[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 456: Battle of Fushanzhuang (Ask for subscriptions, ask for monthly passes, ask for everything!) ）

The 20th Division was formed to garrison Korea during the Japanese invasion of China, and its soldiers mainly came from Tokyo and Nagano Prefecture, and it was one of the most elite first-class permanent divisions on the Chinese battlefield. In addition to the Sendai 2nd Division, the Hiroshima 5th Division, and the Kumamoto 6th Division, which were notorious field divisions, the 9th, 10th, 14th, and 20th divisions were the most combat-effective.

Unlike the 10th Division, which had several major blood changes, the 20th Division was transferred to the Chinese battlefield in 1938, and several large-scale battles at the beginning of the war had ended, so the 20th Division had not participated in several major battles at all, so the casualties were not very large, and the number of veterans in the army accounted for almost 70% of the total strength, so the combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

Although Bilig had already received orders from the division headquarters to retreat after holding their positions along the river for a period of time, and let the Japanese troops cross the river. But the fact that the Japanese army was able to erect six pontoon bridges in such a short time surprised Bilig.

Through the telescope, Bilig could clearly see that a large number of little devils had crossed the Hunhe River through pontoon bridges, and even many tanks and armored vehicles had successfully crossed the river, and soon joined the attack sequence.

Originally, Bilig also wanted to use the fortifications along the river to deal a severe blow to the arrogance of the Japanese army and kill and injure the living forces of the Japanese army, but after watching the battle for more than ten minutes, Bilig decisively gave the order to retreat.

Seeing that the Zhina army on the other side of the river was defeated after holding out for less than half an hour, the corners of the mouth of the sixth major general Sekihara couldn't help but turn up, and secretly said that this prestigious Zhina army was not bad, and it was no different from the Zhina army they had encountered before, and it seemed that the name of Ma Zheng's demon general was just boasting.

After the 39th Brigade and the Chariot Group crossed the river, Major General Sekihara No. 6 did not stop on the other side of the river, but directly launched an attack, he did not wait for Ushijima and the follow-up troops to arrive, he wanted to defeat the Shina army in front of him in one fell swoop, and the troops came to the city of Shuoxian.

Fushanzhuang is a large town, because the town is backed by the Hunhe River, so the terrain here is flat, fertile for thousands of miles, hundreds of years to form a large town with a population of more than 2,000 people.

Today, however, it was an empty city, and the people of the town were forcibly evacuated by the troops, and the Eighth Route Army dug trenches and set up machine guns on the hillside outside the town, forming a huge defensive line of five kilometers from east to west outside the town.

At 11 o'clock in the morning, the 6th division of Sekigahara arrived on the outskirts of Fushanso, a complete infantry brigade, plus an artillery wing and an armored force of nearly 300 combat vehicles, with a total strength of more than 8,000 men. The murderous completed the final assembly outside Fushanzhuang, and it seemed that he was ready to take Fushanzhuang in one fell swoop.

In fact, Guan Yuanliu really thought so, and when he held a meeting with the staff officers and front-line commanders of the brigade headquarters, he said: "Take Fushanzhuang, go to the town for lunch, capture Shuo County, and finish eating in the city!" ”

The battle soon began, and the Japanese first sent an infantry squadron for a tentative attack, which was quickly repulsed. Later, Major General Sekigahara sent two squadrons to participate in the attack again, but they were still defeated and were routed in just fifteen minutes.

Realizing that this line of defense did not seem to be as easy to breach as the previous one, Sekihara Roku immediately called the commander-in-chief of the tank group, Shigei Yagyu Shigei, and ordered his tank group to immediately join the battle.

After receiving the order, Yanagi Shigeru did not dare to slack off, and immediately ordered 8 Type 94 light tanks and 12 Type 95 tanks of the 1st Tank Squadron to cooperate with the infantry in combat.

"Boom Boom"

The artillery wing of the Japanese army was once again powerful, and the artillery cluster composed of hundreds of guns was quite powerful, and the defenders in the trenches were suddenly dumbfounded. Under the cover of artillery, the infantry of a large group of Japanese troops launched another attack with the cooperation of more than 20 tanks, which was already the third attack of the Japanese army.

