The first battalion of Liu Zhiliang's tank regiment killed two generals in the first round of shooting, and the morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, and the more than 100 little devils who rushed over behind them suddenly panicked.

And no wonder, because these people are not combat units, but staff officers of the command. As soon as he escaped from the ruins, he was already panicked, unable to distinguish between east and west, and just ran along the street.

Now that it is under a head-on attack, it is naturally even more chaotic. At the same time, a squadron of imps suddenly rushed out from behind, and as a result, the streets were even more chaotic.

As one of the earliest "Eight Horses" who followed Bai Shujie, Liu Zhiliang suddenly became a little strange. Because by this time he had already received a report from the helicopter pilot that the main target of the first round of bombardment was the headquarters building of the 14th Army!

It was only at this time that Liu Zhiliang knew that his blind cat had touched a dead mouse, and he had caught two upper-level headquarters at the same time.

In the past ten years of dealing with little devils, Liu Zhiliang understands very well: the garrison of the little devil headquarters is the most fierce, and they are not afraid of death. But why is it a mess today?

That's a long way to say.

The commander of the 14th Army, Masaharu Honma, was not only not a qualified senior commander, but he had always been timid as a mouse, and his personal behavior was a mess.

Masaharu Honma is 1.8 meters tall, and on Monkey Island, it already belongs to the "top of the sky" zài. It is called "standing out from the crowd and being personable".

Not only did he hug and sleep with many actresses, but he was also unclear with many actors, so he suffered from white eyes wherever he went.

According to the real historical trend, if it weren't for Masaharu Honma's timidity, MacArthur would not have escaped from Manila at all, but would have been captured in the first shot!

Masaharu Honma was born on November 27, 1887 in Niigata Prefecture and was a lieutenant general in the army. Specialist on British issues, poet general. He crippled MacArthur in the Philippines and was later shot in retaliation by MacArthur.

In 1918, he studied at Oxford University in England and served as a military attache on the Western Front.

On July 15, 1938, the Chinese Cantonment Brigade was reorganized into the 27th Division, and Masaharu Honma succeeded Yamashita Fumimi as the first lieutenant general division commander of the 27th Division.

On January 2, 1940, he became the commander of the Taiwan Army and wrote the famous song of the Taiwan Dispatch Army. At the outbreak of the Pacific War, because of his experience as a staff officer and commander of field troops, he was appointed commander of the 14th Army, subordinate to the Southern Army of Count Terauchi Shouichi, and was responsible for attacking the Philippines.

Because he was unwilling to provoke Western countries without resolving the China incident, he put forward a series of fastidious demands on the work of the staff officers, thus provoking the chief of staff, Sugiyama Moto. If it weren't for the imminent start of war, I would immediately want to remove a coward like him.

At the beginning of the war, he led 2 divisions and 1 brigade to attack the Philippines under naval cover. As soon as the battle began, the 11 Air Fleet of the Navy Tsukahara 243 swept away 600 American aircraft from the Philippines.

After he landed safely, the vanguard broke through the frontal line with a single charge. It was also MacArthur who boasted to the US Congress: "Even if the enemy used 1 million troops, it would be impossible to capture the fortress of Cavite in 100 years." ”

However, at this juncture, Honma Masaharu wanted to see what the legendary Pearl of the South China Sea, that is, Manila, was like, and even gave up chasing MacArthur's rout, and instead ordered the main army to seize the empty city of Manila!

Because MacArthur had already declared to the world: "Manila is an undefended city." ”

At the critical juncture of the decisive battle, Honma Masaharu put the cart before the horse and occupied the empty city, becoming the biggest laughing stock and MacArthur's biggest "benefactor".

The superior air power wasted a lot of opportunity to allow MacArthur to safely retreat 100,000 troops (including 17,000 U.S. troops) to the Bataan Peninsula for defense.

After the capture of Manila, Honma Masaharu still did not organize an offensive because the 48th Division was transferred to Imamura's 16th Army to attack the Dutch East Indies.

He believed that with the remaining 30,000 troops, it would be impossible to conquer the Bataan Peninsula, which was defended by 120,000 men, so he began to grind foreign workers and lead the battle to drag on day by day.

During this period, Honma Masaharu desperately sent a telegram to the General Staff Headquarters, complaining about inaccurate information, chaotic logistics, and increased illness among soldiers. He lacked manpower and should have reinforced his troops rather than diverted them.

The little devil's base camp ignored him, and as a result, Masaharu Honma categorically stopped the attack, allowing MacArthur to escape in a submarine.

For this, the new prime minister and Minister of War of the little devils, the notorious Hideki Tojo, complained: "The imperial army is winning battles everywhere, except for the Philippines." ”

Of course, the war maniac Hideki Tojo absolutely could not tolerate Honma Masaharu's cowardice, so he issued a sternly worded order: "The 14th Army must be independently responsible for the attack on the Bataan Peninsula, and must do its best to achieve the combat objectives, otherwise you will personally report to the Emperor Xià!" ”

It was under these circumstances that Masaharu Honma was forced to relaunch the offensive, and as a result, there was no need for reinforcements at all, and the vanguard of one wing broke the American defenses in less than a week, capturing more than 7.5 people.

It's a pity that MacArthur escaped five days early, which made Hideki Tojo and the entire staff headquarters vomit blood in anger!

