Chapter 588: Encirclement and Reinforcement [8]

The Japanese fought to the death and finally achieved results, in the continuous explosion of explosives and medicine packs, two light tanks were blown up and their tracks stopped, and two heavy armored vehicles were also damaged and could not move. However, the crews of the four tanks were fine, and the tanks also stopped in place and continued to attack the Japanese troops with vehicle-mounted artillery and heavy machine guns.

Because of the frantic counterattack of the Japanese army, the armored battalion slowed down, and the infantry behind took the opportunity to catch up. With the cover of the infantry, the tanks of the armored battalion continued to attack forward, and the Japanese troops who were blocking also aimed more fire at the infantry next to the tank. The Japanese army still had an advantage in numbers, and the two battalions of the 881st Regiment together were only more than 1,000 people, and after judging the direction of the Chinese army's main attack, the Japanese army even transferred more troops to the direction of the 881st Regiment's main attack.

Chu Zhengyang looked at the increasing number of Japanese troops in front of him, and the assault of the chariot and the second and third battalions became more and more difficult, and decisively called through the first battalion commander Tang Xi with a walkie-talkie. After inquiring about Tang Xi's situation, he was ordered to intensify his attack and attack the core position of the Japanese army as soon as possible. After Tang Xi's battalion left a company, there were only more than 400 people, and the protection ability of light armored vehicles was slightly poor, so the speed of the attack was not fast, and the Japanese army also mobilized several heavy machine guns and built machine gun fire points to block the attack of the first battalion.

Now the regiment commander wants to increase the intensity of the attack himself, presumably because the regiment commander's side is not going well. Tang Xi was also anxious, and ordered several heavy machine guns from the heavy fire company to be transferred up to suppress the Japanese machine gun fire points, and then let the light armored vehicles also accelerate forward, and the infantry followed the armored vehicles to rush forward. Tokio Hashimoto, who was in charge of commanding the peripheral battles of the Japanese army, saw that the northeast was also beginning to be tight, so he had no choice but to transfer troops from the direction where there was no Chinese army to attack to block the attack of the first battalion.

In the other two directions, the southwest direction where the 880th Regiment was located was the direction of Hanoi, and Wei Lixuan did not dare to attack blindly, for fear that the Japanese army would suddenly desperately break through in his own direction. Moreover, Hanoi sent reinforcements, and Wei Lixuan was not sure whether the guard battalion could block the Japanese army with the strength of one battalion, and in case the guard battalion was in danger, he would have to divide his troops to support.

In the end, only the reconnaissance battalion in the north-western direction had a greater degree of freedom. Ma Jiangsheng's reconnaissance battalion was originally an elite unit of the 463rd Brigade, and although it was not good at defending or charging, the skills of group assault, raiding, and infiltrating were passed down from generation to generation by the reconnaissance brigade, and they played in a good way. The assault detachment, which happened to be composed of 12 reconnaissance groups of the reconnaissance brigade, also joined the reconnaissance battalion, and the strength of the reconnaissance battalion rose again.

This assault detachment of the reconnaissance brigade consisted of 96 people, and the leader of the detachment was Tian Daiki, commander of the second company of the third battalion of the second regiment of the reconnaissance brigade. Tian Daxi has the rank of captain, and Ma Jiangsheng has the rank of major; according to the regulations, Tian Daxi must obey Ma Jiangsheng's command, but Ma Jiangsheng does not dare to say that he must command the assault detachment, after all, the assault detachment must be subordinate to the reconnaissance brigade.

Ma Jiangsheng carefully observed the Japanese position with a telescope, turned his head to Tian Daxi beside him and said: "Captain Tian, have you noticed that many Japanese soldiers on the opposite side have been transferred, probably to reinforce the defenders in the direction of the attack, this is a good opportunity!" Tian Daxi was also observing the Japanese position with a telescope, and then he also put down the telescope and replied: "Battalion Commander Ma is right, this is a good opportunity! Then let's join forces to kill him?"

Ma Jiangsheng replied, "Okay, I'm also thinking about him." Captain Tian, what do you think you should do?" Tian Daxi replied: "Battalion Commander Ma, you see that the number of Japanese troops on the position is now about 500 people, there is no artillery, only four heavy machine guns and six light machine guns are distributed on the position. We used snipers against these machine-gun fire points, and the rest of the fighters were divided into several assault groups, scattered forward assaults, and tried to take the Japanese positions in one assault. What do you think?"

Ma Jiangsheng thought for a moment and said: "Captain Tian, our battalion also carries ten 82-caliber mortars and some 60-caliber light mortars, which can be used to suppress the Japanese troops on the position during the assault. Tian Daxi heard this and said excitedly: "That's great, so that our assault will be more certain." After discussion, Ma Jiangsheng first selected twenty snipers, which were used to deal with the Japanese machine gunners.

Then the fighters were asked to form assault groups. Ma Jiangsheng still left a company on the position, one is to protect and use mortars, and the other is to serve as a reserve to deal with emergencies. The assault detachments of the reconnaissance brigade were still divided into 12 assault groups of seven people, while the two companies of the reconnaissance battalion were divided into 18 assault groups in squads.

The reconnaissance brigade was better equipped, with one light machine gun, three assault and front guns, one sniper rifle, two semi-automatic rifles, and one pistol for each group, either a May Fourth or a barge gun. The reconnaissance battalion was equipped with one light machine gun, four rush and front guns, and seven semi-automatic rifles for each squad, and only the squad leader and deputy squad leader were equipped with shell guns.

