Chapter 442 More exaggerated than killing a chicken with a sledgehammer
Eight tanks and four armored vehicles were staggered on the battlefield.
Breathing out black smoke, they were like steel monsters, roaring forward and crushing all obstacles they encountered.
Six rapid-fire cannons stretched out their slender barrels from the position, and one rapid-fire cannon was aimed at a tank, quietly waiting for the order to fire.
The moment the tanks crossed the 100-meter line in front of the formation, the sound of artillery suddenly sounded, and then a ball of fire burst out from the bodies of five tanks...
The fast-moving tank instantly lay on the ground, and five streams of black smoke came out of the tank at the same time...
"Boom boom boom..."
Two mortar companies with 12 mortars and two torpedo cannon platoons with twelve torpedo cannons also joined the battle at this moment. Violent explosions sounded like thunder in the Japanese attacking troops and artillery positions...
When the Japanese army attacked the position, everyone was startled by the sudden explosion. The chief of staff had the most exaggerated reaction.
Both he and Lieutenant General Sato had high hopes for the tank troops, feeling that they could turn the tide, help Sato's division break the deadlock, and severely damage the independent regiment...
As a result, the tank squadron only broke through the independent regiment's defense line and suffered heavy losses.
What made them even more uneasy was that the independent regiment was equipped with rapid-fire artillery, a powerful weapon specially designed to fight tanks.
Lieutenant General Sato was also shocked, but as the division commander, he must remain calm at all times.
After a brief shock, he began to give orders: "The rapid-fire artillery poses too great a threat to the tank and must be killed immediately..."
"The mountain artillery unit, the heavy artillery brigade, the infantry artillery squad, the mortar squadrons, and the tank guns... launch a counterattack immediately and destroy the rapid-fire artillery on the position at all costs... Hurry up, don't let them escape!"
The quickest response was from the mortar squadron.
When the Japanese and puppet troops attacked, they kept covering the blocking positions with artillery fire. They hardly needed to adjust their firing crews. They could just pick up the artillery shells and shoot...
However, they were attacked by two mortar companies in the blocking position. Several artillery positions were bombed, and the gunners suffered heavy casualties...
The sudden artillery attack instantly disrupted the rhythm of their artillery fire, and the number of artillery shells hitting the blocking position was reduced by nearly half at this moment.
Mountain field artillery and infantry artillery need to readjust their firing crews before firing, and they have to wait at least ten or twenty seconds...
In this way, the rapid-fire artillery battery had a precious twenty seconds of transfer time.
But they still underestimated Lieutenant General Sato's determination to kill them.
Six rapid-fire artillery squads quickly evacuated the firing positions and moved along the trenches to the reserve positions.
The trenches were different from the ground. They twisted and turned to the left and had a limited width, which caused their transfer speed to be very slow.
Before the movement is in place, the shells from the mountain artillery are already whizzing towards...
As soon as the Guizishan field artillery and heavy artillery opened fire at the enemy headquarters of the Independent Regiment, Li Wensheng's expression changed and he shouted solemnly.
"No, the Japanese are using mountain artillery and heavy artillery to cover the entire blocking position..."
Kong Jie took a breath and said, "That old devil Zuo Teng is too cruel..."
"To dispatch so many heavy artillery and mountain artillery in order to kill our rapid-fire artillery squadron is more exaggerated than killing a chicken with a knife. It's so scary!"
"But it's understandable!"
"Rapid-firing cannons are the trump card for destroying tanks!"
"Kill out the rapid-fire artillery battery, and their tanks and armored vehicles will be able to rampage across the battlefield again, fighting against all odds!"
"Based on this analysis, it is not an exaggeration for them to dispatch twice as many artillery pieces to deal with the rapid-fire artillery batteries!"
"Have the rapid-fire artillery company enter the anti-gun cave immediately and stay on standby!"
"Knocking out five enemy tanks for the first time in the war. Such a result is already very gratifying!"
"Leave the remaining tanks and armored vehicles to the defense line defenders to clean up..."
"Let them immediately form a death squad, and under the cover of mortars and grenades, destroy the remaining tanks and armored vehicles at close range!"
"The light and heavy machine guns in the bunker are ready to fire. They will first cover the death squads to destroy the Japanese tanks, and then cover the surface troops to hold their positions and repel the Japanese and puppet attacking troops..."
"Rumble..."
The enemy's artillery fire coverage became more and more fierce, and the smoke filling the blocking position became thicker and thicker...
More than a dozen squads of suicide squads suddenly got out of the artillery holes and moved along the trenches to the closest position to the tanks.
During this process, soldiers were constantly killed by artillery shells, but no one flinched.
Everyone gritted their teeth and stared firmly at the tanks and armored vehicles that were getting closer and closer in front of them!
When the two sides were forty or fifty meters apart, the Japanese heavy artillery brigade, mountain field artillery brigade, and infantry artillery squad all stopped shelling, leaving only a few dozen mortars that continued to fire shells at the blocking position.
The defensive pressure on the defenders was immediately reduced a lot. The mortar squads and flying thunder artillery squads hiding in the anti-cannon holes came out one after another to join the battle...
"Rumble..."
Three millstone-sized explosive packets passed over tanks and armored vehicles, hit the middle of the attacking troops and exploded...
"Dongdongdong..."
More than twenty light and heavy machine guns hiding in the bunker joined the battle at the same time. Some stared at the tanks and armored vehicles and fired, bullets hitting the armor and sparks flying... Some bypassed the tanks and specifically shot the Japanese and puppets hiding behind them.
Army, leaving the tanks without protection...
The rapid-fire artillery battery lost two artillery pieces in the previous artillery fire, and the remaining four artillery pieces successfully hid in the anti-gun holes.
However, because the attacking troops had already reached the front of the position and could rush into the position in the blink of an eye, the rapid-fire artillery did not even have time to join the battle, so they could only continue to hide in the anti-gun holes and wait for orders.
"Follow me all..."
A squad leader jumped out of the trench with a pack of explosives and rolled towards a tank.
Seven subordinates followed closely behind, but the Japanese were not a vegetarian either. The truck-mounted heavy machine guns stared at them and fired at them. The three subordinates were beaten into pieces as soon as they stepped out of the trench...
"Dongdongdong..."
The light and heavy machine guns in two nearby bunkers fired at the tank at the same time, trying to distract the little Japs and give the demolitionists more opportunities to get closer.
But the Japanese tank crew relied on the tank's rough skin and thick flesh, and was not afraid of these fires at all. He controlled the vehicle-mounted machine gun and continued to shoot at the several demolition crews, not giving them a chance to get close to the tank...
In the blink of an eye, two more Demomen fell to the ground...
"Boom boom boom..."
At the critical moment, several grenades roared and smashed around the tank...
Although this power cannot blow up the tank, the smoke generated by the explosion of the grenade just blocks the tank's observation port...
The truck-mounted heavy machine gun suddenly lost its aim and could only aim at the approximate position of the blaster and fire randomly.
The remaining three demolition crews seized the opportunity and ran a few steps forward, rushing out of the firing range of the vehicle-mounted heavy machine gun.
Then, like a monkey, it rolled, jumped, crawled, and finally reached a position four or five meters away from the tank...
Pull off the fuse of the explosive package, throw it into the tank site with force, roll your body sideways to the crater at the same time, hold your head in your hands, keep your body close to the ground, and wait for the explosive package to explode...
"Rumble..."
A ball of fire emerged from the bottom of the tank, and billowing black smoke rose into the sky at the same time. The steel monster that was so powerful just now instantly turned into a pile of scrap metal, lying motionless at the explosion point... This chapter has been completed!
