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Volume 1 Songhua River Chapter 3186 Sweep (Part 2)

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    There was no need for the chief of staff to remind him that the artillery shells that landed not far away had already told Lieutenant General Magsilotti that the Chinese ** team had arrived. If he did not retreat, he would be a prisoner of the Chinese or be killed by the artillery shells.  ≤

    Lieutenant General Magsilotti turned pale and shouted to Chief of Staff Major General Charbert: "Chief of Staff, order the Japanese to launch an attack immediately, and order the 35th Division, the Tank Brigade and the Artillery Brigade to immediately retreat in the direction of Salem.  , ordering the 29th Division and the 31st Division in the direction of Everett and Spokane to find an opportunity to leave the battlefield and retreat toward Salem, and the military headquarters will be transferred immediately! "

    At the critical moment, Lieutenant General Magsilotti decided to let the Japanese, for himself and his troops, resist the attack of nearly 100,000 people and more than 1,000 tanks of the Chinese Army. They were originally cannon fodder, but now they should play a role.  .

    The commander of the Yokoyama Division was leading his troops toward the right wing of Yakima. He received an order from Lieutenant General Magsilotti midway. He was a little confused. There were artillery fire everywhere in Yakima and the surrounding areas, and the battlefield was extremely large.  It was large, chaotic, and the Italians' orders were very vague. In which direction were they allowed to attack the China Independent Division?

    There are three brigades of the China Independent Division on the Yakima battlefield. With the strength of the 131st Division, they can only fight one. You can't fight one by one. You still have self-awareness, Lieutenant General Yokoyama said in his heart.  Secretly cursing the Italians for being unreliable, he and several senior staff officers from the division headquarters gathered around the map and discussed with gestures, while the troops were still moving towards Yakima's right wing!

    What the commander of the Hengshan Division did not know was that he and more than 20,000 soldiers had become cannon fodder for the Italians.  "Reporting to the division commander, the vanguard wing sent a telegram. About ten kilometers away from us, a large number of China Independent Division tanks were found. There were also a large number of infantry, the specific strength is unknown!" Before the outcome of the discussion was reached, the communication  The staff report shocked all the Japanese officers!

    The commander of the Hengshan Division immediately understood that the China Independent Division troops were coming towards him, and the purpose was obvious. Otherwise, they would not have turned to the Yakima right wing during the attack, and it would have been a sudden encounter.  "Order, the troops dig fortifications on the spot and move to defense!" Evacuation is impossible, we can only fight!

    When the troops are advancing, switching to on-site defense posture cannot be completed instantly with a single order. Even the most well-trained troops are bound to cause a period of chaos. The Japanese soldiers just ran like dogs.  After receiving the order, trenches were dug immediately. The field fortifications were not dug deep enough to the feet, and the artillerymen were still busy building artillery positions, in the darkness ahead.  There were dazzling beams of light and the roar of tanks.

    The east refers to more than 300 tanks of the 8th Tank Brigade, forming a three-way assault group.  They are about three kilometers apart from each other and cover more than 30,000 East Point troops.  It was already approaching like a metal hurricane, and the tracks "crushed." The motor roared, and the low-trajectory tank shells blew the Japanese soldiers exposed in the wild to pieces. In an instant, the vanguard of the 131st Division  The alliance was scattered, divided into several disconnected parts, and then submerged in the shock wave.

    Liu Tiehan had moved his headquarters to a building in Yakima City that had just been abandoned by the Italian army. The communications department quickly communicated with various offensive forces. Chief of Staff Yang Ketian quickly gathered together the situation on the battlefield.  Report to Liu Tiehan: "Deputy Division Commander, I received a report from the frontal attack force. The Italian 35th Infantry Division, a tank brigade and an artillery brigade are rapidly retreating towards Salem!"

    "We received reports of attacks on the Everett and Spokane troops. The Italian troops in the two places showed signs of retreating from the battle. We received reports of attacks on the Japanese troops on the right wing. They have already exchanged fire with the Japanese troops. The Japanese troops have adopted a defensive posture. At present,  Attacking its troops on the second line!"

    "Want to run away? How can it be so cheap!" Liu Tiehan frowned and said: "Order, the troops attacking Everett and Spokane should immediately form an encirclement and eliminate them as quickly as possible.  The 29th Division and the 31st Division of the Army can persuade them to surrender if necessary!"

    "Order that the 7th and 8th brigades attacking Yakima's left wing and the 7th tank brigade immediately advance as quickly as possible to the line of Custer Mountain north of Salem to build a blocking line and block the Italian No.  The 35th Division of the three armies and its tanks and artillery units withdraw to the retreat route of Salem!"

    "Order that the 9th Brigade and the 5th Tank Brigade attacking from the center immediately join the Yakima right wing and surround the battlefield of the Japanese 131st Division. The 10th Brigade and the 6th Tank Brigade continue to maintain a frontal offensive posture.  , the 11th and 12th brigades on the right wing and the 8th tank brigade divided and surrounded the Japanese army as quickly as possible, and did not accept the Japanese surrender! Ordered the follow-up troops to immediately pass through the Yakima line and quickly attack the Salem area.  The Fifth Army of the Italian Army formed an encirclement trend!"

