Chapter 800: The Decisive Battle of Taihang Mountain (22)
Just when Ma Wanzhong and the others were defeating the eighteen defensive points of the Japanese army, the artillery brigade also arrived at the designated position, began to adjust the Zhu Yuan, and aimed the muzzle of the gun at the dense area of the Japanese army.
The lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army also realized that they were surrounded by Chinese troops, but he did not believe that the Chinese army could eat them, he knew how many of their troops were around, and as long as they could hold on, Okamura Ninji would definitely send troops to support them.
Okamura Ninji of course learned from his troops that they had been ambushed by the Chinese army, and he did not hesitate to order all the troops to advance immediately, tear a hole in the encirclement of the New 33rd Army, and then rescue the troops inside.
When Okamura Ninji dispatched his troops, Hu Guoshan and Ma Wanzhong had already begun to command their troops to launch a fierce attack on the Japanese positions, especially with the heavy artillery support of the artillery brigade, and the Japanese defense points that had just been established were immediately blown up.
"Boom Boom"
Everywhere there was the sound of heavy artillery, * the explosion made the ears of the little devils almost deaf, and the Japanese fortifications did not play any role. And what made the little devil jaw-dropping the most was the cooperation between the Chinese army and the artillery.
As soon as the artillery stopped bombing, the Chinese soldiers had already charged under their noses, and the Chinese soldiers did not fight with them with bayonets, but directly used * to shoot at the little devils, who had not yet woken up from the bombing, and had already been beaten into a sieve.
It has to be said that the soldiers of the new 33rd Army were very efficient, and when the infantry charged, the artillery kept looking at the artillery fire, and the Japanese army had no time to retreat, either the bones of the shells were gone, or they were beaten into a sieve.
"Where's your commander?" Liao Fan spoke directly to the troops on the front line.
"Report to Brother Fan, our division commander took people to the front line, the troops attacking in front are too fast, and we are already setting up telephone lines to the front line as soon as possible!" There was no way for the communications troops, the troops on the front line were attacking too fast, and their telephone lines could not be laid at all.
"Okay, I see, tell me about the specific situation over there!"
"Report Brother Fan, news just came ten minutes ago that we have compressed the Japanese army to the area of Wulipu, and the Japanese army is still resisting stubbornly! The Japanese army of four divisions has been divided into more than 20 parts by our troops, and there are frequent good news from the front! ”
"Alright, I got it!" Liao Fan hung up the phone, turned to Cun Qi and said, "It seems that the situation on the front line is even better than I expected, I thought that Ma Wanzhong and Hu Guoshan would not be able to parry, but I didn't expect the attack to be so fast!" ”
"It seems that our previous worries are still superfluous, I am afraid that by the time the Japanese reinforcements arrive, we will have annihilated all four divisions of the Japanese army!"
"Don't be too optimistic, the Japanese army has just been counterattacked and has not stabilized, this kind of battle is so big at the beginning, when the Japanese army realizes our offensive methods, it will be difficult to fight!"
The reason why the Japanese army was defeated so quickly was that they did not expect that the New 33rd Army would suddenly launch a counterattack against them, and after layers of resistance, the Japanese army also had plenty of time to prepare fortifications, and the further back it was, the more difficult it would be for the New 33rd Army.
The little devils just didn't adapt to the rhythm of the new 33rd Army, and when they found their rhythm, the next offensive was the most testing of the front-line soldiers.
"Let the armored brigade get on board! The Japanese heavy artillery did not come to support it, it posed little threat to our armored forces, and was able to reduce the casualties of our troops! Cunqi suggested.
The New 33rd Army needs to preserve its combat effectiveness, after all, the Japanese army has a huge army, and the New 33rd Army does not have a family business as big as a little devil, and the poor have to save every penny to live.
"Yes, it's still too late to get the support of the armored brigade, so let them go back to Lao Hu!"
"Changsheng, arrange for the snipers of your special operations division to sneak into the battlefield quietly, remember that they have only one goal, that is, Japanese officers above the adjutant officer, it is best to take off the heads of the four brigade commanders of the Japanese army!"
With the arrival of the armored troops, the troops on the front line can be said to have strengthened their wings, and the morale of the troops has also soared, and the soldiers of the special operations division disguised themselves with the cooperation of the large army, bypassed the Japanese defense line, and infiltrated the center of the Japanese army, and their target was the commander of the Japanese army.
The battle on the front line was in full swing, and in the first half of the day, the Japanese army was not prepared at all, and they were defeated one after another.
During this time, Liao Fan kept in constant contact with telegrams from the front, and he wanted to know the progress of each unit. The combat effectiveness of the Japanese army is not bad, and the situation of the new 33rd Army is still not very optimistic.
Although judging from the current situation, the New 33rd Army launched a counterattack on the front line, once the large Japanese forces arrived, they had to retreat and let the encircled Japanese troops go.
