Chapter 259: Hope Shattered
Since December 17, 1903, for the first time in human history, the American Wright brothers have successfully piloted a powered aircraft designed and built by themselves to fly successfully in the air, as if they began to announce that human warfare will continue from land and sea to the air.
Human beings have shifted the flames of war from the ground to the sea and then to the sky, making war present a diversified and diversified characteristic.
The war became more and more sudden and brutal.
Le Yiqin knew that today Su Tong sent out all the more than 200 four fighters of the 1st Air Force Division and the three bombing brigades of Stuka, and their purpose was very clear, that is, to leave most or most of the Japanese reinforcements in this prairie, and they must not be allowed to reinforce the Japanese army in Chengde.
Although Chahar is now limited to the lack of troops and cannot extend his hand to the three eastern provinces, this is also a deterrent to the Kwantung Army, making the Kwantung Army understand that if it extends its hand to Chahar again, this will be the end.
Although the P47 is not a professional dive bomber, in the past two years of actual combat, the Chahar Air Force has found that every time there is a ground bombing mission, "hang a few 50-kilogram bombs or rockets under its belly, and it can also make a cameo role in the bomber's work."
When more than 200 P47s and more than 100 Stuka took turns to bomb a convoy with almost no air defense preparation and capability, no one who had not witnessed it could have imagined what it was like.
"Boom......
Another 50-kilogram bomb exploded less than a hundred meters from Lieutenant General Yoshiharu Takeshita, and more than a dozen Japanese soldiers who were busy untying the 37-millimeter-high shè machine gun that was being towed behind the car were reduced to pieces along with the high shè gun.
"Leave the equipment alone, hurry up and hide!"
Under the bloody facts, Takeshita Yoshiharu finally understood one thing, it is very stupid to fight back with bombs on the head and machine guns to fight back, and no air force commander will let you achieve your goal so comfortably.
Instead of taking the risk of doing something impossible, it is better for the soldiers to find a place to hide and save their lives.
"It's over" my one hundred and thirty-ninth division, my tank brigade is all over! Lieutenant General Yoshiharu Takeshita stared blankly at the once majestic chariots in the distance, but now turned into piles of dazzling torches. The procession of trucks, which had been in sight, was also burning and exploding, and the corpses of soldiers were everywhere along the way.
Lieutenant General Yoshiharu Takeshita's cloudy eyes were full of despair, and he shivered and took out his command knife, "With resentful eyes, he looked at the Chahar fighter plane, which was constantly flying in the sky, and plucked up the last shred of courage to stab the command knife into his belly, and when the planes of the 1st Flying Regiment of the Kwantung Army, which arrived in a hurry, arrived on the battlefield, all they saw were Japanese soldiers with dead and wounded and flaming chariots and vehicles.
The news that the 139th Division and the Chariot Brigade had been disabled in Rehe soon reached the Kwantung Army Headquarters.
"Bagaya Road! This group of damned Chinese planes, I must lead the army to set foot on Chahar in person! Hideki Tojo, who got the news, broke several teacups in the office in one go, gritting his teeth and vowing revenge.
Hideki Tojo, who calmed down a little, quickly made another plan: "He asked the Kwantung Army to mobilize eight divisions with a total of 200,000 troops and more than 300 planes to support Chengde and attack Chahar by taking advantage of the situation." Even if you can't destroy Chahar's main force, you must take Chahar's Duolun oil field.
The report was soon put into the hands of General Ueda Kenkichi, who vetoed the report without even reading it. And claimed: "As long as I am the commander of the Kwantung Army for one day, I will never agree to such a ridiculous decision, this plan can only drag the Kwantung Army into the abyss of death." ”
Although General Ueda Kenkichi doesn't like to take care of things on weekdays, this time he made his attitude clear, "And such a huge battle plan is not something that the Kwantung Army can decide, and this can only be implemented with the approval of the base camp." If you wait until that time, it is estimated that the yellow huā vegetables will be cold. Hideki Tojo stopped making a noise under his stupidity.
Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi, the Chengde Underground Headquarters, received a telegram from the Kwantung Army: "After reading the telegram, Kusaba Tatsumi's already bitter face was as if it had been covered with a layer of wax," and instantly became unpleasant.
"Your Excellency, is there something wrong with our reinforcements?" The chief of staff on the side asked heartily.
"See for yourself!" Kusaba Tatsumi casually gave the telegram to the chief of staff.
"Nani? Nearly 20,000 reinforcements and tank brigades were blown up by Chahar's air force on the road? What are the aviation units of the Kwantung Army doing to eat, they are all a bunch of waste! Did they abandon us like that? The chief of staff shouted in desperation.
"Smack!" With a crisp sound, the chief of staff covered his face and looked at Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi with some surprise.
