Chapter two hundred and ninety-eight is to die again
The main force of the Japanese infantry on the Guanmei front is still Hisao Tani's 6th Division. Hisao Hitani was so courageous that he defeated two tank regiments and one and a half infantry regiments last night. Today, they are fighting one by one, and they will be defeated again.
An infantry regiment joined in. He put Major General Masakichi Inoue, commander of the 36th Infantry Brigade under his command, in charge of personally directing the frontline operations, while he and Chief of Staff Shimono Dazuo stayed in the communications room, together with Isoroku Yamamoto.
Hengshan Munemei contacted him frequently. According to his statement, he wanted to plan an integrated land, sea and air battle to capture Fuding in one fell swoop.
In Hisao Tani's plan, Yokoyama Munemori's 11th Aviation Infantry Regiment and his own 23rd Infantry Regiment were both decoys. Both served Yamamoto's combined fleet. The former would be responsible for luring Wang Hai's Kongyi Division, and the latter
The latter will attract the main infantry force of the Xuebing Army, and then win the opportunity for the Marines of the Combined Fleet to land from the coast of southern Fujian.
Without the artillery, and even the tank unit, the firepower preparation of the aviation unit became Hisao Tani's last hope. Yokoyama Munemori was very cooperative, although the little devil knew that during the day, the remaining strength of the 11th Aviation Corps alone
It was not enough to compete with the Xuebing Army, but it still sent out the only independent flying brigade. The battle situation was just as Hisao Tani expected. Wang Hai's Kongyi Division took off to meet the enemy, and easily defeated the 10th
An aviation regiment was driven away. Then, a group of fighter jets from the Combined Fleet appeared.
Wang Hai had just received a report from the ground air defense radar station in front. Then he turned around and found that the airborne radar display screen was densely packed with traces of Japanese fighter jets. He used a walkie-talkie to talk to Liu Yuqing and told him: "Mr. Liu
, the big fish is hooked!”
Liu Yuqing replied: "Commander Wang, please do your best. The Second Special Artillery Brigade is ready. Position three."
"receive!"
The defeated fighter planes of the Japanese 11th Air Corps had just returned. In response to Hisao Tani's order, Inoue Masakichi commanded the 23rd Infantry Regiment to rush towards the cadet army's position.
It was freezing cold, and the corpses of the Japanese soldiers who died on the Guanmei front line had not yet been disposed of. The Japanese army did not dare to collect the corpses rashly. As for the Xuebing Army, Jiang Guangnai and Liu Yuqing agreed that keeping the corpses of the Japanese soldiers could act as a deterrent.
, so only the Japanese corpses within the first two hundred meters of the first trench were cleared.
Nearly 6,000 Japanese soldiers from five brigades stepped onto the battlefield under the orders of the officers. They looked up and saw corpses of dead officers and soldiers everywhere. Many of them were mutilated. There were Japanese soldiers on the spot.
He knelt down and vomited. At the same time, some people roared and became more and more "heroic".
In the air, the carrier-based aircraft of the three aircraft carriers of the Japanese naval combined fleet flew toward Fuding from the southeast under the sound of sporadic anti-aircraft artillery fire, densely packed like a flock of migratory birds returning from the north.
The ground battle began first. Without dedicated artillery, mortars became the only long-range firepower of the Japanese army. More than thirty mortars of various calibers were gathered by Inoue Masakichi and began to target the first trench and bombarded them.
The shelling continued, and when the leading Japanese army was only 300 meters away from the first trench, the Japanese array dispersed, and then three armored vehicles drove out.
The three armored vehicles are all command vehicles. The 11th Infantry Brigade of Katsuji Imamura provided two vehicles, and Inoue himself also provided one. Probably based on the experience of the defeat in the battle last night, the front armor of the three armored vehicles are welded.
On the iron plate, three armored vehicles drove forward to form an arrow, each with a machine gun on it to act as a heavy firepower. The infantrymen crowded behind the armored vehicles to form a wave-like attack formation. A few minutes later, under the rumbling
With the sound of grenade explosions, the first wave of Japanese attacks began.
The current frontline commander of the Xuebing Army is Zhu Zaiting.
The bunkers on both sides of the first trench have been repaired. These two bunkers and the mobile fortress composed of several tanks behind the first trench are still the support points of the cadet army's defense line.
A dense crowd of Japanese soldiers rushed toward him, and a staff officer next to Zhu Zaiting said: "Brother Ge, are the Japanese born in the year of the dog? They don't have a long memory! If our artillery fires rapidly in this formation, isn't that going to end in death?
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Zhu Zaiting corrected: "It's not to die, but to exchange people for artillery. Hehe, the Japanese charge in this dense formation is to lure our artillery into the battle. As soon as our artillery shows up, the Japanese planes will definitely gather
Go over and bomb. Well, let them do as they wish. Call me!" After receiving the call, he shouted: "Ma Chun, this is Zhu Zaiting, you can fire!"
In yesterday's artillery battle, the Xuebing Army's artillery also suffered losses. In order to maximize the power of the artillery salvo and to attract enough attention from the Japanese Air Force, Liu Yuqing gathered the three artillery regiments together and put them under unified command by Ma Chun.
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Ma Chun and the others reset the artillery positions early this morning, and the muzzles of the guns were directed towards the Guanmei front line. Ma Chun knew that they might only have one chance to attack. After receiving the order, without any hesitation, he immediately ordered all artillery to be fired.
Go into battle and launch an unlimited bombardment.
What does unlimited mean? It means that you can build as hard as you can until you run out of shells.
Because it was daytime, the noise created by artillery fire was weaker than that at night. At least there would not be a scene where a certain area of the sky was suddenly illuminated red. However, compared with last night, because three artillery regiments gathered together to fire a salvo, other
The actual effect was even better. The artillery position was only about four kilometers away from the Guanmei front line. Dozens of artillery fired at the same time. Zhu Zaiting and others could feel the earth suddenly shaking slightly. After a few seconds, the shells exploded.
An empty sound came from behind them, and after a few seconds, dozens of fireballs rose up from the Japanese array. The next moment, rumbling explosions continued to sound.
The artillery of the Xuebing Army had just opened fire, and Inoue Masakichi issued a retreat order - "Withdraw!"
"Retreat!" Japanese officers at all levels shouted and took the lead in running back. As soon as they ran away, their soldiers were immediately defeated. They were much faster than when they launched the attack - the little Japanese were still afraid of death.
Yes. It's just that it's easy to launch an attack, but if you want to run away at this time, you will definitely be able to escape?
"Chief of Staff, the Japanese have escaped!" a staff officer said to Zhu Zaiting.
Zhu Zaiting turned around and glanced at the sky behind him, and saw two fighter jet clusters flying over the artillery position at the same time. He sneered and said: "It's not that easy to run away!" Then he shouted into the phone: "Machun, Japs."
If you want to run, adjust the range and don’t let them run away!”
"Chief of Staff, don't worry! We are prepared!" Ma Chun replied.
Minutes later, the trajectory of the artillery shells increased a bit, and then, as if the shells had eyes, they chased the Japanese. Rumbling explosions sounded one after another, and one fireball after another exploded in the Japanese array.
There were heavy casualties. In just five minutes of shelling, two brigades were killed. Then, another round of air combat began.