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Chapter 728 Chapter 728

Under Feng Kezhi's order, Ding Hong actually did a serious thing.He was ordered to withdraw all the Dahua troops near Tengyun to Nanfengkou, and the troops executed it quite quickly.

Some flustered Dahua troops were very quick when executing the retreat order. They executed the order without hesitation and saved themselves.

In the drizzle, these troops gave up Tengyun, and then fled to Nanfengkou with the heavy weapons they could take away.

And soon, the Tang army occupied Tengyun, which was captured here according to the plan, and then these armored troops began to march towards Nanfengkou.

The battle soon broke out near the Nanfengkou. An armored battalion of the Tang Army attacked along the road and encountered the Dahua defenders about 10 kilometers away from the Nanfengkou.

A fierce battle broke out between the two sides immediately. Tang Jun gave up the offensive after losing two No. 4 tanks, and then the two sides confronted each other here.

About an hour later, the Tang army's follow-up troops arrived and launched an attack on the enemy at Nanfengkou again. The Dahua troops put in tanks, and the two sides fought together again.

As a result, the Dahua defenders miraculously held their positions. The Tang army once again lost 4 tanks, but did not occupy the village where the Dahua troops were stationed, nor did they capture the defensive positions on the two wings.

Although it was raining, the Dahua troops dug trenches and reinforced them with sandbags.

Relying on the supply station behind them and sufficient shells, the artillerymen of the Dahua army kept firing, which caused considerable trouble for the Tang army's attack.

"It's impossible to fight like this! Our losses will be great." Looking at the retreating tank troops releasing smoke in the distance, a team leader in charge of commanding the combat team said with some resentment.

This is actually not his regiment at all, he was only temporarily appointed as the commander of this combat team.

The entire combat team includes the tank battalion that arrived here first, and another panzergrenadier battalion and some self-propelled artillery that just arrived here.

Also included are some logistics trucks that support the troops, and other miscellaneous units that follow the troops along.

It is indeed a large mess of troops: there are a few No. 4 assault guns, but they are not fully organized, and they are almost a company. They are now being used as support firepower and temporarily mixed with self-propelled artillery units.

There are also two Lion-style armored reconnaissance vehicles, which are not capable of frontal combat. After all, the armor is too thin, so they can only be arranged on the flanks for surveillance and cover.

The battalion commander of the tank battalion standing on the side also looked helpless, and asked with a sigh: "Then what should we do? Behind them is the Nanfengkou, and there are enough shells."

Because it was in the rain, the smoke from the tank units was not very effective and hardly had any effect.However, those tanks still covered a small number of grenadiers and retreated back, bringing back many wounded.

Among the officers present, apart from this commander, the battalion commander of this tank battalion has the highest rank, so he is almost the second in command of this combat team.

The attack just now caused him to lose many tanks, which was almost one-sixth of the combat power of his entire battalion.

If he had the choice, he wouldn't even want to storm the enemy's positions like this-according to the manual, this damn job should have been done by the assault gun.

Letting tanks gnaw at the enemy's fixed fortifications gnawed by infantry assault guns is simply a waste. His tanks should charge up like heavy cavalry and advance thousands of miles into the enemy's hinterland.

But the closer to the south, the more rainy weather, the armored troops lost the air cover, and had to fight the mud, which made the tank troops lose their former agility and become clumsy.

"The other party has dug trenches and laid mines, so we have to wait for the follow-up infantry to come up." The regiment leader summed it up briefly, and ordered the troops who were fighting hard to retreat: "Let your tanks retreat too. , it's not worth wasting time and life."

The battalion commander of the tank battalion, who was somewhat jealous, was still a little unwilling. He didn't want his tank to be lost in vain, so he said with a little annoyance: "If we do this, today will only be wasted. The infantry is still more than ten kilometers behind us."

"That can only wait." The head of the commanding combat team gave his opinion.

"Okay! Then I will let the people below cook and find a place to shelter from the rain." The battalion commander was also very helpless at this time, and after a few seconds of silence, he nodded in agreement with the commander.

In fact, after calming down for a few seconds, he also realized that his troops really had no way to break through the line of defense in front of him. The enemy also had tanks, and would launch a counterattack when the line of defense was about to collapse.

Although the tanks of the Tang army were powerful, the rain shortened the combat distance between the two sides, and the Dahua tanks on the defensive side did not need communication, so the gap between the two sides was infinitely narrowed.

