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October 12, Gidlenkin Town, West Bengal. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At half past seven in the morning, the battle of the Indian Front's southern road cluster attack on the defense line of the two rivers at the Kolkata gateway officially began. The Maiton River and the Dammodder River are the two main rivers in West Bengal, with the Maitun River flowing eastward into the Hooghly River, a tributary of the Ganges, while the Dammoder River meanders southward to the Bay of Bengal.

Between these two rivers, there are large cities and industrial centers of East India such as Ashansol, Rani Ganj, Durgapur, Badtaman, Narbdevip, Kindnagar, Howrah, and Gardenridge, and the Jiangxi urban area of Kolkata is also located in this area, which can be said to be the essence of East India.

As early as three days earlier, the troops had captured the town of Jamdala on the border of West Bengal, and the Seventh and Ninth armies had made careful preparations for the next entry into the most prosperous area of East India. During the reconnaissance for many days, the air force reconnaissance planes did not find the concentration of Japanese troops in this area, and at the same time, satellites also scanned this area several times, but they also found nothing.

After reporting to the Front Army Headquarters and the General Staff Headquarters, the Southern Route Cluster, with the Seventh Army and the Ninth Army as the main force, finally confirmed that it would launch a general offensive today, striving to bring this hot land under control in the next half month.

"Boom Boom One by One......

The Japanese fortifications in the town of Jidlenjin were heavily shelled by our troops, and thousands of large and small caliber guns quickly destroyed the front that the Japanese army had built for many days.

Among them, more than 300 large-caliber towed artillery and self-propelled artillery above GNP, the destruction of the prestige is the most obvious, one after another heavy shells like a torrential rain, falling on the positions of the devils and the Japanese and Indian troops in front of the town of Jidrenjin, countless large fireballs rose from the ground, a black smoke cloud of shell explosion has not yet dissipated, and a row of shells fell to the ground, and the fireballs swept up a huge wave of air, pushing away the black smoke cloud that has not yet dissipated. This was followed by another volley of shells with a piercing whistling sound and slammed down on the enemy's position.

Due to the consumption of rockets for several days, the reserves were insufficient, so they did not participate in the war this time, and more than 600,000 rockets were killed. ~~ Mountain artillery, field artillery and dread. ~~ Infantry artillery and other small-caliber artillery, the performance is still good, you must know that the rate of fire of small guns, much faster than artillery, a minute down, at least 6,000 bombs fell on the Japanese position, if you add the divisional, regimental artillery units of thousands of various caliber pursuit guns, then the power is even more incredible Although the Japanese commander has been psychologically prepared, but the intensity of the shelling in front of him, is still beyond the original expectations, in a very short period of time, the Japanese army carefully built pillboxes, fortifications, Bunkers and other defensive ramparts collapsed under the continuous sound of artillery, the bunker flew into the sky, the trenches were filled, the barbed wire and obstacles were blown up, and the minefields covering an area of several kilometers were blown up by artillery shells and exploded like a chain reaction.

The shelling continued, and the dense group of planes in the sky had flown over the battlefield, and at the same time, the two tank divisions were like two sharp knives, attacking the Japanese positions from the left and right flanks, and when the tanks and armored personnel carriers approached the enemy's positions, the artillery sound in the rear stopped abruptly, and hundreds of tanks did not even have the intention of pausing for a moment, and roared onto the Japanese positions.

Before the devils and the Japanese and Indian soldiers had time to react, the attack planes and bombers had already begun to eliminate the remaining fortifications and firepower points at certain points, and one after another more than 500 kilogram bombs fell from the sky at a speed exceeding the speed of sound, and pounced on those reinforced concrete bunkers and bunkers in a daze, blowing up these extremely strong fortifications to the ground, and the soldiers and weapons and equipment inside were turned into parts and thrown in all directions.

