(... On the battlefield, there are often situations where the opponent's strength is wrongly judged and he insists on attacking the opponent's crazy attack. Whenever such a misjudgment occurs on the commanders of both sides at the same time, the battlefield will be destroyed into a sea of ​​corpses. Such a war sometimes lasts for a few days, and there will even be many places on the battlefield filled with corpses and cannot even see an inch of land... Excerpted from "My Memories of the War of Resistance - Cao Xiaomin")

"Swish! Swish! Swish!..." The aviation bombs kept rushing to the earth with a whistling sound... "Bangbangbangbangbangbangbangbang! Swish!..." The machine cannons kept firing red shells into the sky... Although it was already late at night, the sky was red and reflected by the artillery fire; the ground was red, and roasted by the artillery fire!

This is the battlefield of the Australian-Tanban Highway. The 153rd Division and the 186th Division are attacking the Japanese army from two directions!

The battle suddenly turned into fierce battles from dusk. The Chinese Air Force, which had disappeared for several days, suddenly appeared. Fifteen Stukas fell from the sky with a strange scream that made the Japanese face blue!

As soon as the Stuka bomber group that rushed to the ground in a straight line appeared, the Japanese tanks that had just reached the front and were ready to attack the ** defense belt were hit with a devastating blow!

Originally, these Stukas could have been put into combat earlier, but because the Germans had ambushed the Chinese Air Force, they only gave the Chinese Air Force a small amount of 50 kilograms of bombs and 25 kilograms of bombs, which made this new bomber lacking ammunition. However, the Chinese who were used to fighting in various difficulties and unconventional states forced to turn this fighter into a tank bullstar through their own efforts: the simple disassembly and assembly-type bomb rack of the Chinese Air Force became a design specifically for using the British's old bombs that were pressed down on the bottom of the warehouse!

Each bomb carrier can carry forty ten-pound bombs of the British, but only eight bombs are dropped in each dive. The bomber that strikes this way can actually launch five bomb attacks! The power of ten-pound bombs is not very powerful, but a bomb can still have half the chance to blow it up as long as it hits the thin-skinned tank of the Japanese army from above with the inertia of the plane. A large number of bombs are thrown together, not only does it have an astonishing hit rate but also a fatal blow to every attack. Even if the tank is not stopped, it can basically blow up all the guard infantry next to the tank!

Of course, it was impossible to complete the theoretical sprint of the Stuka aircraft group in total. However, during the entire attack, only three aircraft were injured and shot down by the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery fire, and most of the bombers completed at least three attacks! That was enough. The entire Australian-Tankan highway was full of Japanese tanks paralyzed by bombing, and they actually blocked the road!

The rolling iron stream of three divisions and some Marine tanks was actually stopped in less than half an hour. A large number of waste tanks made the heavy troops of the Japanese army difficult to move forward. At this time, the two artillery groups of the 153rd Division, the 157th Division and the 186th Division, and the Tamsui City Defense Artillery also began to fire violently on the Australian and Tanshu Road! These artillery combined were much smaller than the number of artillery artillery groups of the three divisions of the Japanese army, but when the enemy's heavy troops were all squeezed on the road, such artillery fire was enough to make the Japanese army cry without tears!

After dark that day, the second round of air strikes began. Various fighters and bombers came out in full swing and violently bombed a large number of Japanese artillery and tank units. Except for a small number of Type 95 fighters that were converted into night fighters, they still did not have advanced night fighters. The range of Type 95 was too short, and they could not achieve a two-way flight from Taiwan to Shenzhen. So this battle could only be left to the army to solve itself; a night air-to-ground battle was launched over a narrow area...

In air-ground operations, the air force always took the initiative and had a better advantage. Although the Chinese Air Force was not strong, the bombs used in this battle were mainly British light old aircraft bombs. However, the rain of bullets covered in the sky made the heavy Japanese troops more difficult to resist. In addition, a large number of local "nacoal bombs" were launched. Soon after the war started, the entire Australian-Taiwan highway was blown into a fire road!

In the flames and black smoke, you can see a group of Japanese figures lying down from time to time and evading bombardment and artillery, constantly reinforcing the frontiers that were fiercely fighting with the 186th Division. As many as three heavy troops under the division could not be used normally!

"Boom!..." The flames soaring into the sky with the huge explosion rushed straight into the sky, and then the black smoke like a monster followed up and "eated" the flames; this was the Japanese army's ammunition truck being exploded! Such a death-destruction was enough to blow up a large section of the Australian-Tanzhou highway, and enough to kill a large number of Japanese troops within a radius of one to two kilometers. If any bomb in this battle killed the most to the Japanese army, it was undoubtedly the Japanese army's own "ammunition truck bomb"!

The Japanese soldiers who were blown up and lost their souls were frightened by these ammunition trucks that were exploding. Later, no one cared about the ammunition trucks, and they all hid far away and would rather face the fire with the **!