In addition, each platoon of the reconnaissance battalion was equipped with one Type 67 heavy machine gun, and each company had four Type 67 mortars and four Type 67 heavy machine guns for fire support. Now that it was time to carry out a surprise attack, Ma Jiangsheng concentrated all the heavy weapons and handed them over to a company left behind for use. Ten minutes later, both armies were ready, and Ma Jiangsheng gave the order to start the attack.

As soon as the order was exited, a continuous burst of gunfire was heard from different places in the position, and it was twenty snipers fighting machine gunners on the Japanese position. At the same time as the gunfire rang out, 10 82-caliber mortar guns and 12 60-caliber mortars were fired at the same time, and the cannons and shells fell on the Japanese positions in a roar. Just when the Japanese position was suddenly attacked and fell into chaos, Ma Jiangsheng waved his hand and shouted: "Follow me!" and took the lead in rushing out of the position.

Subsequently, thirty assault groups rushed straight at the Japanese positions from all directions like sharp arrows that had been detached. The mortars of the reconnaissance battalion were quite accurate, and the assault team did not fear accidental injury at all. In the confusion, the assault group was not discovered by the Japanese until it was less than a hundred meters away from the Japanese position. Amid the exhausting shouts of the officers, some Japanese soldiers began to lie on the edge of the trench and shoot at the assault group.

However, the Japanese soldiers who fired were immediately hit by snipers and heavy machine guns. At the same time, the marksmanship of the assault group was also extremely accurate, and the Japanese troops on the position soon became unable to support it. After the Japanese officers fell, the Japanese soldiers, who had no one to command, either scattered and fled, or were killed. With minimal losses, the assault group captured the outermost positions of the Japanese army in a single assault.

After breaking through the position, Ma Jiangsheng ordered the troops remaining in the original position to press forward to the Japanese position, while he led his assault team to continue to advance to the depth of the Japanese position. Tian Daxi's assault detachment, like the reconnaissance battalion, continued to assault forward in the form of an assault group. The attack of the reconnaissance battalion and the assault detachment completely confused the Japanese troops on the left and right.

No matter how capable Hashimoto was, he could no longer block the attack of the Chinese army on three sides, so he could only further shrink the defense. After a two-hour attack, the Japanese army could only hold a palm-sized area with a small village as the core, and the number of Japanese troops was reduced to just over 2,000. Lieutenant General Maruyama Masao sent urgent telegrams one after another to Commander Imamura, which made Commander Imamura also sweat in a hurry.

Commander Imamura Jun understood that if the Second Division was completely annihilated by the Chinese army, even if he could finally hold Hanoi, he was afraid that he would be recruited back to China and sent to the reserve to sit on the cold bench. Therefore, Commander Jun Imamura sent a series of direct telegrams to Toda Yoshinao Osa, who went to the rescue, and ordered Toda Yoshinao Osaku to speed up and rescue the 2nd Division.

Toda Yoshinao's 228th Wing had already rushed to the 2nd Division with all its might. Although there were many cars, not every soldier could sit on them, and Toda Yoshinao Osa knew that the Chinese army he was about to face was strong, and he did not dare to divide his forces, so it took two hours to reach the position set up by the guard battalion.

When he heard the report of the troops who had previously explored the road and discovered the blocking position of the Shina army, Toda Naoyoshi's face changed rapidly. The faint sound of gunfire in the distance made him even more anxious. Without even setting up a formation, Toda Yoshinao Osa ordered four chariots to cover two squadrons of infantry to charge the Chinese army's blocking position.

The guard battalion was rushing to repair the fortifications from the arrival point until the arrival of Japanese reinforcements. By the time the Japanese arrived, the trenches and sandbag bunkers had been repaired, and the soldiers had moved into position. Seeing that the Japanese army couldn't wait to cover the infantry with a chariot before the position, Lu Han couldn't help but sneer and said to the company commander next to him: "It seems that little Japan is in a hurry, and it can't even take care of artillery preparations." It's okay, let's let little Japan taste the power of our guard battalion!"

The commander of the first company also said: "Little Japan thinks that a few tanks are great? These tanks are a little worse than our tanks, battalion commander, I will go and ask the bazooka men to prepare, destroy these tanks, and see how little Japan attacks." After Luhan nodded, the commander of the company turned to inform the bazooka men to prepare to deal with the four chariots that rushed up.

Two of the vehicles charged by the Japanese were Type 97 light armored vehicles (Bean Chariots), and the other two were the latest Type 97 medium tanks (Qiha tanks). Needless to say, light armored vehicles, with light and thin frontal armor, it is difficult to block even the bullets of Type 6 or 7 heavy machine guns. Even the new Type 97 medium tank is vulnerable in the face of the 40 bazooka.

After the commander of the first company gave the order, four groups of arrows aimed at the target at the same time. The four tanks, however, were unaware of it, and still swaggered forward, firing at the positions of the guard battalion with their vehicle-mounted guns and heavy machine guns as they charged. When the four tanks rushed to a distance of only about one hundred and fifty meters from the position of the guard battalion, four groups of rocket launchers opened fire at the same time.

Four * flew over a distance of 150 meters in an instant, accurately hitting the target. I only heard four explosions in a row, and the two light armored vehicles in front of them suddenly exploded, the iron pieces scattered in all directions, and even the turret was blown away. The latter two medium tanks, although not as exaggerated as the light armored vehicles, also emitted billowing black smoke and were obviously destroyed.