September 16, 1940, the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, was the Mid-Autumn Festival.
At four o'clock in the morning, the earth was silent.
There is a saying that autumn is crisp and clear. In autumn, most areas in China have relatively sunny weather. If the weather is good, you can see a full moon in many areas. However, in the southern part of Indochina and most parts of India, this is not the case.
It is undoubtedly a luxury wish.
Although it has entered the end of the rainy season, it is still rainy in most parts of Malaya, Myanmar and East India. Although it has not rained in the past few days, the clouds are thick and cover the moon and stars. The climate is humid and hot, and the earth
It was pitch black.
It was the beginning of a new week. Most of the Japanese troops stationed on the border had just spent the weekend and had not yet changed their posts. A few Japanese soldiers and puppet troops who were tense on duty had also relaxed their vigilance.
You must know that the Mid-Autumn Festival is also celebrated in Japan at this time, and almost all Japanese people know that the Chinese people attach great importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival, second only to the Spring Festival. On this day, everyone who has the conditions will
I want to get together with my family, drink wine and enjoy the moonlight, so my mind is relaxed.
Unfortunately, the Japanese guessed wrong. This day was the day the Anjiajun chose to launch a counterattack. Only one of the two powers was destined to become the overlord in Southeast Asia and India.
In the Malay Peninsula, the border between Narathiwat County and Malaya has once again started war after nearly two years.
In the night, as three red signal flares took off, more than two thousand large and small caliber howitzers, cannons, howitzers and mortars of Wang Xulun's First Army roared together.
Among these artillery pieces, the most eye-catching one is the rocket launcher unit.
The first level of the Anjia Army Group is equipped with a rocket launcher brigade, all equipped with 130mm 19-tube rocket launchers. The orientation system of this rocket launcher is composed of 19 seamless steel pipes, arranged in two rows of 10 at the top and 9 at the bottom, and fixedly connected to the box
On the truss, a spring-type locking bullet retaining device and a conductive device are installed at the rear and upper side of each directional tube. The rocket launcher uses a car battery as the ignition power source, and is equipped with an external launch device.
The rocket artillery brigade has nine rocket artillery battalions. The standard configuration of each battalion includes a battalion headquarters and three artillery batteries. The vehicles include a battalion command vehicle, three forward observation posts/reconnaissance vehicles, a maintenance vehicle, and 18 transport vehicles.
, eighteen rocket launcher vehicles. Each artillery battery includes a company command vehicle, six rocket launch vehicles, and six rocket transport vehicles.
There are nine rocket launcher battalions with a total of 162 rocket launchers. Each rocket launcher can fire 19 rockets. It can fire more than 3,000 130mm caliber rockets at one time. The lethality is so great that ordinary people cannot imagine it.
Amidst the "rumbling" sound of artillery, countless fire dragons left the launch vehicle and rained deathly steel on the Japanese positions. A dense rain of meteors and fire streaked across the sky, dragging their long tails, rushing towards the Japanese army.
The Japanese troops on the other side of the boundary river rushed to their positions.
More than 3,000 rockets and more than 2,000 artillery shells reflected each other in the sky, making the sky and ground as bright as day.
The air was filled with the smell of gunpowder smoke, and all that could be heard in my ears were the sharp whistling sounds of grenades and rockets tearing through the air, and the sound of explosions that resounded across the ground.
The Japanese army guarding the border area of Kelantan was the Third Independent Infantry Brigade of the Malayan Front, which had four border garrison brigades with a total of 5,000 people.
Assisting the defense of these four Japanese border garrison brigades were the Malay Army's 9th Division and 10th Division, a total of 28,000 indigenous troops. The Malay Army was organized into two brigades and four regiments. One division was about
There are 14,000 men, more than 3,000 people in each regiment, all equipped with Lee-Enfield rifles produced by the British military factories in Malaya, Burma and East India colonies owned by the Communist Party. They have almost no heavy firepower.
equipment.
In fact, the Lan-Yin Army, the Philippine Army, the Burmese Army and the Japanese-Indian Army, which the Communist Party of China has painstakingly supported, almost all use British-made equipment. On the one hand, this is because the production lines of so many military factories must be transformed at once into weapons suitable for use by the Japanese army.
The production line is too difficult. On the other hand, the battlefield needs to constantly have troops with complete equipment put into the front line. There is no time left for skilled workers to carry out transformation. As a result, the Japanese army is now equipped with Japanese series weapons, while the puppet army is equipped with more powerful equipment.
The situation of British-made individual weapons.
