Chapter 3: The Decisive Battle of Changping (14)
Kiyoji Kazuki has reason to complain and whine. The destruction of the heavy artillery brigade had a huge impact on the decisive battle of Changping. On the surface, although the Japanese army attacked and the student army defended, but at this point in the battle, the two sides were entangled together, and it was no longer possible to say who was the real attacker and who was the real defender.
After determining the general policy of a decisive battle with the Japanese army, Ouyang Yun focused on his own side's active attack when the military arrangements and orders were issued. After Li Jiatunzi unexpectedly ate the 18th Brigade and rejected the main force of the Japanese First Army from Wangjiawei, there has been a wonderful switch between the offensive and defensive sides in the battle around Changping City. Although the Japanese army outside Changping still has three brigades, because of the lack of heavy weapons, especially the chariot troops, for Ouyang Yun, who has two high-quality infantry combat forces such as the mechanized infantry brigade and the heavy artillery brigade, he is a guy who is half-about military command, and now he will naturally think of eating this "small force" of the Japanese army before the main force of the first army advances.
Just last night, Ouyang Yun had already made arrangements for this operational plan, and after resting for half a day, the brigade of the Third Division embarked on the journey again and began a rapid march. And their destination this time was Gaotang Mountain, which is located in the northwest between Wangjiawei and Changping. Gaotangshan is more than 50 kilometers away from Changping and He, and there will be another way for the Japanese army to retreat along the Great Wall, except for Wangjiawei. As early as when the air forces of the two sides began to fight in the skies over the Wangjiawei area, a series of operational orders were issued to encircle and suppress the 108th Division and the 9th Division. As soon as the air battle ended, the heavy artillery brigade launched an artillery attack on the positions of the 108th Division and the 9th Division. The 108th Division and the 9th Division did not attach importance to the construction of positions because they had been fighting tough battles before. Of the three brigades, only the 6th Brigade dug some rudimentary anti-artillery holes, and that was because they had just suffered a big loss in Wangjiawei. Fully aware of the strength of the Cadet Army, Akiyama Yoshiyoshi subconsciously issued an order. His Excellency Yoshiyoshi Akiyama proved to be wise in this order, which can be drawn from the analysis of the casualty data of the three brigades after the shelling. The other two brigades had casualties of around 20 percent, while the 6th brigade had only 10 percent.
After the shelling, it was naturally the chariot units that took the lead in the offensive. When the various tanks of the Jiguang type drove towards the bombed positions of the Japanese army against the backdrop of the rumbling sound of motors, the first reaction of the little devils felt a little familiar. And the one who accurately said what he felt in his heart was a captain: Oh my God, what's going on? First the plane bombing, then the artillery bombardment, and then the chariot charge, this is clearly the common tactic of our imperial army!
Ouyang Yun was standing on the tower of Changping City that had been blown to pieces. He was originally going to Wangjiawei, but because he still wanted to eat the 9th Division and the 108th Division in one bite, he chose to stay. Behind the tank unit, there was a battalion of infantry, also subordinate to the infantry brigade. Ouyang Yun put down the binoculars and said to He Zhengchuan: "Let the infantry follow closely, the Japanese army lacks anti-tank weapons, they prefer to use human bombs to deal with tanks, every one of our tanks is a treasure, we can't let them get close to the tank!" ”
"Yes!" After He Zheng responded, he immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and called the battalion commander in front of him, asking him to increase the speed of the team's march and follow closely behind the chariot.
The infantry brigade was the first unit in the cadet army to conduct coordinated combat training, so there was a tacit understanding between the chariot regiment and the infantry regiment. Just after Ouyang Yun picked up the telescope again, the tank's marching speed slowed down, and the infantry battalion rushed up, and began to run to follow up with the tank body as a cover.
At one point, the Japanese army was forced to be only three kilometers away from Changping City, and at the front line closest to Changping City, the Japanese trenches were still well dug. However, they did not dig anti-tank trenches, because they did not think that they would be attacked at all. Of course, this may also seem to be the reason why they have long been equipped with anti-tank bombs. The madness of the Japanese army had already been seen by the soldiers of the chariot regiment, so the closer they got to the trenches, the more focused their attention became. In particular, the machine gunners tensed up one by one, just waiting for the human bombs to show up, and they had to pull the trigger fiercely.
When the five tanks at the front were still about fifty meters away from the first line of defense of the Japanese army, the human bombs still appeared.
"Shoot!" "Fire!" "Hit!" In the series of shouts, not only the vehicle-mounted machine guns on the tanks, but also the Weiqing-style assault infantry, submachine guns, and light machine guns of the infantry battalion spat out angry flames almost at the same time. Dense gunfire was followed by violent explosions.
The first line of defense of the Japanese army was a brigade of the 25th Brigade Regiment attached to the 108th Division. In order to deal with the steel monsters of the Cadet Army (because the tanks of the Cadet Army are far stronger than the Japanese tanks, therefore, the little devils like to call them steel monsters), the captain Suzuki has prepared more than 300 "Jade Crushers". Many of them rushed out of the trenches and did not forget to shout a slogan: "For His Majesty the Emperor-" and "For the Empire-" and most of them were knocked down by bullets before they could finish shouting, and they were almost directly detonated by cluster grenades or explosives bags tied to their bodies, and were violently exploded into pieces.
The cadets came prepared, and this time, the human bomb failed to achieve the same performance as in Xifengkou. As the last few human bombs were knocked down or shredded, Suzuki couldn't help but sweat on his forehead. The chariot was less than thirty meters from the trench, and the infantry of the Shina who followed behind had already set up their light and heavy machine guns, so what happened to them next can be imagined. Three hundred meters behind the first trench was the second trench that had just been dug. The brigade responsible for defending the second line of trenches was equipped with a large number of mortars, but the threat of tank guns with a caliber of more than fifty millimeters did not dare to fire at all. Because, what a crazy revenge it will be. Previously, the mortar squad of their brigade had fired a few grenades, but as a result, they only fired a few rounds, and the position was blown up by more than a few dozen shells that followed. "I still need a squad!" These steel monsters definitely have to find a way to clean up, and Suzuki has begun to recruit the "Jade Crusher" in formation.
Without the enthusiasm they had before, the little devils all looked at their captain with dull eyes.
"Suzuki Shaosa! Let's fight with them! ”
"Counter charge!"
"White Blade Battle!"
Many low-level officers of the little devils said incoherently. Now, a happy death is their only pursuit.
I don't know if Lu Dao succumbed to the pressure of public opinion, Suzuki pulled out his command knife and shouted in a hissed voice: "Attack!" "Then, the first one picked up the trenches.
What awaited him was the black muzzle of the cold, shining, on-board machine gun.