Bright Sword: Heiyunzhai was closed at the beginning

Chapter 316 Sharp turn down
"Brothers, go, go!" Sun Desheng drove the Sherman tank to the front, and after hearing the fierce gunfire from ahead, he shouted into the walkie-talkie.

The 20 tanks of the first company of the first tank battalion all sped up with a bang, bursting into a puff of black smoke and rushing towards the first line of defense of the second attack group.

Behind them, there are two tank companies closely following.

Sun Desheng rushed to the front of the second attack group's defense line and saw that the trenches that were simply dug were filled with gunpowder and smoke. Obviously, the little devil had plowed them with cannons. There were potholes everywhere, and sacrificed soldiers could be seen everywhere. The surviving fighters are still fighting back indomitably.

Sun Desheng's eyes turned red all of a sudden, "Fire!" Seeing the little devils charging not far away, Sun Desheng roared angrily.

Immediately, the machine gunners and gunners on the tank began to aim at the little devil and fire violently.

The batch of Shermans that Sun Desheng drove this time were already the latest M4A3. The main gun used a 76mm gun, which was more powerful than the previous 75mm gun. In addition, two machine guns fired wildly. The little devil began to fall under the attack of Sun Desheng's tank.

Sun Desheng drove the tank to face the little devils and infantry and slowly pressed them up. Everywhere he went, the little devils were killed one after another. It was a ruthless killing machine!
The 20 Shermans that followed Sun Desheng also gradually joined the battlefield. The little devil, who was about to command a large group to charge, did not know what to do at once. Now, should he continue to charge or retreat, the little devil's head was buzzing , do not know how to do?
Immediately following Sun Desheng's charge, the tanks joined the battlefield one after another. More than 40 machine guns and more than 20 artillery pieces on the tanks fired fiercely at the little devil's infantry brigade. Take the little devil's life.

For a steel monster like a tank, flesh and blood cannot resist it at all.

The little devils who charged intensively became thinner at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Come on!" The two battalions of the second attack group, which were originally ordered to retreat, did not retreat and counterattack at this time. The surviving company and platoon leaders followed the usual drill tactics and got out of the trench first one by one, and began to follow the tanks. Attacking from behind, even if Sun Desheng and the others didn't ask for it, the soldiers on the ground began to follow their commander one by one, completed the coordinated offensive formation of infantry and tanks without stagnation, and began to fight back against the little devil!
In this way, even if the little devil officers who reacted want to desperately start organizing death squads holding explosive packs and cluster grenades to prepare for a counterattack, there is no chance now.

There are at least five or six infantry soldiers behind each tank, and as many as a dozen or so. They use the tank as a cover to clean up the little devils charging within a hundred meters around the tank with Garand rifles and machine guns. The powerful firepower intertwined with the rifles made it impossible for the little devil's death squad to get closer to the tank.

Sun Desheng's counterattack knocked down the little devils' brigade at once, and then he cleared the remaining little devils' stragglers on the battlefield. The martyrs took it with them, and gradually began to retreat to a safe place behind the third line of defense to rest and change.

Faced with the sudden appearance of the tank unit of the Southeast Task Force, the little devil's forward was also a little confused. After losing a charging brigade, the little devil's captain Miki Osa, who was in charge of the front command, urgently contacted the head of the Kumamoto division and asked for the Taiwan The rapid-fire gun brigade attached to the Kumamoto Division was mobilized to undertake anti-tank combat missions.

The rapid-fire gun brigade under the division is equipped with 12 one-type mobile 47mm rapid-fire guns. If it can hit the Sherman tank head-on, it will still have strong lethality, and it will not be completely passive. The tanks in the tank are not something that ordinary people can easily do. The little devil has no tank brigade in Tainan now, so he can only rely on this to counter.

Gao Jianwu received the change ahead in the jeep, and the little devil did not catch up with him. He decisively ordered the tank group to cooperate with the second line of defense, waiting for the main force to gather and launch a counterattack.

Now his goal is to quickly take down Tainan, and if there is a chance, he will also take down Takao, otherwise the difficulty of attacking will increase linearly after the main force of the little devil's air force gathers.Under the condition of not seizing air superiority, it is difficult for the current air defense battalion to effectively counterattack the bombing and strafing of the little devil fighters.

As the support artillery battalion pulled by the jeep came to the second line of defense, Gao Jianwu quickly selected several artillery positions to form an intertwined artillery power coverage area. The first line of defense was re-armed, and most of the troops of the second attack group returned to Budai Port to change and rest.

In the process of coming and going, the road less than ten kilometers from Budai Port to the second line of defense was full of people. The reconnaissance plane sent by the little devil had already flown to this area for reconnaissance. In the air, Lu Xingguo and Major General Smith also The little devil fighters swarmed into each other.

