Chapter 138: Clearing the Remaining Enemies
The devil cavalry, who had nowhere to escape, made a frantic counterattack, and several people gathered their grenades, rode straight at the tanks of the vanguard army, and were caught off guard, and they blew up three tanks, one of which was completely destroyed by fire.
"Heighten your guard!" Tiger Er ordered in a T-28 that the size of the T-28 was suitable for transforming it into a command vehicle.
But the devil cavalry carried too few grenades, and the machine gun bullets flying everywhere also made them unable to gather, and in the end, the only choice that awaited them was bullets and tank tracks.
"Those guys are finally gone!" Looking at the two Stukas that were gradually flying away in the sky, Wu Sanshan looked at the tank under him again, thoughtfully.
Originally, Meng Xiang also planned to train the pilots, but seeing that the devil cavalry was so simple, he temporarily canceled part of the flight plan, and only sent two to familiarize himself with the tactics.
"There's also a squad and a large battalion of infantry from the enemy cavalry wing coming over here!" Hu Er received new news from Meng Xiang again. Since the beginning of the battle, Meng Xiang immediately felt that his game skills were not enough, and these living people were automatically fighting according to their own ideas, and they were no longer computer programs one by one. So, Meng Xiang wisely chose to watch from the sidelines and no longer interfered with Hu Er's command. After the devil cavalry was dished and lost its suspense, Meng Xiang began to expand the scope of his search and probe the news of Shouguang and other places.
Wu Sanshan couldn't help but perk up when he heard this, and said with a smile: "These are all ours!" ”
"Take a break!" Kenji Sakata ordered. He leisurely looked at the rising sun in the distance and stretched, "The life of China is so comfortable!" "Born in poverty, he didn't expect to enjoy the general treatment of the lord in Shouguang yesterday. The hospitality he received from a large local salt merchant was something he will never forget.
Everything was so beautiful in the early morning, the gradually thinning morning mist drifting in the distance, revealing the clear blue sky, already making people feel the warm sunshine, and the horses neighing.
"Huh? Horse hiss? Sakata Kenji turned around angrily and shouted, "Hurry up and feed the war horse Shimizu and bean cakes, so that the horses can be quiet." You lazy guys! ”
A dozen horses all neighed uneasily, and after calming the horses, the devils noticed a slight tremor in the earth, and there was a rumbling sound in the distance.
"Horses?" Sakata Junji's first thought was that there were a herd of horses passing by, but then he smiled and shook his head, this is not a grassland, where are there so many horses.
On the curved horizon of the withered yellow weeds in the wilderness, when the first tank appeared in front of it with black smoke, the devils were collectively in a daze. But when the second and third tanks appeared one after another, until a black line lined up by more than two dozen tanks appeared in the field of vision, the devils still felt a little dreamy and couldn't believe their eyes.
In prior intelligence, there should have been no tanks here, and more than two dozen tanks.
But then a dozen tank shells made people turn their backs and have to admit that this is reality.
"Run! Go back and inform the infantry brigade! Sakata shouted and jumped on a war horse first, and ran straight back. The devils had wisely obeyed the order, and a dozen horses against two dozen steel guys, and everyone should know that this was a quixote challenge.
Less than a kilometer, it was Makino Yangsheng's brigade that was walking slowly behind. They went to take over the city defense in the area around Linzi City, and only one squadron was left on Shouguang's side. The battle ahead was carried out by men from cavalry and chariot units, who only had to receive the fruits of victory.
"What about the Vanguard on the other side, even if it's the Vanguard? The county seat all the way has been lowered. They won't be able to support it for long. Makino thought as he looked at a village in the distance with smoke rising from the stove. Yesterday's easy start and a night of enjoyment made him confidently want to get more honor and wealth in this ancient land and improve his status in the family.
"Enemy attack! The enemy's chariot is coming! Sakata shouted as soon as he saw the infantry brigade. The excellent riding skills practiced by the origin of raising animals saved the life of Sakata Hunji at this time, he was the only one who escaped, and the other devils reacted a little sluggishly, and they never escaped the pursuit of bullets and wheels.
"Chariots?" The captain of the brigade, Yoo Makino, heard the shouts of Junji Sakata, but he was a little confused for a while. But the news of the enemy attack still made him order:
"Hurry up and build a position!"
It is said that the vanguard army also has tanks, but they are arranged by the Yellow River. This morning, Makino had just received the news that the tanks of the Vanguard Army had caused the 108th Division's night sneak attack team to suffer heavy losses. Did they fly here again? The more than two dozen vehicles that Sakata Kenji said obviously didn't believe him, and even less the soldiers under his command who didn't know the news of the Vanguard Army.
