Chapter 888: Fierce Battle in Siem Reap
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"Boom!" "Boom"
Shells exploded in the mud outside Siem Reap, and a wooden bunker was toppled in a fireball, and three French soldiers hiding inside crawled out covered in blood. But before they could escape far, the shells of the 75-mm field guns caught up. In the continuous shelling, the soldiers quickly spilled blood in the mud. "Colonel! We can't stop it! Where's the damn reinforcements! Major George, dressed in bandages, rushed into the city headquarters, swung his muddy steel helmet on the table, and roared at Colonel Antis, the brigade, in victory.
"Dear George, there are no more reinforcements! We have to stay here! For no reason! ”
"What about the Chinese? Haven't they already landed? Why not come here! ”
"It's too far, it's too far! The coastline is 250 kilometers away and takes at least two days. So George, if we want to live, we have to hold on for two or three more days. ”
"Damn! Colonel, you should go and see. The Japanese have gone crazy! I can't last two days! ”
"George, France needs you."
"Shit! I hate that. Then give me the plane, the plane! ”
"Okay, I'll get the plane to help right away."
"You'd better hurry, we're almost finished!" Major George, who had not been able to get help, closed his pale lips, put on his helmet in disappointment, and rushed into the rumbling battlefield again. Hundreds of shells ravaged the whole city of Siem Reap, explosions and corpses were everywhere, and three FT-17 tanks lay across the streets, billowing black smoke. Three thousand French soldiers were stationed in the north and south of the city, but they were opposite two full wings of elite Japanese troops, so in just two days hundreds of people died, and even the wounded had to continue the battle. "Fire! Fire! "As soon as Major George returned to his position, he directed his artillery battery to return fire. The four French Miss 75 who received the order roared and threw them into the distance at a rate of eight shells per minute. But the shelling was not very effective. Due to the recent rain and the woods, the shells were twice as powerful as usual when they fell on the soft mud.
"Major, the Japanese are rushing over! Look, God! At least 4,000 people! Look, there are 10, no, at least 20 tanks! "At the officer's shouting, an entire wing was armed with Type 38 rifles. The Japanese soldiers, armed with bayonets, bent over and lined up in loose skirmishers, followed the tanks and charged the defensive line. "Fire! Get up, get up, get all the weapons you can fire! Let those damn monkeys come up and help! Major George's eyes were red. Without reinforcements, he had to pull the puppet army up to help. After hundreds of trembling Vietnamese puppet troops entered the position, no matter what their combat effectiveness was, at least the firepower density on the defensive line was much stronger. Just then, the sound of engines buzzing in the sky sounded, and the plane promised by Colonel Antis finally arrived. Six Dwatina D501 fighters appeared in the sky, desperately strafing the ground with machine guns. However, Japanese Type 97 fighters also quickly came to support. While the D501 performs well, it is woefully underwhelming. So he was quickly shot down by the 97 type, and three planes fled in a hurry.
Major George, who had no aircraft cover, immediately fell into a bitter battle, and 25 Type 94 light tanks quickly climbed over the muddy ground and rushed towards the position. "Yag machine!" Junda Watanabe, the commander of the 18th Wing of the 55th Division, saw the tank open the gap and immediately raised his command knife high. Shouting, he rushed out first. The soldiers who had been following the tanks also howled and rushed to the French positions with planks for laying trenches. Although the hissing Habegkaith heavy machine guns swept them away, more Japanese soldiers rushed with their heads down.
"God! Help us! "At the howl of a French soldier, two Japanese soldiers had already stabbed him under the cover of a grenade. The long and narrow bayonets frightened the French soldiers and the Vietnamese puppet army, and they saw that the position could no longer be defended. Ignoring the friendly forces, he turned around and ran into the city. "Kill them all! The emperor is onboard! Seeing the French army fleeing, Junda Watanabe seemed to see the scene of the military flag planting Siem Reap and conquering the French East Indies, and his face flushed and shouted and ordered the pursuit.
