Chapter 499: The Edge of the Kwantung Army

Liaoxi, Xidianzi.

The position of the 10th Regiment of the 201st Division of the 604th Army of the Four Fields.

The 604th Regiment of the 201st Division is a typical old Eighth Route Army, with more than 3,000 people in the regiment, more than half of whom are veterans with more than 3 years of military experience.

However, even if they have never participated in a major war, it does not mean that the commanders and fighters of the Eighth Route Army are not powerful.

The Eighth Route Army's earthen field fortifications are particularly well repaired, which can be seen from the field fortifications of the 604th Regiment, whether it is the connection between the foxhole and the jiāo trench, or the setting of the main trench and the early warning position, or the arrangement of the minefield in front of the position, it can be called impeccable, you can hardly imagine that this is a masterpiece of mud tuǐzi who has never been to a military school.

Looking at the fortifications that had been completely constructed in front of him, Colonel Wang Yiqun, the commander of the 604th Regiment, was inevitably a little proud in his heart.

There is nothing to say about the combat effectiveness of Siye, and the theoretical level of the officers is also one and the same, but if you want to talk about actual combat experience, Li Yiqun is really unconvinced, in his opinion, the experience of fighting can only be summed up on the battlefield, and what you learn in the classroom is all fart, and you really forget the ball when you get to the battlefield.

The key is that this Xiǎo Zizi dug more than a dozen vertical and horizontal tunnels underground, and connected more than a dozen main trenches of the whole regiment, even if the forward position was lost, it could also be recaptured by virtue of the tunnels.

When Colonel Wang Yiqun was complacent, the cavalry messenger suddenly galloped from the front.

"Commander, plane!" The cavalry messenger rode his horse and galloped while shouting, "Devil plane!" ”

"Fierce son, pull the air raid siren, and the whole regiment will enter the air defense dòng!" Colonel Wang Yiqun took off his military hat and shook the dust off his shoulders, turned around and walked into the underground bunker of the regiment headquarters.

In less than a moment, the roar of airplanes could be heard in the sky.

Colonel Wang Yiqun looked into the sky through the lookout hole, and saw that dozens of devil bombers had already come out of the clouds, and immediately threw a slip of bombs at the field fortifications of the 604th Regiment.

However, Colonel Wang Yiqun did not care about this, and it would be too arrogant to rely on these dozens of bombers to destroy the field fortifications of the 604th Regiment that had been completely constructed, because the main fortifications of the 604th Regiment were all hidden several meters underground, and unless they were heavy aerial bombs of more than 1,000 pounds, they could not pose a threat at all.

As for the surface fortifications, they can be easily repaired.

But soon, Colonel Wang Yiqun's expression began to become solemn.

Because immediately after the bombers, the artillery group of the xiǎo devils also began shelling.

As soon as the Japanese artillery group fired, Colonel Li Yiqun knew that something was wrong, and only listened to the faint screaming of shells from the surface and the sound of explosions and shocks, and he knew that this was not a 75 mountain gun or a 75 field artillery, or even a 105 caliber or 120 caliber field howitzer, but a 150 caliber heavy howitzer!

Listening to the momentum of the shelling, it is also a heavy artillery group of more than 100mén heavy artillery!

Colonel Li Yiqun's face suddenly became more and more embarrassed, the heavy artillery group is not like the bomber group, the bomber group can carry a limited number of aerial bombs, and they will return after throwing it, but the heavy artillery group can carry out continuous artillery bombardment, which is particularly threatening to the field fortifications of civil engineering structures.

Now, the only hope that Colonel Li Yiqun hopes for is that the artillery group of the Xiǎo devil does not have many shells, and it will be over after a few shots.

This was also a common phenomenon in the first few years of the Anti-Japanese War, when the artillery would hit half or even a quarter of the base at most before the infantry attacked.

Soon, however, Colonel Li Yiqun's dream was shattered.

After a full half hour, the Japanese shelling continued, and it seemed to show no signs of stopping.

After enduring a long period of shelling, the civil tunnel fortifications of the 604th Regiment finally could not withstand it, and more and more tunnels collapsed one after another because they could not withstand the continuous shelling, and even the field hospital of the regiment headquarters collapsed, and when ten doctors and nurses were dug out, nine were already dying.

