Chapter 725: Ambush of the 1st Division (II)
After receiving the order of Isamu Yokoyama, the Japanese army, which was still a little hesitant, immediately pursued forward at full speed.
The three No. 4 tanks and several cavalry fighters cooperated quite brilliantly, which made the devils think that they were invincible and fled.
Deliberately lured the devils to bypass the dirt road east of Ranzhuang Town, and did not go directly into the town, in order to bite them tightly, the devil's pursuit force also chased after them on the dirt road east of the town.
Qiao Youhua and his guards stood in the fortified houses in the town, and one of the guards said very happily: "Commander, they have successfully lured away the devil's sharp soldiers. ”
Qiao Youhua nodded and said: "Well, next, we can ambush the main armored force of the devil, and immediately notify me, all the anti-aircraft guns of the air defense regiment are ready for me to fight, and I will rely on them to take the lead later!" ”
In order to give the devil a head-on attack, Qiao Youhua divided the 28 88mm anti-aircraft guns owned by the air defense regiment into two groups and deployed them on the east and west sides of Ranzhuang Town.
As long as the devil tanks and armored vehicles appeared, they would be under heavy fire from both sides of the 88 anti-aircraft guns.
At about half past four in the afternoon, the sun tilted more and more to the west, and the shadows of the woods outside the town were long, and the tankmen, anti-aircraft artillerymen, and dragon tooth cavalry in the woods were quietly waiting for the arrival of the devil.
In the suffocating wait, nearly 100 tanks, armored vehicles and more than 1,000 cavalry of the devils rolled up smoke and dust along the road on both sides of the railway line, and arrived in a menacing manner.
The railway line runs around the town from the west side of the town, so there is a road on the east and west sides of the town that extends southward.
The cavalry of the devils went to the west, and the tanks and armored vehicles were divided into two roads, and there were both roads on the east and west sides.
"Commander, the devil is here." One of the guards stood up in surprise and pointed to the billowing road of smoke and dust north of the town.
Qiao Youhua walked out of the house directly, and ran towards a barricade closest to the town with a few guards, and there were several dragon's tooth warriors hiding under the barricade, and when they found him coming, they all wanted to salute, but Qiao Youhua waved his hand to stop him.
Qiao Youhua quietly raised his head and raised his binoculars, and saw that the devil's armor and cavalry troops paused for a while at a distance of about a few hundred meters outside the town, then they started again and continued to drive forward.
Probably because their group of spearheads had already gone from here, or because Hengshan was eager to take revenge, they did not search and explore the town of Ranzhuang and its surrounding woods and sorghum fields.
Seeing that the devil was about to enter his ambush circle, Qiao Youhua immediately ordered one of the guards accompanying him: "Pass my order, the anti-aircraft guns of the air defense regiment will fire immediately, and the fire will be intensive!" Then the cavalry, tanks, guard regiments, and infantry of the air defense regiment all went out to launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese army, and at any cost, defeated them! ”
The guards immediately took the order to leave, and through the telephone line that had been temporarily installed in advance, Qiao Youhua's order was conveyed to the ambush troops of each regiment as quickly as possible.
After receiving the order, Ma Yunlong, commander of the air defense regiment, personally operated an 88mm antiaircraft gun and took the lead in firing, and the other 27 antiaircraft guns also followed suit.
Tom tom ...... The deafening sound of artillery shelling rang out one after another, and scarlet fireballs whistled and flew towards the devil tanks, armored vehicles, and cavalry crowds on the road.
Under the coercion of flames, a scorching cannonball suddenly shot into the crowd of devil cavalry with lightning speed, and exploded violently on the spot.
The violent explosion shock wave bloomed like fireworks, and the devil cavalry, who was still marching in three horizontal queues just now, was suddenly hit by the seedlings, and a group of people turned on their backs, screaming one after another.
In addition to the cavalry, the tanks and armored vehicles of the devils were also hit with ruin!
As the anti-aircraft guns continued to fire at high speed, shells roared towards the devil's armored tank group, and in addition to the anti-aircraft guns, the eighteen No. 4 tanks of the tank regiment also opened fire one after another.
Under the combined sudden bombardment of anti-aircraft guns and tank guns, in just two minutes, more than half of the devil's cavalry wing had already suffered casualties, and more than a dozen tanks and armored vehicles were destroyed on the spot.
Fortunately, the armored car that Isamu Yokoyama was riding was not at the front of the marching army, and the tanks and armored vehicles in front of him were suddenly ambushed by dense and powerful artillery fire, and the devil armored soldiers who were driving immediately stepped on the brakes.
Looking at the flickering firelight outside the car and the rumbling cannons, Yokoyama Yong said in shock and anger: "Bagaya Road, there is an ambush? How can there be an ambush here? The cunning Shina man is actually ambushing me here? I'm! ”
"Your Excellency General, the enemy's ambush fire is too fierce, you better retreat for the time being, and then make plans!" One of the adjutant lieutenants beside Isamu Yokoyama stretched out his head to look at the front, which had been covered by dense artillery fire, and saw that his tanks, armored vehicles, and cavalry had suffered heavy losses, and immediately trembled and built a road against him.
