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Text Chapter 1041 Conquering Seoul (Part 2)

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    "The Battle of Seoul has begun!" The dense explosions in Bukhan Mountain quickly reached the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.  The shaky Tojo Hideki knelt on the straw mat, and together with the ministers, looked at the furious Hirohito in front of him, his face was surprisingly calm.

    After the Soviet army launched an offensive in Central Asia in May, the pressure on Japan's mainland suddenly decreased a lot. The bombers that shuttled over the island day and night like crows dropped sharply from more than 500 sorties per day to 100 sorties per day.  Japan's top leaders feel that the most difficult days are over.  However, a few days ago, Europe and the United States reported on the victory of the Battle of the Central Asian Bulge and the Battle of Kostanay, and the news that the Chinese Army was officially approaching the Urals, which gave the whole of Japan another slap in the face!  The subsequent defeat in Okinawa further extinguished his idea of ??"persisting until the international situation reverses."  It is foreseeable that when the north enters severe winter again at the end of October, a large number of Chinese bombers will reappear over Japan like migrating birds.

    Now that Seoul is in danger again, and Japan¡¯s rule on the Korean Peninsula is about to end, he understands that this time it may really fail.  "It's unreasonable to put hope on allies." Tojo smiled bitterly in his heart. Faced with the corrupt situation, he could no longer think of any strategy and had the idea of ??resigning.  The ministers in the room all lowered their heads and remained silent. Only Umezu Yoshijiro, whose arm was wrapped in gauze, insisted: "You shouldn't give up! There are still one million soldiers in Imperial Korea, 500,000 soldiers in the south, and thousands more on this island.  Ten thousand people! As long as each of us kills one *** soldier, we can let them bleed dry!"

    "Drain the blood? Humph! Do you think Umezu-kun can stop the heavy artillery and tanks of the Japanese army with your flesh and blood? The empire's oil and steel reserves have been exhausted, and even the production of aircraft and anti-aircraft guns has almost stopped. How can you resist?*  What about the bombing of Japan?" Shitaro Shimada, the Navy Minister who had just taken office, snorted coldly and was very dissatisfied with the Army's stubbornness and arrogance.  Although the Combined Fleet was completely defeated, in the eyes of the Navy's top brass, if the Army had given up on North Korea earlier and adopted a non-contact strategy with China, it would not have been forced into a desperate situation so early.

    This kind of shirk of responsibility immediately aroused the long-dormant conflict between land and sea. Umezu Yoshijiro tore off the gauze and angrily said: "That is not the incompetence of your navy! If you can send the Imperial Army to North Korea, Lord Itahuan will still  Will I be surrounded?"

    "Baga! That was your stupidity. It was caused by the enemy tanks breaking through the defense line. What does it have to do with us?"

    "What about Okinawa? Why is it lost?"

    The dispute between the two affected the wound that Umezu Meijiro left in Ryukyu. Blood slowly seeped out from under the gauze, making him look particularly ferocious.  "Come here, help Umezu take care of the wound." Upon seeing this, Hirohito called the attendant to re-bandage the wound. His eyes swept over the faces of Tojo and others: "Okay! Now is not the time to argue. I want to know what you are doing."  New combat strategy!?¡±

    After Hirohito ended the dispute, Anami immediately bowed and pointed the finger at Tojo, who was silent next to him: "After twenty years of hard work, how can you give up just because of a little setback?! The allies are still there!  Persistence, does the empire want to end easily? The Japanese have not yet invaded Moscow, and the two-front attack situation has not changed. At this time, the current strategy should be continued. Use North Korea to consume the Japanese army, and then accumulate strength at home, and also  Decisively deal with those who have defaulted on their responsibilities and show the people their determination to fight to the death! Wait patiently for the opportunity."

