readx;? In order to take Qinxi Town as soon as possible, the Japanese army organized a wing of infantry at once, and charged Qinxi Town wave after wave, and the mountain artillery wing covering the charge kept shelling Qinxi Town. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoApex.s222.Li Jieli has thrown all the troops available to the front line, and even the brigade guard battalion has rushed to the front line.

The new equipment of the guard battalion played the role of the mainstay at this time, and they used fierce firepower to suppress the Japanese infantry outside Qinxi Town. The barrels of dozens of light and heavy machine guns were red, plus the grenades in the hands of the soldiers, which stopped the Japanese attack, and from morning until noon, the Japanese finally withdrew, at this time the corpses of Japanese soldiers were covered outside Qinxi Town.

Seeing that the Japanese army finally withdrew, the defenders on the position also softened, and fought with high intensity all morning, these soldiers reached the limit of both mental and physical strength. Comparatively speaking, the veterans of the 2nd Battalion of the 568th Regiment were much stronger, and they only felt a little tired in the same battle.

At noon, the baggage company was sent for lunch, but the soldiers of the 572nd Regiment had no appetite, as if the outside of Qinxi Town was full of Japanese corpses, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood. Only these veterans of the 568th Regiment were eating and drinking as if nothing had happened, and everything in front of them did not affect them in the slightest.

At two o'clock in the afternoon, Japanese planes again came to the position in Qinxi Town, and this time the Japanese dropped not only small bombs of 50 pounds each, but also heavy bombs of 500 pounds each. The power of this heavy bomb is indeed not comparable to other bombs, a bomb is earth-shattering, all the buildings within a hundred meters of the explosion point collapsed, and the shock wave is enough to kill everyone in this range.

Fortunately, there are not many such heavy bombs, there are only more than ten in total, and only six of them are really thrown into Qinxi Town, one of which happened to be thrown on an anti-artillery hole, and this anti-artillery hole was blown up at that time, and more than 30 soldiers were buried in it at once.

As a result of this bombing, more than 100 soldiers were sacrificed in the 572nd Regiment, and more than 10 veterans of the 568th Regiment were also sacrificed. After that, the Japanese army still attacked Qinxi Town wave after wave with the strength of a wing. All the soldiers of the 572nd Regiment held on to the front-line positions regardless of the casualties, strafing with machine guns from afar, and using grenades and even hand-to-hand combat with those who rushed close, thus blocking the Japanese attacks again and again.

After the battle lasted until half past four in the afternoon, Li Jieli almost stared at the hands on his pocket watch and moved towards five o'clock little by little. In the county seat of Jingxian County, the two heavy artillery battalions commanded by Tangshan Hu were all in place, and the 130 cannon battalion was loaded with anti-detonation grenades. When the watch hand pointed to five o'clock, Li Yuanhong gave an order, and dozens of heavy guns of the heavy artillery regiment opened fire at the same time, and the first shells rushed to the Japanese artillery position.

The 130 Cannon Battalion shelled the Japanese heavy artillery positions, and the German-made 150 howitzer battalion targeted the artillery positions of the two mountain artillery wings of the Japanese army. The Japanese obviously did not expect the defenders to counterattack at this time, and the heavy artillery regiment took only ten minutes to destroy all the Japanese artillery positions, and then the shells fell on the heads of the infantry.

The sudden shelling caused the unprepared Japanese troops to be confused. At this time, Ito Masakaki and Washizu Matsudaira sensed that something was wrong, and the two old devils glanced at each other, and at the same time understood that they had been tricked. However, in the hearts of the two, they must still have more than 20,000 troops in their hands, and they can capture the county seat of Jingxian County even if they use a pile of people.

But the long-range heavy artillery of the Chinese people is indeed a threat, and now the only way to withdraw is to wait for tomorrow to transfer planes to destroy these heavy artillery of the Chinese army. Thinking of this, Ito Masaki gave the order for the entire army to retreat, and asked the 64th Brigade of the 21st Wing to break the rear. More than 20,000 Japanese troops began to retreat, but this road was not a major road, and more than 20,000 people crowded on the not wide road, which happened to be the target of the heavy artillery regiment.

After 30 minutes of shelling, the armored regiment took the lead with heavy tanks, and dozens of tanks and armored vehicles drove out of Qinxi Town under the cover of the 1st Battalion of the Guards Regiment and the 1st Battalion of the 568th Regiment. Behind the armored regiment were the main forces of the two regiments, the 573rd Regiment and the 569th Regiment. After the artillery fire of the heavy artillery regiment was extended, the commander of the heavy tank battalion, Zhang Zhiming, gave the order to attack and advance.

The armored regiment passed through the ruined town of Qinxi, causing a cheer from the defenders of the town. When the armored regiment rushed out of the town and rushed towards the Japanese army, the defenders in the town had to charge together, but they were stopped by Feng Lisan, the commander of the first battalion of the 568th Regiment. These soldiers were not trained to coordinate with the infantry and charged together, which would only add to the chaos.

As soon as the armored regiment rushed to the creek, the light and heavy weapons of the 64th Brigade of the Japanese army opened fire on the armored regiment. All kinds of bullets clanged on the heavy tank vehicle, and the tank ignored these bullets at all, and advanced without stopping in the rain of bullets, and the tracer bullets of the vehicle-mounted coaxial machine gun pulled up a bright light and rushed to the Japanese fire point.

