Chapter 102: Facing the Sixth Division (5)
The machine gun on the light stalker fired a long point, and the two Japanese soldiers with explosives strapped to their bodies were beaten into a hornet's nest. As the thunder approached step by step, the Japanese army's counterattack became more and more intense, the 13th Wing had been completely annihilated, and the Tanigawa Brigade, which was pulled up by Kanda Masang, who was in charge of the broken battle, broke out into the madness that had invaded the bones of the Sixth Division. Machine guns and mortars beckoned to the armored detachment commanded by Joey, and the captured 98 vehicles had been blown up by the Japanese army with meat bombs, and the dead soldiers of Tanigawa's brigade targeted the stalker again.
"Bullets, bullets" Joey's machine gun hung up empty, so he had to fire with the submachine gun at hand first, waiting for the ammunition hand in the carriage to hand over the bullets. Joey's command vehicle is a light stalker armed with only two machine guns, and his command vehicle is more often used as an ammunition supply vehicle, with a rectangular compartment that can hold 40,000 rounds of machine gun ammunition at a time. The grenade thrown by the Japanese army exploded on the left side of the command vehicle, and the smoke and dirt raised blocked the driver's vision, and the two Japanese soldiers with their upper bodies tied with straps on their heads took the opportunity to rush over, and by the time Joey found them, it was too late to shoot.
"There's a bomb, there's a bomb" Joey jumped into the car and shouted loudly to cover his ears, the armor of the stalker was enough to block the fire of the Japanese heavy machine guns, but Joey didn't know if he could stop the Japanese bombs. With a burst of dense Thomson shooting, "boom" and "boom", the tail of the command vehicle was pushed high by the explosion and then fell heavily. "Oops, it hurts me" Joey rubbed his waist as he was knocked by the ammo box, "Everyone's okay?" The command car was full of smoke and dust after the explosion, and Joey had to ask the crew members of the command car one by one.
"Joey, Joey, are you all right?" When Joey repeatedly made sure that there were no casualties among the occupants in the command car, the side door of the stalker was knocked on by **, "Thank God, you are all alive" Joey, who jumped out of the carriage with a disgraced face, was hugged by Bane, the captain of the infantry who rushed to the rescue. If Bane hadn't shot them in time, if the Japanese soldiers had been killed by the Japanese soldiers, Joey's command car would have been blown up just now.
"Joey, you're rushing so fast, we infantry can't keep up, it's very dangerous, don't you know?" Bane and Joey had known each other for a long time, and seeing that Joey and the people in the command car were fine, Bane began to whisper a lesson to Joey. "Sir said that armored vehicles cannot be separated from the protection of infantry in battle, especially light armored vehicles like yours, the Japanese army has been beaten by us, if you continue to advance in such a reckless manner, I will report to the command to deprive you of your command."
"Alright, alright, listen to you, I'll pay attention" Joey, who was buzzing in his ears, absentmindedly pinched his ears with his fingers, and preached to Bane's left ear and right ear out of the right ear at all. "Alright, let's continue" ended the greeting with Bane, Joey and his soldiers re-drilled into the stalker and continued to rush forward, but Bane had no choice but to chase after him with his soldiers to provide covering fire. When the tank formation carried out a fierce frontal assault, the armored formation commanded by Joey was like peeling bamboo shoots, dividing the Japanese army layer by layer and handing it over to the infantry who came to destroy it.
Standing on the hill, Zhao Zhi held a telescope and looked at the fiery battlefield below, with at least 5 foot soldiers surrounding him, and Zhao Zhi would convey the new instructions to the commanders fighting below through these walkie-talkies. "Inform the tank formation, they are attacking too fast and the distance of the infantry is too far, and order them to slow down and expand to the two wings" After the Japanese 105 howitzer lost its effect, Zhao Zhi no longer worried about his tank formation, as long as the tank tracks were not blown up by the Japanese army's dead soldiers, the tank formation with three Tiger as the sword blade did not have the possibility of being besieged by the Japanese army.
After a full three hours of fighting, Thunder used an unstoppable offensive to break through the defensive positions of many Sixth Divisions in turn, most of the outer positions of the Sixth Division had fallen into the hands of Thunder, and the rampaging Thunder tank formation had entered the inner circle of the Japanese army's defense line. "Division commander, no, Tanigawa's brigade is almost unstoppable, the firepower of the thunder is too strong" Kanda Masang's adjutant rushed into the trench that served as a temporary headquarters, but Kanda Masang looked ahead with a telescope and was not moved by his words in the slightest.
"Order the Tanigawa Brigade to withstand the enemy's attack, Thunder will not attack us with such a few people, they must still be deployed" Kanda Masazen's headquarters is on higher ground, and the situation on the battlefield is quite clear. The outer positions of the Sixth Division fell one after another, but the actual number of troops invested by Thunder was not very large, so far, Kanda has only seen those rampaging tanks and armored vehicles, and Thunder's ground troops are actually only a few thousand.
