Chapter 240: Ready
The power of the explosion of the 150-kilogram aerial bomb should not be underestimated, although the explosion site of this aerial bomb was four or five meters away from the locomotive, but after the violent explosion, the locomotive was seriously deformed and the damage was very serious.
Several little devil drivers in the cab were all shocked to death, and they fell into the deformed cab bleeding from the seven orifices, looking very miserable.
As soon as the train stopped, the little devils got off in a panic, but a few carriages were seriously deformed by the explosion, and the doors were difficult to open for a while, and the surviving little devils were so angry that they screamed.
The Mustang fighters in the sky, in a group of three planes, took turns to drop bombs, and the little devil train parked on the railway became the target of bombing, and the aerial bombs kept exploding, and in less than a few minutes, the little devil train with more than a dozen carriages as long as was blown to pieces.
Many of the carriages were smoking and burning with raging fires, and the captain of the little devil wing, who had already gotten off the train, saw that one of his wings had suffered such heavy losses within a few minutes, and his face was so angry that his face was pale, and the Chinese fighters looking at the sky had no choice but to shout on the ground.
Some little devils, with crooked machine guns, fired fiercely at the Mustang fighters in the sky, but this effect was very small, and the Mustang fighters dropped bombs at an altitude of seven or eight hundred meters, and the crooked machine guns basically could not hit them.
The Mustang fighter plane in the sky, within a few minutes, basically dropped half of the bombs, the Mustang fighter pilot, saw that many little devils jumped off the train, and also set up machine guns to fire back, and everyone drove the Mustang fighter to start the second round of bomb dropping.
The little devils saw the Mustang fighter roaring again, and their faces were as frightened as earth, especially those who had not yet gotten off the train, and felt a little desperate, feeling that they were going to see Amaterasu.
Three Mustang fighters dropped bombs on the broken little devil train, dropped all the bombs on the plane, and two aerial bombs almost fell on a car box together, and the violent explosion broke the broken carriage, and the broken carriage was thrown high by the air wave generated by the explosion, and was thrown off the railroad tracks more than ten meters away, and the whole train almost overturned under the drive of this carriage.
The second round of bombing blew up the little devil to the point that the ghost cried wolf, and after ten minutes, the Mustang fighter finally dropped all the bombs, and the little devil's train had been blown up to the point that it was basically out of shape. Big craters were also blown out on the railway.
Those little devils who didn't get off the train were all killed, and it was impossible to get off the train again.
After all the Mustang fighters dropped bombs, more than half of the little devils were killed or wounded, and there were more than 1,000 little devils who were directly killed, and nearly 1,000 little devils were injured, and many of them were seriously injured, and less than 1,000 little devils were intact.
The "luck" of the captain of the little devil wing is still relatively good, after ten minutes of explosion, the captain of the little devil wing is intact, but he sees that his field wing of more than 3,000 people, in such a short period of time, more than half of the casualties are blue, and his face is blue with anger.
After dropping the bombs, the 24 Mustang fighters strafed back and forth over the little devil's head several times, almost using up the bullets carried on the plane, and the little devil was put down a lot.
The captain of the little devil wing saw that his wing, before he reached Zhangjiakou to enter the battlefield, was disabled by the fighters of the [***] team, first a fierce bombing, and then a dense strafing of machine guns, many of the little devils who successfully got off the car were killed a lot, and the captain of the little devil was so angry that his face was like dirt.
After a long time, the captain of the little devil wing reluctantly said to a little devil communication soldier next to him who was still carrying a radio station: "Send a report to Your Excellency the division commander, the Songjiang Wing was hit by the planes of the [***] squadron 50 kilometers east of Zhangjiakou, suffered heavy casualties, and has lost its combat effectiveness. ”
After speaking, the captain of the little devil felt an unprecedented sense of frustration, looking at the broken burning train not far away, he was silent for a long time, and the feeling in his heart was difficult to describe in words......
Datong, the headquarters of the 36th Army.
Before the 24 Mustang fighters returned to Datong Airport, Gao Zhihang happily called Zhang Yunfei to report the good news, and Zhang Yunfei was also very happy in his heart when he received the call, Zhang Yunfei praised Gao Zhihang on the phone, and then put down the phone and said to everyone with a happy face: "Just now the flight group called, and the 24 Mustang fighters we sent dealt heavy damage to the vanguard of the little devil's reinforcement in 20 minutes, and a wing reinforced by the little devil by train has been basically disabled and completely lost its combat effectiveness. ”
Hearing this, all the people in the command headquarters were full of joy, several combat staff officers hugged each other with joy, and several combat staff officers cheered happily.
Zhang Yunfei saw everyone's happy expressions, and did not stop it, Zhang Yunfei himself also smiled slightly, acquiescing to this behavior, for a while, the headquarters was full of joyful atmosphere.