But what people did not expect was that just when the Japanese attack force had just entered the three hundred meters, fierce gunfire rang out on the Chinese position.

Although the distance of 300 meters is also within the range of the rifle, it is not the best range, and at a distance of 300 meters, only those specially trained special marksmen can hit the target, and the vast majority of soldiers are just wasting bullets in vain.

Just when Sekihara and the others were about to laugh at the people, they were surprised to find that the soldiers who were charging fell down one by one, and they died in a miserable state one by one. Some had their legs and arms broken, others were shot in the head, and some were cut in two by the waist and crawling on the ground dragging their intestines.

What shocked Major General Sekihara even more was that seven of the more than 20 combat vehicles that cooperated with the operation were paralyzed, and two of them exploded.

In the face of such a strange attack, the infantry brigade that launched the attack withdrew without even firing a shot, leaving only the wreckage of seven chariots and corpses all over the ground.

Such an anomaly stunned the Japanese officers on the front line, and even Major General Sekihara was shocked into a cold sweat. They had long known that Ma Zheng's unit had a weapon that could deal with chariots, and at the same time, the people of China could also drive the dogs of China to deal with the Imperial chariot troops, and because of this, he had to let so many chariot troops not be used, and he had to let the infantry participate in the attack first.

I didn't expect the people of China to use that kind of mysterious weapon so quickly, judging from the attack situation just now, the new weapon of the people of China can indeed effectively hit the chariot troops, and now things are terrible.

As a last resort, Major General Sekihara had no choice but to convene an emergency meeting of the officers of his subordinate to discuss countermeasures.

In the temporary headquarters, the main officers of the 39th Brigade were called, including the 77th Wing Wing Commander Fujimuro Yoshisuke Osa, the 78th Wing Wing Commander Tadaichi Kutani Tadaisa, the division artillery wing Wing Commander Hashimoto Hiromitsu Daisa, and the general commander of the tank group Yanagi Shigeichi and others.

The conditions of the temporary headquarters were poor, with only a marching tent and a detachable marching table, in addition to a marching map, and only a foldable chair for sitting, not even a small maza.

Sitting on the chair, Sekihara said in a deep voice: "Gentlemen, everyone saw the attack of the third brigade just now, what do you think!" ”

The commander of the 77th Wing, Ryosuke Fujimuro, immediately said: "Your Excellency the Brigade Commander is worried about the mysterious weapon of the Shina people? ”

"Yo Xi, that kind of weapon can actually penetrate the armor of the chariot, it's really terrifying, and more importantly, the damage caused by this weapon on the soldier is too great, and it will have an immeasurable adverse impact on morale." Sekigahara Rokudo.

"Your Excellency the Brigade Commander doesn't have to worry, in fact, the lowly already knows what kind of weapons the people are using, and this kind of equipment is also available to the Imperial Army!" Ryosuke Fujimuro replied immediately.

"Nani? My Imperial Japanese Army also has such a powerful weapon? Sekihara asked in surprise.

"Of course, if the humble guess is right, the people of China should be using a special heavy machine gun, and it is also a special heavy machine gun made in the empire." Ryosuke Fujimuro said in a deep voice.

"Special heavy machine guns, aren't they used to fight planes, how can they be used to fight tanks?"

Sekihara Roku is obviously not familiar with this kind of weapon, and the reason is very simple, because the strength of the Chinese Air Force is too small, and all the fighters add up to only a few hundred, which are overstretched to deal with the Japanese army and naval aviation, and there is still energy to cooperate with the army to fight, so although the Japanese army units are also equipped with a small number of anti-aircraft machine guns, they are stored in warehouses most of the time.

Ryosuke Fujimuro immediately said: "The lowly has served as a squadron leader in the Imperial Air Defense Force, so he is very familiar with the sound of special heavy machine guns, and in addition, the 77th Wing of the lowly duty was in charge of the attack just now, and the soldiers had withdrawn a lot of wounded when they retreated, and the lowly found such a warhead in their bodies!" ”

As he spoke, Ryosuke Fujimuro put a long warhead on the table, and he believed that all the officers here had seen such a warhead, and he didn't need to explain too much. (To be continued.) )