Two hundred and fifty-six chapters candle dragon - the fourth stage (five)
——Gaoyang Town
Gaoyang Town is a small town located to the west of Xiaoyi. Behind it is the Luliang Mountains. It has become the hiding place of the Eighth Route Army's last weapon. Because Xiaoyi City protects the place in front, it has not been disturbed by the war. Only in the distance
The faint explosions coming from time to time let people know that this place is not far from the battlefield.
Here are the more than 2,000 cavalrymen that the 120th Division worked hard to recruit in Suiyuan and the first Eighth Route Army armored force that came back from Germany.
Due to the lack of trucks, the infantry who were supposed to ride in trucks or armored vehicles became dragoons. The soul of this unit is the Eighth Route Army's direct tank regiment with 70 LT-38 tanks led by 31-year-old Xu Guangda. This is Jiang
Cheng brought all the tanks from later generations. The 70 tanks were divided into two battalions and one directly affiliated company. Each company was organized into three rows of ten tanks.
The deputy of this unit and the commander of the cavalry was Xu Shiyou, who came down from the Shaolin Temple.
Xu Shiyou loved drinking. He once boasted about his feat of drinking at the age of eight, which made people wonder why he went to the Shaolin Temple in the first place.
Xu Guangda was once again inspecting his precious tanks. In order to keep them secret, these tanks were covered with camouflage tents, but Xu Guangda ordered them to be inspected every day to ensure that they were ready for the battlefield at any time.
"Old Xu, the telegram from Mr. Zhu is here!" Xu Guangda turned around after hearing the shouting, but it was Xu Shiyou who came running up on horseback and said, "It's time for us to go on stage. Mr. Zhu ordered us to reach Qiao in Fenyang within two hours."
Jiazhuang, from there, we will join forces with other brothers to defeat the Japanese troops who have been driven out of Fenyang, and then march to Dujiazhuang with all our strength. The order says, don’t worry about other things, just attack, attack, and attack again. Infantry
He will follow up on his own and will send aircraft units to support us."
Xu Guangda clapped his hands and shouted, "Great, order the troops to set off in twenty minutes, no, fifteen minutes. The ground is frozen hard now. It is very easy to walk. It is suitable for our armored forces to fight."
Xu Shiyou also nodded and said, "Xiaoyi's cavalry is also meeting up at Qiaojiazhuang. Mr. Zhu has really spent a lot of money this time."
One by one, the tanks that had been fully fueled and loaded with ammunition were stripped of their camouflage, revealing their ferocious appearance, emitting black smoke and roaring as they headed south. The ones who set off ahead of them were Xu Shiyou's cavalry troops and horse-drawn carriages.
The baggage being pulled.
The maximum speed of the LT-38 tank can reach 42km/h, and the maximum range is 250km. The journey from Gaoyang Town to Qiaojiazhuang is only a dozen kilometers, and it only took an hour for Xu Guangda and others to arrive.
At this time, there were already a lot of troops gathered in Qiaojiazhuang. Everyone looked at this group of monster troops smoking black smoke in surprise. There were a few very nervous soldiers. When they saw the chariots from a distance, they were everywhere.
I was looking for a grenade, but fortunately I was caught by the person next to me, otherwise someone might have come to Xu Guangda with a pack of explosives and died together.
"It's not bad. It looks good. I think it's much better than the enemy's chariot." Boss Peng patted the chariot and said with a smile.
Xu Guangda smiled and said, "That's right, our Tieniu is the Black Tornado, which is very strong. However, our infantry-tank coordination tactics have not been trained in this way. I'm afraid there will be some problems by then."
Boss Peng waved his hand and said, "Is this your first time? Don't be afraid if there are problems. I have just told the battalion-level officers below to let them go down to convey the key points of coordinated operations. They are not allowed to be behind your tanks, but must be on both sides to resolutely eliminate all
To the Japanese who want to blow up tanks, don't worry. Our soldiers are better at blowing up tanks than the Japanese. We can do whatever they can think of. Okay, let's have a simple meeting. In half an hour, the supporting planes from Yan'an will be there.
It took off, and 45 minutes later, we started our attack!"
After three days of fighting, the number of Japanese troops has been reduced to less than 60,000. Among them, three relatively complete brigades broke out in a triangular formation to the north. Another complete regiment was defending Jiexiu City, and the others had been beaten and disabled.
Troops were sent to the west and east to block the Eighth Route Army's attack.
The Japanese army in front of Xu Guangda was the 31st Infantry Brigade, which had only half of its people left. His brigade commander was Major General Nagai Tanito.
The cold weather not only prevented He Long's troops in Pingyao from digging fortifications, but the Japanese army could also only rely on shallow fortifications to resist the Eighth Route Army's attack. The only thing that could make them feel at ease was that the Eighth Route Army's marksmanship and tactical literacy were still far behind theirs.
The Japanese army could often win with fewer soldiers by relying on their individual advantage, but the gap between artillery and air force made it difficult for the Japanese army to take advantage of their individual soldiers' capabilities.
