The commander of the reconnaissance battalion An Ruiguang discovered the crisis ahead. An Jiajun did not give up the tradition of his comrades and immediately dispatched several armored personnel carriers to respond.
However, although Tiegang and Zheng Heng were at the edge of the forest area, the trees were still relatively dense. Armored personnel carriers could not drive in at all and could only circle outside the forest. Without this, the shooters used their weapons one after another.
The vehicle-mounted dual-purpose machine gun fired intensively into the woods. At the same time, someone kept making gestures, telling the two to retreat quickly, but Zheng Heng didn't notice this at all at this time.
"Boom boom——"
At this moment, the sound of continuous artillery fire came, and almost instantly, more than a dozen grenades landed among several armored personnel carriers and exploded, creating deep craters in an instant.
One of the armored personnel carriers was unlucky, and was hit directly on the top by a falling grenade. The grenade directly blew away the machine gunner and the high-level dual-purpose machine gun. The shrapnel remained unabated, raging wildly inside the armored personnel carrier, igniting a raging fire.
, and then the ammunition in the vehicle was ignited and exploded.
The flaming armored personnel carrier was like a ignited gasoline barrel. It exploded with a "bang" sound. As the body shook violently, violent flames sprayed out from the gaps in the exploded armored vehicle. The moving car suddenly stopped.
No more movement.
Obviously, under such a blow, the passengers could not survive at all.
Seeing that the situation was not going well, the remaining armored personnel carriers immediately turned around and evacuated in an emergency, throwing the densely falling artillery shells behind their butts. The arrogant shouts of the Japanese soldiers could be heard in the woods.
"Fucking fucked up!"
Through the telescope, he saw several armored personnel carriers retreating safely. An Ruiguang was thankful and muttered a curse. At this time, he heard a noise coming from beside him. When he looked back, he immediately understood what had happened.
He waved his hand to take away the six officers and soldiers who were making a fuss and wanted to kill them when they saw that the squad leader was missing. You must not act impulsively at this time, otherwise it will only kill more people.
The Japanese army obviously hid a large force in the woods. Looking at the intensity of the artillery fire, it was obviously unwise to confront them head-on.
The armored personnel carrier equipped by the reconnaissance battalion is a second-generation product. It has a simple and reliable design and has amphibious combat capabilities. The hull is made of welded thin steel plates. It is equipped with 14 mm armor on the front of the vehicle body, which can only block the attack of 7.62 mm caliber bullets.
It can't even withstand 12.7mm caliber bullets, let alone face direct artillery strikes!
At this time, densely packed Japanese soldiers appeared around the forest. Everywhere you looked, there were people. It seemed that the Japanese soldiers had finally revealed their ferocious faces after seeing that they were unable to hide.
At the edge of the dense forest, when the Japanese army focused all its attention on dealing with armored personnel carriers, Zheng Heng, who was hiding in the pit, finally returned to normal. He carefully climbed out of the depression, rolled to Tiegang's side, and quickly rescued the injured squad leader.
He pushed down the depression, rolled into the pit, and wiped his face nervously. Looking at the squad leader's bloody wound, he was thankful that no arteries were injured. He quickly took out a large first aid kit and helped the squad leader bandage it.
Tiegang smiled bitterly and asked the recruit Danzi who saved his life: "Why don't you withdraw with the others?"
Zheng Heng scratched his head in embarrassment: "I...I was frightened by the situation when you were shot just now. I have no strength in my whole body!"
Tiegang was stunned when he heard this, and then he burst into laughter and muttered, "I didn't expect that I would be saved by a new recruit." Then he supported his helmet, propped up his body with both hands, and stuck out half of his head to check the movement of the Japanese army. Just in time.
At this time, the roar of a mortar flying through the air was heard, and the forest once again burst into flames.
It turned out that An Ruiguang was unwilling to retreat and asked the mortar company to point its muzzle at the woods and freely select areas for bombardment in order to determine where the Japanese artillery was hidden in the woods.
Sure enough, under the continuous attacks of the mortar company, the Japanese commander saw that the Anjia Army's scouts had returned to the convoy safely, thinking that his preset ambush position had been completely exposed, so he simply broke the pot and used artillery to fight back.
Amidst the whistling sound, several grenades fell aimlessly around the mortar position and next to the convoy, thus completely exposing the Japanese artillery position in front of the reconnaissance battalion.
“What a lousy little Japan!”
