Huang Shouxin crouched behind the No. 501 tank driven by Mei Jiuling. He raised his Browning pistol and fired continuously at both sides.
, don’t let the Japs’ blasters get close, be careful not to show your head, and bend down, how do I usually teach you? Bend down, you must bend down!”
Amidst Huang Shouxin's scolding, the officers and soldiers of the accompanying ninth battalion bent down one after another.
Ahead, the Japanese soldiers hiding behind the fortifications were continuing to fire fiercely. The dazzling tongues of flames were like the long whips wielded by the god of death. Once they were hit by them, flesh and blood would fly everywhere in an instant. From time to time, unlucky officers and soldiers were killed.
The flames swept through him and he screamed and fell to the ground.
However, more officers and soldiers were unscathed because the tank's huge body provided excellent cover for the infantry following behind. Most of the flames fired from the Japanese position hit the tank.
, the bullets collided violently with the tank armor, and the clanking sound was endless.
"Move on, keep on moving!"
"Bend over, bend over!"
"Pay attention to both wings, don't let the Japs' blasters get close!"
Behind the tank, Huang Shouxin and officers at all levels shouted loudly and reminded the officers and soldiers who were following.
There were really two Japanese soldiers who suddenly rushed out of the bunker with explosive packs in their hands and tried to blow up the guided tanks. However, they were shot to death by the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Battalion who followed to protect them.
In less than a moment, more than two hundred officers and soldiers of the Ninth Battalion and the First Company, guided by five tanks, rushed to the Japanese camp. In front of the Japanese camp, there was a trench more than two meters wide and one meter deep.
The inner edge is also surrounded by a circle of barbed wire.
For the infantry, such a trench is almost an insurmountable chasm. Even the Wolf Fang troops would have a very difficult time crossing such a trench. The trench is okay, but the barbed wire fence around it is
, but it is very difficult to deal with.
However, this is just a piece of cake for a tank!
"Jiuling! Now it's up to your tank company!" Huang Shouxin knocked the rear wall of the tank twice with the handle of his pistol. The rear cover opened, and Mei Jiuling's head poked out from the rear cover and pointed at Huang.
Shouxin grinned, and then yelled, "Shouxin, just watch it!"
After he finished yelling, Mei Jiuling's head retracted into the car.
Immediately afterwards, the exhaust port of the No. 501 tank immediately began to emit black smoke, and then suddenly accelerated, increasing its horsepower and rushing towards the trench. In a blink of an eye, the No. 501 tank had arrived at the outer edge of the trench, and then the front of the car was very close.
Quickly hang in the air.
However, even though the front of the tank was already suspended in the air, the tank's dead weight still helped the tank maintain its balance and did not fall headlong into the trench. The tracks of the No. 501 tank continued to crush forward, and the length of the suspended body became longer and longer.
More and more, in the end, almost half of the car body was hanging in the air.
Then, just when the tank body was about to plunge into the trench, the front road wheel of the front of the vehicle had already touched the inner edge of the trench. As the tracks were crushed, the mud and sand poured down. The front of the 501 tank first moved downward slightly.
It sank, then quickly rose up, successfully crossing the two-meter-wide trench.
The trench width of the Type 95 light tank is only two meters, so this is really just a piece of cake.
Immediately afterwards, the second tank also crossed the trench, followed by the third, fourth and fifth tanks.
After crossing the trench, the five tanks did not stop, but continued to roll forward, and soon ran over a barbed wire fence that was as high as a person. Those barbed wire fences were enough to pose a serious threat to the infantry.
Under the tracks of the tank, it is useless.
In just a moment, the barbed wire fence was crushed into the soft dust by the tank.
At this time, the Japanese soldiers who had been holding on to the inner edge of the trench had long been repulsed by the powerful machine gun fire of the tanks. Mei Jiuling and the two hundred officers and soldiers of the third company of the 9th Battalion effortlessly crossed a width of more than two meters.
They broke into the trenches more than 1 meter deep and broke into the little Japanese camp.
In the chaos, another Japanese soldier rushed over screaming with a bundle of explosives and tried to blow up the No. 501 car driven by Mei Jiuling. However, he was shot to death by Mei Jiuling and the officers and soldiers of the Ninth Battalion who followed up to protect him.
One of the bullets also hit the explosive package, detonating the explosive instantly and blowing the unlucky Japanese soldier into countless pieces, and even a complete finger bone could no longer be put back together.
The battle was far easier than imagined. There was almost no real resistance. The officers and soldiers of the ninth battalion, under the guidance of the tank company, attacked the Japanese infantry from the east, west and south at the same time.
Within the camp of the 170th Regiment.
Since the Sino-Japanese War broke out in an all-round way, the Japanese army has always had absolute advantages in strength, firepower and weapons on the battlefield. On the battlefield, only the Japanese army has used aircraft and tanks to attack the National Army, and the National Army has never used aircraft and tanks to attack the Japanese army.
Therefore, how to face the Chinese army, which has superior strength, firepower and superior weapons, is a completely unfamiliar topic for the Japanese army. If the opponent is the Kumamoto Division or the Sendai Division, which are known for their proficiency in fighting, they may not be able to defeat them in one battle.