    Faced with such an obvious accusation from Anami Weiji, Tojo remained silent.  As Prime Minister and Minister of War, it is impossible to say that he has no responsibility for the war being fought like this. Besides, who is behind Anan Weiji? No one here knows?  How could this dog bark without Hirohito's dissatisfaction?  Sure enough, as soon as his words came out, Oiso Kuniaki, Hata Shunroku and others pointed the finger at him. Even Okamura and others believed that he should take responsibility and took the initiative to step down and apologize to the people.

    The big army was overwhelmed, and the inside inside continued, making the foreign minister sitting on the side of the foreign affairs Minister Chongguangki was a little anxious.  He didn't believe in such nonsense as accumulating strength. Japan was not a continental country rich in resources. It couldn't even build a few airplanes in the country, so how could it accumulate energy?  So he cleared his throat and interrupted: "Your Majesty, the matter of pursuing responsibility can be postponed. I think we should send someone to Yanjing now to hear the conditions of the government.

    "What?!"

    Shigemitsu Aoi's words made the air freeze instantly, and the stubborn Umezu Yoshijiro and a few others looked fiercely.  Hirohito's face was angry at first, and then quickly replaced by confusion. After a long time, he turned towards the bright sun outside the window.  "Is it true that the Empire of the Sun, which our ancestors worked so hard to create, is going to decline in our own hands? It shouldn't be like this!"

    When Hirohito hesitated to contact Yanjing, the Battle of Seoul was already in full swing.  The 10 Russian divisions and 3 Korean infantry divisions that came ashore from Haizhou increased the number of troops in Zhuo Fan's hands to 22 divisions. After learning that Liu Mingzhao had invaded the Urals, he immediately gathered 8 divisions to attack the Northern Han Dynasty.  Shan launched a fierce attack and at the same time asked Zhao Dengyu to lead 6 divisions south from Gyeonggi Province to attack Chungju and Qingzhou.  The Navy, which finally freed itself from Ryukyu, sent two Hokkaido ships-class aircraft carrier, 4 escort aircraft carriers, 2 Anhai-class battleships, 2 Yanjing-class battleships and 6 light and heavy cruisers launched a fierce bombardment on Incheon Port and Seoul.

    Faced with a comprehensive land, sea and air attack by the Chinese National Defense Forces, Seishiro Itanhuan knew that Seoul was probably in danger, so he immediately issued a "Jade Crushing" order!  Strictly order all troops in the north to break out to the south immediately.  In order to delay time and hold on to Seoul to prevent internal interference, he also ordered the execution of all rebellious elements in the city.

    Because of the blockade, intelligence agents in the city were unable to send out news, so the "Jade Broken Execution Order" was not known until Pyongyang and Seoul were breached.  Starting from the night of August 8, the Japanese army actually killed about 400,000 civilians in the two places within a few days!  Created the appalling peninsula catastrophe!

    The first person to respond to the order was Obata Hideyoshi, who was entrenched in Pyongyang.  After leaving two divisions behind and executing the "rebellious elements", he personally led five divisions, including the 10th Army, to attack Switzerland. He also ordered the 1st Tank Division, known as the ace of the Imperial Army, to storm Switzerland.  Xing, trying to open up the retreat route, attack Kaesong to rescue the besieged Seoul.

    The Japanese army is probably the most peculiar army in the world. Maybe it is too poor to let go, or maybe it is because the theory of decisive battle in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War is deeply rooted, so it always likes to talk about "decisive battle" and "jade broken", and always talks about it.  I like to build some so-called "Decisive Battle Weapons" and "Decisive Battle Troops".  Just like the navy, before the Yamato-class battleships came out, the Nagato-class was known as the weapon of the country. After the Yamato-class came out, it replaced the Nagato as the "weapon of decisive battle". It was not even willing to use it in a war as important as the Kerama naval battle.  Come out and use it.

    The Army also has such a "decisive battle force", which is the First Tank Division.

