The battle officially started at eight o'clock in the morning on October 1, the twenty-sixth year of the Republic of China. On the position of the Fourth Artillery Division, Wang Qinglong looked at the twenty-four 30-gun 130 tanks placed in front of him that had just been named Heavy Rain.
I also felt a little nervous about the new ten-millimeter rocket launcher. After all, this was the first cannon of the entire army. Whether it would go off or not would depend on this.
"Sir, the rocket launcher regiment is all ready and can be launched. Please give your instructions." The newly appointed commander of the rocket launcher regiment strode over and reported.
"Command the troops to start launching"
"yes"
"Swish swish"
Following the order, twenty-four rocket launchers lined up in a row began to roar, and bursts of fire suddenly appeared from the rear of the launch tubes of more than twenty multiple rocket launchers with Dodge truck-based chassis.
In less than thirty seconds, all the launches were completed, and the entire position was filled with smoke.
On the position of the 25th Division of the Japanese Army, Senior Private Da Kongyi was leaning in a 1.5-meter-high trench and smoking inferior cigarettes. The meager military pay that a senior soldier like him could receive in a month could not support his smoking.
A good smoker. What's more, he has to send most of his military salary home every month for his two younger sisters to study. Da Kongyi has had an ideal since he was a child, that is, to let his two younger sisters live a good life.
, to avoid being sold by their parents to become a keeper in the courtyard like other girls in the village.
Many girls in the village were sold and spent the rest of their lives separated from their families, never to see their relatives again. Ohsora Tsubasa didn't want his two younger sisters to suffer such a fate, so he joined the army and came to
In Manchuria, I heard that many soldiers who came here made a lot of wealth in China after retiring.
During the more than two years in Manchuria, Da Kongyi, like other Japanese soldiers, regarded going out for camp vacation as a good opportunity to make a fortune. They went out to rob the property of the people near the camp, and if they disobeyed, they would fight with each other with fists and kicks.
In most cases, he was directly stabbed to death with a bayonet. In the past two years, Da Kongyi had also grabbed a lot of things.
"Ah, I will retire in two months. I believe that the golden Buddha I snatched from the wealthy man's house a few days ago can help my family and my two sisters live a good life." Ohsora Tsubasa touched his arms.
A little golden Buddha inside was thinking happily.
Seeing that the sky was about to get bright, Da Kongyi yawned for a long time, holding the Type 38 rifle on his back and covering his mouth, and was about to walk back. When he looked up at the sky, his yawning mouth was wide open.
But they could no longer close together. A stream of bright lights flew from the distance. Judging from the direction, the direction they were flying in was exactly our own position.
"Artillery bombardment"
A shrill shout rang out from the position, but it was immediately covered up by the sound of roaring rockets. The first line of defense of the 25th Division was the 14th Regiment. Their positions were within a short period of time.
Within thirty seconds, it was covered by seven hundred and twenty rounds of 130mm rockets. Although it was only 130mm in name, the power of the rockets was not comparable to that of ordinary artillery shells. In terms of power, it was
In other words, it is larger than the average 155-caliber howitzer.
In bursts of flames, all the positions of the 14th Regiment, whether they were open or concealed forts, or machine gun positions, were all reduced to ashes in the violent explosions.
"Moxi Moxi, this is the division headquarters, 14th Regiment, 14th Regiment? 40th Regiment, 40th Regiment, do you hear that? 40th Regiment?" The anxious voice of the combat staff continued in the headquarters.
Rings.
"Your Excellency, General, our communication with the 14th Regiment and the 40th Regiment has been interrupted. It is estimated that the phone line has been blown up. Please send a communication soldier out to check the line." The voice of the combat staff woke up Shanggang who was still thinking.
Daowu.
Michio Yamaoka leaned on his command knife and sat sullenly aside. He did not immediately answer the words of the combat staff. The Chinese bombardment had been going on for almost an hour, but there was no sign of stopping. Did they want to use artillery fire to kill twenty
Were all the fifth divisions blown up?
