Chapter 175: Famous General's Mission, Ping'an County (3)

The Japanese pilots, who had always been arrogant on the Chinese battlefield and even dared to fire at low altitudes frequently, never dreamed that they would encounter such dense and accurate anti-aircraft fire.

The DShK 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine gun, 37 mm anti-aircraft guns and 85 mm anti-aircraft guns formed a complete anti-aircraft fire network covering all the airspace below 8,000 meters above the battlefield.

The thin-skinned Mitsubishi Type 97 light bombers were slow, the targets were large, and the number was also the largest, and they were taken care of, and 70 percent of the anti-aircraft fire was poured on their bodies, and one after another the Type 97 light bombers emitting fire and black smoke fell to the ground and were smashed to pieces, and the bombs that had not had time to be thrown out in the plane were detonated, and the violent shock wave destroyed everything around, but fortunately, Ouyang Yu's artillery group had already withdrawn, and the soldiers of the second battalion also hid in the anti-artillery holes, so they did not cause any casualties.

Ten minutes later, half of the Japanese fighters were shot down, most of them were Type 97 light bombers, and a few Type 97 fighters were also shot down, and the rest dropped bombs indiscriminately and fled the battlefield at a faster speed.

"Order the troops to capture the prisoners, and beware of the counterattack of the Japanese pilots when they are captured!"

Dozens of umbrella flowers floated in the sky, and some Japanese pilots were lucky enough to parachute when the fighter plane was hit, but they all became prisoners of the Eighth Route Army after they landed, and some Japanese pilots still wanted to resist, but they were beaten by the soldiers of the Eighth Route Army with the butts of their guns, and they were dragged away after being beaten in an inhuman shape.

The news of the failed air raid immediately reached the headquarters of the North China Front, and Lieutenant General Tada Jun immediately ordered Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka to destroy the troops of the Eighth Route Army at the fifteen-mile small temple at all costs. Then find out what is going on with this strange Eighth Route Army unit, and why is there such a powerful and advanced weaponry?

This order was forwarded by Lieutenant General Yoshio Shinozuka to Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, commander of the 114th Division. Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, who was supported by an independent tank brigade, replied: Do not destroy the fifteen-mile small temple and eight roads. I would like to apologize.

The news of the 114th Division's attack was quickly sent to Ouyang Yu's hands, and after reading the telegram, Ouyang Yu sneered: "Good come, the 114th Division is one of the seven divisions in the Nanjin Massacre, this time I want to let this 114th Division meet and break the blood!" With his golden finger, Ouyang Yu had the confidence to block the attack of the 114th Division.

The 114th Division arrived quickly, arriving more than 10 kilometers south of the fifteen-mile temple in the afternoon, and joining up with the disabled Sakata Wing. Treat the 2nd Battalion in front of you as an equal opponent and fight with all your strength.

At four o'clock in the morning, heavy dark clouds covered the sky, and the soldiers of the two brigades of the 56th Infantry Wing under the 114th Division quietly touched the positions of the 4th and 6th companies, and the positions of the Eighth Route Army were quiet, and it seemed that they did not find the sneak attack of the Japanese army.

"Tap the action so that the enemy doesn't find out. ”

The Japanese soldiers whispered to the soldiers around them, and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers from the two brigades had quietly touched the mountainsides of the two hills where the fourth and sixth companies were located, and they were only less than 200 meters away from the position.

"Ding...... Boom......!"

A Japanese soldier stepped on a bouncing Betty mine, and the loud explosion was loud in the quiet of the night. In less than a minute, several flares illuminated the entire position, revealing the original form of the Japanese troops who wanted to sneak attack. Immediately, the gunfire of fried beans on the position rang out, and the Japanese army's sneak attack was declared a failure.

"Warriors of the Empire, for the sake of His Majesty the Emperor!"

"Onboard!" ×N.

At this time, the Japanese troops who were attacking were only less than 150 meters away from the position, and more than 1,000 Japanese soldiers under the influence of fanatical militarism launched a pig assault against the dense bullets fired from the top of the hill and the mines that were constantly exploding under their feet.

"Dadada......!"