At this time, the back door of the armored personnel carrier accompanying the tank attack had been opened, and the infantry rushed into the trenches held by the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers with shouts, and rushed forward under the cover of tank guns and armored vehicles' high-level dual-purpose machine guns. If the tanks that were stopped in front of the first front found that there were devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers, they would immediately open fire and destroy them without hesitation.

Under the cover of unusually powerful firepower, the infantry crossed trenches and wiped out all enemies in sight with the cooperation of automatic rifles, submachine guns, flamethrowers, sniper rifles and grenades of various specialized assault groups.

This kind of three-dimensional attack from heaven to earth, from back to front, made the devils and the Japanese and Indian soldiers extremely uncomfortable, and soon, groups of death squads fell to death on the way to charge, most of the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers could not even achieve the suicide attack, they were shrouded in dense firepower, just rushed out of the trench and were eliminated, and many guys were even more desolate, they were burned alive by the flamethrower flames, miserable.

In the narrow tunnels and communication trenches, automatic rifles, submachine guns, and shell pistols played a huge role, sweeping the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers who tried to get close to engage in white-knuckle combat or simply launch self-detonating attacks to the ground like wheat cuts, and the dirty blood stained the ground red.

The engineering units quickly blew up the anti-tank trenches built by the Japanese army, paved many roads to the front line, and the dense tanks and armored vehicles crossed the obstacles, frantically shooting at all the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers they could see.

Only an hour after the attack was launched, a tank company and two armored infantry companies had already broken into the town of Jidlenjin, and the Leopard 44 tanks were like road rollers, their wide tracks crushed on the road, making a "click" sound of metal impact, and the ground was full of crushed devils and the flesh and mud of Japanese and Indian soldiers, blood and body fluids squeezed out of internal organs, overflowing everywhere, and the smell of fish was permeating. At the same time, more than 2,000 enemy troops reinforced from the south of the town, braving the blows of overhead attack planes and bombers, launched a fierce attack, trying to outflank the 15 tanks and the two companies of infantry that followed the attack tanks.

A fierce collision broke out immediately, fifteen Leopard 44 tanks fired continuously, fifteen arsenic~~ anti-aircraft machine guns and fifteen parallel machine guns continuously spit out tongues of fire, and the general-purpose machine guns and automatic rifles in the hands of the armored infantry also poured out bursts of dense bullet rain, intertwined with the fire of the tanks, and wiped out the devils and the Japanese and Indian troops on the way to the charge.

At this time, the Leopard 44 tank gun used a high-explosive grenade ......q. ~~ The barrels of the caliber fired continuously, and the grenades continued to fall in the middle of the criss-crossing fire network, exploding a ball of fireballs, turning those devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers who tried to use the terrain to attack and advance in a covert way.

The Japanese commander seemed to be jumping over the wall in a hurry, and once again intensified the counterattack, and at least four or five thousand devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers rushed towards the tank company and two armored infantry companies in front of the breakthrough.

The firepower of fighters, bombers, and ground troops in the air could no longer suppress the frenzied, tidal wave of Japanese enemies, and they used the blocking of buildings to launch a death assault on the officers and soldiers of Anjia who were stationed in the middle of the town. In this case, the captain and company commander of the tank company, who commanded the three companies to fight, called for artillery reinforcements, and soon rows of dense shells fell into the devils and the Japanese and Indian army groups, blowing up these guys who were almost in a state of madness.

The decisive counterattack of the Japanese army was higher and higher, but by this time the main force of our army had cleared the outer positions of the town, except for one tank regiment and two armored infantry regiments that entered the town as support, the rest of the troops bypassed the town from the outside and advanced to the rear from the left and right flanks, preparing to outflank the Japanese army.

In order to avoid the fate of total annihilation, the Japanese commander had to order a retreat, and the whole army retreated to the city of Asansol, fifteen kilometers to the south.