    The 1st Tank Division was adapted from the 1st Tank Regiment, the oldest tank regiment in the Japanese Army. They are all tank soldiers with the most experience and the best quality.  At the beginning of its establishment, it also combined the establishment of Japanese army divisions and Chinese armored divisions.  The division has two chariot brigades, and each brigade has two chariot regiments.  Each tank regiment has 48 tanks and a motorized infantry battalion. The motorized infantry battalion has 62 light and heavy machine guns, 32 grenades, 16 Type 92 70mm infantry guns, and 12 Type 1 47mm anti-tank guns.  There are 2 flamethrowers, and each brigade has 130 trucks for transportation. Finally, it is organized into a tank brigade directly under the division.  As a result, the entire division has a total of 216 tanks, most of which are the best Type 97 medium tanks.

    No matter how moneyless the Japanese Army is and how it is affected by the lack of resources, the Army Special High School Course led by Kenji Doihara has been silently spying on the intelligence of its old rivals.  As early as 1934, after learning that the Chinese Army had begun to equip the Type 31 tanks in batches, the Japanese army realized that its light tanks could not deal with medium tanks, so they immediately canceled the development of the Type 95 tanks at that time.  Due to insufficient technical reserves, Moscow was finally turned to.  Stalin considered the need to contain China, so he gave some T26 tank technology. Then Japan introduced diesel engines from Germany, and finally finalized the Type 97 medium tank in 1937.

    Unlike the historical Type 97, the current Type 97 is more like the historical Type 3 medium tank.  It has a total weight of 18 tons and uses the L31 75mm cannon. The gun has a muzzle velocity of about 680 meters per second and a penetration depth of 90mm of homogeneous steel within 100 meters.  Judging from the actual combat effectiveness, it has reached the standards of the German Type III J tank.  Judging from the level of the year, except that it is not as good as the Type 31, it is still very good.  But at that time, the Japanese navy was dreaming of dominating the Pacific and swallowed up almost all its resources. As a result, after two years of quarrel between the land and sea, mass production began in early 1939.  Due to internal friction, less than 800 tanks were built before the Rainbow Bombing, and the total number of tanks was only 2,600, which was half less than in the parallel world.

    After the outbreak of the war, tank technology in various countries advanced rapidly, especially the long barrel and tilt revolution launched by China and the Soviet Union, which had a far-reaching impact.  The Type 97, which still uses vertical armor and riveting technology, is actually seriously outdated. However, the Japanese army, which is in East Asia and has almost no idea of ??the military technological revolution in the outside world, still holds a "decisive battle" mentality and believes that the First Division of Tanks and  The Type 97 tanks are the decisive force, so they have been hiding in Pyongyang and have not participated in any battles.  Had it not been for Japan's rule in Korea this time, Obata Hideyoshi would have been reluctant to use it.

    Although the Japanese army has weird ideas, Kenji Doihara's intelligence work is still good, and he knows that the Type 97 cannot defeat the Type 36 "Siberian Tiger" main battle tank.  We also know that there are actually not many "Northeast Tigers" fighting in North Korea. There are 2 regiments in the north, and they are all concentrated in the 3rd Infantry Division, 37th and 104th Armored Divisions of the Zhuofan Cluster in the south. The rest of the troops are all Type 31. As for  The T34 equipped by the Russian army is not included in the calculation.

    Division commander Lieutenant General An Gang Takeomi even believed that the Type 31 was only slightly heavier than the Type 97, but had a smaller gun caliber and should be a comparable tank.  Therefore, facing the Second Airborne Division of the National Defense Forces and a Type 31 Armored Battalion stationed in Ruixing, we are full of confidence.  "The paratroopers are lightly armed troops with only some light artillery. Order Tamada-kun to attack immediately!" An Gangwuchen, who thought he had figured out the strength of his opponent, immediately ordered an attack after arriving.

    "Attack!" After receiving the order, the tank came firstColonel Nakata Yoshiho of the regiment immediately launched an attack with his 6 Type 1 tanks and 42 Type 97 tanks.

