Chapter 455: The Battle of Hong Kong
That night, when the night really came, Amaterasu didn't come in person, but he gave the Oni Seed Squadron good luck.
Taking advantage of the dim night, Ichiro Ghost led a squadron of nearly 300 Japanese soldiers to quietly bypass the defense area of the Huaxing Fourth Army on the opposite side.
They sneaked all the way, and every kilometer they walked, they had to send sharp soldiers to explore their way. Then, meet again, and explore the way again. On this dangerous journey, they did not encounter a single hidden pile, did not step on a single mine, and did not even touch a trap in the forest.
Even Ichiro Ghost Tane was secretly thanking Amaterasu for his blessing and allowing them to spend such a tense night peacefully.
Due to good luck, it is not difficult to get used to walking in the mountains. Although most of the ghost squadrons are recruits, each of these recruits is strong.
In addition, everyone admired the leader of the ghost squadron very much, so they all silently stepped on the footprints of the previous soldier in strict accordance with the requirements of the leader of the ghost squadron.
On such a night, they cautiously crossed the low mountain, which was not very large, and entered the territory of the New Territories for a full thirty kilometers.
In other words, in one night, the Oni squadron advanced a full ten kilometers. This may not have been a rapid march in the history of the Japanese army, but in the more than a month since the Battle of Hong Kong, it has made rapid progress.
You must know that in the past month since the start of the war, China and Japan have fought many major battles within the 50-kilometer area of the border between Shenzhen and the New Territories.
Although the Japanese army entered the New Territories 20 kilometers several times, they were bombarded back by the heavy artillery of the Huaxing Fourth Army. The Huaxing Fourth Army also organized commandos many times to infiltrate the Shenzhen side to carry out sneak attacks, sabotage, and assassination operations against the Japanese army.
In this area less than 100 kilometers deep, there were no less than hundreds of battles between the two sides, and the casualties on both sides were very large. Now the Ghost Seed Squadron has finally broken through the twenty-kilometer death blockade line of the Huaxing Escort Army.
Now it's up to him to see if he can find those damn Huaxing Fourth Army artillery positions. Even if he finds one, he can climb up one more level. Although the life of an officer is very dangerous, who doesn't want to go to the next level if a soldier who has already become an officer?
Since this area is still under the control of the Huaxing Fourth Army, the leader of the ghost squadron does not want to intersperse with great fanfare, because it is looking for death.
The ghost seed had done a lot of work before he came, and he knew that there were Hong Kong people everywhere here, so he didn't wait until dark to set off like the previous times.
He was prepared to swagger through the interior of the defense zone of the Fourth Army in Huaxing during the day, because based on the experience of the previous four defeats, they were each attacked by the Chinese army on the night of the second day.
This time he's going to do the opposite. However, Ichiro Ghost Seed was not unprepared, and when he saw an order from Ghost Seed, hundreds of Japanese soldiers took off their military uniforms one after another.
Then he opened the backpack behind him and took out a camouflage uniform for the Huaxing Guards. These camouflage uniforms are exactly the same as those of the Huaxing Guards. With these camouflage uniforms, he believes that they will be able to deceive the various dark piles in the New Territories with their fakes.
Soon, hundreds of soldiers finished changing their clothes, and then they put away their backpacks, carried the same Czech rifles as the Huaxing Guards, and began to boldly penetrate the interior of the Huaxing defense area.
I don't know if the ghost squadron really got the care of Anameasu, after a day of interspersing, they really found some clues of artillery, only to see a wide road, deep rut marks all point to a large circular valley in the distance.
Could it be that the valley is the artillery position of the Huaxing Fourth Army? The leader of the ghost seed squadron was patiently excited, and led several sharp soldiers to secretly climb up the valley to look down, and he was shocked by the scene in front of him.
I saw that in the huge valley, hundreds of huge 155 mm heavy cannons were arranged in several rows in the valley, and these huge cannons were camouflaged by countless branches. From the sky, it can only be a chaotic tree. No wonder the Reich's reconnaissance planes just couldn't find these cannons.
This time, the empire sent dozens of large and small detachments like him to intersperse the defense area of the Huaxing Fourth Army, one was to search the artillery positions of the Huaxing Fourth Army, and the other was to touch the headquarters of the Fourth Army.
If you run into an artillery group, you don't need to attack, you just need to send the coordinates back. If the enemy headquarters is encountered, then the squadron will attack even at the risk of total annihilation. In order to hold back the enemy's headquarters and give the air force that came to support it enough time to attack.
Now that he discovered this huge heavy artillery position at the first time, just looking at the more than 100 heavy artillery, the leader of the ghost squadron knew that his opportunity to make a contribution had come.
However, he did not have the courage to directly attack the artillery position of the Huaxing Fourth Army, because there was a regiment of troops guarding the surrounding of this valley.
Dozens of machine-gun bunkers were built next to the artillery position, which shows that the Chinese attach great importance to this artillery position.
Ichiro quietly retreated to the squadron's hidden place, and he quickly reported the news of the discovery of Chinese artillery positions to the headquarters of the 23rd Army in the interior of Shenzhen through the infantry radio.
Then Ichiro happily led the whole team away from this valley and began to move to the depth of the Huaxing defense area, he was already imagining that the imperial planes would bomb the entire valley, and then he would take advantage of the chaos of the Chinese army to seek greater results.