Although Yamaoka Michio had heard about the combat effectiveness of the Chahar Army, hearing about it and experiencing it personally were two different things. Now he was sitting in the headquarters, looking at the smoke and loud noises rising from the battlefield outside, and the unstoppable
Lieutenant General Michio Yamaoka couldn't help but feel a surge of regret at the shock. Why couldn't he dig trenches as diligently as Kajiro Muraka and fill the headquarters with cement? This would make it easier for him.
You and your subordinates have a higher chance of survival.
We can't go on like this anymore. We must take the initiative in our own hands. Yamaoka Michio, who believed in attacking in his heart, was unwilling to do so. Yamaoka Michio stood up with a roar and shouted to the combat staff: "Order
The 70th Regiment, immediately reinforce the 14th Regiment as soon as the enemy bombardment stops."
"Hi"
Seeing the gleaming cannonballs flying overhead, Lieutenant General Yamaoka Michio couldn't help but sadly thought, Amaterasu, who created this devil? Are they really going to destroy me?
Twenty-fifth Division?
Wang Qinglong's timing was very accurate. After a full hour, the sound of artillery suddenly stopped. For a time, the deafening sound of howitzers and the sharp whistling shells on the Japanese army's position quickly disappeared.
Colonel Nakai Ken, the captain of the Fourth Regiment, crawled out from the ruins of the remaining regiment headquarters. Looking at the position that was plowed by ten thousand bison at the same time, Nakai Ken opened his throat and shouted hoarsely: "
Is there anyone alive? Come out quickly. The Chinese are about to attack."
Following the shouts of Colonel Nakai Ken, a few figures in ragged clothes appeared from all around, wandering around and gathering next to Nakai Ken. While Nakai Ken shed tears, he led the remaining soldiers to search for them on the battlefield.
For the survivors, they used hand planers and hand shovels, but unfortunately, most of what they found on the battlefield were stumps and broken arms. It took more than ten minutes of searching before they found more than 300 surviving soldiers.
Colonel Nakai Ken stared blankly ahead, and at this time his spirit was on the verge of collapse.
At this time, a voice that seemed to float from the horizon came into his ears: "Your Excellency Colonel, Your Excellency Colonel, please cheer up. The 14th Regiment cannot do without you. Please cheer up." Ken Nakai
Turning around with difficulty, he saw that it was Major Ueda Ichiro, the only surviving captain under his command.
Nakai Ken forced a smile and said, "Ueda-kun, now our regiment has lost 90% of its combat effectiveness. It seems that it will be difficult to maintain the position. You should immediately take the regiment flag to the division commander and ask him to
Please rebuild our 14th Regiment, please.”
After saying that, Takeru Nakai took out the regiment flag he had just found from the ruins of the flag guard squadron, handed it to Major Ichiro Ueda and bowed deeply to him.
"Your Excellency, this is not possible. It is better for me to stay here and you take the military flag with you." Ichiro Ueda took the military flag and fell to the ground crying.
"Bagaya Road, this is an order. You must execute it immediately. When have you ever seen a regiment commander flee without a fight?" Ken Nakai slapped Ueda Ichiro on the face.
"Hurry up, otherwise you won't be able to leave by the time the Chinese chariot comes over." Nakai Ken pushed his foot toward Ueda Ichiro, "Baga, hurry up."
At this time, the roar of tanks could be heard faintly from the front, and Ichiro Ueda ran towards the division headquarters howling and crying.
Seeing Ichiro Ueda running away, Colonel Nakai Ken took a deep look at the soldiers in front of him. He shouted in a hoarse voice: "Gentlemen, the Chinese tanks are coming, our anti-tank tanks are coming."
The weapons have been completely destroyed. Now please keep in mind General Nogi Nogi’s philosophy of serving the country for seven lives. If there are not enough steel bullets, use human bullets to hit. Now please put all the explosive bags in front of me."
After a while, more than a dozen explosive packets were piled up in front of Colonel Nakai Ken.
Colonel Nakai Ken personally selected a dozen soldiers and tied them with white ribbons on their heads to form a meat bomb team, which was personally led by a sergeant to launch a meat bomb attack on China Army tanks.
"Climb forward and stuff explosive packets under their tracks to destroy the Chinese tanks. When you get the chance, pull the fuse. Do you understand? Please do it for the sake of the emperor."
