Chapter 238: The duel between cavalry and tanks
"It's a pity!" He had already received the news that the 10th Division had escaped overnight, but facing the surface of Weishan Lake, he did not have a good way. The only way is to use long-range 105-mm howitzers to bombard the landing place of the devils under the guidance of reconnaissance planes.
Ryosuke Isoya is also cunning, in the face of the shelling of the vanguard army, he directly scattered the landing points around, and there was no need to dock at the pier, and the weather in May was not cold, and the devils could land directly in the water, which made the results of the shelling limited.
The 10th Division's broken rear blockers also relied on the darkness of night to block the vanguard army from approaching the lake area. Most of the armored tanks of the Vanguard Army were still concentrated in the 109th Division, and it was not known how the 109th Division was damaged.
"That's the Vanguard plane!" On a wooden boat filled with more than fifty people, a man pointed to two points of light in the air and shouted.
"Don't be too loud, turn off all the lights, their planes can't see us!" Someone shouted.
This time, the 10th Division collected nearly 100 large and small ships for evacuation. But because the average water depth of Weishan Lake is only a little more than a meter of draft, the largest boat here is just over 100 tons. Even with moonlight, it is laborious to look for small boats on the vast lake. Besides, the devils are very scattered, and they don't get together.
"We need to fly a little lower." Feng Qi suggested.
"Hmm!" Feng Ba directly agreed, and in a push, the "Havoc" fighter lowered a lot downward, and the radar on the plane had a distance limit, too far to work, too close to work. Even within the detection distance, it is easy to misjudge in the face of those small wooden boats.
Douglas's A-20 "Boston" strike bomber, with its good maneuverability and endurance and its first three-point landing gear, is more suitable for night combat than other aircraft, and the British received some minor changes to become a Havoc fighter, but it is not a night combat aircraft in the full sense.
As for the other night bombers that could be produced at this time, it was okay to bomb cities and factories, but it was somewhat powerless against small surface ships. Meng Xiang also doesn't have so much financial resources and energy to produce and test them one by one.
This Havoc fighter was still found in the test, and it became the only night combat aircraft in Meng Xiang's hands. Because of the possibility of night battles, production has just begun, and with the addition of the beta version, there are only five in total. For safety, all of them were driven by phoenix warriors who were relatively familiar with them.
"A suspicious target has been spotted." Feng Hachi shouted.
The effect of the moonlight finally came to the fore, and the dark shadow of the ship could be detected at close range in the silver light that shone on the water.
The Havoc plane continued to fly down.
"It's flying down!" The devils on the wooden boat were a little scratchy, but a military officer quickly stopped them: "They can't see us!" ”
Suddenly, a snow-white light swept over the wooden boat, revealing the surprised and frozen expressions of a boatload of devils.
They didn't know that Feng Qi's "Havoc" fighter was a modified version, with a 1,400-amperre searchlight on it, powered by a one-ton battery in the bomb bay. The beam of light, with a cone angle of 30 degrees, can illuminate a range of 137 meters wide at a distance of 1.61 kilometers. The huge pillar of light suddenly positioned itself on the wooden ship with the adjustment of the nose, and Feng Ba's plane flew straight towards the ship.
"It's coming! Shoot! Someone shouted that the 10th Division had already transferred some large weapons to the other side of the lake, and these soldiers only carried rifles, and some people raised their rifles to shoot at the searchlight, but the large bulb of the searchlight was mounted behind an armored glass cover with a diameter of more than 90 centimeters, and a half-bullet did not affect him much. Without waiting for the devils to continue firing a salvo, the Havoc fighters that flew over fired first.
The 12 7.62 machine guns on the cataclysm fighter plane that Feng Ba rushed over breathed fire together, like 12 fiery snakes entangled the wooden ship.
The screams continued, and when Fengba's catastrophe swept past the wooden boat, there was only a pile of flesh and blood left. One or two soldiers who fell into the water were still struggling in the water, but the wooden boat, which had also been washed with warheads, was broken and leaky, and it was difficult to say whether they would be able to reach the other side.
"Look for your next target." Feng Ba already disdained to return to attack these two soldiers, and the time to stay in the air was limited, so it was impossible to waste time on this.
