Chapter 542: The Prototype of the Blitzkrieg

Dong Ku, who followed the team to charge, also forgot that blitzkrieg, which is the cooperation of tanks, trucks, motorcycles and airplanes, is the fastest way to attack nowadays, not only so that the opponent does not have time to build a solid defense line, but also makes the opponent's temporary defense line useless, especially in street fighting, under this kind of raid, it is impossible to give full play to the advantages of the defenders, and it is impossible to achieve the purpose of strangling the enemy in the city relying on buildings.

The Japanese army, which was not a Soviet Russian, had a strong military source, and used human flesh to block and consume the enemy's life, Tsukada attacked because Dong Ku's attack was too fast, he didn't even have time to deploy carefully, and the outer defense line did not even give him a minimum time to resist, and many troops were annihilated by the enemy's devastating artillery fire before they entered the city.

And Qu Jungang and Yu Lei just used this tactic, and let it form a combat effectiveness, although the way is artillery, but the effect is not inferior to the tank, in the attack, self-propelled artillery is much better than the tank, at least, the tank can not achieve the effect of effective shooting, can not achieve the purpose of destroying the position, strangling the Japanese army in the bunker.

Street fighting, no less effective. The self-propelled artillery cleared the way, crushed the frontal blocking bunkers, and blocked the frontal attack. The truck that acted as an armored car had fierce firepower, although the protection was a little worse, it was better than the fire of the anti-aircraft machine guns, the improvised bunker could not stop it at all, the sandbags were torn apart in just a few breaths, and the Japanese troops behind were killed without even having a chance to escape.

Tsukada himself approached the street and saw the majestic posture of the self-propelled artillery in the rain of bullets, and he lamented that the Imperial tanks were too weak and were scumbags compared to this new tank.

"Blow it up with dynamite!!"

He ordered fiercely.

The Japanese army, at this time, was also crazy, and the streets were completely annihilated by trucks in less than twenty minutes, unable to withstand the self-propelled artillery. trucks, they are even more difficult to pose a threat on the side, and the mortars on the rack bombarded the self-propelled artillery except for the fire, but could not stop the pace of progress at all.

After receiving the order, the Japanese army dared to die one by one, holding explosives bags. Fearlessly rushed to the self-propelled guns without fire cover.

The self-propelled artillery has no defensive ability, but the truck that follows behind has the strength to strangle and cover, and at the moment when the Japanese army launched a suicidal charge, the muzzle of the gun on the truck was condescending, strafing all the figures in front of the self-propelled artillery.

Everywhere the bullets rained, pieces of Japanese soldiers were torn apart, and the blood mist blocked the lights in the fiery night sky. Let the streets feel like a thick fog.

But even so, the truck could not block all the attacks. The Japanese troops rushed forward one after another, holding explosive bags, howling, and rushing at the self-propelled artillery in the rain of bullets, and a loud roar followed, and seven of the 30 self-propelled guns that entered the city were blown up in less than 10 minutes, and also blocked part of the way forward.

"Block the streets!!"

Qu Jungang and Yu Lei gave this order almost at the same time. Trucks that had completely rushed into the city quickly blocked the streets in sections, and the fighters leaned on the trucks. Fierce street fighting began.

At this time, there were not even half of the Japanese troops in the city, and in the hour of merciless killing, most of them were killed by anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns, and countless Japanese soldiers died on the way to blow up their self-propelled artillery.

The darkness of the night did not stop the killing. On the contrary, because of the fiery red sky, it makes the killing more pleasant.

The Japanese army's counterattack was completely crushed in the rapid adjustment strategy of Qu Jungang and Yu Lei. Originally, the Japanese army was looking for fighters during the advance army movement, and it can be said that they could not prevent it, and from time to time grenades were thrown into large boxes of trucks. From time to time, bullets flew out and hit the soldiers on the trucks, but this defense, after the offensive and defensive transposition, became a Japanese attack, and the advance army defended.

In the face of the fierce firepower of the advance army, the Japanese offensive looked so weak, not to mention rushing through the front blocked by the trucks, even if they hit the houses on the side, they were not capable, under the strafing of AK, under the semi-automatic sniping, they were killed by the advance team in a very short time, whether they were charging or rising.

"Check the amount of ammo!"

In the fierce battle, Qu Jungang shouted loudly.

"Control the tempo! Shoot accurately!! ”

Yu Lei was shouting at the same time.

In the battle of life and death, the madness of the Japanese army can be imagined, at the moment when the advance army was defending the street, the Japanese army quickly gathered, all the means were used, and launched a wave of attacks on the advance army.

