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After winning the Battle of Gegen Temple, the Second Route Army led by Gu Changfeng successfully entered the Northeast Plain and immediately launched a crazy rainstorm offensive. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The superiority of the mechanized troops was displayed to the extreme on the thousands of miles of plains, which was almost a drag race-like march, and the tanks, armored vehicles, and personnel carriers of the Second Route Army advanced rapidly towards the target in the wilderness, on the roads, and beside the railways, and did not encounter even a slight resistance from the Japanese along the way.

Three hours later, the 1st Tank Regiment and the 4th Armored Infantry Regiment of the 36th Tank Division of the 8th Tank Army, which were the vanguard of the whole division, occupied the undefended county town of Tao'an (now Baicheng).

Six hours later, the county seat of Zhendong to the north of Tao'an and the county seat of Taonan to the south were recovered, and 12 hours later, the county seat of Tailai, the county seat of Da'an, and the county seat of Kaikai were also planted almost at the same time with the red and glamorous 79 military flag of the Anjia Army.

Only 24 hours later, the main force of the Second Route Army had successfully taken Liaozhong, occupied Liaoyuan City (now Shuangliao), and coerced Siping, while the 136th Division of the 42nd Group Army of the Northern Front, which was a partial division, successfully joined forces with the First Route Army at Jiangqiao on the south bank of the Nenjiang River, and the Third Group Army of the East Road Lianke Town, Guogongfu Mansion (now Songyuan City), Wangfu Town, and Chaigang, and successfully occupied the county seat of Nong'an, which was only 60 kilometers away from Changchun.

Under the scorching sun, the officers and men of Anjia who sat on troop transport trucks and marched had a feeling of drowsiness, and they cheered up their spirits and constantly made some pre-battle preparations to gather murderous energy, such as wiping the I-type automatic rifles in their hands, or messing with the military spurs and sapper shovels they carried with them.

In an armored command vehicle, An Ruiguang, the commander of the reconnaissance battalion of the 9th Motor Infantry Division, lay the map flat on his lap and lowered his head to concentrate on the label. The military map had been marked by him. By his side. A staff officer kept reciting some place names, on which An Ruiguang drew the marks of the areas that had been explored, and then drew an arrow, and the hilly area of Wanbao Mountain, which lay next to the railway and highway to Changchun, became the main target of this exploration.

The Air Force's reconnaissance planes kept a close watch over the area at all times, but they were unable to effectively reconnoiter buildings, mountains, and forests, so they attacked the headquarters and divisions of the advancing Third Army to the east for the sake of safety. A large number of scouts had to be sent to conduct a full search.

"The Air Force's reconnaissance aircraft have explored this area......"

Major An Ruiguang, who is 21 years old this year but has five years of military experience, graduated from the Boy Scout Academy and the Syrian Non-commissioned Officer Academy, and regards An Yi as his father, his finger swiped over the areas that were drawn in circles with red pencils, and then pointed to the dense woods next to the plains, his expression was quite focused:

"Let the soldiers check the equipment, we may have to walk into the woods in front, which lies next to the path of the main advance, and if the Japanese set up an ambush there, it will pose a great threat to us!"

The reconnaissance battalion stopped a kilometer from the Wanbaoshan forest area, and An Ruiguang jumped to the ground from the back door of the armored command vehicle that was opened, raising the military binoculars on his chest. Look closely.

"Order the mortar battery to prepare!"

The dark forest was silent, and birds would normally gather above such a wood, but now nothing could be seen. An Ruiguang felt that something was wrong, and immediately ordered a tentative artillery bombardment of the woods. In order to lure the enemy troops who may be hiding in the woods, so that the enemy mistakenly thinks that they have been spotted and shoots back, so as to reduce the risk of entering the forest to explore.

After the order was given, the battalion mortar company began to get busy, and they quickly dismantled the mounts between the mortar and the vehicle mounted on the back of the armored personnel carrier, jeep and troop carrier, and then worked in groups of four. Adjust gun emplacements.

