Rise from the sword

Chapter 617 (Comparing Water)

September [-]rd.

Near dawn.

There is no moon tonight, but the sky is clear, the stars are rich, and the visual distance is good.

On the left wing of Chengde, at the observation post on the first front of the Japanese army, the 133rd Division, the 237th Regiment, and the devils of the [-]th Squadron of the [-]th Brigade, the lower soldiers of the devils, supported by the three-eighth cover, leaned against the guard post, I couldn't help but yawned.

"When can we fight back?!"

The time is now around five o'clock, which is the time when the sleepiness is the strongest. In order to resist the sleepiness, Cao Changyuan looked at his comrade-in-arms Nanmujian and casually brought up a topic.

"who knows."

Nan Mujian also yawned again and again:
"There are too many enemy tanks and planes, it's too scary. The captain said before that when our own planes and tanks gather, we can fight the enemy. It's been a month, and it's probably coming soon."

"Yeah, the enemy's tanks and planes are scary."

Cao Changyuan couldn't help shivering.

The 133rd Division is a newly established division. It arrived in Chengde a month ago and experienced several battles to defend the position. The two deeply felt the strength of the enemy's tanks and aircraft.

Even if the two of them are just two low-ranking soldiers, they are very clear in their hearts that if they don't have the means to deal with enemy tanks and planes, it is impossible to defeat the enemy.

The two of them leaned in the bunker, chatted for a while, and didn't care about the security mission. No one even looked up for half an hour. They didn't look like a sentinel.

This is normal.

The confrontation around Chengde has been going on for several months. The independent regiment on the opposite side has launched one attack after another, but they are all during the day, and each attack is preceded by large-scale shelling and aerial reconnaissance.

During this period, nothing happened at the outpost. If things go on like this, slack is inevitable.

It was the end of summer at this time, and it was the season when insects, beasts and birds sang everywhere, but the surrounding area was silent, terrifyingly quiet, but this still did not arouse the vigilance of the two devil sentinels.

Hundreds of tanks, hundreds of aircraft, and hundreds of cannons bombarded every day, coupled with the bombardment of super-caliber heavy artillery, even insects and beasts escaped.

It was nearly six o'clock.

"what sound?"

Cao Changyuan's ears moved, and he raised his head suspiciously, but he was so dazed that he couldn't react for a while.

"Seems to be."

Nan Mujian also heard the sound from far to near, but he was the same, with sleepy eyes and a dizzy mind.

"tank."

Soon, as the sound got closer and closer, the two suddenly recalled it, and both woke up with a start.

They have heard this voice many times, and they are very familiar with it.

It was the sound of tank groups.

It's just that compared to usual, the sound at this time is less of the continuous explosion of shells, and less of the continuous falling bombs, so I didn't react for a while.

By this time, the two could even feel the vibration of the track running over the ground.

"Enemy attack."

The sound of the tank woke them up completely, and they finally understood the situation in front of them.

The enemy's large-scale armored force actually launched a large-scale attack before the early morning, and it was without artillery preparation and without air coverage bombing.

From the sound and the vibration of the ground, the two quickly judged that the tank force attacking at this time was definitely not small in scale.

"Send signal."

The two quickly fired bright flares.

A few seconds later, the flashing signal bomb was launched into the sky. Naturally, the little devil could not be a local tyrant like the independent regiment, so that the radio could spread to every class. Does not equip the Sentry with a flare gun.

After sending the message, before the two had time to escape, they were enveloped by a burst of shelling.

After a while.

Chengde, Devil Command, Hattori Kotaro received accurate reports from the front.

"Nani?"

"The independent regiment launched an attack from three sides, with at least 150 tanks on each side?"

Looking at the collected information, Kotaro in the abdomen who had just been awakened was not only completely awake, but cold sweat dripped down his forehead.

The repeated attacks by the armored units of the Independent Regiment have allowed the Locust Army to figure out some ways to judge the size of the enemy's tank units, and it is already early September. When he received the news, it was already 06:30.

By this time the sky was already dark.

It is impossible to make mistakes in judging the size of the enemy on the front line.

The Independence Regiment launched an attack on three sides, one on the front and one on the left and right flanks, each with at least 150 tanks.

According to common sense.

Common sense gained from battle after battle.

