Chapter 1134: Bloodstained Meng Mi (I)

Just when the Battle of Degang was at a stalemate, and more than 1,000 soldiers of one and a half battalions of the First Brigade were designed to be surrounded by Major General Nakazawa, the new commander of the leading army of the Japanese army, in a ravine west of Degang, so that the directly subordinate corps had to stop the attack, Lieutenant General Tang Qiusheng, deputy commander of the independent division and commander of the Sulu Mobile Corps, who was more than 100 kilometers away from Degang, began a general attack on the headquarters of Nomura, the vanguard of the Japanese army.

The commander of the Japanese army, Toshihiko Nomura, paid a heavy price for his carelessness and arrogance, and the three heavy artillery regiments and three rocket artillery battalions of the Sulu Mobile Corps Brigade of the Independent Division joined the artillery fire on the Japanese troops at the same time, and the overwhelming shells fell densely in the ranks of the Japanese army's marching troops.

The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the flames were flashing, shrapnel was flying, and the sound of huge explosions echoed in the Banmao Valley, and on the more than 10-kilometer-long route from the Japanese army's avant-garde unit to the brigade behind, there was a sea of smoke and dust, a sea of fire, and there were splashes of sand and mud everywhere, especially in the area covered by rocket shells.

In front of it were mines and explosives that overturned the ground, and in the back was the intensive firepower of the First Brigade, and with two blows, the Japanese army was squeezed together.

Hiding behind a large rock, Nomura saw with his own eyes that ten minutes ago, a staff officer who had reported the situation to him was directly hit by a large-caliber grenade, and the fire flashed, and a living person was gone, and on the ground, there was only a huge crater, still billowing smoke.

This was the closest distance to him, and in the distance, smoke and fire, rubble and dirt, obscured his vision, and there were constantly officers covered in mud and whose faces were smoked like the king of the stove, and even crawled over to report the situation, and the content was the same, the Chinese troops, blocking the way to advance and retreat, and the artillery fire covered the entire area.

Nomura gritted his teeth, he understood that if he couldn't stand out today, let alone save Nagumo's troops, even himself, he would have to lie in the mountains of northern Myanmar, and he would not be able to get through, and he would still be in the area where the firepower of the Chinese troops was focused on blockade, so only by launching an attack on the two wings and tearing a hole could he win a glimmer of life.

Nomura kept falling dirt and sand on the top of his head, and carefully observed the situation on both sides of Mount Banmao with a telescope, not to mention, the artillery fire of the Shina troops was very fierce, but close to the two flanks of the shelling area, there was no abnormal situation, Nomura suddenly had a strange thought, "Could it be that the Shina troops who ambushed the imperial army here are not strong enough to kill and injure a large number of our imperial soldiers with artillery fire, instead of a typical tactic, after the shelling, attack our imperial army troops with infantry." ”

I don't know why, this thought, like a demon, churned in Nomura's mind and lingered, otherwise, it has been more than twenty minutes since the shelling of the Shina troops, why haven't the infantry charged? As fast as he could, he ordered the troops, who were still under artillery fire and could not raise their heads, to immediately launch an attack on the hills on both flanks, in order to get rid of the threat of artillery fire from the Chinese troops and seize the high ground.

In the midst of the intensive artillery fire, the Japanese soldiers carried out their orders, and more importantly, in order to get rid of the shells whistling overhead, they also found that the shelling was only concentrated in the narrow area of more than ten kilometers, on the hills on both sides, and not a single shell fell.

Nomura saw that the soldiers had climbed halfway up the mountain, and became more and more convinced of his judgment, this guy didn't know if he didn't have enough brains, or he was deceiving himself, in the world, the troops of that country were ambushed, and only used artillery, not infantry to sing the leading role, but Nomura preferred to believe that the strength of the Shina troops was not much, and it was impossible to launch an infantry assault, which was also what the cunning Shina people often did, perhaps, in the depths of Nomura's heart, this was the only place where hope could be seen in despair.

"Report to the commander, the Japanese army began to attack the positions on both flanks of Banmao," Chief of Staff Zhao Yuhe reported to Tang Qiusheng, but Tang Qiusheng asked another question, "Yuhe, thirty minutes of artillery fire, according to your estimate, can cause most casualties to the Japanese army?" ”

Zhao Yuhe replied with the rigor of the chief of staff: "According to the reports of the front-line troops, the killing and wounding of the Japanese army by artillery fire is more than one-third," Tang Qiusheng calculated and said: "That is to say, the number of Japanese soldiers who can launch an attack will not exceed 26,000 people, okay, order the artillery to stop the shelling, and the forward troops should immediately prepare for a counter-assault, this time, more than half of the Japanese troops will be left." ”

Nomura's heart was about to jump to his throat, the nightmarish artillery fire of the Chinese troops had finally stopped, and his infantry had climbed to a position close to the peak, and had not heard the gunshots, so was there a possibility of a successful breakthrough?