The little devil's navy, air and sea soldiers who piloted the Zero fighter jets learned a new tactic this time, that is, four fighter planes work together in a team, not only to cover each other, but also to seize the opportunity to concentrate fire in unison. Major General Smith's air force has just encountered this situation. The situation is a little confusing.

At this time, the little devil's fighter jets were like hedgehogs all over him. He couldn't find a place to attack, so he could only swim around in the air looking for opportunities.

The two sides kept chasing in the air. After a period of familiarity, Smith and the others discovered that the formation of the little devils is almost a fixed flight pattern, that is, one little devil fighter is the main fighter, and the other three are dancing with him. Almost in a rhombus fashion, the three fighters form a triangle behind.

Since the communication equipment does not support them to have real-time conversations, the fighter formation of the little devils must maintain this fixed drill tactical mode. Although it is said that the 4 fighters group together to enhance the firepower and the ability to cover each other, Smith and the others keenly found that the little devil The devil has lost the flexibility to change.

For the Zero fighters, the little devil's combat method actually lost their strongest point.So when the pilots of the Smith Air Force team discovered the weakness of the little devil's new tactic one by one, they all started to use the extreme flexibility and maneuvering method to slip the little devil.

Taking advantage of the advantages of the Mustang fighter's high horsepower and fast flight speed, it constantly changes its orientation, increases the distance, and then looks for powerful attack opportunities from the side and rear.

In this way, the little devil's combat team couldn't keep up with the changes of the first fighter, because the Mustang fighter changed faster, and the fighter led by the little devil had to follow desperately to barely keep up, but the three behind him had some difficulties up.

After a period of pulling, the little devil's formation began to deform. In addition, the number of Smith's flying team was much larger than them, and they began to attack the little devil's air combat team from two or three directions!
Smith and the others were not in a hurry. After seizing a good attack position, they immediately floated away and let fighter planes from other directions take over the side attack. In this way, the little devils' combat team was soon surrounded by multiple Mustang fighter planes.

Because of the little devil's tactic, the leading ace pilot also has to take care of the three fighters behind. This is equivalent to locking the little devil's ace pilot into a group, unable to exert his superior combat advantages.

A seemingly invincible tactic quickly turned into a joke. After the first little devil battle group was shot down by the fighter plane, the monolithic group tactic began to collapse.

In the end, it still turned into a scene of being chased and killed by Mustang fighter jets all over the sky, and one after another was shot down.

In another airspace, Lu Xingguo and the others also achieved results one after another. After a long period of fighting, Lu Xingguo and his team's overall combat level has improved to a higher level. Facing the little devil, the Nakajima Type [-] fighters now have the advantage of one-on-one.

Compared to the Smith Air Force team, Lu Xingguo and the others opened up the situation earlier.

In the airspace of hundreds of square kilometers above Jiayi, hundreds of fighter jets fought desperately in the air. Although the outcome of this battle was already doomed, the desperate little devils still caused some damage to Smith and Lu Xingguo.

When the little devils felt that they couldn't win, they all started the tactic of killing each other. If they got the chance to shoot each other face to face, they would never dodge, but would directly accelerate and charge madly.

This crazy tactic is less effective for Major General Smith and his elite pilots. They have rich experience and can dodge it through extreme actions against Mustang fighter jets; The devil's tactic was difficult to crack for a while, so Lu Xingguo's flying team began to suffer casualties.

But the madness of the Little Devil Air Force ended here. Due to the double disadvantages of fighter jets in terms of quality and quantity, they kept coming back and forth one by one.

After the battle, Smith and Lu Xingguo, who had fought in the air for a long time, and their victorious fighters hurried back to the base one by one for supplies or repairs.

On the other hand, due to the desperate efforts of the little devils, more than a dozen fighter planes from the two air clusters had stayed in Jiayi, but after the pilots parachuted, most of them were rescued. Although the fighter jets were gone, the people were still there.

But for the little devil air force on Wanwan Island, the air force of the army and navy on the Tainan side suffered a catastrophe this time, and very few were able to escape back, and the air power on the Tainan side was completely wiped out.

For the lost fighter planes, Lu Xingguo and Major General Smith jointly requested the Allied Forces Headquarters to immediately replenish them. Since the fighter planes of their two flight teams needed to be repaired, they could not provide air cover for the Southeast Task Force.

After Major General Smith communicated urgently with General Steven, he mobilized the reserve flight team at the Hong Kong-Kowloon Allied Air Force Base. When Major General Smith returned, the flight team that received the order from Major General Smith started to take off The sky over Tainan began to provide air cover for Gao Jianwu's attack.

