Boom Boom Boom ...... It was getting darker, but the battle continued. Taking advantage of the heavy damage of the Japanese artillery units, the armies on the eastern Hebei Road were concentrating artillery fire on the Japanese positions, and the little devils were so embarrassed that they had to retreat into the fortifications to hide. However, the Japanese army did not completely give up the opportunity to attack, as long as the automobile regiment had the intention of towing the heavy artillery north, it would attract fierce counterattack from the Japanese army. After more than an hour of entanglement, neither side was able to fully control the eight heavy guns.

Liao Yaoxiang put down the telescope and said with a little regret: "The performance of this Skoda 75 mountain gun is okay, but the power is a little smaller, if it is 150 mm." ”

Li Liangrong sneered: "Cut, you can be content!" A lot of troops don't even have mortars! Then he asked, "Do you want to start now?" ”

Liao Yaoxiang looked up at the sky, nodded and said, "Let's start, it's almost dawn, it's time to do it!" ”

1.8 kilometers east of Fengliu Village, Dongliu Village. A group of Japanese soldiers was attacking the village, trying to use it as a temporary stronghold. The villagers had already taken refuge in the tunnels, leaving only a small number of militiamen to "hide and seek" with the little devils in the village.

"Hey, hey, Matsuda-kun, your left, Nojima, your right!" A military officer stretched out his hand and gestured, signaling his subordinates to separate up and outflank. Bang! The guy was in command when a bullet suddenly shot through the wall of a compound, killing him instantly. Boom...... Then several grenades flew out of the courtyard, and although they were not accurate, they also startled the devil soldiers outside.

"Yaga!" The Japanese soldiers were furious after being teased and shot at the courtyard wall. Seeing that there was no effect, he frantically threw himself towards the courtyard gate. This kind of courtyard in the north is fully enclosed, and the only way to rush in is to climb the wall or walk through the gate. It was obviously difficult to climb the wall at the height of a little devil, so you had to smash the door.

A Japanese soldier raised a pickaxe and slammed it into the gate with a shout, making a terrible noise. One, two...... The door finally fell. "Onboard!" The Japanese soldiers who were hiding outside the gate rushed in, and as soon as they thought that they rushed in, there was an explosion. Boom~ With a loud bang, seven or eight little devils inside and outside the door were caught off guard and lay in a pool of blood.

This kind of lafa mine was made by the militia of Baxian County, and it was not very powerful, and it usually only blew people up half to death. However, a similar tragedy was even more demoralizing to the enemy. Several times in a row. The Japanese soldiers were all apprehensive. Dead or alive refused to attack.

The failure to completely capture the village annoyed the commander of the 10th Infantry Wing, Mori Suekosa. Now that the Japanese artillery has suffered heavy losses, the infantry will have to withstand the one-sided bombardment of the Chinese artillery. Maori Daisa hoped to hold on to the village, and perhaps even make the Chinese army unlucky. But I didn't expect that the soldiers of a squadron could not completely occupy this small village after fighting for more than an hour.

"Yaga! The incompetence of the military, the disgrace of the Empire! "Maori is in a hurry. Called the hapless squadron leader over and scolded him.

"Report!" A second lieutenant officer in charge of reconnaissance arrived in a hurry. Saluted: "Your Excellency, Wing Commander." The people on the opposite side seem to be showing signs of retreat. ”

"Nani?" Maori Osa was very surprised, thinking that he was still bombarding us with artillery fire just now, how could he say that he would withdraw? Could it be that the shelling just now was just to cover their retreat?

The chief of staff of the 10th Wing guessed: "Your Excellency, Wing Commander." Could it be that because the sky is getting brighter, the people of China have received the news that we are going to outflank their rear roads, so they evacuate first? ”

Maori Dazuo looked up, and sure enough, although the moon was about to set at this time, a trace of fish belly white could be seen in the east. It will be half an hour at most before the sky will be bright, and then the planes of the Army Airlines will be able to rush to support. Troop reinforcements are also more convenient. In this way, the retreat of the Chinese army is also reasonable.

"Yo Xi, your analysis makes sense!" Maori agreed with the chief of staff and muttered, "But our task is to hold back the Chinese army, and we can't let them evacuate so easily." Immediately inform the brigades to assemble their troops and prepare to launch a counterattack on the Chinese army! ”

"Hello!"

Thanks to a well-developed command system, the Japanese units quickly assembled and began to attack in the southeast and southeast directions. However, they just wanted to hold back the Chinese army, and did not take the form of rushing and attacking. Instead, he follows behind like a ghost in hanging boots, pursues him when you retreat, retreats when you counterattack, and always keeps in contact, making it difficult for the Chinese army to get out smoothly.

