When Commander Xu of the 771st Regiment, who was responsible for counting the number of captured cannons, walked over quickly without any sad expression on his face, Zhang Ruhao and the future general breathed a sigh of relief.
The future general will naturally understand the personality of Captain Xu, who is bold and bold by nature. Zhang Ruhao, the great red spy, is also not ignorant. Once he sees that he does not have a grimace, he knows that at least the harvest is acceptable.
Sure enough, one of the 12 howitzers was completely blown up by the big explosion, and the gun bolt of one was damaged and temporarily unusable. There are still 10 that can be used now. Some of the 36 field guns were blown up and some of their parts were damaged by the Japanese army.
, but there are still 28 guns intact.
In other words, there are now 38 artillery pieces that can fire wildly at the Japanese positions in the distance, which is enough to form an artillery regiment.
Obviously, the Japanese army's cherished weapons saved these cannons. They would never have blown up these precious cannons easily until the last moment. By the time they realized that the situation was over, it was too late.
Of course, until now, neither the future general nor Zhang Ruhao knew that Second Lieutenant Lan Guanhu had contributed to this. If he hadn't killed Hosokawa Tadayasu with one shot, the Japanese army, which started exploding the artillery five minutes in advance, would still have left them with something in the end.
How many guns will be fired is really unknown. Anyway, it is impossible to even think about the number of 38 guns captured.
"Send a message to the two chiefs and tell them that our army has occupied the position of the Japanese 26th Artillery Regiment, killed more than 2,100 enemies, including an army major general and an army colonel, captured more than 300 enemies, and seized 38 cannons. Everything can be done as per
The original plan goes ahead." The future general was very high-spirited and ordered to the signal troops who were always on standby.
After issuing the military order, the future general looked at Zhang Ruhao with a smile and said: "Vice Commander Zhang, do you think Commander Liu and the 343rd Brigade have captured Shimen now?"
Zhang Ruhao raised his hand and looked at his watch. A smile appeared on his fair and resolute face, and he replied: "Mr. Chen, are you looking down on our group? Otherwise, let's make a bet and take it now."
The time point is now 7:28, only one hour and eight minutes have passed since they opened fire. Let’s not talk about the regiment and they invaded Shimen. Let’s talk about whether they captured the Japanese division headquarters and the train station. If so,
If so, you give me fifty elite veterans of the regiment. If not, how about I make a decision for our regiment and give you four new heavy machine guns and two 20mm machine guns for our regiment?"
I have to say that Zhang Ruhao spent a lot of money. Not to mention that the 20mm machine gun is extremely tempting, but the "MG42" heavy machine gun with an astonishing rate of fire will make the future general drool. He will not think about it for a day or two.
Already.
According to common sense, this person has to agree to whatever he does.
But to Zhang Ruhao's expectation, this person did not hesitate... shook his head, pointed at Zhang Ruhao with his finger, and said with a smile: "Haha, it is true that those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to Mo are black, not only Liu Lang
This guy is always cheating and taking advantage. You independent group are all the same. Don't talk nonsense to me about 7:28. Let me guess. Our battle will end at 7:10. You should have enough time to talk to Shimen.
There is power generation there, maybe they will have finished the war by then, so I won’t fall for your deputy Zhang’s deception.”
Zhang Ruhao opened his eyes slightly and admired the senior's reaction greatly. His powers of observation and judgment were undeniable. He just mentioned a specific time and could think of so many things. It's not easy to trick him! No wonder he
He can even withstand such a big temptation.
Seeing Zhang Ruhao's expression, the future general's face smiled like a flower, "Hey, besides, with my current friendship with your Commander Liu, brother, I asked him for some small machine guns, and he also returned
Can you please me? Brother! Your bet is too small. If it were your commander Liu, he would definitely use cannons to fool me. Then I might not be able to bear it.
For sure."
Well, in the blink of an eye, the bet turned out to be in vain. Zhang Ruhao was dumbfounded by his senior. In order to pave the way for the need for machine guns in the future, the "MG42", which is considered a high-end machine gun in the independent group, became a joke in his mouth.
Machine guns, what that means is that with our life-and-death friendship, sending a few machine guns is not a joke? Not sending them? That means your independent group is too stingy.
This intelligence is not mentioned, and this shame is also not mentioned.
"Haha, let's go, brother, come with me to see the Japs' 105 howitzer. My 772 regiment has been bombed by them on the front line for so long, this time! I must take a good look at how this gun can hit the Japs.
"." The future general did not give Zhang Ruhao a chance to continue speaking, and directly pulled Zhang Ruhao towards the captured 105 howitzer.
No wonder this guy is so open to both parties. His emotional intelligence is so high that it’s hard to say! Zhang Ruhao is completely convinced now.
At Shimen, Liu Lang and Liu Tuanzuo, whom the two were discussing, were now sitting in the office of Lieutenant General Kawagishi Bunzaburo, the former commander of the Japanese 20th Division, at the Japanese Division Headquarters.
Fifty minutes ago, it only took 20 minutes for the Bayonet Battalion to break into the Shimen City Wall. They divided into two echelons and marched towards the Japanese Division Headquarters. They encountered almost no resistance along the way. Several Japanese detachments on their way were not there yet.
