Chapter 4 Breakout??
As soon as the Japanese army changed to normal, only more than 1,000 people were left in the three divisions on three fronts to maintain pressure on the encircled 103rd Division and the 117th Division, and the other troops all moved closer to the 6th Division, looking from a distance, it was as if two open palms suddenly closed in the middle.
Ouyang Yun was worried that Qian Guangming's troops would fall too deep and lose the mobility advantage of the tank force due to the tactics of the crowd of people, so he wanted them to slow down and wait for the main force behind to follow.
Li Hansoul said his thoughts.
Qian Guangming's troops stopped advancing, turned to a defensive posture, and while clearing the positions that had just broken through, they used artillery fire to bombard the Japanese assembly positions not far away to slow down the speed of the Japanese army's assembly.
Ouyang Yun took the walkie-talkie and quickly made this tactical adjustment.
"Ye Zhao, Rao Guohua! You speed up the march, and leave the battlefield cleanup work to Lin Baiyin and them. You must prevent the Japanese army from adopting special attack tactics against the tank troops, remember, as long as our tanks are still there, the little devils will not want to win this battle; You Hongjun, what's the matter with you kid? Didn't you let all the shells run out? Give me a hard blow, just hit the combination of the three divisions; Xue Ming, your original combat mission has been cancelled, and now you immediately go to the artillery division - your mission is to protect the sky above the artillery division at all costs, and the artillery division's shells have not been exhausted, and you are the last one to fight to the extreme, and you are not allowed to withdraw; Yat Shaw, Yat Shaw, received a reply-"
"I'm Xiao Yi, Commander, please speak!"
"Your original task is put aside for the time being, and first give me a knock on the devil officer - as long as you are an officer, you can kill as many as you want!"
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Ouyang Yun passed on one order after another, and the role of advanced electronic technology in modern warfare was fully revealed. With walkie-talkies, an advanced telecommunications tool, the Japanese army will make adjustments, and the Nanjing garrison has already come up with corresponding countermeasures.
If you take a bird's-eye view from the air at this moment, you will find that the yellow flow of people in the form of an inverted figure is flocking to the beginning of the "eight" figure; And the grass green and gray mixed with the flow of people, from a positive figure to a word is spreading.
Once Qian Guangming's tank division took a defensive posture, Ushijima, who was ready to block its advance with his flesh and blood, breathed a sigh of relief and secretly became vigilant. At the risk of being hit by a stray bullet, he straightened up in the makeshift command tunnel, looked behind him, and saw the friendly troops rushing towards him, first stunned, then anxious. He picked up the phone, asked Gu Shoufu, and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency the division commander, the 11th Brigade is moving closer to our department for something, do you want to launch a counterattack?" We don't have anti-tank weapons, and if we attack rashly, we will only ......"
Before he finished speaking, he was cut off by Gu Shoufu's yelling: "Eight grids!" This was the idea of that hillbilly in Mie Prefecture, Ushijima-kun, who had already been authorized by the General Headquarters to serve as the pre-war commander-in-chief, and as an Imperial soldier, I could only do so. You, prepare the death squad! ”
"Your Excellency, the commander, the tanks of the Chinese have stopped attacking, their infantry is being assembled, and with sufficient infantry escort, the effect of the daredevil's tactics is limited. Your Excellency, Division Commander, although I don't want to admit it, but in fact, the tanks of the Chinese people are not something that can be easily destroyed with a few grenades......"
"I know the way - boom!"
There was a sudden violent explosion in the microphone, and then there was a blind sound, and Ushijima was stunned with the microphone in his hand--the division commander would not encounter an accident, right? Thinking like this, he couldn't help but shudder, and then hissed into the microphone: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency ......"
The artillery of the You Hong army began to wield its might. Under his command, nearly a hundred artillery pieces of various types began to violently bombard the junction of the 36 brigade and various divisions. At first, it was an irregular separate battle, and after five minutes, it began to split into two parts, one starting from the junction of the 36th Brigade and the 18th Brigade of the 9th Division, and shelling along an arc towards the junction of the 11th Brigade and the 6th Brigade of the 9th Division; One blasted past the junction of the 36th Brigade and the 18th Division, and also walked in depth along an arc - in the thunderous explosion, the Japanese position was in shambles, and many individual bunkers that had just been dug up were destroyed; In the midst of the flying artillery fire, the infantry array formed by the Japanese army in large groups was blown to pieces, and the formation fell into extreme chaos for a time.
Tani was almost killed in the first round of shelling, and if it weren't for the guards around him who saw the opportunity quickly and threw him down and pressed him with his body, he would have gone to see Amaterasu at this moment. Even so, the old devil was also shocked, sitting on the blood-stained ground, he looked at the two guards next to him who had broken limbs, and suddenly scolded angrily: "Tsukada attacked this bastard, I said that there must be artillery with the army, but he said that for the sake of speed, you can delay for a while." This idiot, now it's okay, without artillery suppression, we can only watch the artillery fire of the Chi people raging?! After a pause, he shouted to a staff officer who wanted to help him up: "Bage, leave me alone, call for aviation support, we must destroy the artillery of the people of China as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to fight at all!" ”
The staff officer hurried to send the report tremblingly. Gu Shoufu sat on the ground for a while, making sure that the artillery fire had left him, then he stood up, glanced at the frightened devils around him, and the devils who were advancing with their waists bent forward, his heart became more and more uncomfortable, and he really couldn't figure out why the encirclement and annihilation battle that obviously took the initiative would become the current kind of nest battle.
