Chapter 942: Annihilation
In the dark of night, the three elite night attack death squads of the Japanese army respectively touched the vicinity of the trenches they lost during the day, and some devil bombardiers pulled grenades one after another and threw them forward.
In the night, squeaky and smoking grenades fell into the trenches like hailstones, and there were violent explosions.
Boom Boom Boom ...... Clusters of scarlet flames rose into the air, striking and dazzling under the night sky.
After the bombs were dropped, the devil soldiers got up and rushed into the trenches with various weapons, and some of them directly jumped over the still churning fire and smoke, and went straight to the front of their first line of defense.
However, the devils who jumped into the trench suddenly found that there were no enemy corpses in the trench, and at this moment, fierce gunfire suddenly rang out at both ends of the trench.
Dense shouts of killing followed by, "Rush, kill......!" "In the dark night, countless dragon-tooth officers and soldiers suddenly appeared from all directions from the devil's first line of defense, and their submachine guns, general-purpose machine guns, and semi-automatic rifles opened fire one after another.
For a while, the flames were everywhere, the gunfire was loud, and the dense bullets rained down on the devil's night attack death squad.
On the spot, the unprepared devil soldiers were knocked down.
It turned out that Jiang Haidong felt that Zhuozhou City was already the last barrier in Beiping, and the field defensive position outside the city was particularly important in this defensive battle.
As long as the devils want to hold Zhuozhou, then they will never give up their defense line outside the city lightly, and there will be a fierce battle until the Japanese army is unable to fight for Fang Xiu.
Now, although the Japanese army has lost a lot of troops in the daytime battle, it is far from the point of breaking the muscles and bones, so Jiang Haidong has made some arrangements for the forward garrison troops to guard against a possible night attack by the Japanese army.
Unexpectedly, the devil really came to attack at night, and he happened to be ambushed by the elite troops of the first division.
The devil's night attack death squad never expected that the Dragon's Tooth Column had been prepared for a long time, and when caught off guard, they suffered a big loss, although their firepower has been strengthened, and they are equipped with some light machine guns and other automatic firearms as much as usual.
However, compared with the elite of the 1st Division of Dragon's Tooth, which is equipped with MP38 submachine guns, MG34 general-purpose machine guns, and semi-automatic rifles to destroy the sun, it is still vulnerable, and the two sides are not at the same level at all.
Not to mention, the infantry of the first division of the dragon tooth was unprepared, so it didn't take long for the battle to take place, and more than half of the more than 1,000 devil death squads who attacked head-on were killed or wounded, and the offensive was frustrated, and it was completely supported by a will that was unwilling to admit defeat.
Although the devils are not afraid of death, and from time to time organize the daredevils to explode explosives and charge forward, the firepower of the dragon's tooth column is too dense, and machine guns, submachine guns, and semi-automatic rifles form a firepower network without dead ends to block and cover it.
Often, before the devil death squad rushed to the ideal position, they were beaten into a blood sieve by dense bullets, and some people were directly blown up by the explosives bags and grenades on their bodies, and with a bang, they were blown to ashes.
And the two death squads on the left and right of the devil who were responsible for the roundabout, after the gunfire on the frontal battlefield rang out, the tank regiment of the first division of Longya quickly entered the combat state.
The tank regiment, under the command of deputy division commander Liu Yidao, was responsible for the vigilance task on both flanks of the frontal battlefield, and happened to collide head-on with the two roundabout troops of the devils.
The two sides immediately engaged in a fierce battle, and the powerful vehicle-mounted machine gun fire group of the tank regiment immediately opened fire, causing heavy casualties to the devils when they landed.
Knowing that there were also devils on both flanks, Liu Yidao quickly dispatched two infantry battalions to rush to the two flanks of the battlefield to rush to the tank regiment.
The night sky was as bright as day, and the devil soldiers who were charging through the dense and powerful fire network of the tank regiment suddenly had nothing to hide, and were attacked by the dense and powerful fire of tank guns, vehicle-mounted machine guns, and the infantry group that arrived in time to strafe them.
In bursts of screams that almost covered the dense gunfire, the devil death squads fell down in pieces.
Under the all-out attack of the 1st Division, the night attack plan of the Japanese army in Zhuozhou finally ended in complete failure, and more than 3,000 Japanese troops who attacked out of the city were killed and wounded, and less than 800 of them finally escaped alive to the city and their second line of defense.
On the Zhuozhou side, the Japanese army's night attack counterattack failed, and the Japanese army in the direction of Bazhou suffered a crushing defeat of the whole army, which surprised Okamura Ningji, and since then he has paid more attention to treating Qiao Youhua, a powerful opponent, with more attention.
It turned out that when the Japanese army in Bazhou received Okamura Ningji's order, they immediately mobilized elite forces and began to prepare for a night attack, and after nightfall, the Japanese army in Bazhou sent nearly 4,000 elite infantry, carrying a large number of explosives bags and automatic weapons such as machine guns, to secretly go out of the city.
It was planned to launch a surprise attack on the tank unit of the Longya Column in the south of the city, because in the daytime battle, the tank cluster of the Longya Column caused great damage to the Japanese army, and was regarded as the first major threat by the devils in Bazhou City.
Of course, in the actual operation, the nearly 4,000 elite Japanese troops were not all used for the night attack at the South Gate, but divided into 1,000 people, divided into two routes, and suddenly killed from the East Gate and the West Gate, attacking in a roundabout way to provide a response to the night attack plan at the South Gate.
However, the devils never expected that when they planned to sneak attack the siege troops of the Dragon Tooth Column, Qiao Youhua and Zuo Quan, Li Yunlong and others decided to carry out a night raid on Bazhou tonight.
It was planned to take Bazhou City in one fell swoop at night, and then cross Bazhou and go straight to Beiping City, so that the Japanese defense line in Jinghai and Zhuozhou would also collapse without a fight.
Unexpectedly, when it was twelve o'clock in the morning when the attack time came, when the various units of the Dragon Tooth Column outside the four gates were planning to carry out a night attack, the devils actually rushed out of the city in three ways and crashed into the arms of the various units of the Dragon Tooth Column.
The two sides are enemies and they are very angry when they meet, and the devils themselves leave the strong city defense and send them to the door, and the officers and soldiers of the dragon tooth are naturally not merciful, and the tank units and infantry elites are full of firepower.
During the day, the devils relied on strong and well-established field fortifications, and they were not the opponents of the dragon's tooth column.
Now there are no fortifications and city walls to rely on, and they are caught off guard, where is the opponent of the dragon's tooth column.
The dense rain of bullets poured in, the devil soldiers fell down one after another, and the more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers who attacked from the east and west did not hold on for even ten minutes, and the dragon tooth column, which was several times their strength, was wiped out on the spot.
The main force of more than 2,000 devils who attacked at the south gate was also blocked by the tank armored brigade and the elite infantry units of the fourth division, and then turned into an attack.