Tank? I heard that China's Central Army also has dozens of vehicles, but they have all been defeated by the armored forces of the Locust Army.
Even if the squadron here has tanks, it may be an old-fashioned tank from World War I, a second-hand product that will break down at every turn. In the eyes of devils who have not been in contact with the vanguard army, the backwardness of the [***] team is unbearable. In a hurry, where there is time to build any fortifications, it can only be slightly modified with the help of natural terrain, and then wait for the battle.
Before they had finished half of the work, they felt the mound of dirt begin to roll down the clods, and the earth began to shake.
"It's coming! Tanks are coming! The first to react was Junji Sakata. After reporting the situation, the obvious distrust in the eyes of the surrounding infantry made him feel a little aggrieved, but he still clung to the reins of his war horse, ready to flee for his life at any time. But at that time, the shock of more than two dozen tanks emitting black smoke appeared in his field of vision, which he could not forget for a long time. He was the first to react to this familiar tremor of the earth.
As the soldiers around him looked at him with puzzled eyes, puffs of black smoke billowed up over the winter wasteland.
The earth was still shaking, and after Makino glanced at a clod of dirt that had rolled down to his feet, the hand holding the telescope couldn't help but lean over again.
Two tanks appeared side by side on the scale line of the lens at once, which made his slightly nervous heart beat violently twice, making him feel a little heartache when he was caught off guard.
"Prepare for battle!" Brief commands scurried out of his closed lips.
When the number of tanks observed in the lens had reached twenty, he glanced at Junji Sakata, who was holding the reins, and a bad thought had already surfaced in his heart, "I'm going to lose." ”
It can't help but be disappointed, the combat effectiveness of more than 25 tanks gathered together is very helpless for an infantry brigade lacking heavy firepower, which is very familiar to Makino Yangsheng, who has studied in Europe and seen the power of tank warfare.
Far away, the tanks began to fire. More than two dozen BT-7 45-mm tank guns suppressed the only three 70-mm 95 infantry guns carried by the devil's brigade with absolute superiority.
The power of tank guns is ruthless and helpless for infantry.
After the destruction of the infantry artillery, the targets of the blow became the infantry without the protection of fortifications.
The defense could not be prevented, and the infantry, without fortifications and without geographical advantages, was like a stripped lamb in front of the tank, to be slaughtered.
Charging is even more of a brain-dead idea, with such a long separation distance, it is destined to be beaten into minced meat and fertilizer on the wasteland by machine guns.
Retreat, and Makino Yangsheng can't erase the face of a samurai family.
In the middle of his hesitation, a brigade was already more than half damaged.
"Retreat!" In the end, Makino Yangsheng still sighed and issued a somewhat helpless order.
But it is so easy to retreat, and on the plains, it is difficult for a man's two legs to run over the wheels. A slaughtering war of annihilation began.
"There's a land temple over there!" Jiro Yokota, the adjutant beside him, pointed to a building not far ahead. When Makino Yangsheng, relying on the superiority of the commander's war horse and the blocking of a squadron left behind, temporarily escaped the bullets of the machine gun, there were three or four people left around.
He looked at the people around him, and couldn't help but feel a little gloomy.
"The honor of the family cannot be discredited." This is what he said to Yokota, who was sent by his family to support him, but in his heart he was very sad about his future fate. The shadow of defeat is that there is no escape, and under the honor of the family, the responsibility cannot be borne by oneself. And as a lucky escape, the best fate should be on the battlefield.
Glancing at the few subordinates who were in a daze, he drew his command knife and staggered step by step into the land temple shrouded in ancient trees. He was afraid that the fear of dying would make his nerves collapse into an ugly joke in the future, so he carefully chose this land temple that was still intact.
Finally, after more than an hour of grief, under the hint of Adjutant Yokota, he finally knelt on the ground with the katana stuck in his abdomen.
"Shouguang County has been captured!" At this time, Meng Xiang listened to the news one by one, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart at the strength of the armored force.
In this attack of the armored forces, only one tank was destroyed and two were wounded by the cavalry cluster grenades; Two were destroyed and three were wounded by the devil's tank; One was destroyed and one wounded by Makino's brigade; Non-combat attrition of two vehicles. The most important thing is that only 19 people died, breaking the minimum number of casualties in the surname. The result was the annihilation of the 5th Cavalry Wing and an infantry brigade of the 5th Division, plus 16 tanks of the 5th Division.
This not only strengthened Meng Xiang's determination to develop armored forces.
"With 300 tanks, you can counterattack the land of Qilu; If I had a thousand tanks, I would have occupied North China; If there are 10,000 tanks,...... Hey, hey, hey! Meng Xiang smiled proudly.