Chapter 472: The Point of the Needle Against the Wheat Awn
The commander of the third wave of fifty special attack aircraft of the Yamato Spirits is a major named Koyu Yamakawa. Of course, Yamakawa carries out the orders from the supreme commander without any conditions, and he only leads the seventy-three aircraft of this group. The Fifty Special Attack aircraft completed its turn and flew towards the unknown position. The relevant information was detected by the frontline radar station of the Third Expeditionary Group Army behind Malan, and was immediately sent to Dai Anlan's ears.
"The bastard is here after all." Dai Anlan exhaled and shouted after hearing this information.
Although Koizumi Minichiro has been vigorously developing tank technology since he came to power in Southeast Asia, due to the backwardness of material technology, he has never been able to create a tank that can compete with the Chinese Mandrill. Originally, the German Panther and Elephant tank destroyers Cars and tanks can resist China's mandrills. However, with the death of Hitler, Germany fell into a civil war between the Nazi Party and the Wehrmacht. It was no longer possible for Japan to obtain relevant technologies or finished products from Germany. Therefore, with no skills, Koizumi Toshiichiro could only Once again, I placed my hope on the 50th Special Attack Aircraft.
The Japanese army may regroup at any time, so the attack must not be stopped before rendezvousing with the defenders of the unknown position. Dai Anlan asked on the command channel: "The smoke generating agent has been used up. Each company will count and report it."
“Use all in one company.” “Use all in three companies.”…
All the answers were basically used up. Dai Anlan's brows furrowed even more tightly. While he ordered the attack not to stop, he called out to the medium tank group and armored fighting vehicle group behind him, asking them to catch up immediately and do their best. Air defense preparations.
Whether it is the Mandrill or other types of Jiguang medium tanks, they all have certain air defense capabilities. However, for monsters like the Fifty Special Attack Aircraft, even professional large-caliber anti-aircraft guns can't do anything with them. It is hoped that general machine guns can be used to beat them down. In comparison, some tanks in the armored forces that are equipped with equipment that is biased toward air defense are more powerful.
At this time, Dai Anlan and the others were only the last line of defense of the Japanese army away from the unknown position of Kim Jong He and the others. According to the previous advance speed, they could definitely penetrate it in twenty minutes. Of course, because this was the last line of defense of the Japanese Southern Front. Hyakutake Haruyoshi will definitely order his subordinates to defend to the death. This time may be extended a lot. According to the information provided by the frontline radar station, the Japanese army's 50 special attack aircraft troops will arrive on the battlefield in ten minutes. In other words, Dai Anlan and the others must at least be there. The Japanese army held out for more than ten minutes under the attack of fifty special attack aircraft.
Because we no longer have aviation units to support the operation, Dai Anlan thought about it carefully and thought, "It's really impossible, we can only consume the armored units." Using armored units to cover the rear wing of the Mandrill cluster, the Japanese 50 special attack aircraft will not be able to do anything unscrupulous They launched an attack on the mandrill cluster, but as long as it lasted ten minutes and successfully reunited, the attack by the Japanese 50 special attack planes was meaningless.
The engineering troops of the Third Expeditionary Army are extremely efficient. Of course, their high operating efficiency is largely due to their complete equipment. Equipped with excavators, bridge-building machines, tractors and other professional equipment, After arriving at the anti-tank trench, it only took an engineering battalion about ten minutes to successfully build five strong temporary steel bridges. With these five temporary steel bridges, Dai Anlan's successor troops quickly He caught up with the mandrill swarm and wiped out a large number of Japanese troops along the way.
The mandrill group was personally commanded by Dai Anlan, the commander of the medium tank group was a colonel named Shang Haichun, and the commander of the armored vehicle group was named Liu Dasheng, who was also a colonel.
Dai Anlan quickly contacted Liu Dasheng, and he said in the chat: "'Great Sage', the next step is up to you."
Liu Dasheng was tall and thin, and because of his lively personality, he was nicknamed the "Great Sage".
"Military seat, your orders."
"The little devil has dispatched dozens of fifty special attack aircraft. I leave the prevention and control tasks to you."
"Ah, no problem."
"Use your anti-aircraft company and those ten Sunset Bows well, it will be enough for us to completely disperse the little Japs."
"yes."
The "Sunset Bow" multi-purpose armored vehicle is equipped with two twin 30mm-caliber rapid-fire cannons, so it has considerable air defense capabilities. In previous battles, its pre-installed version shot down three in an air defense battle. The impressive record of enemy aircraft.
On the unnamed position, starting from the strong attack launched by Dai Anlan's troops, Zheng Dongguo, commander of the Sixth Army, the supreme commander of the defenders, organized his troops to carry out several counterattacks.
It was not easy to hold on to the unknown position. In the absence of artillery, the Japanese army's continuous bombardment was a roll call from hell for the defenders. Zheng Dongguo led two infantry divisions to airdrop into the unknown position, plus more than a thousand people from Kim Jong-hwa's brigade. So far, of the more than 5,000 casualties, two-thirds of them were caused by Japanese artillery fire.
Precisely because they were severely tortured by the Japanese artillery units, the most important thing the Chinese defenders doing during this period of time to hold on to the unknown positions was to strengthen their positions and then strengthen their positions.
The Chinese defenders repeatedly reinforced their positions, which naturally made the Japanese attack more difficult. Hyakutake Haruyoshi was not a vegetarian. When repeated attacks failed and the troops suffered heavy losses, he simply ordered The men laid mines in the northeast and two directions of the unknown position, turning the approximately 1,500 meters wide area in the northeast and two directions of the unknown position into a minefield, leaving only the southwest and southwest directions for attack.
Hyakutake Haruyoshi did this out of necessity at first, just because the National Independence Army under his command was too weak in combat effectiveness, but now it seems that this has become a way for them to protect the Chinese defenders headed by Zheng Dongguo. For example, now, Without these two minefields, Hyakutake Harukichi could have gathered his forces to launch a fierce attack on the Chinese defenders of the unknown position from four directions with the idea of fighting to the death. However, there were two minefields blocking the way, even though he still had some weapons in his hands. However, due to the limited space, the large number of fresh troops were defeated by the defenders' counterattacks one after another, and they could only parry.
The Southern Front's discomfiture has a lot to do with the complete destruction of the heavy artillery regiment. Even though the National Independence Army was injected with stimulants, its combat effectiveness was still low. It could only serve as cannon fodder but not as the main force, so it usually encountered this kind of situation. Under such circumstances, Hyakutake Haruyoshi would definitely give Wada Naruzawa an order without hesitation, telling him to hit him with a barrage of artillery fire regardless of the situation. But now, the destruction of the heavy artillery regiment has reminded him that the Chinese artillery The troops had already moved forward. At this time, he did not dare to let the few artillery troops under his command take any more risks.
"Yamato Soul, now we can only count on Yamato Soul." From the front finger five kilometers away from the south of the unknown position, Hyakutake Haruyoshi watched the fifty special attack aircraft flying closer and closer in the sky, and prayed involuntarily in his heart.