Gu Shoufu's old devil was holding his breath, and on the other side, Yoshizu Ryosuke felt uncomfortable. In his opinion, concentrating forces to take down the tank division of the Cadet Army first is absolutely a superior policy and a must. However, who knew that Ouyang Yun still had a hidden hand, and he still had such a large number of artillery and such a large number of shells.
Undoubtedly, the invasion of superior artillery fire is the most demoralizing blow to the enemy. It is not yet certain how many results have been achieved by the artillery bombardment of the You Hongjun at any cost, but in a certain respect, the expected results have already been obtained.
The assembly speed of the Japanese army was delayed, and all units of the garrison took this opportunity to enter the designated battlefield one after another, and began to prepare for battle according to Ouyang Yun's arrangement.
Twenty minutes later, the sound of artillery was still rumbling, but after taking the Japanese by surprise, the results of the continuous artillery bombardment were limited. With the roar of the aircraft engine from the southeast, Ouyang Yun gave an order and asked the artillery division to extend the artillery fire in depth, and then issued an order to attack.
In Ouyang Yun's vision, this battle was not only to rescue the besieged 103rd Division and 117th Division, but also to take advantage of the situation to complete the breakthrough. At that time, as long as a certain number of troops are left to hinder the Japanese attack, the main force will be able to get rid of the entanglement of the Japanese army and safely withdraw to Xuzhou. However, the Japanese army suddenly changed its formation and put on a posture of decisive battle, wanting to use the tactics of crowds to drown the tank division, he did not dare to gamble. In Ouyang Yun's plan, whether it is an artillery division or a tank division, it will definitely be abandoned in the end. This is a helpless thing, there is no air supremacy, and only a part of the troops can be sacrificed in exchange for the safe withdrawal of the main forces. He also wanted to sacrifice ordinary infantry, but unfortunately, the tank division and artillery division were too conspicuous and would definitely become the priority targets of the Japanese airfront, so it was basically impossible to bring them back safely. Of course, before the breakthrough, the tank division could not afford to lose. Ouyang Yun is still counting on it to cut through the Japanese defense line, with the tank division as the pioneer, how many soldiers will have to be sacrificed! This was the main reason why he had to temporarily change his tactics after noticing the Japanese army's movements.
The battle has started until now, and it has been more than half an hour before the Japanese planes have come to the battlefield again, and this time span has already made Ouyang Yun very satisfied. Because in this half an hour, the artillery division, which was supposed to be bombed as soon as it appeared, knocked out almost four-fifths of its artillery shell reserves, annihilated no less than 2,000 devils, and provided an opportunity for the main force to infiltrate the middle of the Japanese array.
And as long as it can be entangled with the Japanese army, the air superiority of the Japanese army will be completely limited. Only in this way can the garrison survive this round of air raids and get a chance to break through.
The "Dudu ......" charge horn sounded, and the tank division rushed to the Japanese position in the lead. The 10th and 145th divisions rushed out after them. In the next second, troops from other directions also rushed out. For a moment, a thunderous shout of killing sounded on the battlefield.
At the same time, the Japanese counteroffensive was finally completed.
However, those squad leaders and squadron leaders who were majestic and raised their command knives or pistols and shouted "attack" at every turn were immediately frantically sniped by special forces from the Broadsword Regiment.
When the Broadsword Regiment received Ouyang Yun's latest instructions, the part of the soldiers led by Xiao Yi had already lurked in a cornfield in the southwest corner of Da'an that was less than 200 meters away from the position of the 9th Division. Their mission was originally to behead devil officers above the rank of brigade commander, and by the way, assassinate those traitors who took refuge in devils and served as interpreters or guides. After being asked to temporarily snipe the middle and low-level commanders of the devils, he divided his men into five groups and spread out like a net.
Before this, Xiao Yi and the others wanted to name some devil officers, but these guys shrunk their heads like turtles and never showed their faces, and now that the attack has begun, they finally have a chance.
Those who can become qualified special forces of the Wolf Tooth Special Operations Brigade are at least snipers at the base level. Nearly a hundred snipers of this level suddenly targeted those devil officers, and their lethality can be imagined.
The Japanese offensive had just begun, and the officers who rushed to the front were some officers at the level of squad leader and squadron leader. The captain of the squad was this kind of good, and Xiao Yi originally disdained to kill him. However, those officers at the level of group commander, wing commander, and brigade commander were very well hidden. After Xiao Yi weighed it, he felt that no matter how small the mosquito was, it was meat, and after these front-line officers were killed, it could cause panic among the devil soldiers even more, so he took the lead in shooting and killing a squad leader who was more noisy.
As soon as he opened the market, others followed suit, so a terrifying scene appeared, the squad leader and squadron leader of the 9th Division who rushed to the front line were sniped to death more than a dozen in just five minutes, which immediately caused panic among the first-line devils.
The offensive momentum of the 9th Division was immediately contained.