Li Liangrong was standing in the concealed command post to observe the enemy's situation, suddenly put down the telescope and snorted coldly, and said: "Sure enough, it's a good calculation, Jian Chu, when will we attack?" ”

Liao Yaoxiang is also observing the enemy's situation. He pushed his glasses towards Lu, his eyes flashed with excitement from time to time, and he commanded softly: "Let our people withdraw again, and wait for the little devil to chase through a blockade ditch again!" ”

Li Liangrong said with some dissatisfaction: "If you still withdraw, you won't be able to keep 150 heavy artillery if you withdraw it!" ”

Liao Yaoxiang waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, the little devil will definitely not blow up the cannon at this time!" ”

"Kill, give!" The Japanese army chased after them, and their appetite grew bigger and bigger, and the front-line commanders drew their command knives one after another and ordered their subordinates to speed up the pursuit, trying to bite the rear guard of the Chinese army.

"Onboard!" The Japanese soldiers also began to get excited, and they all howled and chased after them.

Li Liangrong urged again: "When will you do it?" ”

A ray of sunlight suddenly shot from the east, Liao Yaoxiang narrowed his eyes, and shouted: "It's now!" Telegrapher, inform the armored regiment, start immediately! ”

"Attack!"

Suddenly, there was a dense sound of motors on the battlefield. The Japanese soldiers who were frantically pursuing stopped one after another and looked around vigilantly.

"What is the sound? The Chinese army is fleeing in a truck? ”

"It's not like the sound of a truck, it's like a chariot. Noda-kun, what do you say? ”

"It's a bit like that, but I think ...... Oh God, look, chariots! ”

"It seems to be the chariot of the Empire!"

"Baga, it must have been captured by the people of China, quick, prepare for anti-tank combat!"

"Is there a squadron of anti-tank guns?"

"Where is the rapid-fire artillery squadron?"

……

It turned out that the Japanese troops were not much better than the Chinese troops after encountering armored units. Whew...... Nine Type 89 B tanks rushed forward in a row, and after a period of acceleration. It's getting faster and faster.

Da Da Da ...... Boom, boom! The 6.5 mm machine gun and the 57 mm gun were fired one after the other. The dense rain of bullets overwhelmed the sky, and the Japanese soldiers who were blocking the front were swept away in an instant.

The surviving devils had to retreat in a hurry, or lie down nearby. However, the tank had already rushed at high speed, and in an instant, several wounded Japanese soldiers who fell to the ground were crushed into pulp.

Da Da Da ...... A Japanese machine gunner dragged a broken leg and swept backwards as he crawled. But to his despair, the bullet hit the front armor of the tank with only a few crisp sounds, leaving no craters. Then it was dark in front of me, and the wide tracks had already pressed up with a hint of cold wind......

Although the Japanese-made Type 89 medium tank is known for its backward performance, the protection of the front armor is still very good, and its main parts can resist the attack of 37mm shells within 600 meters. The Japanese were only concerned with the pursuit just now, and they did not even keep up with the rapid-fire artillery squadron. Nature is powerless to stop.

The first horizontal chariot easily ran through the Japanese outpost. Then he pounced on the enemy's troops in depth without stopping, and soon set off another round of bloody storms. Some of the undetermined Japanese soldiers tried to attack the tanks from behind, but the nine tanks in the second column rushed again, and then the third column.

After the three-wheeled chariot rushed by. The Japanese positions had long been dilapidated. The ground was littered with corpses and island meat sauce. Wheeled armored vehicles quickly followed under the cover of infantry. Clean up the fish that slipped through the net one by one. As for tracked armored vehicles, they have long been outflanked from the wings.

Although the Type 94 Bean Chariot is notoriously thin-skinned coffin, its 6 mm armor is enough to withstand direct fire from most light weapons. Historically, the Nationalist Army has purchased and sold a batch of 7.9mm rifle armor-piercing bullets, which are indeed capable of penetrating their armor at close range. However, after the breakdown, there was zero damage to the equipment and personnel inside. In addition, this game can run up to 40 kilometers per hour, and fighting light infantry is like cutting tofu.

Unaware that the front-line troops had collapsed, Maori was still organizing follow-up troops, intending to crush the rearguard of the Chinese army in one fell swoop. Suddenly, I heard a dense burst of gunfire from the southeast, and I couldn't help but look over there in surprise. Before he could figure out what was going on, a large group of Japanese soldiers had fled frantically.

