Only then did the dodging warriors see the firing ports that had just been exposed. The firing ports are extremely secret, the holes are not big, and these bunkers two or three meters from the ground are not a straight line, more like a maze, and the bunkers are one or two hundred meters long, scattered, and arc-shaped. The firing ports were not just frontal, but all around.

"Mountain Eagle Mountain Eagle! I'm Skylark One, and the position is full of hidden firing ports, and there are no blind spots except above these bunkers, and there are no blind spots below, so I can't get close to the holes of those cannons. ”

As soon as Qu Jun received the report, he ordered all the attacking troops to withdraw on all fronts, and the Spitfire tanks and the remaining T62 still had surviving armored vehicles and infantry vehicles under the cover of artillery fire, leaving the Japanese positions and retreating to find another way.

Sun Tao received Qu Jungang's report, adopted his plan, and notified Yu Lei and other troops to retreat on the whole line, in order to avoid the enemy's artillery fire to follow up and cause damage to the tanks, so that the long-range artillery fire covered the Japanese position, so that those cannons could not fire.

As the order was given, the helicopter hovering there picked up the surviving soldiers who had landed, and rose into the air with the bodies and wounded of those who had fallen to the ground.

At the beginning of the shelling, the tanks and Spitfire tanks trapped behind the bunkers by Japanese artillery fire roared and left the Japanese positions at full speed, without the slightest hindrance.

For more than ten minutes, the fiery battlefield suddenly became quiet, only the Japanese military position was still burning in the distance, and the fire rolled up thick smoke, crawling there like a prehistoric giant beast.

Dong Ku was in Sun Tao's headquarters, and he knew everything before and after. After the shelling stopped and the surroundings were quiet, the losses converged to Sun Tao and Xing Yuan Shunzi, and then all to Dong Ku.

In less than half an hour before and after the attack, the losses of dozens of points were very huge. Thirty or forty armored vehicles and infantry vehicles at each point were basically lost, and the fighters who followed the infantry vehicles with the explosion of the vehicles, with the explosion of the flamethrower tanks, there were almost no survivors.

Especially the points of the main attack, the losses are even greater. Thousands of soldiers were killed in the direction of the Qu army's main attack, and more than 100 armored vehicles and infantry vehicles were damaged. It can be said that it was a fiasco, the first great fiasco in history. In more than half an hour, the attacking troops lost almost a thousand armored and infantry vehicles, and the number of losses exceeded seven thousand, which can be said to be quite heavy.

Dong Ku gave the order to stop the offensive. He knew that in this case, he didn't want to find a way to clear the tunnel, they couldn't attack Changchun, and the troops passed, and he didn't know when the iron fist or machine gun would come out of the road. The baggage of the troops does not have to be transported over, especially the enemy's artillery, and the fire points on the opposite side and around are blocked near the gun port, and it is difficult to get close, and the casualties will be not small.

With the roar of helicopters, the commanders of all the attacking forces converged on the twin cities. At this point, the attack was officially declared a failure.

Dong Ku looked at everyone's heavy faces, and said in a deep voice: "This defeat shows a problem. Our previous victories have led to pride and underestimation of the enemy, and we have suffered such great losses with such suppressive firepower. This requires us to learn a lesson, which is to teach us that the lion fights the rabbit and also gives it his all. ”

"The captain is right, for a month of preparation, we are all preparing troops, and there is no action to reconnoitre. It's just that the helicopter reconnaissance was done a few times, and the preparations were not done well, we underestimated the enemy, and we are sorry for those dead fighters, they should not have died so much. ”

Sun Tao's words made everyone bow their heads.

Truly. It is impossible to fight without dying, no matter what they did before, but they have seen more dead people in the past two years, and they will not be frustrated by the loss of thousands of people in a battle, but death is valuable, so death is purely caused by their light enemy, they, including Dong Ku, in addition to adding Spitfire tanks, believe that as long as the effectiveness of the fire stun or shock the Japanese troops in those tunnels, as soon as the flamethrower is on, the army does not have to stay, and it will not be difficult to rush into the position in a straight line and sweep it away.

But now, the Japanese army actually built a cement bunker in their telescope, turning it into a meat grinder, the previous attack was a refueling tactic, judging from the fact that the other side can still shoot after the shelling, they must have solved the problem of earthquake resistance, and if they want to take the position, they will find another way, and they can't use the previous way.

The most important thing is that there is no relevant news about the hidden personnel arranged by Dong Ku, obviously the Japanese army has done the best of secrecy, and outside the position, unrelated people cannot get the news.