Ashansol is located on the north bank of the Damodr River, for the railway, highway and water transport transportation hub, the population of the city before the Japanese invasion is as high as 500,000, because there is a large coal field in Rani Ganj in the southeast, developed into an industrial and mining city at the beginning of this century, adjacent to copper, iron, lead, zinc and other mining areas, in the early thirties, the Tata Group built two large steel plants here, one metallurgical and one aluminium smelter, in addition to the large machinery factory, paper mill, cable factory, automobile factory, pharmaceutical factory, chemical plant controlled by British capital, and Rani Ganj in the southeast, Together, the two cities of Durgapur form the most famous industrial base in the East Indies.

However, the Japanese commander apparently did not think about how tragic it would be to retreat when the opponent had the speed advantage of tanks and armored vehicles, and at the same time there were fighters in the sky to strike and harass them.

By 3 p.m., the advance of the attacking troops had successfully advanced to the city of Ashansol, and the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers who had retreated south from the town of Gidlenkin were all annihilated in the pursuit.

After the war, it was confirmed that it was an independent infantry brigade of the Japanese army, plus two Indian divisions, with a total of 30,000 men, which was in line with the expected results. However, such a force is obviously not enough to ensure the width and thickness of the defense, and under the blow of the Anjia Army's air and ground integration, defeat is inevitable.

The air force once again reconnoitred the defenses of Azsol, and the Japanese commanders seemed to be very frightened of the fall of the town of Gidlenkin so quickly, and once again strengthened the defense of the outlying positions of the city, and at the same time deployed new barricades in the buildings, factories and other buildings in the city, as if preparing to use street fighting to stop the attack of the Anjia army.

According to the repeated confirmation of the reconnaissance aircraft during this period, there is no significant change in the factory areas of Ashansol, Raniganj and Durgapur at present. After analysis, the intelligence department held that the Japanese engineers were already busy with their feet just dismantling the machinery and equipment of those factories and enterprises in the coastal areas, and that the factories and enterprises in the Damoder River area had not yet had time to start their work, and our troops were already in the city.

However, precisely because most of the factories and enterprises in the city of Ashsol have not been demolished in time, it is easier to deploy defensive positions in the steel jungle, and the front command has enough psychological preparations for this.

At seven o'clock in the evening, without giving much time for the Japanese troops in Ashsol to prepare, the southern front group waited for the artillery units in the rear to arrive, and immediately began the siege operation.

First of all, there was still artillery bombardment, countless meteor showers, scrambling towards the Japanese position, the earth trembled violently as if a strong earthquake had occurred, large and small fireballs rose into the air, and the entire city of Azansol was covered with black smoke clouds.

In the dense explosion, a row of shells just whistled to the ground, followed by another row of shells with a piercing screech and flew towards the Japanese position.

The high-intensity shelling lasted for half an hour, and nearly a dry ton of steel fell on the outlying positions of the Japanese army in the city of Azansol, and the strong defensive line was destroyed and shattered.

After the artillery fire was prepared, the Leopard 44 tank and the half-track armored fighting vehicle once again let out a huge "boom" and shook people's hearts, and fiercely pounced towards the Japanese position, followed by the armored personnel carrier, and then the infantry who launched an assault in a skirmish line.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and in the high-speed sprint, all the vehicles turned on their headlights, and the searchlights of the air defense troops were also turned on to the brightest.

Leopard 44 tanks and armored fighting vehicles roared and continued to advance...... "Tooth NP tank guns sprayed, constantly sending enemy fire points into the sky that were busy firing out of fear, and the infantrymen in the charge were not affected by the attack with their backs to the light, and they accompanied the tanks and armored vehicles to advance quickly.

The devils and the Japanese and Indian soldiers who were accustomed to the darkness were so miserable that they could not see and could only shoot indiscriminately, but this behavior obviously brought them a catastrophe, and almost every fortification that spewed tongues of fire was devastated, and wherever there was a flash of fire, it was hit by an overwhelming number of shells, and those fortifications were blown into the sky one by one, or buried in the ground by the collapsed earth.

