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Volume 1 On the Songhua River Chapter 2573 Desperate Blockade (Part 2)

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    There is pressure. The pressure does not come from the order from the Corps Headquarters, "Within eight hours, wipe out a division of more than 30,000 Kwantung Army troops." It comes from four brigades and a tank brigade behind them.  Seventy thousand people are waiting to pass through the front line of Baolong Mountain. Countless pairs of eyes are watching from behind. If it takes too long to break through the Kwantung Army's blocking line, the three brigade commanders will be embarrassed without a severe rebuke from the commander. Therefore, how to fight?  The essential!

    Major General Xu Guofu, commander of the second brigade, who was catching up quickly, spoke to Song Guotai, commander of the first brigade, and Wu Yaoxian, commander of the first tank brigade, via walkie-talkie in the armored command vehicle that was covered in smoke.  A speeding military meeting was held. In just ten minutes, the attack plan was determined.

    Since the second brigade is catching up, but it will take about an hour, the assault will be completed by Wu Yaoxian's tank brigade and Song Guotai's first brigade. After the second brigade arrives, the breakthrough will be expanded, and then the Kwantung Army will be divided.  Surrounded and finally eaten.

    Wu Yaoxian's tank brigade adopted a linear offensive formation with more than 300 tanks to ensure that it opened a 20-kilometer-wide gap in the Kwantung Army's blocking position on the Baolong Mountain line. This was not difficult to achieve, as there was a lack of artillery and counterattacks.  The 36th Division of the Kwantung Army, equipped with tank weapons, hastily switched from retreat to defense. It did not even complete the rudimentary fortifications and was unable to stop the assault of this torrent of armor.

    Wu Yaoxian also tended to use tanks to tear apart the blocking positions of the Kwantung Army, but Song Guotai considered that the previous losses in the tank brigade were caused by the desperate tactics of the Japs. If the infantry accompanied the assault, casualties would increase, so he took  The lives of tanks and soldiers were exchanged for the lives of little Japanese soldiers.  not worth it!  "Old Wu, those tough guys of yours, please bear with me for a while. I'll use cannonballs to give the little devils a head start!" Song Guotai said to Wu Yaoxian.

    Wu Yaoxian was surprised and asked: "Brother, your troops are also in constant pursuit. Has the artillery caught up? Besides, it takes time to build artillery positions. We can't afford to wait! I should use tank guns."  , blast away the Eastern Army¡¯s blocking positions!¡±

    Song Guotai laughed and said: "I have two self-propelled artillery regiments in my hands. Just follow me. I don't need to build any artillery positions. I can attack them right away. Take a look, brother!"

    Standing on a hill on Baolong Mountain, the only highland that can be called highland, the temporary headquarters of the 36th Division of the Kwantung Army is located here.  The division commander, Lieutenant General Rongcang, was shaking slightly with his telescopes in his hands, and his whole body was cold. In the open area in front of the hill, the soldiers were nervously digging fortifications. Behind the hill, the division was directly under the field artillery regiment.  They are hurriedly unloading artillery and constructing artillery positions.

    But all this takes time. Without more than three hours, it is impossible to build a basic blocking line. In Lieutenant General Rongcang's telescopic lens, more than 300 tanks of the Independent Division in the distance lined up silently.  The horizontal formation, the muzzle of the gun pointed at Baolong Mountain, the steel armor of the tank, under the blazing sunshine in Western Manchuria in July.  Reflecting the luster of metal, this silence itself is an invisible pressure.

    The pressure made Lieutenant General Rongcang feel cold. He also noticed the soldiers who were nervously building fortifications.  From time to time he stopped what he was doing and looked at the tanks of the Independent Division that were visible to the naked eye, squatting on the long yellow sand like wild beasts that were about to explode at any time. Lieutenant General Rongcang could feel the excitement of his soldiers.  The fear and uneasiness in my heart gradually expanded as time went by.

    "Damn it! This is the Chinese commander's psychological tactic, intended to disintegrate the fighting spirit of the imperial soldiers!" Lieutenant General Rongcang cursed fiercely. More than 300 silent tanks, within sight of the soldiers, did not  Attacking without firing artillery is a huge coercion in itself. If the independent division tanks begin to attack when their own troops are switching from retreat to defense, the situation will be very different.

    The imperial soldiers of the 36th Division are still in a state of excitement, and it is easy to ignore the pressure brought by the tanks. If they use the flesh and blood of soldiers to blow up dozens of tanks of the independent division, the soldiers will definitely be aroused.  Their fighting courage!

    But things are different now. Lieutenant General Rongcang even feels that those steel monsters silent in the sun seem to be sucking away the fighting will and the inner fighting will of the more than 20,000 soldiers and officers of the 36th Division.  The proud courage drains all the energy of the imperial soldiers!

    "Despicable and cunning Chinese, the tricks of an inferior nation!" Lieutenant General Rongcang cursed fiercely again, "Staff officer, order the division's field artillery wing to fire within thirty minutes. The target of the bombardment is the independent division.  Tanks. If this is not possible, Captain Hosokawa will commit suicide by disembowelment as an apology!" He almost roared and issued an incredible order. The tanks of the independent division must be destroyed. Otherwise, the morale of the soldiers will be destroyed without waiting for the attack.  , it will fall to a low point. How can we fight the next blockade?