Of course, all heavy firepower, such as the Bren machine gun using 7.7mm caliber bullets and the twin Vickers heavy machine gun, 12.7
mm Boyce anti-tank guns, 50.8mm and 152.4mm caliber mortars, all are used by the Japanese army. Most colonial armies do not have access to aircraft, artillery, light and heavy machine guns, and the only supporting firepower is grenades and grenades.
After all, what the Japanese army needs is cannon fodder, not war monsters that affect its rule.
Due to the two-year peace period, most of the Japanese and Malay troops lost their vigilance. They did not live in dark and damp shell-proof caves in accordance with the regulations. Instead, they were stationed in wooden barracks without any defense.
Huge sleep.
This round of artillery fire from the Anjia Army almost instantly wiped out nearly half of the Japanese Third Independent Infantry Brigade and the Malay Army's Ninth and Tenth Divisions.
The Japanese defensive positions, which were also shrouded in artillery fire, were also uncomfortable. Large fireballs steamed up from the trenches, bunkers, and bunkers. Most of the defensive fortifications collapsed amid the violent explosions. People took shelter in these fortifications.
The Japanese and Malays inside barely had time to think before they were reduced to blood and minced meat.
The rockets fell like hailstones, followed by cannon shells, grenades, and mortar shells of various calibers. The "rumbling" sound was like a thunderbolt from the blue, almost breaking a person's eardrums.
Blood and flesh flew everywhere on the Japanese army's position, and the unburned fuel was stirred up by the explosives and scattered everywhere. Often a 130mm caliber rocket landed, and the surrounding area burned into a ring of fire. It was a real large-scale destruction! The boiling gas
The waves, like stones thrown into the pond during the explosion, immediately centered on the explosion point and struck in circular waves in all directions. The Japanese positions, soldiers, weapons and fortifications were in flames soaring into the sky.
Was quickly devoured.
The Japanese and Malays were crying like ghosts and howling like wolves, and wolves were running around everywhere.
However, under such a dense rain of bullets, how could one escape with one's life? From the officers to the soldiers, they were covered by the scorching death steel rain, and each one was torn into pieces, with residual limbs and broken arms mixed with internal organs.
The entire Japanese defense line became a purgatory.
The Japanese army's independent infantry brigade is not equipped with artillery, so it is unable to counterattack the artillery fire of the Anjia Army. Of course, even now, with the main divisions of the Japanese army being strengthened by equipment, the artillery regiments directly under them and the brigades below are concentrated.
, the artillery directly under the regiment and brigade, the total number of cannons will not exceed 200. It is sheer fantasy to counterattack so many cannons.
The bombardment continued, and rows of rockets were roaring as densely as locusts crossing the border, spreading from the border river to the solid fortifications made of reinforced concrete five kilometers behind. Everything seemed to be blown by the strong wind.
They looked the same and flew out one after another amid the explosion.
The entire earth is like the surface of the moon, with many craters and pits, and almost no complete flat land can be seen.
In just half an hour, the defense line of more than ten kilometers in the central area of the shelling collapsed. Occasionally, some remaining fortifications stood there so abruptly. Most Japanese people knew very well that these defenses that had lost their wings were
It is difficult for a fortress to withstand the destruction of Anjia officers and soldiers who are armed to the teeth.
There is a glimmer of dawn in the eastern sky, and there is a glimmer of light on the ground, making it possible to see things more clearly.
At this time, the artillery fire began to gradually extend to the rear. The Japanese soldiers and Malays, who were stunned by the bombing, supported each other one by one, and crawled out of the dilapidated trenches, bunkers, anti-blast holes and other defense facilities with fear.
Standing on the devastated battlefield, I wanted to cry but had no tears.
The original tight defense system has been severely damaged. There are bunkers with skylights everywhere. Most of the fortifications have collapsed. The trenches and traffic ditches have been razed to the ground, and the ground has been blown into soft ground.
, there are broken gun parts everywhere.
The soil exuded a strange fishy smell and looked bright red. Some Malays picked up a handful of the soil out of curiosity and found that it was mixed with pieces of flesh and blood, and many feces contained in the internal organs were also in it. No wonder the smell was so unpleasant.
Some unlucky guys had their hands bleeding wildly. It turned out that there were broken bomb fragments everywhere in the soil. They were extremely sharp. With a light touch, the skin's surface was scratched and blood spurted out.
On the other side of the river, the Anjia Army's large engineer vehicle had already arrived at the border river. As the rear compartment of the vehicle was raised high, pieces of prefabricated steel components fell into the rough river. Countless engineers wearing camouflage air cushion jackets jumped into the water.
The prefabricated components floating on the water drive the engine and drive towards the border.
