Chapter 636: The Funeral of the Japanese Tank

More than 300,000 soldiers on both sides fought all day long on an arc-shaped front in Dingzhou, Anguo, Raoyang, and Wuqiang, and the Japanese army, which received Okamura Ningji's strict orders, launched an average of more than a dozen attacks a day, but could not move forward, and because of the lack of artillery suppression and cover, the number of casualties was far greater than that of the defending troops of the Sulu Mobile Corps, and the casualty ratio of the enemy and us was close to 20 to 1.

Such a large casualty, not the Japanese army can bear, the battle situation in Shijiazhuang, will be reported to Tang Qiuli every day, he has set up a command headquarters in the area of Guanshan in the south of Yangquan, ready to meet the two roads from Heshun straight to Yangquan more than 70,000 Japanese troops, Tang Qiuli's hands, gathered Feng Jiwu Niangziguan garrison corps five brigades of more than 60,000 troops, four brigades directly under the division headquarters, a total of nine brigades of more than 100,000 troops, 100,000 against 70,000, it is very likely to eat this Japanese army.

However, there are now only five brigades of Feng Jiwu around him, and the troops directly under the four brigades have gone out to Leping and Jiedu to block and harass the Japanese army that invaded Niangzi Pass.

He was very satisfied with the battle situation in Shijiazhuang, and in a telegram to Tang Qiusheng, he said: "If we continue to fight like this, we will definitely be able to kill the Japanese army, and it is best to deal a heavy blow to attract the Japanese troops left behind in Pingjin to join the battlefield in Shijiazhuang, and artificially create an empty garrison of the Japanese army in Pingjin, so that we can take advantage of the situation to seize it."

He didn't believe that Shijiazhuang had become the flesh and blood mill of the Japanese army, and Okamura Ningci, who was still in the Taihang Mountains, could sit safely, indeed, the offensive and defensive battles on the periphery of Shijiazhuang were fought for three days, except for a bunch of casualties, the Japanese army did not catch anything, Okamura Ningci is now in a dilemma, according to the situation, the troops in the Taihang Mountains should understand the return to Pingjin and recapture Shijiazhuang, but the search force he sent found a target of great strategic value, Tang Qiuli in the secret supply base of the Taihang Mountains Huangya Cave.

Destroyed Tang Qiuli's lair, what ability does he have and the imperial army in North China, Okamura Ningci is reluctant to come to his mouth, all the troops who are sweeping in the Taihang Mountains must participate in this attack on strategic targets, and it is also the only thing that Okamura Ningci can get his hands on since he entered the Taihang Mountains for a few days, and he cannot divide his troops to join the Shijiazhuang battlefield.

He could only strictly order the troops to attack Shijiazhuang and recover Shijiazhuang within a limited time, and the Japanese commander, who was forced to go crazy, took out the only killer weapon on the fourth day of the battle, the independent third tank brigade, to cover tens of thousands of soldiers for the most fierce attack.

Tang Qiusheng, who was in the Wuji Command Headquarters, saw from the telescope that the Japanese tanks rolled up the sky-high smoke and dust, Tang Qiuli sneered, for this Japanese armored unit, he had long been aware of it, grabbed the phone on the shell box, and issued an order: "All heavy artillery units pay attention, according to the coordinates determined in advance, when the Japanese tanks enter the range of artillery fire, immediately implement artillery coverage"

Tang Qiusheng had long been guarding against the Japanese army, and in the information given by the special operations detachment, this tank brigade was specifically mentioned, and he did not allow the troops to carry out a counter-assault, because he was afraid that this Japanese tank brigade would suddenly kill and kill the troops who left the fortifications

The Japanese tanks roared, the turret ** debuted in flames, tens of thousands of Japanese soldiers were as excited as chicken blood, howling, with the cover of the tank, no longer have to be afraid of the endless rain of bullets of the soldiers, beating themselves into a hornet's nest, moreover, hundreds of tanks of the Japanese army, concentrated in one assault direction, according to the tank combat theory, the concentrated use of armored forces, can be on the attacked enemy position, lightly tear the opening, the premise is that the defending side does not have a large number of anti-tank weapons.

During World War II, the Japanese army had no experience in the large-scale use of armored forces, and the tanks were basically dispersed to various infantry brigades to cover the infantry charge, which was based on the actual situation on the Chinese battlefield.

Chinese soldiers, can only use flesh and blood, holding cluster grenades, with a number of lives, in exchange for blowing up a Japanese tank, now, the Japanese commander, to take such a concentrated use of armored forces in the formation, and the formation of the tank is extremely dense, his intention is to on the offensive road, erect a movable steel barrier, to minimize the casualties of the soldiers, at the same time, the defending soldiers are also a kind of deterrent, maybe they will be frightened to abandon the position, hugging their heads and running away.

Theoretically good, but the troops under the command of Tang Qiuli, a freak, have long taught commanders at all levels how to destroy Japanese tanks as the most basic tactical theory, and to deal with these steel monsters who spray steel and spit fire, show their teeth and claws, and the troops of independent divisions have at least a dozen ways to deal with them.