"Retreat!" The cowardly simply abandoned their troops and fled in the direction of Tianjin.

"The chariot of the people of China is coming!" Be kind and hurriedly inform everyone of the situation.

"What about the rapid-fire artillery squadron! Where is the rapid-fire artillery squadron? "There is no shortage of brave ones, looking for anti-tank weapons in the Manchurian world. Because it turned out that rifles and machine guns alone could not deal with tanks.

……

"Yaga!" Maori Dasa was furious, reached out and grabbed a soldier and asked, "What the hell is going on, why did you suddenly lose it?" ”

The soldier was already frightened, and said incoherently: "Chariots, many, many chariots, they are rushing over!" ”

Maori Dasa angrily retorted: "Nani? Chariots, where did the Chariots of the Chinese Army come from? ”

The soldier shuddered and pointed behind him. At this moment, a powerful motor sound suddenly came. The Japanese soldiers present screamed in surprise, and quickly scattered and fled as if they had exploded. Only those soldiers who had not seen the power of the armored cluster still stupidly picked up their weapons and prepared to meet them.

Whew...... The chariot squad rushed over without hesitation, and in an instant, the headquarters of Mori Osaku was crushed. Due to the backwardness of communication capabilities, the commander of the 33rd Infantry Brigade, Major General Kei Seya, did not know what was happening ahead. The chariot was at full throttle, swooping down at a speed of more than 20 kilometers per hour...... And then another one-sided slaughter!

The Japanese army had a large number of troops, including the 10th Infantry Wing, the 33rd Infantry Brigade Headquarters, the 10th Engineer Wing, the 10th Heavy Infantry Wing, the 4th Brigade of the 10th Field Artillery Wing, and possibly some subsidiary units. But so many Japanese troops couldn't stop the rampaging armored regiment. Direct fire from mountain artillery may be able to wreck a vehicle, but it is difficult to target these high-speed creatures. Often, as soon as the gun position was set up, before the firing target was adjusted, the chariot roared and blasted the artillerymen into pulp......

"The 10th Infantry Wing has been routed!"

"The Chinese launched a counteroffensive on the Eastern Front, and many lost contact!"

"Your Excellency, Division Commander. The captured Imperial chariots of the Shina army are charging at us with heavy casualties, ask for tactical guidance! ”

"When will aviation be able to sortie? Yaga, there are Imperial soldiers bleeding every minute! ”

……

By the time the commander of the 10th Division, Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka, hurriedly transferred reinforcements, the armored regiment had already retreated. Li Liangrong sat on a wheeled armored car, looked at the battlefield of disarray, and said with joy on his face: "Ha Luha, I didn't expect the armored cluster to be so powerful, it is simply invincible!" ”

Liao Yaoxiang said proudly: "That's! If it weren't for the lack of fuel, I would have dared to attack Tianjin directly! ”

Li Liangrong smiled. Say, "Blow!" After a moment's thought, he asked, "How much fuel do you have left?" ”

Liao Yaoxiang said: "What good idea did you think of?" ”

Li Liangrong said: "If we can defeat the Japanese army all the way again. The enemy's five-way combined attack will not be able to sustain it only if he is afraid. In that case, why should we evacuate in a hurry? ”

Liao Yaoxiang was also a little moved when he thought about it, so he immediately asked the general manager for instructions. Unexpectedly, Zheng Weiguo strictly ordered them to quickly retreat to the south of the Daqing River.

It turned out that at this time, the 39th Wing of the Japanese Army from Beiping and the 40th Wing from Langfang had converged, and quickly broke through the defense line of the 53rd Division of the 130th Army under the unified command of the 8th Infantry Brigade. Straight to the county seat of Baxian County. The 9th Division of the Kwantung Army, which had been grinding foreign workers, also rushed to the county seat of Xiongxian under the strict orders of Commander Sugiyama Moto. It didn't take long for the commander of the 53rd Army, Zhou Fucheng, to also send a telegram. Indicates that the enemy force is strong. It will hold out for two or three hours at most, and demand that all departments on the East Road immediately evacuate.

Liao Yaoxiang was taken aback and said, "The combat effectiveness of the 53rd Army is not weak. How did you lose so quickly? ”

Ba County, the position of the 53rd Division of the 130th Army. Division Commander Zhu Hongxun was commanding, and shouted anxiously: "Order all troops to disperse as much as possible, disperse as much as possible, and tell the brothers, don't lie down, this is the enemy's heavy artillery, you can only squat!" ”

Rumble! Before he could say a word, four more shells whistled, and the violent explosion suddenly engulfed everything around, and the ground in a radius of hundreds of meters trembled. The center of the explosion was blown out of a huge crater, and the original position was long gone.

