At this time, the Japanese commander Lieutenant General Tatsumi Kusaba had understood the great power of the Anjia army's infantry and tank coordination, and did not dare to consume the limited troops without limit. He quickly ordered the Japs in the foothills to retreat to the high ground and use the steep slopes.
, to block the tank's offensive.
After receiving the order, the Japanese soldiers and puppet soldiers retreated frantically to the rear. The tanks ran over them all the way, crushing the enemies who could not escape under the tracks. The armored fighting vehicles following the tanks were
Use machine guns to knock down the Japanese and puppet soldiers one by one.
Most of the Japanese and puppet Manchukuo soldiers had just fled back to their positions on Engel Mountain. Before they could take a breath, a huge roar suddenly came from the air.
If the group of bombers before and after the bombardment had made the Japanese artillery miserable, then this group of bombers directly caused the Japanese army to fall into the abyss of a terrible nightmare.
Hundreds of fighter planes formed more than ten strike echelons. Even the fighter planes were equipped with aerial bombs, and the rockets used for air attacks were changed to ground attacks. The momentum was terrifying.
The first wave consisted of eight squadrons of attack aircraft. The Q1 and Q2 attack aircraft simply ignored the Japanese anti-aircraft machine guns and threw aerial bombs and rockets at the Japanese army despite ground artillery fire. Almost instantly, the Japanese army's position was covered by the heat wave of the explosion.
Especially those anti-aircraft positions, which just screamed for a while and then were silenced. The Japanese anti-aircraft soldiers were unable to evade and were blown to pieces. Anti-aircraft machine guns and anti-aircraft guns were quickly torn apart, and the barrels were twisted into pieces.
Shame, shocking.
Following closely behind the attack group were six squadrons of dive bombers. Those fortresses built in the mountains became the main targets of the B2 bombers. Even permanent concrete with a thickness of 2000 to 3000 mm cannot withstand a 1000 kg aerial bomb.
After being bombarded, the Japanese inside the skylight were turned into pitiful prey one after another, and no bones were left.
After the first two attacks, the Japanese air defense system basically collapsed, and the bombers appeared in full force, passing over the mountains at low altitude and dropping dense bombs. Thick black and red pillars of fire appeared everywhere on Engel Mountain.
Black smoke shot straight into the sky.
When the Japanese army was in chaos, the Anjia Army tanks had stopped advancing and were shelling the Japanese positions on the mountain from a distance. The self-propelled artillery, under the command of the artillery officer, carried out precise strikes on the various firepower points of the Japanese army to cover the infantry.
of assault.
Almost stepping on the point where the shells fell, the Anjia officers and soldiers continued to advance towards the high ground, with red flags waving all over the mountains and plains.
At this time, the B3 multifunctional bomber group flew over the Japanese positions and dropped rows of Japanese soldiers who, under the urging of officials at all levels, got out of the air-raid shelters and lay on the dilapidated mountain fortifications, preparing to block the attack of the Anjia Army from a high position.
Napalm.
"boom"
A thunderous explosion suddenly sounded, and huge red, black, and yellow flames suddenly exploded from the ground and jumped up, mercilessly swallowing up the positions one after another. The Japanese defense line was on the verge of collapse in an instant.
Fighters, attack planes and bombers that had dropped their bombs began to circle at low altitudes, using machine guns and machine guns to straf the Japanese and puppet soldiers on various positions in the mountains. Even if the Japanese and puppet soldiers were lucky enough to escape the artillery fire, aerial bombs and napalm bombs,
A blow, but there is still no way to escape.
The dense rain of bullets fired from the aircraft machine guns at almost a vertical angle was astonishingly lethal. Fighters swooped down one after another, and bullets poured out like a torrential rain, shooting straight into the trenches in the mountains.
"Whoosh", like a rain of bullets pouring down, the enemy's fragile body was beaten with blood and flesh everywhere, and bursts of blood mist arose.
After nearly half an hour of ravage, after repeatedly confirming that the Japanese army no longer had anti-aircraft weapons, hundreds of armed helicopters came on stage, flew over from the western sky, hovered directly in the air, and used Vulcan cannons and rockets to support the ground troops' attack.
Due to its flexibility, its lethality is even more terrifying than that of a tank!
Under this situation, the infantry of the Anjia Army made rapid progress, and various arms cooperated with each other to capture trenches in the mountains one after another.
The battle reached noon, and the desperate Japanese army adopted a suicide attack. They used meat bombs and machine guns in a condescending manner to use the puppet Manchukuo army as a "human shield" to attract the firepower of the Anjia army who was attacking from above. Then they set up light and heavy machine guns.
They took the opportunity to cover up and kill the Anjia officers and soldiers in an attempt to regain the lost position.
Although the Japanese machine gun firepower would soon be knocked out by the armed helicopters that arrived after hearing the news, in other places, the Japanese army launched a similar attack again, causing the helicopters to focus on one thing and not the other, and the entire front began to move back and forth.
Xiao Wu heard the reports from the frontline officers and soldiers, and immediately ordered the machine gun positions and mortar positions to move forward, resolutely pushing back the Japanese counterattack.
Half an hour later, thousands of violent tongues of fire were like scythes of death. Wherever they went, Japanese and puppet soldiers fell to the ground like wheat. The puppet soldiers and the Japanese death squads following them were like a stormy sea.
It hit the rocks on the coast and was instantly shattered into pieces. The Japanese and puppet soldiers died in pieces.
The soldiers of the puppet Manchukuo army who were coerced into the battle were immediately stunned. If they went forward, they would die, and if they retreated, they would die under the machine guns of the supervising team. They could only fall to the ground and close their eyes to pretend to be dead.
