Hengyang.

Five horses return to the trough position.

The land lives up to its name.

Judging from the name of the place, the terrain here looks like five horses pulling a carriage back, hence the name.

Of course, this is not important.

The important thing is that the Wuma Gui Trough is located on a flat and wide field of vision, which was originally the mountain artillery position of the devils, responsible for supporting the troops attacking Hengyang, but since the devils stopped attacking, the troops of Hengyang launched a counterattack, and after several weeks of tug-of-war, they were finally recaptured by the Tenth Army, not to be precise, by the independent regiment.

At this time, this is the garrison of the defenders of Hengyang, and the opposite hill is the defensive position of the devils, where two brigades are stationed, arranged with a ring fortification group, a machine gun fortress, and a deep trench.

The so-called hill is actually a low mountain.

Although the defenders of Hengyang were normal during the offensive, the maximum caliber of the artillery was only 105 mm howitzers and 120 heavy mortars, only in emergency times or during the period when it was necessary to break through key positions, the regimental artillery fire was only 82 mortars, and it was rarely equipped with recoilless guns.

This normality refers to the normality relative to the defensive period.

It's still brutal.

Therefore, the two brigades of devils defending on the opposite side were very nervous, for fear that the opposing troops would attack.

Experience has proved again and again that before every attack on the opposite side, there are overwhelming shells falling, even hiding in the anti-artillery hole cannot guarantee absolute safety, and the devil is naturally nervous to death.

For this reason, the devils on the opposite side of the Wuma Gui Trough vigorously dug their positions, and the anti-artillery holes were dug very deep and deep, enough to resist the direct fire of several 105 barreled shells. As for the 120 mortar, although it is more powerful, the mortar has poor initial velocity, poor penetration, and damage to the position, which is worse than the 105 barrel gun.

As for the bombshell of the plane, if this thing hits directly, there is no solution at all, and the three-meter sound civil engineering position is also in vain, so the devil is generally asking for more blessings for the plane.

"Tada-kun, it's up to you to guard today."

As soon as the morning dawned, on the battlefield, the captain of the devil squadron assigned a devil squadron leader to lead people to guard.

The enemy's artillery fire is too heavy, so it is important to give early warning.

Aircraft can detect with the naked eye, and with a keen eye, they can also detect the enemy's artillery observation posts, and mortars can hear sound warnings in advance due to their low speed and curvilinear trajectory, which are far below the speed of sound.

As for the 105 howitzer, there is no way about this, the howitzer is too fast.

Even if it is only a few seconds in advance, casualties can be greatly avoided, after all, it is impossible for troops to hide in anti-artillery holes anytime and anywhere.

For this reason, the devil usually sends a squadron leader to supervise the vigilance.

"Hey."

The leader of this devil squadron took a few devils to the top of a nearby mountain, raised his binoculars, and stared at the five horses on the opposite side.

The time was until ten o'clock in the morning, and a new devil squadron leader came to change shifts, and the Hengyang defenders on the five-horse return trough did not make any movement, which made the devil breathe a sigh of relief.

This time has not yet launched an attack, which means that today can be spent safely.

"It should be safe today."

The voice of the devil squadron leader who changed shifts has not yet dissipated.

Suddenly!

Boom Boom...

A violent explosion rose from the devil's position in the hill, and the explosion fireballs were everywhere, and the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the debris of the earth was dispersed with the shock wave.

Boom Boom...

The shells continued to fall, and the smoke was still filling.

The guard post was far away from the position and was not affected by the shelling, and at first the devils were very happy and hurriedly sent the news to the rear, but these devils soon knew that this was not a good thing.

Sensing the beginning of the shelling, they did not panic.

This is a common thing.

Moreover, there is only one squadron on duty on the position, and all of them are located near the anti-artillery holes, and they can quickly enter the anti-artillery holes, which is the experience summed up in the battles again and again.

But when it was very open, they realized that something was wrong.

"How many guns are these?"

At first, the first thing they realized was that the number of shelling was wrong.

There are too many, it feels like there are a hundred of them, and all of them are barrel guns, the sound of mortars and body barrel guns and the explosion scene are completely different, and if there are more bombs, you can clearly distinguish them.

"This is the new large-caliber heavy artillery."

Immediately afterwards, watching the positions that could withstand the 105 howitzers being overturned, and even the anti-artillery holes were destroyed, the devils realized that the enemy in Hengyang had a larger caliber artillery.

And a lot.

"The enemy has a large number of heavy artillery, tell the wing commander the news."

The squadron leader on the position hurriedly sent a communications corpsman.

The shelling of the devil's position did not last long, and after just ten minutes, the artillery fire began to extend backwards, and several devils on the sentry post were about to take advantage of this opportunity to run away.

"Look, squadron leader, what's that?"

The last devil soldier subconsciously glanced back, and then howled in horror.

The devils looked back, and suddenly their faces turned pale.

I saw hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles rushing towards them at a rapid pace on the five-horse return position in the distance, and the low hill was like nothing under the tank tracks, and they easily boarded the devil's position that had been completely destroyed.

"Tank..."

The leader of the devil squadron looked at the armored cluster in front of him, his face was pale, and his tone was desperate.

The tanks in front of them were very fast, and the platoon was also very open, and even they were shrouded, and they had no way to escape.

·····

"Nani?"

"A large number of large-caliber heavy artillery?"

"At least three hundred large-caliber heavy guns?"

Outside Hengyang, in the devil's command room, Yokoyama Yong looked at the information reported from the front line in disbelief, he glared at the staff officer who summarized the information, and his tone was full of disbelief:

"Are you sure?"

Large-caliber heavy artillery.

