Chapter 174: The 6th Division: Sunset Three

"After the commander, the Chinese army suddenly raided the 2nd Brigade with powerful armored vehicles, causing extremely heavy casualties and destroying our two artillery positions, they were pressing towards the headquarters for immediate transfer."

The division headquarters is located, and there are temporary defense lines set up by the Japanese army everywhere. You will never stay there because more than 200,000 Chinese teams have been ordered not to attack at night. You can stay there with confidence and boldness. You must know that as long as the opponent's heavy artillery crosses the river, you can directly bombard this place.

The headquarters had already received news about the armored vehicles, but the panic was not accurate, and it was even a bit incredible. Sakamoto Masaemon could not make a decision on this, but at this moment, Sasaki received a definite report that the opponent's attack forward was less than five kilometers away from here, and the guards in front were already trying their best to block it.

Unable tolerate the hesitation and rejection of Sakamoto Masaemon, the staff and guards in the command center did not say anything, and hurriedly fled from behind, heading straight to the back of Lengkou Pass. The rest of the staff were busy packing up all kinds of sensitive articles and equipment, for fear of killing the other party to get rid of them.

Five kilometers, if a group of infantry came, maybe Lieutenant General Sakamoto and others would not panic, but they came with an armored convoy, which is different. They have seen the power of armored vehicles. They who deeply believe in this kind of killer are very clear that even if the chariot runs slowly, as long as they exert enough force, they can kill them in front of them within ten minutes, and even chase down the steep mountains directly. In that terrain, the two legs of a human are obviously not enough.

Given that the other party had such equipment in the intelligence, the army was originally in doubt because it never knew whether it was useful. The so-called armored vehicles inside and outside the Chinese government army were actually just armored cars, and they could be destroyed at will with a rifle.

But it's different here. The powerful firepower and extremely high speed completely ignore the heavy machine guns of the 2nd Brigade, which directly made them so miserable. It's absolutely extraordinary. I even have to consider whether the front defense forces can withstand it.

In order to break the front line as soon as possible, most of the troops of the Sixth Division were sent out to a wing of You, a cavalry gang, a half artillery gang, a 13th Kumamoto Regiment, and two wings that were blown up in front of the attack, with only so many total troops. Now there are not three thousand reserve forces around the headquarters. Can they stop a group of chariots?

This is in the dark sky, not the day

I never thought that one day I would face the impact of a large group of armored vehicles, and I had no experience at all. The battles in the West more than ten years ago provided only the concept of "chariots as infantry auxiliary and escort". The Japanese army who tracked and learned fought in several consecutive wars, which seemed to be very effective, but the other party did not play according to common sense, so there was no strategy to deal with. For safety reasons, I could only talk about it if I ran away.

Jianchang Camp is the last flat town below the Great Wall defense line. Trucks ran wildly for a few minutes and the mountains were just around the corner. The soldiers scattered everywhere rushed over like crazy and blocked the way, vowing to waste the armored convoy here.

Seeing thousands of Japanese troops gathering in front of Jianchang Camp like crazy, blocking the way, more than a dozen flat-fire cannons and infantry cannons gathered together to give them a head-on attack. However, under Yu Baoguo's command, the aggressive convoy suddenly turned around gorgeously, turned around and crossed the position parallel to the west, and killed them straight to the west.

And just before they had passed, 30 152 cannon shells fell down. The Japanese army, who had no preparation at all, were caught off guard by the extremely extended artillery fire. A series of shells exploded in their densest areas.

At the same time, inside and outside Qian'an City, which had been silent for a whole day and overnight, more than 100 heavy machine guns and thousands of soldiers from the fortifications quietly emerged from the fortifications, sweeping towards the first line of defense in front, beating the Japanese army who were cleaning the body, and sweeping the mortar shells in turn like hail

In the county town, all the 24 Bofus guns pushed to the city wall raised the muzzle to the greatest extent, concentrated their firepower to launch the most violent bombing on the Japanese front positions within a kilometer. The firing speed of 20 rounds was almost unstoppable. Under the operation of three shifts of artillery, the artillery was almost unstoppable. After a little rest, there was another ten minutes of continuous bombing. After a little rest, the continuous bombing was followed by another ten minutes. After a few more stops, the continuous bombing was repeated. It seemed that it never wanted to stop.

Outside Qian'an City, it was like a world-shaking change, except for the 150 cannon positions set up under the Great Wall, all the light cannon positions deployed by the Japanese army in front were destroyed.

The city gate was tightly blocked and opened quietly. More than 2,000 soldiers rushed into the second trench. After a little preparation, the 37 war defense guns and 20 machine guns that had been silent on the city were fired at the same time, and began to suppress the Japanese army in the distance. Following the Browning heavy machine guns in the fortress unceremoniously exerted their maximum 7 kilometers of terrifying range, extending to the maximum effective range of 3 kilometers. The remaining small number of 7.62 water-cooled heavy machine guns filled the area one kilometer away.