At this time, Feng Wu and Feng Shi also caught a big fish, and on Feng Wu's catastrophe radar, they caught a vague target. After he and Feng Shi arrived, under the light of the searchlight, a nearly 100-ton iron freighter was exposed in their sight. But when the devil's machine gun fired into the sky, it was counterattacked by a torrential rain from the opposite side.
The devils crowded on the deck became the best targets to withstand these bullets.
The hundred-ton cargo ship did not sink even under the machine-gun strikes of the aircraft, but there was no one on the deck who gasped. In order to avoid the strafing of the machine guns, the devils on the boat jumped into the lake, but the lake water could not withstand the sharpness of the metal bullets, and the blood halo gradually expanded, but in the dark night, it only seemed to make the lake more muddy.
"Call No. 3 and send more powerful firepower aircraft to support!" Feng Wu shouted directly to Feng San. Although the 12 7.62 machine guns of the Havoc were indeed furious, there was still some powerless against the freighter.
Feng San heard the call, and he was also driving this modification called the turbine light. This is an aircraft that is still on the drawings, and Meng Xiang took a fancy to its large searchlight and produced it in advance. But Feng San's Havoc fighter was followed by two HS-123 planes.
A few minutes later, Feng San arrived with the two HS-123 planes.
If it was only sunk, because the water of Weishan Lake was not deep, the cargo ship would still be partially exposed on the surface of the water if it sank. So an HS-123 aircraft simply threw a 50-kilogram bomb on the ship and blew the ship apart. sank into the water.
"Keep looking for a target." After Feng San transferred an HS-123 into Feng Wu's team, he continued to search separately.
"How's it going?" Meng Xiang also half-closed his eyes, heard Rat Er enter the command center, and asked.
"The 122nd Brigade has already attacked Weishan County with the help of artillery attacks and controlled the coastal areas of the Weishan Lake District, but the divisional headquarters of the 10th Division has been withdrawn. Only more than 2,000 people in charge of the broken rear were annihilated, and more than 1,000 people who had no time to evacuate, and the 10th Cavalry Wing was besieged. ”
"Cavalry wing?" Meng Xiang wiped his face to make himself more sober.
"Why didn't they all annihilate together?"
"The captain of the 10th Wing, Saruma Kuwata, sent a letter of challenge, asking for a fair duel with our cavalry!" Rat Er said as he handed over a war book.
"This little devil is brainless? What age, it's still a fair showdown. When they rushed at the common people with rifles and bayonets, why didn't they say a fair duel? Such an obvious strategy to delay time, bullying us can't see it? If we weren't able to do anything about the lake for the time being, would we still be able to let him shout? Meng Xiang smiled when he heard this.
"Tell Niu Er, don't worry about them, just bombard them." As soon as Rat Er turned around, Meng Xiang stopped him again: "Wait a minute." ”
After Meng Xiang stood up and walked a few steps, he sneered: "The little devil doesn't want a cavalry duel, and I don't have to bully him and beat them together." We also have cavalry, and heavy cavalry. Don't they have less than two hundred horses left? Then I'll just send 60 horses in a pair of threes. Tell them that tomorrow morning at seven o'clock, the showdown will officially begin. Tell the people in the camera team that they have arranged all the cameras, and finally have such an opportunity to perform, can you not cherish it? Hum! ”
As soon as it was dawn, Kuwata got up and carefully checked the preparation of the horses. The withdrawal of the 10th Division, the horses could not be taken away. Unwillingly, they took the initiative to ask to stay, and after the break, the helpless Ryosuke Isoya could only agree. After some shelling, the cavalry wing also suffered heavy losses, losing more than two hundred horses, and at this time less than half were left.
The one hundred and eighty horses were selected, and the remaining dozen or so were stabbed to death along with the thirty or so wounded horses. Kuwata Sarumi has already made up his mind to become in.
"Heavy cavalry? What kind of heavy cavalry are they? Kuwata Sadazo guessed, amusing in his heart, "There are still people who use heavy armored cavalry, and they still produce sixty horses at once?" ”
But when the sun of Xihe shone all over the earth, there was a strange silence at the south gate of Weishan County.
