Chapter 301: Defeat
"Da Da Da!" A heavy machine gun was firing frantically, and the bullets were raining down like a torrent of ammunition towards an M3 light tank of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info bullets hit the tank's armor and burst out sparks.
"Die! Damn the Chinese! A Thai soldier yelled heartbreakingly.
However, the M3 light tank's armor, although weak, is still not penetrating with heavy machine gun bullets. A heavy machine gun bullet capable of tearing apart the human body, in front of the armor of the tank, has no lethality at all, at most it tickles the tank.
In front of the M3 light tank, the heavy machine gun that was firing at him was like a small ant.
The turret of the tank turned and aimed at the heavy machine gun.
"Boom!" The 37-mm tank gun opened fire, and a high-explosive shell hit the heavy machine gun. In the explosion, the heavy machine gun was blown into parts. And the machine gunner, too, was torn to shreds at the same time.
Subsequently, the tank ran directly over the destroyed heavy machine gun, and the corpses of the Thai soldiers on the ground were also directly crushed into meat sauce, leaving two long blood marks on the ground.
The armored units of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, along the river bank, attacked the positions of the Japanese-Thai coalition forces. The Thai officers and soldiers on the position were simply unable to resist. The vast majority of people are holding their heads and running around, and occasionally heroic soldiers are holding weapons to fight back, but they are still crushed and smashed like mantis arms as cars.
"O Buddha! There is simply no way to fight this battle. Why didn't they come yet, did they want us all to be killed by the Chinese? A Thai general yelled.
Now, they were slaughtered by the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, and the Japanese army, which was supposed to be the main force of the defense line, was nowhere to be seen, which naturally made these Thai officers and soldiers think that they had been deceived by the Japanese themselves.
Many Thai officers and soldiers no longer had the courage to fight, and they began to retreat, wanting to flee the battlefield.
Hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army are simply not something they can resist!
"Commander, the armored forces have already attacked the positions of the Japanese-Thai forces on the opposite side." Yu Chengyin, chief of staff of the 1st Army, had a happy face. At the time of crossing the river, the armored forces paid a certain amount of losses. However, such losses are not significant. For the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, it was completely acceptable. Now, after waiting for the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army to tear through the defense line of the Japanese-Thai army, they can be defeated in one fell swoop. It can be said that there is no suspense in this battle until now.
Sun Changwu nodded: "Order the infantry to dispatch!" Seize this opportunity and crush the Japanese-Thai forces in one fell swoop. ”
Sun Changwu knew that it was almost impossible to completely wipe out more than 200,000 Japanese-Thai coalition troops in this battle. The Japanese-Thai coalition forces could not defeat the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, and they would inevitably retreat. Therefore, they can only defeat the Japanese-Thai forces first, and then let the armored brigade block the way for the Japanese-Thai troops to retreat. In this way, the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army will be able to take advantage of the situation to annihilate all these Japanese-Thai coalition forces in one fell swoop.
"Yes, Captain." A staff officer nodded.
After the order was issued, the six infantry divisions of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army, a total of 18 infantry regiments, except for four as reserves, the remaining 14 infantry regiments were all put into the battlefield.
Although, in terms of troops, the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army is far from being able to compare with the Japanese-Thai coalition army. However, with armored troops opening the way in front, how could the Japanese-Thai coalition army, which had already been beaten and lost its fighting spirit, be the opponent of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army?
Fourteen infantry regiments, more than 60,000 men, crossed the Donong River along the passage opened by the armored forces and entered the Japanese-Thai defense line. The Dangweng River, which is thirty or forty meters wide, only takes a minute or two for these infantry to cross the river. They crossed the river even faster than the armored forces.
After crossing the river, these more than 60,000 people immediately launched the deadliest blow to the Japanese-Thai coalition forces on the other side of the river under the cover of armored troops. The results of the battle, which had been achieved by the armored forces, began to expand further.
It was at this time that the 15th and 22nd divisions of the Japanese army rushed to the battlefield. It's just that in front of them is a position that has been completely broken through. The Japanese-Thai forces suffered heavy losses and almost lost their fighting spirit. And the torrent of steel composed of hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles of the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army is rampage on the battlefield and cannot be stopped at all.
"Yaga! How so? We rushed to the battlefield from behind, but in just ten minutes, how could the defense line be broken through? Are those Thais all pigs? "A wing commander of the Japanese army scolded loudly.
If they have a line of defense to rely on, they may be able to compete with the Anti-Japanese National Salvation Army. But now, they can only rely on their flesh and blood to resist the armored forces of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army. What the consequences of this will be, you can naturally imagine. Although they thought that the combat effectiveness of the Japanese soldiers was very strong, no matter how strong they were, they would never be able to resist the steel!
"Anti-tank artillery ready, destroy the tanks of the Chinese people!" A Japanese wing commander ordered.
It's just that most of the Japanese anti-tank guns were also destroyed in the fierce shelling of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army before, leaving only a few anti-tank guns.
The Japanese soldiers, who were in a hurry, began to manipulate these cannons in order to intercept the armored units of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army. However, as soon as their anti-tank guns were erected, they were attacked.
These attacks come from heaven.
The Air Force of the Anti-Japanese Salvation Army dispatched dozens of fighters, all of which were flying bombs or rockets, to assist the army in breaking through the defense line of the Japanese-Thai forces.
It's just that they didn't expect that the defense line of the Japanese-Thai alliance was so vulnerable that it was easily broken through by the armored forces. So much so that when they rushed to the battlefield, it didn't come in handy at all.
Now that the Japanese have arrived, they can finally play a little bit of an important role.
A P-51B fighter flew across the battlefield, and two 500-pound aerial bombs fell from the sky and fell into the Japanese army.
The bomb exploded, a 37-mm anti-tank gun was blown up on the spot, and at the same time a dozen Japanese soldiers were torn to shreds.
"Yaga!"
Seeing this scene, many Japanese officers cursed.
Those fighters in the sky did not spare their hands because of this, but continued to attack. One bomb after another or rockets smashed into the Japanese army, and the Japanese soldiers who blew up turned on their backs.
Subsequently, these fighters even used aviation machine guns to strafe the Japanese troops on the ground, causing even more casualties to the Japanese troops.
Under such circumstances, even the Japanese army, which had a strong will to fight, could not resist it and retreated one after another.