Chapter 530: Making things difficult for each other
The cavalry on horseback heard the sound and followed the sound. Many people's expressions immediately changed.
"Naka...Captain Nakamura...look...the chariot!"
"Retreat! Hurry...retreat quickly...it's a chariot..." the leader of the group, a major, immediately shouted without thinking.
Since the beginning of the war, the reputation of the Liantai Militia Armored Force has spread throughout Shanxi.
Although the Japanese cavalry troops are extremely majestic when facing the Eighth Route Army or the National Army, this is just a superficial phenomenon. Once they face armored troops, the fear imprinted in their bones will immediately burst out.
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Without any orders from the commander, all the cavalrymen had already turned their horses and started running towards the direction they came from. Unfortunately, their reaction was already too late.
In the tank, Huang Jianhua stared hard at the Japanese cavalry, gritted his teeth, grabbed the microphone and shouted fiercely.
"Brothers, aim for me and hit them hard. Don't let any of them escape!"
Following the order, all the tanks spit out tongues of fire.
For a moment, there was a roar of guns and artillery. The infantrymen who were still sitting on the tanks also jumped off the tanks one after another. Sometimes they lay on the ground and sometimes they jumped up and shot at the retreating Japanese cavalry.
In the hail of countless bullets, the Japanese cavalry and horses fell one after another.
"Retreat! Retreat quickly!"
Major Nakamura whipped the horse's body repeatedly with his whip, shouting at the top of his lungs.
But as soon as he finished speaking, he was hit in the head by a grenade. The 7.92mm bullet hit his head and rolled and jumped in his skull. In just an instant, most of his head flew up and half of his head was lost.
Nakamura, who was holding his head, fell down and dismounted without saying a word, and was immediately trampled to a pulp by the war horses that crowded behind each other and tried their best to whip and run away.
"Vulnerable!"
Huang Jianhua, half of his body exposed, had a look of contempt on his face. If before this battle, Huang Jianhua still had some respect for the Sixth Division, now he has more contempt.
Objectively speaking, compared to other divisions, the Sixth Division is much stronger than other B divisions in terms of combat will, individual quality and equipment of its soldiers.
But since Gao Hongming showed them documentary films about several battles that were taking place on the Soviet-German battlefield, such as the Defense of Moscow, the Battle of Kiev, Operation Sea Lion, and the Dunkirk retreat, Huang Jianhua and others' vision has changed.
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Compared with today's world powers, the Japanese army at this time was far behind the world in terms of combat thinking and weapons and equipment. How could it be respected by him?
"Between each vehicle, do not stop and be careful to maintain a good fighting formation. Qiu Youcai will lead a company to outflank from the left wing!"
While being chased by tanks firing artillery shells and machine gun bullets, the Japanese cavalry only resented the fact that the horse had grown two legs. They fired their guns backwards from time to time and beat the horses violently and retreated, trying to escape the pursuit of the armored troops.
The armored battalion led by Huang Jianhua followed closely behind the cavalry, firing continuously with machine guns.
From time to time, cavalry and war horses were shot and fell down, and then dozens of tons of tanks ruthlessly ran over them. The bodies of people and horses, and the bright red blood of people and horses were mixed with the loess in the fields under the crushing of the tank tracks.
, eventually these flesh and blood will be turned into fertilizer in the fields to nourish the Shanxi land that was once ravaged by the Japanese invaders...
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The shells like raindrops swept across the entire mountain in an instant. Even the newly tender trees at the foot of the mountain were washed away by the impact of the shell explosion. The trees on the mountain were either broken in half or uprooted after being hit by the shells and flew into the sky.
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At this time, this hilltop with an altitude of only more than 300 meters was like a small boat in the rough sea, enduring the test of blood and fire under the dense rain of bullets. The flames raised when the shells exploded almost lifted the raindrops falling from the sky into
From a distance, the water vapor can be seen as black gunpowder smoke permeating the nameless hill. At the same time, a faint trace of fog can be seen on the top of the hill.
"God is so cruel...it's raining at this time!" Kong Jie, the leader of the new second regiment who was commanding the troops in a shelter, couldn't help cursing,
On that hillock, many soldiers of the New Second Regiment carrying weapons braved the heavy rain and walked hard on the muddy hillside. Because the ground was too slippery, the charging Eighth Route Army soldiers fell to the ground from time to time, and then fell to the ground again.
He got up and staggered toward the top of the mountain facing the hail of bullets.
"The regiment commander...the brigade headquarters informed us that the new regiment has captured Laotou Mountain. The brigade commander asked us to capture this mountain before 1:00 p.m.!"
At this time, the chief of staff of the New Second Regiment came over and told Kong Jie the news, but there was no trace of joy on his face.
As the main offensive force, the 386th Brigade's original mission was to defeat the 6th Division as quickly as possible, but the originally smooth attack was interrupted by the sudden heavy rain.
Especially Kong Jie's New Second Regiment. Although thanks to its relationship with Gao Hongming, the equipment of the New Second Regiment is already very good compared with other Eighth Route Army units, it depends on who they are compared with.
Compared with Li Yunlong, who is shameless and shameless and fights with Gao Hongming from time to time, Kong Jie's new second group is far behind, let alone Ding Wei, who has been following Gao Hongming during this period.
Apart from anything else, at least in terms of supporting artillery, Kong Jie's New Second Regiment only has one artillery battery containing more than 20 mortars and four 92 infantry guns. This can be seen from the attack on the mountain just now.
Gotta come out.
Despite the fact that these mortars and infantry artillery bombarded the Japanese position opposite, the actual killing effect was very limited.
No way, the caliber of these artillery pieces is still too small, and it is difficult for the New Second Regiment to get support from the rear running group, because the main support direction of the limited artillery fire is still in the direction of the New First Regiment and the Independent Regiment.
But what Kong Jie didn't know was that on the hilltop less than a kilometer opposite him, there was a person who was more worried than him.
Thick gunpowder smoke enveloped the top of the mountain, making it impossible to see clearly even ten meters away.
Aoki, the first captain of the Thirteenth Regiment, who was holding a command knife, lay trembling in the trench. His whole body was soaked by the rain. As the captain, Aoki was thinking about how to repel the attack of the Eighth Route Army below.
The opponent's next move.
Aoki swore that since entering Shanxi, he had never encountered such a difficult Eighth Route Army.
Although this Eighth Route Army wore familiar gray military uniforms, the weapons in their hands were completely different from those of the previous Eighth Route Army. They had a frightening number of machine guns. Bullets were fired everywhere as if they were free, and artillery shells seemed to be endless. Once upon a time, that
Tubalu, who had to count every bullet he fired, actually learned how to shoot barrage?
On the other hand, my own brigade had already become exhausted during the forced march and construction of fortifications during the previous retreat. The continuous battles left the Thirteenth Regiment without a chance to breathe, and they even had no chance to retreat at all because of the rush of retreat.