As soon as An Ruiguang heard the sound of the artillery, he immediately turned around and issued an order: "This is the Japanese artillery conducting a test firing. Order the mortar company to evacuate quickly. Our convoy must also move. It won't take long for the Japanese artillery to adjust the firing."
Zhu Yuan, our mortars have a lower range than the other side and will be used as a living target. Also, report the coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions to the Air Force immediately!"
"yes!"
Correspondent Staff Sergeant Gu Zhongxin is very busy now. He quickly reported the coordinates of the Japanese artillery positions. He also conveyed the new order issued by the division commander Major General Anxiang to his battalion commander:
"Battal commander, the division commander asked us to hold off the Japanese troops. The 36th Tank Regiment of the Eighth Division is ten kilometers behind us and can reach us within a quarter of an hour. A bomber squadron patrolling nearby will also arrive in five minutes.
Join the order of battle!"
The convoy had already begun to move.
An Ruiguang turned around and saw the artillerymen who were dismantling Zhu Yuan's equipment. He was very anxious. The Japanese artillery was getting closer and closer. It was obvious that Zhu Yuan had quickly adjusted the shooting. He immediately ordered decisively: "Captain Hu, don't worry about those cannons. I
You are ordered to take up arms immediately and join the battle order as an infantryman!"
Mortar company commander Hu Xuefeng hesitated for a moment and immediately executed the order.
This artillery company commander, who graduated from the gunnery department of the Xufu Military Academy in 1938, feels very sad at the moment. After all, these mortars have been with the artillery company for a long time, and it is really hard to give them up now. However, what the army needs is obedience.
, he can only obey the orders of his superiors unconditionally!
"Rumble--"
As soon as the officers and soldiers of the artillery company withdrew from the artillery position, the Japanese artillery shells rained down densely. Sixteen 100 mm caliber mortars lay staggered in the smoke-filled crater, turning into a pile of scrap metal.
After the bombardment, Hu Xuefeng got up from the ground, his heart beating "dong-dong", and his face was full of anger. A qualified soldier always treats weapons and equipment as his own child, but now his child is under the bombardment of the Japanese.
It turned into steel residue, which filled the hearts of all the officers and soldiers in the artillery company with deep-seated hatred.
An armored command vehicle with five armored personnel carriers stopped beside the artillerymen. An Ruiguang leaned half out of the back door of the command vehicle and shouted at the artillerymen under the vehicle: "Get in the car and retreat!"
Hu Xuefeng's eyes were red and he said loudly: "Batalion Commander, we should move forward at this time to eliminate the little devils!"
An Ruiguang was unmoved and repeated with a cold face: "I don't want to say it a third time...get in the car and retreat!"
"yes!"
Hu Xuefeng raised his hands in salute with a look of reluctance, then quickly rushed into the armored personnel carrier with his men, and then the convoy fled frantically toward the north.
Only thirty seconds later, the Japanese artillery fire came to the place where the convoy had stopped. The dense artillery shells continued to fall, exploding craters one after another.
They retreated four kilometers away in one breath. Only then did An Ruiguang give the order to stop the retreat.
Although the Japanese army's shelling was very fierce, based on the rate of fire and the size of the crater, An Ruiguang judged that the Japanese army was equipped with old-fashioned artillery, which was not very powerful and had a range of no more than five kilometers. If the enemy still insisted on shelling at this position,
It's hard to be accurate.
Sure enough, the Japanese artillery fire only stopped halfway after catching up.
At this time, An Ruiguang still didn't know that about two regiments of Japanese troops moving south from Harbin were urgently responsible for blocking the eastward advance of An's army, so as to facilitate the evacuation of the Japanese and puppet troops in the Changchun area. Looking around Changchun, there was only Wanbaoshan.
The conditions for an ambush are only available in and around the forest area, so the Japanese soldiers only prepared some anti-tank weapons, and the artillery transported by train were all old artillery from before and after World War I. In this way, even if the blocking failed, it would not be a pity to throw it away.
In the woods, the Japanese troops were complacent about repelling the attack of a mechanized unit of the Anjia Army, and temporarily forgot about Zheng Heng and Tiegang who were hiding in the depression.
Under the guidance of squad leader Iron, recruit Zheng Heng began to check his weapons and equipment. Fortunately, the two of them still had more than 160 rounds of ammunition and six grenades in total.