Collapse, unfortunately, this is the Osaka Division!
These small traders from Osaka in the Osaka Division have never been courageous beings. There is almost no thought of dying for the empire in their minds. Therefore, when Mei Jiuling's tank company broke through the last and strongest defense,
After the fortifications were completed, these small traders from Osaka of the 170th Infantry Regiment suffered a psychological collapse.
In the darkness, I don’t know who took the lead. Anyway, in the blink of an eye, almost all the Japanese soldiers of the 170th Infantry Regiment dropped their weapons and turned around and ran away. There were no enemies in the north, and all the Japanese soldiers broke out towards the enemy.
The Northern troops in the barracks rushed away.
"Don't run, come back to me, come back to me!" Taro Koga brandished his saber and roared at the top of his lungs at the crowd of defeated troops. However, his personal efforts alone were not enough to reverse the decline of the battlefield, and even
Another soldier thought that Taro Koga was blocking his way, so he bumped his shoulder, knocked Taro Koga to the ground, and then stepped on his back.
"Baga!" Koga Taro was furious, turned over and tried to get up.
Unfortunately, Taro Koga had just sat up halfway when another soldier rushed over and trampled Taro Koga to the ground. Then, another soldier stepped on Taro Koga's head.
This step was so hard that the hard leather soles directly crushed half of Koga Taro's head into the soil.
Taro Koga struggled desperately, trying to pull his head out of the soft soil. Unfortunately, more Japanese troops swarmed over and stepped on Taro Koga, so until the end
, Taro Koga was not able to pull his head out of the soil.
Taro Koga was therefore very "honored" to become the first colonel to be trampled to death by his own people on the Sino-Japanese battlefield.
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Meixian County, at the foot of Qingniuling.
In the distance, a mountain fire was burning. The fire reflected half of the sky red and illuminated the entire battlefield as bright as day.
Miyake Toshio looked livid as he watched the attacking troops of the 137th Infantry Regiment retreat from the bare Qingniuling Remains once again. The defenders on the mountain took advantage of the situation to pursue them and knocked down at least a dozen more Japanese soldiers.
, but I saw that the dark hillside was already covered with corpses.
The war in Meixian County has to start from the night before yesterday.
The night before yesterday, the Osaka Division bypassed Kamo County and headed straight for Mei County.
Miyake Toshio originally thought that Meixian's defense must be empty at this time, so he transferred a brigade from the 108th Infantry Regiment, plus a squadron from the 8th Tank Regiment, to form a rapid assault force in an attempt to kill the brigade.
The Meishan Independent Regiment was caught off guard and captured the Shaqiaogang Fortress with lightning speed.
As soon as the Shaqiaogang Fortress was captured, Meixian would immediately be like a young woman taking off her clothes, opening her infinitely beautiful body to the Osaka Division.
Unfortunately, the ideal is very full, but the reality is very skinny.
The rapid assault force, which consisted of a brigade of the 108th Infantry Regiment and a squadron of the 8th Tank Regiment, failed to capture the Shaqiaogang Fortress and was even attacked by the defenders in front of the Shaqiaogang Fortress.
The fortress artillery group was heavily bombarded, resulting in heavy losses.
After this setback, Miyake Toshio suddenly realized that the Dameishan Independent Regiment had long been prepared for the Osaka Division's surprise attack. Even then he gave up his luck and began to set up camp in a position where the left wing fortress of Shaqiaogang Fortress could not be hit by artillery.
, and then began to set fire to the mountain.
This is the mid-winter season when things are dry and dry. Once the mountain fire is ignited, it immediately becomes a prairie fire.
After the fire continued to burn for a day and night, the remaining Qingniu Ridge on the left side of Shaqiaogang Fortress had been burned into a bare hilltop. Not to mention, the mountain fire that had become a prairie fire continued to burn towards Qingniu.
The mountains of the ridge stretch deep into the mountains.
According to the battle plan formulated by Kawabe Shozo, the Osaka Division only needs to wait for the fire to continue to spread and burn the entire Qingniuling virgin forest, and then wait until the military supplies allocated from the base camp are in place.
A general attack was launched on Damei Mountain.
However, as the old saying goes, plans never change quickly. The combat plan drawn up by Shozo Kawabe was just a combat plan, but there were huge deviations in the actual execution. The biggest deviation was that the Kumamoto Division suffered a huge disaster.
Due to setbacks, it failed to advance to the designated area as expected.
Not only did the Kumamoto Division fail to advance to the designated area, it even faced the risk of defeat!
This forced Kawabe Shozo to change the plan and order the Osaka Division to launch an attack on Meixian in advance. Although the Osaka Division's ammunition reserve was running low at this time, if it could not capture Meixian within three days, it would be out of ammunition and food.
An absolutely desperate situation.
However, neither Kawabe Shozo nor Miyake Toshio took this crisis seriously.
Because the military supplies urgently allocated from the battlefields in western Zhejiang and southern Anhui have arrived at Pukou and can be transported to Meixian in just two days. Kawabe Shozo and Miyake Toshio never thought that they had overlooked a key point and underestimated the enemy's advance.