The heavy artillery that can destroy the current locust position system is at least comparable to the power of the Imperial 150 heavy towed guns, and this kind of artillery shells weigh thirty kilograms. Even if the enemy's artillery is very advanced, it needs at least 120 or more, that is, 125 guns like the independent regiment.

Is it possible that this kind of artillery appeared in Hengyang?

"I've checked it over and over again."

The staff officer of the report smiled bitterly:

"Wuma Gui Trough, Lion Rock, and Zuo Hankou were all attacked by more than 100 large-caliber heavy artillery, and the troops suffered heavy losses."

These three positions are the three main positions holding Hengyang.

"How is this possible?"

Looking at the expression of the staff officer, Yokoyama Yong still didn't believe it, the 125 heavy artillery weighed at least three or four tons, reminding the huge that it was impossible to reach Hengyang by air, but he still decided to go to the front line to see it in person.

But at this time, the bell rang, and the phone in the headquarters rang again.

"Eighty-Nine Wing call!"

The staff officer picked it up and reported quickly.

The eighty-ninth wing, the veteran wing, has strong combat effectiveness, and is deployed in the small tuozi mountain behind the five-horse return trough... With the deployment of troops in his mind, Yokoyama grabbed the phone and suddenly heard the voice of the captain of the 89th Wing.

With a crying voice:

"General, a large number of enemy tanks have appeared on the front line, at least a hundred, and the positions of our wing have been broken through."

The terrain around Hengyang City is flat, which is very suitable for the march of armored troops, and in the face of the elite armored troops of the independent regiment advancing at high speed, the position of the Devil Infantry Wing was pierced by barrels in just ten minutes.

"Tanks?"

Yokoyama rushed out of the command room and rode to a high place to look through a telescope.

Following the extension of the telescope, because of the obstruction of the field of vision, although Yokoyama did not see the tank, he also saw the dense falling shells, which seemed to have some kind of regularity, and his eyes suddenly froze.

Barrage Xu Jin.

An artillery tactic in which the artillery group gathers the mortar, and the dense barrage extends to the depth of the enemy's defense one by one, has very high requirements for the gunners, and the barrage in front of him is completely textbook-level, and only the most elite artillery can complete it.

This kind of artillery, even in the division regiment, is not much.

After two months of fighting, Yokoyama knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for Hengyang's artillery to complete this tactic.

Moreover, these shells are indeed powerful only in heavy artillery.

At first glance, the real veteran elite troops of the Independent Regiment, the 1st Artillery Battalion, the 2nd Artillery Battalion, and the 3rd Artillery Battalion, etc., let Yokoyama Yong see the true strength of the Independent Regiment.

Followed by

A tank crossed a low hill and appeared in Yokoyama's field of vision, the second, the third······ Tenth Amount··· Next to the tank, there are also a large number of fledgling devil soldiers.

Some of these elite locust warriors were killed by tank coaxial machine guns, some were killed by armored vehicles behind the tank, and some were even directly crushed to death by tracks.

"It can't be."

Isamu Yokoyama howled hysterically.

If 125 heavy guns, it is also possible to be transported by transport aircraft, after all, the total weight of such guns does not exceed five tons, but tanks, by no means, it is impossible to think about it.

A tank of more than twenty-five tons, is it something that a small transport machine can transport?

Unbelievable and incomprehensible things happened, coupled with the first glance of seeing the tank group, he knew that Hengyang no longer had any chance of winning, Yokoyama Yong directly had a nervous breakdown, and there was red blood spilling from the corners of his mouth, and his face was also pale.

"Division Commander..."

With the exclamations of the devils, Isamu Yokoyama fell.

Even though Isamu Yokoyama had experienced countless winds and rains along the way, he couldn't accept the situation in front of him in the end, and he fell into a deep coma directly, and he couldn't wake up.

And after Isamu Yokoyama fell, the communication devils around him continued to receive front-line battle reports:

"The 89th Wing has been dispersed, and the Wing Commander has led people to launch a decisive counterattack····· The co-captain has been shattered."

"The position of the 97th Division is under attack... The position was breached, the troops were divided and surrounded by enemy armored forces, and tactical guidance was requested..."

"The artillery wing has been attacked... The artillery was all destroyed."

"The 27th Independent Brigade encountered... Tactical guidance for intercession."

Although the chief of staff was in charge of the command urgently, in the face of a total rout, he was weak and lost contact with most of the troops, because he was anxious, he even forgot to report to his superiors, and it was not until the evening that he remembered to report to his superiors, so he hurriedly reported to Shunroku Hatata.

Shunroku Hatata, who received the news, hurriedly sent the situation to the mainland.

·····

Tokyo time, half past seven in the evening.

Devil's Palace.

"The 11th Army of Hengyang encountered a surprise attack by the enemy's armored forces, the troops suffered heavy casualties, the troops around Hengyang were scattered, most of the troops lost contact, and General Yokoyama fell into a coma."

Hearing Hengyang's information, the locust almost fell, while Tojo sat directly on the ground.

The two knew.

Big trouble.

There are more than 200,000 locust troops around Hengyang, and there are 400,000 locust troops in Changheng area.

Tojo was well aware that his prime minister was finished, and so was his power.

"Go and ask Mitsumasa Yoneuchi."

The locust waved his hand directly with a pale face, ignoring Tojo, and asked the former prime minister, Mitsumasa Yonechi, to be invited.

He was originally going to let Koiso Kuniaki take the position, but this person was not capable, and the current situation in the empire was in crisis, and Tojo was left with a big mess, and finally chose a more capable person to be the prime minister.

What is not clear to the two is.

The 100 bombers led by Huang Quan were only 150 kilometers away from Tokyo.

As for Europe.

Because the distance is more than 6,000 kilometers, coupled with the slow speed of the old six-engine bombers, more than 800 bombers are still over the Atlantic Ocean at this time.