    "Haha, is this the level?" The dense armored impact formation of the Japanese army almost made Ye Zishan laugh out loud.

    Being accustomed to the Sino-Soviet armored breakthrough tactics, he was a little bit dumbfounded.  Judging from the formation, the Japanese army did not understand armor tactics at all, and actually lined up dozens of tanks in a row, lacking deep protection.  The combination of infantry and tanks is even worse. The tanks are parallel, the infantry are also parallel, and there is no self-propelled anti-aircraft gun behind them.  If this were in Central Asia, the air force alone would be able to annihilate them all.

    Ye Zishan's judgment was correct. Before the 2nd Airborne Division could take action, eight H-10 attack aircraft coming from Kaicheng crossed the artillery fire area and used 16 aircraft carrier armor-piercing bombs to tell the Japanese tank battle.  how to spell.  "Boom boom boom" Hundreds of bomblets popped out of the shells. The bombs with hollow charges that could penetrate 30 mm average steel plates destroyed 13 Type 97 tanks in an instant.

    This ultra-intense attack even frightened Yoshiho Nakata for a full minute before he howled like a wild beast and asked the tank to continue charging.

    But the H-10 "bomb truck" with 8 hardpoints and an internal magazine is not called it for nothing. After dropping the bombs in a circle, it started to use rockets, 40mm rapid-fire cannons and 4 12.7mm machine guns.  Understand what saturation ground attack is.  By the time the H-10 Squadron left, the First Regiment had only seven tanks left to operate, and the infantry suffered hundreds of casualties.

    Not long after the Air Force left, Navy dive bombers called by the Second Airborne Division followed one after another.  A long line of dive bombers filed down. Although the dive bombers did not have as large a bomb load as the H-10, they were better in number. The 250 kilogram high-explosive bombs set off one sea of ????fire after another in the first tank division. The so-called "decisive battle."  Before the division could even see the enemy, nearly half of it was destroyed by aircraft.

    Anggang Wuchen, who was still proud and arrogant before, turned green. Only then did he realize why the Soviet army, which had more than 20,000 tanks before the war, was so completely defeated in Central Asia!  Faced with this type of saturation attack, there is no way to escape!  "Charge over, must charge over!" An Gangwuchen, who was completely confused, turned into a gambler. As soon as the dive bombers left, he pressed all the remaining more than 100 tanks on them.

    North Korea is not Central Asia. In the complex mountainous environment, even Zhuo Fan had to break up the heavy-armed troops into battalions for use. Therefore, his tactics of tanks and bayonets were completely suicidal.  Sure enough, before the tank battalion stationed in Ruixing was dispatched, the 85mm anti-tank guns deployed by the Second Airborne Division on the highlands were destroyed again and again, telling him that even without the air force, Ruixing would not be able to break through so easily.

    As mentioned before, in order to simplify logistics, the Type 36 main battle tank and the towed 85mm anti-tank gun are the same model. In order to enhance the power, not only the design ideas of the famous British 25/17-pound gun are adopted, but also the large 105mm short shell is used.  Medicine, achieving extremely strong armor-piercing ability.  When using high-speed tungsten bullets to hit 30-degree inclined armor, the range reaches **mm at 1,000 meters. If the armor-piercing discarding bullets being tested are used, the range can reach 202 mm. Even if ordinary armor-breaking bullets are used, it is enough to destroy the Type 97 frontal armor within 1,000 meters.  50mm vertical armor.  The only disadvantage is that the cartridge is too large and easily exposed when shooting. It also wears out badly and has a short lifespan.  But in the world war period when power was given priority and military expenditures were high, this kind of flaw was not worth mentioning at all, so the Army had already popularized it to the entire army.