What's even more regrettable is that Masaharu Honma let MacArthur live, and the result just confirms that "The Story of the Farmer and the Snake" is definitely a universal axiom!

Two years later, MacArthur counterattacked Luzon, and Honma became a prisoner of war. MacArthur, despite the objections of the presiding judge of the court-martial, shot "the first enemy to defeat himself"! (The second to defeat MacArthur was General Peng, but MacArthur had no way to take revenge.) Bai Shujie knew everything about Masaharu Honma's character, so he decided to take advantage of the fire to rob, or call the fire to take the chestnut. But Liu Zhiliang, the commander at the scene, did not know why the enemy in front of him would make a mess on his own.

However, if the enemy is messed up, it will certainly be more beneficial to you. The commander of the dignified field division, Liu Zhiliang, was the first to stand up and launched a charge against the hundreds of enemies in chaos.

In fact, he can't be blamed, the point is that no one has spare magazines. Since it is called a self-defense assault rifle, it is actually the last thing that those technical soldiers use to fight hard. Therefore, once the stalemate is reached, it will definitely be reversed immediately.

The two helicopters returned after dropping the bombs to reload, and the second batch of two helicopters had not yet arrived. At this interval, Liu Zhiliang, who fought hard from the battlefield, naturally could not allow the situation of winning to lose, and launching a charge became an inevitable choice, because the enemy did not know that he had no spare bullets.

The determination of the battlefield can determine victory or defeat, Liu Zhiliang and their side rushed forward, and the enemy on the opposite side did not know the depth, so they could only desperately retreat.

The headquarters building of the 14th Army has been completely turned into a ruin, and it is impossible to retreat, so the little devil chose the direction of the 65th Brigade Headquarters to the northeast to retreat.

Without the bombs that kept falling from the sky, the little devil was finally driven into the headquarters building of the 65th Brigade, which had been blown into half-ruins.

At this moment, there was a violent gunfire from the northeast, followed by hundreds of little devils being driven over. It turned out that Tao Chengzhou, the commander of the tank regiment, led the second battalion to block the little devil's retreat from the east.

Now that the two little devils have gathered together, there are nearly 700 people, and they have suddenly become big hedgehogs. For tank crews, who did not have heavy weapons and had only 47 rounds of ammunition per person, this was a troublesome moment.

What's worse is that Liu Zhiliang found a lieutenant general and a major general among these enemies, and the major general shouted loudly, and the little devil quickly formed a three-layer defensive front, and the enemy and us formed a stalemate.

Liu Zhiliang did not hesitate: "Hurry up and call for helicopter reinforcements!" Tao Chengzhou, I'm staring at this place, you hurry up to find available vehicles, rush over to seize the airport, and then call the transport plane to send the tank over! As long as a tank comes, these two generals will be Lao Tzu's meal! ”

The second wave of 2 helicopters did not disappoint Liu Zhiliang, and they had already arrived on the battlefield in less than two minutes, and the 4-door and 6-tube dense array bombarded violently, and the peripheral positions of the little ghosts suddenly collapsed, and finally all of them retreated into a small pavilion in the northeast corner of the headquarters.

After more than ten minutes of scuffle, the fighters finally found 3 mortars and 12 grenades from the rubble, and finally had a certain amount of heavy firepower.

Liu Zhiliang was not impulsive, it was not easy to train a tankman, and he was not casually taken out as an infantry call, so he asked the soldiers to stay more than 300 meters away, and then shouted: "12 grenades are all for Lao Tzu to shoot out, press the little devil inside, and wait for the third wave of helicopters to come over to solve the battle." ”

The 2 helicopters, having completed the first round of strikes, returned to the aircraft carrier and returned to the battlefield, no longer high-explosive armor-piercing shells, but napalm.

"The people below disperse!" The helicopter pilot shouted, and then threw four black cylinders at the enemy position.

Liu Zhiliang saw that the napalm was thrown down, this place must not stay, the soldiers all understood what it meant, and they all ran away with a hula.

As the orange-red flames rose, Liu Zhiliang finally had free time to check the situation nearby, and at the same time ordered one company to act as a guard, and the other three companies hurriedly searched the surroundings.

"There's an interpreter in each platoon, and that's where you come into play. Find out as many locals as you can and see what's going on here. Also, hurry up and find out who the two generals killed just now are. ”

Half an hour later, the napalm had burned out, the original small pavilion was gone, and the more than 400 enemies who had participated were now scattered in all directions when the North Sea wind blew -- all of them were burned to ashes.

"Report to the division commander: The two generals we killed earlier have found their officer IDs, which are Lieutenant General Kano Uemura and Major General Zhiying respectively, and we also killed 3 Shaozuo and 1 Dazuo."

Liu Zhiliang had a bad feeling in his heart when he heard this: "No, according to the boss's enemy report, Major General He Zhiying is the chief of staff of the 14th Army, and this Lieutenant General Shangmura doesn't know what he does." Also, the commander of the 14th Army, Lieutenant General Masaharu Honma, and the commander of the 65th Brigade, Major General Akio Yoshida, were not killed? ”

Thinking of this, Liu Zhiliang suddenly became nervous, if the two generals were let go, there would definitely be no way to explain in the future: "Come on, carefully look for the two generals who appeared later." Even if they are burned to death, their epaulettes will definitely be there! ”

After all, what happens next, let's see how it will be broken down next time.