[Anti-Japanese Iron Blood King] Chapter 296: The Cruel Japanese Army (Ask for a subscription, ask for a monthly pass, ask for everything!) ）

Under the cover of these large shields made of armor fragments, the regiment of the 274th Brigade advanced extremely fast, anyway, the Japanese artillery fire was almost lost, and ordinary bullets had no effect on these steel bunkers, and the only thing that could cause casualties to the soldiers behind the bunkers was a few grenadiers.

In less than half an hour after the start of the battle, the regiment and battalion responsible for the main attack had already broken through to a distance of less than 50 meters from the first line of defense of the Japanese army, but its own casualties were not large. The distance of fifty meters is the distance that grenades can't reach, mortars can't hit, and if you go further, you will enter the projection distance of grenades, so the only way to launch the final charge is at this distance.

The Japanese forward commander apparently also sensed the intention of the regiment and battalion, and immediately pulled all the troops into the trenches in anticipation of the ensuing charge.

The supreme commander of the Japanese army's east gate position was called Ishihara Kogoro, an infantry group leader with the rank of major admiral.

This young officer, who had just graduated from the military academy for less than three years, obviously did not expect the attack of the Eighth Route Army to be so sharp, and the pillbox carefully designed by Captain Takahashi had no effect on the enemy. Seeing that the Eighth Route Army was about to rush into the position, Ishihara Shaozo had no choice but to ask for help from Takahashi Tundra in the city.

Ishihara Shaosa's call for help really startled Takahashi Tundra Daisa, and it was only a long time before his carefully arranged defense line was crumbling. You must know that the first line of defense is the strongest defense line outside Tianzhen City, and the second line of defense cannot be compared to it at all.

In Takahashi's vision, the first line of defense could block at least a day's attack by Ma Zheng's troops. I didn't expect it to be precarious in less than an hour, and this is worth it. The first line of defense must be defended, otherwise, after the people of China break through to the city pass, I am afraid that with the little force in his hands, they will attack the city in an hour.

However, the problem now is that he does not have a lot of reserves in his hands. There were less than two squadrons of the real Imperial Army, and the rest were all the newly formed Imperial Allied Army.

Takahashi Daisa's evaluation of the Imperial Association Army is very bad, these Imperial Association Army usually bully and bully the common people of China, but if they deal with the regular troops of the Eighth Route Army, it is far from good, and they are more or less delivering food.

The most important thing is that some time ago, the senior agents of the special high-tech department risked their lives to send back a news, that is, more than 65% of the troops of the Zhina Ma Zheng Department came from captured prisoners of the Imperial Cooperative Army. This news caused an uproar in the entire North China Front. Isn't this the Imperial Japanese Army raising troops for the enemy?

However, without these Imperial Cooperative Army, the Japanese army will run into walls everywhere on the land of China, and the security of the occupied areas also needs these Imperial Cooperative Army to maintain, so the formation of the Imperial Cooperative Army is a necessary thing. This has become a difficult situation to solve, these imperial alliance troops can only fight a tailwind battle, once the war is not good, these spineless guys will surrender as a system. The two-faced nature of the Imperial Allied Army made the Japanese army very difficult, and they were entangled in whether to use it or not.

However, on the whole, the role of the Imperial Allied Army on the Imperial Japanese Army still outweighed the disadvantages. In order to quickly consolidate the occupied area, General Terauchi Shouichi still decided to use the Imperial Army, but when it is not necessary, don't let these guys who have not achieved enough things to go to the battlefield, just let them maintain law and order in the occupied area.

Because of this, at the beginning of the battle, Takahashi Daisa did not let those puppet troops go out. But when the battle came to this, Takahashi Tundra could no longer treat the more than 4,000 Imperial Allied troops in his hands as air, no matter how it was said that it was more than 1,000 people, as long as the supervision was good. These 4,000 men will be able to resist for a while.

Besides, Takahashi Tundra reported to Datong as soon as Tianzhen was attacked, and I think that reinforcements are already ready over there. As long as the war is not going well here, reinforcements can be sent over at any time. It's just that Takahashi Daisa feels that he doesn't need to ask Daido for combat guidance for the time being, after all, it's only been a long time since the war started. If he asks for help now, even if Tianzhen County is saved, then his reputation will be ruined in the end.