"Damn it, go back, go back! Block them! Seeing this, Major George shouted and shouted in a hurry, and rushed out of cover in an attempt to reorganize the defensive line. Unfortunately, the valiant major was soon spotted by a 94 tank, and a 77mm bullet got into his ribs. "Major, Major! Hurry, the major has been shot, save him. Several soldiers soon spotted George, who had been shot, and immediately picked him up and fled into the city.
"Colonel, Colonel! The Japanese rushed in. ”
"What?" Colonel Antis, who received the report, was full of disbelief, grabbed the guards and asked loudly: "How is this possible?" What about George? And what about his troops? ”
"Major George is wounded! God, there are too many tanks for the Japanese. The guard shouted as he shoved the telescope to Antis. After receiving the binoculars, Antis's face suddenly turned pale. I saw a torrent of dozens of fast light tanks swarming in from both sides of the northwest side of the city. The brigade's own soldiers were killed by tank machine guns, and the corpses were densely paved with roads into the city. "Colonel, retreat! They threw at least one tank battalion! ”
"Alright, get out of here, get out of here!" Antis panicked and didn't dare to stay here any longer, and immediately ordered to pack up his things and prepare to retreat. Just then, there was a sudden buzzing outside the window, and it was louder and noisier than before. "Day plane!" The guards didn't even look at it, they thought it was a Japanese plane and pushed Antis to the ground. But the strange thing is that after waiting for a long time, no bombs fell. At this moment, the gate was slammed open again, and a captain rushed in and shouted excitedly: "Colonel, it's Chinese!" They're coming, they're coming! ”
"Chinese? How can it be? Didn't they just land in Kampong Shon? Colonel Antis looked incredulous, and immediately rushed to the window. But after just one glance, his eyes were straight like everyone else.
On the Tonle Sap Lake to the south, dozens of never-before-seen helicopters with huge rotors flew towards the headquarters like light hummingbirds, sticking to the ground. Seconds later, more than a dozen fighter jets and dive bombers swept past them at high speed, quickly pulling up and down into the sky. Before Colonel Antis and the officers could come to their senses, a barrage of shells had already exploded in the Japanese tanks.
Eight "Lightning" soon shot down three Japanese Type 97 fighters hovering over the battlefield, and the dive bombers immediately followed immediately entered the dive channel. "Boom." A naval dive bomber, roaring down from a height of 1,200 meters, accurately dropped two 250-kilogram bombs next to a Japanese Type 94 tank. Violently exploded. even directly overturned the 3-ton steel, and the fireball instantly engulfed dozens of Japanese soldiers around.
"God! They're coming! They've come to our rescue! The great joy of death to life washed over the body and mind of every French soldier in Siem Reap, and everyone looked at the plane and raised their arms and shouted. Soon, three of the helicopters chose to land vertically on flat ground 200 meters away from the command post, and after 21 heavily armed commando fighters jumped off the plane, the helicopters quickly pulled up again. In just ten minutes for the second and third waves, the 12 naval cavalry dropped 82 commando fighters, and the remaining helicopters were under the protection of the fighters. Rush towards the airport in the distance.
"Hello, Colonel! I'm Captain Xu Ming of the Chinese Navy, and we've been ordered to help you hold this place! Now, I would like you to cooperate and call the airport immediately. We need to requisition there! Before the fourth batch of helicopters landed, Xu Ming, the captain of the commando, rushed into the command post with several soldiers, and also directly mentioned the field phone to Antis. Seeing him, Colonel Antis didn't seem to have woken up from the helicopter parachute until the staff officer pushed him, and after saluting, he stretched out his hand: "Thank you for your support, from now on." The airport is yours! Seeing that he was so quick to hand over the important airport to China, the staff officer next to him couldn't help but move his mouth, but in the end he endured it.
