Chapter 231: Let the Cannonballs Fly
Lao Zhao had been waiting for a long time, and the bombardment that lasted for an hour made him anxious, and when he heard Dong Ku's words, he knew that Dong Ku's set target had been bombarded, and the unit went to the field to clean up the mess, so he picked up the phone and shouted: "Attack on all fronts, advance ten kilometers, and recapture Tailai!" ”
Dong Ku shouted at the moment when Lao Zhao's voice fell: "The first coordinate covers the attack with two shells!" ”
With Lao Zhao's shout, the anti-United Nations fighters lying outside the front cover got up from the snow at the moment the red signal flare was raised, carrying a gun, and ran forward silently like a tide.
At the moment when they moved, the cannon that had been quiet sounded again, and the scream swept over the heads of the soldiers, and flew towards the first line of Japanese positions thousands of kilometers away.
Booming explosions rang out over the positions, and clusters of fire flickered in the midst of the panicked Japanese troops. The Japanese soldiers, who had almost no cover, were even more panicked in the explosion, either lying on the ground or fleeing in panic.
Within two minutes, the heat of this round of shelling had just dissipated, and the second wave of shells came again.
The dense explosion of shells completely deprived the already dilapidated position of its ability to protect itself, and even if the Japanese were lucky enough to survive in the violent explosion, they were dizzy and their ears were buzzing by the violent shock. Most of the machine guns were blown to pieces, the trenches were not at all intact, and the entire position was like a skinned hard-boiled egg, exposed to the rapidly approaching crowd.
"Extend the artillery fire, each shelling the second target, two shells!"
In the headquarters, Dong Ku calmly gave orders.
At most, the Japanese troops in the forward position had three wings, numbering no more than 5,000 people, and at this time, they had been damaged by several rounds of shelling, suffering heavy casualties, and the improvised bunkers were completely gone.
"Kill!!"
The tide ahead is at the moment when it is close to the position. A wave of shouts erupted, and the rolling crowd rushed into the position amid shouts of killing.
The Japanese soldiers, whose eyes were dizzy and could not see clearly, heard the shouts when their ears were ringing, and subconsciously resisted and got up. Holding a bayonet, he stabbed at the blurred figure.
Bang!
He was greeted not by a bayonet, but by a warm bullet, and in the process of making the Japanese soldier's body slammed, he was hit by a rifle butt on his head, and his brain went blank, and he fell to the ground with a bang.
"Kill!!"
Seeing the Japanese army, the anti-union veterans who rushed to the front broke out with an earth-shattering roar, and the bayonets flashed. One by one, the struggling figures were stabbed down.
The recruits had only joined the army, and although the battle had been going on for several days, it was still a test for them to have such close contact with the Japanese army, after all, it was not a long-distance shot of bullets. But they didn't care about their fears, and they didn't have time to be nervous, because the frenzy behind them pushed them forward, and the moment they saw the enemy. All subconsciously the same thrust, stabbed in the Japanese army. Or the moment he didn't stab, the man had already rushed forward.
On the more than 10-kilometer front of the forward position, 70,000 or 80,000 soldiers can really be called a surging crowd, and in just a few minutes, from the charge to the occupation of the position, the crowd did not stop. The Japanese troops on the position were flattened.
As they charged on the position, the artillery behind them roared again, and the shells swept over the positions of the fierce fighting, and flew towards the places where the Japanese troops gathered, and exploded with a bang.
In the smoke of gunpowder. The Japanese troops, who had lost their command, had just assembled under the orders of their commanders, and were again scattered by artillery fire. They ran in panic, not knowing where to dodge, and most of them retreated to the rear.
At this time, the headquarters had been evacuated under artillery fire, and Kawashima Sukuichi did not evacuate with him, but sat in front of the headquarters, staring at the smoke rising in the distance, listening to the shouts of killing all over the mountains, but surprisingly calm.
His eyes stared ahead, but he couldn't see anything, because his eyes were covered with frost, but he sat straight, but he was dead.
A bloody hole in his jaw had frozen, and there was also a hole in the back of his head, but there was no hot air coming out.
Behind him, a group of high-ranking generals, escorted by a wing, hurriedly retreated and headed straight for the horses that had been prepared.
They were no longer able to convey orders in the accurate shelling, and the command headquarters also broke the telephone lines in the shelling, paralyzing the command.
The artillery bombardment, like a huge wave crashing on the shore, moved towards the side of the command, and if they did not retreat, they would all be left behind.
The heralds showed maximum speed and rushed to the positions of the various military camps, conveying the most stubborn orders. But, how can they be faster than a shell? Most of the orders were not in place, the barracks were blown apart, and the command was thrown into disarray.
The wave of the charge was swift and firm, breaking through the woods, breaking through the mountains, and following the cannonballs towards Tailai, all the resistance encountered by the camps along the way was broken under the strafing of the crooked handles running ahead, and thousands of crooked handles formed a sharp tooth in front, tearing apart the fragile resistance of panic.
The charge of tens of thousands of people made it difficult for the Japanese army, which had just been bombarded, to organize a decent resistance, except that when they rushed into the material assembly area, the Japanese army caused certain casualties to the fighters of the Anti-Japanese Union by means of covers, and did not stop the pace of the tide for even a minute.