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Qu Jun barely let go as soon as he pulled the trigger, and at the moment he saw the Japanese mortars raging on the streets, he shouted loudly: "Take the building in front of me and open fire!" ”

The self-propelled artillery on the edge obeyed the order, the muzzle of the gun was not raised, and at the moment when several artillery soldiers rushed up to reload, they only turned their bodies slightly, and then, with a loud bang, a flame flew to a four-story building about a kilometer away, and then the flames rose into the sky. In the loud noise, the bricks and stones flew all over the sky, the smoke and dust were filled, the small building was collapsed by a cannon, and several mortars on the roof of the building were also lifted into the air, and the hundreds of Japanese soldiers inside were either killed or buried alive in this cannon, and there was no one left.

Such a heavy shelling made the nearby Japanese troops gasp, but they also understood that this was not a tank but an artillery, just an artillery that could walk on its own. With that, the message flew into the sky.

Almost at the same time, Gu Zhutong also flew out of the telegram, and they were carrying field observers from certain countries, and after learning the news that the advance army had new weapons on the battlefield, Zhang Zizhong stopped his movements, and they did not order Gu Zhutong to stop, in order to obtain information on the weapons and combat effectiveness of the advance army.

After receiving this information, Britain, the United States, and other countries were shocked by this tactics of the advance army and the power of artillery on the battlefield. Such a large battlefield, placed in any of their troops, could not be attacked to the center in just one night, and even if they attacked with all their strength and had an absolute superiority in troops, it would be impossible to advance hundreds of kilometers in just one night and encircle them.

The trucks with anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns made them think of armored vehicles, but they did not think about what effect these self-propelled guns would be if they were converted into tanks.

They are all misled by the kind of anti-tank weapons that the advance army now has, believing that tanks can hardly play an equal role in the war and artillery. But it really made them realize that this is definitely the dominance of the war.

Without these movable artillery, without long-range artillery bombardment erected in the rear, it would take at least a couple of hours, or even a day or two, for the advance army to break through every position, or where would it be so fast?

But Germany doesn't see it that way. Germany also sent war correspondents to Gu Zhutong's troops, and felt the combat effectiveness of the advance army at close range, and they believed that this tactic would make the attack sharper for this kind of artillery that can walk on its own and the tactics of anti-aircraft machine guns and heavy machine guns on truck racks. Their Tiger Leopard type, the existing iron fist, including 75 caliber armor-piercing shells are useless, so. I want to use the tank as a combination to be more determined.

In the coming months, they will work more on this to perfect this tactic.

Pressing these unknown trivialities aside, Dong Ku Zaiqu Jungang and Yu Lei's troops had already fought with the Japanese army in the city, and completely controlled the entire circle of city defense, only when they were about to destroy the stubborn Japanese troops in the city, the speed of the troops' surprise attack reached the fastest.

The fighters rushed forward with the artillery fire almost under the pressure of the minimum distance of their own artillery fire. Those positions along the way did not care to be carefully cleared. Straight to Xu Shou.

Before dawn, the troops rushed into Xuzhou, and a fierce battle ensued in the city.

The influx of soldiers with the Japanese army several times turned the already overwhelmed street fighting into a one-sided one-sided, and Qu Jungang and Yu Lei firmly nailed some main streets. It also made the Japanese army fragmented and fought separately.

At the same time, after a night of fierce fighting, Gu Zhutong also took Suzhou and wiped out all the Japanese troops. Here in Xuzhou, the artillery fire became weaker, and at the same time, an attack was launched to the flank.

When the battle rhythm of Xuzhou was in the hands of the advance army, Tsukada had already known that the general trend of the road was gone, and when the headquarters was attacked, he ordered to send the last telegram to the headquarters, asking the headquarters to give up reinforcements to Xuzhou, and then burned the documents, personally held the gun, and joined the defensive battle of the headquarters.

Xuzhou, at the moment of the influx of the army, the separated Japanese army could not stop the killing of the advance army, in just less than an hour of killing, most of the Japanese army was wiped out, only the headquarters of this four-story cement structure building was still in the hands of the Japanese army.

There are large groups of Japanese troops gathered here, and they are struggling the hardest.

After receiving the hopeless telegram from Xuzhou, the base camp ordered Nakajima to withdraw to Shangqiu and give up reinforcements.

Nakajima fought fiercely for several hours, but he could not break through the defensive line left by the Qu army, there, a division withstood the frantic attack of two divisions and two other brigades of the Japanese army, the formation had been disabled, and when the reinforcements came up, one regiment after another was gone, if it weren't for the artillery still there, and there were enough shells, it was only a matter of time before they were broken through the defensive line.

