[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 460: The 20th Division with Heavy Losses (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

Torn, torn.

Although Major General Sekihara had already predicted that his troops would not be able to block the impact of the Eighth Route Army's steel torrent in a hurry, he did not expect that it would be broken through so quickly.

Under the blows of the vehicle-mounted artillery and light and heavy machine guns of the armored units of the Eighth Route Army, their defense line was like papier-mâché and was torn apart in an instant. Even before the artillery behind could open fire, the chariot of the Chinese people flew over their positions.

And behind the chariots of the Chinese people, the infantry units in strange military uniforms of the ruins, armed with strange "machine guns", are harvesting the lives of the imperial warriors.

I saw that the "machine guns" in the hands of those terrible people were not only light, but also extremely ferocious, obviously there were less than 2,000 people on the opposite side, but they felt like there were 20,000 people.

The dense bullet fire network quickly enveloped the 78th Wing around him, and at the same time that the chariots of the Chinese destroyed the artillery position, this terrible infantry also completed the encirclement of the 39th Brigade Headquarters and the 78th Wing, and at this time, more than 5,000 troops, except for the artillery wing that scattered and fled, there were less than 2,000 people around Sekihara Liu, that is to say, in less than ten minutes of battle, the infantry around him lost more than 1,600 people, such an attack power is really terrifying.

"Boom"

Another heavy machine gun was destroyed, that kind of shoulder-fired artillery, so sharp that it was almost a dozen accurate. In just a few minutes of fighting, Sekihara Roku saw with his own eyes that six heavy machine guns and 14 light machine guns were destroyed by such artillery, which was not counting what he did not see.

Major General Sekihara No. 6 knew that he was finished, and the attack of the people of China was really terrible, they had powerful armored troops, and they also had shoulder-mounted artillery and light and fierce terrifying new machine guns that specialized in restraining armored troops, even when his 39th Brigade was at its peak combat effectiveness, the end of encountering this army was only annihilation, not to mention that there were only 2,000 people around him at this time.

But Sekihara Roku did not give up, he was a staunch militarist, a martyr who was willing to accompany the burial of Japanese militarism. From the moment he stepped into the military academy, he gave his life to His Majesty the Emperor, and if he didn't succeed, he became a benevolent. How could a general who didn't even care about his own life care about the lives of his soldiers, even though he knew that the tide was over, he still ordered his troops to fight back.

For such diehards, Liu Qingwu's usual approach is to order the troops to crush them. What's more, at this time, the armored regiment had already abandoned them and directly attacked the Japanese division headquarters, which made Liu Qingwu very worried.

Although Liu Qingwu also knew that the Japanese army did not have weapons that could effectively restrain the armored troops, the Japanese-made tanks were really bad, most of the frontal armor was about 10mm, and the side armor was only 6mm, and even a few grenades bundled together could cause this tank to be paralyzed.

What's more, even such a garbage tank China cannot produce on its own, and now there is only one armored regiment in the military region, and there are only more than 120 vehicles including armored vehicles, which is a loss of one less than one, and it is difficult to replenish it at all.

Therefore, the task of his mechanized infantry regiment was not only to destroy the enemy's infantry, but more importantly to protect the armored regiment. However, the brigade commander was so meritorious that he directly attacked at full speed, leaving their infantry behind, which was an extremely dangerous approach.

Therefore, Liu Qingwu immediately ordered the troops to destroy the Japanese army in front of them at all costs, and then chase after the armored regiment.

The power of the AK assault rifle is proven in practice, and the powerful firepower is quite advantageous in close combat, especially when thousands of people are firing with AK assault rifles together, which is even more shocking.

Major General Sekihara Roku used an entire brigade to witness the power of this weapon, and then Sekihara Roku handed over the handwritten letter of despair to the signal corps, and asked him to send it directly to His Excellency Commander Umezu. After receiving an affirmative answer that the telegram had been sent by the signal corps, Sekihara Roku shot and killed the signal corps who might have leaked secrets, and then commanded the remaining troops to launch a final charge against Liu Qingwu's headquarters.