When the Japanese saw this, what could they do? Quickly, under the command of grassroots sergeants and lieutenants, the remnants of the Japanese and Malay troops began to search for undamaged guns in the mud, trying to prevent the Anjia Army from crossing the river.
Unfortunately, when most of the enemies were still looking for weapons, there was a dense "buzzing" sound in the sky. More than a hundred fighter planes roared from the northern sky, quickly bringing death and terror to the Japanese and Malay troops.
middle.
This air strike was a standard Anjia Army air force tactics.
At the front were two squadrons of A28 fighter jets serving as escorts. They passed by from low altitude, and their eight 12.7mm caliber aviation machine guns sprayed out terrifying barrages, killing all the exposed Japs and Lan Yin.
The soldiers were beaten until they instantly turned into lumps of flesh and blood.
Immediately behind the A28 fighter jets were two squadrons of Q2 attack aircraft, which poured rockets onto the ground from a distance, followed by bombs, followed by two 37mm cannons on the nose and a 12.7mm cannon on each side of the wings.
The millimeter machine gun fired a dense rain of bullets, quickly removing all fire points in the target.
Behind the two squadrons of Q2 attack aircraft are B1 bombers.
This kind of mosquito bomber is very powerful in destroying crowds on the ground. As the fleet flies horizontally over the Japanese position, the magazine is opened, and the bombs are like fish laying eggs in the water.
The bombs smashed towards the ground. In places where the crowd was slightly denser, once the missiles were dropped, nothing could be seen on the entire ground except fireworks. When the smoke dissipated, there was nothing but dense craters.
Behind it is a B2-D bomber imitating the Stuka JU-87.
Due to the frequent replacement of engines and the reinforcement of the fuselage, the current B2 has evolved to the extreme, with a significant increase in range, speed, and bomb carrying capacity. The B2-D bomber group roared, making a shrill sound, from high altitude
Swooping down in the air, the fighter plane almost broke through the sound barrier under the influence of gravity acceleration. Heavy aerial bombs with a weight of more than one ton left the pylon at high speed and aimed at the lonely ones on the ground that had not been destroyed by previous artillery fire.
The stronghold fell.
Such aerial bombs can easily destroy the thick steel plates of battleships, not to mention the cement fortresses made of reinforced concrete. Amidst the screams of the devil, the strongest bunkers are attacked by the dive attacks of B2-D bombers.
, just like infantry shooting at a target, it was destroyed easily.
These fortresses, which were generally half a meter or even one meter thick, had skylights opened one after another. The Japanese and Malays who had managed to escape the cannon and rocket attacks were turned into mincemeat when the thousands of kilograms of aerial bombs exploded.
Even if the bunker is not destroyed due to the angle of the explosion, the shock wave from the huge explosion will instantly shatter the internal organs of the people in the bunker and cause bleeding from the mouth and nose.
After this round of attacks, the Japs on the ground were once again greatly reduced in number.
However, never overestimate the role of weapons. If continuous artillery fire and aerial bomb strikes are used, an army can be defeated. How to explain the many famous success stories of the army during the Liberation War and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?
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Therefore, a large number of Japanese and Malays, even though they were bombarded by aerial bombs, still helped each other to get up from the dilapidated trenches and fortifications, and shot at the river surface despite the blows from the sky.
At this time, the last wave of aircraft arrived.
This is another twin-engine bomber modified from the AB26. It has a high climb, long range, fast speed, thick armor, and large ammunition capacity. It is a B-3C bomber that can perform both dive and horizontal bombing.
The bomber group passed by at a height of one thousand meters, dropping aerial bombs one after another. Since there was no acceleration, the speed of the aerial bombs was generally not very fast, but what was terrifying was that at a distance of five or six meters from the ground, these dense aerial bombs,
It exploded suddenly, covering the entire Japanese position in shrapnel.
Many Japanese soldiers who had successively evaded shelling and air strikes finally did not escape this round of blows. Their whole bodies were quickly torn to pieces by flying shrapnel, leaving no intact corpses alive.
However, there were still Japanese and Malays who escaped this round of attacks by taking advantage of the angles of trenches and fortifications. But at this time, several simple pontoon bridges had been built, and the infantry of the First Division had already begun to cross the river.
With platoons as units, breakthrough groups were formed. The groups were equipped with individual radios, general-purpose machine guns, automatic rifles, submachine guns, light mortars, rocket launchers, grenade launchers and flamethrowers, and swept toward the Japanese positions.
