Chapter 4: The Night of Changping (3)
The Japanese really fought hard this time, completely ignoring the falling comrades around them, shouting and launching a tidal attack on the position of the Cadet Army. Bullets flew wildly in the air, and neither side of the battle could guarantee that they would not be hit by a stray bullet. In just a quarter of an hour, half of the casualties of the 3rd Company were lost, and the Japanese paid at least three times the price. Seeing that the Japanese advance was only thirty or forty meters away from the first trench held by the third company, Hou Hua gave Qiu the enemy an order to retreat, and then called the fourth and fifth battalions of the chariot regiment to provide artillery support.
The rumbling cannons rang out, and one devil after another fell. The distance is too close, and there are too many devils, there is no need to aim at all, and at least one devil can be killed with one shot.
In just five minutes of shelling, the Japanese fell three or four hundred people, but they also finally captured the first line of trenches.
After Qiu Kou led his team back to the second line of trenches, he immediately blasted the communication trenches, destroying the only underground link between the first line of trenches and the second line of defense. And the tanks of the 4th and 5th battalions also began to retreat, so as not to get too close to the enemy and create an opportunity for the Japanese to become entangled. In the absence of enough infantry to cover the enemy, it is necessary to keep a proper distance from the enemy, otherwise if it is bitten by the imps, the tank will become a fortress, waiting to be destroyed by the blast.
Yamashita Fengfu was considered a relatively courageous brigade commander in the Japanese army, but the crooked corpses of devils on the battlefield still made the corners of his eyes jump and make him doubt his previous arrangement.
Capturing a Cadet vehicle is not an impossible task, but at what cost is it worth it? Only then did they capture the first line of defense of the Shina people, and they had already lost about 800 men, of which at least 500 had closed their eyes forever. If you continue to fight like this, I am afraid that even if you can succeed, the 40th Brigade will be crippled. Yamashita was entangled in this question, and his face was quite ugly.
Compared with the current official of the 79th Wing, Moriki Ichiro, Yamashita's face is already good-looking, and the dead are all Moriki's people, which is equivalent to digging his flesh directly. Sen Mu's face at this time was so blue that it began to turn black - this battle was a loss, in the face of the superior firepower of the Cadet Army, a collective charge was equivalent to death. With a sneer in his heart, he walked to the bottom of the mountain and asked, "Your Excellency, do you want to continue the attack?" ”
"Attack, why don't you attack? We've taken the first line of defense against the Shina people! ”
"However, there are heavy casualties!"
"For the sake of His Majesty's cause, don't you have the consciousness to sacrifice at all? Moriki-kun, have you forgotten our military song? 'Rush to the mountains, and let the corpses fill the ravines; Go out to sea and let the floating corpses float all over the ocean...... 'There are not only the corpses of the enemy, but also the loyal corpses of our warriors of the Great Japanese Empire. How? Are you scared? Are you afraid of the lowly Shina people? ”
"No ......"
"Then keep attacking! This time, I will personally lead the team to suppress the formation! After Yamashita said this, he turned his gaze in the direction of Huangzhuang, where the remnants of the 80th Wing and the tank squadron were making a detour. Using the ferocious attack of the 79th Wing to attract the attention of the Chinese people, and then the 80th Wing and the chariot unit launched a surprise attack from the flank, this is exactly what Yamashita has come up with for a long time. Although at the moment, the attack of the 79th Wing seems to have nothing to do with ferocity, but judging from the artillery attack in the last stage just now, the attraction of the chariot unit of the Chinese people has indeed been attracted, and this is enough.
The sun is gradually setting in the west, and the afterglow of the setting sun shines on the earth, covering everything in a golden coat. On the North China Plain, June is a rare good time of the year. The weather is lukewarm, and if it weren't for the war, the scene in front of you would have made people feel refreshed, right?
Cheng Gang stood in the turret of the command vehicle, looked into the distance, and felt the beauty of the motherland's rivers and mountains for the first time. "What beautiful rivers and mountains? This is the most precious wealth left by our ancestors to our descendants, right? However, damn little Japan, it actually wants to fight its idea! ”
Cheng Gang took the six battalions to attack Huangzhuang, completely out of the idea of being prepared, and it turned out how necessary it was for him to do so. Soon, the reconnaissance armored vehicles in front came back with news that Japanese troops, large groups of Japanese troops, and tank units were found.
"Tuanza, what should I do?" The three chariots of the front platoon stopped, and the platoon commander Guang Tiancheng asked him for instructions.
"Wait for me to see!" Cheng Gang picked up the binoculars. In the binoculars, a group of devils were hurrying forward, and next to them, there were more than a dozen chariots, most of which were the familiar "Quirrell".
The telescope flashed past these devils and the war-wagons, and cast them on the surroundings of Huangzhuang—green fields, flat country roads, two or three small forests, and a river in the distance.