The number of enemy tanks reported by the frontline troops should be added by about one-third. That is to say, each of the three offensives launched by the eight routes had more than [-] tanks.

A total of more than 600 tanks attacked at the same time.

There are more than 100 tanks more than the last attack.

Thinking about it, the sweat drops on Hattori Kotaro's forehead became bigger and bigger.

He didn't know why this time, the Eighth Route was uncharacteristically not covered by shelling, and there was no large-scale bombing to open the way, but the more than 600 tanks were still not something he could stop.

"Damn Hideki Tojo, why don't you retreat."

Before he had time to wipe off the sweat from his forehead, Hattori yelled at Hideki Tojo, and Hattori looked at the map, looking for a solution.

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at the same time.

the other side.

Inside the headquarters where Ding Wei is.

"The battle went very well."

A young staff officer introduced the current battle situation in an excited tone.

Although the offensive involving twelve tank battalions, twelve artillery battalions, and 24 infantry battalions has not yet ended, no, to be precise, the artillery battalions have just fired, the support aircraft have just taken off, and the tank troops have just come into contact. The enemy's position did not form a breakthrough, but the people in the command room all looked excited collectively.

It was as if the battle had been won.

Because this attack is an actual combat exercise of the ability of armored troops to gather at night.

As for whether it can break through the devil's position, complete the planned plan to break through the three devil's positions, and divide and annihilate the devil divisions in the front position, no staff has any doubts about this.

This is not to belittle devils carelessly, but to have absolute confidence in one's own strength and a thorough understanding of the enemy.

"This attack."

Ding Wei raised his tone and said encouragingly:
"Strive to achieve better results than last time and wipe out more devils."

"Yes."

In the command room, the staff officers spoke passionately.

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Also that day.

"The enemy armored force has arrived ten kilometers away from the first position and is currently camping."

Yokoyama Yong also received the latest report from the front line.

"Is it finally here?!"

Hearing this news, Isamu Yokoyama let out a long sigh of relief, with a hint of expectation in his tone.

To this day, through several reconnaissance teams approaching for reconnaissance, and even a small group of troops attacking at night, he finally confirmed that the armored troops of the Independent Regiment from Changchang to Hengyang were as the intelligence said.

It's a bunch of idiots.

An idiot that couldn't even drive a tank.

It is impossible for an armored force of this strength to break through the three lines of defense he set up.

"Order the No. 60 Eighth Division, and the [-]st, [-]nd and [-]nd Divisions to continue to stand firm and execute according to the predetermined combat plan."

Even though he was looking forward to it in his heart, Yokoyama still maintained the most basic caution.

Even if the enemy showed various flaws, he would not take the initiative to attack at all.

"Hi."

The staff officer quickly went to convey the order.

After the staff officer left, Yokoyama looked at Hengyang City on the map, and his originally relaxed brows frowned instantly.

Compared with the calm and smooth western front, that is, the direction of the independent regiment attacking from Changchang, the Hengyang situation with fewer troops and weaker paper strength made Yokoyama anxious.

Vaguely, he felt something was wrong.

Recently, Hengyang's defenders have been moving frequently, constantly launching attacks, and constantly expanding their positions, but they are only expanding their positions. Every time he gathers heavy troops to defend, the opponent quickly retreats.

It made him feel like there was a conspiracy brewing.

For this reason, he even deliberately set up the headquarters only twelve kilometers away from the Hengyang outer position, so as to respond immediately.

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That night.

Song County.

"Ten armored battalions, five artillery battalions, twelve infantry battalions, and all the equipment have been assembled in Hengyang. The Hengyang Tenth Army has also completed battalion-level reorganization, and is equipped with big mules to enhance mobility and continuous combat capabilities."

"The feigned attacking force is an armored battalion and has arrived near the devil's first line of defense."

Kong Jie is listening to the staff report:

"The Air Force's 150 new attack aircraft and 54 aerial gunboats are also ready to participate in the battle."

"in addition."

The staff officer continued:

"Scattered and deployed around Changheng, and the [-] elite platoons in the south have also completed the integration of the surrounding guerrillas, all of them have changed their outfits, and the construction of key positions has basically been completed."

"very good."

Kong Jie lay on the map, looked around the situation in the Changheng area, and then waved his hand:
"let's start."

"Yes."

The staff officer immediately issued an order.