    ??On the right side of Yakima, pointing east to the 11th and 12th brigades and the 8th Tank Brigade, the attack on the second-line troops of the Japanese 131st Division is still sharp. Lieutenant General Yokoyama is placed behind the leading troops.  As soon as a regiment saw the vanguard troops retreating in defeat, the East Point tanks were covering the infantry, so they rushed up and blasted them with tank shells, destroying the Japanese army's hastily dug field fortifications that were not even formed at all.  , shrouded in a cloud of fireworks!

    The lethality of tanks against Japanese soldiers who did not have a solid defense system and were exposed in the wild was undoubtedly astonishing. After years of fighting on the battlefield, the infantry and tanks of the various corps of the independent division had reached a level of proficiency in their tactics, and could easily tear them apart.  Japanese defense line.

    Facing the armored torrent of the East Point troops, the Japanese soldiers who lacked anti-tank weapons were helpless and helpless to resist. The parallel machine guns of the tanks poured raindrops of bullets on the Japanese soldiers without mercy. The Japanese soldiers were in despair.  , using their special skill - the spirit of Bushido, the soldiers, covered in explosives and grenades, howled and rushed forward, trying to exchange their lives for hitting a tank of the Japanese Army.

    But all the struggles of the Japanese soldiers were in vain. Before they even got close to the tank, they were beaten with bloody holes by the infantry accompanying the attack. The dense submachine gun bullets even detonated the explosives on their bodies, blowing the Japanese soldiers into pieces.  Fireball.

    Seeing the Japanese troops deployed on the second line, they couldn't stand it anymore. At the critical moment, the two heavy artillery regiments supplemented by Lieutenant General Magsilotti to the 131st Division finally came into play and began to shell the attacking East Point.  Troops, artillery shells landed on the tanks one after another, exploding into clouds of fire and causing a certain degree of casualties to the infantry accompanying the attack.

    Lieutenant General Hengshan finally breathed a sigh of relief. With artillery fire, he could temporarily stop the attack of the China Independent Division. He could also free his head and think about what to do next. It was obvious that his troops were now surrounded by the Independent Division.  If he continued to fight, not a single soldier would die, but he was at a loss as to what to do next.

    With the battle reaching this level, Lieutenant General Yokoyama had some idea that he and the more than 20,000 imperial soldiers under his command would be used as cannon fodder by the Italians. The sound of artillery in other directions had gradually become sparse.  Coming down, only on the right side of Yakima, where my own troops were located, the fighting became more and more intense. It seemed that the entire Chinese Independent Division troops on the battlefield were surrounding me?

    Lieutenant General Hengshan cursed the Italians in his heart, and then called the Third Army Headquarters on the radio desperately. Although he hated the Italians, he was under their command after all. Even if he wanted to retreat, he had to  Withdrawing to Salem, without the permission of the bully Lieutenant General Magsilotti, it was a question of whether the remaining soldiers of the 131st Division could enter Salem?

    The radio operator here shouted at the top of his lungs, but could not contact the Italians. Over there, the attack momentum of the China Independent Division became more and more fierce. Lieutenant General Hengshan was so anxious that he was spinning in circles. Suddenly, in the sky,  There was a scream of artillery shells cutting through the air, "Boom! Boom! Boom!" More than ten artillery shells fell nearby. Lieutenant General Hengshan sighed. He knew that the artillery of the China Independent Division began to suppress his own.  Two artillery regiments cannot hold it for long.

    The four self-propelled artillery regiments following the East Point offensive troops to provide artillery support for breaking through the Japanese positions, after receiving reports that the troops were shelled by Japanese artillery, immediately launched a comprehensive artillery suppression and counterattack. Hundreds of large-caliber  The self-propelled artillery followed the direction of the Japanese artillery shells and poured large-caliber shells over them, shrouding the Japanese artillery positions in smoke.

    The battle raged until dawn, when the 9th Brigade and the 5th Tank Brigade attacking from the center joined the battlefield. The 131st Division of the Japanese Army, which had been destroyed by more than half, was immediately overrun by three infantry brigades and two East Command infantry brigades with superior strength and firepower.  The tank brigade was divided and surrounded. It was only a matter of time before the entire Japanese army was annihilated.

    It was daybreak, and the battlefield from Everett to Spokane in the northwest United States was still roaring with artillery, especially on the right side of Yakima, pointing east to three infantry brigades and two tank brigades, against the Japanese 130th Army.  The encirclement and annihilation of the first division was in progress, and the Japanese soldiers resisted desperately, which inevitably slowed down the progress of the battle in this direction.

    On the left and right flanks in Everett and Spokane, the Italian 29th Division and the 31st Division suffered heavy casualties after being attacked by the East Point troops all night, and the remaining troops were compressed into the city.  The area has gradually lost its ability to resist.

    Only in the attack direction of Yakima's center road, the sound of artillery gradually became sparse and moved away to the south. The 10th East Point Brigade and the 6th Tank Brigade were chasing the retreating Italian 35th Division. At this point, the East Point  The troops have fully controlled the battlefield rhythm of the first battle in the United States.

    ? ?Tiehan relaxed physically and mentally, and then saw Chief of Staff Yang Ketian walking in quickly with a nervous look on his face.  .  .  .  .  .

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