Finally, the armored personnel carrier rushed to the enemy's trench, like an officer and soldier out of a cage, first threw dense grenades into the enemy's trench, and after a few seconds, countless black smoke clouds exploded on the Japanese position. The flamethrowers held nozzles and spewed out fire dragons, burning the positions held by the devils and the Japanese and Indian troops into a sea of fire.

"Kill!"

Amid the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the Anjia Army infantry jumped into the trenches desperately, engaged in fierce melee combat with the devils and Japanese and Indian soldiers, and those who were armed with Type 38 rifles or Lee Enfield rifles were like hunters shooting their prey during hunting, and before they could react, they were shot in the trenches one by one by a dense burst of bullets from automatic weapons.

The officers and men of the 7th and 9th Groups of the Indian Front of the Anjia Army did not give full play to the advantages of the Japanese in white-knuckle warfare at all, and under the continuous fire of automatic rifles, submachine guns, and box guns, the enemy fell down in rows, as if they were queuing up to be shot, and died extremely happily.

The first to be defeated were the indigenous mob who had been issued only individual weapons or grenades, these natives who had to be on the front line because their families were being detained, after all, were still untrained civilians, who saw a fierce offensive that they had never seen before, and the idea of trying to save their families through their own efforts suddenly collapsed, they cried loudly, turned and ran, ignoring the black hole guns of the Overseers behind them.

The number of indigenous mob is too large, although after the great plague of the previous year, the permanent population of the city of Azassor has dropped sharply to 100,000, but during this time, the Japanese army has captured a large number of villagers from the villages on the south bank of the Damodr River, so there are now nearly 200,000 natives in the city, of which nearly 70,000 or 80,000 are sent to the front line to resist.

In the first round of shelling, nearly half of the indigenous mob who were not good at evading were wiped out, and now facing a new blow, they could no longer suppress the fear in their hearts, and fled to the rear city in a swarm.

Although several armed mobs were shot and killed by the Japanese warlords, the remaining natives stubbornly broke through the Japanese defenses and fled into the city.

The infantry of the Anjia Army, which was following behind the armed natives, was greatly boosted and took advantage of the situation to cover up the killing, and the devils and the Japanese and Indian troops who were rushed by the mob were unable to parry, and finally retreated into the city.

The devils and the Japanese and Indian troops who left behind the palace were quickly eliminated, a few cunning guys pretended to be dead, they lay in the trenches, and when the infantry and tanks of the Anjia Army rushed over, they jumped up and suddenly attacked, causing certain losses to our officers and soldiers in the charge, two tanks were blown up and the tracks were destroyed, and one tank caught fire in the back, but it was quickly extinguished under the foam sprayed by the fire extinguisher. In addition, there were also devils and Japanese and Indian troops hiding in the shadows and firing cold shots, causing dozens of casualties among our officers and men, but these people usually did not have time to fire a second shot, and they were beaten into blood gourds by other officers and men of Anjia who attacked and advanced in a sea of mountains.

At midnight, the battle extended into the city of Azsol.

The devils and the Japanese and Indian troops took advantage of the familiar terrain to hide in the buildings and shoot outside, while the indigenous mob was once again organized as death squads to launch suicide attacks in the night. This time, there was no distinction between men and women, young and old, and the only task these natives received was to carry cluster grenades or explosive packs to die with the soldiers and soldiers of the Anjia who were attacking the streets, and the result of disobeying the order was to be shot on the spot.

The battle was extremely brutal, the Japanese army concealed the anti-aircraft guns originally used for air defense into the building, and used them as anti-tank weapons after being flattened, due to the problem of firing angles, the Japanese could often open fire, but our long-range artillery fire was difficult to destroy the Japanese anti-tank bunkers, and could only destroy the target through cannon fire.

At the same time, the Japanese also placed a large number of field guns and cannons in the buildings in the city of Asansol, and used the flat fire of these artillery fire to deal with the clusters of tanks and armored fighting vehicles of the Anjia Army involved in street fighting.