The castle tower in the distance was already full of people watching the battle, but there was no noise. Although the weather was clear, there was a tense atmosphere of black clouds pressing down on the city in the air.
The devil cavalry has been standing there for a long time, and the cavalry is standing beside the war horse, constantly calming the somewhat anxious war horse.
They had no intention of attacking the city, they had no artillery, and if they had relied on those rifles, they would have been blocked by dozens of machine guns erected on the towers.
"You mean!" When he saw the so-called heavy cavalry of the vanguard army coming from afar, Kuwata Sadazo couldn't help but be so angry that the corners of his mouth trembled.
"Are we mean? When you slaughtered the Chinese people and did those things that were inferior to the beasts, why didn't you say despicable and shameless? Wu Sanshan peeked out of the tank and shouted at the radio horn in front of him, and at this time he was still under the meritorious BT-7 tank.
"This is our mount! We are the Iron Knights! After Wu Sanshan's voice was amplified through the loudspeaker, it continued to echo in the empty land of the South Gate and spread far away.
Sangtian Zhensan blushed and listened to the translator over there repeating Wu Sanshan's words over and over again: "If you want to fight, hurry up." Decide like a man! If you don't fight, kneel down and surrender quickly! ”
Guarding so many people and scolding devils, Wu Sanshan's heart seemed to be filled with honey, not to mention how happy he was. No matter what kind of choice the devil chooses, he is very happy. But in his heart, he hoped that the devil would rush over and fight happily. Even the low roar of the tank under him was full of fighting spirit.
"Get on the horse!" Kuwata Sadazo gave the order, and the veterans of the cavalry wing immediately stepped on their horses.
Kuwata Sadazo took the wing flag in the hands of the flag guard, looked at the soldiers behind him, and lit it directly. The oiled flag burned quickly, which made Wu Sanshan, who was watching from afar, feel pity. He took a lot of credit for capturing that half of the wing flag and occupying the headquarters of the 108th Division. This time, in order to reward him, he was specially asked to command this winning duel.
"Attack!" Kuwata Sarumi waved the flaming wing flag and rushed out first. The rumbling of hooves behind was mixed with the neighing of horses, and the devil's cavalry charged at the tanks of the vanguard.
"Rush!!" Wu Sanshan also roared violently, and the Tiger 315 below increased the throttle, drove the tank and rushed out, and the 59 tanks behind roared and charged together.
Immediately, there seemed to be a burst of rolling thunder underground, the earth began to tremble, the leaves swayed, the rubble jumped, and the people on the castle tower seemed to feel the shaking of the castle tower. The huge roar of the engines of the 60 tanks echoed in the ears like a thunderbolt, and the thick smoke from the engines was like a dark cloud rolling up on the ground.
At this time, there was no roar of artillery on the battlefield, and the roar of the tank monster became the most shocking note.
Wu Sanshan listened to the roar of the tank engine, his heart was full of blood, he ripped open the neckline, took off his shirt, went naked, climbed out of the tank with a Suomi, hooked the rope hook of the fixed weapon with his feet, and shouted at the ghost cavalry rushing in front of him: "This time I want to convince you little devils, let you see, there are also gentlemen in Huaxia!" ”
His voice came through the microphone next to him, stirring with the roars of horses and tanks.
"Well done! Wu Shantou! I'm a gentleman too! Wang Zhongfa saw Wu Sanshan standing bare-chested on the charging tank, and couldn't help shouting, he also took off his shirt as well, picked up a Suomi and climbed up, trapped one of his feet with a rope, and stood firmly on the tank.
"And me!" Wei Luming suddenly thought of the blocking battle between him and Wang Lihong, and couldn't help but shout and climbed out as well.
More than a dozen tankers crawled out of each tank, tied themselves to the tanks in the same posture, like warriors charging on steel monsters, rushing straight towards the oncoming devil cavalry.
"Good man! With this battle, the Iron Army will succeed! Liao Lei, who was watching the battle, patted the battlements of the city wall and praised it.
The corners of Meng Xiang's eyes, who were listening to the live broadcast, were a little moist, and he was still muttering vigorously: "This time, it's a loss!" ”