Age of Rebirth

Everything is fine. Relying on the powerful artillery firepower, the Japanese army was crushed by several assault waves, so that tens of thousands of little devils did not touch the edge of the position. The air strikes in the past few days destroyed the heavy equipment of the Japanese army. The front position of the first brigade It is well preserved without a single shell falling.

Seeing the brigade commander and the others approaching, many soldiers complained in front of the brigade commander, saying that the artillerymen were too greedy. Cannonballs rained like rain, and the submachine gun in his hand became a decoration.

While Liu Hongzhang was joking loudly with the soldiers, he frowned. He was tired, yes, it was tired. From the faces of the soldiers, he saw fatigue and the relaxation after exhaustion. It was understandable. The artillery fire was used as the backing for the blocking, but the waves of charges launched by the little devils were enough to cause extreme mental fatigue to the soldiers on the front line.

Looking at the Japanese camp opposite, there was no light at all, it was as quiet as a desolate cemetery, the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who had been bombed and incomplete, in the dark night, fell in disorder like bundles of grains on the ground. In the mud turned up by artillery fire.

"Two old fellows, what do you think?" Liu Hongzhang retracted his head and asked Deputy Brigadier Gao Jingkun and Chief of Staff Liu Chenglin.

This was a nonsensical question, but Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin, who have been partners with Liu Hongzhang for many years, immediately understood the meaning. After charging and being killed by the artillery boss, there will be a rest period for breathing. It is used to sum up experience and adjust offensive deployment, and the little devil is no exception. There is no battle tonight!"

"Chenglin, do you think so too?" Liu Hongzhang asked Chief of Staff Liu Chenglin again.

Liu Chenglin smiled and replied: "I agree with the deputy brigade commander, the little devil's attack should be at dawn tomorrow!"

"I don't think so!" Liu Hongzhang said surprisingly, "There was an attack before, and there was a chase after that. Now the little devil is in a hurry to escape, so he can't figure it out with common sense. He will be blocked by our direct corps for an hour at most. Just one more hour." To divide the danger of annihilation of the entire army, tonight, the little devil will definitely make a sneak attack!"

"Scaremongering, right?" Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin didn't believe it. "Let's not talk about the situation of other brigades. But as far as our brigade is concerned. There must have been tens of thousands of little devils who fell in front of our position in the fierce battle all afternoon. I didn't even touch the edge of the position, and I was stunned by the brigade artillery group. Although the little devil is not made of iron, if he wants to risk his life, he must have time to catch his breath. Sneak attack at night is impossible!"

"You two don't believe it, do you?" Liu Hongzhang's eyes.Staring at the pitch-black field opposite, he said, "Make a bet, if the little devil doesn't sneak up on me tonight, I'll take out a month's military pay and treat you two to a drink. If my judgment is correct, Lao Gao, you can steal it." Those bottles of good wine hidden away, as well as Cheng Lin and those cigarettes you are reluctant to smoke, are all mine, dare you make this bet?"

"Why don't you dare? Brigadier, you just wait to invite the two of us to have a drink!" Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin laughed and said, "It's a bet!" Liu Hongzhang is a major general with a generous salary. number.

"Well, I'll make arrangements!" Liu Hongzhang said confidently, "Take out your cigarettes and alcohol and send them directly to my tent!"

Back at the brigade headquarters, Liu Hongzhang called to recruit the heads of the four main regiments, and ordered: "All regiments immediately withdraw the troops on the front line to the second line, and deploy a 'V'-shaped pocket. We don't use heavy artillery. Machine guns and mortars, ready to ambush the kid!"

"Ambush?" The regiment leaders were puzzled, and Liu Hongzhang said impatiently: "Tonight, the little devil will definitely come to sneak attack on our position. Return to the army immediately and follow my orders. Remember, artillery fire Must be dense!"

At one o'clock in the morning, it was the sleepiest time of the day, and the thick night shrouded the battlefield. On the forward position of the first brigade, the corpses of those Japanese soldiers suddenly moved slowly, one by one black shadows, As if sticking to the ground, crawling through the crater and gradually approaching, it was less than 50 meters away from the front position of the first brigade, and the battlefield was still silent. At 30 meters, countless black shadows suddenly jumped up and rushed into the trench.

"Hmph! Well done!" Liu Hongzhang looked proudly at Gao Jingkun and Liu Chenglin beside him, and said to the combat staff officer, "Order to fire! One spoonful!"

In the silent night, there was a sudden commotion. Countless mortar shells rose into the sky, with orange-red ballistics, and landed on the front line, exploding in circles of flames. The sound of explosions echoed in the night, and nearly a thousand light and heavy machine guns , The raindrops of bullets poured over, weaving an impenetrable fire net, covering the bewildered Japanese soldiers who were still in the empty trenches.

The ambush ended in less than an hour. The evacuated troops of the first brigade returned to the front line. The soldiers were stunned. The trenches were full of fragmented corpses of Japanese soldiers. As many as eight thousand.

The same scene happened not only in the positions of the first brigade, but also in the positions of other brigades directly under the corps, but the counterattack methods were different. Some brigades repelled the Japanese sneak attack head-on, and some brigades followed Liu Hongzhang's style of play was similar, and he also adopted an ambush tactic.