Colonel Nakai Ken held the explosive pack in both hands and bowed to the young soldiers in front of him.
The young soldier mechanically stretched out his hand to pick it up, as if touching a red-hot soldering iron. He almost dropped the explosive bag on the ground. Seeing that this soldier was a little timid, Nakai Takeru suddenly stepped forward and slapped him twice.
Then he tied the explosive-packed straps tightly to the soldier's back.
"Like a samurai, do you understand?"
"Your Majesty Colonel, I" the young soldier covered his face as if to argue. But seeing the fierce eyes of Colonel Nakai Ken, he swallowed his words. The dozen or so soldiers selected all understood that they were gone.
retreat.
"Remember, you can only crawl forward. Climb forward and hide in the grass to use the bomb crater to approach."
"Go and act like an emperor and a samurai."
Colonel Nakai Takeru waved his hand in front of the blasted parapet.
"Don't delay, hurry up"
"I'm ready, Sergeant, I'll be there soon"
The young underground soldier swallowed his saliva, glanced in the direction of Japan, sighed, then touched the explosive bag behind him and climbed up the parapet. His leather boots dragged over the scorched earth that had been exploded not long ago. He climbed
While crawling, he suddenly raised his body and seemed to have forgotten something. When he turned around, he seemed to want to explain something more, but he only saw the expectant eyes of Colonel Nakai Ken and others.
The low-ranking soldier crawling in the scorched earth and grass crawled towards the crater with dense black plow holes in front of him. From time to time, he hid his body in the crater caused by the artillery shell to avoid the shrapnel flying on his scalp. At this time, he had crawled out of ten
It was only a few meters away. From time to time, he twisted his thin body and crawled forward among the bare trees that had been cut in half by shrapnel.
"God bless you"
Colonel Nakai Ken looked at several members of the meat bomb team who were approaching. The smoke produced when the shells of the China tank exploded obscured the attacking tanks. The machine gunners on the China tank and the infantrymen in the rear were being suppressed by machine guns at this moment.
They haven't yet discovered the meat bomb team they sent. They crawled between the bomb craters and the grass and disappeared from time to time into the bomb craters. They wore white cloth strips on their heads and disappeared and appeared.
At this time, the distance between them and the tanks that were spitting out green smoke had been significantly shortened.
"Just crawl into the smoke and get in."
Seeing the distance getting closer and closer, Colonel Nakai Takeru's hope grew more and more in his heart. He leaned on the blasted parapet and his heart was pounding with anxiety as he calculated how far away the meat bomb team was from the tank.
"Baga, what are they doing running around? They rushed over and pulled the fuse." When he noticed that several members of the meat bomb team were lying in the crater and never jumped out, a sergeant next to him was out of breath.
Angrily, he cursed loudly and said that if he could, he would chop off the heads of those cowards with one knife.
Seeing this scene, Colonel Takeru Nakai's eyes also showed anger that could kill people, "These are cowards."
When he saw the tank getting closer and closer, Takeshi Nakai's brows jumped anxiously. Next to Takeshi Nakai, a private with a short and fat body was lying on the parapet. His thick neck like a pig's neck was all reduced to his collar.
If you don't pay attention, it's hard to tell that he still has a neck.
The private spat fiercely outside the parapet, and his piercing little eyes turned gloomy and strange as he glanced at the colonel beside him.
"Your Excellency, Colonel, you should order me to go. It's the same to me anyway. I'm not afraid of death and have nothing to worry about. I promise to blow up a tank."
But his words were completely lost in the rumbling explosions. Seeing that his commander ignored him, the private did not hesitate to carry an explosive pack and jumped out of the trench.
At this time, Colonel Nakai Ken heard nothing. He was concentrating on observing the Chinese tanks approaching in the open space. The roar of the diesel engines of the Chinese tanks was no longer a rumbling sound, but a regular sound.
Mechanically running, Yamaguchi even noticed that the gun barrel of the China tank had begun to move slowly.
Just when Colonel Nakai Ken picked up his rifle and prepared to use it to face the "battle" with the tanks, several mud-gray bodies crawled slower and slower like writhing insects on the battlefield full of craters.