    A powerful anti-tank gun that has been tested in actual combat and improved many times meets an armored unit that is regarded as a treasure and is reluctant to pull it out. So far, it has never fought a tank battle. The result can be imagined.  .  Especially after using armor-breaking shells, many Type 97 tanks were apparently unharmed on the outside, but the tank soldiers inside were minced into pulp and suddenly stopped, leaving the infantry behind them completely confused about the situation and unknowingly exposed to firepower.  Killed by shells and machine guns.  Even if some managed to get close by chance, they were all destroyed by the airborne troops using 84mm recoilless rifles.

    By four o'clock in the afternoon, the First Division of Tanks was completely wiped out under an integrated air-ground saturation attack, and Anggang Wuchen was also killed on the spot.  "Allthe jade is broken?" After receiving the news, Obata Hideyoshi, who led the main force behind, had his hands shaking.

    That is the "Decisive Division" of the Japanese Empire!

    "Tonight is the last chance! Use our assault tactics and we can definitely use the night to rush over!" Seshima Ryuzo, who specially ran from Seoul to Pyongyang to supervise the battle, was still calm and gritted his teeth to remind Obata Hideyoshi.

    "Order the 22nd Division and the 114th Division to attack! We must rush over! Open the passage back to Seoul." Obata Hideyoshi also knew that the firepower of aircraft and heavy artillery would drop a lot at night, and the tanks would also restrain themselves for fear of accidental damage.  If we can't get through tonight, when the enemy discovers that Pyongyang is empty tomorrow morning and reinforces Ruixing to attack from both sides, hundreds of thousands of troops from his five divisions will all die here.

    When later generations evaluated the Japanese Army, there was a classic saying, "Success is due to Nogi Nogi, and failure is due to Nogi Nogi."  In front of Highland 203, Nogi Nogi showed the world?'s tenacity and tenacity, but it also exposed the rigid weaknesses of the Japanese army.  To this day, when encountering difficulties or having their tactics suppressed, most Japanese army officers will unconsciously turn into the stubborn Nogi Nogi in front of Hill 203.  On this night, Obata Hideyoshi also showed the "essence" of Nogi's attack. Like a red-eyed gambler, every time he was beaten back, he simply organized artillery to cover the fire, and then let the infantry charge again, over and over again.  non-stop.

    But he forgot that on Hill 203, the Russian army had only a few Maxim machine guns in total, and although the Second Airborne Division in front of them was a lightly armed force, it had more than a hundred general-purpose machine guns, as well as  Dozens of 107mm rocket launchers and mortars.  What's more, since the beginning of the year, all three airborne divisions have been equipped with H37 assault rifles. This 6.5 mm automatic rifle designed by combining the later 81 bar and Type 03 rifles is more powerful than the crooked light machine gun.

    The 2nd Airborne Division, which faced the Cossack cavalry and Soviet armored pig turrets at Lake Balkhash without blinking an eye, demonstrated the perseverance of the airborne troops. On this bloody and crazy night, at the cost of thousands of casualties, nearly 1,000 casualties were left behind.  Thousands of Japanese corpses.  So when the sun rose again, it was discovered that there were so many corpses outside Ruixing City and on the nearby highlands that they blocked the shooting sight!  !

    At ten o'clock in the morning the next day, the two infantry divisions that came from Kaesong to support Obata completely lost the opportunity. He had to escape with his troops under the indiscriminate bombardment of more than a hundred H-5 bombers and Navy dive bombers.  Central mountainous area.

    After learning that Obata Hideyoshi was repelled and fled into the mountains, Zhuo Fan immediately asked the 3rd Infantry Division, 104th Armored Division, 147th and 177th Infantry Divisions to replace the Russian army that had failed to attack for many days, and launched a fierce attack on Beihan Mountain.  As the top armored tactician in the National Defense Forces, he once again used his skills in using a variety of armored vehicle combinations, abandoned the traditional artillery preparation and then attack tactics, and mobilized 24 1940-type 300mm tracked vehicles that had been used in Samarkand.  Type barrier-breaking rocket launchers, 36 "Gonggong" multi-functional engineering tanks and 48 North Korean uzp26/76 assault guns, and mixed them into the armored assault regiment.