The hidden part where Zhu Hongxun was located was still far from the central point, but it was also destroyed by a strong shock wave, and the entire fortification was buried alive by the bombed soil.

"Ah, no, go and save someone!" Deputy Division Commander Wang Lihuan, who was commanding separately, looked back and found that the division headquarters was gone, so he hurriedly brought people over and anxiously shouted: "Division, division!" ”

"Passenger seat, here!" A soldier found the hiding place of the division headquarters, but it had long since collapsed, and only a few pieces of wood for fortifications were exposed.

Deputy Master Wang was taken aback, and hurriedly ordered: "Hurry up and dig up this place!" ”

Fortunately, there was a group of sappers directly under the division headquarters, and the soldiers, regardless of the danger of enemy artillery fire, waved their sapper shovels and dug desperately to finally dig a hole. This covert force is also quite sturdy and has not completely collapsed. Several small fighters quickly jumped in and carried the wounded out one by one. Division Commander Zhu Hongxun was also found, but fortunately he only suffered a little trauma.

Deputy Division Commander Wang breathed a sigh of relief and asked with concern: "Master, you are fine!" ”

Master Zhu coughed violently a few times, clutched his chest and said, "I can't die!" What about the position? ”

Deputy Division Commander Wang hurriedly said: "The position is still there, but the brothers have suffered heavy casualties, and the little devil's heavy artillery is too ruthless!" ”

The Japanese army dispatched Meiji 45-year 240 mm heavy howitzers this time, with a total of four guns, which belonged to the First Brigade of the Independent Siege Heavy Artillery of the North China Front. The projectile of this artillery weighs 200 kilograms, and it has a huge destructive power, which even ordinary permanent fortifications can not withstand this level of bombardment. The firing range is also not low, it can reach a maximum of 10350 meters. Although the 53rd Army's 38th Field Artillery had a slight advantage, it was difficult to destroy or suppress.

The only flaw is that it is too heavy, and there are 33,058kg with the shield, that is, 60,000 or 70,000 catties. Therefore, it was very difficult for this artillery to move, and the Japanese army's 13-ton tractor was still in the trial production stage, and there was no suitable tractor, so it could only be towed by two tractors at the same time.

Division Commander Zhu's expression darkened, and he said regretfully: "I think that our Fengtian Arsenal could also make this kind of cannon back then, but it's a pity that 918 ......."

Historically, the Shenyang Arsenal in Northeast China began to trial produce 240 mm caliber heavy guns in 31 years, which is likely to be the Meiji 45-year model or its improvements. Unfortunately, before the cannon could be assembled, it became a trophy of the Japanese army.

"Forget it, don't talk about this, help me up!" Division Commander Zhu struggled to stand up, and when he saw that the Japanese army was launching a new round of attacks, he asked anxiously: "The military headquarters asked us to hold on for three hours, what can you do?" ”

An officer's face turned pale, and he said in embarrassment: "Master, the little devil's artillery fire is so ruthless, we can't hold it for three hours even if we run out!" ”

"Yes, Master, the brothers are guarding too hard, let's withdraw!"

……

Master Zhu hesitated for a moment and asked Wang Lihuan, "What do you think?" ”

Deputy Division Commander Wang thought for a while and said, "I have a way!" ”

The 130th Division then withdrew the bulk of the force, leaving only a few observers on the position. The Japanese army soon began a new round of bombardment, dispatching not only the four 240-mm heavy guns, but also 150-mm howitzers and 105-mm cannons, and soon bombed the positions of the 130th Division beyond recognition.

"Quick, the devil is coming!" As soon as the shelling was over, the Japanese infantry rushed up again. But the 130th Division had already prepared, and the large army quickly came back. When the two sides fought fiercely, the Japanese heavy artillery did not dare to bomb indiscriminately. In this way, it took more than two hours to advance and retreat. The 130th Division suffered heavy casualties, but the Japanese were unable to take their positions.

Fortunately, the 130th Division held back the enemy, and the armored forces on the Eastern Front were finally able to withdraw to the south of the Daqing River before the Japanese encircled. Subsequently, the 53rd Army, the 33rd Division, and some troops of the 3rd Division also jumped out of the encirclement of the Japanese army. But Xiongxian and Baxian fell, and the Japanese army occupied all the county towns north of the Daqing River in only two days! (To be continued......)

PS: It's a bit sloppy to the end, but I've written so many chapters in one night's battle, I'm really hurt to write, so it's better to end it early and move on to the next part, hehe