As the momentum of the Japanese counterattack was successfully contained, the Anjia army officers and soldiers once again charged to the top of the mountain. The resistance of the Japanese army was very tenacious. Many Japanese soldiers fell to the ground and pretended to be dead. When the Anjia army attacked the position, they immediately jumped up and fired grenades or fired.
** package, causing huge casualties to our army!
However, the more determined the Japanese army resisted, the more miserable the death situation became. The entire mountainous position was littered with mutilated corpses, bodies missing heads and limbs, and pieces of flesh and blood and smoking rot.
Strips of cloth were attached to the tree trunks that had been burned bare in the mountains.
Inside and outside the trenches, human viscera, green intestines, white brains, burning black withered bones, dark red blood stains, and various human tissues and organs can be seen everywhere, making people feel like they are in Shura Hell.
In many places, napalm bombs are still burning, and the air is filled with the smell of burnt meat and barbecue. Coupled with the pungent smoke produced by the burning of gasoline, people who have not received relevant training may be vomiting at this time.
, all combat power is gone.
By four o'clock in the afternoon, the troops had rushed to the top of the mountain more than 400 meters above sea level. The officers and soldiers armed with automatic rifles, after receiving supplies from heavy troops many times, continued to shoot and kill the surviving Japanese soldiers everywhere in the mountains. Grenades were hailed.
They fell on the Japanese army positions everywhere that were stubbornly resisting.
In the sky, the armed helicopters had changed their bombs several times. The dense rain of rockets and Vulcan cannons rained down on the Japanese positions like meteors. The positions collapsed, the top of the bunker was penetrated, and sandbags flew into the air.
The Japanese and puppet soldiers, who were running around like rats, were torn into pieces by the hail of bullets fired from all directions.
After the Anjia Army occupied the top of the mountain, the enemy and we changed the direction of attack and defense. Our army attacked from top to bottom, while the Japanese army was in the unfavorable situation of defending from bottom to top.
Facing the Japanese defensive positions and bunker groups on the reverse slope, another group of B-Fighters appeared from the western sky and violently strafed and bombed the Japanese defensive positions.
Countless fighter planes flew over the Japanese positions with sharp roars. The piercing screams made the Japanese's ears and noses bleed. Aerial bombs, rockets and aviation machine gun bullets fell from the sky. Rows of fortifications, trenches and bunkers were surrounded
The Japanese soldiers were shattered to pieces, and the entire side of Mount Engel facing the east was shrouded in gunpowder smoke.
At this point in the battle, Kusaba Tatsuki knew that he could no longer block the Anjia Army's chokepoint into the plains, and had to painfully issue a "turn in" order.
"Turn in" is a more subtle and elegant way of saying retreat. Since 1937, the Japanese army has not gained the upper hand in the battle with the Anjia army. However, in order to appease the Japanese people who do not know the truth, they said in the battle report
"Failure", "rout", and "destruction" don't sound good, so the military uses the word "transfer" to mean escape.
"Commander, where should we turn?" Major General Ogizaburo, Chief of Staff of the Fourth Army asked.
Tatsumi Kusaba walked out of the headquarters and pointed to the mountains to the west: "Although it is getting dark, it is extremely difficult to avoid the pursuit of the mechanized troops of the Anjia Army who have air supremacy in the plain areas. We can only retreat to the west and retreat to the west.
Laotou Mountain and Horqin Sandy Land will be returned to southern Liaoning via Tongliao or Zhuoxin. If the situation in Northeast China has been completely eroded by then, we will enter the Pass through the Western Liaoning Corridor, and then we will find a way..."
The Japanese commanders at all levels who received the order to "turn" westward had an ominous shadow hanging over their hearts, but everyone knew in their hearts that under the current circumstances, escaping westward was the only way to survive.
However, the Japs and puppet soldiers at the bottom were as excited as chicken blood. Originally, they had already lost their guard against An's army's lightning-fast attack and were ready to die at any time. Now that they have
If you have a chance to survive, flee the position immediately and leave this frightening "slaughterhouse".
As the Japanese army dropped all their weapons and firepower and fled to the mountainous areas in the west, the Anjia Army pilots in the sky were surprised to see groups of khaki-colored frenzy, fleeing towards the rolling mountains in the west, and immediately reported this situation
Report.
After Gu Changfeng heard the urgent report, he immediately ordered helicopters to pursue him one after another, and then deployed a division of troops to pursue Lou.
At the same time, after the frontline troops cleared away the remaining Japanese troops on Engel Mountain and Laotou Mountain, they immediately moved toward the southeast, occupied Ping'an and Platform towns, and then rested on the spot.
The rest of the troops did not rest and occupied Tao'an, Zhendong, Taonan, Anguang, Kaichang and other places as planned to consolidate this bridgehead into the northeastern plains and lay a solid foundation for the next battle.
Just when the decisive victory was achieved in the Battle of Kudzu Temple, the Battle of Ulan-Ude also officially came to an end.
Encircled by the Japanese Ulan-Ude city defense force, the entire army was wiped out. No Japanese escaped from this city developed as a fortress. The Anjia Army Baikal Cluster paid the price of 2,300 killed in battle and more than 6,000 minor or serious injuries.
, wiped out more than 40,000 Japanese troops, opened up the main transportation route to the Far East, and greatly improved the situation in Eastern Siberia. In a sense, this was a battle of great significance.
The next morning, the Anjia Army's Menggu Military District's [Central] cluster broke through the Markhan Pass position southwest of Petrovsk, entered the Shilok River Valley, and approached Petrovsk, an important city on the Siberian Railway.
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