It took two hours for the Japanese artillery to finally stop.

When Colonel Li Yiqun came out of the underground bunker in a daze, hundreds of devil tanks had already appeared on the horizon in the distance, and the squeaking sound made by the friction between the mechanical tracks and the transmission wheels was so harsh, the chief of staff hurriedly counted the losses, and found that the tunnel fortifications and surface fortifications of the whole regiment had been basically destroyed.

The casualties of the whole regiment are not large, but without the fortifications, how can this battle be fought?

"Where's the bazooka!?" Colonel Li Yiqun's eyes were red, and he roared hoarsely, "Go to the front of Lao Tzu!" ”

After speaking, Colonel Li Yiqun took the lead in resisting a bazooka and rushed to the forefront, and the only dozen or so bazookas in the whole regiment also followed forward one after another, the bazooka is produced in Taihang Mountain, and the power is great, but the shè is too close, and it has to be close to the shè to ensure that the iron king eight who destroys the xiǎo devil.

However, this time, the 604th Regiment was no longer facing a small number of bean fighting vehicles of the Japanese army in North China, but an armored cluster of more than 100 tanks of the Kwantung Army! Without waiting for Colonel Li Yiqun and more than a dozen rocketeers to approach, the main guns and front machine guns of the Japanese tanks opened fire one after another, and there was no suspense in the result, including Colonel Li, more than a dozen soldiers all died heroically!

The Japanese tank cluster took advantage of the situation to crush it, and the 604th Regiment could no longer organize organized resistance, and the more than 3,000 officers and men of the regiment could only use machine guns, rifles or pistols to helplessly fire at the Japanese steel tanks, or use cluster grenades to launch suicide attacks on the Japanese tanks, but the results were rarely successful.

In less than 15 minutes, the position of the 604th Regiment was completely broken through by the armored cluster of the Kwantung Army, most of the more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the regiment were killed, and only 200 people withdrew from the position under the cover of night.

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Tangshan, the headquarters of the 10th Army of Yiye.

An operations staff officer hurried into the war room.

The 10th Group Army of Yiye was reorganized from the troops of the former Jin-Cha-Ji Military Region and the Eastern Hebei Army Sub-district, and its jurisdiction included more than a dozen counties in western Liaoning, Rehe, and eastern Hebei, with commander Lu Bojun and political commissar Li Chuli, and the whole army had more than 200,000 people, but the equipment was relatively poor, and it was basically no different from the Eighth Route Army in history.

This is also normal, before the second reorganization, the Eighth Route Army in North China had more than 2 million people, so many troops, relying on a Taihang Arsenal alone, can never be supplied, so, except for the 8th and a few Jīng Rui Group Army, the equipment of the vast majority of the rest of the troops is still the same.

Although the scale of the Burmese arsenal is much larger, in addition to giving priority to the protection of the four fields, it is also necessary to protect the two fields and the three fields nearby, and there are very few equipment that can be supplied to the first field, and the first field is too close to Burma, and transportation alone is a big problem, so at present, among the four major field armies, the first field has the largest number of troops, but the equipment is the worst.

And Lu Bojun's First Field Army was the poorly equipped.

However, although the equipment of the 10th Group Army is poor, its combat effectiveness is not weak, otherwise, it is impossible to occupy a major city in eastern Hebei such as Tangshan, and it can still stand tall in the pounce of the Japanese army in North China, but at present, the 10th Army is facing a severe test, and the Kwantung Army is coming!

The operational staff officer entered the combat hall and immediately saluted Lu Bojun and said: "Commander, the 183rd Division, the 187th Division, the 190th Division and the 201st Division have been defeated one after another, and now the Kwantung Army has broken through the fourth line of defense of our army, and its forward armored troops have crossed Xidianzi, which is less than 20 kilometers away from Shanhaiguan!" ”

"The offensive of the xiǎo devil is so sharp!" Li Chuli said awe-inspiringly.