The First Group Army was originally the main force, and the officers and soldiers of the following three divisions were absolutely elite. Although their attack formations were scattered, their firepower was extremely concentrated. Although the remaining Japanese and Malay soldiers wielded various weapons
They started shooting, but the officers and soldiers acted like a dragon, using mortars and grenade launchers to shoot smoke grenades, and then took advantage of the smoke screen to cover the Japanese troops, approaching the enemy at high speed like an arrow from a string.
There was no sense of stagnation during the entire charge. It was completely completed in one go. Within just a few minutes, they approached the Japanese position. The snipers and gunners of each attack group searched for the most suitable attack locations such as bomb craters.
A sniper rifle with a caliber of 7.6mm or 12.7mm shot the Japanese and Malay soldiers who were still shooting on the position, either with headshots or with their necks broken, causing blood to spurt wildly. The death was extremely miserable.
There was also an I-type general-purpose machine gun, which fired bullets from its belt at high speed. Under the flames that looked like death's scythes, many Japanese and Malays who showed up to shoot were quickly killed. The bullets were shrouded like a curtain.
On the Japanese military positions, even the Japanese who were deeply influenced by Bushido did not dare to raise their heads and shoot easily.
In the blink of an eye, the assault infantry of the Anjia Army rushed to the Japanese position. Grenade launchers and flamethrowers were displayed in a majestic manner. The Japanese position was instantly enveloped in a sea of fire. Those bunkers that survived tenaciously were destroyed one by one under the attack of rocket launchers.
It was overturned, and the Japanese inside flew into the sky together with the blown-up bunker.
With precise cooperation, the officers and soldiers of the Anjia Army broke into the Japanese position without any losses.
They did not give the Japanese troops a chance to fight with their kitchen knives. Their automatic rifles and submachine guns mowed down all the Japanese who dared to approach like thatch to the ground.
The brave officers and soldiers of Anjia did not even give the Japanese a chance to fight. Behind the submachine guns and automatic rifles, there were also shell gunners who were ready to provide protection to ensure the safety of the team members between changing magazines.
The Japanese were also extremely brave. They ordered the Malays to take off their shirts, strap bombs on them, form a suicide squad, and pounce on the soldiers of the Anjia Army. However, the general-purpose machine guns that had moved their positions forward swept away the "Malays" like autumn leaves.
"Meat bombs" became "suicide bombs", and they were beaten into sieves hundreds of meters away from Anjia's officers and soldiers. Occasionally, tragic figures detonated bombs, leaving no trace of their bodies.
The current Anjia Army has far surpassed the U.S. Army in terms of firepower configuration at the same time. The U.S. Army is generally only equipped with M1 semi-automatic rifles, no automatic rifles, and no general-purpose machine guns, only Browning light machine guns. Therefore, when interacting with the Japanese army,
During the battle, they were often unable to completely suppress the Japanese attacks. In close combat, they were forced by the momentum of the Japanese bayonets and were defeated.
In several battles in Australia, the U.S. military had an absolute advantage in firepower. However, the Japanese army often did not engage in a decisive battle with the U.S. military. Instead, they surrounded the two wings, penetrated into the U.S. military's back, and attacked from the front and rear. They took advantage of the chaos in the U.S. military's position to launch an assault.
As a result, the Yankees, whose momentum was severely weakened, were inevitably defeated.
Now MacArthur has been affectionately called the "Captain of the Transportation Group" by the Japanese. Through continuous battles with the US military, nearly half of the 25 Japanese divisions that penetrated into the Australian mainland have been equipped with American equipment and heavy firepower.
and transportation vehicles have been greatly strengthened. *** China is considering building several American ordnance factories in Western Australia to make use of Australia's rich coal and iron resources to meet the needs of frontline wars.
In just four hours, the five-kilometer-wide border defense line carefully constructed by the Japanese army was completely breached. At 8:15 in the morning, the officers and soldiers began to clean the battlefield, only to find that there were only 120 Japanese soldiers out of 5,000.
survive, he
Together with more than 600 remaining Malay troops, they were imprisoned in prisoner-of-war camps. They were captured on the battlefields of North China, Songhu and Siberia in 1937 and 1938 respectively, and chose to join the "Japanese Rangers" organized by the Anjia Army.
"*** education.
The top leaders of the Communist Party of China have never recognized prisoners. Therefore, most of the Communists who chose to join the Anjia Army served the Anjia Army wholeheartedly. With the increasing number of people, this army has now expanded to more than 28,000 people.
The General Staff organized it into two corps, six detachments, and eighteen brigades. An Yi's plan is to send this unit out to act as thugs during the future counterattack against Japan. It will definitely be interesting.
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