Chapter 1072: Flesh and Blood Flying
In the eyes of the Cannon Master, this battle has to be fought, but the bloodline of the old Tu family is also important. When you come out to fight, it is for the country, and when you go back to **, when your grandson is born, it is for the family.
Because of the early death of Tu Mengben and his wife, there is only one single seedling. This made the cannon master feel quite sorry for the expectations of his ancestors to have many sons and grandchildren.
Yes, Master Pao is now pinning all this hope on his son. In the eyes of Master Pao, now that his son is out, it can be regarded as giving the old Tu family glory to his ancestors.
And now Xiao Tu's main task is to give the old Tu family more children. If you can give birth to ten or eight of him, Lao Tu will feel satisfied.
"Chirp...... Rumble! Rumble!! As soon as Sugiyama and his troops had withdrawn, the two major military regions of South China and Southwest China began to launch a tough attack on the positions of the Ri Army.......
The heavy artillery units of the Southeast Asian Theater of Operations of the Wehrmacht were the first to speak, and more than 80 heavy artillery pieces launched shelling on the positions of the Ri Army. The tunnels and pillboxes were blown to pieces, and the observation posts of the RI army on the positions were bombed into corpses flying in the sky.
After more than an hour of shelling, the Wehrmacht's armoured units began to run over the positions of the Ri Army. And the soldiers of the RI Army, who were hiding from the shelling, also began to enter positions at this time to prepare for defense.
"Organize the 'White Jacket Team'! Can't let those tanks get into our positions! The commander of the 21st Division of the 38th Army of the Southern Army of the Army, Mikuni Naofuku, said in a deep voice: "We must ensure the safe evacuation of His Excellency Commander Sugiyama Moto, even if we are broken to pieces!" โ
"Hail!!" The chief of staff of the 21st Division, Taizaburo Ogawa, bowed down and answered loudly.
The white squads are the synonym for the death squads in the RI army. What is a "white shirt"? In the rihon, this is a white cloth strap that fastens the large sleeves of the wide robe, and is usually tied with a cross behind the body to facilitate labor, hunting, and sacrifices.
On November 26, 1904 in the Russian War, the RI Army planned to launch the third Lushun General Attack, and at the beginning of the 1st Division, more than 3,100 soldiers from the 25th Company of the Special Infantry, one brigade each of the 12th and 35th Companies, a squad of the 9th Engineer Brigade, and the 7th Division Health Team formed a death squad.
And this is the origin of the earliest "White Jacket Team", when the RI Army entered the northwest foot of Pine Mountain from the Marine Division Battalion. Before leaving, the commander of the 3rd Army of the RI Army, Nogi Noshinori Award, personally met with the team members on a high ground northeast of the Navy Battalion and made strict demands: survive unexpectedly, fight to the death; Flee from the battle, and kill without forgiveness.
Although the meat bomb attack failed, the "White Shirt Team" has since become synonymous with the RI Army death squad. As long as it is critical, the RI army will always hope that the "white squad" will turn things around.
A large part of the reason why the RI army admires the "White Shirt Team" so much is because of Nogi Noshinori himself. Although Nogi Noshinori had a lot of controversy in dealing with affairs militarily and politically, he did the best in terms of Fuksetsu Bushido.
Of the three sons he had with his wife, two died in battle. And he himself chose to be martyred by caesarean section after the death of Emperor Meiji.
This practice was highly regarded in RIBEN at the time, and Noshinori was enshrined in RIBEN at that time with titles such as "God of War", "Holy General", and "Martial Saint".
And the "White Shirt Team", which he admired during the Russo-Japanese War, was naturally considered the supreme magic weapon by the generals of the RI Army.
"Gentlemen! Let's meet under the cherry blossom tree of the shrine with the glory of the emperor's ** people!! Groups of RI soldiers with white belts on their heads were pushed out, and beastly howls rang out through the crowd.
And in the small dilapidated house next to the barracks, there are groups of naked Annam and Thai women shivering. They are all "trophies" that Sugiyama used to boost the morale of the death squads that remained.
"Let's enjoy! Then, give our lives to the Empire! His Majesty the Emperor is onboard! โ
"Onboard!!"
These women are numb, they have no choice, they have no right to refuse. Here, they're just tools for the beast.
These soldiers have never regarded them as human beings, they are just their own tools. So, they didn't have any clothes. Any soldier or officer of the RI Army can insult them, beat them, or create some "artistic creation" on them at any time.
Groups of RI soldiers, strapped with explosives, slowly approached the Wehrmacht's armored units from both flanks of the position. The tactics of the RI Army were simple, to try to blow up the Wehrmacht tanks with human bombs.
As long as the tanks were disabled, then the Wehrmacht would not be able to attack them. At least those tanks that were crippled by the bombing would hinder the Wehrmacht's offensive line.
"The Emperor is onboard!!" A beastly howl rang out, and countless RI troops rushed out of the position. With blood-red eyes and a large amount of explosives strapped to them, they pounced on the Wehrmacht tank units.
"Boom, boom, boom......" Suddenly, the sound of explosions resounded in the position. Fragments and blood of the RI Army were flying in the air, while the Wehrmacht tank group was constantly using heavy machine guns to try to prevent the RI Army from approaching their tanks.
