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Chapter 1710: The Battle of Tao Gong (I)

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Just when An Yi was in Tashkent while commanding the war in Afghanistan and enjoying the wind and snow, on 26 November, the Tumei detachment of the Japanese army, based on the 56th Wing of the 18th Division, suddenly launched an attack on Taogong County on our side of the border.

Located at the southernmost tip of the newly established city of Songkhla in Shannan Province, on the border with Malaya, the county was historically part of the Sultan of Pattani, who was the Sultan of Malaya. The various sultanates of the Malay Peninsula have long maintained a high degree of self-reliance, but some paid tribute to the Sukhothai Kingdom and the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

In the sixties of the eighteenth century, the Ayutthaya Kingdom was attacked by Burma, and after the fall of the kingdom's capital, the Pattani Sultan declared independence, but the declaration of independence was never recognized by the King of Siam. It was not until the beginning of this century that Britain signed a treaty with the Kingdom of Siam, dividing up the territory of the original Pattani Sultanate, 60% of which was returned to the Kingdom of Thailand, and 40% was incorporated into the then British colony of Malaya. First Novel: Iron Bone Chapter 1710: The Battle of Tao Gong (I)

After Siam was annexed by South China, the Malayan natives around Tao Gong Fu declared their independence again, but they collapsed under the thunderous blows of the An Jia army. Indigenous and religious leaders who had deliberately stow division were purged, most of their property was confiscated, and a small portion was used to appease the lower classes, while the government distributed land and tools of production equally among the common people, and society quickly stabilized.

Gu Changfeng deployed two infantry battalions on the border line of Taogong County, and still had a regiment in the county seat as a backup, and at the same time set up a former enemy headquarters in Songkhla City, under the jurisdiction of three infantry divisions, to deter the Japanese army.

However, at this time, the Japanese army had just experienced a series of victories and was in a state of arrogance.

In late November, the Japanese army basically wiped out the British army in Malaya, and the former Malayan rebels and national independence leaders came down from the Cameron Plateau and various hills in the center of the peninsula to join up with the Japanese army, which was regarded as the "liberator", hoping to establish a national self-government with the support of Japan, and the situation in Malaya gradually stabilized.

Originally, according to the plan of the Japanese base camp, in the central area of Malaya, in cooperation with friendly forces, annihilated the 18th Division of the British army retreating south from Kota Bharu and the Japanese-German defense line, leaving one wing to use the British border fortifications to hold on, and the rest of the troops boarded the ship from the port of Kota Bharu and returned to the Lanyin Islands.

However, the Tumei detachment, which had made great contributions in the previous war, once again "went down", tampered with the orders of the base camp without authorization, and took the initiative to provoke the war.

The attack was launched in the early morning, when the sun rose in the east, an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the positions of the Anjia Army along the border, and after the explosion sounded, the whistling sound of the shells breaking through the air was heard, which was a heavy artillery shell flying faster than the speed of sound, and an orange fireball rose immediately after the shell landed.

Japanese artillery kicked off the encounter with the calibration of captured new M-1 howitzers. The Japanese artillery positions were divided into three groups, two of which each had 25 British-made 4.5-inch howitzers, and after the M-1 howitzers were determined to shoot at Zhu Yuan, they launched rapid fire at the Anjia Army's beachhead two kilometers away, and the other artillery group was equipped with 16 Japanese-made 75mm and 105mm field guns to serve as a vigilance, so as to destroy the counterattack that the Anjia Army artillery units on the other side of the Jiehe River could launch at any time.

Due to the rapid defeat of the British army, the Japanese army gained a lot in Malaya and Sin Chau, the artillery of several divisions and regiments participating in the battle was strengthened, and because several large military factories run by the British were also taken at the same time, the situation of ammunition supply difficulties was greatly alleviated, and now the morale of the Japanese army is unprecedentedly high, and they are all ready to fight a turnaround.

This attack on the defense line from Dabai to Wenzhen on the other side of the border line was carried out by the lower staff of the Japanese army, and in fact the commander of the 20th Army, Yamashita Fumi, was kept in the dark until the beginning of the war.

