The Iron and Steel Frenzy of the Republic of China

Chapter 174 The Sixth Division: Sunset III

"Your Excellency, Commander, the Chinese army suddenly raided the 2nd Brigade with powerful armored vehicles, causing extremely heavy casualties. After destroying our two artillery positions, they are advancing towards the headquarters and request immediate transfer."

The headquarters of the division is surrounded by temporary defense lines set up by the Japanese army. It is absolutely not because the more than 20 squadrons have been ordered not to attack at night. If you cross the river, you can directly bombard here

The headquarters of the armored vehicle had already received the news, but in the panic, it was inaccurate, and even a bit unbelievable. According to the notification, the opponent's attack striker is only less than five kilometers away from here. The guards in front are already doing their best to block it.

Unable to tolerate Masaemon Sakamoto's hesitation and refusal, the staff and guards in the command headquarters couldn't help but lead them, the delicate and expensive generals, to escape from behind in a hurry, and went straight to the rear defense of Lengkou Pass, while the rest of the staff were in a hurry Pack all kinds of sensitive documents and equipment, for fear of being killed by the other party directly.

Five kilometers, if it is a group of infantry, perhaps Lieutenant General Sakamoto and others will not panic, but it is an armored convoy, which is different. They have seen the power of armored vehicles, and they deeply trust this big killer. , no matter how slow the chariot is, as long as it exerts its strength, it can kill them in front of them within 10 minutes, and even directly chase the mountain that is not too steep, and in that kind of terrain, the two legs of a person are obviously not enough.

In view of the knowledge that the opponent has this kind of equipment from the intelligence, the army was suspicious because they never knew whether it was useful. The so-called armored vehicles inside and outside the Chinese government army are actually just armored vehicles, which can be smashed with rifles. .

But this side is different. The powerful firepower and extremely high speed completely ignored the heavy machine guns of the 2nd Brigade and directly made them so miserable. It can be imagined that it is not ordinary, and we even have to consider that the defense in front can the troops withstand

In order to break through the front line of defense as soon as possible, most of the troops of the Sixth Division were sent out, including one regiment plus the cavalry regiment, half of the artillery regiment, the disabled 13th regiment of Kumamoto, and the five bombed frontal regiments. There are only so many troops in the two regiments of Tuberculosis Seven Injuries, and the total number of reserve forces guarding around the headquarters is less than 3000. Can they hold back a group of chariots?

This is a dark day, not an ordinary day

I never thought that one day I would face the impact of a large group of armored vehicles. I have no experience at all. The battles in the West more than ten years ago provided only the concept of "chariots as infantry support and escort". The Japanese army who followed and studied several consecutive battles This is how wars are fought, and it seems to be very effective, but the opponent just doesn't play cards according to common sense, so there is no strategy to deal with it at all. To be safe, we can only talk about it.

Jianchangying is the last flat town under the Great Wall line of defense. After a few minutes of driving the trucks, they reached the mountain. Soldiers scattered all over the place rushed to block the way like crazy, vowing to consume the armored convoy to death here.

Seeing thousands of Japanese troops frantically flocking to the front of the Jianchang camp, blocking the way one after another, more than a dozen flat-firing guns and infantry guns are gathered, ready to hit them head-on, but the menacing convoy is still behind. Under the command of Baoguo, he turned around suddenly, turned around and crossed the position in parallel, and went straight to the west to kill

And within a minute of their passing, 1 30 cannon shells fell. The unprepared Japanese army was caught off guard by the extremely extended artillery fire, and a series of shells exploded in their densest area. that's a joy

At the same time, inside and outside Qian'an City, which had been silent for a whole day and night, more than 100 heavy machine guns and thousands of soldiers in the first-line fortifications quietly emerged from the fortifications and swept towards the first line of defense in front. The Japanese soldiers who were cleaning up the corpses were hit on the head, and the mortar shells swept away like hailstones in turn.

In the county town, the 24 Bofors guns that were all pushed to the city wall raised their muzzles to the greatest extent, and concentrated their firepower on the frontal positions of the Japanese army within kilometers to launch the most violent bombing. The firing rate of 1 rounds per minute was in three shifts. Under the operation of the artillery, it bombarded almost non-stop for a full 20 minutes. After a short rest, it was followed by another 10 minutes of continuous bombing, and then a little pause, and another 10 minutes of continuous bombing. It went round and round, as if it never wanted to stop Down

The outside of Qian'an City was turned upside down, except for the 150 cannon positions erected under the Great Wall, all the light artillery positions deployed by the Japanese army in front were completely destroyed.

The tightly blocked city gate opened silently, and more than 2000 soldiers swarmed into the second trench. After a little preparation, the 37 anti-aircraft guns and 20 machine guns that had never spoken at the top of the city were silent at the same time. Open fire, and start to suppress the Japanese army in the distance, followed by all the Browning heavy machine guns in the fort unceremoniously exerting their maximum terrifying range of 7 kilometers, extending the effective range of 3 kilometers to the maximum extent, and the remaining small amount of 7.62 The water-cooled heavy machine gun fills the area beyond a kilometer.