Following Kong Jie's order, Hengyang, a city surrounded by devils for more than two months, began to change.

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"How did this thing get in? It's so fucking evil."

Hengyang, at the newly constructed artillery position on the ground occupied by the devils, Commander Xu, to be precise, Battalion Commander Xu looked at the completely changed artillery position, his mouth was open enough to stuff a duck egg, and his expression was even more like seeing Like a ghost.

"Captain."

Beside him, Sun Xincang's throat moved, showing the same horrified expression:

"I don't have fireworks, do I?"

What did they see?
The angle of view follows the eyes of the two of them. In the artillery position, a new type of artillery enters the artillery position.

Compared with the 105 heavy mountain cannons of the Artillery Regiment before, the new cannons in front of us are larger, with thicker barrels and longer barrels. Of course, they are also heavier, so they need trucks to tow them.

At this moment, what the two of them saw was ten-wheeled trucks pulling a larger-diameter artillery into the artillery position.

Counting the number of people, there are more than 50 doors, and there are more trucks pulling the artillery and heading towards other positions. The shells are placed next to the runners.

"Call the battalion commander."

Head Xu first reminded Sun Xincang of the wrong name.

Although he changed from the head of the regiment to the head of the battalion, head Xu was obviously very happy.

Although the number of people is small, there were 500 people in the 800th regiment before, and now there are only 120 people in a battalion, but the strength of the troops has improved a lot. [-] mortars, recoilless guns, and big mules have been added. The combat effectiveness is More than twice as much as before.

Then, he swallowed his throat, still astonished, but surprised again:

"Definitely not dazzled."

"There's heavy artillery here, real heavy artillery."

"These must be heavy artillery from the Independent Regiment that came with the plane."

"Haha, heavy artillery."

Although the 120mm mortar and 105mm mountain artillery of the Artillery Regiment are called heavy artillery in the army, Commander Xu is very clear that only those barrel artillery with a caliber exceeding 120mm can be called heavy artillery.

Because only heavy pressure of this caliber can destroy the devil's defensive positions.

And these new artillery pieces in front of us can obviously do it.

"Haha, this time we also have real heavy artillery support."

Sun Xincang's tone was equally excited.

Although I have experienced the support of the aircraft of the Independent Regiment, for the infantry, artillery is the best support and the most solid pillar.

The excitement and joy made the two of them forget the biggest doubt in their hearts, where did these heavy artillery and trucks come from, and the plane obviously couldn't hold these big guys.

The two were overjoyed while watching the artillery rush to various positions. Just when the artillery convoy disappeared and the two were about to leave and return to the position, after all, according to the plan, the troops would launch a large-scale attack tomorrow.

Sudden.

"This is···"

Their eyes widened again.

In the distance, tanks and armored vehicles approached from a distance at dusk.

"My mother, there is still this big guy."

This time, Head Xu and Sun Xincang almost dislocated their jaws, but the tone of surprise was indeed stronger than before.

The two of them suddenly looked forward to tomorrow's attack in their hearts.

"How did these big guys get in?"

Sun Xincang was puzzled.

A tank weighs dozens of tons, and it is impossible to transport it in by plane.

"Don't know. Whatever, maybe it's some kind of technology."

Commander Xu, to be precise, was the excited voice of Battalion Commander Xu:
"I just want to see the expressions of the little devils after seeing these tanks sooner."

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the next day.

That is September [-]th.

Heyuan County Air Force Base.

As early as yesterday, around the base, large jeeps and armored vehicles, carrying fighters from the Independence Regiment, sealed off all surrounding areas, with the airport as the center, and no one was allowed to approach within a radius of [-] kilometers.

Now Heyuan County is economically developed, and the flow of people is like weaving. Fortunately, the base is located in the outskirts of Heyuan County, surrounded by deserted mountains, and there are few people, so it doesn't have much impact.

It was almost early morning.With a huge roar, one bomber after another took off, rose above the clouds, circled and lined up, and flew towards Tokyo.

coincidentally.

on the other side of the continent.

The same thing is happening.

Compared with Heyuan County, it was late at night in the European continent at this time. Under the night, huge bombers took off, gathered above the clouds, and flew towards the mainland of the United States of America.

As for Hengyang City, a lot of new gadgets also emerged.

　I've been too busy lately... sorry.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)