"Captain...your artillery fire cover is useful..." the captain said with a surprised look on his face.
Mortar shells rained down on the tank in the middle of the torrent, and the thick smoke quickly enveloped the tank.
The armored soldiers wrapped in steel were unable to see the rapidly approaching death squads through the smoke. They could only shoot blindly in front of the tank. The accuracy was greatly reduced, and the survival rate of the death squads on the battlefield actually increased.
When we were still 30 to 40 meters away from the Eighth Route Chariot troops, there were still 1,560 people alive among the more than 200 suicide squad members.
If we continue to attack at this rate of loss, at least thirty or forty people will be able to reach the chariot alive.
Two kamikazes can kill one tank, and they can blow up twenty.
After half of the Eighth Route Army's tank units participating in the attack were destroyed, the offensive firepower of the remaining half of the tank units was reduced by half.
The troops continued to use the regimental commander's method just now to arrange death squads to attack. Perhaps it only took more than a hundred people to destroy the remaining tanks.
certainly……
This style of play is not applicable on all battlefields.
If the Eighth Route Army sends infantry to protect the tank, no matter how many death squads the commander sends, they will not be able to get close to the tank.
The problem now is that the Eighth Route Army only sent forty armored fighting vehicles to launch a counterattack against the returning troops, and did not send infantry to protect the fighting vehicles. This gave the company commander some opportunities.
A rare smile flashed across the serious face of the co-captain, as if he had already seen victory and waved to him.
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Just when all the little devils were preparing to welcome victory, a string of fireballs suddenly shot up in front of them and instantly shattered their dreams.
In the splashing fire, many suicide squad members were blown over and fell into a pool of blood without moving.
There were also some death squad members who were not only killed by the explosion, but also the explosive packs they held in their arms were detonated at the same time, and the entire body was turned into a rain of blood in the explosion...
"Boom boom boom..."
After three consecutive rounds of explosions, the remaining suicide squad members of more than 100 people were directly killed or injured by the bombing.
At this time, the twenty armored vehicles rushing behind the tank suddenly accelerated and charged forward alongside the tank.
Compared with tanks, armored vehicles are equipped with more vehicle-mounted heavy machine guns, and the machine gunner can directly see the outside situation through the shooting hole, and the shooting angle of the machine gun is much wider than that of tanks.
None of the few remaining little Japanese suicide squads in front of them escaped their eyes.
"Dong dong dong..."
Dozens of truck-mounted heavy-duty machine guns fired at the same time. Whether it was the corpses of the killed kamikaze, the wounded, or the intact kamikaze, they were all fired at by thick bullets, and there was no movement at all.
The Japanese commander was blinded by the sudden accident in front of him. He stared with a pair of big red eyes and did not react for a long time until the fourth round of mortar shells hit them.
"Boom boom boom...Sir, we are being targeted by the Eighth Route Army artillery. It is dangerous here and we must move immediately..." The explosion of artillery shells and the reminder rope of the guard captain sounded in the ears of the regiment commander at the same time.
As soon as he recovered from the shock, two guards, one on the left and one on the right, were already holding him back, very quickly.
"Boom boom boom..."
The mortar fire rate was very fast. The group of people retreated less than ten meters when the fifth round of shells had already hit them.
One of the shells was very close to the commander of the regiment, and the powerful shock wave knocked over the two guards around him on the spot.
The fragments of the high-speed flying shells penetrated their bodies at the same time, taking away their lives.
If they hadn't used their bodies to form a human shield around them to block the incoming shell fragments, he would have been the one who fell to the ground now.
"Rumble..."
The roar of the tank reached the ears of the commander at the same time. When he turned around, he saw that the torrent of steel headed by the tank had rushed two hundred meters behind him.
Their assault speed was very fast, and they followed behind them and fired at them.
You can clearly feel the bullets whizzing around you, and you can hear screams constantly coming from behind you.
"Captain, the Eighth Route Army tank troops are coming soon... What should we do next..." The guard captain was very anxious. He was chased and killed by the tank troops. A squadron of guard troops had already lost more than half of its troops in just a few minutes.
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If the commander of the regiment cannot think of any other way to break the situation and the troops continue to fight like this, in at most three minutes, the guards and the commander of the regiment will be completely killed by the Eighth Route Army's tank troops.
The co-captain also wanted to ask what to do next.
It's a pity that the subordinates around him are all in a state of confusion and confusion. They can't even maintain the most basic sense, let alone think of a solution.
And as the captain of the regiment, if he can't find a way to break the situation, it will definitely seriously affect the morale and morale of the troops.
So even if his mind is in chaos and there is no way to solve the problem, he will not speak out.
His mind was running rapidly, as if he were playing a movie, recalling all the battles he had experienced, hoping to find some lessons from them to help him get out of the current predicament.
It's a pity that the opponent is too strong.
Just as he said when he first attacked the Eighth Route Army, any conspiracy will become vulnerable in the face of absolute strength.
This is indeed the case. Facing the torrent of steel rushing towards him from the Eighth Route Army, he could not even save his life, let alone fight back.
Facing the eager eyes of his subordinates, he wanted to nod.
But the cruel situation on the battlefield did not allow him to deceive others, so he could only order with a look of despair: "Disperse and break out."
"Although the Eighth Route Army has many tanks, there are only forty in total. As long as we divide our forces, it is impossible for these forty tanks to chase all of us at the same time... There are always troops who can get rid of the tanks and retreat from the battlefield.
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As soon as the captain said this, he admitted that he had lost the raid.
All the subordinates could not believe the orders they heard.
The Imperial Army, which had never met an opponent before, was defeated by the Eighth Route Army on the battlefield.
Seeing everyone's confused faces, the captain became anxious.
Forty tanks followed closely behind everyone, charging and firing at the same time.
If the troops retreat one second late, more than a dozen soldiers may be killed or injured.
Ordered again: "Bagh Ya Road, didn't you hear the order I just gave?"
"The troops immediately dispersed to break out of the encirclement. How many people can be withdrawn... We also divided our troops to break out of the encirclement, otherwise everyone will be wiped out by the Eighth Route Army's tank troops here."
"Then where will we go after we successfully break through?" a subordinate asked guiltily.
"Beiping..." the commander replied with pain on his face.
"I will definitely not be able to go back to Tianjin Pier."
"The Eighth Route Army that attacked us was equipped with a large number of heavy artillery and tanks, and the Eighth Route Army that stayed behind at the Tianjin Pier must also be equipped with a large amount of heavy equipment. As far as the few remaining soldiers we broke through went to the Tianjin Pier, they would be fighting against the odds and seeking death."