"This terrain is suitable for tank raids, but can 29 tanks and two armored vehicles really tear through the defense line of the little devils? If it is bitten by the Japanese army, then this loss is not something that my small regiment commander can bear. According to the fox pupil's report, the little devil is trying to figure out the specific parameters of the Jiguang tank. The military seat has already ordered that once the chariot unit is surrounded by the little devils, even if it self-destructs, the little devils can't get it - what the hell should I do? Once the Japanese army is allowed to advance a little more, we may be forced to retreat or fight a counter-encirclement and annihilation war! Cheng Gang thought like this, quite hesitant about whether to fight or retreat.
At this time, the Japanese army had also discovered this tank unit and immediately launched an attack. The first to go into battle was the infantry, and the dense infantry immediately dispersed, screaming and rushing at the three chariots at the front. The Japanese chariots followed steadily behind the infantry and were in no hurry to attack.
The slats were waiting, waiting for Chenggang to reveal their flaws, and through the previous encounters, they already knew that the shells of "Quirrell" could not tear through Jiguang's armor, so they would have to wait to see if they could get a chance to face their flanks or rear flanks.
Facing the fierce charge of nearly 3,000 devils, Cheng Gang finally ordered: "Retreat first!" ”
"Tuanza!" Immediately on the intercom, there were questions from several company platoon commanders.
"Execute the order, say the right place, I will organize a counterattack!"
Seeing that the chariots of the Cadet Army began to retreat, the morale of the little devils became even higher, and some devils began to release their guns, and those "Quirrell" also increased their speed. The slats felt that this was the time for them to attack, as the Jiguang tanks finally showed their "tails".
But is that really the case? Cheng Gang slowly gathered all the chariots of the six battalions together, while constantly observing the formation of the Japanese army, when he found that the little devils gradually formed a dense formation, he gave an order and organized the team to come to a counter-charge.
The speed of the Jiguang tank and the combat vehicle is much faster than that of the "Quirrell", and this counter-charge immediately frightened the group of devils who are currently chasing the happiest ones, and they invariably stepped on the brakes, while the devils behind did not notice all this, and still rushed violently, which caused the two parts of the devils to collide together, which suddenly caused the population density in the unit area there to skyrocket.
This was exactly the effect that Chenggang was pursuing, so all the tanks of the fifth battalion stopped and opened fire at the same time, which immediately caused great damage to the Japanese army.
In the next hour, this game continued three more times, although the effect was far less good than the first time, but it caused great psychological pressure on the little devil, so that Suzuki Osa did not dare to let his subordinates chase after him.
So, after completely scaring the 80th Wing, Cheng Gang adjusted the team and led the fifth battalion to gallop towards Lijiatunzi at full speed.
Yamashita never thought that the so-called clever plan he came up with would allow Chenggang to find a chance to defeat him.
Originally, if he had always joined forces, Cheng Gang would not have been able to take the initiative to attack. After all, the difference in the strength of the two sides is too great. And he separated the 79th Wing and the 80th Wing, but the 79th Wing had already suffered a large number of casualties in the previous battle, so Cheng Gang had an idea and captured this fighter. With the speed of the Jiguang tank, he was able to throw the 80th Wing far away, and his previous performance was to make the 80th Wing not fast. And after concentrating all the tanks of the tank regiment, plus the infantry battalion, it is absolutely powerful to have a head-to-head showdown with the 79th Wing, which is already short of major generals. You know, the remaining tanks of the Japanese army were also withdrawn.
Yamashita is not a fool. Cheng Gang led the sixth battalion to quickly appear in Lijiatunzi, and he immediately smelled danger from it. At this moment, the 79th Wing is engaged in a fierce positional offensive and defensive battle with the infantry battalion of the Cadet Army. The main force of the Japanese army charged at any cost, while sappers and baggage soldiers dug the damaged communication trenches. At this time, it is too late to withdraw the troops to organize defense. And in the face of Jiguang tanks, letting them defend on the spot is also tantamount to death. When all the chariot regiment's chariot regiments began to roar towards the front-line positions, Yamashita, after a period of dizziness, gave an order that he could not turn over.
He decided to use "mustard gas bombs"!
One after another, boxes with skull emblems painted on them were moved to the artillery positions, and the devil artillerymen carefully opened them and began to wipe the grease on the shells for preservation.
Yamashita stood next to a 120 mm field gun, watching the gunners wipe the shells, he gritted his teeth hard, and his eyes shone with cold light.
"General, do you really want to do this?" The commander of the artillery unit stood respectfully behind him and asked.
"Of course!"
"However, we may injure our own people by mistake."
"Don't worry about that, I'll have them wear gas masks. All you need to do is get me right! I hope that every shell will take care of one tank of the Chinese people. Yamashita swore an oath, but his heart began to think of Amaterasu, hoping that she would protect her people from poison gas bombs, because, although the Japanese army was equipped with gas masks, in this case, would he still have time to inform Moriki?
Even if the notice arrives, I'm afraid that Moriki won't have time to wear gas masks, right? The chariot of the Cadet Army was less than fifty meters away from the Japanese trenches, and at such a distance, the accelerator pedal could be reached.
The destruction of the 79th Wing will be inevitable, so Yamashita has already ordered Moriki to prepare for the jade to be shattered - if he can hold the explosives and the chariot of the Shina people and die together, it should be a more decent and happy way for the imperial army surrounded by mustard gas.