Chapter 125: Defeat is Revealed
Under the leadership of the officer, the Japanese army rushed towards the outer defense line, and a Sherman tank that was too far in front immediately began to retreat when it saw this, and the Sherman, who only had a dozen covering infantry, was really not the opponent of so many Japanese troops, as if its armor could withstand the Japanese machine guns and artillery fire, but as long as its covering infantry was exhausted, it was facing the situation of being blown off its tracks or overturned by the Japanese army's explosives bag.
As soon as the Red Flag of Joey on the command vehicle of the "Open Artillery" was unfurled, the tanks lined up in a row opened fire in unison, and a series of smoke rose from the Japanese army's attacking formation, and large clusters of flames spread out at any time. Unfortunately, there were too many Japanese troops, and the salvo of tank formations only caused the Japanese shock momentum to pause slightly, followed by a more crazy and faster shock formation, these shirtless Japanese soldiers have ignored death, maybe death is a relief for them.
"Machine gun fire" Joey changed the yellow flag, and the Stalker, who had just finished assembling, drilled into the gap in the tank formation, which happened to be the pattern of a tank next to a Stalker. The machine gunner with goggles on his face pulled the trigger of the machine gun, and the visible barrage rushed into the Japanese army's charging formation across the 400-meter air, instantly curbing the momentum of the Japanese army's charge, and the salvo of more than 100 machine guns in total was not something that the body could compete with.
Waves of Japanese soldiers seemed to be Lang Tou who did not know how to stop, and attacked the outer positions occupied by the armored division again and again, but unfortunately they were Lang flowers and the armored division was the hardest reef on the coast, no matter how Lang flowers tossed, the reef still did not move after all. "Press up, press up, circle them, circle them" Joey, whose face was blackened by the gunsmoke, looked a little crazy, the half-hour peripheral attack made the Japanese army lose at least 2,000 people, and the bloody scene stimulated Joey like a crazy beast, this American big nose has become a war maniac who wants to annihilate the Japanese army in the east at this moment.
Tanks and armored vehicles with smoke from their tails roared, and the entire Panzer Division began to move slowly forward with Joey's shouts over the communicator, and the Panzer Division, which was constantly gunfired, crushed everything that appeared in front of them like a grinder, making the Japanese troops who were facing them tremble. "Boom" "Boom" "Boom" The Japanese mountain artillery finally seized the position of the armored division and opened fire happily, and more than a dozen tank armored vehicles in the middle position were shrouded in rising smoke, "Nani? But without waiting for the cheers of the Japanese troops, the tanks and armored vehicles that were once drowned in smoke continued to move forward like no one, and the Japanese artillery fire did not seem to work on them.
"Open the cannon, fire the cannon, do you want to be crushed to death by these chariots?" The Japanese officer commanding the artillery brandished his command knife and shouted frantically, and directly kicked the stunned Japanese artillery to the ground with his military boots. Knowing that the general trend was gone, he also blessed his fantasies, imagining that maybe the next cannonball could destroy the chariot on the opposite side, and as long as he could repel the opponent's chariot attack, he might be promoted to lieutenant and captain by Shangguan.
With the shortening of the distance between the two sides and the dense salvo of the Japanese mountain artillery group, a Sherman tank and a light stalker under Joey were hit one after another, and more than 6 tanks' tracks were blown off and were being replaced and repaired, and the momentum of the Japanese army began to expand instantly, and there were Japanese dead soldiers holding explosive bags and grenades in the area where the two sides were fighting.
"Shit" looked at the dead soldiers of the Japanese army who were advancing in concealment with the help of various covers, and Joey, who was holding a telescope, couldn't help but curse, there have been three tanks that have been blown up by the dead soldiers of the Japanese army who pretended to be corpses with explosives packs, and if they continue like this, I am afraid that if they can't wait for themselves to follow their boss into Yangon, their armored divisions will be completely destroyed. Although this avoided the sneak attack of the Japanese dead soldiers who were disguised as corpses, it weakened the assault firepower of the armored division to a certain extent, giving the Japanese troops on the opposite side a greater opportunity to take advantage of.
"Joey, Joey, you must immediately order these iron guys to withdraw, and if you continue to fight like this, the entire armored division will be finished" Tang Yulin, who looked anxious, climbed into Joey's command car. Joy is now the commander of the armored division, and Tang Yulin, who Mao Sui recommended himself, is just a small commander, but this does not mean that Tang Yulin has much less affection for the armored division than Joy.
"Shut up, I'm the commander, you're just a commander, it's not your turn to command here" Joey turned his head and glared at Tang Yulin fiercely, and then took the intercom handed over by the communication soldier, "I order, the armored division will attack at full speed, guys, take out your courage to charge, victory is ahead" Joey in the cabin almost roared and gave the order to attack on the whole line, he knew what would happen once the armored division and the follow-up infantry broke away from the gausea, but he couldn't retreat, once the armored division retreated, This hard-fought situation will return to the starting point, and the casualties of the armored division will not allow him to retreat.