The artillery shells fired by the Japanese army came towards the position built by the An Jiajun like a meteor rain, and when they fell to the ground, they exploded countless pillars of fire, and the air waves swept all kinds of debris in the air, and soon turned into a torrential rain, spilling on the ground, and the entire position was soon shrouded in smoke and dust.

The bomb group repeatedly covered between the beachhead positions of the Anjia Army!

Twenty-five shells fell to the ground in each round, exploding a wind as sharp as an invisible steel knife, and then set off a frenzy of earth and rocks about five or six meters high! Flying shrapnel, stone clusters, adobe, and grass roots formed an impermeable curtain that swept the entire position.

"Boom-"

In a series of loud noises that were as dense as rain and sounded like thunder, waves of invisible sounds, from far to near, and from near to far, were like a hammer smashing into the ears of the officers and soldiers!

The officers and men sitting in the specially reinforced anti-artillery holes, both veterans and recruits, desperately opened their mouths wide to soothe the strong impact of the sound waves on the eardrums.

The whole earth trembled violently, and every explosion sounded, leaving huge holes in front and behind the position, and from time to time shells fell in the trenches, smashing the surface of the reinforced concrete into potholes.

The fifty cannons of the devils were constantly spitting flames, and the shells were smashed into the beachhead that had long been shrouded in smoke without money.

The tyrannical shock wave, whistling shrapnel, and flying rocks swept repeatedly across the Anjia Army's position like a sandstorm. First Novel: Iron Bone Chapter 1710: The Battle of Tao Gong (I)

Inside the trenches, the smoke billowed and the heat released by the endless explosion of shells quickly swept away the coolness of the morning, and the air became unbearably hot.

The shelling had been going on for a quarter of an hour, and the trenches and fortifications, despite being poured with concrete, had collapsed under such frequent artillery fire, and cracks had begun to appear in the tops of many of the anti-artillery holes.

Just when the nerve endurance of the officers and men of Anjia was reaching the limit, the Japanese shelling came to an abrupt halt.

On the gunsmoke-filled position, the officers and men came out of the anti-artillery holes that were almost blocked by concrete blocks and cemented earth blocks, and for a time there were coughing and "bah" sounds everywhere, and everyone was busy spitting out mouthfuls of mud and dust.

"I guess the enemy is coming! Get ready, everyone! As long as we hold out for half an hour, the troops in the rear will come to reinforce and the Air Force will go into battle! Hurry up, everyone! ”

Grass-roots commanders and noncommissioned officers, who had extremely rich combat experience, quickly urged the officers and men to erect light and heavy machine guns and quickly repair partially collapsed fortifications and trenches.

Just when the officers and men were seriously and nervously making all kinds of preparations, the terrible air defense sirens on the positions sounded again.

"Fuck, it's endless!"

"Holy shit, dare to send out the Air Force, wait a minute, make them look good!"

The position resounded with the sound of gossip, and all the officers and men shouldered the guns and ammunition that had just been laid out and retreated in an orderly manner.

Due to the early warning of the airship radar, the dull engine sound of the bomber was heard in the air at this time.

Twenty-eight murderous Type 92 heavy bomb planes, under the cover of sixteen I-27 Nakajima Type 97 fighters, appeared from the southern sky, and the huge group of planes was like sharks smelling blood, and four groups of four swooped viciously above the position of the An Jia Army.

The smoke after the shelling was still shrouded above the position and did not disperse, and the first bomber had already swooped down to the ground with a strange scream, and the large-caliber machine gun bullets "swished" vertically into the smoke-steaming traffic ditches and trenches, and regardless of whether it had any effect or not, another bomb was dropped, and then pulled up, shook its wings twice, and rushed into the air.

The bombs that landed in the trenches exploded violently, and billowing smoke and dust mixed with dirt rushed into the air, and suddenly a huge cloud of smoke rose in the sky.

Immediately afterward, the second, third, and fourth devil planes swooped down to the ground one after another, and the two fire whips spat out by the aviation machine guns on both sides of the plane spewed fiercely towards the trenches, causing mud and sparks to splash on the ground.