"Huang Runfa, the left position will be handed over to your company. Before the arrival of the main force, your company will be responsible for the defense of this hill."

"Yes, Battalion Commander, resolutely complete the task!"

Lou Ahsi did not expect that the soldier who chatted with him for a long time was actually a company commander.At this moment, he took his company to seize a hill.

On this hill, the friendly forces of the second attack group in front have dug some trenches, and the entire position has begun to take shape.

Huang Runfa led his own company to continuously deepen and increase the number of artillery holes in these trenches in accordance with tactical requirements.

According to the order from the headquarters, they will have a contest with the main force of the little devils here.For Gao Jianwu, it was easier to eliminate the little devils out of the city base camp.

Now, with the third attack group as the main blocking force, a line of defense more than 1 kilometer deep is formed.Three tank companies served as a counterattack force and were placed in the rear of the center.

A large number of artillery clusters form an arc-shaped position in a well-proportioned manner, which can wrap five or six square kilometers of little devils inside. This is Gao Jianwu's trump card. Before the main force of the little devils arrives, Gao Jianwu will not expose the strength of the artillery , use support artillery at most to knock out the little devil's mountain cannon.

Therefore, Huang Runfa and the main force of their infantry battalion had to face the threat of bombardment from the infantry artillery and mortars of the little devils, and the defense of the position had to be strengthened.

All kinds of information from the front gathered here at Gao Jianwu. For Gao Jianwu, he gradually marked the location of the little devil's main force on the map, so that he knew the little devil's progress like the palm of his hand.

The little devil's main force in Tainan has been drawn out, and now it is frightened by the tank counterattack and is waiting for their anti-tank brigade on the first line of defense.At the same time, prepare to wait for the arrival of reinforcements from Gaoxiong's navy, and form a superior force to counterattack.

The head of the Kumamoto division had given up hope of a quick victory after hearing reports from the front that they had discovered enemy tank units. In his view, only after the main force was concentrated could they hope to break through the enemy's tank defenses.

Not only his anti-tank brigade, but also the anti-tank forces of the navy need to join in before they can hope to fight against enemy tanks.

The disastrous defeat of the army's aviation and the navy's aviation at almost the same time not only woke up the head of the Kumamoto division, but also caused Lieutenant General Takagi of Takao to dispatch a tank brigade and an anti-tank brigade that he was in charge of.

At this time, they had no room for excuses, and the strength of the enemy had exceeded their most pessimistic estimates, so this time the Kumamoto Division and Vice Admiral Takagi's navy did their best.

Two of them have more than 3 troops, and the artillery has three brigades. In addition to the mountain artillery brigade of the Kumamoto Division, Lieutenant General Takagi sent a 105mm howitzer brigade and a 75mm field artillery brigade.

This is already the standard for the Artillery Wing of a Type-A Division. With the addition of two anti-tank brigades and a tank brigade, the little devil dispatched all the elite from Tainan, completely exceeding the requirements of a complete Type-A division. strength.

From the point of view of the little devil, this kind of strength is not weak enough to deal with the Southeast Task Force who hastily landed, but now the air force has suffered a disastrous defeat, otherwise, if the air force is added with a flying team, the chances of victory will be even greater.

But now the reinforcement of the air force is still on the way. Although the army aviation unit of the little devil in the north of the moss still has some Nakajima Type [-] fighters and light explosive bombers, Lieutenant General Hase does not dare to put all this money on his family. Whether the Mustang fighter air group of Xingguo and Major General Smith is still there? In his opinion, if the Mustang fighter group of the Southeast Task Force is still there, sending them here is still giving away their heads.

By mistake, Gao Jianwu won a rare respite.

Not only did the second attack group refit and rest and return to their positions, but the three attack groups that landed in the second wave also successfully landed on the coastline of more than ten kilometers near Budai Port, and quickly assembled at Budai Port for re-equipment.

In addition to letting the fourth attack group join Zhao Dalei's attack team, Gao Jianwu began to fight Jiayi house by house, cleaning up Jiayi's little devils, and Gao Jianwu hid the other two attack groups under the dense forest near Jiayi. .

Lu Xingguo and Smith's flight team took turns to cover the skies above Jiayi, intercepting and driving away the little devil's reconnaissance plane. According to the little devil's intelligence, they always estimated that three assault groups landed, which is also in line with their understanding of fishing boats. Estimated delivery capacity.

They have not yet thought that the main force of the Southeast Task Force has long been hidden near Penghu. After all, according to current information, most of the Southeast Task Force is still in and out of Xiamen Island.

It was this intelligence error that made them misjudge the whole situation.

