Chapter 155: Battle for King Luo Station (3)
The first attack of the 155th Division ended in failure, and less than half of the attacking troops of the two companies retreated. Tan Shenglin, the commander of the X463 Brigade, put down his binoculars painfully, he had never encountered such an opponent before.
"Prepare for another attack, pay attention to their machine guns and small cannons, and tell the brethren to disperse when they charge, and let the chariots get on board."
In the trenches of the starting position of the 155th Division, the additional soldiers quickly filled the vacancies, the failure of the first round of attack did not frighten them, the newly replaced infantry battalion learned the lesson of the last time, and was ready to fight again, at the rear of the position, a rumbling engine sound, five combat vehicles slowly accelerated, and drove towards the Japanese position.
The five tanks formed a formation, and after overhauling and understanding the general direction, the five tanks gradually accelerated and rushed in the direction of Luowang Station. The infantry then followed, and the pace of the attack increased as the tanks accelerated, the infantry of the 155th Division had never seen these Iron Kings before, and the infantry line was more than a hundred meters behind the tanks, and many people felt that relying on these tanks, this attack was enough to take the railway station.
Soon, the ** who rushed to the close range ushered in the fire of the Japanese army, due to the appearance of the combat vehicle, the Japanese pulled the Type 92 infantry gun to the roof of the railway station, fired grenades at a high elevation angle, attacked the infantry line, was blocked, and the distance between the infantry and the tank became farther and farther.
The rifle machine gun bullets fired by the Japanese made a clanging sound on the tank, and the armor of the CV35 could barely withstand these bullets, and the twin 8mm machine guns on the vehicle opened fire one after another, suppressing the Japanese position.
The five chariots accelerated to the charge, and the infantry behind them were far away from them, but seeing that the chariots worked, they chased the chariots with firepower.
The tank was less than 100 meters away from the Japanese first-line position, and the Japanese troops on the first-line position shifted their main firepower to the chariot body, and the heavy machine guns in the second-line position were even heavier to deal with the ** infantry. As the distance closes, the cv35's thin armor flaws are exposed, first the machine gunner's compartment on the right side of the tank is hit, and the bullet hits the machine gun shooter along the observation seam, and the vehicle that has lost the ability to return fire is forced to stop in place.
After it, the driver of another vehicle was hit by a penetrating bullet, and the vehicle remained alone, the machine gunners in the vehicle still fiercely returning fire.
With a loud bang, the chariot whose driver was killed seemed to have suffered a disaster, and after a burst of explosions, it began to burn and deform, and the shells fired by the two Japanese Type 94 rapid-fire guns hit the chariot, and the distorted and deformed tank remained in place and burned.
Finding that the situation was not right, the remaining three movable combat vehicles accelerated their impact, they were only less than 50 meters away from the Japanese front-line position, and the infantry who were 100 meters away from them saw that the combat vehicles were about to rush to the Japanese position, and braved the scorching fire of the Japanese attacking infantry, and rushed with bayonets like crazy.
"Launch! Launch! ”
The leader of the Japanese Type 94 rapid-fire artillery squadron commanded two rapid-fire guns to attack the ** tank, and because of the close distance, seven or eight shells were fired, hitting two tanks one after another, but the last remaining tank was too late to attack.
"Retreat! Fall back! The commander of the Japanese first-line position shouted the order to retreat, and the Japanese troops in the second-line position were also ready to retreat when they saw this, the two positions were too close, as long as the first line of defense was lost, the second line would be finished, and the Japanese soldiers saw that the chariot was rushing immediately, and quickly picked up their weapons and retreated.
From time to time, people were knocked down by the machine guns on the tanks, and the last two tanks fearlessly rushed to the first line of Japanese positions, ran over the not wide trenches, and the Japanese soldiers fled and retreated, and several corpses were twisted in the tracks and turned into indescribable shapes.
Just as the chariot was about to attack the second line of defense, a three-seven shell and more bullets concentrated on him at the same time. The violent explosion tore through its thin armor, and the driver's body was stained red with blood and fire, and a line was written on the badge that was about to be burned.
1149th Regiment 2nd Battalion 2nd Company 3rd Platoon Captain Platoon Commander Hu Yi
The onslaught of the chariots caused confusion to the Japanese troops, and the first line of defense that was broken down suffered many casualties, but the ** infantry could not rush over immediately, and after more than a minute, they suffered another minute of intensive fire.
After the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the infantry rushed into the first line of defense with bayonets, and while solving the unwithdrawn Japanese troops, they crossed the trenches and charged the second line of defense. The two lines of defense are not far away, the Japanese army has just suffered from chaos, the firepower organization is not tight, not to mention the ** soldiers in front of them are extremely brave, after killing and wounding dozens of ** with light and heavy machine guns, ** infantry has already rushed into the second trench, and the two sides started hand-to-hand combat.
After a hand-to-hand fight, the Japanese army did not want to be entangled, Jun Cao and the squadron leader organized a retreat, except for the entangled Japanese soldiers, the rest of the people retreated in the direction of the station, and ran towards the fortified position piled up with sandbags outside the station to set up defenses.
** The officers and soldiers used bayonets and bullets to solve the remnants of about 20 Japanese troops in the second position, and the soldiers were extremely excited, and the second attack finally took the two positions of the Japanese army, and the Japanese suffered more than 60 casualties, ** in the process of charging and hand-to-hand combat, and more than 130 brothers were also lost.
The long-term impact made the ** soldiers feel very tired, and just wanted to take a breath, the 92nd infantry shells in the station came one after another, and the Japanese pulled the guns to the roof of the station building, and fired grenades and shotguns by firing at a high elevation angle.
Many shotgun steel balls flew around, knocking down a large number of ** soldiers, and the 94-type rapid-fire guns and non-machine gun fire were also tilted as much as possible towards the ** of the newly occupied position, there is no doubt that it was a heavy casualty, at this time, the ** attack momentum has declined, and you can only choose to retreat.
With a bang, shells fell on the position, blowing up the corpses of the two armies on the ground into the sky.
"Stop attacking! Just sorry for the sacrifice of the tank. Li Hansoul shook his head, Qiu Qingquan on the side did not speak, his face was already very ugly, the infantry of the 155th Division not only failed to consolidate their positions, but also suffered heavy losses in the chariots assigned to them, only one broken down car was snatched back, and the machine gun shooter was killed.
"The sacrifice of soldiers is fate, it's just, it's just a pity." Qiu Qingquan said sadly, and Li Hansoul on the side looked at Qiu Qingquan with apologetic eyes and said, "Brother Qiu, I'm sorry, the attack can only be postponed." ”
After two battles, a total of more than 300 casualties, in the end, it took less than ten minutes to occupy the two trenches of the people's house, and they were put down by firepower, and they were not angry when they put it on whoever put it on, but the station was still in the hands of the devils, and the battle still had to be fought, Qiu Qingquan and Li Hansoul said a few words, and then they retreated to the column, preparing to withdraw troops and continue the attack. Li Hansoul was quite grateful and agreed to Qiu Qingquan's request, and he himself had to prepare the troops.
The fierce explosions and gunshots spread far away, Zhang Wei also heard it, to be precise, he also saw it, the station was within the visual distance of the telescope, after the chariot troops set off, he had been paying attention to the battle situation, although in the telescope he saw small black dots, but he could still figure out the general situation.
In the first infantry attack, the tactics of the 155th Division were wrong, the attack formation was too dense, and the Japanese had to lie down for a while as soon as the heavy firepower of the Japanese army came up, and the second time was caused by poor coordination between the infantry and the tank.
"Alas" Zhang Wei put down the binoculars,