After fighting the Anjia Army for a long time, the Japanese army fully learned the lessons of the past, and did not deploy these artillery pieces with strong anti-tank capabilities on the periphery of the city to prevent the attack of the Anjia Army's superior artillery group and the air force.

At this time, neither Liao Minlin, commander of the Seventh Group Army, nor Zhou Dingcheng, commander of the Ninth Group Army, did not expect the Japanese army's conspiracy, and the two tank divisions each sent a tank regiment and an armored infantry regiment to participate in street fighting.

Except for the 10,000 NP field artillery, which needs to pay attention to the angle to penetrate the armor of the Leopard 44 tank, the rest, g~~~~, blade. ~~ Cannon & 10,000. ~~, 毖~~~~, , force. ~~ Anti-aircraft guns have great lethality against Leopard 44 tanks, and thin-skinned armored vehicles are even more accurate.

Even the armor of the Tiger IV tank, equipped with a separate heavy tank regiment directly under the group army, exceeded the caliber of defense against the caliber of the army. ~~'s cannons also seemed inadequate, so in just the first round of shelling, sixteen tanks were hit and burned, and twenty-two of the armored fighting vehicles that followed were immediately fireballed.

"Boom one by one......"

If a meteor-like rain of shells came straight from a high place or from a certain cover, tanks and armored vehicles were constantly hit, and violent explosions rang out one after another, so that the infantry of the Anjia Army who followed the attack of tanks and armored vehicles were terrified for a while.

Among them, a Leopard 44 tank was hit through the turret by two anti-aircraft guns ~~~~, directly hitting the ammunition depot, and then a violent explosion occurred inside the tank, and all five crew members were killed. Another tank was, for. ~~ caliber cannon hit, the tank was blown up and overturned on the side of the road, and after the tank crew was successfully evacuated, a violent explosion occurred.

Many devils hid in the shadows, and when the tanks' own fire extinguishing devices could not extinguish the fire, and the tankmen had to jump out of the turret, they encountered accurate fire from these devils, and many tankers died heroically on the tanks.

However, the battle has reached this point, there is already a situation of advancing and retreating, and the enemy's fire has also revealed its position, and the Leopard 44 tank's toothed NP cannon is constantly spraying fireballs, destroying those Japanese anti-aircraft guns and cannons that have just fired shells.

At the same time, the officers and men who operated the 7 paper ~~ recoilless guns, according to the information provided by the observers, launched artillery attacks on those bunkers with extremely tricky shooting angles at any time, and fired directly at rocket armor-piercing range extender shells with a distance of 3 meters and an armor-piercing thickness of up to 3 li~~, turning the Japanese army's firing points into dumb.

In the sky, the overwhelming bombardment planes, according to the guidance of the ground troops, razed one building after another to the ground, and the attack planes swept by from a low altitude, braving the dense anti-aircraft fire of the devils and the Japanese and Indian troops, and stubbornly fired rockets at the enemy's anti-tank artillery positions. The locust-like fire dragon flew in the sky from the window of the prepared building, and the building where the Japanese army hid anti-aircraft guns and cannons quickly burst into huge flames, and with the sound of violent explosions, the sharp shrapnel instantly tore the enemy's artillery into pieces!

What makes people feel puzzling is that from beginning to end, the Japanese army and navy air force did not show up, allowing the Anjia Army Air Force to splash tons and tons of steel on the Japanese army!

Seeing the fierce battle situation ahead, the anti-aircraft artillery brigade, tank expulsion brigade, and Spitfire tank regiment attached to the group army also entered the battle one after another, and the tank expulsion brigade, equipped with No. 4 assault guns and Type 4 tank destroyers, followed the second wave of tanks that were put into the siege.

