"Report! The Bao Xingteng Division of the Fifth Army had already surrounded the two wings that had gone to the periphery to support the Japanese positions. According to the 324 Heights reconnaissance report, the Japanese army has dispatched a wing of troops from the heights to rescue this unit......"

"Deng Qiran's division of the Seventh Army has arrived at the combat position, and the Xue Kai division of the 19th Division of the Seventh Army and the Zhen Cheng division of the 20th division have entered the ambush site......

In this offensive, the Wehrmacht used more than one corps of troops. Rather, it was a whole corps of troops.

Of course, the Sixth Army was still the main responsible for the offensive. However, the peripheral reinforcement battles, ambush battles, and blocking battles were all handled by the Fifth Army and the Seventh Army of the Second Army Corps.

According to the words of Ren Wenbin, the commander of the Sixth Army, this is for us to eat and drink soup from our brother troops. If you swallow everything in one gulp, you will choke to death if you eat alone.

It is a good habit not to eat alone, for example, Bao Xingteng, the commander of the Fifth Army, who is now surrounding the two support wings of the Japanese army, is very appreciative.

"Tell the 14th Division that this time they can breathe well! But remember that people don't kill me all, and expect them to lure me in more! Bao Xingteng sneered in his temporary headquarters, it was just a battle between two wings and a military commander was not needed.

However, as long as Bao Xingteng, who was holding back his belly, knew that the Japanese had appeared, even if it was a team, he couldn't wait to go into battle in person.

It was good to say that he was persuaded to do so, but Bao Xingteng still arranged his command to the forward position. He wanted to see the Japanese army in ashes with his own eyes, and if he didn't look at those miscellaneous pieces dying in front of him, Bao Xingteng felt that the qi in his heart could not dissipate.

Zhou Haokuang, the commander of the 14th Division, was gritting his teeth and commanding the three regiments under his command to surround the two wings of the Japanese army and fight fiercely. Zhou Haokuang knew from the bottom of his heart that his own army commander was already taking good care of his 14th Division.

Of the 20,000 recruits who have been re-enlisted, more than 5,000 are former Wehrmacht officers and men. And most of the rest also spent at least a year in the reserves.

In addition, the Wehrmacht has long had the habit of retired veterans being in charge of military training in the township, and these recruits also underwent military training before becoming professional soldiers.

Under the leadership of veterans, the recruits were organized and filled into the Wehrmacht unit after three months of training for the recruits.

And in order to take care of the 14th Division, which suffered huge losses. Bao Xingteng added 3,000 veterans to the 14th Division. This caused discontent among the remaining two divisions.

"There are the greatest losses and the most shortage of veterans. Let these veterans be placed in him first! Bao Xingteng explained to Guo Pengyun and Kong Maoxun: "We still have to fight, we must recover our combat effectiveness as soon as possible!" ”

Sure enough, it didn't take long for this to come before the commander of the legion, Yan Chenghan, summoned them to a meeting to study the battle. Ren Wenbin, the commander of the Sixth Army, is really crazy this time!

He not only planned to swallow the entire second-line position, but even thought about killing and injuring the Japanese troops in a large area. And if he wants to do it, he will definitely not be able to do it with the strength of his army.

Therefore, under the study with the chief of staff and commander of the corps, a combat mission involving 200,000 people of a corps was issued. The Sixth Army, which had put forward the plan, was responsible for attacking the three breakthrough positions of the Japanese army on the second line, while the Fifth and Seventh Armies were responsible for preparing for an attack on the periphery to support the Japanese troops in the past.

And at the same time, they have a plan......

"Your Excellency, Commander! The 153 position and the 155 position called, and their positions were attacked by the Chinese troops! The attacking troops had at least one division or more. An attempt is being made to break through the position with the assistance of opposing tank units! ”

"Nani?!" Shunroku Hata stood up suddenly, rushed to the map in three or two steps, looked at the logo on the map, and his face was blue and he didn't say a word.

The face of the chief of staff, Hou Gong Jun, is not good-looking, and now the Japanese army has limited strength on the second and third lines. Of the 300,000-strong troops, less than 100,000 were on the front line.

The rest of the troops were almost all retained in the positions of the fourth and fifth lines, as well as in various fortresses inside Shanghai.

"Immediately let the Yamazaki Wing take a division of the 'Imperial Allied Army' to the 153rd position to support, and the Matsuo Wing also carry a division of the 'Imperial Allied Army' to the 155th position to support!"

Toshiroku Hatata's face was cloudy, and he gritted his teeth for a long time before he said fiercely, "Tell them." Be sure to keep the 153 and 155 positions! I don't care how many people died in the 'Imperial Army', in short, the position must be saved! ”

"Hay!" The adjutant replied loudly, and then hurried down to give the order.

The two positions of 153 and 155 were only garrisoned by a brigade of Japanese troops, and of course a division of the Imperial Allied Army. But in both places, a wing of Japanese troops had been lost, and there was no guarantee that the Imperial Concord forces would not defect in battle.

