Chapter 55: Finding the Weak Spots

Yamamoto's adjustments did not seem to work, as more and more of his troops were attacked, and in just half a day, his Fifth Division lost four squadron-sized units. Yamamoto wasn't foolish enough to think that the radio stations carried by those squadrons were broken or some other reason caused them to lose contact, and the only explanation was that Thunder's forces were still attacking his troops, and the four squadrons that had lost contact had already been attacked.

The number of troops in the size of the four squadrons was already close to 1,000 people, and Yamamoto couldn't guess how many troops Thunder had used to complete the attack, but the fact was that the troops that Thunder had broken through to the west had broken through one of the defenses of the 18th Division, and the arrogant guy Tanaka Shinichi seemed to be a little unstoppable. The 18th Division, which was unstoppable in the past, has become the situation it is now, and Yamamoto's heart is somewhat unforgiving, but there are also factional battles in the Japanese army, and Tanaka Shinichi's defeat is acceptable in Yamamoto's opinion.

Whether to speed up the advance according to the orders of the military headquarters or to slow down in order to reduce the casualties of the troops is a choice question before Yamamoto, but it is a difficult question to make. Yamamoto thought about it for a while, and finally decided to order the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing to speed up to support the 18th Division according to the order of the military headquarters, but before that, the 42nd Wing and the 11th Wing must complete the assembly of troops, because whether it is to prevent enemy attacks or rush to support the 18th Division, the group march is better, at least to avoid being attacked by the other side again in their small units.

The 21st Wing, which attacked from the east, also suffered a lot of losses, under Zhao Zhi's strong attack, the 21st Wing lost at least 2 squadrons of scattered forward troops, and after the 21st Wing successfully exchanged fire with Yu Sheng, who was defending the airborne field, Zhao Zhi, who jumped out of the battle group, had turned to deal with the 42nd Wing advancing north. The team walked through the mountains and forests, looking at the airborne field behind him with explosions and explosions, Zhao Zhi could only pray in his heart that Yu Sheng could hold there, otherwise they would not find a place to replenish supplies and ammunition in the mountains and forests.

The offensive of the 21st Wing was fierce, but the actual battle was not as one-sided as it seemed, and Yu Sheng used the terrain to set up three lines of defense outside the airborne field. The outermost is the trench defense circle dug by the airborne troops, more than 1,000 Jewish airborne troops used the trenches to carry out the first round of interception of the 21st Wing, the second line of defense is the mines planted by the engineers, Yu Sheng used most of the mine reserves in the airborne field, turning the perimeter of the airborne field into a place of death, if the 21st Wing wants to successfully approach the third line of defense, it is bound to pay great casualties, otherwise they can only fail.

The third line of defense was also Yu Sheng's last reliance, which was the steel fortresses on the high points around the airborne field, with more than 20 steel fortresses with strong defense, and Yu Sheng equipped them with more than 40 heavy machine guns. The condescending Iron Fortress is ready to provide strong firepower support for the first two lines of defense, provided that the forward forces of the 21st Wing defeat the mercenary hunting team released by Yu Sheng first. The 300 mercenaries left by Zhao Zhi were all sent out by Zhao Zhi, the mercenaries are good at mobile combat, and detaining them in the airborne field will only weaken their combat power, and only by going out to harass the 21st Wing and providing flank cover for the airborne field can they really exert their combat power.

The machine guns in the first line of defense of the airborne field opened fire one after another, and the Jewish airborne troops in the trenches were very careful, and only three percent of the machine guns in the trenches opened fire before they exchanged fire with more troops of the 21st Wing. Although the 21st Wing did not carry heavy firepower, they carried a large number of mortars and grenadiers, and as long as the forward troops found the enemy's sustained firepower, the follow-up artillery fire would remove those points of fire for the infantry one by one.

"Hidden, hidden, enemy shelling." The screech of shells across the air sounded in mid-air, and observation posts that had been keeping an eye on Japanese movements sounded a warning, and the Jewish airborne troops in the trenches hid in the anti-artillery holes before the mortar shells hit the ground. The enemy's machine guns were dumb, and the soldiers of the 21st Wing, who were well equipped for the attack, began to attack with the help of artillery fire, and the Japanese troops flocked to the trench defense line held by the Jewish airborne troops, and the Japanese mortars were still bombarding the trenches, and the Japanese troops who participated in the attack did not believe that the enemy would intercept them under artillery fire.