Among them, Chu Ziye's fourth brigade played even more ingeniously. Many landmines were laid in the trenches of the first-line positions. As soon as the sneak attacking Japanese army jumped into the trenches, they were blown up by landmines. There were not many explosions this morning. Constantly, the sound of guns and artillery on the battlefield once again broke the tranquility of the night.

"Commander, all the sneak attack troops we sent out were destroyed. The China Independent Division was prepared, and the sneak attack failed!" Major General Hayao Yokota, Chief of Staff of the Northeast Defense Zone Headquarters of Honshu Island, Japan, looked sadly at the commander, Lieutenant General Yano. reported.

Lieutenant General Yano's haggard face was covered with a layer of dark gray. The sneak attack at night was a surprise attack by himself. Since the artillery fire of the independent division of China was fierce, there was no hope of breaking through the frontal encirclement, so the only way to sneak attack was at night. , hoping to use this to open the blocking defense line of the China Independent Division, the main force surged out along the breakthrough, but unfortunately, it failed again, and went in to attack tens of thousands of soldiers.

"At five o'clock in the morning, let the troops continue to attack!" Lieutenant General Yano said in a hollow voice, with a deep blank look in his eyes.

The eastern battlefield of Honshu Island has become a huge flesh and blood mill. The Japanese army desperately launched a division-sized group charge to the positions of the directly subordinate corps. Countless Japanese soldiers, like puppets, unconsciously braved the overwhelming artillery fire. The hills and plains were filled with gunpowder smoke, and the body fragments of Japanese soldiers were scattered in the May sky of Honshu Island.

The Japanese soldiers went crazy. Relying on their bravery and Bushido spirit, they repeatedly approached the frontline positions of the directly-affiliated corps. The soldiers of the brigades directly under the corps also went crazy. The bullet-like bullets tore the charging Japanese soldiers into pieces, flying dust, shrapnel, and bullets everywhere. The Japanese soldiers lay dead and suffered heavy casualties.

On the third day of the battle, the Japanese army's brute force to break through the siege had lost its vigor, but under the order of the commander, Lieutenant General Yano, they still maintained an uninterrupted attack, and even broke into the forward positions of the brigades several times. However, the Japanese army Even this short-term victory was not maintained. The reserves of the brigades directly under the corps launched a fierce counterattack, turning all the Japanese soldiers who attacked the forward positions into bloody corpses.

"The Japanese army's breakthrough has become the end of their battle!" Tang Qiuli was still standing behind the headquarters of the first brigade, on the high hill, holding a telescope to look at the battlefield in front of him full of gunfire and blood. Commander Zhao Yuhe said: "Order Le Yiqin, Liu Cuigang, and the Southern Fleet to dispatch all combat aircraft to deal the final blow to the Japanese army!"

After the Southern Flying Group and the Northern Flying Group of the independent divisions, as well as the carrier-based aircraft group of the Southern Fleet, joined the battlefield, they completely broke the backbone of the Japanese army and wrung out the last drop of blood of the Japanese army. The ferocious ground-to-air firepower formed an airtight formation. The fire nets strangled Japanese soldiers in pieces in the fire nets, and the casualties paid by the Japanese army every day were in the tens of thousands.

From Morioka to Ishinomaki, Xinzhuang and Tsuruoka, the battlefield, which was only a few hundred kilometers long and wide, became the place where more than [-] Japanese soldiers died in the defense zone headquarters in the northeast of Honshu Island. The open firepower of the independent division troops, In this area, the repeated plowing and plowing, the flesh and limbs of Japanese soldiers, mixed with soil, covered the ground.

On the fourth day of the war, the vanguard of the right-wing attack group that occupied Hokkaido and crossed the Tsugaru Strait, with about 20 people and six tank brigades, under the command of Lieutenant General Yuan Jinghao, commander and deputy commander of the North China Field Corps, Annihilating nearly 10 enemies, breaking through layers of resistance from the Japanese army all the way to Morioka, the hammer and anvil finally smashed together, colliding with violent sparks. At this time, the Japanese army on the battlefield in the northeast of Honshu Island has already suffered casualties Mostly.

So far, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops have no ability to break through. The North China Field Corps and the Outer Mongolia Field Corps, which are directly under the Corps and the Right-wing Attack Group, have a total of more than 120 million troops. The encirclement is in the west of Morioka, from Ishinomaki, Xinzhuang to the east of Tsuruoka, within an area of ​​less than [-] square kilometers.

The battlefield in the northeast of Honshu Island was full of smoke and blood, and the battle in the northwest was equally fierce. The blows suffered by the Japanese troops were even worse than those in the northeast battlefield, and the casualties were even heavier.

Of the eight field regiments of the independent division that attacked the Japanese mainland, four of them were deployed on the battlefield in the northwest. In terms of total force, air supremacy, heavy firepower on the ground, and the number of tanks, they surpassed the Japanese army by a large number and had an absolute advantage.

Under the unified command of General Tang Qiusheng, the deputy commander and commander of the Sulu Mobile Corps, hundreds of thousands of Japanese troops were surrounded on the battlefield in the northwest of Honshu Island.

(to be continued) (to be continued...)