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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2556 Armored Group Assault

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    In the Western Liaoning Corridor area, the Daling River battlefield, the attack on the Kwantung Army's defensive positions, the fierce artillery fire and aerial bombings, made Major General Battelle, commander of the armored forces of the Independent Division, who was used to seeing the grand scenes of European battlefields, amazed. According to the location of the independent division in this battle,  The coordination and intensity of the air firepower meant that even if they were facing off against two or three German armies in a head-to-head battle, they would not lose a single cent, and could even gain the upper hand!

    Battle was proud and excited, excited that his brother had great strength now, and that he was one of them. At this moment, Feng Jiwu¡¯s order came, and the radio soldier¡¯s report interrupted his imagination, ¡°Say!  "Bartelle quickly brought his mind back to reality and said simply.

    "Commander Feng ordered that the bombing is over and the armored troops will attack immediately!" The radio soldier was even more concise and to the point.

    Battelle immediately issued an order on the tank formation communication channel: "Attention all brigades, all tanks will be activated immediately, approach the embankment on the south bank of the Daling River, eliminate the remaining enemies, and cover the pontoon bridge troops erecting the pontoon bridge!"

    The roar suddenly sounded, all the tanks stepped on the accelerator, the engines roared, the tanks rushed out, a layer of smoke rose, more than a thousand tanks came out, the earth shook, and the tracks crushed the soil and debris.  The sound of "crush!" emitted by the stone was another loud sound that shook people's hearts on the already quiet battlefield. The huge steel monster drove up the embankment of different heights on the south bank of the Daling River.

    The bombardment had passed and the bombing was over. General Umezu Yoshijiro's estimate was very accurate. The Ninth Army's defense system extending along the north bank of the Daling River was almost destroyed to nothing. Even the underground fortifications mostly collapsed.  The lives of the miscellaneous people were buried, and there were more Kwantung Army soldiers who were shocked by the shock wave and bleed from all the orifices, and fell limply in the crumbling underground fortifications.

    Added up to one hour of bombardment.  The forty-minute aerial bombardment brought heavy casualties to the Ninth Army. The number of troops in each frontline regiment was reduced by more than half. However, they were full of the spirit of Bushido. Even in the Imperial Army, they considered themselves superior.  .  The soldiers of the Kwantung Army, who are determined to devote themselves to His Majesty the Emperor and the Empire of Japan, and who do not take death seriously, are the few remaining powerful troops who will fight to the end.

    Of course, this determination to fight to the death and not retreat also comes from the orders of superiors.  Fight to the death and die, the soul can enter the Yasukuni Shrine, retreat and die, be cast aside by future generations, sinners of the empire, the surviving Kwantung Army soldiers under the curse of the officers who survived.  Climbing out of the dilapidated underground fortifications, emerging from the ruins of broken bricks and tiles, shaking his head that was dizzy from the shock, he desperately built temporary fortifications on the ruins with his body covered in dust and numerous wounds.

    At this moment, the surviving troops of the Ninth Army of the Kwantung Army have poor equipment, including mortars and Type 92 heavy machine guns.  It became the most powerful weapon. From the ruins on the north bank of the Daling River, there was a sound of digging engineers shoveling the soil, becoming a strange scene on the battlefield at night!

    When more than a thousand tanks commanded by Battelle, like steel monsters, rushed onto the embankment on the south bank of the Daling River, they naturally alarmed the hard-working Kwantung Army soldiers.  There was a burst of exclamation, "Look! That's a Chinese tank, ready to shoot!" There were more experienced veterans who were busy shooting at themselves.  Wrapped in a grenade, this is the sharp weapon of Yamato warriors. It turns into a bomb and blows up the tanks of the independent division!

    The tanks were lined up in a line, squatting on the embankment of the Daling River, but they were strangely silent. The engines roared low, and the turrets did not fire shells. But in the dim night, the steel monsters brought to Kanto  The pressure of the soldiers of the army is lingering. They don't know what these independent division tanks will do across the Daling River several hundred meters wide.

    Battelle sat in the tank commander's position, squinting his eyes, and calmly ordered on the armored formation communication channel: "Every vehicle, pay attention, listen to my order, turn on the headlights together, and the tank guns should pay attention to clearing the surviving Japanese fire points."  ! Break through the cluster and be ready to cross the pontoon bridge at any time! The commanders of each formation began to report on the preparation status of the formation! "

    In the earphones, reports from the commanders of each tank brigade kept coming, "Report to commander, the first formation of the third tank brigade is ready!" "Report to commander, the fifth formation of the first tank brigade is ready!"  Report to the commander! The first formation of the tank is ready.

    Battle listened calmly to the reports of the brigade commanders, calculating silently in his mind. When the last brigade commander finished his report, Battle opened the infantry contact channel, "Attention infantry commanders accompanying the attack, prepare for light artillery fire!"  Then, he suddenly shouted: "Turn on the lights!"

    "Brush!" Very suddenly, thousands of bright tank lights suddenly lit up on the south bank of the Daling River. If it were dark night, the sudden thrusts of lightsabers instantly blocked the Kwantung Army's defense on the north bank of the Daling River.  The ground of broken bricks and tilesThe bright light was as bright as day, and the dazzling light made the Kwantung Army soldiers, who were staring nervously at the tanks of the Independent Division with their eyes wide open, suddenly saw a blinding whiteness in front of them, and could not see anything. In their field of vision, there was only white light filling their pupils!