"The Chinese cavalry is the Chinese cavalry." The shouts outside the headquarters made Gu Teng Changying feel a little upset. He walked out of the headquarters. This was a place called Shenjiabao. There was a big lake next to it. His troops
So we set up positions based on the lake and several nearby villages relying on each other.
Nagai Tanito walked up to the observation tower that had been built. Because it was a plain, this temporary observation tower of seven or eight meters could see very far.
"What is that?" Tanito Changying was not attracted by the cavalry that the soldiers said. What attracted him was the burst of black smoke in the dust. The maker of that black smoke was a burst of chariots that he had never seen before.
"Baga, what on earth is Tekko doing? The Eighth Route Army has planes, heavy artillery, and now it even has tanks, but we didn't get any news at all. This is a naked crime!" Gu Teng Changying cursed the intelligence department,
While thinking quickly about how to deal with these tanks that seemed difficult to deal with, after thinking about it, he really couldn't think of anything that could deal with these tanks with only mortars and infantry guns. The only way was to learn how to deal with them.
Those Chinese people approached and used explosive bags and grenades to blow them up.
"Boom", "boom" and "boom" have become routine artillery bombardments as they arrived at the position. Nagai Tanito quickly climbed down and hid in the fortifications. While ordering the troops to resist desperately, he ordered the artillery to fire at the approaching tanks.
"Hoo!" More than a dozen planes flew to the battlefield and began to dive towards the Japanese troops who were firing. The bombs were dropped as if they were free. The Japanese troops, who had already learned well, dispersed all the artillery units.
It could only blow up one of my cannons. The Japanese machine guns kept firing bullets into the sky, and the Eighth Route Army planes were waltzing in the sky like dancers.
The artillery fire showed no sign of stopping. Instead, it continued to extend backwards. The Japanese army looked at the tank that was less than 400 meters away. The machine gun fired like crazy. The Type 92 heavy machine gun fired like smoke, and the bullet hit the front of the tank 50 meters.
Sparks kept popping up on the mm armor, but other than that there was no impact. Instead, the tank stopped from time to time and fired at the firing machine gun. Wherever the 37mm shells hit, the machine gun was blown to pieces.
"Special Forces attack! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!!" A shirtless officer with a white cloth tied on his head shouted while waving a saber. Then he saw hundreds of Japanese soldiers tied with explosives and going crazy with rifles.
They rushed toward Xu Guangda's tank troops. They looked so scary.
"Retreat slowly, shoot with machine guns, don't panic, our infantry brothers are behind us." Xu Guangda said slowly. After all, it was the first time that the tank unit had entered actual combat. Xu Guangda was actually very nervous, but he knew that he had to use words to calm him down.
In the hearts of the soldiers, he is the commander. If he reveals a trace of nervousness, the pressure on the soldiers is self-evident.
The tank reversed slowly. Since the tank had no rearview mirrors, Mr. Peng's emergency training came into play at this time. No soldier died under its own wheels. You must know that even in Russia's anti-terrorism war in later generations, those who died were killed by themselves.
There were also a lot of dead souls under the wheels of the tanks, and in the end they were forced to install cameras on the back of the tanks.
While reversing, the machine guns on the tanks started firing. The 70 tanks were divided into two rows and used 140 machine guns to create a fire net within a kilometer. The Japanese special attack team continued to fall to the ground. The infantry who rushed up also opened fire to stop the Japanese troops.
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The Japanese troops fell to the ground one after another. When the last special attack team fell to the ground motionless, the entire battlefield stopped. Looking at the Japanese troops lying in front of them, many soldiers couldn't help but recall the time when they fought with the Japanese troops.
I have also seen such a scene, but it was my comrade lying on the ground at that time, but now it has been changed.
"Tank regiment! Charge!!" Xu Guangda roared loudly, and all the tanks made the exciting sound of their engines and drove forward with black smoke. The infantrymen next to them also shouted and charged.
But at this time, a group of planes were replaced in the sky to continue to provide air cover for Xu Guangda.
"Damn it, where are our aviation units? Without air cover, we can't resist these tanks at all!!" Nagai Tanito said anxiously as he looked at the Eighth Route Army troops that had passed the first line of defense and the Japanese troops that turned around and fled.
But at this time, the air force that Nagahide Tanito was talking about was caught in a crisis bigger than him.
These planes flying from Baoding to Shanxi were monitored by Jiang Cheng's radar as soon as they took off. When these planes arrived in Shouyang, Shanxi, there was a troop two thousand meters above them that had been waiting for them for a long time.
This was Wang Hai's ninth sortie. During this period, he had shot down five Japanese planes, destroyed four cannons, and killed countless Japanese soldiers with machine guns. He had become an ace pilot.
The five small red five-pointed stars on the plane represented his achievements. He secretly made up his mind to paint the entire plane with five-pointed stars one day. Then he would show it to Chairman Mao, and Chairman Mao would definitely praise him. When the time came,
Hee hee hee, I feel embarrassed just thinking about it.
"The enemy planes have reached two kilometers below our troops. They will start attacking in groups. The first group will start... the second group will start... the third group will start!"