    The commander of Beihan Mountain, Hisao Tani, knew nothing about this adjustment. He still followed the tactics of dealing with Russian U-series armored vehicles. He first brought the tanks closer and then used human lives to fill them, trying to continue the suicide tactic of exchanging one person for one vehicle.  But he soon tasted the bitterness. Facing the "Siberian Tiger", which was more difficult to deal with than the U-series armored vehicles, the anti-tank gun in his hand was useless. Even the Type 92 105mm cannon could not penetrate the "Siberian Tiger".  "frontal armor.  The "Northeast Tigers" that were crushed along the way also aroused the Japanese army's determination to fight to the death, just as Zhuo Fan expected. Seeing that their positions were constantly being breached, the Japanese soldiers who had already killed red eyes became more and more non-stop in commanding, and many  As soon as the men saw the tanks, they rushed out of their hidden positions and tried to die together.  But they didn't know that Zhuo Fan was tired of the lush Beihan Mountains and had been waiting for them to be exposed.

    As long as the Japanese soldiers jump out of those difficult-to-observe positions and bunkers, the tanks and infantry in the front will immediately call for the obstacle-breaking rocket launchers and assault guns hiding behind, and then they will blast at the position where they jumped out.  Especially the obstacle-breaking rocket launcher. The 300mm obstacle-breaking rocket weighing 75 kilograms is as powerful as a 203mm grenade. It can easily destroy the entire exposed bunkers and trenches.

    The huge mushroom clouds that rose up one after another made Hisao Tani no longer dare to attack, so he could only strictly order the troops to hide and fire cold shots.  After suppressing the maggot-like "meat bombs" in the tarsus, the "Gonggong" multifunctional engineering tank modified with the "Siberian Tiger" chassis took over the battlefield, with thick armor, a huge bulldozer, and a 12.7 mm heavy machine gun.  and the most terrifying flamethrowers, sweeping over areas where Japanese troops may be hiding.  This kind of flame that is tens of meters long is very terrifying. After it is ejected, the sparks will scatter in the wind. As long as it falls on you, it cannot be extinguished.  The tragic deaths of their comrades, with their skins charred and bruised, crushed the confidence of the Bukhan Mountain Japanese Army. No matter how tough the troops were, they could not remain calm in the face of such a monster.  Screams and cries floated over the mountains, and the Japanese soldiers running around became targets for machine guns. In just seven hours of attack, the Bukhan Mountain defense line stationed by the two divisions completely collapsed.

    Occupying Bukhan Mountain means removing the last fig leaf of Seoul.  In the afternoon of that day, Zhuo Fan mobilized 22 210mm heavy self-propelled howitzers, climbed to the southern foot of Bukhan Mountain, and aimed at Seoul, 16 kilometers away, for bombardment.  The condescending artillery shells sounded the death knell of Seoul. The largest and most densely populated city on the peninsula was finally covered by the muzzles of the National Defense Forces.

    Not only that, as an officer who never sticks to rules, he especially dislikes the kind of officer who assembles thousands of cannons and launches a general offensive.  As soon as he learned about the occupation of Bukhan Mountain, he realized the importance of speed, so he understood that He Zihua would lead the Night Tiger Battalion and a motorized infantry regiment to protect three rocket launcher regiments, and follow the defeated Japanese army to face the government.  Attack.

    Hisao Tani did not expect Zhuo Fan to be so bold as to dare to put in tanks at night and fight with elite Japanese infantry in the city, thinking that they were opponents.He was overjoyed when he made a mistake. He immediately gathered his soldiers and organized a new line of defense around the political axe.  The Government Office is located in the north of downtown Seoul, about 13 kilometers away from the Han River. It is the highest administrative agency of the Lee Dynasty.  However, with the annexation of the Lee Dynasty by Japan, this place has now lost its function. The center of power in Seoul has moved to the Japanese Governor's Mansion in the city and the Nanshan Underground Fortress.