Nomura pinned all his hopes on the soldiers, and in his hands, there was no decent assault weapon, and the tank brigade became the focus of the Chinese artillery, with nearly 100 infantry reconnaissance and assault vehicles, dozens of tanks, and piles of scrap metal emitting black smoke and dark red flames on the mountain road.

Nomura can also be regarded as having seen what kind of assault vehicle the bureaucrats in the imperial engineering department are equipped with for the front-line troops, a large-caliber grenade can blow up a few of this little bean dice-like guy, if he can get away with it this time, he will return this thing to the logistics department.

The soldiers of the Sulu Mobile Corps, in their respective positions, looked coldly at the Japanese soldiers who were trying to dig up the mountain, and the commanders of each corps of the independent division had different command styles, such as Liu Tiehan, who was brave and good at fighting, loved to compete with opponents, and liked the pleasure of hungry tigers pounced on food.

And Tang Qiusheng's command style is very similar to that of his cousin Tang Qiuli, he loves to use stratagems, loves to fight ambushes, and has always advocated winning by outwitting, like a falcon hovering above the nine heavens, seeing the opportunity, and pounced on it, therefore, the Sulu Mobile Corps, for ambush warfare, still has experience and experience, and stayed in Banmao for four or five days to prepare for this ambush war.

The ambush position layout of the Sulu Mobile Corps is also very distinctive, the firepower between the various firepower points can be cross-fired, there are no dead angles at all, in some places where the firepower is out of reach, artificially built into almost vertical cliffs, attacking one side, can not climb up at all, moreover, the independent division has a lot of heavy weapons and equipment, and is not afraid of the Japanese artillery, posing a threat to the blocking troops.

Mortars, light and heavy machine guns, and submachine guns form a three-layer fire net with different firing distances, coupled with the precise sniping of snipers, within a distance of 500 meters from the fortifications to the front line, the layers of fire nets are blocked, which is a real bullet composed of a death line, so tight that not even a mouse can get in.

The Japanese army climbed to about 500 meters away from the position, and the mortar position behind them, the gunners had already picked up the shells, but there was still no order to open the artillery, 400 meters, Tang Qiusheng put down the binoculars in his hand and said to the chief of staff, Zhao Yuhe: "Yuhe, you can start!" ”

The sound of artillery has fallen silent in the Banmao Mountains, on the high ground on both sides, suddenly there was a sharp whistling sound, the mortar shells like black eagles, after rising to the highest point, turned around and plunged down towards the Japanese assault formation, halfway up the mountainside, there were clouds of smoke, and the Japanese soldiers who were shelled accelerated their pace, frantically and instinctively rushed up the hillside.

The sound of 10,000 points of Venus appearing in front of him, a sudden rainstorm falling on the earth sounded, countless bullets, a metal storm blew on the ground, and hit the body of the Japanese soldier head-on, blood splashed, screaming again and again, and the huge kinetic energy of light and heavy machine gun bullets flew out upside down with the Japanese soldiers covered in blood.

The rest of the Japanese soldiers, who had forgotten their fears, looked at the soldiers of the independent division less than a hundred meters away with red eyes, howled and rushed up, and a group of black grenades flew from the sky, emitting white smoke that "snorted", and fell beside the Japanese soldiers.

After more than 40 minutes, there was no longer a single Japanese soldier standing, and the corpses and wounded Japanese soldiers covered the slopes of Banmao, Tang Qiusheng's order was completely and thoroughly carried out by the troops, and more than 10,000 Japanese soldiers were thrown into the mountains.

In just over 40 minutes, under the excellent tactics and intensive firepower of the Sulu Mobile Corps, under the coordinated blows, Nomura lost more than two-thirds of his troops, and the battle was launched until now, only more than two hours, first fierce artillery bombardment, and then a sudden melee fire strike, the Japanese army has been disabled, and the broken limbs of the Japanese soldiers are spread out on a front of more than ten kilometers.

"Order, the tank troops will start a surprise attack and destroy the remnants of the enemy," Tang Qiusheng gave the last order, hundreds of tanks roared, the muzzles of the guns spewed tongues of fire, and they attacked from the north and south, and the end of the Japanese army had arrived.

After dark, the Japanese troops no longer existed, and when the soldiers were cleaning the battlefield, behind a large rock, they found Lieutenant General Toshihiko Nomura, whose head had been cut off by the shell, and beside him, Chief of Staff Osa, who had been unable to see the appearance, and several senior officers.

Banmao north of Degang fought very easily, and on the Wubin line south of Degang, Changfeng's blocking troops and Yu Guanghan's flanking troops fought very hard, especially Changfeng's frontal blocking troops, and the casualties paid were more than most people expected.

(To be continued)

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