Hu Xuefeng, the commander of the artillery company, also has his own telescope, but this telescope is different from that worn by ordinary commanders, and can survey coordinates and accurately set up artillery elements.

According to the regulations, the artillerymen had to carefully find a hiding position for themselves before carrying out the shelling, and sixteen 100mm mortars were towed under the slope.

Mortars are fired on the principle of arch projectiles, so there is no need to worry about firing shells under a slope that will hit you on your head. The loading method of this mortar is no different from that of ordinary 50, 60 and 81 caliber mortars, but due to the increase in caliber, its barrel appears longer, which increases the range and also increases the workload of the loader, who usually have a lot of effort to hold the shell into the barrel and use the principle of impact pressure to shoot the fifteen-kilogram mortar shell.

An Ruiguang ordered the whole battalion to enter a combat state, and after putting down the officers and men of the reconnaissance battalion carrying it, the armored personnel carrier aimed its head in the direction of the woods, and the machine gunners sat in the firing positions, and the jeeps and troop carriers also set up general-purpose machine guns, and the machine gunners untied the safety covers and were ready to shoot at any time.

"Bang-"

After about two or three seconds, bombs fell and bloomed in all directions in the forest ahead, flames rose into the sky, and branches and leaves of trees that had been blown up in the smoke flew in all directions.

At this time, the high-level dual-purpose machine gun in the center of the top of the armored personnel carrier was also controlled by the shooter, spraying ammunition into the woods, and where the dense bullets went, the trunks of the trees were "crackled", and the trees fell to the ground.

And that wasn't the end of it, as the sound of the Type I general-purpose machine gun tearing through the cloth rang out, and the machine gunners on jeeps and troop carriers began to fire tentatively.

More than a dozen troop transport trucks and several jeeps of the battalion fired at the same time, coupled with the huge lethality of the high-level dual-purpose machine gun bullets, the trees on the outskirts of the forest were instantly covered with bullet holes, and the shells of the mortar company fell intensively, and the trees fell in pieces.

An Ruiguang lay down behind a slope, holding a telescope in his hand, looking carefully, his eyes did not leave the forest for a moment, and after two minutes of test firing, he did not find anyone running or other movements in the forest, he couldn't help shaking his head, secretly laughing at his nervousness, and immediately ordered to stop firing, and then sent a squad of officers and soldiers to approach the woods in a straggler formation.

Five minutes later, eleven officers and men came out of the forest, gestured to each other, and then raised their I-type automatic rifles and quickly rushed into the forest.

After about seven or eight minutes, there was a sharp whistle in the woods. Dense gunfire and explosions followed. There are also noisy human voices.

"It's so hidden!"

An Ruiguang frowned, turned to the communicator and said, "Immediately report to the division headquarters that we have an encounter with the Japanese army in the edge of the Wanbao Mountain forest, thirty-three kilometers south of Nong'an County!" ”

Of the eleven officers and men who entered the forest area, eight of them withdrew, and they did not retreat in a haphazard manner, but after retreating to the edge of the woods, the enemy's firepower increased. Had to lie down in a hollow to dodge, and then kept gesturing backwards.

An Ruiguang held the binoculars, stared nervously at one of the sergeants, and interpreted the gesture: "...... Encountered a squadron of Japanese troops with six crooked machine guns, suspecting that there were a large number of Japanese troops hidden in the woods......"

"Po-"

The sergeant who stretched out half of his head and gestured, the steel helmet was suddenly hit by a bullet fired from the woods, and his entire body fell instantly.

Fortunately, the steel helmet equipped by An Jiajun was extremely defensive, and soon the sergeant stretched out half of his head again, only this time his posture was lower than before. Judging by the content of the gestures, the officers and men of this squad also found the figure of the Japanese tank, but because the outside of the tank was covered with branches, it was impossible to confirm what model it was.

After An Ruiguang put down the binoculars. The correspondent was immediately instructed to report this important information to the division headquarters, and then ordered the whole battalion to open fire to cover the retreat of the officers and men in front.

