The Great Plains of eastern Henan are already suitable for armored forces to fight. At this moment, the torrent of thirty tanks was so powerful that it broke through the temporary defense line set up by Xiao Benzi in just a few minutes.
The Japanese army finally couldn't stand it any longer and fled in panic.
Thousands of soldiers from the security regiment and the 386th Brigade followed the tanks and pushed forward all the way. This did not seem to be a war on the same level.
They don't need to charge to break the formation, they just need to follow the tanks, dodge the bullets that fly from time to time, and shoot the Japanese.
As Xiao Benzi was defeated and fled, many people could not even grab the attack target, and could only follow the tank to eat dust, or give the Japanese soldiers a last hit.
On the other side, Li Yunlong, who was cooperating with a tank to attack for the first time, looked at the scene in front of him that was beyond his imagination, and his face was full of shock.
It turns out that war can still be fought like this. It turns out that war is not only a struggle between people, but also a struggle between people and machines. In the face of this torrent of steel, the power of an individual, even the power of a single infantryman, seems too small.
Not only him, but all the soldiers who followed the tank and charged and attacked, stared blankly at the scene in front of them. When did fighting become so easy? When did the little devil become so easy to deal with?
In just ten minutes, an entire regiment of more than 3,000 little Japs were directly maimed. Even rare, many Japs surrendered directly, and less than a thousand were able to escape.
On the other side, Madoka Doi quickly received the news of the disastrous defeat at the front, and was stunned for a moment. There were too many surprises today. First, it was bombed, which disabled the armored regiment and artillery. I thought that the 27th Army had escaped and everything would go smoothly.
Occupy Lanfeng City and cooperate with the Japanese army in Xuzhou to advance, attack, retreat or defend.
Unexpectedly, they encountered another army that appeared out of nowhere, including tanks. It was obvious that Lan Feng City had fallen into their hands.
How to fight next, continue to fight for Lan Feng City, or break through in other directions.
While he was distressed, on the other side, Xue Laohu also got the news and felt that the time had come. He immediately ordered the entire army to attack, further shrink the encirclement, and hunt rabbits in the grass.
More than 100,000 people launched the attack together and stationed themselves in various positions and pass Dofeiyuan divisions. They had to shrink the defense line all the way, and everyone began to panic.
Tu Feiyuan looked in the distance in the direction of Lan Feng City and sighed. In order to resist attacks from all directions, he did not have many mobile troops at his disposal.
It is simply impossible to capture Lan Feng City, which is obviously a tough one, in a short period of time. The battle situation has become anxious, and the few mobile troops are gone, and it is really going to be a dumpling.
He waved his hand, and the whole army began to retreat. They could only gather their troops in one place and wait for reinforcements. As long as they could hold on for a week, or even five days... the reinforcements from Xuzhou would arrive, and the danger would be relieved.
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Two days later, Xue Laohu frowned and looked at the airtight fortifications in front of him. He became more and more anxious. The reinforcements from Xuzhou would arrive in three or four days at most. After the Dofeiyuan Division switched to defense, they attacked across the board for two days. The results were
Very few.
Sometimes, he had to admire the little devil's tenacity, why he refused to retreat even if he fought to the death!
If we cannot completely break through the defense line and annihilate the little Japs in front of us within two days, when reinforcements from Xuzhou arrive, our hundreds of thousands of people may be made dumplings by others.
He was worrying with a group of generals here when Li Yunlong walked in familiarly, took an apple and took a bite. He said with a smile on his face: "Gentlemen, are you worried about the Japanese defenses? It's simple.
Give me…"
Many generals looked at him inexplicably, but Xue Laohu looked at him seriously: "Are you telling the truth? How dare you issue a military order."
Li Yunlong said boldly: "Why don't you dare! Let's do it now."
"However, I have a condition!"
Xue Huhu said: "Please tell me."
Li Yunlong said: "If I can break through the Japanese defenses, all the spoils of the Doihara Division will be ours as a bonus."
Xue Laohu and several generals looked at each other and said without any hesitation: "Okay, as long as you can break this defense, all the spoils will be yours."
Li Yunlong's face was filled with laughter.
"Then it's agreed. It's a deal. No later than noon today, the Japanese defense line will be broken."
Xue Laohu said: "Okay, I'm waiting for your good news."
