Bright sword, I have a red police base car

While the large-caliber artillery of the Red Alert's aerial gunship was being loaded, the other two small and medium-caliber artillery pieces were also not idle.

While the plane was circling, the other two artillery operators were also carrying out fire strikes on Japanese targets in other marked areas, while using optical probes to observe the movements of the surrounding Japanese troops.

For the Red Alert, Japanese troops in other directions are not that important.

As long as the defenders at the west gate of Jingxing County are eliminated and the Japanese troops in other directions are suppressed, it will be enough to ensure that the 022 Tactical Action Team can escape.

However, as the Red Alert's air strike had just begun, some of the Japanese heavy firepower that had just been deployed was still firing at the 022 Squadron. The 022 Squadron could only wait for the fire suppression from the aerial gunboats to arrive.

After all, in addition to pursuing and encircling the Japs, the Japanese army also deployed considerable troops at the city gate tower.

If the special forces of the Red Alert Force rushed out rashly, they would still be doomed to fail in the face of the heavy firepower of the Japanese army.

The Japanese's 13.2mm caliber anti-aircraft machine gun bullets could not tell whether these Red Alert soldiers were special forces members.

"522, I am from the 022 squad. The Japanese firepower at the city gate is too strong. Let's blow up the gate tower first!"

"522 understood, 100mm gun loaded, ready to fire!"

"Oh!"

"boom"

As the aerial gunboat's 100mm caliber artillery accurately hit the city tower at the west gate of Jingxing County, the Japanese troops deployed here, as well as the entire city gate tower, collapsed instantly.

"521, pay attention to suppress the Japanese troops in the marked area!"

"understand!"

Under the cover of two aerial gunboats, the 12-man special operations team of the Red Alert Force finally successfully broke through the ruins of the west gate tower of Jingxing County.

The helicopter responsible for the response was waiting for the special forces to evacuate in a valley not far away.

When the battle in Jingxing County ended, the Red Alert troops' artillery bombardment of Japanese troops along the Ye River also ended.

The next task will depend on the ground offensive forces!
"Attention all units, cease shelling and begin a full-scale attack!"

"understand!"

As the combat order was issued, the Red Alert troops, who had been waiting on the front line for a long time, immediately launched an attack.

The sound of countless tank and armored vehicle engines caused the ground to begin to tremble slightly. As the roar of the engines sounded, the armored forces of the Red Alert Force rushed towards the Japanese positions like a steel torrent.

"Bagayalu! The Ping'an County Security Corps has begun its attack!"

"Get into position! Get into position! Ha-ya-ko!"

Upon hearing the noise, the Japanese soldiers immediately began to enter the pre-set positions, and their anti-aircraft defense forces also dragged out the anti-aircraft guns that had been hidden in the tunnels.

Although a considerable number of Japanese anti-aircraft guns were still buried or destroyed, the Japs still had a large number of artillery pieces left.

These artillery pieces were mainly 25mm artillery pieces of the Japanese Army, but there were also a certain number of 88mm anti-tank guns.

These were the main weapons used by the Japanese to resist the Red Alert forces.

Of course, in addition to these, the Japanese also have a large number of Type 4 barbed mines known as "Taijun Happy Sticks".

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

When the Red Alert's ground attack force was less than 500 meters away from the Japanese position, the main guns of each tank gun began to fire at the Japanese defensive positions.

At this time, the Japanese air defense forces had finally completed the deployment of their air defense weapons.

"boom!"

"Ah~"

A 100mm caliber high-explosive bomb fired from the main gun of the Red Alert tank directly destroyed a 25mm twin-mounted anti-aircraft gun of the Japanese. Not far from this air defense position, an 88mm gun that had just been deployed was also aimed at the Red Alert's Type 59 tank.

After adjusting the firing parameters, the Japanese sergeant in charge of the 88mm gun drew out the command knife from his waist and shouted, "Yasi, come on!"

"Oh!"

The armor-piercing shell fired by the Japanese directly hit the turret of the Red Alert Force's Type 59 tank.

However, the reactive armor installed on the 59D1 equipped by the Red Alert Force was triggered and blew away the armor-piercing shell before it exploded.

The Japanese gunners, who had just fired and were about to check the effectiveness of the attack, were frightened to death when they saw their target tank driving out of the smoke of the explosion.

"How could it not penetrate? How is that possible? It's already 500 meters in."