Carefully, he then lay down on a crater about ten meters away from the tank and became motionless.
'They didn't stop'
Although it was unclear what the soldiers of the Meat Bomb Team were doing there, Colonel Nakai Ken already understood that they were not cowards.
"Nani, that's Colonel Nakai Ken. He saw a stooped figure on the battlefield rushing towards the pressing tank. In just a breath, he had already run to the tank, which was only a few meters away. There was a crater, and then there was a fierce
He jumped up and rushed towards the tank in front of him. Everyone saw the fuse of the explosive pack behind him emitting white smoke.
"yes"
Just when the figure was about to approach the tank, several short strings of firelight flew out from behind the tank. The firelight flashed diagonally and blocked the figure who was leaning forward and running forward. This time the shadow staggered and his head jerked.
The ground leaned back, and his chest seemed to be pressed against the shining firelight, which then disappeared and merged with the ground. Then a violent explosion blew the body lying on the ground into pieces.
He even saw that one of the brave soldier's thighs was blown to a place only a few meters away from him.
"idiot"
When Colonel Nakai Ken was yelling, suddenly a small insect-like human body jumped out from the black hole of the crater and rushed forward for a few meters before lying on the scorched earth and huddled up. For a while, there was only one person in sight.
The huge thing moving in the smoke rushed towards him.
"boom"
Then there was a silent explosion. The tank shook violently and jumped back. Thick black oil smoke rose like a fountain from the tank. After seeing the tank destroyed by meat bombs, the trenches were filled with enthusiastic Japanese soldiers and
The officers shouted "Banzai" at the same time
Amidst their shouts, several more meat bombs that had been hidden in the crater jumped out of the crater and rushed towards the nearest tank.
At this time, Du Jingtao, who was directing the tanks to advance, heard several violent explosions in front of him, and at the same time, several emergency reports came from the headset: "Report to the camp, three of our tanks were damaged by the Japanese death squads, and one of them has track damage."
The vehicle was blown up."
"Damn it." Du Jingtao didn't expect that four tanks would be destroyed or injured just as he drove to the Japanese position.
"Everyone immediately conduct cross-fire cover. We must snatch out the brothers inside the tanks. Build a wall between the tanks to protect the brothers inside. Rescue armored vehicles will come up immediately." Du Jingtao cursed loudly while ordering the rescue troops.
wounded.
In the creed of the Chahar Army, people always come first. This is an iron rule that Su Tong has instilled in officers and even soldiers since the beginning of the Duolun Militia.
Tanks can be rebuilt if they are gone, airplanes can be bought again, but people can't be resurrected if they are gone. Therefore, in tank troops and even infantry divisions, Su Tong has equipped them with ambulance armored vehicles as long as conditions permit. In armored vehicles
The doctors and female nurses on board shuttled through the battlefield just like the soldiers. At first, a few Jewish soldiers who had just joined the army were amazed at their noble feelings and affectionately called them battlefield angels. Later, this title became
Spread slowly.
Colonel Nakai Ken saw the Chinese tanks in front of him lined up to form a wall. The tanks on the tanks stretched out dozens of tongues of flame from the round holes in the turret, killing the Japanese army's meat bombers.
He firmly blocked the barrage, and occasionally an unbelieving person rushed over, but he also ended up with the person and the explosives being blown to pieces.
"Baga, the damn Chinese." Colonel Nakai Ken's eyes were red at this time. He looked at the soldiers who were gradually becoming sparse around him. His heart was filled with fear. He lowered his body and was about to take out the only remaining pack of explosives.
Carry the bag on your back.
"Sir Colonel, let's do it." At this time, the only sergeant commander left in the team stretched out his hand, snatched the explosive bag, and carried it on his back twice. He smiled miserably and said to Colonel Nakai Ken:
"Everyone, see you at the Yasukuni Shrine." After saying this, he rushed forward.
"Baga, how could you steal my explosives?" Colonel Nakai Ken muttered, took out his command knife and waved it forward, "For His Majesty the Emperor, onboard"
The colonel rushed forward with the last two hundred or so soldiers of the 14th Regiment.