Chapter 124: South to Donghu (2)
"Boom" "Boom" Oshirodo Sanji was just about to open his mouth to refute Watanabe Masao's false words when he heard a series of deafening explosions outside the temporary headquarters. "It's tanks, a lot of tanks, and the outer positions are about to be broken through by them." An officer of the 56th Division broke into the conference room, and the news was transmitted from the forward positions one by one, otherwise the temporary headquarters would be several miles away from the forward positions, and the battle situation would not be visible with binoculars.
"What? Damn, you say it again" Masao Watanabe grabbed the officer's placket, and there was a hint of panic on his face that was still lacking in interest just now. The officer who was caught by Watanabe Masao said the news from the forward position again, Watanabe Masao sat in the chair with a somewhat lonely expression, and the reaction of the officers present was not seen by him at all, this veteran officer of the Japanese army was thinking about how to deal with the Thunder tank force at the moment.
More than 20,000 men of the 22nd Division and the 55th Division were completely powerless to fight back when they were beaten by dozens of tanks and armored vehicles of the other side. If, as the officer said, the Thunder sent hundreds of tanks and combat vehicles this time, then the Donghu defense line would definitely be broken by the other side, and they did not have the strength and preparation to fight them without anti-tank weapons.
"Da Da" personally operated the machine gun on the top of the stalker to explode a Japanese soldier with explosives on his body, Joey roared triumphantly, "Guys, show me what you can do, kill all these Japanese monkeys, go on" Joey roared almost madly, but unfortunately there was gunfire everywhere, coupled with the roar of tanks and armored vehicles, even Tang Yulin, who was closest to her, couldn't hear what Joey was shouting.
Joey's attack was just after lunch, and most of the irritable Japanese soldiers, who had been harassed by the Burmese for days, were sleeping in the anti-artillery holes, and only a few observation sentries were left in the defensive positions on the outskirts of Donghu who were holding on to the drowsiness after dinner. The first to appear in the field of vision of the Japanese observation post were more than a dozen light stalkers, and the black hull without any indication except for the number was like a sour fruit, which immediately dispelled the drowsiness of the observation post, and the few who reacted quickly had already pulled the trigger and warned with gunshots.
The beast-like light stalker had no intention of slowing down at all, and directly broke through the barbed wire drawn by the Japanese army to break into the Japanese army's defensive position, and greeted the frightened Japanese soldiers with a rain of bullets like water. 2,000 Jewish infantry and all European tanks were divided into four ways to attack the Japanese defense line at the same time, and Joey, as the commander, personally commanded the stalker formation to divide and outflank the Japanese position, compressing the Japanese space to a minimum.
The machine gun fire on the Japanese position began to return fire, but neither the light machine gun nor the Japanese army's sharpest Type 92 heavy machine gun returned in vain, and the Japanese machine gun position hit the European-style tank, at most splashing a spark, which was completely useless against the armored troops in the cabin, and did not have the slightest lethality. The European-style tank formations of the "Boom" and "Boom" armored divisions continued to assault in depth against the frantic fire of the Japanese army, and they were completely used as battering rams by Joey, and before the Japanese artillery offensive was launched, the only mission of the tank formation was to assault, desperately attacking forward.
This kind of overwhelming tank cluster assault has proved to be very effective, and the tanks participating in the battle this time are no longer dozens, but more than 120 European-shaped tanks of all kinds, especially the German Tiger heavy tanks that have been rushing to the arrow position, which is simply an invincible existence that defies everything. In just ten minutes, by the time Masao Watanabe and the others got the news of the attack of the armored division, the tank formation of the armored division had broken through the three lines of defense of the Japanese army, and the stalker formation under the command of Joey himself had also completed the division and outflanking of the Japanese army.
More than 1,000 Japanese soldiers were divided into more than a dozen small circles by Joey's stalker formation, and the only thing waiting for them was surrender and death fighting, Thunder's practice was never to contain Japanese prisoners, and rifles against tanks didn't seem to have much chance of winning, so it seemed that neither of these two roads would end well. "Assault, continue the assault, hand over these guys to the containment team in the back, let's go" Joey will still be able to take care of these Japanese soldiers who have lost their will to fight after they divide them, his goal is to defeat the main force of the Japanese army in Donghu, not these small fish and shrimp.
In all four directions of the outer line of Donghu, light stalkers roamed near the breach, and their task was to cover the sappers to carry out large-scale blasting of the Japanese trenches. Joy was followed not only by the 2,000 infantry of the armored division, but also by two infantry regiments and 2,000 Burmese guerrillas from the 1st Infantry Division.
