefore, after a period of artillery battle between the two sides, although the Japanese army had begun to gain the upper hand, it was also suffering amazing losses of its own. After all, the shells from the other side are not made of cotton, and they are the same as human life. This kind of simple war of attrition is not what Kawamoto Kusatsu wants.

Only by defeating the enemy's position can this casualty end, even if you know that attacking the enemy's position will cost more casualties, as long as the goal can be achieved, it is better to do a hammer deal than to continue to wear it out like this.

As a result, the Japanese troops in the brigade left the bunker and struggled to move forward in an environment full of bullets in an offensive formation. After rushing for a while, more than a dozen people were killed and wounded, and although the heavy machine guns in the rear were desperately covering, the firepower superiority achieved by the Japanese army was only relative, at least the machine rifle firepower was not cheap. The rifle firepower of the Northwest Army was even fiercer than that of the Japanese army.

Ding Ding a lot of Japanese bullets hit the steel helmet on the opposite side, and blood spilled out of the steel helmet.

Tom tom

Several rounds of mortars came over, and the dozens of Japanese soldiers who rushed out were basically spilled with blood and stumps and broken arms. The same is true elsewhere, after all, in such a hand, the defender has to have a certain advantage. Squad-sized offenses, in this case, are simply tentative.

Soon, after this temptation, several large men of the steel structure drove out of cover one after another and rushed directly to the opposite side. After all, the Japanese army did not give it in vain, and after paying a certain price, after finding out the relative weakness of the opponent's front, it directly mobilized four tanks and two armored vehicles to help. At the same time, two light Type 92 infantry guns, as well as anti-aircraft guns, light machine guns, and even electric donkeys carrying heavy machine guns appeared behind the tank one after another.

"After a simple temptation, you can come up with such a lineup, it seems that the Japanese army is indeed a little anxious."

Sun Liren put down the binoculars, most famous generals always like to grasp the first-hand information of the battlefield as much as possible, rather than simply staying in the headquarters and waiting for news, such as Guderian, Rommel, etc. In the ever-changing battlefield, the so-called remuneration is completely unrealistic in many cases.

"Looking at the posture of the Japanese army, I'm afraid that there will be a fight in the back." A battalion commander next to him said with a solemn face.

"This posture is good, and the burden on Gao Lingyun's side is a little lighter." Compared with the solemn face of the battalion commander, Sun Liren quietly breathed a sigh of relief. Different people are in different positions and look at problems from different angles. The battalion commander first of all thought about how to hold the position. However, Sun Liren has to consider the entire war, and it is completely worthwhile to sacrifice a part of it to win the war or achieve the goal under the trade-off at the critical moment. (To be continued.) )