At this time, the Japanese army was like herding sheep, and rushed towards Tailai along seven or eight roads carved out of the snow. Thousands of horses were overwhelmed by the crowd and unable to charge, neighing and playing in circles in the snow.
But the herd of horses that had just gathered heard a sound that made them tremble, and then a projectile fell to the ground like a bird.
The violent explosion made the blood and flesh of the war horse splash, and the shock wave cleared out patches of open space in an instant, and under the care of dozens of cannons, the assembled cavalry was a joke.
On the snow, snow-white figures followed behind the shells, quickly propping up their skis, bypassing a scattered figure, like the eyes of a cannon, directing the artillery to chase the dense places of the Japanese army and bombard them continuously.
"Build a defensive line and prepare to fight back!!"
The Japanese generals who had rushed two or three kilometers stopped their horses' hooves and shouted orders.
The fleeing Japanese soldiers fell to the ground with well-trained, quickly lying on the snow, simply piling up the snow ridges with guns, and the 38 big covers in their hands were set up.
At this time, the anti-union fighters who had rushed into the center of the Japanese position entered the most brutal white-knuckle battle, and countless Japanese soldiers who could not evacuate rose up to resist.
"Kill!!"
The different languages on both sides shouted the same will, and the Japanese troops rushed to the tide and crashed into the tide.
The machine gunners were useless at this point, they stopped and let their comrades rush past them with bayonets, they could only look for the spears on the corpses on the ground, otherwise, they would be a wall of flesh in a white-knuckle battle.
The artillery bombardment, which continued to extend when the two sides were stuck together, gave way to the position where the supplies were parked and assembled, and chased the retreating Japanese troops.
After the Japanese army built a defensive line, they quickly gathered a large army, and in a few minutes, they assembled the retreating Japanese troops and quickly integrated their weapons.
Lieutenant General Ichiro Dozaki temporarily took over the command, and he drew his command sword and shouted, "Emperor's warriors, show your courage and retake your position!" ”
"Take back your ground!!"
"Take back your ground!!"
The tendoned Japanese roared wildly and launched a counter-charge on the long front.
The yellow layer of the Japanese army, where tens of thousands of people had gathered, howled like a muddy mountain torrent on the white earth, and rushed towards the battlefield with constant gunfire in the distance.
"Sparrow call! Sparrow Call! Prey Returns, 956...... 194, Amendment 3 ......"
Looking at the Japanese soldiers who turned over in the distance, the three guards who followed behind the large group of Japanese soldiers shouted quickly.
"How dare you turn back!"
After receiving the coordinates, Dong Ku quickly conveyed the coordinates.
Subsequently, the shells that hit small targets flew towards the Japanese troops like mudslides after two or three minutes, and there were no exceptions along the route of several kilometers.
The roaring explosion exploded in front and behind the charging Japanese troops, and clouds of snow mist rose in the snow, and the charging Japanese soldiers were lifted off by artillery shells and then torn apart by shrapnel.
The Japanese soldiers on the snow shell were immediately stuck in a quagmire under the violent shock, and the snow shells that were as soft as sand could no longer allow them to run, and they were deep in their thighs one by one, struggling to walk.
"Your Excellency Lieutenant General, you can't charge ......"
One by one, the generals on horseback looked at the scene in front of them through binoculars, they were not afraid of death, but they could not charge on the snow, if they simply followed a few snow tracks, then a few machine guns could block the charge, and it was difficult for them to use superb assassination to get close to the enemy and recapture the position.
"Fifteen kilometers ......"
Ichiro Dozaki was helpless for a while. The artillery on the opposite side apparently had more than thirty cannons with a range of 20 km. In the case of shelling, such a charge is futile and senseless.
"Withdraw Taylor!!"
Ichiro Dozaki gritted his teeth and gave the order to retreat.
"Dong Ku, why don't you continue to pursue? Most of the remnants of the enemy have been wiped out on the position, and in ten minutes at most, the battle can be ended, and most of the supplies are left, isn't it right to recapture Tailai at this time? ”
Lao Zhao looked at Dong Ku puzzled and asked.
"You can't take it, let the shells fly for a while to block the delusion of the Japanese army to turn back, so that you can free up time to clean up the battlefield and transport all the supplies back."
Dong Ku explained while ordering the extension of the artillery bombardment: "Tailai is mountainous, which is conducive to defense, but the supply line is long, once the Japanese army breaks through the gap and blocks the supply line, Tailai will not become a lone army there?" ”
"For the time being, we just want to delay the pace of the Japanese offensive until the beginning of the spring, after the beginning of the spring is the real battle, at this time the Japanese army has no aircraft support, it is beneficial to us, but we continue to expand the territory will bear the pressure of defense, but it is better to hold the river bank, so that the Japanese artillery fire can not reach Qiqihar, do not cause panic among the people, and develop steadily."
"Development ......"
Lao Zhao is a little confused, at this time, talk about development, if you don't drive the Japanese as soon as possible, then, when the Japanese regain a foothold, isn't it a continuous tough battle next?
Where did he know that the Harbin army at this time was less than 30,000, and this still added the 5,000 soldiers who returned from the island, if the front was lengthened, once there was an accident in Qiqihar, Dong Ku would not be able to support. He didn't know what to say, at this time, Dong Ku's army was all gathered at the border, and he was fighting against Lao Maozi, and no one was fighting silently. (To be continued......)