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Chapter 543 Chapter 543
In fact, the battle in Luozhen was not completely over when Qi's 3rd Army was assembled.When Liu Guozhu climbed back to his tank, the defenders of Qi State had not completely given up resistance.

Fierce gunfire continued inside Luozhen. From the train station to the power plant in the east, there were soldiers from the Qi army fighting persistently.

It's just that their resistance was finally suppressed by the 1st Armored Division. Wherever the tanks went, the Qi army was powerless to fight back.

The No. 4 tank was still too powerful on the battlefield at the level of World War I.Basically, Qi's army has nothing to do with this weapon, and can only rely on bravery to fight with flesh and blood.

Although at the train station, a Qi soldier holding explosives finally destroyed a No. 1 tank of the 4st Battalion, but in the end his efforts did not change the outcome of the Qi army's defeat and surrender.

The 3000 Qi soldiers stationed in Luozhen were almost wiped out. The soldiers who barely survived chose to surrender decently. They handed over their weapons and were escorted to the rear by the Tang army.

Immediately afterwards, the Tang army did not dare to neglect at all. They judged from the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Qi army guarding Luozhen, and also learned from the interrogation of the commander of the Qi army that the Qi State had begun to pay attention to the importance of Luozhen.

In other words, the Qi army has realized that Luozhen is very dangerous, and they are trying their best to send more troops here.

There are various indications that the Qi army will definitely try to retake Luozhen, so the Tang army must set up a solid line of defense here to face the incoming enemy.

"Fast! We don't have time to waste!" A Tang army commander reminded his subordinates while shoveling soil.

In the upcoming battle, a complete and solid fortification is the only thing they can rely on to maintain their combat effectiveness, or to keep their own lives.

Fortunately, every soldier of the Tang Army Grenadiers has a standard engineer shovel, and they can build a line of defense quite quickly.

Each soldier would dig a foxhole, which would then be quickly connected to form trenches as construction progressed.

The trenches in reality are different from the ones in the movies. In order to avoid being bombarded, the trenches are often twisted and crooked, and rarely horizontal and vertical.

Why not restore the real trench in depth in the movie?The reason is also very simple: the horizontal field of view of the real trench is not good, which affects the shooting, and the momentum is not as good as the straight trench, so it can only be compromised for art.

After connecting the foxholes and forming trenches, the Tang Army began to build stronger machine gun flank positions on both sides of its trenches.

These flank positions look like ordinary inconspicuous individual positions from the front, but there will be hidden machine guns on standby in places diagonally facing their own positions.

Once the enemy approached our main position, the machine guns here would fire from the flanks, suppressing the enemy's attacking forces and causing a lot of damage.

The crossfire of the two wings is a classic configuration that has been tried and tested, so most of the junior commanders of the Tang Kingdom who graduated from colleges will follow the script as much as possible.

Soon, behind the collapsed house, the company-level mortar support firepower has also determined the shooting angle and shooting area.

Those who have no mission for the time being are helping to unload the ammunition from the truck, and then distribute the ammunition to the participating troops as much as possible.

Inside the train station, Tang Jun made some more discoveries: They found a Qi army locomotive that hadn't been destroyed in time, and there was a train of leather on it, which was full of grain.

Obviously, this is a train that has not had time to unload, and it is loaded with food supplies to be distributed to the front line.

Everyone also found gasoline and ammunition in Luozhen's warehouse—it's a pity that the Qi army's ammunition has no way to supplement the Tang army's ammunition consumption.

Even the gasoline used by everyone is different: Tang Jun's gasoline is of significantly higher quality and purity, and it burns better naturally.

However, the low-quality gasoline seized by the Qi army is not useless. They can be mixed with Tang Jun's own gasoline and continue to be used reluctantly.

It's a pity that this method will cause carbon deposits in the engine, which is a kind of drinking poison to quench thirst.This will increase the failure rate of Tang Jun's engines, and may increase Tang Jun's ability to continue fighting in a short period of time.

This is war, and everyone will do some shit that doesn't seem reasonable, but is very realistic.

When defending, Tang Jun's tanks can only be used as fire support points.The tank company with one tank destroyed was left in the town and was ordered to act as a battery and a machine gun bunker to support the entire position.

At the same time, the tanks of the other two companies of the 1st Battalion were ordered to drive out of the town. They hid in a depression in the northern part of the town and waited, preparing to attack the Qi army's defense line in turn if necessary.

After setting up the defensive position, Tang Jun's reinforcements arrived at Luo Town first, which boosted the morale of Tang Jun in the town.

Although it was only a follow-up light infantry, their arrival strengthened the Tang army's defensive strength.