Looking at the frightened and desperate face of the chief of staff, Kusaba Chen shouted: "Kamijo-kun, you and I are both emperors who are deeply favored by His Majesty the Emperor, are you this attitude in the face of danger?" I remember that you graduated from the 18th class of the Army Non-commissioned Officer School, have you forgotten the oath you made to the military flag when you graduated? ”
"Commander of the Grassland Division, but I'm not reconciled! Don't we have an army of 40,000? There are only 60,000 people, "Why are we surrounded in the city and can't move!" The chief of staff who came back to his senses couldn't help but cry.
"Well, you have to remember that you are a high-ranking officer of the Empire, not a recruit who has just graduated from the non-commissioned officer school. Even if you die in battle, you must die with dignity" We can't let the people of China see our jokes! Kusaba Tatsumi reached out and picked up the military hat on the table, and walked out.
"Commander of the Grassland Division, where are you going!" Tatsumi Kusaba shouted from behind him.
Kusaba Tatsumi said without looking back: "I want to go to the forward command post of our 28th Division, even if I have to die in battle" I will die with our soldiers, it was I who brought them out of the "Japan" Since I can't bring them back, then let me break them together with them! ”
bang", the mén in the office was shut, "leaving only the chief of staff who was fluted inside."
Since the siege force changed its fighting style, the form of the Japanese army has deteriorated dramatically, occupying more and more places, and the siege force is gradually compressing the space of the Japanese army. Many of the desperate Japanese soldiers rushed out with strips of white cloth tied to their heads and bombing bags tied to their bodies, but most of them were killed by the snipers who followed behind the siege troops.
On a street to the east of the city, a siege detachment was slowly advancing, and according to the infiltrated agents of the Investigation Bureau, there was an important bunker built by the Japanese army out of blue bricks and ash. The pillbox was also equipped with two field guns of 76 caliber and more than 20 Type 92 heavy machine guns, "and a squadron of nearly 200 Japanese troops was stationed.
When the troops came to the corner of the street "and were about to enter the sight of the pillbox, the captain-officer at the head ordered the troops to stop. Then several soldiers fired several smoke grenades into the street, and after a while, the thick smoke flooded the entire street.
"Yaga! The people of China are coming! Kill haha! With the order of the Japanese commander, "all kinds of light and heavy weapons in the bunker opened fire blindly." It's just that the chances of this blind fire hitting the target are really slim.
Seeing that the time was ripe, the captain waved his hand again, and several more soldiers took a few grenades to the Garand rifles and ran to a corner of the street. The sound ......of grenades rang out continuously, and the Garand rifle fired the grenades to the front of the pillbox seventy or eighty meters away from them.
A dull explosion sounded, "With the explosion of the gun grenade, another thick puff of smoke drifted into the bunker along the blast hole of the explosion.
As the smoke poured in, bursts of violent coughing came from the bunker. It turned out that this was a tear gas shot from the siege troops.
"Quick, put on your gas mask!" The commander of the Japanese army in the bunker was scrambling to find his gas mask, "When they hurriedly put on the gas mask, the two Northwest Tigers of the siege detachment, the tanks had already arrived in front of the bunker, and the muzzle of the black dòngdòng was pointed at the target in front.
"Directly in front of the target, armor-piercing blasting shells, put!"
"Knock knock" two cannon sounds, and two hundred-millimeter tank shells left the chamber at an alarming speed and flew towards the fortress in front.
A moment later, the shells that had penetrated the bunker exploded.
"Boom"
The pillbox, which originally seemed to be thick, suddenly collapsed, and a large area was "seven or eight machine guns that were still firing blindly."
The infantrymen who followed behind the tanks were not idle, and the 57-mm recoilless guns and rocket launchers also flew to the infantrymen's original predetermined targets.
"Knock Knock"
The machine gunners also set up their M2 heavy machine guns, and the 12.7 mm bullets poured down on the bunker.
Powerful rifle and machine-gun fire accompanied by heavy artillery fire "enveloped the pillboxes in a rain of dead metal bullets." The two mén field guns, which were originally used as anti-tank fire, had long been lifted into the sky by artillery fire, and after the threat of anti-tank fire was gone, the two more unscrupulous Northwest Tigers simply drove into a distance of less than 50 meters from the pillbox, and the artillery and two machine guns on the tanks were also firing desperately.
This xiǎo detachment is an order given by Su Tong, a thorough executor, that you must not hesitate to send me all the things you can before the enemy is dead, "Until the enemy is dead!"
After two days of fighting, the siege force had annihilated most of the Japanese defenders in Chengde, and the remaining Japanese troops gathered in the last remaining large complex in the south of the city under the leadership of Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi.
Lieutenant General Kusaba Tatsumi knew that the final moment was coming