In the face of the frenzied onslaught of the Japanese army, Liu Qingwu did not relent, and immediately ordered the troops to strengthen the offensive and be sure to completely annihilate this lifeless Japanese army.

When Bi Lige's subordinates caught up, the battle between Liu Qingwu's subordinates and the 78th Wing had already come to an end, and Liu Qingwu's subordinates didn't even have time to clean up the battlefield and rushed directly to the north bank of the Hunhe River.

And Bi Lige's department, which has been a "cleaner" twice in a row, is not far behind, and after leaving a battalion to clean up the battlefield, the department also followed Liu Qingwu's department to the north bank of the Hunhe River.

At this time, the battle on the north bank of the Hunhe River was in full swing. Although the armored regiment commanded by Huyanbing had more than 100 combat vehicles, the Japanese army also broke out with strong combat effectiveness at a critical moment of life and death, and the commander of the 40th Brigade, Major General Takahashi Tagaji, personally commanded the battle on the north bank of the Hunhe River.

Despite this, the 20th Division lost a large number of vehicles and supplies, but it used these cars to block the impact of the Huyan Army, coupled with the fact that the 40th Brigade constantly organized death squads to launch suicide attacks on the armored regiment, without infantry protection, the armored regiment suffered a lot of losses on the north bank of the Hunhe River, and 8 tanks and 3 armored vehicles were blown up.

Although 7 of the 11 combat vehicles lost had their tracks blown up, and they only needed to be repaired lightly after the war to restore their combat effectiveness, in this case it was undoubtedly tantamount to losing their combat capability.

But the attack of the armored regiment was not without effect, and under the attack of vehicle-mounted artillery, four of the six pontoon bridges were blown off, and one more was also crumbling. Lieutenant General Ushijima Minoru, who was supervising the battle in the rear, urgently ordered the engineering wing to immediately repair the pontoon bridge and assist the troops on the north bank of the river to cross the river as soon as possible.

At this time, the battle on the banks of the Hunhe River undoubtedly became the focus of both China and Japan, and once the armored troops of the Eighth Route Army broke through the last line of defense of the 40th Brigade and destroyed all the remaining two pontoon bridges on the Hunhe River, then the remaining 5,000-odd troops on the north bank of the river who had time to cross the river in the future might be wiped out. On the other hand, if the Japanese army could withdraw its troops to the south bank of the Hunhe River and blow up the pontoon bridge before Ma Zheng's infantry arrived on the battlefield, then the crisis would be solved.

Both sides are scrambling for time, and now every minute and every second is so precious, and every minute and every second is fighting for human lives.

The blown up pontoon bridge has been repaired again, after all, the tank's on-board artillery is limited, even if it is accurately attacked on the pontoon, it only blows up a few meters of wooden planks on the bridge deck, and does not endanger the wooden stakes below, only need to re-lay the planks on top to restore traffic. Thanks to the desperate efforts of the engineer wing, three of the four blown up pontoon bridges were quickly restored, and the remaining ones were so badly damaged by four shells that they had to be abandoned.

Five pontoon bridges were opened at the same time, and the speed at which the Japanese army crossed the river returned to normal again. Soon, another squadron crossed the pontoon bridge. At this time, there were less than 4,000 troops on the other side of the river, and if this continued, the remaining troops would all cross the Hunhe River in half an hour at most.

Seeing more and more troops successfully crossing the river, Ushijima's mood finally improved a little, and this fiasco was really unexpected by him. He had thought that with the strong combat power of their 20th Division and the cooperation of nearly 300 combat vehicles, the Chinese would need at least five to six divisions to compete with it, but the intelligence department reported that the Chinese army in the Shuoxian area had only one infantry division and an armored force consisting of more than a hundred combat vehicles.

The strength of the two sides can be said to be quite different, so when Ushijima Minoru learned that the Sekigahara Rokusho Department would launch an attack without waiting for the arrival of the large army, he just smiled and did not stop it, let alone reprimand Sekihara Rokuro for making good claims, but he did not expect to kick the iron plate, and lost the strength of a brigade in just one morning, and even put in an artillery wing and almost all the tank troops, and suffered heavy losses. (To be continued.) )