Joey's madness spread like a cold virus through the division, and the German-Jewish Panzers operating several Tiger tanks were the first to respond to the attack order, and the huge Tiger rushed out of the cluster with an indomitable killing intent, becoming the arrows of the division's attack sequence, followed by the tanks in a skirmish line, and the stalkers roamed directly on the flanks, using machine gun fire to sweep away the annoying Japanese dead soldiers for the tank detachment. "Up, up, let's go" A large number of covering infantry followed behind the tank, and the weapons in their hands were sharp weapons to protect the tank detachment.
The Japanese dead soldiers holding aloft explosives on board shouted Long live the emperor and launched a suicide attack on the speeding tank, and two tongues of fire suddenly popped from the flank, and several Japanese dead soldiers with bullet holes splattered with blood fell to the ground, and two light stalkers equipped with machine guns drove over from the flanks. The Stalker with its thick armor and machine gun was a nightmare for the Japanese infantry, and the armor that could withstand Japanese machine gun fire allowed them to withstand the fire of the Japanese machine guns, and the Browning machine gun and MG42 general-purpose machine gun mounted on top of the Stalker were unforgettable for the Japanese army.
The tanks and armored vehicles on the battlefield consciously formed several assault groups, and with the addition of stalkers and covering infantry, the tanks that served as the main attack began to show their powerful destructive power. "Boom" "Boom" one after another Japanese firepower points were lifted into the air, accurate tank artillery fire caused the Japanese army hastily arranged firepower points to suffer heavy losses, many Japanese machine gunners only fired a few shots, they were found that their tanks were bombarded into slag with artillery, with the continuous change of the battle situation, the Japanese army's firepower began to appear.
"Convey my order, the 75 artillery group is ready to open fire according to the scheduled firing of Zhu Yuan, and at the same time, all artillery staff officers are ordered to be ready to calculate the specific position of the enemy's artillery positions. It is necessary to calculate the specific location of the Japanese artillery position at the first time," the commander of the American 75 artillery group, Mark, who arrived later, stood on top of a stalker lying on his stomach and observed the enemy situation in front with a telescope. This Frenchman who admired Napoleon was a master of artillery warfare who was abducted back from Europe by Zhao Zhi, and Mark, who was a sergeant major in the French Royal Artillery Regiment, has now become the commander of the American 75 Mountain Artillery Group, with 24 American 75 Mountain Guns under his command.
"Boom, boom, boom" With Mark's order to attack, a huge roar sounded over the positions of the 75 Mountain Artillery Group. Immediately after, the sky over the battlefield a few kilometers away was shrouded in smoke from the explosion of artillery shells. "Continue the shelling, be sure to knock out their artillery group" The artillery staff under Mark began to calculate the position of the Japanese artillery position according to the coordinates transmitted back by the forward, and with the coordinate modification and artillery salvo fire again and again, finally after the third round of artillery group salvo, a series of earth-shattering explosions and fires suddenly sounded from the forward position, and the Japanese mountain artillery group was finally killed.
"Attack, attack, their mountain artillery has been knocked out" Joey repeatedly urged his command vehicle to move forward, the Japanese mountain artillery that posed the greatest threat to the armored division was killed, except for those guys who pretended to be dead, Joey really couldn't think of any weapons in the hands of the Japanese army that could threaten the armored division, and this was the best time to attack. "Boom" "Boom" The shells emitted by the tanks are like a drumbeat of urgency, and the explosion of each shell will always take away some Japanese lives, and under the uninterrupted strong attack of the armored division, the forward line of the Japanese army finally loosened a little, and Japanese soldiers have begun to quietly retreat.
The unusual movement in the Japanese defense line attracted Joey's attention, and the Japanese army was defeated, and Joey did not believe that the Japanese army would lay a trap against the armored division at this time. "Hit in, enter through their gaps, and defeat them" based on his own judgment, Joey immediately gave an order, and more than 20 tanks, under the cover of a stalker team, followed the gap in the Japanese defense line, and with the influx of follow-up infantry and expanded to both flanks, the Japanese army's inner line defense was officially torn open by the armored division.
"Division commander, no, the outer defense line has fallen, and the inner line defense has also been torn open, retreat, Donghu can't hold it" The embarrassed Sasaki hurriedly broke into the temporary command post, and Oshiro Sanji, who was shocked when he heard this, subconsciously turned his head and glanced at Masao Watanabe. Masao Watanabe, who sat in the command post for half an hour without saying a word, still had his eyes half-closed at this time, and Sasaki, who broke into the command post, looked at it at first glance and thought that Masao Watanabe was asleep, so he was just talking to his division commander just now.