Rise from the sword

Chapter 569

"this letter."

In Ping'an County, the Independent Regiment Headquarters, Zhao Gang handed a letter to a staff officer:
"Take this letter and find a way to give it to Kotaro Ito."

"Yes."

The staff immediately went to perform the task.

"Recover the lost ground..."

Afterwards, Zhao Gang turned his head, looked at the super huge map around Asia hanging on the wall, and muttered to himself.

If you look carefully, you can find that at this time Political Commissar Zhao's sight is focused on the position of the Kwantung Army, that is, the Northeast region, but gradually, his sight slowly began to move north.

north of Inner Mongolia.

Even, north of the northeast!
Finally, Commissar Zhao's Li Mang flashed and looked away.

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Outside Hengyang Airport.

The Tenth Army is temporarily in the position of the Tenth Division and Thirty Regiments.

It was already late at night, but Commander Xu, his 1000th regiment, and the military guard battalion were still busy. More than [-] people wielded military shovels to repair the positions that had been destroyed by the devil's artillery fire during the day.

Every fighter is full of energy, and it is completely impossible to see that these people have gone through a whole day of fighting during the day.

Under this fiery enthusiasm, soon, the fortifications that had been completely destroyed during the day gradually took shape, and were even further strengthened with the help of parts removed from the aircraft, such as steel plates and aluminum plates.

"It must be built according to the standard."

Holding the flashlight sent by the Independence Group during the day, Head Xu is making inspections:

"Especially the bomb defense hole, the bomb shelter, the little devil's grenade launcher is no joke."

Commander Xu is also a veteran. He has fought against devils many times. He deeply understands the horror of devils' projectiles. There are few fighters.

"Leader, after we finish our work, can we still eat the canned meat tonight?"

When Head Xu walked over, a soldier stood up from the trench and asked.

While speaking, the soldier's throat squirmed visible to the naked eye, and even the corners of his mouth could see the sparkle slipping down.

At the same time, the soldiers of the [-] regiments around him, as well as the soldiers of the guard battalion, also raised their heads one after another, looked at Commander Xu expectantly, and all swallowed their saliva.

Hengyang, where the Tenth Army is stationed, belongs to the Dongting Lake area of ​​the Xiangjiang River. It is a famous land of fish and rice. Although the continuous wars have severely affected agricultural production, the output has been declining year by year, and the basic supply can still be met.

But that's all.

Since they were stationed in Hengyang, they have eaten rice and pickled vegetables for a long time. As for meat, even a first-rank officer has not known the taste of meat for a long time.

This is before.

Now all the people in Hengyang have been transferred. The former economically important town, which was rich in supplies, is now empty, leaving only an empty city with [-] soldiers from the [-]th Army and more than a thousand volunteers.

Coupled with the devil's blockade.

Now in the Tenth Army, every meal is a bowl of rice mixed with bran, and sometimes there is no pickles or vegetable leaves, barely half full, but the taste is really not flattering.

Eat bran pharynx.

But things started to turn around today.

This afternoon, when the eight-way plane arrived, it not only brought a large number of machine guns and cannons, rice, white flour, but also canned meat and bacon.

What's more eye-opening to the soldiers of the Tenth Army is that there are many kinds of canned meat, canned fish, canned beef, canned chicken, canned pork, canned duck, canned sauerkraut, and canned pickles.

Dozens of canned foods are available in various varieties, which dazzle the soldiers.

Near the water tower first get the month.

So the dinner for the [-]th Regiment and the Guard Battalion tonight was extraordinarily sumptuous. Each soldier ate a full meal, [-]% full, and the meat in each soldier's bowl covered the meal.

As the saying goes, when you are full and well-fed, you will have strength to work.

The [-]th Regiment and the Guard Battalion, who were full of food and drink, were naturally full of energy. They completed the maintenance and reinforcement of the position in just a few hours. The efficiency was so high that even Commander Xu was a little dumbfounded.

This efficiency is more than two times higher than the usual actual combat training?
"Yes, tomorrow morning and tomorrow lunch will be filled with rice and canned meat."

Head Xu smiled and said:

"However, you also know."

"These canned meats are all transported by the eight-way plane. If we can't stand the airport, let alone canned meat, even if it's bran rice, I'm afraid we'll be full."

"Captain, don't worry."

The young warrior of culture slapped his chest hard:

"The devil, don't even think about getting one step closer to the airport."

"Captain."

