The Japanese army changed from its normal state. Only a thousand people from the three divisions were left on the three fronts to maintain pressure on the besieged 103rd Division and 117th Division. All other troops moved closer to the 6th Division. From a distance, Go, just like two open palms suddenly closing towards the middle,
Ouyang Yun was worried that Qian Guangming's troops would sink too deep and encounter the human sea tactics and lose the mobility advantage of the tank troops. He just wanted them to slow down and wait for the main force behind to catch up.
Li Hanhun expressed his thoughts,
Qian Guangming's troops stopped advancing and assumed a defensive posture. While clearing the position they had just broken through, they used artillery fire to bombard the Japanese army's assembly position 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 to Lin Baiyin and others. You must prevent the Japanese army from using special attack tactics to deal with the tank troops. Remember, as long as our tanks are still there, this battle will be small. The Japanese don’t even think about winning; You Hongjun, what’s wrong with you kid? Didn’t you let me use up all the artillery shells? Hit me hard, just hit the joint point of the three divisions; Xue Ming, your original combat mission Cancel, go to the artillery immediately. Your mission is to protect the sky above the artillery at all costs. Until the artillery shells are fired, you are not allowed to retreat even if you fight to the last man. Xiao Yi, Xiao Yi, received the reply ,."
"I'm Xiao Yi, commander, please speak."
"Put aside your original mission for the time being. First, let me beat up the Japanese officers. As long as they are officers, they can kill as many as they can."
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Ouyang Yun passed on his orders one after another. The role of advanced electronic technology in modern warfare has been fully demonstrated. With the advanced telecommunications tool of walkie-talkies, 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 flow of yellow people in the shape of an inverted eight is swarming towards the beginning of the character "eight"; and the flow of people mixed with grass green and gray are moving from an upright eight to the first part. spread out,
Once Qian Guangming's tank division assumed a defensive posture, Ushijima Mitsuru, who was ready to use his flesh and blood to block its advance, breathed a sigh of relief. At the same time, he secretly became vigilant. He risked being hit by a stray bullet and risked his life. The temporary command tunnel straightened up and looked behind him. He saw the friendly troops rushing towards him. He was stunned for a moment at first, and then became anxious. He picked up the phone, called Hisao Tani, and shouted loudly: "Your Excellency, Division Commander, 11 Why is the brigade moving closer to our headquarters? Do you want to launch a counterattack? We don’t have anti-tank weapons. If we attack rashly, we will only..."
Before he could finish his words, Hisao Tani interrupted him: "Bage, this is the idea of that country bumpkin from Mie County. Ushijima-kun, he has been authorized by the general headquarters to serve as the pre-war commander-in-chief. As an imperial soldier, I can only do as you are told, and prepare your death squad."
"Your Excellency, Division Commander, the Chinese tanks have stopped attacking, and their infantry is gathering. With sufficient infantry escorts, the effectiveness of death squad tactics is limited. Your Excellency, Division Commander, although I don't want to admit it, in fact, China A human tank cannot be easily destroyed with a few grenades..."
"I know, Todoroki."
Suddenly there was a violent explosion from the microphone, and then there was a blind sound. Ushijima held the microphone in his hand and was shocked. The division commander will not encounter any accident. He thought this and couldn't help but shudder. , and then hissed into the microphone: "Your Excellency, Your Excellency..."
You Hongjun's artillery began to show its power. Under his command, nearly a hundred cannons of various types began to violently bombard the 36th brigade and the joint points of the ministries. At first, they fought independently without any rules. After five minutes, they began to divide into two parts. One group started bombarding from the junction of the 36th Brigade and the 18th Brigade of the 9th Division, and followed an arc toward the junction of the 11th Brigade and the 6th Brigade of the 9th Division; the other group started from the 36th Brigade. The junction of the brigade and the 18th Division blasted past, and followed an arc straight into the depth. Amidst the thunderous explosions, the Japanese position was in a mess, and many individual bunkers that had just been dug out were destroyed. Destroyed; in the flying artillery fire, the Japanese infantry array composed of brigade units was blown to pieces, and the formation fell into extreme chaos for a time.
Hisao Tani was almost killed in the first round of shelling. If the guards around him hadn't seen the opportunity quickly, knocked him down and pressed him up with their bodies, I guess he had already gone to see Amaterasu at this moment. Even so, the old devil He was also shocked. Sitting on the blood-stained ground, he stared blankly at the two guards with broken limbs next to him, and suddenly cursed angrily: "Tsukada attacks this bastard. I said he must have artillery with him." , but he said that for the sake of speed, he could hold off for a while. This idiot is fine now. Without artillery suppression, we can only watch the Chinese artillery fire raging." After a pause, he looked at the person who was trying to help him up. The staff officer shouted: "Ba Ge, leave me alone, call for aviation support quickly, we must destroy the Chinese artillery as soon as possible, otherwise we will not be able to fight at all."
