Chapter 354: Encirclement and Annihilation
On the vast Ulanqab steppe, tanks, combat vehicles, self-propelled guns, and thousands of vehicles of all kinds formed a huge torrent of steel, swept through with a devastating momentum, crushing the retreating Japanese soldiers like a road steamroller, and countless soldiers wearing green camouflage held semi-automatic rifles, in the shouts of killing, in the whistling of artillery discharges, and in the roar of high-power engines, rushing towards the enemy.
Li Fuying, commander of the 68th Division, sat in his special armored command car, and said to Dong Qiwu, the deputy division commander and commander of the 218th Brigade beside him, with an indignant expression: "No wonder you bastards rush out in a battle, and throw Lao Tzu in Suiyuan to watch his house, who doesn't like to do this kind of war!"
He does have reason to be indignant, although he is a veteran of the 35th Army, even Fu Zuoyi has to be called the eldest brother, but this is the first time to participate in the war against Japan, he is Fu Zuoyi's cronies, the number one cronies, so the 35th Army went out to fight, he stayed forever, from the Great Wall War of Resistance to the present, he stayed for nearly ten years, this time because of the battle at home, he can finally go back to the battlefield.
As the number one main force of the 35th Army, his division has developed to the level of an armored division, with a two-regiment tank brigade and two three-regiment mechanized brigades.
What's more, there are still those terrifying monsters in the sky that are constantly circling, and the air gunboat is what Yang Feng has always longed for the most, since the Battle of Liaoxi, when the Liberator bomber used ground sweeping to defeat the Sixth Division, he has been thinking about this kind of thing, but unfortunately there was no suitable carrier aircraft at that time. Whether it's Hercules or the Liberator, after loading a whole bunch of weapons, the maneuverability will be greatly reduced, although this thing is used to crush unprotected infantry, but at least it can't be too far off, and this problem will not be solved until his turboprop transport aircraft enters service.
Air-King transport aircraft with four turboprop engines. Even the performance of the real American Hercules is not much worse than that of the real American Hercules, and it is suitable to use it to be converted into an aerial gunboat.
This guy developed a total of two models, one was equipped with a modified 75 gun, plus 4 12.7 mm six-barreled machine guns that he imitated, and the other replaced the 75 guns with the 20 mm six-barreled Vulcan guns that he directly purchased from modern times.
Such an aircraft must not be used to kill an enemy with air cover or sufficient anti-aircraft firepower. But once the troops on the ground lose their air cover or their air defense is not strong enough, then they will only be Tusha in front of this kind of aircraft, and now the unsheltered open grassland has become the graveyard of hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers, and thirty aerial gunboats are like vultures that hunt for food, wandering in the sky all the time, and any Japanese army assembled in a group will become their favorite target, and then swoop down without hesitation, and harvest life with a terrifying circle.
And when they tore apart the Japanese lines. Troops like Li Fuying could pass through the gap immediately and then stab them in the abdomen like knives. In the entrails of the Japanese army stirred fiercely.
"Hurry up, hurry up, Ma's, give Lao Tzu all the way to Ningxia!" Li Fuying, who had been holding back for almost ten years before finally returning to the battlefield, stood outside the turret and roared loudly, unaware that his troops were actually attacking north.
"Division Commander, you shout at this thing!" Dong Qiwu was speechless and handed him the radio microphone. At this moment, the signal soldier in the armored car suddenly said: "Report to the division commander, the gunboat in the air reports that there is a large group of Japanese troops gathering ahead!" I would like to ask us to come over quickly for help. ”
"Where!" Li Fuying grabbed the telescope and shouted, he now found that as a division commander, he could no longer keep up with the trend. Later, under the guidance of Dong Qiwu, he finally discovered the two black dots in the sky that kept hovering.
"Don't dwell on it, speed up!" With the order from the command vehicle, nearly 18,000 people of the 68th Division eliminated the remnants of the Japanese troops in front of them as quickly as possible, and then rushed in the direction of the two planes, and at the same time, the commander of the Japanese Mongolian Front, General Anan Wei, was huddled in a dirt pit, looking at the sky above his head with sad and indignant eyes.
This does sound incredible, but the current situation is indeed that a brigade of the Japanese army was violently beaten by two air gunboats, and the storm-like firepower of these terrifying monsters hit them so that they couldn't raise their heads at all, because the ammunition was exhausted, all the anti-aircraft guns had lost their effectiveness, and now they could only use the machine guns and rifles in their hands to resist the blows of the air gunboats, and thousands of Japanese soldiers lay down in the grass, shooting into the sky with all the weapons they could use.