Looking at the Type 59 tank driving out of the smoke of the explosion and firing crazily at the Japanese positions, the Japanese sergeant in charge of the artillery stood there in astonishment and muttered to himself.

However, there are devils with poor psychological quality, and naturally there are also devils with good psychological quality.

At the position of a Japanese twin 25mm artillery, a Japanese gunner turned a blind eye to the situation of the Red Alert's tanks and just focused on firing shells at them.

The idea of ​​these Japanese devils is very simple, even if it is just a small trick, they will make you suffer some losses.

The tactic of using small-caliber artillery to clear the enemy's face still has a certain effect when facing the Red Alert's Type 59.

With the intensive firepower attack, many reactive armors on this Type 59 tank were blown up, and even the commander's observation mirror was washed away by the Japanese's small-caliber artillery.

"Fuck! Take down the Japanese's 25mm rapid-fire cannon!"

"No! The fire outside is too bright. My gun scope is full of smoke and I have no vision at all!"

"Infantry fighting vehicle! Mount Red Arrow!"

"understand!"

Just as this tank, which was acting as a meat shield and protecting the armored vehicles behind it from fire, lost its combat vision, a tracked infantry fighting vehicle behind the tank immediately turned around and revealed half of its body.

"At 11 o'clock, 300 meters, enemy artillery, Red Arrow 73, short stop and destroy!"

"Whoosh~"

A Red Arrow 73 vehicle-mounted anti-tank/fortification missile was quickly launched after the order was given, and flew towards the Japanese artillery position in a spiral trajectory.

The Japanese anti-aircraft soldier who was operating the artillery looked at the direction of the Ping'an County Security Corps and saw a luminous object with a spiral trajectory flying towards them. He was a little at a loss for a moment.

After all, these Japanese devils are new to missiles, and it is the first time they have seen this kind of strange weapon and equipment.

The old man who had seen this anti-tank missile
Oh, they all went to meet the Japanese locusts!

That’s okay!

So the little devil just watched the missile fly towards his artillery position.
"Boom!" After the anti-tank missile exploded, the Japanese army's twin 25mm artillery turned into a pile of scrap metal with the explosion, and the Japanese soldier operating the artillery was also reduced to ashes.

Not far away, a 88mm gun saw that the 59D59 had lost a large amount of external reactive armor, so it immediately turned its gun and aimed at the 1D that had lost its reactive armor.

"Oh!"

As the 88 gun fired, the armor-piercing shell accurately hit the oval turret of the 59 tank.

However, the oval turret's ability to withstand attacks far exceeded the Japanese army's expectations.

After hitting the oval turret, the 88mm shell was instantly bounced to the side.

"Baka! Ricochet!"

The Japanese artillery commander on the side was very angry when he saw this, and then ordered the gunner to lower the elevation and depression angles of the artillery by two degrees.

"Fire!"

"boom!"

After being fired, the shell hit the guard ring between the turret and the tank body.

And after an explosion, the turret guard ring of the Red Alert's Type 59 tank was deformed by the impact of the shell, and the tank's turret was also stuck.

"Ahem! Damn it, the turret can't move, Lao Liu! Lao Liu!"

After reporting the turret failure, the gunner of the tank turned around and saw the fallen loader. After measuring his breathing, the gunner breathed a sigh of relief.

"Squad leader, Lao Liu was knocked unconscious. His reactive armor is completely damaged, the turret steering is out of order, and the loader is unconscious!"

"Driver, reverse!"

Since the tank is now severely damaged, according to pre-war instructions, in this situation the tank should reverse and withdraw from the battlefield and wait for reinforcements from post-war maintenance troops.

It's not that the Red Alert soldiers are afraid to fight, but the fearless sacrifice is simply not worth it, and if this severely damaged tank continues to stay on the front line, it is likely to have an impact on the subsequent troops.

In the Japanese position, after the second firing, the Japs' artillery shells finally showed initial results.

The tanks of the Ping'an County Security Corps finally achieved results under their artillery fire. Although they only damaged the enemy's tanks, in such a long battle, this was the first time that the Japanese had effectively hit the Red Alert Force's Type 59 tanks.

And this was not the only Type 59 tank that was damaged.

In front of another Japanese position, a 88mm gun of the Japanese army hit the track of a 400mm tank at a distance of 59 meters and directly destroyed one side of the guide wheel of the tank.