The staff officer hurriedly went to send the report. Hisao Tani sat on the ground for a while, making sure that the artillery fire was far away from him. Then he stood up and glanced at the frightened and crouching Japanese soldiers around him. He felt even more uncomfortable. I really can’t figure out why the encirclement and annihilation war that clearly took the initiative turned into this useless battle now.
Hisao Tani was holding his breath. On the other hand, Yoshihashi Ryosuke felt uncomfortable. In his opinion, concentrating his forces to capture the Academy Tank Division first was definitely the best strategy and necessary. However, , who knew that Ouyang Yun had hidden a secret, that he still had such a large number of artillery, and had such a large stock of artillery shells?
Undoubtedly, the invasion of superior artillery fire is the most damaging to the enemy's morale. It is not clear how many results the You Hong Army's artillery bombardment has achieved regardless of the cost, but from a certain aspect, it has achieved the expected results.
The gathering speed of the Japanese army was delayed, and various 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. However, after catching the Japanese army by surprise, the continuous bombardment achieved limited results. As the roar of aircraft engines came from the southeast, Ouyang Yun gave an order. Let the gunners extend the artillery fire in depth, and then issued the attack order,
In Ouyang Yun's vision, this battle will not only rescue the besieged 103rd Division and 117th Division, but also take advantage of the situation to complete the breakout. By then, as long as a certain amount of troops are left to hinder the Japanese attack, the main force will He could get rid of the entanglement of the Japanese army and evacuate safely to Xuzhou. However, the Japanese army suddenly changed their formation and assumed a decisive battle posture. They wanted to use human sea tactics to drown the tank division. He did not dare to gamble. In Ouyang Yun's plan Here, whether it is the artillery division or the tank division, they will definitely have to be abandoned in the end. This is a helpless matter. Without air superiority, he can only sacrifice part of the troops in exchange for the safe evacuation of the main force. He also wants to sacrifice the ordinary infantry. It is a pity that the tank divisions and artillery divisions are too conspicuous and will definitely become the priority targets of the Japanese aviation coast. Therefore, it is basically impossible to bring them back safely. Of course, before the breakthrough, the tank divisions cannot Unfortunately, Ouyang Yun still counted on it to break through the Japanese defense line. With the tank division as the vanguard, how many soldiers would have to be sacrificed. This was the main reason why he had to temporarily change his tactics after noticing the Japanese army's movements.
Since the battle started, it took more than half an hour for the Japanese aircraft to appear over the battlefield again. This time span has already made Ouyang Yun very satisfied, because in this half hour, it was thought that the Japanese aircraft would be bombed as soon as they showed up. The artillerymen destroyed almost four-fifths of the artillery shell reserves, annihilated no less than two thousand Japanese, and provided an opportunity for the main force to penetrate into the middle of the Japanese array.
As long as it can get entangled with the Japanese army, the Japanese army's air superiority will be completely restricted. Only in this way can the garrison survive this round of air attacks and get a chance to break through.
"Dudududu..." The charge horn sounded, and the tank division took the lead and rushed towards the Japanese position. Following the example of the 10th Division, the 145th Division followed closely. The next second, troops from other directions also rushed out. For a moment, Thunderous cries of death rang out on the battlefield,
At the same time, the Japanese counterattack finally took off.
However, those squad leaders and squadron leaders who were so majestic and would often raise their command swords or pistols and shout "attack" were immediately attacked by crazy snipers from the special forces of the Broadsword Regiment.
When the Dadao Regiment received the latest instructions from Ouyang Yun, the soldiers led by Xiao Yi had already lurked in a cornfield in the southwestern corner of Da'an, less than 200 meters away from the 9th Division's position. Their mission was originally to attack Japanese officers above the level of brigade commander beheaded, and by the way assassinated those traitors who had defected to the Japanese and served as translators or guides. After being asked to temporarily snipe the middle and lower-level Japanese commanders, he divided his men into five groups and cast a net. Got out,
Before that, Xiao Yi and the others wanted to name some Japanese officers, but these guys were like turtles and refused to show up. Now that the attack has begun, they finally got a chance.
Those who can become qualified special forces of the Wolf Fang Special Forces Brigade are at least basic-level snipers. Nearly a hundred snipers of this level suddenly focused on those Japanese officers, and their lethality can be imagined.
The Japanese offensive has just begun. Those rushing in front are some officers at the level of squadron captains and squadron leaders. Originally, Xiao Yi and the others would not bother to kill such things as squadron captains, but those at the level of group captains, unit captains, and brigade commanders The officers were hiding very deep. After Xiao Yi weighed it, he felt that no matter how small the mosquitoes were, they were still meat, and the killing of these front-line officers would cause more panic among the Japanese soldiers, so he took the lead in shooting and killed a squad leader who was shouting loudly. ,
As soon as he opened the market, others followed suit, and a terrifying scene appeared. The squad leader and squadron leader of the 9th Division who were on the front line were killed by snipers more than a dozen times in just five minutes, which immediately aroused The panic of front-line devils,
The offensive momentum of the 9th Division was suddenly curbed.