"Zhao Fuxing and Liu Xinglong, what do they eat?" Lu Bojun was furious and said, "4 A divisions, more than 60,000 troops, and they let the xiǎo devils break through when there were less than 24 xiǎo!?" How was this battle fought? He is a bear, and the face of our 10th Army has been lost to these rabbit cubs! ”

"Commander, I'm afraid Shanhaiguan can't hold it." Li Chu said, "Hurry up and organize a second line of defense in the pass." ”

"Hey, what a fucking shit." Lu Bojun hated and hated the festival, he suddenly woke up, don't look at the strength of the 10th Group Army has exceeded 200,000 people, but it is still a guerrilla force in its bones, facing the Japanese army in North China with the same backward equipment, it can still fight field battles decently, but when it encounters the highly mechanized Kwantung Army, then there is only one left to be beaten.

Speaking of which, Lu Bojun was also thorned by Siye, seeing that people were fighting Singapore, Taiwan, and then Shanghai and Qingdao, wherever the steel torrent of Siye went, Xiǎo devils were invincible, and in less than half a year, they actually hit Northeast Asia from Nanyang, and the soldiers were not prosperous.

Siye's sharp performance created an illusion for Lu Bojun.

Lu Bojun thought that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese army had plummeted compared with a few years ago, so when he heard that the Kwantung Army was moving south along the western Liaoning, he did not hesitate to swing his troops along the main road, trying to have a dignified field battle with the Kwantung Army.

However, in the face of the steel torrent of the Kwantung Army, the four first-class main divisions of the 10th Army only lasted less than 24 xiǎo before the whole line collapsed, and the cruel reality gave Lu Bojun a heavy blow.

Gritting his teeth, Lu Bojun shouted in a deep voice: "Pass my order, all divisions will be placed along Panzhuang, Taiying, and Beidaihe, and tell the division commanders that even if all the troops are exhausted, the Kwantung Army must not be let go!" Lu Bojun knew that Siye's attack on Beiping and Tianjin was at a critical juncture, and if the Kwantung Army was allowed to go south at this time, the consequences would be unimaginable.

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Qingdao, Cangkou Airport.

As the sun sets, Cangkou Airport is busy.

In addition to the P-51 Mustang fighters taking off and landing on several runways in the center, there are dozens of straight runways on the periphery of the airfield that are under intense construction, and dozens of engineer regiments of the Fourth Field Army have been fighting day and night here for more than half a month in order to provide a take-off and landing base for the huge aviation units of the four fields.

With the help of large construction machinery, a regiment of engineers can build a xiǎo-type airfield in a few days.

Of course, in Siye's battle plan, Qingdao Cangkou Airport is not the only aviation base in Siye, and after the recovery of Beiping and Tianjin, the two airports can also become one of the aviation bases with a little repair.

Under the guidance of the command signal, a DC-3 transport plane slowly landed.

Without waiting for the transport plane to stop, more than a dozen military jeeps had already driven into the airport, and then swung along the apron, and at the beginning of the car, more than a dozen major officers hurriedly got down from the passenger seat, and then ran to the other side of the jeep to open the car.

The sappers who were working in the distance stopped one after another, looking at this posture, I am afraid that some big man is coming, right?

In anticipation, the gangway truck had slowly attached to the transport plane, and at the opening of the cabin, a group of dozens of ** officers and soldiers armed with submachine guns rushed down like wolves, and then blocked the range of hundreds of meters near the transport plane, until it was determined that there was no danger nearby, and a slender figure finally came out of the cabin.

Thousands of meters away, an engineer company commander who was observing from a distance with a telescope in his hand suddenly shouted: "Four stars! Four-star general, God, it's the head seat, the head seat is coming to Qingdao! Because he was too excited, the voice of the engineer company commander was out of tune, and after being a soldier for so many years, this was the first time he had seen Mr. Yue with his own eyes.

The engineer company commander's voice fell, and the surrounding sappers suddenly cheered like a tsunami.

In fact, not only the Fourth Field Army, but also the more than 5 million officers and soldiers of the four major field armies in the country, and in the eyes of 40,000 compatriots in China, Yue Weihan is already a god-like existence.

Amid the tsunami-like cheers of tens of thousands of engineers, Liu Yi led dozens of senior generals of the 3rd Group Army to Yue Weihan, and immediately stood up and saluted.