More than 2,000 soldiers were prepared, plus a thousand special forces rifle soldiers and submachine gunmen, and under the parallel sweep of hundreds of general-purpose machine guns and Czech zb-26 light machine guns, they jumped out of the trenches, rushed through the first line of defense, and pressed the Japanese army's heads and crossed to the front like crazy.

At this time, the 45th Regiment, who was traveling more than ten kilometers away for a day and a night, failed to break through, but lost more than a thousand people. The 45th Regiment, who was almost crippled, was stabbed from the back without any warning.

The infantry cannons that were supported and the artillery brigade he carried were first destroyed. The armored convoy rushed into the command center, and the unexpected corps leader, Ying Junba, was a broken colonel, and the god of the cavalry gang, Dai Kikuzuka Nakasa, was tortured to death on the spot.

The armored convoy ran over them mercilessly, swept over the wounded camp, and turned their heads forward, facing east and west, but the remaining Japanese defense line, which was not facing north, trampled on three sides, and the Japanese hurriedly turned around to kill them. The artillery on the other side of the river began to speak. Under the cover of heavy machine gun volleys, the two soldiers deployed by the 32nd Army rushed over and shouted loudly, and the remaining Japanese troops were strangled fiercely in one place.

By dawn, the entire Qian'an faced the battlefield, which was thirty kilometers wide, could no longer hear the deafening shouts, and the earth-shaking artillery bombardment, boiled like a pot, and the battlefield gradually became silent for an early morning. The Chinese Air Force, which soared in the sky again, directly killed the Great Wall Pass, blowing up the most heavy artillery position that had no time to transfer, and then continued to fight with the late Japanese Air Force.

On the west bank of Luan River, at the foot of the city mountain, Commander Shang Zhen, who had not closed his eyes for a day and two nights, slowly lowered his telescope, breathed a long sigh, unable to contain his inner ecstasy, waved his fist hard, and shouted: "Fuck, I finally won."

After winning the battle, the two regiments sent to cross the river to help continue chasing the Japanese army did not even get much results. They just followed behind the butt of the attacking team to catch leftovers, cleaned up the battlefield, cleaned up the Japanese army's injuries and corpses, and almost the same weapons and equipment that were basically destroyed.

From the battlefield where the fan was unfolding in front of Qian'an, the armored convoy swept back and forth twice. Until the fuel was about to be exhausted, all the personnel were so tired that they had cramps, or were attacked by cold guns and cold runs and lost their combat effectiveness, they retreated directly to the south of the city to cross the river to rest.

The soldiers who had been holding on for a day and two nights in the trenches and the city relied on the overhead artillery fire, machine guns, heavy machine guns, and light machine guns in their hands, and submachine guns to clear the ten-kilometer frontal positions. The remaining Japanese troops did not have the troops to withstand their torture. All defenses were destroyed by armored convoys. Under the defeat, they were either killed and injured by long-range cannons or finally killed by the pursued infantry.

Back defense of Lengkou Pass, Sakamoto Masae Eimon sat on the ground with no one's face, with a thick stack of casualties and losses spreading in front of him. In addition to the two brigades who did not participate in the war, the entire Sixth Division participated in the attack on Qian'an and the 5,000 troops of the 2nd Brigade, and it was confirmed that less than 4,000 troops were intact.

After a day and night of fighting, the total number of casualties exceeded 13,000, plus the total number of frozen and frostbite. The entire Sixth Division has determined that the number of people killed in this battle was killed in this battle, at least 6,000, which is more than the total number of all troops killed on the Great Wall defense line in the past two months.

Look at the bare division flags and the empty division headquarters. A bunch of major generals and brigade commanders and corps commanders have become bare commanders. Three colonels were killed. There are countless of them below the gang.

Sakamoto Masaemon silently picked up the samurai sword that he had followed for many years, rubbed it gently, and slowly pulled it out.

In Qian'an City, Shang Zhen, Li Xingcun, Gao Hongwen, Zhu Bin, as well as a group of staff officers from the 32nd Army, and inspectors of the military branch from Peking, dozens of senior officials climbed the city tower and took risks to look at the vast battlefield with smoke and dust from afar, speechless for a long time.

Shang Zhen rubbed his dry eyes hard, stared at Zhu Bin for a full minute, sighed and said suddenly: "Plain field battles are no longer a battle that ordinary infantry can participate in. In the future, it will definitely be the world of cannons and tanks."

The once arrogant Japanese army was helpless in the face of the densely packed artillery and heavy machine guns. The defense line built like a turtle shell resisted the Japanese cannon and air force, which had no choice but to fight in the entire Great Wall defense line. It was in this small place, giving the opponent the heaviest blow and also gave all senior officers a vivid lesson. Fighting, it turned out that it could be fought like this.

Zhu Bin said terrifyingly: "In our country, the initiative in war must not be controlled by the enemy. We have countless manpower and material resources to build fortifications that they will never be able to open. They dare to invade, and what awaits them must be death and failure."

In my heart, Zhu Bin sighed secretly, but unfortunately the army was too primitive. Otherwise, this battle would not be as simple as destroying the 6th Division of the Japanese Army. They would definitely wipe out their entire army.

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