Moreover, Takahashi Daisa and his troops are now on the blacklist of the North China Front, and it is very likely that he, the wing commander, will be removed if he is not good. So Takahashi Tundra did not dare to take this risk. Therefore, after receiving a call for help from Ishihara Shaosa, Takahashi Osa directly ordered the puppet army of a regiment under his command to immediately go to the east gate position to reinforce the operation.

To be on the safe side, Takahashi ordered the gendarmerie to "escort" those Imperial Allied troops into battle. The vicious Takahashi Tundra ordered all the puppet soldiers to wear the uniforms of the Japanese army, and the weapons were all guns that the Japanese army had eliminated. Takahashi Tundra knew that the army on the other side would not give the Imperial Japanese Army any chance, and it would never be left alive.

Don't really say it. As soon as the puppet army entered the position, it was heavily shelled by the artillery battalion of the 274th Brigade, and dozens of mountain artillery and field guns opened fire at the same time, blowing up the Japanese position into a sea of fire.

The effect of the artillery bombardment was very significant, and the Japanese troops who had returned fire fiercely just now suddenly fell silent, and in addition to those strong pillboxes, there were only a few scattered shots from the East Gate position.

Of course, Huang Haibing, who commanded the operation on the first front, naturally knew that the Japanese devils on the position were not dead, but all of them hid in the anti-artillery holes, and after the troops shelled, these **** would come out again. But now that the troops have moved in front of the Japanese position, they may be attacked by Japanese grenades, so they must quickly break into the Japanese position.

"Tick tock! Tick tock! ”

The loud sound of the horn seemed so abrupt on the battlefield, and after hearing the horn, more than 300 soldiers on the front line immediately lifted off the steel bunker and launched a charge against the Japanese position.

"Da Da Da!"

The pillboxes on the Japanese positions began to wield their might, and the dense sound of machine guns poured steel bullets on the charging troops like fried beans.

There are constantly fighters who fall on the way to the charge, but no one retreats, and when one falls, someone will immediately fill the gap and continue the charge.

Fortunately, the distance of fifty meters is not very long, and it will only take five or six seconds to make a quick charge. Moreover, after the troops charged within 30 meters of the Japanese position, the soldiers all pulled the strings of grenades, and the grenades flew towards the Japanese positions.

Hand grenades are different from artillery shells, at such a close distance, the lethality of the grenades and the accuracy of the landing point are quite high, and the soldiers placed by the Japanese army on the first line of defense finally collapsed under the blow of this round of grenades.

Seeing the Japanese troops fleeing to the rear line, Huang Haibing immediately ordered his troops to continue the pursuit. As long as they rush up and entangle these devils, the Japanese pillboxes will be completely useless, unless they can be ruthless and shoot their own people together.

If this is the case, when the soldiers on both sides are entangled, the devils in the bunker are also confused, and they don't know whether to shoot or not, and the probability of hitting their own people at such a close distance is almost equal to the probability of hitting the enemy.

However, Huang Haibing still underestimated the cruelty of the Japanese army. Seeing that the soldiers of the 274th Brigade who were following behind were about to approach the Japanese pillbox group, the Japanese commander was in a hurry and ordered all the firing points to open fire at the same time, completely ignoring the Japanese puppet army that was close at hand.

From a purely military point of view, this is undoubtedly very correct, and at this time, when the decision is constantly being reversed, a decisive sacrifice of a part may be able to save the whole. But in terms of morale and other aspects, this approach of the Japanese army really makes people feel cold, seeing the Japanese soldiers who died one by one under the guns of their own people, Yang Chengwu, Lu Ming and others who supervised the battle behind were all shocked.

The Japanese are so inhumane, I thought that their cruelty was only used against the Chinese, but I didn't expect to be so cruel to my own people, I really don't know how these Japanese soldiers endured.

In fact, they didn't think at all that the Japanese soldiers were all war machines that had been brainwashed by bushido thinking, and everyone's minds had been distorted, and they had long been numb to such things. (To be continued.) )