The anti-aircraft artillery brigade is equipped with island ~~~~ self-propelled anti-aircraft guns, hundreds of anti-aircraft guns are arranged in the rear of the tank expulsion brigade, a dark red bullet marks, from time to time whistling towards a certain building that spits flames, as the window rushes out of the huge fire dragon, the explosion sounds, and immediately thick smoke billows out, and the fire soars into the sky. The high rate of fire and accurate hit rate of anti-aircraft guns killed and injured a large number of devils and the living forces of the Burmese and Indian army.

Pursuit guns and dreadnosaurs of various calibers ...... The infantry artillery was pushed to the front, and the artillerymen braved the hail of bullets and bullets to directly aim at the enemy's fire points and fortifications for accurate shooting!

Many of the indigenous armed mobs who shouted and launched the charge had not yet rushed to the tanks and armored vehicles, when a string of fire dragons erupted from the Spitfire Tank, and all the targets won the bid, and the fire men screamed with their teeth and claws, illuminating the ground red.

During the attack, the officers and soldiers of Anjia fell one after another, and an endless stream of officers and soldiers stepped on the corpses of their robes in the night, and continued to charge, and many streets of only one or two hundred meters were full of casualties of Anjia officers and soldiers, and the land of the city of Asansol, which was the gateway to Bengal, was stained red with the blood of the martyrs.

In a sense, the brutality of this battle has reached the brutality of the historical battle of Stalingrad, and since the entry into the East Indies, the offensive and defensive battles of this important industrial city have shed more blood than all the previous battles combined.

The battle lasted from night to day, and the more than 1,000 artillery pieces possessed by the two armies had fired more than 500,000 shells, almost exhausting the ammunition hoarded on the front line. The artillery officers and men took off their shirts and loaded the shells with their chests exposed, and with the pull of the firing rope, round after round of shells flew out like a mountain of seas, destroying the targets they were humming and threatening.

When at five o'clock in the afternoon of the thirteenth two forward regiments were inserted into the factory area and the city center of the city of Azansol, respectively, the fighting entered the white heat.

At this time, the two group armies had already put six tank regiments, six armored regiments, and eight infantry regiments into the city, and in order to completely penetrate the Japanese defense line, the independent heavy tank regiments to which the two group armies belonged also entered the battle, and the officers and men carried forward the spirit of continuous combat; tank guns, heavy artillery, infantry guns, and pursuit guns were organized into a dense firepower network, and countless combat groups were constantly spreading from the factory area and the city center to the two wings, using tanks and armored vehicles as fire support points to launch attacks on one building after another.

At eight o'clock in the evening, the Ninth Army captured four senior Japanese staff officers in an underground bunker in the factory area, and after passing the interrogation, urgent information was reported to the headquarters of the group army.

It was only at this time that Liao Minlin and Zhou Dingcheng knew that the city of Azasol actually harbored two main divisions of 25,000 men in the 31st and 33rd of the Japanese army, an independent infantry brigade of 40,000 people, two independent garrisons of 5,000 people, and two independent field heavy artillery wings, and the Japanese and Indian armies also had six divisions with a total strength of 200,000.

The intention of the Japanese army was to first use the strategy of arrogance to paralyze the commanders of the Anjia army, and then use street fighting to destroy all the tanks and armored vehicles of our attacking troops, and then rely on the superiority of troops to delay the Anjia army under the fortified city.

At present, the 15th Division of the Japanese Army and three independent infantry brigades, with five Japanese-Indian divisions, are coming out day and night from the city of Pokaro Steel in the northeastern foothills of the Jodhanagpur Plateau, where they are hiding, to rush to Jamdala north of the town of Gidlenkin, and then take advantage of the situation to regain the town of Gidlenkin and copy the retreat of the Seventh and Ninth Armies.

At the same time, the Japanese 29th Division and four separate infantry brigades of Durgapur were quietly advancing northwest along the railway, entering the battle at the latest by dawn tomorrow, in an attempt to achieve the suddenness of the attack. The situation is critical!

(To be continued)