The surrounding soldiers also clapped their chests one after another:

"That's right, Commander, you devil, don't even think about taking a step closer to the airport."

"A bunch of dogs."

Looking at this group of high-spirited soldiers in front of him, it could even be said that they were unprecedentedly high-spirited soldiers, Commander Xu immediately cursed.

Just at this time.

bang bang bang...

Da da da,
On the edge of the distant position, where the guard post was located, gunshots suddenly rang out.Then a signal flare went up.

"The devil is here."

Head Xu immediately understood the situation in front of him:
"Ready to fight."

"Notify the artillery unit that the devils are coming up and request artillery support."

The movements of the soldiers from the [-]th Regiment and the Guard Battalion were almost in sync with Commander Xu's orders. As soon as he finished speaking, they put down the engineering shovels in their hands, quickly entered the position, and took up their weapons.

kill to give...
Under the night, thousands of devils rushed towards Hengyang Airport from three sides in the distance.

Before the devil got close to the airport, scattered flowers like small suns suddenly rose in the sky. These dozens of small suns illuminated the entire front position of Hengyang Airport, showing the devil in every detail.

The Devil's artillery hadn't fired yet, so the artillery of the Independent Regiment didn't fire either. Both sides were waiting for the other side to reveal their position. Right now, it was the 82 mortar that fired the flares.

"Be good."

Looking at the devils in front of the position, the soldiers of the Thirty Regiment of the Tenth Army were amazed:
"It's no different from daytime!"

They fought a lot in night battles, and they also used a lot of flares, but this was the first time they had seen such a prodigal usage, but the effect was really good.

The front of the position can be seen almost clearly, just like during the day.

"Fire."

Found that the devil was close to 200 meters, head Xu naturally ordered to open fire.

Immediately, on the defensive position, hundreds of machine guns and hundreds of submachine guns fired at the devils' attacking troops in the distance. Coupled with the mortars loaded with grenades, the dense rain of bullets immediately wiped out the charging devils. suppress.

The second wave of planes of the Independent Regiment brought some submachine guns, all of which were equipped for the Thirty Regiment.

"Haha, this battle was fought comfortably."

Looking at the suppressed devils in the distance, Sun Xincang, the first company commander of the [-]th Regiment, laughed.

The laughter, the tone can be called rampant, and the expression is also ferocious, like a villain.

"Little devils, you have today too."

Beside him, Zhang Baowang, the monitor of Class [-], also laughed triumphantly.

Same rampant grin.Like a villain.

The [-]th Regiment is the elite of the Tenth Army. They have fought the devils many times. During the period, most of them were defensive battles, but they have never been so vigorous as they are now. The first round of firepower has defeated the devils.

The firepower of the new machine gun is too fierce.

Just a random burst of bullets will fly out. As a veteran, Zhang Baowang knows very well that this kind of machine gun is at least three times more difficult to dodge than the Czech or crooked ones.

In this scene, the corners of Yokoyama Yong's eyes twitched when he saw the battle behind the devil's place.

If the Tenth Army had this firepower configuration, then within half a month, he would not even think about capturing Hengyang, even if reinforcements from the next four divisions arrived, it would probably be difficult.

Therefore, the independent regiment must not be allowed to continue to support the Hengyang defenders.

"Grenade, kill those machine guns."

On the front line, the captain of the suppressed devil team immediately responded.

At this time, he was attacking the large skirmisher line, and the distance between the squads was very large, so facing the firepower and shelling of the defenders, the loss was actually not great. With the help of ready-made bunkers, he could also avoid the firepower of the machine guns.

Although he was beaten and unable to continue to attack, he still has the ability to counterattack.

The flare revealed the position of the machine gun.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the flares fired by the mortar, the devils holding the grenades took out the grenades one after another and aimed at the machine gun positions in the distance.

boom boom boom

More than a dozen grenade grenades flew towards the [-]th Regiment's position. Although they had prepared and responded, several machine guns still misfired, and the machine gun squad suffered losses.

But at the same time, several devils who operated the grenade were killed.

One of them was killed by Wang Xikui, and the other three were killed by heavy fire from general-purpose machine guns.

The grenadier is essentially a light mortar. It relies on visual aiming. When shooting, it must be exposed for observation. It was no problem before. At that time, the firepower of the troops was weak, and it was difficult to seize this fleeting opportunity. .

But now, the [-]th Regiment had nearly a hundred general-purpose machine guns, and the dense rain of bullets rained down. Several grenadier devils couldn't dodge and were directly killed.

at the same time.