When Wang Hai heard the order, he lowered the plane and flew downwards. The air superiority of the MiG-3 was once again demonstrated. This time, the main force of the Japanese aircraft were Type 97 fighters and Type 96 fighters, and there were even many double-winged Type 95 fighters.
Fighter planes, this is because the Japanese army really has no troops to dispatch. The remaining planes in North China are all here. If they want to add more planes, they can only dispatch them from the Kwantung Army and South China and Central China.
"Damn it? Why are there Chinese planes here? We have just entered Shanxi!!" The Japanese aviation force yelled in confusion. More than fifty fighter jets continued to fall from the sky. In just one round trip, the Japanese army had more than thirty.
The fighter jet fell down with black smoke.
This is already less than half of the number of Japanese fighter planes this time.
The nightmare of the Japanese air force was once again staged.
other side
After Xu Guangda's tank troops opened the gap, they immediately began to expand their victory. Xu Shiyou, who had been waiting behind him for a long time, finally felt relieved and led the cavalry to charge with a roar.
The piercing charge horn began to sound, and Tanito Nagai was horrified to see countless cavalry rushing into the position. When they were far away, they used rifles, pistols, and grenades to explode. When they were close, they used sabers to kill. When they encountered the Japanese machine gun point,
They dispersed immediately, and the tank turned the turret tremblingly, firing a 37-mm shell to solve the problem.
In just half an hour, the position garrisoned by a regiment had been completely overrun.
Looking at the troops that were gradually unable to command, Tanito Nagai could only sigh and ordered the troops to retreat.
"The tank troops should ignore the remnants of the enemy and continue the attack. The cavalry will provide cover. Half of the infantry troops will be left to destroy the remnants of the enemy. The rest will come forward and contact the air force to follow up!!" Xu Guangda watched as he overcame the blockade of a regiment in only an hour and a half.
, his confidence immediately increased, and he did not stop, but followed the retreating footsteps of the Japanese army and continued to attack the next position, Xiaojiazhuang, which was also defended by a regiment of Japanese troops.
--Third Army Headquarters
At this time, the headquarters of the Third Army had been moved from Jiexiu City to Xiangle Township due to the pincer attack by the Shanxi New Army and the 129th Division, and was located in the middle of various Japanese troops.
Three days of fighting made Tada Shun's hair gray. When he saw the pale face of Yoshimoto Teiichi and the gloomy face of Takeda Takeo, he knew there was bad news again.
"Tell me, what happened again?"
The two looked at each other and Takeda Takeo said, "Two bad news. The aviation troops coming from Baoding to support were ambushed by the Eighth Route Army's air force on the way. They suffered heavy losses and less than one-sixth of them escaped."
"What? How is it possible? We don't even know the aviation support route this time. How did the Eighth Route Army know about it?" Shun Tada suspected that there was a spy in the army, so he asked Juichi Terauchi not to tell him the specific route in advance, but he didn't expect it.
Was ambushed.
Takeda Takeo couldn't help but feel happy when he heard this, and said, "Then there is only one possibility, the mole is in the Peiping headquarters."
A layer of cold sweat broke out on Tada Shun's head and he said, "Don't talk nonsense without evidence. What about the other bad news?"
Takeda Yixiong continued, "The news came from the 31st Brigade. A large number of tanks suddenly appeared in the Eighth Route Army. They used the tanks as the forwards, equipped with a large number of cavalry and infantry cover, and coupled with aircraft bombing, they quickly broke through us.
The defense line of the Army, the defense line of a regiment of the 31st Brigade only took an hour from the discovery of the Eighth Route Army to the collapse. Now the Eighth Route Army has rushed into the Xiaojiazhuang position, which is only one Yanwu Town away from us. Your Excellency, Commander, I think we
You should retreat immediately."
Shun Tada said in shock, "How is this possible? Why did the Chinese troops advance so fast?"
Yoshimoto Seiichi shook his head and said, "Our army currently does not have any weapons that can deal with the Chinese tanks. In front of the steel tanks, the bayonets of our warriors have no effect at all. Our intelligence is really wrong."
After speaking, Yoshimoto Sadai pointed at the map and said, "The purpose of the Eighth Route Army is obvious. They want to drill through our army and completely divide it."
At this time, a communications soldier hurriedly rushed in and said, "Report... report that the Xiaojiazhuang position has been lost and the troops are retreating to Yanwu Town."
Shun Tada stamped his feet and cursed, "Damn it, what's going on? Why did you lose your position so quickly?"
The communications soldier said, "Intelligence said that the Chinese used that mysterious heavy artillery again, and then a joint attack by tanks, planes, and cavalry, and they lost their position within an hour."
Tada Shun looked at the map and asked, "How long will it take for us to break through Xiaqu Town?"
Yoshimoto Sadashi thought for a while and said, "It will take two days at the earliest."
Shun Tada shook his head and said, "No, tell Tadamichi Kuribayashi that in 12 hours, he will break a gap for me even if he uses up all his troops. Tell Roku Sekihara of Enbu Town that I am right behind him, and he will die."
You have to stop the Eighth Route Army tanks for me too!!"
