Chapter 1: The New Battle of Xifengkou (8)

(Today I had a drink with three junior high school classmates, hehe, I may have been too excited, I drank too much, maybe I will be a little incoherent, I can only ask you to bear more) The attack of the independent brigade was orderly, and the engineer battalion that took the lead broke into the first trench of the Japanese army with two companies and began to clear the remnants of the enemy, while the men and horses of the other company began to urgently erect bridges above the trench. The training of the engineer battalion was orderly, and for this kind of trench, it had its own unique method of building bridges, placing two logs in the center of the trench, and then laying bridge slabs on them. The chariot regiment was firmly nailed to the edge of the trench, using smoothbore guns and machine guns to firmly suppress the enemy in front of them.

The tank regiment of the Independent Brigade is equipped with a total of six American-made M2 medium tanks, and then forty Jiguang medium tanks. The M2 medium tank was armed with a 37 mm smoothbore gun, while the original model of the Jiguang was equipped with a 57 mm gun. With these 46 cannons, the tank regiment firmly suppressed the Japanese firepower from the beginning, which made the bridging work of the engineer battalion go very smoothly.

The independent brigade had such a strong tank force, which surprised Sakai, and after the counterattacking troops were completely suppressed, Sakai decisively ordered the artillery to carry out a heavy artillery bombardment of the enemy tanks in the front.

The commander of the chariot regiment was a Jew named Johnny. Johnny had served as a platoon commander in a tank unit in the German Army, and when the first shell exploded in front of him, he decisively ordered the support of his self-propelled guns. As a result, the self-propelled guns of one regiment stopped and began to counterattack the Japanese artillery.

Just as the artillery units of the two sides began to fire at each other, the convoy of the engineer battalion was the first to pass through the first trench and rushed towards the second line of defense of the Japanese army. Immediately following the engineer battalion, the tank regiment rushed over, again sandwiched the engineer battalion in the middle, and began to suppress the Japanese troops in the second trench and the Japanese troops who were about to counterattack behind.

Since then, the Japanese army has begun to attach importance to the armament of anti-tank weapons, such as the first mixed brigade, which is equipped with anti-tank weapons of one squadron. After the artillery units on his side were suppressed by the artillery of the Separate Brigade, Sakai moved the only anti-tank squadron to the third and most rear-back trench. However, to his great surprise, the chariot on the opposite side was not ordinarily hard. Not only are the 120 mm and 75 mm caliber cannons inlethal to them, but even the specialized anti-tank guns and anti-tank guns cannot even form effective damage. Among them, a combat vehicle marked "Jude-001", which was hit by three anti-tank guns in a row, turned out to be unharmed, and was still firing shells there in an orderly manner.

The armament of the Jewish Independent Brigade was entirely borne by the Jewish Chamber of Commerce, except for the limited allocation from the government. However, when the American-made equipment led by the M2 medium tank was smashed to the ground by the self-produced equipment of the Cadet Corps during an exercise, at the suggestion of Stern and other officers of the Jewish Independent Brigade, the Jewish Chamber of Commerce turned to purchasing the products of the Cadet Military Arsenal, which raised the combat strength of the Independent Brigade by more than one notch.

Seeing this, Sakai immediately realized that this counterattack of the Cadet Army was definitely not just about repelling his own troops, there must be some conspiracy behind it. So, he gave the order for the front-line troops to destroy the Shina tanks recklessly.

At this time, the composition of the Japanese army, in addition to active duty, the rest came from the recently retired reserve forces, although the age of the soldiers was generally higher, at the same time, the combat experience and the spirit of death were also high. Those low-level officers on the front line are all outright militarists. Seeing that the anti-tank weapons of the country could not effectively kill the tanks of the Chinese people, these people began to agitate and take the lead in carrying out meat bomb attacks.

Seeing one after another little devils with explosives bags and grenades strapped to their bodies rushing out of the trenches and bunkers between the mountains on both sides, at first, Johnny was shocked by the decisive momentum of the Japanese army, and for a while he forgot to issue effective combat orders. And his men also panicked, and the driver of one of the M2 medium tanks could not withstand the pressure of death and began to retreat.

At the critical moment, a tank machine gunner named Wang Xiping played a role. As he adjusted the orientation of the machine gun and fired fiercely at the front of the bullet, he screamed: "Brothers, shoot! Can't let the little devils get close! ”

Under his shot, there was a "boom", and the explosive bag on the devil's body was detonated. Then, in the midst of this huge explosion, more and more tank machine gunners were awakened and began to fire wildly.

The "boom" sound was incessant, and one after another meat bombs were blown to pieces by the explosives and grenades they carried. Still, the tank regiment paid the price of three tanks. The worst of them was an M2 that rushed to the front, which was directly detonated by an explosive bag carried by a devil's meat bullet, and in the rumbling explosions, the vehicle and crew were reduced to pieces.

Stern watched from behind, his teeth clattering and his face turned pale. After a few seconds of hesitation, he decisively issued an order and shouted: "Ma Kaishan, it's up to you!" ”

"Ho!" The cavalry troops, which were lined up in the middle of the large army, under the leadership of Ma Kaishan, let out a shout in unison and rushed forward with their horses.

The cost of a cavalry battalion is clearly much lower compared to a chariot regiment. Stern's idea was simple, to trade the sacrifice of the cavalry battalion for the survival of the chariot regiment. Ma Kaishan didn't know if Lu Dao understood this meaning, but one thing worth affirming was that in the face of those ammunition depots that could explode at any time, he and his men did not flinch, they bravely rushed forward, shot with guns and slashed with knives, and finally, with the loss of almost half of the people, the devil self-explosion team of about 300 people was completely killed and defeated. The way was quickly cleared for the chariot regiment and the engineer battalion.

More devils rushed out of the furrow at the back of the road, and behind this, a full half of devils, including a squadron of chariots, rushed out of their camp. Because he did not know the purpose of the battle of the Cadet Army, Sakai Hoji risked the destruction of the entire army and resolutely sent all his troops to participate in the battle. His idea is very simple, that is, the whole army will do everything to do this, and he will also talk about the offensive momentum of the Chinese army to be contained, so as to buy time for the arrangement of Kazuki Kiyoji.

As soon as the connoisseur stretched out his hand, he knew if there was any, and the original task of the Independent Brigade was only to cut through the Japanese army and directly attack the big shoji, but in Sakai's way, the Independent Brigade was very likely to fall into it. In the face of such a complex battle situation, how should Stern dismantle the moves?