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Despite Li Yunlong's assurance, Xue Huhu was still uneasy. War was not a child's play and time could not be wasted. To be honest, Xue Huhu was surprised that Li Yunlong and the others had an armored battalion, but the Japs made special preparations for this and counted on the tank battalions to break through the defenses.
I'm afraid it won't work. I can only secretly pray that the other party will be more reliable.
With something on his mind, he unconsciously came to the position of the Anti-Japanese Allied Forces.
"Captain Li, can you tell me how to break through the Japs' fortifications?"
Li Yunlong said: "Don't worry, Commander Xue, we will clear the fortifications for you before noon today, it just requires some explosives!"
Xue Huhu was confused.
"Explosives, Commander Li, do you plan to use explosive tactics? With all due respect, the Japanese army's firepower network is very dense, so your method of attack may not be effective!"
As I said this, I was inevitably a little disappointed.
Li Yunlong smiled: "It does rely on explosives, but the way we use explosives is a little different. Commander Xue will be ready later, and when the explosion goes off, the fortifications will naturally be broken, and you can just attack.
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Xue Laohu could only say: "That's natural! As long as we can break the defensive offensive, the rest will be left to us."
Zhang Dabiao happened to run over at this time. Hearing the conversation between the two, he raised his head confidently.
"Captain, are you ready? When will we start taking action?"
Li Yunlong said: "Go check it again and take action in half an hour."
Then he turned to Xue Laohu and said: "Sir Xue, please be prepared for the people on your side. In half an hour, the fortifications in front of you will be destroyed."
Although Xue Laohu was confused, he still ordered his staff to prepare the troops, but he followed Li Yunlong to the position.
Soon, he saw that the secret weapons prepared to break through the fortifications turned out to be half-buried in the soil, a row of gasoline barrels, and a pile of explosive packets tied into various shapes.
What use can this be, can it break the position?
Xue Laohu always felt that the things in front of him were a bit familiar, and he soon thought of it. A few months ago, someone gave their troops some pamphlets, which introduced a so-called flying thunder cannon production method, which is to use gasoline barrels and explosives.
Bag.
He looked at it and threw it aside. The iron sheet was as thin as a gasoline barrel. He didn't believe that any weapons could be made from it. Not only did he not believe it, but most of the troops in Guofu didn't believe it either.
On the other hand, in the north, Li Mu passed on the method and sent a batch of gasoline barrels, and he quickly mastered it. He also played more professionally and developed more uses for the heartless cannon.
In order to deal with the Japanese tanks, field fortifications and dense formations, they even tried to use projectile tubes to throw rocks weighing tens of kilograms and cluster grenades. Gradually, there were more and more "unscrupulous cannons" with more and more power.
getting bigger.
For the current Li Yunlong, he is a professional when it comes to playing "heartless cannons". He also knows the huge power of this kind of cannon on fortifications in some cases.
Nowadays, after such a long period of improvement, the heartless cannons used on the battlefield have become quite mature. Not only are the explosives packaged into the shape of a cannonball with a sharp front and a round back, but also scientific improvements have been made to the propellant charge and explosive charge.
And a simple sight was installed on the top of the gasoline barrel.
Some people even calculated standardized ballistic trajectories based on this, basically controlling the shooting error of the "heartless cannon" within 5 meters.
In this way, the actual combat capability of the Heartless Cannon will be stronger.
In order to support them in making heartless cannons, Li Mu supported them with dozens of tons of explosives at one time. If it was not enough, there would be more.
Now, more than 800 heartless cannons are deployed in front of the position, ready to go.
Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Yunlong shouted: "Hurry up and check the explosive bag again. I have tied the rope according to the drawings drawn by the engineers. Who dares to make mistakes? All the smelly socks in the regiment for this month will be handed over to him."
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The soldiers below burst into laughter.
Li Yunlong waved his hand: "Stop laughing, get ready to light the fire!"
With a single order, more than 800 heartless cannons were all ignited. After a series of loud noises that sounded like the earth was shattering, everyone was stunned.
For the first time, a simple mass murder weapon like the "heartless gun" showed its power in a large-scale war.
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In a simple command post behind the fortifications, Inoue, the captain of the first regiment of the Doi Madoka Division, sat there quietly, carefully studying the battle situation in front of him, with a very relaxed expression.