However, he did not notice that when his hundreds of people quietly withdrew, two Chinese soldiers covered in oil paint suddenly appeared next to a small puddle on a low lying area.
"Are you sure those devil soldiers sent the coordinates back to their headquarters?" A soldier asked.
Another soldier replied in the affirmative:
"Absolutely, I didn't learn Japanese for nothing. In our special operations team, my Japanese level is level 6. It's a lot stronger than your level 4! ”
"Okay, don't blow it, send a report quickly, the rabbit has already run away, let the brothers of the Fourth Army quickly pick up the grass and beat the rabbit, the vultures will come in a while, let the hunters prepare bows and arrows, and hunt to their heart's content."
The two quickly pulled out a waterproof backpack from the bottom of the water, then took out the infantry walkie-talkie and quickly got in touch with their superiors. After doing all this, the two of them stuffed the walkie-talkie into the waterproof backpack again.
Then lurk by the waterhole again, like two cheetahs hiding in the African savannah, waiting for their prey to arrive.
Unbeknownst to this, the Ghost Seed Squadron is heading south, preparing to break through the New Territories to Hong Kong Island, which is said to be the main militia in Hong Mun, and it is believed that it will be much easier to deal with them.
It's a pity that Anameasu's care for the Oni Seed Squadron ends here. When Oni Tane Ichiro and his men had just turned around a mountain pass, they were suddenly fired upon by hundreds of machine guns from all directions.
Dozens of Japanese soldiers fell to the ground in just one shot, and then, more grenades, mortar shells came from all directions.
Originally, he wanted to use his pretending Chinese army to deceive the Huaxing army attacking from all sides. But seeing such a fierce attack, and the ambush soldiers didn't even ask, it was obvious that they knew that these people were pretending.
Therefore, in an emergency, Ichiro immediately ordered the whole army to break through, but unfortunately the ambush around them did not give them a chance to escape at all.
Before Ichiro could send a telegram to the headquarters of the 23rd Army that he had been ambushed by Chinese troops, several hundred Japanese troops were overwhelmed by the swarming Chinese troops.
When Ichiro was shot with a machine gun all over his body, he fell to the ground in grief, and at the moment he fell to the ground, he found that his little fellow had already been one step ahead of him, mixed with blood, and fell to the ground with his eyes wide open.
It seems that his wish to ask him to help bring his ashes back to his hometown cannot be realized. Soon a sleepiness struck, and the eyes of the ghost seed darkened, and he knew that this was his last moment. He tried his best to see the world for the last time.
What he saw was that hundreds of Chinese troops had broken into his improvised defensive positions. The moment before he closed his eyes, he saw that the Chinese soldiers were armed with a lot of machine guns.
"Why do poor Chinese have such powerful firepower, where did they get so many machine guns? And all of them are world-famous Czech light machine guns, which is also too luxurious. Then Ichiro closed his eyes unwillingly.
When Ichiro Osa closed his eyes completely, a team of fighters armed with Czech light machine guns had already arrived at Ichiro's side.
They kicked the body of Oni Taneichiro and were debating whose machine gun had killed the squadron leader. Whose head should this merit be counted?
What Ichiro didn't know was that at this moment, dozens of Japanese squads that had entered the Huaxing defense area were almost wiped out.
And just when he was ambushed by the Chinese army. Implicated by him, the last 100 fighters of the Japanese 23rd Army and the 21st Army secretly went to the artillery valley to bombard, but were not only ambushed by hundreds of anti-aircraft machine guns and dozens of anti-aircraft guns around the valley.
When more than half of the hundreds of planes were about to return home, they were attacked by the Hong Kong Huaxing Air Brigade, and as a result, the Japanese planes were seriously damaged again, and less than 20 of the last 100 Japanese planes escaped safely back to Shenzhen.
In this battle, the army aviation of the 23rd Army and the 21st Army were completely lost. Since then, the sky of Hong Kong has once again become the world of the Huaxing Air Force.
Fortunately, Ichiro Ichiro is dead, otherwise he would have jumped out of the grave, because the heavy artillery in that valley was all fake targets made of wood, and the purpose was to attract the Japanese air force to blow up.
Now, after nearly two months of fierce fighting, the Japanese army that came with great momentum had no choice but to retreat to Shenzhen because of the loss of air superiority, and the battle of Hong Kong finally came to an end.
At this time, the latest attack of the Japanese army had just been repulsed, and Li Tie was discussing the latest battle with Zhao Dabao. Due to the heavy blow suffered by the Japanese army aviation, the Japanese army's attack on Hong Kong had been completely defeated.
And the story is also as Li Tie predicted, the Japanese army had to completely withdraw from Hong Kong after losing a large number of aircraft.
At the same time, in order to prevent the Hong Kong defenders from counterattacking Shenzhen and even joining forces with the Hainan troops to counterattack Guangdong, the Japanese 23rd Army had to station a large number of soldiers at the junction of Shenzhen and Hong Kong.
The Battle of Hong Kong supported the battlefield of the domestic War of Resistance from the side, and the morale of the Nationalist Army was greatly shaken, but what really shocked the morale of the Nationalist Army was not only that the Huaxing Guards defeated the Japanese army again, but also encouraged the morale of the Nationalist Army.
Moreover, because Japan was unable to occupy Southeast Asia, Li Tie sent a large number of military supplies to Commander Chiang in Chongqing again through the Sino-Vietnamese border.