Xiangyue Qingji had reason to complain and grumble. The destruction of the heavy artillery brigade had a huge impact on the decisive battle of Changping. His worries were justified. On the surface, although the Japanese army was attacking and the Xuebing army was defending, the battle was still going on. At this point, the two sides are entangled together, and it is no longer possible to say who is the real attacker and who is the real defender.
After determining the general policy of having a decisive battle with the Japanese army, Ouyang Yun focused on his own active attack when making military arrangements and issuing orders. He unexpectedly captured the 18th Brigade in Lijiatun, and also defeated the Japanese. After the main force of the First Army was rejected by Wangjiawei, the battle around Changping City has seen a wonderful transformation between the offensive and defensive sides. Although the Japanese army outside Changping City still has the strength of three brigades, due to the lack of heavy weapons, especially combat weapons, For Ouyang Yun, who has two high-quality infantry combat forces such as the mechanized infantry brigade and the heavy artillery brigade, he is a guy who is half-experienced in military command. Now he will naturally think of the main force of the first army advancing. Before, this "small force" of Japanese troops was eaten,
Just last night, Ouyang Yun had already made arrangements for this battle plan. After resting for a long time, the brigade of the Third Division set out again and began a forced march. Their destination this time was Wangjiawei. Gaotang Mountain to the northwest of Changping and Changping. Gaotang Mountain is more than 50 kilometers away from Changping and Changping. There will be another final route for the Japanese army to retreat along the Great Wall besides Wangjiawei. As early as the air forces of both sides were in Wangjiawei When the fighting began in the sky above the area, a series of combat orders for the encirclement and suppression of the 108th Division and the 9th Division had been issued. As soon as the air battle ended, the heavy artillery brigade launched an attack on the 108th Division and the 9th Division. The position launched an artillery attack. The 108th Division and the 9th Division had been fighting fortified battles before, so they did not pay attention to position construction. Of the three brigades, only the 6th Brigade dug some crude anti-artillery shells. hole, it was because they had just suffered a big loss in Wangjiawei and were fully aware of the strength of the Xuebing Army. Akiyama Yiyun subconsciously issued the order. Facts have proved that His Excellency Akiyama Yiyun's order was wise. After the shelling, three This can be concluded from the analysis of the brigade's casualty data. The casualty rates of the other two brigade groups are around 20%, while the 6th brigade's casualty rate is only 10%.
After the bombardment, the first to launch the offensive was naturally the tank troops. When the various tanks of the Jiguang type drove toward the Japanese army's positions that had been blown to pieces with the sound of rumbling motors, the little devils were the first to attack. The reactions felt a bit familiar, but it was a captain who accurately expressed his feelings: Oh my God, what is going on? First there was a plane bombing, then an artillery attack, and then a tank charge. This is obviously what our imperial army often uses. tactics,
Ouyang Yun was standing on the tower of Changping City that had been riddled with holes. He was originally going to Wangjiaxu, but because he still wanted to eat the Ninth Division and the 108th Division in one bite, he chose After staying, behind the tank troops was a battalion of infantry, which was also affiliated with the mechanized infantry brigade. Ouyang Yun put down his binoculars and said to He Zhengjiang: "Let the infantry follow closely. The Japanese army lacks anti-tank weapons. They have to deal with tanks. They prefer to use human bombs. Each of our tanks is a treasure and we cannot let them get close to the tanks."
"Yes." After He Zhengheng agreed, he immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and called the battalion commander in front, asking him to increase the speed of the team and follow closely behind the chariot.
The mechanized infantry brigade was the first unit in the student army to conduct machine-infantry coordinated combat training. Therefore, the cooperation between the tank regiment and the infantry regiment was very tacit. Just after Ouyang Yun picked up the telescope again, the tank's traveling speed slowed down. After falling down, the infantry battalion rushed up and started running to follow up using the tank body as a cover.
The Japanese army was once only three kilometers away from Changping City. At the front closest to Changping City, the Japanese army dug trenches in place. However, because they did not consider that they would be attacked, they did not dig anti-tank trenches. Of course, this may also be because they have long been equipped with human bombs, an anti-tank weapon. The soldiers of the tank regiment have already seen the madness of the Japanese army. Therefore, the closer they get to the trench, the more attention they pay. They became more and more concentrated, especially the machine gunners, who all tensed up, just waiting for those suicide bombers to show up and pull the trigger hard.
When the five tanks at the front were still about fifty meters away from the Japanese first line of defense, a suicide bomber still appeared.
"Shoot." "Fire." "Fight." In a series of shouts, not only the vehicle-mounted machine guns on the tanks, but also the Wei Qing assault rifles, submachine guns, and light machine guns of the infantry battalion spewed out angry shouts almost at the same time. After the flames and intensive gunshots sounded, violent explosions followed.
The Japanese army was responsible for the first line of defense, a brigade belonging to the 25th Brigade of the 108th Division. In order to deal with the steel monsters of the Xuebing Army (because the tanks of the Xuebing Army were much stronger than the Japanese tanks, the little devils liked (called the Iron Monster), Captain Suzuki prepared more than 300 "Jade Breakers" at one time. These devils who can volunteer to serve as human bombs are truly vicious people, and many of them rushed out. After the trenches, they did not forget to shout slogans: "For the Emperor," "For the Empire," but most of them were knocked down by bullets before they could finish shouting. Some of them were almost unlucky, and the clusters tied to their bodies were directly detonated. The grenade or explosive bag was violently exploded into pieces,
The students came well prepared. This time, the suicide bombers failed to achieve the same performance as at Xifengkou. As the last few suicide bombers were knocked down or torn apart, Suzuki couldn't help but sweat appeared on his forehead. The car was less than thirty meters away from the trenches, and the Chinese infantry following behind had already set up light and heavy machine guns. You can imagine what they would encounter next. Three hundred meters behind the first trench was a newly dug trench. In the second trench, the brigade responsible for defending the second trench was equipped with a large number of mortars. However, under the threat of tank guns with a caliber exceeding 50 mm, those mortars did not dare to fire at all. , because what kind of crazy revenge that would lead to. Before, the mortar team of their brigade had fired several rounds of grenades. As a result, they only fired a few rounds, and the position was destroyed by several rounds of grenades that followed. More than ten artillery shells were blown up, "I still need a team." These steel monsters must be cleared out, and Suzuki began to recruit "Jade Breakers" in a systematic manner.
Without the previous enthusiasm, the little devils all looked at their captain, His Excellency, with dull eyes.
"Major Suzuki, let's fight them."
"Countercharge."
"Hand-to-hand combat."
Many little devils and low-level officers said incoherently that now, a happy death has become their only pursuit.
I don't know if he succumbed to the pressure of public opinion, but Suzuki pulled out his command sword and shouted: "Attack." Then, he was the first to climb into the trench.
What was waiting for him was the cold and shining black muzzle of the vehicle-mounted machine gun.