Comrade Liu Dazhu, deputy commander-in-chief, also grinned happily and said: "Commander-in-chief, our flying brigade is really a strange army, which has repeatedly inflicted heavy losses on the little devils, and made the little devils unable to guard against them. ”
Comrade Zuo Qingquan, chief of the General Staff, also took over the conversation and said happily: "This time our air strike not only dealt a heavy blow to the little devil reinforcements, but also caused a big problem for Okamura Ningji, and the speed of the little devil's reinforcement is estimated to be greatly reduced. ”
Zhang Yunfei listened to the words of Chief of Staff Zuo, smiled faintly, and expressed his agreement with Comrade Zuo Qingquan's view, the little devil suffered this blow, and it is estimated that he really does not dare to take the train to support Zhangjiakou anymore, and if the little devil's reinforcements give up the railway, change to a highway or on foot, then the little devil's reinforcements will not reach Zhangjiakou for a while and a half.
The three infantry divisions on the Zhangjiakou side will not be under great pressure for the time being, and the three divisions have a total of more than 70,000 people, which is more than enough to deal with the two divisions with low morale of the little devils.
Zhang Yunfei thought in his heart that now he had to put the focus of his command on Guisui, and all the troops attacking Guisui had already entered the attack position and could launch an attack at any time, and they would attack Guisui as soon as they waited for his own order.
Zhang Yunfei thought for a moment and said solemnly: "Now issue a combat order!" ”
Seeing the order, everyone immediately put away the smiles on their faces, looked serious, and stood up straight. Zhang Yunfei looked around at everyone, looked at his watch again, and now it was just after nine o'clock, so he said loudly: "Order, starting from half past ten, the artillery division, the armored division, the two tank regiments, and the sixth infantry division will attack from the east of Guisui; The mechanized infantry regiment of the cavalry division, the armored division and the 3rd tank regiment returned to the southwest direction of Sui to attack. ”
Zhang Yunfei sent troops to forcibly attack the key areas of the little devil's defense, which was to strike a good blow to the confidence of the little devil, and at the same time, Zhang Yunfei also had enough confidence in the armored division and the artillery division, thinking that everyone could knock open the turtle shell carefully built by the little devil.
Although the artillery division participated in the attack on Guisui with only two 155-mm howitzer regiments, and the armored division was only equipped with three tank regiments, Zhang Yunfei, who knew the power of heavy weapons, felt that these forces could not be stopped by little devils.
The little devil's Mengsui Army has two field divisions, namely the 26th Division and the 44th Division, as well as two wings of Reading Power, namely the cavalry wing and the chariot wing of the little devil, as for the puppet army's cavalry division of five or six thousand people and an infantry division of seven or eight thousand people, Zhang Yunfei chose to ignore it directly.
These puppet armies may be able to bully the common people, but when they encounter the 36th Group Army with strong combat effectiveness, it is really not enough.
Although there are more than 10,000 devil cavalry in the second brigade of the little devil's cavalry, these cavalry are far away in Baotou, and it is difficult for them to reinforce Guisui in a short time, but even if they can be reinforced, Zhang Yunfei doesn't mind cleaning them up together......
The units of the 36 th Group Army in the vicinity of Guisui immediately took action after receiving Zhang Yunfei's order, making various preparations in an orderly manner.
At this time, Okabe Naosaburo was not aware at all that Zhang Yunfei's real purpose was to attack Guisui and want to eat the little devil's Mengsui army in one bite.
Not only Okabe Naosaburo, but now all the little devils, no one realizes Zhang Yunfei's true purpose, everyone thinks that Zhang Yunfei's purpose is to attack Zhangjiakou, and then want to attack Beiping. The top brass of the little devil Mengsui Army thought so, and the top brass of the Little Devil North China Front Army also thought so.
Okabe Naosaburo is also paying close attention to the situation in Zhangjiakou now, when Okabe Naosaburo knew that the commander of the 30th Division of the Little Devil Minamijiro was killed by the heavy artillery of the [***] team, and the city wall of Zhangjiakou was blown out of several gaps, Okabe Naosaburo was still worried about the situation in Zhangjiakou, and he was still worried about Okamura Ningji.
Okabe Naosaburo was worried about whether the two divisions of the little devil could hold Zhangjiakou and whether they could hold on smoothly until the arrival of reinforcements, and Okabe Naosaburo even thought about whether to send a part of the troops to attack Zhang Yunfei's base and help Okamura Ningji.
No one in the Mengsui Army thought that Zhang Yunfei would attack Guisui, so naturally there was no focus on defending against the attack of the 36th Group, and the little devils stationed in Guisui were still doing as usual, what should they do or what they were doing. There was no awareness of the imminent end of the war.
But by this time, the units of the 36th Group, which had participated in the attack on Guisui, were ready, and the two 155-mm howitzer regiments of the artillery division, with a total of 120 155-mm howitzers, were ready to shell at any time.
More than 100 Type 39 tanks and more than 200 Type 39 tracked armored personnel carriers of the two tank regiments of the armored division also quietly moved to a place less than 20 kilometers away from the small devil fortifications at this time.
More than 20,000 officers and men of the 6th Infantry Division also moved to a place less than 20 kilometers in front of the Little Devil's defensive position, immediately behind the two tank regiments of the Panzer Division.
(To be continued)