    The Kwantung Army soldiers who entered the ruined ground position were immediately exposed to the bright lights. Then, the mortars and light infantry guns approaching the river embankment began to pour shells at the Kwantung Army.  On the battlefield, firelight flashed, and the sound of explosions once again filled the night sky.

    Then, low-trajectory shells from tank guns roared and joined the artillery fire. Any spark from the muzzle of any Kwantung Army soldier during a counterattack would attract several shells. In order to counterattack, the independent division infantry crossed Daling.  River, the Kwantung Army's Ninth Army Commander Lieutenant General Kanagi requested to retreat to the second line of defense. After the request was flatly rejected by the Commander-in-Chief General Umezu Yoshijiro, he ordered all remaining troops of each division and brigade to enter.  Ground position, carry out a desperate counterattack!

    Lieutenant General Watanabe, the commander of the 18th Division, and Lieutenant General Barnabas, the commander of the army, were one step ahead. Before the order from the military headquarters was issued, the soldiers of the 18th Division had already entered the position, that is,  It is said that the remaining soldiers of the Kwantung Army's Ninth Army, which was defending along the Daling River, were all on the ground positions that had been blown to pieces, and Battelle's creative play became a decisive blow.  massacre.

    Small-caliber artillery shells flew in the night, roared across the Daling River, and fell on the Kwantung Army soldiers exposed to the light. The sound was no less than the huge explosion when the heavy artillery group shelled. It echoed in the night sky and was silent for less than ten years.  For a few minutes, the battlefield became noisy again.

    According to the offensive coordination plan, when more than a thousand tanks of the armored forces turned on their lights and artillery fire began to attack, the vehicles of the pontoon bridge troops were ready to rush down the embankment and onto the river beach. The crane roared and sent the steel pontoon bridge section by section.  After entering the water, when the pontoon bridge troops were setting up the pontoon bridge, the bullets from the other side were so sparse that they could be ignored.

    Zheng Yong, the artillery commander of the independent division, seemed to have nothing to do after his artillery completed its mission. He walked back and forth in the headquarters with unfinished thoughts. When he heard the loud sound of the artillery, he immediately rushed outside the headquarters.  What came into view was the battlefield on the north bank of the Daling River, illuminated by the lights of more than a thousand tanks and vehicles, as bright as day. "Hahaha! This guy Battle, despite his young age, has so many clever ideas! After a few moments, he came up with this idea.  , I, Lao Zheng, will definitely not be able to figure it out!¡± Zheng Yong laughed happily and jumped to his feet like a child!

    Also sighing were Major General Feng Jiwu, commander of the Niangziguan Garrison Corps, and Colonel Zhang Hansheng, chief of staff, who were always observing the battlefield situation. "Chief of staff, the fighting method used by Commander Battelle of the Armored Corps is unprecedented and can be listed in the list.  It is a classic tactic for armored groups to attack at night. It completely exposes the enemy and then uses artillery fire to kill it again. It is like fighting in broad daylight. It is indeed a wonderful idea that I drank foreign ink in Germany and the European battlefield!  Come on, what a reputation!" Feng Jiwu said in admiration.

    After sighing, Feng Jiwu said to Zhang Hansheng: "Chief of Staff, I can confirm that the casualties we will pay by breaking through the Dalinghe Defense Line of the Kwantung Army will be almost minimal!"

    Zhang Hansheng agreed with the commander's statement, and analyzed it from the perspective of the chief of staff: "Commander Battle's tactics need to meet several conditions at the same time. First, the Kwantung Army lacks anti-tank weapons, and second, after its artillery has been completely  After the destruction, there are no weapons that can threaten our armored group. Third, the surviving Kwantung Army soldiers have entered the ground position and are preparing to counterattack our infantry attack. The three conditions are indispensable, otherwise, the current effect will not be achieved! "

    Feng Jiwu laughed loudly: "The Chief of Staff has his own ideas, but without these conditions, Commander Battle would not adopt such tactics! You see, he is only in his twenties, and his experience in commanding operations is no less than  For any of us! Our teacher¡¯s younger brother will have amazing achievements in the future!¡±

    The Kwantung Army's Daling River defense line, which had experienced a triple blow from the combined artillery fire of tanks, mortars and light infantry guns, basically became a no-man's land at the scheduled breakthrough point. The Kwantung Army soldiers on the ground were all  Absolutely dead.

    Sections of the boat bridge are like dragons stretching straight to the opposite bank on the turbulent surface of the Daling River. They extend towards the north bank at a speed visible to the naked eye. On the boat bridge, engineers and soldiers from the Niangziguan garrison are nervously  Using tools to fix each section of the pontoon bridge, more than a year of training showed the results. Sparse stray bullets flew aimlessly in the night sky, drawing dark red trajectories, but they did not affect them at all.  The speed of pontoon bridge erection.

    The first boat bridge finally arrived on the beach on the north bank of the Daling River. Several high-powered engineering vehicles rumbled along the boat bridge to the other side. As anchor points to fix the other end of the boat bridge, they were almost connected.  ?At the same time as the report, Battelle issued an order: "First Armored Assault Group, start crossing the river!"

    (To be continued)
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