Yokoyama Yong was naturally unwilling to retreat and flee like this, kicked the car door open, jumped down, pulled out his general's sword, and shouted with a hideous face: "Order the 15th and 16th Tank Wings to counterattack with all their might, and the 1st Cavalry Wing will temporarily retreat, preparing to flank the ambush troops of the Shina people!" Hurry up and go to execute! ”
A few devils who jumped out of the armored car did not dare to disobey, and they all responded to their orders and left.
Although Yokoyama made a quick deployment, he was suddenly ambushed by intensive fire from the 88 anti-aircraft gun, known as a tank killer, and the combined bombardment of the 75mm Krupp tank gun, which was equipped with the No. 4 tank, which was able to easily penetrate the defensive armor of all active tanks and armored vehicles of the Japanese army.
The forward units of the 15th and 16th tank fighting vehicle wings suffered heavy losses, and before they could see where the enemy was firing their guns, they lost no less than ten tanks and armored vehicles one after another.
Already stunned, the dense artillery fire of the Dragon's Tooth column continued, and quickly covered the middle of its marching column.
The remaining devils of the two tank and combat vehicle wings have not yet reacted in shock, and they can still quickly deploy a counterattack.
In a panic, tanks and armored vehicles fell into chaos.
As for the 1st Cavalry Wing of the devils, it was even more devastated, with a large target, no armor protection capability, and their own tanks and armored troops that had fallen into chaos behind them blocking the road, so that they could not retreat in time and could not advance or retreat.
They can only nest on the crowded highway and act as a live target for the ambush fire of the Dragon's Tooth Column, and every shell that flies and explodes can cause casualties to them, and the explosion makes them turn on their backs, and their flesh and blood fly everywhere, which is unbearable to see.
For the devil cavalry, the most lethal thing was the on-board machine gun of the No. 4 tank car ambushed in the woods, which fired an astonishing number of bullets, and shot the ghost cavalry who could not escape, and shot them on the spot one after another, turning them into a blood sieve.
Isamu Yokoyama's order was completely unenforced, and the artillery fire quickly covered the place where he was, so frightened that the old devil turned around and ran towards the rear of the troops with his sword and the adjutant of the guards.
Rumble! Boom! Bang! Fierce explosions continued to fall and bloom behind them, and soon, even the armored vehicle abandoned by Isamu Yokoyama was hit by high-explosive armor-piercing shells, exploded on the spot, and turned into a bright and dazzling fire that rose into the sky.
Yokoyama was frightened and ran back, not to mention the devil tank armored soldiers who were constantly covered by the heavy artillery fire, and they were afraid of being hit by the shells, so they increased their horsepower and fled in the direction they came from, regardless of the rampage.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Qiao Youhua stood up from the barricade fortifications outside the north of the town, waved his big hand and said sharply: "Brothers, attack on all fronts, catch up with me, and annihilate this Japanese armored force, don't let one go!" ”
"Kill! Come on! "The men of the regiments leaped to their feet, and the infantry of the guard regiment poured out of the town one after another from various concealments in the town, and pursued them separately along the railway line.
The infantry of the air defense regiment and the cavalry of the tank regiment also suddenly attacked the devil's armored troops and cavalry in the chaos from the woods and sorghum fields on the east and west sides of the town, followed by eighteen No. 4 tanks.
The devil cavalry, which had already been devastated, was suddenly attacked from three sides, and under the intensive and ferocious fire of the dragon's tooth soldiers, the whole army was soon annihilated, and almost none of them were spared, and they were all hit by dense bullets, and the blood flowed like a river, and the corpses were broken all over the ground.
The swarming dragon tooth infantry and cavalry crossed the blood of corpses everywhere, and continued to pursue the fleeing devil tanks and armored vehicles with a momentum of overwhelming the mountains and seas.
The No. 4 tank, which was overwhelmed by the crowd of infantry, also fired at full power, with blue smoke bursting from its tail, rumbling and speeding north with the flow of people, and its high muzzle spit out balls of flames from time to time, blocking the fleeing devil tanks and armored vehicles.
Isamu Yokoyama, who fled on foot, was soon blown up by a whistling cannonball, and fell to a dog eating, and his face was blue and swollen under his nose, and blood flowed out of the bridge of his nose and the corners of his mouth.
Prompted by his survival instinct, he endured the severe pain in various parts of his body, stubbornly stood up, and staggered and continued to flee forward.
Fortunately, an armored car, which was already at the back of the marching line, turned around in time, spotted him, stopped beside him, took a look, and hurriedly got into it.
The devil driver in the armored car stepped on the accelerator suddenly, and the armored car let out a deafening rumbling sound, spit out a thick smoke from the tail, and sped away at a rapid pace.
Carrying the fateful Yokoyama Yongchao, he fled in a hurry.
At the same time that Isamu Yokoyama's 2nd Tank Armored Brigade was defeated, the three No. 4 tanks and seven cavalry fighters who had been being pursued by his spearhead group also suddenly stopped their rout.
They turned the heads of the cars and horses one after another, the barrels of the guns were high, and they suddenly opened fire, brandishing their sabers and launching a counterattack against the pursuing troops of the devils!
"Damn, I really thought I was afraid of you little devils!" A tank commander shouted angrily as he aimed at a Japanese tank and opened fire.
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