"Thank you, Colonel. How many soldiers do you still have? It will take another hour for our airborne troops to arrive, and we must hold out until they arrive. ”
"There are also three regiments. About 2000 people. But there are 10,000 Japanese people on the opposite side of us, and they have a lot of tanks! ”
"Okay, we'll block the tank first! You see, I need artillery to cut off the enemy's offensive routes. Xu Ming nodded. As soon as he was about to arrange anti-tank tactics, Colonel Antis asked, "Captain." There is at least one tank battalion outside! You guys. He looked at the lightly armed commando fighters and kindly reminded: "Heavy firepower is needed." ”
"Rest assured, we have plenty of heavy firepower! Now, I need your firepower, cut off the firepower. ”
Although he didn't understand where Xu Ming's so-called heavy firepower was, Colonel Antis, like everyone else, was attracted by the novelty helicopter and decided to take a gamble: "Well, you will get the most intense fire support!" Tony, go, get all the artillery together, we're going on a counteroffensive! In the shouting of Colonel Antis, Xu Ming also immediately spread out his map and ordered the officers behind him: "Let the anti-tank group attack, we will hold here, here and here!" The bridge into the city is the last line of defense! Do you get it? ”
When Xu Ming began to deploy anti-tank tactics, Watanabe was also startled by a helicopter he had never seen before, and when he saw the national emblem and military flag on the side of the fuselage, his eyes seemed to be stung, and he jumped up and shouted wildly: "Yaga! It's a Shina man! Damn the traitors of the Satsuma Domain, bastards who waste the money of the Empire! (The Japanese, army, and navy armies never report each other's results and intelligence, so the army has no knowledge of the landing) Quickly inform the division commander that the people of China are coming! Hechuan Shaosa, lead your chariot squadron to continue the attack, I need a continuous attack, and I must occupy this place before the main force of the Shina people arrives! ”
"Hey!" Hechuan Shaozo roared, quickly climbed into his Type 89 medium tank, brandished his command knife and ordered the tank squadron to charge with him.
The rumbling torrent of light iron armor continued to approach the bridge from the north and south sides of the city, and the French army, which had just been overjoyed by the reinforcements, fell into panic again, and the soldiers fled like headless flies towards the bridge and the south of the city. However, the Japanese armored forces, which frightened the French army, which lacked anti-tank weapons, could not frighten the Yaksha commandos at all, and anyone who had seen the scene of hundreds or thousands of tanks of the Soviet army in Central Asia would sneer at the so-called tank units of the Japanese army.
"Damn, a three-ton thing can be called a tank! Our trucks are heavier than that, right? Hurry up, here's it. "A 94 tank drove quickly along the gravel street towards the Chengnan Bridge, but did not notice the anti-tank group crouching behind the window 200 meters ahead. Ma Mingyuan quickly filled the 84mm armor-piercing shell, locked the bolt and slapped the gunner Zhao Yougong's steel helmet. Getting this signal, Zhao Yougong immediately carried the recoilless cannon, put his face on the barrel, his eyes fixed on the ruler, and silently counted in his mouth: "210, 190, 150." When the count reached 80, the recoilless gun in his hand shook slightly, and an orange-red light suddenly rushed out of the window, and then smashed the front of the tank.
"Boom!" Without any resistance, the Type 94 light tank that was hit immediately turned into a ball of fireball, and even the Japanese tank crew inside did not escape.
After Zhao Yougong opened fire, three other anti-tank groups also opened fire. The thin iron roots of the 94 tank could not withstand the attack of 84-mm armor-piercing shells, whether it was the frontal side or the machine gun tower, as long as it was hit, it would immediately turn into a fireball. "Battle defense artillery! Watch out for anti-aircraft artillery! Infantry in front. The successive explosions made Hechuan Shaozo's eyes split! You must know that tanks and combat vehicles are the most precious combat power of the Japanese army, so immediately let the infantry rush to the front to find the so-called battle defense artillery.
"I'll leave it to you. Let's go and find the next one. "After Zhao Yougong killed two 94s in a row, he gave up the firing position to the machine gunners. The tall, thin machine gunner sneered and aimed the HJ32 general-purpose machine gun at the Japanese army.
"Snort." An eerie sound like tearing silk quickly took over the battlefield