Chapter 750: Rescuing the Camphor Tree [18]
Under the exhausted roar of Yoshida Eijiro and the muzzle of the black hole, the officers who came back to their senses beat and scolded the soldiers under them, and finally made the soldiers turn around and roar and launch a counter-charge against the Chinese army again. In order to boost morale, the officers also waved their command knives and rushed through the ranks.
The Japanese army suddenly turned around and launched a counter-charge, which was beyond Tang Hongming's expectations, but the red-eyed Chinese soldiers did not stop their charge at all. The heavy machine guns on the chariot swept down the Japanese soldiers who rushed towards them in pieces, but the two sides were too close, and the two sides soon collided with each other.
In terms of numbers, the 871st Regiment had the upper hand, and the Chinese side had a greater advantage in weapons and equipment, needless to say that there were so many automatic weapons, and the more than 20 chariots that rushed into the crowd were enough for the Japanese army to drink a pot. In ten minutes, the chariot had already cut through the crowd of Japanese soldiers and rushed directly towards the place where Yoshida Eijiro Osa was.
Looking at the steel giants that rushed to a very close place, the Japanese soldiers, including Yoshida Eijiro Osa, were a little weak, Yoshida Eijiro Osa, plucked up his courage, and wanted to rush forward with the guards around him, but was stopped by the captain of the guard, and the captain of the guard didn't care to talk to Yoshida Eijiro Osado, turned his head and ordered his soldiers to set up him and retreat to the rear.
Seeing that the Japanese troops were fleeing in disarray, the chariots no longer pursued, but only fired at the fleeing Japanese soldiers with their heavy machine guns for a while, and then turned around and killed back into the crowd. At this point in the battle, the Japanese army had suffered heavy casualties and was retreating step by step. I don't know who found out that Yoshida Eijiro and the overseer team behind him had fled, and after scolding, they also turned around and fled.
Seeing that the direction of the Japanese rout was not the direction of the main attack, Tang Hongming led the troops to pursue for a while and then stopped. The purpose of Tang Hongming's attack was very clear, that is, to join up with the main force that came to help, and strive to defeat the Japanese troops outside Zhangshu City. Therefore, after the troops stopped pursuing, Tang Hongming reorganized the troops and led the team straight to the back of the Japanese position.
On the Japanese position, the 15-minute artillery bombardment by the Chinese side did not cause much damage to the 32nd Wing, which had been prepared for a long time, but many of the various fortifications on the position were destroyed. The entire position was littered with large and small craters, as well as incomplete fortifications, and sandbags scattered everywhere. As soon as the Chinese shelling stopped, the Japanese soldiers emerged from their hidden corners and rushed to repair the fortifications under the scolding of the officers.
There was not much time left for the Japanese soldiers to rush to repair the fortifications, and while the artillery fire stopped, the three regiments of the 462nd Brigade lined up in a "pin" shape less than 1,000 meters in front of the Japanese position, and under the cover of the tanks, began to attack the Japanese position. The attack of the Chinese army was immediately discovered by the Japanese troops on the position, so the Japanese soldiers did not bother to repair the position, and looked for a suitable position on the position and set up their weapons.
The three regiments that launched the attack, the 879th Regiment in the middle of the road has always played the role of a reserve in the front attack, from the regiment commander Wei Huang to the soldiers below are holding back a lot of strength in their hearts, and now the brigade commander has let his regiment take the lead attack, and the whole regiment has a feeling of raising their eyebrows and puffing up, and the attack is more active. Under the cover of more than a dozen combat vehicles, the officers and men of the whole regiment plunged straight into the Japanese positions like a sharp knife.
The 877th Regiment and the 878th Regiment on both sides of the 879th Regiment, after two fierce battles, not only did there have a lot of casualties, but also the physical strength and energy of the soldiers were also discounted.
The 877th and 878th Regiments replenished their soldiers and ammunition supplies, rested for another hour, and at this time, despite fatigue, launched an attack on the Japanese positions with the 879th Regiment. The 32nd Infantry Wing is the most elite infantry wing of the 32nd Division, and the soldiers are basically veterans, and the weapons and equipment are also the best among the three wings.
In addition to the four standard infantry brigades, there was a squadron of Type 92 infantry guns, armed with eight Type 92 infantry guns. A squadron of heavy machine guns, armed with twelve Type 92 heavy machine guns. In addition, more than two dozen 80-caliber mortars are also in the wing. The Wing Commander of the 32nd Infantry Wing, Yoshio Kiki, always thought highly of himself and looked down on the Chinese army at all.
But the sharp attack of the Chinese army before made Mu Du Yoshio Osa extremely shocked, the overwhelming artillery bombardment, the giant chariots of as many as dozens of vehicles, completely subverted the image of the original Chinese army in his heart, and made him pay attention to the upcoming battle. Knowing that the dozens of Chinese tanks were extremely difficult to deal with, Yoshio Kiwi thought carefully for a long time and decided to let go of the tanks and concentrate his firepower on the infantry behind the battlecar.
With this decision in place, Yoshio Ki purposefully reduced the strength of the front of the position, and placed heavy troops on the sides of the position, and even artillery and heavy machine gun squadrons were placed on higher ground on both sides. The 462nd Brigade did not know whether the Japanese troops on the opposite position had changed their way of blocking or were advancing towards the Japanese positions according to the planned attack method.