Fifty-kilogram and hundred-kilogram aerial bombs, one by one, fell on the position, exploded with a bang, and one after another aviation machine gun bullets fell from the sky with a roar! The position, which had already been riddled with holes, was once again shrouded in a sea of fire, the trenches made of concrete collapsed violently, and some fortifications made of steel bars, masonry and cement rose into the sky.

It was too late, but it was too soon, just when the Japanese fighters were rampant, the fighter group of the 2nd Air Regiment deployed at the Luanshan Airport in the north of Tongsong City finally arrived and killed the devil's plane.

The first to discover the Anjia military aircraft group were more than a dozen I-27 fighters of the Japanese Army Air Corps cruising in the skies along the border line.

The Japanese army attacked this time because the staff officers below quietly concealed the orders given by their superiors, so there were not many troops mobilized.

At present, this group of aircraft dispatched is already all the fighters that can be called. The Air Force participating in the war is the flight detachment of the Third Flying Group stationed in Kota Bharu Port, and they have already felt seven or eight times in their hearts about the army's sortie, although they have taken over the task head-on, but they have always maintained a high degree of vigilance, and now they find the overwhelming group of planes, and their hearts are excited, and their first reaction is to run away quickly, but when they see that the bombers in the rear are still having fun, they can only helplessly bite the bullet and pounce towards the surging group of planes, so as to buy time for the bombers to escape.

The 2nd Air Regiment dispatched three fighter squadrons this time, and two squadrons were still left at the airfield for maneuvering.

More than fifty kilometers behind the three fighter squadrons, there were also five bomber squadrons. Since the little devils do not follow the rules and take the initiative to attack, there is no emotion to talk about, and they must blow up the troops participating in the attack back to their original state and give little Japan a disadvantage. First Novel: Iron Bone Chapter 1710: The Battle of Tao Gong (I)

At the same time, at the missile base in the Khao Song Mountains north of Nha Trang, the terrible sirens sounded loudly an hour ago, and two missiles were already pointing at the sky and ready to be ignited and launched on the 10 missile launchers distributed on various hills. At the moment, the missilemen are seizing the time to install missiles on the third missile rack using the crane arm.

The battle on the front line has already begun, and no matter whether or not the final command will consider using missiles as a weapon of great destruction, the missile units must do their best to arm themselves as soon as possible, otherwise when the order comes, there will be nothing to launch, and the top brass will play the board.

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The air battle that broke out in the sky over Taogong County, the powerful Anjia Army Air Force, can be described as overwhelming.

The Second Regiment of the 1st Air Division participating in the war this time was all equipped with 27 fighters, and this kind of aircraft was not even an opponent of the upgraded Hayabusa fighter of the Japanese I-27 Nakajima 97 fighter, not to mention the I-27, a model that had been proven in the Baoding air battle and the eastern Hebei air battle.

The weapon system of the 27 fighter is a 23mm large-caliber cannon in the nose and two 12.7 caliber aviation machine guns in the wings, while the weapon of the Japanese I-27 is a 7.7mm machine gun.

In the first wave of frontal fire, seven I-27s were blown up in the air, and the rest of the Japanese pilots panicked, either dived or pulled up rapidly, but their every move was firmly locked, and in the advancing group, eleven 27s rushed towards the fleeing I-27, and the rest of the fighters pounced on the Japanese bombers.

At this time, the bomber pilot of the little devil has already issued a bad situation, although it is said that the nose wing of the Type 92 heavy bomber is also equipped with an aviation machine gun, which can shoot at the air and the ground, but its huge size and clumsy movements are destined not to be the main force in air combat, and now suddenly see a large number of silver-gray aircraft groups flying towards him, all the terrifying memories of the An Jiajun Air Force were quickly awakened.

The Type 92 heavy bomb planes, like schools of fish targeted by sharks, scattered in a hurry, pulled out arcs in the air, turned the nose of the plane, and fled frantically towards the southern sky.

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