In the earth-shaking loud noise, the three fortress trenches painstakingly built by the Japanese army suddenly collapsed, and a large section of the trench was razed to the ground by explosives, which became the way forward for the follow-up troops. "Boom" "Boom" The advancing tank formations opened fire in turn, uprooting the Japanese fortresses that were still stubbornly fighting back.
The infiltrator team, which has been active on the front line of Donghu, has several times reconnoitred the Japanese defense line in disguise, where there are Japanese forts, where there is heavy firepower of the Japanese army, and the information from the infiltrator team has long been memorized by Joey's armored soldiers. "Boom" "Boom" The artillery fire from the rear of the Japanese army finally came, but unfortunately there was no trace of artillery observers on their outer defense line, and these seemingly strong artillery fire did not seem to be accurate, at least Joey's tanks and armored vehicles have not been destroyed by Japanese artillery fire so far.
"Assault, continue to move forward" The Japanese counterattack is getting stronger and stronger, whether it is a tank or a stalker, every step forward, it has to withstand several times stronger firepower, the Japanese army has pushed several battle defense guns to the forward position, and it means that all the results of Joey's armored division are here. "Accelerate, accelerate, press up and crush them" The appearance of the anti-aircraft artillery changed the situation, and he didn't care about continuing to divide the Japanese position, Joey hurriedly ordered several light stalkers who had been following him to go up and break down the Japanese anti-Japanese artillery position.
The armor of the light stalker is not enough to fight the anti-artillery, but the speed of the light stalker is its biggest dependence, as long as these light stalkers cooperate well, it is completely possible to break down the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position. "Boom" The Japanese anti-aircraft guns fired, targeting the light stalker that was facing them, "Nani? At the moment when the anti-aircraft gun was discharged, the light stalker that charged head-on began to make a strange serpentine circle, and the Japanese shells hit the clearing.
The light stalker marked as car No. 06 was like an excellent dancer, and staged a wonderful performance in front of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position, accelerating the assault in a straight line, stopping and reversing, and circumventing the circumambulation, all the actions in the armored vehicle tactics were done perfectly, and finally under the concentrated fire bombardment of the Japanese army gathering all the anti-aircraft guns, the stalker who was blown up a track had to stop. "I'm coming, I'm going to turn it into a torch" The bare-faced gunner pushed away the loader who was loading the anti-aircraft gun, re-aimed and filled the shell into the chamber with his own hands, and then tightly held the gun rope.
A loud "boom" sounded on the Japanese army's anti-aircraft artillery position, Tang Yulin, who was leaning on the side of the stalker, was comfortably holding a cigarette, the machine gunner assigned to the stalker was helping him bandage the wound on his head, and the ammunition hand who was lying on the ground to observe the situation cheered. "Knocked out, the Japanese army's anti-aircraft artillery positions were wiped out by our tanks" Looking at the rising fire and the explosion, the three members of the No. 06 Light Stalker crew couldn't help but laugh.
The No. 06 Light Stalker piloted by Tang Yulin successfully attracted the attention of the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position, and the other stalkers who rounded back to the two flanks took the opportunity to clear the Japanese infantry, and a passing heavy Tiger helped them, and only one shell turned the Japanese anti-aircraft artillery position into a sea of fire and barbecue. Joey commanded the armored division to continue to advance, the earth-shattering shouts of killing in the rear had been heard, and the follow-up infantry finally arrived at the battlefield, and the outer defense line of Donghu had been completely breached, and the end of the Japanese army was near.
"Division commander, our outer positions have all been lost, what should we do now?" Sasaki looked at his division commander with a complicated expression, the people of the 56th Division looked down on the 22nd Division, mainly because the Sasaki Wing lost the battle first and lost the spirit of the Japanese army. Sasaki is not a person who is afraid of death, but the situation is not good now, and he does not want to be sent by the division commander to serve as a dead soldier in the forward position.
Oshiroto Sanji also had no idea at this time, and the division commander of the 56th Division, Watanabe Masao, had a face that no one cared about, which made Oshirodo Sanji very annoyed. "Gather the rest of our troops, and just share the victory and defeat with them here" Watanabe Masao said in a surprising voice, pitting the infantry who lacked heavy weapons and cover against hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles, Oshiroto Sanji despised Watanabe from the bottom of his heart, but he really didn't have much to do now.
"Long live the Emperor, for the glory of the Japanese Empire" The officers of the 56th Division bowed calmly to their division commander Masao Watanabe, and then walked out of the temporary headquarters in turn with their command knives to assemble their respective troops, and the tense atmosphere before the war began to permeate the temporary headquarters. Oshirodo Sanji made a look, and the officers of the 22nd Division, led by Sasaki, re-enacted what the officers of the 56th Division had just done and left, leaving only Watanabe Masao and Oshiroto Sanji sitting opposite each other in the empty headquarters.