Although he knew that the army in front of him had an armored battalion and almost eliminated the 3rd Regiment, he had confidence in the fortifications and dared not say more. He would definitely have no problem holding on until reinforcements arrived.
As for the reinforcements arriving, it was time for them to counterattack.
Suddenly, after a shocking loud noise, countless things the size of millstones suddenly flew into the sky, carrying flames and thick smoke, flying and rolling in the night sky, drawing terrifying trajectories, and then they fell down densely, hitting
The fortifications of the 1st Regiment.
"What is this?"
Almost out of an instinctive reaction of the body, Inoue Ozuo immediately fell to the ground. The Japanese officers standing behind him were a little stunned. Just as they were a little surprised by the actions of the commander, a violent explosion occurred.
The violent shock wave ravaged the earth, and everything around it was turned upside down. Even the soil on the surface was undulating like waves under the strong push of the explosives, and buildings large and small were collapsing one after another.
The horrific scene in front of him made Inoue even more horrified.
He screamed in horror: "What kind of weapon is this?
This was just the beginning. In the next short period of time, more than 800 heartless cannons fired five salvos until the cannon barrels could no longer withstand such intensive firing, and then they stopped.
At this time, Inoue's ears were buzzing and he could no longer hear any sound.
Everywhere in his body hurt, especially his internal organs, which seemed to be rotten. He was just about to reach out his hand to check the condition of his body. But he didn't reach out, his sleeve was empty, and his right hand had been blown away.
On the fortifications, when the explosion sounded, as the ground trembled and fluctuated, more than 3,000 little Japs from the First Regiment danced crazily in the explosion like a group of drunkards. It looked really weird from a distance.
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As the continuous explosions sounded, the eyes seemed to have turned into hell, a blood-red mess, and it was impossible to tell which was the diffuse dust and which was the flames of the explosion.
Later, it became difficult for Xiao Benzi to breathe, and all the air seemed to be burned out.
These Japanese officers and soldiers tried hard to open their mouths wide, trying to get some oxygen. But every time they took a big breath, they breathed in some choking gunpowder smoke.
The hot smoke produced by the burning and explosion of the explosives was raging in the throats and lungs of the Japanese soldiers. It seemed to be squeezing their chests. Many soldiers coughed hard, even bent over and vomited, and all they vomited was blood.
and ruptured internal organs.
Finally, the explosion stopped, and hell seemed to return to the human world again, but the scene in front of me was nothing more than hell.
The faces of many little devils who had narrowly escaped death were distorted, as if they had crawled out of hell.
As Inoue struggled to get up, he saw that the position in front of him had been completely flattened by the bombing, and their carefully built fortifications had completely collapsed. The bunkers and houses were all in pieces, and all the standing buildings were turned into rubble.
He stared at all this blankly, knowing that everything was over, completely over. Could Japan conquer a country with such powerful weapons? For a moment, he felt despair and fell softly to the ground.
It was not just Xiaoben who was shocked by the explosion. Xue Laohu was also stunned. He never expected that just a few gasoline barrels, combined with some explosives and explosive packets, could produce such a huge power.
"Promote, must promote, must promote this weapon to the whole country, let all the little devils have a taste..."
Next, things became simple. Following Xue Laohu's order, countless people rushed towards the first regiment's defenses.
However, the scene in front of me was shocking.
There are corpses everywhere, especially in some underground fortifications and trenches. They are piled up in piles. Some are curled up in the soil, and some have half of their bodies leaning out from the ruins.
Some soldiers also found a well-preserved car not far away, and there seemed to be a kid inside. When a group of people ran up to it with guns raised vigilantly, they found that the kid inside was dead. There was no apparent damage on the outside.
He was knocked to death by the shock wave.
In this battle, the first regiment of Doi Yuan Division was completely wiped out, except for a few hundred people who stayed far away and escaped, and then fled desperately.
Next, under the command of Xue Laohu, tens of thousands of soldiers marched along the defense line and penetrated into the key points of the Dofeiyuan Division. In cooperation with the more than 100,000 troops on the periphery, after a day and night of fierce fighting, only a thousand remaining soldiers escaped.
, the entire 14th Division, including Doi Yuan, was wiped out.
Another veteran Japanese elite division has been completely eliminated.