"You can't fight that way. If our artillery fire is exposed, it will be destroyed by the Chinese people!" The commander of the 16th Division, Meefuki Fujie's eyes were red: countless Japanese heavy artillery units on the battlefield were bombarded by the Chinese Air Force. Whenever large ammunition exploded, the entire artillery squadron and above would be reimbursed!

Although he was the commander of the Kwantung Army military police, he did not have rich combat experience, he was an artillery expert!

In this way, our artillery will be completely lost under the bombing of the Chinese people. If the artillery and tank troops are all wiped out, what should we do to attack Guangzhou? Fujie Keifu quickly ordered all the troops that were fighting with the ** artillery to cease fire and hide... All the Japanese artillery fires were silent, and the Chinese gunners began to bombard unscrupulously!

"I ordered all departments to defend and not retreat even if I had a step forward!" Fujie Keisuke's second important order continued.

It is indeed impossible to retreat. Now the Japanese army, even heavy troops, have all landed. However, these heavy troops are currently blocked on the road and cannot advance or retreat. If the troops retreat, these equipment will all fall into the hands of **! Moreover, the current landing troops have all gone through bloody battles and cannot get a rest. Once such troops retreat, they are chased by the Chinese team, there is only one result that they will be defeated! Even if the troops can be retreated to a distance that allows the fleet to protect, will such troops still have combat effectiveness in the battle behind? Although Fujie Keifu is not experienced, he still understands the current situation: he can only defend himself and ask for reinforcements, even if there is no reinforcement, he can only endure the entire battle to death!

The Chinese Air Force bombing formation that lost its bombing target could only fly back, but Zhang Ruigui saw clearly that a considerable portion of the Japanese artillery fire was not wiped out. So a telegram asked the Air Force to keep ten bombers carrying bombs on standby in the air after most of them were withdrawn, and to strike at the Japanese artillery that were firing at any time.

The contact battle on both sides of the highway had already started when the war started, because ** wanted to drive the Japanese army to the highway as much as possible. The Japanese army wanted to leave the bombed highway, and the two sides had been fighting in the dark for several hours.

"Kill and give it to me!..." The shouting Japanese continued to launch counter-charges to the troops attacking on both sides. Although the Australian-Tanzhou Highway battlefield does not only refer to one road, but generally refers to a four-kilometer-wide area sandwiched between hills. However, the width of the four-kilometer is still too narrow. The Japanese on both sides can cover the entire position with mortars. The Japanese can only fight for counter-charge and inch of land, otherwise they will be broken and cut off and divided!

The battle of fire on the flat ground has always been the strength of the Japanese army. After nearly ten rounds of hedging, the two sides charged face to face and fired bullets in their guns and then rushed together to fight for bayonets. The Japanese army actually drove the two divisions of attacking troops back to the hilly and high ground on both sides to defend their lives, and even several frontier positions were captured, forming a chaotic battle front with each other!

"Boy me! The guards even took off all their vanguards!" Zhang Ruigui was crazy and could only shout for charge, and had forgotten other orders...

"Why are there so many Japanese soldiers? It's obviously our firepower superior, especially every time we charge face to face, it's obvious that it's the ** troops knocking down layers of Japanese troops and then colliding together. How come the Japanese army will polish their sharpness and counterattack it up! "Li Zhen's many attacks in the Danshui direction were also frustrated, and a division actually defeated half of them!

"Commander, the telegram from Your Excellency Teng Jiang..." Guzhuang Ganlang also personally went to the warship to command, and he was also shocked by the fierce battle situation: Isn't there only one army blocking the front? How could he launch a continuous attack from two directions for half a night and withstand the Japanese counterattack after the attack was frustrated!?

Everyone only sees their own advantages, but not the enemy's inner energy!

Zhang Ruigui believed that the enemy had exhausted energy in the battle ahead and should have been defeated in more than two hours of bombing. They had no ability to fight back at all. However, he overestimated the power of those small bombs. The small bombs were good at using tanks and cannons on dive bombers, but they had to blow up the Japanese infantry lying in the depression and the twenty-five kilogram bombs. More importantly, he completely misjudged the number of Japanese troops, and he thought the Japanese army was two half-crippled gangs!

Guzhuang Ganlang knew that although the main forces of these three strengthened divisions were seriously damaged, they concentrated all the infantry, baggage, etc. of each of the artillery and chariot troops and the main forces of the infantry, and the remaining combat troops were more than 20,000; with the cooperation of so many artillery tanks, they could definitely defeat the ** in one breath. However, he ignored the **'s volley firepower of the British rifle and the threat of the air force to heavy artillery troops. The tanks paralyzed by the bombing would block the road ahead and make the chariot troops unable to perform!

The commanders on both sides believed that as long as they persisted until the next second, the other party would collapse, and both sides would continue to squat on the Ao-Tan Road that was in a sea of ​​fire... (To be continued)


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