Dong Ku took a deep breath, looked around and said: "Be ashamed and courageous, don't be crushed by setbacks, the responsibility for this loss is not on you, it is I, the commander-in-chief, who underestimated the enemy, causing you to lose the necessary caution, now, it is not the time to pursue responsibility, we must come up with a plan as soon as possible, do not delay the established offensive plan, otherwise, we will not be able to fight the Yalu River and the Qingchuan River before April, and in the summer, not to mention the difficulty of the attack, the losses will be huge, that is not what I want to see." ”

Zuo Boyang took Dong Ku's words and said: "The captain said well, don't be frustrated, be ashamed and brave, everyone's first thing is to solve the difficulties in the offensive and complete the offensive plan." ”

Qu Jungang thought for a while and said: "I think that only tanks and Spitfire tanks can attack now, but the opponent's fortress artillery is a trouble, so the first thing is to solve the opponent's fortress artillery, so that the rhythm of the attack is in our hands, there is no defense above the tunnel, it is a blind spot for shooting, as long as we get rid of the cannon, we can use the Spitfire tank to block the firing ports of those bunkers, blast open, and enter the tunnel and street battle." ”

Yu Lei, who also made relevant tests, agreed: "This method is feasible, the information I got from my side is similar, you can blast at the top to enter, and fight for each channel, we have gun grenades, flamethrowers, Type 37 shoulder-carried recoilless rocket artillery, gas shells, the power of the guns is enough to suppress the Japanese army, and we have the advantage in street fighting." ”

Dong Ku didn't nod, he understood better than the people present that these advantages were not enough to determine the victory or defeat of the battle for the laneway, the Japanese army was very clever in building fortresses, they knew that their weapons were backward and their personnel were small, so they would rack their brains to devise a way to kill and injure the enemy with little damage and maximum strength.

The Battle of Iwo Jima can be seen, the Japanese army with backward weapons against advanced weapons, with aircraft artillery, with warship support, several times with their own US and Philippine troops, more than 20,000 people against 60,000 or 70,000 people, but also killed 6 or 7,000 US troops, wounded more than 20,000 people, although there are still thousands of people in this life, but it is against the US army with flamethrowers and advanced weapons, as well as air support and naval artillery support,

Now, the situation faced by the advance army is very similar to that battle, and according to Dong Ku's understanding of the Japanese, at this time, the position of the former betrayal is more than ten kilometers deep, and it should have formed a network of underground staggered and crisscrossed tunnels, and the losses will be very large, and the speed of the attack will not be too fast.

But he can't come up with a good way to solve the current predicament for the time being, if the underground fortress of the Japanese army is not solved, his side will attack Changchun, which will be surrounded, not to mention the loss of passing here.

In the midst of everyone's discussion, Dong Ku retracted his mind and said: "Let's solve the fortress artillery on the opposite side first, Qu Jungang's method is feasible, we will use tanks to cover the Spitfire tanks, destroy those fortress guns with flames, first suppress the Japanese army with effective shots, and then use tanks to blast open the hole, and use Spitfire tanks to burn the cannons inside." ”

"Yes, let's deal with the artillery first, and then talk about the rest, let the soldiers prepare gas shells and gas masks, prepare for street fighting, postpone the general attack, and not let the insidious Japanese army pay for the lives of the soldiers." Zuo Boyang also agrees with this plan, at present, everyone really has no suitable plan, so they can only take one step at a time.

"Good! The order was conveyed, the tanks should form a matrix to protect the Spitfire tanks and prevent the Japanese from artificial blasting, the helicopters guarded the airspace and blocked the ground in that area, the long-distance heavy machine guns and Vulcan guns intercepted the Japanese troops on the ground, and the rest of the artillery was eliminated. ”

"Yes!"

All the commanders shouted orders and began to convey orders, but they did not leave the Twin Cities Headquarters, they were all commanders, and there were commanders of various units at the front, and they were not required to go to the front, which was a regulation made by Dong Ku after he decided to attack Japan.

Now, Qu Jungang and they no longer have to go up to fight hard, their command experience has been greater than their leading role and combat effectiveness, the battalion commander can charge, but the regimental members are not allowed to go to the battlefield, in order to prevent the command system from the death of the regiment commander and chaos.

As one order after another was given, all the attacking nodes roared with artillery, and a new round of bombardment began.

During the shelling, the Japanese side was also nervously deployed, and the personnel ran along the tunnels of more than ten kilometers and entered the warheads, that is, the tunnels in the position.

They successfully repelled the first attack of the advance army, except for the front line that was burned by flames and killed thousands of soldiers and destroyed hundreds of machine guns, those grenades that were detonated by burning did not blow up the tunnel, and the concrete with a thickness of more than half a meter was still able to withstand the explosion of the general yield.

After repelling the first attack of the advance army, the self-confidence of the Japanese army doubled, especially the commander of the surviving assassination of Commander Umezu Mijiro, and his heart was no longer so worried.

With a defense network nearly 20 kilometers deep, he had reason to believe that there was no great possibility for the advance army to pass smoothly.

But he was still uneasy, because the front line reported that the enemy had a more powerful weapon than a flamethrower, a tank that could breathe fire, a tank that could not be beaten with an iron fist. It is it that the soldiers who will burn the front line are not yet able to enter the hot war department.

Compared to the enemy tanks he encountered for the first time, this Spitfire made him even more uneasy. The ineffectiveness of the iron fist means that they have no good way to deal with the tanks, and if the enemy enters the tank position, then they have no other way but to blow them up with men.

"Blow up the tanks that dare to enter the position at all costs!"

Umezu Mijiro gritted his teeth and ordered. (To be continued......)