At the same time, infantry units behind the tanks also began to use fire nets to try to clear the human bomb units of the RI.
The heavy machine guns of the "Tutu Tu ......" Ri Army rang out at this time, and they kept sweeping the Wehrmacht tanks not to penetrate the tanks, but to obstruct the tank's view in such a way.
At the same time, a stray bullet that rebounded could kill and injure the Wehrmacht infantry unit behind the tank. Obviously, the attack of the RI army received a certain effect. Their sweep shรจ led to a sluggish response of the Wehrmacht tanks.
At the same time, some of the Wehrmacht fighters who were coordinating the operation as infantry tanks were also wounded by stray bullets.
The movements of the RI Army were so fast and sudden that the Wehrmacht could not react at all. As a result, he was beaten by the RI army.
In the past, although the RI Army also organized death squads to blow up tanks with explosives, it was the first time they had done such a large-scale bombing of tanks under the cover of machine guns.
"Buzz...... "The warhawks of the Wehrmacht saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly flew at a low altitude to face the exposed firepower of the RI Army.......
At the same time, the coordinates of these firing points were transmitted back through the communicator, and the Wehrmacht artillery immediately adjusted the angle of their guns and fired indiscriminately at the designated coordinates.
However, these RI troops continued to rush towards the Wehrmacht tanks like swarms of ants like the ** sugar they saw. Despite the constant use of machine guns by the Wehrmacht fighters, the RI troops gathered more and more, and even a few of them rushed to the tanks and directly detonated the explosives tied to their bodies.
"Boom! Rumble!! The explosion of the ...... exploded, and the fragments and blood of the corpses were lifted by the shock wave of the explosion with shrapnel on the battlefield full of gunsmoke.
These were less than twenty tanks, but after several explosions, less than ten remained. The rest were either blown up or immobilized.
"you, grandma!!" The Wehrmacht soldiers who were working with the tanks to coordinate with each other suddenly became angry, and countless soldiers roared towards the RI army with the blood in their bones.
You are not afraid of death, are we We-in-Defense Force soldiers afraid of death?! Countless warriors chose to bring their weapons and roared towards the RI army.
Whenever the RI troops with bombs strapped to them tried to approach the tanks or the crowd, fighters would rush out and knock him down......
"Boom!!" And the price paid for this kind of pounce is to be crushed to pieces with the soldiers of the RI Army with the bombs tied to the bombs in the shocking explosion.
But no one retreated, and all the Wehrmacht soldiers stood up spontaneously with red eyes. As soon as the RI Army broke through the fire blockade, there were Wehrmacht soldiers who rushed out with a roar.
The battle situation fell into a stalemate for a while, and the firing points of the RI army were eliminated one by one, but one by one they were revived again. The soldiers of the RI Army, who were strapped to explosives, rushed out after the second batch of deaths......
It is in this kind of life-and-death battle that the sky gradually darkened. The Wehrmacht, who paid a huge price of casualties, occupied the first line of defense of the Ri Army. However, they were stuck here and couldn't get an inch.
The cost of the Ri Army was equally heavy, but in an afternoon's battle, two entire wings were lost. The heavy machine-gun brigade was completely lost, and the "White Jacket Team" of more than 1,000 men was continuously recruited to barely block the Wehrmacht's onslaught.
If the Battle of Weijiang was the most tragic battle since the founding of the Wehrmacht Air Force, then this breakthrough battle was the most tragic battle since the founding of the Wehrmacht Army.
The entire battlefield could not even see the intact corpses, and there were fragments of corpses that had been blown up everywhere. The Ri Army, the Wehrmacht were mixed.
When the sky darkened, both the Wehrmacht and the RI Army chose to stop fighting. After the flag died down, some Wehrmacht medics waving the red cross flag began to collect the bones of their own soldiers without saying a word.
Seeing this, the RI army also came out with a white flag to collect the bones.
"Eight Tiger B tanks were destroyed, and five were unable to survive the operation. More than 2,000 soldiers ...... died, "On the Wehrmacht side, the commander of the forward position is reporting to Pao Ye, Li Zongren and Lu Han on the summary of the battle losses in today's battle.
"In this battle, our troops killed more than 5,000 of the RI army. Including the air force killed and some of the people bombed......"
Li Zongren and the others listened to the report, but there was no trace of joy on their faces. True, the army suffered heavy losses in this battle. But the losses of the Wehrmacht were not small.
The most important thing is that the kind of meat bullet offensive of RI himself is too troublesome. The Wehrmacht, which had been forced to gain the advantage in firepower, could only be forced to fill it with men.
From this point of view, the losses on the part of the Wehrmacht are extremely unworthwhile.
"Commander-in-chief, we have to figure out a way. We can't let the soldiers go with the soldiers to fill in people's lives, so we will lose too much......" What was reported was the loss of the Southwest Military Region.
Lu Han was sad when he heard this loss, and if he wanted to continue fighting like this, it was estimated that the Southwest Military Region, which had just been replenished, would have to be empty again. Li Zongren's South China Military Region was no better, and even their losses were even greater than those of the Southwest Military Region.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the South China Military Region were poor and scared back then, so they protected the tanks first at the slightest breeze. So in terms of tank losses, they are somewhat smaller than the South-Western Military District. But the number of soldiers who died was more than that of the Southwestern Military District. (To be continued.) )