Nakajima received a telegram order, knowing that he could not do anything, and he was unwilling to be defeated, so he ordered the troops to withdraw on all fronts and retreat to Shangqiu.

There is still Taierzhuang on the battlefield of Xuzhou, and there are Japanese troops on the west side, Dong Ku did not order the pursuit of the fleeing Japanese army at the moment of entering the city, and the troops should rest after taking Taierzhuang, and the soldiers were no longer able to fight.

The battle in Xuzhou ended in a field of grenades flying, Tsukada was blown up, leaving only the family heirloom sword, his command knife was intact, the corpse, except for the rank, the head was smashed by steel balls, and it was no longer visible.

Dong Ku didn't know who the general of Lu Dao was, but the general's sword was real. He knew very well that after the Japanese army joined the army, during the emergency recruitment period, in addition to binoculars and guns, the command knife and other items were all provided by himself, so he did not let go of the command knife on the battlefield. Most of these are family heirloom katanas, and the quality is superb, which is used by soldiers on the battlefield and kept as a souvenir, and will be treasure-level for future generations.

At the end of the battle in Xuzhou, the troops did not rest, and while the work of cleaning up the battlefield was quickly launched, the attack on Zaozhuang also broke through the city defense, and in the dawn, street battles were launched.

Taierzhuang is also under the continuous bombardment of artillery fire, only the city defense is still in hand, and the breakthrough is a matter of hours.

Dong Ku, Zuo Boyang, Sun Tao and others looked at most of the maps snatched out of the fire when the gunfire was sparse in Xuzhou, and studied the next marching route. They are going to eat the Japanese army in Hebei in one fell swoop, where there are more than 150,000, or even more. Especially Okamura Ningci, who attacked Shanxi, he had four divisions and nearly 100,000 people in his hands, and this was not the enemy of Shangqiu, in Dong Ku's opinion, Shangqiu was already within the scope of elimination.

"Order Yu Ke to speed up the attack, end the battle in the morning, clean up the battlefield, rest for a day, and tomorrow the troops will be deployed!"

Sun Tao ordered after the end of the discussion.

The reason why Yu Ke's troops were not in a hurry to attack was that when the battle of Xuzhou ended, they received the order, and the artillery of Shubomen fired in unison, and in just half an hour, they flattened the defense built by Lao Jiang in Taierzhuang, and the city defense system added by the Japanese army, so that all the Japanese troops in the trenches and cement bunkers died under the effective fire, and the position was also razed to the ground by fierce artillery fire.

Subsequently, the troops rushed into Taierzhuang in the dust, and launched the most fierce battle with the stubborn Japanese troops inside.

Lao Zhao, at the same time as the Linyi army evacuated and Taierzhuang was attacked, he had occupied all the main areas of Zaozhuang, so he loved you to divide the Japanese army into pieces, and then, the grenades flew up like raindrops, and the most strangulation was launched.

Their strength was far greater than that of the enemy in Zaozhuang, and in the crowd of people, in the continuous explosion, in just half an hour, the battle of Zaozhuang ended.

He didn't stay too long, and ordered two divisions to defend here, clean up the battlefield, and the troops, and drive towards Taierzhuang.

Before he could reach Taierzhuang, the battle at Taierzhuang was over, and his four divisions were stacked on Yu Ke's two divisions, and in less than an hour, they wiped out less than one division of Japanese troops in the city.

Dong Ku, when the sun was passing through the smoke of gunpowder, he ordered Yu Lei to send some of the guns and ammunition that had just been cleaned to Gu Zhutong, and at the same time, he wanted to get off all the trucks captured by Gu Zhutong, and Lao Zhao was the same, just those trucks with heavy artillery, almost all the vehicles were concentrated.

Just when Dong Ku was busy preparing for the northward advance, the battlefield changed.

Gu Zhutong's troops stopped the attack in less than half an hour after the Japanese army on the west side was captured, and when they received Yu Lei's weapons and equipment, they gave the truck to Yu Lei very cooperatively, but the troops began to assemble.

When this news reached Dong Ku, he keenly felt that Lao Jiang seemed to be about to stop attacking.

He was right in his judgment, after receiving the information that the artillery of the advance army was mighty, the British and the United States ordered Lao Chiang to stop Gu Zhutong's fighting pace, rest in place, and wait for them to negotiate and settle the dispute.

Lao Jiang had already received enough benefits, so he ordered Gu Zhutong to stop attacking the few Japanese troops on the west side, rest in place, and stop the detour to Shangqiu.

Zuo Boyang looked at the telegram sent by Yu Lei, shook his head and said: "It seems that this ally is unreliable, which makes the Japanese troops on the west side and Shangqiu in danger of escaping......" (To be continued......