    ?????????????????????????????????????????????The officers around him all unanimously complained that the current field artillery regiment had just unloaded the artillery, and the artillery firing position did not even have a prototype. Under normal circumstances, building an artillery position of the size of a regiment would not be possible.  It's impossible to do it for more than three hours. Even if the situation is urgent now, it will take about two hours. Didn't the division commander force Colonel Hosokawa, the captain of the field artillery regiment, to commit suicide?

    Lieutenant General Rongcang did not wait for the roar of his own field artillery. Ten minutes later, there was a piercing scream in the sky, and a faint blue smoke rose in the distant field, followed by a dull loud noise.  Then, "Division Commander, the enemy has started shelling!" a staff officer exclaimed.

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!" Hundreds of artillery shells hit the Kwantung Army soldiers who were building fortifications. Yellow sand flew everywhere, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown high, and in the sky, another  Nearly a hundred bombers and fighter jets from the independent division flew in, and in conjunction with ground artillery fire, they poured heavy aerial bombs and strings of machine gun bullets onto the Kwantung Army soldiers. There were no fortifications to hide from, and the Kwantung Army soldiers lay on the ground in despair.  On the endless fine sand, I resigned myself to fate!

    When the first round of artillery shells fell, Lieutenant General Rongcang was protected by several loyal guards with his body, but he struggled and shouted: "Baga! Immediately order the field artillery regiment to move their positions!" Because  He saw a dozen independent division bombers turning around and flying towards his artillery position. Even thinking about it with the back of his head, he knew what the result would be. The artillery wing exposed in the wild would become an independent division.  A living target for bombers!

    A few minutes later, an explosion that shook the earth came from behind the mountain. Lieutenant General Rongcang closed his eyes in pain. His field artillery regiment, the only heavy firepower unit of the division, was finished like this. Facing three  There are more than a hundred independent division tanks and more than 20,000 imperial soldiers of the 36th Division. They will be helpless. Will they launch a suicide attack? It is impossible. The tanks of the independent division are on alert. It is difficult for a suicide attack to be effective. What's more, they are covered in  Can soldiers full of grenades survive the fierce bombardment?

    Wu Yaoxian opened the top cover of the tank turret, exposing half of his body, and held up a telescope to observe the battlefield situation. While observing, he nodded repeatedly. He admitted that the bombardment effect of Song Guotai's two self-propelled artillery regiments was far greater than that of his own brigade of tanks.  After all, the caliber of tank guns cannot be compared with those big guys. More than 300 tanks and guns fired in volley, and there is no such formation and deterrence.

    Song Guotai's two self-propelled artillery regiments launched a fierce bombardment. The 36th Division of the Kwantung Army temporarily constructed the Baolong Mountain blocking line, which had no shape at all. It was just like paper. In an instant, a line as wide as two meters wide was torn open.  The large gap of more than ten kilometers, the upturned sand and the bright red blood flowing from the corpses of the Kwantung Army soldiers, mixed together, dyeing the Horqin sandy land in July with a striking dark red, and in the hot air,  It was filled with the pungent smell of blood and gunpowder smoke.

    Lieutenant General Rongcang's hands were tightly grasping the soft sand, and his eyes were filled with despair. At this moment, he sadly realized how ridiculous and overestimating his decision to block the independent division was.  , the opponent only used artillery fire to tear open their blocking line, a gap large enough to collapse the entire line. The only field artillery regiment was lost to the independent division's bombers. The Thirty-sixth Division faced  More than 300 independent division tanks were unable to even fight back.

    Don't expect those mortars and Type 92 infantry guns to overturn and blow up those steel monsters. The flesh and blood of the Imperial Japanese soldiers cannot withstand shells, bombs and bullets. This blocking battle is destined to be a  Tragedy, at this moment, Lieutenant General Eikura seemed to understand the pain and intentions of the commander-in-chief, General Yoshijiro Umezu. On the battlefield in Western Manchuria, any form of obstruction would be a stupid move that would cause greater losses to the Kwantung Army, and he was exactly doing so.  Doing it.

    However, the 36th Division cannot withdraw under any circumstances, and sticking to the Baolong Mountain blockade line, let's call it the blockade line, is a dead end. The artillery shells of the independent division will kill every Imperial soldier.  The soldiers were torn into pieces. In extreme despair and madness, Lieutenant General Rongkura made a decision that surprised and even shuddered his officers. "Convey my order to all troops. All imperial soldiers in the entire division, bayonets are fixed."  , launch a hand-to-hand charge against the Chinese army!"

    Facing more than 300 independent division tanks, braving fierce artillery fire, bombs and bullets pouring down from above, and countless independent division infantry behind the tanks, the imperial soldiers had not even rushed out a few steps.  It will be torn into pieces by the dense rain of bullets. Are you crazy, the division commander?

    All the officers at the headquarters of the 36th Division looked at Lieutenant General Rongcang, who had a pale face and a death-defying light in his eyes, with horror and confusion in their eyes. No one responded to his order.

    (To be continued)
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