Hundreds of tanks, marching in unison, separated by less than three meters away, the formation is indeed majestic, has entered the range of the Chinese army's light and heavy machine guns, what kind of stormy bullets in the past, hit the tank armor, splashing sparks, without losing a single cent, the Japanese commander's face became more and more peaceful, the Japanese soldiers were even more courageous, and the shouts of killing were very loud for a while.

The earth trembled, and under the bright sunlight, behind the Chinese defenders' positions, a large area of pale blue smoke rose up, and the metal projectiles visible to the naked eye, with a piercing scream that pierced the air, fell from the sky, and the thick column of smoke soared into the sky like an oolong, and the deafening explosion sounded and hit the eardrums, and the explosion points were connected, and the Japanese tank column was immediately drowned in the flashing fire.

At least a salvo of several hundred large-caliber guns was undoubtedly a catastrophe for the "Izu" series of light tanks that were contemptuously called thin-skinned iron coffins by European and American countries, and the huge power of large-caliber shells tore the thin armor of the Japanese Izu tanks, shredding the Japanese tank crews inside, and more Japanese tanks were hit and caught fire, blowing up the tracks, blowing up the belly and turning over.

Some Japanese tanks were directly hit by artillery shells, the turret flew into the sky like a blow, everywhere there were black smoke, flames of Japanese tanks, unlucky, shells drilled into the tank, the tank tore apart, the Japanese tank soldiers with flames, screaming and jumping out of the car, but could not escape the shells flying in the sky, from time to time the tank was ignited by the high temperature of ammunition exploded, the tank exploded into a ball of fire.

The Japanese infantry who followed behind the tank was unlucky, and was drowned under the shelling like a volcanic eruption, witnessing this qiē, the face of the Japanese commander turned pale, and the cold sweat on his forehead flowed uncontrollably, it was terrible, the commander of the Chinese army, actually used such a fierce artillery fire to deal with the attack of the tank cluster, and his killer weapon and the last trump card were over.

He sat down on the shell box in a gloomy manner, the tank emitting black smoke and flashing flames, under the fire of the Chinese army, flying all over the sky, and the soldiers who endured the hellish torment, stabbed his eyes at the same time, and even more stabbed his heart, what kind of army is this? Although he knew that this was the Tang Qiuli Independent Division, known as the devil of China and feared by everyone in the North China Imperial Army, he still muttered to himself like a dream, a terrible opponent

The remnants of the Japanese tanks, seeing that the signs were wrong, despite the steel they were covered in, still became a live target, hurriedly turned around, ready to escape from this terrible slaughterhouse, how can there be such a cheap thing, the anti-tank gun detachments of each brigade, during the shelling, have moved to the front of the position, several guns aimed at a target, and sent a stream of metal into the Japanese tank.

The sound of artillery stopped, the battlefield was full of burning Japanese tanks, hundreds of tanks in a brigade, none of them escaped back, they all became a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron on the battlefield, and the tens of thousands of Japanese infantry who accompanied the tank attack fled back, but only more than half, and the rest became fragmented corpses.

On this day, known as the happiest day of the Sulu Mobile Corps, wiped out a tank brigade of the Japanese army, killed more than 10,000 Japanese infantry, and sent a telegram to the division commander Tang Qiuli, who was eating, he immediately threw down his rice bowl and personally sent a congratulatory message to Tang Qiusheng: "I am glad to hear that your unit has completely annihilated the Japanese tank brigade, this is the biggest victory in the Battle of Shijiazhuang, and it has cleared the obstacles in advance for our army to fight in the plain area in the future, and the general order commends all the officers and men of the Sulu Mobile Corps"

The staff officer took away the telegram draft, Tang Qiu was still unfinished, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, Brother Qiusheng's art of commanding operations is becoming more and more proficient, these generals under him who are under the command of heavy troops, each has its own combat style, he has always believed that Brother Qiusheng's command style is old and serious, more than cautious, and slightly lacking in rigidity, now it seems that this view has to be overturned, should he take Mei Ting and Mei Xue to return to Dingbian for a long vacation, and completely let go of the command of the battlefield?

Tang Qiuli, who was in a good mood, turned his head and saw Mei Xue's clear beautiful eyes, staring at himself walking back and forth with good eyes, stretched out his powerful arm, hugged Mei Xue's soft and elastic body, hugged Mei Xue's red lips with his big mouth, and kissed it bitterly, he liked this tender girl more and more.

Mei Xue was shy, afraid of being bumped into by the staff officers and correspondents, and was reluctant to bear this kind of taste, symbolically struggled, instantly lost in Tang Qiuli's powerful embrace, took the initiative to cater to it, and provoked Tang Qiuli's heart to move, he had been busy commanding the operation, and he had not had the opportunity to further capture Mei Xue's body and mind, perhaps, after these battles, there would be time.

(To be continued)