Well-prepared more than 2000 soldiers, plus a thousand special forces riflemen and submachine gunners, jumped out of the trenches under the parallel sweep of a hundred general-purpose machine guns and Czech zb-26 light machine guns, rushed through the first line of defense, and pressed against the enemy. The heads of the Japanese army crossed and killed the front like crazy

At this time, the 45th Regiment, which was traveling more than ten kilometers away for a day and a night, failed to break through, and lost more than a thousand people. The [-]th Regiment, which was almost disabled, was stabbed from behind without warning.

The supporting infantry and the artillery brigade he carried were destroyed first, followed by the armored convoy into the headquarters, and the regiment leader who was caught off guard was greeted by the special officer eight, what is the famous commander, and the god of the cavalry regiment, Dai Kikuma Nakasa, who was tortured alive die on the spot

The armored convoy ran over them mercilessly, swept through the wounded barracks, and trampled the remaining Japanese defense lines facing forward, east, and west but not north. Speaking, under the cover of a salvo of heavy machine guns, the soldiers of the two regiments deployed here from the 32nd Army rushed over shouting loudly.

When it was dawn, the entire thirty-kilometer-wide battlefield in front of Qian'an could no longer hear the deafening shouts and earth-shattering shelling. The Chinese air force directly killed the Great Wall pass, and directly blew up the last heavy artillery position that was too late to transfer, and then continued to fight with the belated Japanese air force

On the west bank of the Luan River, at the top of the city, Commander Shang Zhen, who hadn't closed his eyes for a day and two nights, slowly put down the binoculars, let out a long sigh, couldn't hold back the ecstasy in his heart, swung his fist vigorously, and shouted: "Fucking hell, finally hit the sky!" Won"

After winning the battle, the two regiments sent across the river to help continue to chase the Japanese army didn't even get much results. They just followed the ass of the attacking team to collect leftovers, cleaned the battlefield, cleaned up the wounded and dead Japanese soldiers, and were basically killed. Destruction of almost the same weapons and equipment.

From the fan-shaped battlefield in front of Qian'an, the armored convoy swept back and forth twice, until the fuel was almost exhausted, and all the personnel were tired and cramped, or were injured by sporadic cold-gun attacks and lost their combat effectiveness, and then directly retreated to the south of the city to cross the river. I went to rest.

Soldiers who had spent a day and two nights in the trenches and the city cleared the way with the super-intensive firepower provided by multiple echelons of artillery fire, machine guns, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns and submachine guns in their hands. The unorganized Japanese army did not have a group of people who could withstand their toss. All the defenses were destroyed by the armored convoy first. When they were defeated, they were either killed or injured by long-range artillery, or were chased by infantry. gun kill

At the rear defense of Lengkouguan, Sakamoto Masayou sat on the ground with a faceless face. What was spread out in front of him was a thick stack of casualties and loss reports. The Sixth Division participated in the attack on Qian'an's 2 troops, and the 4000nd Brigade's [-] troops, and it was determined that less than [-] people were intact

In the day and night of fighting, the total number of casualties exceeded 3000, plus those who were killed or injured in the attack along the way, the entire Sixth Division has been determined to be crippled only by the number of people killed in this battle, There are at least six thousand, which is more than the total number of all troops who died on the Great Wall defense line in the past two months

Look at the bare division flags, look at the empty division headquarters, a bunch of major generals, brigade commanders and regimental commanders have become bare commanders, and three major commanders have been killed, and there are countless people below the junior commander

Masaemon Sakamoto silently picked up the samurai sword that he had followed for many years, stroked it lightly, and slowly drew it out.

In Qian'an City, Shang Zhen, Li Xingcun, Gao Hongwen, Zhu Bin, and a group of staff officers of the 32nd Army, as well as inspectors from the military branch from Beiping, dozens of high-ranking officials climbed the tower and risked their lives to watch from afar. The vast battlefield filled with smoke and dust was silent for a long time.

Shang Zhen rubbed his dry eyes vigorously, stared at Zhu Bin for a full minute, sighed, and said dully: "Plain field battles are no longer battles that ordinary infantry can participate in. In the future, it must be artillery and tank battles." world of cars”

The once invincible Japanese army was helpless in the face of densely packed cannons and heavy machine guns. The defense line built like a tortoise shell resisted the Japanese artillery and air force that could not do anything for more than 20 troops along the entire Great Wall defense line. Just in this square inch, he gave the opponent the heaviest blow, and also taught all the senior officers a vivid lesson. Fighting can be fought like this.

Zhu Bin coaxed: "In our country, the initiative of war must never be controlled by our opponents. We have countless manpower and material resources to build fortifications that they will never be able to open. They dare to invade. Wait for them. Must be death and failure"

In his heart, Zhu Bin sighed secretly. It's a pity that the army organization is too primitive. Otherwise, this battle would not be as simple as defeating the sixth division of the Japanese army. They would definitely wipe out their entire army.

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