The brigades stationed on the 212 position are fine, after all, they are mixed brigades. It has three infantry wings and an artillery brigade. The Japanese troops in positions 153, 155 and 213 were just ordinary brigades, that is, they were two infantry wings.

Yes. Asking them to send a wing is almost half of their troops.

As the battle has been fought now, it seems that the tactical purpose of the Wehrmacht is becoming more and more ambiguous for Shunroku Hahata and Jun Harem. They were somewhat confused as to how many IDF forces were involved in the offensive.

There was no way to guess what the Wehrmacht would do next, so they could only take it step by step and try to plug all the loopholes that had arisen, hoping that this would prevent the Wehrmacht's tactical purpose of tearing apart the second-line positions.

"Tom tom tom...... Rumble! Rumble!! Bombardment ......" on a large area of farmland between positions 153 and positions 211. The cannonballs that rained down knocked the Japanese soldiers lying on their backs and screamed.

Lost the protection of the fortifications, these Japanese soldiers had almost no resistance in the face of artillery fire. Since they were ordered to go to support at full speed, they did not even bring much artillery fire.

Only more than 20 37mm anti-tank guns drawn out by the brigade and regiment followed them, and these guns were taken care of by the 14th Division at the beginning of the war. A burst of artillery fire, these guns were either reduced to scrap metal, or the artillery on the side and the heavy casualties could not be fought.

The sound of the tracks of the "Kerala ......" tanks was like a thunderclap in the hearts of the Japanese troops in this wing, and they did not know how to deal with these tanks on flat ground.

"His Majesty the Emperor is onboard!!" Some Japanese soldiers screamed and carried the Type 99 anti-tank bombs in an attempt to pounce on the tank battalion supporting the 14th Division. But it was the heavy machine guns on the tanks that fired back at them.

Under the frantic strafing of the "sudden ......", any Japanese troops who tried to rush up could only get broken bones.

"Boom!!" Even some of the explosive bombs on their bodies that had just stood up were exploded, not only were their bones gone, but also the Japanese soldiers around them were also affected.

Zhou Haokuang of the 14th Division and his chief of staff Cao Xinrong kept drawing on the map, and one company after another continued to tear apart the temporary defensive positions of the Japanese army with the assistance of the tank battalion with the help of their fingers.

Having lost the fortifications, the defensive positions of the Japanese army in front of the tanks were a joke. The barely used 37mm anti-tank gun is no different from tickling in front of the Tiger B.

As the Wehrmacht continued to intersperse with the tanks, they tore through the weak positions of the Japanese army in three or two blows, divided and surrounded an entire wing of Japanese troops, and launched an encirclement and annihilation.

In the battle of the front-line positions, the Fifth Army fought too hard, and the 14th Division fought especially hard. got this opportunity to take revenge, how could Zhou Haokuang let it go?!

The entire 14th Division, from Zhou Haokuang to the little soldiers below, all held their breath, and swore not to be human if they didn't clean up these Japanese cubs!

"Chirp...... Boom Boom Boom ...... "Fire Raven, Grenade Launcher, Heavy Machine Gun...... and other weapons were constantly wreaking havoc among the Japanese army. Those resistance of the Japanese army looked so ridiculous.

In the face of the steel crushing of the tanks, the Japanese army's scattered machine guns and grenadiers had no way to pose a threat. The tank's artillery, heavy machine guns, and various weapons of the infantry formed a powerful suppression of fire.

None of the Japanese troops were able to break through this fire suppression and inflict a single loss on the Wehrmacht.

Captain Kie Akasaka was desperate. The battle has reached such an extent that even if a support wing arrives, it will not be able to free itself. The entire Japanese army in the position has been completely cut and surrounded.

Even as a wing commander, he only stayed with his own garrison squadron. He even lost contact with his own team headquarters.

"Try to contact the wing headquarters as much as possible and ask them to destroy the military flag and telegram immediately......" Akasaka Kie looked at the artillery fire on the position and muttered: "Call the general headquarters...... The Akasaka United will be loyal to His Majesty the Emperor......"

At this time, the wing of Tetsumi Kurosaki, who was supported by the 155th position, was not much better. The first round of artillery fire from the ambush force blew his wing headquarters into the air.

The first round of the charge broke through Kurosaki's defensive circle, and the armored Wehrmacht tanks could not penetrate it with Japanese weapons alone.

The infantry behind the tank also used fire support to ensure that the tank would not encounter a suicide attack by the Japanese army, and under this layered advance and cutting, the Kurosaki wing was surrounded by cutting without even reacting.

If it weren't for the strong training that the Japanese army has always had, and the experience of fighting independently with squads and squads. The team finally didn't mess up and barely supported the front.

But as time passed, it was only a matter of time before the Kurosaki Wing was routed or even annihilated.

"Telegraph to the General Command...... The Kurosaki Wing will be loyal to the Empire......" Tetsumi Kurosaki looked at the advancing Wehrmacht tanks in a daze, and said with a sigh......

ps: Chapter 1 ~Early Early Code Words~