After checking the weapon, Tiegang took out a wooden-handled grenade tied to his waist and unscrewed the safety cover so that he could die with the enemy at the last moment when the ammunition was exhausted. There was no tradition of being a prisoner in the Anjia army.
, Failure or failure is the creed of every officer and soldier!
Just when the Japanese army sent people to check the situation in the depression at the edge of the forest, and Tiegang, who had injured his thigh, and recruit Zheng Heng were lying under the pit, preparing to shoot in a fight to the death, there was a "buzzing" sound from the horizon.
, and then a shrill air raid siren sounded in the forest.
The two people twisted their necks and looked up at the sky in surprise. They saw fifteen black spots appearing in the northern sky. A squadron of B2 bombers came madly over the forest.
The Japanese army was in great confusion. The Japanese who were slowly approaching in skirmish formation at the edge of the forest immediately gave up their plan to explore the depression and quickly ran towards their own foxholes in the forest. Those who were not prepared for the foxholes
The Japanese screamed and looked for any natural shelter they could take cover.
"Look. It's our plane!"
Tiegang stared at the faint Flying Fox logo on the silver-gray planes in the low sky, and breathed a long sigh of relief. He said enviously: "The Air Force is better, it's so popular when coming in and out... Now the Japanese are...
They must have been scared to death, we are safe for now!"
Being able to survive is naturally a good thing. Recruit Zheng Heng, who has made up his mind to fight until the last moment of his life, has a look of joy on his face, relaxes and watches the air force's performance with his squad leader.
The B2 bomber began to increase its altitude in preparation for dive bombing. For a while, except for the shrill roar of the B2 bomber, there was no other sound on the battlefield.
The two of them were looking forward to it, waiting for the B2 bombers to bomb the Japanese infantry and then take advantage of the chaos to evacuate. However, the expectation turned into disappointment, and then into surprise.
It turned out that when the high-altitude B2 bomber flew over the area where the Japanese infantry was, it did not swoop down to drop bombs, but flew straight towards the back of the forest. Not long after, a miserable whistling sound was heard, followed by a series of
There was an explosion, followed by an even more astonishing explosion.
"OK!"
Tiegang smiled and explained to Zheng Heng: "It turns out that our bombers went to deal with the Japanese artillery. Listening to the huge explosion behind them, it should be that the ammunition of the Japanese artillery was detonated. Now our armored fighting vehicle is gone.
The threat can be killed again!"
Tiegang's prediction was correct. At this time, the northern sky was filled with dust. Not only the reconnaissance battalion's convoy that he was expecting, but also a wave of majestic tanks swooped towards the forest.
As the tanks got closer and closer, the Japanese howitzer fire did not sound. It seemed that they were destroyed by the attack of the bombers. As the distance quickly shortened, the Japanese anti-tank guns finally opened fire.
The Sanqi anti-tank gun has long been proven to be unable to cause damage to Anjiajun tanks, so this time the Japanese army carried a 47mm anti-tank gun. This gun can penetrate 55.6mm armor within 100 meters, and can penetrate 55.6mm armor at 500 meters.
Penetrating 43.1mm armor is a weapon carefully prepared by the Japanese army to deal with Anjiajun tanks.
However, the 47th battle anti-artillery is a very good weapon against armored fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers, but it is unable to deal with the main battle tanks of the Anjia Army!
Not to mention the Tiger I tank with a 130 mm frontal armor and a 30-degree inclination angle equivalent to 200 mm of protection. Even the Leopard II tank has a 32-degree angle of 45 mm frontal armor with a protection capacity equivalent to 90 mm, while the 49
The highly beveled side armor is also equivalent to 54mm armor, which led to another tragedy for the 47th Battle anti-artillery that the Japanese believed could cause damage to Anjiajun tanks.
"Bang——"
A loud noise was heard from the Leopard II tank rushing at the front. A dent appeared on the front shield that was hit. The sparks from the friction had not dissipated. The anti-tank warhead bounced off and hit the side of the tank, creating a small hole.
Small bullet marks.
Following the enemy's anti-tank gun fire, the gunfire quickly became intensive.
The Japanese soldiers desperately poured ammunition into the advancing Anjiajun tank troops, but this directly exposed their firepower layout in the forest. White smoke continued to emit from the muzzles of two hundred Leopard II tanks and a small number of Tiger I tanks.
, and then there was a roar. The carefully constructed bunkers of the Japanese army were hit one after another. The broken limbs and arms were thrown into the air along with the soil, and thick smoke billowed from the woods.
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