You know, from the front, the tank's track area is not very large, and the main reason why the Japanese were able to accurately hit here is naturally because.
Missed.
That's right, in the previous shelling, the Japanese's gun scope was loosened by the strong shock wave. The Japanese were aiming at the observation and aiming equipment of this Type 59 tank, but a shell hit the tank's track.

The tank that has lost its tracks can only stay where it is. After all, the single-sided track can only allow the tank to turn, and cannot support the tank to continue moving forward.

"Yoshi! All crews, pay attention, aim at the turret guard ring and tracks of the Ping'an County Security Corps tanks!"

"Hai!"

Although the Japanese finally found a way to weaken the Red Alert armored forces in this battle, it was of no use to them at this time.

After such a long time, they only damaged two Type 59 tanks of the Red Alert Force, but the Red Alert Force had more than tanks.

Moreover, these tanks are only the armored assault forces of each combined battalion. The real main tanks of the Red Alert have not yet appeared!

"The Japanese anti-tank position has been marked. Attention, mortar company. High-explosive shells, instantaneous fuses, No. 4 charge. All companies, three rounds in rapid succession, fire!"

“Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang.”

After finding out all the Japanese army's firepower points, the Red Alert troops on the front line immediately reported the coordinates of the Japanese army's firepower points. At this time, the two mortar companies that were completing their deployment on the west bank of the Ye River also completed the calibration of all elements.

After the order was given, one 100mm mortar shell after another flew in an elegant arc from the west bank of the Ye River towards the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery positions.

"Boom boom boom boom boom"

As a series of explosions sounded, all the anti-aircraft artillery positions deployed by the Japanese on the front line were destroyed by mortar shells.

In addition, many of the Japanese's remaining artillery shells were detonated during the shelling.

"Everyone, attention! Infantry, get off the vehicles and start attacking!"

"Beep~beep~beep~beep~beep~beep~beep~"

Accompanied by the sound of the charge, the tanks and armored vehicles of the Red Alert Force, together with the infantry troops who had already disembarked, began to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese positions.

The Japanese, who had already lost considerable manpower under the artillery bombardment, had no power to resist the Red Alert's infantry-tank coordinated fortifications after losing the support of anti-aircraft firepower. After only one round of attacks, the Japanese defense line began to collapse. At the same time, the remaining Japanese troops retreated to the second line of defense under the pursuit of the Red Alert troops.

At this time, the reinforcements of the Japanese reinforced brigade coming from the direction of Jingxing County finally arrived behind the Yehe defense line.

And this is the Japanese's third line of defense on the east bank of Ye River.

"Order the two artillery regiments to build positions immediately and prepare to provide artillery support to the troops on the front line!"

"Hai, General!"

The person in charge of commanding the reinforcements was Lieutenant General Hantaro Takeda, former commander of the Japanese Army's 2nd Army Artillery Division and current chief of staff of the Japanese Army's reinforced brigade.

With unified command, the Japanese devils felt much more at ease.

And because the Japanese army was worried that the Heian County Security Corps would consume precious artillery in the first round of shelling, Nobuaki Sekine did not deploy artillery forces on the front line. At most, there were mortar units organized by the battalion and Type 92 infantry guns organized by the regiment.

The reinforced brigade's two heavy artillery pieces of 105 and 150 caliber were all left in the hands of the reinforcement troops.

The arrival of the reinforcements means that the Japanese have artillery support.

At the same time, after the Red Alert Force successfully broke through the Japanese army's first line of defense through the path opened up by the engineering corps, the troops, which had originally only been able to advance in several routes, were finally able to deploy on the ruined Japanese positions.

"Hehe~ Damn it, we can finally deploy our troops without being so restrained! Order the troops to replenish their ammunition and launch another attack in 30 minutes!"

"Yes!"

Afterwards, the Red Alert's ground offensive forces began to cross the Ye River continuously, and poured into the direction of the Japanese army's original positions along the paths opened up by the engineers.

Tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and various types of artillery also began to cross the river.

At the same time, in order to facilitate the Red Alert's next rapid attack on the North China Plain, a large number of armored troops sent to the front line by Chen Xi also entered combat positions.

The Red Alert Force was quite well prepared for this offensive operation, but I don't know whether the Japanese devils have cleaned their necks and are waiting for the butcher knives of their Chinese ancestors.

After all, the next step is for the Red Alert Force to launch a full-scale attack on the Japanese troops in North China! (End of this chapter)