In this case, it would be too irrational to use refueling tactics to waste tanks a little bit, wasting precious tank crews.

The head of the group was wearing a raincoat, but in fact some places were already soaked.But he has his own car and doesn't need to be out in the rain all the time.

The Panzergrenadiers also have Type 113 armored vehicles that can take shelter from the rain, and only a small number of people are needed to set up sentries.The tank troops don't have to worry, they just need to cover the hatches so they won't get wet from the rain.

So the regiment leader squinted his eyes and looked at the sky, and comforted him: "It's okay, we are armored troops, the enemy must suffer more than us in the rain."

"Who knows, I feel very uncomfortable now. Those are six tanks! They are all my tanks!" The battalion commander looked at the battlefield not far away through the rain curtain in front of him.

The place has returned to silence, only the wreckage of the tank wetted by rain can still vaguely see the misty smoke dispersing from the gap in the hatch.

Although the regiment leader ordered to stop the attack, he was unwilling to reconcile himself, so he cursed immediately: "This damn weather! If the rain stopped, we should have arrived here yesterday."

"Yeah, this damn weather, if it wasn't raining, we might even catch up with the Dahua troops who retreated from Tengyun." The battalion commander of the tank battalion understood this feeling very well, and echoed.

In the distance, the retreating grenadiers have already carried the wounded into the truck compartment. The truck driver and some follow-up logistics engineers are setting up tents. Some soldiers in raincoats are gathered under the tree, where the rain can be slightly less .

The ground is full of mud and water, and when the boots step on it, water seeps in and soaks the socks.If you walk for a day in this condition, your entire foot will be swollen and white with blisters.

The skin crinkles together and becomes brittle.Then it breaks due to friction and becomes a bleeding wound.

If left untreated, these wounds would soon become infected and affect the entire sole of the foot, cross-infecting the fungus and eventually destroying the nerve tissue, forcing doctors to consider amputating the entire lower leg to stop the decay and spread of the disease.

The design of military boots is actually very contradictory. If you consider daily use, it is best to have a high waist that can protect the calf and strangle the calf so that soldiers can better adapt to long-distance trekking.

But if you consider the wet environment of wading, it is necessary to make it as easy as possible for soldiers to take off their shoes-but unfortunately, the boots are not easy to take off.

So World War II infantry often used leggings, some made of cloth, some made of leather or canvas materials.

Tang Jun's high-waisted military boots are actually not easy to take off, but if you don't take off the shoes and dry your feet as soon as possible at this time, you will easily lose a few toes...

That's why some engineers started to set up tents during the attack, and some soldiers got into the truck compartment after returning and began to take off their shoes.

Two more trucks stopped on the side of the road in the rain. They were troops coming along the road. The designation was another motorized infantry regiment. Most of them did not get out of the truck. Only two people in raincoats came to find the combat team. The commander reported.

This is a kind of tacit understanding, as long as the formed troops are found, these troops lost on the road will immediately join and mix into new troops.

In this way, the size of the troops can be guaranteed, and the combat effectiveness of the attacking troops can also be maintained.There are also disadvantages. For example, if there are casualties, the troops they belong to cannot be counted in a short period of time.

So so far, Tang Jun himself has not calculated the loss data after the war started, which requires subsequent counting and summarization before conclusions can be drawn.

Even if the Tang army is like this, the Dahua defenders on the opposite side are completely tragic. In fact, despite the bravery and tenacity they fought just now, in fact, this group of soldiers didn't even wear raincoats.

They were already soaked in the trenches, because they were afraid that the Tang army would come again, and they dared not retreat, so they could only wait in the muddy trenches foolishly.

The Dahua tank unit hiding on the other side of the village is better, at least they can hide in the tank to avoid the rain.

However, Tang Jun obviously did not intend to make it easier for these Dahua tank soldiers: soon several No. 4 assault guns began shelling, and the main bombardment was the Dahua tank troops who might be hiding behind the village.

After several shells fell, Dahua's tank troops had to move their positions. Although only one tank was damaged, the frightened tankers had to consider their own safety.

When they left the shelling area just now, Tang Jun's shelling stopped abruptly: in fact, Tang Jun didn't dare to waste his shells too much, and bombarded such "suspicious areas" that had not been fully investigated, they just fired a few rounds of shelling That's it.

As a result, both sides ended the day's fighting while cursing, the rain continued, and Tang Jun's troops arrived one after another.

(End of this chapter)