    The town is surrounded by low old towns and is relatively narrow, so Hisao Tani believes that this is the best place to ambush tanks.  But he miscalculated again. After learning that the Japanese army had redeployed its defense line around Yizheng Ax, the bold and careful He Zihua deliberately let the vehicle-mounted rocket launcher group trail behind, and then used the night fighting capabilities of the "Night Tiger" to continuously attack the weak points of the Japanese army.  , drilled in and out of the defense line of the political axe, and finally deliberately pretended to make a mistake and drilled into the place where the Japanese army was most concentrated.

    The defense line composed of tens of thousands of people and the messy streets of the old city were unable to trap just a few dozen tanks. Even Itankan Seishiro was furious.  Hisao Tani was even more annoyed and ordered his troops to compress He Zihua's area of ??activity regardless of casualties.  Just as the Japanese army gradually narrowed the encirclement, He Zihua and the night fighting battalion quickly hid in some blind spots, then closed all hatches, put on gas masks, and sealed the observation windows with cotton cloth and clothes.  Wait until everything is ready, and finally use the radio to call the rocket launcher behind you to fire.

    The ignorant Japanese army did not know that He Zihua actually dared to use him as bait. When they saw dozens of "Night Tigers" that kept turning and slowing down like headless flies, they thought they had lost their way and got excited.  The ground roared and rushed in from all directions carrying explosive packs and cluster grenades.  But just when they thought they could achieve the feat of destroying a Night Tiger Camp for the first time, a dazzling orange glow, brighter than a meteor, suddenly cut through the thick ink-like night sky.  144 32-tube 130mm vehicle-mounted rocket launchers poured 4,608 explosive and anti-personnel rockets from seven kilometers away in just one minute.  The short rapid fire attack maximized the power of the rocket launcher, which was comparable to the power of two thousand heavy artillery firing at the same time, instantly setting off a storm of steel.

    Dense explosive fireballs, like boiling magma, flowed everywhere on the ground. Tens of thousands of fragments swirled and flew in the air. The lives of the unscrupulous reapers, and patches of houses were pushed down by the explosion.  The whole ground also trembled and trembled in the explosion.  Even the tank soldiers sitting in the Night Tiger closed their eyes tightly, holding on to the objects around them, feeling the increasing temperature around them.  There were no screams or shouts. He Zihua and his comrades heard nothing except the continuous explosions.

    After waiting for half an hour for the two scheduled rounds of rockets to cover up and no more explosions to be heard, He Zishan opened the hatch and discovered that the entire block had collapsed, and thousands of Japanese corpses were scattered everywhere.  Lying in the sea of ??fire, making a crackling sound.  Among the collapsed rubble, there were also broken arms and torsos. Some Japanese soldiers who were lucky enough to survive were so frightened that when they saw the tank hatch open, they ran backwards in fear without firing a shot.  Statistics later revealed that He Zishan used his own baited rocket attack to achieve miraculous results. A full 1,600 Japanese soldiers were killed on the spot and more than 3,000 were injured.  As for the night combat battalion, due to the high defense intensity of the tank itself and the fact that it hid in the blind spot early, and the insufficient power of the fragmentation rockets to face the armor penetration, the price paid was minimal.  In addition to the extensive damage to the exposed night vision goggles and roof-mounted machine guns, only three vehicles were damaged due to direct hits from rockets, and one vehicle had its engine damaged by cement blocks from a collapsed house. Two people died and 11 were injured, most of whom were injured.  All were minor injuries.

    Although it achieved miraculous results, his tactic was later labeled "not to be used unless necessary" by the staff department.

    From the occupation of Bukhan Mountain in the afternoon to the capture of the Axe, which is only 13 kilometers away from the city center, in the evening, Zhuo Fan once again demonstrated his superb command skills in armored advance warfare.

    With the capture of the political axe, Seoul has been completely opened to his armored cluster
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