Eight soldiers hid in six hollows, two of which housed two.

Zheng Heng is an ordinary soldier in this squad, he is from the Annan ethnic group, and he is seventeen years old this year. Coming from Taiyuan City, the capital of Nanhua Iron and Steel, his family owned his own land for the first time due to land reform, and the people's patriotic enthusiasm was unprecedentedly high.

Zheng Heng is not tall, and after being educated at home and in the army, he has already identified himself as a member of the Chinese nation. Speaking Mandarin very proficiently, in the face of the 79th Army Flag in the oath of recruits, he solemnly promised: willing to sacrifice his life for the rise of the Chinese nation!

However, the ideal is very great, the reality is very cruel, although Zheng Heng is very top-notch in all aspects of training, and has experienced several battles after being assigned to the army, but at this moment, facing the test of life and death, he still can't avoid the fear in his heart, and he is nervously lying on the bottom of the depression panting.

Bullets flew back and forth not far from his head, and when the squad leader Sergeant Tie Gang's steel helmet was shot just now and the whole person fell in front of him, Zheng Heng's heart almost stopped, and the fear of death forced him, almost making him scream.

Fortunately, Nanhua's high-standard steel helmet made of German alloy technology is strong and durable, and the iron squad leader resolutely gets up from the ground like his surname, and then continues to pass on information. Zheng Heng thus understood the regulations that he memorized during the recruits, one of which was that he could not remove his steel helmet on the battlefield no matter what, and it turned out that at a critical time, the steel helmet could really save his life.

At this time, the Japanese troops had already rushed out of the woods, and judging by the situation, they did not seem to be equipped with artillery, but only returned fire with Type 38 rifles, the gunfire was sparse, and the troops seemed to be insufficient.

Looking at the past from Zheng Heng's position, he can clearly see that the devil soldiers were firmly suppressed in the foxhole by the general-purpose machine gun and Gaoping dual-purpose machine gun in his rear and could not move, although Zheng Heng didn't know what this meant, but the squad leader Tie Gang was sure that in the shelling just now, the devil soldiers hid in the foxhole and escaped the blow of artillery fire and bullets.

The strong firepower of the reconnaissance battalion of the Anjia Army suppressed the Japanese attack, and when the mortar company carried out shelling again, Tie Gang gave the order for the whole squad to retreat with gestures, and the officers and soldiers in the hollows everywhere immediately received the order.

However, just as Tie Gang jumped out of the hollow and was about to lie down, a bullet pierced his right thigh, and the pain that pierced his heart hit his brain, and his right leg went limp, and his whole body instantly lost its balance and smashed heavily on the flat ground without concealment.

Zheng Heng saw his comrades in the hollows everywhere leap out in the rain of bullets, like a civet cat, dodging the pursuit of bullets, just wanted to follow suit, he saw the squad leader was shot and fell to the ground, followed by a few shuttle bullets rustling around the hollow, couldn't help but be frightened to breathe, and sat on the ground at the bottom of the pit.

Zheng Heng was selected to join the reconnaissance battalion because of his outstanding individual quality, but in fact he had very little actual combat experience, although he had participated in six battles on his resume, but it was a good fight, following behind the officers and soldiers in front, shouting and launching a charge, and he had never faced death for the first time like today.

The human body is a complex machine, when frightened, the spirit will be highly tense, the blood vessels will contract and spasm, the cerebral blood vessels will be insufficient, and the brain will be temporarily deprived of oxygen, resulting in temporary incapacitation, and now Zheng Heng is in this situation.

"No way!"

Zheng Heng saw that the other six comrades-in-arms didn't know what was happening behind them, and they were constantly moving and moving, accelerating their retreat to the rear, and the bullets fired from the woods kept knocking out dust around his squad leader, and shouted loudly in his heart, "I want to save him", but at this time, he didn't even have the strength to move his fingers, and he couldn't help but curse loudly in his heart for his incompetence.

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