The battle on the forward line has entered the white heat, and the soldiers of the Tanigawa brigade are almost facing several times their firepower in the stubborn support of the defensive line, but the armored firepower of the thunder is too strong, especially the three German tanks completely ignore the firepower of the Tanigawa brigade and crush the defense line of the Tanigawa brigade little by little like a mill. "Order the mountain artillery wing to open fire and cut off the link between the Thunder tanks and their infantry" The 105 howitzers of the 6th Division were disabled, but Kanda Masaza still had a mountain artillery wing in his hands.
The mountain artillery wing, which had been hidden by Kanda Zheng's snow, finally made a move, and the columns of smoke several meters high continued to rise high on the forward line, and the connection between the Thunder tank formation and the infantry was cut off, and the cover of the infantry was lost, and those rampaging tanks were in danger. "Sir, the location of the Japanese Mountain Artillery Wing has occurred" As soon as the Mountain Artillery Wing of the Sixth Division opened fire, the Thunder Artillery Observer hidden in front locked their position, and the coordinates were transmitted back to Zhao Zhi's headquarters as soon as possible.
"Notify the K18 artillery group and knock them out" Zhao Zhi's calm tone obviously carried a hint of joy, his K18 artillery group only fired two rounds at the Japanese army's 105 artillery group and then stopped, it was just waiting for the appearance of the Japanese mountain artillery group, as long as the mountain artillery wing of the sixth division was knocked out, the general attack of the thunder ready to be launched could be carried out immediately. A minute later, as two long whistling sounds came from far and near, two huge ground fire balls burst out from the Japanese position in the distance, followed by a column of smoke more than ten meters from a high ground to the sky. Clods of earth and stones and broken bodies fell from the sky one after another.
Dozens of meters near the point of impact, all the Japanese soldiers in the interior were shocked to the point of bleeding ears and noses, and drowsy, Kanda Masa, who was holding a telescope with a smile on his face, suddenly shrank his pupils, and a sharp uneasy thought arose. The Thunder K18 artillery group only showed a small face at the beginning of the battle, and it did not appear again in the subsequent battle, and the dazed Kanda Masa completely forgot about it, otherwise he would not rashly order the mountain artillery wing to expose its position to provide long-range fire support for the Tanigawa brigade.
The two shots just now were just the positioning guns tested by the K18 artillery group, and with the corrected coordinates transmitted back by the artillery observers in front, the sharp roar began to resound through the heavens and the earth, and the three salvos of the K19 immediately accurately covered the position of the mountain artillery wing of the 6th Division. Artillery shells fell one after another, shaking the earth, and at the site of the explosion, earth and rocks flew sideways, shaking the mountains, and the smoke of gunpowder rose from the ground to completely annihilate the mountain artillery wing of the Sixth Division. The column of smoke more than 10 meters high has not dispersed for a long time, and the mountain artillery wing of the 6th Division, which had just fought three rounds, has become a dead place, and the fragments of corpses and the 75 mountain artillery pieces scattered into parts can be seen everywhere, and most of the Japanese soldiers who survived the shelling point within a few dozen meters of the shelling point have also bled and lie on their positions in stupid pretenses.
When the smoke cleared, the position of the mountain artillery wing of the Sixth Division had become a scorched earth, and the yellow figures who were busy before were all gone, and the personal adjutant standing next to Kanda was surprised to find that the legs of the division commander were trembling unconsciously. The destruction of the 105th Howitzer and Mountain Artillery Wing made Kanda Masashi lose the long-range firepower that he relied on, and only relying on the remaining 92 infantry guns and those combat vehicles, the Sixth Division has lost the strength to hit the Thunder head-on, and perhaps retreat is the best way out at present.
Just when Kanda was hesitating, three red signal flares rose in the air of "Tong", "Tong", and "Tong", and in the face of the Sixth Division, which had lost its long-range firepower, Zhao Zhi finally used the last killer move. With the rise of the red signal flare, the long-awaited thunder attack troops showed their fangs, Bruno, who had been relying on the trenches and the Japanese entanglement, gave way to the passage, and more than 10,000 Jewish infantry poured into the forward position that the Tanigawa brigade was struggling to support.
The sound of guns and shouts of killing resounded in the sky, and relying on the sharpness of weapons and superb tactical coordination, the addition of more than 10,000 troops made the already precarious defense line of the Sixth Division completely collapse. The thunderous American-made mountain artillery group also took the opportunity to exert its might, and the overwhelming artillery fire penetrated the positions of the entire Sixth Division, and the dense artillery fire and the general attack on the whole line became the last straw that crushed the Sixth Division.