The two battalions of grenadiers, which were originally stretched, have now suddenly become four battalions, which makes the frontline commanders of the Tang army guarding here suddenly full of confidence.

The security forces had already dispersed, and they quickly sent back the news of the Qi army's counterattack.There is a large group of Qi troops advancing along the road to Luozhen, the exact number is unknown.

Then a battle broke out between the two sides. Tang Jun, who was in charge of guarding the periphery, caused some troubles for Qi Jun before retreating. Qi Jun lost seven or eight people and had to slow down his advance.

In the evening, the Qi army's artillery launched an attack on Luozhen.The opponent fired hundreds of shells, which destroyed the train full of grain that was too late to deal with.

Tang Jun's long-range artillery fire was too lazy to fight back, and as night fell, Qi Jun also quieted down.Under the cover of night, Qi's 3rd Army gathered its forces and spent one night preparing for the next morning's attack.

Tang Jun rested all night, and Qi Jun trekked all the way, and also rested for most of the night. Both sides were in a relatively full state and devoted themselves to the next day's battle.

Early on the morning of the third day, the two sides immediately became entangled.Tang Jun's 40 Stuka dive bombers arrived as scheduled and greeted the arrogant Qi artillerymen yesterday.

The screaming sound like a ghost echoed in the sky, making the defending soldiers of the Tang army terrified.

Before the first batch of Stuka dive bombers left, the second batch of B-17 bombers arrived on the battlefield.

These Tang army planes seem to be endless, just hovering over the Qi army, lingering like a nightmare.

They kept dropping bombs, blowing up the Qi army trying to gather to launch a ground attack, and delaying the opponent's attack.

Because of these and the existence of the aircraft, the Qi army's advantage in the number of artillery was not fully utilized. Half of the dozens of cannons they mobilized were either hiding or being destroyed.

The remaining half did not get cheap in front of the artillery fire of the Tang army. The commander of Qi State did not expect that the artillery fire of one armored division of the Tang army could fight back and forth with all the cannons of their two or three infantry divisions.

For Qi Guo, this is not the most troublesome thing.The most troublesome thing was that their first tentative attack did not start until noon.

When the fifth batch of Tang Army's Stuka dive bombers arrived on the battlefield, the generals of the Qi Army finally realized that the planes above their heads might really not leave.

After losing thousands of soldiers without launching an attack, the commander of Qi's 3rd Army finally gritted his teeth and launched the first onslaught.

Regardless of the casualties, the artillerymen of the Qi army started shelling again. They fired dozens of shells, blowing up Luozhen into thick smoke.

Then the main force of the 3rd Division of the 3rd Army of the State of Qi invested in an infantry regiment, and a sea of ​​people rushed to the Tang Army's position.

"Rush! The first to enter Luo Town! Reward 50 gold coins!" A commander of the Qi army waved a Mauser pistol in his hand, motivating the soldiers of the Qi State who were advancing with bayonets.

It is easy to distinguish Qi soldiers without helmets, and they are very different from Tang soldiers wearing M35 helmets.The soldiers of the Tang army all wore tactical vests, and the soldiers of the Qi army only had the simplest armed belt.

On the front of the position, the frontal decoy machine gun position that lured the Qi army fired first. The sound of the MG42 machine gun tearing the cloth strips was unique and full of threats.

The dense ammunition came oncoming, and the soldiers of the Qi army fell down unexpectedly.The rest of the Qi army immediately dispersed further, bending forward a little bit.

"Tutu, chug!" The Maxim machine gun covering the attack of the Qi soldiers also roared, and fired fiercely at the place where the tracer bullets flew out before.

The 3rd Army is indeed the most elite combat unit under the Third Prince. As soon as it opened its posture, its combat quality was much higher than that of other Qi Army troops.

Their offense is more organized, with machine gun cover and artillery support. It can be seen that the training is very good, and the commander can fully understand the performance of the weapons and equipment in his hand, and use them together to play a greater role. power.

It's just that although they are very good, their performance is only very good on the level of the First World War.

The Tang army's mortars that were soon deployed in the town made these attacking Qi troops suffer.They were blasted to pieces by a round of artillery fire, and routed immediately after the first attempt to attack.

It wasn't until this time that the commander of the Qi army seemed to remember that Tang Jun's breakthrough of the defense line was like cutting melons and vegetables, which did not mean that everyone could easily penetrate the carefully arranged defense line.

Without the cover of the air force and tanks, it seems...their Qi army really couldn't penetrate the opponent's defensive positions like the Tang army.

But they no longer have the option to retreat. After all, there is an old saying: come and come...

(End of this chapter)