Wang Xiaoyong, a soldier of the fourth company, controlled an M1910 heavy machine gun, and the firing button was pressed to the bottom by him, and the muzzle of the gun slowly shook from side to side, and the bullets fired formed a fire whip that shook back and forth, and the Japanese soldiers who were charging where the fire whip passed were all killed.

"**** grandma's little devil, go die!"

The rate of fire of hundreds of rounds per minute M1910 heavy machine gun quickly finished a 250-round cartridge belt, Wang Xiaoyong opened the receiver and quickly replaced it with a new one with the help of the deputy shooter, pulled the bolt and started a new round of shooting, the high temperature generated by the firing bullet made the cold water in the prototype water tank wrapped around the barrel boil, and white water vapor came out of the water tank, and the heavy machine gun that seemed to never stop caused heavy casualties to the Japanese army.

The fierce firepower of the 4th and 6th companies was comparable to that of the American troops like local tyrants, and the rainstorm of bullets stopped the Japanese charge, so that Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, who was watching the battle in the rear, almost dropped his telescope, and the number of automatic weapons he saw in the telescope was no less than a hundred.

"How could the Eighth Route Army, which has always had no rifles and no extra rifles, have so many automatic weapons?" this question appeared in the brains of all the officers of the 114th Division.

Since the sneak attack had failed and the soldiers were pinned down a hundred meters from the position, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu immediately ordered the 120th Field Artillery Wing, which had 36 75-mm mountain guns and 12 75-mm field guns, a total of 49 guns, after a little preparation, regardless of his own casualties, to begin pouring shells into the positions where the 4th and 6th companies were located.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

The Japanese artillery shells swept through the positions of the 4th and 6th companies, and many soldiers who were shooting were killed and wounded by the shells, and Wang Xiaoyong's machine gun team was also hit by a shell, and the blast wave of the explosion blew him down, and the group commander and the No. 2 deputy shooter were killed.

Touching a handful of blood that had been grazed by shmelage and flowing from his forehead, Wang Xiaoyong got up from the ground and checked the machine gun, and after finding that there was no fault, he started shooting again, and his No. 1 secondary shooter also got up from the ground. Assist him in shooting with both hands holding on to the cartridge belt. The Japanese soldiers, who had just risen from the ground, were pressed back to the ground.

"Uh......h Boom......!"

The retaliatory artillery fire of the 2nd Battalion came quickly. The 120th Field Artillery Wing had only fired two rounds, and a 122-mm shell came from a distance and landed near the firing position of the Field Artillery Wing.

Ouyang Yu in the battalion headquarters sat on the stool with her eyes closed and looked at ease, in fact, she was using the command system to command the battle, the fourth and sixth companies were all planted with soldiers of her system, as eyes to observe the situation on the battlefield, the fire of the Japanese artillery was clearly visible in the dark night, and everything that the system soldiers saw was displayed on the map that only she could see. Then in the brain gave an anti-artillery command to her own artillery, and everything was as if she was playing the military game she was best at.

"Seventy meters to the left, thirty meters to the front. ”

Ouyang Yu's order was transmitted directly to the brain of the artillery commander, and the artillery commander immediately corrected it according to her order, and the second shell was fired, and after flying for a few seconds, it accurately landed on the position of the 120th Field Artillery Wing.

"Boom......!"

The shell landed near a field gun, killing several Japanese artillerymen who were firing.

"Hit, no more correction of rapid fire!"

"Uh......h Boom, boom, boom......!"

In addition to the 152 guns, which have always been killers, did not fire, forty-eight ZIS-3 76-mm cannons, and twenty-four A-19 122-mm cannons. There was a deafening roar, and one shell after another fell into the Japanese artillery group. Blow up Japanese artillery or kill or wound Japanese artillery.

The artillery of the 120th Field Artillery Wing is a mountain and field artillery with a short firing range, and it is not the opponent of Ouyang Yu's artillery group in terms of power or range.

Without the suppression of artillery, the firepower on the positions of the 4th and 6th companies was revived again, completely repelling the Japanese troops who were sneaking up.

However, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu immediately issued a new order to attack, and the two Japanese brigades launched another attack on the positions of the fourth and sixth companies, and the darkness of the night greatly weakened the firepower advantage of the second battalion, and despite the continuous flares, the soldiers could only see things within three or four hundred meters, and the range and accuracy were not as good as during the day, and the Japanese soldiers could lie on the ground and calmly shoot at the fourth and sixth companies.

Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu, who had an absolute numerical advantage, calmly mobilized the mortars of the entire division, and ordered the mortars to use guerrilla warfare, and immediately moved their positions after firing a few shells.

The high-trajectory mortars were very effective against the trench fortifications, and the casualties of the 4th and 6th companies skyrocketed, and the Japanese army's accurate artillery bombardment also damaged a lot of light and heavy machine guns, which further weakened the firepower of the 4th and 6th companies.

After several hours of fierce fighting, it was already dawn, Ouyang Yu launched a blocking artillery bombardment in order to avoid unnecessary losses, and at the same time ordered the fourth and sixth companies, which had suffered more than half of the casualties, to withdraw to the second line of defense, and the first line of defense, which had been defended for two days, was broken and occupied by the 114th Division overnight.

"Suesong, this old devil is really powerful, but what do you think you will do with the next two lines of defense?"

The terrain of the fifteen-mile small temple is very peculiar, on both sides of the winding highway are six hills that are in the east-west direction, and between the hills on the left and right sides is an open area of several kilometers, because the battlefield is too small to put too many troops at a time, the position of the second battalion on these six hills is like three strong gates, blocking the road of the 114th Division to the north to rescue, and now there is a gate that has been knocked down, but the remaining two gates are more difficult to gnaw than the other.

The 20,000-strong 114th Division did not rest during the day, and the two battalions of the 115th Infantry Wing began a new round of offensive after breakfast.

However, the 114th Division that attacked during the day did not have good luck at night, Ouyang Yu, who had strong long-range firepower, used fierce artillery fire to let the Japanese appreciate in advance what the local tyrant style of the American imperialists was, plus all mortars, hundreds of artillery pieces of all sizes, including the 152 howitzers that had not been fired, shelled for a full two hours between the first line of defense and the open area between the second line of defense。

"Baga Yalu, is it possible that these cannonballs of Balu will never be able to finish shooting from the sky?

Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu deliberately ignored the fact that his troops were nearly twenty times more than Ouyang Yu, clamoring for Ouyang Yu to have a "fair" battle with him, and after carefully considering the consequences of fighting during the day, Lieutenant General Shigeji Suematsu wisely ordered his troops to rest during the day and wanted to continue the night attack at night.

Ouyang Yu didn't care so much, she used the day to step up the construction and reinforcement of fortifications, cut down a large number of trees from the surroundings, and moved machine guns, especially heavy machine guns, into the strong machine gun fortress, unless the machine gun fortress was hit by multiple shells in a row, otherwise it would be difficult for the Japanese mortars to cause damage to the machine guns.

In addition to reinforcing the fortifications, Ouyang Yu also ordered the soldiers to lay a large number of mines in front of the position, and the three-layer barbed wire fence surrounded the position, and the officers under him felt numb in the scalp, in the face of such a position with strong firepower and strong fortifications, the 114th Division, which lacked the ability to attack the fortifications, was afraid that it would not be able to capture it even if it died, and in desperation, Lieutenant General Suematsu Shigeji had to send a telegram to the headquarters of the First Army to ask for tactical guidance.

After a while, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Matsu was relieved to receive a telegram back, and the telegram read: The capture of the county town of Heian is imminent, and the enemy forces in front of him are being held back and the attack is suspended.

With the order of the headquarters, Lieutenant General Shigeharu Suematsu ordered the troops to rest with peace of mind, and the soldiers of the 114th Division also wished for such an order, and the ferocious artillery fire of the second battalion caused an extremely strong shock and fear to the soldiers of the 114th Division, and no one wanted to face such artillery fire.

In Ping'an County, the independent regiment has solved all the Japanese puppet armies on the periphery of the county, and the remaining Japanese puppet army has stubbornly resisted with the tall and strong city walls, but they all know that the city walls no longer play much role in modern warfare, and it is only a matter of time before they are destroyed.

Therefore, Yamamoto Kazuki made the last killer move, he escorted Li Yunlong's wife Yang Xiuqin to the city gate, wanting to make a deal with Li Yunlong. (To be continued.) )