Watching the Chinese chariots approaching the position step by step, the two captains around Yoshio Kiwi were a little breathless, and they both wanted Yoshio Kiwi to order the artillery to open fire, Yoshio Kiwi held a telescope to observe the Chinese attack, and remained unmoved, until the chariot was less than 300 meters away from the position, he put down the binoculars.
Feeling that the time had come, Yoshio Ki turned his head to the two captains behind him and said, "Now is the time to let the people of China know that we are powerful! You personally go and command the artillery and heavy machine guns, and fire at the infantry behind the Chinese chariot, and make sure that the Chinese infantry will be dealt the most severe blow!"
The two captains had been waiting for the order for a long time, and now that the order of Yoshio Ki was given, he bent down excitedly and replied, "Hey! Please rest assured Your Excellency the Captain." After saying that, he strode towards the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions on both sides. Yoshio Kiki raised his binoculars again and turned his gaze back to the attacking Chinese troops.
The troops were approaching the Japanese positions step by step, and the firepower of the Japanese positions was not strong, with the tanks as cover, and the casualties of the soldiers were very small, which made the three regiment commanders breathe a sigh of relief. But just when everything was going well, the sound of artillery fire suddenly came from the left side of the Japanese position, and at the same time, more than a dozen heavy machine gun fire points appeared on the right side.
The 877th Regiment and the 878th Regiment on the left and right flanks were the main targets of the Japanese army's attack, and artillery shells and heavy machine gun bullets rained down, and the 877th Regiment and the 878th Regiment were concealed under the sudden blow, but the Japanese attack was both sudden and intensive, and there were not many soldiers in the ranks who had just been replenished, and the number of casualties rose sharply.
Brigade commander Tang Yu was also paying attention to the situation of the troops' attack in the command post, although he couldn't see the specific scene clearly, but through the walkie-talkie, he had been daring to keep in touch with the three regiment commanders in front of him, and the three regiment commanders had been reporting that the attack was going well, and Tang Yu was somewhat relaxed.
Suddenly, the three regiment commanders in the walkie-talkie were calling at the same time, reporting that they had been attacked by Japanese artillery and heavy machine gun fire points in ambush on both sides of the position, and asked for artillery support. Tang Yu was anxious when he heard this, and he didn't bother to report to Wang Haitao and Tang Longzai, grabbed the telephone to turn on the artillery battalion, and directly ordered mortars to support the attacking troops.
Wang Haitao and Tang Longzai also looked at Tang Yu when they heard the movement, and Li Changwu directly asked Tang Yu about the situation. Tang Yu put down the telephone and briefly reported the situation to Wang Haitao, who immediately ordered the self-propelled grenade and artillery regiment to bomb both sides of the Japanese position.
The officers and men of the three regiments did not panic when they received a sudden blow during the attack, and the two regiment commanders, Wu Zhijun and Qi Xuan, while directing their subordinates to conceal, still mobilized small-caliber mortars and heavy machine guns to return fire, and at the same time, the chariots attacking forward also stopped, turned their muzzles, and began to use vehicle-mounted artillery and vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns to fire back at the Japanese troops on both sides of the position.
A few minutes later, the supporting artillery fire fell on the Japanese positions on both sides, especially the covering bombardment of 50 self-propelled grenades and shells, so that the Japanese artillery and heavy machine guns were dumb fired, in order to prevent the Japanese army from playing such a hand again, Wu Zhijun and Qi Xuan both sent part of their forces to attack the positions on both sides, and the main force still launched a surprise attack on the frontal position.
The Japanese attack left the 462nd Brigade unprepared, causing casualties among more than 200 officers and men of the 877th Regiment and the 878th Regiment, and also halting the attack for more than 20 minutes. However, after destroying the artillery positions and heavy machine gun positions on both sides of the Japanese army, the main counterattack force on the Japanese position has been completely destroyed.
The 877th and 878th regiments on both flanks were attacked and stopped their advance, and the 879th regiment in the middle was very little affected, and only a few shells fell sporadically in the ranks, causing the 879th regiment to suffer more than 30 casualties. Wei Huang, the commander of the 879th Regiment, did not order the troops to stop the attack, but continued the assault despite the bombardment of the Japanese army.
When the 877th and 878th Regiments re-attacked, the tanks of the 879th Regiment had already approached the front of the Japanese position. As soon as the tanks approached the front of the position, dozens of dead soldiers with bundles* and explosives and ammunition bags jumped out of the position.
The 879th Regiment had already taken precautions against the Japanese army's use of "human bombs and bombs" against its own chariots, and the soldiers who had been hiding behind the warcar body came out one after another from behind the warplane, rushing guns, semi-automatic rifles, and even light machine guns at the same time, and the dead soldiers of the Japanese army often fell under countless guns without rushing out a few steps.
There was always a mistake in Baimi, and there were still more than a dozen dead soldiers who rushed close to the chariot and pulled the explosives and medicine bags on their bodies, but the assault tanks were all tanks and heavy armored vehicles, and the tanks ignored the explosion of the explosives and medicine packs, and only two heavy armored vehicles were not seriously damaged, but the infantry following the chariots were blown up and the medicine bags were blown up and many people were killed and injured.