After sending a mixed brigade in the direction of Taichung and a reinforced Type A division from Tainan Kaohsiung, Lieutenant General Hase, Lieutenant General Kumamoto and others believed that they could at least draw a tie with the Southeast Task Force. , can stop the Allied landing forces near Jiayi.

As for the navy, there is a detachment of the Fifth Fleet under the personal command of Lieutenant General Takagi. The little devil thinks that it can at least gain the upper hand. After all, what the Southeast Task Force is now exposed is a small fleet of General De Moore. The enemy's aerial bombardment, at sea they will be the victors.

In the sea area of ​​Tainan, Lieutenant General Takagi sat on his flagship, looking at the distant sea and lost in thought.

In order to keep abreast of the air force dynamics of the Allied Forces, Lieutenant General Takagi sent several reconnaissance planes under his command to monitor the sea area in the direction of Southwest Port Kyushu and the sea area in the west of Xiamen for early warning.

"Your Excellency, Air Reconnaissance Aircraft No. 1 reports that there are no enemy fighter planes in the nearby waters!"

"Your Excellency, Air Reconnaissance Aircraft No. 2 reports that the nearby sea area is safe!"

Lieutenant Admiral Takagi, who kept scanning the sea, breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that the aerial reconnaissance plane reported that there was no discovery.

In his opinion, the most dangerous thing now is the enemy's dive bombers. Although the heavy bombs carried by the Mustang fighter jets are annoying, they are much less threatening than the Allied dive bombers.

After all, the torpedoes carried by dive bombers are far more lethal to ships than heavy bombs.For a flexible ship like a destroyer, aerial bombs that avoid aerial bombardment can be avoided by moving flexibly.

But it is not so easy to deal with the torpedoes dropped by the enemy.

Just when Lieutenant General Takagi thought everything was going well, suddenly the destroyer in front of the guard mission issued a combat alarm!

"Your Excellency, the Allied fleet is found ahead!" The communications staff quickly ran over to report the information, "One battleship and four destroyers were found!"

Hearing this discovery, Lieutenant Admiral Takagi's heart skipped a beat, because this fleet is obviously different from the fleet that General Demore attacked Budai Port according to the information he received!
This means a brand new fleet, and his fleet will face the risk of being attacked by two enemy fleets.

"Order the fleet to follow at full speed, and immediately encircle and annihilate the Allied fleet!" Vice Admiral Takagi hesitated for less than ten seconds before ordering decisively.

Before he found the enemy's second fleet, he could use his superior force to inflict heavy damage on this sudden fleet first!

"All ships, concentrate your firepower to encircle and annihilate the battleships of the Allied Fleet!"

Lieutenant Admiral Takagi issued a second order, and immediately, the entire fleet began to change formation, facing the fleet of General Hurt to the north aggressively.

To the north, General Hurt also spotted Admiral Takagi's fleet almost at the same time.

"Retreat and get closer to General De Moore!" General Hurt had no intention of single-handedly confronting the Takagi Fleet.

For him, how to win this battle is the most important thing, not acting with loyalty.

The entire fleet turned to the north and began to move closer to General De Moore's fleet.

The two fleets fled and chased for more than half an hour. General Hurt pulled Takagi's fleet close to General Demore's fleet. One left and one right anti-outflank formation, turned around and started to attack the Takagi fleet!

Seeing that the enemy indeed had two fleets converging together, this made Vice Admiral Takagi extinguish his ambition to annihilate the opponent's battleships!
The opponent's current strength is almost twice that of his side, how to fight? !

Lieutenant Admiral Takagi looked at the two fleets in the distance, his face twitched a few times, he really wanted to leave, and simply ordered the fleet to change its sailing and return to the base port, where they built a complete coastal fortification , There are a large number of turrets and anti-aircraft guns guarding them, and with the fleet firepower, if a fleet like General Hurt and General De Moore dares to go, it is nothing more than killing people.

With the current design of coastal fortifications, it is difficult to take advantage of even two battleships, not to mention that General Hurt's fleet now only has one battleship from the early days and one light cruiser under General De Moore. Much weaker for defense forces.

As for destroyers, under this defense system, if they dare to approach the past, they will simply die.

It's just that shrinking back like this is tantamount to giving up to the Allied forces on the sea surface. If the Allied forces' fleet is not restrained by General Takagi's fleet, the whole situation will take a turn for the worse for the ground forces that are just about to counterattack with the Southeast Task Force!
Takagi didn't dare to imagine what kind of tragedy the ground forces would be without his own containment. With the suppression of ten ships and guns, his own navy special marines had no power to fight back at all!
Thinking of this, Takagi gritted his teeth and refused to retreat!
Even if the Allied fleet is playing hide-and-seek on the sea, these two fleets must be restrained!

(End of this chapter)