Boom boom boom...

More than a dozen heavy machine guns that had been concealed on the ground opened fire.

These large-caliber machine guns are not "weak" general-purpose machine guns. The [-]mm bullets are so powerful that ordinary sandbag bunkers can't stop them, let alone haystacks, earth mounds and other bunkers.

In an instant, the devils who had been hiding well were killed and injured one after another.

"Retreat, retreat."

As a last resort, the attacking devils had no choice but to retreat.

Seeing that the first wave of attack was repulsed, Yokoyama was also impatient, and immediately ordered the artillery unit to join the battle, destroying the outer positions of the airport, and even directly shelling the airport. The artillery of the independent regiment did not show weakness, and the two sides launched an artillery battle.

Although the service time is not comparable, the artillery skills of the independent regiment fed by tens of thousands of shells are definitely not weaker than the devils.

Even if there is no 105 long-range howitzer, only the 10 mountain cannon with a range of 105 kilometers, and the devil has a lot of long-range cannons, but with the help of high mobility, night concealment, ammunition advantages, and communication advantages, the independent regiment abruptly tied the artillery battle , no one took advantage.

It was not until early in the morning that Yokoyama ordered the troops to stop the attack.

At this time, the two infantry regiments he was planning to attack had already suffered heavy losses, and the airport defenders even had the ability to take the opportunity to launch a counterattack and advance part of their positions.

buzz buzz...

During the retreat, looking at the 54 transport planes circling and landing, Isamu Yokoyama sighed inwardly.

He knew that from today onwards, unless he could take down Hengyang and defeat the Tenth Army, he would never have the chance to take down Hengyang Airport, and it was not known whether he could even defeat Hengyang.

With the input of more than [-] tons of materials a day, it is really hard to say who will win or lose.

Even if he has an absolute advantage in military strength.

However, there is one thing that Yokoyama still can't figure out.

"Where are so many pilots from them?"

Unexpectedly, according to the statistics of the empire, in North China, Northeast China, and here, there are more than a thousand planes that can be dispatched by the eight routes at the same time.That is to say, there are thousands of crew members on Eight Routes.

He doesn't understand.

Where did the group of guys who were still haha ​​before find so many pilots?
Tank crews can also expedite training, but pilots can't. The difficulty of flying an airplane is several grades higher than that of tanks.

"Send a report to the base camp."

Yokoyama's tone was very low.

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It is also very early in the morning.

the other side.

Chengde.

"Report."

Hattori Kotaro received two farewell telegrams:
"Jiro Ono, the captain of the 49th Regiment, and Takihara, the captain of the [-]th Regiment, sent a farewell telegram to all members last night."

"Nearly one-third of the infantry No. 16 and No. [-] regiments and cavalry No. [-] regiments in the feint attack were lost."

Looking at the telegram in his hand, looking at the staff officer bowing his head in front of him, and the shelling that was still ringing outside all night, Kotaro sighed deeply:

"Massive concrete fortress."

His plan was to feint from the front and cover the penetration from the rear.

He thought about failure, but he didn't expect the failure to be so complete. Not only was there no result at all, but the two alliances were completely destroyed, and the remaining three main alliances suffered heavy losses.

And the main reasons for failure are many.

The enemy discovered the movement of interspersed troops in advance.

The feint attacking troops were too weak to attract the opponent's attention, so they were blasted back by fierce artillery.

"Send a report to the base camp."

Hattori Kotaro's tone was very low.

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at the same time.

Ito, who retreated with Yamamoto, also received a letter from Commissar Zhao.

As a result, after opening the secret letter, Ito's eyes flickered, and he fell into deep thought for a long time.

Retreating with Ito, brother Ito looked at his brother, and thousands of thoughts floated in his heart.

Starting from Shou County, that is, when Ito was still a squadron leader, he followed his brother. Along the way, Ito Kotaro has been promoted to major general and even lieutenant general because of his "great contribution".

And he also got a lieutenant assistant.

During this period, he also saw the changes in his brother.

From the beginning, he only wanted to make money, but now, his brother seems to have something more.

All along, he didn't understand, but looking at his brother's eyes at this moment, he knew - after doing business with the Independence Regiment and the Eighth Route Army for so long, and holding huge wealth and power in his hands, Something new has emerged.

Ambition!

Ambition not satisfied with wealth.

(End of this chapter)