It's a pity that such an attack is difficult to have any effect on an aircraft with a speed of more than 400 per hour, even if a bullet can occasionally hit the target, hitting a behemoth tens of meters long, it is basically not much stronger than a mosquito bite, not to mention these planes using modern aluminum alloy, the degree of sturdiness is far from being comparable to that of Japanese aircraft, as for those fatal parts such as fuel tanks or something, these are protected by titanium alloy armor, and such attacks are ignored at all.
But the condescending gunboats in the air can easily tear apart the Japanese soldiers below with shells and bullets, a machine gun, a cannon, non-stop spraying death, especially the terrifying Vulcan cannon, the rate of fire of thousands of rounds per minute and the mountains of ammunition in the cabin, making it the most efficient killing machine, the place where the flaming whip extending from the muzzle of the gun passed, there were countless fragmented bodies, and the flesh and blood even marked a blood-red trajectory on the grassland.
Commander Anan lay in the dirt pit, staring at the two monsters in the sky with fire-breathing eyes, he now understands that he may not have much hope, the 18th Group Army in the south, Ma Hongkui's 11th Group Army in the west, Fu Zuoyi's 35th Army in the east, an army with a total strength of 80,000 troops, and the 29th Army in the north, and it is personally commanded by Song Zheyuan, who has not been out of the mountain for many years, a total of more than 300,000 people are squeezing themselves from all sides like four steel walls. Any organized resistance will be the target of these monster strikes overhead, of course, they are not the only ones, in fact there are more than 500 planes overhead of the Japanese army to strike at them in turn, bombers, fighters, plus these artillery planes.
And he could not get the support of an airplane, which has become the inevitable result of the battle with Yang Feng, no matter what war the fighters of the army aviation will be beaten by him dare not fight, and then the ground troops are left to struggle in the air raids, when can they see the Chinese trembling under the planes of the imperial air force again, but unfortunately even if they really have themselves, they may never be seen.
"Enemy chariots!" Suddenly, a heart-rending scream woke him up from his daydream, the smoke and dust that covered the sky and the sun in the southeast direction were rolling in, and even the trembling of the ground under his feet was clearly discernible, Anan Wei sighed a few times, knowing that his last moment had come, he stood up and tidied up his military uniform, and then knelt down very solemnly to the east and kowtowed to the emperor who was far away in Tokyo, and then stood up and pulled out his saber.
"Loyal and brave warriors under His Majesty the Emperor, see you at Yasukuni Shrine!" He roared hysterically with a wave of his saber.
At this time, Boss Yang of Peking was greeting a special guest.
"Mr. Yoshida, I haven't seen you for many years, but it looks like you've lost a lot of weight!" Yang Fengpi looked at his old acquaintance Shigeru Yoshida with a smile.
Under the strict supervision of the emperor, Hideki Tojo really couldn't find any other way to save Anan, so he had to find Yang Feng, hoping to make a deal with him, in exchange for Burma or Western Australia, in exchange for him to let the Mongolian front army live, although this is indeed very humiliating, but compared with the annihilation of the entire front army, it is nothing.
"This can't be, Mr. Yoshida! Since they have invaded the land of China, then do not expect to leave again, I have only one principle for the invaders, and that is to let them become fertilizer for this land, and use their flesh and blood to compensate them for the damage they have done to this land. Yang Feng said without hesitation after understanding the intention of Yoshida Shigeru, he didn't expect the Japanese to think of this trick.
"Mr. Yang, I know that you are the person who advocates the exchange of interests the most, the annihilation of the Mongolian Front army will not add anything to you, at most it is a few more praises, and with your current reputation, I am afraid that you don't need too much praise, as for the barren grassland, it is also of no value, but Myanmar is different, there is the Ren'anqiang oil field, as for Western Australia, I think you should know better than us what is there, in this case, why don't we do a good business for Lu?" Yoshida Shigeru said bitterly, speaking of which, he himself felt that the offer was high enough this time, and he couldn't think of any reason for Yang Feng to refuse.
"Yes, Mr. Yoshida, I do want all of this, but unfortunately you forgot that I can rob it in addition to exchanging it, and don't you think it's a little ridiculous that you can trade with me with something that I am destined to capture?" Yang Feng said lightly.
Shigeru Yoshida was dumbfounded. (To be continued......)