When the heavy machine gun on the vehicle was fired, the 100-millimeter smoothbore gun on the vehicle also fired, and the Japanese fire points were destroyed one after another under such a blow. Major General Takeo Morinaga, the commander of the 64th Brigade, saw that the people of China had dispatched their chariot troops, and hurriedly gathered all the artillery in the brigade and shelled the Chariots.

There were also dozens of artillery pieces of a brigade of the Japanese army, and the firing momentum was not small, and the armored regiment was suddenly submerged in a cloud of gunpowder smoke and firelight, and the soldiers on the Japanese position cheered happily when they saw this scene. Before their cheers fell, they saw steel monsters rushing out of the smoke.

The great contrast made the Japanese troops on the position stunned, and did not react until the bullets from the heavy machine guns on the tank fell on their heads. More than 20 light and heavy tanks burst out of the smoke and fired as they burst into the hastily erected defensive positions of the Japanese, but the heavy machine guns were strafing at the soldiers, and the shells were flying towards the artillery.

After the tanks broke through the Japanese position, the light and heavy armored vehicles also broke through the position under the cover of the infantry, and the Japanese troops on the position saw that the position was broken, and retreated back in a panic, and soon the retreat became an escape. No matter how fast the infantry ran, they couldn't run faster than the chariots and bullets, and the commander of the Takeo Morinaga Brigade wanted to organize the soldiers to block it, but he didn't expect a shell to explode next to him, and this shell made a major general brigade commander of the Japanese army and a captain of the Ozuo Wing fly into the air together.

Without a commander, the 64th Brigade could no longer organize effective resistance. A large number of Japanese troops desperately fled backwards. At this time, the advantage of the armored vehicles in the armored regiment was waved, and they were thrown behind the ass of the Japanese soldiers, and the vehicle-mounted machine guns spat tongues of fire.

When Masaki Ito and Satzu Matsudaira were frightened by the lethality of the never-before-seen shells of the Shina heavy artillery, some of their men rushed into the headquarters in a panic to report to the two division commanders, that the 64th Brigade had been defeated, and that the Shina tanks had approached the headquarters. Ito Masaki was shocked and asked, "Nani, the 64th Brigade has been defeated, how is it possible?"

Washizu Matsudaira was also surprised: "Impossible, the sixty-fourth brigade has thousands of imperial warriors, how can it be defeated in just a few tens of minutes?" The subordinate said in fright: "My subordinates don't know where the commander of the Morinaga brigade is, but the chariot of the branch is about to attack here, and I also ask the two division commanders to leave here quickly." ”

Ito Masaki and Washizsu Matsudaira didn't care about pursuing it at this time, and hurriedly left the headquarters. It was already getting dark, and Ito looked in the direction of the town of Qinkei and saw the sound of shells exploding and fire not far away. The roads were full of fleeing soldiers, and the defeat was like a mountain, and at this time Ito Masaki had no choice but to flee in the direction of Yangliu Town under the protection of the escort team.

Ito Masaki and Washizu Matsudaira fled until they reached the town of Willow before stopping, where there was no sign of the Arishina army chasing them, and the two breathed a sigh of relief and began to gather the remnants of the army. It wasn't until after dawn that there were more than 10,000 people left in the two divisions, and the heavy weapons and baggage were basically gone. Ito Masaki sighed, discussed with Washizu Matsudaira, and prepared to temporarily withdraw to Xuancheng County, and then telegraphed Commander Yanjun Sixth to ask for guilt.

Ito Masaki was about to order the whole army to withdraw to Xuancheng County, when another subordinate came in to report that the Wing Commander of the 101st Baggage Wing stationed in Xuancheng County, Katsuo Torikai Nakasa, asked to see His Excellency the division commander. Ito Masaki was stunned after hearing this, and said, "Let him in." As soon as Katsuo Nakasa entered the tent, Masaki Ito frowned.

Torikai Katsuo Nakasa's face was black and gray, and his clothes were disheveled, and when he came in, he said with a ashamed face: "Your Excellency, the commander of the reporting division, his subordinates are guilty. Ito Masaki asked, "Torikai-kun, what's going on?" Torikai Katsuo replied: "Your Excellency, the commander of the division, the Chinese army suddenly attacked Xuancheng County two days ago, and the soldiers in the county resisted stubbornly, but there were too many Chinese troops, and there were heavy weapons, and the soldiers suffered heavy casualties, and they lost Xuancheng County last night, only I withdrew with a few hundred soldiers, and the other soldiers were all broken. ”

This news made Ito Masa's heart so angry that he vomited a mouthful of blood on the spot and fainted. Washizu Matsudaira hurriedly called for the medical staff to treat Ito Masaki, and then waved his hand to let Katsuo Torikai go down first. After Katsuo Torikai retreated in a gloomy manner, after being rescued by the medical staff, Masaki Ito slowly woke up.

The armored regiment stopped after chasing to Takahashi Township, replenishing fuel and ammunition while waiting for the troops behind to follow. At dawn, the armored regiment that had been replenished and the officers and men of the two battalions who had rested in the middle of the night reappeared, and the target was Yangliu Town. As soon as the armored regiment approached the town of Yangliu, it exchanged fire with the Japanese troops who were on guard.