Now the Japanese reinforcements have not yet arrived, they can do their best to consume the Japanese troops while the Japanese army has no artillery cover, and the Japanese army has been divided and surrounded by them, and the Japanese army has no superior strength in some parts, which is a rare opportunity for the new 33rd Army.
The area where the Japanese army was surrounded was a long and narrow terrain, occupying only two or three commanding heights around it, but these commanding heights were of little use at all, and they also became the key targets of artillery, and the advantage of the Japanese army was lost.
But the Japanese army's will to fight is still very tenacious, especially the Kwantung Army, they are known for their too much to the Chinese, and they do not even allow themselves to defeat the Chinese, even at the cost of their own lives
Although the lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army of the Japanese army was arrogant, he could not care about arrogance at the moment when it was about the end of his troops. Originally, he didn't want to ask Okamura Ninji, but it was his fault to disobey Okamura Ninji's order.
Under the onslaught of the New 33rd Army, the lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army could not care about his arrogance, and not only sent a telegram to Okamura Ninji asking for help, but also sent the telegram to the Kwantung Army headquarters, hoping that the Kwantung Army headquarters could put pressure on Okamura Ninji and let him arrive as quickly as possible.
After Okamura Ninji received the telegram from the Kwantung Army headquarters, he felt that he was more disgusting than eating flies, and the people he invited not only did not listen to the command, but also used various means to embarrass him at a critical time, Okamura Ninji really wanted to order the troops to stop advancing.
But he is the commander-in-chief of North China, and he has to think about the overall situation, and he can't care about these trivial things. Moreover, the Kwantung Army occupies a very large proportion of the Japanese army, and if he really does not go to the rescue, the Japanese army headquarters will definitely not let him continue to stay in North China.
Okamura Ninji began to be annoyed, why did he ask for help from the Kwantung Army, even if he asked for help, he should stick to his decision at the beginning.
There is no regret medicine in this world, and of course he has to bear the mistakes he has made, and he wants to rescue them before the Kwantung Army is completely annihilated by the New 33rd Army.
"Boom Boom"
The artillery sound on the front line never stopped, and the positions that the Japanese had just established were blown to the ground, and this time it was the turn of the little devils to use their flesh and blood to resist the steel torrent of the New 33rd Army.
The lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army was tightly surrounded by his own troops in the middle, but he did not set up a command headquarters, the Chinese army had such a fierce artillery fire, once his command headquarters was discovered, it would inevitably be covered by concentrated artillery fire, and he still wanted to become a general, and he could not die in this barren mountain and wilderness.
The lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army was safe, but his subordinates were targeted by snipers sent by the special operations division, and the officers of the Japanese army commanding at the front became their live targets, and they lost their lives without figuring out what was going on.
There was no officer on the front line, the little devil's troops turned into a mess, the Chinese soldiers rushed to their feet, the little devils didn't know where to defend, the guns were mixed, and the little devils retreated again and again!
"Whoever takes one step back, kill!"
The lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army was anxious when he saw that his troops were in a crumbling state, and if they were defeated and retreated like this, they would not be able to hold out for reinforcements, and he had to use the harshest methods to urge his soldiers to be nailed to their positions.
"Supervise the team, the officer retreats to kill the officer, the soldier retreats to kill the soldier, who dares to retreat without my order, shoot and kill!"
The lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army was really in a hurry, he used his own guards to set up a temporary supervision team in front of the position, set up a machine-gun position, and as long as they dared to take a step back, they would shoot at the retreating soldiers.
The more the New 33rd Army attacked, the more fierce the resistance they encountered, and at the beginning of the counterattack, they were able to break through four or five important defensive points of the Japanese army in half an hour, and half a day had passed, and the Japanese army's position was becoming more and more stable, and even with the cooperation of armored troops, Hu Guoshan's offensive speed was getting slower and slower.
Ma Wanzhong's side also encountered stubborn resistance from the Japanese army, although their opponent was the Japanese army in North China, but their combat effectiveness was not weak at all.
"What about the artillery of our division? Get them all up, I don't believe that I can't kill this group of little devils! ”
Ma Wanzhong was also anxious, in order to destroy the Japanese army as soon as possible before the Japanese reinforcements arrived, the firepower that their division could mobilize was transferred to the front line, no matter what kind of artillery, as long as it could be fired, it would be used, on the front line, Ma Wanzhong They followed a principle, if they could use artillery, they would not use guns, and they would never charge if they could blow up the little devils.
The Japanese army did not expect that the New 33rd Army would fight such a scoundrel, and there was still a bombing gap when they attacked, but the Chinese army did not have any bombing gap, and the artillery bombed the front line in depth after it was blown up, and the ammunition was like not asking for money.
The little devil never imagined that the New 33rd Army would become so powerful, and that it would be able to surround them when the troops were not superior at all, and they would have no power to fight back.
Although the lieutenant general of the Kwantung Army also knew the strength of the New 33rd Army, he did not expect that the New 33rd Army would have such a strong combat effectiveness, especially their artillery group, so that they had no way to fight back at all.