There was no time to see the power of the main force of the bayonet battalion, but it was defeated by the precise sniping of the special forces deployed along the way.
Not only are the guns accurate, but they can also fire continuously. You managed to suppress him with more than a dozen guns. Just when you were about to chase him, another equally accurate bullet was fired from the other side. Once the special forces suppressed by crossfire cooperated,
It was even more difficult for the Japanese second-line soldiers to resist.
The protective force of the Japanese division headquarters is not weak. Nearly 200 people guard various key points. There are heavy machine guns, light machine guns and two cannons. The bayonet battalion that arrived first did not blindly fight after a tentative attack. After testing out the Japanese troops,
After several important firepower points, individual infantry communicators were used to notify the rear artillery battalion still outside the city. The four mountain cannons fired under the guidance of the artillery observers who were advancing with the infantry.
This time, it was very bad for the Japanese army.
The 90-caliber mortar has excellent performance and can provide sufficient artillery support to frontline infantry. However, that does not mean that it can shoot against mountain artillery 5,000 meters away! With a range of more than 2,000 meters, even the border areas
Can't you touch it?
If others can hit you, but you can't hit others, the only result will be a beating.
Intelligence has shown that in order to ensure the safety of the division headquarters, after the Japanese troops entered the city, they drove away all the Chinese residents living in the 400-meter area around the division headquarters, and even demolished all the houses 30 meters away.
Four mountain cannons can bombard without any scruples.
By the time two infantry guns were set up on the roof of a building 1,500 meters away and shelling all attackable targets at the Japanese division headquarters, the Japanese troops in the Japanese division headquarters could be said to have been beaten to tears.
Each of the fortifications that could withstand heavy machine guns and at least dozens of infantry charges were blown into parts flying in the sky under the ravages of infantry artillery and mountain artillery, including human bodies hiding in them.
Most of them didn't even fire a shot, and were blown into a pile of minced meat by the shells.
It was true that the two 90's had tried hard to resist, but they were inseparable. It was like a weak girl twisting and struggling in vain under the strong body of the "stinky gangster". In addition to showing that she had resisted before, she did not cooperate enthusiastically.
The facts about that and that are of no use.
After being chased and bombarded by four mountain guns with a crazy burst of twenty rounds of shells, the two 90-guns completely stopped.
War is also a part of life. If you can't resist it, then enjoy it! Even if all you enjoy is despair.
At this moment, the remaining Japanese troops finally realized how they felt when they faced the Chinese soldiers who could only be covered by their artillery fire on the North China battlefield. It was probably the same as their extremely desperate mood at this time.
No matter how strong the fortress is, it is still fragile in the face of the ravages of artillery fire.
In distant Songhu, 750,000 Chinese soldiers built the Great Patriotic Wall with their flesh and blood. In the face of the crazy Japanese naval guns, the average daily casualties were in the thousands. It failed to stop the Japanese aggressors from so-called bold words.
The whole of China was destroyed within three months, and they could not even advance in Songhu. This was the result of the bloodshed of more than 300,000 officers and soldiers on the battlefield.
That is a fortress built with flesh and blood, and that is a line of defense built with will.
The 200 Japanese troops at the headquarters of the 20th Division obviously wanted to do the same. They howled and struggled under the artillery fire, but still did not give up resistance. When they poked out from the ruins, the officers and soldiers of the independent regiment looked a little ridiculous.
Rifle, they launched a counterattack at the second company of the Bayonet Battalion, which started to advance from 400 meters away, and then fell silent again under the bombardment of 60 mortars not far away.
Although the two armies are facing each other, from a military point of view, this is a group of opponents worthy of respect. However, for such opponents to stand on other people's soil and resist so stubbornly, their spirit seems to be in the wrong place. For such tenacious opponents,
What the officers and soldiers of the Bayonet Battalion did to this terrible enemy was to destroy them with more ferocious firepower.
The more such enemies die, the less harm they will do to their motherland.
The infantry responded with bullets to the enemy's stubborn resistance, and the artillery used precise shelling to destroy the Japanese army's last will to resist little by little.
Until all the outer fortifications have been cleared.
Only half an hour has passed.
The most elite infantry squadron of the 20th Division could not resist for more than three hours as Lieutenant General Bunzaburo Kawagishi thought. What he faced was not a Chinese infantry regiment, but just an infantry battalion.
It was not a field battle between the two sides, but the elite troops under his command had complete fortifications and sufficient heavy firepower. However, all resistance did not last more than half an hour.
The assertion that a squadron of the Imperial Japanese Army can defeat a Chinese infantry battalion in a field battle, that a brigade can defeat a Chinese miscellaneous division, and that a regiment can resist a central division is like a slap in the face in the face of facts.
, the Japanese Army Lieutenant General was not only dizzy, but also felt ridiculous.
Feeling the ground shaking outside the hospital, the Japanese Lieutenant General with a sad smile on his face rejected Colonel Kuzo Kimura's request for him to evacuate the division headquarters.
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