The Japanese officer commanding the attack was very thoughtful, but he did not expect that Yu Sheng still had a group of steel fortresses that would provide fire support to the forward defense line at any time. The Browning heavy machine gun installed in the steel fortress can hit an effective range of more than 1,500 meters, and it is very simple to provide fire support for the first line of defense a few hundred meters away.

"Nani?" Such powerful machine gun fire frightened the Japanese soldiers, and the large-caliber heavy machine gun bullets hit people into a big hole, and many Japanese soldiers lost part of their bodies as a result. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The Japanese army began to use heavy mortars to bombard the steel forts on the high points, and once upon a time, the Japanese used their heavy mortars to destroy the seemingly strong fortress of the Chinese army, and the American troops on the Philippine battlefield were also tortured by heavy mortars.

However, the results of today's bombardment disappointed the Japanese artillery, and the heavy mortar shells of the Japanese army only left a large area of scorched black on the bunkers of the other side's fortress, but the machine gun fire of the other side did not stop at all. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The Japanese gunners who still refused to accept the reality continued to bombard the opponent's fortress, but the final result still disappointed them, the invincible heavy mortars seemed to have lost their effectiveness, the opponent's fortress was still constantly spitting bullets, and the momentum of the Japanese attack was pushed back.

The commander of the 21st Wing, Yoshio Sasaki, was not a reckless man, and after carefully observing the terrain here with a telescope, he ordered an immediate halt to the attack. The terrain here is very suitable for the opponent to block his own attack, and if the attacking party wants to break through the opponent's defense, he must pay a cruel price, which is unacceptable to Sasaki Keio, so he has to find another way to find a solution.

No matter how solid the defense line is, there will be gaps, and Sasaki Keio did not believe that his opponent could be impregnable, so he sent several small troops to find the weak points of the opponent's defense. Not all officers of the 21st Wing were cowering at the strength of their opponents, and Squadron Leader Kawama Shaosa was obviously an outsider, and he was robbed of the task of finding weaknesses in the enemy's defenses, and the young and vigorous Kawama was also a young officer valued by Wing Commander Keio Sasaki.

Hejian, who led the team out according to the order, did not look for it along Yu Sheng's outer defense line, but retreated a certain distance one after another, and then obliquely brushed the frontal battlefield to the flank of Yu Sheng's outer defense line. Kawama's mind is very simple, he has the strength of a squadron in his hands, although this strength is nothing in the confrontation between the two armies, but if the timing of the attack is right, the strength of a squadron may not be able to become a strange force that affects the situation of the battle, so Kawama is eager to find a hole in the opponent's defensive line.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack" When the first soldier of the Kawama Squadron was shot in the head and fell, the forward squad raised the attack alarm, followed by an even more violent gunfire attack. The forward team in the river did not even hear the gunfire of the opponent's shooting, and was suppressed by the sudden attack, and in just one minute, more than half of the more than 60 Japanese soldiers in the forward team had been killed, and almost all of them were wounded.

Looking at the mess in front of him, Hejian was furious, this thing that should have been a great credit has become what it is now, this is what Hejian never expected, the cunning thunder not only organized a strong defense line, they also arranged a traveling army outside the defense line. These Thunder Troopers are so cunning that it is difficult to catch them, and if they want to break through the opponent's defense line from the flank, they must first wipe out their troop of loitering outside the line.

For the sake of his upcoming military exploits, Kawama does not allow anyone to hinder him, so he orders to move on, and be sure to find the weak point found by the other party to break through it. Perhaps it was the good fortune of Kasuma, who did not encounter any more attacks from their opponents during the rest of the trip, and finally took more than an hour to finally reach the flank of the opponent's defense, and the observant Karuma also found a fatal hole in the opponent's defense line - a relatively wooded land.

The defenders dug trenches outside the woodland, which the river could see through the floating soil that was high above the ground, and the place where they hid was also a woodland, no more than a hundred meters away from the defenders' trenches, so the defenders' trenches were actually dug in the open ground between the two woodlands. I really don't know whether to call myself lucky or stupid as the defenders, the trench defense in such terrain is too low, as long as the squadron in the river has established a favorable machine-gun fire point here, his soldiers can rush into the defenders' trenches in only a minute under the cover of machine guns.

As long as you attack the opponent's trenches, there are two ways to choose, either cross the trenches and attack from behind the defenders, or follow the trenches all the way to completely destroy the defenders' trench advantage. Choosing either of these two options is undoubtedly very tempting for Karuma, because as long as he responds to the attack of the main force of the United team, he will not be able to escape this credit.